Please feel free to add anything I may have missed, and comment if you prefer any of the 'originals'

 

CBS

 

The Clear Horizon... Far Horizon/ Army Wife

 

Search for Tomorrow... Search for Happiness

 

As The World Turns... Journey's End/As The Earth Turns

 

The Edge of Night... The World Within

 

The Secret Storm... The Storm Within/ Bright Star

 

The Young and The Restless... The Innocent Years

 

The Bold and The Beautiful ...Rags

 

Our Private W0rld ... The Woman Lisa

 

Falcon Crest... The Vintage Years

 

Secrets of Midland Heights ...Heartland /Midland Heights

 

NBC

 

The Bennett Story... The Bennetts

 

The Greatest Gift ... Dr Eve

 

Our Five Daughters... Five Daughters

 

The Doctors... House of Hope

 

Paradise Bay... Point Paradise

 

Bright Promise... Look To This Day/The Best Years

 

How to Survive A Marriage... From this Moment

 

Lovers and Friends... Into This House

 

Sunset Beach...Never Say Goodbye

 

Somerset... Between Two Worlds

 

ABC

The Young Marrieds... That Young Marriage

 

General Hospital ...Emergency Hospital

 

One Life to Live... Between Heaven and Hell

 

Ryans Hope ...A Rage to Love /City Hospital

 

Never Too Young ... No Time for Love

 

Loving... Love Without End

 

The City ... Lov NYC

 

Port Charles ... GH2

 

Dynasty ...Oil

 

The Colbys ... The Colbys of California

Edited February 29, 20205 yr by Paul Raven

Texas... Reunion

9 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

Somerset... Between Two Worlds

 

Considering how it ended up, perhaps they should've called it "Between a Rock and a Hard Place" instead.

Sunset Beach was originally Never Say Goodbye

3 hours ago, SteelCity said:

Sunset Beach was originally Never Say Goodbye

 

I remember that. Such an interesting choice for a soap title, especially in the late 90s. 

3 hours ago, SteelCity said:

Sunset Beach was originally Never Say Goodbye

Thanks for that. I knew there was an original title but couldn't remember/locate it. Will add it in!

5 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

Thanks for that. I knew there was an original title but couldn't remember/locate it. Will add it in!

No problem. I actually hate that title!

On 2/26/2020 at 11:23 PM, Paul Raven said:

The Bold and The Beautiful ...Rags

 

Wasn't B&B's original setting supposed to be a newspaper in Chicago, hence the title Rags? 

Frankly, the Bells should have set B&B in NYC, since that's more of a fashion capital than L.A.  (Exhibit A: the city's yearly "Fashion Week.")

 

They also should've kept "Rags" as the title.  "The Bold and the Beautiful" has always sounded a little too "If you like 'The Young and the Restless,' then you'll love..." to me.

On 2/29/2020 at 10:54 PM, kalbir said:

 

Wasn't B&B's original setting supposed to be a newspaper in Chicago, hence the title Rags? 

 

Rags as in the rags (clothing) industry. This was never meant to be the actual title, it was just the name the Bells used while developing the show. Brad said in an interview that they knew pretty early on that they'd be going the, "The (blank) and the (blank)" route.

20 hours ago, SFK said:

 

Rags as in the rags (clothing) industry. This was never meant to be the actual title, it was just the name the Bells used while developing the show. Brad said in an interview that they knew pretty early on that they'd be going the, "The (blank) and the (blank)" route.

Is true that at one point there was a third Bell soap in the works called "The Proud and the Passionate?"

On 2/29/2020 at 10:54 PM, kalbir said:

 

Wasn't B&B's original setting supposed to be a newspaper in Chicago, hence the title Rags? 

 

Margaret DePriest created an unaired soap for NBC set at a newspaper in Chicago, I believe. The title was "Deadline." Variety announced it in the mid-80s.

On 3/3/2020 at 6:42 PM, SFK said:

 

Rags as in the rags (clothing) industry. This was never meant to be the actual title, it was just the name the Bells used while developing the show. Brad said in an interview that they knew pretty early on that they'd be going the, "The (blank) and the (blank)" route.

I was thinking Rags as in the tabloid press. 

 

On 3/4/2020 at 3:42 PM, SteelCity said:

Is true that at one point there was a third Bell soap in the works called "The Proud and the Passionate?"

That title sounds way too cheesy

 

Didn't Bill Bell Jr. and Maria Arena Bell create a show called "Coming of Age" but for whatever reason CBS passed on it.

4 hours ago, kalbir said:

I was thinking Rags as in the tabloid press. 

 

That title sounds way too cheesy

 

Didn't Bill Bell Jr. and Maria Arena Bell create a show called "Coming of Age" but for whatever reason CBS passed on it.

Yep. But Coming of Age was a possible NBC soap.

Y&R very nearly went to air with the title “The Young and Restless Years”. The original Screen Gems contracts have that name for show. Thank goodness someone lobbed off “Years”.