ANOTHER LIFE

[Soaplovers]

That was the thing about this soap, it still had some great soap opera stories even with the religious angle.  In some ways, it heighten the soap opera trope of conflict and temptation... and showing the fallout of choices made.

@dc11786The good stuff really gets going in the middle section of episodes (around episode 300 to 600).. though there are some interesting elements/stories that play out in the final batch of episodes that are cut short by the cancellation.

Apparently, the announcement the soap was canceled came out in late August 1984 and were given only a few weeks to tie everything up.  The cause of cancellation for this soap was the same thing that caused Edge of Night/Ryan's Hope/Search for tomorrow to be canceled... Affiliates.

[DRW50]

@dc11786 Thanks again for your recaps/analyses. I remember some of the story about Gene and whether he was seen as being proud enough or assimilated or what have you. That type of story could go haywire but the actor who played Gene always managed to give some dignity to the character and I never felt like the show saw him or Ione as tokens. 

The Jeff story does sound interesting. This was still an era when some Christian-based entertainment was trying to teach difficult lessons and not just focused on trying to get people to vote for despots and employ Hollywood has-beens in slick vessels.

You're right in that I can't see Tony ever actually arriving on the show. 

On the same Youtube channel that recently put up a 5 hour bloc of Y&R/B&B/ATWT, I stumbled onto an episode of a Pittsburgh-based show called His Place. The channel that made the show billed it as a "Christian soap opera," but to me it is more like Houseparty or The Lives We Live - people/characters we know sitting in one location (in this case, a diner). They have a little bit of storyline but mostly talk to a faith figure and then have a Christian musical guest. They might also talk to local people involved in charity work.

You have about what you would expect in many cases (Jews for Jesus, the gay agenda, later tweaked to the '10s version). Some of the material is not what you'd expect and would never be allowed today; one of the other few available episodes, from 1996, has a guy who talks about the Crusades being wrong and about how unfair treatment of Muslims, and has another guy who has a conversation with a regular about racism and how the regular character feels guilty over thinking some black men were going to hurt him, but still, I wouldn't call it a soap. Maybe if more episodes were around I would. (about 70 or so episodes of the early '10s revival are on Youtube but I'm more interested in seeing the original, which ran from the late '80s to 2004).

 

Edited yesterday at 03:35 AM by DRW50

[dc11786]

Credits based on what we have available:

Defacto Headwriters

Roy Winsor (credited as Storyline Consultant)    Monday, June 1, 1981 (#001) - Monday, October 12, 1981 (#096) 

with scripts by: Steve Sylvester (18), Bro Herrod (18), John Cloyse (11), Peter Cloyse (6), Jeff Dane (1)

 

Dallas & Joanne Barnes (credited as Story By)    Tuesday, October 13, 1981 (#097) - Monday, October 26, 1981 (#106)

with scripts by: Dallas & Joanne Barnes (2), Steve Sylvester (2), Linda Carol Culpepper (2), John Jenny (1), Laura Eastman (1)

 

No creative lead listed                                            Tuesday, October 27, 1981 (#107)-  Friday, December 25, 1981 (#150)

with scripts by: Steve Sylvester (10), Linda Culpepper (7), Cheryl Chisholm (5), John Jenny (3), John Faulk (3),Peter Andrews (1)

 

Dallas & Joanne Barnes (credited as Creative Supervisors) Wednesday, December 30, 1981 (#153) - Tuesday, August 10 , 1982 (#312)

with scripts by (as of episode #200): Cheryl Chisholm (8), Steve Sylvester (7), Linda Culpepper (6), Susan McBride (5), John Faulk (4), Ted O'Hara (1)

 

Jason Vinley (credited as Special/Program Consultant)      Wednesday, August 11, 1982 (#313) - Friday, October 5, 1984 (#875) 

Executive Producers

Robert Aaron                      Monday, June 1, 1981 (#001) - Friday, October 16, 1981 (#100)

John Cardoza                     Monday, October 19, 1981 (#101) - Thursday, December 3, 1981 (#134) 

David M. Hummel               Tuesday, December 8, 1981  (#137) - Friday, October 5, 1984 (#875) 

Edited yesterday at 07:10 AM by dc11786

[Khan]

I wonder if that was the same Peter Andrews who had worked for years as a producer and director on GL.

[Soaplovers]

I think so...

 

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/nytimes/name/peter-andrews-jr-obituary?id=51984408