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Paul Raven

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  1. Scarlett Hill 3 actors who appeared Stephen Ker Appleby Robert Footier Barbara Franklin Perkins
  2. Thanks So Jada was first off in 58. I have a feeling Jada chose to leave as a person of that age might want to do. She was back on 60/61 until Amy and Paul were dropped in 67. At this point she went ATWT to play Susan Stewart. I think she continued in that role until Storm wanted her back in 68. At the end of that contract she chose to leave again and then I think either she approached Storm to come back as Amy in 73 or they asked her to come back to boost the ratings as they faced cancellation. If anyone knows more about her comings and goings, please let me (us) know. Here's an amusing article from 71. A Soapless Soap Opera Star By JOY DAANE Dear Valerie Hill Ames Northcote; For about seven years I've been watching you on Secret Storm. I remember when you first arrived in Woodbridge as Mrs. Hill, a widow. Then you married Peter Ames and after he died, you became Mrs. Ian Northcote. Anyway, it just occurred to me that in all that time I've never seen you scrub a floor, wash a dish or dust the piano. By now you must have enough fuzzies under your bed to grow geraniums. For that matter, I've never seen you lolling around the house with your hair in curlers or sitting around without your girdle, watching TV. How come? Is it because you've learned that when your doorbell rings, it is NOT going to be a magazine salesman? And when the phone rings, it's NOT going to be somebody asking you to bring a cake to a PTA meeting? It's going to be someone like the police, who called a while back to notify you that your stepdaughter, Amy, was seriously injured in an automobile accident in which Amy's friend, Mickey, was killed because he had forgotten to put snow tires on the car. As I recall, Amy was pursuing Corey (who was eloping with Deedee) to tell him he wasn't her long lost brother after all so it was O.K. for them to be in love with each other. Since all you were doing was sashaying around the house in your Chanel suit and diamond earrings, you were ready to dash off to the hospital immediately to sit with Amy until she regained consciousness. And last month when word came that Alan Dunbar (former husband of another stepdaughter, Susan) was not dead and had just been released from a concentration camp in Red China, you didn't have to change your dress or fix your hair. You were ready to begin meddling instantly. Possibly another reason you don't do housework is that you're so busy mixing drinks. I've noticed that whenever somebody drops in with a problem which is like constantly you begin passing the drinks around. For instance, Frank Carver, whom Susan married when she thought Alan was dead instead of imprisoned, stopped in when Susan went to visit Alan in a West Coast hospital. Frank was frantic. He couldn't get in touch with Susan at her hotel because he wasn't aware she had registered under her previous name Mrs. Alan Dunbar, instead of her current name Mrs. Frank Carver. The reason she did that was because she thought Alan might telephone and the psychiatrist said she mustn't give Alan the bad news of her remarriage because he was suffering from malnutrition and drug withdrawal. So Frank stopped in to consult you, as does everybody else in Woodbridge, and you said, as you do to everybody, "Let me fix you a drink, dear, and we can talk about it." Which you did . . . for four days. I've been giving the whole thing a lot of thought lately and have decided that your charm lies in the fact that because of the multitude of fascinating crises you face, you have no time for ordinary activities. That appeals to us household drudges who are too busy cleaning the stove for hanky panky. I think I've figured out how you manage to stay on top of things. During the commercials the doll with the sponge mop comes in and does your floors with that foamy stuff that cleans, waxes, polishes and disinfects all at once. And with the time she saves, she rinses out the highball glasses.
  3. Lois Markle Love of Life pre 1977 Matthew Tobin Love of Life One Life To Live Jon Polito Guiding Light Texas All My Children
  4. Gregory Abels All My Children Another World both pre 1980 Laurie Kennedy Search for Tomorrow pre 1978
  5. Candice Azzara A Time For Us Guiding Light (pre 1968) Played the role of Gloria in the second All in The Family pilot'Those Were The Days'
  6. Peter Capell Central City DA Greer 1939 David Harum 1945 Young Widder Brown 1948 Life Can Be Beautiful Gyp Mendoza
  7. I agree Bitter is not a good look for DD. But as the longest running cast member he has been treated poorly. Paul could easily be a part of the Rey/Adam/Sharon story for example. Dead weight like Kevin and Michael still get to show up, so why not Paul?
  8. Alice Yourman Right to Happiness Margarey Allen 1946
  9. Thursday April 25 1963 Melbourne Australia 1.05 pm Channel 7 Final episode of YDM. So it seems it had a short run on Oz TV. I wonder if they started from the first episode, otr the series began there at some point during the run. Maybe that was the case and viewers were confused by being dropped into the midst of things...
  10. Although Doug Marland isn't really associated with AW, it was the springboard for his career as a headwriter. May 1975 An Emmy For Native Of West Sand Lake By JOHN DINARDO "It's mind-boggling, I still haven't come down," said Douglas Marland. And he had good reason. On Thursday, the West Sand Lake native walked away with an Emmy Award, "Best Writing For A Daytime Series" for his work on the popular NBC daytime drama Another World. Marland, who now lives in New York City, joined the staff of Another World about five months ago when the show changed its programming from 30 minutes to a full hour. "To be honest, I thought we bad no chance at all," he said. "We were up against some pretty good shows and I thought the change to 130 minules would hurt. It made it all the more exciting when we won." Marland attended Troy H i g h School a n d l a t e r graduated from Averill Park High School before enrolling in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. A suecesful acting career followed. He appeared in several soap operas including The Doctors and As The World Turns as well as two m a j o r f i l m s before started writing seriously. Last year his first novel, "Counterfeit Agent," was published. Marland has also written scripts for two made- for-television movies. Both are currently under option. Marland frequently visits the area. His mother, Mrs. Lee K. Messner, still lives in West Sand Lake, and Marland plans to build a home on the family property there. Mrs. Messner watched the Emmy show on television. The show took place aboard a Manhattan excursion boat cruising the Hudson River of all places. How did she feel when her son won the coveted award? "It's hard to descibe," she said. "I was excited, just very pleased."
  11. "Why did we switch to a five episode format?" echoed Jerry Layton when I finally caught up with him in the carpeted viewing room where he was glued to a TV screen watching the dress rehearsal via closed circuit. "Well, we realized this 'Eight Hours ' for Emily' was too good to condense, then other stories of the same value came along and we changed our pace." He sounded like a happy man as he went on, "Now we can get below the surface of the characters and into their motivation in the five-day treatment. Important to us, too, is that now we can develop secondary and tertiary relationships among the regular characters in the back ground running story." That might be a bit of PR spin as the ratings had not been good and as stated, a brand new story everyday would be a huge undertaking.The switch to 5 episode stories came about in August 63 and continued until the show become a fully fledged serial in March 64.
  12. Scrolling through some old Australian TV listings from 1966 and there is Morning Star. I have read that Young Dr Malone screened on Aussie TV in the early 60's but apart so Morning Star becomes the second US daytime soap to get a run in Australia. I wonder if the entire series was shown and if the tapes were wiped? HSV7 Melbourne Wed June 8 1966 12.23 First Edition News 12.30 Lunch Time Movie “Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary?” (A) 1.55 Talking Programs 2.00 Morning Star (A) 2.30 People in Conflict 3.00 Time for Terry
  13. This has been debated and denied so many times over the years...
  14. Thanks so much for posting these snippets.It's great to read something new about these classic shows. Incidentally,Irna uses the phrase 'springtime and harvest' in her summation of ATET. She used that as the title of a little known radio soap in the early 40's which played on a few stations as a sort of pilot run but it was never picked up.
  15. No worries! And a follow up from Jan 80 'LATER' than you think. With ratings averages of 3 in Los Angeles and 4 in New York, Columbia Pictures Television's Life and Times of Eddie Roberts, late night comedy strip that premiered on Metromedia TV stations and others Jan. 7, appears destined for graveyard. Dick Woollen, Metromedia's vice president for programing, said that after 13 -week contract expires, group is almost certain to drop show entirely. Metromedia's decision indicates that Columbia will scrap show after completion of original 65 half- hours, said Ken Page, executive vice president for CPT Distribution. "The practical reality;' he said, "is that with Metromedia vacating its position on it, we will probably have to suspend production" Program is carried by 28 stations covering over 45% of national audience. Metromedia's seven-station group accounts for over 40% of LATER 's potential audience. Production costs for initial run totaled in excess of $1.6 million, it's believed, with CPT putting up approximately 70% and Metromedia remainder. According to Page, CPT will still be offering show at next month's National Association of Television Program Executives convention in San Francisco.
  16. The bible for Capitol was once online. The bible for As The Earth(World) Turns was also. AW bible available on the AW Homepage and parts of the DOOL bible are at Jason 47's site. All make fascinating reading.
  17. Kermit Murdock Katie's Daughter 1947 Stella Dallas 1947 Just Plain Bill 1948 Front Page Farrell 1949 Right To Happiness 1957
  18. Ronald Dawson Edge of Night...?? One episode July 21 1957
  19. Sandra and Grayling were married Wed June 29 1955
  20. Woman With a Past Eleanor Russell....Dorothy Peterson
  21. Three Steps to Heaven Russell Meade...Charles Martin Woman With a Past John Ridgeley played Hal Jackson
  22. Lee and Travis were cousins. I think Travis' mom and Lee's dad were siblings. Lee and Sunny were a strong couple at first and then Cissy was introduced as a spoiler along with Dane but then all those pairings fizzled out.
  23. Three Steps to Heaven Kate Adams...Margaret Hayes (blamed herself for Bill's loss of memory) 1954

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