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Looks like you have most of it right, except when Mickey wandered off. He got amnesia in 1973. It was when he returned to Salem that he eventually shot Bill in February 1976. (Also it is Maggie Simmons, not Maggie Douglas). July 1973- Mickey is depressed, considering suicide as he recovers from emergency heart bypass surgery. He suffers a sharp pain in his head and collapses (then wanders off with amnesia, meeting Maggie at her farm in August 1973). July 1974- Tom sees a photo of "Marty" in the newspaper and tracks him down at Maggie's farm. February 1976- After finding out Mike's blood type does not match his, Mickey finally realizes he's not his father, buys a gun and shoots Bill. Mickey is sent to Bayview (where he meets Marlena in June 1976). All those dates come from the monthly recaps by DSN, so you can read much more in-depth here: "Days of Our Lives" Monthly Synopses from Daytime Serial Newsletter 1972-1973 January-June 1974 July-December 1974 January-June 1975 July-December 1975 January-June 1976 July-December 1976

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 6/29/87-7/3/87 & 7/6/87-7/10/87: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 7/13/87-7/17/87 & 7/20/87-7/24/87:

KEN CORDAY TO PERFORM HIS FIRST PIANO CONCERT IN ALMOST 50 YEARS...THREE NIGHTS ONLY THIS NOVEMBER... At the age of six, Ken Corday taught himself how to play the piano by creating and practicing his own music. It wasn’t long until Ken’s parents received a call from Professor Tanamichi Sogito who, impressed by Ken’s music, offered to take Ken on as a student at the age of 8 at the prestigious Juilliard School of Music in New York City. As a teenager, Ken also developed a love for the drums and went on to play drums in many rock groups, culminating in touring with the band Lucky Mud throughout the Southwest, Bay Area, and Hawaii. In 1973, Ken enrolled at UCSC, and studied Jazz improvisation and ethnomusicology. His mentor, Professor Randy Masters, introduced Ken to modern Jazz, especially Brazilian new beat (Bossa Nova) music, and Afro-Cuban rhythms and cadences. Graduating in 1975 with a B.A. in music, Ken continued to Post-Graduate Studies at San Jose State University where his piano playing flourished under the tutelage of Lou Harrison and Higo Hirada. In 1977 Ken earned a master’s degree in music, and later that same year, Ken launched his composing career in television, specifically for Days of our Lives where he continues to compose the show’s music. He’s earned six Emmy Awards for music composition. After almost 50 years since his last piano performance, Ken will be returning to the stage to perform his first piano concert featuring a collection of his own never-before-heard, original music. All proceeds from ticket sales for the concert series will go to benefit the SAG/AFTRA Foundation’s Emergency Assistance Program and the important work they continue to do. For more information and to buy tickets: https://www.garrymarshalltheatre.org/songswithoutwords

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 6/8/87-6/12/87 & 6/15/87-6/19/87: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS (FAST NATIONALS): WEEK OF 6/22/87-6/26/87:

The primetime charts for the 1960's and 1970's are arriving much quicker than the daytime charts, so if you have any interest or want a specific soap or other primetime show posted from those decades, check out the appropriate thread (I posted once in the '60s daytime thread, but I also posted in the primetime soaps thread, so I guess that would be the more appropriate place for this discussion).

If you've been following the daytime ratings threads, you've seen me posting the weekly daytime ratings for 1979-1989. For primetime fans, the primetime charts for some of the 1960's and 1970's are arriving long before the daytime charts will, so if anyone has a specific week of primetime soap or other primetime show they would like the chart posted for, let me know. Here's the primetime chart of the night that "Days of Our Lives" premiered, 11/8/65...

Unfortunately, the primetime ratings are coming in first for the 1960's and 1970's, so we still have to wait awhile for the daytime batch, but in the meantime, here's a look at the primetime ratings on the day that "Days of Our Lives" premiered, 11/8/65...

You're in luck, since there was some overlap at the beginning of September 1987. There's a few weeks where they issued books with the old numbers, but also issued books with the new numbers, and the results are quite different between the two. I was only going to post the "official" numbers when it came time for that, but since you asked, I will post both sets of numbers: the old system vs. the new system, so your questions will be answered then once we get to September 1987. FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 5/11/87-5/15/87 & 5/18/87-5/22/87: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 5/25/87-5/29/87 & 6/1/87-6/5/87:

PREEMPTION DATA CONFIRMED FOR THE TWO "MISSING WEEKS" IN 1991...ALL PREEMPTION DATA TO BE AVAILABLE FOR JANUARY 1979-MAY 1992 (except one week in 1981) Santa Barbara had one preemption during the two consecutive "missing weeks" of 5/20/91 and 5/27/91. A quick check of newspapers confirms that SB was preempted on 5/27/91 for NBA Playoffs. So, with that, we have the full preemption data for all soaps from January 1979-May 1992 (missing just the week of 8/24/81). Exact data on PARTIAL preemptions will not be available for the fast weekly weeks (4 per year) from 1979-1987, but all FULL preemptions will now be known for soap history fans! Telecasts (should all be 15 more telecasts if no preemptions during the weeks of 5/20/91, 5/27/91, 6/3/91) As of 5/17/91-6/7/91 AMC 159-174 AW 159-174 ATWT 165-180 BB 164-179 DAYS 158-173 GH 161-176 GL 160-175 LOV 161-176 OLTL 160-175 SB 157-171 (1 preemption during the two missing weeks of 5/20/91 and 5/27/91) YR 168-183

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS (FAST NATIONALS): WEEK OF 4/20/87-4/24/87: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 4/27/87-5/1/87 & 5/4/87-5/8/87:

FROM THE VAULT: THE NIGHT MIKE HORTON WAS CONCEIVED... Episode # 569...February 6, 1968 Episode # 570...February 7, 1968 NOTE: This script moves the storyline 10 minutes back, so the scenes are played again: Episode # 571...February 8, 1968

I fixed that error within seconds. Surprised you had time to see it, since I replaced the chart almost immediately!

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 3/23/87-3/27/87 & 3/30/87-4/3/87: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 4/6/87-4/10/87 & 4/13/87-4/17/87:

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 2/23/87-2/27/87 & 3/2/87-3/6/87: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 3/9/87-3/13/87 & 3/16/87-3/20/87:

UPDATED CHART FOR WEEKS OF 11/11/85 & 11/18/85: With this missing page arriving as part of the update, AMC, AW, ATWT and CAP stations & clearances are now available for the weeks of 11/11/85 & 11/18/85. Here is the updated chart, also now posted in place of the old one: I can only speak for "Days", but "Days" has only been preempted 3 times for Christmas (and that is counting if it falls on a weekend too, no preemptions on 12/22-12/23-12/24-12/26-12/27): The 3 Christmas Day preemptions were in 1997, 2000 and 2006. So, "Days" has pretty much always aired a new episode on Christmas Day. https://jason47.com/days/preemptions.html

"MISSING WEEK" 12/14/87-12/18/87 Preemptions (confirmed via Telecasts as of 12/13 & 12/27): The Christmas Day preemptions for all ABC & CBS soaps means their telecast numbers should go up by 9 during the missing week, and the NBC soaps should go up by 10 telecasts, which they all do. So there were NO full preemptions for the missing week of 12/14-12/18/87. SOAP TELECASTS: As of 12/13-As of 12/27 AMC 55-64 (1 preemption 12/25) AW 51-61 ATWT 58-67 (1 preemption 12/25) BB 57-66 (1 preemption 12/25) DAYS 54-64 GH 55-64 (1 preemption 12/25) GL 58-67 (1 preemption 12/25) LOV 55-64 (1 preemption 12/25) OLTL 53-62 (1 preemption 12/25) RYAN 55-64 (1 preemption 12/25) SB 52-62 YR 58-67 (1 preemption 12/25)

I just looked in a newspaper from 10/17/87, and the World Series schedule is listed as all night games (all 8:25PM ET or 8:30PM ET starts), except for Game 6, if needed, which was a Saturday 4PM ET start. So it looks like 1986 was the last time they did regular daytime games for the World Series. As for the stock market crash, we don't have the partial preemptions for that week, just full preemptions. All the soaps aired 5 episodes that week, so at most, they were possibly partially preempted for stock market news stories.

PREEMPTION DATA CAN BE FIGURED OUT FROM THE FOUR "MISSING" WEEKS... Good news, about the preemption data at least, for the 4 missing weeks from 1987 and 1991. I realized we can compare the # of telecasts in the prior book to the # of telecasts in the next book and figure out if any soaps were preempted during the "missing week." For example, we don't have the 10/19/87-10/23/87 book, but by comparing the # of telecasts in the 10/12/87 book, and seeing if all soaps had 10 additional telecasts in the 10/26/87 book, that would confirm if anything was preempted in the 10/19/87 book. All of the soaps had 10 additional telecasts in their telecast column between 10/12 to 10/26, so that confirms there were NO full preemptions of any soaps during the missing week of 10/19/87. FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 1/26/87-1/30/87 & 2/2/87-2/6/87: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 2/9/87-2/13/87 & 2/16/87-2/20/87:

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 12/29/86-1/2/87 & 1/5/87-1/9/87: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 1/12/87-1/16/87 & 1/19/87-1/23/87:

She was mostly focused on Our House. They used a body double for awhile while she was laying in her hospital bed. She'd tape multiple episodes a day (back when they didn't do that much) and then they put her on the island with Orpheus so she could quickly tape all of her stuff without involving a majority of the cast. FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 12/8/86-12/12/86 & 12/15/86-12/19/86: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS (FAST NATIONALS): WEEK OF 12/22/86-12/26/86:

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 11/10/86-11/14/86 & 11/17/86-11/21/86: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 11/24/86-11/28/86 & 12/1/86-12/5/86:

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 10/13/86-10/17/86 & 10/20/86-10/24/86: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 10/27/86-10/31/86 & 11/3/86-11/7/86:

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 9/15/86-9/19/86 & 9/22/86-9/26/86: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 9/29/86-10/3/86 & 10/6/86-10/10/86:

These pages (the third section of the book) just tell us what the preemption reasons were. The first section of the book gives us the main info (the affiliates/clearance/days & times aired/demos), so that's where you find out when a show did NOT air. The second section of the book are the pages you've seen before (the weekly charts).

Yes, that's correct. You pretty much will still know why a show was preempted as well, but some of the time it will just say a generic special report. I was more speaking about myself personally...doing the charts for 1988-1992 will take a little more effort as opposed to how I was used to doing them from 1978-1987 (the way I preferred). But, yes, pretty much all of the info is still there (it just takes inference now, since they don't give the exact start time of the special report on that page, then you see that OLTL stopped airing from 2:22-2:27, so then it's obvious that's when the special report aired). I won't be getting to 1991 for awhile, but for the War preemptions, here's a sample of three weeks from February 1991. I don't know what the "average minute audience rating" numbers are, but I am just posting these for the preemptions data: Week of 2/4/91-2/10/91: Week of 2/11/91-2/17/91: Week of 2/18/91-2/24/91: