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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.

Dennis was 24-25 years old by the summer of 1980 when Texas debuted.

Great points, Sean. I was in the midst of writing something similar when you posted. And the information in that SOD time capsule about Peggy O'Shea is also incorrect. I don't recall Peggy being head of the writing team in 1982. Hall was as can be seen in videos on YouTube. O'Shea was the likely his co-head writer. The OLTL Wikipedia page also incorrectly states that O'Shea rejoined OLTL in December 1983 as co-head writer. She was still at Capitol long into 1984 as I recollect.

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Unfortunately, it HAS happened and it was on this very board circa 2007. I personally witnessed people encouraging someone to kill himself. Thankfully the mods shut down that discussion quickly.

It really did. I believe that SB's first few weeks coincided with Reva baptizing herself the slut of Springfield.

Not all ABC soaps were preempted during the 84 Olympics. ABC continued to air AMC, OLTL, and GH during the games, albeit at reduced lengths (40 minutes each). The only ABC soaps that were preempted and ended with cliffhangers were RH, LOV, and EON. A June 1983 article I read online said that ABC would continue to air soaps during the Olympics from 2 to 4 PM. If that's true, then the first 2 weeks of SB competed against the last 20 minutes of OLTL, the entirety of GH, and GL, which was on fire at that time.

I thought she already a co-head writer when she quit: Nancy Curlee. I was always under the impression that one of the reasons she quit was because of either CBS or P&G rejecting her plan to do a story involving a Jewish character, Matt Weiss. Great recollection! I believe that at one point in 1994 that GL had a stable of six head scribes: Stephen Demorest, Leah Laiman, Sheri Anderson, Millee Taggart, Peggy Sloane, and either Patrick Mulcahey or Nancy Williams Watt.

Not sure if this is possible, but is there any way to limit the number of videos that people can embed in one post? While I appreciate the videos that people post on SON, there have been occasions this summer where a few dozen videos were embedded in one post. I personally use my phone a lot to read these pages and the volume of videos embedded in a single post have repeatedly caused SON to crash on my phone.

I don't think Gary Tomlin ever played the role of Ted Bancroft unless it was a temporary situation. The role was played by Eric Roberts, Richard Backus, and Luke Reilly. When Backus was playing Ted in 1979, Tomlin was playing the role of Eileen Simpson's brother Morgan on AW.

Whatever source that reported December 1, 1975 for GH's expansion to one hour is wrong. As you state, GH and OLTL expanded to 45 minutes on July 26, 1976. According to this source, the GH expansion to one hour occurred in December 1975 -- before it expanded to 45 minutes in July 1976. That doesn't make sense at all. December 1, 1975 was the date that TEON moved to ABC and ATWT expanded to an hour. Both GH and OLTL expanded to one hour in January 1978.

According to Danny Hill, who posts a lot of classic soap episodes, The Doctors did two one-hour tests -- one in 1975 and the other in 1977. He said it also aired a 90-minute test in 1976. That's when Althea fell through a window and Nick Bellini returned to save her life. This is the book that discussed the expansion of Another World and stated that NBC was still considering expanding Days. The soaps section of the book included photos. I distinctly recall a photo or two of the Ryan's from Ryan's Hope.

A New York Times article back in 1974 said NBC was planning one-hour trial episodes of The Doctors and Days of our Lives. I could be wrong, but I thought that The Doctors did two one-hour trial episodes. I think one was around March 1976 when Nick came back to save Althea's life after an injury. And the other was from spring of 1977 when Carolee finally made her way back to Madison. Even after the 90-minute Another World failed, NBC was still toying with expanding Days of our Lives to 90 minutes. Many, many years ago, I had a book that specifically looked at television in 1979 and the AW expansion and the proposed DOOL expansion were discussed in the chapter on soaps. NBC was making a bunch of questionable decisions in 1979 in addition to the AW expansion, including the disastrous Supertrain.

Schmigadoon was awesome! And Ann’s song about her husband Mayor Manlove was brilliant. Starting tomorrow and for the next few weeks, my office is watching Schmigadoon during lunch.

I'm a bit confused by the date. Did you mean to say March 1972?