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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.html

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.

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

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."

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.

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.

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.

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) 10/15/68-6/24/70 PS: They originally called the characters Mary & Scott Blake, but when the characters returned in June, they were called Janet & Scott Banning.

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

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.

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.

Glad you enjoyed it! I have most of these for all the 1960s and 1970s episodes, so I post them from time-to-time.

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.

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!

"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 http://www.jason47.com/days/calendar1991.html

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.

JASON47'S FROM THE VAULT: THE "DAYS OF OUR LIVES" PROPOSAL...ALICE HORTON Pictured 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!)

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: http://www.jason47.com/days/whoswho1975.html 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. http://www.jason47.com/days/whoswho1976.html

ALLAN CHASE: THE FACTS REVEALED ABOUT THE THIRD "DAYS" CREATOR In all my years of research, I could never connect a novelist named Allan Chase, who donated his papers to a library in Illinois, to be THE Allan Chase who helped create "Days of Our Lives." Although the library catalogue lists many books and even TV projects worked on by Chase, nothing is mentioned about "Days" in that catalogue. Thanks to a re-filing of a lawsuit filed by the executors of co-creator Irna Phillips' estate after her death, the identity of Chase became even more mysterious, when the lawsuit stated his whereabouts were no longer known as of 1976. But, now, after all these years, the 1964 "Days" proposal mentions that Chase was the novelist I had thought him to be (but could never prove). Allan Chase led quite an interesting life. He was born in New York City on April 19, 1913. He began his career as a newspaper reporter in the early 1930's. In the 1940's, he started writing novels. Several of the books he wrote, including "Falange: The Axis Secret Army in the Americas" and "The Five Arrows", made U.S. authorities think he was a Communist, and he was brought in for official questioning on the matter on July 2, 1953, appearing before Joseph McCarthy, the famous senator who tried to out many people in the entertainment industry and elsewhere as being Communists. In Chase's testimony, which was unsealed and released to the public 50 years after the fact in 2003, we learn a few facts about the man himself. Chase's full name is Allan Chase (he had no middle name); he was born in, as he states, "the city of New York, borough of Manhattan" and resided at the time at 725 West End Avenue in New York City. Chase was then questioned directly by Dr. J.B. Matthews: "Mr. Chase, do you believe that the FBI fakes evidence against people?" Chase replied: "No, sir." Chase then confirmed that he was a secretary of the American Committee for Spanish Freedom and stated that the organization was cited as a Communist front by the attorney general after he left the organization. He then stated he knew that he left that organization by September 12, 1945, because that was the date his daughter (Deborah) was born. Chase then admitted he was a Communist for a mere two weeks in 1934. He said "I felt like the Rabbi who wandered into a house of burlesque in Boston without knowing what he had wandered into. I saw and heard and by the time I realized what I had gotten into, I picked up my hat and feet and ran." Chase went on to state that in 1934, he was 20 years old, the US had 20 million unemployed, and he was vitally concerned with one issue at that time: the Spanish War. After Chase told the committee that he was writing an anti-Communist book, and that if he were called to testify in public session that it would ruin the book, the committee decided to not call Chase to testify publicly, and even told Chase that the testimony he gave today will not be made public. That promise, of course, was held for 50 years, until these documents (as with many government documents) were released 50 years after the fact. After Chase's committee questioning, he became involved in the television and motion picture business and worked off-and-on in the industry from around 1953-1965. Some sources list him as the creator of the CBS soap "Valiant Lady" (which ran from 1953-1957, and in which Ted Corday directed; however other sources state that Adrian Spies was the show's creator). IMDB also lists Chase as writing episodes of "77 Sunset Strip" in 1960 and "The Defenders" in 1964. After he was named as one of the creators of "Days" in the show's proposal in late 1964, Chase seems to have then left the entertainment industry behind and went on to his next love: researching and writing books about medicine. In his later years, Chase became focused on researching and writing about medicine. He reported and commented about medicine and public health for "Medical Tribune" from 1976-1981. He also wrote three books dealing with the subject: "The Legacy of Malthus", about scientific racism, in 1977; "Magic Shots", a history of vaccines, in 1982; and "The Truth About STD", about sexually transmitted diseases, in 1983. He was also a visiting lecturer at the University of Illinois in 1979. Near the end of his life, Chase was working on books about the history of nutrition, tuberculosis, AIDS and the legalization of drugs, and was also writing his memoir (called "The Summer of 1941"), but he passed away on June 22, 1993 before having a chance to publish any of those books. Chase was married for many years to his wife, Martha. As Maureen Russell's 1995 book, "Days of Our Lives: A Complete History of the Long-Running Soap Opera", stated: "Allan Chase worked with Ted Corday on a number of projects in New York. He was credited in the early years of the show because he had been in on the initial planning. His input was minimal, and he is no longer credited with the show's creation." However minimal Chase's input was, it's nice to finally confirm who he was and to finally have some facts for "Days" fans to learn about this no-longer mysterious figure in "Days" history!

WHERE ARE THEY NOW? 1965 EDITION: Child actor Flip Mark, who played Julie's brother, Steve Olson, on two episodes of "Days" during its first month on the air in November 1965 left show business when he became an adult. He went on to have careers as both a travel agent and flight attendant. Nowadays, he lives in Arizona and works as a 911 operator. In a recent interview he stated: "It's fascinating and hugely rewarding to help people. It may not be as glamorous as acting but it's tremendously satisfying.” Pictured above are photos of Flip from his time on "Days", and as he looks today.

Jam6242, thanks for uploading that pic of Jack Herzberg (was looking for a nice pic of him last night)...I knew I had seen one in one of those magazines, but didn't feel like looking through all of them just to find that one pic, so you've saved me all that trouble!! Can finally replace the not-too-good one of him I have on his memorial page....Thanks again!! OLD PIC: NEW PIC:

Here's the first page of the 1974 "Days" press kit released by NBC. For all the pages, please visit http://www.jason47.com/days/presskit1974.html

AND A CHILD IS BORN! Check out Jason47's Days Website and read the in-depth details of Episode # 2571 (airdate: Friday, February 6, 1976), the day that Laura and Bill's baby girl, Jennifer (as yet unnamed), was born! http://www.jason47.com/days/birthjennifer.html

"Thanksgiving 2002: Kate Roberts & Her Kids: The Scenes That Were Never Seen" "Days" had its entire cast set to appear in its Thanksgiving 2002 episode. However, due to time constraints, they did not end up airing Kate & her children's scenes. In fact, Billie, Kate and Lucas ended up not even appearing in the episode. Now, for the first time ever, fans can read how Kate and her kids spent Thanksgiving 2002... http://www.jason47.com/days/2002thanksgiving.html

The terms they worked out with Bill when he created YR was that he stay on as head writer for 2 years (73-75) and then stay on another 3 years as story consultant (75-78), so officially he was there for the whole run of Valerie's storyline, but who knows exactly how much input he had after leaving to do YR. Pat Falken Smith was basically the de facto head writer for 73-75, then took the title officially in 75.