Proposed Soaps Over The Years

[Paul Raven]

Variety June 14 1983.

CBN is moving ahead with plans to air a second daily soap,if it can generate ad support.

August 23rd 1982

AJ Russell scripting primetime soaper 'Fifth Avenue' dealing with oldline NY family and its struggle for power.

[Paul Raven]

Variety Sept 1st 1982

'Atlanta Rebs' is the title of a football soaper from Pierre Cosette Productions planned as an hourlong primetime network series.Show was created by Lynn Salant and Alan Hodshire and Cossette is currently in negotiations with networks on the project.

[Paul Raven]

[Paul Raven]

Variety October 1968

Proposed daytime soaper 'The Women Behind the Men'.

[Paul Raven]

December 1957

CBS proposes a US version of hit British medical soap 'Emergency Ward 10' with plans to produce it on location at New York's St Luke's Hospital.

[slick jones]

Afternoon TV June 1970 reports an unnamed "Black Soap" was being shopped to National Educational Stations. You can iew the cast in the cancelled soaps cast thread

[Paul Raven]

Wes Kenny named as producer for NBC's 'Afternoon Novels' proposed serialization of novels between six and thirteen weeks cycles.

[Paul Raven]

 Young Lives July 81. Ronnie Wenker Connor writer Marlena Laird director Ken Livesay Exec Producer Rita Dillon producer. Over 40 stations ran the pilot week of episodes

A five-episode pilot for a potential daily serial. The story, set in a community called Southridge, focuses on the problems faced by teenagers in today’s world. The program opened with these words: “You are about to take part in a unique television experiment. A preview of the first five pilot episodes of a new continuing daily drama. This is only the beginning. This is a program in development and your reactions are important. At the conclusion of this episode, we’ll tell you how you can let us know what you think. And now “Young Lives.” The announcer returned for the closing statement: “You’ve been watching a preview of Young Lives, a new daily dramatic serial. The problems Young Lives deals with are real problems. They’ve been identified for us by experts in psychology and family counseling. And now we want your reaction. You have the opportunity to affect the development of this show. Please watch all five episodes this week. Look for the YoungLivesquestionnaire in the current issue of TV Guide. Please fill it out and send it to us. We want to know what you think and if you want to see more of Young Lives.” 

Cast: Heidi Holicker (Melanie Jamison), Joey Seifers (Dirk Jamison), Emily Banks (Linda Jamison), Mischa Bond (Kathy Jamison), Budd Symes (Bob Jamison), Kathy Denney (Rachel Beckworth), Cheryl Ann Clark (Margie Philbert), Rene Lamont (Brad Hoffman), Nadine Remis (Susan Hoffman), Lynda Beattie (Cheryl Hoffman), William Wellman, Jr. (Johnny Royce), Michael Leon (John Cruz),Jonathan Perpich (Tony Scott), Marte Post (Jan Steele), Akoshu Busia (Nancy Hanson), Corkey Ford (N.T. Hamilton), Austin Stoker (Ben Hamilton), Ellie Gerkin (Ann Lawrence). 

 

 Midas Valley.(Pilot; Drama; ABC; 6/27/ 85).

California’s Silicon Valley is the setting for the serial-like story of the Hammonds, a wealthy family (head of the Lantern Computer Company), and the romances, intrigues and corporate espionage associated with their high tech business worlds. Regulars:Drew Hammond, the head of the family; Molly, his wife; Lillian and Franklin, their children; Sara, Franklin’s fiancé; Josh, the computer genius; George, Drew’s business rival; and Mitzi, the Japanese industrialist.

Cast: Robert Stack (Drew Hammond), Jean Simmons (Molly Hammond), Shanna Reed (Lillian Hammond), Joseph Hacker (Franklin Hammond), Linda Purl (Sara Corey), James Read (Josh Landau), George Grizzard (George Carew), France Nuyen (Mitzi Koamoto). Guest Cast: Catherine Mary Stewart (Betsy), Richard Kuss (Max Landau), Brett Cullen (Brad Turner), Stephen Elliott (Elias Markof ), Philip R. Allen (Eric Gregory), Scott Paulin (Seth), Kathryn Witt (Donna).

 

 

[Paul Raven]

January 81

'Julies World' from Metromedia for Fall 81. Advertised as a provocative, continuing half hour daily drama.

By Feb 81, the project was now titled 'Worlds Apart' with the tag 'passion, intrigue, greed and innocence are all a part of Julie's world.'

[Paul Raven]

More on 'Young Lives'

Character rundown

Cheryl  (Lynda Beattie) - a mother alone rebuilding her life 

Roger (?) - a 'geek with wheels and little else

Susan (Nadine Remis) - a child of divorce growing up the hard way.

Melanie (Heidi Holicker) - she likes boys, music, boys, animals and boys.

Brad (Rene Lamont) - a hunk whose got it all and is going for more

Rachel (Kathy Denney) - the foxy spoiled rotten queen of Southridge High.

B.T. (Corkey Ford) - the new kid from the other side of town.

[Paul Raven]

January 67

Daytime project Producer William Dozier, whose Greenway Productions produces Batman and Green Hornet in association with 20th Century -Fox TV, is moving into daytime programing. He has formed Greentree Productions, a separate organization, also associated with Fox, to turn out a pilot for a projected soap opera for NBC -TV. Plans call for the series, Brookfield, to be a daytime strip.

[Paul Raven]

Sept 1962

Production began in New York Sept. 17 on The Fragile Link, hailed as "the first soap opera series aimed for the tv syndication market." It will be produced by VHF Productions for distribution on a market -by market basis by Television Personalities Inc., New York and Hollywood.

Plans call for 130 half -hour episodes of The Fragile Link, which is intended for Monday -through- Friday daytime.

[Paul Raven]

Broadcasting magazine

Together Again, a half -hour serial proposed by Western World Television for first -run syndication next fall, will go into production this summer regardless of whether it is purchased by any U.S. television stations, according to company executive vice president, Frank Miller. A co- production of Western World and Mexico's largest network, Televisa, Together Again has been sold in 10 countries, including Mexico, Ecuador, Peru and the Dominican Republic, and in the territory of Puerto Rico. It is to be produced in English with an American cast, even if it never airs on American television, said Miller, who last week screened a pilot for the serial at a number of New York rep firms and who is continuing discussions with a number of broadcast station groups about carrying the series. Because Together Again is being produced for the most part at Televise 's facilities in Mexico, its co- producers have been able to funnel some of what would have been much higher production costs into hiring big name soap opera talent for the series, said Miller. Starring in the show are Jaime Lyn Bauer, John McCook, Giorgio Tozzi, Peter Barton, Irlene Mandrell and Barbara Rucker.  

[Paul Raven]

1955

'Life Can Be Beautiful' long time radio soap to be syndicated.5 15 minute episodes per week that can be edited down to  a half hour. Story will be constructed with this in mind. Although a core of continuing characters will be used,stories will be played out over the week.

There was  also a proposal to syndicate the NBC late afternoon Modern Romances. Two of the week long stories were edited into half hour episodes successfully,although it was felt additional filming might be necessary to get the best possible half hour story from the 5 episodes. To save costs ,NBC could rerun kinescope versions of the show over Summer.

Ultimately,the numbers didn't work out as fiming and associated costs were way  over the live production of the day.

[Paul Raven]

Proposed ABC pilot for 2016 - 2017

Model Woman* 
Logline: A fictionalized family soap inspired by Robert Lacey's book, Model Woman: Eileen Ford and the Business of Beauty. Set in the late 1970s during the notorious Model Wars, the show is centered on Bertie Geiss — a tempestuous matriarch and uncompromising businesswoman at the helm of an internationally renowned modeling agency.
Cast: Andie MacDowell, Steven Weber, Dan Byrd (Cougar Town), Chris Mason, Madeline Blake, Nicole Ari Parker, Caitlin Carver, Marcus Callender