Paul Raven

Philadelphia Wed Jan 15 1969 WFIL (ABC) 12.00 Bewitched 12.30 Funny You should Ask 1.00 Dream House 1.30 Lets Make A Deal 2.00 Television Kitchen (pre-empting Newlywed Game) 2.30 Dating Game 3.00 General Hospital 3.30 Jerry's Place (pre-empting One Life To Live) 4.00 Dark Shadows KYW (NBC) 12.00 News (pre-empting Jeopardy) 12.30 Mike Douglas (pre-empting Eye Guess @12.30, Hidden Faces @1.30) 2.00 Days of Our Lives 2.30 Doctors 3.00 Another World 3.30 You Don't Say 4.00 Match Game WPHL (Independent) picked up the pre-emptions from ABC/NBC (except for Newlywed Game) 12.00 Jeopardy 12.30 Eye Guess 1.00 One Life To Live 1.30 Hidden faces

1968 KREM Spokane Mon Aug 5 1:00 BEWITCHED—Comedy 1:30 TREASURE ISLE—Game COLOR 2:00 DREAM HOUSE—Game COLOR 2:30 IT’S HAPPENING COLOR 2:55 CHILDREN’S DOCTOR COLOR 3:00 NEWLYWED GAME COLOR 3:30 DATING GAME COLOR 4:00 GENERAL HOSPITAL COLOR 4:30 ONE LIFE TO LIVE COLOR 5:00 DARK SHADOWS COLOR 5:30 GILLIGAN’S ISLAND—Comedy COLOR

Check out this listing from 1958 Tues Aug 12th WJW Cleveland (CBS) 7:30 REX HUMBARD—Religion 8:00 News 8:10 Mr Banjo 9:00 Amos n Andy 9:30 Beat The Clock 10:00 For Love Or Money 10:30 Susie 11:00 Arthur Godfrey 12.00 Love of Life 12.30 Search For Tomorrow 12.45 Guiding Light 1.00 Movie 2.20 News 2.30 House Party 3.00 Life With Elizabeth 3.30 Verdict Is Yours 4.00 Secret Storm 4,30 Edge Of Night 5.00 As The World Turns Cleveland must have loved their afternoon movie for ATWT to be placed at 5. I wonder how long it played in that timeslot?

i believe ATWT had 2 runs on Oz TV in the 70's on the 9 and 10 networks. The Nine network was home of US soaps with DOOL as the centerpiece. I believe ATWT had a late morning slot and ran no longer than a year. Later the 10 network tried ATWT in competition at midday opposite 9's popular talk/variety show but it lasted only a few months. This is all from memory but I'll do some research to find out more. Found a listing from Fri 28 Feb 1975 9 Network 12 pm DOOL 12.30 Y&R 1pm ATWT 1.30 No Man's Land (local 'womens issues') 2pm GH 2.30 AW 3pm SFT So Aussies were well served for US soaps By Sept 75 10 am AW 12pm DOOL 1pm Y&R 1.30 No Mans Land 2pm GH 2.30 SFT 3pm Dinah So the expansion of AW and DOOL bumped ATWT off the schedule, so it musn't have been too popular

re Valiant Lady Bandleader Ben Cutler appeared in Dec 56. At the time he was married to Flora Campbell (Helen)

The episodes of 22, 23 and 26 October 1959 depicted the wedding of Penny Hughes and Jeff Baker. This was reported in a California newspaper and goes against other reports that Penny and Jeff married Xmas Eve.Perhaps their first marriage, which was annulled, was on Xmas Eve. Hope someone can clarify.

re Don MacLaughlin Add proposed radio soap in which he was cast as lead - 'We Belong Together' 1943

Hitting #3 was quite an achievement for Days as it didn't get any help from surrounding shows. AW never really got any bump when Days's ratings went up. I wonder if SB had followed Days it would have done better. It seemed more compatible in style. And AW @3 would be returning it to it's traditional timeslot. NBC should really have tried this.

Yes I recall that Will Patton was recurring and wouldn't commit to a contract.

Found interesting radio roles for John Larkin and Mary Patton For Thanksgiving 1946 P&G aired special crossover episodes on 4 NBC soaps that aired 3-4pm. It was a fantasy theme where an embittered serviceman visited the 4 shows and met characters who showed him friendliness and meaning to his life. Pepper Young's Family/Life Can Be Beautiful/Ma Perkins/Right To Happiness Joe Green... John Larkin Mary Patton - Polly

Great to see some new hoppers. I never connected that the Peter MacLean that was Grandpa Brady was the same actor as those other roles. Guess it's not a very memorable name... Some requests Eddie Mekka Sarah Cunningham Michael Lombard Janet Wood Phil MacGregor Michael Strong Phillip Kraus

Sam and Lahoma had a daughter. I envisaged a widowed Sam returning and leaving her with Ada while he went to work in Saudi arabia or some other far flung place leaving Ada to be surrogate mom to this girl.

I think that's right. Really Dennis should have been a priority character, not an afterthought. He was in the right age group, related and linked to the Cory's etc.

The character of Ted was such a minor one in AW history. Obviously with Brian still around, somebody thought of Ted. Yet all those years went by before anybody thought Dennis might be worth reviving.

I don;t think AW ever went higher then 8th for the rest of it's run.

it's always puzzling how writers randomly cherrypick a character or event from the past eg Ted's return, when other events and characters from the past are ignored eg Nancy returning, Rachel's father/half sister etc

re Don MacLaughlin Add Lora Lawton 1948

from Psychology Today Most chronically passive-aggressive individuals have four common characteristics: They’re unreasonable to deal with. They’re uncomfortable to experience. They rarely express their hostility directly. They repeat their subterfuge behavior over time. 1. Don’t Overreact. Reduce Personalization and Misunderstanding. 2. Keep Your Distance Whenever Possible. 3. Don’t Try to Change Them. 4. Don’t Get Sucked In. Avoid Tit for Tat.

They made reference to Peggy and Jack's involvement, but not Chris and Jack.

Some ATWT trivia... Way back in 1948, 12 years before they played grandfather/grandson on ATWT Santos Ortega(Pa Hughes) and Don Hastings (Bob Hughes) appeared together in the radio drama Criminal Casebook.

In it's second week on air Loving dropped from a 4.9/18 share to a 3.9/10. So there was initial interest but then ratings dropped. That was probably expected.

The Hamptons ABC's summer soap on tape from Gloria Monty debuted at # 18 (13.8/25) in the ratings in the Summer of 83 and won it's timeslot. A Dynasty repeat followed at 10pm and scored a 10.5/19.

The Loving TV movie was slotted 9-11 on Sunday night and achieved a 13.3/23 rating which placed it just outside the top 20 for the week. It was up against Summer reruns on CBS/NBC.

So far Loving has hit a 4.3, which is a little lower than RH was doing at 12.30, so when Loving moves into that slot it will probably be within that range. Maybe hit a 4.5. Will be interesting to see. I wonder if Lov or RH did anything story wise to attract attention the week of the switch? Did SFT see an opportunity to bump up their numbers and grab some viewers who might have switched when RH was moved?

As has been repeatedly stated, the months pencilled in are the issue dates. The ratings shown are a few months behind. SB will probably appear in the October issue as happened with Loving the year before. I'm guessing a 3.7 - 4.0 for Santa Barbara.