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Composer(s)
  
Francis Lai

Original language(s)
  
English

First episode date
  
3 October 1973

Network
  
NBC

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Genre
  
Dramatic anthology

Country of origin
  
United States

No. of seasons
  
1

Final episode date
  
2 January 1974

Number of seasons
  
1

Opening theme
  
"(Where Do I Begin?) Love Story"

Theme song
  
(Where Do I Begin?) Love Story

Cast
  
Martin Sheen, Victoria Principal

Similar
  
Police Story, The Barbara Stanwyck, Ghost Story, Letter to Loretta, Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Love Story is a 1973-1974 United States dramatic anthology television series focused on stories of romance. It aired from October 3, 1973, to January 2, 1974.

Contents

Love Story was the second American television series of the name, the first having been the DuMont Television Network's anthology series Love Story, which aired in 1954.

Cast

As an anthology series, Love Story had no regular cast. Each episode had a different cast as noted in the episodes list below.

Synopsis

Each episode of Love Story told a story of romance and was an independent drama, unrelated to any other episode. The episodes were set in various locations around the United States, and told a wide variety of stories, each about problems faced by a couple in love.

Production

In 1970, the novel Love Story, the movie based on the novel, also called Love Story, and the movie's theme song, "(Where Do I Begin?) Love Story," all were major hits. Hoping to capitalize on this success, NBC aired the television series Love Story three years later. Although the show shared its name with the novel and movie and used "(Where Do I Begin) Love Story" as its theme song, it otherwise was completely unrelated to the novel and movie, each of its episodes being an entirely original story with an entirely different cast. Generally, less-well-known actors and actresses appeared in the show.

Episode directors included Michael Landon and Donald Wrye. Writers included Landon and Elinor Karpf.

Broadcast history

Love Story premiered on NBC on October 3, 1973. It faced tough competition in its time slot from CBS's Kojak, and sharing its title and theme song with the movie Love Story did not help it to garner much of an audience, given that it had no characters or storylines in common with the novel or movie. With low ratings, it was cancelled after the broadcast of its twelfth episode on January 2, 1974. The show aired at 10:00 p.m. on Wednesday throughout its run.

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References

Love Story (1973 TV series) Wikipedia