A World Apart (TV series)

The story concerned a soap opera writer who adopted two children, a fictionalized version of Irna Phillips' life.

[2] Soap opera writer Betty Kahlman (Elizabeth Lawrence, Augusta Dabney) raised her adopted children without a husband.

Her sounding board and friend was fellow soap opera writer Meg Johns, played by actress Anna Minot.

James Noble (Dr. Ed Sims) would eventually play Governor Eugene Gatling on the television comedy Benson alongside Robert Guillaume.

The series ran Monday through Friday at 12:30 p.m. EST (11:30 a.m. Central), opposite CBS' then-popular Search for Tomorrow and NBC's The Who, What, or Where Game.