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how is Lets Make A Deal doing in the ratings?? I haven't heard anything about their ratings in forever.

This was from December 1, 2014

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/12/01/lets-make-a-deal-the-young-and-the-restless-the-talk-and-the-price-is-right-deliver-their-largest-audiences-of-the-season/334293/

LET'S MAKE A DEAL

LET'S MAKE A DEAL 1 averaged 3.23 million viewers, up +9% from its previous week. It was also up +11% in women 25-54 (1.0/07) and +17% in women 18-49 (0.7/05).

LET'S MAKE A DEAL 2 averaged 3.71 million viewers, up +8%. It was up +22% in women 25-54 (1.1/07) and +33% in women 18-49 (0.8/06).

Now those other photos look like Carolee. Thanks Paul & Robb!

Wow ! She really looks like Estelle Harris to me.

Recent Yasmine Bleeth ( Ryan on Ryan's Hope and LeAnn on One Life to Live) sighting. Been a long time - she looks very happy.



http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/yasmine-bleeth-photo-baywatch-star-makes-first-appearance-in-10-years-201571

A new Ana Alicia interview. She talks some about Ryan's Hope.

http://hillplace.blogspot.com/2013/07/universal-appeal-ana-alicia.html

A new Ana Alicia interview. It touches on her whole career.

http://hillplace.blogspot.com/2013/07/universal-appeal-ana-alicia.html

Daily TV Serials 4th Anniversary Edition - 1977

Ailing Actresses and The Women Who Wait In The Wings

Quite a few actresses were temporarily out of commision this year and for one reason or another, and substitute performers were brought in on the daily TV sets.

EMILY McLAUGHLIN (Jessie Brewer on General Hospital) was absent the longest. In mid- Novmeber she was rushed to a Los Angeles hosptial in critical condition, suffering from internal bleeding by ulcers. More than a thousand fans donated blood for Emily's emergency operation. Injuries were reported, and she returned to her soap oepra in early January,

During that six-week period, the role of Jessie was played by ANETA CORSAUT, who had never done daytime before, although she had been a regular on the first Andy Griffith nighttime series for six years. Aneta had guest-starred on countless other series' episodes, but had recently developed a career as a photographer.

Aneta donned Emily's nursing cap, primarily becasue of her startling physical resemblance to Emily. "I walked on the set on a day when everyone was praying that Emily would live." remembers Aneta. "Someone screamed, 'Oh my God, It's Emily.' It was quite eeerie, to put it mildly. I also used her dressing room and found it a very spiritual experience. It was difficult for me at first, because I know that everyone on the show practically worshiped Emily."

Shortly after Emily returned on the job and Aneta went back to the darkroom, VALERIE STARRETT(Diana Taylor) was hosptialized for an undisclosed surgical operation, and actress DAVEY DAVIDSON filled in until Valerie returned.

On the East Coast, JUDITH BARCROFT (Anne Martin on All My children) missed a few shows to attend her mother's funeral. And BEVERLY OWENS filled in for Judy. Beverly, you'll remember, portrayed Anne when Judy was previously felled by flu, about a year ago.

"It's fun, but, I always take over the role of Anne when something major is breaking loose in her storyline," laughed Beverly. "This time, Anne was fighting to keep her retarded child, and I cried every day. But I enjoyed it tremendously, because the people are so wonderful. What was most interesting was that ROBIN STASSER was playing Anne's doctor (Christina Karras). You know, I played her doctor on Another World, when she played Rachel Frame. So, we were old friends!"

On The Young and The Restless, LEZLIE DALTON portrayed the role of Laurie Brooks on several occasions while JAIME LYN BAUER was ill. And on One Life to Live, SUSAN MacARTHUR has been playing Jenny Siegel while KATHY GLASS has been undergoing extensive hosptial tests for an undisclosed malady.

How did the replacements score?

In our opinion, Davidson and MacArthur struck out. Corsaut and Dalton were sufficiently adequate. But Barcroft had best be on her guard, because Owen was pretty terrific. Coincidentally, the Y&R producers had been ready for several months to sign Dalton to contract if Bauer decided not to renew hers. Jaime, who had considered such a move, changed her mind at the last mintue, though, and will be on the show for another year. Unless...

Let's pray for better health (and no tragedies) for all the serial stars in the next year!

Sorry if this one was already mentioned. Possibly the very briefest show - Aaron Spelling's Winnetka Road. I believe it was on on Saturday night.

My grandmother had a life-long crush on Eddie Bracken.

This says the show was on CBS, but I think it was NBC.

Entertainment Weekly

WINNETKA ROAD

Reviewed by Ken Tucker | Mar 11, 1994

Details

Genre: Soap; With: Ed Begley Jr., Josh Brolin, Eddie Bracken, Catherine Hicks and Jayne Lynn Frazer...

You know you're in the presence of a good new evening soap opera when one character remarks with abject dismay, ''I think everything's about to go as wrong as it can.'' So it goes with Winnetka Road (CBS, March 12, 10-11 p.m.), a promising light drama from the Aaron Spelling factory about the inhabitants of a midwestern town. In the pilot, written by John Byrum (Middle Ages), the subplots are rolled out with brisk efficiency. There's the middle-aged heel (Ed Begley, Jr.) who has left his wife (Catherine Hicks) and two kids for a nubile aerobics instructor (Jayne Lynn Frazer), only to find out that this new girlfriend is married. There's the Hollywood actress (Paige Turco) who returns to her hometown and rekindles an old romance with a local cop (Josh Brolin, the thickest slab of beef in prime time). Somewhere along the line, Meg Tilly puts on Kabuki make-up and startles the unemployed stockbroker (Kurt Deutch) who's just rented the apartment above her garage. I won't even go into the blind priest played by Eddie Bracken-yes, Eddie Bracken. So far, the stand-outs have been Hicks' wry-yet-spunky wronged wife and Tilly's sensuous eccentric. The only thing missing from Winnetka Road is an obvious villain-and, as you'd think Spelling would have learned from Melrose Place, you need an obvious villain in a show like this. B