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Post by topbilled on Oct 25, 2022 16:59:07 GMT
Recently, I've been reading old newspaper synopses of daytime soaps. I think the writing was at its peak for most of these shows in the 1970s and 1980s.
It's been fun to go back and revisit certain characters and storylines.
Though I watched Guiding Light longest and most frequently (from 1979 to 2009)...wow that was 30 years of my life! LOL...my favorite daytime soap is Search for Tomorrow which I did not start watching till it moved over to NBC in 1982. I stayed with it till it went off the air in December 1986. And I still miss that show!
What's your favorite daytime soap and why?
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Post by nipkowdisc on Nov 6, 2022 3:25:51 GMT
I starting watching Dark Shadows in the spring of 1967 and watched it until it went off the air in april 1971. after which I really got into All My Children. I hated how everyone in pine valley was against poor Philip Brent (Richard Hatch) except for his mother Ruth played so excellently by Mary Fickett. everyone was against his relationship with Tara Martin (Karen Lynn Gorney) especially her cruddy father Dr. Joe Martin. everyone pegged Philip as emotionally unstable. so he goes off to vietnam is thought to be killed and comes back played by another actor and that crud Dr. Joe Martin is STILL against Phil and Tara. matriarchal harridan the fearsome Phoebe Tyler had a reclusive introverted daughter who got sweet on Joe Martin's brother Paul. Erica Kane was a monster! she's married to Dr. Jeff Martin joe's son and has a secret abortion and feigns a miscarriage. then later Jeff marries the angelic Mary who becomes pregnant and is killed in an automobile crash then poor Jeff starts seeing her ghost and her final appearance she tells him that she will not be appearing to him anymore and that she loves him and wishes for him to go on with his life and find happiness. Dark Shadows could not have handled that any better. I also remember Mona Kane being an absolute a-1 sucker making all sorts of pathetic excuses for her horrible evil daughter.
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Post by ando on Nov 6, 2022 7:47:26 GMT
My favorite Soap to revisit from that era is The Young & The Restless, mostly to relive the drama between a few toublemaking charcaters (Jill (Brenda Dickson), Mrs. Chancellor (Jeanne Cooper), Victor (Eric Braeden)). My step-mother was hooked on this show growing up. I'd come home from lunch and see it blaring on our living room set so while I chowed down I got into the storylines. Cooper really made it go for me -
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Post by topbilled on Nov 6, 2022 16:22:10 GMT
I starting watching Dark Shadows in the spring of 1967 and watched it until it went off the air in april 1971. after which I really got into All My Children. I hated how everyone in pine valley was against poor Philip Brent (Richard Hatch) except for his mother Ruth played so excellently by Mary Fickett. everyone was against his relationship with Tara Martin (Karen Lynn Gorney) especially her cruddy father Dr. Joe Martin. everyone pegged Philip as emotionally unstable. so he goes off to vietnam is thought to be killed and comes back played by another actor and that crud Dr. Joe Martin is STILL against Phil and Tara. matriarchal harridan the fearsome Phoebe Tyler had a reclusive introverted daughter who got sweet on Joe Martin's brother Paul. Erica Kane was a monster! she's married to Dr. Jeff Martin joe's son and has a secret abortion and feigns a miscarriage. then later Jeff marries the angelic Mary who becomes pregnant and is killed in an automobile crash then poor Jeff starts seeing her ghost and her final appearance she tells him that she will not be appearing to him anymore and that she loves him and wishes for him to go on with his life and find happiness. Dark Shadows could not have handled that any better. I also remember Mona Kane being an absolute a-1 sucker making all sorts of pathetic excuses for her horrible evil daughter.
The first time I watched All My Children was in late 1987. I remember I had gone with a friend of my mother's to a town two hours away. I went with to keep her company, because she was buying something for her husband and needed help loading it into the back of the van. So during that four hour round trip we were driving over a mountain pass in Colorado where reception was bad and we couldn't get a radio station. So we ended up talking about soaps. She told me she had watched AMC since the beginning, and because like you, she was so enthusiastic about the characters, I figured I should sample it.
The first storylines I remember were Erica getting involved with billionaire Travis Montgomery (played by Larkin Malloy), and Travis' brother Jackson had just come to Pine Valley. Palmer (the wonderful James Mitchell) was married to Natalie, who was raped by Palmer's son Ross. There was also a teen story that I was hooked on, involving young Lauren Holly who played a girl named Julie.
And I also remember Adam's twin brother Stuart had married a fragile young woman named Cindy (Ellen Wheeler) who was diagnosed with AIDS, and that was a very poignant storyline. I watched the show regularly from 1987 to 1990, then when I went off to college I didn't have the extra time to keep up with it. |
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Post by topbilled on Nov 6, 2022 16:36:20 GMT
My favorite Soap to revisit from that era is The Young & The Restless, mostly to relive the drama between a few toublemaking charcaters (Jill (Brenda Dickson), Mrs. Chancellor (Jeanne Cooper), Victor (Eric Braeden)). My step-mother was hooked on this show growing up. I'd come home from lunch and see it blaring on our living room set so while I chowed down I got into the storylines. Cooper really made it go for me -
I think the reason we never watched Y&R in the early 1980s (even though it was on CBS) is because it aired quite early, before lunch, and my mother kept us busy with various tasks. When we sat down for lunch we were allowed to put the TV back on. And it stayed on all afternoon. Of course, I am talking about summers when we weren't in school, or days when there was no school like holidays, or we were home sick.
Anyway, in the summer of 1987, my aunt was about to be married and it was a huge deal for our family...like the wedding to end all weddings. LOL So I went from Colorado, where my parents lived, to my grandmother's farm in Wisconsin...I was there to help her, while others were getting ready for the wedding...and of course, I would be in the wedding too.
My grandmother had a different schedule than my mother, and she always stopped what she was doing at 11 a.m. to make some toast, sit down and watch 'Old Lady Chancellor.' Her words! That's how she referred to Jeanne Cooper's character. During those two months that summer, I got hooked on Y&R with my grandmother. I would watch it faithfully until 2013...ironically, I stopped watching when Jeanne Cooper died and her death was written into the show. I find Y&R unwatchable now (it has taken a huge nosedive in quality), which is sad, because during those years, the late 80s, 90s and early 2000s it was always must-see. |
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Post by dianedebuda on Nov 6, 2022 16:38:30 GMT
Only soap that I ever watched was General Hospital for a couple of months in 1980 during the Luke & Laura frenzy. But really love the theme music from The Young & the Restless.
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Post by ando on Nov 6, 2022 19:20:14 GMT
My grandmother had a different schedule than my mother, and she always stopped what she was doing at 11 a.m. to make some toast, sit down and watch 'Old Lady Chancellor.' Her words! That's how she referred to Jeanne Cooper's character. During those two months that summer, I got hooked on Y&R with my grandmother. I would watch it faithfully until 2013...ironically, I stopped watching when Jeanne Cooper died and her death was written into the show. I find Y&R unwatchable now (it has taken a huge nosedive in quality), which is sad, because during those years, the late 80s, 90s and early 2000s it was always must-see.
Great bonding story. Thanks. Yeah, Mrs. Chancellor's life sometimes mirrored Cooper's. No question that she was the matriarch of Y&R for decades. I do like catching her in earlier gigs like the full feature and tv Westerns from the 50s & 60s. |
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Post by topbilled on Nov 12, 2022 3:51:33 GMT
I read today that Kevin Conroy died. I never watched any of the animated Batman series he did, for which he is most known...but I remember him as the first Chase Kendall on Search for Tomorrow from 1984 to 1985. He was wonderful in the role, and I was disappointed when he left the serial. His replacement didn't fare well and the character was written out a short time later. Probably because Conroy was a tough act to follow.
A year later Conroy turned up on Dynasty and went on to do a fair amount of primetime guest work, before finding his niche as a voice actor in the 1990s.
Rest in peace. |
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Post by nipkowdisc on Nov 15, 2022 2:51:55 GMT
I used to watch General Hospital when I was very young and remember John Beradino as Dr. Hardy and there was this sweet dark-haired nurse I think her name was Ginny.
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Post by topbilled on Nov 15, 2022 23:50:50 GMT
I used to watch General Hospital when I was very young and remember John Beradino as Dr. Hardy and there was this sweet dark-haired nurse I think her name was Ginny. |
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Post by Andrea Doria on Nov 16, 2022 14:00:15 GMT
I used to watch "Another World," with my mother in the summers.
There were some really fine actors on the soaps. I remember Audra Lindley getting angry enough to give me chills. She became famous later as Mrs. Roper on "Three's Company," but it didn't use her talents the way her part on "Another World," did.
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Post by sepiatone on Dec 11, 2022 18:02:26 GMT
It wasn't until a year into my first marriage that I came home from work and found my ex to be watching GENERAL HOSPITAL. That was back when Richard Dean Anderson was srtill playing Jeff Webber. He'd find bigger fame as we know, later starring as MacGyver. And his wife Monica was a hottie with a trim, cute little hard body. I remember when the show started(in '63) and Roy Thinnes was still in the cast. She was also watching One Life To Live at about the time the Buchanans came on, headed by patriarch Asa, played by LAREDO cast member Philip Carey. We also saw early career tenure of Tommy Lee Jones and Tom Berenger, who played brothers in law. And the cast was rounded out with Al Freeman Jr. My second wife got me into All My Children. Both of us working day shifts, we wore out a few VCRs and VHS cassettes with endless recording. And of course I always hink of that soap whenever seeing Ruth Warrick in Citizen Kane.  Sepiatone |
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