Paul Raven

Why not fudge the date by a few months and Have Nikki throw a 10th anniversary memorial/celebration of Katherine's passing. That would keep Jeanne in people's minds and Katherine's importance/presence in GC and be more intresting to viewers. The Top of The Tower is the venue BTW All of those returnees would be involved (with Leanna crashing the event) Brock's absence would have to be explained (in the wilds of Africa)

looks like The top of the Tower set has been pilled out of mothballs. And do I see 4 extras in the background? They'll have to cut back after this extravagance.

Week 1 of 87/88 season 1. Cosby Show NBC 31.5/51 2. A Different World NBC 31.3/49 3. Cheers NBC 28.4/44 4. Night Court NBC 24.9/40 5. Dolly Show ABC 24.7/38 6. Who's the Boss? ABC 23. 7. Growing Pains ABC 23.3/36 Tues @9 8. Golden Girls NBC 22.3/40 9. Full House Special ABC 21.7/34 Tues @8.30 10. Hooperman NBC 21.5/35 11. Family Ties NBC 21.0/34 12. Murder, She Wrote CBS 20.4/32 13. I Married Dora Special ABC 20.3/33 Tues @9.30 14. 60 Minutes CBS 20.0/37 15. Newhart CBS 19.1/30 16. Monday Night Football ABC 18.7/34 17. Moonlighting ABC 18.3/32 repeat special @10pm 18. Slap Maxwell ABC 18.2/31 19. My Two Dads NBC 18.1/28 20. Unsolved Mysteries Special NBC 17.9/32 Thurs @10 21. Alf NBC 17.9/29 46. 22. Designing Women 17.6/28 23. Head of the Class CBS ABC 17.6/28 24. 227 NBC 17.3/32 25. Matlock NBC 17.0/27 26. Dallas CBS 16.9/31 2hr episode Fri@8 27. Buck James ABC 16.6/30 28. Special Movie Presentation CBS 16.6/31 ?? 29. Dynasty ABC 16.5/28 30. NBC Sunday Night Movie 'The Terminator' NBC 16.5/27 31. Cagney & Lacey CBS 16.4/28 32. Valerie's Family NBC 16.3/26 33. Miami Vice NBC 16.2/29 34. J.J. Starbuck Special NBC 15.8/30 35. Kate & Allie CBS 15.6/24 36. Highway to Heaven NBC 15.6/27 37. Perfect Strangers ABC 15.2/27 38. Knots Landing CBS 15.2/27 39. Facts of Life NBC 14.8/29 40. 20/20 ABC 14.7/28 41. Equalizer CBS 14.4/24 42. Frank's Place Special CBS 13.9/23 43. A Year in the Life NBC 13.8/23 44. Beauty & the Beast Special CBS 13.5/26 Fri @10 45. St. Elsewhere NBC 13.4/23 46.. NBC Monday Night Movies 'If It's Tuesday,It Still Must be Belgium'' NBC 13.4/22 47. Special Movie Presentation CBS 13.1/22 Tues @9? 48. Special Movie - Sun. The Law and Harry McGraw' 2 hr pilot CBS CBS 12.6/21 49. Jake and the Fatman Special CBS 12.5/24 Sat @10 preempting West 57th 50. Crime Story NBC 12.3/21 51. ABC Thursday Night Movie 'Ghostbusters' ABC 12.2/20 52. Wiseguy CBS 12.1/19 53. MacGyver ABC 11.9/20 54. Private Eye NBC 11.5/22 55. Rags to Riches NBC 11.2/21 56. Tour of Duty CBS 10.6/17 57. Disney Sunday Movie ABC 10.4/19 58. Oldest Rookie CBS 10.4/18 59. Our House NBC 10.2/19 60. Spenser: For Hire ABC 10.1/16 37. 61. I Married Dora ABC 10.1/18 62. Houston Knights CBS 9.6/16 63. Full House ABC 9.3/18 64. Sledge Hammer ABC 7.9/13 65. ABC Sat. Night Movie Special ???ABC 7.3/14 66. Max Headroom ABC 6.9/13 67. Charmings ABC 6.7/11 68. Once a Hero ABC 3.7/7

Sara came on in 67 so had agood run. By 82, she had been married 4 times. Two of her husbands had tried to kill her . Her true love Joe died of a heart attack and she'd been married off to Adam Thorpe so there wasn't much story left. It would have been nice to see her as the go to psychologist and talk to but Millette probably wasn't interested in recurring and neither was GL at the time.

1987-88 Season New to Top 20 Different World new ALF up from #28 The Wonder Years new LA Law up from #21 In The Heat of the Night new My Two Dads new Valeries Family up from below #30 Out of Top 20 Dallas down to #22 Newhart down to #25 Kate & Allie out of Top 30 NBC Sunday Movie down to #23 NBC Monday Movie down to #26 227 down to #27 1 The Cosby Show 2 A Different World 3 Cheers 4 The Golden Girls 5 Growing Pains 6 Who's the Boss? 7 Night Court 8 60 Minutes 9 Murder, She Wrote 10 (Tie) ALF 10 (Tie) The Wonder Years 10 (Tie) Moonlighting 10 (Tie) L.A. Law 11 Matlock 12 Amen 13 NFL Monday Night Football 14 Family Ties 15 CBS Sunday Night Movie 16 In the Heat of the Night 17 (Tie) My Two Dads 17 (Tie) Valerie's Family

Millette had been in soaps since the 50's and probably realized that at her age and the way soaps were going there would be little chance of landing another contract role. In the SFT thread I posted an interview with Val Dufour upon his departure in 79 where he hoped for another role based on working for P&G all those years. That wasn't going to happen, but maybe he thought he'd give it a shot. Millette was lucky to have another career to fall back on, but it must have been hard for some actors to suddenly be out of work and maybe finding it hard financially also. And Meta/Mary should have come on in 87 as soon as Search was cancelled as part of rebuilding the Bauers on GL.

Going off topic but NBC should have based their gameshow line up around Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune and Concentration and maybe Sale of the Century as building blocks for 2 or 3 others.

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)