Secrets of Midland Heights

Secrets of Midland Heights is an American nighttime soap opera produced by Lorimar Productions after the success of Dallas.

Lisa Rogers (Linda Hamilton) juggled relationships with both college jock Burt Carroll (Lorenzo Lamas) and fratboy Mark Hudson (Bill Thornbury, in a recurring role), good girl heiress Ann Dulles (Doran Clark)[1] secretly dated high school dropout John Grey (Jim Youngs),[2] Holly Wheeler (played by Linda Grovenor in the pilot, and subsequently by Marilyn Jones) wanted to lose her virginity to her boyfriend Teddy Welsh (Daniel Zippi), but the teens were shocked to discover her mother Dorothy (Bibi Besch) was having an affair with Teddy's father Nathan (Robert Hogan), a widowed professor at the college.

The show was produced by David Jacobs, Lee Rich and Michael Filerman, all of whom worked on other serial dramas like Flamingo Road and Knots Landing.

When Secrets of Midland Heights was pulled from the schedule, the producers stated that the show would be retooled and make a return in some form.

Many of the same performers and production staff returned to ABC the following season in the different serial King's Crossing, which similarly had a short run.