Welcome Guest [Log In] [Register]



Hello, soap fans -- and welcome to Daytime Royalty!

For those unfamiliar, we are an uncensored community for fans and lovers of the daytime genre. We have a no-holds-barred atmosphere in regards to the shows, writers, actors etc. but we do not allow member suffering succotash in any form.

You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use. If you join our community, you'll be able to access member-only sections, and use many member-only features such as customizing your profile, sending personal messages, and voting in polls. Registration is simple, fast, and completely free.

Join our community!

If you're already a member, please log in to your account to access all of our features.

Username:   Password:
Add Reply
Jason47's Weekly Thread: Week of 6/2-6/8; 6/4 UPDATE: Riley Bodenstab back as Cole next week...
Topic Started: Jun 2 2014, 04:34 PM (3,741 Views)
thepadange
Member Avatar


Just a random speculation.

There was this blind item (on DC) loooong:) ago: "This sexy East Coast hunk is finally making the leap out west. Seems the stud with quite the royal surname wants to be where the action is."

People were speculating this could be Ted King (Theodore William King). Might he be the one joining "Days"?
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Yoryla
Member Avatar


Jason47
Jun 2 2014, 04:34 PM
FIRST LOOK AT EVE ON A CAST CHART SINCE 1991!

Posted Image

For the full image, please click here: https://scontent-b-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/t31.0-8/10258417_413777208764559_1555730386590412273_o.jpg

JASON47'S FROM THE VAULT: JULY 1987 CAST CHART

Here's the cast chart from July 1987, the month that Eve Donovan made her debut on the show...

Spoiler: click to toggle


For the full images, please click below:

https://scontent-a-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/t1.0-9/10354681_413823965426550_303705146320781661_n.jpg

https://scontent-a-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/t1.0-9/10402830_413824055426541_2776790679135191919_n.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/t1.0-9/10406384_413824128759867_7079327517457766613_n.jpg

Principal Guest Stars: Week of Monday 6/2/14-Wednesday 6/4/14

Posted Image

Sandra Purpuro made her 6th appearance this week as DA Beverly Jenkins. She appeared in the role for 2 episodes in 2008 and 3 episodes in 2010.

Posted Image

Oliver Keller (John's Stunt Double) was Galen Gering's main stunt double on "Passions" for the show's entire run. Keller lists playing Gering's stunt double for 59 episodes of "Passions", as well as several episodes of "Days."

Bryan Dattilo - Lucas Horton
Allison Paige - Bev Walters
Sandra Purpuro - Beverly Jenkins
Conrad Palmisano - Stunt Coordinator
Oliver Keller - John Stunt Double (new)

A TRIBUTE TO THE "DAYS OF OUR LIVES" CAST OF 1965:

39 actors appeared on "Days of Our Lives" in 1965, during its first two months on the air. Through the years, 29 of them have passed away. No information for Geraldine Lawrence, who appeared as Julie's friend Diane in the pilot episode, has ever been found, but she may still be living. To see pictures and read about the lives of all 39 actors from 1965, please visit http://www.jason47.com/days/1965casttribute.html

Of the nine surviving actors, Maree Cheatham (Marie Horton) continues to act and appeared this year on "Sam & Cat" and "Hart of Dixie." John Clarke (Mickey Horton) has been enjoying retirement since he left "Days" in 2004. Dick Colla (Tony Merritt) met his wife, actress Denise Alexander on the set of "Days" in 1966. He quit acting after leaving "Days" and has been a director ever since. Flip Mark (Steve Olson) stopped acting shortly after "Days" and has been a long-time 911 operator in Arizona. Bill Moneymaker (Larry) worked as a tour guide at Universal Studios and, for many years, helped run The Grange Hall in San Luis Obispo, California. Simone Pascal (Carol Proctor) continues to act and is also a painter and collage artist. Anne Whitfield (Barbara Harris) retired from acting after many years and now lives in Washington. Tammy Windsor (Court Stenographer) was a long-time casting agent in Sherman Oaks, California. Ron Quint (Process Server) continues to reside in California.

Cast members from 1965, pictured in more recent years (left to right): Maree Cheatham, John Clarke, Dick Colla, Flip Mark, Bill Moneymaker, Simone Pascal and Anne Whitfield.

Posted Image

Man that cast chart from 1987 looks great.

Genie Francis... one of my all time favorites ever... :wub2:

I didn't know Suzanne Rogers had been on recurring at some point by the way.

I kinda like this DA. But I have to wonder, isn't there only one DA at a time? I mean, how are they gonna explain Trask not being there and then being there again later?

Man that stunt man looks good :blulaugh: Kinda funny how Rafe and John can have the same stunt man lol.

Guess that means he's gonna be beaten up again, oy...........
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Yoryla
Member Avatar


Restless84
Jun 3 2014, 08:23 PM
ShaneDOOLFan
Jun 3 2014, 08:12 PM
Does the show really need another contract member?
Well 2 just left (CB and BB). 2 additional cast members will be leaving in several months (AS and JS).

I honestly don't think Days' cast is too big, especially compared to the likes of Y&R and GH.
Well, yeah, but they shouldn't be. I mean, their casts are extremely big and that's one of the reasons why Days is the best one out of all the four, that they have the right cast size...
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Yoryla
Member Avatar


A new contract cast member? Really?

Yeah I'm sorry but I don't see how there was any need for this... especially if it has to do with Jafe... that ship has already sailed by a mile and the writers should just drop it already....
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
thepadange
Member Avatar


Jason47
Jun 3 2014, 10:13 PM
This had to be Eve's debut:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQLWVuP-b8Y

I don't exactly remember my feelings about it from when it aired (I don't know why) but I found this episode really heartbreaking when I rewatched it on YT a couple of years ago):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5CNrtYk7Fo
Edited by thepadange, Jun 4 2014, 06:47 AM.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
thepadange
Member Avatar


Yoryla
Jun 4 2014, 04:49 AM
Man that cast chart from 1987 looks great.

Genie Francis... one of my all time favorites ever... :wub2:

Not that I could compare 1987 with any of the previous years of DOOL (when I first started watching the show they were airing episodes from 1987 on German TV in 1993) but that was a great year, IMO .

And I loved :wub2: Genie with Drake on "Days", they had such an amazing chemistry :wub2: , IMO .

Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Sindacco
Member Avatar


Yoryla
Jun 4 2014, 04:49 AM
I kinda like this DA. But I have to wonder, isn't there only one DA at a time? I mean, how are they gonna explain Trask not being there and then being there again later?
Because they have different DAs for different cases.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Hugo


I noticed Blake Berris was back in the credits this week.
Can we expect another appearance or is it just a mistake?

EDIT: Nevermind, he was also in the credits of the past few weeks. I thought I read somewhere he was removed immediately after Nick's death.
Edited by Hugo, Jun 4 2014, 07:57 AM.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
thepadange
Member Avatar


Sindacco
Jun 4 2014, 07:36 AM
Yoryla
Jun 4 2014, 04:49 AM
I kinda like this DA. But I have to wonder, isn't there only one DA at a time? I mean, how are they gonna explain Trask not being there and then being there again later?
Because they have different DAs for different cases.
They say (casting call etc) that Melinda Trask is a special prosecutor.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
thepadange
Member Avatar


Restless84
Jun 3 2014, 08:23 PM
ShaneDOOLFan
Jun 3 2014, 08:12 PM
Does the show really need another contract member?
Well 2 just left (CB and BB). 2 additional cast members will be leaving in several months (AS and JS).

I honestly don't think Days' cast is too big, especially compared to the likes of Y&R and GH.
If we can trust SOC, Y&R has 30 actors playing contract roles, GH - 33. Days - 27(? SOC lists 28, KDP included). GH has an extremely long list of actors playing recurring roles.
Edited by thepadange, Jun 4 2014, 10:51 AM.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
blueskies
Member Avatar


thepadange
Jun 4 2014, 08:34 AM
Restless84
Jun 3 2014, 08:23 PM
ShaneDOOLFan
Jun 3 2014, 08:12 PM
Does the show really need another contract member?
Well 2 just left (CB and BB). 2 additional cast members will be leaving in several months (AS and JS).

I honestly don't think Days' cast is too big, especially compared to the likes of Y&R and GH.
If we can trust SOC, Y&R has 30 contract actors, GH - 33. Days - 27(? SOC lists 28, KDP included). GH has an extremely long list of recurring actors.
i don't watch the other shows but everytime i hear about GH's cast i feel like they have double the number Days does. Then again from what I can tell they write actual storylines for their recurring characters and not just "pop-up John" them all.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
thepadange
Member Avatar


I have a soft spot for "Days" but IMO the way they use their cast is extremely unbalanced. About 1/3 of the characters played by contract actors don't even have a D-story (I won't even begin about recurring roles). They definitely need more storylines with more people involved at the same time to hold viewers' interest. I don't know what their problem is - lack of creativity perhaps?
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Jason47
Member Avatar


Hugo
Jun 4 2014, 07:49 AM
I noticed Blake Berris was back in the credits this week.
Can we expect another appearance or is it just a mistake?

EDIT: Nevermind, he was also in the credits of the past few weeks. I thought I read somewhere he was removed immediately after Nick's death.
Blake hasn't been in the NBC credits since the week of 5/5-5/9. Those are the credits I use since that's the feed I watch. The Days credits on NBC.com might differ a little. Blake's done with the show and won't be appearing again, other than in flashbacks.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Jason47
Member Avatar


thepadange
Jun 4 2014, 08:34 AM
If we can trust SOC, Y&R has 30 actors playing contract roles, GH - 33. Days - 27(? SOC lists 28, KDP included). GH has an extremely long list of actors playing recurring roles.
We have 28 on contract as of the end of June, when you subtract Camila Banus and add in Kassie DePaiva and "Clyde."
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Jason47
Member Avatar


Yoryla
Jun 4 2014, 04:49 AM
I didn't know Suzanne Rogers had been on recurring at some point by the way.

When Suzanne returned in 1985 after her year dealing with myasthenia gravis, "Days" didn't offer her a contract for her first 3 years back, so she was recurring from 1985-1988.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Jason47
Member Avatar


JASON47'S FROM THE VAULT: THE "DAYS OF OUR LIVES" PROPOSAL...ALICE HORTON

Posted Image

Pictured above: The three faces of Alice Horton...Mary K. Wells, who turned down the role since she was based on the East Coast; Mary Jackson, who played Alice in the first pilot, and Frances Reid, who became the only Alice "Days" fans ever knew.

Here's how Alice Horton was described in Ted Corday's proposal for "Days of Our Lives"...

Tom's wife, ALICE, is still a strikingly handsome woman. It is easy to believe that she turned down the offers of more than one wealthy young man in order to marry Tom.

Alice had the normal American girl's dreams of comfort and affluence when she married Tom Horton. Even then, as a young ball player, he was making more money than the average family doctor. Alice understood that the time and the earnings Tom invested in his medical studies were both investments in the family's future.

The Horton family never missed a meal, or a mortgage payment. Neither did they ever move out of the rambling frame house the young ball player-medical student bought for his bride. The Horton family has never been able to afford the luxuries enjoyed by the wives and children of most of the other doctors Alice knew.

At first, Tom's lack of 'practical' values was the cause of great distress to Alice. She resented his failure to 'get ahead' - but, being Alice, she kept these resentments to herself. Later, as her children began to grow up, and some of them began to complain that other doctors' children had more good things than they had, Alice found herself defending Tom with all her heart and soul.

In her own mind, Tom had become a noble, visionary creature to whom science and academic honors would always mean more than money. She loved and respected him for it - but she was not about to let any of her children grow up to be as 'impractical' as their wonderful father. She was going to give her children 'firmer goals' in life, 'stronger values.'

'Values' mean different things for Tom and Alice. To Tom, values are things moral, spiritual, and intellectual; one exists to give of oneself to life and to all people, strangers and brothers, who share this life. To Alice, values are tangibles measured by the yardsticks of the marker place: life consists of taking all that life and other people can be forced to yield. However, she is not a taker for her own sake: for herself, she is quite content, but for her family she wants money, prestige, comfort, security. Alice would be truly astounded if she ever found out that, deep down, she and Tom want the same things.

Above all things, Alice wants her children to be 'practical.' Tom has never learned how to be 'practical,' and Alice rarely tries to 'keep his feet on the ground' as she used to when they were first married. Tom is forever bringing home impractical and wildly extravagant gifts for his wife and his children and his grandchildren. The fact is, as their daughter MARIE once observed - that, in proportion to his income, Tom has probably spent more money buying gifts for his wife than any doctor in Salem City. Alice kicks up a fuss with each such display of Tom's extravagance - but she is also frank to admit that she would miss them if Tom 'reformed.'

Now, in the third decade of their marriage, Alice is Tom's most ardent defender - against the world beyond the family circle. She feels he is entitled to far more honors, respect, and fame than he has yet received - and, in her own way, she does what she can to make the world look up to her husband,

On their 30th wedding anniversary, one of their children proposed a toast that summed up the story of their lives together. It ran: "Here's to the marriage that never was supposed to happen, never supposed to last, never supposed to bring a moment of happiness to either of its partners - and this child of that marriage will go to his grave swearing that never has there been a happier marriage in the whole cockeyed history of matrimony."

The Hortons have brought five children into the world...

(Coming soon, find out the first descriptions of the Horton kids!)
Edited by Jason47, Jun 4 2014, 01:48 PM.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Yoryla
Member Avatar


Sindacco
Jun 4 2014, 07:36 AM
Yoryla
Jun 4 2014, 04:49 AM
I kinda like this DA. But I have to wonder, isn't there only one DA at a time? I mean, how are they gonna explain Trask not being there and then being there again later?
Because they have different DAs for different cases.
Oh okay lol :D Didn't know that :D
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Yoryla
Member Avatar


blueskies
Jun 4 2014, 09:02 AM
thepadange
Jun 4 2014, 08:34 AM
Restless84
Jun 3 2014, 08:23 PM
ShaneDOOLFan
Jun 3 2014, 08:12 PM
Does the show really need another contract member?
Well 2 just left (CB and BB). 2 additional cast members will be leaving in several months (AS and JS).

I honestly don't think Days' cast is too big, especially compared to the likes of Y&R and GH.
If we can trust SOC, Y&R has 30 contract actors, GH - 33. Days - 27(? SOC lists 28, KDP included). GH has an extremely long list of recurring actors.
i don't watch the other shows but everytime i hear about GH's cast i feel like they have double the number Days does. Then again from what I can tell they write actual storylines for their recurring characters and not just "pop-up John" them all.
Yeah GH basically has 40 to 50 cast members on average, since they have about 30 on contract on another 30 on recurring, but usually many of their front burner characters are actually from the recurring side, and also they have a lot of coming and going movement aswell, which I think is a mistake because people want to know who the players are and it's impossible to care or get invested when you don't even know who belong in the cast and who not and who is coming and who is going. They also cannot tell real good proper storylines with layers and beats played because they don't have the time. They have way too many storylines and characters and sometimes one storyline is seen like one day in two weeks and many of the things also happen off-screen. It's horrible storytelling imo and a badly structured soap.

Also the same things apply to a little bit smaller scale to Y&R, over there the problem is mostly that it is deadly boring, the characters are horrible and uninteresting and their focus is on all the wrong characters, there's way too many people who should only be recurring or supporting being pushed as leads whilst the real leads are nowhere to be seen, also the recasting is horrible there, most of the faces are unrecognizable there. Horrid show.

Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Yoryla
Member Avatar


thepadange
Jun 4 2014, 10:57 AM
I have a soft spot for "Days" but IMO the way they use their cast is extremely unbalanced. About 1/3 of the characters played by contract actors don't even have a D-story (I won't even begin about recurring roles). They definitely need more storylines with more people involved at the same time to hold viewers' interest. I don't know what their problem is - lack of creativity perhaps?
Actually, what I would do is that I would take down the cast size a bit, not hire any newbies, and tighten the storylines. They need to be more consistent with a beginning, a middle and an end. Also, I would make it so that there two main A-storylines which can interchange with each other, A B-storyline, a C-, a D- and an E- So basically at the maximum about six storylines at once, that is enough to encompass the whole cast of characters which should be around 25 people at the maximum. And also if need be they could expand the other A-storyline to become an umbrella storyline encompassing some of the other smaller storylines or people from within them, or in the most specials of cases they could unite the two main A-storylines to become a big giant umbrella for a while, say for like a reveal or a big party of sorts. lol :D
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Mean, Mean, Mean!
Member Avatar


Jason47
Jun 3 2014, 07:11 PM
FIRST LOOK AT EVE ON A CAST CHART SINCE 1991!

Posted Image

For the full image, please click here: https://scontent-b-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/t31.0-8/10258417_413777208764559_1555730386590412273_o.jpg
Thanks for your work Jason!



...It kinda bugs me that the writers used "Marlena Black". She never changed her name before from Evans because of her Patients, so why should this marriage be different?
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
1 user reading this topic (1 Guest and 0 Anonymous)
ZetaBoards - Free Forum Hosting
Free Forums with no limits on posts or members.
Learn More · Register Now
Go to Next Page
« Previous Topic · DAYS: News, Spoilers & Discussion · Next Topic »
Add Reply