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Disappointed if Chance/Connor has been demoted. The whole Abby/Devon/Chance story had so many beats to play but instead Chance just walked away with little angst and Devon/Abby got together and now have zilch story. Has Josh written one decent story in all these years?

I did some thinking about the blonde stud and I hope I have the Luck of the Irish...

OK I got it. At least the twosome-but not the blonde stud. However, the lady in question is married and has children....

I thought one of the basics in laying out the weeks stories is A. What are we building towards for a Friday cliffhanger? B. What can function as a M-Th cliffhanger from the various stories we are playing that week? I can remember Bill Bell even having fake cliffhangers to hook us eg 'That's it, I'm going to Dad's office right now to confess about my night with Jill' only to have him change his mind in the next ep.

Christine and Nick would be snoozeville- 2 decent characters- where would the conflict and interest lie? At this point, apart from being reunited with Sharon and being supporting, the only option I could see for Nick would be a femme fatale who worms her way into Nick's life a la Cassandra and Paul.

So Lipton wanted a hurricane in Springfield circa 74? How odd...

OK so Claire, newfound member of the billionaire Newman dynasty ,who has business qualifications, is going to work as aNanny? Speaking of Harrison, just a note that Tara is the child's mother and although she went to jail , has she given up/lost parental rights? Summer, ex stepmother, is acting as though the boy is her natural child. Surely responsible parenting would have Harrison aware of Tara in some way, given the fact that at some point she will return to (rightfully) claim him.

What show are you referring too?

Agree, an interview dealing with some specifics about their intentions would be great.

LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING These actors also appeared most likely day player or brief recurring roles Michael Pendrey Christine Lavren Nancy Reardon Don McGrath

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TV Guide 3/26/1966 Errol Flynn’s widow SOAP-OPERA ACTRESS with a SOAP-OPERA LIFE Daily, ABC telecasts the lugubrious goings on of a group of teenagers and their unhappy parents in a soap opera called Never Too Young, referred to by its cast as “Gloom-a-Go-Go.” One member of the cast is Patrice Wymore, widow of Errol Flynn. Her story would make a better soap opera than the writers of Never Too Young ever dreamed of. Can’t you hear it? Time now, intones the announcer, for Our Gal Patrice, the story of a young girl from Miltonvale, Kansas, who danced her way from tent shows to Broadway and Hollywood, where she became the wife of one of filmdom’s richest and most flamboyant actors! Although the Flynns had been separated when he died six years ago, Patrice, as widow of record, inherited a reported million-dollar estate, including a cattle-and-coconut ranch in Jamaica, which she now runs (“I’m the only real cowgirl-actress”), and the yacht Zaca, still in litigation (“By the time this is all over, I'll be ready to take a bar exam”). Despite her apparent affluence, however, she has been working steadily and hard. A month after Flynn’s death, she opened at the Desert Inn in Las Vegas—“And now Patrice Wymore starts to pick up the pieces of her life" reported the Associated Press. Only last summer she starred in four musical comedies in 10 weeks—“Carnival” in Chicago, “Guys and Dolls” in St. Louis, “Bye Bye Birdie” in Fairfield, Conn., and “Irma La Douce” in San Diego. Then, in September, she took on the rigorous five-days-a-week schedule of Never Too Young, which is shot like old-fashioned “live” television—from the top with no retakes. Since Patrice is extremely nearsighted (“When I do theater-in-the-round, they have to have four Seeing Eye dogs for me”), she can’t even use cue cards. Patrice Wymore has been working hard since she was named Patricia and doing tent shows at age 6 back in Kansas, where she was born Dec. 17, 1926. The only break was a dubiously idyllic few years with Flynn aboard the aforementioned yacht— years of which the actor wrote, “On board the Zaca, Pat cooked and comforted me. . . .I invented a role for her, that of homebody, Hausfrau, sweet domestic thing.” This was hardly the role her mother, a former singer and concert pianist on the Chautauqua circuit, had trained her for, or exactly what Pat herself may have had in mind. She recalls her early days: “I would get out of school at 3 and rehearse with my mother until 7. Then after dinner I’d do my lessons at 8:30.” Despite its “Gypsy”ish overtones, she describes this as “a marvelous kind of childhood—the other girls would go to the local malt shop and waste their time. I knew I was going somewhere. Out of Kansas. I was in a hurry.” She got out of Kansas for good when she was 16. Her father, who ran a trucking line, gave her the money he had put aside to send her to college and let her go to New York. Soon she landed a part in a road company of “Up in Central Park,” followed by roles on Broadway in two other musicals, “Hold It” and “All for Love.” Columnist Earl Wilson would write that “she had magic in her toes.” In 1950 she got a contract to go to Hollywood for Warner Brothers. After a brief appearance in an early Doris Day picture, “Tea for Two,” she became “the fair-haired girl on the lot” and was rushed into something called “Rocky Mountain” as Errol Flynn’s leading lady. Flynn, who at the time was involved with a Romanian princess, suddenly decided that Patrice “typified everything I longed for, or thought I longed for.” The mother of his most recent ex-wife said that Patrice “likes to fish and hunt and do other things Errol likes.” Pledging that “this is for keeps,” Flynn and Miss Wymore were married in Monte Carlo on Oct. 23, 1950. Her mother said, “Oh, honey, I’m so glad you’re getting married and settling down.” Of course, it did not quite work out that way. “I grew up in a hurry when I married him,” says Patrice. She led a vagabond’s life with Flynn, mostly in Europe. A daughter, Arnella Roma, was born in Italy on Christmas Day, 1953. Five years later, after a number of partings and reconciliations, Patrice Wymore returned to Hollywood and went back to work. When Flynn died in 1959, she conducted herself with dignity amid the highly publicized grievings and threatened legal actions of her late husband’s teen-age “protégée,” one Beverly Aadland. She has never remarried. Today she lives quietly in the Hollywood hills with her 12-year-old daughter, a tall blonde like her mother, who wants to be an actress. At the moment, Arnella is taking dancing lessons. Who knows? Perhaps in a few years she'll go to New York and make good on Broadway and then go to Hollywood, where she will meet this handsome movie, star, and then... But who would believe it? It sounds like soap opera.

I guess that with PM and EK being appointed w/o the time to create a bible, they have to establish a working relationship with each other and FV and any other ABC people involved. Follow the mandates they are given as to what characters need to be featured and how to accommodate them into storylines that various factions are happy with as well as letting things play out onscreen to see what actors/characters they want to maintain and who to cull. Tie up existing storylines and establish relationships b/w characters and story points that will have them in place to fully implement their vision/version of the show. This is really a 3 to 6 months project to get everything in place.

Same here. The basic GCAC room set isn't too bad (better than Gran Phoenix) but identical furniture is ridiculous. Is it a union thing? Only certain people are allowed to touch the sets and it would cost extra to have them on set to redress the sets on taping day.

Information is scant on Hotel Cosmopolitan. CBS didn't really publicize it and various press sources eg Variety barely mentioned it. So a lot of well known soap actors probably appeared but at this stage we can't find any more names.

I think Bernie was brought on quickly to replace Farley, who left suddenly? They needed someone who could step into the role with ease and Bernie had daytime experience. He was then replaced by Anthony George who was more in keeping in what they wanted from the character, an older but still attractive man.

LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING Spence Garrison. Ed Power...June 1968-72 Walter Travis...John Carpenter August - ?1972 Campaign Manager Sam Watson...James Burge Nov 71- Jan 28 72 paraplegic Vietnam war vet attracted to Betsy Chernak who couldn't teurn his feelings. Reconciled with ex Donna Patrick Donna Patrick...Barbara Stanger 72 Renne Jarrett assistant at Mark Eliot's architecture firm- rejected by Sam Watson after he was paralyzed. They reconciled. Celia ________Winters...Abigail Kellogg...1972-73 murdered Walter Travis blaming him for the death of Alfred Preston who she loved. Julie Richards...Beverlee McKinsey 1970-71 aka Martha Donnelly, presumed dead wife of Tom, spoiler in his romance with Helen Elliott. Now an actress, returned with boyfriend Jim Whitman. Roommate of Sarah Handley. Wanted to see her son Ricky and blackmailed Tom saying she would fight for custody. Tom paid her off but Jim was killed and Tom arrested. Revealed that Julie had accidentally killed him in a struggle. Dr. Sanford Hiller...Peter White ? - September 1971 ...Stephen Joyce...September 1971-72 married workaholic doctor in love with Betsy Chernak. Marian ______Hiller...Constance Towers April 1971-72 lonely wheelchair bound wife of Sanford who was attracted to Pete Chernak. Lily Garrison...Caroline Miner 68-69 7yr old asthmatic daughter of Spence and Jean Chandler Garrison...Martin Wolfson 1968 ...William Post, Jr...1968-71 domineering father of Spence, against Spence's relationship with Iris ex wife to Margaret ,married to Jean who was cheating with Mark Elliott.

Slesar was one of a kind- also an award winning novelist. It's disappointing he was dropped from EON- he was hardly to blame for the ratings woes. Especially when Irwin Nicholson remained as EP. Maybe it was a financial thing as Slesar just became too expensive and Sheldon couldn't command the same salary.

@Brolden Don't know whether you will ever be updating? I have some episode info from 50's and 60's that will fill in some gaps. Some examples #22 May 1 1956 #176 Dec 3 1956 #1334 May 25 1961 #2923 July 3 1967 Let me know if you are interested and if so I am more than willing to collaborate on updating the episode list and character debuts/departures.

How many years was it that Dee and Suzanne were not in scenes together? So why now are they bothering to play up that relationship? What has changed?

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I believe DD did go along with the revised contract status but got frustrated when he wasn't being used at all.

Yes I remember a very detailed Somerset site also. @slick jones Hope Mark knows how much we enjoyed and learned from the sites.

Those numbers point pretty strongly that just about all the cast are on 1 or 2 a week guarantees. I guess anyone who is over will be cut back at some point to average it out. Great to see Beth in the Top 10. Traci has been used consistently so really should be given a contract. I suspect Camryn must also be on the 'contract that's actually recurring' also.

@Maxim 100 eps in 8 days! Slow down and savor the experience or it will be over too soon. Hope you are reading over the 136 pages of this thread as I'm sure you will learn a lot. And the cast list in that thread also. Enjoy!