Paul Raven

The circle of rings motif was something AW should have kept in the later openings. The 82 opening kept it at the beginning which was great but that should have been the main theme. The silhouetted 'lovers' was lame and I didn't really like the block letters. Then the Crystal Gayle opening came in and hearing that song day after day for years was annoying. Finally the generic ER ripoff.

@te. @DRW50 Thanks for this. I have never seen it online before. Let's hope 2024 uncovers more treasures. First I've seen of Jada as Amy that young. Poor Mr Jiminez didn't get a credit. Maybe someone will recognize the actor. How many calendar bracelets were purchased from that promo? I wonder if this sort of promo was used often?

Came across this listing for Wed May 11 1983 for Des Moines Iowa The NBC affiliate did not show Days of Our Lives. Pre-empted for movies chopped up for showing over consecutive days. 13 - WHO (NBC) 5:00 am - Nightwire 6:00 am - AgDay 6:30 am - Early Today 7:00 am - Today 9:00 am - The Facts of Life 9:30 am - Sale of the Century 10:00 am - Wheel of Fortune 10:30 am - Dream House 11:00 am - New Battlestars 11:30 am - Search for Tomorrow 12:00 pm - News 12:15 pm - Duane and Friend 12:30 pm - Movie "Kelly's Heroes" (1970) (Conclusion) 1:00 pm - Movie "The Cowboys" (1972) (Part 1 of 2) 2:30 pm - Another World 3:30 pm - Floppy Show BY Tues Nov 12 1985 Days was back in the schedule 13 - WHO (NBC) 6:00 am - Morning Agriculture Report 6:30 am - NBC News at Sunrise 7:00 am - Today 9:00 am - Your Number's Up 9:30 am - Sale of the Century 10:00 am - Break the Bank 10:30 am - Scrabble 11:00 am - Super Password 11:30 am - Wheel of Fortune 12:00 pm - News 12:15 pm - Duane & Friend 12:30 pm - Days of Our Lives 1:30 pm - Another World 2:30 pm - Search for Tomorrow 3:00 pm - Newlywed Game 3:30 pm - Let's Make a Deal 4:00 pm - Love Connection

I'll believe an invitation was extended to Beverlee, but I don't think she would have accepted. From everything I've read, she didn't seem the sentimental type and wouldn't be bothered returning to a show she left 19 years before that was being cancelled. And the fact that only Rachel was still around from her era wouldn't be much of an inducement.

I think Gene Bua (Bill Prentiss) on Love of Life preceded Doug. And Mary Stuart definitely sang live on SFT.

Cancellations were a feature of the 70's. CBS cancelled Where The Heart Is, Love Is a Many Splendored Thing and Secret Storm within the space of a year and dropped Edge of Night also. And only introduced one new show Y&R. ABC cancelled Dark Shadows,Best of Everything and A World Apart. NBC cancelled Bright Promise, Return to Peyton Place, How To Survive A Marriage, Somerset, Lovers and Friends and For Richer For Poorer. So only 3 successful soaps were introduced in the 70's - AMC, RH and Y&R.

How did that story of Agnes killing off the Gregory family on AW begun? Alex was killed in an offscreen car crash. That was it. The rest were just written out. As for GH having more sets,maybe it's simply that the available studio space is larger so the sets themselves are bigger and there's space for more of them. Does GH still do daily set changes ie a crew comes in each day to erect sets? Do we know the taping schedule? One of the actors talked in SOD a few months ago about going in the afternoon and taping into the evening, which I thought was a big no these days due to overtime payment issues.

Looking at the Brad in a Cage location clip posted in the Old Articles thread, highlighted the contrast with the Nikki/Jordan story. Location filming, and a longer term, more suspenseful tale. Not just a bunch of people standing in a room in the culmination of a plot that lasted a few weeks. If it had have come up when Billy and Phyllis were still together maybe. But it's like Billy/Sharon, Cole/Nikki, Jack/Sharon...no longer mentioned or relevant.

Gwynn Gillis Guiding Light Molly Randall Guiding Light Blair Van Houten Gwynn Gillis lists these roles in her book 'The ABC of Soaps' Her character descriptions Blair was a clothes horse, always pursuing the best designer with the most elegant gowns. She’d lunch with her friends at posh restaurants and try to stay on a her strict diet, to no avail. She always had to buy new clothes because “nothing fit.” She briefly appeared to help Mindy’s design career by commissioning her to create a party dress in a day. Due to a snowstorm, Mindy lost her car keys and never delivered the dress. Mrs. Van Houten never forgave her for leaving her hanging with the dreaded reality that she had to wear “last year’s dress,” which obviously didn’t fit, wrecking her evening. Blair had a sense of humor, but only about her diet, not her clothes. Molly was a ruthless district attorney running for re-election during a highly publicized murder trial in Springfield. Rather than carefully prosecute a visible case with indisputable evidence, Molly rushed in to arrest unlikely suspects, including Laura, who was pregnant, just to capitalize on the publicity and guarantee her re-election. When the evidence couldn't withstand court scrutiny, she blamed several high-ranking police detectives and the police commissioner. Molly was re-elected, though the lives of all those arrested were destroyed—Laura lost her child and her marriage; she was given a prison sentence, along with several others. Blair I can see as a short term role but Molly is a mystery.Who was Laura? Perhaps Gwynn misremembered the characters actual name? Can any GL fans help out?

And both GH and The Doctors finally identified their locales-Port Charles and Madison respectively.

Re Paul Burke - Della and Royal Bay are the same project. When Royal Bay was rejected as a TV pilot, it was repackaged and renamed for some sort of theatrical release/syndication deal. I've also seen it as a VCR release under another name. And I had no idea that Ali Shawkat was his grandaughter. Also,Barbara Rush's 57 No Down Payment has been cited as the inspiration for Knots Landing. PS It's a good movie if you haven't seen it -very soapy!

It's sad to think that 'going into the past' afyer 35 years of story resulted in a gorilla. And having Sam Groom back , but not as Russ. And extended an invitation to Beverlee knowing full well ill heath or not, she probably wouldn't accept.

OLTL had the Health Club. Are there more examples? Was Doug and Julie's 'The Look of Love'? What were some others? More of a 60's trend I guess but the end of live broadcasts when ATWT and EON went to tape in 75.

Like John Aniston on Days there are many performers who had small roles on a show before landing a bigger role much later. But I'm really referring to popular actors/characters who were dropped and then returned as an admission that the original departure was a mistake, and that hopefully a new role will recapture the magic. Usually the original character was killed off, which created drama at the time but long term wasn't always the best move. Despite the batting average being extremely poor as seen in the above examples, the soaps continued to try.

Even in the great outdoors Y&R characters would talk to themselves... Tracey/Lauren got two location shoots in major stories. Paul with SF and Barbados. Did anyone else manage that?

AW tried several times with Robert Kelker Kelly formerly Sam as Bobby/Shane, John Aprea Lucas/Nikos and Alice Barrett Frankie/Anne.

The beginnings of 'celebrities' making appearances as themselves. ATWT - Bobby Short LOL- Sammy Davis Jr SFT - Melissa Manchester OLTL - Bill Anderson GH - Mamie Van Doren Music/singers part of the story. Y&R lead the way and DOOL had Doug and Trish. SFT had Steve ,DRS had Andy and I think other shows dabbled in this area.

Requests Barbara Rush Paul Burke Peter Lazar Jo Ann Pflug

Maybe this little bit of hype and attention will have Brad deciding to make this Diana Sheila's daughter after all!

It seems the second role is never as successful. Mariah is still around but she pretty much just morphed into Cassie.

OK ,in addition to lackluster writing, some of The Colby's casting was not up to snuff. Who could you suggest as Jason,Frankie ,Bliss and any other roles you think were miscast? Going by the ages of the actors cast in 85 Jason early 60's in 85 I'm thinking Sam Wanamaker (Berrengers) as a possibility. Frankie 45 Yvette Mimieux? also starred in Berrengers. Bliss 20 Mary Beth Evans? Chatherine Mary Stewart?

Several soaps have tried to capitalize on an actor's popularity and fix past blunders by bringing back the actor as a different character-sometimes related to the original but often someone completely new. But has it ever been a success? Is it a bad idea from the get go? Is there any actor you would like to see back (past or present)? Some examples Days Josh Taylor - Chris/Roman Wayne Northrup - Roman/Alex Y&R Mishael Morgan - Hilary/Amanda Ted Shackleford - Will/Jeffrey AMC Francesca James - Kitty/Kelly OLTL Lee Patterson - Joe/Tom GH Anthony Geary - Luke/Bill In the above list, most of the return roles were flops. Only AMC seemed to get it right. There are many more. Please add and discuss.

Not sure that would be financially viable. Maybe if they taped in 6 month blocks (2 eps a day) and went dark for the other 6 months?

As suggested in the 90's thread. I don't think the list will be as long as the soaps were more under the radar in those days and each show did its own thing, Anyway for starters Expanding to from 30 mins AW, DOOL, AMC, OLTL,GH,ATWT and GL all expanded. Gh and OLTL went to 45 mins at first and AW went to 90 mins in 79. 90 min premieres How to Survive a Marriage and Edge of Night both had movie length episodes (in EON's case to mark the move to ABC) Dropping older/veteran characters. Really started to accelerate throughout the 70's. AW killed off Mary Matthews, EON Martha Marceau, SFT John and Eunice Wyatt, ATWT Dan Stewart, Susan Stewart, Sandy,Judge Lowell, OLTL Victor Lord and so on

Lois Nettleton The Brighter Day in the 50's and then countless primetime roles throughout the 50's till the 90's until finally returning to soaps as Virginia Benson on GH in the early 90's.