Anyone remember "Bright Promise"?

It aired on NBC at 3:30 pm from Sept. 1969-March 1972, and centered on young people in a university town.

I was in high school at the time, and remember falling for Susan Brown, who played BP's heroine Martha Ferguson -- whose college professor husband cheated on her with a student.

I write to Susan numerous times during the show's run, as well as afterwards when she joined GH and PC, and she responded every time with nice notes, BP scripts, and more... what a classy lady.

"Bright Promise" was a terrific soap, I thought, ahead of its time -- no doubt aided by Gloria Monty's leadership.

A young Tony Geary was in the cast, and I remember his making an indelible impression as a young man of seemingly "limited capacity" taken in by Martha (Susan Brown) who turned out to be a creative, artistic type. Geary sang on the show, strumming a guitar, and I can still hear one of those songs in my head, "Hello, Rainbow," that played in one of the show's last episodes.

On 5/19/2024 at 8:11 AM, dc11786 said:

From what's been made available in soap books, Dabney Coleman's Dr. Tracey Graham was the end run love interest of Susan Brown's Martha Ferguson. They even got married in the final episode after Martha was released from prison when it was suspected she had murdered Sylvia Bancroft, the biological mother of Martha's adopted son David Lockhart (Tony Geary). 

Thank you!

Pomona Progress Bulletin 1969 Sept 28

Bright Promise The controversy created by an English professor who endorses an anti-curfew crusade by women college students highlights the premiere week of NBC's new weekday dramatic serial, Bright Promise, Mondays thru Fridays at 2 PM. Dana Andrews stars as Bancroft College President Thomas Boswell in this contemporary series, which centers on Bancroft's administration, faculty and students and their reactions to the rapidly changing and increasingly permissive presentday society.

Featured in the cast are Paul Lukather as Bill Ferguson, Suzanne Darrow as Sandy Jones, Coleen Gray as Ann Boyd, Susan Brown as Martha Ferguson, Richard Eastham as Red Wilson, Sydna Scott as Alice Porter, Peter Hobbs as Albert Porter, Nancy Stevens as Jennifer Mathews, Gary Pillar as Chet Mathews, Ruth McDevitt as Clara Ryan, Tod Andrews as Henry Pierce, David Pritchard as David Martin, Kimentha Laurie as Fay Kendall, Nigal McKeard as George Townley and Timothy Brown as Harold

Thanks @Paul Raven . Hamtramck, now known for much uglier things than Gail Kobe...