4.8 /10 1 Votes
Country of origin United States Original network CBS Final episode date 10 March 1961 Genre Soap opera | 4.7/10 TV Running time 30 minutes First episode date 27 June 1960 Network CBS Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Starring Dyan Cannon
Jean Byron
Sam Edwards
Byron Foulger Original release June 27, 1960 – March 10, 1961 Cast Dyan Cannon, Jean Byron, Amzie Strickland, Sam Edwards, Byron Foulger | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Full circle
Full Circle is an American soap opera that aired on CBS from June 27, 1960 to March 10, 1961. The half-hour series starred Dyan Cannon and Jean Byron, and was the first American soap opera to be broadcast live from Hollywood.
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Premise
Set in the fictional town of Crowder, Virginia, Full Circle starred Dyan Cannon as a wealthy woman, Lisa Crowder, who falls in love with a handsome drifter named Gary Donovan, after her husband, Loyal's death. The town of Crowder, was named after the ancestors of the Crowder family. Jean Byron played Dr. Kit Aldrich, a surgeon who was married to David Talton, the son of Carter Talton. Actress Amzie Strickland played Crowder resident, Beth Perce.
Broadcast history
Full Circle aired at 2:00 pm on CBS' daytime schedule, directly following the hit Procter & Gamble-packaged serial As the World Turns. Despite its strong lead-in, Circle failed to find an audience, finishing the 1960-61 television season with an abysmal 1.3 Nielsen rating, the lowest-ever figure for a soap opera airing on US network TV. The serial was pulled off the air after just nine months in favor of Face the Facts, a short-lived game show. Facts, in turn, lasted a mere seven months (from March to October 1961), and was replaced with another game show that proved to be much more successful: the original incarnation of Password