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.

The '50s

For the show's duration, Search was centered around a midwestern housewife named Joanne (played the entire time by Mary Stuart) who lived in a generic town called Henderson. In the earlier years, Joanne's friends and next-door neighbors, Stu and Marge Bergman (played by Larry Haines and Melba Rae) received much screen time as they commiserated with Joanne, usually over a cup of coffee at the kitchen table. Most of Joanne's dilemmas, in the early years, were due to her dead husband Keith Barron's overbearing parents – they never liked her and were quite content with seizing Joanne and Keith's daughter Patti (played in the early years by Lynn Loring) from the widow.

Related Topics:
Mary Stuart - Larry Haines - Melba Rae - Lynn Loring

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After Keith (played by John Sylvester White) died in 1952, Joanne started managing a hotel, The Motor Haven Inn. Local thugs in town saw Joanne as soft because she was a woman, and they attempted to take over the business as a front for Mafia dealings. Joanne's friend Rose, who was selling information to the Mafia, tried to poison a pot of soup that Joanne made, so her credibility would be tarnished. In the end, the scheme did not work and it was Rose who perished. A man named Arthur Tate (Terry O'Sullivan) helped Joanne with financial backing for the Inn. Arthur's Aunt Cordelia gave him the inheritance money but insisted on meddling in his affairs as she hated Joanne. Eventually, Arthur and Jo fell in love and were married.

Related Topics:
John Sylvester White - 1952 - Mafia - Terry O'Sullivan

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