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SAG-AFTRA (ACTOR'S UNION) CONFIRMS MOST PRODUCTIONS WILL REMAIN ON HIATUS UNTIL THE SECOND OR THIRD WEEK OF JANUARY AT LEAST...

1 hour ago, Dylan said:

days is who knows 

Days is completed through 14054. 14007 aired today, so they have 47 episodes ready to air.

6 hours ago, soapfan770 said:

Thanks @JAS0N47!!! I’m amazed she has never hit #1 before.

 

Don’t know if you had seen it but the official Days Facebook page posted a lot of closeups of Horton ornaments including the elusive Spencer.

I hadn't seen that. I'll check it out, but I've been posting the exclusive close-ups the show sent me on my FB page for the last 5 years or so.

As for Dee, if the numbers hold this week, the character Steve (109 episodes) will actually beat Marlena (108 episodes) for the most appearing character. So, Dee is finally # 1 herself (when you include the Hattie episodes, in which she appeared in a few as Hattie only), but Marlena the character will be just 1 episode shy of leading this year.

13 hours ago, DRW50 said:

 

Sadly, no. 

Trying again:
 

20 hours ago, DRW50 said:

 

@JAS0N47thank you for all the time and love you give in helping to keep a Christmas spirit alive for DAYS fans.

You're welcome! I don't know if my browser is acting up, but the 6 photos of the tree I posted above don't show in my browser today. Were you (are you still) able to see them?

MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM JASON47!

Wishing everyone a wonderful, safe and healthy holiday season and all the best in the coming New Year! Here's to all of us having a much better 2021! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from Jason47!!

Just got these Horton Christmas tree photos in the last hour. Thanks Days! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On 12/13/2020 at 6:07 PM, titan1978 said:

Thanks.  Those early years fascinate.  Bill Bell obviously used Macdonald Carey a lot, and as his influence lessens, so does the episode count for the character.

 

As someone that started watching in the 1980’s, you would think Alice was always the one used more.

Mac always had the big guarantee, even into the late 1960's, thus the big leads.

I don't have the guarantees for the earliest years, but here's a look at one from 1968. Mac's gaurantee of 20.5 is twice as many as any of the other regular cast members, although as you can see by the chart, Bill Bell was working most of the cast well over their guarantees.

1 minute ago, titan1978 said:

Do you mind telling who was the top spot those three years?

All of the yearly Top 15's are on this page of my website!

http://www.jason47.com/days/top15.html

6 hours ago, KMan101 said:

 

Wow!! That's crazy. I'm so happy she's on top.

She hasn't appeared yet in December (still at 110), but still holding on. Rob's only been in one episode (103), and Stephen Nichols is now at 102. So, has a good lead heading into the final 14 episodes of the year.

On 12/9/2020 at 3:17 PM, KMan101 said:

Deidre Hall #1 for the year warms my heart. Ron knows who the star is. 

 

Thank you as always Jason!

Someone on another board pointed out it would be Dee's first year as the yearly leader, so she might finally do it!  

Checking the records, her top spot was 2nd place three years in a row...1981, 1982, 1983, her only three years as # 2.

15 hours ago, te. said:

 

I'd assume most (if not all) of DAYS have been kept since it started airing in Australia in 1968. On the Days of Days page they showed parts of the 1965 (?) Christmas episode and that was also well-preserved.

The entire Days archive is preserved as far as I know from the original NBC masters.

2 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

In the correspondence Jason posted between Betty Corday and Bill Bell I recall the subject of the budget coming up repeatedly.

 

PS Jason, are those letters still available on your website? I looked but couldn't locate them.

I thought I had them somewhere. A quick check of my index page found this!

http://www.jason47.com/days/archives1968.html

http://www.jason47.com/days/memos1969.html

On 12/4/2020 at 2:13 PM, beebs said:

So, according to the recaps (which I think I may compile into a blog at some point), Tommy basically starts to reappear in 1977, starts dating Linda, who is only using him to make Bob (her real target, because she wants his $$$) jealous. Once she gets what she wants, Tommy is dumped, and is a talk-to for the next year, before vanishing again, only to show up for Tom and Alice 50th wedding anniversary party in March 1980, and then he vanishes, never to be heard from again. 

 

That's literally it. 

Here are John Lupton's monthly stats:

7/67: 6
8/67: 5
9/67: 4
10/67: 4
11/67: 10
12/67: 11
1/68: 13
2/68: 18
3/68: 14
4/68: 14
5/68: 11
6/68: 11
7/68: 14
8/68: 5
9/68: 8
10/68: 11
11/68: 12
12/68: 7
1/69: 12
2/69: 4
3/69: 7
4/69: 4
5/69: 5
6/69: 8
7/69: 10
8/69: 8
9/69: 8
10/69: 10
11/69: 11
12/69: 8
1/70: 5
2/70: 5
3/70: 5
6/70: 9
7/70: 4
8/70: 6
9/70: 4
10/70: 1
11/70: 2
1/71: 2
2/71: 1
4/71: 3
5/71: 1
12/71: 1
5/72: 2
7/72: 1
5/73: 2
10/75: 4
11/75: 3
12/75: 5
1/76: 2
2/76: 5
3/76: 2
4/76: 2
5/76: 2
6/76: 3
7/76: 1
8/76: 1
10/76: 3
3/77: 2
4/77: 6
5/77: 3
6/77: 6
7/77: 2
8/77: 4
9/77: 4
10/77: 3
11/77: 2
1/78: 1
4/78: 2
12/78: 1
5/79: 1
7/79: 1
9/79: 3
3/80: 1
 

So, June 1970 was his last "big month" with 9 episodes. After June 1970, he never appeared in more than 6 episodes in a month, which makes sense, because production records confirm his contract ended in March 1970 episodes, so he only recurred for the next decade.

4 hours ago, victoria foxton said:

 

  

Fun Fact: From some of the production paperwork I have from that time frame, he was known and credited as Conrad Dunn back in 1981 too.

Does anyone watch Judge Judy? I just saw an episode from earlier this week about a woman suing a tanning salon for not returning her stuff. She looked familiar and the name sounded just a little familiar. Then I realized that plaintiff Joyette Erspamer is actually Jacee Jule's real name. So, if anyone watched Judge Judy earlier this week, that was Salem's own Patty the Salem Place waitress (and Frances Reid's long-time assistant). Judge Judy was mad that she was asking for two towels back from the new owners of the salon. She needed to sue the former owner of the salon.

"DAYS" CHRISTMAS 1967 VIDEO CLIP PROVIDES FIRST GLIMPSE OF EARLY (AND POSSIBLE) ORIGINAL HORTON ORNAMENTS...

With "Days" positing a video clip from the 1967 Christmas episode, there is now confirmation that none of the early Horton ornaments survived into the 1970's. These ornaments were either all thrown out or not expected to be used again after 1967. There is no mention of the named ornaments in 1968 scripts, but they are mentioned again in 1969 scripts (which might be the episode where some of the more well-known versions of the ornaments that were donated to the Smithsonian first made their debut). The 1967 ornaments were all silver balls. "Days" did mention named ornaments in 1966 scripts, which could be the same ones used in 1967, but until a video clip of the 1966 Christmas episode is provided, there will not be confirmation if these truly are the original Horton ornaments.

2 hours ago, soapfan770 said:

Whatever happened to Laemmle in the end? Did anyone get a chance to interview her after she was fired? 

Don't remember seeing any. "Days" was her final writing stint. She lived another 28 years and died in 2008 at the age of 97.

On 11/9/2020 at 5:06 PM, DRW50 said:

@JAS0N47 thank you for the cast photos. So nice to see them one after another.

 

55 years. Pretty amazing.

You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed them. 

1 hour ago, Franko said:

The stunt looked better than I expected. I wasn't expecting they'd show so much of it.

That was the first time the show ever used a stunt double.

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