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Here's the last written correspondence I received from Bill: His and Susan's 2021 Christmas card. It was always a treat to see Doug and Julie at the Horton Christmas each year, and the Christmas cards they sent added to the magic of the season, especially for this "Days" fan!

GOODBYE, BILL Before television existed, Bill enlisted in the Navy Air Corps the moment he turned 18 in June 1943. He spent the last two years of World War II training to be a fighter pilot. Soon after the war ended, he became part of the fabric of television, first as a singer on "Your Show of Shows." In 1955, his rendition of "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" hit # 1 on the Billboard charts for five weeks. In 1970, he was cast as Brent Douglas (aka Doug Williams) on "Days of Our Lives", a role he would continue to play, off-and-on, over the course of the next 54 years. It was thanks to "Days" that he met Susan Seaforth. They married in 1974, and their characters married on "Days" in 1976. I found out five days ago that things were not going well. I spent the past five days reminiscing, remembering the time I was first put into contact with Bill years ago. I found out then that the man fans saw on "Days" for the past six decades was just as you saw him on screen: genuine, caring, full of life...a wonderfully nice man. He was so pleased to be sent his first script page from his debut episode in 1970 and immediately signed it for me. Through the years, we would stay in touch via email. He rarely took more than a day to respond back. As such a long-time fan of "Days", I was always in awe that he was just an email away if ever I had a "Days" question or just wanted to say hello. I will always cherish his friendship. My condolences to Susan, his children and the rest of his family.

MAY 1980 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME: NOVEMBER 1980 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME:

MAY 1979 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME: NOVEMBER 1979 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME: 1980's to be posted in the '80s Ratings Thread.

MAY 1978 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME: NOVEMBER 1978 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME:

MAY 1977 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME: NOVEMBER 1977 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME:

1988 is the worst coverage for summaries, so I just looked through and a lot have what I would call the highlights, but all of them need a good summary, so if you have any interest and could type some up as you watch them, that would be great. I'd like a sentence or two for what happens in each scene. Some summary writers group the storylines together, some just write what happens in the 1st thru 25th scenes in chronological order, so whichever way you want to do it is fine with me. Just make sure to write the main thing that happens in each scene, so I'd expect them to probably average 3 paragraphs or so. I mean some scenes might be more exciting than others, so some might get 2 or 3 sentences if a lot happens in them. If you could write one episode up as a sample and message me with it, then I can see if it's what's needed for the guide. Thanks!

GUIDING LIGHT, JUNE 1992 PRIMETIME SPECIAL DEMOS:

The episode guide is here, so you could probably figure it out. Are they full 45 minute episodes or just random clips from episodes? https://daytimeroyaltyonline.com/days-daily-summaries-1980-1989-t15361-s660.html

Some 1988 episodes still need summaries. Up to writing any??

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 12/5/77-12/9/77 & 12/12/77-12/16/77: FAST WEEKLY WEEK OF 12/19/77-12/23/77 NOT AVAILABLE (Note: Per newspaper listings, there were no scheduled preemptions and all daytime shows were scheduled to air every day this week). REST OF 1977-1979 ALREADY POSTED!

With the resumption of the May 1992-December 1992 charts coming soon, here's a sneak peek at the week of 6/1/92-6/5/92:

Not just an episode of Baby Talk. A REPEAT of Baby Talk. Beat AW by 2.1 points. Since the Nielsen books don't do the rankings, you have to refer to a chart for a quick check of the overall ranking. Here's the Broadcasting chart for that week. AW came in 78th place. The Daytime Emmys, which followed AW, actually came in # 1 for the week.

http://web.archive.org/web/20040611192307/http://www.soapoperafan.com/days/characters/scofield.html#vern Molly began going to school at Salem University, but was having problems with a male professor there. Molly was being sexually harassed by a Professor Gavin. Molly told this to Tanner, who recognized the name as being a professor his mother worked for a long time ago. Tanner went to Brian and his father Vern and demanded to know what happened to his mother. Brian and Vern told Tanner that Mrs. Scofield had been raped and commited suicide. Tanner put two and two together and figured out that it was Professor Gavin who raped his mother. Ginger and Tanner forced a confession out of Gavin, who was convicted and sent to jail.

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 11/7/77-11/11/77 & 11/14/77-11/18/77: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 11/21/77-11/25/77 & 11/28/77-12/2/77:

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 10/10/77-10/14/77 & 10/17/77-10/21/77: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 10/24/77-10/28/77 & 10/31/77-11/4/77:

Glad to help. I scanned any interesting SOW behind-the-scenes "Days" articles from the early 1990's in when I was scanning the soap ratings a long time ago, just for cases like this, when someone has a random question. So, I'm glad they were all at the ready! I spoke to Barry Cutler about that: http://www.jason47.com/days/barrycutler.html They had just signed all of the Aremid gang to contracts shortly before Missy quit. I don't remember the exact quote, but I remember the sentence that begins "Unfortunately" is where he had mentioned something like "an actress quitting", but when I published that interview I used just his word "Unfortunately" and then subbed in paraphrased words so as not to mention those specifics in the posted interview. "A number of us involved in the storyline of the small town in which my character lived [Aremid] were very disappointed when the storyline was brought to an early conclusion. There had been talk of spinning off [the Aremid characters] into another soap opera. "Days" had jumped up in the ratings, in large part due to our storyline, and the network had thoughts of a spinoff. Unfortunately [that did not happen]." Cutler reflected that "It's a tough business and it's a blessing when we can get on-going job opportunities such as "Days" provided."

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 9/26/77-9/30/77 & 10/3/77-10/7/77:

ANOTHER WORLD PRIME TIME SPECIAL, JUNE 1992 DEMOS: Recently started work on the rest of 1992. Won't be ready to post for a bit, but I noticed this AW primetime special, so here are the demos. Audience dropped some in the second half hour. First half hour got a 6.3. Last half hour got a 5.9.

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 9/12/77-9/16/77 & 9/19/77-9/23/77:

Here's the Soap Weekly articles I had already scanned in my files regarding Manhattan Lives: SOW 2/11/92 SOW 2/25/92: SOW 3/3/92: SOW 3/31/92: SOW 5/12/92: SOW 7/14/92: SOW 7/21/92: SOW 1/12/93: SOW 3/23/93: SOW 3/30/93: SOW 4/13/93: SOW 1/4/94:

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 8/29/77-9/2/77 & 9/5/77-9/9/77:

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 8/8/77-8/12/77 & 8/15/77-8/19/77: FAST WEEKLY WEEK OF 8/22/77-8/26/77 NOT AVAILABLE (Note: Per newspaper listings, there were several scheduled preemptions: On 8/23/77, a President Carter News Conference from 230-3PM was scheduled to preempt "Guiding Light" on CBS, "The Doctors" on NBC and the first 30 minutes of "One Life to Live" on ABC. All other daytime shows were scheduled to air every day this week).

They've continued to be listed since the writers were removed from the credits. That position isn't part of the WGA: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-09-22/sag-aftra-strike-writers-assistants That's an additional position that Kirk has, so I guess he was still doing that part of his job, but not writing for the show.

December: (- is former employee keyboard refuses to type) 12/1/23: Janet Spellman-Drucker & Kirk Doering 12/4/23: - 12/5/23: Noel Maxam 12/6/23: Scott McKinsey 12/7/23: Janet Spellman-Drucker 12/8/23: Scott McKinsey 12/11/23: Noel Maxam 12/12/23: - 12/13/23: Sonia Blangiardo Goins 12/14/23: Sonia Blangiardo Goins 12/15/23: Angela Tessinari 12/18/23: Noel Maxam 12/19/23: Scott McKinsey 12/20/23: - 12/21/23: - 12/22/23: Noel Maxam 12/25/23: Sonia Blangiardo Goins 12/26/23: Noel Maxam 12/27/23: David Shaughnessy 12/28/23: David Shaughnessy 12/29/23: Noel Maxam Director Totals: 2023: Scott McKinsey 56.5 - 50 Noel Maxam 50 Sonia Blangiardo Goins 45 Angela Tessinari 23.5 David Shaughnessy 17 Janet Spellman-Drucker 15 Writer Totals: 2023 David Kreizman 46 Joanna Cohen 42 Richard Culliton 41 Kirk Doering 25 Carolyn Culliton 21 Henry Newman 17 Sonja Alarr 15 Jazmen Darnell Brown 13 Cheryl Davis 12 Dorell Anthony 3 Dave Ryan 3 Christopher Dunn 1 Jamey Giddens 1 (No Writer Listed-WGA Strike) 20