Dwight Weist was the longtime announcer of "Search for Tomorrow" in the early days of the show. I took an acting class at his school, Weist-Barron, in Manhattan during the summer of 1979. His business partner, Bob Barron, was the father of actress Dana Barron. Bob taught the lectures and Dwight taught the videotape acting practice sessions. I had worked in the CBS Broadcast Center at 524 West 57 Street during the summer of 1974 and used to see a lot of actors, including those from SFT, in the halls, control rooms, soundstages, cafeteria, and elevator. Black-and-white kinescopes were produced in an area called "Telecine." While a show was being performed live or being videotaped, a film camera was pointed at a very tiny TV monitor which had a bright image. One day, I noticed a piece of film sitting on a table which had a film camera. I picked it up and examined it. I saw a few frames of planet Earth from the opening billboard of "As the World Turns."
I still love soap operas but they are trying too hard to be campy and all over the place. I miss the days when it was about human storys and family’s and not about a devil tearing down a town and it’s characters lmao
9:06, Larry Hagman, long before he became JR Ewing on Dallas. I think he was on The Edge of Night from 1960-1963 where he played Ed Gibson, an attorney who married Chief of Police Bill Marceau’s daughter Judy.
I love these old soaps! Don Knotts was on S4T and this one Larry Hagnan! My grandma used to watch every day! Most times with tears streaming down her face.
The time wasn't really simpler though, the media just portrayed it that way. America was in the middle of the Cold War and was paranoid about threats of nuclear attack. The KKK was hugely influential, racial segregation was still a thing, and the Civil Rights Act was still a few years away. The tobacco companies were still hiding the dangers of smoking. The list goes on. The same kinds of things that are going on now where going on then. The only difference is that information is disseminated more freely because of advances in technology. There was a comment in a YT video from the 1970s that was similar. I grew up in the 1970s. It was NOT great.
Thanks for the upload !! I do wish they would have brought back the organ music !! Larry was quite dashing back than..!! Larry Smoke and Drank !! I like the way that Larry answersd the girl question about where he was going..?? "We are going to dinner...Yes that's it dinner" !! XD..
Larry Hagman would also appear on THE EDGE OF NIGHT during the early 60s for a number of episodes. I guess in his own way he would become a CBS soap opera fixture over the years, appearing here on SFT, on EON, and of course on DALLAS (his best remembered role being J.R.). This was before and after his NBC ‘I Dream Of Jeannie’ years, to be sure…
I told UK Soap Fans about how Soaps were back in the day and they were in stiches. In the UK they are all independently owned. Yet if there is one thing that they have in common is that their UK Alumni have done very well on shows that have been broadcasted on PBS, & HBO. Suranne Jones (Gentleman Jack), Sarah Lancashire (Last Tango In Halifax, Happy Valley, Julia), Rob James Collier & Joanna Frogatt (Downton Abbey), were alumni of Coronation Street, while Jenna Louise Coleman (Victoria) was on Emmerdale. In one of the early episodes of eastenders in 1985 they had a Box of Pampers. I told them that they were paying homage to US Soaps without realizing it.
The daytime game show "Concentration" used organ music during its original incarnation, from New York, until NBC cancelled the show in 1973. It was charmingly outdated, and it sounded like being at a weekday afternoon major league baseball game.
Love that Dash commercial…the sign on the door clearly says, “Closed For Repairs” but THAT WOMAN gotta get her clothes cleaned anyway…either that, or she simply can’t read…lol
By the time he started I Dream of Jeannie, he had quit smoking cold turkey after reading what smoking does health-wise. This is why we never saw Captain/Major Nelson smoking.
Lynn Loring had about another year to go on the show.She stayed 10 years,Her character was a rarity,A child character allowed to age without becoming a victim of SORAS (known in soap circles as Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome) After Lynn left her character was perhaps the most recast character in soap history.After the character was absent for some 10 years Patti was cast about a decade younger than she would've been‼️
@@a.b.s_productions So did Charita Bauer from Guiding Light, Jeanne Cooper Young and Restless, Erica Slezak One Life to Live, so many more, men too. Don Hastings, As the World Turns,
Good episode! I like Larry Hagman & the rest of the cast’s acting. But, Cliff comes off as being a bit creepy in his interest in Patty & her story about Ted. I always loved SFT especially Joanne, Stu & Marge & later Eunice. Thank you for this video.
Thank you for sharing this. I'd never seen this episode. It's another reminder of why IMDB corrections are important - they have the wrong first name (Curt - his name is Cliff), and I'm not sure if the year is accurate either. It's listed as 1957. I guess this could be 1957, as apparently Ted and Millicent are also listed for 1957-1958.
I'm actually really into this story 😅 I want to know if Ted passes his history class after his teacher talks to...to the dad of the girl whose name we never hear
The way Millicent is acting towards Teddy not going to college and believing her husband would blame her, was this a precursor to a spousal abuse storyline?
In this scene Larry Hagman reminds me of Jack Ellis who is probably best known playing Jim Fenner on Bad Girls. A real snake, charmer who slept his way through the Halls of Larkhall Women's Prison.
Why the hysterics? he could always make up the credits or get an equivalency degree and then attend college. It's not like he's lost his chance for good. His father must be a real creep if she's that afraid of him, either that or she's a high strung mess.
This is absolutely scandalous! Not going to college? What will the neighbors think? And calling your mother by her name? What is going on in this town?
I remember my mother watched SFT, followed by the Guiding Light. The shows only lasted 15 minutes in those days.
I remember my mom watching this as well.
Smokey Robinson used to watch them as a teenager in the 1950's.
Dwight Weist was the longtime announcer of "Search for Tomorrow" in the early days of the show. I took an acting class at his school, Weist-Barron, in Manhattan during the summer of 1979. His business partner, Bob Barron, was the father of actress Dana Barron. Bob taught the lectures and Dwight taught the videotape acting practice sessions. I had worked in the CBS Broadcast Center at 524 West 57 Street during the summer of 1974 and used to see a lot of actors, including those from SFT, in the halls, control rooms, soundstages, cafeteria, and elevator. Black-and-white kinescopes were produced in an area called "Telecine." While a show was being performed live or being videotaped, a film camera was pointed at a very tiny TV monitor which had a bright image. One day, I noticed a piece of film sitting on a table which had a film camera. I picked it up and examined it. I saw a few frames of planet Earth from the opening billboard of "As the World Turns."
Love teevee ephemera on YT, thanks for that story from "the barn."
Wow...great you get to be there!
I was 5 yrs old. I wish soap operas was still like this. But aren't. Those days are gone 4 ever.
I still love soap operas but they are trying too hard to be campy and all over the place. I miss the days when it was about human storys and family’s and not about a devil tearing down a town and it’s characters lmao
9:06, Larry Hagman, long before he became JR Ewing on Dallas. I think he was on The Edge of Night from 1960-1963 where he played Ed Gibson, an attorney who married Chief of Police Bill Marceau’s daughter Judy.
And he introduced himself as Cliff Williams here.
I love these old soaps! Don Knotts was on S4T and this one Larry Hagnan!
My grandma used to watch every day! Most times with tears streaming down her face.
Wow pretty Barbara Baxley , she was a great actress with more than 75 film & television credits.
WOW - how cool is this to see !! A young Larry Hagman !! Thankyou for uploading this !!
My Pleasure!
This was before my time but I wish we could go back in time. Such a simpler time.
The time wasn't really simpler though, the media just portrayed it that way. America was in the middle of the Cold War and was paranoid about threats of nuclear attack. The KKK was hugely influential, racial segregation was still a thing, and the Civil Rights Act was still a few years away. The tobacco companies were still hiding the dangers of smoking. The list goes on. The same kinds of things that are going on now where going on then. The only difference is that information is disseminated more freely because of advances in technology.
There was a comment in a YT video from the 1970s that was similar. I grew up in the 1970s. It was NOT great.
@@amiblueful the media wasn’t even that friendlier or portrayed it different than today. Lmao
The 50's and 60's we're anything but simple my friend...sorry to disappoint
@@GLBizzie You sound like your 12...The world was a better place back then.
@@mangarda I'd take the 50's and 60's and even the 70's and 80's compared to today......
Thanks for the upload !! I do wish they would have brought back the organ music !! Larry was quite dashing back than..!! Larry Smoke and Drank !! I like the way that Larry answersd the girl question about where he was going..?? "We are going to dinner...Yes that's it dinner" !! XD..
The "SFT" theme song is gorgeous.
That is definitely Larry Hagman
Larry Hagman would also appear on THE EDGE OF NIGHT during the early 60s for a number of episodes. I guess in his own way he would become a CBS soap opera fixture over the years, appearing here on SFT, on EON, and of course on DALLAS (his best remembered role being J.R.). This was before and after his NBC ‘I Dream Of Jeannie’ years, to be sure…
I liked him better as Tony nelson😊
I told UK Soap Fans about how Soaps were back in the day and they were in stiches. In the UK they are all independently owned. Yet if there is one thing that they have in common is that their UK Alumni have done very well on shows that have been broadcasted on PBS, & HBO. Suranne Jones (Gentleman Jack), Sarah Lancashire (Last Tango In Halifax, Happy Valley, Julia), Rob James Collier & Joanna Frogatt (Downton Abbey), were alumni of Coronation Street, while Jenna Louise Coleman (Victoria) was on Emmerdale. In one of the early episodes of eastenders in 1985 they had a Box of Pampers. I told them that they were paying homage to US Soaps without realizing it.
When did soap operas quit using organ music as background? I've seen snippets of shows from as late as 1967 still using it.
I believe 1975 was when they stopped. I think Edge of Night might have been the last soap to do so.
The daytime game show "Concentration" used organ music during its original incarnation, from New York, until NBC cancelled the show in 1973. It was charmingly outdated, and it sounded like being at a weekday afternoon major league baseball game.
@@kevinfitzmaurice4072 Or at a roller skating rink. I believe at one time those places used to have an organist before switching to Top 40.
Always like JR great actor
Love that Dash commercial…the sign on the door clearly says, “Closed For Repairs” but THAT WOMAN gotta get her clothes cleaned anyway…either that, or she simply can’t read…lol
🤣🤣🤣
Before I Dream Of Jeannie and Dallas.
Don't forget he played a Homophobic Abusive Husband in The Group. Larry Hagman was also homophobic in real life.
Funny to see Larry Hangman smoking in this scene bc for years he campaigned hard against smoking in many anti-smoking crusades.
By the time he started I Dream of Jeannie, he had quit smoking cold turkey after reading what smoking does health-wise. This is why we never saw Captain/Major Nelson smoking.
That's funny, Larry Hagman's name was Cliff, the same name as his enemy on "Dallas".
Lynn Loring had about another year to go on the show.She stayed 10 years,Her character was a rarity,A child character allowed to age without becoming a victim of SORAS (known in soap circles as Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome) After Lynn left her character was perhaps the most recast character in soap history.After the character was absent for some 10 years Patti was cast about a decade younger than she would've been‼️
I believe her and Jada Rowland from Secret Storm were two soap actresses who aged real time on a soap.
@@a.b.s_productions So did Charita Bauer from Guiding Light, Jeanne Cooper Young and Restless, Erica Slezak One Life to Live, so many more, men too. Don Hastings, As the World Turns,
@@sandrasanders706 I’m talking more so from youth. Erika Slezak yes since she was in her very early 20’s when she started on OLTL.
Cigarettes; part of a balanced 1960's breakfast.
It was part of the culture.
Still is 🤷
Now it’s McDonalds and fast food rather than sitting and having meal time with family. Not sure what’s worse, obesity or smoking
👋 The organ music 🎶 is absolutely 💯 nerve 😤 racking September 27,2022
I miss organ music, even on game shows back then, when a show had its own music. :)
Take a Valium dear, and have a cigarette.....
❤🎉 As The Stomach Turns. Mother Marcus! Yoo hoo!
Barbara Baxley. We know her also from the Twilight Zone, Hitchcock, and Perry Mason from those days.
Yes , and I believe the young teenage girl is Lynn Loring
I thought she was familiar, I recall No Way To Treat A Lady, another dark comedy.
Vintage!❤
Wow Larry Hagman was only 29 here.
I wonder if we can get an upload of the S.F.T. episode: "Who Shot Cliff?" ;-)
I wonder is Dash detergent still around.😊💖. This show is 🏆
Paul Reed and Tom Pedi appear in the Dash commercial at 4:02.
Good episode! I like Larry Hagman & the rest of the cast’s acting. But, Cliff comes off as being a bit creepy in his interest in Patty & her story about Ted. I always loved SFT especially Joanne, Stu & Marge & later Eunice. Thank you for this video.
Thank you for sharing this. I'd never seen this episode. It's another reminder of why IMDB corrections are important - they have the wrong first name (Curt - his name is Cliff), and I'm not sure if the year is accurate either. It's listed as 1957. I guess this could be 1957, as apparently Ted and Millicent are also listed for 1957-1958.
We went back to the 16mm kinescope and found the actual airdate in the leader. Airdate August 31, 1960.
A very young J.R. Ewing. How about that ???
😂😂😂 Larry Hagman didn't you get the sense that he was gonna to say something scarcastic & mean JR Ewing what a great actor RIP Larry
I'm actually really into this story 😅 I want to know if Ted passes his history class after his teacher talks to...to the dad of the girl whose name we never hear
Right?? Oh no! We may NEVER find out what happened to Ted! 😰
This was filmed live.
"Filmed live" sounds like an oxymoron
Teddy could always go to junior college.
Mic boom shadow on the door at 9:05!
Dash and Ivory Snow are no longer available...and Zest is now sold by another company...how times have changed!
…not to mention that as of Feb 2023 there are only THREE “soap operas” left on regular TV, compared to maybe 20 or so in 1960.
Never mind that...how can Dash and Ivory *both* be the safest?
JR Ewing on Search For Tomorrow!
where can i find every episode of this?
@José Elias fotcha
The way Millicent is acting towards Teddy not going to college and believing her husband would blame her, was this a precursor to a spousal abuse storyline?
They were divorced
In this scene Larry Hagman reminds me of Jack Ellis who is probably best known playing Jim Fenner on Bad Girls. A real snake, charmer who slept his way through the Halls of Larkhall Women's Prison.
Never used Ivory Snow, but it existed and was still on the selves in the 90's
The mother reminds me of Susan Sarandon
Was he sober?
Jimmy Arnold is approaching retirement age as of today...nearly 65 years old...
Millicent...in another episode of SFT in 1962 on RUclips she plays a character named Monica
Barbara Baxley played Monica Bergman, Stu's (Larry Haines) sister.
He was a 3 pack a day smoker. Read his daughters book
7:00 Is it me or are Patty’s top buttons off?
I think you’re right. Oops!
Is Mrs. Arnold still alive ?
JR's lurking around even when he ain't! 😂
When did Search For Tomorrow move from CBS TO NBC? R.I.P. Larry Hagman
NBC aired Search For Tomorrow from 1982 to is last episode in 1986.
13:32- Peter Thomas, announcer.
Why the hysterics? he could always make up the credits or get an equivalency degree and then attend college. It's not like he's lost his chance for good. His father must be a real creep if she's that afraid of him, either that or she's a high strung mess.
Vorrei vedere john james e katleen beller che hanno girato!
LARRY AND THAT MUG OF HIS‼😂🤣😂
Should say Ewing Oil !!
He looked better OLDER
A good ole nicotine breakfast. Some things never change.
This is absolutely scandalous! Not going to college? What will the neighbors think? And calling your mother by her name? What is going on in this town?
Interesting but this story doesn't have anything to do with the lead Joanne.
Ted was obsessed with Patti.
That Ivory Snow don’t even existed
Must of been right before Jeanie
Jeannie started in September 1965
Talk about being melodramatic... geesh.
No way Larry Hagman was on the edge of Knight not search for tomorrow
He was on both ‼️
They were both CBS soaps produced by Procter Gamble. Not a stretch that he appeared on both.
The edge of Knight? I think you mean The Edge of Night.
Teddy is cute
Doesn't seem like its him either
Sure, advertise to women by 1) Assuming that they're the only people who wash clothes and 2) Insuiting them.
Take your feminism garbage and stick it.
JR Ewing! lol