I watched Secret Storm later in the 60's and 70's when Judy Lewis (Loretta Young's daughter) played the role of Susan Dunbar. I loved her.

I LOVE IT! My Mom and Grandmas watched these “stories” when I was a baby/toddler. I also love the classic organ/piano in The Secret Storm opening/closing credits along with the CBS eye.

The acting and the music is so freakin' over the top! AWESOME😄

Did you ever notice how the openings for both Secret Storm and Dark Shadows are similar with the crashing waves and the eerie sounding music?

Yes, my mom did housework and ironed clothes while the TV console churned out soaps and game shows during the 1960's-1970's.She wore jeans and Keds sneakers, though, and not nice dresses and heels.She was a houswife, and dad had the same job for 40 years, but liked it.

@misterhot9163

4 жыл бұрын

Did your mom change into a nice dress and heels to greet your dad when he came home?

In 1960 on December 9th Britian's longest Running Soap Opera Coronation Street debuted. I told UK Soap Fans about the legacy of US Soaps and they wre blown away. I even told them about how some Actors/Actresses "Jumped" from One Soap to another since so many of them were "owned" by Proctor & Gamble. Elizabeth Hubbard (Ex Althea The Doctors/Ex-Lucinda Walsh) As The World Turns gained a new generation of Fans on The German Soap Opera Verboten Liebe who were very impressed with her US Soap Legacy.

That's one scary sounding organ.

@empresserica

2 жыл бұрын

😊 It is!

"Listen to..." When you're a housewife doing the housework and you've essentially been listening to soaps on the radio since you were a kid (it is feasible, for a 25 year old wife in 1960 to have done this), then you're more tuned in to the audio for the action. And understandably so- the teleplays were written as radio dramas.

@picmajik

5 жыл бұрын

I love old time radio episodes for this reason. I also listen to audiobooks if I have to do other tasks but want background noise.

@lorraineb.4698

5 жыл бұрын

Bet these gems got them through long days stuck in the house with work to do.

At 5:47 he dials the telephone. Recently I was in an antique store with my son and it was funny that he asked, "How do you use this thing."

@theresewilliamson9057

4 жыл бұрын

My cousin's teenagers are on a viral video of them trying to figure out how to use a landline phone.

Ken Roberts was indeed a radio announcer (since the early '30s- most notably, on "THE SHADOW"), and often had a tendency to advise TV viewers to "listen every day" during his tenure on "THE SECRET STORM" during the '50s and early '60s. By 1971, however, he usually said at the end of the week, "Be sure to watch 'THE SECRET STORM' Monday, and every day: Monday through Friday...".

Ahhh yes when CBS was truly the Tiffany network 💎

The comment "listen" was definitely a throwback to the Radio Days. If you watch older actors and actresses interviewed on talk shows from the 60s 70s 80s and forward even, they will sometimes refer to people as listening or listeners. Same with hosts of TV game shows, Etc. They would often refer to people as listeners. I noticed this well into the 1980s and even Beyond sometimes.

@dannyhill8797

6 жыл бұрын

do actors still refer to movies as pictures?....

This blow! I did a search for Joan Crawford in the soap and this came up -no Joan, disappointed!

@dannyhill8797

5 жыл бұрын

Joan Crawford appeared, live, on SS in October 1968..as far as i know, no video still exists, but there is audio somewhere here on YT......

@kipper1885

5 жыл бұрын

@@dannyhill8797Thank you

@lindaeasley5606

3 жыл бұрын

@@dannyhill8797 yes .It is bizarre and cringeworthy

@danieldalton6544

2 жыл бұрын

Me too, lol.

thanx for leaving in the commercials!

When I occasionally encountered soap operas when I was home sick from school in the early '60s I was annoyed and disappointed that shows with titles like "The Secret Storm" and "The Edge of Night" were just people sitting around talking.

@dannyhill8797

6 жыл бұрын

back in the day, this is how the stories were moved forward: through dialogue....

@tracimarks8009

3 жыл бұрын

😄

@atlasking6110

2 жыл бұрын

LOL - yes! "The Young and the Restless"? More like "The Old and the Listless."

This Susan is a great actress.

Hope Christina and her brother are at peace 🕊️

@raytorres6306

2 жыл бұрын

Christina is still alive and doing well, worth 6 million...

@kathrynfauble9053

2 жыл бұрын

@Royally Smart Is Christina Crawford the young lady with a blonde flip hairdo? She has very few lines in this episode. If Christina is the actress, the person who uploaded this video labeled it with the wrong year. 1960 was a long time before Christina joined the cast of Secret Storm.

@CaptainSpalding72

Жыл бұрын

@@kathrynfauble9053 Crawford was nOT in this episode. She was on the show in the late 60's.

@jasonsmith-bm1sv

4 күн бұрын

Wikipedia says she died in 2007.

wow, now that was some drama!

Keep this in mind, this was all done live. Acting, music, pausing for commercial breaks. No chance to re-record so your life looks perfect, when it's really not, before you publish/post.

How interesting that the announcer says "Listen every day" as if this were a radio soap. I wonder if a lot of "viewers" were like my mom, who listened to the TV soaps while doing housework.

@kimjohnson8471

6 жыл бұрын

Stephen Spurling like we listen to KZread😂

@bettyeugene1463

6 жыл бұрын

Most of old time live TV shows were broadcast SIMULTANEOUSLY on radio, as the soap operas then were only 15 minutes long, and were also broadcast live! "Search For Tomorrow" was my Mother's favorite, and she would listen to it sometimes on the radio, and when she could sit down from her busy housework, watch it on TV! I remember just as though it were yesterday!

@sojourningteddybear6838

6 жыл бұрын

OMG! Your comment reminded me of my great grandmother who used to watch us kids during the day while our parents worked. She always did her housework while “the stories were on.” She only temporarily stopped when something very interesting or shocking happened, then right back to work. HAPPY TIMES!!!!

@kurttoy5035

2 жыл бұрын

Except SFT was NEVER a radio soap. Maybe you were thinking of The Guiding Light. GL was on radio before moving to TV.

Best part of this was the advert for Perry Mason.

@mariellclement8092

Жыл бұрын

I know right? One of my favorite classic shows. The theme was fire.

No commercials? Secret Storm was by 1960 a long running soaper (from 1954). I wonder why it was sustaining? And was it, every day? Tune in....oh never mind!

@williamtkoltek1350

6 жыл бұрын

Main sponsor was American Home Products, which made Anacin, Aerowax, Kolynos, Black Flag, Chef Boy-Ar-Dee, etc. No idea why this episode is sustaining, but I just checked Broadcasting magazine's 1Q 1960 list of programs & sponsors (Jan. 4, 1960 issue) & it says "American Home Products, Gen. Mills, Peter Paul, Scott." There are more episodes of Secret Storm on KZread with AHP commercials, ditto "Love of Life."

In the 1959-'60 season, Jack Benny and George Gobel alternated for the same sponsor, Lever Brothers {Jack for Lux Soap and Liquid; George for Stripe Toothpaste}, on Sundays at 10pm(et).

This was early (1960) when soap episodes were only 15 minutes, later expanded to 30, 60 and Another World experimented with a 90 minute episode in the early 70s. That didn't work well for them and most settled to 60 minute formats.

i don't know..i just wish there were more consecutive episodes available..i didn't start watching SS until 1969 and knew next-to-nothing about past stories - especially Susan being so self-centered! i don't remember JudyLewis portraying her as such....

Was that the back of CC's head? She's a wonderful actress. LOL

Thanks for posting this! A wonderful episode and brilliant acting, especially by Mary Foskett. Did Alan wind up losing his job?

@nancywoolsey2388

7 жыл бұрын

jyyyyy

@dannyhill8797

6 жыл бұрын

i don't know, but at some point, he was reported MIA in Vietnam - but came back later (1971) a changed man..the choice of Liam Sullivan was a good one: he bore a strong resemblance to the first actor who played Alan...

13:15 stay tuned for "The Edge of Night" on the CBS Television Network

@deadlyshoesalesman let me know what you find out..since announcer Ken Roberts said 'listen..to', Wikipedia may have something if he'd once been a radio announcer..that may have been a slip-up, not corrected because most of the shows were live in those days....

@deadlyshoesalesman this struck me right between the ears..i don't think Secret Storm was ever on the radio, or simulcast during its early years.....

@williamtkoltek1350

6 жыл бұрын

I think you're right. American Home Products had separate radio soaps like "Helen Trent" and "Our Gal Sunday."

What wasn’t mentioned that between Raymond Burr and Lonesome George Gobel was an American Heart Association PSA.

@mariellclement8092

Жыл бұрын

With the Peter Gunn type music.

TV commercial, "Will you be with us for the next Perry Mason Show?" ... Objection; leading question. Overruled.

I bet if this show had survived, they would’ve probably dropped the ‘Storm’ and rebranded it as ‘The Secret’

@disabled1955 That was my first thought, but I checked Wikipedia, and they didn't say anything about radio. I have a couple of books about soaps waiting for me at the library. I'll have to remember to look up "The Secret Storm" when I get them.

From the year I was born.

Boom mic at 10:44.

@disabled1955 In the chapter on "The Secret Storm," Robert La Guardia's "Soap World" says nothing about it starting out a radio soap. I think we can assume that it isn't, since elsewhere he points out that "The Guiding Light" is the only radio soap to have any long-term success as a TV soap.

@MrJoeybabe25

7 жыл бұрын

SS was never a radio soap. CBS had a full lineup of radio-only soaps late into the 50's. And the last of them (I think there were six at the end) were on the air until November 25, 1960 when CBS Radio cancelled the handful that remained.

Orbach's and A&S!

1960

Is the dtr Christina Crawford?

So they had double shot takes way back when.. While technology has been slow at times , It sure has sped up..

I think Dark Shadows was the first soap to bring in atmospheric music that worked and got rid of that horrible organ music.

@Aristide1795

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed, miss Dark Shadows!

Why is the storm secret? 😵

Dear stop listening to us discussing serious matters in front of you and do your homework!

So lemme get this strait, this doods trying to develop a parcel next door to a high school? And this guy wants to stop him cause that'll somehow harm the school? But the guys sisters husband got fired somehow? Is that right? How was his termination related to this property project? And the sisters telling this guy, "If you hire back my husband, we'll pay to send your daughter to private school". Do i got this right, so far? Hows all this link up? What if the private schools got a spare parcel of land next door? Did anybody ever think of THAT?

SO WHERE IS JOAN CRAWFORD???????

@dannyhill8797

6 жыл бұрын

that was 1968...there's audio somewhere here on YT......

@4knewt505

5 жыл бұрын

oh man! i'm watching Mommie dearest and thought I could find the original footage

@3:57 That's funny.

That's unbearable! Oh my God!

I was born in the wrong era

@dannyhill8797

5 жыл бұрын

yep, back in the day when it was all relatively new and interesting..those days are GONN!!!.......

@VictoriaBrisbaine

5 жыл бұрын

@@dannyhill8797 It really is. Everything is awful "reality" tv or canned laugh track. The acting in these was amazing.

Clickbaits are used by people who have no authentic content.

Right used to be right. Try watching a new soap opera. Count how often the message WRONG is right. The last time I did, it was every 30 seconds. Why is the world ending now? Everyone agreed to go to hell in a hand basket!

The world must of been a decent place. When the soap opera is decent, The world was decent. It's a swamp today. Thanks to the infection of liberalism.