Paul Raven

Re SFT Harry Goz was on for 9 weeks as Phil Strickland

NEW YORK 16th August 1967 The sign in the restaurant read: “No service tin 3:30. Ralph is on television.” The waiters and a few customers gathered around the small screen to watch Ralph Oliva in his role on NBC-TV’s daytime serial, “Another World.” He was playing a waiter and doing it superbly. And why not? When he isn’t engaged in his important and continuing role in “Another World” Oliva is one of the waiters in that restaurant. The other day Oliva paused on his way to set up the tables for lunch in his present offscreen job to discuss his unusual double life—a waiter in reality and in the fantasy world of television. He said it happened like this: “I was a clarinettist in the Glenn Miller orchestra during the war but I gave up music to study acting. It’s tough for an unknown and I needed a source of income that wouldn’t take hours a day of practice. A friend suggested being a waiter. “I said I had never done any waiting on tables. Said my friend ‘You’re an actor aren’t you? Act like a waiter!’ So I went into a restaurant and asked for a job, acting ail the time. I must have given a believable performance because they gave me a job and I’ve been a waiter ever since, combining it with my acting career. “I used to send cards to agents reading: T’m appearing at Blank’s Restaurant, Mondays through Fridays. Come and see me.’ When the role of Charley the waiter came up in ‘Another World’ a casting director remembered my practical knowledge of the mechanics of the role and sent for me.” Oliva’s television part calls for considerable acting outside the prop restaurant. Since he has thus been gainfully employed for a year he was asked why he still felt it necessary to wait on tables in real life. “You can never have enough security,” he said. “Besides being a waiter give you fantastic experience in meeting people. You can study typists in tea rooms or tycoons in ‘The Four Seasons.’ Also I’ve always found restaurant owners considerate about time off. In one place, after filming all night, I fell asleep in the waiters room. The other waiters covered for me. “When the owner found me he complained to the union representative who said ‘lf Ralph makes it you’ll be able to say you helped a star.’ The owner gave in but grumbled: ‘I wish someone would pay me for sleeping.’ The world of daytime television is a surprising one. Oliva finds himself in demand by autograph collectors, even schoolgirls, and sometimes pauses, while serving the soup or fish, to scribble his name on a menu. “Not long ago I was working at the Forest Hills Tennis Club while the Monkees were out there.” he said. “It sounds ridiculous but kids were yelling ‘There’s Charley from Another World’ and I think I signed more autographs than the Monkees. Me, the waiter.”

In mid 1966 Elizabeth Hubbard and David O'Brien both appeared in the Broadway play 'A Time for Singing', She was already on TD by that stage.

Re Conard Fowkes A bio for him in a 1965 play lists ATWT in his credits after Kitty Foyle, so he appeared before his Don Hughes role in the 70's.

Re SFT Louise Larabee's role of Carrie Fuller lasted seven months.

Dec 9 1986 ep # 7904 (from a script)

Script # 7465 Airdate March 19 1985 Feb 10 1970 ep #3589 From a Joel Kane script (new headwriter replacing Irna)

Another SFT role Scott Lafeber as Rick Edwards. In various bios he says he had a role on Search for 2 years.

Re SFT Add Tenney Walsh - Lorraine Re ATWT Add Penelope Ann Miller as Lee Melton

Re Secret Storm Add Nurse Adams - Kimberley Vaughn

Re Donald Symington Add LIAMST

Re SFT Add Clyde Carbone 'The Velvet Tone' - Joe Grifasi

Week ending July 3 1983 The Hamptons, which garnered a 13.8/25 and 18th place for ABC in its premiere showing a week earlier, plummeted to 59th place (9.2/17).

Another report on the infamous live episode. Live for a day It looked like a real live soap opera and that's because it was. There was Search For Tomorrow, the granddaddy of daytime TV theatrics, searching not the fictional streets of Henderson but the Big Apple sidewalks for a taped segment, reported stolen from the production's editing room over the July 22 weekend. There were Executive Producer Joanne Lee and crew charging ahead anyhow, with plans to replace the lost segment by going live last Thursday afternoon. And then just before the last fadeout around 1 p.m., Aug. 4, there was the press in attendance at Reeves Teletape's upper East Side studio for the live media event. You get the drift. This was no ordinary week for the 32-yearold series. We suspect that there are a few people in the broadcast community who think the theft brought more fortune than misfortune for Search. And there are others who suspect that the whole thing was just a publicity stunt. If ever there was a time for this veteran series to be injected with a little hype, last week was not bad timing. For the first few weeks of the third quarter, Search came up last in its period, losing out to Ryan's Hope and The Young and The Restless. For the week of 7/ 25- 7/31 Search posted an anemic 3.4 rating and 12 share. One live episode won't make those numbers go away. But at least for a week, we had more to say about the soap opera than "did John tell Mary?. . "

July 1983 ABC recaptures daytime race lead NEW YORK—After three straight weeks of daytime losses to CBS, ABC pulled back into the lead for the July 18-22 period. While ABC's 7.0 rating just edged out CBS' 6.9, they both came in with an audience share of 24. NBC finished with a 5.4/19. While CBS had earlier taken over the lead from ABC, its audience had not increased significantly. ABC had lost viewers largely as a result of replacing reruns of The Love Boat with Too Close for Comfort and the soap Loving on June 27. While running a soap before noon was an unusual step in itself, ABC officials noted that new soaps always take time to build audiences and the low ratings for Loving had been expected. Despite losing the daytime ratings to CBS from June 27 to July 8, ABC continued its dominance among women aged 18-49. Nielsen demographic figures, released last week, showed ABC reaching 3.4 million such women, CBS 2.4 million and NBC 1.65 million. Meanwhile, NBC replaced its noon Battlestars game with Facts of Life reruns on July 4, and zoomed to its highest share in the time period in three years. The following week, Sale of the Century at 10:30 a.m. and Dream House at 11:30 achieved their highest shares ever. As NBC's daytime ratings rise steadily, the network is making moves to replace its lowest-rated show Fantasy, which airs from 3-4 p.m. One possibility is Personal and Confidential, which begins a one-week tryout today, Aug. I. The Alan Lands burg Production, hosted by Steve Edwards, features "segments on some of today's hottest topics" along with celebrity interviews. ABC, CBS neck and neck in daytime race NEW YORK—CBS and ABC tied for the daytime ratings lead for the week of July 25-29. Both received a 6.7 in the Nielsens, but CBS had a 24 share as compared with ABC's 23. ABC fell from a 7.0/24a week earlier, while CBS dropped from a 6.9/24. NBC, on the other hand, rose from 5.4/19 to 5.5/20. The top five programs were General Hospital (ABC), All My Children (ABC), the second halfhour of The Price is Right (CBS), The Young and the Restless (CBS) and As the World Turns (NBC). CBS grabs daytime ratings victory NEW YORK—CBS-TV won the daytime ratings for the fourth time in the last six weeks. For the week of Aug. 1-5, CBS averaged a 6.9, ABC a 6.8, and NBC a 5.7. In common time ratings, CBS scored its biggest win over ABC since October 1978-7.9 to 6.8. NBC had a 5.8. The highest rated show was the second half hour of The Price is Right on CBS, with a 9.8 rating and 38 share. NBC's one-week tryout of Personal and Confidential in place of the fading Fantasy finished dead last out of 26 programs, with a 3.3/11. 'Facts of Life' won noon time period NEW YORK—Facts of Life won the noon period for NBC from Aug. 1-5, the first time the network has won the time period in four years. The show's 19 share was the highest since July 1978. During the same week, Search for Tomorrow, which was receiving much publicity because it was forced to go live for a day, received a 13 share—its highest in 14 months. ABC tops early morning, daytime ratings NEW YORK—ABC topped the early morning and daytime ratings in the week of Aug. 15-19. Maintaining its dominance in the early morning, Good Morning America posted a 4.6 rating and 25 share with CBS Morning News and NBC's Toda' tied for second at 3.6 and 19. In the daytime battle. ABC was on top with a 7.3 rating and 24 share, followed by CBS with a 6.9 and 24 and NBC at 5.6 and 19. ABC had the top two daytimers with General Hospital at a 10.2 rating and All My Children at 10.1.

May 23rd 1983 Caroline Franz/John Saffron's first episode as headwriters.

Broadcast Week May 30th 1983 NEW YORK—Loving, ABC's first new daytime television drama in eight years, debuts as a two-hour Sunday Night Movie June 26. The weekday series enters its 11:30 a.m.-noon EDT slot the following day. This is the first time that ABC has launched a daytime serial in prime time. CBS took a similar route with Capitol, which debuted with a one-hour special following top-rated Dallas on Friday night last year. Unlike its standard made-fors, however, ABC has shot the two-hour special on videotape instead of film. "The decision to shoot the pilot on tape was made in terms of utilizing the same sets for the future series," said Joe Stuart, producer. "But with the amount of lighting and special angles we wanted, we ended up shooting it like a film, and never really cut it the way a serial is cut." Emmy-winning veteran soap writer Agnes Nixon (All My Children, One Life to Live and others) and Douglas Marland are the show's head writers. Key characters are a television anchorwoman and a politically ambitious university president. Lloyd Bridges and Geraldine Page appear in the pilot. Future appearances in, the regular series are not ruled out. "The show has a broad scope, dealing with all generations," Stuart said. "Loving is more of a philosophical description, including sexual and sensual loving but also the love of people for one another—father, mother, children, brother to brother and sister to sister." The show has been on a tight schedule. Production began in January, and the special began taping in April. The movie was shot in 22 days, half in the studio and half on location in and around New York. It was then edited from 9 a.m. to midnight for 13 days straight. Shooting for the regular series begins this week. "It was a crash program to have the sets ready for April," Stuart said. "God at times was kind to us and at other times tested our mettle. Joe Stuart "During the last scene shot for the special, it was supposed to be summer. The two characters were dressed for summer, but it was 40 degrees. During one of the night scenes shot at 2 a.m., it started to snow. As much as you can do with electronic cameras, you cannot make it not snow." ABC rented a photographer's studio in Manhattan for a mass photo session for the show's cha racte rs.

Larry Bryggman also was cast on GL (Mike Bauer I think) but had military service and had to drop out. Janet Sarno's AMC role was Mrs Schultz

Re Lynne Thigpen Add Edge of Night

Re ATWT Lawrence (Larry) Guardino played Doyle. I'm assuming this is the 1980 character.

In early 1967 Konrad Matthei (Roy McGuire) took six weeks off ATWT to film an obscure Australian movie 'Journey Into Darkness' In an interview, he says his last day before departing was Roy slipping into a church to see Sandy(his ex wife) marrying Bob Hughes. As the show was live at that time, it means Bob and Sandy were married January 1967. I've never seen a date for that marriage before. In his absence Roy went off to Medical school. Konrad mused that Roy would probably be a fully fledged doctor when he returned to Oakdale. I know Roy married Penny but not much else about the character. Does anyone know more about Roy McGuire?

Great you are getting those facebook responses! Nocholas Surovy was also on OLTL.

Another SFT role Dr Maria Thompson - Dana Ivey

Re SFT Add Gladys Weed played by Janet Sarno Brenda - Jenny O'Hara 1973 At some point Richard McMurray also played Dr Ned Hilton

Mon Nov 28 1954 Jim Gavin's sister pleads with her mother not to interfere in Jim's life.