Katie Holmes must have lost a fair amount of weight by the end. Too bad.

She did, but a lot of it was 'baby fat' as she just had a round face in the first season being so young still.

Tho, she never was as skinny as she looks in that ad.

April 22, 1982 Digest.

25 hours a day?

I guess it means the network has so much going on that it's beyond 24 hours.

Did that show become A New Day In Eden or was it another show?

I don't know. I've never heard anything about it other than this ad. I wish we could see this, Eden, and Loving Friends and Perfect Couples.

I got this from Googling:

Romance

Type of Work:Motion picture or filmstrip

Registration Number / Date:PA0000135647 / 1981-12-16

Date of Publication:January 26, 1982

Date of Creation:1981

Title:Romance / producer, Otto Salamon ; director, F. Harvey Frost.

Credits:Screenplay: Loraine Despres; music by Glen Morley, Lawrence Shragge; cameras: George Cauley, Glen Mowatt, Simon Dalrymple; video: Bill Pearson; videotape editor: Tim Williams.

Language:Title on script: Romance--love at the crossroads.

Copyright Note:C.O. correspondence.

Imprint:New York : PKO Television, c1981.

Description:5 videocassettes (ca. 180 min.) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in.

Other Title:Romance--love at the crossroads.

Love at the crossroads

Copyright Claimant:P K O Television, Ltd.

Notes:Deposit includes script (1 v.).

Authorship on Application:production: P K O Television, Ltd., employer for hire.

Performer:Geraint Wyn Davies, George Touliatos, Lori Hallier et al.

Presented by Showtime Entertainment.

Names:F. Harvey Frost (22 documents)

example document: Airwaves

I IMDb'd a lot of those names and this series doesn't show up anywhere (though its creation is listed as one of Loraine Despres' major credits on another site). I'm sure many of you are familiar with her name from her work on The Waltons, Dallas, Knots, Dynasty, et cetera.

I'm almost positive it shot in Canada and two of the actors cross-referenced having appeared on Canadian series The Littlest Hobo right around the same time. I wondered if the show perhaps had another name in different markets where it was maye more popular because I found an additional credit for the actress Lori Hallier that sounds a lot like the show in question. Maye not. At any rate it's a series called Loving Friends and Perfet Couples which also features Carl's girl Cali Timmons. That was also a Canadian series with a nice review from an IMDb poster.

My bad Carl, just realized you already mentioned this show. It was produced by Lorimar which of course employed Loraine Despres so who knows...

Edited May 7, 201114 yr by SFK

Did more research... big fat NM on that theory , didn't realize the David Jacobs thing.

Thanks for all your hard work! It's strange to me that these shows are MIA. Surely someone would put them on DVD. Vintage porn never goes out of style - thanks to the Internet it's probably more prominent now than at any time since its heyday - and while this isn't porn, it is something that blurs the line, and reminds people of when the HBO/Showtime cable networks weren't so damn pretentious. It's also one of the few serious attempts to mesh soap with smut - unless you count stuff like Eden. If First and Ten can get a DVD release how sad that these don't even get a thing.

saynotoursoap uploaded a promo for Loving Friends and Perfect Couples.

Edited May 7, 201114 yr by CarlD2

Yeah, I bumped into that promo while Googling and had a HUGE "Duh!" moment when I realized his SN is "Say Not Our Soap" when all this time I've been saying in my head "Say No To Ur Soap".

I thought that promo was really racy. I don't think we'd see that in daytime even today. It kind of blew my mind to see a woman that authentically topless getting dry humped on the floor in that inimitable early '80s soap video tape quality. It seriouly does look like vintage porn when they first made the big transition from film to video tape. These shows must still exist, they'd be perfect for Showtime on-demand.

That's one of those things that could have only happened in the late 70's or early 80's, right before AIDS and all the conservative furor. I've never been sure whether any of those Showtime soaps even had nudity, once I read New Day in Eden didn't, so I was surprised.

A soap format can make that type of thing more intimate, because you know the characters. Too bad no one wants to take the chance again.

I was going to ask if you knew anything about Beulah Johnson. I posted on that in the canceled soaps thread.

This is a from a mid-June 1986 Digest. Sorry if it was already posted - I don't remember seeing it.

Sorry if this was already posted. It's from the July 2 1985 Digest.