Everything posted by Paul Raven
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For every Hunter that was given a shot in a new timeslot, there were dozens of other shows that missed that opportunity. Alice and the Jeffersons were fading as they were the only remnants of the Sunday comedy block and now looked a little out of place, but CBS must have known sending them to Tuesdays against A Team was a death knell. Did they deserve that? Both of them had been moved around the schedule in past seasons and dipped in the ratings before returning to better slots. Or were they creatively spent, expensive to produce and CBS quickly wanted to get rid of them?
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General Hospital Gretchen ??? teen who wanted the Taylors to adopt her child
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This car accident/Rey's death complete with wrecked cars plays like a May sweeps story. Maybe things got brought forward? I wonder if Rey will be as quickly forgotten as Dylan? Maybe they'll decide to put Sharon and Nick back together for good.
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I imagined a story at some point when Esther talked about online dating. She talks to a guy and they get along and eventually decide to meet. Esther is shocked to see'Tiny' and he doesn't remember her at all. Esther has to face up to whether to tell him who she is and that he has a daughter. Then you have Chole's reaction etc.
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Bo's return is no surprise, just another death reversed. It's become a Days cliche at this point. When a character is killed off there's no emotional connection for the audience, even as characters go through showy grieving. Same with back from the dead-audience shrugs as characters act like it's some kind of miracle. Maybe Bo could have told Hope he was sick and they finally agree to face it together.Then Bo ups and leaves, leaving Hope distraught, trying to understand, building a new life, falling in love gain and feeling guilty but angry at Bo etc. Makes his return far more palatable.
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October 1942 "Woman in White" fans can follow their favorite characters, even though the serial has folded up. The lead part, that of Karen Adams, is moving over to "Road of Life." Karen's a nurse, and "Road of Life" is about a hospital, so the shift is easy. Loretta Hendrick becomes Dr. Brent's ("Road") patient when the script puts Dr. Kirk Harding ('W, in W.") into the Army. She demands Karen's services. and Dr. Kirk may appear in "Road," too, to remarry Karen. All this finagling between shows Is possible because both serials are written by the Irna Phillips office
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Elizabeth Harrower Day in Court mother suing daughter (Susan Seaforth) June 1964 Mary Kate McGeehan General Hospital Capitol
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Sylvia Rhyne All My Children Annette Kimball
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General Hospital Lou Larkin ??? reporter interviews Audrey about her missing son 1973
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Has Ashland explained why he decided to fake this illness?
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Better than the best Easter Egg! Thanks so much.!!
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Daniel Ocko Lorenzo Jones Mr McComber 1949 Front Page Farrell 1945/1950 Nona from Nowhere 1950 Young Dr Malone the porter 1950 Romance of Helen Trent 1945
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Jerry Macy Right to Happiness Ed Norton David Harum 1945
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Maybe Victoria wakes up and thinks she is still happy with Ashland and they play the'she is too fragile right now to face the truth so everyone has to do along with it and pretend Ashland and Victoria are happily married.' Have you not been watching? They'll just have Ashland either be forgiven or pretend it never happened. See Chelsea Adam Phyllis Victor etc etc I think she is probably as annoyed and depressed with the show as the viewers. Stuck in ugly, unflattering costumes on tiny sets playing a supporting role in boring stories. This is not the Nikki she used to play.
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Nice overview of Kathryn's career and life here https://neptsdepths.blogspot.com/2022/04/fond-farewell-kathryn-hays.html
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Knots didn't air that week. CBS showed a 2 hr Simon & Simon 9-11 Thursday. Knots premiered the following week Th 10-11 and ranked 8th 21.1/34 beating hill St Blues 22nd and Baseball on ABC 24th
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I kinda feel sorry for Charlie in the American Dream clip. Not only did he have to suffer a tongue lashing from Victor, he was further punished with a song from Brock! Ah yes Victor- a country where you can lock someone in a bomb shelter and get away scott free or throw a woman from a moving vehicle without consequence....
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Rikel Kent We Live Again Dex Smith 1937 Malcolm Meacham Betty and Bob Marciel Mirska 1938 Patsy O'Shea Listening Post 'Martha' Martha 1944 Re George Ansell Daniel Ocko is a radio actor so not his role in Mary Marlin Requests Jerry Macy Brenda Sykes Elizabeth Harrower Sylvia Rhyne
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Alice Hill Romance of Helen Trent Helen Trent (one day replacement for virginia Clark, who missed her first day after 8 years in the role) 1941 Springtime and Harvest 1940 Jenny Peabody 1937
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Who's the Boss was given the Thurs @ 8.30 slot, so it seems ABC had little faith in it and it could have gone the way of so many other sitcoms and cancelled after a few eps. But there was some star power involved and reviews were fairly positive so ABC quickly moved it to Tuesdays where it started to gain some traction. Also in it's favor was that ABC had so many pricey flops like Paper Dolls, Glitter etc Males you wonder how many other shows might have blossomed into hits had TPTB shown a little patience.
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Paul was slowly marginalized. First he lost family members over the years. Patty was brought back as a psycho and written into a corner. Heather was given 3 recasts then dumped. Ricky is SORASED, is a psycho and dies. He's remarried to Christine but LLB hardly appears so he has no personal life. A retcon gives him Dylan as a son, But SB leaves and the character is forgotten. They never played his connection to Lauren. So Paul is pretty much an island. And when he did appear in a police capacity he was always gruff or seemed disconnected. I think Doug should still be there in some capacity.
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How is it , that in a few minutes posting, we can come up with better plots than a man whose full time job earns him six figures???
