How to Survive a Marriage

How to Survive a Marriage was a soap opera which aired on the NBC television network from January 7, 1974 to April 18, 1975.

It starred veteran soap actress Rosemary Prinz in the role of Dr. Julie Franklin, a staunch feminist who counseled her friends on the joys of being an independent woman, only to decide that her life was truly complete by marrying a man. The show stirred controversy when the 90-minute opener had the first "nude" scene on American network television (the nudity was only implied, as both of the bodies were under bedsheets).

The show did not profit from the large lead-in that the high-rated Another World provided, mostly due to its many attempts to be socially relevant, which usually took the place of traditional storytelling to which American soap viewers at the time were acclimated. How to Survive a Marriage was a distant third in the 3:30PM timeslot, behind Match Game on CBS and One Life to Live on ABC, and was canceled after sixteen months on the air.