Paul Raven

Well today the budget doesn't allow for that many regulars and extras on set in one episode. I'm sure all that blocking and staging also meant a longer working day, which is off limits these days.

Yes, I agree that Kathleen's Nola might be very different to Harrold as there are several writer changes to come, and Kathleen herself says she wasn't sure who Nola was, but at the time people seemed to like what she did.

something about the role of Nola seemed to be a lucky charm for the actresses involved. I think both Kathleen Turner and Kim Zimmer also got a lot of positive reaction to their portrayals.

I stand by my statement that Geena and the kid are superfluous. Up against Lecy, Laurie and Sara is a tough gig and the writers are obviously not interested in developing that character. the actress is giving me no spark. Geena no investment in anything that is going on and no point of view. On paper the character might have sounded interesting but she hasn't brought it to life. The actress/character belongs in another sitcom.

Funny that as I had Kimetha Laurie in that request list and there she was in the next post! Also, do you mind if I add radio soap characters for some of the hoppers listed?

Found some ratings for syndicated programming: Syndication ratings Week ended Sept 24 1989. First figure is rating, second - number of stations airing that show and third percentage of coverage of the country. 1 Wheel of Fortune13.2 230 99 2 Jeopardy! 12.1 218 98 3 Oprah Winfrey Show 9.3 215 99 4 Cosby Show 9.0 204 98 5 Wheel of Fortune, weekend 8.5 204 91 6 Star Trek 8.2 226 97 7 Current Affair 8.1 185 95 8 Entertainment Tonight 8.0 162 95 10 Geraldo! 5.9 195 99 11 Mama's Family 5.4 170 90 12 Star Search 4.9 125 86 12 Family Feud 4.9 125 86 14 Superboy 4.7 166 91 15 People's Court 4.5 170 91

May I request Margaret Hamilton Ed Prentiss Valerie Cossart Matt Servitto Abby Lewis

Her role on Against The Storm - Lucretia Hale.

Wk 13 -Lucky 13 for The Bradys. 25.9/42 N Cosby Show 25.1/39 C CBS Sunday Movie 'A Very Brady Xmas' 24.2/39 N Different World 23.7/37 N Cheers 22.9/35 A Roseanne 21.3/33 A Who's the Boss? 20.1/35 N Golden Girls 20.0/33 N L.A. Law 19.9/31 C Murder She Wrote 19.3/32 C 60 Minutes 19.3/30 N Dear John 18.8/30 N Unsolved Mysteries 18.6/28 N ALF 18.0/32 N Empty Nest 17.9/28 N NBC Monday Movie 'I'll Be Home For Xmas' 17.5/27 A Moonlighting 17.5/27 N Matlock 17.0/29 A Monday Night Football 16.8/26 N In the Heat of the Night 16.7/28 C Knots Landing 16.7/26 N Night Court 16.1/24 N Hogan Family 15.5/23 C Designing Women 15.5/29 N Hunter 15.1/26 A thirtysomething 14.8/25 C Dallas .14.8/24 N NBC Sunday Movie 'She Was Marked For Murder' 14.1/21 C Murphy Brown 14.0/24 N Amen 13.9/23 A Hooperman 13.9/25 A 20/20 13.6/25 C Wiseguy 13.5/23 N Midnight Caller 13.4/24 N 227 132/23 A Full House 13.0/20 N Family Ties 12.9/20 A Wonder Years 12.8/23 A Perfect Strangers 12.7/19 C Kate and Allie 12.6/21 C Charlie Brown's Christmas Wed @ 8 12.3/19 C Newhart 12.2/22 A China Beach . 12.1/22 N Miami Vice 12.0/21 A Mr. Belvedere 11.9/21 C Falcon Crest 11.8/21 C Beauty and the Beast 11.8/18 N Day By Day 11.7/19 A MacGyver 11.5/20 A Just the Ten of Us 11.2/18 N Baby Boom 10.8/17 C Equalizer 10.7/17 A Dynasty 10.7/19 C Bugs Bunny Christmas Sat @8 10.6/18 N Chipmunk Christmas Fri @ 8.30 10.5/18 C Night Before Christmas Sat @ 8.30 10.4/17 C CBS Tuesday Movie 'The Promise' 10.3/17 A Free to Be a Family Wed @ 8 10.0/16 C Almost Grown 10.0/18 N Season to Be Smurfy Fri @ 8 9.9/15 C Paradise . 9.4/17 A ABC Saturday Movie 'The Toy' . 9.2/14 F America's Most Wanted 9.2/16 N Sonny Spoon 9.0/14 C 48 Hours 8.9/14 A ABC Sunday Movie 'Smoky Mountain Xmas' 8.9/16 N Tattinger's 8.8/14 N Magical World of Disney 8.7/13 A Mission: Impossible 8.6/13 F Married...With Children 8.2/14 A Moscow Circus 7.9/13 C Annie McGuire 7.5/13 F 21 Jump Street 7.2/14 C West 57th 6.8/12 C Simon and Simon 6.6/10 C TV 101 22 6.5/11 A Murphy's Law 6.4/10 A Knightwatch 5.5/9 A Burning Questions Thur @10 4.8/7 F Garry Shandling Show 4.2/6 F Tracey Ullman Show

Anne Seymour also played Sally Gibbons on Mary Marlin Kathy Marsh on Portia Faces Life Prudence Graham on Our Gal Sunday

Thanks for posting these. I never had read this before. Very interesting indeed. I wonder if Jacquie Courtney was on a similar pay scale to Rienholt? Somehow I doubt it, but I guess in those times she didn't expect to be... Wish a few other casts had banded together to protest about the state of their shows at various times.

Re One Woman's Experience: Each week one actor only was onscreen for 15 minutes daily to act out the story. Evelyn Juster was the actress appearing in the week of episodes entitled 'Fatal Decision'

From what I have read of consultants, they are simply there to offer advice and opinions that are not necessarily followed up on. It's a lucrative job for them. It's another long standing tradition, like focus groups, that TPTB believe to be necessary or useful for whatever reason. As for 'the Bells' being the real consultants, I don't believe they have had any control or influence for many years.

Modern Romances 1958 episodes - cancelled that year. NBC's most successful daytime drama series of the 50's. 1958 Jan 6 ? by Michele Cousin Cast Meg Mundy, Nancy Malone, Burton Mallory, Al Markim, John Matthews Jan 11 ? by Bob Corcoran cast Hildy Parks, Lin McCarthy. Katherine Meskill, Lee Henry Jan 18 ? by J Charles Alexander Cast Muriel Kirkland, Ross Martin, Millette Alexander, Lonny Chapman Jan 25 ? by Harry Junkin Cast David White, Jimset Somers, Joy Hodges, James Congdon Feb 3 ? by Bob Corcoran Cast Jamie Smith, Carol Porter, Ray Boyle, Bern Hoffman Feb 10 ? by James Blumgarten Cast Biff McGuire, Paul Stevens, Mel Ruick, Pat Englund Feb 17 ? by Harry Junkin Cast Pat Sully, Anne Hegira, Court Benson, Charles Rae King, Robert Dane Feb 24 ? by George Lowther Cast Hildy Parks, Walter Brook, Chris Gampel March 3 ? by Harry Junkin Cast Nancy Coleman, Pamela King. John MacGregor March 10 ? by Bob Corcoran Cast Goergann Johnson, Russell Hardie, Paul Stevens, Leon Stevens march 17 ? by Jesse Sandler Cast Martine Bartlett. Phyllis Hill,Frank Marth March 24 ? by Bob Corcoran Cast Loretta Leversee, Lonny Chapman, Minnie Jo Curtis, Truman Smith March 31 Gene Nelson hosting ? by Bob Corcoran Cast Ann Flood, Reynolds Evans, milton Seltzer, Mark Miller, Lynn Brinker April 7 Mary Margaret McBride hosting ? by George Lowther Cast Muriel Kirkland, Alfred Ryder, Diana Dougkas, John Gibson April 14 Gretchen Wyler hosting ? by Morton Wishengrad and Virginia Mater Cast Henrietta Moore, David White, Frank Schofield, Ian Martin, James Bender April 21 Jayne Meadows hosting ? by Bob Corcoran Cast William Prince, Georgann Johnson, Clement Fowler, Harry Worth, Bill Mason, George Forrest April 28 Bob Smith hosting ? by Joe Bates Smith Cast Betty Buehler, Maxine Stuart, Boris Aplen, Wyley Hancock, Paul Stevens May 5 Diana Barrymore hosting ? by William Kendall Clarke Cast Wayne Morris, Millette Alexander, Arnie Freeman, Frank Overton May 12 Gypsy Rose Lee hosting ? by Irving Elman Cast Patricia Benoit, Robert Mandan, John Kellogg, Bernard Kates May 19 Margaret Truman hosting ? by Bob Corcoran Cast Biff McGuire, Patricia Smith, Jerome Cowan, Paul Lipson, Mel Ruick May 26 Hildegarde hosting ? by Bob Allison and Mark Druch cast Larry Hugo, Mary K Wells, Ronald Dawson, Mort Marshall June 2 Ilka Chase hosting ? by Bob Corcoran Cast Lila Martin, James Congdon, Russell Hardie, Paul Donner June 9 Monique Van Vooren hosting ? by Irving Elman Cast Augusta Dabney, Wesley Addy, Mike Constantine June 16 ? by Harry Junkin Kathryn Murray hosting Cast Barbara Wilkins, Bill Mason, John Gibson, John Napier June 23 ? by Harry Junkin Kathryn Murray hosting Cast Martin Brooks, Merle Albertson, John Marley, Robert Dane July 30 ? by Bob Corcoran Martha Scott returns as hostess Cast Georgann Johnson, House Jameson, Frank Overton, Lee Bergere, Grant Sullivan July 7 ? by William Kendall Clarke Betty White hosting Cast Lillian Schaaf, Staats Costworth, Richard Kendrick, Eli Mintz, Dort Clarke July 14 ? by Bob Corcoran Frank Farrell hosting cast Valerie Cossart, Paul Stevens, Millette alexander, Truman Smith July 21 ? by Bob Corcoran Kathryn Murray hosting Cast Ed Peck, Richard Robbins, mike Constantine, Katherine Balfour, Ray Boyle July 28 ? by George Lowther Kathryn Murray hosting Cast Kathleen Murray, Lin McCarthy, Loretta Daye, Phyllis Newman Aug 4 ? by Bob Corcoran Betty White hosting Cast Delores Mann, Alan Bergman, Ralph Dunn, Ian Martin August 11 ? by Joe Cochran Betty White hosting Cast Jim Kelly, Augusta Dabney, Belle Flower, Stuart McIntosh, Richard Warren, Humphrey Davis Aug 18 ? by William Kendall Clarke Cast Mark Roberts, Joanne Linville, Mel Ruick, Marion winters, Ford Rainey, Frank Scofield, Frank Beir, Ruth McDevitt Sept 8 ? by Michelle Cousin Cast Mary Kay, Johnny Stearns, Christopher Stearns, Sally Kent, Katherine Meskill Sept 15 Final week, rerun of Nov 55 episode.

Sorry to be jumping around but anyway here's Wk 12 of the 88/89 season. Night Court @ No 1 ! guess people really liked watching after Cheers. Must have been frustrating for the producers to have it moved out of that timeslot. All of CBS' new shows were disasters. They talked about trying to hook younger viewers at 8pm then slotted Dick Van Dyke... Dynasty...a sad ending. If they had have kept it Wed @10, but probably ready to be rid of it. 23.9/39 N Night Court Special Thurs 9.30-10 (pre-emptng Dear John) 23.8/38 N Cosby Show 23.7/37 N Cheers 23.2/36 N Different World 22.2/39 N Golden Girls 22.0/33 A Roseanne 20.9/33 C 60 Minutes 20.3/32 A Who's the Boss? 19.4/35 N L.A. Law 19.2/34 N Empty Nest 18.5/31 A Monday Night Football 18.029 A Growing Pains 17.9/27 A Moonlighting (Season Premiere) 17.5/28 A Head of the Class 17.5/32 N Hunter 42. 12.7/22 17.2/26 N NBC Monday Movie 'Maybe Baby' 17.125 C Rudolph- Reindeer Mon @8 (pre-empting Newhart/Coming of Age) 17.127 N NBC Sunday Movie 16.8/25 N In the Heat of the Night 16.6/25 N Matlock 16.3/30 N Amen 16.2/24 N Family Ties 15.724 A Wonder Years 15.523 N ALF 15.424 A ABC Sunday Movie 15.4/28 N 227 15.226 A Full House 15.2/25 C Dallas 14.7/25 A thirtysomething (Sesaon Premiere) 14.5/22 C Kate and Allie Special Sun @8 (pre-empting Murder She Wrote) 14.3/20 N Hogan Family 14.0/25 C Knots Landing 14.0/21 C Murphy Brown Special Sun @8.30(pre-empting Murder She Wrote) 13.724 A Perfect Strangers 13.7/21 N Day by Day 13.7/23 N Midnight Caller 13.620 C Murphy Brown 13.4/24 A 2020 13.0/20 A Hooperman 12.8/19 C Designing Women 12.7/19 A Mission: Impossible 12.7/22 C Falcon Crest 12.322 A China Beach 11.8120 A Mr. Belvedere 11.8/18 N Highway to Heaven Wed 8-10 (pre-empting Unsolved Mysteries/Night Court/Baby Boom) 11.7/18 A MacGyver 11.721 N Miami Vice 11.6/18 C CBS Tuesday Movie 'Tricks of the Trade' 11.6/20 C Wiseguy 11.4/19 A Just the Ten of Us 11.1/17 C CBS Sunday Movie 9.7/15 A Dynasty 9.515 N Magical World of Disney 9.5/15 A Incredible Sunday . 9.1/16 C Beauty and the Beast 8.7/14 C Almost Grown 8.5/15 A Battle of the Network Stars Sat 9-11 8.5/13 C Paradise 8.5/14 N Sonny Spoon 8.4/13 F Americas Most Wanted 8.2/13 C 48 Hours 8.2/12 F Married...Wiith Children 8.1/14 N Something Is Out There 7.7/12 C Equalizer 7.5/13 N Tattinger's 7.0/11 A Presidential Cont. Analysis 6.8/12 A Murphy's Law 6.8/12 C Simon and Simon 6.8/11 F 21 Jump Street 6.7/12 C West 57th 6.0/10 A Knightwatch 6.0/11 C Dirty Dancing 6.09 C TV 101 5.8/9 F Rock -Roll Xmas Special 5.5/10 C Raising Miranda 4.8/8 F Duet 4.7/8 C Van Dyke Show 4.4/7 C Annie McGuire 4.3/8 F Reporters 2.9/5 F Beyond Tomorrow

Sounds very interesting and we know if you land a copy, you'll share the juice. Wish more soap people would put pen to paper and really give an insight into the bts stuff. So much of what is reported is a cover for what really went down... Sure some Y&R people would have a ton of stories.

James Rebhorn was the first Tom, but I don't think he lasted too long. Jason's office with all the brown and white panelling is something to behold. A few episodes back there was yet another fake flashback and Carolee was at the the new nurses station, but she left town before it came into use...

DJ, his wife (whatever her name is) and the seldom seen kid are not neeeded Dan, Jackie, Darlene, Becky and the kids are plenty to base stories around. And that is who they've been using anyway. Michael Fishman, poor thing, is completely out of his depth and the annoying sassy Christian wife is being shoe horned in. Drop them...

Beacon Hill article. Broadcasting magazine Nov 75 Who's to blame for `Beacon Hill'? Bob Wood doesn't know what went wrong with the season's most ballyhooed new show; the creator blames the producer and vice -versa. Robert D. Wood, the president of CBS - TV, is the man who had to make the decision to cancel Beacon Hill, and "I'm sick about it," he says. "With the departure of Beacon Hill, a little bit of me went with it." "I couldn't fault the intention of the series or the production, which was superbly mounted," Mr. Wood goes on. "There was some lint- picking about the writing on the part of some critics, but as far as I'm concerned it was the Tiffany of TV series. And in all my years in the business, I don't remember a series getting as much promotion or as much advance notice in the consumer press. "But the public simply rejected it. Watching the audience decline each week was like watching the rungs of a stepladder going down" Mr. Wood says he doesn't want to play Monday- morning quarterback on the reasons why Beacon Hill didn't attract a mass audience. "Maybe we were too ambitious," he says. But the creator of Beacon Hill, Sidney Carroll, says it could have survived if the producers had only followed his original plan. As Mr. Carroll explains it, he scripted the two -hour pilot and then wrote out plot outlines for the first 13 episodes of Beacon Hill. He got involved in the production of the pilot and says he was quite satisfied with how it turned out. He cites the episode's 23.1 rating and 42 share (on Monday, Aug. 25, 9 -11 p.m., NYT) as one of the indicators that "the general public liked the people in the pilot." But between the completion of the pilot and the start of production on the first episode, according to Mr. Carroll, the producer, Jacqueline Babbin, changed the plot outlines he had written. "When I saw how the first two finished scripts differed from the way I outlined them," he says, "I walked off the series." In Mr. Carroll's eyes, the likeable characters he had created in the pilot were turned into "a lot of stinkers. They became nasty and sad and stupid." Ms. Babbin sees things a little differently. "Sidney's plots were charming little stories that could've filled 20 minutes out of each hour," she says. "But CBS wanted stronger material, stories with more bite, more guts to them." Both Ms. Babbin and Alan Wagner, the CBS vice president closest to the series, disagree with Mr. Carroll about the quality of the two -hour pilot. "With 19 characters to be introduced, it was like a French -farce situation," she says. "The characters ended up being unsympathetic because the viewer wasn't given enough time to understand any of them. And CBS over - promoted and ballyhooed the pilot to the point of stupidity." "It was really an error on our part to open up with an episode populated with with so many characters," adds Mr. Wagner. "Everything became complicated, the public got confused and you couldn't follow the characters without a scorecard" Mr. Wagner points to a second "major error." "The series didn't find its direction early enough," he says. "The first batch of episodes were placed in too small a frame and were on too small a scale to interest an audience in 1975." Ms. Babbin adds that the public didn't know what to make of Beacon Hill's characters because "they were too real - they weren't like the cardboard cut -outs you usually see in TV series, who seem to spend all their time in fast cars."

i think Ron started at OLTL in the mid 90's, so unless he got a hold of some rare earlier tapes, there's nothing in his closet of interest...

I had no idea that was Emma Samms. The work she has had has really altered her facial structure in some way.

Brad Maule looks like one of those backwoods psycho killers!

So annoying when writers take the time to revisit the past and then make a mess of it. They were looking for something to keep Neil, Mickey and Maggie in the story as a nod to vet viewers without introducing new characters or major plot thrusts. I think Corday said at the time that the story wouldn't be front burner but those three wouldn't just be 'hanging around Wings' (the meeting place of that time.)

Some ABC New York info. ABC established themselves on West 66th St and continued to buy up properties through the 50's. 60's and 70's. Several of them have now been sold off. A Time For Us TV 2 West 66th St A World Apart TV 18 101 West 67th St All My Children TV 2 7West 66th St TV 19 1970-90 101 West 67th St TV 23 1990-2009 320 West 66th St Best of Everything TV 17 56 West 66th St The City TV 24 320 West 66th St Dark Shadows TV 2 June-Aug 66 TV 16 66-71 433 West 53rd St Edge of Night Screen Gems East 44th St Loving TV1 83-84 TV 23 84-95 320 West 66th St The Nurses TV 1 One Life to Live TV 1 1968 TV 18 68-76 101 West 67th St TV 17 76- 2009 56 West 66th St TV 23 2010-2012 320 West 66th St Ryan's Hope TV 16 75-86 433 West 53rd St TV 23 86-89 320 West 66th St

Last Thursday's show was middling IMO. Schwimmer is adding nothing and last week's reveal that he is in love with Grace makes me wonder where they are going with that. Meanwhile Will gets nothing in the way of romance. A little strange in light of this show constantly proclaiming how they are so cutting edge. How many big romances has Grace had compared to Will? Meanwhile Jack is getting married and its hardly being mentioned.