Bright Promise is an American daytime soap opera that ran on the NBC Daytime television network from September 29, 1969 to March 31, 1972. It aired weekdays at 3:30 p.m. Eastern/2:30 p.m. Central.
The show revolved around students and faculty at the fictional Bancroft College, located in the community of Bancroft, somewhere in the American Midwest. The name of the show reflected the overarching theme of the bright promise that the leaders of tomo...
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Bright Promise is an American daytime soap opera that ran on the NBC Daytime television network from September 29, 1969 to March 31, 1972. It aired weekdays at 3:30 p.m. Eastern/2:30 p.m. Central.
The show revolved around students and faculty at the fictional Bancroft College, located in the community of Bancroft, somewhere in the American Midwest. The name of the show reflected the overarching theme of the bright promise that the leaders of tomorrow graduating from Bancroft would ostensibly bring. At first, the main character was College president Thomas Boswell (Dana Andrews). Later, the focus shifted from the College, to the town of Bancroft at large, and focused mainly on the Pierce and Jones families. The main character by this time was Sandra Jones, who had been a student at Bancroft College, and married herself into the wealthy Pierce family.
Bright Promise was created by the husband-and-wife writing team of Frank and Doris Hursley, who had previously created General Hospital,...
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