Paul Raven

James Hainsworth played Jay Benjamin in 73 and did this hooty fashion shoot,

Richard Coogan,who played Paul Raven, Vanessa's first husband has died aged 99.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/richard-coogan-star-captain-video-688192

Ms Dickson excitedly announces that her book is going on the shelves at Barnes & Noble. She also reveals that she made it big in Tinseltown because she had talent...

The casting of McGillan as Greg was a puzzlement.

Between his performance and lackluster writing, he made zilch impression which is a shame as Greg was a viable character and could have been worked into the new format. When John Silva came along, I thought that Greg could have been that character(apart from the flirtation with Jill).He could have been a sounding board for Jill and all purpose lawyer, with a smattering of romantic involvement. Not front burner but a link to the original concept.

All I remember of McGillan's Greg was his involvement with Jill when she tried to sell the Foster home and was involved with Andy.

Was he around when she started seeing John Abbott again while engaged to Andy?

Beverlee McKinsey guested on Hawaii Five O before playing Iris

Not sure where this belonged as Liz Hubbard is also (probably better)known for ATWT but she did this primetime stint on her year off from 'The Doctors'

Ray was a Gaspero who used the name Slater.

Vicky Harcourt was around in the 50's I think but I don't recall any more about her off thre top of my head.

Thom Christopher's Earl Merrick was the prosecuter who succeeded in having Arlene found guilty of the murder of Ian Russell.I guess he was on for 13 weeks.

Don't think I've ever seen this photo before

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Here's a photo of Bob Mandan and Ann Flood. Not sure who the 3rd actress is??

Mike and Leslie

Mary Grace Canfield, best known by sitcom fans as Ralph the handyman on Green Acres, has died age 89.

In 73 she was a temporary replacement on GH as Lucille, filling in for long time cast member Lucille Wall.

Bob Anton was a favorite of Doug Marland.He worked on GH and GL when Marland was there.

As there is a thread for ratings from the 60's and 70's, I thought I'd get one going for the 80's.ABC pretty much dominated but hopefully we can post figures that give a clearer picture and show fluctuations and any inroads made by CBS and NBC.

From Variety Aug 13th 1982

For the two weeks previous AMC had outrated GH with a 9.9/32 share making it the #1 soap.

Variety reported that for week ending Feb 22 1980, GL was in 3rd place behind GH and AMC. So Marland's first few months on the job were paying off.

Variety reported in July 79 that when Y&R expanded to an hour on Dec 79, it would run 12.30 to 1.30 and SFT would move to 3.30 replacing 'One Day at a Time' reruns.

So the proposed schedule was

12.00 Local programming

12.30 Y&R

1.30 ATWT

2.30 GL

3.30 SFT

4.00 One Day at a Time

By Dec, programmers had a rethink and instead we saw

12.00 Local

12.30 SFT

1.00 Y&R

2.00 ATWT

3.00 GL

4.00 One Day...

How do posters feel that Search would have fared following GL and up against AW and GH?

Variety Nov 10 1980

Casting call for Lance Prentiss,35-40 leading man type, handsome, charismatic,all-American, suave, debonair, sense of humor,charming, lives abroad,singer a plus.

Carol, was similar to Lynne in that she pined after her boss and was occasionally thrown a few crumbs...

An interesting interview and I can see why PM was against that script. It does seem out of character for Carlotta.It would have been more interesting for Carlotta to have espoused the view that PM herself feels.

What I don't get is that Christian' love the sinner spin' re gays. They don't approve of the 'lifestyle' whatever that is.But they never spell out how they think gay people should live. Is it they believe that gays should not express their sexuality in any way, even in committed long term relationships?

Some more info on Hidden Faces.

It ran from Dec 30 1968 - June 27 1969

As well as performers listed above the cast included Nat Polen as Earl Harriman, Ludi Claire as Grace Ensleyand a young Linda Blair as Allyn Jaffe.

Tony LoBianco was also listed as Nick Capello Turner.

So glad to read that.

Hidden Faces has always fascinated me. It seemed to have an interesting premise but was thrown to the wolves up against ATWT.

NBC had lost the rights to Let's Make a Deal which had provided some competition to ATWT for 4 years and ABC picked up LMAD which left NBC in the wilderness.

Hidden Faces was created by Irving Vendig, who had created Edge of Night.

NBC should have programmed it at 4.00 where, like EON, it could have captured the male and teen audience that enjoyed Edge.

Thanks for that. Kind of odd to have just a sketch of the guy and no photos of the sets or further details.

And really, the sets of the 60's were pretty basic weren't they?

Ann Flood is now 79 years old.

Most of these questions have been asked or answered in earlier postings.Take the time to read through the whole thtead if you can as there is some fascinating stuff.

1. Billy is the son of Dr Dan Allison and his first wife.Carolee married Dan and became his stepmother. After Dan's death Carolle married Steve.He became known as Billy Aldrich.I don't know if Steve legally adopted Billy nor do I know the name of his bio mom.Maybe other posters can help.

2. Kim was played by Jane Fliess and was around in 78/79.She was bad girl who was a rival for Greta over Billy.

3.Can't answer that one, would like to know myself.

4. Ricky was the son of MJ's sister Betsy (Carol Potter) who died with her husband in a car crash, leaving a newly married MJ and Tom to care for him.Not sure who played him. Tom was abusive towards the boy and eventually Tom died and Ricky was shipped off to another sister.

5. Gail never made it to air.

6. Don't know who played Evan.

Hope this helps a little.

According to Variety, movie star Signe Hasso appeared in one episode in late September 1955.

She played herself,with the male lead in the series, a reporter, interviewing her.