Paul Raven

I dont know if it was a whole year...the pilot was 'Blade in Hong Kong' for CBS I think. It aired in May against the Dynasty cliffhanger and didn't rate well.

Jeff Allin also had a contract role on The Doctors

Boy, the size and detail of those sets!

Joan Copeland

Thanks!

Cast photo 1979?

Cast members Elizabeth Perry and Nina Roman with Robert Kennedy, who visited NBC Burbank studios in December 1965

NBC September 65 - July 66 “Morning Star,” NBCTV’s new daytime soap opera, debuting Sept. 13, will feature musical themes by the husband and wife songwriting team, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. Composer Mann, whose first TV assignment two years ago was the theme of “The Farmer’s Daughter,” has also created a new theme this season for that program. The couple are currently represented on the best-selling charts with such releases as Gene Pitney’s “Looking Through the Eyes of Love” (Musicor Records), The Animals’ “We Gotta Get Out of This Place” (MGM Records), and two versions of “Home of the Brave” in recordings by Jody Miller (Capitol Records) and Bonnie and the Treasures (Philles Records). Just released on Imperial Records is a new single by Joel Christie that features two Mann/Weil tunes: “See That Girl” and “It’s All Right Now.” In addition to these hits on the singles charts, two new LP’s have been released featuring as title songs current Mann/Weil hits: Musicor’s “Looking Through the Eyes of Love” and MGM’s “We Gotta Get Out of This Place.” Already high on the album charts is an LP by The Righteous Brothers on Philles featuring the Mann/Weil hit, “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ ” as its title.

Just reading that between 1987 and 88 GL's clearance rate went from 99% to 93% which directly impacted the ratings going from the 7's down to the 5s.

Channels magazine Feb 88 Mid -afternoon Pickup KSDK's task: introducing Santa Barbara locally, three years after its network debut. Late last summer the creative services department at Multi J media's KSDK in St. Louis got an uncommonly juicy, high -priority promotion job: to introduce the NBC soap opera Santa Barbara that the station had been preempting for the past three years. Starting a new soap in the '80s, as NBC had proven, wouldn't be a snap. It would take promotion dynamite to dislodge fans from CBS's Guiding Light and ABC's General Hospital. Back in '84, KSDK management had doubted NBC would stick with the new soap, but Santa Barbara's producers kept tinkering. They invented the Carnation Killer to remove an excess of look -alike blonde characters, recalls Susan Morse of Soap Opera Digest, and they unexpectedly thrilled viewers with the Chicano/ WASP romance of detective Cruz Castillo and a surviving blonde, Eden Capwell. By last summer, the show's national share was up from its initial 10 to 16, and KSDK found a sudden need for the soap. When the CBS affiliate, KMOV, moved The Oprah Winfrey Show from morning to 3 P.M., KSDK retaliated with counterprogramming-moving its strongest NBC soap, Days of Our Lives, to the same hour. As a bridge into that soap at 3, leading out of Another World at 1 P.M., Santa Barbara was clearly preferable to the game shows KSDK had been running. Santa Barbara came to KSDK on August 31. Rich Brase, the station's creative services director, launched a 12 -week promo barrage worth a hefty 300 gross rating points (GRPs) a week-nearly as much as the aggressive station spends to promote its newscasts. Besides selling an unfamiliar soap, Brace's team had to remind Days of Our Lives fans to tune in at 3 P.M. instead of 12:30, the time Days had aired for years. Promo producer Laurie Theiss stitched together clips to make sexy generic spots for the new soap block ("Afternoons on Channel 5, we're going to make your day!"), and sent scripts to Burbank, where the Santa Barbara cast taped teasers introducing their characters (Gina Capwell: "OK, so maybe I'm not the girl next door, but I sure could show the boy next door a good time!"). Brase backed up the spots with nine ads in each of five issues of TV Guide, plus 17 radio spots starring a housewife who bubbles over about the day's plot developments. Then in November, NBC supplied three cast members for a couple of suburban mall appearances to start word of-mouth publicity. A thousand fans turned out. But the station didn't rely entirely on the performers to create hysteria. It also held a contest, promising the winner a trip to Burbank and a bit part on -air. Santa Barbara still has a way to go before it conquers St. Louis. The show averaged a 3 rating and 12 share in the market's November Arbitron book, still behind the national Niel - sens (5 rating/17 share). Every little bit helps NBC, however, says Brian Frons, network v.p. for daytime programs. NBC lobbied for years to get Santa Barbara onto KSDK. Now it gets a few more tenths of a rating pointvital because Santa Barbara trails sec- ond -place Guiding Light by less than a point nationally. Locally, however, KSDK is still a distant third. But the station isn't finished promoting the show. Brase planned a second contest in January, in addition to more radio spots and increased on -air spots up to 400 or 500 GRPs a week. "We are going to win this time period," Brase predicts. "I don't like to lose. Nobody in this building likes to lose." He's counting on a little bit more publicity this month when the winner of the first contest goes to Burbank for her moment in the sun of Santa Barbara. Her name was pulled out of a drum just before Thanksgiving: Laurie Keener, who turns out to be a good-looking young woman from nearby Illinois-reportedly a model. Fate has disappointed Brase: "We were kind of hoping she would be a frumpy housewife," he grouses. "This looks a little rigged."

Article from Channels magazine 1981 One Man's Soap One Amherst don is happily hooked on a venerable daytime soap opera. He tells here what he gains from it and how it keeps him from faculty meetings, scholarly works, and healthful jogging. FOUR YEARS AGO I suffered what I feared would be an irreparable loss; not of the tragic sort -the death of loved one or the grievous ending to some human relationship -but of a sort curiously painful nonetheless . Somerset, a soap opera I had become deeply devoted to, ended its run; and on December 31, 1976 -in a shocking half hour of reconciliations, tying up loose ends (not all of them got tied up), and generally empty affirmations ,the show disappeared forever. It would have been a sensible time for me to form a New Year's resolution and decide to spend that half -hour after lunch engaged in some admirable pursuit like reading through Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, or buying a pair of running shoes, some funny clothes, and preparing to run a bit up and down my local Northampton Road. Oddly enough these alternatives never entered my head. After a few days of mourning, and of surly midday dissatisfactions, I sat down for a serious session with TV Guide by way of mapping out a strategy for latching onto a new Soap. Although for the leisured housewife or lazy college student, many Soap viewing possibilities exist, the rigidity of my own habits precluded much freedom in choosing. The Soap had to occur in the 12:30 -1:30 time period and had to be of the half -hour variety -a whole hour of watching takes too large a chunk out of the day in which books have to be read. For a time I tried Lovers and Friends, a charmless, short -lived replacement for Somerset; then I watched a bit of The Young and the Restless, but found it filled with too many beautiful young people talking to excess about their various "hangups" and how so- and -so had "copped out" or been "hassled" in some manner or other, usually sexual. Clearly The Young and the Restless would not do for a man of settled habits, even though it dealt with controversial matters like birth control pills. Ryan's Hope had been highly praised for its vigorous characterizations and on -site photography, but it was an Irish soap, filled with wonderful lovable Irish characters -not the sort of thing for a Welshman of morose leanings. That left Search for Tomorrow, a half -hour show which I was delighted to find out had premiered in 1951, thus making it, along with Love of Life (since deceased), the most venerable of all the Soaps. By that spring I had settled into becoming a Search watcher, and now, four years later, consider myself an authoritative commentator on the whole affair. Let me therefore tell you a bit about the characters and their situations, and then try to explain how someone in his right mind (my current illusion about myself) could become enthralled with the whole operation for years on end. To begin with, there is the amorphous, elusive title. Somerset was the straightforward name of a small town in Michigan where things took place, but Search for Tomorrow? Whose search, and just how "for tomorrow "? Clearly an old- fashioned radio soap opera title, like Life Can Be Beautiful or The Guiding Light (the latter now on television), meant to evoke romantic yearnings and a vaguely uplifted sense that there's Something More To It All than there appears to be day by day. It would have been too simple, I guess, to title the show Henderson, the imaginary town where its action takes place. Henderson is out there somewhere in the Midwest, southern Illinois maybe. There are oil fields to the south, and people often have to fly down to New Orleans, home of the powerful Sentell family, a number of whose members have moved to Henderson for obvious reasons of plot. Henderson has, of course, a hospital, in fact two hospitals (one on the "other side of town "), into which various members of the cast are taken or wheeled for attention to their assorted brands of blindness, leukemia, slight skull fractures, or brain tumors pressing on the optic nerve causing major headaches. They will be cared for there, in Henderson Hospital, by Dr. Bob Rogers, head of it all, good friends with most of the cast (he's seen 'em come and go), and filled with the richest bedside manner. When people are not in the hospital they tend to gather at the Hartford House or Inn, run by the two oldest members ,from point of service ,of the Search cast, Joanne (Jo) Tourneur (for years Jo Vincent, but recently married yet once more) and "Stu" Bergmann. Jo (played by Mary Stuart, who has been with the show since its inception and is thus accorded star status) is, quite simply, the finest person in the world. Not an ounce of pretentiousness, or greed, or envy, or lust (that I can detect) or pettiness or rancor or any other of the deadly and not -so- deadly sins stains this lady's character. A fount of homely wisdom with a wonderful temperament, Jo has lived all her life in Henderson; indeed she behaved in New Orleans, when she visited there recently, as if it were as morally remote as Tangier. "Stu," co -owner of the inn and married to Ellie -a woman whose simplicity makes Jo look sophisticated -is, as he would like to say about himself and often does, a man of relatively few words and basic human decency. He will take a drink, but only now and then, and if he has more than one becomes wholly confused and infantile, then winds up being put to bed by Ellie and catching a bad cold as a result of his folly. Though Stu is simple, he knows what he likes (and it's not Art). Or rather what he doesn't like. He doesn't like charming, verbally articulate men who attempt and succeed in winning the affections of (1) Jo, or (2) his daughter, Janet Collins, who is especially prone to disastrous affairs of the heart. He would be equally enraged if one of these men tried to cotton up to (3) Janet's daughter, Liza, or (4) Ellie. Fortunately for Stu, Liza is completely wrapped up in her dashingly handsome, extraordinarily rich and powerful husband, Travis Tourneur ( "Rusty ") Sentell, and their recently adopted baby. While no- body has ever been seen making a play for Ellie. Anyone who watches Search for a while becomes aware of certain patterns, which by their repetition provide an odd satisfaction. Let me run through a few of these, by subject: reading a book, unless he or she (most probably she) is in a blue funk about her love life. If she is interrupted while reading a book (and it will never be named, just referred to as "a book," not the Aeneid or Shogun), she will gratefully put it down and launch into an explanation, to the interruptor, of "what's wrong." More likely she will be leafing through a magazine in the most idle man- ner, just looking to begin the next con- versation about Problems. (Of course, it would be hard to make an exciting scene out of someone reading the Aeneid, or even Shogun.) At times (at least on Search) poetry is quoted, usually Shakespeare, often inaccurately or with lines left out so as to make it more "understandable." Shakespeare by the way - especially Romeo and Juliet -is Wonderful, even though no sane person would be found reading him. Food. People are often seen dining, either at the Hartford House or at Ernesto's (one òf those terrific little Italian restaurants everybody loves), but there is never a visible piece of food disappearing into anyone's chops. Usually people toy with their food ( "You're hardly eating anything"), find that they're "not hungry," and launch once more into talk about Problems. Women tend to eat something like a spinach salad for lunch, never (say) corned beef and cabbage or Yankee Pot Roast (perhaps unavailable in Henderson). They are tempted by the dessert, but abstain because of the calorie count. Men are inclined to eat more meat. Drink. Stephanie Wyatt, the closest thing to a "bad" woman on the Soap, is allowed to have a martini, which she does quite often. Other women, if they indulge at all, will invariably have a glass of white wine (what, by the way, is wrong with red wine ?) but never seem to drink it. Whiskey in private houses is always there in a decanter; never is a bottle visible. Younger, poorer types have been known to have a beer. Everybody drinks coffee, endlessly, all the time, all characters evidently possessing cast -iron stomachs. Nobody asks for Sanka instead. Diet soda is a possibility; also champagne on festive occasions. Sex. Perhaps I should have put this earlier, but there is relatively little sex on Search, though heterosexual relationships are the staple of the show (no homosexuals that I've noticed). Lovemaking is highly romanticized, bodies and faces blur and swirl so you can't make out what's going on and of course nothing really is. "Haunting" melodies fill the air. There is occasionally some intense kissing that is not much fun to watch. Some characters are allowed dream -fantasies in which they meet their partner all dressed up in beautiful clothes, at some fancy occasion. The heroic male really does Sweep the Heroine Off Her Feet, something that is often difficult to accomplish in real life (I speak from personal experience). In very serious scenes preparatory to lovemaking, we get a glimpse of the male's naked torso. This must be fairly well covered with hair, at least it seems to be de rigueur for a job on Search. There is little extra -marital sex - not much at all in the way of "illicit" goings -on. We must remember that this show has been running for thirty years and has its roots in the sensible pieties of the fifties. Sometimes the dialogue becomes forcefully explicit, as when Stephanie, speaking of the perils her eighteen -year -old daughter Wendy is ex- posed to, opines that young people of that age like to get to know each other well - "and I do mean in bed," she adds, with one of her fine wisdom -of- experience facial expressions. Or there was the following exchange just the other day, when lawyer Kathy Phillips tried to compliment Garth the Artist (he is a very difficult, uncon- ventional fellow) on his dealings with her young son, Doug. Kathy: "You're very good with little boys." Garth: "I'm not so bad with big girls either." You see the force of that innuendo. Religion. Almost everybody believes in Something, but nobody has any words for it. People don't go to church except for the occasional funeral or wedding. Catholic, Protestant, Jew -it's all the same, presumably. Race. There is an occasional black, often an assistant lieutenant in the police department who works for a slower - witted white man (the black is invariably clever). But nonwhites appear only intermittently and are never given quite enough to do. Children. Invariably blond- headed, incredibly cute, good at putting their arms around their (divorced) mother and saying how much they love her, which brings tears to her lonely eyes. Infants, of course , are always a good investment of time. The Aged. Not usually visible on Search, though at the moment a whole series of credulous oldsters have gone to Jamaica with evil Dr. Winston Kyle to be (don't they wish) cured of their afflictions by his faith -healing. Pot. Nobody on Search smokes pot, thank God. Jogging or Running. Nobody on Search jogs or runs, except in pursuit of someone. I don't quite understand the absence of this practice but don't really object to it either. Christmas is a good time to watch Search because it shows off, by contrast, one's own real life Scrooge -like tendencies. "I love Christmas, I love to wrap presents," breathes Jo, a light in her eyes, many wrapped presents testifying to this enthusiasm. But we know it can't go on for long, that happiness, and indeed within minutes Martin's playing of the market has become an issue, has caused the light in Jo's eyes to be replaced by the pained, martyred forbearance she is so good at expressing. In the midst of Christmas joy, trouble lies ahead. But of course in the Soap, as in life, trouble always lies ahead, the difference being that the hooked viewer feeds on this trouble and finds it exhilarating, both in anticipation and in the event. I know someone who avoids depressing movies because she says there's enough sadness in life. The viewer of a Soap would like to avoid, or postpone considering until evening, the sadness and trouble lying about him in the world outside, and ahead in his own life -so he cultivates its daily occurrence on the television screen. At least my life is not, for the moment, as hopeless as that one, says he. At least (looking at despondent Lee Sentell, staring gloomily at a beautifully decorated Christmas tree) my fiancée does not have a brain tumor and has not been spirited away by Dr. Kyle to Jamaica, there to be subject to his "incredible power over women, in every way" (as Lee has been informed). But then, a paper Santa Claus hung on the tree miraculously turns into the fiancée, Sunny Adamson, who says to her Lee, "Hello there, Gloomy- Face," and proceeds to remove her Santa Claus cap and cloak! They embrace fiercely, until the vision fades. From the tone of this report it may seem to you that my interest in Search consists wholly in picking apart its absurdities, unrealities, and generally half -baked attitudes, which I as a superior person don't share. I think you would, however, be wrong. How superior can one be toward an event that provides one daily sustenance? On the other hand, there has of late been a compensatory inflation in the value of Soaps - claims made that here is where the finest acting anywhere is to be found, or where certain social, cultural, medical facts are at least recognized. Though the acting is good enough for my tastes, and though I suppose you could say that an issue (like Alternatives to Surgery) is at least raised, I can't believe that therein lies the Soap's real power to compel. Its compellingness has more to do with the construction of a world -not a world of complex thought or psychological penetration, but a world nonetheless -full of names, faces, voices, gestures, and attitudes that impress themselves on our ears and eyes and that don't disappear after a half -hour or hour as they do on evening television. Or rather, we know that they will be back tomorrow, certainly the next day; that five days a week, give or take an occa-sional national holiday (or Presidential Inauguration, damn it) they will be there for us on CBS. It is the ongoingness of Search, or of any Soap, that is the key to its power and that a person untouched by this power can never understand. How many times have I heard someone say authoritatively about a Soap that "nothing ever happens in them. I watched one for a while, missed three weeks of it, turned it back on and they were still talking about the same things" -as if that settled it for the Soap. I may ask in return, "What do you want to happen on the shows you watch ?" Try Vegas or Starsky and Hutch if you like a snappy little incident begun, middled, and ended over the course of an hour. Something happens in our life every clay; at least we grow older, finish one thing, begin another, lose this and gain that. But Search, though certain characters come and eventually go, remains essentially the same. Time stretches out endlessly, it seems, for the latest complication is clearly going to take months until it begins, even slightly, to unravel. And as it just goes along, nothing really happening, one suddenly finds oneself pleased or moved by the merest, smallest thing -a gesture, a twist of the voice, a way of saying something. (David Sutton, an admirable character who I fear may be about to leave the show, has a way of saying "Thank you," sincerely, that makes me feel life is worth living.) You never quite know at what moment some- thing strangely evocative may occur, but you can only respond to these moments if you've sat around many months or years and watched programs that evoke nothing. FEW FINAL REMARKS: The most painful moment for any Soap watcher is when a visitor or guest says, "Please, go ahead . and watch your program . . . what is it ... Reach For the Sky? maybe I'll watch it with you." In any event, total silence must be enforced, else you may be confronted with questions like "Who is she ?" or "What is that? ",which reduce the hardened viewer to stuttering confusion and despair. How can this outsider ever begin to understand what is so deep within your bones? Also, if you are going to watch Search you must plan to be un- available for any business or friendly lunches, brown -bag, intimate, or otherwise. When colleagues (I am a teacher) suggest that our department might meet next Tuesday at noon or 12:30, I find myself devising various strategems by which to disentangle myself -but how many dental appointments can one legitimately claim to have? Conferences with students must be ended briskly with the phrase, mumbled in some haste, "I have an appointment with ... " (the rest left indistinct). Once I quitted a friend under the pretense of having to see a person named Somerset. I suppose he could as well have been named Search. And since I dislike taking the phone off the hook, there is always the chance that it will ring (who could be calling at this hour ?), in which case the thing to do is to say quite urgently and intensely, "Can I call you back in fifteen, (twenty, ten) minutes ?" then rush back into the inside world. There are some lines from a poem by David Slavitt that say as well as anything I know what is involved in watching a Soap. Mr. Slavitt's favorite appears to be All My Children, but the name hardly matters, as he lays out the essence of them all: They wade through sorrows scriptwriters devise in kitchens , hospital rooms, divorce courts, jails or cemeteries, and nearly everyone tries to do the right thing. And everyone fails. Slavitt goes on to note the usually "desperate" mood of these characters whose "happiness is only a setup for woe," then concludes with the following confession: Stupid, I used to think, and partly still do, deploring the style, the mawkishness. And yet, I watch. I cannot get my fill of lives as dumb as mine: Pine Valley's mess is comforting. I need not wish them ill. I watch, and I delight in, their distress. That "delight" may not be the Eternal Delight that William Blake once identified with Energy, but in a world of time, not Eternity, it does pretty well.

The Verdict Is Yours Steve Brodie appeared as a father fighting for custody of his son in 1960

Re Secret Storm A press photo of Norma Moore as playing Susan Ames is dated May 57,which contradicts the 58 date listed in the cast list.I posted the photo in the SS thread.

Some Search memories...good and bad...

Leon Russom (Willis #2) and Toni Kalem (Angie #1)

Judy Lewis and Donnie Melvin

PP TNG didnt fare well in the ratings and that was the end of that. Did they not use the iconic outdoor set? It looks like some suburban mini mall...

Craig Curtis, Denise Alexander, Jimmy Carter

John Connell and William Prince

Nov 12 1965 Jo-Jo becomes excited when Marilyn offers to go to Alfie's party with him. Vince attempts to make amends with Chet, who responds with distaste towards the medical student who stole his girlfriend. Susan talks to Alfie about his feelings for Barbara. At the party, Marilyn kisses Alfie in front of Barbara and then returns happily to Jo-Jo. Susan suggests that Barbara marry Alfie in order to prevent any more unpleasant scenes. Bobby asks Chet to go steady with him, but he is too busy watching Joy to discuss the idea. Joy becomes bored with Vince and eventually winds up back in Chet's arms. Finally, Bobby vows to get Chet back from Joy. Nov 16 1965 Barbara speaks to Alfy at the High Dive, rejecting his offer to run away with him. She says she can’t do such a thing unless they were to be married. However, Alfy says he won’t marry her because it would force him back into show business, which he despises. They argue about their situation, but are interrupted when Mel Carter arrives to rehearse for his performance at the High Dive that night. During his rehearsal, Alfy slips out. Tad talks to Barbara in the High Dive, where she tells him that she won’t run away with Alfy despite the fact that she loves him. Tad says he loves Barbara and has for some time; he is furious at Alfy for what he sees as a despicable act and leaves to find him. Tad talks to Susan and Jo Jo about Alfy. He reveals to Jo Jo what Alfy did, but Susan insists he had good reasons for it. Tad isn’t convinced and leaves to find Alfy; Susan and Jo Jo are unable to stop him. Susan insists to Jo Jo that Alfy did what he did because he had no choice. Barbara arrives asking where Tad went and gets into an argument with Susan about her relationships. Jo Jo and Susan leave to find Alfy before Tad does. They lure him over to Barbara’s place, hoping to keep him out of trouble long enough for Tad to calm down. Jo Jo asks Alfy to explain himself but he cannot. Tad enters and confronts Alfy. Alfy refuses to fight him even after he punches him in the head. Disappointed, Tad leaves. April 4 1966 Bert wants to continue his relationship with Joy, but she thinks it's inappropriate. He starts getting rough with her, so she bludgeons him over the head with a statuette, leaving him unconscious. Joy runs away in a panic, arriving at Alfy's High Dive. However, a mysterious man sees her and blocks her path. She hides as the man saunters away. Joy enters the High Dive looking for Alfy, but the place appears to be empty. When she tries to leave, the doorknob comes off in her hand, trapping her in the High Dive. Desperately trying to escape, Joy scours the High Dive for change so she can use the phone; soon she becomes hysterical with fear. She calls her house, hoping for an answer, but Bert is still unconscious. Afterwards she uses her last dime to call the Landis residence, but in her panic she dials the wrong number. She tries to get the party on the other end to help her, but they mistake it for a prank call and hang up. Joy realizes she's stuck and tries to distract herself but she is overcome by fear. Finally Alfy returns to the High Dive, startled and confused by Joy's hysterics. June 24 1966 Final episode Barbara feels sorry for Alfy despite her marriage to Tad. Susan and Barbara’s father comments on how much growing up they’ve done in the past few months, and his thoughts about Alfy’s situation. Susan and Tim talk with each other; Susan wants to wait to get married and Tim agrees. Jo Jo talks to Tad on the beach about his impending fatherhood. Alfy joins them, and Freddy Cannon arrives as per Alfy’s request to sing a song. Chet arrives in his Air Force uniform; he tells Alfy he has decided to join the service and then return to school to get a degree in engineering. Jo Jo manages to work up the courage to ask a girl out on a date, and to his surprise he succeeds. Rhoda and Frank discus their upcoming marriage and the effect the various beachgoers have had on Joy’s life. Frank remarks that they are “never too young for life.” The episode ends as Barbara reconciles with Alfy; he remarks that as long as all his friends are happy, he too is happy.

Summary of Jan 74 episode Following Chris and Snapper's wedding,the newlyweds go to a country cabin for their honeymoon, while Sally broods over her loss of Snapper. Leslie drops by after the wedding to visit Brad, who is sick in bed with the flu. When Sally sees Leslie in her bridesmaid's dress, all her feelings for Snapper flood through her. But Pierre is sensitive to her emotions and tries to cheer her up with an evening on the town. Leslie regales Brad with stories of the wedding, and they lament the tragic rape that ruined Chris's plans for a white wedding. Meanwhile, at the honeymooners' cabin, Chris struggles with the trauma of her rape and her determination to be "a perfect wife.

Bob Purvey was replaced by David Ramsey as Rhett Saxon 3 weeks after the shows debut.