Paul Raven

Re Brad and Lauren. I like the idea of those 2 pairing up as a devious twosome who would never fully commit to each other. They could have got years out of them coming together and splitting up - kind of an anti-love story. As for the Nikki/Jack/Victor/Ashley /Matt story Bill Bell was always able to write things in such a way that characters could do a complete 180 and it would still come across as (mostly) believable and certainly compelling. Back to Vanessa.Can anyone establish when she had surgery.It seems to be sometime in 78. There is amention in SOD synopses of the possibility and that it would be along and painful procedure. Then The Lorie/Lance/Leslie/Lucas story continues with nary a mention of Van or surgery and then she is mentioned again and I assume she now was without a veil. What happened??? EDIT I read on and it is revealed that Vanessa indeed did have surgery but continued to wear a veil. I get the feeling Vanessa was off the show for a while (maybe Summer 78) and the surgery was done then., contradicting the 5 years of surgeries needed mentioned previously.

Leslie with OG Laura (Stacey Baldwin) and Barbara Vining (Judy Lewis)

Some more Never Too Young promo pics David Watson John Lupton Jaclyn Carmichael

Ann Sheridan in her Hollywood heyday 1946 and NBC press release foe AW 1965

Promo pic for the anti smoking storyline from 1982

She is 75 years old! Yes, looking good.

Agree re Brad. Sometimes characters have to go after along stint to make room for newbies. Y&R held on to way too many characters past their use by date - I'm looking at you Phyllis! and Kevin and Michael ... One story they held off on was exploring his past. When he was marrying Traci something came up about his family and he was all vague. Didn't he destroy wedding invitations to them? Then unfortunately when they did explore that the story was ridiculous. Killing him off was a bit drastic (maybe he could have just got a job out of town) but it was dramatic and dealt with the character once and for all - rather than him being never mentioned or coming up with lame excuses as to why he never returned(because the actor was unavailable or they were too lazy to bring him back) But then killing off his daughter was a step too far. Traci should have taken in a troubled teen and all the drama that goes with it. Re-ignite Traci v Lauren by having Fen get involved with her.

This has been discussed many times but I believe Search's demise was hastened by the constant turnover of writers/producers, each with a different vision. instead of constantly adding new characters they needed to fix the core.There were viable characters who were forgotten, Gary Walton, Laine Adamson, Danny Walton.Tom Bergman SORAS Patti's kids as new teens. Have new characters interact with them. By 1986 apart from Jo and Stu from the 50's only Liza and Sunny had been around longer than a few years.

I know Danfling is unhappy that Leslie Bauer was killed off Guiding Light. I believe Lynne Adams wanted to leave so the Dobsons saw it as a chance to free up Mike for further romance. Danfling, were you a fan of Adams particularly or the Leslie character in general? Had they decided to recast, who do you think would have worked in the role? Barbara Rodell and Kathryn Hays had both played Leslie but were contracted to As The World Turns.

Re Secret Storm The priest storyline got some press attention but it was too late by then. One Life to Live was leading at 3.30. Nov 1972 1. GH 10.6 2. ATWT 10.2 3. DOOL 9.8 4. DRS 9.5 5. AW 9.1 6. OLTL 8.8 7.AMC 8.3 8.GL 8.0 9.SFT 8.0 10.EON 7.5

Janet is Liza's mother and Stu's daughter. She was Janet Bergman Gardner Walton Collins. Liza and Gary and Danny are her children by Dan Walton.

After Ted Adamson suddenly proposed (he needed money and Janet was wealthy) Janet wasn't sure she was ready to marry again, so she decided to take Danny to San Francisco to visit her son Gary and do some thinking. She never returned. This was mid 82 when Henderson was invaded by Warren, Kristin, Jenny, Keith etc.

Schemering's book mentions that Edith would return for Christmas visits for years. I wish we had more info on that. Edith left in 1960 and definitely returned for Pa's 70th in 63 (?) and by 66 Ruth was working on Peyton Place in Hollywood.So there were only a few years when Ruth was available.

Re Clear Horizon Add Victoria Loughran 1962

Re Scott Palmer He was also on Love of Life. Re Alice Drummond She had an earlier role on As The World Turns pre 1973

Re Mary Linda Rapeleye (Maggie Crawford Andropolous) SPW April 1999. According to Rapeleye, Robert Calhoun exec producer was full of praise for her work, telling her that Maggie was the best character on the show and she would be front burner for the next 18 months. "All of a sudden, a new writing team , headed by Doug Marland was hired", she says . "We were told he thought we had the best cast in daytime and that no changes were planned. Two weeks later, I was called in and Robert told me 'Kid, we're letting you go'. I was shocked."

Re Don Chastain His OLTL appearance was 1999.

Thanks so much for these. Just skimming over them and already discovered new stuff! Until SOD came along there were only broad outlines available.

Derrick was pretty awful from start to finish. Glad she went so the 'feud' couldn't be continued. Ongina has to step it up but everyone else did OK for Round 1.

Bill with Florence Henderson in 1958. They were appearing in an episode of US Steel Hour

Jerry Douglas in a 1963 episode of 'The Outer Limits'