Members Paul Raven Posted February 18, 2015 Author Members Share Posted February 18, 2015 Apparently this pilot aired in January 1970 as a part of a Rowan and Martin tv special. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jo.frank88 Posted February 18, 2015 Members Share Posted February 18, 2015 This is only my opinion- but I sadly believe that Passions will be the last of our traditional soap genre to ever premiere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted February 27, 2015 Author Members Share Posted February 27, 2015 Hollywood Reporter Nov 13 2012 NBC is adapting Amanda Steven's novel 'The Graveyard Queen'.The drama is described as a high concept genre soap opera centering on a girl cursed at youth with the ability to see the dead. She works as a cemetery restore who, at great risk to her physical and mental well being, joins forces with a haunted homicide detective to solve a string of brutal murders in Charleston NC. Not seeing much soap opera in this concept... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted February 27, 2015 Author Members Share Posted February 27, 2015 Sponsor Magazine June 3 1964 Lever Bros. may not be the U .S. king of the soaps in the U.S.A., but it still likes to stay clear or the competition in network tv scheduling. Latest case point: its quest among the networks for a soap opera it can call all its own. (ABC-TV's The Ways of Love, now in process of preparation, may get the nod.) P&G and Colgate arc carefree about letting a competitor participate in the same daytirncr they're on, but not Lever. The Lever policy, and a firm one: we don't even want to alterna te with any company that sells the same line of products that we do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members KMan101 Posted February 27, 2015 Members Share Posted February 27, 2015 Sounds like any current procedural drama. Castle, Sleepy Hollow, Forever ... pair a kick-ass woman with a quirky eccentric dude and voila! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted February 28, 2015 Author Members Share Posted February 28, 2015 1954 Television Programs of America proposes The Family Next Door,claimed to be first soap opera for syndication. They were behind Lassie,Ellery Queen and other TV shows of that era. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted March 2, 2015 Author Members Share Posted March 2, 2015 Agnes Nixon's proposed primetime soap 'Beggars and Choosers'announced for May 77 postponed till Spring of 78 according to newspaper report July 77. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted March 3, 2015 Author Members Share Posted March 3, 2015 Sponsor Magazine August 1951 The bugaboos facing the daily production of a live TV soap opera are many : memory lags on the part of the cast: daily rehearsals; set problems all add up to mounting costs. One solution: filmed soap operas. First of the daytime TV serials to be produced on film in the East is Cinderella Story. Broduced by Biography Films, the serial has been optioned by NBC. The estimated cost comes to $11,000.00 for five 15 minute programs weekly. Curtis Mitchell, co-producer along with Blair Walliscr. says that by the use of standardization techniques invented for this series the weekly cost is comparable, to the cost of a live serial. A big advantage for advertisers: good prints rather than kinescopes can be distributed to markets which haven't been cleared live. Tie story line: Young Ohio school teacher wins a cover contest conducted by a famous New York magazine: comes to the big city. This lends itself to another cost-cutter: actual backgrounds will be used. Whenever necessary, the cast will he photographed against Radio City. Statue of Liberty, and other Manhattan sights. Shooting schedule calls for Biography Films to work 20 15 minute episodes ahead on the 35mm. black and white soaper. Sponsor Magazine March 1952 Miami also is trying to get into the TV field on a major scale. Fred F. Frink, head of Ball TV Productions, reports that he has brought in Wall Street capital for the project and that Film Syndications, Inc., which has set up in partnership with David Christianson and Norman Bauch, specialists in distribution and merchandising, will handle the selling of the Ball-financed and produced films. Ball also reports that the first of these series is a soap opera, "Carrie Williams, Justice of the Peace," starring Margaret Lindsay, and produced by Addison Smith. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members slick jones Posted March 12, 2015 Members Share Posted March 12, 2015 From the Encyclopedia of Pilots 1937-2012 by Vincent Terrace: The Shameful Secret of Hastings Corners (Comedy;NBC;Jan. 14, 1970) Hastings Corners is a small town filled with shameful secrets. It is also home to 2 feuding families--the Honkers and the Fandangos. The proposal, a spoof of television soap operas, was to focus on the various residents of the town--each of whom fears their shameful secret will one day come to light and disgrace them. The regulars are:Ta-Ta Honker, head of the Honker family,and his children, Jenny, Charlotte and twins Corey and Morey. Pa Fandango, head of the Fandangos, and his offspring, Tina, Brett and Junior; Dr. Byron Dorman, the town psychiatrist; Frieda Bindel,the elderly woman whom the whole town fears(she holds many shameful secrets in her memory); and Stacey, her niece Cast: Ta Ta Honker: Larry D. Mann Jenny Honker: Ann Willis Charlotte Honker: Karen Black Corey& Morey Honker: Hal Linden Pa Fandango: Peter Brocco Brett Fandango: Hoke Howell Tina Fandango: Stefani Warren Junior Fanango: Barry Williams Dr. Byron Dorman: Alan Oppenheimer Frieda Bindel: Madge Blake Stacey Bindel: Robyn Millan Producer: Harry Ackerman Music:George Duning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted March 12, 2015 Author Members Share Posted March 12, 2015 Thanks for the extra info. Some soap names among that cast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted March 12, 2015 Members Share Posted March 12, 2015 Thanks for all this, especially the early 50's material. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted April 1, 2015 Author Members Share Posted April 1, 2015 Variety Sept 70 Titled, "Wanda's World," the serial concerning the lives of nextdoor black and white families was created by Caryl Ledner and Annette Welles. They will work with Harry Dolao, a "Julia" scripter, in prepping the show Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted April 10, 2015 Author Members Share Posted April 10, 2015 Another article on NBC's Hometown USA concept August 1952 A NEW TV programming concept -a morning block of four quarter - hour serials with a single setting, which officials said will give the sponsors a major saving -was described by NBC -TV last week. To house the programs, known as Hometown and slated to start this fall in the 10:30 -11:30 a.m. period, Monday through Friday, the network is constructing sets representing an entire village in its Brooklyn studios. This village will be the setting for all four of the serials, and some of the sup- porting characters will appear in all four stories. Present plans are to launch the series about October, the exact date dependent upon signing of "enough" sponsors. Authorities said present thinking is that the sale of two quarter -hours will be sufficient to get the series under way. Talent costs were estimated at less than $9,000 per quarter - hour. NBC -TV officials said an advertiser would have to spend almost $45,000 a week to use a setting comparable to Hometown for his own 15- minute daytime strip. Under the Hometown concept, they reported, this cost is cut as much as 80%. Sylvester L. Weaver Jr., NBC vice president in charge of radio and television, told a news confer- ence t'.:e programs would represent soap opera "on a more interesting level, and more informative," and said it was hoped the new pattern would stimulate writers to move into "new dimensions" which, while providing entertainment, would do more than entertain. With the action of all four plots taking place in a single town, he said, the effects of real -world events can be shown in the actions and reactions of the characters in the stories. He said the programs will have the quality of nighttime shows. Outlines of Hometown's four stories were presented in a kinescope with Dave Garroway as m.c. One centers around the life and problems of the town's prominent surgeon. Another features an elderly couple who run the grocery store. Heroine of the third is a lady personnel manager of a local plant, while the fourth is the story of a kindly old maid who is the confidante of most of the town characters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted April 21, 2015 Members Share Posted April 21, 2015 Suzanne Rogers mentioned this briefly in the DAYS 50th SOD issue. She said they heard "rumors," and that Wes Kenney fought against the idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted April 30, 2015 Author Members Share Posted April 30, 2015 Also in the cast were Peter Barton (Scott Y&R) Barbara Rucker (Sandy ATWT,Ginny TX)Irene Mandrell and Giorgio Tozzi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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