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    Drama TV Shows - 1970s TV Shows - 1980s 2 Mins Read

    Ryan’s Hope

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    Ryan’s Hope was a daytime soap opera from ABC focusing on the Irish-American Ryan family – headed by matriarch Maeve Ryan (Helen Gallagher) and Johnny Ryan (Bernard Barrow) – who ran a bar called Ryan’s Bar on Manhattan’s Upper West Side where most of the action of the series took place.

    Taped in New York City, the series used Manhattan for its locale, and use it they did. Audiences were treated to walks in Central Park, visits to the New York flower market, and Manhattan street scenes, which are unlike any in the world.

    Created by Claire Labine and Paul Avila Mayer, the series debuted on 7 July 1975 and, over its 13-year run, the show won 17 Daytime Emmys and 11 Writers Guild awards.

    Despite its critical success, the show began to flop in the ratings in the second half of the 1980s. In 1984, ABC moved Ryan’s Hope from 12.30 pm to noon daily, switching it with another soap, Loving.

    Unfortunately, some network affiliates liked to run their local news at noon, and when the number of affiliates carrying Ryan’s Hope dipped below 75%, ABC cancelled the show.

    After Maeve Ryan sang one last rendition of Danny Boy, the long-running soap faded to black on Friday 13 January 1989 for the final time, leaving fans to wonder, who was Grace’s father?

    The series ended with a wedding (always a crowd-pleasing event on daytime dramas) and an excuse for a cast reunion.

    Bernard Barrow died of lung cancer in 1993. He was 65.

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    Maeve Ryan 
    Helen Gallagher
    Johnny Ryan
    Bernard Barrow
    Jillian Coleridge Ryan 
    Nancy Addison
    Dr Patrick Ryan 

    Malcolm Groome
    Dakota Smith Ryan 

    Christopher Durham
    Franklin Ryan 

    Michael Hawkins
    Dr Faith Coleridge 

    Faith Catlin (1)
    Catherine Hicks (2)
    Karen Morris Gowdy (3)
    Siobhan Ryan Novak 

    Marg Helgenberger
    Teddy Malcolm 

    David Bailey
    Angel Nieves 

    Jose Aleman
    Jack Fenelli 

    Michael Levin
    Ryan Fenelli Hyde 

    Yasmin Bleeth
    Leigh Kirkland
    Felicity Lafortune
    Mrs Williams 

    Cynthia Belgrave
    Ken Grahanti (Grantham) 

    Corbin Bensen
    Mendenhall 

    Richard Briggs
    Dr Bucky Carter 

    Justin Deas
    Martha McKee 

    Tovah Feldshuh
    Dr Seneca Beaulac 

    John Gabriel
    Sydney Price 

    Robin Greer
    Ramona Gonzalez 

    Rosalinda Guerra
    Dr Roger Coleridge 

    Ron Hale
    Delia Reid Ryan Coleridge Crane III

    Ilene Kristen

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