The Secret Storm 1966. CBS Network.

Newlyweds Jerry (Peter White) and Hope (Pamela Raymond ) move into a new apartment. Jealous Matthew (John Colicos) and Sally plot to come between them. All the original commercials intact. This popular soap opera was broadcast daily. The Secret Storm ran for 20 years, February 1, 1954 to February 8, 1974. From our home video release MC-286 SOAPERS Vol. #4. Transfer from a 16mm b-w Kinescope film.

[@nealbarnhill3598]

The Soap open and close makes me homesick, these were on when I came home from school, mom always had a snack waiting. My grandfather came over M-F to watch tv after my grandmother passed. So many memories, they’re all gone now, but the fond memories live on.

[@danielbryan9754]

Bless you. Nothing like these wonderful memories. Makes me very sad that those wonderful days and the people we loved are gone.

[@laminage]

​@@danielbryan9754If you can watch Coronation Street that debuted on December 9th 1960. It was and is so 180% from US Soaps. The women had to work to provide for their families, whether it was a factory or a hotel kitchen. Now alot of US Folks watch UK Soaps. The Castle from Franco American Spaghetti looks like the opening sequence from The Friendly Giant. Also when Florence Ballard Of The Supremes ended up broke and on welfare, Jet Magazine came to interview her and she was feeding franco american spaghetti to her kids, nothing wrong with that but after being part of the biggest girl group of all time and falling on such hard times must have been very humiliating.

[@loomingdarks6534]

@@nealbarnhill3598 and they hit home! ❤️

[@sfguidry1959]

I watched this with my Great Grandma. I was her company and she was mine. I miss her.

[@laurallewien2165]

Oh yes, The Secret Storm with Christina Crawford, my grandmother never missed a episode and now I miss her....😢

[@2000Majicman]

This brings back memories seeing my mother watching these programs while doing the laundry.

[@kat35lulu88]

Mine too! My mom had the ironing board in the den in front of the tv.

[@hotgritz4sho]

Sidebar I’m loving all this dramatic organ music in these classic soaps! It adds such rich, nostalgic flavor to the storytelling.

[@fromthesidelines]

Charles Paul, veteran radio/TV organist, played on "THE SECRET STORM" for years.

[@danielbryan9754]

I could not agree more. They sure knew how to do soaps back then. The music set the tone and helped to make the shows.

[@loomingdarks6534]

I was 6 and 7 years old back then these tv shows help us through the storm of 1966.

[@jcforrester2]

Please add more. And please leave the ads in. I love it.

[@carterbentonjr399]

I do remember watching the Scret Storm as a child wuth my mother and both if my grandmothers. I brings back good memories.

[@cdubz265]

During this era CBS was considered the station that Moms and Grandmas watched for their soaps, ABC started crafting shows to appeal to teenagers and young college kids, such as Dark Shadows, GH, OLTL and a few others that didn’t last.

[@JozarS.-ol4fj]

But in 1973, CBS started its first soap to cater to teenagers and young people through Bill Bell and Lee Phillip-Bell's jointly created soap "The Young and the Restless" which was inspired by ABC's "All My Children", "One Life to Live", and "General Hospital". Y&R since then is not only for teens and youngsters but also for mothers, grandmas, and even fathers and grandpas, too.

[@jondstewart]

Old soap operas like this and Search for Tomorrow loved to use organs for their theme music for some reason

[@allenjones3130]

It's probably because vintage soaps were produced on very low budgets as opposed to today.

[@sandrasanders706]

It is actually from soaps on radio that first used organ music then used for tv.

[@JozarS.-ol4fj]

​@@sandrasanders706There were some radio soaps from the golden age which themes were already orchestrated versions such as Betty and Bob, Jerry of the Circus, Jerry at Fair Oaks, The Family Doctor, and Whispering Streets.

[@laminage]

I didn't know he was on The Secret Storm. I was born in 1966 so it was a bit before my time. Also could someone please tell me who sponsored the show. I told UK Soap Fans how alot of US Actors from both versions of The Boys In The Band 1970 and 2019 also appeared on Soaps and they were very impressed.

[@laminage]

​@@sandrasanders706The UK was so 180% from US Soaps. In the late 1950's there was a Book that was originally serialized in a Newspaper called Saturday Night & Sunday Morning by Allan Sillitoe, then it became a Novel, and it inspired a man named Tony Warren to create a Serial based on a Blue Collar Community getting by during the post WW II. It was called Coronation Street that debuted in 1960. William Roache now surpasses Don Hastings as the longest male Soap Actor in TV History. Next year it will celebrate 65 Years, Eastenders will celebrate 40 and Hollyoaks 30.

[@TheTruthResearchers]

Thank you so much for this wonderful full Episode with COMMERCIALS too!!!!! Heartwarming nostalgia during these cold times.

[@MoviecraftInc]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Lori-lp6uc]

That organ music is the perfect touch😂

[@sonyagarrett1842]

I remember watching with my mother. My mom would be waiting for my dad to come for lunch

[@mikeestes9389]

I remember my mom watching this around 330 pm

[@ladynfsoffice]

Wow! I also recognized Peter White who later played Lincoln Tyler on All My Children. The scene with those classic TV trays are just like the ones Grandma and Great Grandma used! Loving the classic commercials as well. Watching these is like stepping back into my childhood. The piano and organ are nods to Grandma as she played both for church and some of the music could pass for either an introduction or interlude of the old hymns. 🍃🌹🍃🎹🍃🌹🍃

[@sandrasanders706]

Yeah that is him!

[@bubbadon7540]

Love the organ playing!

[@diane4503]

Jada Rowland and Marla Adams- heroine and foe in my youth.

[@junejones9819]

Aww Memories..Thank you for the Chance to go back in Time.😊💖

[@stephenfernald2490]

Great show. Thanks for posting.

[@MoviecraftInc]

Our pleasure!

[@johnvrabec9747]

These old soaps are the best. Reminds me when I was a kid, home from school, sick lol cough cough :) Concentration and Jeopardy before lunch and soaps in the afternoon before the afterschool cartoons came on. My mom used to watch, DOOL, The Doctors, Another World. I would watch Edge of Night and Dark Shadows.

[@TheAnitam3]

Yes and coming in from school we had to be quiet because Edge of Night was on.

[@garymattscheck9066]

My mom used to watch The Secret Storm.She did when my older sisters and brother got home from school.

[@moorch5359]

Love the commercials

[@scottwilliams5705]

I remember watching Secret Storm as a kid in the late 60's early 70's. Judy Lewis played Susan Dunbar. She was a great actress. It was later that I discovered that she was Loretta Young's daughter.

[@moorch5359]

I remember that soap My Mom’s favorite

[@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc]

Clark Gable was her biological father.

[@susanparker3566]

Thank you for sharing this I was just born when this episode was on tv love these timeless classic shows

[@MoviecraftInc]

You are more than welcome!

[@humphreygruntwhistle3946]

The old b&w soaps were so dark and shadow-y. Gave it a feeling that something bad was going to happen. That weird organ was unsettling, too.

[@laminage]

What was so heartbreaking was in Flowers In The Attic when Cathy said they were like Soap Opera Characters because they never went outside and when something good happens to a character something bad also happens as well.

[@edgefan4437]

hey that's Peter White that went on to play Lincoln Tyler on All My Children for a long time starting in the mid 70's. He's a good actor.

[@freemangriffin4953]

and he doesn't have white hair!!! (; Loved Linc! Wish there were more Secret Storm episodes available for us to see!

[@edgefan4437]

@@freemangriffin4953 Yeah with Peter White in them. I saw a lot of All My Children in the 1970's when he was a more prominent character. I recognized his voice right off but like you said his hair isn't white so it took me a few to determine who it was Peter White without the white hair.

[@jeremyberman7808]

@@freemangriffin4953 He also played the boyfriend in "Mother" with Debbie Reynolds.

[@kathleenking47]

His gray hair, was thicker I almost didn't recognize him

[@edgeof1956]

He also played Alan McCarthy in Boys In The Band (1970).

[@EdwynNSanchez]

Thank you for sharing this SS episode in a BETTER quality! To be honest, the copy that I had was not in the exact quality that people were looking for. So, I thank you for sharing this.... again!

[@MoviecraftInc]

I'm glad to share this Kinescope of Secret Storm with you. Enjoy!

[@freemangriffin4953]

Where do you find them and are there more of them out there? I so wish they hadn't taped over the episodes back then, I love watching these!!!

[@rosalyncolecu1146]

I am grateful for these old episodes of the Secret Storm. Are there any available from 1962-1963? Rosalyn Cole

[@lindajones8895]

My Mom used to rock me to sleep for my nap watching Secret Storm

[@sheriheffner2098]

I guarantee my mom was watching the soaps back then. If this was before August 27th I was still two years old. I had a new baby sister on April 26th.

[@hotgritz4sho]

Wait-was the Toastems the granddaddy of Pop Tarts..? Wow!

[@kpyng]

The venerable Ken Roberts as announcer. His career with CBS went back to the late 1920's...

[@dlaveist]

Oh boy i use to listen to this by radio when i was a young girl.

[@chriscaffee4227]

I don’t believe The Secret Storm was ever on the radio. It started on television in 1954.

[@honeycone71]

Okay, I am totally hooked on this storyline. Can anyone PLEASE tell me how it turned out for Jerry and Hope (and also hoping that scheming Sally got her comeuppance)?!?!

[@diamondtiara84]

I wonder how long their happiness lasted? This being a soap, I'll bet not long.

[@TheAnitam3]

Only one commercial at first break is now 5 or 6. B&B a 30 minute program is 18 minutes long.

[@gcfifthgear]

Amazing how hexachlorophene was used in so many products in the 1960s: Note the commercials for Stripe Toothpaste and Johnson's Pink Baby Lotion...

[@JasonDelarosa2000]

The same year CBS aired _It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown_ that October. I will never forgive Apple for taking it away from ABC; which is where it still should be.

[@mmcost]

thanks so much

[@DNBursky]

Matthew was played by the actor who played Mikos Cassadiine on General Hospital

[@KCOliver1960]

He was also the original Baltar from the original Battlestar Galactica.

[@sandrasanders706]

John Colicos.

[@jaredjlinden]

And this episode was directed by Gloria Monty, the producer who turned GH around in the late 70s and hired Colicos to play Mikkos.

[@allenjones3130]

He also guest starred as a Klingon on the original "Star Trek".

[@laminage]

Rip Peter White.

[@lioness7582]

thank you for posting❤

[@rundbaum]

i absolutely LOVE this story of the total millionare guy successfully apologizing to her! . . . i guess her name was 'hope?'

[@leonardbrinkman4410]

You know I used to watch The secret Storm when I was a kid especially in 1966 when Ken Roberts did most of the announcing at that time. But I'll tell you one thing who ever wrote the theme to that they sure did one hell of a job putting it together. As a matter of fact I remember that theme song had lyrics to it. You might want to go through the archives and look for the lyrics to The secret Storm theme song because basically it'll tell you pretty much what that soap opera is it all about. As a matter of fact we all remember what the soap opera was all about.

[@allenjones3130]

It'd be great to find the lyrics to the theme from "The Secret Storm"! Hearing that song again gave me goosebumps! Incidentally, the song was originally written by Johannes Brahms and performed by veteran soap opera keyboardist Charles Paul.

[@fromthesidelines]

Today's sponsors were Campbell Soup Company [Franco-American gravy/spaghetti]; Bristol-Myers/Clairol [Miss Clairol]; Lever Brothers ["Sunshine" Rinso, Stripe]; General Foods [Toast'em]; and Johnson & Johnson [Johnson's Baby Shampoo/Baby Lotion]. Mason Adams was the announcer for Toast'em; Alexander Scourby speaks for Johnson's Baby Lotion.

[@emilystern863]

Scourby was married to Lori March (Valerie Ames) and was Dr. Ian Northcoate on the soap, as well.

[@JJJBRICE]

I guess Stripe toothpaste went to the happy hunting ground of discontinued consumer products like Gleem toothpaste .

[@fromthesidelines]

Lever Brothers discovered the "market" for Stripe wasn't there (too many people were buying Crest, Colgate, Gleem, Pepsodent, Ipana, et. al.), and discontinued the brand by the early 1970's.

[@JJJBRICE]

@@fromthesidelines Thanks for the info . You mentioned several other toothpaste products in your reply . We folks would like to know if they are still available ?

[@fromthesidelines]

Bristol-Myers discontinued Ipana in the early 1970's; Procter & Gamble "retired" Gleem about five years ago. Pepsodent is still marketed- as a "bargain" brand, by Church & Dwight (the "Arm & Hammer" people), instead of Lever.

[@sheriheffner2098]

The baby in the tub getting her hair washed was Brooke Shields. I watched the special on ABC last year.

[@debrademusz731]

Put them all on to watch the whole series as was done with Peyton Place.

[@MoviecraftInc]

Unfortunately the series was not preserved, the whole series does not exist.

[@shayadayan3343]

Holy smoke! John Colicos!

[@unclebbmunson1084]

The actress who played Sally was very good. Anyone know her name? Went on the Secret Storm listings. Couldn't find her.

[@Soapking1965]

Who are the actresses who played Sally and her friend?

[@thewittsf]

Do you have the episode where Joan Crawford replaced her daughter on the show?

[@MoviecraftInc]

Sorry..we do not have that episode.

[@sandrasanders706]

Did Stripe become Aquafresh later on?

[@GregoryGLake]

Thanks🎉😢

[@dianadoos6120]

I can't get over these ads. NOw I know where Australia got theirs from and so many of them

[@blockcl]

This is interesting. When did soap operas phase out the organ music? I thought it was well before 1966 (admittedly, I'm not a follower of the genre).

[@garymattscheck9066]

I do remember hearing organ music on the soaps that my mom watched when I was little. I was born in October of 1962.

[@kennixox262]

Were these kinescopes or not quite color for daytime soap operas in 1966? I can barely remember 1969, 1966 would have been too far back, maybe was about four years old.

[@MoviecraftInc]

It would seem to me the show was originally aired in 1966 in color. However, the 16mm kinescope we have is in black & white.

[@kennixox262]

@@MoviecraftInc Thank you very much for the reply, I was wondering about that.

[@garymattscheck9066]

My family didn't get a color TV until 1974.This was after my mom went to work after us kids got older.

[@PuffKitty]

​​@@garymattscheck9066our family was like that too; my dad had a state job but we grew up very practical and frugal. I hated it but those habits served me well later in life 🙂

[@itiswhatitaintanditaintwha1427]

What came first: Pop-tarts or Toastems?

[@jamieburroughs427]

6:26 Campbells has had this chicken dinner in commercials as late as 2000. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iXuUe3euf9mpq5osi=4s8IFqd0m82IEHda Difference with the 2000 ad as it uses water instead of milk

[@MoviecraftInc]

Great comparison...thanks for posting the commercial similarities! Quite interesting.

[@cherylmilke313]

Didn't Frances Sternhagan play in this soap? Frances played Willie Rae Johnson ( The Closer ) Cliff 's mother on ( Cheers ) Tray McDuggle mother on ( Sex and the City) Noah Wiley's geandmother on ( ER ) she recently passed away at 90 something years old.

[@danielbryan9754]

She played the mother of Father Mark Reddin and his brother Stace Reddin. What a great storyline that was with the priest and the woman he fell in love with, Laurie Stevens. In my opinion, the best in all of daytime.

[@sandrasanders706]

Did I just see Rita Moreno on this episode?

[@cheeseguy4998]

Was this show done live ?

[@MoviecraftInc]

Yes, this was definitely a live show.

[@stanbrown32]

Sometimes it's hard to know, because when they first started videotaping some soaps, they either didn't have videotape editing machines, or those machines were only for network news divisions--so the first taped soap operas were done "live on tape"--performed just like it was live, but taped without any cuts or later editing. Dark Shadows, for example, is famous for the flubbed lines, strange miscues, and boom mics or cameras getting caught in shots. Those bloopers weren't corrected because there was no tape editing.

[@sheriheffner2098]

I can barely remember the organ and piano music. Were these episodes live?

[@MoviecraftInc]

Yes, they were definitely live television.

[@jaymorgenthal9479]

Franco American:: Your daily fix of sodium.

[@enricosanchez894]

I haven't watched in a while. Did Don Knotts ever get over his amnesia?

[@Soapking1965]

Don Knotts was on SEARCH FOR TOMORROW from 1953-55. That was his only dramatic role.

[@kathleenking47]

@@Soapking1965 I'd like to see it😊

[@gianni1388]

❤

[@terry4137]

Where’s Christine (Crawfords Daughter

[@edgefan4437]

Funny the Campbell's Mushroom soup is still on the market today. I guess Poptarts replaced Toast'em or bought them out.

[@tomservo56954]

Toast'ems were General Foods' answer to Kellogg's Pop-Tarts.

[@edgefan4437]

@@tomservo56954 OK, thanks for the information.

[@sheriheffner2098]

You can still buy Toastems on Amazon.

[@edgefan4437]

@@sheriheffner2098 That's funny. Ok, I checked and only Poptarts came up for the search?

[@edgefan4437]

@@sheriheffner2098 I stand corrected. I spelled it wrong. They are Toast'em pop-ups on Amazon. thanks for the information.

[@johntaylorjr4344]

Sally and Matthew were dirty son of a guns.

[@jayneadanoff1876]

Baltar=Matthew

[@LannieLord]

This is from when soap operas were "antiques". LOTS of descriptive dialog to push the plot along "So...Ann decided to keep her baby?" . "Well if Jerry comes back from Europe ; he may feel differently and do something about that". 2 people in a room talking endlessly about others....Someone goes upstairs and does not come back down for 5 months.....just boring as hell. By 1977 , soaps got way better and more ACTION . More SPICE. Not every character was a "cookie cutter" . The scenery got better .

[@daroof4ever]

Soaps were boring back then

[@danielbryan9754]

Soaps were truly awesome back then!!!!

[@exaudi33]

I remember watching this with our housekeeper when no one else was home. It was our little secret!