Paul Rauch

Paul Rauch is an American television producer and writer.

Another World

Rauch is best known for his work on Another World, which he produced from 1971 to 1984. For much of that time, he worked in conjunction with Head Writer Harding Lemay, and the team garnered the show critical acclaim and strong ratings.

Rauch led the show to an expanded hour format in 1975, which was a success. However, a subsequent time expansion to 90 minutes in 1979 was less successful though the expanded show lasted for one and a half years.

While still producing Another World, he also helped create an AW spin-off, Texas, which transferred popular character Iris Carrington (played by Beverlee McKinsey) to the new show amid much fanfare. Never able to achieve successful ratings, Texas aired from August 4, 1980 to Dec. 31, 1982. Rauch served as executive producer of Texas for about eight months, while also overseeing Another World.

Other credits

Following his stint on Another World, he produced One Life to Live from 1984 to 1991, Santa Barbara from 1991 to 1993, Guiding Light from 1996 to 2002, and The Young and the Restless from 2008 to 2011. Most recently, he was consulting producer to a period-drama aired on Russian television, called Bednaya Nastya.

Controversy

Rauch has become a controversial figure among some soap fans for what some describe as larger than life plots.

• His production stints at One Life to Live and Guiding Light featured sci-fi plots such as cloning and time-travel.
• He has also had some conflicts with several of the actors on the shows he has produced. Ellen Holly, who played Carla on One Life to Live for nearly two decades, wrote in her autobiography "One Life" about how Rauch told Lillian Hayman, who played Holly's on-screen mother, Sadie, as she was walking to her car after a day's taping that she was fired and that she had just taped her last episode.
• Rauch fired three actors from Another World in 1975: Virginia Dwyer (Mary Matthews), George Reinholt (Steve Frame), and Jacqueline Courtney (Alice Matthews Frame). According to his memoirs, then-AW head writer Harding Lemay said that Dwyer was fired because she relied too heavily on cue cards and didn't bother memorizing lines, Courtney was fired because her acting was deemed too "soap operatic," and Reinholt was fired due to the fact that he had openly clashed with both Rauch and Lemay over the direction of the series and had become difficult to deal with.

Positions held

Another World

• Executive Producer (December 1971 - July 1984)

Guiding Light

• Executive Producer (November 1996 - December 24, 2002)

One Life to Live

• Executive Producer (August 1984 - December 1991)

Santa Barbara

• Executive Producer (January 1992 - January 15, 1993)

Texas

• Co-Creator
• Executive Producer (July 1980 - April 1981)

The Young and the Restless

• Consultant (August 2008 - October 2, 2008)
• Co-Executive Producer (October 3, 2008 - May 10, 2011)

Television history

Preceded by Lyle B. Hill [1]	Executive Producer of Another World 1971-1983	Succeeded by Allen M. Potter
Preceded by Jean Arley	Executive Producer of One Life to Live 1984-1991	Succeeded by Linda Gottlieb
Preceded by John Conboy	Executive Producer of Santa Barbara 1992-1993	Succeeded by N/A
Preceded by Michael Laibson	Executive Producer of Guiding Light 1996-2002	Succeeded by John Conboy
Preceded by Josh Griffith	Co-Executive Producer of The Young and the Restless (with Maria Arena Bell) 2008-2011	Succeeded by Maria Arena Bell

External links

• Paul Rauch at the Internet Movie Database