5 hours ago, victoria foxton said:

October 8, 1986 commercials with Search for Tomorrow final segment

I’d forgotten that Dr. Ed Bauer had moved to Henderson...

SFT from August 19, 1953

 

 

Edited December 18, 20195 yr by mikelyons

Thanks, Mike  that last commercial made me think of

 

 

 

Nice to see George O. Petrie, AKA   Harve Smithfield from Dallas!

Search for Tomorrow 1984

Question I’ve had as someone who didn’t watch the first time around - how was Wendy Wilkens (Lisa Peluso’s character) written out exactly? I’ve heard commentary on various social media that her exit was somewhat ambiguous and thought some of you might know on here.

1 hour ago, OzFrog said:

Question I’ve had as someone who didn’t watch the first time around - how was Wendy Wilkens (Lisa Peluso’s character) written out exactly? I’ve heard commentary on various social media that her exit was somewhat ambiguous and thought some of you might know on here.

 

Edited January 3, 20205 yr by victoria foxton

7 hours ago, victoria foxton said:

 

 

Cheers for those. So if I’ve watched those correctly, basically there was a killer roaming about at the time, and somehow Wendy might have fallen victim to them but no one actually knows for sure??

15 minutes ago, OzFrog said:

 

Cheers for those. So if I’ve watched those correctly, basically there was a killer roaming about at the time, and somehow Wendy might have fallen victim to them but no one actually knows for sure??

Exactly! I like that they did it that way. Leaving the door open. For Wendy to return.

Edited January 4, 20205 yr by victoria foxton

Yeah, if SFT had survived past '86, they could have brought back Wendy (either with Lisa Peluso again, or another recast) with the explanation that she survived an attempt on her life, but had amnesia.

Do any of you know when Rod Arrants' last airdate was as Travis? I know it was in 1984, but that's about it. Thanks in advance.

 

Nov 83

NEW YORK—Reeves Teletape's 81st St. studio here was transformed recently into an abandoned warehouse for a special two-day taping of NBC TV's Search for Tomorrow. Reeves provided the Search crew with a Chapman Crane, an RCA TK46 and several Steadicams with Ikegami 79B lenses for the "film-style" shoot, which took place in the studio and outside on 81st St. To turn the studio into a warehouse, the sets were extended to twice their normal height—almost 20 feet—and the lighting was redesigned. Several night scenes were filmed outside on 81st St. between Amsterdam Ave. and Broadway.

 

Was this for the Jo kidnap story?

17 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

Was this for the Jo kidnap story?

 

It might've been, given the timeline.

 

It's surprising to read how great of an expense they went to for a low-rated soap.

The warehouse episode is on YouTube. This was climax of Jo’s kidnapping in October 1983. 
 

Jonna Lee, the executive producer, was out shortly after. Maybe she wasn’t handling the budget well?

From what i've seen of SFT circa 83-86. For a long rated soap on the verge of cancellation . SFT looked pretty good.