Somerset (1970)★ 7.5/10
- Drama
Directed by: Joseph L. Scanlan, Joseph K. Chomyn, Ira Cirker, Bruce Minnix, Jack Coffey
Written by: Robert Cenadella, Henry Slesar, Roy Winsor, Jane Lyon, Russell Kubeck
Somerset began as a daytime drama about Delaney Brands conglomerate and its impact on Somerset, Illinois. Two years in it became a crime melodrama like CBS's "The Edge of Night. For four years, publisher Julian stories of arson, blackmail.
- Original title
- Somerset
- Storyline
- Somerset debuted as a daytime drama, revolving around the powerful conglomerate Delaney Brands and its effect on the fictional community of Somerset, Illinois. Two years into its run, the serial was transformed into a crime-laden melodrama similar to CBS's "The Edge of Night". For the next four years, newspaper publisher Julian Cannell took center stage as Somerset was besieged by arson, blackmail, extortion, and murder.
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 106
- Companies
- Procter & Gamble Productions (PGP), National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
- Release dates
- US March 30, 1970