I love the idea of a daytime miniseries. I wish they would try this now, like during the summer when all of the talk shows are reruns.

Wow, Greeley is a priest (Catholic, I believe). Of course Cardinal Sins was a massive best seller--I believe he's done religious based murder mysteries too. Just seems odd to have a religion based miniseries...

On Pg 20 I mentioned MGM TV developing 'Grand Hotel' as a possible daytime soap.

Earlier,they filmed a pilot for the 64-65 season with Barry Sullivan in the lead for NBC.

Variety Dec 18th

. Chad Everett returned from San Francisco location shooting of MGM's "Grand Hotel" forNBC-TV.

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Variety Nov 16th 1965

Audrey Totter For MGM-TV 'Best'

Audrey Totter has been signed a* a regular in MGM-TV's "The Best Years," primetime serial planned for next season on NBC. Previously set were Richard Beymer, Mart Hulswit, Melanie Alexander and Sidney Blackmer.

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Variwty Feb 3rd 1977

Dick DeRoy preparing a presenta tion for a CBS daytime soap, "Futurelove."

Variety July 15th 1977

CBS bought "Aaron's World," created by Joan O'Brien for the '78 daytime schedule.About a medico's commitment to his children's hospital, his staff and patients. Based on original idea by Joan O'Brien, project will be developed by Linda Grover.

This was mentioned back on Pg 2 but this is the written mention I have seen.

Maybe CBS was thinking about ditching Love of Life.

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Variety July 26 1972

Henry Jaffe Enterprises in association with Art Wallace has made a deal with CBS-TV to develop a daytime soaper tentatively tagged "Three for Justice." Series created by Wallace is being considered for a start next September or January

I guess that last one would have been a legal soap, like Edge?

It's interesting how so many of the proposed soaps over the years don't have the typical generic names like so many of our beloved favorites do. Perhaps it's all in the name...

Variety Feb 20 1980

"Martha's Vineyard" is a daytime soap for ABC-TV, being written by Michael Robert David and Debbie Davis

At the 1976 Affiliates meeting,Madeline David vp daytime programs stated that NBC is developing a 'gothic serial','comedy serial' and a

'finite serial' that will be based on a novel and run for as long as it takes to tell the story - anywhere from 8 - 20 weeks.

Thanks for keeping this going. I wish this Martha's Vineyard had gone through.

Love hearing all these possibiles. What happened to the New Valley Of The Dolls soap???

A September 1981 interview with cartoonist Lynn Johnston mentioned that she had been offered the chance to turn her strip "For Better Or For Worse" into a daytime serial.

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