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) 3:00 Eastern/2:00 Central. Procter & Gamble, which produced four of the network's serials, wanted their shows aired consecutively. CBS moved "Guiding Light", which had been airing at 2:30/1:30 since its expansion to thirty minutes in 1968, into the old "LIAMST" slot and moved "The Edge of Night" from its longtime 3:30/2:30 slot to complete the request (the schedules of "As the World Turns", which aired at 1:30/12:30, and "Search for Tomorrow", which aired at 12:30/11:30, were unaffected and the network did not program the thirty minutes in between). Shortly before the time change, the show had changed its emphasis from