PFS was only at Days 6 months-she wrapped up the Salem Strangler and introduced the Di Meras and Bradys.
There was none of the supercouple/spies/supervillians formulas etc That all came later.
PFS did Luke and Laura on the run. But she was no fan of the sci fi/adventure stuff eg Ice Princess
THE JOURNAL-NEWS, SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 1982 By LYNDA HIRSCH Syndicated columnnist
Pat Falken Smith, now head writer of “Days of Our Lives” and former head writer of “General Hospital,” had another go at Gloria Monty, producer of “General Hospital,” on cable network news special “ The Soap Behind the Soaps ” In it, Falken Smith said that she simply did not want to work for Gloria any more and furthermore, ‘‘If the show had been on radio I’m certain Gloria would have done the acting parts as well.”
Pat also took Tony Geary to task and said at one point she asked him “to get a Writer’s Guild card because he was doing rewrites of the scripts and then telling people in the media about it.” Pat further says that she went to Tony and asked him to kindly stop rewriting continually and also said she wanted to know where the gracious, grateful young man who came to her two years ago and thanked her for giving him the role of a lifetime had gone. In Tony’s defense, Falken Smith said, “When I asked him to stop doing all this rewriting, he stopped.”
Tony makes no secret that he feels that Luke is a very important part of his career and that he does take liberties with the script. However, we believe that’s probably one of the reasons why the character of Luke has been so exciting. On the other hand, most of the “General Hospital” actors stick to the scripts, and when they were being written by Falken Smith, they rang true and were interesting, just as they were when Doug Marland was writing it. As for the new writers on “ General Hospital,” we’ll have to give them a bit more time because their main concerns to date have been getting rid of two major characters — Bobbi and Laura.
By the way, when Gloria Monty was asked about Falken Smith on the same cable network news special, Monty said as graciously as she could, “Pat and I are dear friends. She was a great writer, and when her sub-writers left with her, they all wrote notes to me saying they were sorry to be leaving.”
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