Premiering on 9 October 1981, this short-lived late-night serial told the story of the cast and crew of a fictional daytime soap opera called Generations. The serial-within-a-serial idea was hardly new, having been tried thirty-two years earlier in one of TV’s very first soaps, A Woman to Remember.
Featured were Mel Ferrer as producer and starmaker Evan Hammer; Janine Turner as his cousin, starlet Janie-Claire Willow; Joshua Bryant as the producer, Gerry Holmby; Loyita Chapel as Gerry’s wife, Dory, an aspiring writer; Michael Sabatino as Gerry’s son, Brian; Debbi Morgan as Lynette Porter, another starlet; Bruce Fairbairn as Bobby; Joanne Linville as Zina; Catherine Parks as Sally; Erica Yohn as Joyce; and Mark Pinter as Karl.
Because the show was not scheduled in prime time (it aired at 11:30 pm), it ran for thirty-five minutes, thereby permitting the insertion of five extra minutes of commercials.
The final episode was broadcast on 8 January 1982 after only three months on the air.
Evan Hammer
Mel Ferrer Janie-Claire Willow
Janine Turner Gerry Holmby
Joshua Bryant Dory Holmby
Loyita Chapel Brian Holmby
Michael Sabatino Lynette Porter
Debbi Morgan Bobby
Bruce Fairbairn Zina
Joanne Linville Sally
Catherine Parks Joyce
Erica Yohn Karl
Mark Pinter
