serials on television

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Serials made the move to televsision in 1946 whena single episdoe of Big sister was televised as an experiment. This was followed in 1947 by the first, but short lived, daytime serial, A Woman To Remember. It was produced by one of the smallest of the networks, Du Mont Television Network (later to be reborn as Fox Television)

In 1950 CBS broadcast The First Hundred Years, the first daytime television serial to be sponsered,in this instance by Proctor and Gamble. It was one of the half dozzen companies whcih had dominated the sponsership of radio daytime serials. One daytime serial from this period remarkably still running Guiding Lights ran for its 47th season on CBS in 1999.