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Syracuse University has a collection of SFT material from headwriter Ralph Ellis.Would love to read through this!

The Ralph Ellis Search for Tomorrow Collection consists of material from Ralph Ellis' work on the serial Search for Tomorrow during the 1970s. The collection is divided into five series. Story projections contains four projected plot outlines, each for six months to a year in advance. 1973 Writers Guild Award materialconsists of a precis. Accompanying material contains Ralph Ellis' own notes on the collection. These three series are quite small.

The majority of the collection consists of breakdowns and scripts. Breakdowns contains 92 weekly outlines of plot developments. Studio and draft scriptscontains 587 scripts for episodes of the series; the majority are studio scripts, some are drafts, and for a few episodes both studio and draft scripts are present. Corresponding four-digit episode numbers are provided for all breakdowns and scripts.

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Ernest Graves was Walter Haskins, the same role that Douglass Watson portrayed in the 60s.

Geoffrey Lumb was Geoffrey Crane, but I don't know what his role did on the canvas.

I have her as Nellie Shayne as well, but the article I read in the archives said she was a bad girl on Search for 2-3 episodes before she became famous on Broadway and game shows, so I think it was in the 50's.

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June 1975 was a spectacular month for Search. Tony suffered a heart attack, fell down the stairs at Henderson Hospital, and died attempting to save the life of young runaway Robin Kennemer. His death greatly affected Jo and Scott Phillips. After Tony's funeral, Scott admitted he loved Kathy and had never loved his wife Jennifer, who was pregnant with his child. Neurotic Jennifer became hysterical, railing at him for deceiving her with a marriage based on nothing but lies. She pulled away from him and smashed through the plate glass patio door. Her spleen ruptured. She hemorrhaged and lost the baby. When she awoke following surgery, her face was swathed in white bandages. A shard of glass had sliced through her beautiful face, leaving a hideous scar down her cheek. Jennifer's slow motion plunge through the door is one of the most iconic sequences on the series. It was such a sensation that CBS ran promos for it in primetime for weeks afterward. Ann Marcus wrote a marvelous soap.

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