Anderton Falls

Anderton Falls is a television series existing within author Lela Richmond's Delambre Universe. A soap opera with a distinct mystery/supernatural bent, it ran in syndication in the U.S. and Canada from 1963 to 1977. It's main connection to the Delambre Universe is actor Jamie Delambre, who had a starring role on the program from 1964 to 1972.

[edit] Background
Anderton Falls was the brainchild of Sophia Beckwith, a television writer living in New York City. When no major network showed real interest in the show, Sophia used a portion of a family inheritance, as well as investments from a group of influential friends and business associates, to fund the initial production, then sold it into syndication. Sophia was, during the entire run of the show, head of both the writing and production staffs, as well as creating two spin-offs: the more traditional soap opera Golden Bay and the prime-time detective show Morrison.

[edit] General Overview
In the beginning, Anderton Falls focused on police detective Cal Morrison, along with his wife Mary and teenage son James, in the fictional town of Anderton Falls, Connecticut. Though the town was fairly small, and might in fact be considered downright sleepy, the residents were plagued by a seemingly endless stream of crimes and strange occurrences. After the first year-and-a-half, some of the focus began to move more toward a group of locals who worked and shopped at a local general store run by previously minor character Dave Muller. Eventually the main focus of the show shifted again, in 1968, to the owners, workers, and patrons of a local restaurant, Torelli's. The Morrison family were still a regular part of the show until 1965, when Mary Morrison was killed off and son James left for college. Cal Morrison was moved to his own prime-time spin-off, Morrison, in 1966. A fairly minor character, Professor Alastair Merrin, was the focal point of another spin-off, the soap opera Golden Bay, in 1972.