16 hours ago, DRW50 said:

I'd never seen this before. Such a moving, emotionally resonant Christmas episode, and so real, especially in showing Patty's continued mourning of her father and how she adores Stu (in her dream referring to him as father). And some fascinating, very early special effects as well.

 

That Jo greets us at the end, comforting us after a "complicated" year, makes me more emotional than anything I've seen on soaps in a very long time. No Jo being shot in the head, Stu choking out Marge and calling her a whore, Patty being a budding murderer - just a simple, connection.

 

Soaps, and the people who made them, understood more nearly 70 years ago than just about anything on TV today.  This is what soaps should be doing for us today. This simple connection. We need it more than ever, and they betrayed us. They broke our hearts. 

 

 

 

Simplistic and yet so poignant. Yes, if there is anything that the world needs now, it is certainly hope.

 

Forgive me for not knowing this (as I’m not from the US), but what was the significance of 1952 that Jo was talking about in her monologue at the end? Did something major happen that year?

34 minutes ago, OzFrog said:

Forgive me for not knowing this (as I’m not from the US), but what was the significance of 1952 that Jo was talking about in her monologue at the end? Did something major happen that year?

 

For the US, probably the election, and the Korean War. 

Thank you very much for that. Yes I can imagine in those circumstances it would have been a significant year in US history.

 

 

I think this is either the 1st episode..or one of the first episodes.  And I think we see Patti's dad before he is killed off in this episode.

30 minutes ago, Soaplovers said:

I think this is either the 1st episode..or one of the first episodes.  And I think we see Patti's dad before he is killed off in this episode.

Yep, it's the first episode! I'm not sure it's ever been on YouTube before, but I'm so glad it is. That opening shot panning down into Henderson is like the birth of daytime TV soap opera in just one moment.

On 7/7/2020 at 3:58 AM, DRW50 said:

I'd never seen this before. Such a moving, emotionally resonant Christmas episode, and so real, especially in showing Patty's continued mourning of her father and how she adores Stu (in her dream referring to him as father). And some fascinating, very early special effects as well.

 

That Jo greets us at the end, comforting us after a "complicated" year, makes me more emotional than anything I've seen on soaps in a very long time. No Jo being shot in the head, Stu choking out Marge and calling her a whore, Patty being a budding murderer - just a simple, connection.

 

Soaps, and the people who made them, understood more nearly 70 years ago than just about anything on TV today.  This is what soaps should be doing for us today. This simple connection. We need it more than ever, and they betrayed us. They broke our hearts. 

 

 

Thanks so much for this.Funny to see Jimmy Bergman in light of the fact that 10 years later he would disappear forever.

The rear projection/car scenes were good as they added some interest and movement.

A bit dodgy in front of the Motor Haven but this was all live.

Sure there are more episodes out there .

 

Completely agree re the state of today's soaps,

They need to look at the low budget days gone by and simplify the storytelling.

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1 hour ago, All My Shadows said:

Yep, it's the first episode! I'm not sure it's ever been on YouTube before, but I'm so glad it is. That opening shot panning down into Henderson is like the birth of daytime TV soap opera in just one moment.

 

Coronation Street had a somewhat similar panning between residences tracking shot for their early closing credits - I loved it.

 

It's a very atmospheric debut episode for a soap, and I wonder how viewers felt over the next few months, wondering if or when he was going to die.

Wonder why John Sylvester White didn't get credit in the first episode?

How long was John Sylvester White on the show before Keith was killed off?

I think it was in the few months of the show is when he was killed off.  There was conflict between him and Jo regarding his mother interfering so much.

I didn't realize that Morgan Fairchild and Courtney Simon still regularly touched base with one another on Twitter. It's sweet.

 

I'm assuming the Meg Morgan is referring to in the first tweet is Meg Bennet? 

 

 

 

 

 

On 7/13/2020 at 4:46 AM, BetterForgotten said:

I didn't realize that Morgan Fairchild and Courtney Simon still regularly touched base with one another on Twitter. It's sweet.

 

I'm assuming the Meg Morgan is referring to in the first tweet is Meg Bennet? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Awww that is the cutest! For someone my age (40), it’s weird visualising Peter Simon and Morgan Fairchild as a relatively short-term on-screen couple. 

The clips that keep popping up on Youtube. This clip is a snippet of the phenomenal Angela Bassett’s brief run on Search For Tomorrow from early 1985 (which is hardly documented anywhere). 

 

 

Just found out that in March 1949 Mary Stuart was part of the cast of Suspense, a CBS anthology. She worked with Eddie Albert and his wife Margo, Ralph Camargo (Victoria Wyndham's father) and Stefan Schnabel (Dr Jackson GL).

So over 2 years before Search, Mary was apart of the early days of live TV.