Paul Raven

October 1955 TOP NAMES IN TV SOAPER Valiant Lady, TV's daytime soap opera, has instituted using top Hollywood names in guest stints. Signe Hasso has appeared already and others booked are Dane Clark, Charlton Heston, Joanne Dru and John Ireland

Nov 83 NEW YORK—Reeves Teletape's 81st St. studio here was transformed recently into an abandoned warehouse for a special two-day taping of NBC TV's Search for Tomorrow. Reeves provided the Search crew with a Chapman Crane, an RCA TK46 and several Steadicams with Ikegami 79B lenses for the "film-style" shoot, which took place in the studio and outside on 81st St. To turn the studio into a warehouse, the sets were extended to twice their normal height—almost 20 feet—and the lighting was redesigned. Several night scenes were filmed outside on 81st St. between Amsterdam Ave. and Broadway. Was this for the Jo kidnap story?

1983 NEW YORK—ABC and CBS tied for the daytime Nielsen lead the week of Oct. 16-21, with 6.6 ratings. NBC lagged behind with a 4.5. General Hospital on ABC led all shows with a 10.3 rating/33 share, followed by the second half of The Price Is Right on CBS with an 8.7/37. ABC had three shows in the top 10, CBS six and NBC one.

Re SFT Add Judge McNair - Hansford Rowe

Re Where The Heart Is Dr Carlos Ramirez - Gonzalo Madurga

Re Love of Life Mildred Russell was played by Julia Shelley

Re Lynn Milgrim Sister Agatha - One Life to Live mid 70's

Did Iris come to Bay City due to Dennis having health problems and Russ being his doctor, thus leading to Russ/Iris romance? Or have I got this mixed up. Mac was first on the scene played by the first actor who was not the dashing catch portrayed by Douglass Watson. Although the story is there was no intention to pair up Rachel and Mac, I wonder what the original plans were when Mac was recast with a more attractive actor?

Re ATWT Nurse Kathy Harris - Cecilia Hart early/mid 70's.

Just read that Karin Wolfe (Mary Anderson) gained a release from Days when she landed the title role in 'Gigi" on Broadway in 1973. The show ran for 103 performances Nov 73 - Feb 74 She returned as Mary in April 74 and stayed another year.

Re Hidden Faces Kelly Simmons was also played by Mary Bracken Phillips Re Secret Storm Alan Castner played Vic Corelli

Re Phillip Sterling He had another role on Love of Life in 1972

Re John Danelle As The World Turns...Dr Wilson Love Is A Many Splendored Thing...unknown

Re Where The Heart Is Add Ronnie Claire Edwards - Barbara A World Apart Add Helen Stenborg

1978 Still another syndicated soap opera - following Y &R Ventures' High Hopes and JWT Syndication's Gold Coast -was entered in the marketplace last week as Syndicast Services wired stations about The Unknown, a daily barter vehicle it's pursuing for this fall. The series, to be produced by Time -Life Productions, was described as involving a young woman "who is granted a strange power of vision" and a man "who seems to know more than he should" and is "the mysterious gift -giver who weaves through [her] life ...'

Re Secret storm Add Doris Rich - Judge Foster 1966

Re Dorothy Blackburn Add Love of Life - Miss Hess 1966

Re Margaret Draper Her SFT role was 1966

re Eugene Smith ATWT - 'Berns' 1960's

Re Jay Barney His Secret Storm role was Capt Barton. I think this is the role you have as police lieutenant

Some Doctors trivia Laryssa Lauret and Terry Kiser both appeared in the Broadway play 'Paris is Out!' in 1970

Re Secret Storm Kingsley Collins was played by Will Hussing

There is a Tribes thread on the Cancelled Soaps forum for anyone who wants to know more 1972 Douglas S. Cramer and the production company of the same name are awaiting the impending network decisions on next season's schedules with high hopes. He unfurled his own banner, The Douglas S. Cramer Co., but, financially unable to do it en- tirely on his own, affiliated with Columbia Pictures and Screen Gems as an autonomous producer of motion pictures and television programs. Mr. Cramer has two years of storylines and two sample scripts based on the theatrical motion picture, "Diamond Head." Until recently it was in contention as an hour program in continuing serial form as a possibility at CBS -TV for the 1972 -73 season. But now it has been deferred until a future season. Still, Mr. Cramer, whose extensive production background includes stints as TV supervisor for Procter & Gamble and broadcast supervisor on Lever Bros. and General Foods accounts at Ogilvy & Mather, has more than just a passing interest in the serial form. By July, he intends to come out with three variations on serials for daytime network presentation -a comedy anthology, a dramatic anthology, and Doctor's Wives, which is more in the pure soap -opera style. Rita Lakin was the writer for Diamond Head.

June 1954 Search For Tomorrow 11.8 Love of Life 10.5 Guiding Light 10.1 Valiant Lady 9.5 Secret Storm 5.2 Three Steps to Heaven 4.9 Hawkins Falls 4.2

Another report from 1977 on this controversy NBC gets tangled in a story line Decision to end love affair between black and white evokes charges that network succumbs to racist pressure; tension eases, however, with her continuance in altered role A controversy has broken out over why network daytime's most prolonged interracial love affair has hit the skids. Tina Andrews, the black actress involved in the NBC -TV serial, Days of Our Lives (Monday- Friday, 1:30 -2:30 p.m. NYT), says NBC has shamelessly caved in to a barrage of racist -slanted mail. NBC executives say that the interracial subplot was scheduled to last only a year (from spring 1976 to spring 1977) and had run out of Nielsen gas. (The series is down a couple of rating points from its position this time last year.) One consequence of the raft of stories late last month about the dispute- particularly a marathon report in The Los Angeles Times -is that NBC and Columbia Pictures Television, which produces the serial, have decided not to take Ms. Andrews off the show completely. (Her last day was scheduled to be Thursday, May 26.) "My agent has been told that my services will be called upon in subsequent weeks," said Ms. Andrews by phone from Los Angeles, where the series is taped at NBC's Burbank studios. "And I'm delighted, because I love doing the show." "We haven't exactly resolved where this subplot will go," said the co- executive producer of Days, H. Wesley Kenney, con- firming that Ms. Andrews has not been fined. In the subplot, David Banning, the young white man, although in love with the Tina Andrews character, Valerie Grant, has decided to marry the white woman he's made pregnant. At least that was the plan before the controversy broke. Now, Mr. Kenney says, David may end up visiting Valerie at the Howard University Medical School, in Washington,; where she's studying for an MD degree, and it's not inconceivable that the romance could be rekindled. Madeline David, NBC's vice president for daytime programs, says she's convinced the producers have handled the love affair "very sensitively, and with good taste." Both Ms. David and Mr. Kenney say that although there may have been less touching and kissing between David and Valerie than if they were both white or both black those kinds of overt demonstrations of affections are not necessary to the establishing of an emotional connection between two people. Ms. David remembers that the most concentrated outpouring of negative mail NBC ever got for a daytime show was when a white man and a white woman got involved in a steamy sex scene in The Doctors (Monday- Friday, 2:30 -3 p.m.), proving to her that too much physical involvement can be a detriment to viewers association with the tenderness between people they identify with. "There was no deluge of mail" over any of the scenes between David and Valerie on Days of Our Lives, Ms. David said, "only a dozen or so letters from the lunatic fringe ' that are often unsigned and loaded with ugly references to the supposed domination of the airwaves by "niggers" and "kikes."