Days of Our Lives producers and writers

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This is a list of executive producers and head writers for the soap opera Days of Our Lives .

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Executive Producers

DurationName
November 8, 1965 – August 2, 1966 [1] Ted Corday
August 3, 1966 – April 19, 1977 Betty Corday
April 20, 1977 – January 18, 1980Betty Corday and H. Wesley Kenney
January 21, 1980 – May 9, 1986Betty Corday and Al Rabin
May 12, 1986 – December 31, 1987Betty Corday, Ken Corday and Al Rabin
January 4, 1988 – March 6, 1989Ken Corday and Al Rabin
March 7 – December 1989Ken Corday and Shelley Curtis
December 1989 – April 20, 1992Ken Corday and Al Rabin
April 21, 1992 – March 28, 2002Ken Corday and Tom Langan
March 29, 2002 – August 29, 2007Ken Corday and Stephen Wyman
August 30, 2007 – September 16, 2008Ken Corday and Edward J. Scott
September 17, 2008 – September 2, 2011Ken Corday and Gary Tomlin
September 6, 2011 – January 27, 2012Ken Corday, Noel Maxam and Greg Meng
January 30, 2012 – July 31, 2015Ken Corday, Lisa de Cazotte and Greg Meng
August 3, 2015 – September 7, 2020Ken Corday, Albert Alarr and Greg Meng
September 8, 2020 – January 26, 2024Ken Corday and Albert Alarr 3
January 29, 2024 – presentKen Corday and Janet Spellman-Drucker

Head writers

DurationName
November 8 – December 31, 1965 [2] Peggy Phillips and Kenneth Rosen
January 3 – July 4, 1966Peggy Phillips
July 5, 1966 – May 6, 1975 William J. Bell
May 7, 1975 – April 19, 1977 Pat Falken Smith
April 20, 1977 – February 26, 1979 Ann Marcus
February 27, 1979 – March 14, 1980 Elizabeth Harrower
March 17 – April 18, 1980 Ruth Brooks Flippen
April 21 – October 9, 1980Nina Laemmle
October 10 – 17, 1980 Michelle Poteet Lisanti
October 20, 1980 – October 20, 1981 Gary Tomlin and Michelle Poteet Lisanti
October 21, 1981 – April 16, 1982Pat Falken Smith
April 19, 1982 – September 21, 1984 Margaret DePriest and Sheri Anderson
September 24 – October 25, 1984Margaret DePriest, Sheri Anderson, and Thom Racina
October 26 – November 30, 1984Sheri Anderson and Thom Racina
December 3, 1984 – November 10, 1986Sheri Anderson, Thom Racina, Leah Laiman
November 11 – 18, 1986Thom Racina and Leah Laiman
November 19, 1986 – March 16, 1989Leah Laiman 1 2
March 17, 1989 – January 19, 1990 Anne Howard Bailey 1 2
January 22, 1990 – June 18, 1991 Richard J. Allen and Anne Schoettle 1
June 19, 1991 – January 30, 1992 Gene Palumbo 1
January 31 – June 12, 1992 Richard J. Allen and Beth Milstein 1
June 12 – July 9, 1992Sheri Anderson 1
July 10 – August 6, 1992Sheri Anderson and Gene Palumbo 1
August 7 – December 18, 1992Sheri Anderson 1
December 21, 1992 – April 28, 1993Sheri Anderson and James E. Reilly 1
April 29, 1993 – November 20, 1997James E. Reilly 1
November 21, 1997 – January 5, 1998James E. Reilly and Sally Sussman Morina 1
January 8, 1998 – October 14, 1999Sally Sussman Morina
October 15 – November 10, 1999 Lorraine Broderick
November 11, 1999 – March 28, 2002 Tom Langan
March 29, 2002 – March 6, 2003 Peter Brash and Paula Cwikly
March 7 – August 8, 2003 Dena Higley
August 11 – 15, 2003Dena Higley and James E. Reilly
August 18, 2003 – August 9, 2006James E. Reilly
August 10 – October 4, 2006Beth Milstein
October 5, 2006 – January 24, 2008 Hogan Sheffer and Meg Kelly
January 25 – April 22, 2008 None listed
April 23 – June 30, 2008Dena Higley and Victor Gialanella
July 1 – October 10, 2008Dena Higley and Rick Draughon
October 13, 2008 – June 13, 2011Dena Higley and Christopher Whitesell
June 14 – August 25, 2011Dena Higley
August 26, 2011 – August 16, 2012 Marlene Clark Poulter and Darrell Ray Thomas Jr.
August 17, 2012 – August 18, 2015Gary Tomlin and Christopher Whitesell
August 19, 2015 – February 19, 2016 Josh Griffith and Dena Higley
February 22 – September 2, 2016Josh Griffith, Dena Higley and Beth Milstein
September 6, 2016 – July 18, 2017Dena Higley and Ryan Quan
July 19, 2017 – December 1, 2023 [3] Ron Carlivati
December 4, 2023 – present WGA strike

Notes

  1. ^ Exact switchover dates from 1989–98 are unknown due to many episodes airing without credits during those years. The start dates for all writers from 1989–98 are for the first episode credited to them on screen. The 27 "uncredited episodes" (which are credited as the previous writer's end date in all cases) are March 13–14, 1989, January 18–19, 1990, June 14–18, 1991, January 30, 1992, June 9–11, 1992; July 9, 1992; December 16–18, 1992; April 26–28, 1993, November 20, 1997. and December 23, 1997 – January 5, 1998.
  2. ^ March 13–14, 1989. means Leah Laiman was last credited on screen on March 10, 1989; no credits were run from March 13–14, 1989. Anne Howard Bailey was first credited on March 15, 1989; Laiman gets the "uncredited episodes" added to her official count and her end date is listed as March 12, 1989, but Bailey may have actually written one or both of those two "uncredited" episodes).
  3. ^ In August of 2023, Albert Alarr was fired from the show for misconduct. He remained credited until all the episodes he was involved in with production had aired.

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References

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  2. "Writers - Days of Our Lives" . Retrieved 29 May 2015.
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