Paul Rauch

Paul Rauch (1930 – December 10, 2012) was an American television and film producer. Rauch's work was primarily in American soap operas.

Rauch's earlier jobs included Vice President, Programs-East Coast for CBS, Supervising Producer for Procter & Gamble, and Music Critic for an English-language edition of the Japanese Yomiuri Shimbun, a job he held in his mid-twenties.

In 2009 Paul Rauch was named “The Greatest Daytime Producer of All Time” by TV Guide Canada, while he served as co-executive producer of the #1 daytime show The Young & the Restless. Rauch also produced the feature films Lover's Knot (Cannes Film Festival) and Run the Wild Fields (Film Advisory Board Award, special honors at the Sarasota Film Festival, Emmy, Best Family Film), as well as the 100-episode primetime series Poor Nastya for Sony Pictures Int. and Russia 3.

Rauch is best known for his work on Another World, which he produced from 1972 to 1982. 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. In the 1970s Daytime ratings, Another World ranked overall #2 below As The World Turns and #3 The Guiding Light.

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. During his tenure on Another World, he was the co-creator and executive producer of three other soap operas, Lovers and Friends, For Richer For Poorer, and Texas (the other creators being John William and Joyce Corrington), spin-off of Another World, that aired on NBC from 1980 to 1982. In addition to being co-creator, he held the title of Executive Producer until 1981.

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