DAYS: Behind the Scenes, Articles/Photos

[janea4old]

The only way I saw successful playlists for DAYS uploaded to youtube was maybe 10 years ago  .... The uploader had code names for each playlist by obscure nicknames for each character, without mentioning DAYS or the actual character names in the description.  You'd have to be an expert on the show's history to know the obscure nicknames for each character - something mentioned in the show's dialogue once years before.
Importantly, commenters were asked to not mention the name of the show or the characters or the actors in their comments, or their comments would be deleted, which meant that the channel owners had to check it daily to delete such comments.
AND the videos were all unlisted,
so you'd know about it only from word-of-mouth, but were asked not to post about it anywhere.

This was many years ago and I enjoyed watching those as they were up for several months.

However some unaffiliated fools would create their own playlists on their own personal youtubes, linking to the unlisted videos and labeling their personal playlists with real show name and character names...
so of course Sony caught it eventually and it was all lost.

Edited Thursday at 03:24 PM by janea4old

[Contessa Donatella]

And this is why I use a different video hosting site. It's interesting to me that on IG Sony only hits current not vintage. Also there's no penalty as long as you delete.

[Jdee43]

I was going through those episodes from 1984 and early 1985 before they were taken down. Some of the older characters, like Don and even Tom, looked a little out of place, like they were on the wrong show. But the newer characters were fun.

It's too bad they lost the character of Melissa. I guess Jennifer took her long-term place on the canvas. 

[AbcNbc247]

And now all the episodes are gone.

SMH. These jackasses never stop 

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[Contessa Donatella]

DAYS OF OUR LIVES 10-1-1976 Doug & Julie's wedding #1

Taped on 9-16-1976, Episode #2740

[Contessa Donatella]

https://www.instagram.com/p/DJxpFaAp_UY/
Roman vs. Stefano, Cliff top, Beach Below
This is one of the most important scenes on DAYS in the 80s. After this nothing was ever the same. DAYS 11-23-84
 

@JAS0N47Closing Credits roll & it's complete silence. Isn't that unusual?

Edit to add: A much longer version can be found on my usual hosting site

video title DAYS 11-23-84 Roman vs Stefano, clifftop & beach below

Edited Sunday at 03:27 AM by Contessa Donatella

[asafi]

I’ve always wondered - why did Wayne decide to leave DAYS in 1984? He and Deidre were at the peak of their success, and their on-screen relationship was so iconic. Three years together just feels too short. Was there a specific reason for his departure at that point?

[Liberty City]

He told The Chicago Tribune:

❝ It was a choice I made because I had itchy feet. ❞

Which, to me, reads he wanted to do things outside of the limits of daytime. And, after that, he did end up returning to Dynasty for an extended run and some other primetime work in L.A. Law.

Edited yesterday at 04:44 PM by Liberty City

[janea4old]

May 19, 2025
Kirsten Storms remembers Drake Hogestyn and her time working at DAYS
https://www.tvinsider.com/1191133/kirsten-storms-days-of-our-lives-drake-hogestyn-death-reaction-interview/

[Bright Eyes]

It's sad she can't be a part of his on-screen tribute somehow.

[Paul Raven]

I guess Wayne felt it was now or never. He'd made a splash at Days and probably hoped that would lead to a primetime series. If he signed for another 3 years at Days then the momentum would be lost and he's probably have to stay in soaps like so many others.

And in the back of his mind there was the knowledge he could probably get a role on SB or GH if he didn't luck out in primetime or Days didn't want him back.

As it turned out he returned to Dynasty and got a couple of primetime gigs before agreeing to go back to Days.

[Paul Raven]

MEDINA JOURNAL-REGISTER WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1972

Soap opera star leads "sudsy" life By VERNON SCOTT UPI Hollywood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD (UPI) 

Bill Hayes, one of the co-stars of "Days of Our Lives," might make the central figure in his own soap opera. He is divorced after 23 years of marriage and moved to Hollywood more than two years ago from New York to star in the long-running daytime series. Hayes, who plays a nightclub singer on the show, is an accomplished vocalist himself and was resident baritone of the old "Show of Shows""-1950-1954-that starred Imogene Coca and Sid Caesar.

Now he lives in the San Fernando valley with his three youngest children: Christian,21, Tom, 18, and Peg, 16. The house is large enough for the entire family and is close to NBC studios in Burbank where the show is filmed. Hayes, in fact, may be looking for smaller quarters soon. Christian will be moving to Arizona and Tom is headed for college, leaving only Peg at home.

Hayes became a grandfather earlier this year when his daughter, Carrie, gave birth to a son, David Samuel. Hayes asked  his producers to write him out of the serial for 10 days so he could back to Indiana to see his first grandchild. Another son, Blll Jr., is 22 and a Navy ensign flying jets.

NBC has Hayes under contract 52 weeks a year.  There are no re-runs of daytime serials. Therefore Hayes is on call almost every weekday. Generally he reports to the studio at 7 a.m. where the cast reads through the script and then rehearses. Then the crew is brought in for actual staging and another rehearsal before the episode is taped. Thereafter the cast sits around a table and reads through  the next day's script, timing the segment and changing dialogue here and there to suit the director and actors. 

Some performers are quick studies. After an hour or so with the script they have their lines down pat. Not Bill Hayes. He is usually through at the studio by 3 p.m., but returns home to study and restudy the script,  painfully memorizing his lines. Christian, Tom and Peg alternate  with household chores. One week, for instance, Christian will do the cooking, Tom will clean house and Peg does the laundry and dukes "It works out pretty well," Hayes said ruefully. But when I get tired of eating pizza and hamburgers I pitch in and do the cooking myself.

After dinner Hayes finds a quiet corner of the house to continue memorizing his lines. Then it's off to bed for that early call in the morning. On weekends Hayes not infrequently visits his parents who make their home in Tucson, Ariz. He would like to spend more time at the beach or in the mountains with his  offspring. Being both father and mother to his youngsters, Hayes and must devote Saturdays and Sundays to shopping, gardening and supervising the running of the house. "I have to put relaxation and recreatlon into the future," he says. It's a someday thing with me. “Once in a while I get out to see a play or a movie, or visit friends in San Diego. But as long as I'm doing is show it means giving up a lot of other things. The important element is that the series allows me to work regularly and stay in one place to be with my family. Not too many actors today can pull that off." 

[Contessa Donatella]

When he returned  to DAYS in 1991 it was at the behest of Deidre Hall wanting the two of them to make the DAYS scene together again & they both got preferential billing, too, in the closing credits. They did the Mexican story first with Bo & Carly and with John & Isabella & also Lawrence & the actress who would much later play Gladys on GH. 

After that they did this amazing story Marlena loved 2 men but society would not allow it. I have always felt that Deidre deserved an Emmy for that particular story.