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  1. I don’t remember the character of Mary standing out. Kind of lackluster.  Other matriarchs had a stronger presence like domineering Nancy Hughes and Bert Bauer and even Alice Horton

  2. On 2/8/2024 at 12:44 AM, Paul Raven said:

    Texas didn't live up to the hype.

    The comparisons with Dallas were a handicap. No 5 day a week serial could compete with a once a week primetime show, especially one that was a cultural phenomenon.

    I don't recall location filming extending beyond the initial weeks. Despite what Rauch was claiming the lighting was harsh and unflattering.

    Seriously, claiming to revolutionize daytime TV is setting you up for ridicule and failure.

    I don't know why NBC took on another P&G show.

    Better off developing something they could have greater control over.

    And expecting Paul Rauch to oversee 2 shows, when one of them was already in the doldrums.

    It would have been better all round to expand The Doctors, following the template ABC had used for GH.

    Wonder what would have happened if they expanded The Doctors and put it at 3 against GH and GL.  
     

    If they followed the GH track The Doctors would not be any more medical than any other show and more action adventure 

  3. 22 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

    Was Corinne Jacker given free reign? It seems that way. 

    Maybe if she had been given more guidance or an experienced co writer ,things might have been better. She claims to have watched from the start, but nothing onscreen reflected that.

    Courier Express, 27 December 1981

    Playwright enters Another World by Tom Jory.

    -Corinne Jacker was hired by producers of NBC's "Another World" to pump new life into the slumping daytime serial, and the Obie-winning playwright says she knew right away what had to be done.

    "I'd followed the show from the start," says Ms.Jacker, who took the job as head writer for the series in October, "so it was easy. I felt the stories they'd been using lately had taken 'Another World' away from the things that I loved about the show. "I told them 'I wanted the show to reflect normal life -- no gangsters, no dope, no towns freezing over. I said I wanted to find drama in the people, the characters.

    "IT SEEMS TO ME the soap opera is as close as you can get to a novel by Dickens or Balzac - which, by the way, were serialized first in cheap pulp editions. And that's what I hope to do, only more. Because when you look at Dickens, he's characterizing in broad strokes - villains are villains and good people are good people. I want my characters more finely drawn.

    "And I think we're beginning to accomplish that," she says. "The kinds of things I didn't like - 'The Breather," the rape scene - are gone, and there's no more organized crime. Remember, there's plenty of drama in life, like in Dickens and Balzac, and that's what's happening in 'Another World.'

    "'The problem with the other stuff," she says - the city froze over in ABC's 'General Hospital" - "is it works for a while. You tune in to see Liz Taylor on 'General Hospital," and it's exciting. Then the others try to imitate that, and it doesn't work, and the viewer is less thrilled."

    IN ADDITION TO MS. JACKER, the series' producers hired two new directors and a new scenic designer, and changed the show's music and opening. There have been several cast changes under the new head writer, and Ms. Jacker is busy adjusting the demographics for Bay City, the fictional setting for "'Another World." 

    The hourlong show, once on a slide opposite "All My Children" on ABC and CBS "As the World Turns" and "Search for Tomorrow," seems to even have begun stabilized - maybe even began an  upward swing. Ms Jacker's background is in the theater theater and, she says the stories will get deeper, with more wrinkles. My reputation is of a serious dramatist. I've never a written  episodic drama. I'm  a little more interested in the subtleties of characters than others might be."

    SHE'LL ALSO INTRODUCE what Paul Rauch, the program's executive producer, calls "contemporary issues." One of the first characters Ms. Jacker created was Harry Shea, a union boss, played by Ed Power. "We're  having a black family come into the show as a core family and I think I'm right that it's the first black family in a soap where one member is not a doctor, lawyer  or other professional person.  And we've got an older mother who gets pregnant. In other words," she says, "'we're trying to deal with issues that affect all of us."

    Ms. Jacker has been prominent as a playwright off Broadway and for regional and repertory theater for more than a decade. Her "Bits and Pieces" at the Manhattan Theater Club in 1975 won an Off-Broadway Obie award, and "Harry Outside," produced at the Circle Repertory Theater in '76, was similarly honored. She is playwright in residence at the Circle Rep.

    MS. JACKER  ALSO has written extensively for television. She wrote the script for Katherine Anne Porter's ''The Jilting of Granny Weatherall," an "American Short Story' presentation on +public TV in 1980, and developed and wrote scripts for three episodes of "The Best of Families," a public television miniseries broadcast in 1977.

    "My feeling in taking this was that the key lay in the organic development of the plot," she says. "So I've restricted myself to the longterm plot and the daily story breakdown. The five writers who work with me do the dialogue." Ms. Jacker says she develops biographies for all the characters in the show, for use by the dialogue writers, and they're working now on a map of Bay City, to help with geographical relationships.

     

  4. On 10/28/2023 at 3:28 PM, Mitch64 said:

    Terrible what they did to him during that time...Wagner said that he started to get ill because he was taken off of contract.  They could have at least had him give the toast. 

     

    This is around the time that Fulton was fighting with Bunim and right before she left. She went red to "draw attention to herself" and..well, it was not the best look for Lisa. But this is also the time she started really leaning into the "jittery, fluttery, ditzy" side to Lisa...I'm glad that was gone when she came back. 

     

    The Tom and Margo clip makes the annoying triangle of Craig/Betsy/Steve pale in comparison. Margo and Tom are both self directed people with jobs, and cause problems with each other due to their strong personalities...Craig is obsessed with Betsy, Betsy is a fool who apparently does not work, go to school or have anything else going on in her life but the men in it, and Steve is an annoying blow hard. I can't believe Kim did not give all three of them "kiddo" speeches.

     

    I think the grandma clause was still in Fulton's contract? It's also interesting, knowing Colin's antiabortion activity, that Margo seems very adamant against abortion.

     

    I forgot that I used to think Deas was hot...and could not figure out why after watching him play that troll Buzz, but I can see it here.  He is totally in LOVE with Margo/Colin and it does not come off as desperate (Craig) or controlling (Steve) or sappy sweet like Babs and Gunner. It just seems natural that this man totally loves this woman, even if they both can be pains in the ass.  I don't know if its was Colin who brought it out of him (I never saw that with Buzz and anyone else) or the character of Tom (Deas amazingly plays Tom as temperamental and offbeat, but also as a sweet guy who just wants to have a wife and family, an interesting combination of Lisa and Bob and he somehow makes it work. ) 

     

    The Dobsons did not know what to do with any Hughes outside of Tom, so they just married Bob off.  During this time they also had Kim flirt with Stan, some boring FBI agent or something that she actually became his secretary.  I loved that they wrote boring "Bilan" out with a telephone call and having her sell tickets at a theater in Florida...what a weird way to write a character out. 

    The Dobson’s did not know what to do with the history of this show.  I did not care for their writing on here. Which I don’t understand because they did good things on Guiding Light 

  5. 3 hours ago, DM James Fairbanks said:

    December 1965 top ratings for daytime, including two Channel 2 news breaks.

    Paul Raven, wow!  CBS has the top 12 shows.  Another World has gained in that it beat The Doctors.

    House Party did well in the ratings.   That would change after moving it to 4 to accommodate the expanded TGL at 2:30

  6. 9 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

    May 87 Albuquerque 

    13 - KGGM (CBS) (now KRQE)
    5:30 am - CBS Morning News (x2)
    6:30 am - The Morning Program
    8:00 am - The $25,000 Pyramid
    8:30 am - Card Sharks
    9:00 am - Donahue
    10:00 am - The Young and the Restless
    11:00 am - As the World Turns
    12:00 pm - News
    12:30 pm - Stopwatch/PM
    1:00 pm - The Price is Right
    2:00 pm - Guiding Light
    3:00 pm - Hour Magazine

    Game shows before 9am Y&R at 10 and TPIR in the afternoon.

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    No Bold and Beautiful 

  7. This may be another soap myth but supposedly CBS proposed to combine The Guiding Light and Search for Tomorrow into one show back when they were 15 minutes but Irna said no.  Seems like a bad idea.  Would Jo have moved and become neighbors to the Bauers?   What would it be called?   Search for the Light?    No matter what both shows would have lost their identities.

  8. 20 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

    There was never any mention of what 'Coming of Age' was about. Obviously about young people reaching maturity. But it could apply to many age groups,I guess.

    Do you think it was a good title? Soap titles can be tricky.

    Sounds like it would have been very similar to original Young and Restless whose working title was The Innocent Years 

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