Members EricMontreal22 Posted September 29, 2011 Members Share Posted September 29, 2011 I'm looking for a list of who was HW for Y&R which years--Wikipedia is fairly good at this with most soap operas, but doesn't have a chronological list for Y&R... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted September 29, 2011 Members Share Posted September 29, 2011 Bill Bell Kay Alden Satan Lucretia Borgia Lizzie Borden Pat Boone Donald Trump Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members KMan101 Posted September 29, 2011 Members Share Posted September 29, 2011 Bill Bell Kay Alden Jack Smith Lynn Marie Latham Josh Griffith Scott Hamner Maria Arena Bell Hogan Sheffer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sheilaforever Posted September 29, 2011 Members Share Posted September 29, 2011 Pretty easy, there weren't that many, via the archives... March 26, 1973 - 1997 William J. Bell 1997 - 1998 William J. Bell and Kay Alden 1998 - 2000 Kay Alden 2000 - August 18, 2000 Kay Alden, John F. Smith, Jerry Birn August 21, 2000 - February 1, 2002 Kay Alden, John F. Smith, Jerry Birn, Trent Jones February 4, 2002 - June 28, 2002 Kay Alden, Jerry Birn, Trent Jones July 1, 2002 - August 5, 2004 Kay Alden, John F. Smith, Jerry Birn, Trent Jones August 6, 2004 - February 15, 2006 Kay Alden and John F. Smith February 16, 2006 - October 25, 2006 Kay Alden, Lynn Marie Latham, John F. Smith October 26, 2006 - November 10, 2006 Kay Alden, Lynn Marie Latham, John F. Smith, and Scott Hamner (Co-Head Writer) November 13, 2006 - December 22, 2006 Kay Alden, Lynn Marie Latham and Scott Hamner (Co-Head Writer) December 26, 2006 - December 24, 2007 Lynn Marie Latham and Scott Hamner (Co-Head Writer) December 26, 2007 - April 14, 2008 Josh Griffith (Interim Head Writer) and Maria Arena Bell (Co-Head Writer) April 15, 2008 - April 21, 2008 Josh Griffith (Interim Head Writer), Maria Arena Bell (Co-Head Writer) and Scott Hamner (Co-Head Writer) April 22, 2008 - May 9, 2008 Maria Arena Bell and Scott Hamner (Co-Head Writer) May 12, 2008 - July 14, 2008 Maria Arena Bell July 15, 2008 - August 8, 2008 Maria Arena Bell and Hogan Sheffer (Co-Head Writer) August 11, 2008 - Present Maria Arena Bell and Hogan Sheffer (Co-Head Writer) and Scott Hamner (Co-Head Writer) Birn was never officially headwriter, as was Trent Jones. They served as co-heads/lead associate head writers... John F. Smith really became headwriter in late 2002, Kay Alden had to serve for him even thoiugh she was credited first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members yr9190 Posted September 29, 2011 Members Share Posted September 29, 2011 Jerry Birn was Laura Bryan Birn's (Lynne) father right and Patty Weaver's (Gina) husband? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted September 29, 2011 Members Share Posted September 29, 2011 Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DaytimeFan Posted September 29, 2011 Members Share Posted September 29, 2011 Y&R 1973-2006 as far as I'm concerned. When Kay Alden's pen stopped touching those scripts, that was the end. Sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EricMontreal22 Posted September 30, 2011 Author Members Share Posted September 30, 2011 Thanks everyone. I still find it kinda shocking how Kay Alden was edged out. I guess ratings had started to fall under her (but ratings were falling everywhere), but fans still seemed to respect and enjoy most of her writing, and she essentially had been Bell's right hand (wo)man since the late 70s--it just seems like such a sad decision. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members KMan101 Posted September 30, 2011 Members Share Posted September 30, 2011 I agree. Edging out Kay Alden was a big mistake and the show still hasn't recovered. I liked Jack Smith, too, but I felt the show became a little too dark (however, he was going through tough times from what I remember). And wasn't it Smith who virtually axed all of the recurring side characters like Lynne and Gina? Or was that Latham? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeeeDee Posted September 30, 2011 Members Share Posted September 30, 2011 It was. Alden's Y&R (for all it's various faults) was the best soap in Daytime. Jack Smith is/was Hogan Sheffer-lite. Everything wrong with current Y&R begins with him (something which Latham & Maria/Hogan made infinitely worse in their own separate ways). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EricMontreal22 Posted September 30, 2011 Author Members Share Posted September 30, 2011 Smith has quite a long history with the show, I believe, as well, though not to the extent that Alden has had. It just seems a waste for Alden to be at B&B where I don't get the sense her "voice" has added or changed anything at the show. I still don't feel like she woul dbe a good fit for AMC--the Bell Y&R style and the Nixon AMC style are so different in obvious and subtle ways, but I would have sure prefered her over Pratt--which apparently were the options... BTW it's John Smith isn't it? Not Jack? I know he was close to Bell (probably right after Alden) in the 80s for Y&R writing, and then served a similar role on B&B from the start till 2000 or so, but I do remember hearing fans start to grumble a lot when he started to gain more power over Alden, post Bill Bell. It just seems like if the Bell's weren't so obsessed with nepotism (granted, something Bill and Lee began in a way), they would realize that keeping Alden high up at Y&R is both best for the show, and most probably what their father would have wanted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeeeDee Posted September 30, 2011 Members Share Posted September 30, 2011 Alden would've been a good fit at AMC. She does family drama & business very well. Jack is a nickname for John. Much like Jack Abbott is really JOHN Abbott Jr. The Bells nepotism issues aren't Y&R's major problem. It's SONY. So while Alden definitely needs to return it will never happen. Y&R's basically stuck with Maria until the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted September 30, 2011 Members Share Posted September 30, 2011 i would imagine that Katherine (Kay) Chancellor was named for Alden and John and Jack Abbott were named for Smith. Bill Bell liked to use family and friends names for his characters eg Brad (Eliot,Carlton), Colleen,Lauralee Brooks,Biil Foster,Phillip Chancellor (Lee Bell's maiden name was Phillip)etc Interesting that the best Maria could get was the Forrester maid! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DaytimeFan Posted September 30, 2011 Members Share Posted September 30, 2011 While it's very clear that Bill Bell liked using family names for his characters...Kay Chancellor is definitely not named after Kay Alden, Alden started writing for Y&R in 1974, Kay Chancellor had been on canvas since 1973. LOL about Maria being the Forrester maid. Losing Alden was the death knell for Y&R, it really was the beginning of the end. Jack Smith had many faults and DeeeDee's put it very succinctly that he's really Hogan-lite, what I will give Jack Smith is that he wrote Y&R while his son died of terminal cancer. Now, he never should have done that, he should have just gone on leave, but he didn't and he worked on the show and cared for his son. That he got anything resembling a soap opera on the air is a miracle in my view and he has all my sympathy, no parent should lose a child. Alden's Y&R, faults and all, not that I ever found many, was as close to Bill Bell as anyone was ever going to get and it is VILE and she isn't still guiding the show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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