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    DAYS: Behind the Scenes, Articles/Photos

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    29 minutes ago, asafi said:

     

     

    Technically not the first actual time. Tom wasn't in the episode where Marlena went to the house for the first time and met Alice, Maggie and Mike.

    BRYAN, WHERE ARE YOU??

    I just sent this note to someone at Days. Hopefully it gets to the correct person and Bryan will finally get the credit he is due:
     
    Just wondering what is up with Bryan Dattilo not ever being credited in the past year. The last time he was listed in the end credits was the week of 3/13/23. The last 8 weeks he has appeared (the weeks of 10/16/23, 12/11/23, 1/8/24, 1/15/24, 1/29/24, 2/5/24, 2/12/24, 2/19/24), he is never listed in the credits. Can you pass this note along to whoever types the credits and make sure he gets back in them next time he is on?  Thanks! 
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    Soap Hoppers --The Soap Actors And Roles Thread

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    2 hours ago, janea4old said:

    Resume with 
    Experience at Loyola Marymount University in theater and film.
    And theater at Santa Margarita Catholic High School
    https://cfa.lmu.edu/media/lmucommunicationandfinearts/departments/theatrearts/showcase2023/Sydney Smith Resume.pdf

    ^  fyi @JAS0N47

     

    Yes, that's where I got the guest star photo that I used for her yesterday. I found that resume when looking for a photo of her to use, since it was hard finding a photo of her besides the publicity one of her as Alice!

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    Ratings From the 90's

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    FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 6/21/93-6/25/93 & 6/28/93-7/2/93:

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    FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 7/5/93-7/9/93 & 7/12/93-7/16/93:

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    32 minutes ago, AbcNbc247 said:

    It's gonna be nice to see Days' rise from week to week.

    Interesting how there wasn't really any change in JER's first few months

    Right now we only have up to end of 1993, but should be getting more years later on this year!

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    Ratings From the 90's

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    FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 12/7/92-12/11/92 & 12/14/92-12/18/92:

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    FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 12/21/92-12/25/92 & 12/28/92-1/1/93:

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    On 2/9/2024 at 7:59 PM, Franko said:

    It makes me wonder what would have happened if Reilly wrote for Days in the late '80s. Would the rising tide effect have happened with Another World and Santa Barbara? Would we have gotten a variant of Aremid or Passions instead of Generations, or as the Santa Barbara replacement?

    (There's other implications, which I'll save for the classic Days thread.)

    Jim Reilly actually was a breakdown writer on Days from September 1988-January 1990, so that was his first association with the show. Of course, he wasn't coming up with the actual storylines, but he did do breakdowns for the last 16 months of the 1980's!

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    Ratings from the 80's

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    Posted · Edited by JAS0N47

    20 minutes ago, Donna L. Bridges said:

    Okay, now I am totally turned around. It is at this point where I don't understand the process in computing ratings. But your saying it could have been 20 million? 

    Yes. I don't fully understand either. But along with the Average Audience (the number we are used to using), in the 1980's at least there was also a Total Audience number reported, which was much higher than the average audience. Plus, the numbers you were using to say the ATWT wedding was way lower than 20 million was the 4-episode weekly average (they were preempted once that week, so there was only 4 episodes, not 5). You didn't take into account that the first 3 episodes of that week would have much lower ratings (more normal ratings; or a little higher than normal ratings) and the wedding episode itself would be the 20 million episode. Based on that math I did above, it seems certainly possible that the 5/30/84 episode had either an Average or Total Audience of 20 million. And the same goes for that 30 million number for the GH wedding in 1981.
     

    So my best guess is that they may be reporting the TOTAL AUDIENCE number for the wedding episodes (not the usual AVERAGE AUDIENCE number that we use for the ratings data each week in the charts).

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    Ratings from the 80's

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    On 2/2/2024 at 9:11 AM, Donna L. Bridges said:

    @JAS0N47  So Betsy & Steve wed on May 30, 1984 and ATWT had a rating of 7.8 so at this time how many people was that? I have no sense at this point what a rating point equaled. Thanks!

    So two people on UglyX found this for me. And, with it a resource that is new to me, anyway. Don't know if you know it already. 

    https://www.ratingsryan.com/2021/03/weekly-nielsen-ratings-1984-85-tv-season.html

    So, at this point a ratings point represents 849,000 which means Steve & Betsy's wedding had 6,622,200 which is a far shot below the 20 million claimed & also significantly below the 16 million Doug & Julie claim. It also debunks that they are the second highest watched daytime wedding. 

     
    I think the Nielsen ratings for those two weddings are reported as correct. You just made me do math, which is my least favorite subject, but I think I did it correctly below! I looked at the weekly charts for these two weddings, and if you use the Total Audience number, that gets them a little higher. (Again, these are the averages for the 5-episode week, so it's possible that the wedding episode got a really high number, and the remainder of the week got much more normal numbers, which would bring down the overall weekly average):
     
    GH-Luke/Laura 1981 (said to be 30 million viewers):
    Avg. Audience: 13.8   
    Total Audience: 17.1 (13,936,00 viewers)
    Their season average at the time was 10,840,000. So if you assign that average to the other 4 episodes (10,840,000 x 4) that gets you to 43,360,000 (4 episodes) plus 1 episode of 30,000,000 = 73,360,000 divided by 5 = average for the 5-episode week of 14,672,000 (pretty close to the 13,936,500 that the Nielsen book has for Total Audience; so it means the other episodes that week had higher-than-usual daily averages as well)
     
    ATWT-Steve/Betsy 1984 (said to be 20 million viewers):
    Average Audience: 7.8
    Total Audience: 9.9 (8,296,200 viewers)
    Their season average at the time was 6,540,000. So if you assign that average to the other 3 episodes that week (6,540,000 x 3) that gets you to 19,620,000 (3 episodes) plus 1 episode of 20,000,000 = 39,620,000 divided by 4 = average for the 4-episode week of 9,905,000 which equals a little higher than the 8,296,200 total audience number reported; again like GH meaning that the week had higher-than-usual daily averages as well).
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    Ratings from the 80's

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    Posted · Edited by JAS0N47

    Since Donna was asking, I tracked down the page in the books that has the info, so for those interested:

    TV Households per season (equals 1 ratings point):

    Sep. 1980: 799,000 (revised from 778,000 based on census in Jan. 1981)
    Sep. 1981: 815,000
    Sep. 1982: 833,000
    Sep. 1983: 838,000
    Sep. 1984: 849,000 
    Sep. 1985: 859,000
    Sep. 1986: 874,000
    Sep. 1987: 886,000
    Sep. 1988: 904,000
    Sep. 1989: 921,000

    Rest of years (1989-2021) on my website at bottom of this page: http://www.jason47.com/days/weeklynielsens.html

    As to your post above, yes, RatingsRyan is the lead on the Nielsen project, so that's where the full books will eventually be posted once they are scanned.

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    DAYS: Behind the Scenes, Articles/Photos

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    2 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

    I didn't realize there was a second pilot. I thought Days was picked up on the strength of the first pilot with the decision made to recast Alice for the series.

    Was the pilot(S) just the first episode script or a completely different script?

    I just call them both the pilot episodes. The unaired pilot with Mary Jackson as Alice was taped in July 1965. Then the pilot episode (# 1) that aired on November 8. 1965 was taped at the end of October, 1965.

    We only know the cast list of the unaired pilot, but there were different characters in it, including a Minister, so it was a different script.

    Unaired July 1965 Pilot:
    Cast: Tom, Alice, Marie, Mickey, Craig, Tony, Julie, Jim, Minister, Nurse.
    Sets: N/A.

    1...11/8/65:
    Cast: Tom, Alice, Marie, Mickey, Tony, Julie, Mike/Detective, Diane, Carol, Store Clerk.
    Sets: Fur Dept. (Store), Precinct-Detective’s Office, Ext. Horton Home, Horton Living Room, Horton Study, Horton Front Hall.

     

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    DAYS: Behind the Scenes, Articles/Photos

    in Discuss The Soaps

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    13 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

    Thanks @JAS0N47 Didn't know about that feature.

    Burt Metcalfe talks about the Days pilot and casting of Frances Reid, but wasn't Mary Jackson cast as Alice originally and taped the pilot, then replaced by Frances for the series?

    Maybe Burt Metcalfe just forgot that detail. But trivial as it might be, its how misinformation is spread.

    That's why the need interviewers with a lot of knowledge.

    I took that to mean he either was involved in casting both pilots, or more just the second pilot.  

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    DAYS: Vet out!

    in Discuss Previews and Spoilers

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    11 hours ago, j swift said:

    @AbcNbc247 & @JAS0N47  In her press conference, she mentioned being written out for a while after the allegations were made public last summer.  I wonder if she's referencing what we are seeing now with Nicole being in Europe? Or, do you recall Nicole being written out at any other time this past year?

    Yes, the 1/19/24 episode is the point where she was written out originally.

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    DAYS: Behind the Scenes, Articles/Photos

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    IN THIS 2003 INTERVIEW, BURT METCALFE DISCUSSES RECOMMENDING FRANCES REID & JOHN CLARKE TO BE CAST ON "DAYS OF OUR LIVES" IN 1965...

    While I was browsing the TV Academy website, I noticed you could check all the videos that people spoke about "Days" in their interviews. Enjoy this look back at Burt Metcalfe, who helped cast several key roles in the "Days of Our Lives" pilot in 1965.

    https://interviews.televisionacademy.com/shows/days-of-our-lives?clip=50694#who-talked

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