Paul Raven

Guiding Light had been off the air for 6 months when it returned in 1947, this time on CBS. By the end of the NBC run the Kranskys and Rutledge's were gone .

The NBC version was a new story that lead to the introduction of Meta Bauer and then the Bauer family. I guess at some point, Irna decided a core family was necessary. She had used the Schultz family a few years earlier on the second version of Today's Children  and maybe modelled the Bauer's on them.

In the late 60's under Cenedella Susan married Fred Douglas who had been seeing Liz.

Fascinating discussion . The myth of the Gregory family taking over. It was constantly mentioned that Agnes killed them off in a plane crash.

I was being sarcastic when I suggested that Jacquie Courtney would be happy about having an acting coach. Having created a popular and successful character for several years she would probably be insulted to have the idea of a coach presented to her.

There are some performers who just embody their characters regardless of what the perception of their acting ability may or may not be and Jacquie Courtney was one of them. She should never have been dropped.

I'm sure Jacquie would have been thrilled to have an acting coach suggested for her.

Lemay from a theater background, preferred stage actors overall. His first encounter on the set with Jacquie was her referring to her lines hidden all over the set. That first impression stayed with him.

When he arrived Paul Rauch was already planning to drop Margie Impert as Rachel. She had been a Lyle Hill hire and he was not impressed. 

As stated above Labine/Mayer began on Where The Heart Is late 71 before Love of Life in 73.They left Love of Life to begin Ryan's Hope in 75.

Late 71. In a surprise move CBS nabbed Bud Grant from NBC to head up daytime,replacing Paul Rauch.

Changes in effect around that time were the return of Irna Phillips to ATWT, Christopher Bell (Loring Mandel) appointed as LOL headwater and Labine/Mayer becoming headwriters of Where The Heart Is.

Days- Stephen Nichols as Patch. Originally a thug to harass Kayla but response had them create a whole new storyline.

Charles Shaughnessy was on as Shane the butler and again the response lead to long term story.

@JAS0N47 Can I ask how The Price is Right was rating compared to the soaps around this time?

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Leanna on Y&R was a short term obstacle to Ashley & Steven until Bill Bell revamped her character from psycho to troublemaker.

Douglas went from blackmailer to long term friend and confidante of Victor.

ABC paid Agnes $50 million as a consultant? I find that a little hard to believe.

One Man's Family aired @10.30 from March 1 1954 until July 54.

The Brighter Day aired @ 11.30 June - Oct 62

And wasn't it the case that McCrouch's Dusty had little to do with John but they had been close when Bloom played Dusty?

KVII 7 - ABC Amarillo Jan 1978
relays KVIJ-8 Sayre, OK
6:00 am - English Literature
6:30 am - News
7:00 am - Good Morning America
9:00 am - Sesame Street "Episode 1096: Returning from Hawaii"
10:00 am - Happy Days
10:30 am - Family Feud
11:00 am - The $20,000 Pyramid
11:30 am - Concentration
12:00 pm - News
12:30 pm - Cross-Wits
1:00 pm - One Life to Live
2:00 pm - General Hospital
3:00 pm - The Edge of Night
3:30 pm - Bugs Bunny

No All My Children.

7 hours ago, robbwolff said:

Shouldn’t it be Feb. 1971? Best of Everything and A World Apart didn’t debut until March 1970.

Yes typo . Should be Feb 71.

May 87 Albuquerque 

13 - KGGM (CBS) (now KRQE)
5:30 am - CBS Morning News (x2)
6:30 am - The Morning Program
8:00 am - The $25,000 Pyramid
8:30 am - Card Sharks
9:00 am - Donahue
10:00 am - The Young and the Restless
11:00 am - As the World Turns
12:00 pm - News
12:30 pm - Stopwatch/PM
1:00 pm - The Price is Right
2:00 pm - Guiding Light
3:00 pm - Hour Magazine

Game shows before 9am Y&R at 10 and TPIR in the afternoon.

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I stand corrected. I think Ted was more closely involved with Morningstar than Paradise Bay.

WPTA 21 - ABC Fort Wayne Oct 93.
5:30 am - ABC World News This Morning
6:00 am - News
7:00 am - Good Morning America
9:00 am - Donahue
10:00 am - Sally Jessy Raphael
11:00 am - Maury Povich
12:00 pm - News
12:30 pm - Loving
1:00 pm - One Life to Live
2:00 pm - General Hospital
3:00 pm - All My Children
4:00 pm - Oprah Winfrey

Prempted the Home Show in the morning and changed the AMC/OLTL/GH pattern in the PM

WTVW 7 - ABC Evansville (now a CW O&O)Jan 85
5:30 am - Jim Bakker
6:30 am - ABC World News This Morning
7:00 am - Good Morning America
9:00 am - Andy Griffith
9:30 am - Loving (repeat of previous episode)
10:00 am - Trivia Trap
10:30 am - Family Feud (network)
11:00 am - Ryan's Hope
11:30 am - News
12:00 pm - All My Children
1:00 pm - One Life to Live
2:00 pm - General Hospital
3:00 pm - Loving (new)
3:30 pm - Scooby-Doo
4:00 pm - Diff'rent Strokes

A double dose of Loving!

Paradise Bay was not a Ted Corday production.

Other morning soaps over the years

1950's Hawkins Falls, The Bennetts. Follow Your Heart, Three Steps to Heaven, One Man's family, A Time to Live, Way of the world. All NBC efforts. Gotta give credit for trying.

1960s

CBS tried Clear Horizon The Brighter Day and then Love of Life settled at 11.30 am

NBC slotted Morningstar and Paradise Bay

Then in the 80's Loving and Texas.

Morning soaps had worked on radio, but I guess the fact that CBS had success in the PM established that was where soaps belonged.

@DRW50 Thanks for posting. I've never seen that episode. If they had have placed some taller trees in front of that backdrop it would have only been glimpsed and looked less fake.

Lot's of voiceovers and just 2 characters. And I cigarette smoked!

2 hours ago, danfling said:

I am suprised that Search for Tomorrow in 1953, only one year after the 1952 debut, had sets that elaborate.

I think you are being kind to call those sets elaborate.

Two walls,some curtains , plants, chairs and the pillars-quite simple but effective for the scene and the times.

Today's producers should be as ingenious.

Not quite sure why the desk in the second set was jammed up against a sofa...

I recall in her book Mary said that in the first year they were able to move away from the black backdrops.

Did Agnes son-in-law also write for the show or am I confused?

Agnes mentored Wisner Washam but after he left AMC I don't think he wrote any other soap. He was pretty much de facto headwriter for many years.'

He clashed with Megan McTavish I believe and quit the show.

I have just read Agnes' book and wish she had have gone into more detail about BTS stuff.

Wasn't Ashley all in a tizz over Diane coming to Jabot and the havoc she would create?

Have we ever seen Diane at Jabot ? Have there been any business decisions that she made at all?

Why does Josh pretty much exclusively write stories around business when he never actually shows anyone at work or dealing with the business beyond  mergers, acquisitions and takeovers that occur in restaurants and peoples homes?

For Gary Tomlin to say he was unfamiliar with Alice was unforgivable. 

More likely he was told she was returning and she didn't fit into his vision so he couldn't be bothered taking advantage of her presence.

The thing with Pam Long (and many others) is they make an initial splash with new characters and situations but either through choice or circumstance don't have to follow through over the course of several years to sustain interest in those characters and come up with new plots.

Requests

Ava Haddad

Terry Eno

Marcia McLain

Sheila Coonan

Danny Goldring

Always nice to see a vet return but can't say I am much of a Danny fan then or now.

And I can't see him bringing much drama to the story.

Wonder why Tricia Cast hasn't been back?