Does Anyone Miss "The Secret Storm"?

When Jerry Ames got married, the wedding and reception lasted about five months.

I watched it with my Mom when I was 5, how are you still alive OP?

I liked Amy better with her real long straight hair than that wig they made her wear for so many years.

Also, I'm sure Joan Crawford fully expected to be taken for the 24 year old character she played during her daughter's illness even though she was about 104 at the time.

I remember the show killing an entire family off in a plane crash on Christmas Eve and there being hell to pay from audience reaction. It was Amy who came in crying and got to break the bad news to the other characters and the audience.

Other than that I don't remember much but wish I did. It was a great little show. I do remember when I first started to watch with my mom when I was about 3 it was only a 15 minute show. I think it shared a half hour with Edge of Night.

Was this the soap that featured a young Christopher Reeve? Or was it Love of Life?

I was in grade school and remember thinking he was beautiful.

I'm 62 and watched with my mom before I was old enough for school and continued to watch on my own until it went off the air. My grandma's favorite was ATWT. OMG how she hated that Lisa. I never got into ATWT until I heard so much about the gay storylines. I ended up loving the entire show and watched that until the end too.

With my dad I watched all the ABC shows from Ryan's Hope - General Hospital, which I still watch to this day. That and the soaps on at night, which these days are most shows like The Good Wife, SVU, Gray's Anatomy, Resurrection, etc. are the last of my soaps.

I think it was Love of Life but I'm not sure.

R3, I LOVE you!; was afraid I might be the only person of an age to remember the 15-minute soaps, tee-hee!

I don't remember the family who was killed off in the plane crash on Xmas Eve; could you please refresh my memory?

I do remember the character of Amy Ames very well! And a great actress, Bibi Besch, played - darn, can't remember; one of the leads; blonde hair, great actress, died of cancer at 60+ a number of years ago: mother of Samantha Mathis (hmmmmm - WEHT....?)

Do you remember the excellent plot line with a rather weird - farm? family; a priest; not sure about a father; Frances Sternhagen as the mother, and a scene-stealing villainous son, played by Gary Sandy (again: WEHT...?) I used to f--ing LOVE running off the school bus to watch first "The Edge of Night" and then "THe Secret Storm" - best soaps ever!

To another poster: Christopher Reeve was on "Love of Live", yes; played "Ben" - a villainous character, I think (gorgeous, just GORGEOUS...RIP.)

[quote]Do you remember the excellent plot line with a rather weird - farm? family; a priest; not sure about a father; Frances Sternhagen as the mother, and a scene-stealing villainous son, played by Gary Sandy

Fr. Redmon (Redmond?) and his brother, (Gary Sandy) got in a fist fight in a barn. Their mother tried to break it up and got hit by a fist. She fell backward onto a pitchfork and died. She died right at that moment. It was shocking that they didn't drag it out into a month long death. My mom had to go somewhere that day and thought I was kidding that there was such a sudden death.

Does anyone remember when Myra went off to Africa?

I might be getting it mixed up with Edge of Night but I don't remember any of the storylines.

It sounds kind of shocking, a Mom being killed by falling on a pitchfork. Wonder if the actor wanted off the show?

Who can forget my incredible, "last minute" saving of that show, not to mention my ungrateful bitch of a daughter's career?!!!

It was my grandmother's and great-grandmother's favorite, and I remember each afternoon's "Our story's coming on," in a dismissal of whatever else was occurring. (My great-grandmother, who would visit for long periods, was German and my grandmother would sit there translating and explaining what was going on. The older woman would sadly shake her head and occasionally press her hand against her bosom in distress.)

I didn't remember the 15-minute version, but I do remember hearing "Ma Perkins" on the radio. Anyone else remember radio soaps?

The "storm" and the crashing waves (There were waves, weren't there?) scared me as a kid. I couldn't imagine what they could possibly find interesting in the misery obviously being depicted.

R2, if you remember it maybe you should ask yourself how you're alive, too, dear.

Here's a lot of the history of Secret Storm.

Eh, I was more of a "Somerset" gal.

The Edge of Night started life on April 2, 1956, as a 30-minute show -- three hours after the premiere of the first 30-minute soap, As the World Turns. Both were on CBS, as was The Secret Storm (and all the other best soaps until General Hospital and The Doctors debuted on ABC and NBC respectively, also on the same day, April 1, 1963). Edge stayed a half hour for its entire run (though it switched to ABC, when CBS dropped it in 1975).

There will be a quiz tomorrow afternoon.

yes I do

Who owns the rights to it? Somebody should buy them and turn it into a 15-minute web series.

Is this the soap with Donna Mills? This soap was before my time. My mother loved this soap and would tell me how good it was. I wished SOAPNET would've showed really older non ABC soaps. Or was it an ABC soap?

You soap opera trolls are PATHETIC.

I'd give anything to see the old shows with Joan Crawford.

R16 My guess is that Wyeth, the pharmaceutical company owns the rights to it. The Secret Storm was owned by American Home Products, which later changed its name to Wyeth. They had sold the show to CBS for a time but had bought it back before it was cancelled. I wonder if there are any recordings of it sitting around somewhere. If so, I would love to see it released like the Colgate owned The Doctors is getting. Love of Life, which was created by the same man, was also owned by the same company. If anyone on this board works for Wyeth maybe you can inquire about them.

Donna played Rocket on Secret Storm...a nightclub singer. She then joined the original cast of Love Is A Many Splendor ed Thing as nun Laura Donnelly.

Jada Rowland grew up as Amy Ames on the show. She left a few times and Lynne Adams switched from Leslie on Guiding Light to play Amy until Jada came back the last year. Lynne had a short bob and when Jada returned, her hair was long and straight and nobody noticed.

Gale Storm sued to cancel it.

I was an Amy fan, especially when they let her take off that awful wig and wear her own long straight hair. I was very young then and don't remember that much. It was my mom's favorite soap so I think I began watching it from the womb. I do remember very well that my dad was home during the day because his place was on strike and he got such a kick out of seeing the show when Joan Crawford replaced her daughter. He always got a good laugh out of her drunken performance and seeing her playing a 24 year old and the young actor who played the husband of the real young actress, Joan's RL daughter had to do romance scenes or really any scenes with like 70 year old Joan. Only she would have had the nerve to play a very young woman at her advanced age.

I also remember that the show killed off an entire family in a plane crash and I think it was on the day of Christmas Eve. I think I remember reading that fans went off on their ass like never happened on any soap before.

If anyone is interested in Jada Rowland, she recently participated in The Doctors special "Watch the Doctors: Where Are They Now?" I don't know if it is available anywhere without subscribing, though.

My mom didn't watch that one, I think it must have overlapped with "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing" or "Somerset"!

OMG! Thank you R24! I've been looking for that because I'd heard about it but it doesn't show up in search results.

No, I am a DLer.

I miss Passions EVERY FUCKING DAY.

The last time TSS aired Nixon was in office.

Belle was having an affair with that race car driver while poor Johnny Ryan was in prison!