Paul Raven

Heather got pregnant and gave up the baby before Jeff met Anne.

How about Charles Keating Leonie Norton John Beck Timothy Gibbs Micki Grant Kevin McClatchy Kim Hamilton

Jen has just had a mastectomy so is in a very vulnerable state. Following the news that he and Lorie are siblings Mark coldly tells her they cannot marry, leaving Lorie devastated. Lance had been introduced as an admirer of Leslie as an artist. Leslie's husband Brad won't accompany her to the Dallas concert as he has health concerns (onset of blindness, which he wants to keep from Les) Lance throws the party we see. Following this Lance and Les discuss Brad, and agree he is a special guy.Les says Lance is also and they almost kiss.

Thank you for the 75 episode. Hope there's more to come. We had that typical Bill Bell twist of the blood test mixup where it was all going in one direction and then they had the rug pulled out from under them. What impressed me was the set for Lance & Leslie - it looked better than some of the sets used today. Even Lorie's apartment (although basic)looked more realistic than today's efforts. Consider the hideously decorated apartment Phyllis lived in. Gotta love Janice going all Liza and working the room. And we got end credits!

Lew continues his sleazy ways for some time,juggling 2 older women on the show. At some point in the writer merry go round coming up Lew becomes Luke and a much more upstanding citizen. I wonder if the name change is part of him cleaning up his act? So DePriest introduced all of the Dacys except Barney. There was earlier discussion about this. De Priest is hinting at Matt/Nola as you suggest but Marland arrives soon and stories/motivations change. Marland said in hindsight he should have wrapped up the Joan/pull the plug story straight away but he was too inexperienced to realize at the time that if a story is not working, better to ditch it quickly and move on.

Some more suggestions Sarah Aldrich Nancy Wickwire Fran Sharon Scott Reeves Audra Lindley Maura West George O Petrie

Looking at Les Damon's many roles thru the 50's, I wondered why it all stopped in 1960. So to Google to discover Mr Damon died of a heart attack aged 54 in 1962. He worked in primetime 1960-62.

Didn't she also play Jodie the runaway on Y&R before April?

Thanks for your comments vetsoapfan. I agree re AW OK, Gary Tomlin was not familiar with JC, but surely others at AW and P&G should have informed him about her importance to the show. Apart from hair and wardrobe JC was still an attractive woman and viable leading lady. Thinking back to that time, what stories and characters could Alice have been involved in? Did they acknowledge her past with Mac?

Re JC I wonder how she felt about going from being one of the 'Queens of Daytime' and making that move to OLTL ,stepping into a front burner story and then by the early 80's seeing Pat slowly diminished in story importance and given a low key exit. Then returning to AW where she formally reigned supreme and given virtually no story, leaving after a year and doing a short stint on Loving. Maybe she was fine with it all...but understandable if there was some resentment there. PS On a shallow note, I don't think she did herself any favors by going with that short haircut.

Yes indeed! Cynthia Eilbacher Cynthia Bostock Frank Gorshin Les Damon Stephen Yates David Gale David Ackroyd James Congdon Vicky Dawson

Carol Pfander (Cathy Ryker) resurfaced in 1982 as co host of a proposed once a week series Soap Opera Recap ( a half hour summary of the week's stories) That show never got off the ground.

Thanks for posting. This was a few months into Margaret DePriest's stint. Sure, it wasn't perfect but she had set up a good family structure with the Loves and McKinnons. Any older viewers tuning in would probably only recognize Rachel and Ada. Part of this revamp should have included returning the Matthews to some prominence as they did later on. Unfortunately, most of these characters were gone in a couplee of years and the show had to rebuild again Quinn, Maisie, Cheryl, Scott, Nancy, MJ etc all had heaps of story ahead of them but were dropped for other new characters Not the way to build viewer loyalty. PS The Cory set looked way more lavish than its replacement.All it needed was some redecorating. I wonder why it was dropped? Maybe took up too much space in the studio?

Jennifer Reilly was a disaster. She stumbled over her lines, missed cues, looked at cue cards and had no physical or vocal nuance. I actually felt sorry for the poor girl. She probably was carried off the set mumbling incoherently...

your choice... thanks for posting.

From daytime TV Jan 82, so probably Oct/Nov 81 Top 10 serials 1. GH 11.7/41 2. OLTL 9.2/35 3. AMC 8.5/32 4. GL 7.1/25 5.Y&R 7.0/31 6. RH 6.3/26 7. SFT 6.0/23 8. ATWT 5.9/22 9. EON 5.7/19 10. DOOL 4.9/19 Top 5 gameshows 1. Family Feud 5.9/26 2. TPIR 4.7/26 3. Wheel of Fortune 4.3/23 4. Password Plus 3.7/19 5. Blockbusters 3.2/18

Not sure I want to get that intimate in a group!

NBC -TV, which achieved almost instant ratings success when it expanded Another World daytime drama to 60 minutes, announced last week that it will stretch Days of Our Lives serial to one hour beginning next month. Five weeks after Another World extended itself to 4 p.m., NBC has jumped from 19 to 30 share in 3:30 to 4 p.m. time period. Show also gets consistent 30 share in its 3 to 3:30 p.m. segment. In April, Days of Our Lives will start at 1:30 p.m. instead of present 2 p.m. How to Survive a Marriage, now in 1:30 p.m. slot with season -todate 5.5 rating and 18 share, will be canceled.

Henry Slesar considered bringing in Jody's mom as a full time character but ABC and or P&G nixed as they thought she would be too old.

Pam Long/Jay Hammer Keith Charles/Nancy Ford

August 78 America Alive, NBC -TV's new daytime experiment, is far from an instant smash in the national, ratings. NBC was quick to point out that it wasn't expected to be. For its first week on the air, July 24 -28, Alive posted a 3.5 rating and a 13 share average (12 noon -1 p.m. NYT). Its predecessor in the first half hour, Sanford and Son, had averaged a 4.8/19 during the four previous weeks, despite having a 7% lower clearance rate than Alive's (BROADCASTING, July 31). The Gong Show, which had aired in the 12:30 -1 p.m. time period, averaged a 5.4/21 for the four weeks prior to Alive's debut with an almost equal clearance rate. Competing shows on the other two networks all improved their performances during the week of Alive's premiere. ABC - TV's $20,000 Pyramid (12 noon -12:30 p.m.) moved from a 5.5/23 average in the previous four weeks to a 6.1/24 for July 24 -28, while CBS's entry in that half -hour, The Young and the Restless, moved from a. 7.3/29 to a 7.5/29. In the 12:30 -1 p.m. time period, ABC's Ryan's Hope moved from a 6.8/27 to a 7.8/30 and CBS's Search for Tomorrow went from a 6.3/25 to 7.2/28.

Television debut of the radio serial which has been on the air for l7 years; using the same cast as the radio show. 'Both radio and television shows will be separate until January when the radio program will be pre-recorded from the TV show of the previous day. Current radio shows are recorded three weeks in advance. The program stars Don Maclaughlin as Dr. Jim Brent; with Virginia Dwyer, Dorothy Sands, Barbara Becker, Harry Holcombe, Bill Lipton, Elizabeth Lawrence, Michael ram, Elspeth Eric and Hollis Irving. Road of Life replaces The Seeking Heart in this time spot

Update on The Way of the World Gloria Louis, as Linda Porter, is permanent hostess for a new daytime drama series, with dramatized stories presented in from 6 to 15 episodes each, according to the length required to tell each story. Each story will have a different cast. Jan3 In Defense of Eve Peterson - by Harry Junkin Host "Linda Porter" introduces the current story which revolves around the life of an actress, Eve, who is attempting to hide the fact that she is slowly losing her hearing. The only person aware of her predicament is her mother. In this episode, Eve tells her mother about some embarrassing moments she's had because of her inability to hear well. Her mother thinks it will be much easier on her daughter if she just tells the truth to her husband, Lyle. Eve, however, is afraid that if she tells him about her condition it will ruin both of their careers since they work as partners on stage. Meanwhile, Lyle senses that Eve is hiding something from him and asks his mother-in-law to help him find out the truth. Cast Claudia Morgan - Eve Philip Reed - Lyle Rhoden Streeter, Ethel Everett, Leora Thatcher, Sydney Smith, Milo Beulton, Jack Arthur; Dir by Frederic Carr; Jan 17 by Stephen de Baun Cast Jerome Courtland, Helen Auerbach, Santos Ortega, Jack Orrison, John Craven; 24 Jan thru 10 Feb starting Thu - The Bewitched Spinster by Nelia Gardner White Cast Edna Best, Dean Harens, Vera Allen,Vaughn Taylor, Patricia Wheel. Ann d'Autremont, Vinton Hayworth, Santos Ortega. Jane Alexander, Bish Alexander, Joe Latham, Natalie Hall, Joe Hammond, Judson Rees Feb 11 I for Isabel by Irving Elman Cast Meg Mundy, Addison Powell. Beverly Lunsford. Joseph Fallon Feb 21 Starting Tue for 10 days: by Melia Gardner White, Cast Kathleen Maguire, Howard Smith, Coe Norton, Mar 8 thru Mar 16 by Levis Terry & Joe Fates Smith Cast Phyllis Kirk, Richard Derr, Vera Allen, John Baby Mar 17 thru Mar 25 by Lewis Graham Cast Dorothy Sands, Joan Hotchkiss, Violet Homing, Jean Carson, Bert Freed, Bill Lipton, Gladys Thornton, Bernard Tone April 4 by Anne Howard Bailey Cast William Prince.Lori March,Connie Lembeck. Katherine Raht, Emily Lawrence, Laurence Hugo April 25 by Harry Junkin (5 episodes) Cast Edna Best, Sara Marshall, Bill Tabbert, Meg Mundy, Kathleen Maguire, Prince, Claudia Morgan, Paul McGrath May 2 (10 episodes) by Melia Gardner White Cast Kathleen Maguire, Gloria Stroock, Margaret Hamilton, Anne Shoemaker, Andrew Duggan, Eric Fleming, Beverly Lunsford May 16 by George Lefferts Cast Eva Gabor, Whitfield Connor, Millicent Brower, Viola Roache, Rudy Weiss May 23 by Everett W. Meade Cast Georgann Johnson, Lauren Gilbert, Lin McCarthy, Doris Smith, Dorrit Kelton, Jane Seymour, Logan Field, Geoffrey Bryant; May 30 by Geraldine Merken Cast Joe Maross, Margaret Feury, Malcolm Beggs, Reba Tassell, Ed Bryce, Peggy Lobbin, Susan Willis, John Keating; June 6(10 episodes) by Harry Junkin Cast Peggy Maurer, Michael Higgins, Jay Barney, Bart Burns, Hollis Irving, Addison Powell, Frederick Norlock, Sydney Smith June 20 by Reginald Lawrence and Therese Lewis Cast Jerome Courtland, Tom Poston, Jean Sullivan, Geoffrey Bryant June 27 by Harry Junkin cast Wayne Morris, Judith Parrish, Natalie Trundy, Vinton Hayworth, Katherine Raht, Alice Yourman July 1 (10 episodes thru 7/15) Forbidden Dreams by Lawrence Williams Cast Gena Rowlands, Mark Roberts, Charles Baxter, Leora Thatcher, Jack Orrison, Nell Harrison July 25 M thru F - (5 episodes) by Walter Black & William Mendrek Cast Louise Allbritton, Phil Meeder, Rock Rogers, Lawrence Fletcher, Frank Downing Aug 1 Come Alive - (0) by George Oppenheimer & Robert Sinclair(10 episodes) cast Anne Burr, Adrian Bayan, Addison Powell, Chester Stratton, Ethel Remey, Frederic Norlock; Aug 14 M thru 7 - Miss Emory by William Kendall Clarke Cast Dorothy Hart, Joe Maross, Melinda Markey, Donald Hayden 22 August Deep Down Inside Me - by Reita Lambert Cast Geraldine Brooks, Lamont Johnson, Dean Harens, Carol Goodner, Harry Bannister; Sept 5 One Day More -by George Bradshaw, Cast Stewart Bradley, Stephen Pluta, Ruth Warrick, Susan Willis, Judith Parrish, Lynn Pearson, David Doyle, Les Damon, Larry Kerr, Lilia Skala, John Graham, Justine Johnson Sept 19 by William Kendall Clarke Cast Nancy Rennick, Phil Meeder, House Jameson Sept 26 Rebound by William Kendall Clarke Cast Philip Meeder, House Jameson, Nancy Rennick, Peggy Allenby, Michael Galloway, Mary K. Wells, Frank M. Thomas, Helen Seamon, Mark Miller; Oct 3 by Nelia Gardner White cast Constance Ford - Cass ,Coe Norton - John Story revolves around the life of a young woman, Cass, who has been dedicating her time to destroying the career of an attorney, John, who caused her friend Lucy to lose custody of her child. Cass believes that John is just out to promote himself and not interested in serving justice. In this episode, however, Cass realizes that she has been wrong about John when she learns that Lucy had been involved with a known criminal and that John is attempting to put this man behind bars. Unfortunately, a store owner, Tom, is withholding importance evidence from John that is crucial to his case. Tom tells Cass that he refused to help John after hearing what a horrible person he was from Cass herself. Cass realizes that she must remedy the situation before John loses his case and a criminal goes free because of her mixed-up feelings. Meanwhile, Tom's current sweetheart, Olivia, arrives at Cass's shop to apologize for her immature behavior towards Cass. Some more additions to the Soaphoppers list!

There is some Love of Life on Youtube that features Chandler as Ben.

April 1954 NEW YORK, March 28. -The following are the top 10 day-time video programs as of the first week of February, cornpared with the top 10 in February 51 52, according to Trendex: 1952 1. Howdy Doody 13.6 2. Kate Smith Hour .,. 9.1 3. Strike It Rich 8.8 4. Gabby Hayes 7.4 5. Bill Goodwin 6.9 6. Ralph Edwards 6.7 7. Hawkins Falls 6.6 8. Big Payoff 6.5 9. Arthur Godfrey 5.5 10. The Egg and I . 5.0 1953 1. Howdy Doody 15.2 2. Strike It Rich 10.8 3. Arthur Godfrey 10.0 4. Bride and Groom 9.8 5. Welcome Travelers 9.4 6. Big Payoff 9.3 7. Gabby Hayes 8.8. 8. Love of Life 8.9. 9. Houseparty 7.9 10. Search for Tomorrow 7.7