Full Circle (1960 TV series)

Full Circle is an American soap opera that aired on CBS from June 27, 1960 to March 10, 1961.[1] The half-hour series starred Dyan Cannon and Jean Byron, and was the first American soap opera to be broadcast live from Hollywood.[2]

Full Circle
GenreSoap opera
StarringDyan Cannon
Jean Byron
Sam Edwards
Byron Foulger
Country of originUnited States
Production
Running time30 minutes
Release
Original networkCBS
Original releaseJune 27, 1960 (1960-06-27) –
March 10, 1961 (1961-03-10)

Premise

Set in the fictional town of Crowder, Virginia, Full Circle starred Dyan Cannon as a wealthy woman, Lisa Crowder, who falls in love with a handsome drifter named Gary Donovan, after her husband, Loyal's death. The town of Crowder, was named after the ancestors of the Crowder family. Jean Byron played Dr. Kit Aldrich, a surgeon who was married to David Talton, the son of Carter Talton. Actress Amzie Strickland played Crowder resident, Beth Perce.

Broadcast history

Full Circle aired at 2:00 pm on CBS' daytime schedule, directly following the hit Procter & Gamble-packaged serial As the World Turns. Despite its strong lead-in (ATWT was the most popular soap on the air that season), Circle failed to find an audience, finishing the 1960-61 television season with an abysmal 1.3 Nielsen rating, the lowest-ever figure for a daytime drama airing on US network TV. The serial was pulled off the air after just nine months in favor of the game show Face the Facts. But Facts was even less popular, lasting just seven months from March to October 1961, before it was replaced with another game show that proved to be much more successful: the original incarnation of Password.[3]

References
  1. Copeland, Mary Ann (1991). Soap Opera History. Publications International. p. 268. ISBN 0-88176-933-9.
  2. Schemering, Christopher (1987). The Soap Opera Encyclopedia (2nd ed.). Ballantine Books. pp. 114–115. ISBN 0-345-35344-7.
  3. "Full Circle". Soap Opera Network. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
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