The Brighter Day (1948)

Genre

soap opera

Country

United States

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A widowed Reverend and his four children navigate everyday life in a small Wisconsin town. The show follows their personal struggles and relationships with a focus on faith and family values.

melodramaticslow-pacedfamily-centricearnestwholesomedatedlow-stakesconversational

What happens

The Brighter Day is an American daytime soap opera that aired on CBS from January 4, 1954, to September 28, 1962. Originally created for NBC Radio by Irna Phillips in 1948, the radio and television versions ran simultaneously from 1954–56. Set in New Hope, Wisconsin, the series revolved around Reverend Richard Dennis and his four children, Althea, Patsy, Babby and Grayling. The Brighter Day was the first soap opera to air on network television with an explicitly religious theme. Another soap opera created by Phillips, The Guiding Light, initially had a religious theme as a radio show but dropped it by the time the series moved to television. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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