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They keep making all these changes around the margins instead of firing Josh Griffith. But...I'm feeling cautiously optimistic that he's finished at the end of the year which would mean his soiled toilet paper material would air into March. Of course, it's pure speculation but since Kent joined there have been a lot of changes and none of them have worked. Kent should go too

ABC and P&G pushed Slesar to change up things when Monty saved GH and the other shows ramped up action and youth stories. Also, the 1981 writers' strike left the show in (capable but inexperienced) hands of Laurie Durbrow and Lois Kibbee for over 3 months just when the Sky/Jeff and Raven story was taking off. The strike also coincided with Terry Davis getting pregnant and Tony Craig wanting out after 4 years. Henry was also given a bigger budget for larger cast (some of which should have been spent overhauling the sets). Henry brought in too many recurring characters to try to up the ante and speed up the action in each episode. The other big factor was Larkin's car accident that put him out for months. And yes, Henry's 1982 was largely a clunker after Jeff's death. The Smiley stuff didn't work. The summer Eden plot for Jody was arguable Henry's worst plot. Casting didn't help. The actor who played Chad was terrible. I also heard that Henry wanted to bring in Timmy Faraday for the puppet plot with his rich background as son of Serena/Josie, but the network wanted the character as a Jody love interest and they were related I guess. Not sure how. So Timmy was changed to Kelly (again with a terrible first actor who was replaced fairly quickly). Henry also mentioned in an interview that he had a different original Jody story that involved her mother being cast in a contract role but ABC and/or P&G didn't want another older woman on the canvas. Henry wrote all the outlines and three scripts a week. It was too much as he got older; he needed to give up writing most scripts IMO. But Nicholson (producer) miserably failed in updating the look of the show starting in 1981 when he had some budget. Then, they fired Henry (mostly because he was too expensive and they could pay Lee Sheldon close to scale, and recall that the show was losing licensing fees as it was dropped from stations, so budget was dramatically shrinking). Lee Sheldon had some positive qualities especially towards the end but he was left unfettered. Someone mentioned his writing for Miles after Nicole dies and that was truly awful but the producers should have stepped in to modify his plans. Of course, EON had bigger audience at cancellation than Days did for years before it was moved to Peacock.

Slesar's detailed outlines and scripts with Lois Kibbee ended Friday, April 22nd. The next four weeks before Lee Sheldon was credited were written by Sheldon (uncredited) and Lois Kibbee off of Slesar's weekly story thrusts. The writing credits changed on the Monday following 4/22 episode for the next four weeks from Story by: HS / Teleplays by HS LK to Written by HS LK. Sheldon was officially credited on 5/23. I recently rewatched the 4/22/83 episode where Mike and Nancy go away to celebrate their anniversary. It felt very meta to me (in hindsight). I can't recall the specific dialog as I write this but while watching the episode it felt to me that Henry knew it was his last full episode.

Just got through 10/30 episode and wow, Van cannot act. Operating room death scenes are hard but that Scooby Doo crew of "actors" in those scenes was laughable. And the outline and particularly the dialog was god-awful. I can understand they are saving money by hiring inexperienced (and possibly scab) writers but yesterday's script was laughable. On top of the fact that almost everyone Frank hires (males in particular) cannot act. I may not be able to get through today's episode since it's written by the same two "writers" NC and CL.

Sheffer was a script doctor in Hollywood before Goutman and Dwyer Dobin recruited him to ATWT. He was not a creative visionary with tales to tell like Marland, Nixon, Lemay. Or even Long who creatively ripped off all the movies she ever saw and books she ever read. Sheffer needed to contribute to stories not oversee them. He had some great ideas but he ran out of them fast.

I can fault Long and Kobe for a fair amount of(although I thought GL was very entertaining between 83-85 compared to GH and SB), but Nola and Quint were played out, domesticated IMO. Lisa/Nola was quirky and fun but couldn't quite pull it off as a married heroine.

Ed Scott is 80 years old. Great that he's still working but my guess is he's not being brought in to replace JG as EP in the next months. Perhaps, he's being brought in to support a non Bell employee who will be appointed EP to replace JG (my Christmas wish). Steve Kent must be in his late 60s or 70s as well? Clearly, Sony and CBS are not invested in shoring up this show to support and strengthen Beyond The Gates. They are making changes around the edges but the show still sucks. Sharon's plot is just a redux of Ash's DID which is kind of a redux of Chelsea's breakdown. They do these medical arcs and these biz arcs and the show is still unwatchable under JG.

This was Hogan's best period, the early year or two and his most solid group of writers. I recall a NYer article where he revealed that the network and/or P&G insisted that Corley and Demorest be replaced to add more women to the outline writing team. Hogan also preferred 7 or 8 script writers which I always thought was a mistake. Too many cooks in the kitchen. Courtney was definitely the script editor. I assume Beldner was outline writer along with Demorest and Corley.

I'm kind of over her whining. She had a job for longer than most in the acting biz, particularly on a show that's been tanking for decades. She's a capable performer; in my view she was always Brenda-lite and her scenes through the years bored me. Go out and get another role without trashing the show unless you have an employment claim; then hire an attorney. GH survived countless departures by more critical players (Genie Francis, Tony Geary and many others over the years as has every soap. This is a tempest in a teapot. She should learn from other performers who laced their departures with these dramatics. Many never got another daytime soap job.

I also vaguely recall one of the awards shows during that era in which someone on days won an award and specifically called out Leah and Anne. I feel like it was Ken Corday but I cannot recall the exact award/show etc.

Jason: my recollection is that Anne Schoettle was co-headwriter with Laiman for most or all of her run. In fact, I seem to recall that they both got credit for "story" during the five month 1988 writers' strike.

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Thanks Who wrote the 9/25 and 9/27 episodes? Has Suzanne Fynn written an outline since 9/11?

Lisa Connor has returned to Y&R as a script writer as of tomorrow's US (Canadian today) episode. The title card again had Marla in the script editor position Jeff Beldner Marla Kanelos Marin Gazzaniga Lisa Connor

Speaking of multiple writers....Y&R standalone Sharon episode is up on YouTube: the script writer title card Jeff Beldner Marla Kanalos Marin Gazzaniga James Harmon Brown Assuming Marla edited the script instead of Marin and Marin wrote the breakdown, Brown wrote the dialog...assumption....

Who were the script writers listed? Who wrote the outline?

The WRITER and MVJ just became FB friends. uuuuuohhhhhhhhh

Because it's the same writers who've been there for years (EK and CVE) and same producer who needed to be fired when RC was fired (FV). It's the same show as under every previous FV head writer, just more hysterical, hyper emotional scenes. And that performer playing Molly, yikes she cannot act. Why was she given a contract??

Interesting short interview with James Goodwin from 2009 in which he discusses his roles on AW (Kevin 91-93) and GL (Johnny 86-90). Interestingly, he mentions that his agent was contacted by a former GL writer to take on the AW Kevin role. He says it was Melissa Salmons but she was not an AW writer in 91 and was still with GL at that time. I wonder if the writer was Victor Miller who was on Sheri Anderson's GL writing team when Johnny was created and was at AW when Kevin was created. http://pgpclassicsoaps.blogspot.com/2009/02/where-are-they-now-james-goodwin-ex.html

John Pleshette wrote the first 2 episodes of S4. He played Richard on the show. He wrote 8 episodes over the first four seasons. I thought all of his scripts were great. Notably, Ann and Ellis Marcus were brought in as executive story editors for the entire season three to collaborate with head writer Diana Gould; they were fired after one season. That's when the soapiness developed. No surprise given Marcus' background. Ann was rehired as a head writer/supervising producer for Season 14 and brought back Rocci Chatfield. Ellis was not part of the team.

Given that Amy Jean is Anne's daughter, it would be reasonable to assume that her announcement that Anne is GH's script editor means that Anne is GH's script editor!

https://www.linkedin.com/in/micah-steinberg-2a366635/ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3966699/

Bye girl. Now Maurice and Steve AND FRANK

Sheri Anderson and Joe Manetta

Paula C and Martha Madison just became friends on FB so I expect Belle to be back under her watch. Paula's also now friends with Quan and Giddens so I expect them to remain on the writing staff. Just my guess.