Members Paul Raven Posted November 14, 2011 Author Members Share Posted November 14, 2011 1975 CBS developing a black soap opera out of a sitcom pilot' Change at 125th Street.' An African-American Harvard grad works at an otherwise all-white Wall Street brokerage while living with his mother, sister and uncle in Harlem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted November 14, 2011 Author Members Share Posted November 14, 2011 Carl,re the Y&R spinoff you mentioned a few pages back.In May 77,Variety reported that CBS had a Bill Bell show in development.Maybe they are one and the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted November 14, 2011 Members Share Posted November 14, 2011 Thank you so much for finding all of this. The idea of a black soap on a major network, especially on conservative CBS, fascinates me. I always assumed B&B or Rags or whatever was the Bell pilot but maybe it was the spinoff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted November 16, 2011 Author Members Share Posted November 16, 2011 In 1970 MGM TV was developing a daytime soap based on its 1953 movie The Bad and the Beautiful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted November 25, 2011 Members Share Posted November 25, 2011 Alan Feinstein said in 1967 he made a pilot for a soap that would have been set on a ranch or was Western-themed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted November 25, 2011 Author Members Share Posted November 25, 2011 1973 MGM TV moves into daytime.Among the projects was a serial based on the classic flick Grand Hotel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted November 25, 2011 Author Members Share Posted November 25, 2011 1975 Freyda Rothstein is developing a daytime serial based on Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby for CBS. A soap about a woman carrying the devil's spawn...no wonder that one never got off the ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted November 25, 2011 Members Share Posted November 25, 2011 Didn't they make that into a TV movie with Donna Mills? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted November 26, 2011 Members Share Posted November 26, 2011 From a 1/84 Digest. Two Rauch-produced soaps for CBS Daytime and 20th-Century Fox. One called "Star Crossed", written by Fred Mustard Stewart, about the auto industry in Detroit. The other is the previously mentioned "The Billionaires," with Barbara Bauer, about the wealthiest family in America. The show had been renamed "The Barons." He was also working on a three-hour special written by Pat Falken Smith, called "Second Honeymoon." More info on the ultimately failed pilot starring Jaime Lyn Bauer and John McCook - "Together Again." It was based on a book by Felix B. Cignel, about a very popular American singer and the woman he loves, who happens to be the daughter of a powerful Mexican magnate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members CSF Posted November 26, 2011 Members Share Posted November 26, 2011 I suppose "Grosse Pointe" was the working title for "Star Crossed" as wasn't that also the same thing (auto industry setting, etc)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted December 2, 2011 Author Members Share Posted December 2, 2011 Rita Lakin,who had written The Doctors in the late 60's was reported as being signed to write the 'bible' for Young Loves of General Hospital. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted December 6, 2011 Members Share Posted December 6, 2011 An August 1977 TV by Day mentions rumors that CBS was preparing a new show for fall, called Bitter Hill, and would be similar to Dark Shadows. These "sources" claimed that CBS had bought Dark Shadows and was keeping the show from being repeated, so as to not conflict with Bitter Hill. Jonathan Frid was likely to star. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted December 12, 2011 Author Members Share Posted December 12, 2011 More from Variety 1964 Dick Clark Productions options 'From This Day Forward' scripted by Robert J Shaw. Another of the Universal daytime dramas as mentioned on the previous page was 'The Bitter and The Sweet' from Stirling Silliphant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted December 12, 2011 Members Share Posted December 12, 2011 Wasn't some other soap also given that working title? Lovers and Friends maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted December 12, 2011 Author Members Share Posted December 12, 2011 I think L&F was titled Into This House. HTSAM was proposed as From This Moment. 1963 Bob Brandt Productions proposes' Time For Challenge',soaper that would utilise location footage on the same budget as all studio efforts.Brandt was a stockbroker turned producer who was married to Janet Leigh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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