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[Paul Raven]

Would anyone like to contribute to this list of shows that had different titles before their premiere?

Some I recall

Loving was originally called Love Without End

Y&R was The Innocent Years

Secret Storm was The Storm Within

Falcon Crest was The Vintage Years

Are there any working titles you prefer,or think might have worked?

[JackPeyton]

OLTL was Between Heaven & Hell.

[All My Shadows]

Ryan's Hope was "A Rage to Love."
Dynasty was "Oil."
Beverly Hills 90210 was "Potomac 20854" and then "Class of Beverly Hills."

[SFK]

When I first read about the original title of 90210 being 20854 on Wikipedia a while back, I couldn't help but wonder if that was just wishful thinking/urban legend created by some rich kids from Potomac trying to claim their Darren Star. But it's most likely true. I do remember reading about 90210 in some TV magazine before it came out and it was being called The Class of Beverly Hills, so I guess they decided to go with the zip code thing after all. At any rate, Potomac is *definitely* deserving of the Darren Star treatment, I hope he can come up with a series set in his hometown one of these days. I think CA locales are totally played out.

Speaking of which... Pacific Palisades was originally entitled Brentwood, but a little matter concerning O.J. Simpson (that is the second time I have mentioned him on this board today!) was going down at the time, and Aaron Spelling thought a name change was in order.

[SFK]

You are truly a youngin' in my book if you didn't read this firsthand in the pages of SOD/SOW, but remember when the working title of The City was LOV♥NYC? They never intended to call it that, but that's how they referred to the revamp. Bill Bell never intended to stick with this name either, but The Bold and the Beautiful's working title was Rags.

[Jonathan]

You are truly a youngin' in my book if you didn't read this firsthand in the pages of SOD/SOW, but remember when the working title of The City was LOV♥NYC?

I thought LOV♥NYC was the intended title for the show but people complained because no one knew how to pronounce it! So they ended up changing it. It looked like someone's vanity plate.

[Cheap21]

Port Charles was simply General Hospital 2 in the beginning. How original...lol

[UKBoi]

Didn't NBC want to call Sunset Beach something else because it was too soon after Santa Barbara for another 'SB' and because no soap opera containing the name of the location in the title had ever lasted long term?

[EricMontreal22]

I thought LOV♥NYC was the intended title for the show but people complained because no one knew how to pronounce it! So they ended up changing it. It looked like someone's vanity plate.

I was pretty sure it was briefly set to be the real name as well....

[SFK]

I was pretty sure it was briefly set to be the real name as well....

Maybe they backpedaled, because I definitely remember reading in SOD a couple of weeks before they announced it would be called The City that TPTB had never intended for it to be called LOV♥NYC permanently and they were still working on a title. I actually liked the title LOV♥NYC, and with Loving's great ballad openings, I imagined the new show's themesong with a synth/autotune voice repeating "L-O-V-N-Y-C-L-O-V-N-Y-C..." But that title definitely had a late '80s/early '90s ring to it, along the lines of Red Shoe Diaries, Silk Stalkings, or that perfume they sold at the drugstore there used to be commercials for, P.S. I love you.

[typoprone]

Didn't NBC want to call Sunset Beach something else because it was too soon after Santa Barbara for another 'SB' and because no soap opera containing the name of the location in the title had ever lasted long term?

I think Aaron Spelling wanted to call it Never Say Goodbye, but the focus group preferred Sunset Beach.

[aMLCproduction]

The edge of night was called The edge of Darkness

Edited by aMLCproduction, 07 October 2009 - 10:11 PM.

[CSF]

IIRC Search for Tomorrow was to be called Search for Happiness.

[Paul Raven]

Secret Storm was titled Bright Star,then Inner Conflict before Storm Within.

How To Survive A Marriage was From This Moment

Lovers and Friends was Into This House.

[EricMontreal22]

I actually pefer Love Without End to Loving. Maybe cuz it sounds more soapy lol

[CSF]

I actually pefer Love Without End to Loving. Maybe cuz it sounds more soapy lol

Maybe it would have lasted longer too with that title lol

[EricMontreal22]

Loving is just a title I never really liked. I can't quite say why, but...

Edited by EricMontreal22, 08 October 2009 - 11:53 PM.

[SFK]

Loving is just a title I never really liked. I can't quite say why, but...

I agree, it was meant to be a "back to basics"-type title, evocative of good, classic soap opera, but I always thought it was too generic and (as silly as this may sound) feminine.

I also like Into This House better than Lovers and Friends which reminds me of than song Dionne Warwick used to sing on the Psychic Friends commercials.

If P&G Channel ever comes back, man I wish they'd air L&F/FRFP, I'd watch beginning to end.

[JackPeyton]

Port Charles was simply General Hospital 2 in the beginning. How original...lol

i think that was just its working title.

[Jonathan]

Loving is just a title I never really liked. I can't quite say why, but...

I agree. Maybe it's because no one really uses the term "loving" in every day speak. You can try, but really, the term "love" is pretty much synonymous.