Paul Raven

That seems to be the case, but surely Snapper would have to comment to Chris that 'something really heavy is going down with my sister Jill right now'😉

Yes it was natural for the Brooks sisters to be friendly to Jill in 73/74 when Chris and Snapper married. They were girls of good breeding and Jill looked up to them with a mixture of awe and envy. Once the marriage had taken place there was no further reason that the girls would interact with Jill as they moved in different circles. Unlike today when billionaire's stop off at Crimson Lights for a coffee. Surely though, Chris had some reactions to Jill's traumas with Kay as as she was her sister in law?

Re Secret Storm Cleveland reporter Jenny Crimm had a cameo role in 1967.

2 weeks ending August 6 1967/ 2 weeks previous/coverage 1. As The World Turns 10.9/39 (11.5/41) 99.3 2. Dick Van Dyke 10.7/50 (11.1/50) 98.6 3. Another World 9.9/35 (9.9/35) 97.2 4. Art Linkletter House Party 9.9/36 (9.0/34) 99.3 5. The Guiding Light 9.7/37 ( 10.1/39) 99.1 6. Search For Tomorrow 9.7/38 ( 10.5/41) 99.1 7. Andy of Mayberry reruns 9.6/50 (10.3/52) 96.2 8. The Doctors 9.1/34 (9.0/34) 97.6 9. Newlywed Game 8.7/33 (8.7/33) 97.8 10. Let's Make A Deal 8.6/31 (7.5/27) 86.7 11. Love of Life 8.3/34 (9.0/36) 98.4 12. To Tell the Truth 8.3/30 (8.3/30) 98.7 13. Beverly Hillbillies reruns 8.1/47 (8.4/47) 83.9 14. Edge of Night 8.1/32 (9.5/37) 98.7 15. Eye Guess 8.1/32 (7.7/30) 91.6 16. You Don't Say 8.1/32 (8.6/32) 87.4 17. Days of Our Lives 8.0/30 (7.4/28) 95.6 18. Secret Storm 8.0/31 (9.1/33) 98.6 19. General Hospital 7.9/26 (7.9/26) 98.1 20. Password 7.9/30 (7.8/30) 98.0

I have read that Tom Selleck was the one who didn't want to sign a contract. Selleck did have a higher pitched voice than expected from someone with his looks. I wonder if he was advised to have voice lessons and refused?

That darkness was a hallmark of the Conboy years. It was carefully constructed so that the actors and/or certain props were specifically lit. Hours were spent on the lighting. Wes Kenney changed that and said he got feedback along the lines of 'I didn't realize you had sets!'

I think Bill Bell deliberately isolated characters eg Kay and Jennifer as he realized that the half hour could not support it. If Kay and Jen were friends then as well as Kay being a part of the Brooks story, Jennifer in turn would have involvement in all that was going on with Kay and Jill and there would be an obligation to write to that which could dilute the overall story. Also he liked to keep things up his sleeve so that later, characters could connect and open up new avenues to explore. Nowadays everyone on canvas has a history with just about everyone else and it gets incestuous and unwieldy ...

Carol Lynley has died aged 77. Best known for The Poseidon Adventure. Lots of movie and primetime appearances. Her soap connection...she payed Judge Martha Dunlay on AW in 1989.

Maybe the demographics for SFT were skewing too old?

Edge of Night hitting the Top 10 for the first time in years. If ABC had got more affiliates on board and a consistent time slot....

Sept 12 1978 Dorian LoPinto debuts as Missy Palmer in a 'meet cute' scene with Luke Dancy. Missy Palmer was Carol Roux's character on AW/Somerset. Wonder if naming her that was intentional?

Thanks for the clarification re GL/GH So Y&R was the first show to beat GH to #1, yet it never was acknowledged. As momentous as GL's triumph over GH was, surely Y&R deserved some attention as well.

Slesar also wrote EON and SFT for 6 months or so. Irna Phillips wrote ATWT and AW amongst others. Agnes wrote TGL and AW in 66/67. But no one took on the challenge of writing 2 1 hr shows. Did Lemay write all of L&F and then Tom King wrote FRFP? Or did Lemay bail on L&F durings its run?

Ed Mallory had a week when he was taping on both Morningstar and DOOL. Whether those scenes aired the same week I don't know. When the show was facing the ax, Ted Corday has a scene taped whereby Mallory's charcter Bill was defending the actions of Norman Burton's character Joe. He faced the camera and asked the audience directly something along the lines of 'Do you believe Joe deserves a second chance? If so write to NBC and gave an address. Thousands of letters poured in which Ted Corday hoped would show the execs that the show had a following.It didn't work...

I searched for Gene Williams and didn't see that.🙄

Re SFT Add Gene Williams 8 yr old Jan 13 1978

I'm watching from time to time via YouTube. The new MJ - Carla Dragoni has debuted. Not sure why they bothered as MJ could have easily left town and Dragoni play a new character.

Re Ralph Camargo Larry Haines Add Right to Happiness 1960

re Arthur Peterson Obviously a slip up Rev Rutledge Guiding Light 1937-46?

It will be interesting to see GL's ratings for later in Marland's run to see if it stayed strong or he was running out of steam. The show was rocky after he left and the Gail Kobe/Pam Long came along and even got it to#1 for a few weeks in 84. The trouble with that regime IMO is that they threw out too much of the old structure and focussed on new characters and then further writers did the same until there was a patchwork of families - a couple of Bauers, some Reardons, Lewis and Shaynes. It was all too fragmented...

What a non story. Who hasn't received some fake email promising money? Did they contact Inside Edition to keep them in the public eye?

Guiding Light was CBS #1 soap at this time and that was up against GH. I don't recall that being acknowledged much at that time. If only CBS and P&G had found the formula to keep them strong. Maybe Doug Marland could have overseen the GL and ATWT as he seemed to be the only writer that could keep ratings up consistently. He was really the last writer that seemed to have the magic touch.

Roger Davis played Robert E Lee Prewitt in the From Here to Eternity pilot

re Leora Dana Add The Working Mother NBC Daytime special 8/12/1960

Patty Weaver - October 85 Would that be her going recurring? I don't recall Gina leaving town at any time... Was Gina/Patty recurring from then on or did she go back on contract at some point?