Allister is in love with Elizabeth, the wife of Nathaniel, his mentor and best friend. Juli, Allister’s assistant, has an obsessive crush on Allister, and Art, Allister’s right-hand man, is love-stricken over Juli.

And, to think, the convoluted love quadrangle happened right on the TCU campus. Welcome to Studio 13, radio-TV-film’s student- written, -produced and -acted soap opera that debuted this spring, a behind-the-scenes story of an imaginary network soap opera called Carson’s River.

The story began last fall during RTVF Prof. Richard Allen’s Writing for Television course. The class created Studio 13 on paper. This spring, about 100 students — including those from editing, producing, acting and directing classes — brought it to life. Allen, a daytime-drama veteran and currently an associate writer for CBS’ As the World Turns, believes TCU is the only university with an academic — as opposed to extracurricular — program like this.

RTVF senior and executive producer Dalis Bondurant said the 10 episodes aired on the campus station as well as on local cable. The work was immense, but the response great.

“We had a packed house for every new episode, people were really excited about it,” she said. “And we all love doing it. It’s so amazing to create something from scratch, dream it up in your head and then see it on TV.”