vetsoapfan

Soap fans are blessed to have youtube, that's for sure. Before that site was launched, soap fans had to find each other and trade videotapes by mail. It was a slow, difficult, and often disappointing way to see vintage episodes. Now we all can spend hours kicking back and watching classic soaps with just the click of a mouse!

That's a great find. I can't recall ever searching for this show on youtube, but I'm glad some footage has survived. I'll bet FRFP would be more interesting to watch than any of the four soaps still being produced today!

P&G did not even keep the first episodes of ATWT, SFT, TGL or TEON. It's incredible how short-sighted TBTB have always been.

Soap opera history buffs who wish to read the complete histories of their favorite series may want to check out "Vetsoapfan's Treasure Trove," here in SON's Cancelled Soaps section. So far, I have shared extensive articles on: All My Children Another World As the World Turns Days of Our Lives The Edge of Night General Hospital The Guiding Light How to Survive a Marriage Love of Life One Live to Live Ryan's Hope Search for Tomorrow The Young and the Restless

Soap opera history buffs who wish to read the complete histories of their favorite series may want to check out "Vetsoapfan's Treasure Trove," here in SON's Cancelled Soaps section. So far, I have shared extensive articles on: All My Children Another World As the World Turns Days of Our Lives The Edge of Night General Hospital The Guiding Light How to Survive a Marriage Love of Life One Live to Live Ryan's Hope Search for Tomorrow The Young and the Restless

Soap opera history buffs who wish to read the complete histories of their favorite series may want to check out "Vetsoapfan's Treasure Trove," here in SON's Cancelled Soaps section. So far, I have shared extensive articles on: All My Children Another World As the World Turns Days of Our Lives The Edge of Night General Hospital The Guiding Light How to Survive a Marriage Love of Life One Live to Live Ryan's Hope Search for Tomorrow The Young and the Restless

Soap opera history buffs who wish to read the complete histories of their favorite series may want to check out "Vetsoapfan's Treasure Trove," here in SON's Cancelled Soaps section. So far, I have shared extensive articles on: All My Children Another World As the World Turns Days of Our Lives The Edge of Night General Hospital The Guiding Light How to Survive a Marriage Love of Life One Live to Live Ryan's Hope Search for Tomorrow The Young and the Restless

Soap opera history buffs who wish to read the complete histories of their favorite series may want to check out "Vetsoapfan's Treasure Trove," here in SON's Cancelled Soaps section. So far, I have shared extensive articles on: All My Children Another World As the World Turns Days of Our Lives The Edge of Night General Hospital The Guiding Light How to Survive a Marriage Love of Life One Live to Live Ryan's Hope Search for Tomorrow The Young and the Restless

Soap opera history buffs who wish to read the complete histories of their favorite series may want to check out "Vetsoapfan's Treasure Trove," here in SON's Cancelled Soaps section. So far, I have shared extensive articles on: All My Children Another World As the World Turns Days of Our Lives The Edge of Night General Hospital The Guiding Light How to Survive a Marriage Love of Life One Live to Live Ryan's Hope Search for Tomorrow The Young and the Restless

From Daytime Digest's History of the Soaps (1994)

From Daytime Digest's History of the Soaps (1987)

From Soaps: The History, Part 1 (1984)

When it comes to vintage soaps, I have read a lot of completely-contradictory information, from many different sources, over the decades. It's frustrating that we cannot go directly to the episodes themselves for verification. I do know that Eddie Drueding of The Another World Homepage has put decades of research into his site, however. I'd probably trust his information over even my own memory, LOL. Thanks for that link.

Yes, Alice Hirson played Marsha Davis on Somerset. This photograph is of the actress from OLTL, where she played Eileen Riley Siegal, Joe Riley's sister. I've always though Hirson's best role was that of psycho Stephanie Martin on The Edge of Night.

I know you meant Dale and not David. I was only joshing with you. We all have "senior moments" when we write one thing while thinking another. I found this on page 8 of the Somerset thread, by Toml1962: "You can more or less track the changes in direction from the changes in head writers. Contrary to what some on here believe, Cenedella handed down to Slesar after the first year - this fact is well-documented. Slesar came up with the Jasper murder storyline which took upnine months of 1971, and he also came up with the Robert and India divorce,as well as the Davis divorce and Marsha marrying the nefarious Ike Harding, only to see him killed less than a year later: Robert Cenedella (3/1970-12/1970) 1 year Henry Slesar (1/1971-3/1972) 1 year alone Henry Slesar & Jane Lyon (4/1972-6/1973) 1 year Roy Winsor (6/1973-6/1974) 1 year Robert J. Shaw & Winifred Wolfe (6/1974 – 1/1975) 6 months Don Appell (1-6/1975) 6 months A.J. Russell (6-12/1975) 6 months Russell Kubeck (1-12/1976) 1 year" I watched the show live as well, and could have sworn that Kubeck really was Somerset's final head writer (I kept a scrapbook of the show, with articles, synopses and credits), but because I am not 100% sure, I'll take your word about the switch back to Russell. Data available through internet searches only indicates that both writers worked on the show in 1976.

No. Originally introduced on Somerset in 1970, he eventually left that town and returned to Bay City/AW, where he caused all sorts of trouble, and ended up being sent to prison for perjury. That's where we saw him last, in 1974: behind bars.

Ellen became involved with Dale romantically, not David...who was her son. EEEK! Even soaps during the 1970s had their limitations! LOL! I am so glad you gave us this l;ink. I had had the site bookmarked way back then, but then it was closed down and I thought all the data was lost. Thank you! I am almost 100% positive that Russell Kubeck was indeed Somerset's final head writer.

Some Recent Favorites

From Soaps: The History, Part One (1984)

From Daytime TV Library Series # 6: ONE LIFE TO LIVE (1976) From Daytime TV Library Series # 3: ANOTHER WORLD (1976)

From Daytime TV Library Series # 7: SEARCH FOR TOMORROW (1977) From Daytime TV Library Series # 2: ALL MY CHILDREN (1976) From Daytime TV Library Series # 8: DAYS OF OUR LIVES (1977)

From Ma Perkins to Mary Hartman, by Robert LaGuardia, 1977:

From Daytime TV Library Series, Number 1: 1975:

From Afternoon TV Stars (year unknown): UGH! I loathe when the system automatically merges multiple posts together, whether I want them to be combined or not! Sometimes, the merging is illogical and egregious. Is there any way to manually separate the posts once they've been combined? I adored AW as well. It's definitely in my top three favorite soaps of all time, which is quite a feat considering I have watched countless serials over the last several decades. Reinholt certainly developed a reputation for being difficult to work with, although the more we have learned about Paul Rauch (and even Harding Lemay) since the 1970s, I'm sure those men gave as good as they got. There are too many horror stories floating around about Paul Rauch to believe that he was an innocent bystander in any conflict. Since you mentioned enjoying the article about Reinholt leaving AW, I have uploaded a few about Jacquie Courtney's departure from the series.

From Daily TV Serials, 1974 From 1975: From Afternoon TV Stars, 1975: