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Search for Tomorrow is an American television soap opera.It began its run on CBS on September 3, 1951, and concluded on NBC, 35 years later, on December 26, 1986. [1]Set in the fictional town of Henderson in an unspecified state, the show focuses primarily on the character of Joanne "Jo" Gardner, portrayed by Mary Stuart for the entire run of the series.
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Aug 4, 2018 · A missing videotape forced a long-running soap opera to broadcast a live episode many years after live television was no longer part of the genre. The August 4, 1983, episode of the soap opera Search for Tomorrow was very different…all thanks to a missing videotape.
Sep 4, 2009 · Search seems to have a reputation as a failed soap based on the ratings and stories of the NBC years,but during it's CBS run was amazingly successful - throughout the 50's and 60's,always...
- Here is the most accurate list of SFT head writers I have done: Agnes Nixon (1951) Irving Vendig (1951-1956) Charles Gussman (1956-1957) Frank &...
- I never knew Pam Long wrote for this show. That makes 3 canned soaps she was at.
- Not to defend Pam Long but she did not have much time left on SFT before it was cancelled just the same situation as when she was hired on "Texas"...
- Under Pam Long,the show was in much better shape,storywise than it had been in years.But it was too late. Thanks French Fan for the list of writers...
- To look at that TPTB list is very saddening. I mean with the exception of the Corringtons (Were they good at the show?) Not one single writer was a...
- You're probably right, you're always right for the Head Writers thing^^ I had tons of information written of sheets of paper and of course, I alway...
- Great list. The only error I see is Harding Lemay being there until September 1981. Don Chastain wrote the Writer's Strike episodes which would hav...
- Oh right, I made a sorry when I typed it. You can't even imagine how bad my handwriting is. I can't even read myself^^
- I LOVED SFT when AOL was streaming the show. As much as I enjoyed Ryan's Hope, the show really suffered when Paul Avila Mayer took over. The previo...
- I seem to recall reading something somewhere that Mary Stuart hated the Hursleys and felt that they always had it out for her and her character. So...
Producer Roy Winsor developed Search for Tomorrow in 1951 and proved that the soap opera could succeed on television. The CBS serial reflected the concerns of postwar America by focussing on a widowed heroine, Joanne Tate (played for all thirty-five years by Mary Stuart ), who struggled with issues of marriage and children.
Dec 26, 2018 · Beloved daytime soap opera Search for Tomorrow ended its 35-year run on December 26, 1986. After more than three decades on CBS, the Procter & Gamble-produced drama moved in NBC in 1982 but...
Search for Tomorrow took every advantage of that. Anything that could be pasted up on a flat sheet became camera copy: typescripts, found art cut from magazines and newspapers, cereal box art, line drawings, etchings from old magazines and books, even small objects. It was fun, but also took heat.
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The first truly successful Soap Opera on television, the show ran until 1982 on CBS, at which point it moved to NBC until its demise in 1986.
