The Brighter Day
originally aired on CBS
The Brighter Day was the first soap opera to air on network television with an explicitly religious theme. Set in New Hope, Wisconsin, the series revolved around Reverend Richard Dennis and his four children, Althea, Patsy, Babby and Grayling. The original radio version took place in the town of Three Rivers, but the Dennis family was forced to move to New Hope in 1953.