Paul Raven

From summaries of that time.

Bob is charmed by Dana, his sister Penny's friend, who has come from Europe to settle in Oakdale. Although attracted to Bob, Dana warns him she has a sad experience in her past.When Bob mentions ballet to Dana, she becomes misty-eyed. Barbara assures Bob that if he cares for Dana, Dana is not too young for him.

When Bob asks Dana not to leave town, she agrees to stay, revealing to him only that she was once a ballerina.Dana reveals to Bob that she left the Joffrey Ballet because she wasn’t the best.Dana reveals that her husband changed from a shy and unassuming man to the egoistical image created by the press.

Ian McFarland makes up medical excuse to meet Bob. Bob learns Ian has no intention of giving up on his estranged wife Dana. Ian tells Dana he’s willing to stay in Oakdale for a year in order to win her back. Confiding to his manager, Ian says his layoff will only be for a month – that’s all he needs to win Dana back. Bob finally admits his love to Dana. With Ian’s consent, his manager Barry plants a sensational story about Bob and Dana in a rag mag.On their anniversary, Ian insists on taking Dana to dinner.Ian lures Dana back into his career business,Dana is jealous to see Ian with another woman, Monica.Bob frets that Ian’s trapping Dana back into Ian’s life, but she becomes a ballet school teacher to avoid Ian.

Ian arranges to play the piano at a pre-nuptial party for Val and Alex to get Bob and Dana’s goat.

Bob suspects Dana has deeper feelings for Ian than she is willing to admit. In an attempt for more togetherness, Ian rents a studio in the same locale as Dana’s.Bob noticed that Dana stuck to Ian's hospital bedside after Ian suffered a heart attack.. Ian hired Dee as his secretary. Dana admitted to Bob it's not so easy breaking off with Ian.followed by a "shadow" at the inn. Bob and Dana set a Valentine's Day wedding date while Ian agreed to give her a Haitian divorce

. Dana postponed her divorce to meet with the choreographer of Ian’s ballet.in Philadelphia. Bob was off to New York to try and see Dana.

Kim offered Bob sympathy when he broke off with Dana.

Deborah Hobart played Dana.She then moved to AW to play Amy.

Peter Simon was Ian.

Just caught the first ep and there was enough crazy stuff going on to keep me going.However,whether they can keep it up is another story.

I thought J-La was great.

PP 79 was a 5 night a week late night syndicated series.Whether any original characters or themes were used,i have been unable to find out.but I'll keep searching!

Managed to finally find something on PP79. i recognise Don Matheson,Adam West and Elaine Princi.Can anyone spot any other faces in that picture.

Big deal made of David Lawrence.He later exec produced SFT in its final days.He had worked for P&G before and had also worked on a lot of European co productions.

That is news to me also.In 75,Betsy's parents were on briefly.Her brother Tom came on in 76.

Was it a typo and Oliver Crawford the character name? Maybe there was a change in writers and that character was dropped.

No,not much. I wonder if ABC considered going to 1 60 min ep a week?It got dumped to 8.30 on Monday against Lucy and Laugh In in its final season.Maybe a revamp and a 10.00 timeslot might have helped.

She got that short lived DOOL gig in 77,but not much else. Did she and Ron divorce?

Interesting that he was brought back as Grant 5 years later, before being replaced. Surely he would still be recognized as Roy?

I think that whole demo thing started to gain currency in the early 70's. Remember when CBS dumped hits like Beverly Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction because they skewed too old and too rural. ABC always pushed that line because that;s the only area they had rating strength.

In daytime,the original viewers had aged along with the shows.In the 1968 NY Times article Agnes talks about the CBS shows as 'old hat'Interesting considering that she was writing for them up until that time.

The above report also mentions that SFT was doing much better in the demos than Split Second despite near identical household numbers.

These numbers are from based on the 73-74 season till mid May 74

10.00 CBS Jokers Wild 5.2 28

NBC Dinah's Place 4.8 20 (soon to be cancelled and replaced by Name That Tune)

10.30 CBS Gambit 5.9 30

NBC Jeopardy 5.5 27(replaced by Winning Streak in July 74)

11.00 CBS Now You See It 5.9 30

NBC High Rollers ?

11.30 NBC Hollywood Squares 8.8 37

ABC Brady Bunch 6.7 28

CBS Love of Life 6.6 26

12.00 NBC Jackpot 8.1 31

ABC Password 6.7 25

CBS Young and Restless 6.2 24(running third but doing best in the 18-34 demo)Lower ratings due to 90 per cent cleaarnce rate.

12.30 CBS Search For Tomorrow 7.7 29

ABC Split Second 7.7 28

NBC Celebrity Sweepstakes 6.7 27

1.00 ABC All My Children 9.1 32

CBS/NBC Local

1.30 CBS As The World Turns 9.7 33

ABC Lets Make A Deal 8.6 26

NBC Three on a Match ?(replaced by Jeopardy in July 74)

2.00 NBC Days of Our Lives 9.7 32

CBS Guiding Light 6.1 27

ABC Newlywed Game ? (replaced by $10,000 Pyramid lin December 74)

2.30 NBC The Doctors 9.4 33

CBS Edge of Night 7.4 26

ABC The Girl in My Life ?(replaced by Big Showdown in December 74)

3.00 NBC Another World 9.6 31

ABC General Hospital 9.2 29

CBS The Price is Right 6.4 28

3.30 CBS Match Game 10.1 32

ABC One Life to Live 7.9 25

NBC How to Survive a Marriage 6.3 20

4.00 CBS Tattletales 7.0 22

NBC Somerset 6.0 19

ABC $10,000 Pyramid 5.2 18 (replaced by Money Maze in December 74)

ATWT commanded the highest advertising rates at $20,000 for a minute. ABC and NBC's best were AMC and AW which each commanded $18,000 a minute.

Y&R doing well despite low clearances.Obviously based on that success,more stations took it on so ratings continued to climb.

No,Peggy was also involved with Jack Abbott.It was part of a mini triangle with Steve Williams during 1980.

Wasn't Gillian later referred to as a cousin or niece?

I recall Chase also was after Cricket (of course)

A good old fashioned Capitol cat fight

I think shows like Texas and Santa Barbara suffered by having all the cast present at the debut.They should have taken a leaf out of Bell's book and introduced characters over the first few months.rather than having all those characters there from the start,which is confusing for viewers wanting to get into the story.

More Y&R history

Jumping around a bit here from the 90's to the 70's...

Y&R went to #1 in 87.

Here's a history of the show till mid 80's.It's fairly comprehensive,but deals with major stuff only.some neat (and rare) pics also.Enjoy!

Wade Nichols aka Dennis Parker

The Victor/Hope story had elements of Bill Bell's Days story of Mickey hooking up with Maggie on the farm. It was the last ratings peak for Y&R,which never matched or topped that rating again,

A pity you don't have the second part,as some of the info here is new to me eg how Dody Goodman's character fitted into the story.

John Kelly G has an amazing soap knowledge.Apparently he is on Facebook,but otherwise disappeared from view.

Fantastic article! Carl,u r amazing...