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The First Hundred Years

  • TV series
  • 1950
  • 2 seasons
  • 291 episodes

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Overview

The First Hundred Years is the first ongoing TV soap opera in the United States that began as a daytime serial, airing on CBS from December 4, 1950 until June 27, 1952. A previous daytime drama on NBC, These Are My Children, aired in 1949 but only lasted one month, and NBC's Hawkins Falls began in June 1950 as a primetime "soap" and didn't move to daytime until April 1951. The drama involved two couples who were next-door neighbors. The series did not succeed due to very low viewership, as few American households had television sets, and fewer still watched during the afternoon. The series was replaced with the television version of Guiding Light, which would prove to be much more successful, airing for 57 years.

Roughly 72h 45m to watch every episode. This is an estimate: 291 episodes at the typical episode runtime of 15 minutes.

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Series cast and crew

  • Nancy Malone

    Nancy Malone
    291 episodes

  • Nana Bryant

    Nana Bryant
    291 episodes

  • Robert Armstrong

    Robert Armstrong
    291 episodes

  • Jimmy Lydon

    Jimmy Lydon
    291 episodes

  • Anne Sargent

    Anne Sargent
    291 episodes

Network
CBS

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