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February 1971 interview with Ellen Holly from TV Radio Show:

Synopses of radio soaps from September 1951 issue of Radio Television Mirror:

The November 1980 issue only listed the top 10 soaps. I found these issues at Marine Specialities in P-Town a few years ago. I came across them when I was reorganizing the other day. The last few times, they didn't have any magazines in the store. I'll have to see about scanning some of the articles. Besides those two, I have a Radio Television Mirror issue from September 1951 with an article about Hawkins Falls and snyopses of all the radio soaps. There's also a February 1971 issue of TV Radio Show with a section on soaps and interviews with David O'Brien, Carolee Campbell, and Ellen Holly. And an April 1974 issue of Daytime TV Stars. Bill Hayes, Susan Seaforth, Lee Patterson, and Erika Slezak are on the cover. There's a whole section on single daytime stars. There are interviews with Anthony George, Emily McLaughlin (looking absolutely stunning), Georgann Johnson, Charles Frank and Susan Blanchard, and Charita Bauer, plus a review of Search for Tomorrow. I'm going to work on scanning and posting some of the articles later today.

Ratings from two issues of Daytime TV that I found in Provincetown, MA: November 1980 issue GH - 9.0/32 AMC - 8.8/33 OLTL - 7.7/29 Y&R - 7.5/29 GL - 7.5/26 ATWT - 6.9/26 RH - 6.5/26 SFT - 5.8/23 AW - 5.6/20 DOOL - 5.2/20 January 1983 issue AMC - 9.4/34 GH - 8.6/32 Y&R - 7.8/33 OLTL - 7.7/30 GL - 7.6/28 ATWT - 7.4/27 CAP - 6.3/25 RH - 6.2/26 DOOL - 5.6/20 AW - 4.3/17 EON - 3.9/14 SFT - 2.7/11 TX - 2.6/11 TD - 1.9/8

I'm not sure if The Doctors was always in the same studio, but the show did add a bunch of new sets in anticipation of the possible 1970 spinoff. Carolee got her own office. There was a large student lounge and student dorm rooms. After the spinoff wasn't picked up and the story ended, the dorm and student lounge were dropped. So the studio was able to accommodate additional sets albeit for a short time.

The video is still out there on Chandler Harben’s YT page. The video features the final episode plus a CBS News segment where Audrey gets emotional as she talks about the sadness in the show ending.

Mary arrived in August 1986 when Margaret DePriest was the head writer. DePriest then introduced Jason in December 1987. Originally, Jason was slated to have two daughters but those plans were quickly scrapped after DePriest was replaced by Sheri Anderson in early 1988. DePriest was the one who introduced the Frame farmhouse as both Jason and Rachel wanted to buy it (Rachel wanted it for Jamie).

Reva was known as Rebecca when she lived with the Blume family in Goshen. I believe Buzz also showed up in Goshen and connected with Reva/Rebecca.

I believe Frank Fish is the one that wrote the screenplay. Frank was played by William H. Macy. Milo Simonelli was the producer. He was played by Louie Zorich, husband of Olympia Dukakis. And Vic Strang, played by Ben Masters, was the director. As for Jamie's novel, it must have been a huge book as it covered so many characters based on the residents of Bay City, including relatively new characters like Melissa Needham and Jason Dunlap.

Mark Singleton was a politician, not an editor. He didn't have anything to do with the screenplay for "A View of the Bay." That storyline took place in 1982 during Corinne Jacker's stint. Mark didn't show up until sometime in 1983.

Thanks @slick jones. What a lovely post. Like so many others, 2022 was a bumpy year with lots of successes and challenges. Through it all, SON was a place I could rely upon for new discoveries about soaps, opportunities to relive classic soap moments, and chances to learn more about the long, rich history of daytime soaps. I'm very grateful for this board, for the wonderful people who post here, and for the friendships I've made here. I wish everyone here nothing but the best in 2023! And as the iconic Mrs. Slocombe from Are You Being Served? would say, I am unanimous in that!

Kathleen Fisk played the role of Kelly Conway.

The scientist was Lena. In terms of Bianca's love interests, there was also Reese Williams and Marissa.

If I remember correctly, the spinoff was dead in the water by 1993 when Reilly took over as head writer. 1993 was around the time that the magazines started talking about another possible NBC soap, Coming of Age, which had Bill Bell Jr. involved somehow. Missing amongst all of this is the fact that Gene Palumbo was involved in the creation of Manhattan Lives aka Body and Soul. It wasn't just Sheri Anderson. In fact, if I remember correctly, Palumbo was the one who was mentioned as the creator and/or head writer of the show in the articles back in the day. He was head writer in 1991 when Marlena returned.

I believe the reference is to John and Felicia from Another World.

Great find!!! The Lives We Live aired at 12:00 p.m. in the New York market, right before Search for Tomorrow. WCBS did tout the show as a real life soap opera as I recollect. I watched it on a few occasions when I was off from high school. It reminded me of some scenes from Love of Life that simply depicted everyday life. Thanks for sharing this.

The lack of credit was surprising to me, especially since Scott got one for running shirtless on a beach. (You barely see Scott's face.) Coster is shown in a wheelchair. I'm still making my way through this season's episodes so I'm not sure if the wheelchair is part of the plot or if he actually uses a wheelchair. The ever wonderful Frances Conroy portrays his wife.

I'm making my way through the final season of Dead to Me on Netflix and a number of former soap stars appear. Valerie Mahaffey (Ashley, The Doctors) reprises her role as Christina Applegate's mother-in-law. Jason-Shane Scott (Will, One Life to Live) appears as a shirtless guy running down the beach in the first episode. And Nicolas Coster appears in the fourth episode as the father of James Marsden's character. Strangely, Scott's name appears in the closing credits even though he doesn't have any lines, while Coster, who has some lines in a memorable scene with Applegate, goes uncredited.

The actor bears a resemblance to James Shannon, who was on HTSAM and earlier played Paul Bennett on The Doctors.

This is just speculation, but knowing that Henry Slesar had planned this story many months in advance, I can easily imagine that he already had plans for Eliot for future storylines, including his marriage to Margo Huntington, his involvement in the Mansion of the Damned story, and his eventual murder. Like I said, it's just speculation but Slesar was meticulous with his storytelling and how one story would then feed into the next story. As a writer myself, his storytelling inspires and impresses me.

I've never seen anything about Kelly originally being planned to be Timmy Faraday except for fan speculation. Was this actually reported in the soap press? Joanie and Diana were on the canvas at the same time. According to synopses available online, Joanie (or was it Joni?) arrived in September 1978 and was around until the Children of the Earth storyline was brought to an abrupt end in January 1979. A dying Howard Selkirk was introduced at the end of November with the offer to give his corneas to Mike if he rescued Diana from the cult. Diana showed up sometime in December and was written out in March 1979.

It's not the best photo, but Diana can be seen in this magazine cover in the lower right. Susan Yusen is sitting next tot David Garrison, who played Cody and later starred on Married with Children. Lee Godart is in the upper right. I noticed that neither Irving Allen Lee and Denny Albee aren't seen here. I recall Albee and Godart had some kind of altercation in the spring of 1980 that led to Albee's departure.

Good memory! The young woman's name was Diana Selkirk and the role was played by Susan Yusen. Mike did get her father Howard's corneas. After leaving the cult, Diana moved in with the Karrs and became obsessed with Mike. After Mike realized Diana was a troublemaker, she decided he wasn't worthy of her father's corneas and tried to blind him again. That storyline seemed truncated as well. Diana showed up around early December and was written out by the end of March.

Juliet Mills guest stars on the new season of Big Mouth on Netflix. She voices the character of author Rita St. Swithens in a special episode about vaginal shame. The role was previously voiced by Helen Mirren in the Big Mouth spinoff, Human Resources.

Guiding Light wasn't Rauch's last show. The Young and the Restless was.