Paul Raven

Jeopardy had played at noon for years until January 1974 when it was moved to 10.30 am. Then in July 74 it was shifted again to 1.30 pm. Cancelled in Jan 75 to make way for How To Survive A Marriage. It didn't resurface until Oct 78 at 10.30 am.Then in Jan 79 it was back to noon before being dumped in March with the daytime reshuffle to make way for the 90 min AW.

Interesting that they went back in history to an old character.Often once someone went to jail or left town that was it. Thanks for clearing that up.

I think a few factors came into play. Jessie had been front and center for 12 years and at that point ratings were softening and it was felt new characters were needed. Also,Emily had illnesses which I think contributed. To be a little brutal,she was not aging well. I think it was time for Jessie to step back. However,she should still have had story and romance . Same with Steve and Audrey. They had come full circle. Fortunately the hospital setting allowed them to be seen regularly,depending on the TPTB. That's where other soaps went wrong in constantly pushing the same characters to the front burner to the point where they wear out their welcome due to increasingly ridiculous stories eg Brooke B&B, Marlena DOOL etc

For Jessie, I would say 1975 after Phil's murder. Steve and Audrey after their remarriage 1977.

Lisa Miller Hughes Eldredge Shea Colman McCall Mitchell Grimaldi (Chedwyn) Eileen Fulton May 60-64, 65,Jan 16 67-83, July 84-10

The videogame stuff is nonsense. it seems like they're trying to appear hip but i don't think most viewers would understand or even care, especially when there is no semblance of realism in the whole thing. Nov 2020 at Crimson Lights

The expansion of AW meant a rearranged NBC schedule Noon Jeopardy cancelled every show moved up half an hour Password Plus from 12.30 to noon Hollywood Squares from 1pm to 12.30 Days of Our Lives from 1.30 to 1pm The Doctors from 2.30 to 2pm Another World from 3pm to 2.30 Rather than a total change maybe The Doctors could have been moved to 1pm. Then Days/AW would air in ablock-their 2 strongest soaps.

Gene Bua/Toni Bull Bua - Love of Life Bill/Tess Somerset Steve/Denny Ann Flood/Robert Mandan- From These Roots Liz/David Edge of Night Nancy/Nathan

The show had had a good run and like others before it the fall was quick. Another factor was that ABC were weakened on Tuesdays. The blockbuster days of Happy Days/Laverne/3's Company/Too Close for Comfort were over. NBC finally found a weapon in the A Team which immediately affected ABCs dominance at 8pm. Three's Company no longer had a big lead in. Then NBC programmed Riptide @9 to complement A Team and 3's now had a much stronger show against it. And the 9.30 follow ups 9 to 5 and Oh Madeleine weren't as strong so the whole hour was weakened.

As The World Turns Dr. Field... Jonathon Frid mid 60s ... Sheppard Strudwick mid 60s Lisa's therapist upon her return to Oakdale after being raped in Texas- 1964 You have Strudwick in the role 61-64 in Hoppers so I assume that once he got the gig on AW in Nov 64 Frid took over.

The Brighter Day Reverend Victor Graham Rex Ingram 1962 ordained minister; worked with Walter at the store Due to appear Sept 17. Show was cancelled Sept 28.

That B&B outline is what I would expect and I don't see how a headwriter couldn't take that on. Sure it might be more work but headwriters are paid a lot and it is 37 mins a day of actual content. Hopefully some of the savings might go toward better production. But Josh Griffith remains the problem Tuning in randomly to a Y&R episode you might catch some well acted scenes with good dialogue and interesting content. But stepping back and looking at the bigger picture, the storylines driving those scenes are illogical, anti climactic and not at all compelling. So it all goes back to Josh.

Yes Starsky & Hutch was a few years on, but I'm sure they had access to car crash footage that was used in primetime by various shows as a cost cutting measure. I remember watching Mannix reruns and the same footage was used of a car going over a cliff in different seasons. Being a car person I noticed it immediately as in both cases the car was not the one shown in the chase preceding the cliff top spill.

The Days excerpt seems like a final shooting script rather than a breakdown as actual dialogue is included. The Oz one reads like a breakdown that dialogue writers would flesh out.

Guiding Light Flip Malone Paul Carpinelli 1968-69 "grease monkey" garage worker; killed Marty Dillman; blackmailed Charlotte Bauer about her true identity, Tracy Delmar. A June 1972 newspaper article on GL states that a few weeks earlier Mike Bauer had been shot by Flip Malone. So either Flip was around longer or came back for another stint in 72.

They Endure A Lot, The Heroines Of Soap Operas ADVANCE NEWS SUNDAY, MAY 4,1975 0GDENSBURG, N.Y LOS ANGELES (AP) — Poor Jessie Brewer. The years haven't been kind to her. Particularly the last 12. Why, they're enough to make you cry. She has been married four times, believe it or not. First it was to Dr. Phil Brewer, ending in divorce. Then there was another doctor, but he had a heart condition and died. The first husband came back into her life, they married again and he left her life, winding up listed as dead in a plane crash in Peru. So Jessie married Peter Taylor. But then it turned out that Brewer really hadn't been killed and they were still married, so the Taylor knot had to be untied with an annulment. But then Brewer really was killed. Jessie almost married one other time in those 12 years — but her fiance ran off instead with the teen-aged niece Jessie had been raising. Wow, you're saying? Hold on — there's a lot more. Jessie's love life is only one of her problems. In the past 12 years she's also: Seen her one baby die in infancy... Endured an untimely death in an auto accident of a stepdaughter ... Had a miscarriage ... been raped ... Undergone a .hysterectomy ... Been charged with murder twice. Despite the emotional traumas, Jessie has remained a dedicated and efficient nurse and a source of strength and sympathy to her friends. Welcome to the world of television soap operas, where characters with tainted pasts are the sole inhabitants. Jessie Brewer of ABC's long-running "General Hospital" is but one typical example. Who could take these story lines seriously? Well, for one, the actress who plays Jessie. And, for another, the millions of devoted viewers who tune in. Emotional turmoil is the lifeblood of the daytime serials and always has been, even back in the days when they were on radio. And the recurring tragedies are a big part of the attraction. Says Kylie Masterson, associate producer of "General Hospital:" "The audience says 'Poor Jessie. What else can happen to her?' It's like the oldtime serials which always left you hanging — 'The Perils of Pauline.' "Pauline's problems were physical; Jessie's are always emotional." Emily McLaughlin speaks with personal conviction when she deals with the question of whether her character of Nurse Jessie is unrealistic. She has played the role since "General Hospital" debuted in April 1963. Her answer is a resounding no. "I've been through a marriage and divorce," Miss McLaughlin explained evenly. "I've been married again — happily — and had my husband die. I have one son but at the time of birth there were some problems and I had to have a hysterectomy. "I wanted a large family and couldn't have it.All of this I use in the character."Miss McLaughlin also says the individual problems that soap opera characters confront are real. It is only when you string them together over the years that profound doubts are raised about the ability of one person to endure them, Miss McLaughlin contends. "Things do happen like death and the loss of babies and alcoholism — you name it," reflected Miss McLaughlin. "You can laugh at it on (soap operas) because it's compressed in time, but these are real problems that are there every day for every American housewife — and now I'm getting lots of mail from men too."

Excellent. Good to have more precise dates.

Love Is A Many Splendored Thing Casey... Carl Thomas (Black child actor)

ROBERT "SKIP" BURTON ONE LIFE TO LIVE Rob Faulkner 1977 Feb 79 LOVERS AND FRIENDS/ FOR RICHER, FOR POORER Lee Ferguson 1977- Sept 78 THE DOCTORS Mel Harvey Dec 1978- Feb 79 ONE LIFE TO LIVE Dr. Peter Janssen May-June 1980 TEXAS Beau Baker 1981- Jan 82 DYNASTY 1981 AS THE WORLD TURNS Brian McCall Aug-Dec 1982 ANOTHER WORLD Jeffrey Cartwright 1985

Mia was Travis' half sister and David Sutton's first wife. Mia could have survived the fire but be badly affected causing much angst for David,Travis and Liza. Liza could have taken over mothering of Mia, causing complications. At least another years worth of story but in typical Search fashion for the time ,Renata dies and David leaves. Maybe Lewis Arlt wanted to leave, in which case write David out but keep Renata.

Love of Life Bud the Juvenile delinquent basketballer Michael Corbett Tess Krakauer Prentiss Randolph Prentiss ...Toni Bull-Bua...Nov 1966-73 Richard Rollins...Lawrence Weber July 1969-71 affair w/ Claire Toni___ Lamont Prentiss Davis.. .Frances Sternhagen...June 1967-68

Jon Michael Reed September 6 1980 Mary Stuart, Jo Vincente on "Search For Tomorrow" since its debut in 1951, once remarked, "I've seen more writers come and go on our show than there are years we've been on air. I think everyone in the business has written for us at one time or another." Gabrielle Upton, who has written for scores of soaps, the most recent being this year's canceled "Love of Life," has been named the now head writer of "Search " Upton replaces Linda Grover and John Porterfield, who wrote the show for the last half year. It is rumored that Upton is an "Interim" writer, that P&G, which produces "Search," is training a new head-writing couple to take over by the end of the year. If this is so, It's hoped that the trainees, along with Ms Upton, will be able to remedy the show's allments Groverand Porter field have, frankly, left "Search' In a shambles. Despite several humorous character touches, the folks on "Search"" have been generally dangling by bare story threads. One special and unique character, Renata Sutton (played by Sonia Potrovna), was recently killed off in a most viewer. anguish-provoking manner And at least two other previously powerhouse characters are slated to get the ax within the next month. One of the relative newcomers is Ralph Byers, who portrays conniving Jim Ramsey. Byers has a most interesting background. Born in Washington, D C. he worked for the govern ment in astrophysics for the space program He originally intended to be an astronaut, but got sidetracked when the acting bug bit him. You might say he got 'Star Trekked' since he appeared in that film. He also played Hugh Sloane in the TV version of"Blind Ambition " In 1971 he was the sixth ranked amateur fencer in this country and qualified for the Olympic team. Byers says he "owes everything" to Robert Milli (Adam Thorpe on "Guiding Light") who saw him in a play in Washington and recommended an agent. This led to his landing the Ramsey role. Let's see if he'll be among those searching for another soap role In a few months.

Search for Tomorrow Mel Torme'...Mel Torme..78or79...singer duet with Liza March 1980 3 day stint. Stephanie Mills...Stephanie Mills...March 83 3 day stint...singer Dr. Nick Hunter...Burr De Benning...65-66.. ...Ken Kercheval...July 66-67,72-73 ...Stephen Joyce...68 ...Terry Logan...68... Guiding Light Nurse Rita Stapleton Bauer Sarah Daly March 1980 2 weeks (temporary) replaced pregnant Lenore during physically taxing kidnap sequence Lenore Kasdorf 1975-81

Yes any decent writer could. My nomination of Sharon to get the axe was based on the current state of the show. As ill advised as some of the story choices were for Sharon, they were probably no worse than several other characters. So maybe Sharon/Billy? Another go round with Adam? Possibilities but nothing I would want to see. The only thing at this stage would be searching for her father, but that would require extra sets and characters and that's unlikely. That story set in Crimson Lights would be a dud. Maybe Sharon could go to work at one of the companies-at least she could be doing something different.

Universal, wanting to get into daytime, develops 'The Unguarded Heart'in 1971.