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This is so random but on this podcast, I Was There Too, which is about the little known actors is major movies, there's an interview with the actress who played Bus Passenger #1 on Speed. She's an actress by the name of Simone Gad, at one point during the interview it's mentioned that she had the very first line on Days. Listen here at 17:49.
Yes, I just interviewed Simone Pascal (her name back then) last year and mentioned to her that she had the first line ever on Days. You can read the full interview here: http://www.jason47.com/days/interviewsimonepascal.html
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BLAST FROM THE PAST: 1969 "FAN" LETTER UPSET WITH JULIE...Here's a Days fan letter published in an Omaha, Nebraska newspaper from July 27, 1969. The fan was quite upset that Julie won custody of baby David! (If it helps any, Mrs. Greenfield, Julie did end up marrying the architect, Scott Banning)
BLAST FROM THE PAST: DECEMBER 1968 INTERVIEW WITH EXECUTIVE PRODUCER BETTY CORDAY...0 -
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Jason do you (of anyone else know) what storyline Frank and Martha had in storyline? I would love to see a classic short term storyline now where Marlena's parents arrive in Salem
Because one of them is dying and wants to spend their final days with Marlena/Eric/ john... Could you imagine the quality performances Deidre could deliver with that story!
I don't think they had much of a storyline. The 1977-78 stuff dealt with probably some phone calls when Samantha was impersonating Marlena. Then, Mrs. Evans was too sick to attend the Don/Marlena wedding, so that was used as a plot point to postpone their first try at a wedding. And she appeared briefly for a phone call the day Samantha was killed by Jake in 1982.
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I love that! Works really well, actually. Nicely done.
I'm always confused on something: have Frank and Martha Evans EVER appeared onscreen?
Yes:
Ford Rainey (Frank Evans)
11/77: 3
12/77: 1
6/78: 2
Frank Schofield (Frank Evans)
2/79: 2
3/79: 2
Diana Douglas (Martha Evans)
11/77: 6
6/78: 2
2/79: 2
5/82: 1
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WEEKLY "DAYS" RATINGS FOR MANY WEEKS FROM 1985-1989 NOW AVAILABLE...JOINS DATA ALREADY AVAILABLE FOR EVERY WEEK SINCE SEPTEMBER 1989...Here's the new weeks from 1985-1989 now available. For an archive of how "Days" has performed every week since September 1989, please click here: http://www.jason47.com/days/weeklynielsens.htmlWeek Of..Rank....Rating..Share1/7/85.........5........7.7......23
4/15/85.......6........6.5......24
6/10/85.......5*.......7.1......23
6/17/85.......5*.......6.6......21
6/24/85.......5........7.1......24
7/1/85.........5........6.6......22
7/8/85.........5........7.3......24
8/5/85.........5........6.9......23
8/12/85.......5*.......7.0......22
8/19/85.......5*.......6.9......22
12/30/85......6
1/27/86........5
2/24/86........4
3/10/86........5
3/24/86........4
4/7/86..........3
4/21/86........5
5/5/86..........5
5/19/86........5
6/2/86..........3*
6/9/86..........NA....7.9.....26
6/16/86........3
6/30/86........5.......7.4.....23
7/14/86........3
7/21/86........NA....8.0.....26
7/28/86........3
8/11/86........6
8/25/86........3
9/8/86..........5*
9/22/86........5
10/6/86........5
10/20/86......3
11/3/86........4
11/17/86......6
12/1/86........4
12/15/86......3*
12/29/86......2
1/12/87........4
1/26/87........5*
2/11/87........6
2/25/87........6
3/11/87........4
3/25/87........4
4/6/87..........6
4/20/87........5
5/4/87..........6
5/18/87........5
6/1/87..........5*
6/15/87........3
6/22/87........NA......6.9......23
6/29/87........6
7/13/87........5*
7/27/87........4
8/10/87........3
8/24/87........5
9/7/87..........6
9/14/87........5
10/5/87........5*
10/12/87......5
10/26/87......5
11/9/87........5
11/30/87......5
12/14/87......5
12/28/87......2
1/11/88........2
1/18/88.......NA.....7.0........24
1/25/88........5
2/8/88..........5
2/22/88........5
3/7/88..........6
3/14/88........6.......7.2........23
4/4/88..........5*
4/18/88........7
4/25/88........6.......5.9........22
5/2/88..........6
5/16/88........5*
5/23/88........6.......6.2........23
5/30/88........5.......6.4........22
6/13/88........2*......6.9........23
6/20/88.......NA.....7.3........24
6/27/88........2.......7.2........23
7/4/88.........NA.....7.5........24
7/11/88........2
7/25/88........1.......8.1........26
8/8/88..........2.......8.0........25
8/15/88........2.......7.5........24
8/22/88........2*......7.4........24
9/5/88..........5.......6.6........24
9/19/88........6
10/3/88........5*
10/17/88......5
10/31/88......5*
11/7/88........5.......6.4........22
11/14/88......5.......6.3........23
11/21/88......3*......6.6........22
11/28/88......4
12/12/88......4*
12/26/88......3
1/2/89..........4*
1/23/89........3*
2/6/89..........5*
2/20/89........5
3/6/89..........7*
3/20/89........6
4/3/89..........8
4/10/89.......NA......5.3.......20
4/17/89........8........5.4.......20
4/24/89.......NA......5.0.......19
5/1/89..........6
5/15/89........7
5/22/89.......NA.......5.5......20
5/29/89........6
6/12/89........5
6/19/89........5
7/10/89........8........5.6.......18
7/24/89........7*
8/7/89..........6
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HOW'D THEY DO?? 1991 MAGAZINE PREDICTS LIFE IN SALEM IN 2015...Daytime TV's The Best of Days of Our Lives, which was published 24 years ago this month, in February 1991, predicted what life would be like in Salem in 2015. They did pretty well with some of their guesses. Here's what they predicted would happen...and actually did:Jack and Jennifer would have a son and daughter...Kim and Shane are sharing a house...Justin and Adrienne are married...Justin is a hip dad who doesn't mind his son's choice...Kayla is getting over Steve...Doug and Julie reunited and spend their time traveling...Stephanie chose a dangerous occupation and ended up dating Mike's son...Neil quit his job at the hospital...three years after Hope's death in 1990, she returned to Salem with amnesia...Bo dropped the woman he was with to reunite with Hope, and they had a daughter...Carrie was raped...Roman (John) and Isabella married in 1992 and he eventually ended up a monk (well, actually a priest, but close enough)!To read the whole story, click here: http://www.jason47.com/days/predictions2015.html0
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I wonder how they chose who they listed as the regular cast.
They didn't choose. Those are the actors who were on contract at the time the show was expanding to an hour. They added more people to the contract cast once it became an hour show.
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Brent would be Doug Williams.In prison with Bill,he was known as Brent Douglas.
Eric Richards was a prison doctor played by John Aniston.
Kay Peters played Sarah Fredericks.Not sure who she was,maybe prison psychiatrist?
Here's the debut script of Bill Hayes, which includes Sarah, so you can read up on "Brent" and Sarah on this page: http://www.jason47.com/days/billhayesscript2.html
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Thanks for posting the article!
I posted about her scene when she passed away in 2009. She was in the September 18, 1970 episode (episode # 1230):
"One of Farrah Fawcett's earliest acting roles was on "Days of Our Lives." On the September 18, 1970 episode, just a year after getting into acting, Fawcett made a one-time appearance on "Days" as Diana. Bill Hayes (Doug Williams) discussed Fawcett's appearance on "Days" in his autobiography, "Like Sands Through the Hourglass": "Doug flirted with every female he met...To me his most memorable conquest at Sergio's [a Salem club] was a gorgeous nineteen-year-old with natural blond hair that cascaded over her neck and shoulders. The blonde came on to Doug, introduced herself as Diana, Goddess of the Chase, and looked at him expectantly. At the piano, Bill Horton [Edward Mallory] was left with his mouth open as Diana and Doug glided out into that hot September night with only one purpose in mind. The actress was Farrah Fawcett, and in just five lines, her charisma and innocent sexuality had jingled every guy in the studio."
This is from a 1979 "TV Dawn to Dusk." The headline is misleading because Bill didn't do anything except appear in a scene with her when she had a bit part on Days. He did mention it in his book though so she obviously made an impression. He said it was shortly after Doug got out of prison (so that would have been 1970).
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Jason47, how would YOU rank all the Lauras? The only one I ever saw was Jaime Lyn Bauer - and footage of the others can be difficult to find. I'd like to hear your thoughts.
Hi Amy, I'm in the same boat as you. I only started watching Days in 1990, and my episode collection (which I got in later years) only goes back to late 1983, so Jaime Lyn is the only Laura I've seen too.
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They seemed to want to test people on air first before signing them to a contract. Bill & Susan Hayes even both started out as recurring. That all changed around 1980, when people started getting contracts right away. Susan Flannery refused to sign a contract for two years. Although she's stated in recent interviews that she didn't sign until her last year on Days in 1974, the paperwork disagrees with that. The contract guarantees papers from 1968 prove that they finally forced her to sign a contract around the end of 1968, just as Michael was born, so I guess at that point, they wanted to make sure she was locked in for future storyline and couldn't just walk away. But as soon as the show expanded to a half hour, and all the actors had to sign new contracts, she immediately left and then only ever did B&B. So I guess she was happy with the quicker half-hour format and stayed on those throughout her career.
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Jason 47.. Dr. Heinrich Kluger[ from my post in the spoiler thread I sent you] , not Frederich, was actually Dr. Frederich Miller.[Albert Paulson]
Miller was recognized by Robert LeClair in 86 as Kluger, a Nazi hat had murdered his mother. I found a clip on youtube titled We are not the crazy ones [Mike and Robin] that pretty much tells the story. Thanks for checking for me.
Thanks for letting me know. The name didn't ring a bell originally since he was just a guest star for a few episodes, and I didn't notice any Kluger on my lists when I checked, but since it was his alias, that's the reason. He's on my lists as Dr. Frederick Miller. They wrote that storyline especially for Robert Clary, since he was a Holocaust survivor in real life.
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Was Mrs. Banning still around when Mike Farrell took over as Scott Banning? I know he was in the role when Scott married Julie.
Yes:Joyce Easton (Mary Blake/Janet Banning) 1/26/68-1/30/68 (as Mary); 6/10/68-1/15/69 (as Janet)Mike Farrell (Scott Banning) 10/15/68-6/24/70PS: They originally called the characters Mary & Scott Blake, but when the characters returned in June, they were called Janet & Scott Banning.0 -
Thanks. So she was around a few years?
June 1969-September 1970:
Mary Wilcox (Janene Whitney)
6/69: 4
7/69: 3
8/69: 1
10/69: 4
Pat Hornung (Janene Whitney)
11/69: 10
12/69: 4
1/70: 2
2/70: 6
3/70: 1
Joan Van Ark (Janene Whitney)
4/70: 3
5/70: 3
6/70: 2
7/70: 2
9/70: 2
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Here's actress Sandy Roberts presenting Macdonald Carey (Tom) with a telegram from Screen Gems celebrating the 1,000th episode of "Days", which taped on October 14, 1969 and aired on October 29, 1969.Here's the script cover from the 1,000th episode of "Days", which taped on October 14, 1969 and aired on October 29, 1969.Here's the master telecast report from the 1,000th episode of "Days", which taped on October 14, 1969 and aired on October 29, 1969.0
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Thanks. This is terrific.
I thought I recognized the name Dick Gittings, so I went and looked - I think he filled in for Mark Tapscott as Bob Anderson when Mark had a heart attack.
Yes, all of those extras above played multiple roles on the show through the years. Days had a steady group of background actors who would play all the small U/5 roles, and sometimes be used for bigger roles, such as Sid Conrad and, as you mentioned, Dick Gittings. Carol Conn I think was married to someone associated with the show, but I can't remember off the top of my head.
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A vintage treasure indeed. Thanks for posting it!!
Glad you enjoyed it! I have most of these for all the 1960s and 1970s episodes, so I post them from time-to-time.
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JASON47'S FROM THE VAULT: 45 YEARS AGO TODAY:Here's the master telecast report for Episode # 996, which was taped at the Burbank studios exactly 45 years ago today: October 8, 1969. The episode was scheduled to air on October 20, 1969, but due to some baseball preemptions, it actually aired on October 23, 1969.0
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Thanks for posting that here. I had been checking a few tapes from 1996 and stumbled across that, so I thought people would enjoy seeing it!
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"DAYS" CALENDAR PORTRAITS FROM 1989, 1990 AND 1991:
Take a look at these great photos of the "Days" cast from the 1989, 1990 and 1991 calendars.
http://www.jason47.com/days/calendar1989.html
http://www.jason47.com/days/calendar1990.html
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That Alice description reminds me a lot of how Irna Phillips would have written the character. I wonder if some of that was her idea.
Is something wrong with the Who's Who pages?
Looks like extra characters got added to the links when I posted them here. Don't know why. I'll go correct the links now, so they should be working fine.
Irna Phillips and Allan Chase worked with Ted to come up with the ideas for Days, so I'm sure some of this is probably direct from Irna. It's Ted who wrote out the proposal when pitching the series.
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JASON47'S FROM THE VAULT: THE "DAYS OF OUR LIVES" PROPOSAL...ALICE HORTONPictured above: The three faces of Alice Horton...Mary K. Wells, who turned down the role since she was based on the East Coast; Mary Jackson, who played Alice in the first pilot, and Frances Reid, who became the only Alice "Days" fans ever knew.Here's how Alice Horton was described in Ted Corday's proposal for "Days of Our Lives"...Tom's wife, ALICE, is still a strikingly handsome woman. It is easy to believe that she turned down the offers of more than one wealthy young man in order to marry Tom.Alice had the normal American girl's dreams of comfort and affluence when she married Tom Horton. Even then, as a young ball player, he was making more money than the average family doctor. Alice understood that the time and the earnings Tom invested in his medical studies were both investments in the family's future.The Horton family never missed a meal, or a mortgage payment. Neither did they ever move out of the rambling frame house the young ball player-medical student bought for his bride. The Horton family has never been able to afford the luxuries enjoyed by the wives and children of most of the other doctors Alice knew.At first, Tom's lack of 'practical' values was the cause of great distress to Alice. She resented his failure to 'get ahead' - but, being Alice, she kept these resentments to herself. Later, as her children began to grow up, and some of them began to complain that other doctors' children had more good things than they had, Alice found herself defending Tom with all her heart and soul.In her own mind, Tom had become a noble, visionary creature to whom science and academic honors would always mean more than money. She loved and respected him for it - but she was not about to let any of her children grow up to be as 'impractical' as their wonderful father. She was going to give her children 'firmer goals' in life, 'stronger values.''Values' mean different things for Tom and Alice. To Tom, values are things moral, spiritual, and intellectual; one exists to give of oneself to life and to all people, strangers and brothers, who share this life. To Alice, values are tangibles measured by the yardsticks of the marker place: life consists of taking all that life and other people can be forced to yield. However, she is not a taker for her own sake: for herself, she is quite content, but for her family she wants money, prestige, comfort, security. Alice would be truly astounded if she ever found out that, deep down, she and Tom want the same things.Above all things, Alice wants her children to be 'practical.' Tom has never learned how to be 'practical,' and Alice rarely tries to 'keep his feet on the ground' as she used to when they were first married. Tom is forever bringing home impractical and wildly extravagant gifts for his wife and his children and his grandchildren. The fact is, as their daughter MARIE once observed - that, in proportion to his income, Tom has probably spent more money buying gifts for his wife than any doctor in Salem City. Alice kicks up a fuss with each such display of Tom's extravagance - but she is also frank to admit that she would miss them if Tom 'reformed.'Now, in the third decade of their marriage, Alice is Tom's most ardent defender - against the world beyond the family circle. She feels he is entitled to far more honors, respect, and fame than he has yet received - and, in her own way, she does what she can to make the world look up to her husband,On their 30th wedding anniversary, one of their children proposed a toast that summed up the story of their lives together. It ran: "Here's to the marriage that never was supposed to happen, never supposed to last, never supposed to bring a moment of happiness to either of its partners - and this child of that marriage will go to his grave swearing that never has there been a happier marriage in the whole cockeyed history of matrimony."The Hortons have brought five children into the world...(Coming soon, find out the first descriptions of the Horton kids!)0
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JASON47'S FROM THE VAULT: "WHO'S WHO IN DAYTIME TV" (1975)...Click here to see the 1975 edition of Who's Who in Daytime TV:JASON47's FROM THE VAULT: WHO'S WHO IN DAYTIME TV (1976)...Also features a nice color photo of Edward Mallory and a look back at the early years of Fran Myers (the long-time "Days" writer and current script editor), back when she was an actress.0
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