Faraway Hill
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Faraway Hill was the first soap opera broadcast on an American television network, airing on the DuMont Television Network[1] on Wednesday nights at 9:00 PM[2] between October 2 and December 18, 1946. A Variety article stated the Caples advertising agency bought time on DuMont for "experimentation purposes," and had "walked where other video programmers feared to tread," moving soap operas from radio to the "infant medium television."[3]
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Faraway Hill | |
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Genre | Soap opera |
Starring | Flora Campbell Mel Brandt Ann Stell Frederic Meyer Lorene Scott Melville Galliar |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Producer | David P. Lewis |
Original release | |
Network | DuMont Television Network |
Release | October 2 (1946-10-02) ā December 18, 1946 (1946-12-18) |
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The series' plot was based on a novel that David P. Lewis had begun, but never finished.[4]