Hidden Faces
| Hidden Faces | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Soap opera |
| Created by | Irving Vendig |
| Starring |
Conard Fowkes Louise Shaffer Tony Lo Bianco Stephen Joyce Linda Blair |
| Country of origin | USA |
| No. of episodes | 127 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Charles Fisher |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | NBC |
| Original run | December 30, 1968 – June 27, 1969 |
Hidden Faces is an American soap opera that aired on NBC from December 30, 1968 to June 27, 1969. The series was created by Irving Vendig, who also created the long-running Procter & Gamble serial The Edge of Night. The serial focused on a law firm that was dealing with a high profile murder case throughout its 127-episode run; the main romantic angle had the firm's senior partner, Arthur Adams, becoming involved with client Kate Logan, a female surgeon accused of murder, which Adams and partner Nick Turner acquitted her of. Charles Fisher was the producer of the program, which was an in-house NBC production.[1][2]
The show's lead stars were Conard Fowkes (himself an alumnus of Edge) as Adams, Gretchen Walther as Logan, and Tony Lo Bianco as Turner. Others in the cast inclulded Louise Shaffer, Stephen Joyce, Rita Gam, and a ten-year-old Linda Blair, who later became famous for her role as Regan in the 1973 film The Exorcist and its 1977 sequel.
Broadcast history
Hidden Faces replaced Let's Make a Deal at 1:30 PM (12:30 Central) after disputes between NBC and Deal packagers Stefan Hatos and Monty Hall caused Deal to move to ABC. Facing the ABC Deal and CBS' As the World Turns, Hidden performed poorly and, unusual for daytime serials in that era, was pulled after only six months in favor of the Bill Leyden-hosted game You're Putting Me On. At the time, new serials were given an absolute minimum of six months, and more often, one year, to build an audience. With almost all of Deal's fans following their show to ABC, Hidden Faces could not get a foothold among viewers, since soap fans instinctively preferred the then-top-rated ATWT. Ironically enough, Fowkes himself would years later join the cast of ATWT in the late 1970s and 1980s, in the role of Donald Hughes.
Hidden Faces was the first of eight programs that NBC put in Deal's timeslot between its departure and the expansion of Days of Our Lives to an hour on April 21, 1975. Of those eight shows, only Three on a Match lasted longer than a year.
No episodes of this program are known to still exist, the tapes having almost certainly been erased by NBC, per the standard practices of that time.
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=RXQNIs12SzQC&pg=PA121&lpg=PA121&dq=hidden+faces+nbc&source=bl&ots=PhUp7KEDHB&sig=WUNH-EmJyPhsDKwm8FNkTCWAPYw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=u6aIVITTIcamNsDFgYAJ&sqi=2&ved=0CEAQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=hidden%20faces%20nbc&f=false
- ↑ https://archive.org/stream/soapworld00lagu#page/384/mode/2up