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GH 1976 Pt 4 Cam tracks down Miss Clifford, the nurse who verified Leslie’s story at the custody hearing, since Miss Roach had died. He offers her ten thousand dollars to tell Leslie that she made up the whole story to get her hands on some of the Faulkner money, but now her conscience won’t let her rest until she confesses. Since Miss Clifford has a serious heart condition, they plan to have her say that she is afraid of dying with this sin on her soul. Cam then locates one Russ Waverly, who had dated Barbara casually before her marriage. Since she stopped dating him when she found that she was carrying Jason’s child, Waverly is to say that Laura is his daughter, not Jason’s. Cam arranges for Waverly to be available when needed. On cue, Miss Clifford agrees with Steve’s request that her story be confirmed by a cardiac examination and a psychiatric screening. And she. passes the tests by Peter and Rick with flying colors: She does have a heart condition, and she seems sincere in making amends. But Leslie doesn’t see it that way. When she hears Miss Clifford’s story, she angrily insists that the woman is trying to get money from them and orders Cam to throw her out. After she’s gone, Leslie tries to blow holes in Miss Clifford’s story by pointing out that if Miss Clifford is telling the truth, then Laura isn’t Jason’s child, and Barbara would have admitted this in court rather than risk losing her daughter. Cam, who pretends to Leslie that he thinks Miss Clifford is a charlatan, is relieved to find that Barbara is visiting a relative and Leslie can’t reach her for confirmation. Cam gets to Barbara first and tells her that if she and her family aren’t out of Port Charles by tomorrow, he’ll tell Jason that Laura is another man’s child. Barbara insists that this isn’t true, but Cam brings Waverly in, and Barbara realizes that he’s got her trappedthere is too much contradicting her for Jason to believe the truth. When Cam tells her he has a job waiting for Jason in Canada and hands her twenty five thousand dollars for “expenses,” Barbara can’t fight any longer, and she agrees to his terms. When Leslie goes to the Vinings’, she finds the house deserted and up for rent. Cam sympathizes with Leslie but stresses that if the story is true, Barbara needed to get Jason away before the truth came out. Leslie starts to believe this, until she sees Laura’s favorite doll lying in the deserted house. This suggests to her that the child has been kidnapped, and soon she is hysterical. To calm her, Cam assures her he will hire a team of crack investigators to track the Vinings down and find Laura. But Cam still has to connect the Vinings’ sudden disappearance with Miss Clifford’s story, so he orders her to tell Leslie that she told Barbara she had blown the whistle to Leslie. The strain of this extra pressure is too much for Miss Clifford’s heart, and she has an attack. Cam is relieved when Leslie is refused admittance to the woman’s room, but his respite is shortlived when he learns that Leslie is talking to her. Leslie’s meeting with Miss Clifford leads to suspicion more than confirmation. Miss Clifford claims Barbara admitted that she had a lover, but Leslie notices that the woman describes Barbara as sarcastic and abusive, two traits not in Barbara’s makeup, and she mentions the wooden door of Laura’s room a door which Leslie knows is glass. Realizing that Leslie isn’t taken in makes Miss Clifford even more nervous, and Peter decides she is showing the tension of carrying out a pretense. When Cam, seeing the possibility of his plan being blown, arranges a hasty ambulance departure from General Hospital for Miss Clifford, Peter shows his suspicions over Cam’s involvement. So Cam, who has been growingly resentful of Peter’s close working relationship with Leslie as well as her increasing reliance on Peter for emotional support, decides that Peter has to be eliminated from Leslie’s life too. Diana has been trying to follow Audrey’s advice and let her love for Peter guide her trust of him. She assures him she will bring all problems to him and not build suspicions on conjectures and bits of miscellaneous information, but Beth’s continuing indictment of all men isn’t helping her sense of security. Peter misses Martha’s birthday party because of a hospital patient’s threatening to jump from a ledge, and Diana lands on him when he arrives home emotionally spent, bitterly suggesting that he would have been home on time if Martha was really his daughter. It’s too late for Diana to take back her spiteful words when she learns why he was delayed, and Peter responds that her assurances of trust and faith were merely lip service; her lack of trust has gone too far. When Diana confides her latest disaster to Audrey, she admits that she realizes there are self-destructive tendencies within her that she cannot control. Audrey upsets Diana by suggesting psychiatric therapy, but Diana later realizes this may be what it will take to save her marriage and asks Peter to arrange it for her. He is pleased by this effort to save their relationship and is encouraging. Diana’s optimism is shattered when she agrees to be interviewed by Kimberly Hughes, the reporter for Men and Women magazine who is writing an article on the Free Clinic. Peter initially refused, but later agreed, as the publicity will benefit the clinic. Diana is horrified when Kimberly questions her, using the very words castigating Peter that Beth used earlier- obviously her sister has been spilling her venomous contempt to the reporter. Diana is thrown and can’t continue. Later, when interviewing Peter, Kimberly tells him about her abbreviated interview with Diana and angers him, as she had promised the article would be career-oriented, without personal intrusion. He coldly asks her to leave and refuses further cooperation. And so, knowing that the Taylors’ relationship is increasingly rocky, Cam intensifies things by conveniently not telling Diana that Peter called to say he and Leslie are going to be late because of a clinic emergency. Instead, he plies her with champagne and then confides his personal “anguish” that his wife and her husband are heading toward a romantic entanglement. Believing this, Diana goes straight to Peter’s office, where she finds her husband sympathetically massaging Leslie’s neck after a trying session with a difficult patient. Believing that this proves Cam’s contentions, Diana bitterly accuses her husband of being unfaithful. Leslie, hearing Diana’s words, instantly senses her husband’s fine hand ‘behind this, and this is confirmed when Diana admits that Cam said nothing about a clinic emergency’s causing the delay. Leslie now has to admit to herself that a side of her husband is emerging that she never saw before: a cruel and vindictive nature. Diana’s first session with her therapist, Dr. Langley, is disastrous, in that she emerges believing that Peter finds her socially inferior to him. She desperately asks Leslie to release Peter from Free Clinic responsibilities so he can be home with his family, where he’s needed. Peter is horrified that she took it upon herself to interfere in his career this way, and tells her he won’t leave the clinic. Embittered, Diana informs him that she has canceled future sessions with Dr. Langley, as there is no “hangup” to be solved. Peter replies that there is, but it’s not a problem of other women but rather of her total inability to trust him. Diana lashes back that the real problem is Peter’s thinking that his wife has no breeding, inasmuch as she’s a former waitress without social background. Peter realizes that Diana’s outburst is based on her own insecurity and delays a final pronouncement on the subject, but later he tells her that she has to understand that his medical career is separate and apart from his family life and no one can tell him how to. run it. He will not sacrifice his professional independence. Diana finally begins to see just what Peter’s work means to him as a person and what her interference has done. She realizes she must make the concessions in this area. Cam learns that Leslie has hired a private investigator to find the Vinings, and moves quickly to cover their tracks. Then, to persuade her to give up, he stages his coup de grace. He has Waverly confront Leslie, claiming that he rejected Barbara when she told him she was carrying his child, so she wrote Jason a “Dear Daddy” letter, which he fell for. He tells Leslie he came forward so she wouldn’t go on “eating her heart out for his kid” and leaves. Leslie, in shock, is devastated when Cam matter-of-factly tells her she can now wipe her hands of the whole mess. She bitterly screams, “Yes! I can finally believe Laura’s not my daughter! Are you happy now, Cam?” When she hysterically accuses him of isolating her rather than protecting and supporting her, of needing to own her and ruthlessly destroying anything that stands in the way of his possession of her, Cam shows a violent streak by sweeping a set of crystal goblets off the bar. Leslie realizes that his blazing anger is actually meant for her, and she walks out. Leslie goes to Terri and confides in her what Cam had done and what she now understands about him. Peter and Diana are at Terri’s Place for a celebration of their new-found relationship based on Diana’s understanding of her husband’s priorities, but Diana’s enjoyment of the evening is dimmed when Peter sees Leslie and insists that she join them. Shortly after, an emergency call comes in for Peter, and Leslie, e reminding him clinic patients are their patients, insists on going along. This shakes Diana’s tenuous confidence, and she recalls Cam’s pronouncements. Impulsively she calls Cam and announces she’s coming to see him.

I can conjure up a modicum of sympathy for Josh having to create stories based around restaurants sets, but it extends just so far...

Pete T Rich article undated from Berkshire Style website According to wikipedia All My Children Script Writer: 1994 - 1996 Days of Our Lives Script Writer: 1993, October 4, 2011 – July 27, 2012 Guiding Light Script Writer: 1984 - 1993, 1997–1999 Passions Script Writer: 1999 - 2008 Santa Barbara Script Writer: 1993 Welcome to the Soaps by Joseph Montebello Before there were miniseries and weekly comedy hours, there were soap operas. Those wonderful half-hour segments that came on every day, five days a week and captured the hearts of women and men alike. And if you are as old as I am, you will remember soaps on the radio. Every day I would arrive home from school and find my mother absorbed in the trials and tribulations of Backstage Wife or Stella Dallas or Lorenzo Jones. I knew enough to go quietly to my room as my mother sat totally absorbed in the dialogue. Thanks to writers such as Pete Rich, television soap operas reigned supreme for many many years and some of the memorable characters he wrote for are still remembered fondly. Born in Atlanta, Rich moved to New York after college with the dream of becoming a comedy writer. “My friend Gail Lawrence and I were in this together,” he said, “and we had an interview with a man at ABC comedy development. He told us that one had to live in Los Angeles in order to write comedy for television. So off we went, only to discover that Bob Hope was looking for writers.” In the category of “too good to be true,” Rich and his friend did, indeed, get a job writing for Hope and, at 25 years old, they were the youngest writers he had ever employed. Unfortunately, a writers’ strike brought everything to a halt, so Rich and Lawrence moved back to New York. As luck would have it, the man from ABC who had encouraged them was now at NBC, and was looking for writers for a soap called The Doctors. “In the ’80s, when television soap operas were in their prime, they had a captive audience of housewives and college kids,” said Rich. “The shows got huge ratings and, compared to prime time shows, they were cheap to produce. The profits were staggering and it was rumored that daytime paid for prime time.” That was the beginning of Rich’s stellar career in the soaps which lasted almost 30 years. He will share his favorite memories of life on the soaps at the Women’s Forum, at the Litchfield Community Center Thursday, March 2nd, at 2:30 PM. In addition to The Doctors, he penned scripts for Guiding Light, listed in Guinness World Records as the longest-running drama in television in American history—it was broadcast on CBS for 57 years—All My Children; Days of Our Lives; Santa Barbara, and Passions, Rich’s favorite show. His talent was acknowledged with six Daytime Emmy Awards and two awards from the Writers Guild of America. With such a stellar career, Rich has written many classic scenes and memorable dialogue and being asked to mention just one is like asking a mother to choose her favorite child. “Soaps opera lovers may remember what is considered one of the classic moments of daytime television when Reva Shayne on Guiding Light took off her clothes in a public fountain and baptized herself “the Slut of Springfield” to her crippled boyfriend, Josh. The speech went on for about five minutes as Reva basically had a meltdown. Actress Kim Zimmer won an Emmy for her acting and the episode itself received an Emmy as well. In true soap fashion, after Reva was taken home, she woke up in bed to find Josh watching her from his wheelchair. They made love, she cured his paralysis and made it rain–so potent a woman was she.” In their prime, soap operas managed to combine reality with incredibly convoluted plots and character studies. Where else could one find tortured men and women who fell in love, suffered infidelities, murder, lust, mysteries, lies, and secrets? “I think the days of soaps are really behind us,” said Rich. “The Internet has allowed everyone access to everything at anytime. And life has become so fast-paced that few people have five afternoon hours a week to devote to a show. Plus, reality TV, You Tube, and social media all entertain people in a customized way. Today what’s on the news is more outrageous and shocking than any soap ever was.” But we all have memories of those days when soaps held us rapt for that magical hour every day. Rich retired from writing for television and now spends his time decorating houses, designing gardens and writing fiction for fun.

Thurs sees Lily and Damian at GCAC spending an entire episode talking. Nate and Audra at Society talking-but wait Kyle and Claire arrive, so they have someone else to talk to for the entire episode. Amanda at CL talking to Devon and Abby for the entire episode. The Young in the Restaurants continues...

Well it was just a crazy theory that may never be solved. But it got us thinking. There have been a couple of other mystery headwriters over the years. I remember when KC Collier tyrned up as ATWT headwriter. I think that was subsequently proved to be Millee Taggart. So if Kubeck wasn;t Slesar, it might have been another known writer who used a pseudontm for some reason. Moving on Somerset Pt. 4 Vickie is increasingly upset when both Dan and Fred Harrington warn her to stop Julian on his crusade because of the great danger he is in. But Julian is not to be deterred. Steve is told that Julian is using Greg’s investigation notes for his vendetta against crime and he is to stop Carrie. Steve again refuses, insisting that his job for the Organization is cleaning up their money, nothing more. Needing a closer eye on Steve, Fred Harrington has a most loyal and efficient Organization employee brought in to work with him. Denny Saunders is an attractive young woman who sees the Organization as her mother and father—it has provided her with the only nice things she’s ever had—and she is predisposed against Steve from the start because of his “double cross” on the witness stand. Despite this new and difficult. complication in his plans, Steve refuses Lieutenant Price’s plan for his escape. Price has arranged for a whole new identity for Steve, right down to plastic surgery to alter his appearance. But again, in spite of Carrie’s protests and the increased difficulty of making his contacts with the new watchdog on his back, Steve insists he can’t stop now. Harrington has a physical checkup with Jerry Kane and reveals, in the presence of Heather and Vickie that he has an iron plate in his arm, the aftermath of a skiing accident. Harrington takes this chance meeting with Vickie as his opportunity to ask her, if she can’t stop Julian, to at least convince him to share his information and plans with the Citizen’s Committee. Before leaving on a business trip, Harrington tells Castor he wants Julian taken care of before he gets back. Sergeant Williams confronts Julian with the inside information he’s been using in his editor’s introductions to Carrie’s articles. Julian refuses to explain where or how he got the material. (It’s from Steve.) Tom has learned from Lena that she had Greg’s papers and let Steve have those he was interested in. Tom assures Lena that his knowing about this will harm no one, and he convinces her to let him help. Carrie is frightened when Julian suddenly disappears, and she discusses her fears with Lieutenant Price, adding that she’s seen Joe Castor talking to Chip Williams. Ironically, at that moment Chip walks in with Steve, whom he has arrested on suspicion of auto theft for driving Denny’s car. Denny has to come to the station and vouch for Steve, an experience she finds distasteful. Steve asks her to omit his arrest from her report to Castor, as he’s afraid of being fired. Denny, whose only loyalty is to the Organization, feels she can’t do that, even though Steve reminds her that there is only one way the Organization “fires” people. Denny does report the arrest to Castor, saying she feels Chip is out to get Steve and she doesn’t want to be involved. Denny is upset, however, when Castor informs her that Steve “is a dead man”; she was never so close to this side of the Organization’s work before. Castor informs them that they don’t have to worry about Chip; the Organization can take care of that. He doesn’t mention, of course, that Chip has agreed to supply the Register’s source of information in exchange for Organization help in becoming Chief of Detectives. Steve senses that Denny has become withdrawn since her talk with Castor. He fills Lieutenent Price in about Castor’s assurances that Chip’s no longer a problem, but Price can’t pull Williams off without raising suspicions about Steve. Carrie and Steve meet secretly, and she tearfully expresses her fear that he won’t live long enough for them to have a future.

Thanks so much for that detail. Robotic cameras? How does that work? So it seems that the eateries are permanent sets, hence why we see them everyday. PB said the Abbott house is permanent. Maybe the Newman Ranch. That means the only money is being spent on erecting a couple of other sets to be used for that week eg Nate's apartment, Billy's house, Newman office etc It really is destroying the storytelling. Especially with JG's focus on business stories.

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I agree that the costume designer has done well in giving characters a specific look-I just don't like Kat's! But I will concede defeat on this one... Now that the show is well established I am thinking about some of the choices mad re occupations and settings. I don't expect a soap to be a documentary but the workplace can be fertile ground for story, character interactions and to add a sense of realism. It's getting a little Y&R with people meeting up at eateries. Making Derek a firefighter seems pointless-he should have been a cop working with Jacob.Would have given him more airtime and purpose. Martin is supposedly an up and coming politician but we have no evidence of that. Maybe his office should have been a set-and some other characters work there. Jan could have worked there in some capacity, or maybe Ashley instead of being a nurse. Vernon could spend time there offering his expertise-which could lead to conflict with his grandson. Same with the Real estate business-we don't see Vanessa in that role. She would have more credibilty if we saw her at work. Ashley or Smitty might work there etc, with discussions of the business -listings, attending viewings etc Andre does real estate photography. Maybe Naomi could work for her father and they could have workplace battles. Discussing cases with Tomas and her dad. And we need to see Nicole at work. Finishing up with a client etc And for Chelsea and Kat some actual evidence of setting up the'purse line' Realizing how difficult it is to get a foothold. I like the idea of having a server at Orphey's being a wise 'talk to' for various characters. Just more effective use of the characters... What are your thoughts after several months of shows?

Point taken. It will be interesting to see as time goes on whether her look is modified/matured.

I'm that person and I own it. I just find that look so performative. She comes across as playing dress ups. Will anyone back me up? ....anyone??

I didn't even bother. And to trot out Lauren and Michael who are hardly on and don't have stories... It must be a money saving situation.

The idea that RG Noah was involved with Audra was ridiculous. They probably went with someone who knows what's involved with working on a soap. I'm not sure there are many young actors these days who want to commit to a soap. I don't think the money is great.

Tues ep opens with Princess Kit Kat dumping exposition dialogue to Jacob. I really can't take her seriously in those outfits. Like she literally puts on that get up to wander around all day? What exactly does she do? OMG Derek-is he a cyborg? Jan comes by all chatty and natural and he literally stands there. I'm sorry, but is the actor watching himself? There's no body movement whatsever.He just recites lines. And Ted was replaced? And why didn't they just make Derek a cop? He could naturally be in scenes with Jacob, instead of those visits to the set. Dedicated wonder nurse Ashley upsets the hospital schedule b/c of her private life. Honey, maybe work would be a distraction?

Let's travel back in time to Llanview 1976-courtesy of the Daytime Serial Newsletter Since its premiere in 1968, One Life to Live, the story of the Lord and Wolek families in Llanview, has depicted the interrelationships between people from all walks of life. Victor Lord had two daughters: Victoria, now married to Joe Riley, editor of the Lord newspaper, the Banner, and Merideth, who was the wife of Dr. Larry Wolek and the mother of little Danny until her recent death. Victor has recently married Dr. Dorian Cramer, unaware of the mercenary and self-serving motives that prompted Dorian to encourage his proposal. From the moment of their marriage Dorian has made it clear that she is in all ways mistress of the Lord estate, - Llanfair. Victoria is now recovering from an automobile accident in which Joe’s illegitimate infant daughter, Megan, died. Cathy Craig, Megan’s mother, irrationally blames Viki for the accident, apparently believing Viki wanted Megan out of the way. Neither Joe nor Cathy is aware of the fact that Megan suffered from a congenital heart defect and would never have lived to adolescence. Larry’s sister Anna is married to Cathy’s father, Dr. Jim Craig. Their brother Vince Wolek is married to Wanda and has recently lost his job as a policeman in Llanview due to town-budget cutbacks. Vince’s niece, Jenny, a novice nun, has recently arrived in town, and is now planning to leave the order and marry Tim Siegel as soon as she’s completed a final nursing mission in South America. Victor knew he had an illegitimate son and searched in vain for him, but had no idea that Tony Lord, a reporter/war correspondent recently arrived in Llan-— view, was that son. Dorian and her accomplice, Matt McAllister, did know, and conspired to conceal the truth from Victor to prevent Tony from interfering with Dorian’s plans to gain control of Lord Enterprises. Patricia Kendall, a friend of Cathy’s from New York, has accepted a reporting position on the Banner, unaware that Tony Lord is on the scene. Law student Tim Siegel, waiting in Llanview for his intended bride, novitiate Jenny Wolek, to return from a mercy nursing mission in the South American country of La Costa, is horrified to hear a broadcast reporting an attack by La Costan revolutionaries on the hospital where Jenny is working. Jenny, who has not yet taken her final vows, planned to leave her order at. the conclusion of this mission. After hours of emotional torture, Tim learns that Jenny’s name isn’t on the list of reported dead, but the survivors will have to cross a near-impenetrable jungle under fire to escape. But some do get out, and Jenny is among them. Suffering from burns and malaria, she is flown back to Llanview with Dr. Peter Jenssen, now. a wanted fugitive from La Costa because of his political leanings. As he is still unlicensed in the United States, he accepts a medical-technician post at Llanview Hospital. As Jenny recovers, she admits to Tim she would like to go back and finish what she started, but also wants to go ahead with their marriage plans. Tim notes, however, as reports of brutal destruction come out of the tiny country, that she shares a bond with Peter. Jenny’s uncle Vince Wolek is thunderstruck that she would consider abandoning her religious vocation and makes it clear he’s unalterably opposed. Victor Lord is overjoyed to learn that Tony Harris is the illegitimate son he’s been searching for for years, but his happiness is dimmed by Tony’s scathing resentment of this extremely rich father who allowed him and his mother to live in near poverty until her death. Tony expresses his resentment to Cathy Craig, who offers him the sympathy he’s shown her since the death of her baby daughter. Cathy bitterly blames Viki Lord Riley for baby Megan’s death, as Viki was driving the child to the hospital when the fatal crash occurred. Cathy doesn’t know that her baby, fathered by Joe Riley before his recent marriage to Viki, was suffering from a hereditary and definitely fatal disease. Viki, now recovering from the accident, tries to smooth things out between her father and Tony, but realizes they are on a collision course.’ Visiting Cathy at her apartment, Tony is amazed to find that her new roommate is Pat Kendall, with whom he had a love affair more than ten years ago in Rio de Janeiro, when he was in the Merchant Marine and she was a Peace Corps volunteer. They parted after a quarrel, and she later married Paul Kendall, who is now wanted by the FBI as a suspect in the political bombing of a government building: Pat explains that she is separated from her husband and has a nine year old son, who is staying with his grandmother. Policeman Lieutenant Ed Hall tends to minimize the concern of his wife, Carla, about their adopted son Josh’s: recent behavior until he learns that Josh has been spending large amounts of money to impress his white girl friend, Bernice, and her friends (the Hall family is black) and has not been showing up at his part-time job. Actually, Josh has lost his job, due to his unreliability, but he hides this fact and tries to borrow money from Ed, claiming his expenses exceed his income. Wanda, Vinnie’s wife, accidentally spills the beans, worrying the Halls about Josh’s now lying to them as well. Viki can’t bring herself to tell Joe that any child they have might well have the same fatal condition Megan had. She has told him she’s considering her father’s idea that she and Joe be co-editors of the family newspaper, the Llanview Banner, so that when she becomes pregnant he can carry the full editorial responsibility. Doriab Cramer Lord, recently married to Victor Lord, realizes that her position of power could be impaired by Tony’s arrival on the scene and convinces Victor to squelch Tony’s probable new reporting job on the rival Chronicle by pointing out that it would be embarrassing to have his son on another paper. When Victor does this, Tony bitterly resents his father’s interference, as Dorian knew he would. Dorian then convinces Victor that the Merideth Lord Wolek wing of the hospital is proceeding badly and she should head up the project, named for his late daughter, wife of Dr. Larry Wolek. Dr. Jim Craig reminds Victor that Dorian was bitter at being dismissed from the hospital staff and perhaps shouldn’t work on this project, but Victor assures him she’ll get the job done. Jim suggests to Viki that she accept an appointment to the hospital board, to balance Dorian, but she declines, explaining that she and Joe need time alone. Viki and Joe have resumed their physical relationship, and Joe expresses his wish that they soon have a family. For this reason, Viki refuses her brother-in law Larry’s offer to tell Joe the truth about his hereditary condition, saying she'll do it herself when the time is right. Jim, learning that Viki and Joe resumed relations before she started taking her birth-control pills, suggests a pregnancy test, and Viki is stunned to find that she’s already pregnant. Viki decides she will tell Joe but press him to share her faith that this child will be unaffected by the disease.

Here's a theory worthy of an Edge of Night plot...maybe the elusive Russel Kubeck was in fact a pseudonym for... Henry Slesar!! Somerset had done better in the ratings under Slesar so P&G installed him to compete against his own EON. Slesar had done double duty before writer SOM and EON in the early 70's and would do so in 78 with EON and SFT. P&G had a policy their shows would never compete, but broke that rule when EON was moved up against SOM, so maybe they went one step further and allowed Slesar to write both shows and being a total professional he was able to carry it off. Or maybe not. Anyway 1976 Pt 3 Steve takes the stand. When he nears the part in his story where he’s supposed to forget the hit man, Carrie suddenly starts to cry, and the judge declares a recess. Thinking quickly, Steve tells Castor that his perjury won’t help now the district attorney is out to get Mrs. Wilson, and if they break her they'll have him, Steve, too, and he’s no good to the Organization behind bars. Castor sees the sense in this. So when Steve’s recalled to the stand, he tells the truth about the hit man in the hallway. But Steve’s testimony pales beside the district attorney’s discovery that Mrs. Wilson has a secret bank account which shows a. recent large deposit. She breaks under questioning, and the defense’s case collapses. The three defendants are quickly convicted. When Castor warns Steve that he’s now in danger, Lieutenant Price and Julian arrange Steve’s departure for Los Angeles. Steve takes the tickets but doesn’t use them. Instead, he waits for Castor and convinces him to let him talk to “the man” himself and plead his own case. Castor calls Harrington and hands the phone to Steve, who speaks his piece without Harrington’s saying a word. When Castor takes the phone back, Harrington instructs Castor not to kill Steve. But Steve, while talking, heard what sounded like a music box in the background. It was actually a unique chiming clock, an antique that Harrington takes inordinate pride in. Harrington later tells Castor that their big problem is Julian, as he carries too much power and influence. Harrington explains he held off on Steve’s elimination because Steve might prove helpful in getting Julian. Detective Sergeant Chip Williams informs Julian that a car rented in his name was found abandoned near the airport. Julian, who rented it for Steve to aid in his flight to Los Angeles, replies that a careless reporter forgot the car there. Chip is far from convinced. And Julian and Carrie are very worried about Steve. Carrie is writing a series of articles based on Greg’s investigation to back up Julian’s crusading editorials, and finds herself torn between her memories and her loyalty to Greg and her rapidly growing feelings for Steve. When she finally has a few moments alone with him, days later, Carrie, even more upset to learn of Steve’s inroads into the Organization, begs him to give it up; she can’t stand the constant thought of his being in danger any longer. Steve gently replies that nobody’s ever said anything that nice to him before. Steve then manages to get his music-box information to Lieutenant Price, but is unresponsive to the officer’s new idea for getting Steve out of his present situation. Vickie, taking a long, hard look at herself and her life, decides it’s time that she changed her self-oriented outlook on things and tried to do something with her life. Seeing that she’s determined to do this, Julian turns back to her, discouraging Avis, who takes the hint and goes home. When Stan and Terri ask Vickie to head the fund drive for the hospital, Vickie is very pleased to have the opportunity to do something for someone else for a change. Realizing that Heather needs a diversion from the horrible experience she’s undergone, Vickie asks her to help with the project. Heather begins with the assignment for posters to publicize the drive. Jerry, who felt the work would keep her from thinking about their baby, is upset when the artist suggests baby pictures for the campaign and proceeds to hand the photographs to Heather. Jerry interrupts, ending the meeting, but later Heather assures Jerry that she can deal with her own situation and with the pictures, Vickie, meanwhile, has the responsibility of soliciting major donations to kick off the campaign. She visits Fred Harrington, who quickly offers his support for the project. When Vickie admires his beautiful antique chiming clock; Fred proudly tells her the history of the ingenious piece. Upon learning that business is slumping, Harrington angrily tells Castor it’s Julian’s fault and mentions that he’s not alone in wanting Julian out of the way. This interests Castor, but Harrington won’t say more on the subject. Harrington explains to Castor that Julian’s put himself in such a front-line position that if he were to have an accident, even a real one, the entire FBI would be on the scene to investigate. Their only chance is to investigate Julian so minutely that there is nothing about him they don’t know. Then they can plan their strategy. Castor brings Steve a gun, knowing that Steve doesn’t want to get involved in violence, and when he’s sure he’s got Steve’s prints on the firearm, he carefully pockets it, wearing gloves. Castor then proudly informs Harrington he’s got Steve framed whenever he needs it: clear prints on a clean gun. Castor also_informs Harrington that the ambitious Sergeant Williams is a likely prospect for cultivation.

1976 Pt 7 Brad tells Snapper he’s almost blind now and can’t keep Leslie from finding out,so he’s leaving her today, right after her benefit concert. During the performance Brad slips out and goes home to pack, leaving a letter for Leslie telling her to continue with her concert work and to trust him when he says this is the way things have to be but it has nothing to do with her. Figuring he’d do something like this, Laurie follows him, and agrees to let him leave only if he'll let her help him. She takes him to her apartment. Leslie arrives home to find Brad’s things gone and his letter waiting. She tells the family he’s gone to be with his sick mother and spends the next days reading and rereading his letter, not eating, not sleeping, and in tortured despair. Finally, realizing she has to get out, she goes to the Allegro, where she runs into Lance. He insists on driving her out to the lake house, where she collapses in the living room. While she’s unconscious, Vanessa tends to her, and when she comes to Lance insists on taking her to Snapper for an examination immediately. The next day Snapper tells Les that his suspicions have been confirmed she’ s pregnant. Lance continues to be attentive to her, and Leslie can’t help but respond out of loneliness, but, thinking of her pregnancy, Les asks that he not try to see her. Laurie, meanwhile, has. taken Brad to San Francisco for further tests, but again there is no ascertainable reason for his blindness. Lance and Laurie are fencing with each other again—she won’t explain why 'she went to San Francisco with a friend and he won't tell her who is living with him at the lake. Vanessa, watching Lance and Laurie through her window: vows that Laurie will never get him... never. Joanne now has a new confidence in herself and her future and tells Jack she'll get a divorce. Jack replies that he’s not sure now whether Peggy even wants him any more. Joanne visits Peggy, saying that Peggy must now reassure Jack, as he feels responsible for what she’s gone through. Ron’s attorney, learning from him that Peggy saw himbefore the lineup, petitions to have Peggy’s identification thrown out of court. They will claim undue influence. Ron’s convinced he’ll win. But at the hearing the judge determines that, while Chris had talked to Peggy about Ron, she never described him to her, and that by introducing himself to Peggy willingly, Ron himself created the situation. The petition is therefore denied. Ron furiously tells Nancy he was wronged, that the Brookes’ money and influence in town robbed him of a fair break. Nancy is badly shaken when she finds a paper with Chris’s correct address in Ron’s pocket, as he insisted he had the wrong address. When she confronts him, Ron explains that Chris later gave him the correct address, which he wrote down and kept, throwing away the incorrect one. Nancy dismisses her doubts. The night before the trial is to start, Ron tells Nancy she’s to divorce him if he’s convicted. This upsets Nancy so badly that she goes to the Brookses’ home to implore Peggy not to do this to them, not to take her little girl’s daddy from her. Meanwhile, at their apartment, Ron is remembering how he waited for Chris on that day and then found that it was Peggy he had raped. Momentarily, before the trial the next morning, Peggy, thinking about Nancy’s visit, expresses a doubt about the identity of her assailant, but then the whole thing flashes across her mind and she sees his face. She’s sure now. Laurie worries that Brad’s walking out on her might cause Leslie to break again. Brad assures Laurie that Leslie is a strong woman now, and Les’s ‘success on her next concert proves him right. She leaves for her South American tour, and Brad, planning to study braille and prepare himself for his new life, decides to ask her for a divorce upon her return. ‘Laurie warns him that Leslie won’t consider it without seeing him first.

MEDINA JOURNAL-REGISTER WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1972 Soap opera star leads "sudsy" life By VERNON SCOTT UPI Hollywood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD (UPI) Bill Hayes, one of the co-stars of "Days of Our Lives," might make the central figure in his own soap opera. He is divorced after 23 years of marriage and moved to Hollywood more than two years ago from New York to star in the long-running daytime series. Hayes, who plays a nightclub singer on the show, is an accomplished vocalist himself and was resident baritone of the old "Show of Shows""-1950-1954-that starred Imogene Coca and Sid Caesar. Now he lives in the San Fernando valley with his three youngest children: Christian,21, Tom, 18, and Peg, 16. The house is large enough for the entire family and is close to NBC studios in Burbank where the show is filmed. Hayes, in fact, may be looking for smaller quarters soon. Christian will be moving to Arizona and Tom is headed for college, leaving only Peg at home. Hayes became a grandfather earlier this year when his daughter, Carrie, gave birth to a son, David Samuel. Hayes asked his producers to write him out of the serial for 10 days so he could back to Indiana to see his first grandchild. Another son, Blll Jr., is 22 and a Navy ensign flying jets. NBC has Hayes under contract 52 weeks a year. There are no re-runs of daytime serials. Therefore Hayes is on call almost every weekday. Generally he reports to the studio at 7 a.m. where the cast reads through the script and then rehearses. Then the crew is brought in for actual staging and another rehearsal before the episode is taped. Thereafter the cast sits around a table and reads through the next day's script, timing the segment and changing dialogue here and there to suit the director and actors. Some performers are quick studies. After an hour or so with the script they have their lines down pat. Not Bill Hayes. He is usually through at the studio by 3 p.m., but returns home to study and restudy the script, painfully memorizing his lines. Christian, Tom and Peg alternate with household chores. One week, for instance, Christian will do the cooking, Tom will clean house and Peg does the laundry and dukes "It works out pretty well," Hayes said ruefully. But when I get tired of eating pizza and hamburgers I pitch in and do the cooking myself. After dinner Hayes finds a quiet corner of the house to continue memorizing his lines. Then it's off to bed for that early call in the morning. On weekends Hayes not infrequently visits his parents who make their home in Tucson, Ariz. He would like to spend more time at the beach or in the mountains with his offspring. Being both father and mother to his youngsters, Hayes and must devote Saturdays and Sundays to shopping, gardening and supervising the running of the house. "I have to put relaxation and recreatlon into the future," he says. It's a someday thing with me. “Once in a while I get out to see a play or a movie, or visit friends in San Diego. But as long as I'm doing is show it means giving up a lot of other things. The important element is that the series allows me to work regularly and stay in one place to be with my family. Not too many actors today can pull that off."

re the penthouse. I can't recall exactly but I think that it was used for several years. Leslie moved to the cottage. Was that when she married Rick or before? Anyway, maybe Tracey took up residence? Don't know whether she bought it from Lesley, or they just re-used the set pretending it was a different place.

1976 Pt 6 Barbara, having promised Brad not to tell Leslie the truth, tells Laurie about Brad’s condition, explaining that somebody has to know what’s happening to him. Laurie tells Brad she knows and pleads with him to tell Leslie. Laurie’s publisher wants her to tour for her new book, but she’s adamant that it be published under an alias so no one will associate her with it. Lance and Laurie’s relationship is deepening despite their frequent verbal jabs at each other, and he’s decided to relocate in Genoa City. He calls his mother, Vanessa, reporting he’s rented an estate on Lake Geneva so she can get outside. Vanessa, a veiled recluse, was disfigured in a fire years ago when she saved Lance from a burning building. The fire marshal had determined that a child had been playing with matches in the room he shared with his younger brother, Lucas. When Vanessa reminds Lance of what he owes her, he gently tells her that Lucas was driven away by guilt, and if he ever returns she will have to face the reality that Lucas started the fire. Vanessa protests that this was never proven. Vanessa moves into Lance’s new home, where a suite of rooms has been prepared for her, and adds her own finishing touch: a one-way window into the living room, concealed behind a painting. With bills continuing to pile up, Jill is growing desperate about finding a job. As no hair-stylist positions are open, she accepts a manicurist spot in a hotel barbershop. Snapper learns where his sister is working and drops by just as a young, good-looking man is offering Jill two hundred dollars to go out with him. Snapper nearly beats him up and drags Jill out of the shop. She’s upset over losing the job until Derek Thurston, a customer at the Allegro, overhears her plight and hires her as an assistant at his hairdressing shop. As the day of the police lineup approaches, Pegey is thinking of backing out, but Chris firmly tells her her by doing that she may be paving the way for another woman’s being raped. Peggy arrives at the station with her father and Chris, and just before the lineup is scheduled to begin, Ron walks up to her and introduces himself, expressing his sorrow at what's happened to her. Peggy shows no emotion. At the lineup Peggy looks at all the men in the line and asks that they whisper “Don’t scream. I won't hurt you ‘ Peggy identifies Ron and then rushes at him and starts pummeling him with her fists. He’s placed under arrest. Stuart is concerned with Peggy’s identification, wondering if Chris’s obsession had. anything to do with it. Jen is surprised that Peggy was able to identify Ron, as she had told them it was dark and she kept her eyes closed. But when they question’ her, Peg insists she saw and heard Ron and she will never be able to forget what he did. Ron’s bail has been set at one hundred thousand dollars, requiring that ten thousand dollars be posted in cash. Nancy has nine thousand dollars in bonds “that her mother left her—Chris’s search for her family uncovered this—and the judge agrees to reduce bail to that much. Chris flies out to see Mrs. Sharon Ralston, the woman involved in the rape/burglary charges before Nancy and Ron were married. Mrs. Ralston refuses to say anything to Chris, explaining that she’s married now and has two children.

GH 1976 Pt 3 Peter’s new patient, sculptress Patricia Lambert, begins to accept that her suicide attempt was due to her believing herself unlovable. When Peter tries to help her see that she can find love, she replies that the only man who could love her is her psychiatrist. Peter has warned his wife, Diana, to avoid involvement with Pat, but since Pat has done a sculpture of Diana’s daughter Martha, she feels she must show appreciation. Pat pumps Diana about her personal life, and Diana allows that she and Peter have been through hell, but they came through still loving each other and have a happy marriage. When a local newspaper dredges up the murder of Phil Brewer, Diana is upset that the pain isn’t behind them yet. Phil fathered Martha, by rape, and Peter and Diana hope the child won’t have to know. Pat, with an artist’s eye, notices the resemblance between the newspaper picture of Phil and Martha, and decides to see what she can dig up, to see how good the Taylors’ marriage really is. Pat uses Beth as an unknowing pawn in her attempt to hurt Diana, by asking Beth to pose for her, then stealing Peter’s gold penknife and leaving it where Beth will find it. Beth, now suspicious of all men, rushes off to tell Diana. Diana assures Beth that she’s wrong, but asks to borrow Peter’s knife. He replies that he lost it. Her anger surprises Peter. Deciding she has given Beth enough time, Pat manages to return the knife to Peter’s office unseen, and pretends to find it on the floor. When Diana admits why she was so angry, Peter asks Pat if she borrowed it. But she’s ready for this; she has purchased an identical knife, right down to the monogrammed initials, and explains that it’s a gift for a Peter Talbot. Then she hysterically cries that perhaps she should slash her throat with it instead, and dramatically runs from his office. As Pat had hoped, Peter blames Diana for lack of faith. He is interrupted by Pat’s carefully timed phoned-in suicide threat. Guilt-ridden, Peter rushes to her assistance. Seeing her through this, Peter decides there is too much personal involvement in this case and tells Pat he'll have to turn her case over to another therapist, for her own good as well as the good of his marriage. But Pat is not letting him go that easily, and manages to interrupt a celebration between Peter and Diana (they are toasting their solution to the Pat problem) with yet another suicide declaration. Despite Diana’s insistence this is another trick, Peter rushes to Pat. But Diana follows, and walks in to find Pat trying to seduce Peter. She angrily denounces Pat as Peter orders her to leave. He then tells Pat that many patients fall in love with their doctors but he can’t treat her any longer. Peter considers Diana’s following him to Pat’s a shocking exhibition of lack of trust, and tells Leslie he’s available to be psychiatric consultant for her free clinic. When she reminds him that this work, together with his regular practice, will leave him almost no free time, he makes it clear that that’s just what he wants. To help her over the loss of her daughter, Cam presents Leslie with the penthouse apartment in the exclusive new Top of the Towers residence skyscraper and plans a trip to Europe. But after a period of happiness and good health at home, Laura seems to be suffering asthmatic attacks, and Barbara finally calls Leslie, saying it might be best for Laura if visits from Leslie become a regular part of Laura’s routine. Cam returns from a business trip to find Leslie once more immersed in Laura’s life, and is furious when she informs him she can’t make the international-merger celebration in Hong Kong, where she is to be guest of honor, because Laura has a school play that day. He angrily tells her he can’t, as she suggests, change the date, and he leaves for another business trip in a fury. When Leslie calls to tell him she has reconsidered and will be with him in Hong Kong, she’s unaware that her call has found him in bed with his secretary—a long-standing and frequent situation. But when Cam returns from New York, Leslie tells him she has changed her mind again; she can’t disappoint Laura. The final blow to Cam is when Leslie greets his news about a secluded mountain retreat with the rejoinder that Laura will spend the summer there with them. Cam, who purchased the place so he and Leslie could spend weekends there alone, decides to get Laura out of their lives once and for all. Audrey has recovered from her suicide attempt physically but not emotionally. Realizing that she needs to come to terms with her sense of failure, she decides to take a short vacation alone. Tommy, upset by the separation from Jim, takes the news of her plans badly, claiming that first she got rid of the only father he’s ever known and now she’s walking out on him. Steve tells Jessie he can’t tell Audrey he loves her at this time, as she would assume that it was pity he felt. Audrey’s vacation serves its purpose when she realizes she has fallen into the trap of self-pity. She arranges to return immediately and take over as superintendent of student nurses. Steve Hardy is pleased to welcome Drs. Jeff and Monica Webber to the General Hospital staff as the first appointees to the newly created “Mr. and Mrs. Intern team.” Steve can see that Jeff is tense and upset every time Steve mentions Rick, Jeff’s brother, who was reported killed in a plane crash in Africa last year. Rick and Monica had been in love, but shortly after Rick’s reported death, she married Jeff. Nobody knows that Rick, part of a medical-mission team, has been kept prisoner by Lamundan revolutionaries for the past ten months, following the crash near the guerrilla headquarters. Jeff’s angry accusation of Dr. Rex Pearson for making passes at Monica is the first of many indications that the Webber marriage isn’t perfect. Jeff makes a fast enemy when Pearson’s needling him about a prescription error and Monica result in Jeff’s flooring Rex with one swing. Terri Arnett, Jeff’s widowed sister, opens a nightclub, Terri’s Place, in Port Charles, with financial backing from Cam. She and Leslie have become good friends. Terri is overcome on being notified that Rick is alive; he was found and freed by government troops when they overran the revolutionaries’ headquarters. Monica’s happiness at the news is clouded by her apprehension about the lie she told Jeff following the news of Rick’s death. Rick had written her saying it was all over, she should find someone else. When Me the report came, Monica read the letter to Jeff, substituting a marriage commitment for his good-bye. Monica desperately arranges to meet Rick en route, to beg his silence. She doesn’t know, of course, that Rick wrote this letter to free her because his mission was long and dangerous, or that it was only the memory of her that kept him alive during the months of captivity. Monica, having told Jeff she is going to St. Louis to see a friend, meets Rick in New York, where he’s changing planes, and painfully explains the situation. Rick conceals the fact that he still loves her and was - coming home to marry her, and assures her that Jeff and Terri will not learn the truth from him. But Jeff quickly learns that Monica was in New York to meet Rick’s plane, and he takes his bitterness out on his brother. Rick is very upset by this but can’t go back on his promise to Monica and explain. Steve, an old family friend, offers Rick an appointment as a senior staff doctor, but Rick, now not knowing what his life will be, since his plans have all been destroyed, is reluctant to commit himself.

I am so over these reboots that on the one hand, want to trade off the nostalgia for the original and then change everything anyway. So those who liked the original will most likely be disappointed in the changes and it doesn't mean anything to newer viewers who have no connection. Maybe if they do have some knowledge of the original they will be turned off, thinking that it's some irrelevant old person's show. Anyone who watched and liked 7th Heaven would be way out of the desired demo by now.

I think that kind of thinking gives the writers a free pass. OK let's have Fred murder someone but not face any real consequences because Mary loves him. Maybe she'll be angry for a few weeks and Bill will swear to avenge the death but that will blow over then we can just go on. The idea that a bit of self loathing and rejection is punishment enough is ridiculous. Especially when these type of characters never reform. It allows the writers to go for shock value over and over.instead of crafting storylines that really delve into a dark/ villianous character. Not many people IRL can get away with multiple crimes and still be apart of a community.

I guess Wayne felt it was now or never. He'd made a splash at Days and probably hoped that would lead to a primetime series. If he signed for another 3 years at Days then the momentum would be lost and he's probably have to stay in soaps like so many others. And in the back of his mind there was the knowledge he could probably get a role on SB or GH if he didn't luck out in primetime or Days didn't want him back. As it turned out he returned to Dynasty and got a couple of primetime gigs before agreeing to go back to Days.

So there we have Lily and Damian in the same clothes, so the same day having 2 meet ups in different venues. Just about sums up the show and I'm sure there was a lot of talk about business. And they make NO effort to cover up that CL has no customers. I would feel uncomfortable sitting in an empty space. And anyone who wants to defend that set after looking at those pics, go ahead. Sharon must be losing a fortune on that place, maybe that's why she's decided against an update. For some reason,CL loses out on having extras.At least the other venues might have 4 or so people milling around.

But she can still be a priveliged elitist. She might have the same attitude to anyone from 'the wrong side of the tracks' whether they had an agenda or not. Nicole seems to be an outlier in her family.Her parents, kids and sister seem to think themselves above reproach.