Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (film) later inspired a television soap opera in 1967, though without the hyphen in the show's title. A widowed Eurasian doctor Han Suyin (Jones) falls in love with a married-but-separated American correspondent Mark Elliott (Holden) in Hong Kong, during the period of China's Civil War in the late 1940s. Although they briefly find happiness together, she is ostracized by the greater Chinese community. After losing her position at the hospital, Suyin and her adopted daughter go to live with a friend while Mark is on an assignment during the Korean War. They write to each other constantly. She receives word Mark
Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (TV series) of us. Goodbye, and God bless you." "Love is a Many Splendored Thing" owed its existence to CBS daytime head Fred Silverman, who openly favored serials over game shows. Its predecessor at 2:00 PM Eastern/1 Central was the original run of "Password", which had run aground against NBC's serial "Days of Our Lives" and ABC's "The Newlywed Game." Despite high hopes on the network's part, "Love is a Many Splendored Thing" struggled against that competition, and could not keep the viewers from its lead in, the #1 serial "As the World Turns". On September 11, 1972, CBS moved "LIAMST" to