What Might've Been: Never Too Young (1965)

 Imagine, if you will, a daytime soap that has its first scenes on a beach filled with young adults.

ABC was aiming not so much at the usual soap audience, but trying to hook in teens and young adults who now had to find something else after American Bandstand shifted from weekdays to Saturdays. Never Too Young, however, like a lot of soaps before it, lasted a year or so before being cancelled. Not for lack of trying.

The first episode gets off to a good start, at least from a musical sense, with Ramsey Lewis' instrumental rendition of "The In Crowd". The only really familiar names in this cast are Tony Dow (ex-Leave it to Beaver), and Tommy Rettig (ex-Lassie).

Not included with this video is Arlene Dahl's Beauty Spot, a 5 minute program that followed Young, and both shows were cancelled on the same day in June 1966.

No rating. Just a public service.