The Clear Horizon is a soap opera

Soap opera

A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...

 which ran on CBS Daytime

CBS Daytime

CBS Daytime is a television programming block on CBS. It's the branding for the CBS Television Network's late morning and early afternoon programming. The block has historically encompassed soap operas, game shows, and talk shows...

 from July 11, 1960 to March 10, 1961 and from February 26, 1962 to June 11, 1962. The show was created and head written

Head writer

A head writer is a person who oversees the team of writers on a television or radio series. The title is common in the soap opera genre, as well as with sketch comedies and talk shows that feature monologues and comedy skits, but in prime time series this function is generally performed by an...

 by Manya Starr. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0823551/

Premise

The Clear Horizon (titled The Army Wife in the pre-production

Pre-production

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 phase) revolved around the problems of astronauts and their wives at Cape Canaveral, Florida

Cape Canaveral, Florida

Cape Canaveral is a city in Brevard County, Florida, United States. The population was 8,829 at the 2000 census. As of 2008, the estimated population according to the U.S. Census Bureau was 10,147...

. In the first episode, Roy Selby (Ed Kemmer

Ed Kemmer

Ed Kemmer was an American motion picture and television actor.-Life:Kemmer was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, and served as a fighter pilot in World War II. He was shot down and sent to a POW camp...

) was moved from his post in Alaska

Alaska

Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...

 to The Pentagon

The Pentagon

The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, located in Arlington County, Virginia. As a symbol of the U.S. military, "the Pentagon" is often used metonymically to refer to the Department of Defense rather than the building itself.Designed by the American architect...

, which gave him a new commission in Florida

Florida

Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...

. Selby and his wife Anne (Phyllis Avery

Phyllis Avery

Phyllis Avery was an American television and film actress.-Early life and career:Avery was born in New York City to Evelyn and author Stephen Morehouse Avery. Her father hailed from Webster Groves, Missouri, near St. Louis. Her first role was as Marjorie in the 1951 film Queen for a Day based on...

) tried to adjust to their new lives, with Anne feeling attraction to another man. Along with the unique theme, the series was among the first daytime dramas to be broadcast from California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

 and to shoot location footage.

Ratings

Presented live in its initial run, The Clear Horizon was canceled for nearly a year. When the show returned in February 1962, the series was taped. In the new series, Anne dealt with life on her own while Roy was trapped behind enemy lines. Low ratings (the 1961-1962 ratings were 3.5, putting the program at the bottom of the daytime ratings list) ensured the series' permanent cancellation in March 1962. At the end of the show's run, Anne and Roy were reunited.

Main Crew

Charles Pollacheck was the Executive Producer

Executive producer

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, and Joseph Behar

Joseph Behar

Joseph Behar is a DGA award winning American television director, and is not to be confused with Joseph Behar who is the former husband of comedian/TV Personality Josephina Behar...

 and Hal Cooper

Hal Cooper

Harold Wallace Cooper was a Canadian ice hockey player who played eight games with the New York Rangers during the 1944-45 NHL season. He was 5'5" tall and weighed 155 lbs. He also played in the American Hockey League for the Providence Reds and the Hershey Bears and also in the United...

 directed.

Cast

Notable cast members included Beau Bridges

Beau Bridges

Lloyd Vernet "Beau" Bridges III is an American actor and director.- Early life :Bridges was born in Los Angeles, the son of actor Lloyd Bridges and his college sweetheart, Dorothy Bridges . He was nicknamed "Beau" by his mother and father after Ashley Wilkes's son in Gone with the Wind, the book...

, Lee Meriwether

Lee Meriwether

Lee Ann Meriwether is an American actress, former model, and the winner of the 1955 Miss America pageant. She is perhaps best known for her role as Betty Jones, the crime-solving partner in the long-running 1970s crime drama, Barnaby Jones. The role earned her two Golden Globe Award nominations in...

, Ted Knight

Ted Knight

Ted Knight was an American actor best known for playing the comedic role of Ted Baxter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Henry Rush on Too Close for Comfort, and Judge Elihu Smails in Caddyshack.- Early years :...

, William Roerick, Denise Alexander

Denise Alexander

Denise Alexander is a well-known American soap opera actress, most known for her role as Lesley Webber on General Hospital, a role she originally played from 1973 to 1984 and 1996 to present....

, and Eve McVeagh

Eve McVeagh

Eve McVeagh, born Eva Elizabeth McVeagh, was an American actress of film, television, stage, and radio. Born in Ohio, McVeagh moved to Los Angeles in 1923, where she started acting in theater in her teens. Her career spanned 52 years from her first stage role through her last stage appearance...

.

The title over the title and closing sequences was the sun setting over the Pacific Ocean

Pacific Ocean

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, accompanied by a piano

Piano

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 theme by Kip Walton. Bern Bennett

Bern Bennett

Bern Bennett is an American radio and television announcer. For nearly sixty years, beginning in 1944, he was a staff announcer at CBS. In the 1940s and 1950s he was closely associated with Bud Collyer, as announcer on three Collyer-hosted game shows: "Winner Take All", "Beat the Clock", and "To...

 was the announcer, and just over a decade later, became the first announcer for another, more successful soap opera, The Young and the Restless

The Young and the Restless

The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...

. http://members.fortunecity.com/drjtv/cbs2.html

External links

• Memorable TV page
• IMDB page, cast list included