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I felt both Julia's relationships with Ned/AJ were cut short?  Or maybe never reached their full potential is probably a better way to describe it.  There was a lot there on paper between the three and it just fizzled out.  

I always thought Julia as a character had legs and it was silly to write her out especially when her sister's story was beginning to really heat up.

Thanks for the clip!  I do remember Vanessa or Mark Teschner saying they auditioned a ton of actresses for Brenda so that might explain the delay in casting her and it was always the plan to bring Brenda on earlier.

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That would've been interesting, could've even plopped Audrey into the story to offer her own insight into the process since Audrey had herself artificially inseminated back in '67 (under much different circumstances of course and Audrey eventually lost the child).

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I did enjoy Wes Kinney’s tenure, but outside of using the hospital again and giving Steve and Audrey something to do with Tom and Simone, he really was playing in the scraps left over from her. The Jerome’s, etc. I do think the Snowman storyline with Anna and Grant Putnam was one of the best of the decade though.

i would kill for Pikeman to be revealed as Grant Putnam. His target last fall was Anna, and he did serious damage to her back in the day. Robin was traumatized, Duke went back to the mob which eventually led to his death, trying to find her because Robert was taking too long and shut him out of the search, and Anna had to fight her own way to escape.

At the time I would have kept her over Jenny. But Jenny had Paul and a built in story with Ned and Tracy that needed to be resolved. They both dwindled and were gone soon after because without Tracy there was nothing there.

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Hi friends!

As an early Christmas gift, I would like to share with you a reproduction of the script (with commercials) of the Christmas Day 1963 episode of GH.  Enjoy this look at the first time Dr. Hardy reads the Nativity story to the hospital's Children's Ward!

GH - December 25, 1963

I hope you all have a happy Holiday season, and I look forward to sharing more classic GH research with you in 2025!

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I pretty much would have kept anyone over Jenny, but I've made it clear I can't stand Jenny.

I think at the time it made sense to keep Jenny over Julia, but was a mistake in retrospect.  Julia would have fit in so well with all the Ned/Lois drama-much better than Katherine.  And once Brenda took off in popularity there was a whole slew of other stories for Julia to be included in.  Once Jenny finished out her story there was no place left for her to go.

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The Maples material began with the episode airing 16 September 1963. Their episodes are mixed with episodes written by Catherine Turney (7 October -11 October), Milton Geiger (14 October - 25 October), and Rik Vollaerts (28 October - 08 November). The Maples took back over on 11 November-27 December.  With Melvin Levy writing the weeks of 25-29 November and 09-13 December.  F & D took over beginning with the episode airing 30 December 1963.

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So I would assume the Hursleys were still writing SFT thru 1963 and these other writers were scripting under the Hursleys outlines?

Had the Ferros written up till Sept? I guess there was no point in hiring long term writers if they knew they's be there full time by Jan.  Geiger and Vollaerts had written for soaps before.

Catherine Turney (December 26, 1906 – September 9, 1998) was an American writer and screenwriter. Born in Chicago, Illinois, she was active from the 1930s to the 1970s. She was one of the first women writers to become a contract worker at Warner Brothers,[1] where she worked from 1943 to 1948 on films such as The Man I Love, A Stolen Life, and My Reputation.

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The Ferros were credited as writers until 13 September, they wrote with Hursley’s signing off on the scripts.  The Hursleys did pen the unaired pilot episode (different from the first Emergency Hospital pilot). Footage of the Hursley pilot episode can be found on YouTube here:

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Sadly, that page is full of misinformation that I won’t be correcting there.  This is a personal, passion project of mine, and I am not one to call out others for ‘wrong’ info.  I smile and nod if I know for certain what someone is saying is not correct.  If and when my research proves publishable, you can find it on my website: https://previouslyongh.info.

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