Paul Raven

Moving Flamingo Road to 9.00 Mondays would have put it up against MASH and ABC Movie, both top raters as well as displacing the NBC Monday movie which often scored big numbers. Flamingo was tried at 9.00 Tues for a few weeks and didn't do well.

A November 1981 syndicated soap opera column stated that John Burnett was the new headwriter with Millee Taggart and Courtney Simon as assistants.That never came to pass.I've never head of Burnett,. Does anyone know more?

Gerald Gordon became the third actor to play Mark Dante.The previous Mark, Michael Delano, was only on for 3 eps. Apparently, the Pollocks wanted Gordon for the role as they had written for him on The Doctors but he was playing hardball. When the show expanded to 45 mins they had to go ahead with the Mark character. When contract negotiations were settled Gordon stepped into the role.

August 77 Ariane Munker in as Melinda Grey Georgann Johnson in as Jane Spencer

Feb 78 Kathleen Devine in as Pam Shepherd Katherine Squire in as Alice Lovelace

Feb 78 newpaper article on Gloria Monty's changes at GH Lieux Dressler replaces Camilla Ashland as Alice Grant. Janice Heiden out as Lisa/Lana Holbrook William Bryant replaces George E Carey as Lamont Corbin Maria Pershy in as Maria Schuller and Richard Venture in as Herbert Behrman,

April 79 Nancy Moses cast as Mary Elizabeth O'Connell, a lawyer working at Eliot Lang's lawfirm.

Feb 79 Elizabeth Levin and David Cherill replace Linda Grover as headwriters May 79 Geoffrey Horne, who played Jim Strassfield on ATWT is now on TD as Dr Frankel. He had appeared in 'Bridge on the River Kwai'

Ms Wyndham is a renaissance woman with many varied interests.

From a summary posted earlier in the thread After Matt, Nola began flirting with Jason but Jason’s estranged wife, Doreen arrived in town. She made plans with Kyle to build a children’s wing dedicated to her late daughter Stacy.

Primetime soap ratings for week ended Jan 27th 1985 Dallas #1 26.1/39 Dynasty #3 25.0/37 Knots Landing #10 21.3/34 Falcon Crest #16 20.0/32 Berrengers (Sun) #56 12.5/21 Berrengers (Sat) #65 9.5/17

Primetime soap ratings week ending Nov 25th 1984 Dynasty #3 24.3 38 Dallas #5 22.6 38 Falcon Crest #11 18.8/34 Knots Landing #22 16.3/30 Paper Dolls #58 12.1/21

It was shortly after being deposed as the #1 soap that ATWT brought back Irna Phillips to headwrite.

Thanks for posting these - very interesting to see Guiding Light at #1in 78 and The Doctors a strong #2 in 74.

Thanks so much for sharing your memories on this and other threads. Please continue. SOD mentioned the possible return of Pamela Davis during the DePriest era 86-88. Not sure when it was exactly. It would have been a smart move.

Someone needs to interview Fran Myers. She has been a part of soaps since the mid 60's .I'd love to read her take on the genre and her memories of GL in the 60's and 70's.

Sept 26 - Nov 4 1988 1.Y&R 7.6 30 2. GH 7.5 27 3. OLTL 6.5 25 4. AMC 6.4 24 5. DOOL 6.2 22 6. ATWT 6.2 22 7. GL 5.8 20 8. TPIR 5.3 25 9. B&B 5.3 19 10. AW 4.5 17

August 83 Daytime race among three networks is getting hotter. For week of July 25, according to NBC, CBS and ABC tied with 6.7 rating, while NBC scored 5.5, closest it has been to competition in five years. In shares, CBS had 24, ABC 23 and NBC 20- closest NBC has been to ABC since March 1980.

She would have been a better Hilary than Marsha Clark, who I thought was way too plain. (Sorry Marsha!)

Denise had a good run on GL. Did she ever get a write off? I'm surprised she didn't turn up on another NY show. I can see her on ATWT.

Top 10 daytime shows April 15 - 19 1985 1. General Hospital (ABC), 8.1/28 2. Price Is Right (CBS), 7.4/34 3. All My Children (ABC) 7.3/27 4. The Young and the Restless (CBS)7.2/30 5. Guiding Light (CBS), 7.2/25 6. As the World Turns (CBS), 7.0/26 7. Wheel of Fortune (NBC), 6.7/31 8. Days of Our Lives (NBC), 6.5/24 9. Price is Right (CBS), 6.2/29 10.One Life to Live (ABC), 6.2/23.

Primetime soap ratings week ending Jan 6th 1985 Dallas #3 26.3/38 Dynasty #4 26.2/38 Falcon Crest #13 21.5/33 Knots Landing #14 21.4/33 Hotel #18 20.3/33 Berrengers #67 11.9/20

May 85 ratings report In the current quarter to date, Santa Barbara is averaging a 3.8/11 in the first quarter compared to 7.6/23 for CBS's Guiding Light and 9.3/28 for ABC's General Hospital.

From Broadcasting magazine NBC's success in prime time has tended to cloud its performance in daytime, where it lags behind the other two networks. But here, too, NBC executives said there are signs of improvement, albeit not as fast as perhaps they would hope. All three networks are down in daytime ratings compared to a year ago. NBC has averaged a 4.9/18 rating for the first 10 months of this year (January- October), 4% off the 5.1/18 it averaged for the first 10 months of 1984; ABC averaged a 6.2/22 compared to a 6.4/22 last year, off 3%; CBS averaged a 6.3/23 compared to a 7.1/25, off 11 %. The stability of the prime time schedule now affords Tartikoff more time to spend on daytime problems -he says he spends twice as much time on daytime programming as he did a year ago when prime time was his main preoccupation. And daytime, according to NBC group vice president Robert Butler, is the principal reason NBC has not yet reached the operating profit levels of either ABC or CBS. NBC's principal daytime effort has been the new soap Santa Barbara, which it intro- duced 15 months ago. Between July 30 -Oct. 26, 1984, the soap opera averaged a 3.2/10. But between July 29 -Oct. 25, 1985, Santa Barbara averaged a 3.6/12, a 13% gain.

For the final week of 1979 and the week cancellation was announced, Love of Life was at the bottom of the ratings with a 3.9/12 share.