Search For Tomorrow 1953. Soap Opera with commercials air date April 3, 1953. CBS Network.

The soap opera Search for Tomorrow began its run on CBS on September 3, 1951, and concluded on NBC, 35 years later, on December 26, 1986. In this 1953 episode, Irene Barron is concerned Jim Wilcox has taken her for $100,000. Can it be true? Airdate April 3 1953. Stars Bess Johnson, Les Damon, and Earl Hammond. Commercials for Joy and Spic and Span, with happy housewives dutifully cleaning house. Transferred from 16mm b-w kinescope film. This is a re-do of an upload we did of this title that had some contrast issues, now corrected.

[@stillstanding6031]

Went home from school for lunch to watch Search for Tomorrow, Love of Life and Guiding Light (all 15 mins)...and then back to school for aternoon session. Them's was the dayz!

[@maverick1976stallion]

My Mom and Grandma watched it daily from 1953 till end of series.

[@ameliaerin1544]

The good old days! Thank you

[@kengeorgejones6855]

Thanks again for these rarities.

[@MoviecraftInc]

Any time!

[@sandratuttle]

They used to put this on the TV on the auditorium stage in high school for us at lunch time.

[@earlwest3502]

Thank you for providing this interesting film!

[@MoviecraftInc]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@michaelnelson1128]

Would be celebrating 73 years in September if still on the air , General Hospital as of today is celebrating 61 years on the air

[@ericsamuelson5656]

My mom watched this everyday at lunch from the time she was 10 years old until 1981

[@sandratuttle]

We watched this on KDKA in Pittsburgh

[@One-Day-After-Another]

I was 12 in 1984 when I first started watching a daytime soap....but it was with the help of a VCR that we had just gotten. My cousin wanted me to record them for her while we were at school... I had no interest in watching I just wanted to operate the VCR... Well people, lemme tell ya, within 1 week I was straight up hooked and recorded them for another 11 or so years without fail...and watched them around 9/10 pm before bed every night... Even during the summer when at home, I recorded them and never watched them as they were being broadcast because I couldn't deal with the commercials.... and I found watching them at night in my dark room made them better... anyway...looking back at watching these in the 1950s through the 1970s I honestly don't think I could have dealt with a network schedule. Literally having to plan things around not missing a soap... that would have driven me crazy

[@MoviecraftInc]

Great story. Thanks for sharing.

[@504nlb]

Casey Allen speaking. This is the CBS Television Network.

[@stillstanding6031]

The eye of New York is on channel 2.

[@RadioFanBoy]

Part of the CBS Noon-1pm Eastern Daytime Hour that consisted of; Bride and Groom, Love of Life, Search for Tomorrow and The Guiding Light. In Chicago, it was seen on WGN-TV 9 when they shared the CBS Affiliation with WBKB Channel 4.

[@johntaylorjr4344]

Soaps were quite suspenseful back then.

[@user-il5oq5df6l]

Very good video and audio quality for a kinescope from the 1950s!

[@MoviecraftInc]

Many thanks! That's the benefit of a true 16mm master transfer.

[@jameswalker68]

What in the name of god was on those walls to make them so filthy?!! LOL

[@goodmaro]

I don't know what was done for the ad, but when smoking was more common and particulate air pollution worse, walls did tend to get a darkening deposit on them that was so gradual, it'd hardly be noticeable until you cleaned it.

[@dannygaines1352]

Don't wreck your Desoto or Studebaker.

[@tonyhassan2327]

Wow who is this evil woman she hate Joane Tate her mother in law from hill