Where the Heart Is (American soap opera)

Where the Heart Is is a soap operawhich aired on CBS from september 8, 1969 to March 23, 1973. The soap has a total of 912 episodes.

The show was a modest success but was canceled along with Love is a Many Splendored Thing to make way for The Young and The Restless. Where the Heart Is was one of the first soap operas that attracted a young audience. ==Production[ Edit] == The show was created by Lou Scofield and Margaret DePriest. They were initially also the primary writers for the series. A year after the premiere, they were succeeded byPat Falken Smith. In 1972 he was in turn succeeded by Claire Labine and Paul Avila Mayer. The series was produced by Tom Donovan and directed by Richard Dunlap.

Some people believe that the series is based on Grace Metalious ' controversial novel Peyton Place. In reality it was the series CBS ' own attempt at making a series about a psychosexual family, in response to NBC's popular Days of our Lives. ==Design[ Edit] == The series is set in the fictional town of northcross, Connecticut, and revolves around the life of the problem family Hathaway. At the start of the series dies the last patriarch of this family, Judge Daniel Hathaway. He has three adult children: Julian (James Mitchell), a professor of literature at the local University, Kate (Diana van der Vlis), a sympathetic but sexually unattractive law student, and Allison (Louise Shaffer), the black sheep of the family. She has years left the family with her sister ' fiancée Roy Archer, but returns with him to attend the funeral of her father. They decide then to establish in the House of the Hathaway's weather, which Angers Kate, Julian and the housekeeper Stella (Bibi Osterwald).

The rest of the series follows the adventures of the three.