On 4/17/2022 at 9:38 PM, Vee said:

Lee Grant! Did she ever do another primetime soap (not counting Peyton Place)?

btw it just occurred to me, if "The Next Generation" had been picked up she might've eventually pop up after all that movie ignored "Murder"

Looks like I should’ve watched after Easter like I planned bc it’s already been taken down.

No One got to save it did you????

BTW does someone know what was the Role Susan French's Margaret Marshall played in the series????

On 4/5/2022 at 11:23 PM, SFK said:

@Joseph those screen caps are from the opening credits when the show went to series, or at least, the opening credits of the German dub found on YouTube. I’ve wondered if the Sarah Vaughan song by Billy Goldenberg from the miniseries was used for the series.

Apparently Yes!!!

I'm So Glad I Found This

 

On 9/2/2022 at 7:50 PM, Joseph said:

Apparently Yes!!!

I'm So Glad I Found This

 

Nice! Giving me Capitol vibes, yet another Italian dub. Hopefully more will turn up in English.

43 minutes ago, SFK said:

Nice! Giving me Capitol vibes, yet another Italian dub. Hopefully more will turn up in English.

I sure hope so, but I'll be saving this one in Italian anyway it's better than nothing

ANYONE GOT THE COURAGE???

Does anyone by any chance have the tv film saved somewhere and can share it? Was too late to get it off YouTube, and been trying to find it since with no luck 

Such A Nice Surprise! I never Knew The Pilot Miniseries aired Here In Brazil!!! 

Rede Globo Showed it In 5 Parts Back in 1987, and As It Was Custom We had our own version of the Opening as you can see around 3:40! 

@All My Shadows @gimmetoo @SFK

@Paul Raven @Chrissy81730 @Chris B

READY FOR A MIRACLE?

Two Episodes of The series popped up in ENGLISH!

1 hour ago, Joseph said:

@All My Shadows @gimmetoo @SFK

@Paul Raven @Chrissy81730 @Chris B

READY FOR A MIRACLE?

Two Episodes of The series popped up in ENGLISH!

THANK YOU for the tag! 

1 hour ago, Joseph said:

@All My Shadows @gimmetoo @SFK

@Paul Raven @Chrissy81730 @Chris B

READY FOR A MIRACLE?

Two Episodes of The series popped up in ENGLISH!

Awesome. Thank you!!!

Just from watching the 1 full episode, I can see why it didn't take off.

It's beautifully shot, but there's nothing that sets it apart... no distintive hook or identity unlike the following big 4 soaps:

Dallas was about the oil and rancher businesses with two feuding families.

Knots Landing was about upper middle class families in a Calfornia suburb

Falcon Crest was about a family that owned a vineyard

Dynasty was about new money in Denver that deal with oil, hotels, and especially about manners.

 

With that said, I thought Jessica Walter was a worthy recast for Lee Grant while Muffin had a much bigger part it seems in the show.  She seems more like a grey character... or is she. 

Bare Essence had a few strikes against it from the start.

It was rushed into production as a spin off of the mini series- I don't believe there was ever the idea of the mini series being a 'pilot' for a series . So there was recasting and having to come up with a concept for a series.

The 9pm timeslot - no soap had successfully debuted at 9pm. The competition was a still strong 3's Company on ABC and CBS had a strong movie Murder in Coweta County to blunt BE's debut.

Reviews were not great,so viewers weren't inclined to tune in, and those that did didn't return in Wk 2.

I have copies of the scripts. It wasn't very good from what I recall. I only got as far as about episode 5 when I stopped. At the point they wrote out the gay couple, only to replace them with a straight woman, I was pretty much over the only unique element of the show. There were few witty lines from what I recall and that plot was twisty enough to be that sort of show. They basically hoped Genie Francis' name would carry the show. I think there was one unfilmed or unaired episode, but I believe that too was also a cliffhanger.