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Was the Young & The Restless?

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briancraig

the first CBS soap to be taped at Television City in Hollywood?

I know As The World Turns and Guiding Light have always been New York based.

I assume that Love Of Life, Search For Tomorrow, The Edge Of Night and The Secret Storm were also taped in New York.
 
Nope. The Brighter Day moved its production
facilities from New York to L.A. in 1961. In
the process it wrote out practically all its
established characters. Audiences didn't take
to the new ones and the show was canceled
in September 1962 after fourteen years (it
started on radio in 1948 and moved to television
in 1954).

Around that time (the early '60s) CBS had one
called The Clear Horizon, which centered on an
astronaut (very topical then) and his wife, which
I believe was done in L.A. Likewise, I also believe
Full Circle, which gave Dyan Cannon her break, was
done on the West Coast as well.

Guiding Light originated from L.A. (very briefly) in
the late '40s, before television. The show had been
broadcast from Chicago and I'm not clear on why it
moved. I do know that creator Irna Phillips wasn't
happy with the Los Angeles-based actors; they didn't
seem natural to her. So GL moved to New York and has
always originated there since it moved to television.

ATWT, Search For Tomorrow, Edge Of Night, Love Of Life,
and Secret Storm are/were always New York-based.
 
bpatrick said:
Around that time (the early '60s) CBS had one
called The Clear Horizon, which centered on an
astronaut (very topical then) and his wife, which
I believe was done in L.A.
Click to expand...

During the Television City 50th anniversary special a few years ago, they briefly showed a clip from The Clear Horizon and it was stated that the show was based there.
 
Didn't Guiding Light's move to LA co-incide with the show changing locations by having the characters leave their mid-western setting moving to fictional LA suburb, where the show's location would be until the 60s?
 
Thanks for the info, I had never heard of those early soaps.

I remember reading that the setting of Guiding Light was not Springfield until the mid 1960s. Before this it was in the fictional L.A. suburb of Selby Flats.

I wonder how this was explained on the air? Did the Bauers move from California to the Midwest?
 
IIRC from my reading, the Bauers were introduced when
the show changed locale to Selby Flats (this may have
been in 1947, when the show moved from NBC to CBS).
Springfield didn't become the show's locale until the '60s
at the earliest, as I think someone has mentioned. So it
was actually the Bauers moving from Selby Flats to Springfield,
not the other way around. In the show's first decade (1937-47),
the principal character was Rev. John Rutledge (I heard Reva
make a reference to him the other day), played by Arthur Peterson,
best known as the old Major on Soap. In 1947 he didn't want to
move from Chicago to L.A. and so his character was written out.

The network change, and the introduction of all-new characters,
is similar to what happened when Y&R went to an hour. One
family, the Fosters, was written out, while Victor Newman (among
others) was introduced at that time.

Nevertheless, the television version of GL has always originated
in New York...and that's since 1952.
 
Bpatrick,

Do you know where did the The Brighter Day tape from after its production went from NY to LA? I know from reading that the move was the show's death knell. I seem to recall that Mary-Ellis Bunim wanted As The World Turns to move to LA as well back in the '80s, but got much opposition from the veteran actors who didn't want to move.

Guiding Light's earliest locale was a town called Five Points. The show has been using a recurring character named Rev.Rutledge for a few years now(I think since the 50th Anniversary in 2002) and have connected him to his grandfather, which is interesting because the originial Rev. Rutledge, who's living room lamp was nicknamed "the Guiding Light" only had daughters.
 
What about "Love Is A Many Splendored Thing" which ran from 1967-73? Although not in the same time slot, Y&R replaced "Love" on the CBS schedule in March,1973.
 
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