Members Paul Raven Posted October 22, 2011 Author Members Share Posted October 22, 2011 On Pg 8 Carl posted about Dan Curtis (Dark Shadows) Mirrors of Darkness.In Jan 1970 it was described as a daytime suspense series which is " a Hitchcock kind of story on a continuing basis." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted October 23, 2011 Members Share Posted October 23, 2011 Apparently Ronnie Konner, for the 1983 version of Lifeguards, was rumored to have earned the highest price ever for the creation of a new soap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted October 29, 2011 Author Members Share Posted October 29, 2011 1982 Variety reports NBC developing Always is Not Forever as a half hour soap in association with Imero Fiorentino Associates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted October 29, 2011 Members Share Posted October 29, 2011 That's very interesting. Was that a book? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted October 30, 2011 Author Members Share Posted October 30, 2011 That was a book,but whether the show was based on the book,who knows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted October 30, 2011 Author Members Share Posted October 30, 2011 Re Northridge Medical which Carl mentioned on Pg 14.CBS ordered 10 scripts,with Margaret and Paul Scneider as writers.They had recently worked for Love of Life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted October 30, 2011 Members Share Posted October 30, 2011 Someone on Youtube who has uploaded Another Life episodes said they heard that Jeff and Liz Cummings (Jeff was the man who was cured of terminal cancer through a ray of light, or whatever the story was) left the show in order to have their own spinoff, which never materialized. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted October 30, 2011 Author Members Share Posted October 30, 2011 1963- variety reports soap writer Manya Starr (Clear Horizon) taping a pilot Advice on Love starring Valerie Allen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gray Bunny Posted November 6, 2011 Members Share Posted November 6, 2011 From the December 17th, 1985 issue of SOD: "J.R. in diapers? DALLAS: THE EARLY YEARS is the title of a CBS TV-movie "prequel" to the popular nighttime soap. It will reveal how the Barnes/Ewing feud began in scenes taking place in the 30's and 50's." I'm guessing this TV movie never came to be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted November 6, 2011 Members Share Posted November 6, 2011 I think this was made. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090898/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gray Bunny Posted November 6, 2011 Members Share Posted November 6, 2011 From the July 2nd, 1985 issue of SOD: "Former GL-er Grant Aleksander (ex-Phillip) will play Joan Fontaine's grandson in the Aaron Spelling gothic serial DARK MANSIONS, due out next season." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gray Bunny Posted November 6, 2011 Members Share Posted November 6, 2011 From the August 13th, 1985 issue of Digest.... There's an article called "King of the Hill" which discusses the network ratings and how CBS has pulled ahead of ABC in total daytime viewers and that NBC is inching up. For you ratings statistics lovers, the article showed that in the 1982-1983 season the network averages (including network game and talk shows) were: ABC - 7.7 CBS - 6.4 NBC - 4.0 For the first quarter of 1985, the numbers were: CBS - 7.2 ABC - 6.9 NBC - 5.2 Then they discuss ABC's plans for the near future: "ABC's plan to 'change the face of daytime' with anthologies based on best selling novels and a new comedy soap, says JoAnn Emmerich, is an attempt to create alternative forms to serials, but they are not looking to change the serial format. Emmerich maintains that "it's for the characters and good rich storylines that people tune in. For no other reason." With the network yet to announce the schedule for all this new programming and the expense of mounting anthologies, industry insiders wonder whether the shows will ever get on the air. Pondering ABC's move, Laurence Caso says, "It's an interesting idea, because there are more choices out there; why not become another one of those choices? That's one viewpoint. The other viewpoint is that that's like shooting a shotgun, hoping to hit a target." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dc11786 Posted November 8, 2011 Members Share Posted November 8, 2011 'Dark Mansions' wasn't picked up, but the pilot was aired as a television movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted November 8, 2011 Members Share Posted November 8, 2011 Has anyone here ever seen it? A 1979 magazine that mentions Pat Falken Smith's lawsuit against DAYS says she was working on a show for NBC called "Feelings." Was this a daytime show, or primetime? Did it go anywhere? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dc11786 Posted November 8, 2011 Members Share Posted November 8, 2011 There's a brief clip on youtube http://youtu.be/9ae8pvrIq3U Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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