Paul Raven

Stephen Schetzer on SSH (he played Julie's brother Steve in 78/79 'I always enjoyed working with her. She's a very strong personality and and I think she follows her instincts and forms instant likes and dislikes', he says candidly. 'If it's a dislike she forms or has of you, she won't play a game to try and make you think otherwise.And she liked me right from the start, I think. She's very professional - and I can say that for the whole cast. Mmmm - I think he's trying to say Susie could be a total beyotch to someone she decided she didn't like...

Philece Sampler tested for Kathy Summers on GH but nabbed Renee on Days in the meantime.

Chicago April 1999 WBBM 2-CBS 5:00 News 8:00 This Morning 9:00 Guiding Light 10:00 Price is Right 11:00 News 11:30 Young & the Restless 12:30 Bold & the Beautiful 1:00 As the World Turns 2:00 Martha Stewart Living 3:00 Real TV 3:30 Hard Copy WMAQ 5-NBC 5:00 News 7:00 Today 9:00 Leeza 10:00 Chicago Daytime 11:00 Days of Our Lives noon Sunset Beach 1:00 Another World 2:00 Roseanne Show 3:00 Rosie O'Donnell 4:00 EXTRA WLS 7-ABC 5:00 News 7:00 Good Morning America 9:00 Oprah Winfrey 10:00 The View 11:00 Port Charles 11:30 News noon All My Children 1:00 One Life to Live 2:00 General Hospital 3:00 Inside Edition 3:30 Jeopardy! 4:00 News

No luck yet with Dec 25 1989 but I will keep searching!

Re John Wesley Shipp Prior to GL he had 'walk on' parts on All My Children and one Life to Live.

1975 cast photo

Re Viginia Dwyer Her Joyce Jordan character of Crystal had the surname Shields

Louise Shaffer (her first soap role) as Martha Logan (on the right) and Mary Bracken Phillips as Jeanette Sloane. Looks like these characters were fashion designers? Stephen Joyce, Joe Daly and Nell Bassett in an unknown role (possibly secretary?)

Re Hidden Faces A mystery has arisen regarding some actresses and their roles. An NBC press release photo lists Mary Bracken Phillips playing Jeanette Sloan, a role attributed to Betsy Durkin, However in a bio for a play she was appearing around that time, Phillips lists her HF roles as Kelly Simmons, a role attributed to Charlotte Glenn. The NBC photo does look like Phillips but could be Durkin also. So I am confused...

re Charles 'Flohe'Grant Before EON he had u/5 roles on All My Children and Guiding Light.

Glad to be able through these pics to be able to give more of a sense of how the show was presented. Conard Fowkes and Tony LoBianco With Gretchen Walther

That's so cool! Please give us your thoughts when you get around to watching.

Re Hidden Faces Add Ziska Baum as Anna Korshak Add Nell Bassett - unknown role

re Tom Hallick Add This Child is Mine 1972 - ABC Afternoon Playbreak

Travis (1978) pre dated Luke, (1979) who did not have the perm when he first appeared.

Jean Pierre Stewart. Diane Kagan Embed Comp

Never thought I would come across actual stills from this show, but here they are! John Rust, Geraldine Fitzgerald and Patty McCormack Embed Comp Kathy Glass and Patty McCormack James Davidson, James Karen, M'el Dowd and Gale Sondergard Barry Ford, Rochelle Oliver, Steven Grover

Terry Lester from a SOD interview in 1981 'I'd like to give some credit to John Conboy. When I came on the show last year they introduced Jack with a whole new storyline and when things didn't work out so well, the writers didn't know what to do with me.So I didn't work for two months. But John kept me on the show and during the writers strike my character began falling into place.Thanks to John Conboy I'm still on the air'. I guess Terry only had contact with Conboy and heard things filtered through him, because surely Bill Bell was making the decisions about who we saw on air. Wonder who wrote the show during that strike?

Julie without Doug was a crummy idea to begin with. At least she should have returned with David (maybe slightly de- aged) with Scotty off at boarding school rather than SORASING another generation. That would have left Scott to return in the later part of the 90's when Julie was more believable as a grandmother. The disrespect shown to the Hortons is a crying shame. Once Mac Carey passed, it was obvious that Frances would one day go also and Doug and Julie should have been elevated to the patriach/martriach roles.

I would say that the show did plan to bring on Spencer (why else would Julie mention him?) but there was a change of heart (or writers)

Re Secret Storm Add Einar Perry Scott - Danny Greer (juvenile delinquent) Scott also played Alan Sterling on Love of Life. These roles were in the 50's so maybe he was briefly the first Alan?

re Tom Hallick add Dr Jasper Crowley - Perfect Friends and Loving Couples 1983 (cable R rated soap)

Some thoughts on the above video The fact that Anita Keal has an hour of Search clips on her website reinforces my belief that there are lot of episodes/scenes from earlier days in the possession of actors and BTS personnel. If only they would be generous enough to share! The production values of SFT at that time pur current shows to shame - the detailed sets/lighting etc The Corringtons were ahead of the game with the voodoo story- by the 80's most soaps were going for these left of center stories, usually to the detriment of the show. I'll give SFT a pass as the got the mood right. I think they went too far in focussing on the Sentells - they needed more of a balance with the regular folk back in Henderson.

It will be interesting to see if MTS addresses any of these castmate issues in her upcoming book... According to Jeanne. Ed Scott seemed to fuel this by focussing way too much on Melody in setting up of scenes and ignoring Jeanne also.