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Laurie arrives at the Brooks home as Jill  is performing a tracheotomy on  Mr. Brooks. She screams  “What are you doing?” and tries to pull Jill away from Stuart. Snapper is on the telephone giving instructions.

There was a later hospital scene where Stuart is asked questions to check brain damage. One was his year of birth which he said 1927.

There was also a scene following  this where Ma Foster thanks Jill for saving his life. Jill is on her hands and knees trying to clean the blood off the carpet.

On 5/19/2020 at 3:53 AM, Paul Raven said:

Week ending March 4 1983

CBS -TV won daytime ratings for seventh consecutive week, averaging 8.1 rating /26 share for week ending March 4, compared with ABC -TV's 7.1/22 and NBC -TV's 5.5/18. During that week, CBS's Price is Right averaged 11.7/42, highest rating for any daytime show in two- and -one -half years.

 

Week ending May 20 1984

CBS won 36th consecutive week in daytime ratings, averaging 6.4/25 for week ending May 20, compared to 5.5/21 for ABC and 4.7/19 for NBC, according to CBS estimates.

Top five rated daytime shows were

1. Price is Right (CBS, 8.2/37)

2. Young and Restless (CBS, 7.9/31)

3. General Hospital (ABC, 7.8/27)

4. Guiding Light (CBS. 7.4/26)

5. All My Children (ABC, 7.4/26).

 

Week ending June 3 1984

CBS won daytime ratings race by more than one full rating point over closest competitor, ABC.

For week ended June 3, CBS recorded 7.2/25 in Nielsens  compared to 6.0/20 for ABC and 5.2/18 for NBC. Top five shows of week were 

1. Price is Right (9.5/37, CBS)

2. Young and Restless (8.8/30, CBS)

3. All  My Children (8.3/26, ABC)

4. Guiding Light (8.0/25, CBS)

5. General Hospital (7.9/25, ABC).

 

Week ending April 19 1985

CBS won daytime ratings for week of April 15 -19 with 6.1 rating and 24 share. ABC came in second with 5.5/21 and NBC came in third with 4.5/18.

CBS had five of daytime top 10, while ABC had three and NBC had two. Top 10 for week were:

1.General Hospital (ABC), 8.1/28

2. Price Is Right (CBS), 7.4/34

3. All My Children (ABC) 7.3/27

4. The Young and the Restless (CBS) 7.2/30

5. Guiding Light (CBS), 7.2/25

6. As the World Turns (CBS), 7.0/26

7. Wheel of Fortune (NBC), 6.7/31

8. Days of Our Lives (NBC), 6.5/24

9. Price is Right (CBS), 6.2/29

10.One Life to Live (ABC), 6.2/23.

I love ratings data, but I do question the highest ratings in two and a half years for The Price Is Right in May 1983. Maybe one and a half as I thought the Luke & Laura November 1981 episodes were in the 15-16 range.

My recollection is Derek Thurston picked up on calling her Katherine. I believe it was mentioned in a Soap Opera digest issue in the late 70s.

I would love to know who was involved in the steamy sex scene on The Doctors.

19 hours ago, BillBauer said:

 

He really, really was. He delivered every line exactly the same way. Like he was announcing sports scores. 

 

I have a memory of a scene with Maeve Kinkaed’s Angie. She was downstairs in the Matthews home possibly working for Jim. Hugh Marlowe is behind her and flubs a line and she has an expression on her face and mouth may have fallen open with a “What?”

Wish I could see again to confirm. I expect 1978ish.

By this point, a lot of households had VCRs. If one wanted to follow the show, I see no reason that time slot mattered so much. Unless there was different competition whenever the local station carried the program. Cable, independent stations, syndicated shows, the O.J. Simpson trial, and the internet paved the way for those once popular soaps demise.

18 hours ago, Efulton said:

Rumour has it that Chris Goutman wanted Beverlee McKinsey to appear in the last episode / scene but Proctor and Gamble squashed it because they were still pissed off about how she left Guiding Light.

I suppose anything is possible. But the show had changed greatly since her era. The existing audience identified more with Carmen Duncan at this point. Miss McKenzie was probably living in California with her health in decline. I mean I wonder what Sam Groom was given for his one day role as the minister.  Actors do have to work so often to keep their benefits. Judith Barcroft had to endure a one day episode a series a pharmacist  on AW for that very reason I read in an interview.

Ms. Penberthy certainly seemed dissatisfied in 1976 when reading the article in the soap treasures thread from the Daytime TV series interview alongside Michael M. Ryan. I have to wonder what the actors playing the Matthews family in 1975 thought of the storyline change. She never seemed to be the lead actress during her run.

22 hours ago, danfling said:

I heard that The Secret Storm was to bring back the presumed dead character Jill Stevens Clayborn; however, the show was cancelled prior to the return.  (Barbara Roddell was free to rejoin the show after Brooke Adams returned to The Guiding Light as Leslie.  The dismissal of Ms. Adams from The Secret Storm had been the result of the return of Jada Rowland's return to the show. 

 

However, another actress could possibly been hired to play Jill.

 

I also heard that the show was toying with the idea of bringing back Kip Rysdale.

Lynne Adams was Leslie. Brooke is married to Tony Shaloub and was in Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

I recall one of the last scenes was when Stuart was selling Jonas’s to Gina. Maybe Leslie was the owner still? Kay had invited Jill there to discuss trying to reconcile Stuart and Elizabeth. Jill referred to Gina as a “dish” once she caught a glimpse of her.

On 10/13/2019 at 1:20 PM, VanessaReardon said:

Was 02/84 on of those rare to find magazines?

15 minutes ago, Broderick said:

lol .... Yeah, that's little Marc Mergeron dancing with her.

Marc Mergeon also took Jill (Brenda Dickson) dancing. She started out slow but he encouraged her to loosen up. I believe temp Jill (Melinda Fee) had a one time tryst with him.

2 hours ago, vetsoapfan said:

 

Right, there was a bit of "testing out" John and Gina, but never (to my knowledge) Stuart and Gina.

 

William J. Bell had an annoying habit of simply dropping characters (even important, beloved, core characters) from the canvas without any on-screen justification. I mean, Peggy ceased to exist (for all intents and purposes) and went unmentioned by everyone three separate times. Stuart, Liz, Tommy Horton on DAYS. the list goes on.

IIRCI there was a scene at Jonas’ where Stuart was in the process of selling it to Gina. Kay contacted Jill (Deborah Adair) to meet her there to discuss bringing Stuart and Elizabeth back together. Jill spotted Gina and referred to her as a cute dish.