Until Tomorrow is an Australian television soap opera created by Reg Watson. The series was produced in colour by the Reg Grundy Organisation for the Seven Network in 1975. It was the second soap opera made by the Reg Grundy Organisation, the first having been Class of '74. It is notable for having been made in Brisbane as opposed to Sydney or Melbourne, and was one of the few Australian soap operas produced for a daytime slot, screening at 2.30 pm in Sydney and 1.30pm in Melbourne.
Series synopsis
Until Tomorrow examined the activities of various residents of the suburban Vale Street. Storylines involved revenge plots, murder, affairs, and blindness. The cast included Ron Cadee as Bill Wainwright, the corner shop keeper; television personality
Hazel Phillips as Marge Stewart, a "widowed gossip on the look out for a mate";
[Anon, "Chalk and Cheese" Melbourne Age 23 January 1975 p. 29] Kaye Stevenson, Muriel Watson, Sue Robinson,
Babette Stephens, and
Barry Otto.
[Mercado, Andrew. Super Aussie Soaps, Pluto Press Australia, 2004. p 83-97]
Critical response
The Sun-Herald, TV writer Allen Glover, said that
Until Tomorrow had "the edge over the American serials" in that "the characters are Australian – and believable".
[Allen Glover on TV Sun-Herald 9 February 1975 p. 67] However TV critic for
The Age, John Pinkney, was withering about the show:
Cast
Broadcast
The series debuted in January 1975 and in Sydney screened at 2.30 pm, opposite US serial
General Hospital. It experienced low ratings and by July was moved to 11.30 am. It was cancelled after a run of 180 episodes with none of the current storylines concluded in the final episode.
[Mercado, Andrew. Super Aussie Soaps, Pluto Press Australia, 2004. p 86]
Until Tomorrow was Reg Watson's first Australian soap opera.[Mercado, Andrew. Super Aussie Soaps, Pluto Press Australia, 2004. p 83] He went on to devise the more successful soap operas The Young Doctors (1976), The Restless Years (1977), Prisoner (1979), Sons and Daughters (1981), and Neighbours (1985).
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