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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!

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 9/13/93-9/17/93 & 9/20/93-9/24/93: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 9/27/93-10/1/93 & 10/4/93-10/8/93:

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FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 7/19/93-7/23/93 & 7/26/93-7/30/93: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 8/2/93-8/6/93 & 8/9/93-8/13/93:

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 6/21/93-6/25/93 & 6/28/93-7/2/93: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 7/5/93-7/9/93 & 7/12/93-7/16/93: Right now we only have up to end of 1993, but should be getting more years later on this year!

I don't ever remember seeing an actual family/friend-written obituary for him in any of the obit websites/newspapers at the time. Only reports of his death by the soap media.

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

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).

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).

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.

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

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

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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The TMZ article says Ari's lawsuit mentions her contract ended in January, so that was just last month. So that leaves many months of episodes that were taped from August to December yet to air.