About this season
These Are My Children is a short-lived American television soap opera which ran on NBC from January 31, 1949 to February 25, 1949. The show was broadcast live from Chicago, Illinois, airing fifteen minutes a day, five days a week, at 5:00 p.m. EST. These Are My Children was the first soap opera to air on a major television network. Created by Irna Phillips and directed by Norman Felton, the show was based in large part on Phillips' early radio soaps Today's Children and Painted Dreams. Children centered on an Irish widow, Mrs. Henehan and her struggles to run a boarding house as well as help her three children and new daughter-in-law Jean. Critics were not impressed; Television World ended their review with: "There is no place on television for this type of program, a blank screen is preferable."
Episodes (20)
1. S1. E.1
Aired 31 January 1949 • 15 min
2. S1.E2
Aired 1 February 1949 • 15 min
3. S1.E3
Aired 2 February 1949 • 15 min
4. S1.E4
Aired 3 February 1949 • 15 min
5. S1.E5
Aired 4 February 1949 • 15 min
6. S1.E6
Aired 7 February 1949 • 15 min
7. S1.E7
Aired 8 February 1949 • 15 min
8. S1.E8
Aired 9 February 1949 • 15 min
9. S1.E9
Aired 10 February 1949 • 15 min
10. S1.E10
Aired 11 February 1949 • 15 min
11. S1.E11
Aired 14 February 1949 • 15 min
12. S1.E12
Aired 15 February 1949 • 15 min
13. S1.E13
Aired 16 February 1949 • 15 min
14. S1.E14
Aired 17 February 1949 • 15 min
15. S1.E15
Aired 18 February 1949 • 15 min
16. S1.E16
Aired 21 February 1949 • 15 min
17. S1.E17
Aired 22 February 1949 • 15 min
18. S1.E18
Aired 23 February 1949 • 15 min
19. S1.E19
Aired 24 February 1949 • 15 min
20. S1.E20
Aired 25 February 1949 • 15 min