Paul Raven

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.

Larry Gates A World Apart Brett Halsey Matinee Theater 'Story of Joseph' Joseph John Raby John's Other Wife Donald Collier 1941

I know throughout the years there have been characters with the same names, but I wonder if particular writers have re-used names as this example from Irna? Karen Adams being a fairly nondescript name, perhaps it was just coincidence or a little in joke that amused Irna.

Dec 1977 Agnes Nixon's primetime soap 'Beggars and Choosers' originally scheduled to air on ABC in May 77 was sidetracked by her involvement in the expansion of All My Children and now is being developed as a 4-6 hour 'novel for television'.

Variety reported in Dec 77 that CBS had placed an order for Dallas starring Linda Evans. Has anyone ever heard of Linda's involvement? Linda had recently had a shortlived CBS series 'Hunter' so maybe they were interested in working with her again.

Robert Soderberg announced as new headwriter March 66.

Robert J Shaw left as headwriter in June 1969 and was replaced by Robert and Eileen Pollock. This was at the time that CBS took over production from Roy Winsor Productions.

Search for Tomorrow Larry Weber filled in as Tony Vincente for 6 weeks beginning Oct 72.

Hal Studer He was also on Edge of Night in 1972.

Please make it stop! I actually heard Billy talking about journalism as though he had some knowledge of the subject. Does anybody find this interesting or believable? Big brave men rescue damsel in distress. By stating (from a table from Society) in no uncertain terms that she will make Sutton pay for her father's death.

Michael Brockman became NBC's daytime head in Nov 77, replacing Madeline David.