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Marie, SS Casino, Vampire, Hot Stuff and a few others did air as specials or TV movies over the course of the season or in Summer.

At one point in the mid 60's ABC daytime had The Young Set (morning info show) The Young Marrieds and Never Too Young on the schedule. Bit of a theme going here.

Married the First Year debuted with a dismal 21 share. However it still beat NBC's notorious bomb Supertrain, which had a 19 share. So it was doomed from the start. Eight Is Enough dominated the timeslot. I'm sure Lorimar were not happy having two of their shows in competition.

Some pilots in contention for ABC's Fall 79 schedule. Shows that were picked up for Fall and later in the season in bold. Benson stars Robert Guillaume as the Man Friday of an inexperienced governor. His duties include management of the governor's mansion and his 8- year -old daughter. Producers: Susan Harris, Tony Thomas and Paul Junger Witt for Witt /Thomas /Harris Productions. Bizarre stars Richard Dawson as the host of this half -hour collection of off -center sketches and celebrity interviews. Producers: Alan Blye and Bob Einstein for Blye /Einstein Productions. Camp Grizzly concerns the adventures of an oddball camp counselor and his feisty campers. Producers: Nick Vanoff and Bob Klane for Nick Vanoff Productions. Detective School -One Flight Up concerns *. night school for aspiring private detectives. Pro ducers: Bernie Kukoff and Jeff Harris for Boiney Stoones Productions. For Heavens Sake stars Ray Bolger as Simon Amister, a wise old angel who assumes various physical identities to intervene in people's lives at crucial turning points. Executive producers: Bill Blinn and Jerry Thorpe for Bline /Thorpe/ Viacom Productions. Redd Foxx is both the title and star of this series about a bartender whose friendship with leaving him his fortune. Executive producer: Redd Foxx for Redd Foxx Productions. Hart In San Francisco concerns a San Francisco'police officer who sends a bumbling detective to Scotland Yard and gets an Inspector Clousseau -type in return. Producers: Arnie Salton and Chris Hayward -(Sultan /Hayward Productions) for Universal. Hart To Hart stars R.J. Wagner and Stephanie Powers as a well -to -do couple who work together as private investigators. Executive producers: Aaron Spelling and Len Goldberg for Spelling /Goldberg Productions. Hot Stuff is a variety program 'featuring Lisa Hartmanh and Ricci Martin. Producer: George Schlatter for George Schlatter Productions. I Do, I Don't stars John Considine as a con- firmed ex- bachelor who finds himself married yo a woman with two teen -age children. Pro - Áucer: Joe Hamilton for Joe Hamilton Productions. Lazarus Syndrome stars Lou Gossett Jr. as Dr. MacArthur St. Clair, a heart surgeon who saves the life of.Joe Hamill, a tough reporter. Fate surprises them both and they end up running the hospital together. Executive producers: Bill Blinn and Jerry Thorpe for Blinn /Thorpe Productions. Man with the Power stars Art Hindle as Chris, a Vietnam vet who develops superstrength and a wide range of electrical powers when he is struck by lightning. Executive producers: Aaron Spelling and Doug Kramer for Aaron Spelling Productions. Marie stars Marie Osmond as a warm- hearted Midwestern girl who goes to New York to seek stardom. Producer: Dennis Johnson for Osmond Productions. Maxx is about a young divorced father suddenly faced with raising his daughter when her mother unexpectedly turns over custody to him. Producer: James Komack for James Komack Productions. A New Kind Of Family concerns two divorced mothers forced to pool their resources to survive. Producers: Margie Gordon and Jane Eisner for Gordon /Eisner Productions. Nightside is a realistic look at the emergencies that arise from dusk to dawn in a major metropolis and how professionals from police to disk jockeys handle them. Executive producers: Glen Larson and Steve Cannell for Universal. People of the Book is an anthology series focusing on emotional conflicts portrayed in an ecumenical spirit. The pilot features "The Story of Esther." Executive producer: David Victor for 'Universal: The Ropers features Norman Fell and Audra Lindley as the upstairs couple from Three's Company who move to a new condominium development whose owner is less than thrilled at having them as next -door neighbors. Producers: Don Nichol, Michael Ross and Bernie West for Nichol /Ross /West Productions. Samurai stars Joe Penny as Lee Cantrell, a Eurasian who by day is a San Francisco D.A. and by night is a fierce warrior for justice. Executive producers: Danny Thomas /Ron Jacobs /Fernando Lamas for Universal. Second Time Around is a domestic comedy starring Edward Winter and Marlette Hartley as husband -and -wife marriage counselors who agree to live together again after a two -year legal separation. Producer: Jerry Tokofsky for Jerry Tokofsky Productions. Semi - Tough, taken from the motion picture, focuses on the relationship between two professional football players and the daughter of the team's owner. Producer: Bud Wiser for Universal. S.S. Casino concerns a former CIA operative turned gambling ship proprietor who becomes involved in the intrigues of his high -powered clients. Executive producer: Aaron Spelling for Aaron Spelling Productions. Stone stars Dennis Weaver as a police officer turned writer who continues to work on major crimes. Executive producers: Steve Cannel, Richard Levinson and William Link for Universal. 2100 is a futuristic Rip Van Winkle comedy in which two young men from 1979 wake up in the year 2100. Producers: Austin and Irma Kalish for Paramount TV. The Two of Us concerns young friends who drive across the country gaining valuable insights into themselves and the world around them. The series features Grant Goodeve as David Bradford; the eldest son in Eight is Enough. Executive producer: Lee Rich for Lorimar. 240 -Robert features two male deputies and a female chopper pilot who are faced with life and death challenges while rescuing victims from a variety of natural dangers. Executive producer: Rick Rosner for Filmways TV /Rosner TV. Vampire stars Jason Miller as a reclusive billionaire by day who assumes the enormous primal power of an ageless, driven fiend by night. Executive producer: Steve Bochco for MTM Productions. When The Whistle Blows is a comedy- adventure -drama about four construction workers and the good times they have on and off the time clock. Executive producers: Leonard Goldberg and Jerry Weintraub for Goldberg/ Weintraub Productions. Where's Poppa, based on the motion picture, concerns an overprotective elderly mother and the attempts of her lawyer son to lead his own life. Producers: Marvin Worth and Bob Klane for Marvin Worth Productions. The Yeagers is the story of tough and conservative family that owns and operates a lumber and mining company in the Pacific Northwest. Executive producers: Paul Witt and Tony Thomas for Witt /Thomas Productions.

@DRW50 Reading thru SOD synopses a lot of this didn't happen. Don't trust those Soap Central profiles!

The TV Guide article about Carolyn Weston. Do we have any other info on Morning Star writers? This short-order cook is now frying soap-opera scripts with relish Until one day last August, fry-cook Carolyn Weston had never seen a television script, let alone written one, nor had she ever watched a daytime soap opera. Suddenly last summer, there were some changes made in the hours, wages and fringe benefits of the Hickoryburger Lady of Malibu. This year, tied to a seven-year contract as head writer of NBC’s soap opera Morning Star, the same Carolyn Weston routinely turns out a script a day, five days a week, the pages flowing out of her typewriter, without rewrites, straight to mimeo, thence to the actors in Studio 2 at Burbank, Cal., and she is making pots of money. “Pots,” in her case, is defined as something in the neighborhood of $2000 a week. The strategic factor in this dramatic switch in her workday is the fact that she has been a lifelong secret writer who has been stacking up unpublished manuscripts by the closetful ever since her first full-length novel written at the age of 11. She always used to hide everything she wrote. Eventually the bulk of it was lost or thrown out. “I wrote millions and millions of words,’ she says today. “Sometimes it horrifies me to think of the waterfall of language that has poured out of my typewriter.” Of this torrent of outpourings, only two of her works, possibly as a consequence of her secretiveness, survived. They sort of accidentally got printed, though causing scarcely a ripple in the publishing pond. Just splash enough, however, for NBC to enter the scene. Soap operas have traditionally “emanated,” as they say, from the East. But Morning Star, even though it’s all about a fashion designer in mid-Manhattan, was unaccountably scheduled to emanate from the West Coast. And it seems that NBC, in its executive wisdom, decided that Hollywood-type writers were not ideally suited to soapsuds, that a novelist’s emotional makeup was more appropriate, and that a 40-year-old West Coast lady novelist would be just the ticket. That’s when they got wind of the Hickoryburger Lady of Malibu who went home to write novels at night after she turned off the grill. In recent years Miss Weston had become even more diffident about the writing that she did after work. That’s because, though she had always written with serious intent, the publishers marketed her first novel with a lurid dust jacket and equally lurid slogans. One blurb ran: “The beast within found voice as it vented its savage rage of desire.” The reader was promised “surging passion,” “savage pleasure” and “a triangle of the flesh.” “I was mortified,” says the authoress. “And you can’t imagine my shock when I saw those naked orgies on the cover.” She became more of an attic typist than ever. She recalls her childhood in Hollywood: “I was unbelievably, fantastically shy. I didn’t talk to anybody. I had no friends. Books were my friends. All I. ever did was daydream and read novels. Before I ever went to high school, I had decided that I was going to be a lady novelist someday. “At 11 I wrote my first full-length novel, a romantic saga about a girl named Carlotta (coincidentally also age 11), who inherits a great rancho in Spanish California. Everything I wrote I hid. One day I came home and there was my older brother reading my manuscript out loud to two boys in the neighborhood, making fun of it. ‘Har-de-har-har’ and all that. I went in the bathroom and cried.” For several years recently Carolyn Weston supported her secret writing habit by working, for $1.60 an hour, at a roadside stand called the Malibu Frostie Freeze, down the Pacific Coast Highway from Malibu Colony, where the movie stars live. Among her customers were Louis Jourdan, David Niven, Ann Sothern,: Burt Lancaster and Doris Day. “For years the major part of my conversation was limited to a few phrases such as ‘with or without’ [onions].” The best-selling item on the menu was the “hickoryburger” (seven patties to a pound of meat; eight on holidays), whose flavor, an amber-colored fluid called “liquid smoke,” was squirted on from plastic bottles. “A customer might order ‘one well-done, one medium-rare and two mediums’ but they all came out the same. What can you do with a piece of meat a quarter of an inch thick?” Too, of course, there was the Frostie freeze itself, a whipped ice-milk concoction produced from a machine looking not unlike an iron lung. “I called it ‘Gertrude, the Money-Making Fool.” A number of her regular customers were dogs. “An astonishing number of people buy Frosties for their pooches. Always Frosties, never hickoryburgers. Any number of poodles preferred vanilla Frosties. A pair of Chinese pugs ate any flavor.” Today, Carolyn Weston never watches other people’s soap operas, though she follows Morning Star with interest. Each day’s episode is one she wrote four weeks earlier. How are soapers different from novels? “Well, the dialog is more conventional. I guess pedestrian is the word. Also, I’ve learned that an interrupted speech like ‘John (pause), you see (pause), I’m (pause) dying,’ works beautifully.” The serial’s “promo” shows a big eye with a teardrop and a narrator saying: “Into each life some rain must fall. Cry yourself a bucketful. Watch Morning Star, 11 o’clock weekdays.” Carolyn Weston cries all the way to the Bank of America in Santa Monica, corner of 4th & Arizona.

Week of May 16 A rebellious teen-ager leaves her parents’ home and takes an apartment in New York's Greenwich Village. Laurie: Merrie Spaeth Laurie encounters a disturbed young man. Laurie gets some advice from a neighbor. Laurie gets help from a_ psychiatrist Laurie acquires some important insights Week of May 23 A teen-age couple face marital problems. Kathy: Susan Anspach. Kathy and Jeff are disillusioned with married life. Jeff: Richard Lynch. Jeff leaves Kathy. Jeff and his father have a disagreement. Carl: Paul Larson. Kathy makes an important decision. Week of May 30 A young woman discovers that her lack of self-confidence is affecting her marriage. Julie: Nan Martin. Julie meets her husband's ex-wife. Julie tries to learn about her husband’s relationship with his secretary. Julie has a disturbing conversation with her mother. Julie’s older sister gives her some advice Week of June 6 A plain-looking girl is concerned about her social life. Eve: Zina Bethune. Eve's mother gives her some encouragement. Eve: Zina Bethune. Emily: Madeleine Sherwood. Eve’s mother gets her a date. Paul: Joseph Hanrahan. Eve takes a stand against her mother Eve decides to remain in the city.David: Jess Osuna. From June 13 there was a month of reruns.

CONFIDENTIAL FOR WOMEN—Serial Jane Wyatt narrates this halfhour, serial-drama program, which focuses on the problems confronting today’s women and features a new cast and story each week. Each day, psychiatrist Theodore Isaac Rubin will discuss the dramatic situation. This week’s story deals with a couple whose marriage is failing. Henry: James Daly. Helen: Neva Patterson. Martha: Kim Hunter. Charlie: Harry Bellaver. Laura: Eliane Nadeau. Part 2. Laura implores her parents to reconcile. Part 3. Helen’s brother Charlie also tries to arrange a reconciliation. Part 4. Henry becomes romantically involved with an old girl friend. Part 5. Henry and Helen explore the possibilities of saving their marriage Week of April 4 This week's story deals with a divorcée’s adjustment to single life. Ruth: Nancy Malone. Mike: Joe Campanella. Jane Wyatt is the narrator. Dr. Theodore Isaac Rubin is the consultant Ruth confronts some unpleasant facts about her life Ruth’s son has divided loyalties toward his parents Ruth learns that her ex-husband is about to remarry. Ruth is faced with a surprising choice. Week of April 25 This week's drama is about a young husband who encourages the attentions of other women. Andy: Darren McGavin. Andy shows his wife no affection Andy’s office flirtations lead to marital crisis. Andy's behavior frustrates his wife. Andy's marriage fails. Week of May 2 A man’s desire for success in his career endangers his family life. George: Joe Maross. Amy: Dolores Sutton. Tension increases in the Fuller household George and Amy are concerned about their son. Amy sees how her relationship with her son has changed The Fullers come to terms with their problem.

Never Too Young The Four Seasons appeared Dec 21 1965

Before landing the role of Luke Dancy on The Doctors, Frank Telfer tested for Snapper on Y&R and Jeff Martin on AMC.

Probably not a soap but of interest in terms of story and stars. An NBC pilot for the 66/67 season The Savage Years One -hour color family domestic situation drama centered around family named Savage. John McIntire, father maid, Janette Nolan son, Robert Pickering; Mike Bauer on GL 1968 daughter, Diana Muldaur; recently Ann Wicker on Secret Storm teenager, Nicolas Surovy; in 1970 on A World Apart, later on AMC daughter's husband, James Karen- on ATWT around this time their two children, Marc Winters, Robin Mattson joined soaps as Hope Bauer on GL in 1976 Collier Young, producer; Alex Singer, director. Initial episode written by Betty Andrews. Four Star

Jean Arthur Show - Mother's Word is Law Hey Landlord - Woody

I was thinking about Hill St Blues and how it revolutionized prime time by pushing the boundaries in content, adding serialized storylines and new production techniques - hand held cameras, quick cuts etc. But apart from NBC following up with St Elsewhere and the flop Bay City Blues, nobody seemed to copy Hill St in the following seasons. Am I missing some shows? Or were other networks/producers unsure of how to incorporate the elements in their own shows? It was an original, but where were the imitators?

Re JOHN AMOS MISTER DUGAN Rep. Dooley 1979 That series never made it to air due to controversy over the portrayal of a black congressman.

MacDonald Carey was the guest star (as policeman George McFadden) on the Ben Casey episode that aired Monday Nov 15 1965, a few weeks after Days premiere. I guess this would have been his last job before signing on to DOOL.

I don't think Marlena needs a partner at this point. She can be the town shrink, mother/grandmother and friend. The days of romance for Maggie, Julie and Marlena are behind them. Just like Alice before them.

A TIME FOR US Linda (Skerba) Driscoll Berett Arcaya 66 She was playing Linda by Nov 65 Jane Elliott 65 Barbara Rodell Dec 64- Feb 65 Joanna Miles 65-66 1965 only

TV Guide listing for the debut DAYS OF OUR LIVES Macdonald Carey stars as Dr. Thomas Horton, professor of medicine in a New England college town. Also starred: Frances Reid as Horton’s wife, Marie Cheatham as their engaged daughter, John Clarke as their son Mickey, David McLean as attorney Craig Merrit and Charla Doherty as Julie Olsen, a spoiled neighborhood youngster. Today: Julie is caught shoplifting in a department store.

Thyme Lewis (Jonah Carver DOOL) is now an author https://thymelewisbooks.com/

Holloway made Bambi, a supporting character, pretty much the lead and introduced her mysterious past in a plot I've never understood from reading synopses. They wisely brought on Ann Marcus, who wrapped up the story but it was too late for the show by that point. Search for Tomorrow Robert J Shaw August 77-March 78. Search went through a number of headwriters in the mid to late 70's but managed to stay ahead in the ratings.

Love of Life Jean Holloway's stint lasted from Nov 78- April 79. The Doctors Linda Grover May- September 78.

Guiding Light Mike Bauer - Julie and Leslie. Sara - Joe Werner and Dean Blackford Meta - Ted White, Joe Roberts and Bruce Banning.

When Texas ended, Gail Kobe and Pam Long were hired at Guiding Light in the same roles. Several Texas actors appeared shortly after Long began writing the show; Jay Hammer, James Rebhorn, Harley Jane Kozak, and Michael Woods were all cast in new roles on Guiding Light.

But that's Ron's vision of what soaps are. Kooky, far out plots, unbelievable twists etc Heart felt character based stories that dramatize and reflect peoples faults , foibles and interactions ... not so much.

There will be some sadness there with the deaths of Bill Hayes and now Drake.