Does anyone know anything about this mentioned in the March 1975 Daytime TV - Northridge Medical, a daytime drama possibly to air on CBS?

Never heard of that one .Did the mag offer any other details?

Not that I saw.

Is Claire Labine still in good health?

I don't think they ever planned an AMC spinoff, the reason being there would be no central place to set the show. GH had the hospital and OLTL had the police station, but there was nothing like that on AMC.

AMC's was going to be set at Fusion and Confusion bar!

Is Claire Labine still in good health?

She told we love soaps a few months back that she was

Per an April 83 Digest, Brad Radnitz worked with Pat Falken Smith on Scruples. He was previously an NBC daytime executive, and they'd worked together on a cable soap, Lone Star Bar and Grill.

A December 1977 SOD says Douglas Marland, headwriter of The Doctors, will dramatize the Gothic novel Spindrift for syndication.

Do any of you know anything about this?

I assume this was the book.

http://media.families.com/blog/spindrift-phyllis-a-whitney

http://www.phyllisawhitney.com/Spindrift.htm

Edited June 29, 201114 yr by CarlD2

It looks like Linda Yellen, of The Women's Group, has still stayed with some pseudo-soapy projects. She was the EP on Lifetime's William and Kate biopic. You can see the not so serious review of it here.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1849218/

http://gofugyourself.com/fug-the-fromage-william-and-kate-04-2011

I wish there was a full list of all the proposed Daytime & Primetime soaps with a snyopsis of them all

MTV's The Real World was originally designed as a soap entitled St Mark's Place.MTV backed out for budgetary reasons so Bunim/Murray (producers) reworked it,eliminating actor and writer fees. The cast were offered free room and board and a $1300 stipend.

In 1955,Mona Kent ,who was headwriter of Portia Faces Life was shopping a new show' Judge Me Not' to the networks and advertisers.. The show dealt with the heroine,an ad agency art director, marrying her boss after a long term affair. She now worries he will cheat on her,as he did with his first wife.Kent stated that execs were not responsive to this type of woman as the lead. Kent decried this as 'radio thinking' and that TV heroines had to be more believable.

The plan was to film the show at a studio in Jamaica for the same budget as a live US soap (around $10,000 a week). The plan was to have a week's worth of shows ready by April of that year and also to plot the show so that each episode could be re-edited into a weekly 1hr version for syndication.

In 57,CBS was reported to be close to acquiring rights to Mildred Pierce,the Joan Crawford 1945 movie,to retool as adaytime soap.

Also,CBS Films,the syndication arm of the network was preparing 'Always My Love' to sell to local markets.That was in 54.

1955- ABC proposes 'My True Story' as a15 min morning soap.

Edited July 4, 201114 yr by Paul Raven

Wow, where did you hear about these?

Judge Me Not sounds like it could have been fantastic.

Carl,thanks for the feedback.I have collected stuff for years from all over and have never organized them!

After NBC cancelled her first TV soap 'These Are My Children'.Irna Phillips announced she was developing a new serial which had attracted sponsor interest ,thus proving there was interest in daytime soaps and NBC may have been hasty in cancelling.

The show was titled 'Challenge To Spring' and expected to air on CBS.

That never came to pass.An interesting title-I wonder if it had any elements that she incorporated in ATWT?

In the early 90s, Paramount was planning a syndicated wheel of 4 30-minute soaps, each soap airing in a telenovela format of 13 weeks sharing the same timeslot. Paramount's hope was to shoot each show on location in a different city/locale and to cut costs by pursuing co-production deals with international broadcasters and US station groups (Tribune, Group W and the NBC O&Os were said to have been approached in this regard). The plans sadly died off when they merged with Viacom some time later.