Paul Raven

Valiant Lady Add Harry Holcombe

Re First Hundred Years Add Peggy Ann Ellis . She was the wife of Art Fleming (Jeopardy) and an article on them mentions her earlier career including appearance on FHY.

You are right re Tom Poston's role. I checked the SFT list but misspelled Reilly as Riley and didn't see that role. Sorry for that.

Billboard reported in 1954 that Roy Winsor was investigating adapting Love of Life for radio. That would be bucking the trend at the time as GL and Road of Life both moved from radio to TV

Re SFT Phillip Huston's role was Mike Reilly, who became interested in Louise Barron as he was looking for a pianist for his civic rec center.

re Three Steps to Heaven Add Roger Sullivan Also Mercer McCloud's role was a 'villian' Joe Brown Jr's character ran ran a hamburger joint Susan Oliver joined Sept 53 as 'young sister Susan' Assuming this is the PP/DOOL actress as she was working in NY at the time.

Re Charita Bauer Add Front Page Farrell 1953

re Mandel Kramer Add Front Page Farrell 1953 re Don MacLaughlin Add Lorenzo Jones 1953 re Gertrude Warner Add Lorenzo Jones 1953

Re Rosemary Prinz Add Young Widder Brown 1953

Friday March 27 1970 Jo, driving home, realizes that her son in law Len is the father of Grace Boulton's child. She loses control of the car and the episode finishes with Jo lying unconscious amongst the wreckage. This cliffhanger was planned because A World Apart from Irna Phillips was premiering the following Monday opposite Search. Irna Phillips sent a telegram to the producer "Brilliant"

Re Court Benson Add Backstage Wife 1953

Madonna still pushing this notion that the world finds her fascinating. That train left the station years ago.. Madame X... that was dated when Lana Turner did it 50 years ago. The whole spoken words to God asking for forgiveness...I am a whore etc Just not working anymore.

Re Toni Darnay Add Our Gal Sunday 1953

Re One Man's Experience Jan 5-17 1953 Ghost of Hamlet starring Jack Manning

I like that Steve and Carolee are spending time painting/furnishing their new home. Usually soap characters move into a new house and Voila! it is completely furnished and decorated. I am quite enjoying the Brez era, certainly no better or worse than Marland. Doreen's father Evan is around but I haven't seen a credit as to who plays him.does anyone know? Seems they are not running full cast credits as often. re Doris Frankel.Without checking she may have been a writer during the anthology years?

I've never seen this episode before. Hopefully there's more unseen stuff out there. In just this one episode so much detail is fleshed out about the story. Ellen going up against Judge Lowell, Don's dilemma in taking on the case etc. Interesting that Ellen stated that Dan was 4 and a half years old and Don was 27 - seems Irna's SORASING was well underway. I guess Don had to be aged because Bob was and they wanted an older child for Dan to be able to bring more to the role. The restaurant scene didn't even have extras, but the background noise and camera angles made it look realistic, whereas today the more elaborate restaurant scenes come off worse with empty tables and a few extras wondering around.

Yes a little Silky goes a long way. Vangie should have been in the bottom last week. Her looks are basic and she hasn't stood out in challenges. However she is entertaining in the commentary and workroom and they need someone with spark as the others are pretty dull. After Plastique's moment last week she faded away again. I'm surprised how at this level these queens are not shining.

Ep #4269 Taped 11/28/79 Aired 12/12/79 Exec Producer Gloria Monty Written by Pat Falken Smith and Carey Wilbur Ditector George Thompson Cast Terri Banks Marianne Barrett Herbert Beakman John Beradino Brooke Bundy Richard Craine Joe Cartucci Cheryl Coleman Norma Connelly Christopher Craig Jim Cromer Todd Davis Betty DeRosa Vivian Farren Bianca Ferguson Genie Francis Jeanette Garrett George Gaynes Anthony Geary Peter Hansen Kathy Long Albert Lord Frank Maxwell Garret Nichols Virginia Otto Susan Pratt Richard Sarradat Doug Sheehan Keith Van Span Melvina Sparks David Sterling Barbara Sydney Phillip Tanzini Ban Truluck William Ward Jim Warren Jerry Zelenka Jaclyn Zeman That seems a huge number of recurring/under 5's. Maybe there was some special event on that episode?

Melba Rae Just Plain Bill 1952

Re Lynn Loring Add Hilltop House 1952 re Vera Allen Add Front Page Farrell 1952

Kevin Conroy in his SFT days

Thanks for that link. Interesting guy. He was 37 when writing TD. I wonder how that job came about? Maybe Mel and Ethel knew him...

1952 Florida based Ball TV Productions proposes 15 min daily strip 'Carrie Williams, Justice of the Peace' Margaret Lindsay movie actress of 30's and 40's was to star and Addison Smith, former Paramount and radio soap writer writer/producer was scripting.

Re Mary Patton add Our Girl Sunday 1951 Re Ross Martin Add Lorenzo Jones 1951 Strange romance of Evelyn Winters 1952

It's interesting that the writers credit changed with the arrival of the Brez's. NBC had a press release about them in Aug 77 Mel and Ethel Brez have been s i g n e d to NBC-TV contract. It was announced by M a d e l i n e David, Vice President, Daytime Programs NBC Network. "We-are developing Mel and Ethel as potential head writers for serials'," David said. "They will work in the development of concepts and ideas so they can become familiar with the serial form. "Mel and Ethel have not assigned to a specific s h o w , " M s . "and, to my knowledge, this has never happened before in daytime television." The Brez, who are married, wrote the script for the 1977 Daytime Emmy Awards Show that was telecast May 12 on NBC. Mel Brez is the 1965 recipient of the Fulbright Fellowship in cinematography awarded annually to a leading American scholar or artist in the United States. Since 1971 they have written motion picture and television scripts together on a freelance basis.... I think they took over TD in September? if so it appears circumstances changed re them not being assigned to a show and learning the ropes. In reading about TD at that time stories like Tom's child abuse and Greta;s pregnancy were attributed to Marland so maybe the Brez's were working from his bible and just tweaking stuff along the way?