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Jason47's Weekly Thread: Week of 9/12-9/18; Weekly Production Schedule: 1965-1969 and more now posted!
Topic Started: Sep 12 2016, 02:32 PM (3,006 Views)
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SoapsandDaysfan
Sep 15 2016, 04:36 PM
Me too. She was HW on AMC 2.0 right? She did a great job.
I forgot to update her bio since she was last with Days. Thanks for the reminder.
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What a great talent for Days then. AMC 2.0 was extremely well written. Good balance of different stories all united with one vision.
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Jason47
Sep 15 2016, 06:07 PM
SoapsandDaysfan
Sep 15 2016, 04:36 PM
Me too. She was HW on AMC 2.0 right? She did a great job.
I forgot to update her bio since she was last with Days. Thanks for the reminder.
No problem. I only knew that cuz I loved AMC at that time.
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"DAYS" HISTORY FANS...COMING THIS WEEKEND!

The complete weekly production schedule from 1965-1969! Find out which episodes taped each week for all of the 1960's.
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FROM THE VAULT: VARIETY ARTICLE ON "DAYS"...MARCH 6, 1967

AS LONG AS SERIALS IDENTIFY WITH PEOPLE AND THEIR problems they'll be as popular tomorrow as they were 26 years ago and the end is a long way off. Few have a better right to say it than Betty Corday. Her long involvement with the soaps (she detests the word) has, through a tragic circumstance, elevated her to executive producer of one of NBC's strongest dayllghters, "Days Of Our Lives" (last rating 8.1). When her husband, Ted, died last July, she took over the reins and has maintained the serial's strong pull with the hausfrau. With the temporary leave of Gail Patrick Jackson and sometime directorial activity of Ida Lupino, Mrs. Corday remains the lone femme in Hollywood television with the exalted title and working at it five days a week. What little is left of live television in Hollywood, she submits that it's the best training ground extant for all areas of showbusiness. The pay doesn't reach the grandiose figures of primetime, but it's steady for 52 weeks of the year. "Serials haven't changed much over the years," says Mrs. Corday, "because our province remains fixed, that of creating dramas of present-day life that evoke an empathy with the home viewer and mirror her own problems. We don't want to get embroiled in controversial matters so we avoid messages. We try to depict what happens in the typical home with at times certain literary license. NBC has been fair and rarely have our scripts been sent back for rewrite." The working schedule would frighten off most actors. The morning call is for 6:30 and the day ends at 8:00. That's for five days a week to put away five half-hour shows. Not only have there been no complaints but some pretty fair actors in Hollywood have banged at her door. She uses nine regulars, among them Macdonald Carey, Coleen Gray and Terry O'Sullivan, with occasional parts for four or five others. Since Corday Productions was formed, the femme partner, who came out of Benton & Bowles where she was the agency producer on serials, has been associated with only long-runners. Their "As The World Turns" has long been a rating leader but now is in the Procter & Gamble stable. Irna Phillips, who has been writing serials since they came into being, is story editor on "Days", and described by Mrs. Corday as having the mind of a novelist, who can dictate an entire episode without as much as a pause. The Corday operation is linked with both Screen Gems and NBC and now that she is a permanent resident, other serials will be coming along. The talent pool in Hollywood makes casting a delight, what with the steady stream of actors from N.Y. and those "between" pictures and tv assignments eager to pick up experience and the remuneration that goes with it. Daytime serials have spawned many a star for feature pictures and television so they are no longer scorned as a "last resort."
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COMING THIS WEEKEND...THE "DAYS" PRODUCTION SCHEDULE FOR 1965-1969!

Here's a look back at the telecast report from Episode # 900, taped May 26, 1969 and aired June 2, 1969.

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Big pluses this week

- Glad that Hope, Rafe and JJ was involved in looking for the three villains. Thought it was only Abe and Roman who was.
- Glad to see the villains working together
- Interesting that Xander called Nicole....he still wants his revenge against her or just wants to smooch her.
- Phil got a new haircut, yay!
- The teens did really bore me this week...was surprised that Claire has joined college.
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Jason47
Sep 15 2016, 04:07 PM
WRITING STAFF UPDATE...TYLER TOPITS BECOMES BREAKDOWN WRITER; ELIZABETH SNYDER REPLACES CHRISTOPHER DUNN AS A BREAKDOWN WRITER

Dunn had been with "Days" since 2011. Snyder was previously on the "Days" writing staff in 2003 and 2011-2012.

Elizabeth F. Snyder began her writing career at "General Hospital" from 1989-1993. She later wrote for "Another World" from 1995-1996, "Sunset Beach" from 1997-1998, "Port Charles" from 1998-2000, "The Bold and the Beautiful" from 2004-2010, and the online edition of "All My Children" in 2013. Snyder won her first Emmy in 2010 for her work on "The Bold and the Beautiful."

I also noticed John Newman wrote the script for Thursday's episode but he wasn't listed among the scriptwriters the day before or the day after.
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Sep 17 2016, 10:28 AM
I also noticed John Newman wrote the script for Thursday's episode but he wasn't listed among the scriptwriters the day before or the day after.
He was listed in another episode last week too (not as the actual script writer, just part of the staff), and then disappeared until Thursday. Might have to do with when episodes are submitted as fully written (perhaps out of order), so he'll probably show up permanently next week.
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THE DAY "DAYS" ALMOST WENT LIVE!

A new piece of information has been found while compiling the production dates of the 1960's "Days" episodes..."Days" almost had to go live in April 1967.

Thanks to a 13-day strike by AFTRA, "Days" had to unexpectedly stop taping after Tuesday, March 28, 1967 and went dark for two straight weeks. The show did not resume taping until Tuesday, April 11, 1967, just 24 hours before Episode # 365 was set to air. The next day, on Wednesday, April 12, 1967, the production schedule shows that "Days" got even closer to going live...they didn't finish taping Episode # 366 until 4:05PM PT (which is 7:05PM ET)...less than 16 hours before the episode aired on the East Coast!

If the 13-day AFTRA strike had not ended on April 10, "Days" would have run out of episodes to air just 36 hours later!

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Sep 17 2016, 02:17 PM
THE DAY "DAYS" ALMOST WENT LIVE!

A new piece of information has been found while compiling the production dates of the 1960's "Days" episodes..."Days" almost had to go live in April 1967.

While no reason for the production shut-down can be found, for some reason, "Days" had to unexpectedly stop taping after Tuesday, March 28, 1967 and went dark for two straight weeks. The show did not resume taping until Tuesday, April 11, 1967, just 24 hours before Episode # 365 was set to air. The next day, on Wednesday, April 12, 1967, the production schedule shows that "Days" got even closer to going live...they didn't finish taping Episode # 366 until 4:05PM PT (which is 7:05PM ET)...less than 16 hours before the episode aired on the East Coast!

Unlike nowadays, "Days" taped every single week in the 1960's, except for those two mysterious weeks they shut down in late March/early April 1967. While we may never know why this happened, it almost caused "Days" to go live.

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Maybe the two week closure was because they thought they were canceled.
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4ever DAYS
Sep 17 2016, 03:05 PM
Maybe the two week closure was because they thought they were canceled.
No. They taped 364 on 3/28/67 to air on Tuesday 4/10. They wouldn't have finished on a Tuesday episode if they thought they were cancelled.
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I found the reason why, Jason. Scan down to 1967:

https://www.sagaftra.org/history/aftra-history/aftra-history

Edited by 4ever DAYS, Sep 17 2016, 05:12 PM.
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1967
AFTRA members call the union’s first national strike on March 29, 1967, after negotiations breakdown over staff announcer contracts at owned-and-operated stations in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles and over first-time contracts for “newsmen” at networks and owned-and-operated stations. Since AFTRA adhered to a bargaining principle that no general agreement exists until all Codes and Contracts are acceptable, the 13-day strike involves all 18,000 members in more than 100 locations across the country. Agreement is reached on the outstanding issues at 8:05 pm, EST, on Monday, April 10, 1967—just in time to allow broadcast of the annual Academy Awards program live from the Santa Monica Auditorium. It established the first staff newspersons contract for network correspondents at ABC, CBS and NBC.
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Sep 17 2016, 04:47 PM
I found the reason why, Jason. Scan down to 1967:

https://www.sagaftra.org/history/aftra-history/aftra-history

Thanks! Others posted it on other boards too. I had only searched the online Variety archives for the term "Days of Our Lives" in 1967, and nothing had popped up in that time frame. Should have done a better search!

Here's additional info about the news anchors refusing to work:

https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1P3-406233251/anchors-away-huntley-brinkley-and-cronkite-and
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"DAYS" WEEKLY PRODUCTION SCHEDULE: 1965-1969

"Days" fans, take a step back in time and check out the weekly production schedule from 1965-1969, now available online!

Find out which episodes were taped each week, plus, check out the telecast reports for Episode #s 1, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900 and 1000 to see which sponsors aired ads during the show's earliest years, as well as which shows NBC aired promos of (the original "Star Trek" is listed on one!).

http://www.jason47.com/days/productionschedule19651969.html
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Thanks Jason. All good info. Thanks for keeping us in the loop and the fun history of the show.
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