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The Variety review said that a divinity student delivered the lamp in the first episode of the Selby Flats episode so not Ned Holden? Some summaries from the 40's June 10 1940 In this episode, Myrna returns to San Francisco in a depression and tries to bury her grief by returning to her broadcasting career. Martin Kane thinks she's sad because her ex-husband, Ned Holden, is marrying Mary Rutledge. However, Myrna says that isn't the case. She confesses that she met a man on the East Coast and fell in love with him. Myrna refuses to give details, but says that the relationship ended. Martin says that she may have misinterpreted the entire affair and that he'll wait for her. NB Myrna is Torchy Reynolds actual first name. June 12 1940 In this episode, Rose Kransky remains after hours with her boss, Jack Felzer, to compensate for the time she took to attend Ned and Mary's wedding. Jack asks about the nuptials, which leads to a discussion of how Rose, Ned, and Mary all grew up in Five Points. Rose realizes why Jack knows so much about her background: He had read about her in the newspapers during her recent court appearance. Jack tells her that he admired her conduct under such trying circumstances. She admits that she wanted to escape her former life. Implying that he's romantically interested in her, Jack counsels Rose to simply accept her destiny. May 7 1945 In this episode, attorney Peter Manno talks to Angela Mason about the custody case he is working on. He explains that much of the judge's decision in the case will depend on the testimony of a woman named Nana. The program is interrupted by a news update, which informs the public on the progress of the official end of the war in Europe. The program resumes as Manno says the nation should establish federal regulations that will protect the rights of people who adopt children. August 10 1945 In this episode, lawyer Peter Manno has decided to come clean about a mistake he made seven years ago, despite the fact that only his wife Angie knows of the misdeed. Peter goes to Mr. Burrows, confessing what happened after he was assigned to the 1935 jewel robbery case. Mr. Burrows never knew that Peter's brother, Tony, was involved, nor the fact that Peter gave Tony a second chance after the heist. Peter begs that Tony be left alone, as Tony has "gone straight" by becoming an accountant, getting married and having two children. Mr. Burrows agrees, but says that Peter will be judged by the Bar Association's grievance committee the next day -- and may end up disbarred and disgraced August 14 1945 The bar has censured Peter for his wrongdoing. Peter decides not to run for office and hands in his resignation as assistant state attorney.

Wasn't Michael killed off during a writer's strike? So whoever was producer at the time made that decision. Or maybe I've got that wrong.

Terry O ' Sullivan was killed off as Arthur in 1966 i believe.This blurb makes it sound like it was an immediate move. He actually appeared on Days 66-68.

Search for Tomorrow Re Janet Collins Will 81's post in the Search thread has confirmed that Marion Hailey was cast as Janet in 65 and not 71 as often published. I believe that Millee Taggart was the only Janet once the character returned in 71.

Great stuff .Thanks for that. Some dates clarified and new mysteries to solve.

June 1943 RADIO'S MOST FAMOUS FAMILY "ONE MAN'S FAMILY" IS DEDICATED TO MOTHERS AND FATHERS AND THEIR BEWILDERING OFFSPRINGS The Radio show "One Man's Family" seems as old as Methuselah, as time-honored as radio, itself, customary as a Sunday Night supper. The show has been coming over the ether weekly for eleven years. Eight of those venerable mileposts have had the same sponsor, who still has seven years to go. The program was, first produced by NBC on the west coast as a sustaining in 1932. Two years later it went nationwide, has long since become a radio legend, earned its author half a million dollars-added steadily to the fortunes of its cast. In the history of "the Family" there have been four deaths, one divorce, fifty characters introduced-twelve permanent Sunday night visitors. Out of the half a hundred who have played various parts, most of the original cast still remain through the perpetual saga: Some of them began as script school children and were written into adulthood, others who started as juveniles are now playing romantic leads. When a member of the cast is drafted, dies, or gets married, so it is written into the script an4 even though he returns no more, his memory is kept alive through references. Becoming a part of "One Man's Family" is almost a practical guarantee of a lifetime job, and pleasant security. The mystery of its appeal is still a mystery. It's theme is nothing more complicated than the daily happenings of an average American home. It's institutional family attempts to intercept certain phases of ordinary happenings, philosophies, weaves in wars, floods and calamities to give it a 'timeliness, but it always remains'the closely knit story of a family of twelve. There is little or no conflict. On some shows, nothing actually happens. The characters merely sit around and talk. They aren't witty; they don't tear at your emotions, you are rarely perturbed-they are certainly never profound. Paul, favorite and beloved character to millions of people, often engages in some quiet talk that is inspiring, but even these choice bits of inspiration are something you know, already. The most probable secret of the success of the whole thing is its seeming sincerity. The cast has been playing the parts for so long that they are almost as real to them as their everyday life. When they enter the studio on Sunday night there is a spirit of "going home" quite prevalent, they call each other by their script names and discuss things that happened in last week's show as if it were really part and parcel of their life. When Page Gilman, who has played Jack, the youngest son, since the show went on the air, was drafted into the Army it affected the whole cast. Quiet, gray, velvet -voiced Mother Barbour called the cast together at rehearsal and said: "The war has come to our housenold." They were as sad as if Page were son and brother. Each of them felt a new responsibility toward the war effort. Mother Barbour took up knitting to send him a sweater, Claudia, the script sister, went out and joined the motor corp division of AWVS, Radio sister Hazel became a Hollywood Canteen hostess. All of which impetus sprang from a radio's brother going to the front. At another time the script called for Hazel to have a baby. The event was given a terrific build-up, week after week,- when the script baby finally arrived, it had all seemed so wonderful that Hazel had herself a real baby. Listeners to "One Man's Family" often comment: "Gosh, the man who writes that script must have some family! The man who writes the script is 40 -years -old Carlton E. Morse,who has no family, anal often expresses an aversion to children. Formerly a cowboy, rancher of the range, Hearst writer and police reporter, he got an idea for his family series from reading Galsworthy's Forsythe Saga. Morse was, however, born into a family of six, of Dutch parentage, and sometimes his family is reflected but never mirrored in the radio show. While he was still an infant the Morses bought a ranch in Oregon where Carlton learned about cattle during the day and read classics at night. Ambitious to get away from the cattle, he turned to newspaper writing. It was while he was a Hearst columnist that he met and married blonde, witty, Patricia Morse, who is severe critic of all he does. In 1929, with newspapers folding under him almost weekly, he decided radio looked rather permanent, introduced his "Family," and -he and radio have been permanent and inseparable ever since. The program is carried on a full NBC network, has won trophies and awards of all types, continually remains one of the biggest draws in radio. In eleven years it has consumed scripts equivalent to 41 average length novels. Out of those three million, two hundred and fifty thousand words has come nothing more astounding than a glimpse each Sunday of the ordinary conversation of a fictional average family. Some writers claim that Morse gets by with murder in depicting his family, and that he certainly gets by the censors. Basis for their claim is several rather risque chapters, one memorable example being the night the debonaire Clifford was in a hospital and the beautiful nurse, while giving him a bath, engaged in some romantic language. The whole thing was an everyday hospital occurrence, but it jolted listeners into closer attention and accumulated several million more for the next broadcast. True, also, is the fact that births and "the facts of life" are treated frankly in the Barbour family. So familiar to radio audiences is "One Man's Family" that it is considered a real family rather than fictional creatures. All of the cast receives fan mail addressed to them by their air names. This is a tribute to an author, who neither listens to Beethoven, studies newspapers, nor frequents a bar for inspiration. Morse-he just sits down at his typewriter and waits. Since the proof of the pudding is axiomatically in the eating, his prosaic method of writing is eminently successful. From his stare -at -a -blank -page has come a germinating plot. Perhaps that is why for eleven years millions of families, in homes large and small across the country, have gathered around the radio at that old familiar theme-"One Man's Family" is dedicated to the mothers and fathers of the younger generation and to their bewildering offsprings." If the listening audience is sometimes bewildered by the galaxy of names flitting in and out of the script, it is also apparently entertained.

@jam6242 great work Thanks! William Johnstone Just Plain Bill Bright Horizon Mr Boyce Wheatena Playhouse 'Of Human Bondage' 1941 Lucy Gilman Life Begins Virginia Craig (temp replacement for sister Toni) The Guiding Light Eileen O'Brien Painted Dreams Melody Lee

Lawson Zerbe Jane Arden Pretty Kitty Kelly 1940 Aunt Jenny 1940 This Small Town My Son and I Young Dr Malone Story of Mary Marlin Adam Fury David Harum Ted Crane By Kathleen Norris 'Woman in Love' Lance Mystery Man 1941 Strange Romance of Evelyn Winters 1946 Rose of My Dreams 1947 Stella Dallas 1951 Maybe Jam can find some characters for these roles...

If I recall correctly Jill was selling the house w/o any legal right to do so. Greg found out and alerted Jill to the dangers of what she was doing. I think it was just a plot point to show how desperate Jill was, her disappointment that Andy didn't have any money to provide hence her interest when John Abbott returned and there was a chance she could finally have financial security. Liz owned the house but it was never resolved what happened to it. Now back to Soap Hoppers...

Nov 1945 Barbara Fuller Gets Claudia Role Blonde Barbara Fuller is the new Claudia in "One Man's Family" (NBC, Sundays, 2:30 p. m., WOW). For the first time in the 13 -year history of the NBC program, Writer- Producer Carlton E. Morse has brought in someone new to play one of the major roles in the story. I have been besieged with requests to bring Claudia back to "One Man's Family" ever since Kathleen Wilson, who originally played the part, left the cast two years ago," said Morse. "I have waited this long because I wanted to be sure that I had found the right person for the role. Barbara Fuller is a perfect Claudia." Miss Fuller, who also plays the part of Barry Fitzgerald's niece, Susan, in the new NBC program, "His Honor, the Barber," has been a radio actress in Chicago and New York since she was 9 years old.

Ethel Everett Remey Cimarron Tavern 1945 By Kathleen Norris 'Black Fleming' Narrator Woman of Courage Martha Jackson I day replacement for Esther Ralston Robert Clarke Whispering Streets 1958 Boris Aplon Thunder Over Paradise Bargos Judy and Jane 'Frenchman'

Harry Moses Young and the Restless Jason (5 eps when Jill tried to sell the Foster house, Jason was an interested buyer) 1982

Hall of Famer Lesley Woods Wheatena Playhouse 'The Rains Came' Fern Simon Houseboat Hannah 1941 Barry Cameron 1945

According to Soap Central Rose Kransky took a job with Doris Cameron, which would be the beginning of Right To Happiness. She returned to Five Points (and Guiding Light) when Mary Holden told her that Mrs Kransky was experiencing hardship. This indicates that the Kranskys stayed in Five Points. But according to other information they had moved next door to the Burkes on RTH. If the Kranskys stayed in Five Points but moved to a better part of town, then the Burkes also lived in Five Points yet didn't seem to figure at all in Guiding Light as the Kransky's neighbors. Still confused.

Thanks for that. It all seems very odd. I can understand the need to transition to new characters but to completely drop the whole cast? I wonder if Ned and Mary got a proper send off? Bill, do you know the names of any of the actors of the new characters? It might help me track down more info...

I don't have a definitive answer but it seems the Kranskys moved up the social ladder so maybe this area was near Five Points but had a different name? Obviously if they returned to TGL so must have been close enough to interact with the Five Points characters. I wonder what happened that allowed them to buy a better house? My other TGL questions concerns the storyline in the mid 40's. It seems the late 30's /early 40's characters were pretty much gone and there was a new minister. What were the stories around 44-46? Thanks to Bill Bauer from a few pages back. Greg, Claire, Tim, Jonathan, Nina Angie and Peter ! A whole bunch of new characters that I've never read about. I wonder how they transitioned to these new people. The new minister - Gaylord - had a wife and two children Peggy and Dick - but they are not mentioned here.

Upon further investigation it seems that TGL was dropped in 1939 and last broadcast 0ct 13 1939. Not sure why it was axed, perhaps something to do with sponsors.Will try and find out. Anyway RTH debuted the following Monday so it seems that Rose and the Kransky's presence along with others from TGL was to keep those characters alive until TGL returned, which it did a few months later in Jan 1940. I guess at that time Rose returned to TGL, which explains why she didn't have much to do on RTH. It seems that the Kranskys moved into a new neighborhood 'out of the slums' at the beginning of RTH and the Burkes were their neighbors.

Kevin McCarthy His Right to Happiness role was Lee McDonald

So Rose returned to TGL and played out the Greenman story? The timeline of TGL and RTH is confusing at this time.

This was the early cast of RTH. Seems the Burke family were prominent and the Cunninghams were brought over from TGL as well as the Kranskys. Doris,Carolyn and Bill were there also to get that story off the ground. "Right to Happiness," the serial which stemmed from Irna Phillips' "Guiding Light," exercised its privilege to change networks and is now heard on CBS. The cast remains the same as follows: Mrs. Kransky- Mignon Schreiber. Rose Kransky -Ruth Bailey. Jacob Kransky- Seymour Young. Emily Burke -Bernardine Flynn. Tom Burke -Carl Kroenke. Donald Burke -Pat Murphy. Mildred Burke -Nancy Hurdle. Terry Burke -Carlton KaDell. Kathy Burke -Lucy Gilman. Dr. Ruthledge- Arthur Peterson. Helene Cunningham -Lesley Woods. Charles Cunningham -Bill Bouchey. Bill Walker -Reese Taylor. Doris Cameron -Constance Crowder. Caroline- Laurette Fillbrandt. Grace Mead -Jane Green.

BTW Drag Race Canada was pretty basic...

Right to Happiness summary 1941. The Kranskys had vanished by this point. ALMOST everybody wants happiness; almost nobody knows quite what happiness really is. And the struggle to achieve this elusive state of bliss often has the strange effect of creating a great deal ·of unhappiness. For instance, in Ima Phillips; serial show "Right to Happiness" (heard Monday through Friday over CBS) . Here the struggle results in a muddle of love triangles which. would confound the wisest adviser to the lovelorn. First, Bill Walker (Reese Taylor), an advertising executive, falls for widow Doris Cameron (Connie Crowder), a woman's magazine editor until he meets her daughter, Carolyn (Eloise Kummer), whom he marries while Doris is away on business. Carolyn is ignorant of her mother's love for Bill, later finds life with him-he is twenty years older than she-- quite incompatible. Her real heart interest is Bill's young business associate, Dwight Kramer (Frank Behrens) . She threatens divorce, but Bill refuses to leave her. Another triangle develops as Louise Sims (Sarajane Wells), comes to live with Doris, meets Lyle Anders (Karl Weber), a young writer, to whom she becomes engaged out of pity on learning that he has only six months to live. But his recovery places her on a .spot, for she really is in love with a young lawyer named Dick Gordon (Monty Mohn). A third trend is introduced when Fred Minturn (Art Kohl), who loves Doris, is spurned because she still carries the torch for Bill Walker. All of these men and women search for one possession- happiness .

David Gothard Tale of Today Otis Cliff Denise Alexander Perry Mason Joyce Jordan Kings Row Harry Bellaver Backstage Wife 1951 Central City Fred Olsen

Tony Randall Right to Happiness Sam Roberts

Ethel Wilson Front Page Farrell 1946 Effie Palmer My Son and I 1939 By Kathleen Norris 'Woman in Love' Mother Lawrence Just Plain Bill Mrs Eeps Mercer McCloud Valiant Lady Stewart Fairbanks 1952 Hugh Marlowe Our Gal Sunday Gavin Murray Elspeth Eric Mommie and the Men 1945 Betty Caine Madame Courageous Sarah Brayden Amanda of Honeymoon Hill Joyce Jordan