Paul Raven

??? Is she incapable of supporting herself? Freddie was all about retiring at 30. I think he may be slightly deluded ,very much of that cohort who think their mere existence is worthy of support (including financial) from others and think they are way more interesting than they are.

A 95 yr old man playing racquetball?? I'm surprised Julie wasn't going to the morgue!!

Eleanor Audley By Kathleen Norris 'Mystery House' Flora Mocklee 1940

It might be interesting to expand this thread away from just women directors in the 80's and look at women with positions of power in the earlier days. Doris Quinlan is one name that comes to mind. She was working at Young Dr Malone in the early 60's before exec producing OLTL for many years.

Dee was still a viable character but Marland didn't see that. She had only one marriage behind her - and that was to John, so plenty of story possibilities there. It would have given Ellen more to do also and kept the all important links to the past.

Billie Lou Watt Edge of Night Eileen Quinn 1965

Yes a big thanks to all posters who keep the classic soap years alive by posting this great stuff! Re Y&R Seems Jill was back burner at this time. Kay was busy with Joann and at this point seemed committed to that story, probably feeling Kay/Jill had needed a rest. I wonder if Jill had any connection to that plot? Did she keep in touch with Brock? He could have mentioned Joann and Jill could have gone to her to warn her. Or did Bell want to keep things separate? He did have the Derek/Jill story in mind.I know he started it previously and dropped it. Was Jill working for Derek at this point and he was off camera? Or was he reintroduced when Joe LaDue came on? Guess the coming synopses will answer that...

What caused Bobbie to reform?

Thinking back to the Salem Strangler story...had it taken place recently,Jake would have been forgiven by everyone because he really wasn't responsible.You see he had a brain tumor and and felt neglected as a child. Chris would feel responsible and Marlena would make a point of forgiving him for murdering her sister. Jessica would feel torn - although Joshua is great, he really isn't seeing the pain Jake is experiencing. Alice advises her granddaughter to be there for Jake. After his operation for the tumor he doesn't remember being a killer so it's decided he can't be tried for those crimes he committed...

They really need to put an advisory fashion warning before the show. First it was Nikki busting out of the red dress, then Phyllis with the lizard frill and finally Lauren in another one of her hooker ensembles -a sparkly skirt with a clashing top and jacket.I'm going to check the credits and name the person responsible. Looks like Victoria's 'house' is back...

I wonder if the attitudes and dialogue were a bit too confronting for some of the women viewers in 1974? Housewives in traditional marriages may not have liked their view of the world challenged...

April 1966 Too Slow for a Fast Town? Spring has come to Peyton Place. Rodney has been exonerated and Betty Anderson is getting married. The familiar folks in the small New England town are entering a new phase of their television life which, many an eyebrow raising problem with which they can wrestle. So TV WEEK visited Paul Monash ^"^ to learn firsthand what condition Peyton Place was in. He's the program's Executive Producer, the man who has shepherded-but not chaperoned-the affairs of Peyton Place since their conception in the minds of 20th Century Fox executives two years ago. The most frequent complaint we've heard about Peyton Place this season was that the series moved too slowly, so we asked Monash how he felt about the pace. "This is a hard thing for us to judge," he said. 'Maybe in plotting three episodes a week we lost sight of this. But on the other hand the characters and situations were so rich we wanted to explore hem. True, in the past few months we have had a single focus--Rodney's trial." Since many readers have commented unfavorably on those three-as opposed to two-episodes,we raised the question with him. "People who like Peyton Place want the three episodes, we think. But everything considered, 'II be just as happy to go back to two a week. This fall, of course, it'll be in color and that should help the series." Last spring TV WEEK speculated that, by running through the summer, Peyton Place would hop to the top of the ratings by attracting a new audience that had only re-runs as an alternative. We were right. But we also predicted that the program would hold that new audience and glide merrily along with the top-rated programs for the fall and winter. Here we were wrong. "The hardest part of this program is to get a new audience involved in the series. Last summer we tried, but we did something that didn't work, namely adding the Schusters. We learned that you don't bring new people into Peyton Place. Somehow they don't fit. We now know that the characters have to live in Peyton Place or at least return after an absence," Monash explained. "And in the fall we were hurt by very clever counter-programing. We'd go up and down according to the movies opposite us two nights a week. It's hard to leave a movie for a half hour." Although Peyton Place didn't stay in the top ten as we had predicted, it did ride high among the top forty most of the season. So, having weathered the critical second season in robust health, it's safe to guess that Peyton Place will be with us for many seasons to come. "But with the new phase that's starting, three new characters are coming in," Monash continued. "Two have been in Peyton Place all along (Stephen Oliver and Lana Wood), and one is returning after a 17-year absence (Susan Oliver). "We'll introduce some new elements that will really involve the viewers and there won't be a single focus as before. All the principals will be more or less equally involved in this new phase." A writing corps of seven people does the scripts. Mass conferences are held frequently to discuss the main story lines, the characters and the scenes that can be played. A Story Board of three people then outlines the scenes and two or three writers do the script for each episode. Such writing by committee is not essentially different from most television programs, except that the committee is larger. We were going to tell you about some of the more intimate things that'll be happening in Peyton Place in the coming weeks, but unfortunately we've run out of space. We're sure sorry about that. But we can say this. If you're a Peyton Place fan, "Don't touch that dial!" Spring has come to Peyton Place and everything is warming up.

Wynne Miller As The World Turns pre 1965

Is there any word on when Retro will resume showing The Doctors.It would be great to see the whole run. This article talks about the changes being made - all for nothing in the end. Would anything have helped the show at this point? Tune in Tomorrow by Jon Michael reed Oct 1980 NEW YORK - With swift, sudden backstage overhaul, NBC's "The Doctors" hopes to remedy its low ratings ailments. Since August, when the half-hour serial moved to a new time period In most parts of the country, "The Doctors" hasn't improved its bottom of-the-barrel ratings. Several affiliate NBC stations cancelled the show, but now they are being wooed, wined and dined by NBC to resume the program. NBC has it in its power to use all manner of persuasion since the network now owns the program, "The Doctors" was owned by Colgate-Palmolive beginning with its debut in 1963. It was C P who hired producer Doris Quinlan, a respected serial veteran, last year to "pump up" the show. It was C P who last year hired Ralph and Eugenie Ellis, also veterans in the serial world, as headwriters. It was C P, together with Ms. Quinlan, who wanted to oust the Ellises in favor of Harding Lemay, who was headwriter of "Another World" for eight years. It was C P who sold "The Doctors" to NBC several weeks ago. Last week it was NBC who decided to "part ways with Doris Quinlan because of irreconcilable differences about the future direction of the program." It was NBC who hired Jim Baffico, a former professional football player and executive who had worked for Procter & Gamble's production of "Another World," as the new executive producer of "TD," It was NBC who also hired Joe Rothenberger, yet another former P&G producer who has worked for "As the World Turns" among others, as the line producer for "TD." And it is NBC who has decided to retain the Ellises as headwriters, while Lemay joins his former dialogue writer, Doug Marland, who currently head-writes "Guiding Light." There are several high-powered daytime executives at NBC who are former employees of P & G. If the new production line-up on "The Doctors" is also studded with former P &G employees, it may be entirely without coincidence. Rothenberger worked with the Ellises for "ATWT" and it is hoped that a "tighter family unit" behind the scenes at "TD" will result in a better on-screen product. Already, the program has shown recognizable signs of consolidating it's previously random story threads. It appears that the program is foregoing last year's kidnapping and hostage mayhem plots in favor of a return to domestic romanticism and inter-familial squabbles. Whether the new regime will work wonders remains to be seen. And whether major cast changes are in store 'is a major concern to castmembers, although the Ellises have reportedly assured everyone that no drastic cast eliminations are imminent. That surely brought a sigh of relief to the dozen cast members who joined the show in the past year. Among them is Caroline Byrd, who has been compelling as Terri Foster, a black doctor involved in reforming a prostitute. Although she briefly played a nurse on the defunct soap, "Somerset," Caroline considers "The Doctors" to be her first "substantial" daytime role. Terri is a positive, strong, intelligent woman who is capable of inspiring her younger black sisters to get the best education possible and to use it. She's not a negative role model like so many black characters on TV," adds Caroline, Before "TD" Caroline made her career high mark in the Broadway musical, "Bubbling Brown Sugar." Critics raved about her singing abilities in that show. Born in Canton, Ohio, Caroline trained to be an opera singer. After majoring in elementary education at Ohio State University, she performed in several musical revues before she concentrated in gospel singing, which led to her being chosen for "Sugar." In addition to dozens of commercials and "TD," Caroline continues her gospel singing on the road and at Canaan Baptist Church in Harlem where she's a soloist and also a reading tutor volunteer who works with youth groups. She has been honored with the 1977 Lorraine Hansberry Arts Award, and is a frequent speaker in schools, churches and prisons. She's an asset to "The Doctors" and it may be interesting to see how her character develops on the soap. Tune in tomorrow to see how Terri and "TD" fare under the show's new production team.

For the life of me I cannot get the appeal of Bryton/Devon. He just goes around offering mealy mouthed advice to Amanda and Abby, like some maiden aunt. Nothing about his demeanor suggests billionaire music mogul. The writing doesn't help of course, nor his wardrobe -cheap looking t shirts and hoodies. Just about every female is dressed in tight fitting solid color outfits.Nikki's red dress was a disaster as was Abby's hot pink playsuit. Only Sharon gets to go patterned and flowing. Sharon and Rey spent endless scenes talking about their trip to Miami and nothing came off it, except Sharon Case seemed to have had (more) work done. To think we have months of Billy Abbott, hot shot media mogul to look forward to...

Joseph Curtin Young Widder Brown 1943 David Harum Curt Hanley 1950 Mary Jane Croft We Live Again Melanie 1937 Myron McCormick Amanda of Honeymooon Hill 1943 Young Dr Malone Sam Williams 1951 Arthur Maitland Barry Cameron Mr Barkley Amanda of Honeymoon Hill 1943 Katie's Daughter 1947 Backstage Wife 1949 David Harum Zeke Swinney Philip Clarke Ma Perkins 1947 Front Page Farrell 1950

The Age Melbourne Australia Dec 12 1974 Days Of Our Lives switches to night- Thanks to the ratings and TVs growing concern with demographics, the long-running American sob-serial, Days Of Our Lives, will now be seen at night from GTV-9. The switch from daytime viewing started at 8.30 p.m., on Monday, December 9, the programme occupying this time slot on all five week nights A channel spokesman said the decision was made to enable a larger audience to enjoy the serial. The Monday episode followed on from the last daytime programme in the serial, presented at 12 noon, Friday, December 6. Replacing it during the day will be the tandem serial. The Young and the Restless, which has been extended to 55 minutes. Days of Our Lives documents in daily con-t i n u i n g episodes life with the Hortons played by -Macdonald Carey, Francis Reid, John Clarke, John Lupton, Edward Mallory, and Patricia Barry This was fairly short lived experiment over the Summer non ratings period. It got me thinking about NBC back in the 80's maybe doing a special week of episodes say Mon - Fri at 10 during Summer, maybe when the show was pre-empted for Wimbledon.

Berry Kroeger Light of the World Solomon Perry Mason 1944 Road of Life Conrad Overton

HTSAM was the baby of Lin Bolen, head of NBC daytime so I think there would have been a lot of support for it. It got a 90 min premiere and they paid Rosemary Prinz a record salary to participate. Was Lin around when the timeslot was changed and the show subsequently cancelled?

Lee had already been acclaimed for her role in the movie Detective Story and appeared to be on her way to a successful movie career.But soon after she was blacklisted and and took the Search role because few other avenues were open to her.A supporting role in a fledging soap wouldn't have attracted much attention. I wonder if other actors got work in soaps because they were blacklisted?

Liam Sullivan An earlier GH role General Hospital 'drug addict' pre 1970

Guy Stockwell Return to Paycheck Place By Dick Kleiner HOLLYWOOD - For Guy Stockwell, and so many other actors, the daytime serials are a blessing. Stockwell is now playing Dr. Michael Rossi on NBC's new soap opera, Return to Peyton Place. Stockwell always has been one of this town's better young leading men handsome and a very skilled actor. In the last few years jobs have been scarce. "Hollywood," he says, "has been a disaster area." He was lucky, in that he had another source of income. He taught acting, both at UCLA and to private students. It wasn't a luxurious income but it was something. There were many who didn't have anything coming in. As Stockwell says, it was hardest on the men and women in their 40s and 50s who. had never really made enough to save much and now were too old to quit the business and try something new. Acting was all they knew. Return to Peyton Place hired more than a dozen actors on a regular basis, and others from time to time. It came at just the right time for Stockwell, who says he was on the brink of giving it up. He says he had just about decided to leave acting and concentrate exclusively on his teaching. To give it one last college try, he switched agents, figuring he'd let somebody new have a crack at his career. He signed his contract with his new agent one evening about 5:30. Just before he left the office, the man said, "Hold it a second, let me make one phone call." He called 20th Century-Fox, which was casting Return to Peyton Place, and they were interested in Stockwell. He went there the next day for an interview and the day after signed the contract. It was almost an all-time record for a new agent producing results. Now Stockwell is happy. He likes working and the soap opera scene is hard work. And he also likes the idea of getting that good old regular weekly paycheck. "I wouldn't mind staying with the show for 12 years," he says. "After all, I have a wife, three children and an ex-wife to support. There's nothing like getting that steady salary." So far he's pleasantly surprised at the quality of the acting. His colleagues, as he is himself, are all people with stage and-or live TV training. He's also reaching a brand new audience. All things considered, for Guy Stock-well Return to Peyton Place is the greatest thing in years.

Stefan Scnabel Wendy Warren 'European Spy' 1954 Mercer McLoud Second Mrs Burton 1954 Howard Smith Second Mrs Burton 1954

Terry O'Sullivan A newspaper report has him returning Thursday Feb 20 1958 after a 2 year absence.

21 December 1979 Relief in sight for 'Mary Hartman' mourners Let's see now - Eddie Roberts is failing to satisfy his wife sexually; he's trying to make her forget her lifelong ambition to become the first female shortstop in major league baseball; as a college professor, he's pushing hard for a promotion, but his chief competitor is a "triple-threat" a handicapped MexicanAmerican woman; he unwillingly becomes a guineapig in a secret test program for a new male contraceptive drug; and in the middle of this emotional uproar, , the power company keeps shutting off poor Eddie's electricity which ought to be to be $19.11, but continually gets printed erroneously being in every episode as $1,911) If you think Eddie's troubles sound a lot like those of Mary Hartman, you've hit the nail right on the head. The Life and Times of Eddie Roberts is a comic soap opera that is inspired by the 1976-77 success of Mary Marty Hartman, Mary Hartman. The woman who helped create Hartman is the driving force behind Eddie Roberts "We're going to be socially relevant and irreverent just like we were with Mary declared executive producer Ann Marcus, "But we wont be as self-conscious about our irreverence. I think these characters will be closer to life than those on Hartman." Eddie Roberts is set for a daily half -hour telecast starting Jan. 7, and will be syndicated to stations on a city-by-city basis. In some cities The Life and Times of Eddie Roberts will face competition from Mary Hartman reruns once a week in late night. The dull-witted CBS program executives, who originally rejected Hartman because some of them considered it "a dirty show," now are perfectly willing to air Mary in the 11:30 p.m. period (EST) every Monday beginning next month. It's an intriguing situation for Ann Marcus, who was one of the people who conceived Mary Hartman four years ago. The comedy-drama serial took the nation by storm, then faded as it began to take itself a bit too seriously. The pretentiousness that ruined Hartman began creeping into the show just as Marcus removed herself from the program's behind-scenes braintrust. "I had some differences with Norman Lear (the producer of Hartman) over whether we were going to shoot for 'heightened reality' or total wackiness," she recalled. "Much to my dismay, they went wacky. The program had some wonderful characters whom people identified with and cared about. But the zanier it got, the less the viewers cared. "A lot of the difficulties centered on Louise Lasser who's brilliant and highly neurotic. She insisted on being in every episode and that's too much work for a performer in a nightly program." Marcus is quick to point out that her dispute with Lear wasn't a bitter one and that they parted without rancor. "Norman is marvelously creative," she said, "and he was an enormous contributor to Marty Hartman, Mary Hartman. We Just disagreed on the show's direction." As for The Life and Times of Eddie Roberts (which Marcus often abbreviates as L.A.T.E.R. ) Marcus controls the show completely with her husband and coworker, Ellis Marcus. "We're the producers and head writers." she said. "In fact. our daughter Ellen is writing an episode. She's home from Berkley for Christmas vacation and she's in the other office right now working on her script. L.A.T.E.R. will be an adult serial, with a mature look at the foibles of life in the late 20th century. How can I explain it? A few years ago I was co-creator of All That Glitters,' which was kind of a gimmicky show about a society where the sex roles were reversed. It was sort of salacious in a way sex with a leer. With L.A.T.E.R. we're removing the leer. Also, the 'triple-threat' minority, who's who's Eddie's chief competitor for tenure as a professor, uses her minority status to get ahead. Her name's Chiquita, and she speaks perfect English. But when the college dean is around, she uses a Mexican accent. The star of L.A.T.E.R. is Renny Temple, a comic actor who once appeared on All in the Family as a draft-dodger. "Renny is wonderful as Eddie," Marcus said. "I think our viewers will be crazy about him." Although, I've never been one to ruin a good mystery by telling people that "the butler did it," I think one of the supporting characters on L.A.T.E.R. ought to be watched closely. He's a former hippie militant who claims to have gone straight. He now works as a carpet salesman. Keep an eye on him.