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The Brighter Day

★ 6.9 38 votes 1954–1962 1 season · 2253 episodes Ended CBS
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Starring
Blair DaviesMona BrunsLarry WardHal HolbrookMary Linn BellerBrook Byron
Written by
Irna Phillips
Starring
Blair DaviesMona BrunsLarry WardHal HolbrookMary Linn BellerBrook Byron
Written by
Irna Phillips

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About

The Brighter Day is an American daytime soap opera which aired on CBS from January 4, 1954 to September 28, 1962. Originally created for NBC radio by Irna Phillips in 1948, the radio and television versions ran simultaneously from 1954-1956. Set in New Hope, Wisconsin, the series revolved around Reverend Richard Dennis and his four children, Althea, Patsy, Babby and Grayling. The Brighter Day was the first soap opera to air on network television with an explicitly religious theme. Another soap opera created by Phillips, The Guiding Light, initially had a religious theme as a radio show but dropped it by the time the series moved to television.

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Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Blair Davies Rev. Richard Dennis
Mona Bruns Aunt Emily Potter
Larry Ward Dr. Randy Hamiliton
Hal Holbrook Grayling Dennis #1 (1954-1959), Grayling Dennis
Mary Linn Beller Babby Dennis (1954-1959) (original television cast), Babby Dennis
Brook Byron Althea Dennis
Mike Barton Chris Hamiliton
Walter Brooke Donald Harrick
Patty Duke
June Dayton Patsy Dennis

Crew

Irna Phillips

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