November 8-12, 1965
Monday, November 8
Episode # 1
Air Date: Monday, November 8, 1965
Tape Date: Monday, November 1, 1965
Scene 1: Bartlett's Department Store (Julie,
Detective, Carol, Diane, Xs)
Opening Title
Scene 2: Police Station (Julie, Detective, Carol, Diane)
Scene 3: Horton House (Alice, Tom, Mickey, Marie, Tony)
Intercut: Police Station (Detective)
Scene 4: Horton House (Tom, Alice, Mickey, Marie, Tony)
Intercut: Police Station (Julie, Detective)
Scene 5: Horton Kitchen (Alice, Marie, Tony)
Scene 6: Horton House-Exterior (Marie, Tony)
Scene 7: Police Station (Tom, Mickey, Julie, Detective, Carol,
Diane)
Closing Hour Glass, Theme, Credits
CAST: Starring: Macdonald Carey (Dr. Tom Horton), Frances Reid (Alice Horton), Maree Cheatham (Marie Horton), John Clarke (Mickey Horton), Richard Colla (Tony Merritt), Charla Doherty (Julie Olson). With: Geraldine Lawrence (Diane), Simone Pascal (Carol Proctor), Robert J. Stevenson (Detective).
Extras: (Male Shopper), (Female Shopper), (Store Employee).
Sets: Horton House/Exterior & Kitchen, Police Station, Bartlett's Department Store.
Written by: Peggy Phillips and Kenneth M. Rosen
Directed by: Joe Behar
Producer: Jack Herzberg
Fashions by: The Broadway, California.
A CORDAY PRODUCTIONS SCREEN GEMS PRESENTATION in association with NBC.
Synopsis:
The first episode of Days began in a department store. Three teenage girls are whispering to one another, obviously plotting something. One takes a sweater, puts it in her bag and leaves. She is immediately caught. When asked for her name, she says she's Julie Horton. Her friends are stunned when she gives this as her name, since it's really Julie Olsen. The others both give their real names (Carol and Diane). The girls are taken to the police station.
Tom and Alice are enjoying time together at home. They are planning for the upcoming wedding of youngest daughter Marie to Tony Merritt. When Marie leaves, the house will finally be empty. Although sad, the Hortons are excited about a new phase of their lives beginning. Tom even jokes with Alice that she'll finally have what she's always wanted--enough closet space. The wedding is planned for Thanksgiving.
Marie returns home with her
fiancé, Tony, and they discuss wedding plans with an ecstatic Alice. Marie and Tony discuss their future plans in Boston once they get married.
Since Julie's given her name as Horton, the police call Tom to come to pick her up at the police station. Tom informs Mickey of the situation (he happens to be at the house visiting) and they decide to both go and find out about the situation with Julie, not telling Alice where they're going. Tom tries to contact Ben, Julie's father, but he's off traveling, as he so often is.
At the police station, it is revealed that Julie is not Julie Horton, but Julie Olsen. The police say they cannot release her to anyone other than her parents. Since Ben and Addie can't be found, Julie will be forced to spend the night in the police station. She is very annoyed that her parents aren't around to bail her out. They seem to miss most of what goes on in her life, which is why she said she was Julie Horton instead of Olsen. Julie tells Tom that her parents are never around and that no one cares if she steals. She breaks down crying.
Now on to the Pilot Script. (Courtesy Jason47)
Wednesday, November 10
The full script for the episode (Courtesy Jason47)
(00:00-00:23): Opening Title with Macdonald Carey voiceover "'Days of Our Lives' - a new dramatic serial starring Macdonald Carey."
(00:23-02:48): Scene 1: Bartlett's Department Store-Manager's Office (Ben,Addie, Store Manager U/5)
(02:48-08:04): Scene 2: Olsen House (Ben,Addie, Steve, Julie)
(08:04-12:51): Scene 3: Horton House (Mickey,Tom,Alice)
(12:51-16:41): Scene 4: Merritt House (Tony,Craig)
(16:41-20:50): Scene 5: Olsen House (Julie,Ben)
(20:50-21:18): Closing Hour Glass, Theme, Credits with Macdonald Carey voiceover "Please join us for the next episode of 'Days of Our Lives'."
Starring: Macdonald Carey (Dr. Tom Horton), Frances Reid (Alice Horton), John Clarke (Mickey Horton), Richard Colla (Tony Merritt), Charla Doherty (Julie Olsen), Patricia Huston (Addie Olsen), Robert Knapp (Ben Olsen), Flip Mark (Steve Olsen), David McLean (Craig Merritt). Underfive: (Store Manager Mr. Franklin).
Sets: Horton House, Olsen House, Merritt House, Bartlett's Department Store-Manager's Office.
SYNOPSIS: The Bartlett's Department Store manager, Mr. Franklin, shows Ben and Addie Olsen a closed-circuit video recording of their daughter Julie stealing a fur coat from Bartlett's. (Julie had stolen the fur coat in Episode # 1 to impress her school "friends" Carol and Dianne). Addie wants her brother, Mickey, to be Julie's lawyer, but Ben wants his friend, Harry Grill, to be the lawyer. When they get home, Ben talks with Julie, calling her "a common thief." He sets the ground rules for her, grounding her for a week. Before they leave, Addie tells Julie that "cook left an oven pan in the sink" and she wants it washed by the time they get back. After calling Ben and arguing over who will be Julie's lawyer, Mickey tells Tom and Alice that Ben thinks he can buy and fix everything. He says that Ben and Addie need to spend more time with teenage Julie, who has become "rebellious, defiant, and lies" all the time. Mickey agrees to stay overnight with his parents on one condition: that Tom has a game of chess with him before bed. Meanwhile, Craig helps his son, Tony, unpack, after getting back from a Boston graduate school and suggests they go out to eat a bagel. However, Tony can't because he has a migraine. As the episode ends, Julie asks her younger brother, Steve, to lend her his allowance. He says he's been saving it since he was eight years old to buy a drum set, and now has $400. Julie says to give it to her because she wants to get out of Salem and attend modeling school in Chicago.
NOTES: Castmembers Reid and Clarke
continue in their roles as Alice and Mickey to this day. As
seen by the time cues, the episode only took 22 minutes to
air without commercials. "Days" would not expand to an hour
for another decade - in 1975. It now runs approximately
double the time, at about 40 minutes without commercials.
Also, today's episodes now usually run about 30 scenes. This
episode had only 7 scenes. Each scene had to be shot from
start to finish, since there were no sophisticated editing
capabilities in 1965. Therefore, there are several
noticeable times when the actors make mistakes with the
script. A remarkable difference in how "Days of Our Lives"
was in its early beginnings.
November 10 summary written by Jason47. For episode synopses like this of current "Days" episodes, check out Jason47's Days Website by clicking here: Jason47's "Days" Website