Somerset is an American television soap opera which ran on NBC from March 30, 1970 until December 31, 1976. The show was a spinoff of another NBC serial, Another World. Initially, the show revolved around Missy Palmer Matthews , Lahoma Vane Lucas , and Sam Lucas . These were three popular characters who were first seen on Another World. They moved to the fictional town of Somerset, an area in the northern Detroit suburbs in Michigan and started their lives anew. The first stories on the serial revolved around the trio's progress in starting new friendships and romantic entanglements. In... Somerset, the other families of importance were the Grants and the Delaneys, who ran Somerset's major employer, Delaney Brands. In 1972, though, the show changed writers, with Robert Cenedella leaving the show in favor of Henry Slesar. Further, Somerset moved away from the traditional soap format, and started telling stories that dealt heavily with the Mafia and other types of crime, not unlike CBS' The Edge of Night.
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| On the air: | March 30, 1970-December 31, 1976 |
| Network: | NBC |