Sidney Sheldon

I finished reading The Other Side of Midnight, the end being predictably depressing.

So that's a Sidney Sheldon book.

Have you ever read any Sidney Sheldons?

I believe I have, but I can't remember.

Bloodline.

It's interesting because Alice Hoffman was a huge influence on that book, but also I think, you know, I grew up reading Stephen King and Frank Herbert and Diana Wynne-Jones and...

For me, all, and actually I read a lot of like Judith Krantz and Sidney Sheldon and sort of like, you guys probably have not heard their names, but they were massive bestsellers.

Massive.

The Bonk Buster, they called it.

I mean, it's so interesting now that I've read both.

Cause when I was growing up, they were like, they were always like these authors of fiction who wrote like remember Sidney Sheldon.

They was all like these authors who wrote, who wrote like, you know, I guess it was considered mommy porn, you

know?

So

my mom also had a Sidney Sheldon collection.

And do you remember Sidney Sheldon? Yeah.

Not the intended audience, a 12-year-old boy.

But I used to take her Sidney Sheldon books as well, like If Tomorrow Comes and The Other Side of Midnight.

And at night, my dad would go in the bunk to go to sleep, and I would sleep on what he called – I don't know if this is the official name – the doghouse, which was the kind of engine cover between the two seats.

And I had a flashlight, and I would read Sidney Sheldon, and inevitably there'd be banging on the door – And I would look down and there'd be these scantily clad women in the truck stop parking lot who would say, you want some company up

there, big boy?

Got home, put the book, the box down.

Sidney Sheldon, Daniel Stewart.

So I was like, who is giving my son? I was like, where is he? He's like, the bus driver gave it to me.

So I waited for her the next morning.

So I read, you know, commercial fiction, whether it was British or American.

I love Sidney Sheldon.

I love the way he wrote.

He was very pacey.

So obviously there were all those books and then you were trying to slip in some other stuff.

And I do remember reading a bit of Sidney Sheldon and it falling out of my book, my bag when I was 16.

I'm an English teacher picking it up and going, good God.

And you know what? He was right.

The globe-trotting adventures of husband and wife amateur detectives Jonathan and Jennifer Hart.

It was created by the legendary Sidney Sheldon.

Produced by the equally legendary Aaron Spelling.

Heart to Heart premiered on August 25th, 1979.