Hawkins Falls, Population 6200 (1950)
- Genre
- soap opera
- Country
- United States
- Length
- 1 season, 1 episode
- Rating
- 7.3 of 10 from 3 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This soap opera follows the lives and dramas of people in a small American town. It started as a weekly comedy-drama and later became a daily serial about personal and community conflicts.
dramaticdomesticserializedmildly tenseeverydaysentimentalearnestslow-moving
What happens
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 television, it was the first to be successful, running for more than five years. Sponsored by Unilever's blue detergent, Surf, the program began as a prime time one-hour weekly 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. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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