SOAPWORLD

This section charts the up's and downs of fifty years of soap suds. As everyone now surely knows the soaps were given their name thanks to being sponsored by the likes of Proctor ands Gamble (at that stage sponsoring serials on the radio). The first soaps to hit the screen appeared all the way back in 1951 with CBS airing Love of Life, Search For Tomorrow and Guiding Light.
It was the late sixties and early seventies that became the golden age of soap with shows like All My Children, Dark Shadows and Days of Our Lives appearing. In fact in 1970 there were 19 US daytime soaps on the air.
Now well into the new millennium the soaps are still going strong with one or two clocking up more than forty years on the air in the process.
Work your way through the section by clicking on the links below.

There's a great weekly round up of soap news and interviews over at The Soap Show

US Soaps 

  • Action in the Afternoon 

  • All My Children 

  • All That Glitters 

  • Another World 

  • As The World Turns

  • Ben Jerrod 

  • The Bennetts 

  • Best of Everything 

  • The Brighter Day

  • Bright Promise 

  • Capitol 

  • The Clear Horizon

  • Concerning Miss Marlowe 

  • Dallas

  • Dark Shadows

  • Dr Kildare 

  • The Doctors

  • The Edge of Night

  • The Egg and I 

  • Fairmeadows USA 

  • Falcon Crest 

  • Family 

  • First Love 

  • The First One Hundred Years

  • Flamingo Road 

  • Follow Your Heart

  • For Richer For Poorer 

  • From These Roots

  • Full Circle 

  • General Hospital

  • Golden Windows

  • The Greatest Gift 

  • Guiding Light

  • Hawkins Falls

  • Hidden Faces 

  • How to Survive a Marriage 

  • Kitty Foyle 

  • Knots Landing

  • Love is a Many Splendored Thing 

  • Love of Life 

  • Loving 

  • Miss Susan 

  • Moment of Truth 

  • Morning Star 

  • Never Too Young 

  • The Nurses 

  • Peyton Place 

  • Port Charles 

  • Providence 

  • The Simple Life 

  • Somerset

  • Valiant Lady 

  • Where the Heart Is

  • Woman With a Past 

  • A Woman to Remember 

  • Young Dr Malone 

  • The Young Marrieds 

  • UK Soaps 

  • Albion Market 

  • The Bill

  • Brookside

  • Crossroads 

  • Eastenders

  • Eldorado

  • Emmerdale Farm

  • General Hospital

  • The Newcomers 

  • Rooms 

  • Australian Soaps

  • All the Way  

  • Bellbird

  • Blue Heelers 

  • The Box 

  • Copshop 

  • A Country Practice

  • Home and Away

  • Neighbours

  • Number 96

  • Prisoner (Cell Block H)

  • Skyways

  • The Sullivans

  • The Young Doctors 



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