The series was cancelled after 13 episodes.Ī 1977 made-for-TV Christmas movie, Sunshine Christmas, further continued the story, focusing on Sam and Jill's Christmas visit to Sam's parents in Texas, where Sam rekindles a romance with his childhood sweetheart.
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DeYoung, Mumy, Fischer, and Foster all appeared in the TV series reprising their movie roles, while Elizabeth Cheshire played the slightly older Jill Hayden. The short-lived 1975 NBC television series Sunshine picked up the story of Sam Hayden struggling to raise Jill alone after Kate's death. Parts of the film were shot on location in Vancouver, British Columbia with neighbourhood scenes in Kitsilano and the West End, and footage of the Burrard and Granville Street Bridges and North Shore mountains. However, the film's writer and director denied that Message was inspired by Helton, and said that the script was written before Sunshine. In Message, the dying mother of a baby girl makes tape recordings of advice which her daughter ( Kitty Winn) receives many years after the mother's death. Some critics also viewed Helton's story as having inspired a second made-for-TV movie, Message To My Daughter starring Bonnie Bedelia and Martin Sheen, which was first aired on December 12, 1973, on ABC. The opening credits of Sunshine state that the film was "suggested by" Helton's journal, while a voice-over announces that in 1971, a 20-year-old wife and mother died, leaving behind a tape recorded journal about being "young, and a mother, and in love, and dying" and that although names have been changed, the film "retained her spirit, and many of the words from her tapes." Lawrence Schiller, then a promoter, acquired the television and film rights to Helton's life story which became the basis for the film Sunshine and a short lived TV series. After her death, numerous newspapers and magazines published excerpts from her journal. Helton died on November 7, 1971, at the age of 20. She was gifted with a replacement tape recorder and continued her project.
The local news story of the theft and her journal project was picked up by networks as a human interest story and run in national news coverage. In July 1971, Helton's tape recorder was stolen. Helton began to record her thoughts about dying and leaving her husband and baby behind on audio tape and written journal with the goal of writing a book to help other dying people. Helton, along with her photographer/ musician husband Tom Helton and her baby daughter, moved from Green River, Wyoming, to Denver, Colorado, to seek medical treatment. In 1969, shortly after giving birth to her daughter Jennifer, the 18-year-old Helton was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a form of bone cancer. Sunshine was based on the life of Jacquelyn M. The soundtrack was released by MCA in 1973. Sarah Valentini as the infant Jill Hayden.Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush as Jill Hayden.She receives a replacement tape recorder and continues her journal until she dies at the end of the film.
After Kate has been journalling for some time, her tape recorder is stolen, causing her story to gain national attention. Kate agrees to take part in a medical research study by keeping a recorded journal in which she describes her feelings about being a young wife and mother facing death. Kate then decides to forego treatment entirely and concentrate on being a wife to Sam and a mother to Jill in the short time she has left, since not treating the cancer will hasten her death. Unwilling to lose her leg, Kate initially has chemotherapy which makes her very ill and unable to function in her daily life or look after Jill. Kate has two options to treat her cancer: she can either have her leg amputated and hope the cancer does not spread, or undergo chemotherapy. Shortly after Jill is born, Kate gets the shocking news that she has osteosarcoma, a form of cancer that affects the bone cells. Although Jill's biological father is Kate's former husband, Sam loves Jill and regards her as his own child. A few months into Kate and Sam's relationship, Kate gives birth to a daughter they name Jill. Young pregnant divorcee Kate ( Cristina Raines) falls in love with struggling musician Sam Hayden ( Cliff DeYoung), and they become a couple, eventually getting married.
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