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
UK Soaps
Australian Soaps
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