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Prinz might not be a household name today, but she was a big star on As the World Turns in the 1950s and 1960s as Penny Hughes. I'd say she was arguably the Genie Francis of her time, the young heroine in an early "supercouple" pairing (Penny and Jeff). This ad refers to her post-ATWT role on AMC, where she had sufficient star power to have her name included in the publicity for its premiere. She had left ATWT after fights with Irna Phillips but returned to play Penny many times over the rest of the run (once Phillips was no longer there).
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In addition to that, she received billing in the opening titles, the only time that happened for an AMC star apparently.
Interestingly there was a YouTube video where someone explained the relationships over the years in 6 minutes. (Mainly Ridge marrying Taylor, then marrying Brooke, Taylor marrying the villain from the Roger Moore film Octopussy, etc).
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Really? Only six minutes? I couldn’t explain all the Brooke-Ridge-Taylor relationships on B&B over the years in six months.
Yep, search for the Bold and The Beautiful in 6 minutes on YouTube.
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Of course the soap never caught on, and NBC retooled the show into For Richer, For Poorer.
Ron Randell, who played Richard Cushing, was a casualty of the retool as his character was killed off, not to mention the Cushing and Saxton families were no longer neighbours compared to previously.
Ratings were still low, and NBC cancelled it. It was replaced by Hollywood Squares briefly before Days of Our Lives took the slot to take on All My Children.
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“A new daytime drama about people you’ll care about!”*
*because you clearly didn’t care about the Lovers and Friends
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Harding Lemay, Head Writer of Another World, was in the beginning stages of burnout when Paul Rauch and NBC foisted a second soap on him (Lovers and Friends). It was definitely a case of "killing the goose that laid the golden egg." Even after Lemay pushed the second soap away (others took on the majority of the writing, and he did little to correct their lackluster work) his AW writings started to suffer. They then expanded AW to 90 minutes per day (!!) and it was enough to break any writer (or at least any GOOD writer). I think Lemay would have ended up leaving AW anyway, but forcing a second set of characters on him at that point hastened his end at AW. Maybe his tell-all book would have instead been called Nine Years in Another World.
Still, it's rare to see anything concerning L&F or its spin-off/retooling effort (FRFP), so these are interesting finds.
Still, it's rare to see anything concerning L&F or its spin-off/retooling effort (FRFP), so these are interesting finds.
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You can't blame a struggling soap for pandering a bit.....
(The actor in the center of the first group photo, David Forsyth, gets moved to the far left in the second photo. Jeffrey Meek (who is on the right in the top photo) got moved front and center in the second photo. The other actor is then-newcomer Matthew Ashford.
(The actor in the center of the first group photo, David Forsyth, gets moved to the far left in the second photo. Jeffrey Meek (who is on the right in the top photo) got moved front and center in the second photo. The other actor is then-newcomer Matthew Ashford.
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Wow! This is really not the cosy SFT that I’m vaguely familiar with but as I mentioned before, NBC were clearly trying everything to make the show work.
I’m veering off the semi chronological order that I’ve been posting in with today’s ad. This is the oldest ad I’ve come across so far.
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These are just as good as the ads for prime time soaps and mini series.
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As a follow on from yesterday’s post, here’s another from 1956 for both ATWT and EON, which debuted on the same day. Multiple soaps premiering on the same day was a regular occurrence back in the 50’s and 60’s. The last time it happened was when Somerset, A World Apart and The Best of Everything premiered on the same day in 1970.
The theme tune to SFT was changed towards the end of the run, replaced with an instrumental of Billy Chinnock's Something In The Night.