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Frank and Doris Hursley had several soap proposals in the works over the years Crossroads Clinic Hollywood Girl Lady of the Theater Richard Douglas for the Defence. South Paradise 1966 This Precious Hour As did daughter and son in law Bridget and Jerome Dobson Bodies and souls 1993 Co-Ed 1990 Couture Dangerous Liasons 1994 One World 1990 Westwood General Hospital - Sixth Floor Heritage 1973

Some GH related trivia - Sharon DuBord (Sharon Pinkham) was maid of honor at Judy Carne's(Laugh In) ill fated marriage to Burt Reynolds in 1963.

1954 NBC investigating bringing radio soap "Big Sister ' to TV. It has previously had a short experimental TV run in 1945 with Mercedes McCambridge.

Re The Brighter Day A 1954 TV Guide summary mentions a character 'Blake' You have Ted Blake listed in 1958 and Dr Blake Hamilton in 1960. Could it possibly be one of these characters or an entirely different Blake?

Millette Alexander (Sara GL) was once daughter in law to Oscar Hammerstein, famed musical theater legend (Oklahoma, Sound of Music, King and I etc)

Carolyn Conwell (Mary Y&R) in SOW talked about auditioning for Marlena on DOOL in 1976. She recalled 'They applauded at my audition, they loved it . But I'm not pretty. I have an off center face. She (DH) is just so photogenic. So that's why I didn't get the part. And I was just as happy, because this (the role of Mary0 is actually better for me.' Carolyn was 46 at the time of her audition, Deidre was 29 so perhaps they had a different concept for Marlena before DH was cast.

Re Paul Hecht His AMC role of Dr Weiss was 1999. Re Betty Henritze AMC Mrs Lamont was 1999.

My apologies for dissing Ms JFP - I had my timelines mixed up. She did kill off Bridget but later teams put older characters on recurring and then wrote them off. Mind you JFP did plenty of other stuff she could be criticized for - AW- ER/BCPD Blue...

Interesting that the CBS promos labelled the show The Guiding Light when the title officially changed to Guiding Light a few years before.

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When did she and Bennett divorce?

Re Rita Morley Add The Brighter Day (at least 1957)

Original cast publicity shots

For Chris B and anyone else that might be interested. Carla Borelli with George Hamilton on ABC's notorious flop 'The Survivors'

I'll post some pics of her on The Survivors in the primetime soaps thread!

Re Carla Borelli She also appeared in ABC's 'The Survivors' in 1969, in scenes with George Hamilton

Here's a shot from the pilot of the original Allison - Gyl Roland (daughter of veteran actor Gilbert Roland). How things would have been different for her and Mia had the switch not happened..

thanks for all your replies. Here's Nola #2 and #3

Speaking of Michael - Paul, I've never discovered how he came to have that name? Can someone fill me in. Thanks. Also on names how was it explained that Lew became known as Luke.?

So today we had a location shot with Sara in a park. Was that the first time TD ventured outdoors? There was no dialogue so pretty basic and cheap to tape I assume. Later there will be another extended location shoot as the climax to a big story...I wonder if there will be visuals only?

re Scarlet Hill I have Ruth played by Jill Foster (!) but IMDB has her playing Eleanor?

Re Henry Simmons Add 13 Bourbon St Fox pilot

Don't give Fishman any lines in the live ep...

I recall Afternoon TV mentioning Pat would be part of an AW spinoff with a Boston locale, tying in with Lee Paterson. can't recall how far ahead of the Texas announcement that was.

Apologies for those weekend dates. They were taken from Soap Opera Weekly, but perhaps I was hasty in jotting them down.I'm going to have to go back and check.