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

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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