Paul Raven

Winter Olympics played in every timeslot for ABC and ABC won the week. But NBC won Tuesday with A Team/Celebrity Pt 3. CBS won Fri Dukes/Dallas/Falcon Crest CBS won Sunday 60 Minutes/Master of the Game Pt 1. CBS had another airing of Gone With The Wind with it's worst results Pt 1 #31 PT 2 #39 Emerald Point was #45 TV Bloopers NBC Real People NBC Knight Rider NBC Magnum PI CBS Winter Olympics Wed ABC NIght Court NBC Gimme A Break NBC Diffrent Strokes NBC Scarecrow &Mrs King CBS Winter Olympics Sun ABC St Elsewhere NBC Hill St Blues NBC Family Ties NBC Silver Spoons NBC TV Greatest Commercials NBC

TV Guide 7/31/65 ROOM WITH A VIEW—OF HERSELF A young actress sees her own TV performance for the first time How busy can a young actress get? Well, beauteous, red-haired Julienne Marie has been so busy that she was a regular on CBS's nighttime serial, Our Private World, for almost a month before she got to see herself on television. It so happened that she was also appearing in the Broadway musical hit “Do I Hear a Waltz?”’, which kept her well occupied on the nights World was on the air. What made Julienne doubly anxious to view Julienne: She had never seen herself on_ television. She had done only one other TV how, a Golden Showcase called “Tonight in Samarkand.” ‘’But,’” she said, “it was live, so | never got to see myself.” Friends—some 21 days after World had premiered—finally moved a portable TV set into her dressing room in the 46th Street Theatre. Even then her viewing didn’t come easy. Since her dressing room was four flights up, she had to watch herself on the air for a few seconds as the impulsive, unhappy Eve Eldredge, then dash downstairs to become the impulsive, unhappy Jennifer Yaeger in “Waltz.” “What made it even tougher,” said Julienne, “I had already made that trip four times before the show came on the air.” As for her reactions, just see the pictures bordering this page. “At first I was very anxious and nervous,” she said, “but then I was surprised and delighted to see that I wasn’t so bad. I would say to myself every time | would come on the screen, ‘Oh, who is that? What is she doing?’ I would never say, "What am I doing?’ It was*hard for me to believe the girl on the screen was actually me.”

Is it ironic that Y&R's ratings are going up while the quality is way down ?

I was hoping Days might FINALLY stop using back from the dead as a plot twist and instead try to write character based stuff. It's not like it's even bringing back a popular actor. For sure Abigail will be resurrected. At this rate Tom and Alice will be back soon.

Gal pals stick together! What is it with actors and finances? Jane would have been making good money over the years and being in that profession should have made arrangements for the inevitable lean years. Oh well I suppose she's no different than 90% of the population who have no clue about handling their money.

I tuned in and there was Sharon and Phyllis at empty Crimson Lights with Sharon telling Phyllis how her power grab had destroyed her relationship with her kids and it's not worth it etc while Phyllis defended herself etc. And I'm thinking-didn't the exact same scenes play out last week? And why would Phyllis keep going to CL knowing she'll run into Sharon and be subject to this? And Victor telling Cane unless he plays ball he'll never see Lily and the twins again? WTF? Sorry Josh 'story concepts' are awful.

Passed away this last week. Neil Sedaka on GL in 1982

John James (Tom Berman) and Alison Argo (Cindy French). After John left they tried recasting Tom but went with quirky types =Robert Lupone, Mitch Letrofsky instead of centering Tom as a leading man.

It seems like Bare Essence didn't work on any level. The timeslot was a major problem. No successful soap had launched at 9pm. Dallas/Dynasty had several seasons at 10pm to build a following before moving up an hour and Knots Landing struggled the two times at aired at 9. By the time BE moved to 10pm Fri following Knight Rider the die was cast.

It also showed the lack of chemistry b/w Jo and Martin. She barely looked at him and his words were not very comforting- kinda clinical. And the dialogue probably meant a lot to Mary. Things were changing and she had to grin and bear it. I just hope it wasn't too depressing for her to witness it all. Maybe by this time she was grateful to be still working and have some presence on the show. I wonder if Jo and Stu got a similar scene?

LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING Abby Warner Maia Danziger 72-73 Charles' daughter 10 episodes

I knew of Frances Rickett, mainly from her stint from her stint as headwriter in the dying days of Secret Storm, but she also wrote for Another World (under Robert Cenedella)The Doctors and The Young Marrieds. I didn't realize she was also an author of 6 novels 3 of them in the suspense genre as well as a novel The Abortionist under the name Martha Winslow. She also wrote at least 4 of the AW books in the Soaps and Serials imprint in the mid 80's. I am currently reading her 1983 suspense novel Stalked and the dedication is to Robert Cenedella, so they obviously remained close after her late 60's association with AW.

I guess they wanted Linda for the Rachel trial so gave her a short term contract to ensure she would be available? I know Y&R did that with certain recurring characters when they were required for more regular appearances.

Is Susan telling TPM to find the Lord?

Does anyone know more about the casting of Dr Mark Dante? James Yorke was cast in August 76 but it seems he only lasted a few episodes before Michael Delano took over, Then Gerald Gordon assumed the role in late September. Was GG always intended to play Mark and for whatever reason unavailable when the character debuted? Or was James Yorke deemed unsuitable and Delano took over, then also quickly replaced when Gerald Gordon became available?

Bare Essence was 58th 11.9/18, Huge drop from A Team which was 14th. NBC dropped it from that timeslot moving Remington Steele to Tues @9, which did much better than BE. It returned Fri March 25th Fri @10. It did even worse ranking 61st 10.7/19. Guess they were hoping to lure some Falcon Crest viewers now that FC had concluded its season. 5 episodes played there until it was dropped again. The final two episodes played as a Monday movie in June. Poor Genie Francis saw her hyped up primetime career go down in flames before it had started.

So the airport terminal cafeteria has a name -Caffeine Fix.

GENERAL HOSPITAL Dr. Mark Dante.. .Jim Yorke Aug 6 -? 76

Alice was the lead-in to the blockbuster MASH finale. American Gigolo/Night Bridge Fell Down was the competition. CBS Thurs was the only night where all shows made the Top 20 Magnum/Simon/Knots. The A Team had disrupted ABC Tues taking the 8pm slot. Wed ABC Fall Guy/Dynasty 9-11 but weak at 8. Fri CBS Dallas/Falcon Crest but Dukes not making Top 20 Sat ABC Love Boat/Fantasy but TJ Hooker not Top 20 Sun CBS 60 Minutes and later Jeffersons/One Day But Bunker/Gloria and Trapper John not Top 20 that week.

I don't believe Midland Heights was ever meant for daytime -Lorimar wasn't involved with daytime at that point. SOMH initially was developed as something called Heartland and aimed at 8pm for CBS.

Sisters had the benefit of a strong lead in -Golden Girls/Empty Nest which were both Top 10 shows at the time, something Midland Heights/Yellow Rose, Berrengers/Twin Peaks/Dallas/Hotel did not have.

Howard McGillan might have worked as Greg if given the chance, but as we said Bill was losing interest . Greg could have shown an interest in Ashley. That would have been interesting as Jack would be against his sis involved with Jill's brother. Or Greg could have been involved with Traci in a more friendly type mentor relationship a la Brock and Nikki. Again Jack would have been wary. And Greg might have still been apart of Nikki's life in some way. There was mileage there and Liz of course should have stayed on. Her being a friend of Mary would have been viable.

I was incorrect re AITF/Maude as lead ins for Executive Suite. The Monday 9-10 shows were Maude and All's Fair with Richard Crenna and Bernadette Peters. AITF was moved to Wed @9 that season and teamed with newbie Alice. Executive Suite was moved to Fri in late January with Sonny & Cher as the lead in. These 2 replaced the Friday Movie. CBS introduced a raft of changes mid season as ABC asserted itself. Sonny& Cher/ES faced ABC TV movies and Rockford Files/Quincy and came in 3rd. After a few episodes ES was off and the James Franciscus/Linda Evans series 'Hunter' took over at 10.

The Hogan Family was one of a select group of shows that never changed timeslots in it's run. Always Mon @8.30. Only when it moved to CBS did it move to [email protected].