Paul Raven

Simon and Simon - Pirate's Key Secrets of Midland Heights - Heartland High

Having read SSH's SOD interview about the Doug story I am more postive about the story. Doug/Bill is 96 years old FGS. I am sure he is finding it harder to act, especially on the fast paced way Days is taped. So they are setting it up that perhaps Doug is slowing down and needs care. That way he can be offscreen and viewers can be assured Doug/Bill is being well cared for. Some scenes for Julie that reflect how hard this is for a partner. Julie can keep appearing as Susan seems fighting fit. And I think it would be great for Susan to know she has a place to go to. I think this is better than seeing Bill ailing onscreen as we saw with Frances Reid, as that was quite distressing, or Doug suddenly passing away when Bill does (hopefully not for a while).

One year later Nov 71 1. As The World Turns 10.6 2.General Hospital 10.5 3. Days of Our Lives 10.4 4.The Doctors 9.8 5. Another World 9.6 6. Edge of Night 9.4 7. Hollywood Squares 9.2 8. Family Affair 8.8 9.Search for Tomorrow 8.6 10.Let's Make A Deal 8.4 11. Newlywed Game 8.4 12.Jeopardy 8.2 13. Guiding Light 7.9 14. Love Is A Many Splendored Thing 7.7 15, Dating Game 7.6 16. Password 7.6 17. Love of Life 7.3 18. Gomer Pyle 7.1 19.Love American Style 7.1 20. One Life to Live 7.1 Big jump for Days and corresponding drop for LIAMST. Both Days and GH would hit #1 around this time, marking first time that ATWT was not top weekly soap in over 10 years. CBS would bring Irna Phillips back to ATWT and move GL up against Days under pressure from P&G. ATWT did go back to being regular #1 as I never read that another soap deposed it in the weekly ratings until AMC in 74 I believe. SFT was always a self starter as Love of Life and then Where The Heart Is never provided a solid lead in. Interesting to see that OLTL was the first ABC soap to make an impression apart from GH. With its 3 soap block in the top 5, NBC couldn't get its 3.30 soap to hold viewers after AW. Bright Promise is nowhere to be seen and Return to Peyton Place would be introduced in 72 with hopes of changing that ,but no dice.

Harry Bellaver KNOTS LANDING Mr. Hank Murphy (Laura's father) 1980

Top 20 Nov 1970 1. As The World Turns 12.1 2. Edge of Night 9.5 3.Family Affair 9.2 4. General Hospital 9.2 5. Another World 9.1 6. Search for Tomorrow 9.0 7. The Doctors 8.9 8. The Guiding Light 8.9 9. Love Is A Many Splendored Thing 8.9 10. Gomer Pyle 8.8 11. Days Of Our Lives 8.4 12. Hollywood Squares 8.3 13. Jeopardy 8.3 14. Love of Life 7.8 15. Newlywed Game 7.8 16. Beverly Hillbillies 7.5 17. Lets Make A Deal 7.3 18. Secret Storm 7.3 19 Concentration 7.1 20. Sale of The Century 7.1 ATWT still the clear leader even without Irna at the helm. Secret Storm and Love of Life suffering. This was after CBS took over production and started tinkering. No sign of any other ABC soaps (AMC,OLTL, DS, AWA) Days closing in on Splendored Thing.

Linda Grover had already written for The Doctors and failed to lift the ratings. Wonder how these writers get chosen? Doesn't seem from what happened onscreen that she had a bunch of story plans that dazzled the execs.

Keenan Wynn Light of the World

Robert Sampson Pilot/Proposal Royal Bay Joel Stafford 1964 Herb Butterfield Mary Marlin 'Russian antique dealer' Margot of Castlewood Joan Blaine Welcome Valley Delores Dumont

The Knots Landing Ladies Joan is 78, Donna is 80 and Michelle is 79. Donna and Michelle look nowhere near their ages but Joan's work has been a problem for years. Nonetheless its kind of spooky to realize they are that old and to think of 'ordinary' folk you know of that age. The hands are always a problem. People forget to apply sunscreen from an early age to their hands. i wonder how they would look in real life. I saw Joan Rivers once and she was had the face and big hair on this tiny skeletal body.

Such a waste . And like Tara, he just got dropped without any follow through. I am getting distracted by Eric Braeden obviously reading his lines via cue cards etc. When he was talking to Nick at Society he was doing his usual non eye contact thing and odd phrasing. When Victor left the table you could see writing on the menu that was placed on the table and I'm pretty sure it wasn't 'today' s specials'. If he can no longer remember his lines he should have the dignity to bow out, or take a more limited role. It must be frustrating for the other actors. Also, last week,Sally,Adam and Chloe had an encounter at the deserted Crimson Lights.Then later in the episode,Adam was in his office and I'm wondering why the scene wouldn't have been staged there? Were those CL scenes taped at a different time and all 3 actors not on set for an office scene? Puzzling. I was watching some 2017 episodes and the difference is obvious. Larger sets, more of them and extras...

I think that was the time Jane and Ira Avery were headwriters. The ratings only give us one side of the story. For example I was surprised to see Where The Action Is scoring so high for ABC and when I investigated it made sense as ABC were showing it mid afternoon during Summer. Once school went back it was moved to late afternoon in the hopes of holding the teen audience but viewing patterns change once vacation is over and it never rated that high again. Similar to the 70's when Happy Days repeats were scoring high for ABC daytime but it really was a Summer only phenomena.

August 1965 1. As The World Turns 12.7 2. House Party 11.0 3. Secret Storm 10.8 4. Edge of Night 10.4 5. To Tell the Truth 9.8 6. Password 9.8 7. Guiding Light 9.7 8. Andy Griffith 9.4 9. Search For Tomorrow 9.3 10. CBS 3.25 News 9. 2 11. McCoys 8.7 12. Love of Life 8.4 13. Where The Action Is 8.2 14. I Love Lucy 7.8 15. You Don't Say 7.8 16. Match Game 7.4 17. General Hospital 7.2 18. Jeopardy 6.7 19. Let's Make A Deal 6.7 20. I'll Say 6.4

Richard Widmark Chaplain Jim USA 'soldier in trouble' 1942 Just Plain Bill 1942 Helpmate Dick Somers Pepper Young's Family The O'Neills Stella Dallas David Harum Big Sister Perry Moore Carlton Young Just Plain Bill Kerry Donovan (one day replacement for James Meighan due to rail delay July 27 1942) One of the Finest Tom Quinn 1939

Heplmate is pretty much forgotten but it was the just the beginning for the Hursleys. http://otrbuffet.blogspot.com/2010/12/serial-called-helpmates.html

Madeline David was head of NBC daytime January 76 till November 77. In October 79,Orin Tovrov who wrote for The Doctors in its first few years landed a gig as daytime consultant at NBC. Wonder what input (if any) he had? I've read that sometimes these consultants get paid but there advice is ignored.

Thought I'd resurrect one of the most popular threads from the past. Let's talk about who's had work done and our thoughts about it. hopefully we'll get some input from our esteemed poster Daytime Fan. I was inspired by photos of Lisa Rinna in Beyond Salem. She seems to be taking her look to the extreme.

Michael Brockman took over in Jan 78 at NBC and an announcement was made in June that the idea was canned.

When does Vanessa finally have surgery? Was KT offscreen for some time? The 'five year gruellling process' was conveniently forgotten!!

Y&R Did Jack/Johnny get a send off or just vanish? Anthony Herrera got the lead in the Mandrake pilot for NBC.It probably filmed early 78. Do we know any of the actors in the Conway story apart fom Jody (Cyntia Eilbacher)?

I'm not sure of the timeline, without checking but didn't Joann pop up again and there's talk of her working at the Golden Comb as a life coach type of thing? I guess some of this was due to actors not on contract and that flexibility for the writers. Also, Bill Bell would sometimes try something out onscreen and then not follow through. We were much more aware of this come the 80's when backstage stuff was reported more openly.

All of these shows have been discussed in their own thread or the Primetime Soaps thread...

Week ending Jan 22 78 ABC 8.7 CBS 8.4 Week ending Jan 29 78 ABC 8.3 CBS 7.9 The first two weeks of the GH and OLTL expansion brought immediate improvement in their ratings. OLTL moved from 15th-20th place to 8th/9th GH moved from 15th -20th to 11th - 15th.

Funny but that's how they look to me all the time. Quick question- With Adam and Chelsea always claiming their deep parental love for Connor (who they seem quite happy to ship out of town) have either of them ever shown any interest in their other children? I know Chelsea willingly gave up Johnny to Billy and Victoria, but that was before those two split up and hooked up with others. Does Chelsea really not care for the welfare of her child who is now practically being raised by a stranger(Lily).How convenient that in a town where people can run into each other several times in one day that Chelsea,Billy and Victoria never cross paths. Adam discovered Christian was his right? But never shows any interest in his other son?

Speaking of Pat, would Irna and Agnes ever pictured her as an alcoholic? Or for viperous Liz to become a gossipy old busybody?

Feb 1978 ABC -TV, which has been steadily ganing ground in daytime ratings against long time leader CBS -TV, appears to have edged into the number one position with a string of wins since the first of the year. The most recent Nielsen standings show ABC with an 8.2 average for the two weeks ending Feb. 3, with CBS pulling a 7.9 and NBC -TV a 6.6. A number of factors have probably contributed to the turnover. ABC's recent gains in TV affiliates and the resulting improved clearances haven't hurt. All three networks lost daytime viewers with the drops in homes using television over the last year, but ABC lost less than its competitors. According to ABC's figures, its HUT levels in the fourth quarter of 1977 were 3% off what they were for the same period in 1976, while CBS was off 13% and NBC 14 %. Probably most importantly, ABC has made a number of changes in its daytime schedule in the last year, with the goal of establishing a solid block of soap operas in the afternoon All My Children was expanded from 30 minutes to an hour last April, and General Hospital and One Life to Live both expanded from 45 minutes to an hour Jan. 16. ABC is convinced the strategy has worked, and the numbers don't contradict that view.