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Adding to the 1992 story issues was the reappearance and quick disappearance of Patsy Pease.
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13 hours ago, titan1978 said:
And the Cruise of Deception before all of those!
7 hours ago, carolineg said:Days had a fetish for islands and plane crashes. I feel like there were a lot of plane crashes in that era with John/Bo ending up having to fly the plane.
Plus the 1984 plane crash and island storyline with Tony vs. Andre, Anna, Bo, Calliope, etc.
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Found a website that had some of the songs used in that era:
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2 hours ago, carolineg said:
I mean, me too. I like a good musical number. It was just strange. Never before or after have people broken into song like that. And it wasn't in the General Hospital 90's way where they were performing at Luke's or something. It was just let's start singing outdated music that no one our age would possibly be into lol*
*And I stand by the fact KL is not a good singer. I would just assume he is a better singer than JKJ or else Chloe/Phillip would have re-enacted West Side Story or something.
This had to be about the time that Phillip sang All I Have to Do Is Dream and played it on guitar.
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Americus, Georgia, was an early adopter of Cablevision. Here's the morning and early afternoon lineup from September 1970.
Twelve channels total for $5.95 a month, but, being early cable, there were many repeats. Dothan was in the cable package. I'm not sure if their listings are for eastern or central time.
WALB (10) was probably also running Somerset at 4, but the listing neglected to include them in that slot.
(2 - WSB, Atlanta NBC)
9 a.m. - Today in Georgia
9:30 a.m. - news
10 a.m. - Dinah's Place
10:30 a.m. - Concentration
11 a.m. - Sale of the Century
11:30 a.m. - Hollywood Squares
noon - News
12:30 p.m. - Mike Douglas Show
2 p.m. - Days of Our Lives
2:30 p.m. - The Doctors
3 p.m. - Another World
3:30 p.m. - Bright Promises
4 p.m. - Somerset
4:30 p.m. - Truth or Consequences(3 - WRBL Columbus, CBS/NBC)
9 a.m. Galloping Gourmet
9:30 a.m. - Gomer Pyle
10 a.m. - Lucy Show
10:30 a.m. - Beverly Hillbillies
11 a.m. - Family Affair
11:30 a.m. - Love of Life
noon - Where the Heart Is
12:30 p.m. - Search for Tomorrow
1 p.m. - News
1:15 p.m. - Charles Jones Show
2 p.m. - Love is a Many Splendored Thing
2:30 p.m. - Guiding Light
3 p.m. - Secret Storm
3:30 p.m. - Edge of Night
4 p.m. - Flintstones
4:30 p.m. - Wild, Wild West(4 - WTVY Dothan, CBS/ABC Central Time)
9 a.m. - Captain Kangaroo
10 a.m. - Lucy Show
10:30 a.m. - Beverly Hillbillies
11 a.m. - Family Affair
11:30 a.m. - Love of Life
noon - Where the Heart Is
12:25 p.m. - News
12:30 p.m. - Search for Tomorrow
1 p.m. - Gene Ragan Farm Show
1:20 p.m. - News
2 p.m. - Love is a Many Splendored Thing
2:30 p.m. - Guiding Light
3 p.m. - Secret Storm
3:30 p.m. - Edge of Night
4 p.m. - Gomer Pyle USMC
4:30 p.m. - General Hospital(5 - WAGA Atlanta, CBS)
9 a.m. - David Frost Show
10 a.m. - Lucy Show
10:30 a.m. - Beverly Hillbillies
11 a.m. - Family Affair
11:30 a.m. - Love of Life
noon - News
12:30 p.m. - p.m. Search for Tomorrow
1 p.m. - Famous Jury Trials
2 p.m. - Love is a Many Splendored Thing
2:30 p.m. - Guiding Light
3 p.m. - Secret Storm
3:30 p.m. - Edge of Night
4 p.m. - Gilligan's Island
4:30 p.m. - Flying Nun(6 - Local weather and background music)
(7 - WDCO Cochran - PBS)
(8 - WCWB Macon, NBC)
9:30 a.m. - Dating Game
10 a.m. - Dinah's Place
10:30 a.m. - Concentration
11 a.m. - Sale of the Century
11:30 a.m. - Hollywood Squares
noon - Jeopardy
12:30 p.m. - Who, What, When, Where Game
12:55 p.m. - News
1 p.m. - Helen Popejoy Show
1:30 p.m. - Life with Linkletter
2 p.m. - Days of Our Lives
2:30 p.m. - The Doctors
3 p.m. - Another World
3:30 p.m. - Bright Promise
4 p.m. - Somerset
4:30 p.m. - Gomer Pyle USMC(9 - WTVM Columbus ABC/NBC)
9 a.m. - Miss Patsy's Playhouse
10 a.m. - Virginia Graham Show
11 a.m. - Bewitched
11:30 a.m. - That Girl
noon - Best of Everything
12:30 p.m. - News/Weather
12:40 p.m. - Midday Weather
12:45 p.m. - Bulletin Board
1 p.m. - All My Children
1:30 p.m. - Let's Make a Deal
2 p.m. - Newlywed Game
2:30 p.m. - Dating Game
3 p.m. - General Hospital
3:30 p.m. - One Life to Live
4 p.m. - Dark Shadows
4:30 p.m. - Timmy and Lassie(10 - WALB Albany, NBC/ABC)
9 a.m. - Little Theatre
9:30 a.m. - Jack LaLanne
10 a.m. - Dinah's Place
10:30 a.m. - Concentration
11 a.m. - Sale of the Century
11:30 a.m. - Hollywood Squares
noon - Jeopardy
12:30 p.m. - Town and Country
12:35 p.m. - Paul Harvey Comments
12:40 p.m. - Town and Country
12:55 p.m. - News
1 p.m. - Town and Country (yes, again)
1:30 p.m. - Life with Linkletter
2 p.m. - Days of Our Lives
2:30 p.m. - The Doctors
3 p.m. - Another World
3:30 p.m. - Bright Promise
4 p.m. - ?
4:30 p.m. - Flintstones(11 - WQXI Atlanta, ABC)
9 a.m. - Romper Room
9:54 a.m. - Eyewitness News
10 a.m. - Real McCoys
10:30 a.m. - Anniversary Game
11 a.m. - To Tell the Truth
11:30 a.m. - That Girl
noon - Bewitched
12:30 p.m. - Eyewitness News
1 p.m. - All My Children
1:30 p.m. - Let's Make a Deal
2 p.m. - Newlywed Game
2:30 p.m. - Dating Game
3 p.m. - General Hospital
3:30 p.m. - One Life to Live
4 p.m. - Dark Shadows
4:30 p.m. - Movie(12 - vacant)
(13 - WMAZ Macon, CBS/ABC)
9 a.m. - General Hospital
9:30 a.m. - Bewitched
10 a.m. - Lucy Show
10:30 a.m. - Beverly Hillbillies
11 a.m. - Family Affair
11:30 a.m. - Love of Life
noon - Where the Heart Is
12:25 p.m. - News
12:30 p.m. - Search for Tomorrow
1 p.m. - Almanac
2 p.m. - Love is a Many Splendored Thing
2:30 p.m. - Guiding Light
3 p.m. - Secret Storm
3:30 p.m. - Edge of Night
4 p.m. - Dark Shadows
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Fans were pretty pissed off about her departure in 1983, judging by the letters sent to the soap columnists.
When asked, Shelley Curtis said in 1984. "I really liked Philece's work, but it was important that somebody major on Days of Our Lives be a victim of the Salem Slasher. It was also important that it be someone not so major and involved in so many storylines that it would necessitate several other characters being killed off."
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Philece rocked that scene so hard that Days tried to do it again three years later with Emma and Alex. Jane Windsor played a great bitch, but that scene paled in comparison to this one.
Renee was about three different characters during her span. You could have gotten another decade out of her, easy, just feuding with Anna.
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Taylor announced in January 1986 he and Bergman would marry on March 22. He was still listed as single later that year (and dating Bergman) and a 1990 profile of him also said he was single (with no mention of Bergman).
Wikipedia lists them as divorced, but with no citations. I don't think they ever tied the knot.
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Maxwell was kidnapped by Andre and disappeared. Megan was the only electrocution death.
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I liked this one enough to save it. Early 1987.
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22 hours ago, victoria foxton said:
Must've been audited.
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5 hours ago, allmc2008 said:
Alarmingly realistic.
In 1984, Tom was just as concerned when Marlena announced she was pregnant and Eugene pretended to be the father (to continue the lie that Roman faked his death) and demanded a shotgun wedding.
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I want to say I heard later references to Anderson. It was possibly during Roman on the run in 1983-84. Or maybe Jennifer holed up there as a runaway. My memory may also be totally off.
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Days went to "West Virginia" as part of the Pawn/John Black has Marlena and is on the run in 1986. While looking for them, Bo and Shane are held by moonshiners who assume they are the revenuers. Hope seeing they're in trouble, pretenders she's the moonshiners' cousin to get them to let the guys go.
So, you have the actors doing a mix of trying to speak southern, maybe or maybe not trying to exaggerate it because they're faking it in-character.
Not surprisingly, Bo's was the best of the three. Hope did more of a "Gone with the Wind" type and Shane's is ... it's really something. It's so bad you can't tell if he's sincere or not.
(Within the storyline, the other two pass it off as Shane being sent to fancy schools.)
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Yet Johnny is still there.
Johnny really didn't have that many episodes, but it feels like he had a ton. Didn't he stick around long enough to meet Roman?
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5 hours ago, will81 said:
ETA: All the papers report Kenney's departure in Nov/Dec 1986 and it is mentioned Kenney is taking over GH by Jan 87.
Can push the date back a bit further. John Goudas' "Soap Opera Scenes" had a piece on Kate Linder that appeared in a few papers in mid/late October 1986.
Kenney was still at Y&R, but it was known he was leaving in January.
His decision wasn't a surprise.
From Nancy Reichardt's Tune in Tomorrow appearing in various papers the last week of August 1986:
QuoteAlthough there's no official confirmation, there's talk within the soap industry that Wes Kenn[e]y, co-executive producer of "The Young and the Restless," is slated to take over Gloria Monty's executive producer position on "General Hospital." Gloria is moving to Fox Broadcasting, where she's under a three-picture TV movie contract. She won't be letting go of the "GH" reins completely, however, since she has another year to go on her contract with the soap."
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It's like Days had the thought that, "Whoops, Gillian is irredeemable, so let's start Camilla More fresh."
Except they did jack squat with Grace.
I don't think Days really ever knew what to do with Gillian, either. She starts as Shane's snippy partner. Gillian's kinda villain-y, but for a brief second Days flirts with her actually being a victim. That's dropped quite quickly as they kill Emma in the exact same manner they killed Renee three years earlier, right down to a similar speech by Emma.
At this point the list of Things Keeping Shane and Kimberly Apart are too overegged and Gillian is wasted for a wedding that should have been done a year earlier.
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Mike Horton, just what were you doing in Israel that allowed you to be blackmailed so easily?
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2 hours ago, FrenchBug82 said:
OK While it was off-screen, that's more what I had in mind. Had never heard of him; thanks for sharing!
After I post, I remember a few more details of Hart Bennett.
Bennett was the prosecuting attorney against Marlena in 1985 in her murder trial of Stefano. Late in the trial, he admitted he had no case. Bennett, who had already been disgraced and was falling off the wagon before the trial, spiraled.
He'd been a friend to Kimberly years before and she was the only one to care when he returned to town and tried to help him repair his life before the trial. His spiraling caused communication problems with Shane, who was back in England - the prelude to Days going on location there. Bennett's death also had fallout with Marlena as she found herself pitying the lawyer who tried to destroy her once Kimberly told her the story.
The story pretty much had zero influence long-term, but did serve as a minor catalyst for that spring and summer.
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In 1991, shortly after John found out he wasn't Roman via DNA results, he contemplated suicide.
It was framed as being self-destruct mode because of Stefano (as the ISA told Roman in front of Marlena) as well as being the natural reason that he'd seemingly lost everything. The scenes of John in his vehicle in the rain with gun in hand beside his head were well done.
Marlena found him and talked him out of it and took him back to her/Roman's home, but I don't think I've seen any of the fallout beyond that.
A dying Tony/Andre (whatever) framed John for murder in Aremid for revenge after Tony learned he was dying. I disliked a lot of Aremid, but the setup for this was actually a pretty good.
Off-camera, but short-term character Hart Bennett killed himself out of shame during Marlena's murder trial in 1985. It was key for the trial and also for Kimberly's psyche as she was trying to get close to Shane (she'd been the only one who actually liked Hart). Hart really wasn't explored in detail, but had been portrayed as a tragic figure during his run.
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When Pat Falken Smith came in in 1981, Tomlin and Poteet-Lisanti were given huge kudos in the press for just keeping Days steady.
Jon-Michael Reed seemed to be a fan of Laemmle's. When she left, he praised how the characters were beginning to fit into the framework.
A year later, he said:
QuoteBefore the switchover takes place, Poteet-Lisanti and Tomlin should be congratulated for a year's worth of commendable writing for a show that was in the depths of story and character chaos. Recently, the show's writing has been better-focused than it had been in several years. Falken Smith will inherit a fine-running serial whose ratings, unfortunately, haven't yet reflected its worthy progress.
Nothing else named either of the duo between hiring and Falken Smith coming in.
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On 12/4/2020 at 1:32 PM, Franko said:
I initially thought this was another attempt at topical storytelling, but Claus and Sunny von Bulow wouldn't enter the public eye for another year or so.
Yeah, this seems to be a very weird coincidence. Unless Laemmle had some secrets.
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How in the world did Days survive this?
This is just so bad. I don't know why - in a sea of all this horrible mess - that I'm so offended by Jessica just being Cathy 2.0, but I am. Laemmle didn't even bother to wait six months before using the same storyline as her predecessor, involving the same people and even having the same job.
And what's the point of having Max, Kellam and Alex? The basic character is the same for all three.
8 hours ago, Franko said:She's at a nice farm in the country, where she can run and play with all the other terminally ill young women ...
I just want you to know I appreciate this.
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By all accounts in the press in 1979, Ed Mallory left on his own. I'm sure he saw the writing on the wall.
Charles Bateman was considered a strong hire, considering his character actor background. Too bad it looks like his character has nothing to it.
By all accounts in the press in 1979, Ed Mallory left on his own. I'm sure he saw the writing on the wall.
Charles Bateman was considered a strong hire, considering his character actor background. Too bad it looks like his character has nothing to it.
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Jason's first known credit for Harrower at Days is May 2, 1977. She was credited as head writer from February 27, 1979 through March 14, 1980, though she was effectively fired two months earlier. (Nina Laemmle was announced as incoming Days head writer in late January 1980.)
It appears Days' handling of Harrower cost them Wes Kenney. He quit in January 1980 and an interview with him that month quoted him as saying it was the head writing situation. Kenney was quoted as it being Ann Marcus (there prior to Harrower), but it seems to be a gaffe on his part.