@@Joe-ix5hj Or even in reruns, I wish I had the money to start up a soap opera channel better than SoapNet, I'd definitely love for reruns of Search For Tomorrow, I'd love to see the storyline of Dr. Wade Collins getting kidnapped and killed and I think he was being blackmailed for an affair, I could be wrong about how the storyline went though. I hope someone has it and uploads it to UA-cam.
this is a treasure. Love Is A Many Splendored Thing was sort of the Y&R of its time...more contemporary and a young cast. I well remember the storyline on Secret Storm when Belle's daughter Robin drowned in a lake while Amy Britton was watching her. the feud between Belle and Amy lasted for a while. Marla Adams is a legend.
CBS ruled the daytime realm during all of the 50's and for most of the 60's with it's lineup of soaps. However it was during this period in the late 60's that NBC were finally able to breakthrough CBS's strong hold of nearly two decades when it scored a 90 minute power-block with three of it's own soaps which went to the top of the ratings chart ("Days of Our Lives", "The Doctors" & "Another World"). The competition would only gear up in the seventies when ABC threw down the gauntlet with it's trio of daytime hits ("General Hospital", "All My Children" & "One Life To Live")
The woman were so glamorous. I can’t imagine how long they were in hair & makeup & still had to rehearse & tape the actual show. It must have taken hours.
Laura Donnelly....her sister was Iris played by Leslie Charleson...Monica on GH. Laura married Mark Elliot played by David Birney before he went on to on Bridget Loves Bernie then married Meredith Baxter. the one time Donna played the good girl. Then she went on to make "Play Misty For Me" with Clint Eastwood.
@@usesid So interesting, also the late Stuart Damon (Alan Quartmaine) in this clip with Donna Mills. He and Leslie would go on to become soap royality as Dr. Alan and Monica Quartermaine.
My mom wasn't really into soap operas, and this schedule change removed some afternoon game shows she liked. "To Tell the Truth" aired at 3pm ET. Only weeks before the change, that show was interrupted by Soviet troops wiping out the "Prague Spring" revolt in Czechoslovakia.
Corey Levine It was common practice among all the networks to wipe, reuse or recycle videotape as videotape was very expensive, it took a lot of storage space to keep content and TPTB stupidly thought no one would want to watch daytime/late night shows after their first airings. But NBC did not preserve all its soaps. Most of Another World is missing from the ‘60s and ‘70s, along with Somerset, Morning Star, Bright Promise, etc. The Doctors managed not to be wiped. Dark Shadows (ABC) has its complete catalog.
Ryan's Hope is still intact in its entirety. Not sure about General Hospital, but nearly all All My Children and One Life To Live episodes (saved for a few B&W kinescopes) are gone; both shows were wiped until 1978 or so.
I wish that THE EDGE OF NIGHT would have been included in this 1968 Promo with Millette Alexander as "Julie Jamison Hillyer" on Trial for a Murder that she didn't commit being defended by "Adam Drake" (Donald May).
and there was no way one show could be expanded with the other remaining 5m: that would have left a hole in the schedule..ditto for OLTL and GH going from 14m to one hour..SFT and GL were also the last two shows to go 30m.......
They need to have a soap opera channel again showing all of these old soap operas along with present past soap operas day and night time. I don't know why they don't put these soaps into syndication. It makes no sense to me.
Many episodes from most soaps during the 50's and 60's no longer exist because the networks wiped the tapes. This was a practice that continued into the 70's. Hence why the majority of these shows are now lost for good......
@@woohooboy ABC stopped doing so, first, although some wiping by the shows, themselves, still exited even after ABC stopped doing so in 1976 (the first network to have that policy), and ABC's one P&G property, "The Edge of Night" (acquired by ABC in December 1975) got away with wiping as late as February 1979 before P&G stopped doing so for EON. CBS didn't initiate the no wiping until midway into 1978 -- but still so few episodes of those shows exist intact all the way into February 1979, for some reason, probably because of P&G. NBC I think also stopped the wiping at the same time CBS did.
That was the standard until 1956 when As the World Turns and The Edge of Night aired as the first 30 minute soap operas. Both aired the same day, April 2, 1956. But it wasn't until 1967 - 68 that all the remaining soaps expanded to 30 minutes.
@@soap1919jt Actually on ABC, "General Hospital", "Dark Shadows", and "One Life to Live" had premiered @ a half-hour by the time of this CBS ad, as did a couple of NBC soaps that had come and gone (most memorable was "From These Roots", 1958 to 1962, that shared with "Search for Tomorrow", Robert Mandan, and shared with "The Edge of Night", Ann Flood, amongst others) along with still airing @ the time of this CBS ad, "The Doctors", "Days of Out Lives", and "Another World"..
@Mark Astolfi You are correct...in fact, this promo aired during the last episode of To Tell the Truth, which was replaced by the expansions of Search and TGL to a half-hour...it also marked the beginning of a 4-year stretch in which CBS had no game shows on its daytime schedule.
Interesting how the promotional ad plays orchestra music because all the CBS soaps in 1968 used the organ for their themes and background music
There were more soaps on CBS at that time than there are total today
Notthefather Yep. It’s sad that none of the shows in this promo are still on the air today.
@@Joe-ix5hj Or even in reruns, I wish I had the money to start up a soap opera channel better than SoapNet, I'd definitely love for reruns of Search For Tomorrow, I'd love to see the storyline of Dr. Wade Collins getting kidnapped and killed and I think he was being blackmailed for an affair, I could be wrong about how the storyline went though. I hope someone has it and uploads it to UA-cam.
Donna Mills with that hair !!😂😂
this is a treasure. Love Is A Many Splendored Thing was sort of the Y&R of its time...more contemporary and a young cast. I well remember the storyline on Secret Storm when Belle's daughter Robin drowned in a lake while Amy Britton was watching her. the feud between Belle and Amy lasted for a while. Marla Adams is a legend.
When I was a kid, I watched every one of those with my mother and sometimes my grandmother, when she would babysit.. AWESOME STUFF!
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Cbs had all the great soaps I never would've left the house!
mark c I wish The Edge of Night would come back to CBS daytime.
CBS ruled the daytime realm during all of the 50's and for most of the 60's with it's lineup of soaps.
However it was during this period in the late 60's that NBC were finally able to breakthrough CBS's strong hold of nearly two decades when it scored a 90 minute power-block with three of it's own soaps which went to the top of the ratings chart ("Days of Our Lives", "The Doctors" & "Another World").
The competition would only gear up in the seventies when ABC threw down the gauntlet with it's trio of daytime hits ("General Hospital", "All My Children" & "One Life To Live")
And general hospital is the only soap opera left on ABC.
Robert Mandan on Search for Tomorrow and David Birney on Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing.
The woman were so glamorous. I can’t imagine how long they were in hair & makeup & still had to rehearse & tape the actual show. It must have taken hours.
50 years ago tomorrow. Time flies.
I was today years old when I found out that woman by the doll in "Secret Storm," was Marla Adams!!
CBS daytime at its glorious peak!!
My grandmother watched every last one of these.
Donna mills on Love is a Many Splendored Thing
Laura Donnelly....her sister was Iris played by Leslie Charleson...Monica on GH. Laura married Mark Elliot played by David Birney before he went on to on Bridget Loves Bernie then married Meredith Baxter. the one time Donna played the good girl. Then she went on to make "Play Misty For Me" with Clint Eastwood.
@@usesid So interesting, also the late Stuart Damon (Alan Quartmaine) in this clip with Donna Mills. He and Leslie would go on to become soap royality as Dr. Alan and Monica Quartermaine.
My mom wasn't really into soap operas, and this schedule change removed some afternoon game shows she liked. "To Tell the Truth" aired at 3pm ET. Only weeks before the change, that show was interrupted by Soviet troops wiping out the "Prague Spring" revolt in Czechoslovakia.
SAD the episodes of these soaps were erased. GREAT ACTING.
I hear that all the soaps on NBC have all of there tape I don't understand why CBS erased there ...
Corey Levine It was common practice among all the networks to wipe, reuse or recycle videotape as videotape was very expensive, it took a lot of storage space to keep content and TPTB stupidly thought no one would want to watch daytime/late night shows after their first airings.
But NBC did not preserve all its soaps. Most of Another World is missing from the ‘60s and ‘70s, along with Somerset, Morning Star, Bright Promise, etc. The Doctors managed not to be wiped. Dark Shadows (ABC) has its complete catalog.
Days of our lives from 1965 is still around
Y&R also has all of it's archive 1973 to present.
Ryan's Hope is still intact in its entirety. Not sure about General Hospital, but nearly all All My Children and One Life To Live episodes (saved for a few B&W kinescopes) are gone; both shows were wiped until 1978 or so.
I wish that THE EDGE OF NIGHT would have been included in this 1968 Promo with Millette Alexander as "Julie Jamison Hillyer" on Trial for a Murder that she didn't commit being defended by "Adam Drake" (Donald May).
No game shows would air on cbs until 1972. When jokers wild, gambit, and the (new) price is right debut.
Our CBS did air Bob Barker's other classic Truth or Consequences weeknights at 7PM.
September 9, 1968 - my sixth birthday.
1968 CBS daytime soaps promos, announced by Allan Berns!!!
Dick Tufeld the announcer?
Omg a really young Marla Adams!! ❤❤
Dina from YR
Donna Mills!
David Birney certainly wasn’t hard on the eyes, was he?
9-9-68 - my sixth birthday.
Does anyone know what was going on in that "Search" scene at :05?
Donna Mills!!!
Wish there was a promo for my favorite As The World Turns...????
And or The Edge of Night
@@tommyparkerparker EDGE OF NIGHT Promo with Millette Alexander as "Julie Jamison Hillyer" on Trial!
Allan Burns on Voiceover
To Tell the Truth had just been cancelled to make room for the soap expansions.
and there was no way one show could be expanded with the other remaining 5m: that would have left a hole in the schedule..ditto for OLTL and GH going from 14m to one hour..SFT and GL were also the last two shows to go 30m.......
They need to have a soap opera channel again showing all of these old soap operas along with present past soap operas day and night time. I don't know why they don't put these soaps into syndication. It makes no sense to me.
Many episodes from most soaps during the 50's and 60's no longer exist because the networks wiped the tapes.
This was a practice that continued into the 70's. Hence why the majority of these shows are now lost for good......
@@woohooboy ABC stopped doing so, first, although some wiping by the shows, themselves, still exited even after ABC stopped doing so in 1976 (the first network to have that policy), and ABC's one P&G property, "The Edge of Night" (acquired by ABC in December 1975) got away with wiping as late as February 1979 before P&G stopped doing so for EON. CBS didn't initiate the no wiping until midway into 1978 -- but still so few episodes of those shows exist intact all the way into February 1979, for some reason, probably because of P&G. NBC I think also stopped the wiping at the same time CBS did.
THE SECRET STORM
They had 15 minute soaps?
Abinash Mishra - Yep...that was the standard length for most daytime soaps until about the early 60s, with TGL and SFT being the last ones to expand.
@@ChuckD79 good morning @Chuck I enjoy your videos
That was the standard until 1956 when As the World Turns and The Edge of Night aired as the first 30 minute soap operas. Both aired the same day, April 2, 1956. But it wasn't until 1967 - 68 that all the remaining soaps expanded to 30 minutes.
@@soap1919jt Actually on ABC, "General Hospital", "Dark Shadows", and "One Life to Live" had premiered @ a half-hour by the time of this CBS ad, as did a couple of NBC soaps that had come and gone (most memorable was "From These Roots", 1958 to 1962, that shared with "Search for Tomorrow", Robert Mandan, and shared with "The Edge of Night", Ann Flood, amongst others) along with still airing @ the time of this CBS ad, "The Doctors", "Days of Out Lives", and "Another World"..
As the World Turns had a station break at the quarter hour in the 1970s.
Cbs promo 1968
This footage looks way too smooth to be from 1968, IMO...
@Mark Astolfi You are correct...in fact, this promo aired during the last episode of To Tell the Truth, which was replaced by the expansions of Search and TGL to a half-hour...it also marked the beginning of a 4-year stretch in which CBS had no game shows on its daytime schedule.
Is This The Same Guy Who Does V/O Plugs For CBS Entertainment?
Hey check out the Pre Teletubbies Doll. The Purple One was ostracized because it was considered to promote Homosexuality.