Hawkins Falls, Population 6200
American TV soap opera (1950–1955) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hawkins Falls, Population 6200 is an American television soap opera that was broadcast in the 1950s, live from Chicago. Though it was not the first original (non-radio-derived) soap opera on American TV, it was the first to be successful, running for more than five years.
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Also known as | Hawkins Falls: A Television Novel |
Created by | Doug Johnson |
Starring | Bernardine Flynn Maurice Copeland Jim Bannon Arthur Peterson |
Narrated by | Hugh Downs Wed Howard |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Producers | Dave Brown Ben Park |
Production locations | Chicago, Illinois, United States |
Running time | 50 minutes (June 1950–August 1950) 12–13 minutes (April 1951–July 1955) |
Original release | |
Network | NBC |
Release | June 17, 1950 (1950-06-17) – July 1, 1955 (1955-07-01) |
Sponsored by Unilever's blue detergent, Surf, the program began as a one-hour comedy-drama on June 17, 1950, and ran in prime time on the NBC network until October 12, 1950.
On April 2, 1951, the series was moved to a fifteen-minute daytime slot, where it was retitled Hawkins Falls: A Television Novel, and developed into a soap opera format.[1] Hawkins Falls ran until July 1, 1955, making it NBC's longest-running soap opera until The Doctors exceeded it in 1967.
The town of Hawkins Falls was patterned after the real-life town of Woodstock, Illinois.[2]