Winnetka Road (1994– )

Short lived (five weeks) soap opera about life in Oak Bluff, Illinois, a yuppie suburb of Chicago. Sex was the main subject of the series.

Creator:

John Byrum

Stars:

Ed Begley Jr., Josh Brolin, Kurt Deutsch

Cast

Complete series cast summary:
Ed Begley Jr.	...	Glenn Barker (6 episodes, 1994)
Josh Brolin	...	Jack Passion (6 episodes, 1994)
Kurt Deutsch	...	Kevin Page (6 episodes, 1994)
Catherine Hicks	...	Jeannie Barker (6 episodes, 1994)
Meg Tilly	...	George Grace (6 episodes, 1994)
Paige Turco	...	Terry Mears (6 episodes, 1994)
Richard Tyson	...	Dwayne Serlin (6 episodes, 1994)
Megan Ward	...	Nicole Manning (6 episodes, 1994)
Kristen Cloke	...	MayBeth Serlin (6 episodes, 1994)
Sandy McPeak	...	Sterling Grace (3 episodes, 1994)
Eddie Bracken	...	Father Burke (2 episodes, 1994)
Richard Gilliland	...	Jason Peterson (2 episodes, 1994)
Harley Venton	...	Stanley 'Stan' Oldman (2 episodes, 1994)

Storyline

Short lived (five weeks) soap opera about life in Oak Bluff, Illinois, a yuppie suburb of Chicago. Sex was the main subject of the series.

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Plot Keywords:

soap

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

12 March 1994 (USA)

Also Known As:

Una calle cualquiera

Company Credits

Production Co:

Spelling Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

60 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

User Reviews

Promising but turned into a boring dredge of a mess.

I remember watching the first two episodes of the nighttime soap and thought it had potential, but it turned into a rather boring mess. Mainly the plot involved Terry Mears (played by Meg Tilly) move to a suburb of Chicago, Oak Ridge and her trials and tribulations with her young son, Nicky. Yes a lot about Mears sex life was involved. What I hated was that it seemed to waste the talents of a lot of promising actors/actresses such as Harley Venton, Paige Turco, Sandy McPeek and Ed Begley, Jr. The fact that Venton played another flawed villain (by the time this show aired Venton was better as flawed villain -- see: his second go round on "Murder, She Wrote", "Cybill", "Silk Stalkings", "Diagnosis Murder" and "Models, Inc." -- then as his earlier incarnations as hero or later ones as just flawed characters) as Terry Mears ex-husband and father of Nicky, but they only called on Venton for a guest appearance twice showed how inept the PTB were on this series. Sandy McPeek showed the promise he'd eventually show greatly on "The O.C.", but again only relegated to guest appearance, was stupid. It was known to be headed for a quick death when NBC pulled the third episode, that was known to be too violent for NBC's taste back then.