Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (TV series) the hyphen used in the movie's title. In turn, the film was based on the autobiographical novel "A Many-Splendoured Thing" by Han Suyin. "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing" focused on lives and loves in San Francisco, California. The title sequence of the show, in fact, was the title of the show superimposed over a picture of the Golden Gate Bridge, with a slightly reworked rendition of the movie's signature hit theme. In a rare move for daytime serials of that era, live shots of junk boats from Hong Kong were interspersed with pictures of the real San Francisco, set
Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (TV series) movement of attracting young viewers along with soap opera's traditional audience. The show pre-dated the premieres of "One Life to Live" (1968) and "All My Children" (1970), two other soap operas which also attracted young audiences. However, "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing" lacked the guidance of creator/executive producer Agnes Nixon (creator of those two shows). The network kept hiring new head writers and executive producers for its soap operas, creating a lack of continuity in the storytelling. Also a legacy of the show was the music style of Eddie Layton, being more jazz and pop flavored, as opposed to