''Brave Tomorrow'' is an
old-time radio
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soap opera
A soap opera, or ''soap'' for short, is a typically long-running radio or television serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term "soap opera" originated from radio dramas originally being sponsored ...
in the
United States
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. It was broadcast on
NBC
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October 11, 1943 – June 30, 1944.
Format
''Brave Tomorrow'' focused on Hal and Louise Lambert and the challenges that they faced while raising daughters Jean and Marty during
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
.
[ A continuing facet of the drama was the older daughter's marriage to a military man who was in training to serve overseas.][
]
Personnel
The characters on ''Brave Tomorrow'' and the actors who portrayed them are shown in the table below.
Source: ''Radio Programs, 1924-1984: A Catalog of More Than 1800 Shows''Ed Herlihy
Edward Joseph Herlihy (August 14, 1909 – January 30, 1999)Cox, Jim (2008). ''This Day in Network Radio: A Daily Calendar of Births, Debuts, Cancellations and Other Events in Broadcasting History''. McFarland & Company, Inc. . was an Ameri ...
was the announcer. William Meader provided the music.[ The writer was Ruth Adams Knight.][
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See also
*List of radio soap operas
Radio daytime drama serials were broadcast for decades, and some expanded to television. These dramas are often referred to as "soaps", a shortening from "soap opera". That term stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that h ...
*List of U.S. daytime soap opera ratings
The following is a list of television Nielsen ratings and rankings for American daytime soap operas from 1950 to the present, as compiled by Nielsen Media Research. The numbers provided represent the percentage of TV households in the United Stat ...
*Radio drama
Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theatre, or audio theatre) is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine ...
References
1943 radio programme debuts
1944 radio programme endings
NBC radio programs
American radio soap operas
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