1st half-black soap opera, "Generations," premieres on NBC-TV on March 27th 1989

The series was set in Chicago.

The link between the Marshall and the Whitmore families extends back three generations to when Vivian Potter (Lynn Hamilton) and her young daughter Ruth (Joan Pringle) lived in the Whitmore mansion. Vivian worked as housekeeper and nanny for Rebecca Whitmore (Patricia Crowley, later played by Dorothy Lyman) and her daughter, Laura (Gail Ramsey).

There are some clips of Generations on YouTube. Good stuff!!

I saw some of these episodes, it was tacky. Thankfully Kristoff St. John landed on a much better soap The Young and the Restless