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    Secret Storm, The

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    5195 x 15/30 minute episodes

    Set in the (fictional) community of Woodbridge, New York, the long-running CBS daytime drama The Secret Storm told the story of the long-suffering Ames family and their seemingly endless domestic tragedies.

    The series originally revolved around widower Peter Ames (Peter Hobbs), head of Tyrell’s Department Store, his three children – Amy, Jerry and Susan – and his second wife, Myra

    Amy Ames (Jada Rowland initially, and then Lynn Adams) was a little girl when the series began. She eventually ended up married to Kevin Kincaid (David Ackroyd) who was paralysed from the waist down after being pushed through a glass door by thugs in the drug racket.

    His incapacities drove Amy to have a baby by artificial insemination, handled by nice guy gynaecologist Brian Neeves (Jeff Pomerantz, then Keith Charles).

    It turned out that not only did he provide the know-how for the procedure, but also the raw material!

    The show gradually moved focus to Valerie Hill Ames Northcote (Lori March).

    In 1968, Secret Storm was the first CBS daytime serial to add black actors, in response to an order from the network president, following the assassination of Martin Luther King. The adding of a black person brought a lot of hate mail and the audience rating dipped for four days, then the audience returned to normal.

    When ratings began to slip in the 1970s, Catholic priest Mark Reddin (David Gale) fell in love with Laurie Stephens (Stephanie Braxton) and the intimation of high-level, high-voltage sin retrieved the audience, so Laurie’s husband Ken (Joel Crothers) was quickly moved out of the way (run over by a truck in Chicago) to facilitate Mark marrying Laurie and becoming a Secret Storm regular.

    Interest dwindled after their marriage so Mark – who had meantime become a parole officer (it’s a long story) – was allowed to kill a jewel thief which provided some alluring moral pangs and recriminations.

    When that failed to fuel viewer enthusiasm, Mark began to hit the bottle. An extra added attraction was that he and Laurie moved into an old house that was haunted.

    Debuting on 2 February 1954 and initially a 15-minute program, episodes were extended to 30-minutes in June 1962.

    After running for 20 years, the series was finally taken off the air in February 1974 to make room for yet another daytime game show.

    Amy Ames
    Jada Rowland (1)
    Lynn Adams (2)
    Peter Ames
    Peter Hobbs (1)
    Cec Linder (2)
    Ward Costello (3)
    Susan Ames Carver
    Jean Mowry (1)
    Judy Lewis (2)
    Jerry Ames
    Robert Morse (1)
    Warren Berlinger (2)
    Wayne Tippert (3)
    Valerie Hill Ames Northcote
    Lori March
    Pauline Harris/Rysdale
    Haila Stoddard
    Grace Tyrell
    Eleanor Phelps
    Mr Tyrell
    Russell Hicks
    Hugh Clayborn
    Peter MacLean
    Dan Kincaid
    Bernard Barrow
    Mickey Potter
    Larry Block
    Jill Stevens
    Barbara Rodell
    Kevin Kincaid
    David Ackroyd
    Belle Clements Britton Kincaid
    Marla Adams
    Nancy Vallin
    Iris Braun
    Ursula Winthrope
    Jacqueline Brooks
    Paul Britton
    Nick Coster (1)
    Linden Chiles (2)
    Ken Stevens
    Joel Crothers
    Lisa Britton
    Judy Safran (1)
    Diane Dell (2)
    Terri Falis (3)
    Bella Britton
    Marla Adams
    Kitty Styles
    Diane Ladd
    Wendy Porter
    Julie Mannix
    Joan Borman Kane
    Christina Crawford (1)
    Joan Crawford (2)
    Nick Kane
    Keith Charles
    Jonathan Styles
    Scott Mefford
    Peter Dunbar
    Donnie Melvin
    Grace Tyrell
    Marjorie Gateson (1)
    Eleanor Phelps (2)
    Dr Ian Northcote
    Gordon Rigsby (1)
    Alexander Scourby (2)
    Doug Winthrope
    Bruce Sherwood
    Tom Gregory
    Richard Venture
    Aggie Parsons
    Jane Rose
    Reilly
    Joe Ponazecki
    Laurie Stevens
    Stephanie Braxton
    Polly
    Susan Oakes
    Phil Forrestor
    Patrick Fox
    Mike
    Devin Goldenberg
    Alden
    Cliff de’Young
    Martha Ann Ashley
    Audre Johnson
    Freddy
    Roberta Royce
    Charlotte
    Susan Sudert
    Mulholland
    Mike Galloway
    Andrea
    Roberta Rickett
    Keefer
    Troy Donahue
    Kip Ripdale
    Don Galloway
    Ann Wicker
    Diane Muldaur
    Bob Hill
    Roy Scheider
    Tim Brannigan
    Anthony Herrera (1)
    Nicholas Lewis (2)
    Irene Simms
    Jennifer Darling
    Cecilia
    Kathleen Cody
    Herbie Vail
    Noel Craig
    Nola Hollister
    Rosemary Murphy (1)
    Mary K. Wells (2)
    Myra Lake
    Joan Hotchkis (1)
    June Graham (2)
    Alan Dunbar
    Liam Sullivan (1)
    James Vicary (2)
    Frank Carver
    Jack Ryland (1)
    Robert Loggia (2)
    Laurence Luckinbill (3)
    Cassie
    Mildred Clinton
    Mark Reddin
    David Gale
    Dr Brian Neeves
    Jeff Pomerantz (1)
    Keith Charles (2)
    Clay Stevens
    Jamie Grover
    Jason Ferris
    Robert Alda
    Robert Landers
    Dan Hamilton
    Monsignor Quinn
    Sidney Walker
    Joanna Morrison
    Audrey Landers (1)
    Ellen Barber (2)

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