Paul Raven

Pamela Murphy and Michael McCready her husband at the time. He was the son of George McCready, Columbia contract player of the 40's (Gilda etc) and later Martin Peyton on Peyton Place.Their son Oliver played Romeo on Guiding Light 2001-02

Susan Brown promoting this highly attractive wall clock

Rare photo

Late 70's cast photo

1977 Beau Spencer (Wayne Hudgins) and Annie Srewart (Martina Deignan)

Can we identify the cast and the year?

Rita Lakin has taken a break from her mystery novels to pen a memoir 'The Only Woman in the Room' about her years writing for television in a male dominated industry.Let's hope she talks about 'The Doctors'. Although she never wrote another soap,she was behind several proposed soaps 'Salem Village','An Affair to Remember' and 'Young Loves of General Hospital'.

Bob could have been a more vital character had Frannie and her kids been on the canvas along with Rick Ryan,Kristina Hughes etc.It's much easier to include vets when they have those connections. But there was never much interest in the latter years.Many opportunities to include the vets were ignored.

Warren Leslie's book 'The Starrs of Texas' was optioned by CBS as a daytime serial. John Conboy was slated to produce.This was in the early 80's. It was about a family run department store. As Leslie had worked for Neiman Marcus he had background information on that type of business.

Bud was Jo's cousin.Never seen mention of Cynthia.

Variety Sept 4th 1974 In July/August AMC became top rated soap with a 9.5.

I also wonder if How To Survive a Marriage might be around somewhere. Researching online I saw that Return to PP played on Australian TV from around 74_76.It even played in primetime when launched.So maybe those tapes are sitting in an Oz warehouse somewhere. . .

Gone Girl is a movie, not a tv series.

Rick Edelstein is listed as story editor. He became co-headwriter in 68. Was it common practice on the 30 min shows for headwriters to actually write all the scripts or at the most have one sub writer?

March 1961 #1 ATWT 10.8 #2 TEON 10.7 #3 Concentration 10.6 #4 TGL 10.4 #5 SS 10.2 #6 SFT 9.9 #7 TPIR 9.1 #8 The Verdict is Yours 9.0 #9 Rocky & Friends 9.0

I did not know that Linda Kaye Henning (Petticoat Junction) was on RTPP. Apparently she came on in mid 73. Does anyone know here character's name and other details?

Dorothy Green (Jennifer Brooks) was not a happy camper. In an interview from August 77,shortly before she was killed off she claimed the older women on Y&R were written as victims - she sited Liz Foster as having a stroke, KayChancellor - rich but lonely and an alcoholic and Vanessa Prentiss,scarred and living as a recluse. The message according to Ms Green is that 'you've reared your children,now you're finished'.She claimed fans she meets in that age group agree with her and that these women are not shown to be doing anything positive with their lives. She said the men on the show are treated differently eg Stuart,who hasn't done a thing wrong in 5 years.

Scott McKay was the other actor to play Scott

Mark LaMura tried out for Ben on Love of Life and Jeff Martin on AMC before landing the role of Mark Dalton

FYI Liz's parents were on the show.Harriet and Keith Wilson were played by Morgan Sterne and Meg Myles.Apparently Harriet was neurotic and over protective. They were on from 66 -67. Seeing Larry Weber in the cast was interesting on a couple of levels. Firstly,this is another previously unknown soap role for this actor who is at the top of the charts for most soap roles along with the likes of Keith Charles and Conard Fowkes and secondly because he returned a decade or so later as Barney Dancy

In light of all this smoking ,it's interesting that years later TD ran an anti-smoking story that utilised guest stars like Johnny Carson,Tony Randall and Judy Collins. Steve was trying to quit. Re Maggie,as I posted earlier Variety reported in August 68 that Lydia Bruce would now be taking over the role of Maggie after filling in for Bethel Leslie.So Bethel left sometime earlier than that.I think it was due to being cast in the feature film "The Molly McGuires' with Sean Connery. Bethel then immediately got primetime work in 'Name of the Game' and 'High Chapparal' as well as writing for 'The Virginian' with writing partner Gerry Day in an episode starring Joan Crawford. Coming in 68,the first major Black characters Dr Simon Harris (Conrad Roberts) in April and Anna Ford (Zeida Coles)Penny Davis (Jami Fields)in May ,Jody Bronson (CC Courtney) Mike Powers (Peter Burnell) in September and Martha Allen (Sally Gracie)