The Brighter Day
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Plot.
The Brighter Day is an American daytime soap opera which 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 1954-1956. 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.
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Cast & Crew.
Irna Phillips
Creator
Blair Davies
Rev. Richard Dennis
Mona Bruns
Aunt Emily Potter
Hal Holbrook
Grayling Dennis #1 (1954-1959)
Jayne Heller
Althea Dennis Bigby
June Dayton
Patsy Dennis
Patty Duke
Actress
Peter Donat
Steven Markley
Harriet E. MacGibbon
Actress
John Heath
Actor
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Wiki.
The Brighter Day is an American daytime soap opera which 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.