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22 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

 

Speaking of Daniel, you probably already know this, but he's on Instagram. He still looks good, just older. He posted a cast photo for Midland Heights a few months ago. 

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CDkLmLCDq-n/

 

If any of you know how to communicate on Instagram maybe we can get him to do an interview.

 

 

I did not know Zippi was on Instagram, so thank you for the information.

 

I watched The Secrets of Midland Heights too, but preferred King's Crossing.

 

I had these recorded on tape back in the day, but at the time the cost of blank videotapes was so high, I recycled many tapes and recorded over the eps of both these shows. Grunt.

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It didn't seem like Kings Crossing was a soap...more like a Family/eight is enough type of show.

 

Was the plan to start in that vein and then soap it up later?

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It aired at 8:00 pm which the networks considered the “family hour” back in the 1980s. So it wasn’t going to be a full fledged soap as long as it aired in that time period. I considered it more of a family drama as well.

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I don't think that the producers of the show really knew what type of show this should be.   They had tried on CBS to make a success of the serial opera The Secret of Midland Heights with both a good older cast and a good younger cast.  (Three of the older performers were great on daytime soap operas and serials: Bibi Beesch, Mark Pinter, and Robert Hogan.  The production company (Lorimar) wanted, I think, to display some of this younger talent.   So, a new show of sorts was created.   And, in the new show, they added more daytime talent - Beatrice Straight, (Love of Life), Mary Frann (Return to Peyton Place), , Michael Zaslow (Search for Tomorrow, Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, The Guiding Light, The Secret Strom), and Stephanie Braxton (The Secret Storm and All My Children).

 

The Secret of Midland Heights was not the only failed attempt at a serial on CBS.    The run of the late night serial Behind the Screen was also not successful.

And, calling attention to Eight Is Enough (also on ABC) and that it was also a show with a younger cast, it would have seemed logical to have done what was done.

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A very dramatic promo around 15 minutes. "The untold horrors of King's Crossing," did give me a laugh.

 

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