Paul Raven

Irna Phillip's return to ATWT. A lot has been written about Irna's last stint on the show, which saw her fired from her own creation. My impression from what is written is that she came in and made drastic changes that immediately alienated viewers. However, looking more closely , it seems that at first her changes were not that startling and may have returned the show to it's former quality. Irna returned in January 1972 and left in mid 73 so was there for quite a period of time.The controversial deaths of Liz and Paul Stewart didn't happen for almost a year after her return. Here's what I can gather from research Gillian Spencer was brought in to replace Geraldine Court as Jennifer in March 72 Recasting of Liz Stewart. Barbara Ryan character dropped and Carol Demming returned(April 72). Tom and Carol married in July 72. Don and Lisa's romance and her phantom pregnancy.Don's departure Introduction of Wally Matthews and Peter Burton (father and son) October 72 Wally was a love interest for Lisa. Bob and Jennifer's marriage and arrival of Kim (Oct 72) Dan and Liz's marriage and her subsequent death (Feb 73) Introduction of Bruce Baxter and his marriage to Susan (late 72) Death of Paul Stewart (Nov 1972) Arrival of Amy Hughes (April 73) Writing off Dan and Susan Stewart as well as Betsy and Emmy.March 73 Departure of Bruce Baxter March 73 If there are any mistakes or more information to be added that would be much appreciated.

Delphi Harrington played Sally Mitchell in the late 70's. As previously noted Mary Mitchell was around in the early 60's.

Just guessing but I think it was Gillian's choice to leave, based on the fact that on OLTL, she quit as Viki and did the same later on AMC. I recall some mag articles where she intimated that she didn't want long running soap gigs.

Edge was on at 4.30 from its debut in April 1956 until June of 1963 when it moved to 3.30.

Television Magazine August 1967 Tom Donnelly, writing in the Washington Daily News of a news conference with Macdonald Carey,who plays Dr Tom Horton on an afternoon soap opera for NBC "Days of Our Life" quotes him as saying: "For a time we tried attacking social problems on our show. We talked about cancer and abortions and were going to do something on water pollution. But those things just didn't grab our audience. Anyway, in doing research we found that a great source of water pollution is detergents and that is why we decided to forget about water pollution"

Television Magazine reported in August 1960 that Edge of Night was daytime's #1 program, airing 4.30 -5.00. This was the last time that ATWT was not #1 on a weekly basis until 1971 when DOOL took the crown..

Pamela King was the original Lisa recast. Eileen mentions that Don was dating Jennifer.I have never heard of that before.Was it a major thing or just a few dates? She also states that Bob had never remarried when in fact he had married Sandy. Maybe she meant he wasn't married at that time. I'm surprised that Bob and Lisa never got back together, even briefly in all those years. It could have been an interesting story.

I have read that ABC lured Denise to GH quickly and that the Dobsons were forced to come up with a character and story on the fly and that Leslie wasn't a very interesting character at first.

I guess that those two characters were already cast and written for by that April and they weren't too bothered about tying up all loose ends.

Marcus was going to be the love interest for Melissa Anderson. I wish someone (Carl??) could locate the Afternoon TV story which dealt with Pat Falken Smith's plans for the show.

Was it Brian Frons? We need to get a list of the various daytime heads over the years and see what influence they had on the shows. Re Doug and Julie. While it was nice to see them play comedy the storylines went nowhere and a little of it went a long way.SSH is soap opera and needed better material. The Hayes said that NBC told them research showed that Days core fans would stick with the show no matter what so to attract new fans it was felt that new (younger) characters were the key. They were happy to keep the vets around either on recurring or contracts that offered them fewer appearances and limited story. I noticed that when Pat Falken Smith left DePriest and Anderson didn't follow through on the stories she had launched. Marcus Brady and Vanessa Di Mera never arrived nor did Bill Horton return. Stefano was not interested in Julie etc Val was quickly written off I wonder whether this was intentional and TPTB did not want to face another lawsuit from PFS about using her characters and story projections What we got from DePriest/Anderson didn't follow through on PFS set up.

Also, Rick was the name of Humphrey Bogart's character in Casablanca and Lacey had played Bogart before. The Jonas character had elements of Bogie in that movie so I think Jerry Lacey was trying to move away from the whole Bogart thing. That storyline also brought in the character of Gloria (Lindsay Bloom) and another character played I think by Billy Barty (Max?). To my knowledge this was the first time a little person was cast on a soap, preceding Brett Collins as Mr Big on ATWT.

Leslie did get that story where she developed amnesia and hooked up with Jonas (Jerry Lacey).But I don't think it really took off and once Jonas and Leslie returned to Genoa City, the whole thing fizzled. Leslie (and Victoria) just wasn't strong enough to sustain interest out of Lorie/Lance /Lucas.

Millette Alexander in 2011.She now performs and records classical piano.

Judy was on the show I think in a summer teen storyline in the mid 60's? played by Sybil Collier. Any more details would be appreciated. .It must have been a pretty minor storyline as it never is mentioned in summaries. I recall that Judy was British.This was at a time that all things Brit were considered cool.

Here's a recent pic (2012) of Victoria Mallory (Leslie Brooks)

Tom Ligon was also on A World Apart and Loving.Kind of a sad story.

Do we know about Y&R's current taping schedule? Are they shooting multiple episodes or different parts to allow the show to go dark for periods of time and save money? Whatever the case I'm sure there is way less time for rehearsals, retaping and notes from the director. Thus the lackluster performances we often see.

Kathy Glass was already on The Doctors when Doris Quinlan arrived. Earlier she was granted a release from her Return to Peyton Place role. What were the circumstances of her leaving One Life to Live? It seems her 3 year contract was up,but did she leave or was she fired? Carla Dragoni had been playing MJ and she was replaced by Kathy Glass. Did they lure her away from ABC or did she become available after her departure from OLTL?

Unfortunately,neither actress playing Sandy made much of an impression and there weren't any strong stories for her.Maybe because they didnt 'play much into her history,Sandy didn't have a lot of impact. Had they used Tommy to intro her (i think John Lupton was still active at this point) maybe that would have helped.Sandy's past was a blank slate so maybe something could have been used there.

I thought it was LeAnn Hunley,given that Anna was styled in a very demure fashion when she first appeared.

1982 cast photo

Trish and David's wedding

Kathy Glass as she appeared on The Doctors. In 10 years from 1970 - 80 she had 4 contract roles on soaps and that was it.

Warren Stevens and Kathy Glass (Eliot and Allison)