Paul Raven

Woman With a Past Eleanor Russell....Dorothy Peterson

Three Steps to Heaven Russell Meade...Charles Martin Woman With a Past John Ridgeley played Hal Jackson

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.

Three Steps to Heaven Kate Adams...Margaret Hayes (blamed herself for Bill's loss of memory) 1954

June 79 Teasers. Advertisements in BROADCASTING and elsewhere say simply: "Buy L.A.T.E.R" -lots of white space and logo of Columbia Pictures Television. Well, Metromedia did, and Columbia has gone ahead with planned 13 -week schedule of new late night strip, Life and Times of Eddie Roberts, created by husband -and -wife team of Ellis and Ann Marcus. (She's late of Norman Lear's organization and stint as co- creator of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and All That Glitters and more recently writing Days of Our Lives for Columbia.) Her association with Hartman was not lost on Columbia or Metromedia. either. Executives of both unabashedly refer to the critical success of Lear's show when discussing what they expect to come of L.A.T.E.R. Metromedia will begin running half -hour shows (11 p.m. NYT) in January on its stations in Los Angeles, Washington, Cincinnati, Minneapolis. Kansas City, Mo., and Houston. That's potential audience of 20% of nation -well on way to 50 % -60 %. Norman Horowitz, president of Columbia Distribution, says company will need to break even on venture. (Actual dollar figures are being held close to vests.) No other stations have signed on as yet, but its understood Columbia will be asking top dollar for show. The pitch. L.A.T.E.R. won't enter production until fall, but pilot has been shot and is being shown selectively. Briefly, show is about Roberts, college professor, with wife who leaves him because of his sexual problems. He has shapely student interested in improving her grades and equally shapely researcher who is after him to serve as guinea pig for new male contraceptive drug. "Metromedia was looking for something to duplicate the success of Mary Hartman, "says Dick Woolen, group's vice president for programing. L.A.T.E.R. has "exactly that same potential" Show is thought to be first major effort to reopen late -night slot first entered by Hartman when it premiered in 1976. Ken Page, Columbia's executive vice president for sales, says he has no particular marketing strategy other than to "tradeoff the success of Mary Hartman. "Unlike that show, however, L.A.T.E.R. will be able to "bypass that stage of proving itself" to stations. Sales talks with other broadcasters were starting last week.

William Prince Way of The World 4/4/55 - 4/22/55 Walt Leora Thatcher Way of The World 'Forbidden Dreams' Mrs Greystock HM Wynant Modern Romances 'Nice Young Man' Ben

Thanks for the comments. The daily format was a huge undertaking. Perhaps the thinking was that viewers(housewives) could be able to watch and not worry about missing episodes - which would inevitably happen when little Timmy had a doctors appointment etc. As for the sets, maybe once the show went to a serial they needed more sets for the extra characters and the studio couldn't hold them all,so they decided to shrink the hospital sets? At least TD held on longer than Ben Jerrod on NBC which debuted the same day.

First Love Basil Burwell played a judge in 1955. Could this be Judge Holcombe?

The Brighter Day Chief McDougall 1955 Love of Life Bethel Leslie was playing Ellie in 1955

Pat also had Marcus Brady,Roman's younger brother get involved with Melissa Anderson. Pat also had Marcus Brady,Roman's younger brother get involved with Melissa Anderson.

P Jay Sidney was the second actor to portray Dr Bellows on ATWT, The first was Brock Peters. He is quoted her from a TV Guide article titled ' What the Negro Wants From TV' 20th Jan 1968. Sidney left I believe, when he was not offered a contract. Irna Phillips was writing at this time. I previously read that she refused to write blacks into the series as servants/janitors etc. This is Sidney's take on his stint. Sidney sites his own experiences last spring when he was hired as a regular in an important supporting role on the popular daytime soap ATWT “I was supposed to be a research physician in that series,” he says, “and yet, emotionally and dramatically, I didn't exist as a person. My whole function in those 14 segments was getting a white boy out of jail. I was a non-person in the plot with no life of my own. I didn't have any problems. There were no things about which I was personally glad or sad, nothing to which I personally aspired. I had no past, no future , no family. I only existed for that white boy. I was, in other words an auxiliary, not a person.” His tone suddenly becomes vehement. “Hell”, he explodes, “life isn't just going to a laboratory everyday.”

Uttica just didn't get it. But those defending her saying others have used fat jokes don't get it either. It has to be FUNNY and delivered tongue in cheek Uttica just came across as mean. Anyway, she's gone Symone should have killed it but she floundered. Olivia will be next and that means Kandy is top 4. The judges (again) were creaming themselves over her roast but I don't see it. Makes me wish there was a round where some of the eliminated get one more chance to get back in.

Of GH she said that Monty was critical of every outline presented and she felt devalued. It's no secret Monty was a micro manager and Smith was probably used to having more control of story.

Some requests Ashley Lyn Cafagna Ben Murphy Carol Lawrence Karen Hensel

Would love to get my hands on PFS interview for Afternoon TV mag where she detailed her Days plans. Do recall she talked about Doug/Julie faking a separation to allow Stefano to move in on Julie and try and uncover his secrets. She talked about them having secret rendezvous and nearly getting caught etc.

Jay Meredith Kitty Keene Nadra 1939 Stories America Loves 'Dodsworth' Emily Dodsworth Just Plain Bill 1941 Bright Horizon Young Widder Brown 1946 Lora Lawton 1948 Road of Life Mae Stevenson 1947 Young Doctor Malone Clara Grimes 1947 Crystal Gates Williams 1951 By Kathleen Norris 'The Love of Julie Borel' Penelope Barnes 1940

Thanks for all the replies. I think Chris just vanished. When PFS returned she wrote a series of episodes where Chris and Maggie were thrown together and had to spend the night at her farm but nothing came of it. Maybe Pat was toying with putting them together. Poor Maggie was bounced from one bad story to the next. Amazingly she outlasted so many others. Killing off Mary was mercy killing by that stage but it also served the Strangler plot as she was an important character.In fact she was only major character the Stangler killed (apart from Samantha) Over time Alex and Marie's relationship was completely dropped, especially when Jessica was backburnered. I think if you were watching from 83-85 you might not know they had any connection.

Did they say that Chris had earlier studied to be a lawyer, then put it aside? Was this a retcon because they needed Chris to be a lawyer for a particular storyline? If so, what was it? If not, then what was the point? Surely Chris was more useful as a bar or gym owner. Weird that Chris had relationships with two women named Leslie. Chris was one of a few long running characters on soaps that never married.

Great additions! Karl Weber Road of Life Dr Jim Brent (temp for Don McLaughlin) 1948 My True Story Reverend 1955

I think CRCO was not an NBC affiliate and took Texas on a one day delay hence the need to play the final two episodes back to back. The 4 pm timeslot seems a bit odd. Maybe someone can confirm this.

Brilliant!

Frank Parker Days of Our Lives Stefano's doctor 1982

Bill did like to repeat stories one way or another... Days Mickey on the farm /Y&R Victor on the farm which actually first played in radio on Young Dr Malone Days Phyllis shoots Mary by mistake/ Y&R Vanessa shoots Lance by mistake Days Eric writes scandalous novel 'In My Brother's Shadow /Y&R Lorie writes scandalous novel 'In My Sister's Shadow'

I'm interested in your ideas of what Search could have done story wise to entice viewers when the CBS/NBC switch happened? What special event could drum up some publicity or interest? Having Travis and Liza in danger again seems a bit ho hum.

The illustrator must have had something against ATWT if this and the #3 above are anything to go by.