4.2
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Morning Star (1965)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Viewer Rating
Rating: 4.2
Overview
Morning Star is a daytime soap opera which aired on NBC from September 27, 1965 to July 1, 1966. The show was created by Ted Corday who created the long-running soap opera Days of our Lives. The show aired at 11:00 AM; it was paired with Paradise Bay which aired after it and also was created by Ted Corday. Morning Star was one of the first soap operas to air in color. The show followes Katy Elliot who was a fashion designer from Connecticut; she moved to New York City to begin work in her chosen field. The show followed her trials and tribulations along with her roommates Joan Mitchell and Joan's daughter Liz. Katy had left her hometown of Springdale after the death of Greg Ross, her fiance, who had been killed in a traffic accident before they were to have been married. In New York, Katy met and fell in love with Bill Riley, She also had contact her her aunt Millie Elliot; her uncle, Ed Elliot, who was a judge in Springdale; and her sixteen year old sister, Jan. Like Days of our Lives, the show opened with an epigraph, as was customary for soaps of the time, "No matter how dark the night, there is always a new dawn to come. The sun is but a morning star." The show's title referred to the sun.
Starring Cast
Bias Dimensions
Political: Strong Left
Diversity: Low
LGBTQ: Positive
Overview
Morning Star is a daytime soap opera which aired on NBC from September 27, 1965 to July 1, 1966. The show was created by Ted Corday who created the long-running soap opera Days of our Lives. The show aired at 11:00 AM; it was paired with Paradise Bay which aired after it and also was created by Ted Corday. Morning Star was one of the first soap operas to air in color. The show followes Katy Elliot who was a fashion designer from Connecticut; she moved to New York City to begin work in her chosen field. The show followed her trials and tribulations along with her roommates Joan Mitchell and Joan's daughter Liz. Katy had left her hometown of Springdale after the death of Greg Ross, her fiance, who had been killed in a traffic accident before they were to have been married. In New York, Katy met and fell in love with Bill Riley, She also had contact her her aunt Millie Elliot; her uncle, Ed Elliot, who was a judge in Springdale; and her sixteen year old sister, Jan. Like Days of our Lives, the show opened with an epigraph, as was customary for soaps of the time, "No matter how dark the night, there is always a new dawn to come. The sun is but a morning star." The show's title referred to the sun.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
The film's central thesis explicitly promotes progressive ideology by focusing on the life and work of Karl Marx, whose foundational theories are inherently anti-capitalist and revolutionary.
The film features a traditional cast without explicit race or gender swaps of established roles. Its narrative does not appear to center on critiques of traditional identities or explicit DEI themes.
Secondary
Morning Star, an episode of The Shield, features Julian Lowe, a gay police officer whose ongoing struggle with faith and sexual identity is depicted with significant empathy and complexity. The series portrays his challenges as external and internal conflicts, affirming the dignity of his queer identity rather than ridiculing it.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Morning Star (1965) is an original TV series with no indication of being an adaptation of prior material or historical events. Therefore, its characters are new creations, and the concept of a gender swap, as defined, does not apply.
The 1965 show "Morning Star" was an original soap opera featuring new, fictional characters. There is no prior source material or historical record establishing the race of its characters before their portrayal in the series, thus no race swap occurred.
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