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I don't have that many. Sep - Dec 1973 which is all soaps. I started typing all up for one thread, but it was taking too long, so I have separated into each shows thread instead. I also have Jan and Feb 1974 but only one page per month, it does have other shows, but not all complete summaries. I will post those as well. I do have 44 issues of SOD from the 70's and almost all from 1980 - 1996. That is quite an undertaking, but hopefully will get these together at some point.

Hey guys, I found Jan and Feb 1974 at a garage sale, it was just two pages with Y&R, it does have parts from other soaps, LOL, SFT and ATWT. I will put those up with the 1973 synopsis in those sections even though they aren't all complete. Enjoy. Still working on AMC from 1973, but thought I would share this first. This was the first recaps Bryna had for Y&R. 1974 January Greg tried to avoid going to Snapper and Chris’ wedding as he was still in love with Chris. But Chris appeals to Greg, who finally agrees to be Snapper’s best man, while Snapper refuses all financial help from Stuart. Sally has second thoughts about marrying Pierre when he wants them to consummate their marriage. She considers telling Snapper that the baby is his. Brad makes her realise that she can’t play with people’s lives this way. Sally agrees not to say anything. Liz, having found out that Sally was going to tell Snapper, is relieved when Sally calls to tell her she changed her mind. Snapper has heard enough on the other extension and plans to confront Sally about it. Sally tells Snapper that she gave up a baby many years ago and couldn’t do the same again, she didn’t mean to get pregnant, but she wants this baby, Snapper makes it clear he doesn’t want to be apart of the decision and Sally returns to Pierre, resigned to be his wife in every way, Sally and Pierre marry in a small ceremony with only Brad as a witness. With Greg as best man and Jill as bridesmaid, the Brooks and Foster families come together to celebrate Chris and Snapper’s wedding. On their wedding night, Chris has memories of the rape and can’t go through with making love, Snapper understands and is willing to give her all the time she needs, Chris, though, feels better in the morning and the pair make love. They then jet off on their three-day honeymoon. Marianne Roulland, Pierre’s sister, arrives in town from France to visit the newlyweds, curious about the sudden marriage, and aware that Sally was in love with another man. Pierre proudly announced their impending parenthood. Sally dreamed of telling Chris about her pregnancy and Chris divorcing Snapper. Chris starts pressing Snapper to start a family, he refuses, feeling they need to be more financially and emotionally ready. Snapper, however, keeps drifting to Sally’s pregnancy. Jill is feeling trapped and desperate to improve her social and economic position in life. She seriously considers quitting her job at the salon. Jill has established rapport with Mrs Chancellor, whose husbands’ indifference causes her to live her life on the edge of boredom and despair. While at the beauty salon, Kay becomes sick and Jill rushes her home so she can be looked after by her housekeeper. Jill is an awe of the luxury in which Kay Chancellor lives. She learns that her husband Phillip owns the factory where her mom works. Ironically at that same moment, Liz looses her job. Greg is entranced by a woman trying to resolve a will probate issue. She is the mysterious Miss Sherman and she doesn’t leave any contact information. Chris and Snapper return from their honeymoon, radiant and happy and ready to start their new life together. Lorie, knowing how Leslie feels about Brad, decides to get closer to him. Having a degree in journalism she interviews for a job at her father’s newspaper. Stuart is wary of Lorie’s motives, as she had never shown an interest in her father’s business before and he knows how jealous Lorie has always been of Leslie. Despite his concerns, Stuart gives Lorie a job. When Lorie meets Brad, she is stunned when Brad tells her she is self centred and shallow for taking so long to show an interest in Stuart’s business. Lorie tells Leslie that Brad is rude and insensitive, though she gives lip service encouragement to Leslie about pursuing Brad. When Brad calls Leslie, Lorie intercepts the call and tells Leslie it was a wrong number. When Brad and Lorie next meet, he tells her he thinks she is jealous of Leslie and that her plans to write a book are her way of toping her sister. Lorie is determined though to ruin Leslie’s happiness, knowing Leslie has just returned from Chicago, Lorie gives Brad a sob story and convinces him to take her out for dinner, making sure that Brad won’t be able to see Leslie. Jennifer flies to Chicago unaware Leslie has returned, she visits Bruce Henderson and they go to lunch. Bruce tries to convince Jennifer to stay longer as she did last summer. February Snapper takes a second job, he refuses to allow Chris to work and won’t take the money that Stuart has offered the couple as a wedding present. Sally tries to make Snapper see how much she needed this baby after giving up her other child, she tries to get Snapper involved, but he reminds her that baby is now Pierre’s, not his. Sally begins to have severe pain and Snapper rushes her to the hospital, her ObGyn manages to save the baby and delay labour. Marianne begins to suspect that Sally was pregnant before she married Pierre and that the baby is another man’s. She confronts Pierre who tries to deny it, but finally admits the truth. Marianne tells Pierre that Snapper must know the truth; Pierre is suspicious of his sister’s motives, and worried that she might say something, though he sees Snapper’s detachment and cool medical manner and is relieved, feeling he won’t make any trouble. Liz tries to conceal the fact that she has lost her job and takes some other work to make money. When Greg and Snapper learn the truth, they appeal to Phillip Chancellor to give their mother her job back. Jill asks Kay to do the same. Shortly after, Liz gets her job back. Jill thanks Kay, who admits she had nothing to do with it. When Jill finds out that Kay has fired her personal assistant, she offers to become her paid companion. Kay finds the idea laughable, but gives her the job. Jill envies Kay her possessions and social position, not realising the serious problems she has. Kay is lonely, her husband Phillip is turning away from her more and more, due to excessive drinking and smoking. Jill then meets Phillip and thanks him for reinstating her mother at the factory, Phillip is touched by Jill’s family loyalty, and admires the same quality in her brothers’. Greg’s client and infatuation, Miss Sherman, turns out to be Gwen, the call girl Jill met at the salon. Gwen tells Jill that she is no longer on the place at the edge of town. She has her own place for meeting her male clientele, and it’s much more interesting. Jennifer and Leslie are back in Chicago. Jennifer meets up with Bruce once again, he tells her he has never stopped loving her, but Jennifer isn’t ready for such overtures and changes the subject. Lorie finds the newswire that Brad hid the year before, about his supposed death. She flies to Chicago to see Leslie perform, while there she tracks down Barbara Anderson who tells more than she should about her life with Brad. Lorie feels the information will come in handy for driving a bigger wedge between Brad and Leslie. Leslie takes to the stage, with Brad’s words of encouragement in her mind, Leslie’s concert is a personal and professional triumph. These months were orignally posted by French Fan. Thought I might re-post to go with Jan and Feb March Sally told Pierre she agreed they should sell the restaurant and move to Paris. She added Snapper did not know about the child. However, Sally and Pierre were robbed and Pierre struggled with him when he tried to take Sally hostage. Pierre was injured and at hospital, did not respond to the neurological tests Brad gave him. He suddenly died. Marianne Meulot, Pierre’s sister arrived from France and vowed over Pierre’s body that Sally would pay. She told Sally she had no right to the restaurant and tried to throw her out. Stuart was upset to see Snapper comforing Sally and told Jen he did not trust Snapper. Marianne was furious when Pierre’s will indicated Sally was the sole heir of the restaurant and made an appointment to see Stuart. Jill was ecstatic over her new job but realized Kay had a drinking problem. When Kay’s husband, Phillip Chancellor begged Kay to stop drinking, she refused. Jill was discouraged at Kay’s lack of response to their efforts. Gwen Sherman, Greg’s mystery client, told him all she wanted from her aunt’s estate was money. She turned down Greg’s date invitations because he did not know dating men was her profession. Lorie was using her book manuscript to take Brad away from Leslie. When Leslie triumphaly returned from her piano debut, Lorie had prearranged a date with Brad which hurt Leslie to the core. Lorie told Brad that Leslie felt a muscian could not divide herself between a husband and a career. When Leslie confronter her sister, she said Brad was helping her with her writing. At Brad’s suggestion, Leslie got him a ticket for her Detroit concert but Lorie managed to detour the ticket. Against his wished, Brad began thinking of the things Barbara never told him that drove him out of Chicago and of the operating room. April Before leaving for Paris, Marianna told Stuart that Snapper is the father of the child Sally was carrying. Stuart confronted Snapper who refused to either deny or admit. When Sally learned what Marianne did, she went to Stuart and Jennifer explaining she got pregnant to trap Snapper but realizing how much he loved Chris, she married Pierre. She added she would be leaving Genoa City. However, Snapper learned of Sally’s suicide attempt by gas in her early months of pregnancy and he insisted she remained in town until the baby was born. Chris was angry at her father’s attitude about Snapper’s protectiveness of Sally but Stuart was furious to learn that Sally was staying in town. Greg continued to press Gwen for a date and she explained she distrusted men as after her mother died her father informed her he was never married and took off. She tried to discourage Greg to get closer. He was confused when a man arrived at Gwen’s apartment ignoring she was a call girl. Katherine told Jill about her strorybook first marriage to Gary Reynolds and her marriage after Gary’s death to Phillip Chancellor. Jill was impressed by Phillip ans he was protective of her realizing she was innocent about men. Jill managed to keep Katherine from driking all day and when Phillip arrived home he was encouraged. But when he was preparing to make love ti his wife, she took one dring and another and she passed out when Phillip returned from the shower. Lorie hid the love letter and concert ticket Leslie sent to Brad and implied Leslie forgot. When Leslie called just before the concert to find out why Brad wasn’t in Detroit, Lorie answered and made it celar Brad was interested in her, Lorie. Leslie was in shock and so odvercome that she had to be led off the stage. She went to New York and wantered Central Park in confusion. Her handbag was stolen and she spent the night in the rain calling for help. A policeman found her but she was incoherent and taken to Manhattan’s Psychatric Hospital where she was diagnosed as a possible mani-depressive and put in an observation ward as Jane Doe as she had no ID. She was confused when a young orderly tried to make love to her. Meanwhile, Lorie was taking advantage of Leslie’s absence to get closer to Brad. She admitted she has finished her book and would probably be more successful than Leslie and she said she thought she was pregnant. July Lorie ignored Chris’ hopes that she would use an assumed name on her soon to be published novel and put Stuart off when he asked to see the draft. She was shoked to hear Leslie had a nervous breakdown and tried to avoid Brad. Leslie blamed Lorie for her breakdown. Brad tried to talk to Leslie but she refused. Lorie’s publisher, Dave Larson, set up a centerfold magazine spread as promotion for her novel and she had to go to New York. She asked Brad to elope but he fit the pieces together and realized Leslie was waiting for him in Detroit. Lorie asked Leslie not to tell Brad the truth and leslie replied she would let Lorie do it. Jen ended up guessing Lorie mut have taken Leslie’s call but refused to believe it. Brad asked Lorie if she took Leslie’s call. Kay, very depressed, slept with Jeff, the stable boy over Jill’s objection. She told Jill she had become like a daughter to her since her son Brock had not contacted her in years. Phillip spent more time with Jill and gave her a string of pearls and surprised her with a kiss. When she asked Phillip what he expected, he assured his intentions were honorable. After a dance, he told her he loved her. Jill re-doubled her effort to keep Kay sober but could not help wondering what could Phillip’s pledge of love could mean. Snapper’s schedule as a full fledged doctor left him very little time off and Chris planned a special dinner for his first evening home. The mood was shattered when he learned she withdrew money from her parents to buy things she felts they needed. Sally went into labor, worried that her suicide attempt would affect the child. Snapper visited her to reassure her. Stuart and Jennifer felt Sally’s remaining after the baby’s birth was a threat to Chris’ happinesse particularly since she was herself pregnant. But Snapper refused to mention it to Sally until they knew the baby was all right. Liz stayed with Sally during her labor but felt guilty that she loved Sally as much as Chris. The baby boy was born but there were no news on its condition. This was posted by French Fan as a scan of the original newsletter and may not replicate what was written verbatim, as I transcribed it myself. August Jennifer and Stuart learn that Lori did indeed take the call that lead to Leslie’s breakdown. Stuart wonders what kind of woman Lori is and how she could be his child, this in turn makes Jennifer remember her affair with Bruce Henderson. When they confront Lori she shows little remorse, stating that they always favoured Leslie. They explain they love all their daughters equally, but Leslie’s shyness needed more direct attention. Lori accuses her parents of trying to take Brad’s love away from her. Lori then flies to New York with old flame and literary agent, Jed Andrews, to pose for the centrefold. While Lori is away, Brad finally sees Leslie and she tells him everything. Lori returns and Brad breaks off their engagement. He tells her all they ever had was a physical attraction, but at the core they are two fundamentally different people. The Maestro visits Leslie and tells her he wants her to join the St. Louis Ochestra for the September tour, but Leslie isn’t sure she will ever play piano again. Brad tries to boost her confidence, but she resists fearing she will fail. Brad accuses her of running away, Leslie counters by stating that he ran away from his life in Chicago, Brad explains he wasn’t running from his life in Chicago, but to a new life in Genoa City. Leslie finally tries to play the piano, but gives up after hitting one wrong note. Sally names her son Charles Pierre, though she wanted to name him Bill. Snapper refuses to see his son until Liz pursuades him that it may help him come to terms with Chris’ pregnancy. While Snapper is visiting Sally and Chuckie, Peggy, doing a column for the newspaper, comes across the trio and puts two and two together. Snapper convinces her to keep quiet for Chris’ sake and assures her that he loves Chris. Peggy is dissapointed in Snapper who she respected. Sally decides to leave town with her son, though sad to leave her friends, she is excited to start a new life. Snapper can’t get his visit with Sally and their son out of his mind, he tells Chris that he is feeling better about her pregnancy, Chris is ecstatic to hear Snapper’s change of heart. Just before she is to leave, Chuckie develops pnuemonia. Sally calls Snapper for help and Chuckie is rushed to the hospital. Jill tells Greg that Gwen is still a prostitute. Greg visits her and is shocked by her appearance, brought about by alcohol and pills. Greg tries to get through to her, but Gwen resists for fear that she will get close to Greg, who will then leave her. While Greg is there a client shows up and Gwen sends him away. Encouraged by this Greg tells her they can be happy together if she is willing to work for it. He kisses her and leaves her with some hope. Phillip asks Jill to spend the night and assures her he only wants her company. Kay asks Jill what she would do if she had the Chancellor wealth and is upset when she says she would help support her family. Jill begins to feel overwhelmed by the differences between her mother and Kay. She tells Liz that she deserves so much more from life. Kay asks Phillip if he would re-marry if she died. He tells her he hadn’t thought about it, Kay believes him and realises that he has very different needs from most men. Kay then begs Phillip to make love to her, he agrees, but can’t go through with it. Kay begins to have frequent pain, but refuses to see a doctor, as she is too afraid of what they might find. Jill asks Snapper to examine Kay, who objects at first. Snapper believes she has an enlarged liver and recommends she have tests done, but Kay refuses. Seeing Jill with Kay, Snapper tried to pursuade Jill to leave, but Phillip begged Jill to stay. Jill has a nightmare that Kay pretends to be dead to trap Phillip and Jill into revealing their feelings for each other. Phillip and Jill try to pursuade Kay to go on a trip, Kay begins considering the idea, she later states that Phillip’s love and concern are all that keep her alive.

Hey Jason. I found Jan and Feb 1974, but it is only one piece of paper from a garage sale, and it only has Y&R and parts of a couple other soaps. I will post the Jan/Feb 1974 Y&R stuff today in that section. I am working on getting more, hopefully be able to get the rest of it soon. Will definitely post as soon as I get it.

Thanks guys, glad you like it. I am working on AMC and that should be done within the day. Carl Jim was Jim Phillips, Linda's husband and father of her child. Though not sure if they were still married at this point.

Hi Guys. I recently got my hands on some Daytime serial newsletters. I was going to do one thread with all shows, but it has taken a lot longer than I though to type up. So I thought I would add these to each individual thread, then maybe do one big thread with all shows. These synopsis are from 1973. AMC will be next, hopefully by tomorrow. For those who don't know Mickey and Marty Hansen and Michael Harris are all the same person. The names were used interchangeably, usually depending on the scene. 1973 September Julie, although dating Don, realises she is still in love with Doug. She is hurt by Doug’s angry words when she jokingly refers to their past affair, not realising that he is pre-occupied with Addie’s health. Meanwhile Julie is becoming aware that Bob’s attentions are more than casual, and, out of friendship to Phyllis, she tries to keep it light. She is deeply touched when Bob offers to pay for David’s military schooling as a memorial to Scott. But when Bob admits he hasn’t told Phyllis about the money Julie tells him she can’t accept the money under those terms. Bob says he will tell Phyllis and asks her to reconsider. Bob sees Laura professionally about his conflicting love for his wife and his attraction to a younger woman. Laura doesn’t mention that Julie told her that she feels Bob is growing too fond of her. Don is very jealous of all of Julie’s male admirers; Julie tells Don she needs a no strings attached relationship right now. The Andersons are stunned to learn Mary has gone to South America. They now realise that she is trying to get over her feelings for Bill. Dr. Bailey, Addie’s obstetrician, finds her blood count is too high and orders a bone marrow test. He finds she has acute myelogenous advanced leukaemia and he tells Tom. Tom tells Addie and explains that chemotherapy can help control it, maybe for years. Addie insists Doug not be told, but Tom tells him, feeling he must know. Doug is shattered, but pretends he doesn’t know anything. Addie is upset to learn chemotherapy could harm the baby. Doug, realising what she’s thinking, stresses that she is the most important thing in his life. Michael is furious that Laura is considering selling Mickey’s law practice. He’s sure his father, missing now for months, will return and wants everything waiting for him. Laura realises that Mickey’s clients need help now and is grateful when Jim offers to temporarily handle the practice. Since Jim’s ex-wife, and Mickey’s former mistress, Linda, disappeared with her child at the same time Mickey did, everyone assumes they’re together. Michael resents Jim’s offer, feeling it’s like saying Mickey is dead. Tom asks Laura to give up on Bill as it will be seven years before Mickey can be declared legally dead. Laura tells him she can’t do that. Bill, upset about Addie’s illness, tells Laura that life is short and they can’t wait any longer to be together. She replies that they are not the type to sneak nights together and says she will live with him openly. Michael tells Bill his mother could never be happy living with him while she is still married to Mickey. Bill begins to realise he can be a substitute father to Michael, if he gives up Laura. Laura tells Bill her need for him is as important as Michael’s image of her and they have to face reality. Marty is becoming close to Maggie. Jay Livingston, an old friend of Maggies, is very protective of her and is suspicious of Marty. He confronts Marty, who assures him he would never do anything to hurt Maggie. Greg is extremely touchy about Eric’s novel, as he is sure everyone realises the chapter about the girl in the park is about his new wife Susan and that Eric is the father of her child. His embarrassment and hurt make him lash out at both Eric and Susan. Laura and Julie make him realise he may be driving Eric out of Salem and that it’s harder for Susan to hold her head up. Greg apologises to Eric, explaining his image of himself was shattered. October Julie began to feel more alone and depressed and started relying on Bob’s friendship more and more, seeing him often. When Phyllis returned from visiting relatives, she invited Julie to spend a week with her and Bob at their place on the lake. Julie convinced herself she was reading too much into Bob’s affection and felt they were like parents to her. Phyllis does feel like Julie is another daughter to her, but Bob admits to himself his desire for Julie and realises these feelings and emotions are hurting his sexual relationship with Phyllis. Eric tried to avoid seeing Ann so as to remain emotionally unattached and Susan begins to sense this. Addie, still convinced Doug wants this baby more than anything, continued to refuse chemotherapy. Marty is amazed when Hank points out that Maggie is falling in love with him. Doug, knowing Addie is sick and is refusing treatment makes an effort to let her know he loves her. Doug is stunned when Addie tells him he has never said that to her before. His constant declaration of love convinces her that he does love her, but she still cannot bring herself to risk injuring the baby by starting treatment. Realising he cannot make any commitment without knowing what ties exist from his past, Marty tells Maggie he is leaving. Maggie is heartbroken but accepts his need to leave. Before he goes, Maggie begins to feel pain in her legs. Marty makes her promise to see a doctor, as there may have been a change in her condition. While on his trip Marty begins to have chest pain and gets off the bus at the next stop, which is ironically, Salem. He is then mugged and ends up at the hospital with an injured hand from the attack. Laura, out to dinner with Jim, realises that Alice resents her having any social life at all. Knowing there will be gossip no matter what they do, Laura and Bill decide to date openly. Laura tells Tom that she is dating Bill and if and when Mickey ever returns, she will ask him for a divorce. November Marty registers at the hospital as Michael Harris and learns from the doctor on call that the scars on his leg and chest indicate bypass surgery. He assumes his amnesia could be a result of a post-operative stroke and agrees to see the heart specialist Dr. Tom Horton. When Tom is delayed at the hospital, Marty decides to forget it and leaves town. Tom , bothered by the similarities in both name and EKG results between Michael Harris and his son Mickey, tries to find him at the motel address he left with the hospital. Learning he is gone, he checks the signature on the register and sees it isn’t Mickey’s handwriting, though he doesn’t know that Mickey signed with the badly injured hand from the mugging that brought him to the hospital in the first place, but Tom isn’t fully convinced and decides to keep investigating. Maggie sees her local doctor as she promised Marty. The doctor tells her the damage to her legs is still irreversible and un-correctable. Maggie is hurt by the news and Jay tries to give her hope that she will walk again and reminds her he loves her. When Marty returns and tells Maggie he feels the farm is home and implies they have a future together, Maggie finally becomes content and happy again. Michael is less than pleased about Laura and Bill dating openly, that along with his guilt about his father’s disappearance has caused him to start skipping school and forge notes from Laura. Laura is shocked when she finds out what he has been doing, feeling she has failed at communicating with her son. Michael, now on school probation, tells Laura he is thinking about copping out on college, the way his father copped out on them, he feels Mickey hates him. Laura, unwilling to wait seven years to declare Mickey dead, considers filing for divorce on the grounds of desertion. Alice blames Laura’s dating Bill for his attitude and feels Laura should sit at home and wait for Mickey to return. Laura points out that Michael is the one who needs Mickey, not her. Addie learns that Doug knows she is sick, and is convinced that his recent efforts to let her know how much he loves her were just his way of trying to convince her to have chemotherapy. Doug makes plans to build a house for Addie, who is still sure that he is playing the secrecy game to make her change her mind. Though her white blood cell count is high, she still refuses to have treatment until after the baby is born. Phyllis and Bob hold a surprise birthday party for Julie and it becomes clear that Don and Burt are vying for her affections. Julie tells Don she is ready for marriage again, and Don admits he has healed from the death of is his wife and isn’t playing games anymore either. Don tells Julie the earrings, a gift from Bob and Phyllis, which Bob picked out, have real diamonds. Julie refuses to believe it, the Andersons are like parents to her. When Julie discovers they are real and cost $2,500, she confronts Bob and coldly asks if he is trying to buy her. Julie is stunned when Bob admits he is madly in love with her. He rages with jealousy when he sees her with another man and wants to spend the rest of his life with her. Anguished, Julie tells Bob to think of Phyllis and their second honeymoon cruise he is planning to take her on. Distraught over Bob’s deceit, Julie feels she can never face Phyllis again. Bob asks Julie to think it all out very carefully, and let him know what she sees in her future. December Marty and Maggie’s relationship deepens; Jay resents Marty’s presence, as he wants a future with Maggie. He plans to dig into Marty’s past as he refuses to talk about it. Tom can’t get Michael Harris out of his mind. He speculates that Mickey could have had a post-operative stroke that affected his memory. Laura learns she can divorce Mickey on the grounds of desertion one year from the day he disappeared. She and Bill plan for their future and he gives her a ring. Michael is suffering unnecessary guilt about his father’s disappearance and resents Laura writing Mickey off and moving on with Bill. He turns to his girlfriend Sharon for understanding and comfort and invites her to his empty house to study in the afternoons. Alice feels Laura is wrong to divorce Mickey and uses Michael’s attitude to stop her, but Laura stands firm in her decision. Eric is torn between his growing feelings to connect to his daughter and his fear of hurting Greg’s marriage to Susan. Addie’s white blood cell count is up slightly and Tom tries to persuade her to start chemotherapy. He finally agrees to postpone the treatment until the baby is born. Addie wants her baby to be born perfect and also refuses inducement. Julie, still upset about Bob’s declaration of love, tries to avoid him and tells Phyllis about the honeymoon cruise. Phyllis is overjoyed and begins preparations for the trip. Bob continues to press Julie, he insists he can’t be a husband to Phyllis any longer, and is planning to divorce her. Julie finally makes him realise she will never be the other woman in Phyllis’ life, and tells him to go home to his wife. Julie becomes more depressed when David writes to tell her he won’t be home for Christmas; he has been invited to Switzerland. Julie begins to feel better when Don invites her on a skiing holiday to Sun Valley, but Julie begins to realise she can’t get over Doug and what they once had together. She admits to Doug it is hard to see her mother carrying the child she wanted so much to give him. Don and Julie’s skiing trip goes well, they stay in separate rooms. Don tells her he has an important question he wants to ask her soon. Bob, unable to go through with the honeymoon cruise, decides instead to cancel the trip. He tells Phyllis they’ve grown apart and lost each other along the way. Phyllis is devastated to learn she lost her husband without ever realising it was happening. Over her objections and pleas he moves out, telling her he needs time to work things out. She’s completely destroyed by this. On Laura’s professional advice Bob considers telling Phyllis there is another woman involved.

LIAMST, AMC and OLTL seem to be the ones that pushed one or both shows out of the top 10 during 1972, and they only seem to do that with a fairly strong rating, around high 7's or low 8's. So I am guessing LOL and SS possibly had steady ratings that would only keep their positions when those other shows weren't doing as well. Any time one of those shows had a surge LOL and SS would drop. But hard to say how far a drop they had without seeing the bottom half of the ratings. My theory is based solely on the fact that LOL and SS only seem to reach around 9th or 10th position in 1972 with similar ratings each time.

Daytime Tv two weeks ending October 15 1972 1. As the World Turns 10.4 36% 2. Another World 10.0 36% 3. Days of Our Lives 9.8 35% 4. The Doctors 9.8 37% 5. Search for Tomorrow 8.7 34% 6. General Hospital 8.6 29% 7. The Guiding Light 8.2 29% 8. The Edge of Night 8.1 29% 9. Love is a Many Splendored Thing 7.7 26% 10. The Secret Storm 7.7 26%

Daytime Tv two weeks ending Sep 22 1972 1. As the World Turns 10.4 37% 2. Another World 9.2 34% 3. Days of Our Lives 9.1 33% 4. The Doctors 8.6 33% 5. General Hospital 8.6 31% 6. The Edge of Night 8.3 32% 7. The Guiding Light 8.2 30% 8. Search for Tomorrow 7.9 31% 9. The Secret Storm 7.4 28% 10. Love of Life 7.1 32%

Daytime TV two weeks ending March 25 1973 1. As the World Turns 10.5 44% 2. Days of Our Lives 9.5 31% 3. Another World 9.3 31% 4. General Hospital 9.2 31% 5. The Doctors 8.7 31% 6. The Guiding Light 8.3 28% 7. Search for Tomorrow 8.3 30% 8. One Life to Live 8.1 27% 9. All My Children 8.0 27% 10. The Edge of Night 8.0 28%

Hey Carl thanks for those articles. I love behind the scenes stuff, it is interesting, I was watching Bell's TV Legends interview and he didn't seem to like John Conboy at all at that point. But have to admit he did a great job with that show.

@ Dr Neil Curtis - I have heard a lot of reasons for the Brooks sisters being phased out. As well as most of the characters of the first 10 years of the show. One was Bell was over the constant recasts of the characters. I think maybe he didn't feel the same desire to write for some of those characters once they had different actors in the role. Then when the show hit an hour in 1980 John McCook left, Brenda Dickson left, Jamie Lyn Bauer and David Hasselhoff wanted to leave and both eventually left two years later. I think Bell just moved on. He needed new characters anyway to pad the show out when it hit an hour. Anyone know for sure or have more detail?

Maybe, I've never heard about it, and never knew she could sing. She certainly never did on the show that I know of. I wonder if she actually recorded anything. Though I am sure if she did, Brenda would've snapped up the rights by now and would be distributing it through her website.

This is from Aug 26 1978

Thanks Carl great read. Oh yeah, Brenda actually released an L.P in the 70's. Never seen it though. Anyone know of it? I saw an article once while I was looking through some old papers online and it stated she was releasing an album.

It seems JER really wanted a catalyst to push the Kristen/John/Marlena triangle in a certain directon and Tony was it. Thaao didn't really like what was happening to his character, and true enough Tony was acting out of character, Thaao I think even stated he started playing Andre around the time of Aremid, he seem to really feel Tony was losing his dignity as a character which I think caused tension between Thaao and JER. JER also didn't like Victor much and that is why he was pushed out, again in less than a dignified fashion. I seem to remember rumours that John Aniston asked his daughter to beg NBC to get him back on the show. This is all from memory so maybe someone knows more in depth.

I never understood why they broke up Jake and Alison in the season 5 finale. It seemed so unnecessary. Both actors were leaving and the departures seemed so rushed, like the break up was a last minute decision. They could have easily had them be happy and leave together to start a new life. Didn't make any sense. Not to say I was that invested in them as a couple, but it seemed strange.

Hmmm there are only 9 soaps listed instead of 10, I get the feeling Days may have placed 4th, as it did two weeks earlier. There is a big dip between ATWT and GL in ratings, I would guess Days was there and for whatever reason they were left off.

Most definitely haha. I once heard the writer of ALF say that he did so many drugs in the 80's he was convinced ALF was real and coming to get him.

They look like they got stuck in a virtual reality game. Too much coke in the 80's, that's is the only explanation I can come up with to explain most of what happened in that decade.

Thanks for that. Yeah I noticed a difference in 1994, but after 1998 there was a bigger drop in quality for me. Maybe Bill had more control until that point. I checked my SOD from 1993, they start referring to Brad as head writer in the May 11 1993 issue which was out Apr 27 1993. So may be Mar/Apr 1993 as the issue previous still has him listed as supervising producer. They also mention a few months before that Brad and Maria Arena Bell were trying to get their own soap off the ground called Coming of Age, maybe when that failed Bill gave Brad the head writer position. Thanks for the help yr9190.

Out of curiosity. Does anyone know when Brad Bell took over as Head writer of B&B. I have heard 1994, but wonder about specific dates, at least which month it was. It would be interesting how involved Bill Bell was after he handed over the writing duties to Brad, did he have story projections etc. I know he was a consultant and producer, but that can sometimes just be a title. Does anyone have any info on this?

CarlD2 posted an article about the beginning of Y&R earlier in this thread, and it has a small excerpt that talks about Janice Lynde replacing Mary Grover. It says she had to work until midnight and on a Sunday. Since Leslie only had a brief scene in the first episode I am guessing Mary must have taped a fair bit before being replaced. Maybe a weeks worth? From what I understand, they didn't tape too far in advance back then. Here is the link http://boards.soapop...s/page__st__300

Well this was in a March 24 1973 edition newspaper, so obviously the press wasn't changed before the show debuted. I do remember seeing a pic of Lee Crawford in her scene with William Gray Espy that showed her in a slip instead of the nightgown type thing she wears in the first episode. Not sure if it was a rehearsal or they taped a pilot and weren't happy with it and re-taped. Does anyone know the pic I am talking about?

From what I understand JLB wasn't cast at that point. Her character was created but not intended to appear until later on (eventually making it on air in Dec 1973) Does anyone know if JLB was cast well before she appeared? I also find it interesting that Trish Stewart is missing from this, as Chris was such a main focus of story initially.

Not sure if this has been shown. An article about Y&R just before it premiered. Interesting, have we discussed Mary Grover as Leslie Brooks, if not does anyone know what the deal was and why she was replaced?