The First Hundred Years (1950)
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The First Hundred Years (1950)
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The First Hundred Years is the first ongoing TV soap opera in the United States that began as a daytime serial, airing on CBS from December 4, 1950 until June 27, 1952. A previous daytime drama on NBC, These Are My Children, aired in 1949 but only lasted one month, and NBC's Hawkins Falls began in June 1950 as a primetime "soap" and didn't move to daytime until April 1951.
The drama involved two couples who were next-door neighbors. The series did not succeed due to very low viewership, as few American households had television sets, and fewer still watched during the afternoon.
The series was replaced with the television version of Guiding Light, which would prove to be much more successful, airing for 57 years.
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Jack Smalley was an American composer, orchestrator, and teacher of film and television scoring.
After working for years as a jazz bassist, Smalley began to get jobs writing music for television, notably Charlie's Angels and Murder, She Wrote.In the 1980s, he built a reputation as a teacher at the Grove School of Music and later the University of Southern California. He was also an instructor for the Henry Mancini Institute.
Hundreds of composers working in film scoring today have studied with him over the years.
He also worked as an orchestrator on television series (including HBO series Game of Thrones), feature films, and has written a book on film scoring.