Paul Raven

May 87 Albuquerque 13 - KGGM (CBS) (now KRQE) 5:30 am - CBS Morning News (x2) 6:30 am - The Morning Program 8:00 am - The $25,000 Pyramid 8:30 am - Card Sharks 9:00 am - Donahue 10:00 am - The Young and the Restless 11:00 am - As the World Turns 12:00 pm - News 12:30 pm - Stopwatch/PM 1:00 pm - The Price is Right 2:00 pm - Guiding Light 3:00 pm - Hour Magazine Game shows before 9am Y&R at 10 and TPIR in the afternoon. .

I stand corrected. I think Ted was more closely involved with Morningstar than Paradise Bay.

WPTA 21 - ABC Fort Wayne Oct 93. 5:30 am - ABC World News This Morning 6:00 am - News 7:00 am - Good Morning America 9:00 am - Donahue 10:00 am - Sally Jessy Raphael 11:00 am - Maury Povich 12:00 pm - News 12:30 pm - Loving 1:00 pm - One Life to Live 2:00 pm - General Hospital 3:00 pm - All My Children 4:00 pm - Oprah Winfrey Prempted the Home Show in the morning and changed the AMC/OLTL/GH pattern in the PM WTVW 7 - ABC Evansville (now a CW O&O)Jan 85 5:30 am - Jim Bakker 6:30 am - ABC World News This Morning 7:00 am - Good Morning America 9:00 am - Andy Griffith 9:30 am - Loving (repeat of previous episode) 10:00 am - Trivia Trap 10:30 am - Family Feud (network) 11:00 am - Ryan's Hope 11:30 am - News 12:00 pm - All My Children 1:00 pm - One Life to Live 2:00 pm - General Hospital 3:00 pm - Loving (new) 3:30 pm - Scooby-Doo 4:00 pm - Diff'rent Strokes A double dose of Loving!

Paradise Bay was not a Ted Corday production. Other morning soaps over the years 1950's Hawkins Falls, The Bennetts. Follow Your Heart, Three Steps to Heaven, One Man's family, A Time to Live, Way of the world. All NBC efforts. Gotta give credit for trying. 1960s CBS tried Clear Horizon The Brighter Day and then Love of Life settled at 11.30 am NBC slotted Morningstar and Paradise Bay Then in the 80's Loving and Texas. Morning soaps had worked on radio, but I guess the fact that CBS had success in the PM established that was where soaps belonged.

@DRW50 Thanks for posting. I've never seen that episode. If they had have placed some taller trees in front of that backdrop it would have only been glimpsed and looked less fake. Lot's of voiceovers and just 2 characters. And I cigarette smoked!

I think you are being kind to call those sets elaborate. Two walls,some curtains , plants, chairs and the pillars-quite simple but effective for the scene and the times. Today's producers should be as ingenious. Not quite sure why the desk in the second set was jammed up against a sofa... I recall in her book Mary said that in the first year they were able to move away from the black backdrops.

Did Agnes son-in-law also write for the show or am I confused? Agnes mentored Wisner Washam but after he left AMC I don't think he wrote any other soap. He was pretty much de facto headwriter for many years.' He clashed with Megan McTavish I believe and quit the show. I have just read Agnes' book and wish she had have gone into more detail about BTS stuff.

Wasn't Ashley all in a tizz over Diane coming to Jabot and the havoc she would create? Have we ever seen Diane at Jabot ? Have there been any business decisions that she made at all? Why does Josh pretty much exclusively write stories around business when he never actually shows anyone at work or dealing with the business beyond mergers, acquisitions and takeovers that occur in restaurants and peoples homes?

For Gary Tomlin to say he was unfamiliar with Alice was unforgivable. More likely he was told she was returning and she didn't fit into his vision so he couldn't be bothered taking advantage of her presence. The thing with Pam Long (and many others) is they make an initial splash with new characters and situations but either through choice or circumstance don't have to follow through over the course of several years to sustain interest in those characters and come up with new plots.

Requests Ava Haddad Terry Eno Marcia McLain Sheila Coonan Danny Goldring

Always nice to see a vet return but can't say I am much of a Danny fan then or now. And I can't see him bringing much drama to the story. Wonder why Tricia Cast hasn't been back?

From earlier in the thread

Feb 70 Marshall Karp was out as Daytime VP to be replaced by Michael Eisner. Under his tenure. Karp oversaw the launch and cancellation of The Best of Everything after a very short run, A World Apart struggling, resulting in the dismissal of Irna and Katherine Phillips and Dark Shadows falling in the ratings. Eisner's first move upon taking over was cancelling Dark Shadows and replacing it with Password. One other contender was The Reel Game which had been running in primetime, but it was decided Password was more familiar to audiences.

From Lemay's book Early in 1974, I was approached about writing another of the six soaps produced by Procter and Gamble. I resisted that but expressed an interest in expanding “Another World” to a daily sixty-minute format instead. The sponsors and producer started complicated negotiations with the network and countered strong opposition from the ambitious young woman vice-president in charge of daytime programming. The show had long since led the network’s daytime ratings (and quite often led the ratings on all three networks), which made her reluctant to change its format. Procter and Gamble persisted and, certain that they would prevail, Paul and I made plans to enlarge the cast from twenty to over thirty and to widen the range of cultural and economic milieus in the story. Well we have two versions as to who initiated and supported the expansion.

I wonder how Doug Marland felt to see GL doing so well at #3 when he was still toiling away at Loving ? That storyline of Mac presumed dead-viewers knew that wasn't going to happen. It didn't come from anything built up and had no long term repercussions. So just a location shoot and some fake drama.

Quite odd when Esther has been hauled out for a handful of appearances each year. Happy for Kate though.

ABC had neither the finances or affiliates to mount a daytime schedule in the 50's. Mickey Mouse and Bandstand were used to try and mount late afternoon programming block includinng 'Do You Trust Your wife? Finally in Oct 58 they mounted a full daytime schedule including Liberace, Day in Court and Beat the Clock. All pretty cheap and cheerful. But no soaps. They got close to airing a soap called Hope Springs with a western format but it was dropped at the last minute. The nearest they got to a soap before GH was Road to Reality which dramatized group therapy sessions.

June 1989 The continuing drama of continuing dramas Once mighty prime time soap has slipped in ratings and is, for now, exclusive province of CBS In 1985, a quarter of the top 20 prime time network programs were episodic melodramas, better known as prime time soaps. CBS had capitalized on the tremendous success of Dallas with a spin-off, Knots Landing, and another offering, Falcon Crest. ABC had countered with Dynasty and Hotel, then later the Dynasty spin -off, Dynasty II: The Colbys. Today, Hotel and The Colbys are history, and with the departure of Dynasty from ABC this year after nine seasons, CBS, with Dallas (entering its 13th season), Falcon Crest and Knots Landing,claims the only remaining prime time soap operas on commercial network television. Once the owner of a reserved seat in the Nielsen Rating's Top 10, Dallas has been finding its numbers slipping. At the same time, prime time dramas such as L.A. Law and thirtysomething are using variations of the continuing storyline in their reality based scripts. Does the remaining prime time soap producer see the borrowing of reality based elements as the solution to further erosion of the soap genre? "Dallas has done well by moving closer to a reality based format," said Lorimar Telepictures President David Salzman, who oversees the production of Dallas, Knots Landing and Falcon Crest. "When we took Dallas to Russia, it reflected what Ameri- can businessmen may be facing in dealing with the new openness of glasnost. But we must never forget what makes a show successful. People are naturally attracted to stories of wealth and power." "The wealth of Dynasty, The Colbys and Hotel brought in the glitzy settings and costumes- that's past its peak," suggested Knots Landing executive producer David Jacobs. "I think for a while during the Reagan years it was O.K. to be ostentatiously wealthy and glitzy. All of a sudden it has been distasteful in the post- Boesky era," he said, referring to Ivan Boesky, who was indicted for insider trading. For the classic prime time soaps that remain, however, the ratings peak may have passed as well. Dallas finished the first run 1988 -89 season with an average 15.4 rat - ing/26 share, down from two years ago's potent 21.3/34 average. In the 1986 -87 sea- son, Falcon Crest scored a 17.4/25 average; this year it recorded a 12.5/22. Knots Landing was the only one to show improvement, scoring a 16.1/28 average for the 1988 -89 season, following a 15.8/27 average the year before. Although the soap genre may be slipping somewhat, other serial dramas have pickedup on the continuing story lines, or "arcs," pioneered in prime time by the likes of Dallas. "L.A. Law has an advantage of using less than five episode arcs," said Dallas executive producer Leonard Katzman. "They have adapted the soap formula into their program, except in a smaller arc. We find that most of the story that we try to tell usually goes over a five- or six -week period. It may be that viewers don't necessarily want to have to stay involved episode after episode with what is transpiring throughout the arc. That's why we introduced story summaries at the beginning of each new episode, so viewers can catch up on the storyline if they missed the previous episode." "Look at thirtysomething [which employs continuing story lines]. It finished 47th in the ratings," Jacobs said. "It's not that the genre is changing, it's the varied stories and characters that are changing. At some time, thirtysomething is going to find itself reaching for the more sensational melodramatic stories because you run out of the other stories. Knots Landing had smaller, everyday stories, that's what separated it from the pack. Finally, we had to make it a little more sensational to keep it exciting. The reason Knots Landing survived, and is going to survive all the others, is the fact we have kept those characters reality - based." "I would say the television drama has gone through some evolutionary changes," Salzman said. "Where prime time drama had been fairly homogenized in the past, Hill Street Blues and Dallas came along and introduced whole new forms to television. They showed the audience that television can come in a 31 -flavor variety. With remote control and multichannel viewers, they tired of the vanilla flavored, predictable programing of the past." "Cable television has made it tough to compete," Jacobs said. "You can't do an action -adventure on network television, against a [Sylvester] Stallone or Mel Gibson movie on cable. You can do a sexy show, but you can't compete against a Kim Basinger on the Playboy Channel. Whatever the erosion, how many shows last that long? Dallas has had an incredibly long run, as have Knots Landing and Falcon Crest. I don't think of it as an erosion of a genre. A show sometimes just gets old and tired."

July 87 Lifetime cable network has purchased 127 off- network episodes of Falcon Crest from Lorimar Television, a spokesman for Lorimar said. Lifetime plans to launch the series on Monday, Sept. 21. The hour long series, set in the Napa Valley, Calif., vineyards, will be seen weekdays at 8 p.m. (NYT), Lifetime said. According to Charles Gingold, Lifetime vice president of programing, Falcon Crest "will be a strong addition to the entertainment side of our fall lineup. This high profile program, featuring formidable female leading characters, a celebrity packed cast, ex- citement and intrigue, appeals to Lifetime's highly defined audience of contemporary women." Falcon Crest is an Amanda & M.F. Production in association with Lorimar Television. It currently airs on CBS, and has been renewed for the next season. Prior to its latest move to Lifetime, Falcon Crest was in syndication for about six months last year, getting clearance in 130 markets. However, according to a Lorimar spokesman, the series was "pulled" because the ratings were "not up to par." Nov 87 The Lifetime cable network has made several changes in its lineup, effective today (Nov. 2), including a complete revamping of its prime time weekday schedule. The three off network hours, Flamingo Road, Jack and Mike and Falcon Crest, which ran from 6 to 9 p.m., have been replaced by Kay O'Brien, Family (returning to Lifetime's schedule) and Lady Blue. Falcon Crest will move to the daytime schedule at 11 a.m

August 85 At NBC Entertainment, Brian Frons, vice president of daytime programs, said that producers of the third -placed network's shows have changed their emphasis, with action and adventure being accented to bring in younger audiences. NBC has five shows in development for the 10 -11 a.m. NYT hour on its schedule. Frons also said NBC is "taking a hard look" at the future of Search for Tomorrow (12:30 -1 p.m. NYT). In all, he said, bringing NBC back in ratings will require "drastic improvements" from 12 :30 to 4 p.m. "That's where the money is," he said in reference to advertising dollars, "and that's where there's softness in the competition." Such softness, he said, was a reference to the effect a hit such as ABC's General Hospital could have on a daypart that is not prone to change easily. NBC has reported that it is the only network that gained female viewers 18 years of age and older from Oct. 1, 1984, to May 24, 1985, going from 3.59 million during the same period a year ago to 3.72 million this year, a gain of 4 %. For the same period, CBS slipped from 5.16 million to 4.96 million, a decline of 9%, and ABC from 5.07 million to 4.69 million, a decline of 7%. Frons said that the strength of NBC's schedule was in its two "powerhouses" - Wheel of Fortune (11 -11:30 a.m. NYT) and Days of Our Lives (1 -2 p.m. NYT) -adding that the success of the schedule depends on Days: "Whither goes Days goes the afternoon lineup." As for the progress of Santa Barbara, which finds itself in a tough position (3-4 p.m. NYT) opposite General Hospital on ABC and Guiding Light on CBS, Frons reiterated NBC Chairman Grant Tinker's willingness to give the show a two -year trial.

Fair enough...I just couldn't resist.

Interesting developments. I wonder if Duncan Stewart was always intended to be short term or things didn't work out behind the scenes. Jim Hobart is quickly on the scene, however. Lesley's back story is all about the crib death of her child. Not about Laura.

The irony...

DEBORAH STEINBERG SOLOMON THE DOCTORS AND THE NURSES Mary Simms BEVERLEE McKINSEY THE DOCTORS AND THE NURSES Eileen Moore JORDAN CHARNEY THE DOCTORS AND THE NURSES Barry CARL LOW THE DOCTORS AND THE NURSES Dr Moore AL FREEMAN, JR. THE DOCTORS AND THE NURSES Bellboy

This may have been posted before. The interview where Janice disses her role. DAILY FACTS, Redlands, Calif. Friday, December 20 1974 Janice Lynde tells all.Soap opera actors try to keep sane By VERNON SCOTT HOLLYWOOD (UPI) At last, a major secret of the acting dodge was revealed when Janice Lynde let the cat out of the bag about daytime television soap operas. The actors cry to keep from laughing. For years critics and other scientists have pondered the significance of the painful expressions on the faces of soap opera stars when the camera zeroes in on them for long, long dissolves. Miss Lynde, star of "The Young and Restless" daily on CBS, let slip the answer the other day. "Those painful looks, the expressions of anguish are real," she said. "It hurts because we're trying so hard to keep from laughing. It's all we can do to keep from cracking up." Miss Lynde, a leggy blonde beauty with blue eyes and a sense of humor, is aghast at the words she must read daily. But the sudsy show provides her a good living and an opportunity to work every day. Her role as Leslie Brooks is cast in the tradition of the longsuffering serial queen. "Leslie is not a normal woman," said Janice, a native of Houston, who plays an inhabitant of Genoa City, Wis. "I've been playing Leslie a year and a half. She is a concert pianist who wants to become a pop singer. She's shy and introverted and at the age of 24 Leslie is still a virgin. "Come to think of it, no one has really made a pass at her since we've been on the air. She's been kissed twice by her boyfriend, but she refuses his. proposals of marriage." If Leslie sounds normal compared to other soap heroines, hang on, there's more. "Leslie was in a mental institution for 11 months of the show. She was molested by a lesbian there and a male nurse tried to rape her. Actually, I think she was better off outside the institution. "But she went out and performed a couple of piano concerts and made enough money to buy a nightclub. That's where things stand today." Janice says daytime television gets away with some subjects that are forbidden in prime time, adding, "We're allowed two 'damns' a week in the dialogue." As a sop to sanity Janice has decorated her dressing room with an enormous banner that reads, "Logic is Dead." "Much as I make fun of the soaps, it's probably the nearest thing in this country to British repertory theater," she said. "Nothing I could do on the stage or in movies from now on would frighten me." She has starred on Broadway in "Applause," "The Me Nobody Knows" and "Butterflies Are Free," and appeared on "Mannix," "The Odd Couple," "Barnaby Jones" and other television shows as a guest star. "One of the reasons I got the part in 'The Young and Restless' is that I really do play grand piano and when I was 14 I was in the Van Cliburn competition for best young concert pianist. "But I don't like playing the piano and I only keep it up because Leslie plays now and then on the show." The piano, however, is all that Janice has in common with poor old wacky Leslie..