Search for Tomorrow: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Search for Tomorrow was centered on a Midwestern housewife named Joanne Gardner, who lived in a fictional town called Henderson. In the earlier years, Joanne's friends and next-door neighbors, Stuart and Marge Bergman received much screen time as they commiserated with Joanne, usually over a cup of coffee at the kitchen table.

Most of Joanne's dilemmas in the early years were due to her dead husband Keith Barron's overbearing parents – they (most especially her mother in-law, Irene) never liked her and were quite content with seizing Joanne and Keith's daughter Patti from the widow.

The majority of the show's 35 year run was on CBS as a 15 minute series sponsored by Proctor & Gamble. In 1982, the series moved to NBC in an attempt to reinvigorate the show's ratings. This failed and the series concluded in 1986.

Series details

• Title: Search for Tomorrow
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Drama
• Premiere date: 1951-09-03
• Final broadcast date listed: 1986-12-26
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: NBC
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 30 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 34972
• IMDb ID: tt0043229
• TVDB ID: 70807

Cast and credited roles

• Mary Stuart — Joanne Gardner
• Robert Mandan — Sam Reynolds
• Larry Haines — Stuart Bergman
• Melba Rae — Marge Bergman
• Lewis Arlt — David Sutton
• Val Dufour — John Wyatt

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 1951-09-03; final listed air date 1951-09-03.
• Season 36: premiered 1986-12-26; final listed air date 1986-12-26.

Source and licence

Adapted from Search for Tomorrow on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.