AMS, I'm not sure about the Studio 54 thing, but that is certainly close to CBS's studios a few blocks away where they taped ATWT before the move to AW's old studio in BK and GL's studio before the move to Peapack. I remember walking by CBS when I would visit The Museum of TV & Radio (now Paley) which was next door to the famous 21 Club. It's been quite a few years for me so I don't remember exact addresses.

Wait, haven't I read that Love of Life was, at one point, done in what would later become Studio 54? The concept of all the soaps in one building comes from a Don Hastings interview I watched or read a few years back where he made an absent comment on how CBS "had a whole building full of them." I guess that doesn't necessarily mean all of their shows were done there, just a lot of them.

Love of Life was once taped at what would later become Studio 54; however, Studio 41, former home of Love is a Many Splendored Thing, was its final home before leaving CBS. many of CBS soaps were originally broadcast from Liederkranz Hall (live broadcasts; no taping in those days).

I was the only soap fan among my friends from acting school in NY, and ironically never worked on a soap like a lot of them did. The majority of them worked on GL and ATWT when both were still taping in Manhattan.

Love is a Many Splendored Thing was recorded in New York at CBS Broadcast Center studio #41. Return to Peyton Place was taped in Burbank, CA, at NBC.

Thanks

Dark Shadows also taped in NYC. Ryan's Hope used the studio that Dark Shadows previously used and some of the Ryan's set pieces were from Dark Shadows.

General Hospital must have been one of the first soaps done in California? Ironic since it's set in "Port Charles, New York."

Even though I really liked Y&R as a kid, there was always something about that I really liked about ATWT and later when I'd start watching GL--the scenes seemed very theatrical and episodes appeared to be staged similar to a three act play, much of the time.

I don't know whether anyone is familiar with the PBS series from the 80s-90s, American Playhouse or even some of the classic plays staged outdoors that were televised on the NYC/NYE and the Metro Channel in NYC.

ATWT and GL, in particular had that feel, perhaps because so many people in front of and behind the camera came from the theater community and many continued to work in theater while on the show.

But the staging of these shows, especially throughout the 80s, had this feel. I was too young to know it back then but when I became involved in the theater as a teen and young adult, I realized that's what it felt like to me watching these shows as a kid.

Even watching clips now, even the cheap sets, is pleasing to my ever loving theatre heart.

It's so funny but when I was younger, I actually thought these were actual locations, until my mom told me

Before he produced Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, he worked at As the World Turns. I believe that the show's creator and first headwriter, Irna Phillips, chose him to produce the new CBS show.