Paul Raven

I recalled Jill moving into the mansion following Phillip's death. So I checked an old synopsis Many months of bitterness followed Phillip Chancellor's death. Jill possessed Phillip's money and property, including the house. Jill insisted that her entire family move into the house, but they weren't used to having servants and felt strange at first. With Jill's prodding, they began to enjoy being wealthy. Meanwhile, Katherine was driven to prove that Phillip and Jill weren't really married and to get back her house. During a messy courtroom battle, Katherine told how she had been coerced into signing divorce papers while she was drunk and didn't know what she was doing. She won the case and got her estate back and made Phillip's son illegitimate. It bothered Katherine that Jill was carrying Phillip's baby and offered Jill a million dollars if Jill would give legal custody of the child to her. Jill agreed.

Just a week between tape and airing. Poor Greg-any old office will do. Thinking back I never got any sense of Wings Hauser's Greg as an effective lawyer. Really looking forward to these.

Love in The Afternoon by Ed Zimmerman. He wrote this when he was playing Joe Werner on Guiding Light in the early 70's. Tragically he died in 1972 aged 39. It's a fun read - obviously a lightly fictionalized account of TGL at that time. I'll post more about it in the GL thread.

Variety reports in July 1958 that CBS is piloting 'The Sheriff's Wife' packaged by Don Arpell and dealing with 'the women behind the wooly men who opened up the wild west'. This was a live daily soap. Lori March was the female lead with George Wallace as the Sheriff.

RE SFT Variety reports Anthony Ray joining in June 58 Re Today Is Ours Barry Thompson played Lester Williams

ATWT, GL and EON all aired in a P&G block 1.30 - 3.00 pm LOL, Y&R and SFT aired 11.30 am - 1.00pm. With that half hour of local time in between I guess CBS saw them as 2 different time periods.

Before any of that, Love in the Afternoon was the title of a 1957 Billy Wilder movie with Audrey Hepburn.

Thanks for posting those. Did Daytime TV post ratings throughout its run? Someone out there probably has access to all those rating details...

Ratings for Rituals are tough to come by, as it aired in various timeslots throughout the country, in the afternoon, early evening and late night. In Feb 1985 sweeps, in Washington the time period ratings as follows 11pm WDVM (CBS) late news 13.1/28 WJLA (ABC) late news 12.2/26 WRC (NBC) 11.2/24 WTTG (independent) Rituals 4.7/10 In the Nov 84 sweeps, Rituals played in 90 markets (72.2% coverage) and received a 2.1/6, ranking 201st of over 400 syndicated shows rated and ranked.

Re Valiant Lady Add Gerald Price

Re First Love add Ronald Dawson 1955

Re Greatest Gift Corydon Erickson as Jackie Feb 55. 10 yr old child actor

Re SFT Bernard Grant appeared in 1953

Love Lana and the leopard... Mandel Kramer Romance of Helen Trent in Feb 50 Ed Jerome Front Page Farrell Feb 50

I can see why Jennifer Wood was axed as Doreen. She's too one note as the bitchy rich lady. Every line is delivered with a sneer. Mind you, we can also blame the director(s) who should have told her to tone it down. Anyway, Pamela Lincoln will soon come on as Doreen. The story goes that Pam was axed from Love of Life and her hubby Daryl Hickman,CBS exec got on the phone to his friend Jeff Young and lobbied for a role for Pam. Presto, Jenn was out and Pam was in. Now seeing Wood in action, I can see that perhaps it was just good timing as once they knew Pam was available, it was a no brainer to drop Ms Wood. Some Meg Mundy trivia..way back in 1950 she starred in an experimental CBS color broadcast of the suspense classic 'Sorry Wrong Number'. This was to promote CBS's own color system, which ultimately failed.

Lynn Loring and Lana Wood have identical photos! I think the groovy 60's lady is actually Lynn. Add a role for her husband Roy Thinnes Dana Holmes From Here to Eternity - The War Years From Variety Lynn Loring into Ma Perkins July 59 Lesley Woods into Our Gal Sunday Aug 56

'dated John Conboy'....🙄 Ms Weston accompanied her dear friend to many events on the social calendar.

Who was/were the headwriter(s) at the time of the April 68 episode? Edit - I went back through the thread and discovered John Hess was headwriter in 1968.

True Story 1957 cast List March 16 The Alibi by Mike Morris Cast Phillip Abbott, June Dayton, Bert Freed, Jim Bowles, Bart Aplon. March 23 Wait For Me by Ben Radin Cast Phyllis Hill, William Prince, Earl Hammond, Sam Grey, Heywood Hale Broun March 30 The Return by Earl Hamner Cast Lori March, Lenka Paterson, Jan Miner, Richard Carlyle April 6 My Son Rickey by Michelle Cousins Cast Warren Berlinger, Don Briggs April 13 No Vacation by Earl Hamner Cast David White, Mary K Wells, Martin Brooks, Bill Daniels, Rudy Bond April 20 Dream No More by Michael Morris Cast Jeffrey Lynn, Augusta Dabney, Harry worth, Gladys Holland April 27 The Note by Michael Morris Cast Meg Mundy, Lester Fenway May 11 A Stranger in Town by Elinor Lenz Cast Nancy Coleman, Staats Cotsworth, Warren Berlinger, Kathleen Murray May 18 Renascence by Leon Tokyaton cast Loretta Leversee, Jerome Cowan May 25 The Treasure by Earl Hamner Cast David Opatoshu, Biff McGuire, Dolores Sutton, Richard Kendrick, Art Barry June Cat and Mouse by Walter Black and William Mendrek Cast William Redfield, David White, Jean Gillespie June 8 The Mountain by Harry Junkin Cast Lesley Woods, Edmon ryan, Frank Sutton, Frank Dana June 15 The Stranger by Earl Hamner Cast Jane Rose, Logan Ramsey, Martin Newman June 22 Blind Man's Bluff by Walter Black and William Mendrek Cast Henderson Forsythe, Jerome Cowan, John Marley June 29 The Toy Show by Ben Radin Cast Kathleen McGuire, Richard Coogan, Henry Lascoe, Jim Bowles July 6 Mother's Day by Bob Corcoran Cast Jan Miner, Ruth McDevitt July 13 The Widow of Eric Bowles by Earl Hamner Cast Augusta Dabney, Ed Peck, James Millhollen, Michael Mann July 20 A Matter of Suspicion by Walter Black and William Mendrek Cast Frank Sutton, Dolores Sutton, Harrison Dowd, John Gibson July 27 The Set Up by Ben Radin Cast Frances Helm, Jamie Smith, Sam Grey August 3 The Destructive Angel by Michael Morris Cast Patricia Wheel, bill Daniels, David White, Walter Brooke, Carol Porter August 10 Tea is for Terror by Leon Tokatyan Cast Jan Miner, Minnie Jo Curtis, Lawrence Weber, Patricia Sales, Ralph Dunn August 17 The Scoop by Earl Hamner Cast Maxine Stuart, Frank Maxwell,Edmon Ryan, Shepperd Strudwick August 24 A Commision on Murder by Ben Radin Cast Georgann Johnson, John Gibson. Robert Webber, Boris Aplon, Joanne Bayes August 31 Who am ? By Walter Black and William Mandrek Cast Audra Linley, John seymour, Kathleen McGuire, Martin Rudy September 7 Fog by George Lowder Cast Phyllis Hill, Hugh Reilly, Cort Benson, William Prince September 14 Marriage of Convenience by George Lowther Cast Lisa Daniels, Katherine Meskill, Robert Webber, Barbara Baxley, Peter Donat September 21 Cover Up by Ben Radin Cast William Redfield, Frances Helm, Harry Worth, Truman Smith September 28 Secret File by George Lowther Cast Meg Mundy, Stephen Eliot, Richard Coogan, House Jameson October 5 Black Oaks by George Lowther Cast Jeffrey Lynn, Diana Douglas, Valerie Cossart October 12 The finger Of Scorn by Earl Hamner Cast Thomas Carlin, Patricia Barry,Bernard Grant October 19 Reunion by James Blumgarten Cast Lee Bergere, Logan Ramsey, Lori March, ray Bramley October 26 According to Plan by Joan Cunningham Cast Phyllis Hill, Lauren Gilbert, Al Markim, Jean Mowry November 9 Dress Shop by George Lowther cast Ann Loring, Gloria Marlowe, Richard Kendrick, Lawrence Weber November 16 Confidence Man by James Blumgarten Cast Staats Cotsworth, Joe Campanella, John Kellogg, Millette Alexander, Tom Gorman November 23 Honest Politics by Lillian Andrews Cast Bert Freed, Truman Smith, Frank Sutton, Dolores Sutton November 30 Pre-empted December 7 Girl in a Hotel by George Lowther Cast Lenka Peterson, Jan Miner, Martin Brooks, Paul Lipson December 14 The writer by George Lowther Cast Ann Flood, Mark Roberts, Enid Markey, AlMarkim December 21 A Matter of Principle by Joseph Cochran Cast Frank Dana, Ellen Parker, John Gibson, Raymond Bramley December 28 First Prize by George Lowther Cast Diana Van Der Vlis, Robert Webber, Logan Ramsey, David White

May I include 'True Story' in this thread? Although not strictly a soap, it did air in daytime (Saturdays at noon on NBC) and was live from New York. More importantly the cast drew from the NY talent pool at the time and many performers who worked in soaps also appeared on the show. It began Sat March 16 1957 and continued for several years. Kathi Norris was hostess/narrator introducing each character, giving background information and a wrap up at the end of each broadcast First episode The Alibi by Mike Morris Cast Phillip Abbott, June Dayton, Bert Freed, Jim Bowles, Bart Aplon.

John Pickard/Frank Provo, writers of Concerning Miss Marlowe, From These Roots, The Doctors and Love of Life as well as radio soaps have their papers housed at Thousand Oaks Library. Included are proposals for a TV version of their radio soap "Wendy Warren" in the 60's and scripts and synopsis for 'Mary Worth' 1971. Also included are TV proposals, some of which may have had soap opera overtones Kenyon's Wife Leading Lady Royal Bay Sentinel Square Way of Love Girl Alone 52 Fifth Avenue

Ralph Camargo Kelly Wood Lynne Loring Edward Albert Lana Wood Terrell Anthony Rose Alaio Patricia Benoit Gretchen Walther Diana Douglas

ABC owned GH so there was no way they would sell to another network.

Don Wallace mentioned in an interview that around the time of Return To Peyton Place 20th Century Fox/NBC were investigating a Novels for Television concept 5 episode per novel. Fox wanted to use titles they had in their inventory. Wallace wrote a treatment for 'Tender is the Night' but it soon became apparent that it was not feasible budget wise and the idea died.

EDGE OF NIGHT writer Henry Slesar to Sharon Gabet/ Raven