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24 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:
I enjoyed watching more than I thought I would.
Agreed. When it was announced I was a bit "meh" on it, but I truly enjoyed every minute of it.
15 hours ago, Errol said:Just as a quick aside. I don't think I have ever seen the cast photo that is used as the thumbnail for this video. Must have been '99, from the looks of it. The only person I can't immediately place is the guy behind Hal (although when you tell me who it is, I'm sure I'll feel stupid for not thinking of it). I'm not sure if people have like photo collections or something... would anyone happen to have this photo? I'd love to take a better look at it.
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Holy sh*t. Don Hastings was the absolute highlight! He hasn't aged a day since 2010.
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I have that episode jotted down in a list of undated episodes. Oakdalian's channel only places it in June 1991 I think, without an exact date.
But from what you're saying, it sounds like the wedding had already happened in the Death Of David Stewart episode? Then it would have to be June 3 or June 4 (or May 31, if Oakdalian is wrong about June). Since the June 3 episode is in the archives, it seems like a good educated guess.
I'll see if I can dig up something. Thanks for your continued alertness while you're watching these episodes!
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What's interesting about all of this is that SoapClassics was actuallty working on an online platform to release episodes. In The Netherlands (and I believe South-Africa?) it had set out a site which contained the first five months of 2005 (The Netherlands) and two weeks in August/September 2007 (South-Africa). Quite a bit of music had been digitally removed, which was a bit odd, especially when characters were dancing to nothing, but the episodes were very watchable and of high quality (visually, that is. Early 2005 wasn't my favorite era of the show, and I say that as someone who only watched the 00s originally. The show ticked back up in the summer of '05 in my opinion).
Unfortunately, soon after this project was set up, SoapClassics went out of business. I'm glad I saved the episodes immediately.0 -
Our next checkpoint is November 13, 1984, which is in the P&G Archives as #7377. This means 2 episodes were pre-empted in between, which is problematic, because we have already confirmed 3 pre-emptions. Therefore, one of the "confirmed" episode numbers must, actually, be wrong. However, if we take this period and the next three periods (both of which remain open) together, it still works out. These are the three episodes we have confirmed as pre-empted:
November 22, 1984: Thanksgiving [pre-emption confirmed in The Journal listing]
November 23, 1984: Thanksgiving [pre-emption confirmed in The Journal listing]
December 25, 1984: Christmas [pre-emption confirmed in The Journal listing]
To make matters worse, we have a strong candidate for yet a fourth pre-emption in this period:
January 1, 1985: New Year's Day [January 1 episodes were pre-empted in every other year since 1974, with the exception of 2004]
November 13, 1984 - March 19, 1985: 2 pre-emptions, yet 3 pre-emptions confirmed; 1 more strong candidate. Status: open/error
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August 2, 1984 is also in the P&G Archives as #7307. Based on the episode numbers, 3 episodes were pre-empted. We know about 2 of them for sure:
September 3, 1984: US Open
September 7, 1984: US Open
We don't have any further evidence of possible pre-emptions, but I'm assuming the remaining pre-emption belongs in the period above instead.
August 2, 1984 - November 13, 1984: 3 pre-emptions, 2 confirmed, 0 candidates. Status: open
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The 7,000th episode is widely reported to have aired on May 20, 1983. This would mean 7 episodes were pre-empted in between. We know about 6:
September 5, 1983: US Open
September 9, 1983: US Open
November 24, 1983: Thanksgiving [pre-emption confirmed in The Journal listing]
November 25, 1983: Thanksgiving [pre-emption confirmed in The Journal listing]
December 26, 1983: Extended Christmas holiday [pre-emption confirmed in The Journal listing]
January 2, 1984: Extended New Year's holiday [pre-emption confirmed in The Journal listing]
For the remaining pre-emption, we have no contenders. However, I'm assuming this pre-emption belongs in one of the above periods instead.
May 20, 1983 - August 2, 1984: 7 pre-emptions, 6 confirmed, 0 candidates. Status: open
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If we take all three of the above periods together, the numbers actually work out (although that's a big if, obviously):
Between May 20, 1983 and March 19, 1985, 12 episodes were pre-empted. We know about 11 for sure:
September 5, 1983: US Open
September 9, 1983: US Open
November 24, 1983: Thanksgiving [pre-emption confirmed in The Journal listing]
November 25, 1983: Thanksgiving [pre-emption confirmed in The Journal listing]
December 26, 1983: Extended Christmas holiday [pre-emption confirmed in The Journal listing]
January 2, 1984: Extended New Year's holiday [pre-emption confirmed in The Journal listing]
September 3, 1984: US Open
September 7, 1984: US Open
November 22, 1984: Thanksgiving [pre-emption confirmed in The Journal listing]
November 23, 1984: Thanksgiving [pre-emption confirmed in The Journal listing]
December 25, 1984: Christmas [pre-emption confirmed in The Journal listing]
For the remaining pre-emption, we have 1 strong contender:
January 1, 1985: New Year's Day [January 1 episodes were pre-empted in every other year since 1974, with the exception of 2004]
May 20, 1983 - March 19, 1985: 12 pre-emptions, 11 confirmed, 1 contender. Status: open
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21 hours ago, slick jones said:
It is. I read the transcript while trying to find a name. He was just a random day player teen with two friends that were giving Luke a hard time. Will showed up, stood up to them, and they started in on him for being a murderer (Rose). At least that's how it read. It was at least six months before Kevin came along.
Also, at the time of his first appearance, Luke was still being played by Christopher Tavani, and, therefore, much younger than Karl's character. This was when Will had just been released from prison. Will saved Luke from his bullies at a time when Lily was trying hard to get Will locked up again (as she couldn't forgive him for murdering her sister).
About a year later, Luke has been SORAS-ed (with Jake Weary, then Van Hansis) and started hanging out with Kevin.
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15 hours ago, slick jones said:
@Paul Raven his last name was Platt.
With the 1000s of names for ATWT, it's no surprise he's hard to find.
In case anyone's interested, I've turned the list into an excel file with filters, which makes it easy to search by last name, first name, title, actor, time period, or even info, when you are looking for a specific someone. I'd be more than happy to share that with anyone who's interested. Just send me a PM.
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On 3/19/2020 at 10:24 PM, adrnyc said:
@Brolden I just watched an episode that you don’t have listed. It’s labeled Nov 6, 1990 from the user SchfiftyThreeRetroTV3. Just letting you know in case it helps you figure out any pre-emptions.
Outstanding! I love finding channels I didn't know about. I see the episode also ends in a "join us tomorrow". There is an 1998 episode, including a "join us again Monday", that I did not yet find elsewhere on the channel as well. Thanks for the heads-up, I made sure to subscribe!
I'll add in the info once I get to the complete overhaul!
Sorry it's been a while, these are crazy times we live in.
We'll pick things up at November 3, 1987, which is where we got last time.
The next confirmed episode number is #7904 on December 9, 1986, which comes from a script. This means there were 19 pre-emptions (which means it's Iran-Contra time!). We know about these 5 pre-emptions:
December 25, 1986: Christmas
January 1, 1987: New Year's Day
July 23, 1987: Iran-Contra hearings? [pre-emption confirmed by Dan Region in the credits]
September 7, 1987: US Open
September 11, 1987: US Open
For the 14 remaining pre-emptions, I have 17 potential candidates:
July 7, 1987: Iran-Contra hearings?
July 8, 1987: Iran-Contra hearings?
July 9, 1987: Iran-Contra hearings?
July 10, 1987: Iran-Contra hearings?
July 13, 1987: Iran-Contra hearings?
July 14, 1987: Iran-Contra hearings?
July 15, 1987: Iran-Contra hearings?
July 16, 1987: Iran-Contra hearings?
July 17, 1987: Iran-Contra hearings?
July 20, 1987: Iran-Contra hearings?
July 27, 1987: Iran-Contra hearings?
July 28, 1987: Iran-Contra hearings?
July 29, 1987: Iran-Contra hearings?
July 30, 1987: Iran-Contra hearings?
July 31, 1987: Iran-Contra hearings?
August 3, 1987: Iran-Contra hearings?
August 4, 1987: Iran-Contra hearings?
December 9, 1986 - November 3, 1987: 19 pre-emptions, 5 confirmed, 17 candidates. Status: open
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The November 7, 1986 episode (Hello, Barbara) is in the P&G Archives as #7884, which means that 2 episodes were pre-empted. We know about both of them:
November 27, 1986: Thanksgiving
November 28, 1986: Thanksgiving
November 7, 1986 - December 9, 1986: 2 pre-emptions, both confirmed. Status: closed
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The April 2, 1986 episode (30th anniversary) is in the P&G Corporate Archives and in the ATAS-UCLA archives as #7729, which means 2 episodes were pre-empted. We know about both of them:
September 1, 1986: US Open
September 5, 1986: US Open
April 2, 1986 - November 7, 1986: 2 pre-emptions, both confirmed. Status: closed
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The March 19, 1985 episode was #7465 according to a script, which means 7 episodes were pre-empted. We know about all 7:
September 2, 1985: US Open
September 6, 1985: US Open
November 28, 1985: Thanksgiving
November 29, 1985: Thanksgiving
December 25, 1985: Christmas
January 1, 1986: New Year's Day
January 28, 1986: Challenger disaster coverage
March 19, 1985 - April 2, 1986: 7 pre-emptions, all confirmed. Status: closed
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Thanks for sharing! I've always wondered just when exactly Wagner & MacLaughlin were written out.
It's so interesting to see the article singling out Helen Wagner, instead of going for "Wagner and MacLaughlin out of a job". I'm used to Helen being mentioned on her her own from the many years she was (thankfully) on the show after Don's death, but I always assumed before that it was always Don & Helen.0 -
3 new episode numbers? Nice work @Paul Raven. I'll try to process these ASAP.
I will also continue working my way back, connecting episode numbers, as I was doing, I've just been a bit busy lately.
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4 hours ago, Paul Raven said:
Larry Bryggman also was cast on GL (Mike Bauer I think) but had military service and had to drop out.
That's the "was cast on a third show" I was referring to above, indeed.
Thanks slick!
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10 hours ago, Paul Raven said:
Re ATWT
Lawrence (Larry) Guardino played Doyle. I'm assuming this is the 1980 character.
Perhaps I can be of some assistance... Here's a screencap of Sgt. Doyle from 1980.
Can anyone confirm that this is Guardino?
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I just realized, to my shock, that one of the most celebrated and longest-running actors from As The World Turns is still missing from the list. I can't believe I hadn't noticed that before, I guess I'd always thought he'd been done somewhere in the first 20 pages. In addition to his 35 years on ATWT, I know he had at least one other daytime role, and he was cast on a third show. He was also nominated for 8 Daytime Emmy's, taking home 2 of them.
Slick, would you be so kind as to do a hopper profile for the legendary...
Larry Bryggman
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Damn. What a tremendous loss.
I'm a big fan of Inside The Actors Studio, and I have always had an endless amount of respect for him and found him to be a true class act. I haven't caught any episodes since he's stepped down as host, and while I appreciate the attempt to carry on the legacy, I can't quite imagine the show without him.
I would have never guessed he was 93, he looked much younger to me.
I can only hope that heaven exists and that when Mr. Lipton arrived at the pearly gates, God said: "You see Jim, you were wrong, I exist. But you may come in anyway".Rest in peace, James Lipton
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The next confirmed episode number is #8603, airing October 2, 1989, which is in the P&G Archives. 2 episodes need to have been pre-empted, and we know both of them:
November 23, 1989: Thanksgiving
November 24, 1989: Thanksgiving
October 2, 1989 - December 8, 1989: 2 pre-emptions, both confirmed. Status: closed
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#8550, airing July 17, 1989, is everywhere (P&G Archives, ATAS-UCLA Television Archive, Museum of Broadcast Communications). 2 episodes were pre-empted, we know both of them:
September 4, 1989: US Open
September 8, 1989: US Open
July 17, 1989 - October 2, 1989: 2 pre-emptions, both confirmed. Status: closed
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The March 20, 1989 episode is in the ATAS-UCLA Television Archive as #8465. That lines up perfectly, meaning there were no pre-emptions in between.
March 20, 1989 - July 17, 1989: 0 pre-emptions. Status: closed
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February 17, 1989 is in the P&G Archives as #8445, meaning there was 1 pre-emption, which we have confirmed:
February 20, 1989: NBA Game (Houston vs. Cleveland)
February 17, 1989 - March 20, 1989: 1 pre-emption, confirmed. Status: closed
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And then there is no confirmed number until November 3, 1987, nearly 1,5 years before. That episode is in the P&G Archives as #8120. There were 14 pre-emptions in between. We know about 10 of them:
November 26, 1987: Thanksgiving
November 27, 1987: Thanksgiving
December 25, 1987: Christmas
January 1, 1988: New Year's Day
September 5, 1988: US Open
September 9, 1988: US Open
November 24, 1988: Thanksgiving
November 25, 1988: Thanksgiving
December 26, 1988: Extended Christmas Holiday? [confirmed in The Journal listings]
January 2, 1989: Extended New Year's Holiday / Tournament of Roses
For the remaining 4 pre-emptions, I have 5 potential contenders:
December 19, 1988: possible pre-emption in this week as per @YRfan23? [listed regularly in The Journal]
December 20, 1988: possible pre-emption in this week as per @YRfan23? [listed regularly in The Journal]
December 21, 1988: possible pre-emption in this week as per @YRfan23? [listed regularly in The Journal]
December 22, 1988: possible pre-emption in this week as per @YRfan23? [listed regularly in The Journal]
January 20, 1989: Bush inauguration? [listed regularly in The Journal]
Interestingly enough, I found absolutely nothing in the listings for that week about the inauguration. I did find that the Bush inauguration took place at noon. Since ATWT aired at 2PM, I'm wondering if the festivities would have been over by then? But that still doesn't account for the fact that the listings in The Journal didn't have anything at noon either. So possibly as mistake was made, in which case we shouldn't factor in the regular listing too heavily.
November 3, 1987 - February 17, 1989: 14 pre-emptions, 10 confirmed, 5 contenders. Status: open
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OK, we left off on June 3, 1991. Next up is January 8, 1991, which is in the P&G Archives (and Museum of Broadcast Communications) as #8920.
This means 5 episodes were pre-empted in between. We know about these two for sure:
March 14, 1991: NCAA Men's Basketball
March 15, 1991: NCAA Men's Basketball
We have two potential candidates for the final three slots:
January 9, 1991: Possibly pre-empted for Gulf War news coverage?
January 17, 1991: Possibly pre-empted for Gulf War news coverage?January 8, 1991 - June 3, 1991: 5 pre-emptions, 2 confirmed, 2 candidates. Status: open
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December 20, 1990 is in the ATAS-UCLA Television Archives as #8910, which means 3 episodes were pre-empted in between. We know about all three of them:
December 25, 1990: Christmas
December 31, 1990: New Year's Eve
January 1, 1991: New Year's Day
December 20, 1990 - January 8, 1991: 3 pre-emptions, all confirmed. Status: closed
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July 30, 1990 is also in the ATAS-UCLA Television Archives, as #8812. This means 5 episodes were pre-empted. We have 4 confirmed:
September 3, 1990: US Open
September 7, 1990: US Open
November 22, 1990: Thanksgiving
November 23, 1990: Thanksgiving
For the remaining pre-emption, we have one candidate:
August 22, 1990: possibly pre-empted as per @YRfan23 [the episode does appear in the newspaper listings, so if pre-empted, this would have been an unplanned pre-emption]
July 30, 1990 - December 20, 1990: 5 pre-emptions, 4 confirmed, 1 candidate. Status: open
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July 4, 1990 is also in the same archive, as #8794. This lines up perfectly, which means there were no pre-emptions.
July 4, 1990 - July 30, 1990: 0 pre-emptions. Status: closed
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June 15, 1990 is also in the same archive (and the P&G Archive, and the Museum of Broadcast Communications), as #8794. This lines up perfectly, which means there were no pre-emptions.
June 15, 1990 - July 4, 1990: 0 pre-emptions. Status: closed
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December 8, 1989 is also in the ATAS-UCLA Television Archive, as #8650. This means there were 4 pre-emptions. We know about three:
January 1, 1990: New Year's Day
February 19, 1990: NBA Afternoon Basketball Game
May 28, 1990: NBA Eastern Conference Playoff Game
I have one contender for the remaining pre-emption:
December 25, 1989: Christmas [listed as pre-empted in the newspapers, but appears on 2 Youtube channels from a later SoapNet re-airing. Possibly dated wrong?]
December 8, 1989 - June 15, 1990: 4 pre-emptions, 3 confirmed, 1 contender. Status: open
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Just found a lot more info on the collection held by the Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute, including a LOT of episode numbers!
Unfortunately, many of them do not match up with the episode numbers we've previously established (particularyly those from the P&G Archives), and some of them don't even match up with each other. Some of the dates listed are even weekend days.
I swear, I love working on this project, but sometimes it just gets extremly frustrating.
Sometimes, I wonder if this show actually had 13.858 episodes, or if that's just what some writers thought was the correct number.
Anyways, you know I will be triple-checking all of these numbers against the previously "established" info. I'll let you know when I know more.0 -
On 8/2/2018 at 3:01 PM, Paul Raven said:
I have a question about Eileen Fulton's exit listed as NYE 1964, just a few months after her return (repacing Pamela King)
I thought that when she returned she stayed on till May 65 and her move to Our Private World?
On 8/4/2018 at 7:39 AM, Paul Raven said:May 3 1965
Eileen Fulton's last ATWT episode before appearing on Our Private World
Jan 16 1967
Eileen Fulton's first day back as Lisa. Episode #2812
The Lisa plot thickens... The Paley Center has an episode dated December 16, 1965, which they called "Lisa And Bob's Custody Battle".
According to our info now, this would be in between Fulton's exit to do OPW (in '65) and her return (in '67). Interestingly, the cast list for the episode does not include Fulton or the character of Lisa.
Was Bob involved in a custody battle with an offscreen Lisa? Did Fulton make an appearance during her break from the show? Did Fulton in fact return much earlier than we previously believed?0 -
On 7/31/2018 at 5:19 AM, Paul Raven said:
Some information that may help
As the World Turns was pre-empted August 13-15, 1956 because of CBS' coverage of the Democratic Presidential Convention.
On 8/3/2018 at 5:03 AM, Paul Raven said:Ok, so I have some more info that may make things clearer.
1956 13 - 17 August CBS DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CONVENTION
Mon, 1pm-approx 3pm
Tue, 1-4pm
Thu, 1pm-3:30pm
Fri, 1pm-3:30pm
all times subject to change
Those were the dates /times listed so it appears ATWT was actually pre-empted 4 times that week unless there were last minute changes. This was in an industry newsletter, so a trusted source.
EON would not have been affected as it aired at 4.30 pm.
Also it appears ATWT was not pre-emped for over Thanksgiving.
I just found a wonderful page with descriptions for 1956/57 episodes, coming from TV Guide issues.
http://www.oocities.org/televisioncity/studio/5185/stories/1956.htmlhttp://www.oocities.org/TelevisionCity/Studio/5185/stories/1957.html
However, this info seems to corroborate your first post above, not the second. It also states there actually WAS a Thanksgiving pre-emption.
What do you think @Paul Raven? How are we to interpret this info?
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8 hours ago, kalbir said:
The Olympics I remember CBS broadcasting were Albertville 1992, Lillehammer 1994, Nagano 1998. 1992 was the last year Winter Olympics and Summer Olympics were held in the same year, therefore no Winter Olympics in 1996.
Monday February 20, 1989 and Monday February 19, 1990 were NBA Basketball afternoon games; those two dates were President's Day. CBS Sports coverage of NBA Basketball was 1973-1990. Two other NBA dates for your list: Monday May 27, 1985 and Monday May 26, 1986 were NBA Finals afternoon games; those two dates were Memorial Day.
I just checked the Wikipedia page for CBS Olympic Broadcasts, and apparently CBS covered it in 1960 (Winter & Summer), and then in 1992, 1994 and 1998 (Winter only).
They had the NBA rights from 1973 - 1990, so there might be a lot more there. I'm making a mental note to dive into that, try to find afternoon games and/or dates that were simultaneously holidays.
May 26, 1986 seems to have aired, if it's dated correctly. May 1985 is wide open still, so it's possible.
Thanks so much for your help!
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From October 2, we make our way to June 11, which is #9025 according to... the UCLA Library (I know... but this one will be backed up by the next entry, bear with me). There were 4 pre-emptions, and we know about two of them for sure:
September 2, 1991: US Open
September 6, 1991: US Open
For the remaining two pre-emption slots, I have one potential candidate:
August 20, 1991: Reason unknown, but could have been pre-empted according to @YRfan23 [listed regularly in historical newspapers, so if pre-empted, would have been an unplanned pre-emption]
June 11, 1991 - October 2, 1991: 4 pre-emptions, 2 confirmed, 1 candidate. Status: open
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So, the reason why I trust that UCLA-based date is that only a few episodes earlier, on June 3, we get to #9019, which is in the P&G Corporate Archives (as well as the Museum of Broadcast Communications). That one matches up with #9025, so there would not have been any pre-emptions.
Of course, there is a slight chance the June 3/#9025 combination could be off, but either way, we are looking for 2 more pre-emptions in between June 3 and October 2.
June 3, 1991 - June 11, 1991: 0 pre-emptions. Status: closed
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From December 10, 1991 onwards, the next checkpoint is October 2, 1991, #9102, which is in the P&G Archives and therefore a non-UCLA source. 2 episodes were pre-empted, one of which we know for sure:
November 28, 1991: ThanksgivingFor the remaining pre-emption, I have 2 potential candidates. Both episodes are listed as airing in the newspapers, but there could have been unplanned pre-emptions:
October 9, 1991: dual Baseball game??
October 11, 1991: Clarence Thomas hearings??
Out of the two, the CT hearings seem a more likely candidate, as the dual Baseball game would have surely been planned and therefore appeared in the listings? But now I'm speculating and I try to do as little of that as I can.
October 2, 1991 - December 10, 1991: 2 pre-emptions, 1 confirmed, 2 candidates. Status: open
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Since the UCLA dates in the last few posts got a bit messy, here is this entire period between non-UCLA checkpoints:
October 2, 1991 (#9102) is in the P&G Archives, as is November 10, 1992 (#9381). In between, there were 10 pre-emptions. We know about these 9:
November 28, 1991: Thanksgiving
December 25, 1991: Christmas
December 31, 1991: New Year's Eve
January 1, 1992: New Year's Day
February 17, 1992: Olympics
March 19, 1992: NCAA Men's Basketball
March 20, 1992: NCAA Men's Basketball
September 7, 1992: US Open
September 11, 1992: US Open
For the remaining pre-emption, we have these two candidates:
October 9, 1991: dual Baseball game??
October 11, 1991: Clarence Thomas hearings??
October 2, 1991 - November 10, 1992: 10 pre-emptions, 9 confirmed, 2 candidates. Status: open
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11 hours ago, kalbir said:
I think this might be CBS Sports coverage of the Lillehammer Olympics.
I think this might be CBS Sports coverage of the Albertville Olympics.
CBS Sports' last Olympics was Nagano in 1998. If CBS did pre-empt the weekday daytime schedule for coverage of the Nagano Olympics, the most likely date would be Monday February 16, 1998, which was also President's Day.
I have the February 16, 1998 episode as pre-empted! Thanks for filling in those blanks for '92 and '94. What about '96? The only Monday I have left that could possibly be pre-empted is Monday February 26, 1996. Do you happen to know if that matches up with the Olympics?
Do you know when CBS Sports coverage of the Olympics began? I have Monday February 19, 1990 pre-empted as well. In 1988 I have no info on any of the February Mondays. In 1986, however, all of the February Mondays seem to have aired for ATWT.0 -
2 hours ago, Paul Raven said:
thank you for alerting me to this fabulous resource.
You liked that?
Procter & Gamble Television Script Collection:
The Irna Phillips Papers:
Guide To The Community Life TV Soap Operas Collection:
https://sirismm.si.edu/EADpdfs/NMAH.AC.0108.pdf
As The World Turns Collection:
https://library.osu.edu/collections/SPEC.TRI.ATW/collection-inventory
William And Lee Bell Collection Of Scripts For Television Soap Operas:
http://pdf.oac.cdlib.org/pdf/ucla/pasc/wjbell.pdf
Ahh, if only I lived near one of these places...
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As The World Turns Discussion Thread
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I'm so confused by this non-issue being discussed that I actually went back to check the video.
There was a momentary confusion over different Scotts, while at least four people were mentioning at least four different Scotts. That has absolutely nothing to do with memory from my perspective.
At a later point he wasn't able to reproduce the name of Steve Bassett, who was the co-star that was with him, Kathy and Julianne in during the Sabrina storyline in Europe. Can we please remember that he was on the show for 50 years? He was asked about a co-star that he has exactly one storyline with, 34 years ago. If that's a memory issue than I think we all have memory issues. As others have said, the actresses had trouble remembering which of their own children was born during the Spa storyline.
I'm sorry, people are entitled to their own opinion, but I think these comments are highly disrespectful to a wonderful man who has given his entire life for this show. If we want to get more vets to appear in these chats, this is not the way to go about it.
I, for one, remain absolutely shocked over how young Don Hastings came across, both inside and out. He was the absolute highlight. I'd love to see which other vets are game to do one of these.