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[Khan]

You're welcome! 

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It's ironic how all three actors in that commercial worked with Bob Newhart at one point or another.

[asafi]

 

 

[DRW50]

Oof at that acting from Sandy...

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[Paul Raven]

They made two attempts with Sandy and both actresses were duds. A pity, because that was it for Sandy- a legacy Horton character.

Now if Deidre Hall had have been Sandy instead of Marlena....

[Khan]

Is that Martha Smith from "Scarecrow and Mrs. King" and "National Lampoon's Animal House" playing Sandy?

[Franko]

Yes, it is. I want to give her the benefit of the doubt, but I can't. Sandy isn't coming across as at the very start of her grieving, when nothing's sinking in. She's coming across as mildly inconvenienced by everything.

Edited July 8, 2024 by Franko

[Bright Eyes]

That twitter user is wrong to state she was the first Sandy Horton. Even if you don't count the first Sandy (Astrid Warner) who only played her for a few episodes, Heather North (R.I.P.) played Sandy for a good 5 years or so. Hopefully, one day we'll get to see more of her.

Edited July 8, 2024 by Bright Eyes

[j swift]

I forgot that Kate referred to him as Fraaanco (like Francis), rather than Franco (rhymes with tango).  She's so continental considering that she's lived in the Mid-West for so long.

Edited July 8, 2024 by j swift

[DRW50]

That year on a fishing boat did wonders.

[JAS0N47]

I asked Regina Gleason 10 years or so ago if she had any memory of Astrid Warner, who I can't find any record of as Sandy. I assigned Astrid those 12/12/67 & 12/13/67 episodes as a placeholder until we ever get verification. Regina said she only remembered Heather in the role. Although at the time I spoke to her, it had been over 45 years, so perhaps she just did not remember Astrid in the role briefly. The telecast reports for those episodes either had no one listed in the Role Played By column or were not available.

Edited July 8, 2024 by JAS0N47

[Bright Eyes]

How did Astrid get assigned the role? Where did her name come from?

[JAS0N47]

I don't know if it was Maureen Russell's book originally, which it probably was. Not sure if Astrid had appeared in other books before that. Maureen got the weekly cast charts directly from Days from 1965-1994, which are different than the telecast reports I got, which covered most of 1965-1975. I had contacted Maureen many years ago, and she would have been the key to me getting those 1965-1994 cast chart copies, but sadly she had gotten rid of them after doing the book. I've tried for decades to get access to them, but no one at the show can ever find them. There is a hope in the coming months, the publicist said she will try her best to get my "most wanted" missing names, such as who played Roz, Will's nanny, for 20 episodes, as well as some of the baby actors we still need from the 1990's and 2000's. But she said they are stored off site nowadays, so it's not as easy to access them as it had been in the past. 

When I started compiling my telecast report cast list, I worked off of Maureen's cast list, since she got it from the cast charts, to make sure everyone was accounted for. After going through all of the 1965-1975 telecast reports (some of which were either blank, not available, or incomplete), there were still certain names of actors that were not listed, such as Astrid. I've done my best to assign dates to a certain number of actors. Dick Gittings came in to play Bob Anderson when Mark Tapscott was sick, but I can't find an exact start date for him. Same for that actress who replaced Tina Andrews as Valerie. So, some of my episode rankings are right now just a best guess, since I can't pinpoint exact start dates for some people. 

Maureen lists Cindy Crawford as playing a teenager in 1978, but I've never found any type of role that would fit that, and I do have every script cast list from 1965-1984. So she's another unknown airdate as well.

I have been able to eventually get most of the weekly cast charts from late 1968 to late 1974, and at some point in the 1970's, they started listing the cast in contract order, so the charts also would help confirm the exact signing dates of all of the actors. So, while we have those for the mid-1970's, we are lacking them for 1975-1983, so luckily a few episodes with credits have been posted on YouTube through the years, but not enough to get full details of the contract lists for 1975-1983. For instance, we don't know the exact date Deidre Hall signed a contract. Like most other people in the 1970's, even with Susan & Bill Hayes and Suzanne Rogers, there was usually a 3-6 month trial period before any actor would be placed on contract.

Edited July 8, 2024 by JAS0N47

[Bright Eyes]

Fascinating! Thanks for sharing.

[JAS0N47]

Here's the cast chart from exactly 54 years ago this week!  A very small group working all week.

 

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As was the case with most new roles, they would be blank. Oscar Beregi would make his first of 4 appearances as Sergio this week, but he had yet to be cast when the chart was typed up. Maybe they would fill-in the name in pen/pencil eventually or it remains blank to this day in the charts that Days has in their archives.

 

The x is for the cast taping that day. The slash mark is for the cast who would be rehearsing the next day's episode. Based on that, it looks like they did not rehearse Monday episodes on Fridays.

 

U/5s would be listed in the total as 1/2, and extras as 1/4. I guess that was to help with the budget. I know Betty told Bill in her correspondence that he was always using too many characters and would need to use less to stay on budget.

Edited July 8, 2024 by JAS0N47

[Joseph]

Bad acting that seems Good for today's standards! Lol

What about the one from the 1970s the one who voiced Daphne On Scooby-Doo??? Was She Any Good?

That's the one!