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Another good episode other than the Jenn flashback; the show must have been running short but why didn't they have at least one Hope/Doug flashback at the grave instead. Shawn and Phillip have more chemistry than Shawn and Belle. Stephanie and Philip..Hopefully Paula/Jean end that or Ron ends it before his material is over. The cast credits were messed up.

Wednesday's episode was also well done. Steve S handled all of his scenes so well. What a consummate actor. He'd be great back on a soap. Marie was also great. Aunt Marie needs to be seen more often. The actor playing Doug has promise, a little green but he held up well with Susan. Interesting that Dave Ryan has written the last three scripts. His name should be disappearing from the credits any day now since he moved over to Y&R several months ago. I'm shocked I actually have watched four Ron episodes in their entirety. I wonder if he and Ken looked at these episodes and realized that you don't need several overplayed, ridiculous murderous back from the dead characters (Kristen, Ava) or actors double cast (Alex, Theresa) to tell a compelling story.

Wonderful episode 12/2. I loved the way they wove in Julie's brother, Liz and Marie!. All still great actors. Beautifully written and directed. Susan Hayes what a. class act.

Dear God in Heaven NOOOO!

Henry was one of a kind. There has never been another talent like him. Not Agnes, Not Bill, Not Doug. Only Irna for her type of melodrama. But no one matched Henry's ability to do a daytime crime/mystery soap consistently for 15 years. And write Somerset for 2 years. SFT for six months during those Edge years. Even his clunkers were better than anything done by other writers since he was fired in 1983.

How is this Dude related to Doug Wiliams, Julie's husband?? I'm confused.

Flawless episode. Great job to all. Susan Hayes better win best supporting actress. Glad they gave the episode to women to write and direct. Angela did a great job.

Megan Titus wrote today's 11/29 script of Days (assistant to producer on Days) https://www.linkedin.com/in/megan-titus-1696831a3/

Thanksgiving Day in Salem. Yawn except for the incomparable Susan Hayes whose true acting skills highlight the mediocrity of so many around her. She's a class act and I will watch her scenes in the coming months and ff through most of the rest. I can't with the Horton House sets. I'm still in shock at how poorly the set designers handled the remodel; they made it worse than before. Those checkered drapes in the living room. Oy vey. And don't get me started on that dining room set. I was fixated on the misplaced fireplace stuck in the corner by the door and that table lamp from so many other sets. I hope Jean/Paula got rid of fake Abigail and her overfilled bottom lip. And pinning a story on Clyde's character who has escaped death and prison more times that a certain president elect has committed crimes. Jackee looks great. Wonder if she tried ozempic. But her "acting" is more stilted and mannered than ever. Lamon is fine. Miss him. He never really had a great story. NuGabi ain't cutting it with me, none of the sultry spark of the prior actress. I would have had Jennifer find Doug not Jack. From yesterday's episode. The girl playing Joy is talented. She will go places. Reminds of me the brief Michelle on GL (Joy Lenz). Javi...the actor may have potential but he's rough.

Frank periodically elevates his boy staff i.e. Donny Sheldon but do they last? Of the 4 daytime shows, GH sure has a lot of "new" unheard of writers since the writers' strike ended...Nigel, Micah, Cathy L (started just before the strike), they tried out someone named Peter I think... Oh and guess what. Steve is cute in his linked in pic...Frank, Frank, Frank https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenarosenberg/

Just watched Nolly. Mostly great. But her story was cheated by having it play out in 3 episodes. What a tragedy. They could have done multi-seasons or at least 8-12 episodes. I wonder how much the SFT writers (and Mary Stuart) were influenced (or visa versa) by Crossroads and Noele. There are so many similarities between the actresses and their respective characters.

Doug Marland made his mark on each show he head wrote but he only had a lengthy tenure on ATWT during his second run until his death. IMO his best work was on The Doctors but he dumped the show for GH; then had a falling out with Monty and left less than two years into that historic run. Same on GL. And he lasted on Loving 2 years and was scrubbed from created by credits. I guess Nixon was boss! Marland needed a lot of control over his material and wouldn't bend to the will of whichever EP he was reporting to. I think Calhoun and Caso let him have tons of control, but his latter ATWT years were messy and unwieldy with too many characters and scenes with groups.

Here are the changes Y&R has made since Steve Kent came in as 'exec in charge' Hired: Dave Ryan as script writer; hired Marla Kanelos who wrote about 12 scripts then moved to outline writer; moved Marin Gazzaniga from script writer to script editor; moved James Brown (who was a fi core strike writer no doubt) from script editor to script writer; hired Lisa Connor as script writer; re-hired Ed Scott as senior producer; fired Beall as producer and demoted her from co head to script writer (we'll see if she remains as a script writer). And that's after they did the following (after last December) once the writer's strike was over: fire Lynn Martin; "retired" Janice Esser; hired JG's assistant Maddie Phillips as script writer (probably wrote episodes during the strike). The only thing they haven't done is get rid of the central problem: JG

For any old time AW viewers: L. Virginia Brown replaced Tom King and Robert Soderberg in Fall 1980 and she lasted 11 months although there was a 3 month writers' strike in spring 81. Corrine Jacker lasted 11 months as well before being replaced by Soderberg and Dorthea Purser. I've rewatched some of King/Soderberg and the issue was Rauch and the whole Texas debacle. I thought the show was recovering nicely in August/Sept 1980 and Judith as Miranda was a great potential bitch Irish replacement. Which of the two writers (Brown or Jacker) was better or worse in your opinion?

SSH praised the material so either Ron behaved in the writer's room for a few weeks or Jeanne Ford, Fran Myers and others who've been there decades kept it honest. I might actually subscribe to peacock to watch through the holidays then peek in and out until Ron's final weeks in March/early /April. Last week the show filmed Sept 1 2025 episode so they are way ahead with PC/JF material.

script writer. We'll see if she's just filling out a contract or if she took on this new (original) position.

Amanda Beall out as co-head writer!

I used to love the soap Xmas closing credits. Does anyone know how long Elman/Lipton were head writers? 1976 Here's 1977 Xmas credits, show written by Robert Shaw with DiZenzo's as script writers.

I love how all the actors kissed Ron's butt for 7 years including Deidre until he's fired. Ken knew Ron's "creative" talents from day 1. Ken hired Ron on the double look a like plot (Bonnie and Hattie) in the first year of his reign of error. Ron's expensive. I would guess Paula and Jean are not quite commanding the same salary. Perhaps, someone pointed out to Ken that Body and Soul was another OLTL regurgitated plot. But it's not Ron's worst. There are so many plots to choose from, and Ken approved all of them.

Who wrote the script? I saw that Sally directed. Just watched 11/14 episode on YouTube and there was no script writer listed after Marin's name. Owen directed. Marin is script editor so perhaps she wrote the 11/14 script.

I just watched 11/14 Friday episode posted on Youtube tonight and wondered if Ed Scott was going to have sway over getting rid of Jill Farren Phelps hired actors including Melissa who, bless her heart, has never been good on the show as Abby. Over the years, I've been amazed on several shows how poor the casting has been for the grown children of legacy characters such as Abby on Y&R. Michael (Chad D) on GH and others. Now, get rid of the horrible non-actor playing Chance.

She's on staff at Beyond the Gates with Ron and Chris, so either she only wrote some spec scripts or she was canned when Paula/Jean took over from Ron.

Lynn Martin wrote 11/11 Days script.

This isn't rocket science on who wrote the show. Jean Ford and Fran Myers are FICORE and didn't go anywhere during the strike Sheri Anderson went FICORE during the 2023 strike and I will bet she will appear as a writer under Jean and Paula Paula went fICOR in 2008 and got credit on Y&R for that period as a writer. And lo and behold after the 2023 strike she's been hired as co-head. So it's a fairly easy guess that the strike writers included: Jean Ford, Paula Cwikly, Sheri Anderson, Fran Myers and we'll need to see other writers who show up under Jean and Paula. With Ron out, it's likely Dan O'Connor and Katie Schock are out. We know Dave Ryan lost his job to Dan O'Connor and Kent hired him as script writer at Y&R. Chris Dunn is out because he's now a break down writer at Beyond the Gates...

I watched lived starting summer of 76 through the end but my older sibling watched and loved it from the time Henry took over in 68.