Paul Raven

Wedding Day was a trial series. Bill and Susan Hayes were involved in some way. I can't recall the details but they wrote about in their SOD column. I think it aired in the morning 10am? They followed a couple through wedding preparations culminating with an onscreen wedding. Does anyone know more?

Hugh Franklin's obit in Variety Oct 1 1986 makes no mention of his role of Charles Tyler on AMC. It talks about various stage roles and only mentions numerous tv appearances. Quite an oversight(deliberate?) Don't know who was responsible but it seems strange not to mention an acting role he had for over a decade.

The initial story was that the Stewarts and Hughes owned adjoining land out of town. Brad discovered that there was silver there and through his new friendship with Lisa, got the Hughes to sell them the land. He also needed the Stewart property and approached David and Ellen. David found out there was silver and decided to lease out his property to another company. Brad began mining the Hughes land and Joyce,Melinda and Jay got involved along with Brad having interactions with Annie, Dee, James and Don. So they were really setting him up as a central character. Don't quite understand from synopses why Brad and the Stewarts had separate mining interests underway.

The half hour format, although ideal in many ways could be restrictive as there isn't room to bring in much needed new characters. And to continually focus on the same characters year after year inevitably leads to problems especially when there is recasting. Don't know why Labine/Mayer wouldn't have welcomed the chance to drop some characters for a while b/w recasts and bring them back months/years later to a new set of story opportunities.

Loving really was a useless addition to ABC daytime. They had a full schedule of soaps as it was, so there was no viable timeslot, it was ahalf hour at the point that all the 30 min shows were struggling and it brought little to the table in terms of innovation or dynamic storytelling.

@JAS0N47 amazing! Will take some time to go through all of that. Deidre Hall,Susan Lucci on the cover the most I think?

Was that a different Mary Ellison Hughes? She looked nothing like Kelly wood. Why not at least get a blonde actress? Or just say that Mary was unable to attend? It was more important for Don to be there. Doug Marland set things up for Christina to turn up a teen in the 2000's but subsequent writers weren't interested in mining history.

I would imagine that in terms of covers devoted to one show Days and possibly GH would be the leaders. Which shows never got a sole cover pic? The Doctors, Lovers and Friends/FRFP for sure. Did Loving,The City, Port Charles,Generations,Sunset Beach or Passions ever score a full cover?

As The World Turns Lydia Marlowe Zsa Zsa Gabor Nov 20 1981 Miranda's sister Oleg Cassini Oleg Cassini Dec 26 1985 famous clothing designer Melba Moore Melba Moore singer Sept 18 1986

Chance was shot back in 2021 I think. Imagine old school Y&R with the busy emergency room, ambulance officers wheeling Chance in, E/R teams working on him etc. Now he's all alone in a tiny set...

MARK PINTER PEYTON PLACE '79 David 1979

No, their second . They married in 76 and divorced after Julie was burned. Doug then married Lee. Finally they reunited and remained wed until they left in 84. when Julie came back in 90 they were now divorced.

Killing off Chuckie, Lisa's son was another bone headed move. It had zilch consequences, Instead imagine say Christian Le Blanc cast as Charlie Shea, Lisa's wayward son in the early 80's.

Earlier under Irna Phillips, Don was more clearly defined I think. He was more of a contrast to Bob, more ambitious and resentful of Nancy's treatment of Janice. By the time he came back in the mid 70's a lot of that was forgotten/ignored. They should have kept Don's stepdaughters by Janice in the picture as they could have become honorary Hughes and the show would have had 2 young women to write for. Irna drastically aged them (for no real reason) in the mid 60's but they could have played around with that a little and kept them early 20's in the mid 70's. They could have held off SORASING Dee and Annie. Those 2 characters had only a few years in the spotlight when they should have been leading the next generation.

Bo/Hope wedding rates the same as Pete/Ivy from the same year. Surprised there wasn't more of a bump for Bo/Hope. Culmination of major story/location shoot/expensive wedding gown etc. In fact Bo/Hope rates lower than Larry/Hope the year before. I wonder if there was any fall out from that in terms of expense v ratings result?

So it was OK for women to slap men but if they retaliated it was casual violence?

Donald Hughes was also onscreen in 1980 when the Dobsons arrived. So they had the two brothers template, one a doctor and one a lawyer, similar to the Bauers. But I think Don and Bob were pretty similar by that stage.

Well that is the story they want to tell in light of DD's absence and the availabilty of Michael Damian. I do wonder, moving forward how this will play out. Will we have a month or so of Chris/Danny/Phyllis getting some reasonable airtime with things wrapped up and MD and LLB heading off together and LLB back to occasional appearances as a lawyer? Seems most likely scenario.

My Sister Sam debuts Mon 8.30 behind Kate & Allie Kate finishes #19 Sam is #21. The following season CBS moves it to a Saturday hellhole to make way for critical darling Frank's Place which was originally scheduled for Sat. Sam is off the air within weeks. Riptide on NBC was scheduled as mid season replacement after The A Team as Bare Essence and Remington Steele didn't hold enough of A Teams audience. 83-84 A Team # 4 Riptide #18 84-85 A team # 6 Riptide #14 For the 85/86 season ABC programmed Who's The Boss/Growing Pains up against A Team which fell to #30 Riptide was out of the Top 30. NBC moved Hunter into Riptides 9pm slot and moved Riptide to 8pm Friday where it flopped and was cancelled.

The 1986/87 fall schedule was announced with several shows having titles changed before they aired My Sister Sam - Taking the Town Jack& Mike - Our Kind of Town The Wizard - The Wizard of Elm St. Matlock - Ben Matlock Sidekicks - The Last Electric Knight Heart of the City - Cold Steel and Neon

Watching(skimming) through todays ep I am puzzled by some of the staging. Billy is in the park and Chelsea appears. Then they are chatting at CL. Why not have Chelsea simply appear at CL while Billy is there? Nick/Victoria confront Victor at his office. He then leaves with Nate. Nate and Victor then chat in the park. Seems an odd choice. Why not have Victor stay in the office-seems more appropriate. Nick/Victoria could go to the park or appear at CL -Billy/Chelsea have already adjourned to bed. Nick/Victoria talk to Adam at the GCAC lobby area and then chat at GCAC. Meanwhile Mariah and Cole chat at Society. Their convo goes on throughout the ep while other characters have moved on to new locales. Must have been a very long catchup for Mariah/Kyle. Billy appears -he's already had chats with Chelsea at the park/at CL and a sex romp upstairs. It seems like a lot of these scenes may be taped on different days. The scene is written and then takes place at whatever set is available that day. Otherwise the choice of sets seems weird.

Guiding Light Dick Cavett Dick Cavett March 10 1986 Judge of The Sampson girl contest Dr. Joe Werner Ben Hayes 1966-67 Ed Zimmerman Oct 1967- June 72 (He died July 72) Berkeley Harris 1972 Anthony Call 1972- Nov 76 Lee Gantry Murderous thief; killed Alice; stole from and gaslit Sara McIntyre with maid Mildred Foss after marrying Sara, then attempted to murder her Ray Fulmer June 69 - September 70 Ben Scott Peggy's father, blind to wife Maggie's affair with Bill Bauer Bernard Kates Aug 1965-66

By 1980 there had been I think 3 Franks, 2 Delias, 3 Pats, 3 Marys and 3 Faiths. In just 5 years. They were stretching viewers' patience by that stage. Maybe it would have been better to write some of those characters out for a while than just keep recasting.

Search for Tomorrow William Lang...Tom Ewell... May 26 72 - ?72...DA or Sheriff investigating the death of Sam Reynolds Dave Wilkins...Dale Robinette...74-Dec 74 father, Wendy Stephanie ____Wilkins Collins Pace Wyatt ...Maree Cheatham...Jan 74-84 Eunice Gardner Twining Martin Wyatt...Marion Brash...57-61 sister Jo mother of Suzi (by Doug Martin) Murdered by Jennifer Pace. ...((temp)...Joan Anderson... ...Anne Williams...66-November 76.. Dr. Wade Collins...John Cunningham...71- Aug 77 husband Janet murdered Doug Phillips,,,born Feb 78 Jamie Zigarelli...81...son, Kathy + David Scott Phillips...Peter Simon...69-77... ...Peter Rattray... 77- Dec 78 Erik Leshinsky Phillips...Chris Lowe...69- Dec 78 adopted by Scott, son Lauri+Ralph Liza Walton Kaslo Sentell Kendall... Denise Nickerson...71... ...Kathleen Beller...July 1972-74 ...Hope Busby......Nov 77- July 78 ...Meg Bennett...74- Sept 77 ...Sherry Mathis...Aug 78-85 ...Louann Gideon...85- Dec 86 Annie___McKay...Mimi Cozzens...June 80 - ? 80...wife, Don Sgt. Don McKay...Biff McGuire...June 80 -? 80 dirty cop Tim McKay...Ken Powers..June 80 - ? 80...son

General Hospital Dr. Phil Brewer.. .Roy Thinnes April 1 63-64 ..Rick Falk Jan 66 actor was in an accident so role had to be recast ...Robert Hogan Feb 66- June 67 ..Craig Huebing 67 ...Ron Hayes 67 ...Martin West March 68 -Dec 6 74 (may have appeared later in flashbacks)