This soap opera from CBS revolved around the conflicts, tensions and lives of the close-knit but dysfunctional Hathaway family of Northcross, Connecticut.
The serial opened on 8 September 1969 with the death of pious Hathaway family patriarch Judge Daniel Hathaway. Judge Hathaway had three adult children: Julian (James Mitchell), a professor of literature at the local university; Kate (Diana van der Vlis), a sympathetic but sexually repressed law student, and Allison (Louise Shaffer), the liberated feminist black sheep of the family.
Having never gained his father’s love, Julian sought affection amongst the many young women he taught at Northcross University. He had recently married nubile Mary (Diana Walker) – his adult son Michael’s former girlfriend.
Throughout its three-and-a-half-year run, Where the Heart Is was recorded on videotape at the CBS Broadcast Center Studio #44 in New York.
It fared badly in the Nielsen Audience Ratings and failed to attract the viewing demographic preferred by advertisers. The series finally ended on 23 March 1973 and was replaced by The Young and the Restless, which would become the most popular TV soap opera in America for three decades.
Julian Hathaway
James Mitchell Kate Prescott
Diana Van der Vlis Allison Jessup
Louise Shaffer Mary Hathaway
Diana Walker Michael Hathaway
Greg Abels Vicky Hathaway
Lisa Richards Dr Joe Prescott
William Post Jr. Nancy Prescott
Katherine Meshill Ed Lucas
Joseph Mascolo Stella O’Brien
Bibi Osterwald Christine Cameron
Delphi Harrington Loretta Jordan
Alice Drummond Peter Jordan
Mike Bersell Carol Gault
Janet League Elizabeth Rainey
Tracy Brooks Swope John Rainey
Peter MacLean Dr Adrienne Harris
Priscilla Pointer Lt. Hayward
Philip Sterling Amy Snowden
Clarice Blackburn Dr Jim Hudson
Ruben Greene Terry Stevens
Ted LePlatt Will Watts
Robert Symonds Detective Munford
Gil Rogers Lt. Fenelli
Ted Beniodes Dr Homes Rayburn
Alan Manson Margaret Jardin
Barbara Baxley (1)
Rue McClanahan (2) Daniel Hathaway
Joseph Dolen Ellie Jardin
Zohra Lambert Mrs Harrison
Caroline Coates Lois Snowden
Jeanne Ruskin
