When The Young and the Restless debuted in 1973, it was the wealthy Brooks and blue-collar Foster families that drove the storylines. Newmans and Abbotts wouldn’t be heard from for many years to come.…
General Hospital Moments in History: Luke and Laura’s 40th Anniversary
On October 24, 2020, Luke and Laura celebrated their 40th Anniversary on General Hospital. What? you say. You thought their wedding anniversary was in November. And weren’t they wed in 1981? Well, yes…
Guiding Light Moments in History: The Fantasies of Nola Reardon
Nola Reardon (Lisa Brown) was a devious, conniving, nasty girl. However, she was played by a talented actress whom Guiding Light wasn’t about to let get away. Nola needed to change, and it took the ge…
A Buying Guide for Your Soap Opera Book Collection
There was a time when soap operas were not considered a topic worthy of serious discussion, let alone a book. There might be an article here or there, but the soaps were mostly a forgotten genre releg…
One Life To Live Moments In History: Karen Wolek On The Witness Stand
The best soap opera storylines contain moments that fans remember forever. When One Life to Live killed off villain Marco Dane (Gerald Anthony) in 1978, that storyline would produce, arguably, the gre…
Soap Opera Families We Miss: Days of our Lives’ Anderson Family
The Hortons have always been Days of our Lives’ first family. But long before the Bradys, the DiMeras, or the Kiriakis clans became regular Salemites, the Anderson family provided friendship, love, an…
General Hospital 40 Years Ago This Week: Luke and Laura at Wyndhams
What were you doing 40 years ago this week? If you were like millions of soap opera fans, you were glued to General Hospital. Read on to find out what exciting stories were playing out at the time. Ge…
Soap Opera Families We Miss: As The World Turns’ Hughes Family
From the very beginning, when Chris and Nancy Hughes wished each other “good morning,” soap opera viewers knew that the Hughes family was the heart and soul of As The World Turns. That would be true f…
Liederkranz Hall: The Studio Address of Many Legendary Soap Operas
Warner Brothers. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Paramount Pictures. 20th Century Fox. Liederkranz Hall. The first four are well-known studios that brought some of the most famous moving pictures to life. And th…
Harding Lemay: The Education of A Writer Into A Soap Opera Legend
Harding Lemay is regarded as one of soap opera’s greatest writers, and his work on Another World in the 1970s is arguably some of daytime’s finest. Prior to his death in 2018, Lemay reminisced about h…