Paul Raven

Re Toni Darnay Add Backstage Wife In 1957 she was temp replacement for Claire Neilson

Re Verdict Is Yours Add Jessica Jones July 59 Re Brighter Day Add Lionel Kranitz June 58

My next requests David Groh Stanley Kamel Ward Costello Francine York David Lewis Frank Gorshin

I think the idea of large families came about because writers realized that after several years the original characters become 'worn out' and fresher family members are ready to step up into the limelight. That's the theory but it doesn't always work in practice because it's hard to leave the original characters behind and make room for the newbies. In the case of B&B the actors chosen for Katie/Donna/Storm/Kristen weren't strong enough and therefore Bill wasn't inspired and so they got less attention...self fulfilling prophecy.

Aug 12 1958 Len Wayland (Buck) and Julie Bovasso (Rose) were married during lunch break.

The first week's storylines - Claire Kennedy was headwriter. Mon Jan 4 1965 Dr Robert Wallace (Douglass Watson), an associate professor of clinical psychology at Carlyle University, differs with his wife Nancy (Louise King) on his prospects of filling the opening of a full professorship. Dr Wallace has an outside, private practice and one of his patients is Mrs Leeds (Lynn Gorman), wife of a millionaire who is a member of Carlyle's board of trustees. She has marital and age problems. Tues Jan 5 Dr Wallace receives a call from Mr Leeds (Robert Goodier) that Mrs Leeds didn't return home after the session. Soon after, she arrives at the Wallaces intoxicated. Wed Jan 6 Dr Wingate (Ivor Barry) informs Dr Wallace that Mr Leeds has charged that he is having an affair with Mrs Leeds and has been suspended from the university without a hearing. Thurs Jan 7 Regardless of the charges Dr Wallace tells Mrs Leeds she can continue as his patient. Meanwhile Wallace learns his son Jimmy (Michael Dodds) has been hospitalized with tetanus. Fri Jan 8 Johnny's chances of recovery are about 50/50. The Wallaces' daughter Sheila (Barbara Pierce) blames her father for Johnny's illness because he didn't give him a tetanus shot after removing a fish hook.

Re Kitty Foyle Staats Cosworth was Mr Strafford Arlene Golonka was Della Julienne Marie was Dorothy Sayers Jeanne Barr was Cora

Re House on High Street Cast for first story David Evans (16 yr old car thief) - Clay Hall Mrs Alma Evans - Enid Markey Leo Evans - Donald Madden Marion Evans - Dorothy Rice Nancy O'Donnell - Frances Heflin Policeman - William Cottrell Court Officer - Shaun Dooley plus Phillip Abbott as probation officer John Collier Presiding Justice James Gehrig Psychiatric consultant Dr Harris B Peck

I believe that danfling has asked about Luci Ferri (longtime EP) as to what other programs she may have been involved with. I have just discovered that she was a producer of Young Doctor Malone when it premiered on NBC in Dec 1958.

re The Greatest Gift Joe Draper originated the role of Sam Blake Lee Connor was Dr Eve Allen's friend and office nurse.

re Ben Jerrod Isabel Randolph's character was Hannah Zee. Lance Fuller is listed as playing Abel Collier jn an NBC press release.

An NBC press release for Ben Jerrod states that Michael M Ryan had previously appeared on As The World Turns.

Some more info... Ben an idealistic young lawyer, left his law practice in Chicago for Indian Hiils, Rhode Island (his home town) for a more meaningful way of life. John P Abbott is a former judge with a languishing law practice. Ben has complete faith in the judge, although puzzled as to why he resigned rather than defend himself against charges made against him. Agnes is the judge's daughter and secretary. she's attracted to Ben, although understands he is waryt of romance due to a past unhappy affair.

There'll probably be heaps of soap actors in there as well.

Re From These Roots Jean Shepherd as Milton Sweetwater debuted Feb 15 1961 and appeared occasionally thereafter. Milton was 'a colorful and vocal TV producer who doesn't bother to read the scripts he presents'

With Turner in the role,Nola and Sara really look like sisters.

Re Sally Gracie Add 'The Working Mother' NBC Daytime special aired Dec 8th 1960

I think Joe was her cousin not her brother. Still he vanished without explanation, as did Cricket's dad later on.

Laura Malone did get a raw deal at that time. She was one of the few actors that survived that post Lemay era and all the comings and goings. Blaine was always frontburner and given different leading men and varied stories which often sent the character in a million different directions but she made it work. To be dumped like that was awful. Rich only signed on for another year I believe. A few years later P&G put a stop to that as too many big names were hedging their bets by only agreeing to one year contracts.

IMO the problem is that Days is still trying to write the show in the same style as the 80's and 90's but without the time/budget to do so. They need to look back to the 60's and 70's when the budget was tight and it was live to tape. By necessity the stories had to be intimate and personal. Just interactions between a small group of characters. No master criminals, millionaires, brainwashing etc Just back to basics. Trouble is Ron and others knowledge and history of soaps probably only goes back to the 80's and they see that as definitive soap opera.

Re Portia Faces Life Jack Ragotzy's role was Wynn Carleson. he was killed off June 11 1954

Melody herself spoke out about Nikki having a career saying that she didn't believe Nikki would be interested in working for the reasons mentioned. She was basically selfish and interested in others only in terms of how they reacted to her. Also wanted to mention that at Melody's 40th anni celebration J Eddie Peck and Rob Parucha were there but not Roberta. May have been a scheduling thing but interesting nonetheless. Also Robert said he was contacted by Y&R about availability to return as Matt but couldn't commit. But it was later that the recast appeared and Parucha says he wasn't contacted for that and would have been happy to come in.

Variety May 54 Robert Hutton, Adele Mara and June Kenney set as leads for 'My Sister and I' from American National Studios. Plans were to syndicate a full years worth of shows.

Some info on Woman To Remember The story concerned a radio soap opera Patricia Wheel's character was the star of the soap John Raby played the director Joan Castle's (not Catlin) character was a replacement actress disliked by the other castmembers.

Aug 67 Tom Donnelly, writing in the 'Washington Daily News' of a news conference with MacDonald Carey, who plays Dr. Tom Horton in an afternoon TV Soap opera on NBC-TV, 'Days of our Life,' quotes him as saying: "For a time we tried attacking social problems on our show. We talked about cancer and abortions and we were goingto do something with water pollution. Bui those things just didn't grab our audience. Anyway, in doing research we found "that a great source of water pollution is detergents and that is why we decided to forget about water pollution."