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Those Bob Hope specials were ratings dynamite throughout the 60's and 70's but lost their appeal as the 80's wore on as evidenced by being scheduled on Sat @8. Bob won the timeslot but #36.... When did his last special air? I wonder how much interest there was from both sides by this stage?

Susan Seaforth Hayes and Frances Reid. Susan admits that in her primetime on Days she could be prickly and protective of her space on the show.

Naomi should be working in Bill's office, setting the scene for father/daughter clashes over their professional ethics and approaches. Instead she hangs around eateries. It would allow reasons for Dani to be there etc. They need more workplaces where several characters can interact. Similarly Derek should have been a cop.

I'm having to look very hard to see any resemblance to Mia with that woman in the photo. Maybe it's the grainy photo or a certain expression on her face.

i don't know if it was personal or just a clash of working styles but Mary Stuart and new onscreen love interest Chris Delon played by Paul Dumont didn't hit it off. Chris was written off after a few months.

Thanks @slick jones Have we been able to work out who Mia played?

Re surnames. We know that the Dobsons chose Scott for Jackie's maiden name, unaware that it was Peggy's maiden name. There were also characters with the surname Wexler in the late 60's and then the Dobsons introduced Lucille and Amanda a decade later. This one is more strange as Wexler is an unusual name, but I don't think there was any connection-why would there be?

Mon ABC MacGyver #33 Movie 'Women of Brewster Place' Pt 2 #2 CBS Live In @8 #41 Heartland @8.30 #44 Murphy Brown @9 #32 Designing Women @9.30 #29 Newhart @10 #37 Kate & Allie @10.30 #47 NBC Alf @8 #12 Hogan Family @8.30 #19 Movie Desperado : Avalanche at Devil's Ridge #46 Tues ABC Who's The Boss #4 Wonder Years #5 Roseanne #1 Anything But Love #11 Thirtysomething #25 CBS Tour of Duty #60 Movie Purple Hearts #67 NBC Highway to Heaven special ep #43 Heat of the Night #23 AFI Awards #48 Wed ABC Growing Pains #14 Head of Class # 15 Coach #42 Hooperman #51 China Beach #53 CBS Hard Times on Planet Earth #63 Jake/Fatman #27 Wiseguy #45 NBC Unsolved Mysteries #18 Night Court #22 My 2 Dads #35 Nightingales #39 Thurs ABC Family Classic Shaggy Dog #68 Dynasty #56 Heartbeat #69 CBS Basketball Pregame #64 Game 355 NBC Cosby #3 Day by Day special #7 Cheers #8 Dear John #16 LA Law #10 Fri ABC Perfect Strangers #38 Full House #24 Mr Belvedere #28 Ten of Us #34 20/20 #26 CBS Basketball #52 #54 NBC Peter Pan (1st time airing in 16 years) # 21 Super Bloopers #49 Sat ABC Mission Impossible #66 Man Called Hawk #65 Men #71 CBS Bugs Bunny #58 TV101 #76 West 57th #70 NBC Bob Hope #36 Golden Girls #6 Empty Nest #9 Hunter #20 FOX Reporters #74 Cops #72 Beyond Tomorrow #78 Sun ABC The Ten Commandments #31 CBS 60 Minutes #13 Murder She Wrote #17 Crazy Like a Fox Movie #40 NBC Disney #62 Quantum Leap movie #30 FOX 21 Jump St #73 Americas Most wanted #59 Married W/Children #57 Garry Shandling #75 Tracey Ullman #77 Duet #79

In their own house ,please.

Wasn't there talk of KZ playing dual roles when Cassie was introduced? And also GL Hannah Bauer was a proposed character(played by Mary Stuart) that never appeared-maybe morphed into Laine Bauer a few years later. Early Y&R plans included Russell Henderson, brother to Mark and the Foster's cousin but he never was utilized.

The only other Chancellor Park set used in recent years is this one, which is actually quite cramped and appears smaller than the cafe set. Lily (Christel Khalil) and Cane (Billy Flynn) met in Chancellor Park on The Young and the Restless | Image: CBS

Both. It's just as interesting to see something that got the greenlight but then was aborted on air.

Also tapes were expensive in those days and it was normal practice to tape over previous recordings. I recall doing it by mistake and losing stuff I wanted to keep or hadn't watched yet.

Over the years writers, producers, actors have mentioned various plots, storylines, couplings etc that never made it to air. Let's start a list and discuss. The most obvious that comes to mind for me is Another World and Harding Lemay's idea to make Mike Randolph gay. The role was cast and story approved but at the last minute the story was canned. And in 2017 on Y&R, Sally Sussman wanted to write a story where Devon was pulled over by the police because he was driving a fancy sports car and racially profiled, but it was rejected.

NBC's Fri line up was a disaster Mr Smith/Jennifer Slept Here/Manimal/For Love & Honor. And the replacements-Legmen/The Master/The New Show didn't do any better. And Sat 9-11 was also a misfire Rousters/Yellow Rose.

Wednesday 7 April 1976 — MELBOURNE GTV9 ATV0 6AM 7AM 7am The Super Flying Fun Show 7am Cartoon Carnival 8AM 8am Sesame Street 8.45 Swami Sarasvati 9AM 9am Close 9.10 For Schools: Maths (B&W) 9.30 Play School 9am Here’s Humphrey 9am Movie: Portrait From Life. 1948 (B&W) [IMDB] 10AM 10am For Schools: Behind The News, Aborigines Of Australia (B&W), Thinkabout/Talkabout 10am Celebrity Squares 10.30 Dinah! 10.30 The Farmer’s Daughter (B&W) 11AM 11.35 Close 11am Return To Peyton Place 11.30 Movies: Fire Over England. 1937 (B&W) [IMDB]; Eye Of The Devil. 1967 (B&W) [IMDB] 11.30 Search For Tomorrow 11.55 News. Peter Hitchener 11am The Roy Hampson Show 12PM 12pm Days Of Our Lives 12pm The Celebrity Game. Mike Preston 12.30 Vi’s Pad 1PM 1pm ABC News 1.10 Horizon – 5 1.30 Close 1.50 For Schools: Engineering Craft Studies, Geography 1pm The Young And The Restless 1pm Casino 10. Philip Brady 1.30 The Mike Walsh Show 2PM 2.30 Close 2pm General Hospital 2.30 Another World 3PM 3.10 The Flowerpot Men (B&W) 3.25 Play School (B&W) 3.55 Sesame Street 3pm Homicide (B&W) 3.25 News 3.30 No Man’s Land. Mickie de Stoop 3pm Pot Of Gold. Tommy Hanlon Jnr

Ditto! @EricMontreal22 Are you finally ready to spill some AMC tea???

And then Passions took it to a whole other level.

That can only be a good thing. Maybe it was some contract thing that had to be honored before he finally left the building.

NBC ran Live & In Person over 3 nights Tues/Wed/Thurs/ at 10pm . This was to fill those slots for the week as the next week NBC had Baseball and the following week ABC had the World Series, so NBC didn't want to premiere shows and then have them off the next week and come back to face World Series. So Wk 1 was Live & In Person, Wk2 was Baseball. Wk3 NBC had a Greatest Commercials special on Tues and Candid Camera Wed up against World Series. Hill St Blues debuted that week on Thurs as it was World Series free night. Wk4 saw a pilot 'Bunco' air on Tues and I Love Men special Wed @10 Wk 5 finally saw regular program with the much vaunted 'Bay City Blues' debut Tues @10 and place 3rd behind Hart to Hart and the CBS Movie 'First Affair' and #72 overall. On Wed St Elsewhere debuted #49 behind Hotel #2 but ahead of CBS movie 'Happy' #65.

Wk 1 1983/84 season Thurs 8-9 CBS Magnum PI #9 22.7/37 ABC Trauma Center #43 14.1/23 NBC Gimme A Break #48 13.2/22 Mama's Family #47 13.5/21 9-10 CBS Simon & Simon #6 23.6/36 NBC We Got It Made #28/17.0/26 Cheers #19 18.4/29 ABC 9 to 5 #55 11.4/18 It's Not Easy #63 9.8/16 10-11 CBS Knots Landing #12 21.0/32 ABC 20/20 #33 18.0/27 NBC Live & In Person Pt 3 #57 10.7/18

Thanks @Reverend Ruthledge Hope they continue. That era of GL history is pretty much unknown/undocumented apart from general info.

Yes that's the one-back in 2017 I guess. Wonder why it seems to be a Winter thing? So it appears that old sets are being stored somewhere.

Programming any series against the #1 show is difficult. Obviously you counter program, which ABC had tried at the start of the season with Lottery. Masquerade had already failed up against strong competition so there was no reason to believe it would do anything more than mediocre numbers up against Dallas. And NBC was also going with action shows-The Master/Legmen. ABC should have split up Benson/Webster and moved Webster to 8pm and Benson till 9 against Dallas. Comedy would have been the best counter programming and Benson was familiar to audiences.

After flopping Thurs Masquerade was moved up against Dallas -then #1. Talk about out of the frying pan into the fire. ABC's March programming moves pretty much involved shifting things around with the faint hope that something might attract attention ratings wise. Automan moved to Mon, replacing That's Incredible. Masquerade to Fri replacing Blue Thunder and Lottery brought back to replace Masquerade. None of it worked. As for 9 to 5, after a shaky start Thurs @9 it was moved to the better slot following Three's Company where it did better. But then ABC moved it back to Thurs where it quickly flopped. Considering there were backstage problems (can somebody elaborate?) it was too soon to move it, ABC had already been burned moving Too Close for Comfort to Thurs@9 where is struggled a few seasons before.