Bright Promise

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Bright Promise
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Genre Soap opera
Created by Frank and Doris Hursley
Written by Larry Brody
Rick Edelstein
Frank and Doris Hursley
Directed byRick Edelstein
Richard Franchot
Gloria Monty
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes605
Production
Executive producersFrank and Doris Hursley
ProducersDick Dunn
Jerry Layton
Running time30 minutes (Approx.)
Production companiesFrandor Productions
Bing Crosby Productions
Release
Original network NBC
Original releaseSeptember 29, 1969 (1969-09-29) –
March 31, 1972 (1972-03-31)

Bright Promise is an American daytime soap opera that ran on NBC from September 29, 1969 to March 31, 1972. [1]

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Synopsis

The show revolved around students and faculty at the fictional Bancroft College, located in the community of Bancroft, somewhere in the American Midwest. [2] The name of the show reflected the overarching theme of the bright promise that the leaders of tomorrow graduating from Bancroft would ostensibly bring. At first, the main character was College president Thomas Boswell (Dana Andrews). Later, the focus shifted from the College, to the town of Bancroft at large, and focused mainly on the Pierce and Jones families. The main character by this time was Sandra Jones, who had been a student at Bancroft College, and married herself into the wealthy Pierce family.

Bright Promise was created by the husband-and-wife writing team of Frank and Doris Hursley, who had previously created General Hospital , and was their last project prior to their retirement. Bing Crosby Productions (under the name Frandor Productions) was the packager, with assistance from Cox Broadcasting. The title and closing sequences were filmed at UCLA.

Having replaced the game show You Don't Say!,Bright Promise would give way to another serial, Return to Peyton Place, on the NBC daytime schedule; the serial had been soundly defeated in the Nielsen ratings by CBS' The Edge of Night and ABC's One Life to Live . Actress Gail Kobe, a regular on Bright Promise, would become Return's executive producer.

Cast

Original cast members included the show's star, Dana Andrews, with Susan Brown, Paul Lukather, Ruth McDevitt, Ivor Francis, Forrest Compton, Richard Eastham, Betsy Jones-Moreland, Coleen Gray, Gary Pillar, Peter Hobbs, Peter Ratray, Pat Woodell, Susannah Darrow, Cheryl Miller, and Eric James. Later additions included David Lewis, Annette O'Toole, Dabney Coleman, Marion Brash, Anne Seymour, Anthony Geary, Gail Kobe, John Considine, Philip Carey, Anne Jeffreys and Sherry Alberoni. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Schemering, Christopher (1987). The Soap Opera Encyclopedia (2nd ed.). Ballantine Books. pp. 48–49. ISBN   0-345-35344-7.
  2. ↑ Hyatt, Wesley (1997). The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television. Watson-Guptill Publications. pp. 70–71. ISBN   978-0823083152 . Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  3. ↑ Copeland, Mary Ann (1991). Soap Opera History. Publications International. pp. 50–51. ISBN   0-88176-933-9.


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