DAYS: Behind the Scenes, Articles/Photos

[Jennerz]

I'd be interested

[Michael]

I would be, too!

[Angela]

Add me in. I was a magazine buying addict back then but I erased all those articles out of my memory.

 

 

 

[DRW50]

September 1986 episode.

 

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3j2dxg_days-of-our-lives-september-15-1986_tv

[Angela]

About 10 commercials from DAYS 1994 season compiled from YouTube. I forgot how hot Jonah was (that was his name right?)

 

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[Michael]

I got my hands on 13 of the 14 "Soaps and Serials" novels that were published in the 80s, retelling stories from the first decade or so of Days, and did a blog post with recaps, reviews, curious findings, etc. The write-up is here, for anyone who might be interested.

[Michael]

Another DOOL history project on my blog: I've started a revised history of the show, minus SORASing -- but substituting age-appropriate characters for the ones who appeared onscreen. (For example, Kristian Alfonso still shows up in 1983, but she isn't playing Hope, who's still only 9 at that point.) I've done 1965-79 so far, and the rest will be coming shortly...

[DRW50]

Thanks. I just saw this. Kudos to you for all this work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPJSK_WhoQo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y3x-tlqYNo

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cRV2yqfHFo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0jUgFi8QHI

[Sindacco]

Fan chat with head writer Sally Sussman-Morina in November 1998. It's long so I put it behind the spoiler tag.

 

[DRW50]

Thanks. All those John/Marlena questions and Marlena questions make me laugh a lot. Some things don't change. It reminds me of that story about the show using bedding fans bought for them to put in another couple's sex scenes.

[Michael]

Thanks for sharing the episodes and that interview, guys!

 

Those John/Marlena fans asking questions really come across as so obnoxious. It's also funny to see feedback from the early days of Nicole, calling for a recast or for her to go entirely.

[DRW50]

The character really didn't shine until they had her marry Lucas for cash. 

 

I love the people going NOOO about John/Hope too. That must have been a Corday yearning or something given that it popped up yet again a few years ago. 

 

Soap fans never really change. I guess if there's any difference now it would be people would probably be using more profanity...well that and no one on soaps now would take fan questions that are so unfiltered. The mid/late '90s was something that ended up being sadly fleeting in that area.

[Sindacco]

Yeah some of those questions cracked me up.

 

1999 was the year Nicole started to become more interesting. First when she married Lucas, and then later when she started drinking. Arianne Zucker's acting also improved when she started working more with John Aniston and Lauren Koslow.

[Gray Bunny]

That totally saved her. I loved when she turned into a boozehound, drowning her sorrows at New Years (I think a drunken Nicole picked a fight with Celeste that year!) and all around the old Kiriakis mansion. And they missed an opportunity, pairing her with Austin Peck's Austin around the 2000-2002 era. 

[Paul Raven]

Charlotte Ross recalls her Days stint as Eve

Ross' first TV role — right out of high school — was initiation by fire, thrown as she was into a frontburner storyline that involved a lot of eavesdropping ("They called me The Lurker") and threatening the Frankie/Jennifer romance. 

"It was 40 pages of dialogue a day, but it was a dream come true," she recalls of her debut as Eve, a "bitch you love to hate" kind of character. 

"I went to work in the dark, I came home in the dark and there was no hiatus, but it taught me a wonderful work ethic." 



Freaky fact: On "Days", Ross played daughter to Charles Shaughnessy, but four years later they were cast as lovers in a TV-movie. 

"I had to straddle him on a pool table, and I remember thinking this is the most incorrect thing!"


 

 

Edited February 12, 2016 by Paul Raven