Members JackPeyton Posted September 22, 2010 Members Share Posted September 22, 2010 (edited) Has anyone even heard of this soap opera? it was on in the 50's and i cant find anything on it other than imdb and this video- <object width="640" height="506" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"><param value="true" name="allowfullscreen"/><param value="always" name="allowscriptaccess"/><param value="high" name="quality"/><param value="true" name="cachebusting"/><param value="#000000" name="bgcolor"/><param name="movie" value="http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.commercial-3.2.1.swf" /><param value="config={'key':'#$aa4baff94a9bdcafce8','playlist':['format=Thumbnail?.jpg',{'autoPlay':false,'url':'TheRoadOfLife2-2-1955_512kb.mp4'}],'clip':{'autoPlay':true,'baseUrl':'http://www.archive.org/download/TheRoadOfLife/','scaling':'fit','provider':'h264streaming'},'canvas':{'backgroundColor':'#000000','backgroundGradient':'none'},'plugins':{'controls':{'playlist':false,'fullscreen':true,'height':26,'backgroundColor':'#000000','autoHide':{'fullscreenOnly':true}},'h264streaming':{'url':'http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.pseudostreaming-3.2.1.swf'}},'contextMenu':[{},'-','Flowplayer v3.2.1']}" name=flashvars"/><embed src="http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.commercial-3.2.1.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="506" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" cachebusting="true" bgcolor="#000000" quality="high" flashvars="config={'key':'#$aa4baff94a9bdcafce8','playlist':['format=Thumbnail?.jpg',{'autoPlay':false,'url':'TheRoadOfLife2-2-1955_512kb.mp4'}],'clip':{'autoPlay':true,'baseUrl':'http://www.archive.org/download/TheRoadOfLife/','scaling':'fit','provider':'h264streaming'},'canvas':{'backgroundColor':'#000000','backgroundGradient':'none'},'plugins':{'controls':{'playlist':false,'fullscreen':true,'height':26,'backgroundColor':'#000000','autoHide':{'fullscreenOnly':true}},'h264streaming':{'url':'http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.pseudostreaming-3.2.1.swf'}},'contextMenu':[{},'-','Flowplayer v3.2.1]}"> </embed></object> Edited September 22, 2010 by JackPeyton 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JackPeyton Posted September 22, 2010 Author Members Share Posted September 22, 2010 This Procter and Gamble soap opera, broadcast on the CBS network, was based on the radio soap opera of the same name. Don McLaughlin and Virginia Dwyer played the same roles on the television version that they had played on the radio version. Virginia Dwyer, lead actress on this series, and Walter Gorman, one of the directors, were married to each other in real life. -from imdb http://www.classicthemes.com/50sTVThemes/themePages/roadOfLife.html 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BFORE02 Posted September 23, 2010 Members Share Posted September 23, 2010 I have 3 episodes of the soap in my vintage soap opera collection. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted September 23, 2010 Members Share Posted September 23, 2010 From Schemering's book. December 13, 1954 - July 1, 1955 CBS The radio version of The Road of Life had been popular since 1937 when Irna Phillips and Procter & Gamble decided to bring the drama to television. Replacing The Seeking Heart, the serial focused on three generations of two families, the Brents and the Overtons, and their long feud in the town of Merrimac. Don MacLaughlin and Virginia Dwyer, who had starred on the radio version, repeated their roles as Dr. Jim Brent and Jocelyn McLeod, the foster daughter of rich Malcolm Overton. Since this was a medical drama (remembered chiefly for its opening; "Dr. Brent,...call surgery. Dr. Brent,...call surgery"), poor Jocelyn was afflicted with every dread disease known to man and some never known, including "rubimortis," and the dreaded "Meniere's syndrome." On the short TV version, spiteful Sybil Overton was furious that happily married Jim Brent did not return her affections. She had Jocelyn arrested for "technically" kidnapping Sybil's child, then had Jocelyn classified as an "undesireable alien" when Jocelyn returned from Samoa after medical treatments. In one of his earliest TV roles, Jack Lemmon had a short run on the show as a supposedly nerves-of-steel surgeon. His stint his chiefly remembered for a tense operating room scene in which he turned to a nurse and barked, "Give me the hypodermic needle!" Although Road of Life was cancelled on television in less than a year, it continued on radio until 1959. MacLaughlin later starred for over a quarter of a century as Chris Hughes on As the World Turns. Dwyer played Mary Matthews on Another World from 1964 to 1975. The show was written by Charles Gussman, produced by John Egan, and directed by Walter Gorman, who was Dwyer's off-screen husband. Nelson case served as the narrator. It ran daily for fifteen minutes at 1:15 P.M., E.S.T., following The Inner Flame. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soapfan770 Posted September 23, 2010 Members Share Posted September 23, 2010 In addition to Schemering, here's what Matt P. Smith wrote in Soap Opera History 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted September 26, 2010 Members Share Posted September 26, 2010 In the 1940's,whilst playing Dr Brent on radio, Don MacLaughlin was also doing the leads in a Western- 'Tennessee Jed','David Harting,Counterspy', and a show beamed to the armed forces- 'Chaplin Jim'. No wonder many radio performers disliked the advent of TV where they had to work harder and were limited to one role. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted September 26, 2010 Members Share Posted September 26, 2010 In a radio interview several years before he died Larry Haines talked about this and how he used to go from playing a romantic lead to a psycho killer a few hours later. I really think America lost a lot when they decided to just shun radio drama. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BFORE02 Posted June 29, 2012 Members Share Posted June 29, 2012 I have episodes of The Road of Life for my complete list of Vintage Soap Opera Episodes email me at [email protected] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted March 5, 2013 Members Share Posted March 5, 2013 (edited) April 1955 TV Radio Mirror Edited March 5, 2013 by CarlD2 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members slick jones Posted April 17, 2014 Members Share Posted April 17, 2014 This is what I have for this show's cast. If anyone can fill in any blanks, thank you. THE ROAD OF LIFE December 13, 1954-July 1, 1955 Merrimac Mooch Beasley......... Stu Beasley........ Francie Brent ....Elizabeth Lawrence Dr. Jim Brent....Don MacLaughlin Jocelyn McLeod Brent........Virginia Dwyer John Brent.....Bill Lipton Frank Dana.........John Larkin ........Chuck Webster Reggie Ellis........Dorothy Sands Constance Fuller.......... Gordon Fuller....... Sybil Overton Fuller.............Barbara Becker Judge Hartsole.............. Armand Monet........Michael Kane Lil'Monet.........Elspeth Eric Ada Overton..... Conrad Overton..........Charles Dingle Hugh Overton...........Doug Parkhirst Malcolm Overton.............Harry Holcombe Pearl Snow..........Hollis Irving Byron Unger, attorney................ Narrator......Nelson Case Surgeon........Jack Lemmon ????????????............Teri Keane Thanks for any input! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dc11786 Posted November 1, 2014 Members Share Posted November 1, 2014 According to an article from "Radio-TV Mirror," Mooch was played by Frank Behrens. Teri Keane was on the radio version of "Road of Life" in the late 1950s as Jocelyn McLeod Brent. She may also have appeared on the television version, but I don't know for sure. I think Gordon Fuller was dead prior to the show premiering on television. I'll look again. In the television version, the main plot was the complicated love affair between Sybil Fuller, Jim Brent, Jocelyn Brent, and Armand Monet. Sybil was attempting to have Jocelyn sent back to Samoa, where she had been living prior to arriving in Merrimac. Jim and Jocelyn plotted to convince Sybil that Jocelyn was in love with Armand Monet. The hope was that Sybil would reveal her role in the scheme if she felt Jocelyn was no longer a threat. Complications to the scheme included Lil Monet, Armand's estranged wife, and Jocelyn's pregnancy. Later, Sybil was involved with Randy Ogden, a financier, but that was when the show was radio only. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted August 31, 2018 Members Share Posted August 31, 2018 (edited) Television debut of the radio serial which has been on the air for l7 years; using the same cast as the radio show. 'Both radio and television shows will be separate until January when the radio program will be pre-recorded from the TV show of the previous day. Current radio shows are recorded three weeks in advance. The program stars Don Maclaughlin as Dr. Jim Brent; with Virginia Dwyer, Dorothy Sands, Barbara Becker, Harry Holcombe, Bill Lipton, Elizabeth Lawrence, Michael ram, Elspeth Eric and Hollis Irving. Road of Life replaces The Seeking Heart in this time spot Edited August 31, 2018 by Paul Raven 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted October 1, 2018 Members Share Posted October 1, 2018 (edited) This is one I hadn't seen up before: @slick jones @Paul Raven @vetsoapfan@dc11786 Edited October 1, 2018 by DRW50 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vetsoapfan Posted October 1, 2018 Members Share Posted October 1, 2018 (edited) Thank you for the heads up! Edited October 1, 2018 by vetsoapfan 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted October 1, 2018 Members Share Posted October 1, 2018 (edited) Great Thanks!! That Sybil is something else. Funny how episodes of a short lived show surface...would be great if other similar shows eg Hotel Cosmopolitan or The Seeking Heart turned up Edited October 1, 2018 by Paul Raven 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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