USA
/ ABC / x30m-e / March 30,
1970-September 25, 1970
Broadcast Mon.-Fri. Noon-12:30
pm.
April
Morrison was a "dewy-eyed
innocent" from Maine
befriended by fellow
stenographer Linda and Kim and
Kirns parents Violet and Joshua,
who were teachers, when she
arrived to work at the Key
Publishing Company in New York
City. She found that life there
could be brutal to an aspiring
woman, such as when Kim Jordan
was left for dead after someone
mixed LSD using her chemistry
lab equipment and stabbed her
seven times. Training April in
the ways of the world was her
boss, the once-cordial but now
hard-bitten Amanda Key.
Among
the other characters seen were
Gwen Mitchell, another
stenographer, and Anne and Mike
Carter, a troubled couple. The
basis for all stories was a
novel by Rona
Jaffe that became a movie in
1959 starring Joan Crawford. The
Best of Everything had the worst
of everything in terms of
timing. It came on the air the
same day as Somerset and A World
Apart to bring the total number
of daily soaps on the air to 19
series. All that competition
more than sated viewers'
appetite for serials, and the
show generated a minuscule 1.8
rating, guaranteeing its
cancellation after only six
months.
Cast
Bonnie
Bee Buzzard.... Joanna Key
Ginnie Curtis.... Gwen Mitchell
M'el Dowd.... Kate Farrow
Geraldine Fitzgerald .... Violet
Jordan
Julie Mannix.... April Morrison
Patricia McCormack.... Linda
Warren
Rochelle Oliver.... Barbara
Lamont
Gale Sondergaard.... Amanda Key
Susan Sullivan .... April
Morrison
