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The series ended with Jo's daughter, Patty (Jacqueline Schultz) marrying Hogan McCleary (David Forsythe) and Jo told her best friend, Stu, that she was searching for tomorrow and she couldn't wait for it.Īfter moving from CBS in 1982, Search's ratings dropped drastically, leading it to the show being cancelled in 1986. Jo and Stu were connected into the story due to Jo being married to Travis's uncle, Martin, while Stu was Liza's grandfather (her mother was Janet Collins).Īt the very end of the series, a flood wiped out the town of Henderson, miraculously sparing the Caldwell House and Jo's house. One of the most popular stories was the adventures of Travis Sentell (Rod Arrants) and Liza Kaslo Sentell (Sherry Mathis Louan Gideon), which were similar to the "Luke and Laura" stories on General Hospital. Mary Stuart stated after divorcing Martin, that she "was the world's oldest ingénue" after ending her first marriage via divorce after having been widowed three times.Īs time wore on, the younger set had become the center of the stories, although Jo made some sporadic appearances. However, she got fed up with his gambling, smoking and carousing, and, after having been widowed three times, she divorced him! Then she married Martin Tourneur (John Aniston), who had a tendency to be quite unfaithful to Jo. Tony Vincente (Anthony George) who later passed on as well, due to a heart attack.
Her first marriage was to Keith Barron (John Sylvester White) whose death was the first main story of Search her next husband was Arthur Tate (Terry O'Sullivan Karl Weber) who died of a heart attack then after a romance with Sam Reynolds (played by Robert Mandan George Gaynes and Roy Schuman) she married Dr. Jo (as Joanne was called) was married four times in all. She also had to contend with other conniving women over the years, including her own sister, Eunice (Marion Brash Ann Williams), although Eunice had wised up and she became a much-needed support to her sister and vampy and sarcastic Stephanie Wilkins (Maree Cheatham Louise Shaffer). She also proved herself by raising her daughter, Patty (played most notably by Lynn Loring and Jacqueline Schultz) as a single parent, a rarity in the 1950s, in spite of the opposition of her mother in-law, Irene Barron (Bess Johnson). She began by running the Motor Haven and then the Hartford House and much later, the Caldwell House. Although the sequences changed over the years, the same idea of the clouds in the sky remained the same over the run.įor most of the series run, much of the focus was centered on Joanne, who began as a simple housewife, married to one Keith Barron, but also showed she had a knack for business, since she ran several boarding rooms over the years. The show's title sequence showed clouds floating across the sky.
The series was created by Roy Winsor (the same man who helped create the series Love of Life and the Secret Storm), and was written by such talents as Agnes Nixon Irving Vendig and Frank and Doris Hursley. Also featured on the show from almost the beginning was Larry Haines who played Jo's neighbor and best friend, Stu Bergman, and the late actress, Melba Rae, who played Stu's wife, Marge, from 1951-1971 when Ms. The show starred the late Mary Stuart as Joanne Gardner Barron Tate Vincente Tourneur, one of the main citizens of the Midwestern town of Henderson. It was produced by Proctor & Gamble Productions. Search for Tomorrow, or simply Search, was an American soap opera that ran from 1951-1982 on CBS and then from 1982-1986 on NBC. The title card of Search for Tomorrow from 1967-1980
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