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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

7 hours ago, janea4old said:

In the resource archive section's thread for 2023 Days end credits
https://boards.soapoperanetwork.com/topic/65706-2023

@Toups listed for the Dec. 28, 2023 end credits:
Writers’ Assistants
Tyler Topits
Kirk Doering
Isaac Francis Tackman

I assume that the show listed the writers assistants in error, since they would have been on strike. @JAS0N47 has the show been listing the writers assistants since the strike material began airing earlier in December?  Or should the assistants' work still be reflected in the credits?

Doering on the strike line, May 10, 2023, via Christopher Sean ig stories:

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.

6 minutes ago, Toups said:

@JAS0N47  Can you post the December and Year End stats for the directors and writers, so I can compare it to my stats?

 

December: (- is former employee keyboard refuses to type)

3 hours ago, carolineg said:

No lol!  Roman was offscreen.  Just make John Roman and call it a day.   We had to live through JT as Roman and Alex North.  Both of those things are very bad.  Listen, if Wayne returned and was Roman instead of Alex North it would be fine.  JT could walk up as Chris 3 days later.  That was acceptable.  Nothing about Roman since 1994 has been acceptable, so at some point I would have made John Roman and just went with it.

This reminds me. When I was updating the character rankings this week, I noticed this stat:

Josh Taylor is at 1916 for Roman, Wayne was Roman for 918 episodes. So, when Josh appears 2 more times, he will have played Roman in 1,000 more episodes than Wayne did.

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 7/25/77-7/29/77 & 8/1/77-8/5/77:

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 7/11/77-7/15/77 & 7/18/77-7/22/77:

6 hours ago, tybuki said:

Not really. Wheel often beat the first half-hour of Price. Go look at some of the whole ratings that @JAS0N47 posted earlier in this thread. BTW, what happened to the sweeps posts? I've seen 2.

Me getting busy is what happened!  I do those when I have time, which I have not had in the past month or so.

1 hour ago, j swift said:

That's incredible, you are truly a font of information on this topic!

I've never been called a font, but there's a first time for everything!  A nice compliment to start off 2024.  

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 6/27/77-7/1/77 & 7/4/77-7/8/77:

8 minutes ago, j swift said:

In the DAYS universe, I wonder who makes the ornaments now?  I assume Alice made them initially, and maybe Maggie took over when she lived in the Horton House.  But, I can't imagine Julie hand painting an ornament. 

Julie mentioned in one of the recent years that a Mr. Early makes them (Tom Early is the art director who actually makes them in real life, so that was a nod to him).

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 6/6/77-6/10/77 & 6/13/77-6/17/77:

FAST WEEKLY WEEK OF 6/20/77-6/24/77 NOT AVAILABLE

HORTON ORNAMENT 2023 DEBUT: VICTORIA

Was so busy getting the end-of-the-year rankings tallied up, I forgot to post the new Victoria ornament photo. Thanks as always to "Days" for the nice close-ups of the ornaments!

3 hours ago, Lye-C said:

Jason, did Nick Benedict ever share scenes with Lauren Koslow in any of his returns? 

Maybe his last episode? I remember when he died and checking what his last episode was, it mentions Kate's Old Apartment, so maybe they had a Kate/Curtis newly-created flashback, which ended up being his last Days appearance.

9071...6/5/01:
Cast: Austin, Brady, Chloe, Fay, Jan, John, Kate, Marlena, Mimi, Philip, Sami, Curtis, Carl, Mona/Woman at Shelter, Boy/Ned, Girl, Cop, Belle (FBO), Jason (FBO), Shawn (FBO).
Sets: Jan's Bedroom, Chloe's Bedroom (Wesley), Area Below Chloe's Bedroom (Wesley), Marlena's Penthouse, Marlena's Bedroom, Diner & Exterior with Austin's Car, Homeless Shelter, Ext. Wesley House, Kate's Old Apartment, Physical Therapy Room.
 

3 hours ago, Soapsuds said:

@JAS0N47

Do you happen to have ratings for the syndicated shows from the 80s?

 

Sorry, no, these Nielsen books only cover ABC, CBS, NBC (and eventually FOX) shows.

1985-1986 EPISODE SUMMARIES NEEDED...

Expanded summaries are still needed for these 1985 & 1986 "Days" episodes. If anyone has access to the episodes and would like to write some summaries for the episode guide, it would be most helpful! If you do write one, just message me with the summary so I can add it to the episode guide. Thanks!

1985:

1/14/85
6/20/85
7/1/85-7/23/85
8/28/85-9/17/85
9/25/85-11/29/85
12/9/85-12/31/85

1986:

2/7/86-3/12/86
11/27/86

17 minutes ago, kalbir said:

The daytime schedule (ET) starting w/ soaps until the end of the day was

CBS: 11:30 am Love of Live, noon Y&R, 12:30 pm Search for Tomorrow, 1 pm Local programming, 1:30 pm As the World Turns, 2:30 pm Guiding Light, 3 pm All in the Family reruns, 3:30 pm Match Game, 4 pm Tattletales

ABC: 12:30 pm Ryan's Hope, 1 pm All My Children, 1:30 pm Family Feud, 2 pm $20,000 Pyramid; 2:30 pm One Life to Live, 3:15 pm General Hospital, 4 pm The Edge of Night

NBC: 12:30 pm Lovers and Friends, 1 pm Local programming, 1:30 pm Days, 2:30 pm The Doctors, 3 pm Another World, 4 pm The Gong Show

So the soap time slot rivalries were

Search for Tomorrow vs. Ryan's Hope vs. Lovers and Friends

As the World Turns vs. Days

Guiding Light vs. One Live to Live vs. The Doctors

One Life to Live/General Hospital vs. Another World

And for some additional stats, such as the quarterly-hour ratings, here's the week of 3/21/77 charts:

2024 AIRDATE GUIDE POSTED...15,000TH EPISODE SET TO AIR ON MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2024...

https://www.jason47.com/days/episodeguide2024.html
 

The 3/21/77-12/23/77 charts will be posted as each one is completed. The only weeks missing are the fast weekly weeks. 

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 3/21/77-3/25/77 & 3/28/77-4/1/77:

12/29 UPDATE...

Add Stefan; Remove Harris.

Updated chart & final numbers to post.