The World of Television According to McInnes

THE YOUNG & RESTLESS....Don't which writer has a sense of humor but the stuff on "Father Knows Best", the house, etc. was a stroke of genius. It is so ripe for daytime to throw some humor into the dreary soaps and having ELINOR DONAHUE (Betty Anderson) .. from original FKB as the judge was joyous. Wasn't Elinor's first soap, she appeared on DOOL as Kate Honeycutt (1984-1986). Also trippy was an episode with all the ladies of Genoa City in a spa sequence right of the classic film, THE WOMEN (1939). The classic one, not the piece of junk that came out last year. You know, MGM itself tried to update and musicalize it as "THE OPPOSITE SEX'with JUNE ALLYSON, ANN SHERIDAN, ANN MILLER, ETC. and then in the infinite wisdom of producers who take a great film and then change it, added men. The total charm of THE WOMEN is that you never see the men. Anyway, my adored ladies of GC were terrific and non-restrained. A lot of fun to watch. And I watched it three times.

DAYS OF OUR LIVES.....Did you notice the nun nurse, Sister Anne on DOOL? Look familiar??? She's EILEEN BARNETT who was Stephanie Wooddruff (1978-1980) She's also listed Brooke Hamilton for the same time period. She was killed off in a red convertible and afterwards in her nightclub act (she's an outstanding singer) included a song written by Billy Barnes warning actresses not to ever get into a red convertible cuz that's the car of death on soaps.l Very clever!