Paul Raven

Matin E Brooks,who played 2 roles on SFT in a matter of years has passed away. He played Dr Dan Walton and Dr Everett Moore.

Martin E Brooks who played Dr Arthur Bradshaw has died aged 90. http://variety.com/2015/film/news/martin-e-brooks-six-million-dollar-man-dies-dead-1201655892/

Not sure how long Coca was on the show =matbe 13 weeks? Here's a quotefrom a radio interview with Helen Wagner discussing the storyline after Doug Marland died. HELEN: Well, there has been a slight change. It's very difficult, though, to maintain an author's ideas. He left a Bible, so-called in quotes, that he had put together, fortunately, just previous to his heart problems, and we've gone on that now for more than a year. I don't know how much of that is left and how much of what they are doing will be continued. I'm sure they will continue Doug's people, but now they really have to strike out on their own and we've got to just cross our fingers and hope for the best, because that's what we all want.

That Richard /John story was ATWT's rip off of Hitchcock's 'Strangers on a Train', which starred Farley Granger who turned up a few years later as Earl Mitchell.Imagine if Farley had have been cast as Richard. ATWT could have scored some publicity by having a star from the original movie now playing the villian. Imogene Coca was Alice.She was a huge TV star in the 50's on 'Your Show of Shows'.

Late 83 thru early 84

Here's what was happening around the time of the Xmas episode to put things in perspective Learning their marriage has been annulled, Whit decides to tell everyone Charmaine is not his sister but his former wife. Paul accuses Gunnar of murdering his father, causing Barbara to take the child to a psychiatrist. On TV, John and Karen expose James as a fraud, stating Gunnar is the real Stenbeck heir with Dusty in line for inheritance. Gunnar decides to give money to John to do research on the heart disease that killed Burke. Steve proves to Whit that Craig stole one of the coins used to frame Steve. David finds empty pill bottle and insists Jeff have blood test. David is called away on emergency; Jeff starts to change label on sample as David returns. Craig tells Ernie Cricket is pregnant. Caught by David trying to change blood samples, Jeff runs off. Jeff winds up on Skid Row and buys some methedrine to shoot into vein, but stops when a policeman comes on scene. Jeff goes to sleazy motel and tries to go cold turkey. Whit believes Steve's charge that Craig double-crossed Whit with coin theft. Whit fires Craig and Craig vows to get even. Margo invites Bob and female judge Sara Compton for dinner. First Bob feels uncomfortable because on his first date with Sara she came on to him, but the two enjoy each other's company and laugh off their first date. Arriving in Oakdale, Ernie asks Cricket to marry him. Samantha finds Cory and now has information to free her mother. Learning Craig embezzled from her, Diana insists on his interest in nightclub or she'll go to police. Craig tracks down graphologist who agrees to modify Betsy's letter to Steve. In the new letter, Betsy tells Steve she loves Craig and regrets having betrayed him. Bob and David tell Annie that Jeff should go to a treatment center after he's released from the hospital. Jeff nearly becomes violent at the thought of going to detox center and persuades Annie to let him come home. Steve agrees to tend bar at Anemone on temporary basis. Craig has a dream in which Betsy leaves him and he suffers fall. Craig later goes to therapist, saying that he needs information on novel he's writing. Following car trouble, Diana spends night on Steve's couch. When Betsy arrives to talk with Steve, Diana, wearing Steve's nightshirt, opens the door and makes it look as though she and Steve went to bed together. Lisa and Barbara are impressed by a man named Richard, who claims his wealthy dad wants to open a boutique. Steve cries in Diana's arms, saying he's lost Betsy forever. Craig asks stuntman to teach him to take fall without getting injured. Diana tells Brian she intends to marry Steve. Brian has negative response, saying Steve isn't good enough for her, Margo and Tom want to start family. Unable to find job, John physically attacks Bob when he won't give him a reference. Tom and Margo fight about their fathers' disagreement. Lisa is furious when Whit writes damaging article about Jeff’s drug abuse. Craig feigns paralysis. Betsy refuses Lyla's request that she leave Craig. Annie learns that Jeff has been skipping his psychiatric appointments, but balks at David's suggestion that she leave him. Richard, foiled in his attempts to be with Barbara, continues to stare at her from the apartment across the way. Barbara receives flowers from an anonymous admirer. Betsy will not listen to Kim's suggestion that she leave Craig. Craig checks out of hospital against doctor's advice. Frannie’s friend, Marcy Thompson fantasizes about Bob kissing her and promising eternal love. Frank Andropoulos, Nick and Steve’s cousin, is interested in Lila. Ariel tells Whit she knows he's a bigamist and gets him to offer job in return for keeping mouth shut. Richard breaks into Gunnar's hotel room and steals camera. Annie leaves Jeff but promises to return if he gets help. Lisa is stunned when she's the only one dressed formally for her party. Everyone else is in punk attire thanks to Ariel. As the guests are all assembled, Lisa asks them to meet the new advice columnist for the newspaper and both Ariel and Kim stand. Whit's newspaper runs headline accusing Bob of sexually attacking Marcy in hospital. Gunnar is stunned when Richard suggests Gunnar stop seeing Paul. Gunnar realizes Richard isn't who he claims to be. Frank is falling for Lyla. Marcy’s mother, Peggy let her live with her boyfriend. Alice gets job at hospital working with children. Cricket and Ernie announce engagement. At treatment center, Jeff refuses to see Annie. Bob is cleared of all charges in molestation of Marcy. After meeting John on train, Richard is under impression John wants Bob murdered. Richard, now believing he has airtight alibi, shoots Bob. Tom and Margo find the wounded Bob and rush him to hospital. John is only doctor at hospital available, due to emergency. Tom is against John operating, but Margo insists. Bob needs splenectomy and surgery reveals he may have nicked aorta. John is arrested for attempted murder. Maggie agrees to take Frank's legal case. Lyla is unaware that Frank is member of Andropoulos family. Jeff refuses to see Annie at clinic. Later he opens Christmas gift from her and starts to cry when he sees picture of Annie and the children. Frannie is on strict diet. Jeff sees Karen and agrees to let her tell Annie he needs her. Richard gets job at pinball joint, claiming he is psychologist doing study on video arcades. John is reinstated at hospital with David voting against him and Bob abstaining. Barbara believes Richard has left town. John tells Det. Kevin Callahan about meeting Richard on train, but Kevin doesn't believe Richard exists. Maggie wants to adopt a child. Jake, an old flame of Diana's, wants to resume affair, but she refuses. Ernie and Cricket wed as she goes into labor. On way to hospital, Cricket gives birth to baby girl. Paul tells Gunnar he wants him to move back home. Betsy is pinned under the beam loosened by Craig at the lakefront property. Steve gets Betsy out unharmed. Craig convinces Kim through Betsy that she should sell the lakefront property. Richard manages to exit hospital by posing as priest. Deciding to frame Karen for Bob's shooting, Richard places a bloodstained handkerchief in the Dixon house. John throws out the handkerchief but Richard retrieves it. Betsy considering going to bed with Craig in order to save her marriage, but Kim suggests she remain true to herself. Kirk tells Frannie that he loves her. Lyla agrees to reconcile with Frank even though he withheld information that he was Steve's cousin. Richard learns John's phone to be tapped. Frank learns his life is in danger and cancels his trip to Montreal with Lyla, saying she's in danger when she's around him. Craig is furious when he learns Kim turned the lakefront property over to the Throwaway Kids group. Tom tells Margo that Callahan is setting a trap for John. Dusty loses many of his friends when their parents believe John shot Bob. Karen convinces Dusty that John saved Bob's life and didn't try to harm him. Richard tells John he wants him to kill Gunnar or Karen will be framed for Bob's shooting. Marcy applies for a job as Danielle's nurse but runs out when Betsy checks her references. Lyla walks in while Betsy is with Steve and calls her a tramp, although Betsy insists she and Steve have done nothing. Karen is upset with John for talking to Gunnar about Dusty. Frannie saves Marcy from being arrested for shoplifting. John tells Richard he hates Gunnar but needs more time before killing Gunnar for him. Paul has a nightmare about a man wanting to take Barbara away. Bob is so fixated about his problems of working with John that he ignores Frannie's problems. Frannie is torn between attending Yale and staying in Oakdale to be with Kirk. Betsy sees Zack, who assures her her love for Steve is not wrong and she is not responsible for Craig's paralysis. Maggie considers artificial insemination. Lyla tells Craig she thinks he and Betsy should move to Boston. \

Such memories... The lack of guests is so obvious,not even extras I think.The director should have gone for tighter shots to disguise the empty rows. What explanations (if any) were given for Doug and Julie's absence at Hope's weddings?

Well,I think Valente was right in realizing that it was impossible to replicate Marland's ATWT,especially with such a huge cast to contend with,but the reign of Stern and Black was such a contrast that viewers were turned off.

I remember Kay Alden saying at the time that Bill Bell made the decision to drop Danny,which she wasn't totally on board with. She hoped to use him in some kind of music storyline with Callie. This was in an article about Bell handing over the reigns and how that was working in practice.

Why not have Lisa discover that Chuckie was switched at birth and the boy that died was not her real son? I guess the problem was they had already done a variation on that recently with Sabrina.

Guza's was just a different kind of misery...

Other performers who were on Somerset before EON Richard Shoberg Mitch Farmer/Kevin Jamison Jay Gregory Carter Matson/Morlock Sevigny Holland Taylor Rith Winter/Denise Cavanaugh Bruce Gray Warren Parker/Owen Madison

Back to the Dan character.Someone suggested that rather than Sorasing Dan,Ellen could have had a younger brother who could have played out most of Dan's stories,leaving Dan to come of age in the mid 70's. So Ellen could have been concerned sister rather than mother,thus not pushing her into an older age bracket.

Does anyone look good with corkscrew curls??

Marie was gorgeous then and stayed beautiful in all the years that followed. Like the idea of Kim/Dan/Bob in the late 70's with Susan and John involved also.

The temporary replacement thread probably lists all of these and hundreds of others.

In March 1970 Virginia Vestoff rejoined the cast of '1776' on Broadway,which I believe she departed when she got the gig as Althea.Leads me to believe that Althea will soon be leaving town and not seen again until EH returns.

John Colenback was popular in his first stint as Dan,but it was John Reilly that established the Kim/Dan relationship and I don't think Colenback worked as well as Reilly with Kathryn Hays. Still, killing off Dan was a mistake.Maybe he could have been ill and left Oakdale,not wanting to be a burden etc The other root problem was sorasing Dan in the first place.When Colenback came on in 66,Dan should have been 8,but Irna made him early 20's and Colenback was older than the character. That led to problems down the road.

Not a serial per se,but no doubt with soapy elements was 'Doctor's Private Lives' which aired on ABC,first as a TV movie (March 78) and then with a limited run 4 episode tryout series (April 78) on ABC Dealing with personal and professional lives of a group of doctors,the cast was loaded with soap people. John Gavin was the lead in his TV series debut (husband of Constance Towers) Donna Mills was in the TV movie only. Ed Nelson (CAP,PP) Randolph Powell (DAL,DOOL) and Phil Levien (DOOL) were series regulars In the TV movie were : Bettye Ackerman (PTPP) Leigh McCloskey (DALL,GH.SB.Y&R) Robin Mattson (GH,SB,AMC etc) Elinor Donahue (DOOL) Fawne Harriman (SOM) John Lupton (DOOL) Kim Hamilton (DOOL,GH) Ross Eliot (GH) Margarita Cordova(SB) John Randolph (EON) Anne Marie Martin (DOOL) William Smithers (PP, GL.DAL)

Some more info on Modern Romances The week that featured singer Betty Johnson performing'I Dreamed' had Margaret Phillips as lead and was entitled 'Benefit Performance'.The song was featured daily. Kathi Norris was hostess for 3 weeks while Martha Scott was on vacation in Oct 56 April 22 1957 - Singer Jim Lowe appears in'Talking to the Blues' acting and performing 'Four Walls' and the title song.

Modern Romances week of Nov 15th 1955 featured a story about a young songwriter's efforts to get a tune recorded. A young Connie Francis appeared as part of that storyline. In May 56 Connie's latest single 'Forgetting'was featured and she performed it May 14th. Betty Kean and real life husband Lou Parker play husband and wife Oct 57 William Prince appeared week of March 4th 57 as did Don Briggs Neil Hamilton week of April 1st 57 Pamela Fitzmaurice appeared week of Dec 17 56 At the time also appearing on NBC's Meet Mr Wizard Sallie Brophy week of Jan 21st 57 Daryl Grimes week of Aug 20 56

Pat Woodell,who played Barbara Jenkins on BP in 1969 and was also the original Bobbie Jo Bradley on Petticoat Junction has died,aged 71.