Paul Raven

Valiant Lady Eda Heinemann was on for 9 months in 1959

Remak Ramsey Add OLTL

Re The Brighter Day A character mentioned in 1957 blurb Barney Lake and in 1958 Paul Bannister And Eliot Fraser was played by John Heath

As of Feb 44 Mary Rutledge Holden was still on The Guiding Light according to newspaper promos.

Sarajane Wells Woman in White Gladys GREY Constance Crowder Road of Life 1944 Right to Happiness Doris Cameron Ma Perkins Mrs Farnum Springtime and Harvest (Irna Phillips soap that played on limited stations as a test run)

James Monks Pepper Young's Family Carter Trent 1942 Light of the World Jeremiah 1945 Perry Mason 1946

Sigourney Weaver (Avis Somerset) Anne Marie Martin (Gwen Davies DOOL) Robyn Bernard (Terry O'Connor GH)

Rosemary Rice Aunt Jenny 1949

Check Soaphoppers thread. Way more info than IMDB!

Henry Simmons was on OLTL Sherry Mathis was a one soap only gal. Also, Kristen Marie (Cheryl AW) Leann Hunley (Anna DOOL) John Delancie (Eugene DOOL) Arleen Sorkin (CalliopeDOOL)

Louan Gideon Liza SFT Eric Morgan Stuart Chris Madison AW Julie Osburn Kathleen McKinnon AW Sally Spencer MJ McKinnon AW

Broadcasting Jan 84 It started 18 months ago as a 'radical idea which nobody in this country has ever tried." That idea -a first -run prime time serial drama, or soap opera -now appears to have come to fruition. Richard Robertson, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Telepictures Corp., announced that Rituals, its joint venture with Metromedia to produce a new serial drama for prime time and prime access, was now a firm go. Metromedia's decision to put Rituals in its prime time lineup for next fall has also "triggered commitments" from other stations, Robertson said, including stations in the Outlet, Gannett, Multimedia and Chronicle groups. Robertson said the station lineup at present represents 50% coverage of NTI households. Production costs are substantial: Start-up, development and first -year production expenses will exceed $14 million. Rituals will probably debut either Sept. 10 or Sopt. 17 "to get a jump on the networks," Robertson said. Dick Block, executive vice president of Metromedia, said that group's independent stations will probably air Rituals between 8 and 9 p.m. Metromedia's ABC affiliate in Boston, wcvB -N will air it at 4 p.m. following General Hospital. Historically, nightly serial dramas have not been successful on American television, but Robertson pointed out that Latin America, Australia and the U.K. all have nightly serials that dominate their time periods. And if Rituals proves successful, Robertson added, the program "could expand to an hour."

Before its radio premiere The Guiding Light was titled The Good Samaritan.

Melody had a gig on GH as Laura's baby sitter. GL Ellen Demming (Meta Bauer) Lynne Adams (Leslie Bauer)

Guiding Light Cindy Pickett (Jackie Marler) Kathleen Cullen (Amanda Spaulding) Tom Nielsen (Floyd Parker) Denise Pence (Katie Parker) Love of Life Birgitta Tolksdorf (Arlene Slater)

NBC premiered Yellow Rose in a special Sun @ 10 timeslot following a 2 hr Knight Rider premiere. Knight Rider was #14 20.3/31 Yellow Rose was # 32 16.1/27 beaten by Trapper John #24 17.7/30 So not a bad sampling. However the following Saturday NBC was airing baseball, so any momentum was lost as viewers had to wait 2 weeks for the next episode. Crazy! When the show finally aired Sat @10 the rating was 11.2/21 #54. Fantasy Island was #35 16.2/30 The following week 8.4/15 #66 so pretty much doomed. Not helped by a lousy lead-in (Rounders) The show would have stood a better chance Tues @10 where the lineup would be A Team/Remington Steele/Yellow Rose. But NBC held that slot for the ill fated Bay City Blues. Either Blues or St Elswhere could have played Sat @10 where their low ratings could be offset by critical acclaim and a loyal core audience (at least in the case of Elsewhere)

Elaine Princi was on Days as Kate Winograd and ATWT as Miranda Hughes before OLTL Alexandra Moltke Victoria Winters Dark Shadows

AW Thomas Ian Griffith (Catlin) Christopher Rich (Sandy) GL Kristi Ferrell (Roxie Shayne) GH Edie Lehman (Katherine)

I think that Mickey's recovery /re-integration was maybe a little rushed, After everything he'd been through, for him to return to being a respected lawyer and upstanding citizen seemed a waste. Maybe he could have uncomfortable at being pressured to return to his old life and the rivalry with Bill could have been simmering. Maggie could be caught in the middle dealing with her own issues.

Only some radio soaps in the 50's. Seems like a good time to promote the Soaphoppers thread in the Cancelled soaps section, Hundreds of performers and their appearances in radio, daytime and primetime soaps. Some surprising names there.

I would wager that those ladies have had a little intervention along the way (Botox etc) that wasn't available back in the 70's as well as those other factors. Look at Marla Adams who has had no work done, I admit I was surprised when she came back on as it was confronting to see a woman with wrinkles.

Michael Nader was on ATWT (Kevin Thompson) in the 70's.

I wonder if there were plans to do more with Marie, as later evidenced with Lanna but they were dropped because Kate Woodville didn't do much with the role. The Doug/Julie/Larry Atwood story that followed made better use of them (but having Julie raped was not necessary) but they never really delved into a child for them. It could have tied in with the Robert story as Doug could have wanted a son but Julie was unwilling or found it difficult to conceive or Doug could have discovered he was now impotent. The reveal that Doug did have a son would have set a whole bunch of stuff in motion. Maybe that could have led to a murder mystery with more heightened drama than an outside character (Larry Atwood) being the victim. Susan Oliver is a fine actress but was saddled with taking on Laura at a time when the character had nothing to do.I think had Flannery still been around even mundane scenes would have been more interesting as viewers were more invested. They were going with professional stories for Bill/Laura which was fair enough but that leading to Kate Winograd getting involved with Bill wasn't well received. Were viewers simply not prepared to see any threat to that marriage or the combination of a dull character and poorly developed story meant it was not well received? After the wife beating story Mickey/Maggie had the Janice story which served them better, although losing Janice and turning Maggie into a drunk was a misguided move. Perhaps Maggie could have turned away from Mickey because he could not give her a child. Maybe bring back Jay from the farm...

Thanks for posting this - very interesting to read. I have to agree with most of what you wrote. Ann Marcus had a tough job to fill in that Days had been pretty much guided by Bill Bell and the PFS since its debut and they were both top notch writers who had an insight and set a tone that was hard to replicate. But as you pointed out PFS was beginning to falter and ratings were reflecting that. Days had 2 powerhouse stories that carried it through the 60's and 70's - the trevails of Julie, culminating in her finding Doug and the Bill/Laura/Mickey saga. By the end of her tenure, both of those stories had been resolved and we had Bill and Laura/Doug and Julie happily wed. The challenge then was to keep those popular couples prominent without breaking them up - always a challenge in a soap. The story planned for the Duvalls was obviously changed so it was all a bit muddled under Marcus and there was the additional issue of Susan Flannery no longer playing Laura, which changed the dynamics. Having Mickey and Maggie playing happy families and doing the next door neighbor /social issue story was a poor choice. Why should we care about the Bartons? There should have been more drama mined from Maggie trying to fit into Salem. The other issue with these characters is that they were all middle aged and in the case of Bill and Mickey looked every day of it so hardly appealing to younger viewers soaps were always chasing.

Yes are we counting actors who came back to the same show or took the character to another? Two that fit into that category AMC Karen Lynn Gorney (Tara 2 returns) AW Tom Eplin (Jake - went to ATWT) AMC Susan Blanchard (Mary) Charles Frank (Jeff) AW Gail Brown (Clarice) Laura Malone (Blaine) Susan Trusman (Pat ) ATWT Colleen Zenk (Barbara)