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history highlights in HARVEY.All over the country general hospital fever spread.
In living rooms and dormitories, teens would huddle in front of color sets and later discuss the problems of scotty and laura and lesley and rick and david and bobbie.
To those millions of new soap addicts, and perhaps to a few older ones as well, it may have seemed that gh had recently premiered as a revolutionary soap meant especially for them.
It was, in actuality, on april 1, 1963, some fifteen years earlier, that the audience, mostly housewives in those days, caught their first glimpses of nurse jessie brewer and dr.
The only young people seen were the orderlies, and a mere four or five actors carried the intensely personal melodramas in sets that were drabber than most.
It was meant to mirror the highly successful medical shows then being aired at nighttime, such as dr.
Kildare and ben casey.
The first blackandwhite show took an excruciating twentytwo hours to tape, as producerdirector jim young nervously set up artful camera shots while the sponsors watched him work.
The shows that followed were nearly as exhausting.
Most of the information in these files comes directly from history of the soaps, published by daytime digest.
It appears as is.
Some of the writing is rather choppy and poorly edited.
There may be some factual errors.
I tried to correct these as i found them.
If you find any more, please let me know!
Many seemingly important storylines and characters are briefly glossed over or not mentioned at all.