One thing that is striking is that it seems obvious the show wasn't built around families at all--given the source book and novel and that ABC promo. That has always been risky for daytime soaps, and I think in 1970 would have been even more so (I'm still surprised that ABC didn't give it even a year though.) I love the book and movie so much, and hate James Lipton so much, that this still continues to fascinate me. I think it was Jacqueline Babbin's first soap (she was a producer.) The theme song (instrumental but the lyric version we hear was a single) was written, music and lyrics, by Lipton (who had done the lyrics to several infamous Broadway flops--he sucked at everything he wrote :P (Actually his musical Sherry!, based on The Man Who Came to Dinner, was an infamous 1960s flop indeed, but the title song--think a more bitchy Hello Dolly or Mame--was included on a recording of songs from flop musicals, sung by Christine Baranski and Jonathan Freeman, that made the show sound so good. So good that an all star complete recording of the score was then made, and I say this as someone who owns over 1000 musical cast albums... Hearing the whole score, it was apparent why it flopped.) Here's the title song though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D3wKWIZiIc
I have to say, this storyline is... something: Although the soap opera was short-lived, there were several plotlines, including Kim being brutally attacked by a mysterious villain named Squirrel.
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