Frankly, I think even the title ("Our Private World") was lacking something.

I've seen one episode on Our Private World on YouTube, and it really was exactly like a daytime soap opera, simply broadcast at night.  The only difference I noticed was some of the sets were larger than we saw on daytime in that era.  I suppose it wasn't a terrible idea to test a "normal" soap opera during primetime.  But comparing OPW to Peyton Place -- well, there's no comparison.  OPW seemed more like an experiment, rather than a continuing drama specifically created for primetime.  

Do you think the show would have succeeded if it had been a daytime spinoff of ATWT?  

On 10/1/2024 at 6:54 PM, Avatar610 said:

Years later Nicolas Coster said in an interview how much more advanced "Peyton Place" was from a technical standpoint since it was shot on film and could get better angles as opposed to the much heavier TV cameras used for "Our Private World".

I started re-watching Peyton Place last month as it approached its 60th anniversary and it has really excellent production value, especially with the entire backlot that they turned into the town square. ABC clearly didn't spare any expense, as opposed to Our Private World which seemed like a cheap way to cash in on ATWT's daytime success. Tying it into a daytime soap probably also meant the pace was closer to the daytime counterpart rather than the more quicker paced Peyton Place.

TV Guide 7/31/65

ROOM WITH A VIEW—OF HERSELF

A young actress sees her own TV performance for the first time

How busy can a young actress get? Well, beauteous, red-haired Julienne Marie has been so busy that she was a regular on CBS's nighttime serial, Our Private World, for almost a month before she got to see herself on television. It so happened that she was also appearing in the Broadway musical hit “Do I Hear a Waltz?”’, which kept her well occupied on the nights World was on the air.

What made Julienne doubly anxious to view Julienne: She had never seen herself on_ television. She had done only one other TV how, a Golden Showcase called “Tonight in Samarkand.” ‘’But,’” she said, “it was live, so | never got to see myself.”

Friends—some 21 days after World had premiered—finally moved a portable TV set into her dressing room in the 46th Street Theatre. Even then her viewing didn’t come easy. Since her dressing room was four flights up, she had to watch herself on the air for a few seconds as the impulsive, unhappy Eve Eldredge, then dash downstairs to become the impulsive, unhappy Jennifer Yaeger in “Waltz.” “What made it even tougher,” said Julienne, “I had already made that trip four times before the show came on the air.”

As for her reactions, just see the pictures bordering this page. “At first I was very anxious and nervous,” she said, “but then I was surprised and delighted to see that I wasn’t so bad. I would say to myself every time | would come on the screen, ‘Oh, who is that? What is she doing?’ I would never say, "What am I doing?’ It was*hard for me to believe the girl on the screen was actually me.”

Julienne's costar in Waltz was Stuart Damon, who eventually wound up on ATWT.