My mom watched this and several other serials, including Dark Shadows, during the 1960s and 1970s. I was a child and teen, and hated them, except Dark Shadows. Back then, we only got the 3 main local channels, from a roof antenna. We had a console tv with 26" screen. I remember the starting theme of this serial. Serials always had that bright film look. The ads bring back warm memories.
Love this forgotten piece of my youth! Especially all the commercials.....the Woolite ad, where the woman complains about "$4.50 to dry clean these two pant suits"--HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
I was watching this show at the time, staying home for a few year when my kids were little. I don't remember the plots at all, but I remember the people now that I see them. Well you can't forget Christopher Reeve, but I wouldn't have remembered the others
Love this great episode from such a classic soap. Tudi Wiggins as Meg as compared to the original Jean McBride were very similar so when they brought Megs character back it worked well. Great to see Christopher Reeve as Ben rest in peace😥
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I remember seeing this around 1974. The actress playing Cal, Deborah Courtney, married a doctor named Rubinstein, and left the show. I wonder what happened in her life. It’s been nearly 50 years.
Chris was only 2. Such a tall grorgeous multi talented man. He was also selected for juliard for the honors program under legendary john houseman we all know the other student r.i.p chris & robin.
I believe the first actor here is Jerry Lacy, who played the ghost of Bogart in "Play It Again Sam." That film also had Tony Roberts, son of "Love of Life" announcer Ken Roberts.
Ever think how odd and sad it is that all the Superman actors have a weird accident and get badly hurt or die? And the original one was a guy named Reeve, no relation.
@@charlesmeadows6285 LOL aired at 11:30 a.m. ET during this time..Y&R aired at Noon ET from 1973-80; then, upon expanding to one hour, aired 1-2 p.m. ET ..in the fall of 1981, Y&R moved to 12:30, where it's been ever since..different time zones and certain affiliates had somewhat different schedules during these times......
@@dannyhill8797 correct timeline. However, during LOL's final months, CBS moved it to 4PM under the pretext of being a last ditch effort in "saving" it - which was actually the straw that broke the camel's back. Many affiliates stopped airing it altogether; some others aired it at different times (but on a one day delay): the CBS affiliate in Indianapolis, IL aired it at 330PM EST, the one in L.A. aired it at 230PM PST, the then Philly affiliate WCAU aired it at noon as did flagship affiliate in NYC WCBS. This is because the 4PM slot was considered to be one mostly watched by children coming home from school who would be more interested in watching reruns & game shows mostly (which long time director Larry Auerbach agreed with during LOL's eulogy on the CBS Evening News - introduced by Walter Cronkite - 2/1/1980, the final date it was aired - 2/4/1980 The Young & the Restless expanded to an hour). Due to all this, CBS cancelled LOL in early January 1980, basically giving the cast and crew (some of whom had 20+ years tenure) two weeks' notice to frantically update resumes, contact agents, etc.
I wish there was some Love of Life clips with Meg's ex husband Mayor Jeff Hart. He was a corrupt evil man. Meg I remember always fell for the bad guys.
I would like to see more old episodes with Gene and Toni Bua. Thats when LOL was really great for teenagers (whuch u was at the time.) The were the original star-crossed lovers/super-couple in my life.
I got hooked on it for them, too. As an aging adult, I made friends through email with Toni Bua. I really liked Birgitta Tolksdorf as Arlene Lovett. Shame she never acted after this series because she brought Arlene to life.
Would you have any episodes in which Richard Higgs played Andrew Marriott? He died in 1977, during which he was on LOL. His previous soap was as Dan Allison on The Doctors.
That actually happened to me once....I was coming out of the dry cleaners while my friend was standing outside...I was upset at the prices of dry cleaning.... and my friend had their bottle of woolite in their bag and they said "You should use Woolite... why dry clean?"
there's a 1974 episode of Edge of Night that aired Christmas day..this is when the show was still live..at least, by 3:00, the cast and crew got to go home and enjoy the rest of Christmas day.....
@staytunedfor Some soaps were done live? I had no idea; assumed they were all recorded in advance. You'd think that was too risky, doing it live. Even Dark Shadows, which was taped in a hurry (hence all the prop accidents and flubbed lines), had a week's gap before the episode aired.
Stay tuned for is correct; in the summer of 1975, “The Edge of Night” and “As the World Turns” were both still broadcast live. CBS wanted to expand ATWT, which at the time had been the number one serial for many seasons, to sixty minutes. The network had previously shifted Edge from its late afternoon slot to an earlier mid day time, where it suffered mightily in the ratings, falling from the 5/6 th highest rated to eleventh place of the fifteen airing then. CBS was ready to drop the show and turn the time over to ATWT, but Procter and Gamble still had faith in the franchise, and secured a license to ABC, where the consumer products giant and soap opera production powerhouse had never aired a program. The ABC deal also returned Edge to a 4pm time slot; the show ran another nine years until December 28, 1984. Both Edge and ATWT began prerecording the daily episodes Autumn of ‘84, Edge because ABC had never broadcast any of its serials live, and ATWT because a sixty minute M-F serial would be too unwieldy a production to mount. Incidentally, Edge and ATWT debuted the same day on CBS in April, 1956. And while Edge was no longer produced live as of that Fall, it was shot “live to tape”; longtime cast member Ann Flood (“Nancy Karr”) did not want to lose the spontaneous feel of the live shows they’d broadcast previously. When “Love of Life” was dropped by CBS in February 1980, the half hour was given over to expand “The Young and the Restless’ to sixty minutes.
Too bad American Home Products who owned LOL for many years didn't have similar faith in the show and tried to get it picked up by ABC or NBC when CBS announced they were dropping it to expand YR to an hour that P&G did in EON when CBS wanted to drop it in favor of expanding ATWT to an hour; at least CBS waited to expand ATWT to an hour (also becoming a taped program for the first time since its 4/2/1956 debut) until ABC had a spot for EON on its schedule (to help ensure EON story continuality . It is said that CBS used the taping space formerly occupied by LOL almost immediately after the show ended to broadcast the Olympics from.
Hi Matthew, any chance you have this episode in high res or more episodes from this soap opera between 1974-1976? Keen to potentially use it in a doc, but only if it's in high res. Thanks!
@@dannyhill8797 also, Chandler Harben (who replaced Christopher Reeve as Ben and was the final one in that role), has his own channel here where he very graciously posted some of the final episodes - including the final one where there is attached the LOL eulogy with Walter Cronkite leading it on the CBS Evening News aired that date -2/1/1980.
Tudi Wiggins played a great histrionic! I always thought Christopher Reeve was a very wooden actor, if not for his looks, he would have gotten nowhere.
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This looks like it could be The Cover of one of Nora Roberts early novels. The announcer tried too hard to sound like Bill Wolf (The Announcer for Another World).
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 I hear you. Over the top, but that can often be appealing in a villain or matriarch. Some of the best soap characters in the previous century were evil or wacko ladies, and many of them were a joy to watch every afternoon (Phoebe Tyler, Lucinda Walsh, Katherine Chancellor). Granted, some of these grande dames chewed the scenery more than others, LOL.
How was it snowing everywhere except where Cal had ran her car off the road? There were crickets chirping in that scene. The first 10 minutes was Tudi Wiggins in histrionic hysterics: what a terrible actress. No wonder this show got the axe: it’s terrible!
Well, there's no engine sound or car sounds of any kind, either, lol. The way he was looking, looking while he was supposedly DRIVING, I thought he'd be next, lol
Little pieces of television history can do so much to bring back memories of an earlier time in your life .The LoL theme was always my favorite
Sounds like a waltz.
Christopher Reeve is so young and handsome here.
and still able to walk..
My mom watched this and several other serials, including Dark Shadows, during the 1960s and 1970s. I was a child and teen, and hated them, except Dark Shadows. Back then, we only got the 3 main local channels, from a roof antenna. We had a console tv with 26" screen. I remember the starting theme of this serial. Serials always had that bright film look. The ads bring back warm memories.
the lovely Doris Roberts doing bug spray commercial Rest in peace sweet lady
She was a bar patron at Keysey's in All in The Family, too.
Chris Reeve is awesome, but wow such a difference a year makes, later on David Prowse (Darth Vader) sure did a heckuva job training him!
Love this forgotten piece of my youth! Especially all the commercials.....the Woolite ad, where the woman complains about "$4.50 to dry clean these two pant suits"--HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
$4.50 had alot more purchasing power back then .
Today it won't get you a meal deal at a fast food restaurant
@@lindaeasley5606 $4.50 now barely gets you a cup of coffee at Starbucks- it doesn't even buy you a gallon of gas these days.
I was watching this show at the time, staying home for a few year when my kids were little. I don't remember the plots at all, but I remember the people now that I see them. Well you can't forget Christopher Reeve, but I wouldn't have remembered the others
This brought me ALL the way back to my childhood 😯
Love seeing John Anniston on here and on Search!
That was veteran actor Ron masak sheriff Metzger from murder she wrote on the juice commerical
Victor Kirakis!!!!!!
Thank you for sharing.
What a great find ... a young Christopher Reeve and the early career of Erin Gray at 3:35 :)
Love the logo and the charming waltz theme.
There's Christopher Reeve.........
It's SUPERMAN!!!!!
Doris Roberts (Everybody Loves Raymond, the MIL) is the psychotic-looking bug killer lady, lol.
The first time I saw him was as Bad Be in Love of Life
Love this great episode from such a classic soap. Tudi Wiggins as Meg as compared to the original Jean McBride were very similar so when they brought Megs character back it worked well. Great to see Christopher Reeve as Ben rest in peace😥
Thank you so much for posting this.
The plot features a woman in an accident who is paralyzed and Christopher Reeve is in the cast? Just a little foreshadowing.
thanks so much.LOVE LOVE OF LIFE.Hope to see more especially with Chris Reeve.bless ya my friend.Welcomed back.im so Happy u back!!!!!
I came here to see Christopher Reeve :)
Me too... @ 19:05 :)
Me too I know him better as Superman
Of course. Why else would somebody be HERE BUT to see this gorgeous man.
Hi. Great to see. Some nice memory's. Go good things and hp Amiga and apple. And go Kodak RCA and polaroid. , And good library's. Good to see and best to all. Technology and Departments. Great day
I remember seeing this around 1974. The actress playing Cal, Deborah Courtney, married a doctor named Rubinstein, and left the show. I wonder what happened in her life. It’s been nearly 50 years.
Tudi Wiggens-Meg -also played the back-from-the-dead Erica who went on a killing spree on the short-lived supernatural/voodoo soap 'Strange Paradise".
She played Sarah Kingsley (Brandon's wife) on All My Children.
Chris was only 2. Such a tall grorgeous multi talented man. He was also selected for juliard for the honors program under legendary john houseman we all know the other student r.i.p chris & robin.
8:45: Look at that prehistoric phone, ha ha! Makes the old Fisher-Price toy look like Alexa!
Jhon Aniston on Love of life. Thanks for the upload !!
I like the Arlene character
Me too! I watched the show mainly to watch Arlene.
I have liked Jerry Lacy in everything ive seen him in , especially when he played Boogy in dead men wear plaid and especially Dark Shadows
I believe the first actor here is Jerry Lacy, who played the ghost of Bogart in "Play It Again Sam." That film also had Tony Roberts, son of "Love of Life" announcer Ken Roberts.
He's married in real life to Julia Duffy of Newhart fame
I didn’t know Tony is related to Kenneth until this time.
and Jerry Lacy was in Dark Shadows-Rev Trask
Christopher Reeve Superman.
Wow Superman.
And thats Christopher
REEVES AKA CLARK KENT SUPERMAN
Ever think how odd and sad it is that all the Superman actors have a weird accident and get badly hurt or die?
And the original one was a guy named Reeve, no relation.
Announcer Ken Roberts; " This is LOVE...OF LIFE!"
18:37 Fun 7up commercial!
Marie Barone doing the Black Flag commercial!
Gracias por subir este material 👏👏👏
I remember this
This episode is July 4 /1975 not 1976 love of life with the original actors
24:22 - "Now stay tuned for _The Young And The Restless,_ following the news, over most of these CBS stations; this program was recorded."
Y&R,to this very day still airs at 12:30PM ET/11AM CT,RMT & PT.
@@charlesmeadows6285 LOL aired at 11:30 a.m. ET during this time..Y&R aired at Noon ET from 1973-80; then, upon expanding to one hour, aired 1-2 p.m. ET ..in the fall of 1981, Y&R moved to 12:30, where it's been ever since..different time zones and certain affiliates had somewhat different schedules during these times......
@@dannyhill8797 correct timeline. However, during LOL's final months, CBS moved it to 4PM under the pretext of being a last ditch effort in "saving" it - which was actually the straw that broke the camel's back. Many affiliates stopped airing it altogether; some others aired it at different times (but on a one day delay): the CBS affiliate in Indianapolis, IL aired it at 330PM EST, the one in L.A. aired it at 230PM PST, the then Philly affiliate WCAU aired it at noon as did flagship affiliate in NYC WCBS. This is because the 4PM slot was considered to be one mostly watched by children coming home from school who would be more interested in watching reruns & game shows mostly (which long time director Larry Auerbach agreed with during LOL's eulogy on the CBS Evening News - introduced by Walter Cronkite - 2/1/1980, the final date it was aired - 2/4/1980 The Young & the Restless expanded to an hour). Due to all this, CBS cancelled LOL in early January 1980, basically giving the cast and crew (some of whom had 20+ years tenure) two weeks' notice to frantically update resumes, contact agents, etc.
I wish there was some Love of Life clips with Meg's ex husband Mayor Jeff Hart. He was a corrupt evil man. Meg I remember always fell for the bad guys.
OMG! a young christopher reeve here before superman
Christoper Reeve as Ben.
Marie Barone at 3:05
I would like to see more old episodes with Gene and Toni Bua. Thats when LOL was really great for teenagers (whuch u was at the time.) The were the original star-crossed lovers/super-couple in my life.
I got hooked on it for them, too. As an aging adult, I made friends through email with Toni Bua.
I really liked Birgitta Tolksdorf as Arlene Lovett. Shame she never acted after this series because she brought Arlene to life.
"Thank You Love". On UK Soaps "Love" is a Pet name as is "Babe".
Stay tuned for Love of Life next on most of these CBS stations
That's from now you see it and gambit and double dare.
It's hard for me to watch Tudi and not see and hear Erica Desmond from Strange Paradise (which I deeply love)
That Pinto's had it!!!
O MY GOD! There's no man out there as hot as Christopher Reeve. Not even Tom Cruise nor Antonio Sabato Jr.
Would you have any episodes in which Richard Higgs played Andrew Marriott? He died in 1977, during which he was on LOL. His previous soap was as Dan Allison on The Doctors.
That actually happened to me once....I was coming out of the dry cleaners while my friend was standing outside...I was upset at the prices of dry cleaning.... and my friend had their bottle of woolite in their bag and they said "You should use Woolite... why dry clean?"
The actor starting at 14:00 is so handsome, but they left him off the end credits.
Jim Leyland was on the can of ravioli back then ha ha ha
Thanks, do you have Y&R when Kay drove the car off the cliff with Phillip?
Meg is shady
@MatthewSmith
I would like to know if I can make requests. Can you please post me a reply via TH-cam?
Fantastic! I don't really like the CBS soaps too much, but it's interesting to see what they looked like in the past.
Joseph Pratt CBS at this time was still leading over the other daytime soaps at this time with NBC very close behind them. Which was your station?
Here in Pittsburgh, the CBS station is KDKA.
Joseph Pratt Do you mean you don't like CBS soaps now?
It depends on what they're talking about on them.
Think in Adam's first reply, he meant which network's soaps you prefer over CBS.
Those guys were working on July 4, 1975, the 199 birthday of the USA. I guess no one really gets a holiday, after all.
there's a 1974 episode of Edge of Night that aired Christmas day..this is when the show was still live..at least, by 3:00, the cast and crew got to go home and enjoy the rest of Christmas day.....
@staytunedfor Some soaps were done live? I had no idea; assumed they were all recorded in advance. You'd think that was too risky, doing it live. Even Dark Shadows, which was taped in a hurry (hence all the prop accidents and flubbed lines), had a week's gap before the episode aired.
Stay tuned for is correct; in the summer of 1975, “The Edge of Night” and “As the World Turns” were both still broadcast live. CBS wanted to expand ATWT, which at the time had been the number one serial for many seasons, to sixty minutes. The network had previously shifted Edge from its late afternoon slot to an earlier mid day time, where it suffered mightily in the ratings, falling from the 5/6 th highest rated to eleventh place of the fifteen airing then. CBS was ready to drop the show and turn the time over to ATWT, but Procter and Gamble still had faith in the franchise, and secured a license to ABC, where the consumer products giant and soap opera production powerhouse had never aired a program. The ABC deal also returned Edge to a 4pm time slot; the show ran another nine years until December 28, 1984. Both Edge and ATWT began prerecording the daily episodes Autumn of ‘84, Edge because ABC had never broadcast any of its serials live, and ATWT because a sixty minute M-F serial would be too unwieldy a production to mount. Incidentally, Edge and ATWT debuted the same day on CBS in April, 1956. And while Edge was no longer produced live as of that Fall, it was shot “live to tape”; longtime cast member Ann Flood (“Nancy Karr”) did not want to lose the spontaneous feel of the live shows they’d broadcast previously. When “Love of Life” was dropped by CBS in February 1980, the half hour was given over to expand “The Young and the Restless’ to sixty minutes.
Too bad American Home Products who owned LOL for many years didn't have similar faith in the show and tried to get it picked up by ABC or NBC when CBS announced they were dropping it to expand YR to an hour that P&G did in EON when CBS wanted to drop it in favor of expanding ATWT to an hour; at least CBS waited to expand ATWT to an hour (also becoming a taped program for the first time since its 4/2/1956 debut) until ABC had a spot for EON on its schedule (to help ensure EON story continuality . It is said that CBS used the taping space formerly occupied by LOL almost immediately after the show ended to broadcast the Olympics from.
@@alexisdiva9 LOL was older skewing and had a reputation as your mother or grandmother's soap.
Hi
Hi Matthew, any chance you have this episode in high res or more episodes from this soap opera between 1974-1976? Keen to potentially use it in a doc, but only if it's in high res. Thanks!
Does anyone know how many episodes still exist of Love of Life?
there are episodes, from the 50s, at archive.org that have also been uploaded to YT..try Love of Life 1953 or 1955 and you can't miss it.....
@@dannyhill8797 also, Chandler Harben (who replaced Christopher Reeve as Ben and was the final one in that role), has his own channel here where he very graciously posted some of the final episodes - including the final one where there is attached the LOL eulogy with Walter Cronkite leading it on the CBS Evening News aired that date -2/1/1980.
Tudi Wiggins played a great histrionic! I always thought Christopher Reeve was a very wooden actor, if not for his looks, he would have gotten nowhere.
Also left us mail inbox main street and the with hub or HQ the RCA zenith and addition computer desks. The file form some smart BUSSINESS PROFFESIONS. The file folder with visit stay some titles n Midwest area. WISCOUSIN and Illinois and Indiana area. Star or the. Bests and go good things. Go good notebooks
This looks like it could be The Cover of one of Nora Roberts early novels. The announcer tried too hard to sound like Bill Wolf (The Announcer for Another World).
No,it’s actually Kenneth Roberts,Tony’s famed father.I’m still in lament he’s no longer with us.
@@charlesmeadows6285Ken Roberts' career as an announcer dates back to the 1930's and the radio drama "The Shadow"': "Only the Shadow knows...."
@@charlesmeadows6285 Ken Roberts announced Texas also
@@booberry349 And "The Secret Storm"!
....Ancient Chinese secret!
The Juilliard trained Reeves is the only one who can act here.
I like the older crazy lady, myself. Lol
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 I hear you. Over the top, but that can often be appealing in a villain or matriarch. Some of the best soap characters in the previous century were evil or wacko ladies, and many of them were a joy to watch every afternoon (Phoebe Tyler, Lucinda Walsh, Katherine Chancellor). Granted, some of these grande dames chewed the scenery more than others, LOL.
Oh please, he's wooden as hell. Meg acts circles around him.
Absolutely disagree! Tudi Wiggins as Meg stole the show.
Loved Tudi wiggins as Meg. She was everything ❤️ @@douglasbrown3942
How was it snowing everywhere except where Cal had ran her car off the road? There were crickets chirping in that scene. The first 10 minutes was Tudi Wiggins in histrionic hysterics: what a terrible actress. No wonder this show got the axe: it’s terrible!
Well, there's no engine sound or car sounds of any kind, either, lol.
The way he was looking, looking while he was supposedly DRIVING, I thought he'd be next, lol