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re Melville Ruick Add Dr Barton Crane - City Hospital (radio) re William Redfield Add Alvin - City Hospital

Some Woman with a Past character info Lynn had a dress shop financed by Craig Rockwell She was in a romance with Steve Russell. Sylvia Rockwell was Craig's wife and old flame of Steve Pegs was Lynne's sister and Dianne her niece. Clark Webster is Lynn's husband just out of jail.

Some info regarding Watergate coverage in 1973. The hearings began May 17 (Thurs) and continued May 18. They resumed Tues May 22 and continued until Thurs May 24th so presumably ATWT aired Mon and Fri of that week. All 3 networks aired those hearings and it was then decided they would alternate so viewers would have a choice and networks would cut costs as they were losing millions in advertising losses. The hearings resumed Tues June 5 with NBC covering, CBS took Wed June 6 and ABC Thurs June 7. They rotated in this manner from then on until the conclusion on Aug 7th. CBS covered 19 days. However, the networks had the option of broadcasting Watergate on days not part of their rotation.CBS showed all 5 days of John Dean the week of June 25th. Don't know if this is any help or is more confusing!!

Re Lyle Sudrow Add Perry Mason - Gordy 1954 Re Madeline Sherwood Add Perry Mason - Kate Beekman 1954 Re Earle Hyman Unknown Role The Story of Ruby Valentine radio 1954

Monday Nov 15 1965 Gloria De Haven debuts as Sara Fuller. Sept 23 1971 Final appearance of Jerry Lacey (Simon Gilbey) Famed cabaret performer Bobby Short appeared April 26 1973. This was when Bob & Kim met up in Florida. March 25 1973. Irna swings the axe! Final appearances of John Colenback (Dr. Dan Stewart), Marie Masters (Susan Stewart Baxter), Lisa Cameron (Peggy Regan), Curt Dawson (Ron Talbot), Ben Hayes (Bruce Baxter), and Eugenia Rawls (Grace Burton).

i am watching sporadically, every so often I will do a PP binge- right now I'm up to the Ann Howard reveal, so I have lots to get through of what I have downloaded. Hopefully the YT eps will still be there when I need them...

Thanks for posting. That article established that Phillip English is Australian. I was unsure because of his accent. To me,it sounded more like a South African trying to imitate an Australian accent. Love how they always ask the men to pass judgement on women's behavior and attitudes. As for him being suave and sexy.... Funny the Jane Badler interview being on the same page as she ended up on TD and then moved to Australia.

Re Margaret Draper - she was in the original TBD cast of 1948 Re Toni darnay She subbed for Claire Neilson on Backstage Wife in 1957

Annoyingly, The Doctors is now only running cast credits showing contract and recurring players - no dayplayers or U/5's are being credited. Soaphopper Jo Henderson recently appeared as an accident victim, but unless someone recognizes an actor, they remain unknown.

Now I feel bad for the mean post🤐

Shari Headley (Mimi AMC) on Ep 5 of Kirsten Dunst's Showtime series'On Becoming a God In Southern Florida'

Re Highway to the Stars David P Lewis who had been writer/producer/director of Faraway Hill the previous year was involved in this as producer/director but writer this time was Bob Wald. The show aired Tues 7.30 for 30 mins out of WAPD NY The story opened with Patricia's character, already a successful singer, backstage. The story is then told in flashback of her rise to the top. Cast Patricia Jones - successful NY singer Pat Fay - pianist/true love of P.Jones character, struggling pianist Charline Osgood - mother of P.J's character Earl George - invalid father of PJ's character wants her to settle down and marry Warren Steven's character. John Besher - music teacher of PJ's character Hal Studer - younger brother of PJ's character, works in a bank Susan Thorne - 'bobbysox' sister Warren Stevens - hometown sweetheart of PJ's character

What was the thinking behind those Wed 'Inside the Light' special eps?

in the latest SOD Jon Lindstrom talks about testing for Jack Abbott on Y&R.

Rannells has a face you just want to slap...

Brenda said in interviews she was not happy that Phillip had been aged and maybe that came through in her 'acting' choices.

Fascinating reading. I'm surprised that Y&R still was using the outdated taping method that they had used for the 30 min show. By that stage several other shows had gone to an hour and surely they would have looked for best practice. Wes Kenney had been through the same thing when he returned to Days and overhauled the production to allow for shorter working days and better budgeting. The letters from Bill Bell to Betty Corday during his Days stint show that he was frustrated at times that production didn't realize his vision or intent with particular scenes so the same thing must have occurred on Y&R.

I wonder what the circumstances were,did they cross paths at Jonas's? If it was a throwaway scene, it did get mentioned in synopses. But some mentions in those newspaper summaries could be random. The 1982 revamp seemed to coincide with Wes Kenney's arrival. He and Bell had worked together on Days . Did Bill Bell have final word on who would be exec producer? I know there were reports of clashes with John Conboy. Does anyone have specifics? So did Wes Kenney sit down with Bill and give his two cents worth? It seems so in light of the changes made. Interesting that Bell needed someone to whip the show into shape when he has always been presented as having total control of the writing.

That seemed to be Bill Bell's strategy for the expansion...take characters who had been in tight knit stories and use them to anchor a bunch of newbies. Reading through synopses I am surprised how long some characters hung around wothout much story - Jonas,Steve, Peggym Eve, etc Some other tidbits Eve admitted to sleeping with Derek in the past (possibility that Charles was his child?) Peggy arrested after leaving Jack's apartment naked under a fur coat! (wonder what set was used as Jack's apt?) Eve befriending Peggy. Victor flirting with Peggy. Greg dating Peggy.

I was never sure if Bond's Jill interacted with Kay but a March synopsis confirms they did. From what I've seen of Bond, she seemed quite suitable as Jill. No reason was given for her replacement. I wonder if sometimes actors are replaced because they simply can't meet the demands of the soap schedule... Did Katherine attend Liz and Stu's wedding? I don't think so and wonder if it was addressed on screen? eg My dear Elizabeth, I am so happy that you have found the happiness you so richly deserve- happiness that has eluded me...Thank you for thinking of me on this very special time in your life .But you must know this. If your daughter is in attendance then I cannot, in all conscience, be a part of this wedding. To be in the same room as Jill, the woman who has been responsible for so much of my heartache, would be untenable for me. Let my wedding gift to you and Stuart be a day free from turmoil... re Sean Garrison - he seemed very different in type from Halsey/Douglas. Not the attractive, still virile older man that Jill would be attracted to.

Sean Garrison? Is that the John Abbott seen in the Bond Gideon clip posted online? I assumed he was atemp and that Brett Halsey was the original John. He was the actor mentioned when John was first announced.

i was actually referring to 1980 when Jack first came on to the time he got involved with Patty. There was a time when Jill was between recasts and John #1 was dropped,Peggy was in the cult story. I think Jack was barely on at times. Following the changes in 1980 it was like a revamp of a revamp. Peggy, Steve, Derek &Co ,Julia, John , Brock, Jonas, Michael and Eve were dropped.Jill and Patty were recast

Brolden, Will 81 - really enjoying your insights. Yes, characters were often written as dumb to service the plot even by masters like Bill Bell. However, as you pointed out there could still be drama and conflict in having characters act more logically. Looking back on the 1980- stories, most of them were ill conceived and wrapped up or revamped. Some questions I hope can be answered. I believe that Terry Lester had stretches of time where Jack had little to do and he was barely on, while Bill Bell figured out what to do with him.Is that correct? Did John McCook depart when the show went to an hour in February? Lance is mentioned later on so did McCook return for short stints? It is stated that Beau Kayzer along with BD and McCook left when the show expanded yet Brock stayed for many months after to play the Brock/Julia story. It seems Bill Bell decided to finally give Brock a chance as leading man. Did Beau have some kind of out in his contract or did Bill decide to dump Brock when he revamped the story? Interesting that Bell dropped his original plan of Victor being killed as he decided EB had staying power yet he wrote the dungeon story that made Victor pretty irredeemable, especially back then when characters didn't usually get away with that level of villiany. what do others think?

Maude - Cousin Maude The Waltons - Spencer's Mountain Barnaby Jones - Barnaby Cobb Good Times - Florida, Great Day

Looking over those synopses, I wondered if Bill Bell considered having Stuart Brooks know Carl Williams and using that as a hook for Stu hiring Steve. It would have been quite feasible for Stu to be acquainted with Carl through his work. Liz could have also known Mary through the church (I believe that Liz was a church goer) Although having two similar women as friends? And Steve could have been school friend of Snapper/Greg. So straight away, using any of those connections could have eased the Williams into the show. It's interesting that Bell chose to introduce a working class family in the new format. Other shows were going with wealthier families eg Days -the Chandlers, AMC-the Cortlandts, AW-the Holloways.OLTL - the Buchanans etc Also at that time Vanessa became interested in Stu, something that was quickly dropped.