Paul Raven

At one point Jill fantasized that Ryan was in her office in his boxer briefs only! So they were definitely toying with Jill making the moves on Ryan...

I have read many times that Eileen asked for that clause when her son Tom was aged in the late 60's.She saw what happened to Pat Bruder when Dan was Sorased (bumped up a generation and made up and dressed much older).She did indeed originate that clause as far as I'm aware. I can't think of another character in that situation. Maybe Susan Seaforth Hayes should have followed her lead. Mark Galloway was involved with Susan Stewart I believe.

In the bio for actress Lea Floden for the 1990 movie'How to be Louise',it is stated she appeared on SFT and ATWT

Maggie Burke played Audrey Samuels.

Agnes and her OLTL gals in 69

I think Danfling means Andie MacNeill played by Stacey Glick. She was one of the revolving door of characters that came and went in the 80's.Each new producer/writer brought in new people.It was pretty much only Jo/Stu/Liza and Sunny that provided any continuity. If only one of them had focused on the core maybe things would have been different. You had Stu's family Daughter Janet (maybe recurring-recast if Millee Taggart didn't want to stay) Janet's children Liza,Gary and Danny Jo,her daughter Patti,Patti's kids Chris and Tracy could have been SORASED,Suzi her niece. Ted Adamson and his daughters Sunny and Laine. Various members of the Tourneur/Sentell clan. That's agood core for a half hour show with various other characters interacting with these.

A Chicago Tribune article from April 65 mentions Kevin McCarthy in the cast. I wonder if he pulled out or it was just a mistake?

We Love Soaps has reported the death of James Westmoreland who played Teddy Holmes #1 in 1972.He was 80. Due to illness he had to vacate the role of Teddy and John Gabriel took over.

FEB 52 Love of Life was the #8 daytime show with an 8.1 rating Search for Tomorrow was #10 with a 7.7 rating

Nov 56 Edge of Night had almost doubled its ratings after 5 months on air from a 2.8 to a 5.8. As The World Turns went from a 3.4 in May to a 4.9 in Sept 56.

Now that this show has it's own thread I'll transfer some posts from the primetime soaps thread Ouch! TV Guide June 26th 1965 Cleveland Amory’s review of Our Private World is not kind. He notes that the twice-weekly prime time CBS serial has even less depth than As the World Turns, the daytime serial it was spun-off from. “In fact, if it weren’t for repeating everything twice, we don’t think they’d be on twice a week.” He explains the basic plot of the series and its main characters before ending with the following: Altogether it is the first show we’ve seen in a long time where literally nothingis good–the idea, the producing, the writing or the directing. As for the acting, it has to be seen to be believed–and, believe us, it shouldn’t be. The girls are bad and the boys are worse. One thing this show dose, though. It makes Peyton Place look great. In fact, the only thing we cannot fault is the title, Our Private World. The mistake was in making it public.

Thanks so much for those articles that gave more detail. I always wondered about the taping schedule. A day to rehearse and a day to tape was a luxury compared to ATWT. I thought the sets looked a little bigger and better dressed on OPW. It was originally titled 'The Woman Lisa' so the original intent was very much to focus on Fulton. I wonder what caused the shift in emphasis.Has Fyulton ever spoken about OPW? It was obviously CBS' response to PP, but they weren't prepared to commit to a similar production. Maybe the feeling was that as PP was heavily influenced by daytime, they could get away with that look and feel. Bit I guess most viewers were turned off, associating it with the live dramas of the 50s,which were then seen as old fashioned and stagey. PP continued with the half hour format till its' demise. I wonder why they never considered moving to a 1 hour 10pm show. It wasn't until Executive Suite in the 70's that a true serial was given another shot. (Not sure about ABC's Lana Turner flop The Survivors? I t had continuing threads but was more self contained?)

Martha Madison was on 2 eps of One Mississsippi as a trashy mom. Aaron Lustig ex Dr Tim Y&R and Dr Wright DOOL on Transparent

From Jan Sheperd (Betty) in the book 'Western Women' The lull in Jan's guest shots from 1961 till 1965 was due to her involvement in two soap operas The Clear Horizon' and 'The Verdict is Yours'. 'When you do a soap opera it's like live.They actually tape, but they don't want you to stop. No matter what happens, just keep going. It costs too much to cut the tape and all that stuff. When you do those sort of shows, you're so nervous, trying to remember all those lines, because we had a lot of them. Richard Coogan was on Clear Horizon. He was always pretty serious about doing scenes. One day, we were rehearsing and I had to make an entrance into his office. I took two of those big light bulbs they have on the stage, like the palm of your hand width, I put two of those under my sweater and walked in. the people in the control room saw me do it, so they were ready for it, but Richard wasn't. I had this real tight sweater with these two big lights either side of me. He could have killed me! But, we needed a little levity at that time.

Watching those end credits and seeing that Henry and HB were recurring but Francesca and Suzanne were contract. In that freeze frame MK (Eleni) looks like Lisa Peluso.

'The Clear Horizon' Set To Return Timely Daytime Serial Brought Back To TV By Public DemandMeriden JournalApril 28, 1962Last week we ran a feature on how a nighttime series, THE LAW AND MR. JONES, was brought back to TV by public demand. This week we would like to give equal space to a daytime series which was brought back to TV by public demand.The name of the series is THE CLEAR HORIZON, which deals with a young Air Force Officer and his wife who live at Cape Canaveral.The series is written and produced by a former Navy Officer, Manya Starr.The series died from the network last March after a nine month run and there was an avalanche of complaints from viewers who had just become acquainted with the characters and life at the Cape.Despite the complaints, Manya had little hope that the series would be renewed. "But I sure did fight for it," she recalls. "I urged the public to write the sponsors and the network and they did. They were besieged with mail. But the death sentence was carried out just the same."Renewal of the series looked hopeless so she put it out of her mind, and Manya and her businessman husband and their two young songs left for a vacation at a remote spot in the Barbados Islands. The place they chose was really isolated. There was no electricity and no telephone service. The only connection with civilization was a schooner which ran in an erratic schedule to another larger island."You can imagine our reaction," Manya laughs, "when, a few days after our arrival, a Barbadian walked up to me on the beach and handed me a note from CBS! The message, which had been phoned to an island nearby, written out and delivered by boat and bicycle, said that THE CLEAR HORIZON was being returned to TV. That was the shortest vacation our family ever had."Back in New York at her typewriter, she picked up the storyline where it had ended the previous March. The cast which had been featured was rounded up again, included Edward Kemmer and Phyllis Avery who portray the young Air Force officer and his wife, and supporting players Rusty Lane, Eve McVeagh and James Edwards."Our show," says Manya, "is clear proof that daytime drama needn't be soggy, maudlin or irrelevant to contemporary life. It has all the immediacy of today's headlines and brings into sharp focus the great achievements being made in our race to conquer space. But even more important-and this is the aspect which the military forces like-viewers can absorb the information painlessly because the continuing storyline provides the human interest which makes it entertaining."Although THE CLEAR HORIZON is filmed on the West Coast, Manya writes the scripts in New York."It sounds like an awkward setup," admits Manya," but actually it runs very smoothly. Let's face it, actors don't like writers hanging over their necks just as writers don't like it either."Ed Kemmer pointed out that, while he enjoyed his role when the series first originated, he finds it even more fascinating now."Naturally, the fact that Commander Allan Shepard and Colonel John Glenn have made successful flights does add a new excitement to this role," says Kemmer. "In a way, I enjoy the same thrill as an actor might enjoy if he were portraying any of our country's great men.""But what really adds a touch of reality," injects Manya Starr, "are actual film clips from Cape Canaveral which we integrate into the series. The Army and Air Force have taken such an interest in the program that, through a mutual agreement, they have permitted us to use certain footage from Canaveral."Manya always had a flair for writing and upon her discharge from the service, she prevailed on a fellow officer to introduce her to the Hummerts, a well-known production company, who were turning out more daytime shows for radio than any other group. They were impressed with her and she got the assignment of doing the scripts for the CLAUDIA series, remaining on that job for 18 months.Turning her attention to television in the early days of the industry, she ran up a long list of imposing credits including 19 months of writing THE EGG AND I on CBS. Other work included THE DOCTOR'S WIFE, FIRST LOVE, SUSPENSE, TALES OF TOMORROW and FOUR STAR PLAYHOUSE."But I always had one goal in mind," she recalls, "and that was to create my own series. I wanted it to be something as up-to-date as tomorrow's headlines." Thus - THE CLEAR HORIZON.Asked if there are any problems in scripting a show as technical as this one, Manya says, "Yes, indeed. I have two small sons who usually decide to play 'spaceman' just when I sit down at the typewriter. I guess they feel they're providing the proper atmosphere for my work!"

Some more info on 'The Seeking Heart' James Yarborough was the director, not a cast member Writer was Welbourne Kelley Dr John Adams was a medico-criminologist Lorna Adams ,his wife The Chris Plummer character was a police lieutenant (Is this Christopher Plummer of Sound of Music fame? He was doing New York TV at that time) Robert Webber was a 'playboy' boyfriend. In the opening plot,the Judith Braun character is afraid of her step parents,which is causing her to drink too much.She decides to contact John Adams,even though her stepfather and Adams do no get along.

French Fans summaries has Marland arriving in September with Stewart and Marcy leaving after their wedding,which I assume was his doing.

Secret Storm 1966 Sally Marshall had a friend called Sherry

A year before she landed the role of Connor, Alison Rice Taylor tested for Frannie Hughes on ATWT On Guiding Light, Michael J Stark tested for Andy Norris and then got called for Joe Bradley.

I think Alan lasted till around 70/71. Can't understand why he was never brought back.

Some more Love of Life characters that I don't think are listed Speed Kendall 1955 a crime figure Van is dating to gather evidence Jill Crown was also known as Jill Barstow Fred Slade - Van's editor at Barrowville Times Dr Marshall 1967 Laurie's psychiatrist Dixon and Jane Ridgeway(his wife) Dixon was a teacher at Bruce's school who was blackmailing John Dennis over Alan Sterling's paternity.

Some more Love of Life characters that I don't think are listed Speed Kendall 1955 a crime figure Van is dating to gather evidence Jill Crown was also known as Jill Barstow Fred Slade - Van's editor at Barrowville Times Dr Marshall 1967 Laurie's psychiatrist Dixon and Jane Ridgeway(his wife) Dixon was a teacher at Bruce's school who was blackmailing John Dennis over Alan Sterling's paternity.

That story is all about Alan Sterling's real paternity, John Dennis is Alan's real father and Dickson Ridgeway is blackmailing him with a letter stolen from Bruce. Alan was 14 at the time. I don't know how this was resolved or whether Alan ever found out Bruce was not his father.

The Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago lists in it's archive a DOOL audition tape for the role of Laura Horton, http://museumtv.pastperfectonline.com/archive/8FF3D1FB-0D0A-49A8-9A40-415337603700 4 actresses are listed Marla Adams Judith McConnell Marian McCargo Connie Caulfield I guess this was either when Susan Flannery left or Susan Oliver was replaced. Does Jason 47 or anyone know more about this?