1 9 7 0 – 1 9 7 6 (USA)
1,710 x 30 minute episodes
This NBC daytime soap was a spinoff from Another World – in fact, it was originally called Another World: Somerset and even shared the theme music with that show.
The early shows initially concerned the lives of four characters from Another World– Missy Matthews, Lahoma Vane Lucas, Ricky Matthews and Sam Lucas, all living in the town of Somerset where Sam Lucas was a lawyer working in partnership with Ben Grant.
Pretty quickly though the format of the show changed to a mystery/crime theme with regular murders and criminal activity (even though Somerset had only 25,000 people living in it – it seems they were all crooked!).
Virgil Paris
Marc Alaimo
Eve Lawrence
Bibi Besch
Tony Cooper
Doug Chapin
San Lucas
Jordan Chaney
Jasper Delaney
Ralph Clanton
Robert Delaney
Nicolas Coster
Julian Cannell
Joel Crothers
Rowena Standish
Dortha Duckworth
Tom Conway
Ted Danson
Lai Ling
Helen Funai
Peter Delaney
Len Gochman
Andrew Moore
Harriet Hall
Ellen Grant
Georgann Johnson
Ben Grant
Ed Kemmer
David Grant
Ron Martin
Gerald Davis
Walter Matthews
Dale Robinson
Jameson Parker
Dr Karen MacMillan
Nancy Pinkerton
Danny Catsworth
Melinda Plank
Missy Palmer Matthews
Carol Roux
Harry Wilson
Fred J Scollay
Mitch Farmer
Richard Shoberg
Rex Cooper
Paul Sparer
Laura Delaney Cooper
Dorothy Stinnette
Pammy Davis
Pamela Toll
India Bishop Delaney Hillman
Ann Wedgeworth
Avis Ryan
Sigourney Weaver
Carrie Wheeler
JoBeth Williams
Mr Whittington
Edward Winter