Search for Tomorrow

Search for Tomorrow was a soap opera which aired on the CBS television network from September 3, 1951 to March 26, 1982. The show was then moved to NBC, where it commenced telecasts on March 29, 1982. It continued on NBC until the final episode was aired on December 26, 1986.

Surviving episodes

Scattered episodes from the 1950s and 1960s were archived using the kinescope process. The World of Soap Themes, a website dedicated to letting the public view episodes that had long since been considered lost, uploaded a number of Search episodes, including the first episode from 1951.

Related Topics:
1950s - 1960s - Kinescope

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The episodes seen on the site are from the early 1950's, the early 1960s, 1966, the final CBS and first NBC episodes from 1982, and the Henderson flood episodes from 1986. An explanation for the lack of 1970s episodes stems from the phasing-out of kinescope due to the new videotape standard. However, since videotape was expensive at that time, the tapes were erased to shoot more episodes. In many cases, the episodes in question are lost forever.

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