Paul Raven

Louis Zorich has died aged 93. He played Milo on AW in the early 90s. I think there was a flirtation with Liz. He also appeared on ATWT and RH. Heaps of primetime credits. married to Olympia Dukakis (Barbara SFT) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/obituaries/louis-zorich-familiar-actor-on-tv-and-stage-dies-at-93.html

Was Jessie's lack of airtime in the later years due to EM's ill health , as much as anything else? Still, there should have been a tribute episode where Jessie is honoured with flashbacks etc.

Sid played By Larry Haines was an old sweetheart of Ada's. He was on for a few months in 87(?)

Maybe there was a plan to bring back Nancy to put Joe in a triangle,but like so many AW storylines, that was derailed.

I think Charlie Fred/Charlie was fired as the show was going through another revamp and having Ada married didn't serve the story. She functioned just as well on her own and shows were going 'youthful' at the time. Ada was Bay City's black widow- having Ernie, Gil and Charlie all die while wed to her.

This has been discussed before but AW had a viable new structure with the Loves,McKinnons,Corys and some Matthews and Frames but let it all fall apart.

JANE WYMAN IN PRIME-TIME SOAP OPERA By JOHN J. O'CONNOR Published: December 4, 1981 IN ''Falcon Crest,'' the new prime-time soap opera beginning on CBS at 10 tonight, the villainous centerpiece, the sort of function served by J.R. on the same network's ''Dallas,'' is a woman. Angie Channing is a California vintner, of all things, determined to maintain control of her Napa Valley wine empire. Adding a fillip of interest to the project, Angie is played by Jane Wyman, the former Mrs. Ronald Reagan. Angie wastes no time in getting down to heavy scheming. Discovering that her brother has been killed in an unseemly accident, she has her servant stuff the body into a car and roll it over a cliff so that it looks like he died in a drunken-driving crash. Her machinations have something to do with a special stipulation in her brother's will. She then begins assembling the family for a hasty but proper burial. Some members are already living in her rather creepy mansion, about an hour's drive from San Francisco. Julia (Abby Dalton) is Angie's troubled and alcoholic daughter. ''Why don't you fix yourself a brandy,'' sneers mother. Lance (Lorenzo Lamas) is her handsome, horse-riding grandson. As her chosen heir, Lance is utterly devoted to Angie. Back in New York, there is Chase Gioberti (Robert Foxworth), son of the dead man. When Aunt Angie calls with the bad news, Chase agrees to attend the funeral with his wife, Maggie (Susan Sullivan), a mildly liberated woman who is establishing a career as a magazine writer. Their two children stay behind. Teen-aged Victoria (Jamie Rose) is having an affair with an older man. Colt (Billy R. Moses), her furious older brother, is arrested for assaulting the aging lover. And so it goes, the standard stuff of soaps, with a crisis bubble bursting at least three times between commercial breaks. Back in California, Chase begins re-evaluating his life, concluding that his children are just drifting. Much to Angie's consternation, he decides to move back to his old home in the shadows of the vineyard. Meanwhile, everybody keeps telling steely-eyed Angie what a gracious hostess she is. At fade-out, she is meaningfully stroking a live falcon on the grounds of her estate. The stage is set for anything. Miss Wyman seems to be in remarkable control.

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A Soap Opera Mainstay Is Moonlighting as Singer JOHN S. WILSONJAN. 8, 1973 “I spend the afternoon with your wife,” Don Stewart tells, the men in his audience at th& Rainbow Grill, where he is currently singing. Chances are he is right because Mr. Stewart has been appearing in the longrunning television soap opera “Guiding Light” for four years, five afternoons a week. Before that he understudied Robert Goulet in “Camelot.” The act Mr. Stewart is doing, at the Rainbow Grill reflects both activities. There is a dis tinct flavor of daytime television in the way he involves the audience in his performances—wandering among the tables, shaking hands, chatting with people, asking for help in removing his tic (and getting it), even luring a woman up to the handstand to use her as a foil for a song. And there are definite overtones of Goulet in his ringing singing voice and his determined display of charm. Mr. Stewart has chosen a varied program, including the folkish strains of “Green, Green Grass of Home,” a rocking version of “The Games People Play,” a lively medley from the twenties (sung while wearing a spangled straw boater) and a song on which he can let out all the dramatic and vocal stops, “This Is My Life.” He touches most of the usual bases for an act of this type, uses the usual songs and sings them in the usual style. He does everything very capably, yet leaves almost no sense of personal identification. The only clue that there may be a real Don Stewart behind the polished facade is a brief satirical hit based on soap opera, which lightly blends his acting and singing talents.

'SEARCH FOR TOMORROW' - RATING ARE DOWN AND FLOOD WATERS ARE IN By Joanne Kaufman; Joanne Kaufman frequently writes about television. Published: February 23, 1986 To finish off the 1985 spring season - and a few characters - ABC's prime-time soap ''Dynasty'' had a bloodbath. To jettison its old format - and a few characters - this Tuesday afternoon at 12:30 NBC's daytime serial ''Search for Tomorrow'' is having, well, a bath. A flood will engulf the fictitious Middle Western town of Henderson; subsequent days will bring the remaining characters and plotlines all into a single apartment house. ''We wanted to get everyone together so they could interact more easily and so we could concentrate more on domestic issues,'' said the show's head writer, Gary Tomlin, of the change in television's longest-running soap opera. Formerly centered on the tangled lives and loves of the McCleary and the Sentell families, ''Search for Tomorrow,'' which made its debut in 1951, will now concentrate primarily on community pillars Jo Tourneur (Mary Stuart) and Stu Bergman (Larry Haines) - and all their children. Soap operas routinely resort to disasters, natural and not so natural, to eliminate characters who have fallen out of favor with viewers and to boost ratings. There was an earthquake on ''Santa Barbara'' last year, an airplane crash on ''Days of Our Lives'' a few seasons back (a ploy also used recently on prime time's ''Falcon Crest''). A tornado ripped through town in the now-canceled ''The Doctors,'' and devastating fires blazed on the also canceled ''Texas'' and ''Santa Barbara''; indeed, in the past, ''Search for Tomorrow'' has also relied on ravaging flames to heat up its ratings. The serial's executive producer, John Whitesell 2d, who joined the staff last November, hopes that the flood disaster will stave off an even worse disaster: cancellation. Currently, the viewership for ''Search for Tomorrow'' is the lowest of any daytime serial, with a 2.8 rating and a 10 share compared with a 9.1 rating and a 29 share for the top-ranked ''General Hospital'' on ABC. This means that 3.2 million viewers are tuned in daily to the NBC soap opera, while 10.7 million are following ABC's. ''We need to shake up the situation. 'Search' is in desperate need of refocusing,'' acknowledged Mr. Whitesell, who at 32 is considered something of a wunderkind in the daytime soap-opera field. He began his career directing ''Texas'' in 1981, then joined ''The Guiding Light,'' where last season he won an Emmy Award for best director. Serious difficulties began for ''Search for Tomorrow'' in 1982 when it was moved from its 2:30 P.M. time slot on CBS to its 12:30 berth on NBC. (Because the long-running serial was not carrying over viewers from ''As the World Turns,'' CBS decided it could fare better with an entirely fresh entry, ''Capitol.'') '' 'Search' went from a network where it enjoyed the loyalty of an audience who'd been watching for 30 years,'' said Mr. Whitesell. ''It was in trouble from the day it got here.'' Though the loyal viewers of ''Search for Tomorrow'' could simply have changed channels, they were now being forced to make a choice between an old favorite and the first half-hour of a relatively new - and steamier - show, ''The Young and the Restless.'' ''What we're trying to do,'' Mr. Whitesell continued, ''is come up with a revitalizing approach. When you have an irrevocable disaster, it changes your life. You don't go back the next day. ''There's something about a flood that's universal,'' he added, pointing out that he had considered several disaster options before resorting to rainfall. ''It's cleansing. A hurricane or tornado would make it hard to pick up. With a flood it's not impossible to rebuild a town, and that's what the people of Henderson will be striving to do.'' Meanwhile, Mr. Whitesell is striving to rebuild ''Search for Tomorrow'' with more ''character-based scenes.'' He and Gary Tomlin will eschew the hairpin plot turns of some of the hourlong daytime serials that over the past few years have included international crime syndicates, drug-smuggling rings and buried treasure. Instead, the show's new format will deal with what is affecting the lives of its characters at home. ''There won't be many office scenes. But this is not to say people won't have jobs,'' said Mr. Whitesell, who explained that he plans to have more contiguous sets with kitchens attached to dining rooms attached to living rooms, ''so that it will be easier to follow the characters around.'' At the ''Search for Tomorrow'' studio on East 44th Street, the 15 principals and assorted extras are slogging around in yellow, blue and pink slickers while jokingly humming ''Singin' in the Rain'' as they gamely endure the relentless aim of a water hose. ''I'm having my shower,'' says a new cast member, Jacqueline Schultz, who with David Forsyth (Hogan McCleary) will form one of the all-important-to-the-ratings romantic couples. ''At least the water's warm.'' ''I've been in two fires on the show, which were awfully scary,'' says Mary Stuart, who has played Jo Tourneur, the much-married co-owner of a boardinghouse in town, and has been on ''Search for Tomorrow'' since its inception. ''What's nice about the flood is that everyone is in it. We like the reason for the flood: to turn the show around. We're part of American history, we're part of so many lives. And a lot of actors have come through the show.'' (The list includes Jill Clayburgh, Don Knotts, Morgan Fairchild, Hal Linden, Wayne Rogers, John James of ''Dynasty'' and Susan Sarandon.) ''I think it's going to be great,'' says Marcia McCabe, who has played Sunny Adamson, a reporter on The Henderson Herald, the town's daily newspaper, for more than seven years. ''We want to start with a clean slate. It's a cleansing, so the water is very appropriate. John Whitesell is very daring. Most other producers would have done something less catastrophic.'' But perhaps something catastrophic was precisely what was called for. Mr. Whitesell is up against three major problems: the serial has had a poor showing in the ratings, partially explained by the fact that ''Search for Tomorrow'' is not picked up by all of NBC's affiliates; it runs opposite CBS's ''The Young and the Restless,'' and it is a half-hour show in an era of hourlong formats. On a 60-minute soap it is possible to have romance, comedy and mystery in a single day. In only half that time, though, it is difficult to fit in all three without being fragmented and spending large chunks of time on exposition. ''When you have a story with a lot of plot you have to do a lot of explaining,'' said Mr. Whitesell, who plans to cut back from 15 scenes per episode to eight or 10. ''That way we'll have a better chance of going into more depth - showing the audience how these characters feel about things. It's all about relatability.'' ''I don't think the half-hour problem is insurmountable - we're just going to concentrate on fewer plots and fewer people,'' said Mr. Tomlin, who wants to tackle racial issues and other themes generally not addressed by daytime soap operas. ''We're going to be feeling our way for a while. We're trying to get the characters to be identified with as strongly as audiences identified with the characters on the 'Mary Tyler Moore Show.' It's all about people.'' And, since soap operas live or die depending on the romantic interplay between their various couples and triangles, ''We're trying to get them in place. That's the thing we're trying hardest to do now,'' Mr. Tomlin added. It will be some time before Mr. Whitesell can sit back and relax. A format change of this magnitude carries with it the possibility of alienating the core audience, and the executive producer is mindful of the risk he's running. ''You're always a little concerned about alienating veteran viewers,'' he said. ''One of the reasons that you don't change too fast is that you want to keep the continuity. But I don't know how we would alienate them because we're keeping intact all the people they love.'' ''We're going to be taking a hard look at the show over the next five months,'' said Brian Frons, NBC vice president for daytime programming. ''By June we'll make the decision to keep it or replace it. ''What John is attempting to do is very difficult,'' Mr. Frons added. ''But if anyone can do it, he can. I think radical change is what 'Search' needs.'' ''If people don't like the flood, obviously we can't pretend it didn't happen,'' Mr. Whitesell said. ''But I'm not anticipating they won't like it. I think it will be very beneficial to the show.'' ''When I took over as head writer in early 1983,'' Mr. Tomlin said, ''I was told the show would be lucky to last until September.'' A pause. ''But we're still here.''

First Love Jenny...Barbara Myers Written by Manya Starr

Tracey was not atrained singer and admitted at the time that she was not confident with the singing scenes. Perhaps they should have written that Lauren was not a great singer but her ego and self delusion pushed her into doing it to get closer to Danny.

1960s ABC July 64 Time of Challenge.Set to air at 3.30 following GH. Written by Peer Oppenheimer and sponsored by Colgate. Seems it didn't go ahead as ABC wanted full control of the show.

March 1963 1 As the World Turns 13.1 2 House Party 11.2 3 Password 11.1 4 Guiding Light 10.2 5 Search for Tomorrow 9.9 6 To Tell the Truth 9.4 7 Edge of Night 9.0 8 CBS News (3:55/3:25) 8.9 9 Match Game 8.7 10 Millionaire 8.6 11 Secret Storm 8.5 12 Love of Life 8.4 13 Concentration 8.2 14 CBS News (12:25) 8.0 15 Price Is Right 7.3 16 Truth or Consequences 7.0 17 NBC Daytime News (12:55) 6.8 18 Make Room for Daddy 6.6 19 Pete and Gladys 6.6 20 Your First Impression 6.5

Television Age July 1969 CBS -TV's lengthened daytime lead over the competing ':networks is accompanied by ABC -TV's move into second place. According to Nielsen June ratings, CBS -TV's daytime average rating of 8.9 compares with NBC -TV's 6.0 rating, and ABC -TV's 6.7. During October -April NBC-TV was in second place. While ABC -TV's improvement probably flows directly from its acquistion last January of Let's Make a Deal from NBC-TV (the latter's replacement soap opera, Hidden Faces, suffered a bad battering in the ratings and was withdrawn June 30), CBS -TV is making moves to solidify its top-ranking position. With a healthy diet of winning soapers (in one recent rating period, four of the top 10 daytime programs were CBS -TV serials) CBS -TV is adding an eighth drama in the Fall, taking over its production reins and those of another soaper, now giving CBS -TV full artistic control of four serials. The new show, Where the Heart Is, will move into the noon spot, shoving Love of Life up to 11:30, a rare spot for a soaper. Since both these programs have the same producer, Bert Berman, they will have similarities which CBS is sure will help, and a brace of characters from the new show will be introduced beforehand on Love of Li/e.

Broadcasting 29 Dec 1958 SLOW DEATH NBC -TV and three daytime advertisers have solved the problem of replacing one daytime tv serial with another from one day to the next without depriving the viewer of the traditional tear stained denouement. Washing out of Today Is Ours, Procter & Gamble (Compton Adv.), Nabisco (McCann- Erickson) and Armour & Co. (Foote, Cone & Belding) settled on a tv version of Young Dr. Malone, whose trials and tribulations have been radio fixtures since 1939. Suggested NBC -TV and the new show's producers: Why not transfer from Today Is Ours the six major characters and allow them to play out their story on Malone? Come the end of January, Today Is Ours will die off slowly as its characters take their place alongside those featured in Malone. The new series starts today (Dec. 29) at 3 -3:30 p.m., Mon.-Fri.

Re A Time to Live I have Carlton Kendall playing 'Kruger' and the Anne character as having surname 'Dugger' Also Jim Kodi...Felix Russ Reed...Sid Landis also listed as playing DL Dawson Jim Adelin...Pete Ned Locke...Arthur Hogan Jacqueline Burkley...Bernice Howard Caine...Quinn Kay Miller...Edna Estelle Lutrell...Ellie Ross Charles Baum...Christopher

Bradford Dillman, one of the leads in Kings Crossing has died aged 87.

Bradford Dillman who played Daryl Clayton has died. Apart from FC, he was in scores of Tv shows and movies .He was 87. Darryl Clayton (1982–1983) Film producer who works with Maggie Gioberti on a screenplay she is writing, but is actually part of a plot by Angela to destroy her marriage to Chase .http://mercurie.blogspot.com.au/2018/01/godspeed-bradford-dillman.html

Gena Rowlands looks great.Dan Duryea! I'm currently in 1966 ,just watched Steven and Betty's wedding. Glad we've moved on from Rodney's trial as it really dragged. Looking forward to seeing Ann Howard and how this story plays out.

Great work Slick and so nice of Marcia to respond. Will you be adding any more soaps to the list? I have some actors/characters to add to 'Date With Life' of all things and will do so in the next few days.

Deborah Sherwood listed under the Pollocks as writer on April 16th episode. No sign of Cenedella.

And Lipton next turned up at The Doctors, assisting the Pollocks. Or was there something else in between?

I thought Teds 2 day role was Dr Weldon, his first go round at TD, where he was advising Matt and Maggie about Greta?

Ruth seemed to be in every 60/70's sitcom as the go to 'little old lady'.