Ok Baby Boomers I’ve been uploading some fabulous vintage things from my vintage tv show collection to You Tube lately and here is my latest upload. Now this is really fun, it’s a 1962 episode of Search For Tomorrow! For those of us who had mothers and grandmothers who watched the soaps when we were kids just hearing the music alone can give you goosebumps from the rush of early childhood memories that these will bring.
Like many of the early soaps operas this was broadcasted live! CBS was the first network to import these daytime soap operas from radio to television back in the late 1940's and early 1950's, the radio soaps were only 15 minutes long, so for many years CBS also kept the TV soaps at 15 minutes per episode. CBS played Search for Tomorrow, Guiding Light, Love of Life, the Secret Storm, As the World Turns, etc. NBC and ABC television had been playing their own soap operas such as General Hospital for years as well, but the CBS soaps were always were the most popular, at least until the mid 60's when NBC premiered Days of Our Lives. Unlike many other CBS soaps that did get their start on the radio, Search for Tomorrow started on television, airing on Monday, September 3, 1951. The show was moved from CBS on Friday, March 26, 1982, with NBC picking it up on the following Monday, March 29, 1982. It continued on NBC until the final episode was aired on Friday, December 26, 1986.
Here is a 44 year old episode of Search For Tomorrow, it was originally 15 minutes, but I cut out a few minutes of the story where it was least interesting to shorten the clip down to just under 10 minutes so it would fit within You Tube's time and file size guidelines. It includes both the opening and closing credits as well as all the original commercials, sponsored by Procter and Gamble (imagine that).
You Tube seems to slow down on Friday and Saturday nights so the video might first appear choppy if it is downloading too slow to watch it and receive it at the same time. If the video keeps starting and stopping, hit the pause button (located on the gray bar in the lower left hand side of the viewer) and let the video download for five minutes or so and then continue watching it…
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Like many of the early soaps operas this was broadcasted live! CBS was the first network to import these daytime soap operas from radio to television back in the late 1940's and early 1950's, the radio soaps were only 15 minutes long, so for many years CBS also kept the TV soaps at 15 minutes per episode. CBS played Search for Tomorrow, Guiding Light, Love of Life, the Secret Storm, As the World Turns, etc. NBC and ABC television had been playing their own soap operas such as General Hospital for years as well, but the CBS soaps were always were the most popular, at least until the mid 60's when NBC premiered Days of Our Lives. Unlike many other CBS soaps that did get their start on the radio, Search for Tomorrow started on television, airing on Monday, September 3, 1951. The show was moved from CBS on Friday, March 26, 1982, with NBC picking it up on the following Monday, March 29, 1982. It continued on NBC until the final episode was aired on Friday, December 26, 1986.
Here is a 44 year old episode of Search For Tomorrow, it was originally 15 minutes, but I cut out a few minutes of the story where it was least interesting to shorten the clip down to just under 10 minutes so it would fit within You Tube's time and file size guidelines. It includes both the opening and closing credits as well as all the original commercials, sponsored by Procter and Gamble (imagine that).
You Tube seems to slow down on Friday and Saturday nights so the video might first appear choppy if it is downloading too slow to watch it and receive it at the same time. If the video keeps starting and stopping, hit the pause button (located on the gray bar in the lower left hand side of the viewer) and let the video download for five minutes or so and then continue watching it…
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