Look into the past

[DRW50]

Was Claire Malis still playing Dorian at this time or was it Robin?

ATWT - I had never heard of this Tina. I guess she wasn't around for long?

SFT - Some of this sounds like it's a different path than what I've heard of SFT, the earlier years or the action adventure years. Starting up a theater, battles with Jo and the city council over development plans. It all sounds interesting. Was it any good? Ugh to "Colonel" and "Mignon."

GH - Was Chris Jurgens around for long or was he or she one of those people who only shows up when it's time to die?

Most bizarre summary ever...

Why couldn't Dexter have stayed around when those miserable Bay City Slasher/Stalker/Strangler stories started?

Chuck is a dumba$$.

[Paul Raven]

I don't think Robin came to OLTL until later in 79.

Re SFT,the Corringtons did a great job of bringing people's jobs into the story and gave Henderson a sense of community.

On GH, Chris was a short term character. Knowing Marland's work,he could have been brought in earlier with the intention of killing him,so that the victims would be known to the audience, Chris was played by Chris Nelson,son of Ed Nelson(CAP,PP)

ATWT-Tina was played by Rebecca Hollen(Trish GL).She had designs on Grant and faked agoraphobia to stay at the Colman house.

Denise Pence-Katie on GL-was pregnant and the weight gain story was put in place to cover that.

[DRW50]

Thanks Paul. I wish I could see some of this era of SFT. How were the ratings? Do you think given time they could have saved the show? I know by 1981 or so the show was deemed a mess.

I didn't know Rebecca was ever on ATWT. It sounds like a nothing role but I guess it helped her get into GL.

[FrenchFan]

MARCH 1979

All My Children

Written by: Agnes Nixon & Wisner Washam

Produced by: Bud Kloss

Both Chuck and Donna nix Phoebe’s suggestion that he recuperate at the Tyler mansion. Mark’s mother, Maureen, lets slip Erica’s plans for disco to Tom. Erica calls off the business deal but is still determined to break up Mark and Ellen. Mark and Ellen have a gigantic row, and nearly call off their engagement. Kate suggests that Joe and Ruth have a baby. With an unhappy Charlie in attendance, Tara and Philip renew wedding vows.

Chris is furious over losing home because she went with Jeff to Phil and Tara's rerun of marriage ceremony. Donna tells Billy Clyde that Estelle doesn't love him; he recalls childhood and vows not to let Estelle mistreat him like his mother did. With Benny's money and against Linc's advice Estelle is off to Haiti to get a quick divorce. Mark is upset over Ellen's discussing their May-September romance with Paul — even though Paul gave no opinion. Named assistant manager of the Chateau, Eddie now is after Claudette's job. Phil decides he cannot force Charlie to love him. With baby unable to tolerate formula, Devon must breast-feed her. When Myrtle shows symptoms of heart trouble, Kelly blames herself. Convinced that Devon will never change her mind about giving baby up for adoption, a desperate Wally kidnaps the baby and heads for St. Louis.

Devon is fearful the baby may die if Wally, who has taken her from the hospital, uses formula which she is allergic to. Wally names the baby Bonnie. Ellen realizes Brooke doesn’t really love Dan. Receiving her first visit from Chalrie since he learned Phil was his real father, Chuck asks him to accept Phil but assures him he will always consider Charlie his first-born. Eddie threatens to tell Myrtle about Kelly’s dependence on amphetamines; fearful news would upset Myrtle, Kelly vows to get off the pills. Chris leaves for her job as head of pediatrics in San Francisco – without Jeff.

Phil is promoted to sergeant. Charlie and Tara attend the ceremony. Arriving in Rome, Phoebe discovers Mona in Charles’ suite – they insist nothing is happening. Estelle obtains a quickie divorce, unaware that if she marries Benny, she could be considered a bigamist. Chuck nixes Donna’s idea to reaffirm their marriage vows as Phil and Tara did. Kelly realizes that she needs help to overcome her pill addiction. Frantic when he learns about Estelle’s divorce, Billy Clyde holds Donna at gunpoint. Before he can do any harm, he is disarmed and arrested by Phil.

Another World

Written by: Harding Lemay

Produced by: Paul Rauch

Olive learns that Alice and Dan plan to move up their wedding date, and is determined to stop them. Realizing how dangerous Olive is, John follows her to Alice's cabin, arrives just as Olive drives off, and sees the cabin in flames. John saves Alice but is trapped himself in the burning building and presumed dead. With the entire family grieving, Marianne is found and decides to patch up her differences with Pat. Told that Rachel brought Buzz to town to ruin Jamie's marriage to Blaine, Mac refuses to believe Blaine was mixed up in a blackmail scheme. Iris is beginning to rely on housekeeper Vivian as a friend. Burt confides to Charlie he is seeking custody of Cory only to get Clarice back. In love with Angie, Roy warns her that unless she stops interfering in Willis and Gwen's marriage, she is going to get fired. Jamie decides to work to save his marriage to Blaine but not while living at the Cory house.

When Blaine learns that Iris will support her if she leaves town, she gets Jamie to exit Bay City. Rachel blames Mac for Jamie's leaving. Olive, aware that Alice is not dead, vows to get her. With Eileen posing as Alice, in the dark, Olive falls for the deception and throws acid in her face. Police close in and arrest Olive. Angie wants Gwen to think Gwen is losing her mind. Susan is prepared to go to Boston to see her latest love interest. Fearing Burt will try and steal Cory, Clarice prepares for a custody fight.

Admitting she set the house on fire where John died, Olive is committed to an institution for the criminally insane. Realizing he cannot take Cory away, Burrt heads for Japan while Clarice and Larry make wedding plans. Feeling he will never get Gwen back, Willis decides to reopen Frame Enterprises. Sally leaves school and heads for Boston. Janice admits to Willis that Robert Delaney has made her mistrust men. Her sight restored, Eileen tells Joey she still trusts him and wants him to stay with her always. Elena plans to tell Brian about Ted's sexual advances toward her. Susan is resigning her psychology post. Marianne is working for Mike while Eileen recovers.

Rachel insists on hiring a private eye to find Jamie. Angered by her interference in Jamie's life, Mac moves out of the house. Ted decides to break off making advances to Elena before she tells his father. Janice pushes Angie and Willis into bed. Willis tells Vince to leave Gwen alone, even though Vince claims it's only friendship. Feeling closer to her late father because she's working in his office, Marianne wants to continue working there after Eileen returns. Charlie, treating Larry like a son, takes him into his business.

As The World Turns

Written by: Ralph Ellis & Eugenie Hunt

Produced by: Joe Rothenberger

Jeff pressures Annie to return to medical school. At boarding school, Betsy finds herself in trouble with her schoolmates because she won't cheat and with teachers for low grades. About to be released from the hospital and slightly despondent because physical therapy is slow process, Don wants Joyce to occupy her time with something besides himself. Since Chris is back at the office, Nancy plans to take a solo vacation. Tina, living at a hotel, tricks Bob into thinking she's still afraid to go outside. With Jay serving a jail term, Carol is in need of money but refuses financial aid. Doug feels if he isn't soon reunited with his son he risks losing him forever. Valerie wants to become Kate's foster parent. Remembering Lisa's attachment to Bob, Grant accuses her of never really loving him. When Lisa admits she staged her disappearance a few months ago in order to take Grant from Valerie, he moves out of the house and into the Lawyers' Club. John is angered by information that the hospital won't support both his and Bob's project.

Before leaving town, Tina admits to Bob she had been faking agoraphobia for months. Expelled from girls school because she didn't inform on classmates who cheated, Betsy returns to Oakdale. Preparing to leave for Seattle, Susan wants to have Emily join her for the summer. Valerie is having trouble getting Kate placed with her as foster child because she is single. In work camp, Jay decides to improve himself by reading and taking courses. Realizing he was wrong about Tina, Grant wants to make up with Lisa but she isn't sure she wants to. With Beau divorced from Annie, Jane feels she must befriend Melinda who is about to marry him. Bob admits he's lonely without someone in his life. Joyce is having trouble adjusting to Don's presence at home.

Melinda and Beau wed. Bob is charmed by Dana, his sister Penny's friend, who has come from Europe to settle in Oakdale. Having left boarding school, Betsy must adjust to living at home. John is determined to use any method necessary to get money for heart research grant without having to work with Bob. Jeff and Annie are dating. Kate comes to live with Val but continues to be uncommunicative. Police find the men who broke into Don and Joyce's house but do not think they're the ones who shot Donald.

Joyce is suffering from heart palpitations. Doug is upset because his estranged wife Marsha does not respond to Grant's legal letter. Melinda and Beau move in with Jane. Taking over Susan's apartment, Annie is working in the lab full time. At work camp, Jay helps build the warden's new home; he is also getting an education with the help of his cellmate. In danger of miscarriage, Melinda is hospitalized. Kate, living at farm, is warming to Valerie.

Days Of Our Lives

Written by: Elizabeth Harrower

Produced by: Betty Corday & Al Rabin

Don and Marlena wed. Jeri tries threats to get Stephanie out of David's life. Stephanie accuses Trish of having Julie talk to her about leaving David alone. Chris enlists the aid of Don's mother to talk Mary into marrying him. At Marlena's wedding, Linda tries to remember the past; she wonders if she and Mary were ever friends. Maggie assures Mickey she will try to make their marriage work and is upset when Joann reveals she is about to remarry and wants to adopt Janice. Linda disappears. In an attempt to be near her son, Trish takes an apartment across the hall from David without telling anyone.

Julie is unhappy over the attention Doug is paying to Dougie. Robert fears Dougie is ill. Having befriended Trish, Donna lets her see Scotty without telling David. Stephanie is frantic when Bob suggests she has to be fingerprinted like other employees. Neil tells Laura he's trying to live down his lecherous reputation. Amanda wants to stay in Salem. Linda is trying to remember her past by leaving town while Bob wonders where she is and who she's with. Maggie is upset when Laura says Mickey cares only about his work. Laura is irritated by everyone's concern over her nebulous health problem.

Stephanie's hands are burned, making it impossible for her to be fingerprinted. After a visit from from Bob, Stephanie wonders if "Stephanie" or "Brooke" can get more out of Bob. Chris plans to buy a diamond ring from Mary. With Julie away on a buying trip, Amanda is watching Hope while Doug is at work. Wth a downpayment from Mickey, Mike and Margo buy their first home. David decides to cool his relationship with Stephanie. Steve is attracted to Amanda

When Mary refuses to wear his engagement ring, Chris moves out. With Doug and Julie out of town on a buying trip, Steve fills in at the club. Seeing Bob and Stephanie dining at Doug's Place, Steve thinks it's more than just business and calls Mary. Both Chris and Steve are eyeing Amanda. Don and Marlena return from their honeymoon. Bob confides to Stephanie that he once had mistreated a woman — Adele, the mother of his daughter Brooke. With a little nudging from Steve, Robert begins to wonder who Dougie’s real father is.

The Doctors

Written by: Elizabeth Levin & David Cherrill

Produced by: Chuck Weiss

Greta's baby Lee Ann has meningitis and hovers near death. Sarha pleads with Mike to come home with her from the hospital. Carolee, still traumatized by her rape, is finding it hard to return to work, relate to Steve or face people. Mike warns M.J. to stay away from Colin, but she refuses. Mona continues her search for Jason. Carolee cautions Nola she has become as manipulative and hateful as Doreen.

Greta is disturbed by Kim's string of one-night stands. Sarah renews hope for her marriage when she discovers a poem by Mike which expresses his need of her. Doctor feels it's time for Mike to go home to Sarah because he's making no effort to walk; Mike doesn't want to go because he assumes he will be impotent. Aware how Nola is upsetting her, Steve advises Carolee not to be her midwife. Nola asks Mona to set up a trust fund for her baby. Still tortured by the memory of rape, Carolee finds herself unable to make even simple decisions.

M.J. learns Colin fathered the baby Nola is expecting. Mike, about to be discharged from the hospital, wants to live in his own apartment. When Sarah finds out that Mike is going out to dinner with his family, she plans to go along, invited or not, because she's not going to let her marriage end without a fight. On the road to recovery, Doreen is transferred to prison hospital to await trial for kidnapping of Carolee.

Steve and Carolee resume their marital relationship. Mike panics when a doctor insists he be discharged from hospital. Mona believes detectives may have found Jason. Nola rankles Mona when she places an ad in the newspaper for a maid-nurse. With Billy having taken off, Greta feels the pressures of motherhood and of being alone are just too much. Matt and Maggie give Greta money and ask her to come home. Greta accepts the money but says she and Lee Ann must live alone.

The Edge Of Night

Written by: Henry Slesar

Produced by: Erwin Nicholson

Winter is the No. 1 suspect in Wade's murder. Mike and Nancy are thrilled at Miles and Nicole's wedding. Logan wants to see baby Jamie grow up but doesn't think he can bear close ties with Raven. Margo feels rejected by April.

Logan and Raven reconcile. Steve thinks Winter has the answer to Wade's murder. A drunken Elliot goes to Margo for money, then passes out; Margo lets him stay. Draper warns April against forming a relationship with Margo, even though she is her mother. Nancy is onto Diana's sweetness act, but Mike looks on her as a daughter — not the relationship Diana has in mind. April continues to visit Margo. Margo tells Elliot he can have a loan if he stays in town. Winter is arrested for murder, and her former lover Logan is the prosecuting attorney.

Winter admits to police she went to Wade's apartment the night he was killed to retrieve tapes of her porno flick "Lacy Lady." Elliot agrees to be Margo's paid escort. Feeling Mike doesn't deserve the sight he gained by receiving her father's eyes in transplant, Diana goes shopping for chemicals. Draper insists that April stop seeing Margo and refuse any invitations she extends.

Feeling too close to the case, Logan decides he cannot prosecute Winter and gives the assignment to aggressive assistant D.A., Cliff Nelson. Mike and Nancy decide Diana must move out but hope she will seek professional help. Out of the Karr house, Diana seeks revenge. Steve and Deborah save Mike from losing sight when Diana tries to blind him with liquid bleach. Margo is implicated in Wade's murder. Raven is displeased because Winter is no longer the only suspect in the case.

General Hospital

Written by: Douglas Marland

Produced by: Gloria Monty

With the quarantine lifted, Monica gets hysterical when a nurse dies from lassa fever. Following Monica, Rick and Monica confess their passion for each other. Tired of waiting for Rick to come home, Lesley realizes he is with Monica and takes off. Laura fears Lesley's leaving will hurt her chance of getting off probation. Heather, unaware that Jeff has learned that Steve is his father, is only afraid that Cat Jamison will contact Jeff. Colleen (Lesley's old cellmate) hopes for a regular position at General Hospital. Dan asks Jessie for an answer to his marital question.

With Colleen's counseling, Lesley decides to make marriage to Rick work, and returns home. Figuring a rift between Lesley and Rick might hurt Laura's chances of getting off probation, Bobbie has Luke make an anonymous phone call to the judge, spilling the Webbers’ marital problems. With Steve on the road to recovery, Audrey feels he should know that Jeff is aware he is his father. Thinking Jeff no longer loves her, Heather decides not to tell him that becoming pregnant would endanger her life; Jeff decides not to tell her that Steve is his father. Cal is skulking around Diana and Peter's home. Lee is upset when Scotty and Laura decide they want to marry as soon as possible.

Feeling betrayed, Steve is unable to forgive Audrey for telling Jeff he was his father. Jeff heads for Hawaii to visit his sister Terri. Absent from the hospital without permission, Jeff faces suspension. With Peter out of town, Dr. Kincaid substitutes for him in counselling Laura. Bobbie is quite taken with the attractive Dr. Kincaid. Laura lets it be known she is going to stop her therapy sessions as soon as she and Scotty wed. While Scotty wants to hold off until they get Lee's approval, Laura wants to get married right away. Howard and Dorrie become lovers. Gary accuses Howard of being in love with Gina and every other woman Gary is involved with. Rick and Lesley are in separate bedrooms. Colleen gets a job in the free clinic with Lesley. Lesley tells Monica she'll work with her in the hospital but has no intention of accepting any of Alan's social invitations.

With a little behind-the-scenes push by Tracy, Laura's love letters to David are printed in the paper. Laura gets a call from a man who says he'll turn the letters over to her — a set-up engineered by Bobbie to get her to break probation. After a call from Luke, Mr. Higgins, Laura's probation officer, discovers Laura at a bar with a drink on the table in front of her. Although she insists it's a frame-up, Mr. Higgins says he must tell the judge and Laura fears she may wind up in Preform school. Police think Diana's constant fears about a lurking stranger are a figment of her imagination. Heather decides to make Diana think she's losing her mind. Jeff returns from Hawaii. Jeremy is staying at Audrey and Steve's. Jeff says he needs Heather but she feels he's pulling away from her.

Guiding Light

Written by: Bridget & Jerome Dobson

Produced by: Allen Potter

Alan fears he may lose custody of Philip when the hearing brings out his manipulative and destructive tendencies. Hillary quits her job and Roger. After Roger forces himself on her, Holly takes refuge with Christina. Barbara is in California to see her sons, Ken and Andy. Released from the hospital, Lucille is displeased because Amanda plans to pursue her musical career with a vengeance. Evie and Ben are short on money.

Justin's brother, Ross, who is an attorney, comes to town. Roger is shocked because Holly considers prosecuting him for rape. Hillary wants to return to the nursing program at Cedars Hospital. Waiting for Mark at the wrong restaurant, Katie thinks she's been stood up, orders and eats two steak dinners; she accuses Mark of being a womanizer. Deciding that if she thinks so he might as well be one, Mark takes on another nurse. With Christina staying at Bert's house, Holly fears Roger might try to take her away. Custody trial over Philip ends, and Elizabeth, Alan and Jackie await the verdict. Elizabeth, deciding she loves Mike even though he didn't tell her that she was sterile, plans to marry him.

Roger, with Ross Marler as his attorney, continues to deny that he raped Holly. Judge grants Elizabeth custody of Philip while giving Alan and Jackie visiting rights. Devastated, Jackie regrets her marriage to Alan since she wed him only to be near Philip. Discovering Lucille in good health, merely feigning illness to gain Amanda's attention, Evie wonders what she should do about it. Ben, unable to find a teaching position, is upset by having to rely on Evie for income. Finishing at New York design school, Hope comes home to work for Gordon's interior decorating firm.

Denied custody of Philip, Alan wants to tell Elizabeth that Philip is not her natural child. A pregnant Jackie threatens to walk out on Alan if he does. With Billy so upset over Roger's bad publicity, Peggy asks Holly not to go ahead with the rape lawsuit, but Holly says she must. Peggy considers leaving Springfield so Billy can escape the taunts of schoolmates. KatIe is nervous about being alone because of recent thefts in the neighborhood; Mark offers to stay and sleep on the couch — the first time he's ever spent a platonic night that way. Amanda continues her concert career much to Lucille's disappointment. Ben's unable to find a teaching post. Philip is critically ill. Rita discovers that Chrstina may be Ed's natural daughter — not Roger's.

Love Of Life

Written by: Jean Holloway

Produced by: Cathy Abbi

Ray learns that Bambi's surgery is a success. Bambi gets agitated when Tony brings up her past. Elliot and Ben discuss the wisdom of Eliot's fighting Betsy's desire for a divorce. Rev. Carson remembers Bambi and her mother Leonia as a family with much love for one another. Ben considers playing the guitar at Beaver Ridge. Carrie breaks her leg on the way out of the hospital. Mia suggests to Elliot that he learn to live without Betsy. Bruce is not pleased that McCauley has agreed to take on Betsy's divorce action.

In Des Moines, Ray is upset when Barbara Brewster contacts him because she is one of several girls in town who claim they are Barbara Brewster. Bambi, on the road to recovery, refuses to tell Carrie who beat her but insists Big Al would never hurt anyone. Although dating Scott, a hospital administrator, Meg reveals that while she's looking for a husband she doesn't want anyone she's attracted to — like her previous husbands. Ben tells Meg she's changing and he likes her better.

Ray is suspicious when a waitress delivers wine he didn't order to his hotel room. Arlene is horrified to discover a cleaning woman dead in the hallway. Police determine death was caused by wine meant for Ray. Tony rents an apartment for Bambi in his buiding. Big Al tries to visit Bambi in the hosital and winds up in a fistfight with Tony. While leaving the buidling, Ray is hit from behind and dragged away.

With Ray still missing, Bruce goes to Des Moines to help Arlene. Van prepares to go to Switzerland where Lynn has had a skiing accident. Tony admits he has no evidence to back up his feelings about Big Al being involved in Bambi's beating. Arlene wonders if the woman who served her the poisoned wine might be Bambi's mother trying to prevent her identity from being discovered. Mia offers Betsy a chance to model suits; Betsy eagerly accepts. When a woman lawyer approaches Elliot about a job, she begins to think he's interested only in a male associate. Arlene receives a phone call that a body has been brought into the morgue.

One Life To Live

Written by: Gordon Russell & Sam Hall

Produced by: Joseph Stuart

On the stand, Karen admits to her life as a hooker and points the finger at Talbot Huddleston as her first John and names Marco as her pimp. In the courtroom Pat learns it was Talbot who ran down Brian. A shattered Greg sees his father, Talbot, arrested for murder of Marco Dane. Larry is confused by the revelation of Karen's past and present. Paul insists that Gretel be more than a business acquaintance. Viki is set free and goes home to Joe, Kevin and Tina. Sadie warns Ed he will lose Carla if he doesn't stop being defensive where Jack Scott is concerned.

Larry decides it's best if he and Karen separate for a while; she moves into Ina Hopkins' rooming house. Will and Tony are upset by Samantha's anti-Karen attitude. When Karen tries to explain why she withheld information about Brian's death. Pat walks away. Jenny finds racetrack stubs in Brad's coat pocket; Brad tries to claim he has to gamble for Adam. When Adam refuses to give Paul an interview, Paul decides to go ahead with the article anyway. Gretel is torn between loyalty to Adam and her interest in Paul. Pat’s producer Dick Grant doesn't like Adam and tells Pat. Following an argument with Jack, Carla slams the door, accidentally breaking his thumb and interrupting his surgical career. Dorian wants Dr. Ivan Kipling to join Llanview Hospital staff. While kissing Adam, Pat notices someone looking in the window. Dick is falling in love with Pat. Becoming noticeably irrational, Melinda accuses Jenny of being Peter's lover. Talbot is arrested after his son Greg turns him into police.

Melinda sows suspicion in Brad's mind concerning an affair between Jenny and Peter. Peter learns Melinda never was a student of Bruno Westheim. Melinda, realizing she is ill, signs herself back into the sanitarium. Dorian asks Gwen to move out of the house. Mario offers his services to Llanview Clinic. Anna keeps giving Karen the cold shoulder. Dorian wants Larry to lose his position as hospital chief of staff. Greg's mother decides to go on the wagon. Edwina advises Dorian to cool her jealousy of Paul and Gretel's relationship. Ed and Carla separate.

Ed moves into Ina Hopkins' boarding house. Karen is devastated by loneliness. Begged by Melinda, Peter signs commitment papers, but Dorian thinks Peter wanted Melinda out of the way so he could be with Jenny. Larry remains chief of staff. Ivan waits for his wife Faith to come to Llanview. Dick is obsessed with feelings for Pat and has a wall full of snapshots of her; when she drops her scarf he keeps it, claiming he never found it. Brad is in a $2.800 gambling debt.

Ryan’s Hope

Written by: Claire Labine & Paul Avila Mayer

Produced by: Claire Labine & Paul Avila Mayer

Jill, dependent on drugs, pleads for painkillers from orderlies and nurses. Mary talks Thatcher Ross into giving her job back. Nancy and Pat try to hide their feelings from each other. Jack and Siobhan think the trouble with C & P Realty is over until she is threatened with a beating. Having lent Maeve's family $70,000, Johnny decides to put the rest of his funds into commodities. Tom feels that once he gets his naturalization papers he must leave New York so Faith can live her own life.

On two-week probation period at the paper, Mary promises Thatcher she won’t do anything he doesn’t want her to do. Although displeased by Pat’s dating Nancy, Johnny feels it’s best that Pat forget Faith. Unaware that Jill has a secret supply of painkiller at the hospital, Seneca thinks she’s getting better. He bars Frank from seeing Jill. Jack saves Siobhan from a beating but is seriously injured himself.

Although Jack is on the road to recovery after a beating by realty company henchmen, Mary refuses to talk to Siobhan. Tom and his nurse begin working togther on his mobility as a sightless person. Rae and Frank come to a parting of the ways. Jill is still wracked by pain; she admits to Seneca she feels closer to Frank since Edmund's death. Nancy and Pat decide to pursue their romance.

On the mend, Jack tells Siobhan to stop blaming herself for his beating. Frank wants to reconcile with Rae and plans to meet her in Washington. She decides to pique his jealousy by having Thatcher Ross present when he arrives, but Frank gets angry instead and walks out. Johnny and Dee are in a rivalry to win in the commodities market; he invests in tin, she in new potatoes. Given a different news assignment by Thatcher, Mary considers it a demotion, although she worked hard to pass her two-week probation period with him.

Search For Tomorrow

Written by: Joyce & John William Corrington

Produced by: Mary-Ellis Bunim

A medical examination reveals Stephanie has a lump on her breast. When Buck rejects Sharon's suggestion that they get back together, she lyingly tells David that Buck threatened her. The judge puts a two-week restraining order on the demolition of houses on Julia Street. Buck is fired by Laine when he refuses to disobey injuction. Leaving the Mardi Gras without telling Travis, Liza pays a visit to Steve's gravesite. When she tells Travis she can only love Steve, he suggests Steve's song should be titled "You Can't Love Again." Jo informs Travis that Liza and Steve did not have a perfect marriage. When Mark overhears Nick discussing Travis over the phone, Nick covers up the plot to get rid of Travis by saying he's interested in producing Liza's record, "You Can Love Again."

Janet tells Travis not to give up on Liza since she obviously has deep feelings for him. Travis is worried that Liza will become a professional widow just like his mother. With Buck facing a year of prison for allegedly beating Sharon. Carolyn decides to figure out the real story. Sharon admits she only said Buck beat her because he rebuffed her sexual advances. Carolyn makes Sharon understand that her value as a human being does not depend on men being interested in her. David is upset because he believed Sharon, wonders if he must now bring perjury charges against her. Feeling her marriage to Gary is over, Carolyn asks David under what conditions she can seek a divorce.

Finding Stephanie in bed with Ted, Wendy turns away from her mother. John tells Stepanie she can file for divorce. Feeling totally alone, Stephanie decides against a biopsy for the lump in her breast. Ted asks Stephanie to marry him but she refuses. Martin, in Henderson with General Turner, is startled when he sees Nick. Gary separated from Carolyn, is staying with Laine. Deciding Sharon cannot be trusted because she lied about Buck, David fires her.

Ted is angry to learn that Laine and Gary have been sleeping together. Nick lets Martin win at poker, then asks for a rematch. General Turner realizes he has become too involved with the people of Henderson and may not be able to fight for the Julia Street property. Ted fears he may lose the court battle, which would mean the end of the shopping center. Believing he can no longer get Liza, Travis asks to be transferred from Henderson. David informs Stephanie that John has filed for divorce. Unhappy with his lifestyle, Gary confides to Stu that sometimes he'd just like to run away with a woman he loves.

The Young And The Restless

Written by: William J. Bell

Produced by: John Conboy

Leslie admits to Lucas she cares for and needs him. Casey vows to get her father out of Nikki's life. Lorie and Lance share a revel on Acapulco vacation. Vanessa arrives in Switzerland and sees Leslie and Lucas in a passionate embrace. Snapper enlists Chris's aid to help an elderly patient with a little food or money. Vanessa lets Lucas think that Lorie and Lance's marriage is in deep trouble.

Suzanne slips Kay a hallucinogen. At Liz's suggestion, Kay considers taking a cruise to forget Derek but Derek doesn't want to forget her. Snapper and Greg advise Stuart that it's not too late to end marriage to Jill. Stuart is angry when Jill leaves home late at night and doesn't return for hours. Casey wonders if she should tell Nikki that she was once molested by her dad. Jill feels the only to save her marriage is to seek artificial insemination in New York. Lorie wants to find a husband for Vanessa.

During a visit by Stuart, Liz senses he is unhappy and tells him she forgives him for marrying Jill. Jill is in New York seeking artificial insemination. Casey decides to see if she can work things out with her father for Nikki's sake. Snapper isn't sure Casey should have anything to do with her father. When Nikki asks why she hates their father, Casey decides not to tell her that as a child he molested her. Brock suggests Casey's father become a bartender at his place. Kay wants to make her marriage with Derek work but Suzanne will stop at nothing to break them up. Her memory dimmed by the years, Casey is having doubts as to whether the childhood incident with her father really happened or she just dreamed it did.

Fearful of her strange symptoms, Kay wants to see a doctor. Suzanne claims Kay has already seen a physician and that he has diagnosed her problems as emtional. Brock suggests to Derek that it's time Suzanne move out. Casey admits she's letting her defenses about men down, especially where Brock is concerned. Paul talks Nikki back into bed, claiming her father never has to know. But confronted by her dad, Nikki admits she's no longer a virgin, and hasn't been for some time. Learning that Lance plans to take her to Switzerland, Lorie knows Vanessa is behind it and warns her it'll never happen. Although the Maestro is wining and dining Vanessa, her schemes against Lorie make her too busy for romance. Liz tells Stuart she'll be his friend and cannot understand how he could let Jill go off to New York on her own. Turned down for insemination, Jill allows herself to get picked up at a bar.

[Khan]

"When she tells Travis she can only love Steve, he suggests Steve's song should be titled 'You Can't Love Again'."

LOL! Go Travis!

[DRW50]

GH - Was this Howard/Gina/Gary stuff like a C-story? It's strange that these characters are the only ones of this era who are totally forgotten and had no impact. And was this doctor Bobbie had the hots for supposed to be a love interest for her after she was done with Scotty?

ATWT - This Betsy in school story sounds very dull. Was Valerie being written out around this time? Did Judith McConnell want to leave or was she fired? It's a shame. Judith seems like a perfect fit for that unique ATWT blend of everyday and of fire (Marie Masters, Kathryn Hays, Eileen Fulton, of that era). It seemed like they put her in stories with some of the show's big women, it's too bad that nothing really happened.

LOL - "Big Al" Did someone from Sisters watch this show?

DAYS - How much longer was Mary Frann on the show as Amanda? I wonder why they never brought Dougie back to give Doug or Julie a story.

AMC - I never knew Mark's mother was on the show.

OLTL - So this is the start of Gretel. Too bad the show never brought up her history with Dorian later on. Is it me or did Pat have a lot of crappy stories?

GL - The start of one of the show's best characters, Ross.

SFT - Was Meg Bennett still playing Liza?

[Bright Eyes]

Mary Frann (Amanda Howard) Recurring: 4/3/74-3/21/75, Contract: 4/7/75-11/24/78, Recurring: 1/22/79-9/21/79

via Jason47

[DRW50]

So was Mary just staying on in that last year until she found permanent work elsewhere? I didn't realize she was there so long into 1979.

[Soaplovers]

LOL: Gosh I didn't realize how much this Bambi Brewster character dominated all the storylines at that time. I saw a small mention of Van/Meg but everything seemed to be tied up to this Bambi Brewster character. From what I read, this is what ended up killing the show. I always figured the show should have stayed about the sisters and their children. When does Ann Marcus take over as headwriter?

ATWT: I'm guessing March, 1979 is about the time that Susan departed from the show since mention is made of her moving to Seattle. While I liked that Marland bought her and Emily back into the mix in 1986, I've always wondered how things would have been different had she stayed on the show.

Y & R: I just love reading all about the early Paul/Nikki stuff... if only the show had made more mention of their early years when they were engaged last year. Was MTS playing Nikki at this time or was it still the original actress playing her? I'm glad to see that Lorie/Peggy were not too keen on Jill marrying their father. Did they ever touch on Chris' reaction (given that she was married to Snapper at the time?).

[Paul Raven]

Y&R All of the Brooks sisters were against Stuart hooking up with Jill. In one ep they gathered at the house to appeal to their dad.This was unusual as Bill Bell tended to keep them separate eg Chris had little to do with the Lorie/Leslie story.

Re ATWT,I think the writers were finding it hard to write something for Kim and Dan,hence the Betsy story.These same writers would soon kill off Dan.

Judith McConnell's contract was up and Val was not a core character so she was ditched. At this time ATWT was trying to go younger and as they already had Lisa,Kim,Joyce,Mary in that age range so it was a chance to get rid of an older actress.

SFT Sherry Mathis was Liza.She started just after Steve died.I guess this is one reason viewers took to Travis/Liza because it was a different actress to Steve/Liza.

AMC Rosemary Murphy and Valerie French both played Maureen Teller,Mark's mom.

[DRW50]

So is that why Mary and Joyce left in the next few years (or did Barbara Rodell want to leave anyway). Since the Dobsons seemed to bring Judith to Santa Barbara and wrote quite a bit for her, I wonder what they would have done if she'd been there when they came to ATWT. She narrowly missed them. They wrote for her at GH too I think.

It's strange that SFT could find two popular actresses for Liza and yet almost none for Patti.

[Paul Raven]

The Corringtons set up SFT so well.They kept Jo,Su,Ellie,Gary ,Carolyn,Janet,Liza,David etc in the forefront and wove them in with new characters.

They did write off Scott and Kathy but those characters had been on for years and had married,divorced and remarried so they had been through a lot of story. Also,I don't think Peter Ratray was as well accepted as Scott as Peter Simon.Their only blood tie was Scott being Ellie's cousin.

Tom Bergman also was written off (or John James chose to leave)I think a recast would have been advisable as Tom was a legacy character.

I think Patti should have returned ,divorced or widowed.

Subsequent writers began dismantling this structure and the show fell to pieces.

[DRW50]

I never knew Scott was recast. When did Peter Simon leave? Courtney Simon, she left and then came back didn't she? Or did she not? I can't remember. I know Nicolette Goulet took over the role at some point.

It's hard to believe that only three years after this CBS canceled the show. I guess things got bad between those times but it seems like they could have done something. I really think if they had made the effort the show might still be on today.

Were the Corringtons replaced or did they leave by their own choice? I wonder how viewers at the time felt about their work.

[FrenchFan]

APRIL 1979

All My Children

Written by: Agnes Nixon & Wisner Washam

Produced by: Bud Kloss

Wally and a healthy baby Bonnie return home; Devon decides to keep and rear her baby. With their father remarried, Dan’s sister, Betsy, comes to Pine Valley. With Billy Clyde in jail, Estelle feels guilty for having been the cause of his terrorizing everyone. Claudette’s mother, Margo, in a car accident in Costa Rica, is forcing Claudette to leave the Chateau in Eddie’s care. Learning an important critic is in the audience, Kelly takes uppers one more time. Joe is upset by Jeff’s decision to remain in San Francisco, but realizes it’s the only way he can save his marriage to Christina.

Having broken off her engagement to Mark, Ellen asks Paul for a shoulder to lean on, and he obliges. With a lot of shoving from Brooke, Mark finds himself in bed with her. Feeling she may have caused Ellen’s break with Mark, Devon reconsiders her decision to raise Bonnie alone. Letty Jean is Kelly’s latest pill connection. At the altar with Benny, Estelle is warned by Linc that Billy Clyde is going to charger her with bigamy if she weds. Nancy is mugged while out on a social service assignment. A distinguised-looking con, Langley Wallingford, artist arrives in town posing as a professor.

After making love with Brooke, a hung-over Mark throws her out of his apartment, but she plans to keep trying. Linc interrupts Estelle and Benny’s wedding, insisting she is running risk of bigamy action. Devastated, Estelle tells Benny she never wants to see him again and goes to stay with Donna and Chuck. Nancy faces risky surgery for the skull fracture she suffered in the mugging and she asks Frank to raise Carl if she should die. Feeling responsible for her mother’s break-up with Mark, Devon tells Wally she wants to marry him.

Tara, Philip and Charlie enjoy vacation until a mysterious governement official offers Phil a highly confidential assignment. Edna is learning to forget Benny with the help of Langley Wallingford, who is only interested in her money. Ellen is aghast at Devon’s decision to wed Wally. Despite attempts by Wally’s parents to stop the wedding, Devon and Wally are married. With Nancy out of danger, Caroline writes a good-bye note to Frank and tells him baby Carl is his son. Charles warns Phoebe he will have her arrested for theft unless she returns prints and negatives of his trip to Rome. When she does, Mona comes back to work. Kelly’s dependency on amphetamines comes to light for everyone.

Another World

Written by: Harding Lemay

Produced by: Paul Rauch

Ada agrees to be matron of honor at Clarice's wedding. With Rachel missing, Mac hires a detective to find her and hires Brian to fight for custody of Amanda. Depressed, Marianne wants to keep her father's memory alive, and tells Michael she wants to buy the house they lived in as children. When Marianne takes over her job in law office, Eileen goes to work for Charlie. In Boston, Alice tells Dan she cannot marry him now because she is a jinx to everyone she loves. Rose refuses to leave the room while Angie refuses to come back home. Janice, rooming with Angie, plans to move out and have Willis move in. Angie and Vince's divorce is final. Iris fears Elena is going to try to snag Mac for herself.

Feeling a great deal of respect for Elena, Ted admits to Brian that Iris talked him into making advances to Elena. Gwen discovers that Angie is living in Willis' apartment and warns her she will never give Willis a divorce. Larry's father is apprehensive about his son's upcoming marriage to Clarice. Joey and Eileen's Aunt Rita are continually fighting. Angie lets Vince know she slept with Willis before her divorce from Vince was final. In Boston, Sally is caught shoplifting; Susan asks Scott to represent her. When Alice refuses to talk to him, Dan considers ending their relationship. Mike plans to put the house up for sale regardless of what Marianne wants. Mac is ready to call the police to find Rachel and Amanda.

Returning to Bay City, Rachel discovers Janice's bracelet in Mac's car and assumes they're having an affair. Willis comes back from New York and says Angie can't stay in his apartment. Gwen reaffirms her refusal to give Willis a divorce. Coming out of her depressions, Rose decides to sew clothes for Sylvie. Rita warns Eileen she must stop seeing Joey. Dennis feels Sylvie is working too hard. After Angie alters some figures on a Frame Enterprises account, Roy warns her the company is losing money and she must stop playing little games. Buzz sends Iris another postcard.

Janice and Mac have become lovers; he decides to move in with her. Mac files for separation from Rachel. Larry's father arrives in town for his marriage to Clarice. Finally able to accept her father's death, Marianne takes a volunteer post at the hospital. For the first time in 15 years, Rita and her husbannd Paul Connelly argue — when he says Eileen can see Joey. Eileen tells Joey they'll have to wait a while before they can get married. Ted disinvites Iris to his houseswarming. Reluctantly Sally returns to Bay City to avoid prosecution for shoplifting in Boston. Susan is setting up private practice in Boston. With Alice unable to make up her mind, Dan seeks Pat's freindship.

As The World Turns

Written by: Ralph Ellis & Eugenie Hunt

Produced by: Joe Rothenberger

While Don shows signs of improvement, Joyce gets edgier. Ralph realizes Joyce was really after him when she mistakenly shot Don. Grant goes out of town on business without telling Lisa; she decides to take a trip to Switzerland to visit her son Tom. Valerie is upset by Kate's spending so much time alone in her room. Bob is charmed by the elegant Dana. Kim 'and Dan plan a trip west so Annie can see Susan. John is unhappy because Kim isn't leaving Andy with him. Amy, Jay and Carol's baby, is ailing. Melinda suffers a miscarriage and fears it will end her marriage to Beau.

Asking Lisa for a separation, Grant says he wants to remain friends — not exactly what Lisa had in mind. Dan warns Joyce not to get her hopes up just because some sensation has returned to Don's foot. Mary wonders if Ralph's charge — that Joyce thought it was him when she shot Don — can be true. Alex kisses Val; when she pulls away he tells her he isn't going to give up. Jay's sentence is commuted two weeks, and he heads for home. Kate is still in a cocoon of silence. John has Melinda's background investigated. Although attracted to Bob, Dana warns him she has a sad experience in her past. Doug is getting ready for the arrival of his estranged wife Marsha and his son.

Feeling she has failed Kate. Valerie starts to cry, causing Kate to utter her first words in months: "Valerie, don't cry." Although she is beginning to love it at the farm, Kate fears if she stays something will happen to Valerie — as it has happened to everyone she loves. Betsy quits boarding school to stay with Dan and Kim. Melinda is pleased to hear Jeff and Annie are dating. When Bob mentions ballet to Dana, she becomes misty-eyed. Barbara assures Bob that if he cares for Dana, Dana is not too young for him. Pretending she is still in Europe on a holiday, Lisa is actually in Oakdale. Jay is unable to find work. The hospital is beginning a paramedic program.

John insists Melinda steal data on Bob's research project unless she wants him to fill in Beau on her past. Grant is puzzled when Tom claims Lisa never came to Switzerland. Lisa has decided to take a cross-country tour without telling anyone. Mary and Ralph hope to prove Joyce wanted to kill Ralph when she shot Don. Don feels he is the cause of Joyce's drinking. Although Don can accept the possibility that he may be permanently paralyzed, Joyce cannot. When Bob asks Dana not to leave town, she agrees to stay, revealing to him only that she was once a ballerina. Fearing he will never see his wife and son again, Doug seeks and finds solace with Annie. Ralph and Mary rediscover their deep feelings for each other. Jay's ex-cellmate Matt is released and comes to Oakdale.

Days Of Our Lives

Written by: Elizabeth Harrower

Produced by: Betty Corday & Al Rabin

Steve realizes Chris and Amanda are interested in each other. Margo asks David if he still cares for Trish; he says no but his expression says yes. Linda returns to Salem still without her memory. Mary warns Linda not to trust Stephanie; Linda pretends friendship toward Stephanie but plans to get her out of the picture. Marlena is feeling insecure when Laura designates the new member of psychiatric staff her superior. Robert receives a notice from the bank about Rebecca's safety-deposit box and wonders if he should open it. Alice is jubilant at the news that her daughter Marie - a nun - will be returning to Salem. Laura seems disturbed by her mother's improved emotional condition.

Laura is demolished when she learns her mother has hung herself in the sanitarium. Kate wonders if Neil is as evil as his reputation. In a car accident, Mike only suffers bruises while the other driver is seriously hurt; neither has insurance. Sister Marie returns home to nurse an important and secret government official. Chris is interested in Amanda but aware that her life is in Chicago. David worries about Trish and Chris' friendship. Learning from Bob that she once had an extramarital affair with Neil, Linda considers a separation from Bob but asks Mary to support her if she decides to stay with him. Laura has haunting visions of her mother telling her to get even with Marlena.

Doug reads the letter Rebecca left in the safe deposit box and learns that little Dougie is his child by artificial insemination. Chris admits to Amanda he wants her. Stephanie keeps trying to turn Bob against Chris. Neil is elaborately friendly to Trish. When Janice obviously prefers a trip to Hawaii over a visit to Mickey and Maggie, they realize she probably wants to stay with Joann permanently. Mary is in hot water because a story she released to a national magazine contains military defense secrets. Marlena tries to resign her post at the hospital but Laura asks her to stay and they are once again on a friendly basis. Mickey admits to Don he still has warm feelings for Laura. Mary plans to join her mother Phyllis in San Francisco.

By being overly stern, Laura is losing her patients. Doug wonders what to do about Little Dougie, his natural son, and what he should tell Robert about Rebecca's letter. When David is felled by the flu, Trish nurses him. Feeling David's usefulness to her is about over, Stephanie decides to dump him but makes it look like David did the breaking up. Jealous of Kate, Laura tells her she is an embarrassment to Bill who only feels sorry for her. Neil is interested in Kate. Mark is in financial trouble when Anderson Co. cuts out overtime because of loss of a government contract. Julie warns Chris to stay away from Amanda. Dr. Jordan Barr arrives in Salem. Without giving any reasons, Kate turns in her resignation to the hospital. Margo and Mike move into their new home.

The Doctors

Written by: Elizabeth Levin & David Cherrill

Produced by: Chuck Weiss

When Mike tells Michael Paul they're going to move in with Matt and Maggie, Sarah fears she has lost the battle to win her husband back. Matt tells Mike he is wrong and should go back home with his wife. Sweeney is upset to find Missy and Luke on the couch in prelove making session. Although the due date of Nola's expected baby proves it is Colin's child, Nola continues to deny it to Carolee and Steve.

Home with Sarah, Mike calls it an "arrangement" not a marriage, and remains polite and cool to her. Carolee is upset by the rooming house Billy is staying at and his lack of responsibility toward Greta and the baby. Billy is angered when Greta refuses money because she feels he cannot afford to help her. After an unsuccessful attempt at lovemaking, Missy reveals to Luke how her stepfather tried to molest her, and that she could ward him off finally only by physical violence. Nola hires a nursemaid to help in battle with Mona, wonders what she's going to do if her baby arrives so late that no one believes it is Jason's child. Upset by her experience with Luke, Missy plans to leave town.

Steve fears Billy is on drugs. Sarah pleads with Mike for physical love. Going by Nola's selfproclaimed due date, Colin assures M.J. he couldn't be the baby's father. Wanting to move in with M.J., Colin has his belongings sent over to her apartment. She tells Colin she doesn't want to live with him yet. Without telling Mona, Nola hires a "maidnurse." Missy tells Luke she had stabbed her stepfather to death when he attacked her.

Deciding he is no good for Missy, Luke decides not to see her anymore. Maggie wishes she had a baby around the house. In pain, Nola fears she will miscarry, costing her chance at the Aldrich fortune. Steve is horrified to realize Billy is turning into an irresponsible, uncaring human being. Arriving at Mona's, Colin insists that Nola be taken to the hospital. Doctors are able to save her baby but warn her she must be free of stress. Nola takes advantage of this by having the doctor advise Mona that she should not allow any members of the family to upset her. Steve learns Nola is not a patient of the obstetrician she claims is taking care of her.

The Edge Of Night

Written by: Henry Slesar

Produced by: Erwin Nicholson

Elliot prepares to wed Margo but continues his fling with Sally, the maid. Winter's trial begins. Logan decides to take active part in Winter's prosecution. Deborah warns Steve she's still fearful of becoming too close to him. With Nicole away, Margo has been handling the news anchor spot.

Having married Elliot, Margo prepares to buy him a restaurant. Returning from their honeymoon, Miles and Nicole offer Winter their support. Draper and April are still squabbling over her establishing a relationship with Margo. Tank bursts into Winter's apartment and attacks a visiting Logan. In court, Logan admits Wade blackmailed him into bending the law so Wade could operate an X-rated movie house.

Thinking Margo killed Wade, Elliot stages a robbery in his apartment, lifts Margo's gun and sends it anonymously to Draper. A witness claims Raven, not Winter, was the girl visiting Wade's apartment the night he was killed. Logan takes the stand and explains that Raven went to visit Wade on Logan's behalf; his testimony makes it certain she couldn't have killed him. Sara, Margo’s maid, warns Elliot he'll never be anything more than Margo's puppet. Mr. Antoine is hired to help Elliot run his nightclub.

Another tape turns up in Winter's trial which shows her in a room with a dead body. Returning to work, Nicole gets the feeling Margo secretly wishes she were still anchoring the news spot. Elliot is angered by Sara's refusal to go along with his version of the penthouse break-in. Tests reveal the gun Draper received in the mail was not the one used to kill Wade.

General Hospital

Written by: Douglas Marland

Produced by: Gloria Monty

Jeff tells Heather he is Steve's son; instead of feeling sympathy for his confusion, she is elated. Steve puts Jeff on report for leaving the hospital without permission. Lee is to become Jeremy's legal guardian. Gail and Lee plan to marry. Alan warns Tracy to quit pushing Mitch's political career down everyone's throat, else he'll run for office himself. The judge decides not to send Laura to reform school. Gina informs Jeff that Heather can never risk having a baby.

Rick is stunned when Jeff tells him Steve Hardy — not Lars Weber — is Jeff's father. Overhearing Luke and Bobbie, Jessie realized the trick they played on Laura. Dan persuades Jessie to give Bobbie one more chance. Anne wants to adopt Jeremy. Tracy warns Monica she's going to try to catch her with Rick and then tell Alan. Heather realizes Susan told Jeff about taking birth control pills and vows to get even. During an argument with Tracy about her inheritance, her father suffers an angina attack. Rick vetoes Scotty and Laura's June wedding plans.

Jeff and Steve try to work at being loving father and son. Rick, still stunned by revelation of Jeffs paternity, admits to Monica he wants to find solace in her arms. Discovering his father had an angina attack while Tracy and Mitch were talking to him, Alan plans to get to the bottom of it. Tracy gets her father to lie about the subject of converstation when he had the attack. Audrey returns from her sister Lucille's; Steve forgives her for telling Jeff the truth. Still trying to drive Diana mad, Heather has Larry Joe call Diana and ask about P.J., mixes up the medication to make it look as if Diana has made a mistake, and warns Diana that Maggie is an unfit nursemaid for P.J.

Tracy overhears Scotty and Laura discuss the night Rick and Monica spent together; she urges Mitch to check the time each left the hospital after the quarantine was lifted. Mitch takes Susan to bed. Heather wants to adopt Jeremy so she can gain control of his custody trust fund. Bobbie is still hoping to get Laura in trouble but her brother Luke warns her to lay off. Rick is unable to accept the fact of Jeff’s illegitimacy. Gary keeps making snide remarks about Howard's feelings for Gina.

Guiding Light

Written by: Bridget & Jerome Dobson

Produced by: Allen Potter

With Philip critically ill, Jackie considers telling Justin he is Philip's father but changes her mind when Philip seems on the mend. Roger tries to win Holly over with flowers and birthday gifts; she repulses him, more determined than ever to go to court and charge him with rape. The arrival of Katie's younger brother Floyd forces Mark off her couch and out of her apartment. To protect Billy from negative publicity, Peggy takes a leave of absence and heads for Boise, but gives a statement that Roger was a good father to Billy and a good, patient husband to her while they were married. Lucille continues to feign a heart condition and flares when Evie says she's shamming.

Alan is about to fire Roger, but reconsiders when Roger tells him he has the deposition from Ramon de Vilar — the man who falsely claimed he had had an affair with Elizabeth and was later murdered by Dean — implicating Alan. Alan names Roger senior v.p. Peter and Holly are getting closer. Hillary confesses to Mike that she had an affair with Roger after he married Holly. Alan insists Mike never be present when Philip is around because he believes Mike caused the child's nearfatal heart flare-up. Katie wishes her slovenly brother Floyd would find another place to live since it's cramping her style with Mark. Gordon is attracted to Hope. Interested in Ben's art and his body, Diane hires him as a commerical artist for Spaulding. With Ed out of town, Roger breaks into the Bauer estate and terrorizes Rita.

Diane steals Ramon's affidavit from Roger's apartment and discovers Alan was aware that two different statements about Elizabeth's affairs were made. To her surprise, Sara receives a bill for Dean's car which has been housed in a garage for six months; police discover it's the car that ran over Roger. Barbara is aghast when Adam makes a statement supporting Roger. Roger makes sure the photographers get pictures of him being a loving father to Christina. Holly is upset to see the picture in the paper. While Ed is at an out-of-town medical convention, Roger pays a visit to Rita to ask if she broke into his apartment. Philip makes Elizabeth promise to keep Miles away from him. Gordon tells Hope that the Spaulding contract is important, and that she should be friendly to Alan. Ben is feeling stifled by his uncreative job at Spaulding.

Ed is incensed to be served a subpoena as witness for the defense in Roger's rape trial. When Amanda fails to return home from a concert, Lucille asks Ben to look for her; he finds her slightly drunk and just finished with a onenight stand. When a raging storm forces them to take refuge in a barn, Amanda makes advances to Ben; he responds, then breaks away, saying Evie must never know what nearly happened. Diane tells Ann she's going after what and who she wants. Alan offers Holly an out-of-town position if she'll drop rape charges; she refuses. Mike guesses that Roger must be blackmailing Alan.

Love Of Life

Written by: Jean Holloway / Ann Marcus

Produced by: Cathy Abbi

On Monday, April 23rd, the soap moved its timeslot, airing from 4:00 to 4:30

The body in the morgue is not Ray's — unconscious, Ray is being held hostage in a house on Brook Street. Following a ski accident, Tom is hospitalized with a leg injury. Big Al visits Bambi; she forgives him for having beaten her. Andrew fumes when he discovers Meg is now coordinator at the hospital. In Des Moines, Bruce and Arlene decide to notify Ray's family of his disappearance as the story is about to hit the wire services.

Ray continues to fight for his life in the basement of the house on Brook street. Andrew introduces Tom to Lee Ann Wilson, a surgeon hoping to do her residency at Rosehill Hospital. Betsy fears she has little chance of winning a divorce from Elliot, and is unhappy when Ben lets Elliot visit Suzanne. Paul and Bambi are dating. Rev. Brewster finds Ray in his study.

Rev. Brewster calls for the police and ambulance for Ray. Ray and Arlene are flown back to Rosehill. Young Eloise tells Guido she is Brewster's sister. Van returns from Switzerland now that Lynn has recovered from her accident, and learns that a job as art teacher is waiting for her. Lee Ann gets in trouble with Dr. Tucker for flirting with Tom. Ray undergoes surgery for a blood clot in his brain.

Following surgery, Ray is taken off the critical list. Tom decides to help Lee Ann with her medical boards; Dr. Tucker is not pleased about their relationship. Bambi, nervous aobut leaving the hospital, passes out when she hears Rev. Brewster's voice. Paul agrees to help Bambi overcome her hysteria. Upset by Betsy's involvement with her career, Ben seeks comfort from Mia, and Mia is about to succumb when Betsy rings the doorbell. Betsy is livid to discover Ben there.

One Life To Live

Written by: Gordon Russell & Sam Hall

Produced by: Joseph Stuart

Still angry at Karen, Annie realizes Larry is not blameless and softens a bit. Mario works at becoming Karen's friend. Desperate for money to repay his gambling debt, Brad sells the key to the hospital medicine cabinet to his creditor. When Edwina suggests she and Karen write a book, "From Housewife to Hooker," Karen has Mario throw her out. Finding a photo of Adam, Dick tacks it on the wall and uses it for target practice. Overhearing Dorian plotting to get Larry out as chief of staff, a shaken Paul tells her he is through with her. Unable to comprehend Pauls's motives, Dorian feels he is trying to get back with Pat. Gretel admits to Adam she has fallen for Paul. Samantha and Tony are making wedding plans. Jack tells Adam he wants to marry Carla but she can't make up her mind between him and her husband Ed. Dick calls Karen pretending to be the dead Brian Kendall. With Richard suffering from mononucleosis, Gwen goes off to Europe to nurse him.

His business nearly destroyed, Adam is preparing takeover of an Alaskan oil company. Jack is shot when he surprises men using the key supplied by Brad to steal drugs from a hospital cabinet. Ed asks Carla for a divorce; upset by Jack's injury, Carla admits she loves him. Brad swears never to gamble again. Karen testifies in Talbot's murder trial. Depressed, Greg warns Tina not to be friends with Mario. Edwina writes a scandal story about Karen's life as a hooker and housewife. Peter's dream of a life with Jenny is shattered when she announces she is pregnant by her husband Brad.

Upset by Ivan's brash manner and ill treatment of his interns, Jack refuses to let Ivan perform surgery on him. Dorian's attempt to oust Larry as chief of staff is aborted when the Colonel votes against restructuring of the hospital. Jenny is not certain she's happy about being pregnant. Tina feels Greg is pushing her away. Ivan's fragile wife Faith comes to Llanview and befriends Danny. Dick substitutes aspirin for Adam's medication. Discovering that the date she is to wed Tony is the same as the one he married Cathy on, Samantha postpones the wedding. Surgery leaves Jack paralyzed — it may be temporary or permanent. Ivan nixes Faith's desire to have children.

In need of money to save his company, Adam asks Dorian to be his partner. She wants to say yes and make it more than a business partnership. Jenny is upset over her negative feelings about being pregnant. When Tina volunteers at the free clinic, Joe is upset because it will bring her into relationship with Mario. Karen's attempt to make up with Larry fails. On the eve of their wedding, Tony and Samantha decide to consummate their love, but just as he is drifting off to sleep he calls out Pat's name. Adam suffers an attack; he takes medication but gets no relief.

Ryan’s Hope

Written by: Claire Labine & Paul Avila Mayer

Produced by: Claire Labine & Paul Avila Mayer

Pat and Nancy are acknowledging their love for each other but Bob also desires her. Released from the hospital, Jack is staying with Maeve and Johnny. Thatcher switches Mary to night time news slot; this gives her more time with her baby Ryan but less with Jack. Dee and Johnny both lose on the commodity market. Seneca's license to practice surgery is restored. Without telling Frank, Rae takes political support money from an underworld figure. On a high from pills, Jill is persuaded by Seneca to have a child.

Nancy and Pat are living in the houseboat Bucky gave him; Maeve is upset by their relationship. Tom is getting to depend on his nurse. Back with Rae, Frank realizes Jill has a new life with Seneca. Released from the hospital, Jill wants to get off pills because she can never remember what she said or did when she's on them. Johnny is losing a little, gaining a little on the commodities market, but fears he will lose the bar and savings in the end. Frank is amazed by Rae's ability to take care of Little John when he becomes ill in Washington.

When Pat comes to visit Nancy in Washington, Bob warns Frank their relationship will not work out because of religious differences — Bob's motive is because he desires Nancy himself. Tom and Faith are getting along thanks to Tom's nurse Poppy Lincoln. Frank considers marrying Rae. Johnny's investment in cocoa turns sour. Jill fights to get off pills and to forget Frank. Photos of Tom's dead lover Teresa, bear a startling resemblance to Poppy.

With eveyone aware of her addiction, Jill decides to go off pills cold-turkey; Seneca hears her, in anguish, call out for Frank. Phoning Mary at her hotel, Jack goes bersek when Thatcher answers.

Frank and Rae decide to marry. Dee is switching her commodity investments from cocoa beans to tea.

Search For Tomorrow

Written by: Joyce & John William Corrington

Produced by: Mary-Ellis Bunim

Learning from Ted about Stephanie's refusal to get a biopsy, John goes to her; she tells him she doesn't need him or anyone else. Following a talk with the General, Liza tells Travis she doesn't want him to leave Henderson and asks him to return. Dressed as a crew member, Nick is at the airport with wirecutters in his hand. As the plane carrying Travis and the General approaches New Orleans airport, it is lost from the radar screen. Carolyn asks David to file divorce proceedings against Gary. Great Expectations opens its doors. Martin tells Jo she looks very much like a woman he once knew who meant a great deal to htm.

The plane carrying Travis and the General goes down in a swampy area. Blaming Liza for the accident, Mignon wants no part of her. Liza tells Janet she loves Travis, and could not bear it if he were dead. Laine learns from Gary that Carolyn has filed for divorce. David and Laine are spending many hours after work discussing business. Having reunited with John, Stephanie checks into the hospital for a biopsy.

Liza, in New Orleans to comfort Mignon after news was received that Travis and the General were found dead at the site of the airplane crash, is taken aback to hear from Mignon that she wants no part of her and had never wanted to either. Stephanie is discovered to have cancer. After a modified radical mastectomy, she tells John she doesn't want to see him again, even though he proclaims his love for her. Carolyn tells Mark she can never forgive Gary for having an affair with Laine. Martin, deciding it is up to him to run the company now that his father and cousin are dead, goes to the office and is shocked to see Travis sitting in his chair.

Travis confronts Martin with the charge that he may have had a reason for not being on the plane that crashed. Martin, shocked by his father's death, cannot believe Travis believes he was responsible. Travis goes to Liza, and they share a night of love. The FAA is looking into the plane crash. The ghost of the General comes to Travis and tells him the crash was no accident, and that he must pursue the investigation to protect Liza since whoever was responsible still wants Travis dead. Gary is upset because Laine no longer appears vulnerable. Mark warns Sunny to stay away from Nick. Tom borrows money from Sunny so he can visit Kylie in New York. Feeling scarred by her breast surgery, Stephanie continues to draw away from John. At the same time, David finds he is attracted strongly toward Laine.

The Young And The Restless

Written by: William J. Bell

Produced by: John Conboy

During a fight with Stuart, Jill tumbles down stairs and is taken unconscious to the hospital. Worried about her baby, Stuart learns from the doctor that Jill isn't pregnant. Derek is puzzled because Kay says she wants Suzanne to stay with them. Demented, Suzanne daydreams of Kay being taken away in a straitjacket and Suzanne literally taking her place. Lance learns Lucas and Leslie have a baby son and fears Lorie is jealous. After visiting Casey's father, Brock is not certain if he is a changed man or not. After sneaking a look while Nikki undresses, her father runs from the apartment with a bottle of liquor. Snapper thinks Stuart has more to do with Jill's fall than he will admit.

About to be released from the hospital, Jill learns from the physician that Stuart knows she was not pregnant when she was admitted. Lucas and Leslie become husband and wife in the fullest sense. Suzanne is weaving psychological trips to drive Kay insane, even to setting loose a tarantula to scare her; when Kay spots it, Suzanne claims there's nothing there. Nikki is angry at Casey's suggestion that the missing Nick may be out drinking; when Nick returns he claims he was searching for a job, and has found one. When Derek questions Suzanne about Kay's edginess, Suzanne suggests it might be menopause.

A lawyer informs Suzanne that Kay can only be committed if she is a threat to herself or others. When Kay fears Liz may tell Derek she's having emotional trouble, Suzanne suggests they try to make sure Liz keeps quiet, figuring that Kay's attempt to get rid of Liz will assure her being committed. Stuart tells Jill he wants her out of his house; she refuses to go or give him a divorce. Maestro is asked to be the godfather of Leslie's child; he insists that Vanessa be the godmother.

When Jill refuses to agree to a divorce, Stuart seeks an annulment. Leslie, Lucas and baby Brooks arrive in Genoa City. Vanessa keeps telling Lorie how much the baby resembles Lance. Fearing Liz is going to tell Derek about her emotional problems, Kay is about to attack her with a knife, but the life of the unsuspecting Liz is saved when she turns away to answer the phone. Upset that Nikki has agreed to go out with Greg, Nick tells Greg she has broken the date, then comforts Nikki when she thinks she has been stood up. Stuart admits to Greg he thought Jill was pregnant when they wed. Hoping to block the annulment, Jill seeks legal advice.

[Paul Raven]

Well,SOD put Travis/Liza,Lee/Sunny and Stephanie/Martin on thee cover and that was the last time SFT made the cover,so that says something for the popularity of those characters and the show.

I guess the Corringtons got the chance to create Texas,so they left Search.

Who knows if they stayed if the show would have remained on course. They were never able to repeat their success at other shows they worked on.

I recall an interview with them.He was an author as well as a lawyer and they lived in New Orleans(a locale they used on Search)They had written for movies like Battle for Planet of the Apes.P&G approached them and they did a 6month outline for Another World,working with Paul Rauch. When they began on Search,they felt the show wasn't living up to its title,not looking to tomorrow.They had the community confront issues,stating it has never been a theme show but a character show and they intended to keep it that way.