Paul Raven

Yes I believe that Edge of Night was a weekly winner in October 1960 and after that ATWT was #1 every week .

From the book 'Beating The Odds' about the history of ABC One of two areas where ABC remained weak was daytime. To remedy this, Fred Silverman brought Jackie Smith over from CBS in March 1977. They were old friends who had first met at WPIX in New York, where Jackie was in charge of on-air promotion and Fred bought films. When Fred became head of CBS daytime, he brought Jackie in to do children's shows. OTHER RECOLLECTIONS: Jackie Smith "All My Children" had been bought as a half hour. Silverman's first move, in 1977, was expanding "All My Children" to an hour, so that "Ryan's Hope," which had debuted in the summer of 1975, would get sampled. Next, he expanded "One Life to Live" and "General Hospital" to forty-five minutes from thirty minutes. Fred was looking at how everything was laid out, and he said, "Now I want 'One Life to Live' and 'General Hospital' to become an hour in January of 1978." Then he must have looked at the shows and said, "My god, they really are lousy. They're only fifteen shares." They'd just expanded to forty-five minutes, and he was going to expand them to an hour. I think at that moment he must have said, "I've got to bring someone in to get this under control so it's not a disaster." And that someone was me. I'd been with children and primetime specials and two-hour movies. But I had two children of my own to care for, and while I took care of my area I wasn't ambitious to learn everything that might be helpful to me. I just didn't have that kind of drive at the time. So I didn't know anything about serials. It was really very brave of him to have brought me in and think that I could have been effective. Silverman's instincts were correct. Although Jackie had always been content to be a very good follower, she soon became a dynamic leader. Jackie inherited Agnes Nixon, the writer who had created "All My Children" and "One Life to Live." She also brought in Gloria Monty, who had become almost an institution in daytime serial programming. OTHER RECOLLECTIONS: Jackie Smith Gloria's career was kind of wandering, and she didn't quite know what to do with her life that was special. She was looking for something to do. Although she had a reputation for being difficult, I liked her.a lot. She took five "General Hospital" shows and five scripts and came in to see me. She said, "I know you have writing problems, so I won't address myself to that. I'll just show you what you could have done with these scripts." It took her about three hours. She showed me how these scripts could have been redirected. She was brilliant and astonishing. I knew at once we had to bring her in right away. I was then living in Los Angeles and waiting for my daughter to finish school, so I couldn't get to New York until June—but these shows were going to expand to an hour in January. When I started figuring all this out, I started asking myself what I had got into. I hadn't seen Fred for months when I finally moved to New York. I walked into his office and he said nothing except "Who are you going to get to produce 'General Hospital'?" I said, "Gloria Monty." Gloria had worked for Fred as a serial producer at CBS. He had a few comments which I'm not going to repeat. But he let me bring her in. There were two keys to "General Hospital." One was Gloria Monty. The other was A. J. Russell, a writer from television's Golden Age. I called him in Orleans, Massachusetts, and somehow interested him in the show. He wrote the "bible" for what I call the "New General Hospital" and the Quartermain family. A.J. introduced many of the elements that are still going strong. Producing daytime dramas is like running an enormous factory. Each program requires five shows a week, and the schedule is extremely demanding. Jackie became a catalyst, a sounding board who ensured her shows got good stories and casting. Equally important, she kept peace among the monumental egos that inhabit show business. Jackie was equally capable at promotion. As ABC began to dominate prime time, she and Fred Silverman used this huge audience to promote daytime. OTHER RECOLLECTIONS: Jackie Smith I told Fred I didn't want to promote anything until we're very, very good—and when we're good, then we'll promote ourselves. After our shows improved, I came into his office unannounced. It was full of people—some kind of meeting. He looked up, very irritated, and said, "What's your theme going to be?" I trilled, "Love in the Afternoon." He said, "Good." And that was the way we communicated sometimes to one another. This did not come to me suddenly. I had been working on it. But no one liked it until I sang it. "Love in the Afternoon" became enormous. It was everywhere, on T-shirts, bus billboards, and bumper stickers. Macy's had a boutique with a "Love in the Afternoon" sign. It became part of the public consciousness. One day I opened The New York Times Magazine, and it had a football picture with the headline, "Violence in the Afternoon." It was a takeoff. They could not have done that if Love in the Afternoon hadn't been so big. Jackie also developed a stable of actors and actresses. From this came such present prime-time stars as Judith Light of "Who's the Boss" (formerly of "One Life to Live") and "MacGyver" star Richard Dean Anderson. As Jackie blossomed, ABC's serials began to dominate the hugely profitable daytime schedule. By 1979 we were clearly the leader. Interesting that AJ Russell was given credit for a bible that included the Quartermaines. What role did Doug Marland play? Did he have freedom in some areas but required to follow the bible in others? eg Were the Q's just a vague outline that he could flesh out? 'A wealthy family comes to PC with a bitchy daughter etc

Came across a short lived mid 70's attempt to revive radio soaps CURTAIN CALL FOR MUTUAL'S QUARTETTE Radio Playhouse & The Faces of Love By Jim Widner © 2009 (From Radio Recall, December 2009) I began collecting in the early seventies just as there was a resurgence of dramatic radio at the start of that decade. While I have fond memories of listening to the last of radio drama in the early sixties, I was actually a child of television having grown up in the fifties, and most of my radio drama experience came from the programs that were broadcast as a result of the resurgence. During that period, it seemed as if there was no end to radio drama as many stations began carrying the programs that gave many of today’s young collectors their spark of interest in the hobby. I was familiar with many of the programs being broadcast, but was surprised when Jack French, your editor, brought to my attention some episodes of a radio soap called The Faces of Love which the Old Time Radio Researchers organization released recently in one of their Distribution CDs. Neither Jack nor I had ever heard of the program and that sparked the two of us to want to find out more. After its offering of the Zero Hour in 1973 and its subsequent demise of that series due to low response, the Mutual Broadcasting System decided to try again creating a series of four programs under an umbrella called Radio Playhouse. Radio Playhouse was originally the name of the umbrella created by Mutual in 1953 through which it offered over 1 million dollars worth of transcribed series to its network. Using the same concept, the umbrella of four programs premiered over WOR Mutual on August 4th, 1975. The series was produced by a division of Young and Rubicom, one of the major advertising agencies of the time. Richard Cox was the creator and producer of the series and head of Young and Rubicam Ventures, a division of the advertising agency. The four programs would run Monday through Friday, originating out of the WOR studios and available to Mutual Network subscribing stations. Each of the four programs would be fifteen minutes in length and run contiguously thus creating a single hour long program umbrella each day. The programs’ storylines all were themed to women and with a touch of feminist rebellion prevalent in the culture in the mid-seventies. The broadcast time was from three to four o’clock PM near the end of the Daytime serial broadcast period. First off was: The Faces of Love, which Mutual described in publicity releases: “Suddenly, a young woman is thrust, completely unprepared, into a life of complete freedom. Her traditional background conflicts with her new-found freedom to confront her with difficult decisions at every turn.” Program two was Author’s Studio, which Mutual summarized in these words: “Dramatizations of famous novels in serialized form, the first of which is William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair. A romantic story featuring the bright and clever Becky Sharp, a liberated woman a century ahead of her time.” The third program was The Little Things in Life, written by a name well-known to old time radio fans: Peg Lynch, creator of the probably better known Ethel and Albert. This Lynch creation was to be: “A light-hearted and high-spirited program which takes a fond and good-natured look at the trivialities which serve to frustrate us in our daily lives. You’ll recognize and identify with the events in the series.” Finally, the last quarter was To Have & To Hold: which Mutual characterized as: “The stresses and demands which face two families of doctors who are daily involved with life and death decisions is the setting for this highly-charged dramatic program. You’ll agonize and sympathize as the doctors mix the volatile combination of emotion and intellect in a contemporary society.” When Radio Playhouse premiered in 1975, The Faces of Love in its initial offering starred Joan Lorring and Mason Adams with Jackson Beck announcing. I haven’t heard any episodes of that run, so I’m not sure about the storyline. The second run starred a young and upcoming Morgan Fairchild as Kate Wakefield. In an email exchange with Ms. Fairchild, she told me she was living in New York City at the time and working on the television drama, Search for Tomorrow as well as appearing occasionally on Kojak and doing commercials. In addition she had appeared on some of the CBS Radio Mystery Theatre shows, created and directed by Himan Brown. She said she got the role of Kate Wakefield because of her appearances on Radio Mystery Theatre. “There were a lot of name actors doing them and we had so much fun!” she wrote. For her radio appearances she only got AFTRA scale of $44.00 an episode! Yet Ms. Fairchild felt it well worth the low pay for an up and coming young actress: “I got to meet so many good actors and they [the radio programs] were a hoot to work on. Also, as a young actor, I loved being able to use only my voice to convey a scene. I thought it was good training for me.” I originally had stated in my email to her that she had appeared occasionally on Search for Tomorrow but she corrected me: “I was not ‘appearing occasionally’ on Search at the time. I was one of the regulars on it [playing the paranoid murderess, Jennifer Pace Phillips]. Susan Lucci and I were emerging as the early ‘bitch goddesses’ of daytime, as the genre went through the transformation from ‘kitchen table discussion’ shows to more high style and upscale formats.” The title of the program, The Faces of Love, apparently comes from its opening: “Love is gentle, faithful, swift, passionate, blind and wondrous. All these are ‘faces of love’.” The gist of the storyline, at least for the programs available, has the now-widowed Kate Wakefield working for a Real Estate company in a city in the U.S. Her late husband, Tom Wakefield, apparently had been involved in drug smuggling as well as being an addict himself. His death apparently is a mystery, but he died near Glory Point in Jamaica the location of the one hundred year old estate, now-in-decline, and belonging to the Pomeroy family. Kate decides to visit the family seemingly in search of both her past life with Tom and looking for the real cause of Tom’s death. The series was written by Margaret Lewerth, a veteran radio writer with roots in the late thirties. Her credentials include the Columbia Workshop (adaptation of Stephen Crane’s Red Badge of Courage and others), Cavalcade of America, Ford Theater, Powder Box Theater, and Americans at Work. Her work in the soap genre includes a stint in the Frank & Anne Hummert radio factory where she penned a soap called Helpmate (1941-1944). Besides Morgan Fairchild, the other primary star was Clement Fowler (as Lewis Pomeroy), who had an extensive stage acting career as well as film and television. In later life Fowler had an extensive career in daytime television serials based out of New York City. The veteran actor just recently passed away in August 2009 at the age of 84. The rest of the cast was filled out by oft-appearing radio acting veterans based in the New York City area including Bryna Raeburn, Staats Cotsworth, Teri Keane, Mason Adams, Joan Shea and many others. Mel Brandt was the regular announcer. In her email to me, Ms. Fairchild stated she loved the training the radio series gave her in using her voice to convey a scene. This is somewhat surprising because, quite frankly, she is very, very good in the role of Kate Wakefield. Considering this was early in her career, she is amazingly adept at emoting with her voice, sounding very natural in the role. The series is actually very well written and fun to listen to though the existing copies in the OTRR library have no dates. It is easy enough to put them in order even if the dates are missing. In creating the hour long series, Radio Playhouse, Richard Cox explained that its genesis was somewhat fortuitous. At a lunch with one of his clients, Bristol Myers, the company officials were complaining about the costs of television sponsorship. Cox, a self-described radio fan, suggested radio as a medium for sponsoring a program. During the course of that lunch, the ad exec had mapped out an hour long umbrella consisting of “two soaps, the adaptation of a famous novel or play, and the comedy.” The show was offered to stations on a barter basis in which Bristol Myers got six minutes of commercial time and local stations would get 12 minutes to fill with their own sponsors. At the time, and ultimately what occurred, the idea of a new dramatic program was considered “an uphill fight.” By 1975 when this series debuted, Mutual had already pulled its free offerings to local stations including Zero Hour because of disappointing response. Others had also failed. Though he was hopeful at the time, so too, Radio Playhouse including The Faces of Love would end its run and leave the air by summer’s end in 1976 after 26 weeks.

Just came across a 1975 syndicated radio soap 'Faces of Love', details of which I will add to the radio thread. New roles for these Hoppers Nat Polen - Anthony Cushing (mysterious worlwide traveller) Morgan Fairchild - Kate Wakefield Mason Adams Clement Fowler - Lewis Pomeroy Staats Cotsworth Teri Keane

Sept 71 Daytime TV (so a few months before in reality) 1. ATWT 44 share 2. EON 36 share 3. GH 33 share 4. DOOL.33 share 5.TD 33 share 6. GL 31 share 7. SFT 36 share 8. LIAMST 31 share 9. AW 29 share 10.SS 27 share

According to a 1976 article on Lynne Adams returning to her role of Leslie on GL ,Barbara Rodell was quite bitter about being replaced as she had just divorced and had a son to support.

Pat Conwell auditioned for Liza on SFT and went on to the role of Tracy Dallas on EON.

Re Hugh Franklin Add Secret Storm 1963 - organized crime head.

Re Mildred Clinton She was also on As The World Turns

Nancy Pinkerton talked about Patti in an old 1977 mag interview saying that the she was an 'interim Patti Tate ' but didn't know it at the time. She says it was her first television job, she was inexperienced and the director was a bully and she felt she was treated badly. She states she was asked back 4 times but refused as that director was still there. I recall in Both of Me' Mary talked about a director that she clashed with around that time - maybe the same person? Maybe Nancy was non contract as they wanted to see how she worked out or were waiting for Abigail Kellogg to become available?

Re ATWT Add Jill O'Hara as Susan Michaels 1966

Just came across a biography of Mercedes McCambridge which listed her radio roles. So you can add Dan Harding's Wife - Donna Harding Girl Alone - Patricia Rodgers Amanda of Honeymoon Hill Backstage Wife Carters of Elm St David Harum Ellen Randolph Jane Arden John's Other Wife Lone Journey Lorenzo Jones Ma Perkins The Man I Married Mrs Wiggins of the Cabbage Patch pepper Young's Family Stella Dallas Story of Mary Marlin Today's Children Valiant Lady Woman in White Young Dr Malone Young Widder Brown Your Family and Mine

Could I request Kathryn Hays Gene Fanning Judith Searle Daniel Keyes Marilyn Spanier Paul Langton Samantha Eggar

Re Return To Peyton Place As Ann Howard died in the original PP I doubt Susan Oliver appeared. Also, when she joined Days, no mention was made of RTPP.

Re GL Add Michael McAssy - George Baldwin (blind piano player) Alice Ann Oakes - Nurse Jody Mr Enright (Phiillip Le Strange) first name Roy

Re Doris Rich Another Barry Cameron role - Dorothy Sands

Love of Life TV Guide blurbs from 1953 Mon Mar 9 Meg's husband Charlie returns to tell her his big decision. Mar 10 Meg is almost too agreeable in her interview with Charlie. Tues Mar 11 While Charlie and Matt hold their conversation, two little boys plan their escape from boarding school Wed Mar 12 Is Ellie ever going to learn the truth of Alex's past? Thurs Mar 13 It is now certain Meg will go to any length to get what she wants. Mon 16 Beanie and Gil are set upon their scheme to run away from school and rescue Beanie's father. Tues Mar 17 Van has been warned of her sister's malice by two people. Wed Mar 18 Matt Slocum arrives too late to prevent what was more than a prank Thurs Mar19 Beanie's disappearance coupled with Van's awareness of her sisters intentions heighten the tension that already exists. Fri March 20 The search for Beanie continues though the searchers are unaware of the tragedy that has befallen the boy. Week of March 27 F Beanie has become a pawn in Meg's plan to snare Matt Mon Mar 30 Megs little talk with Beanie indicates she may be hatching a vicious scheme. Tues Mar 31 Matt Slocum makes a prediction which proves to be alarmingly accurate. Wed April 1 Ellie takes a big chance and brings the subject of the mysterious letter out into the open Th April 2 Ellie's visit to the lawyer only brings further doubts to her mind. Fr April 3 Now that Beanie has gone back to school Meg seems determined to win Matt's love Mon April 6 Beanie's return to school brings forth some unexpected facts. Tues April 6 Matt again gives Van pause to question her sister's paralysis. Wed April 7 Warren Nash tells another vicious story. Thur April 8 Evans Baker arranges a meeting. Mon April 13 Van learns about Alex Crown's past. Tues Apr 14 Through no fault of her own, Van holds the key to her friend's happiness. Wed April 15 The first Mrs Crown makes a purposeful visit. Thurs April 16 Evans Baker has blithely uncovered Meg's secret. Mon April 20 Matt Slocum still questions Meg's sudden recovery. Tues April 21 Evans Baker shows he is fully aware of Meg's game. Wed April 22 What lurks behind the pleasantries of a party? Th April 23 Warren Nash's shrewdness definitely seems to fit into the scheme. Fri April 24 A little game proved to be all too real for Alex Crown. Mon April 27 Van withholds Alex crown's secret. Tues April 28 The party begins. Wed April 29 Vanessa receives a disturbing phone call. Thurs April 30 A laugh and a pat on the head can hide a multitude of sorrows. Fri May 1 The party slides downhill. Mon May 4 Ellie seems to be at the end of her rope. Tues May 5 Jill makes another attempt to extract money from Vanessa. Wed May 6 Meg proceeds with her plan. Thurs May 7 Van's old friend Paul Raven fills in for the evening. Fri May 8 Meg plants a seed in Matt's mind. Does Vanessa really love him? Mon May 11 Dinner at the wrong place at the wrong time leaves Matt Slocum with some explaining to do. Wed May 13 Jill sets her price for a piece of paper. Thurs May 14 Meg and warren Nash confirm their alliance. Mon May 18 Charlie realizes that a divorce cannot erase hatred. Tues May 18 Charlie's new found happiness only brings to light the stronger struggle between Meg and Vanessa. Wed May 18 Silent war between Meg and Vanessa takes a new turn. Thurs May 19 Charlie visits his son. Fri May 20 Vanessa realizes she has come closer to losing everything she wants. Wed May 27 Matt understands vanessa's mood. Thurs May 28 Warren shows ambitions which have no moral limits. Friday May 29 Meg has gained a new weapon to fight Vanessa. Mon June 1 marty makes an interesting visit to the bank. Tues June 2 Interlocking tentacles of suspicion, malice and misunderstanding crowd in on Vanessa. Wed June 2 Vanessa must choose between blackmail and a friend's ruined life. Thurs June 4 Vanessa makes her decision. Fri june 5 A fearful new element has intruded on the scene. Mon June 8 Vanessa's mind begins a desperate search for an answer. Tues June 9 Suspicion surrounds every move of all four people who work at the travel agency. Wed June 10 Meg tries to get information. Thurs June 11 Meg savagely exploits Vanessa's fear. Mon June 15 Evans Baker manages to avoid making a final mistake. Tues June 16 Evans begins his mission. Wed June 17 Alex and Ellie crown make a toast to happiness. Thurs June 18 Vanessa cannot protect herself from the suspicions raised by Matt and Meg. Fri June 19 Although Evans is not a sentimentalist, he is not a villian either. Mon June 22 While Vanessa tries to untangle her confused life, Meg creates additional problems. Tues June 23 Alex and Ellie enjoy their newfound happiness, unaware of the black shadow that threatens them. Wed June 24 Van must move fast and decisively, but there is no place to move. Thurs June 25 Evans betrays another self for a brief moment. Fri June 25 Vanessa seeks the last straw on the sea in which she flounders. Mon June 28 Vanessa has neither the strength nor will to fight Meg Tues June 29 Meg receives a report on Beanie, her son Wed June 30 Meg's subtle manipulation of Beanie's attitude is legitimate by her standards. Thurs June 31 Paul Raven and Evans Baker decide to work together Fri July 10 Vanesa has insisted upon revelation. Mon July13 The threads of two stories have become strangely intertwined. Tues July 14 Jill Crown proves her threat is real, Wed July 15 A playful tug of war is in reality a deadly struggle. Thurs July 16 Paul Raven stalls for time. Fri July 17 Mon July 20 Alex Crown's reaction to Jill's presence indicates she may not be lying. Tues July 21 Vanessa promises to supply Jill with action. Wed July 22 Alex hopes desperately that he can stall a little longer Thurs July 23 Alex Crown neither confirms or denies the story. Fri July 24 Alex has a story to tell. Mon July 27 The part that Vanessa has to play in the growing tragedy is reduced to that of listener Tues July 28 Alex shocks Ellie. Wed July 29 The part that Jill's brother played in the alleged marriage comes into question. Thurs July 30 It seems that not even Alex knows what happened all those years ago. Fri July 31 Artie has revealed a fatal flaw to Jill. Mon Aug 3 Paul Raven has enough information to take a big gamble. Tues Aug 4 Vanessa knows that if the bluff fails there is no going back. Wed Aug 5 The risk begins to work but the climax is yet to come, Thurs Aug 6 Paul has masterful assurance as he reconstructs the story of the wedding. Fri Aug 7 Vanessa has forgotten that she neglected and complicated the explosive problems that beset her personal life. Mon Aug 10 Matt comes to Paul Raven for an explanation. Tues Aug 11 Marty makes a direct accusation. Tues Aug 12 Meg attempts to settle the problems at hand. Wed Aug 13 Matt gets a refund from Warren. Thurs Aug 14 Fri Aug 15 The mystery ends in a surprise package. Mon Aug 18 The returned money brings more problems than expected. Tues Aug 19 Meg discovers what she knows will bring her no good. Wed Aug 20 Ellie comes up with news. Thurs Aug 21 Matt conceals a secret. Fri Aug 22 Warren Nash finds himself in an enviable position Mon Aug 25 Matt Slocum is determined to find out if Vanessa is the thief but gets no help from Ellie. Tues Aug 26 Ellie's strange actions leave Van perplexed. Wed Aug 27 Megs plot against Vanessa is nearing its climax. Thurs Aug 28 Meg's little scheme has finally taken effect. Fri Aug 29 Vanessa and Meg both find themselves in unhappy situations. Mon Sept 1 Van finds Paul a true friend. Tues Sept 2 Van's personality has changed. Wed Sept 3 Meg plans to defy Warren. Thurs Sept 4 Meg refuses to accept things. Fri Sept 5 Meg finally awakens to the bitter facts. Mon Sept 8 Matt Slocum has at last learned the truth. Tues Sept 9 Paul has taken matters into his own hands. Wed Sept 10 Meg's final bit of arrogance is the last straw. Thurs Sept 11 A deep crisis arrives in the family of the two sisters. Fri Sept 12 In the midst of failure and defeat Van sees her way clearly with Paul.

There was talk of Search and ATWT each expanding to 45 mins with SFT running 12.30 till 1.15 and ATWT 1.15 till 2.00 but it was decided to do with ATWT expanding to 1 hr 1.30 till 2.30. I guess they decided it was too risky moving ATWT from its traditional timeslot and CBS affiliates may have been resistant to giving up the 1pm timeslot. There was talk again of SFT expanding in 78 when the Corringtons were introducing a lot of new characters but it never went ahead. Once Y&R expanded there was no room for Search to go to 60 min.

Jane's option was up and I believe if she renewed she'd get a pay raise and she was already on top dollar. Potter didn't think that the story was resonating and the ratings weren't up so he wanted to save the $$$.

Central Oregon Mon, June 23, 1975 2 KATU-ABC Portland 3 KVDO-Ind Salem 6 KOIN-CBS Portland 7 KOAC-PBS Corvallis 8 KGW-NBC Portland 9 KEZI-ABC/CBS Eugene 12 KPTV-Ind Portland 13 KVAL-NBC Eugene Morning 7:00 2-9 AM America 6 CBS Morning News 8-13 Today 12 Government Story 7:30 12 Flintstones 8:00 6 Captain Kangaroo 7 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood 12 Big Blue Marble 8:30 7 Lilias, Yoga & You 12 Cartoon Castle 9:00 2 AM Northwest (local show) 6 Spin-Off 7 Sesame Street 8 Telescope (local show) 9 Coffeetime 12-13 Celebrity Sweepstakes 9:30 2 Movie "The Lodger" 6 Gambit 8-13 Wheel of Fortune 9 Movie "Desert Detour" 12 Petticoat Junction 10:00 6 KOIN Kitchen 7 Electric Company 8-13 High Rollers 12 Tattletales 10:30 6 Love of Life 7 Of All Things 8-13 Hollywood Squares 12 Mister Ed 10:55 6 CBS News 11:00 2 Money Maze 6 Young & the Restless 7 Idea Thing 8-13 Jackpot! 12 I Dream of Jeannie 11:30 2-9 Big Showdown 6 News 7 The Gig 8-13 Blank Check 12 Search for Tomorrow 11:55 8-13 NBC News Afternoon noon 2-9 Password 7 Photography 8-13 News 12 Perry Mason 12:30 2-9 Split Second 6 As the World Turns 7 Villa Alegre 8-13 Days of Our Lives 1:00 2-9 All My Children 6 Guiding Light 7 The Naturalists 12 Movie "Magic Carpet" 1:30 2-9 Let's Make a Deal 6 Edge of Night 7 World Ptess 8-13 Doctors 2:00 2-9 $10,000 Pyramid 6 Price is Right 8-13 Another World 2:30 2-9 One Life to Live 6 Match Game 7 Of All Things! 3:00 2-9 General Hospital 6 Musical Chairs 7 Active Life 8 Dinah! 12 Land of the Giants 13 Somerset 3:30 2 Concentration 6 Truth or Consequences 7 Telecourse 9 I Dream of Jeannie 13 New Zoo Revue

Or maybe once Bill Bell was pretty much out of the picture, the jockeying for leadership began. Maybe one party felt they were more responsible for the ongoing success than the other etc.Perhaps someone at Sony kept things in check for a time. Considering that according to Jeanne Cooper's book Ed Scott was supportive of Melody's freeze out of her, maybe Scott was a little more responsible for the way things spilled...just speculation

Re James Shannon Add Search for Tomorrow - he played a photographer during a photo shoot for Liza in 1976.

Theresa ,Kay's original maid as seen in that clip where Jill brings Katherine home was played by Ann(e)?Morrison. She continued on through 1974 at least. When the fight over the house happened in the late 90's , wasn't some previous servant brought on to verify that Phillip left the house to Jill? I don't think it was Theresa, but it would have been cool if she was brought back? How (if at all) was Theresa dropped?

Thanks for reposting that list. We know have to make room for Lee Kurty, who in her interview says 3 weeks in 63 as well as Jean Beecham and Brooke Bundy. They may have been temp replacements