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I have to wonder if DIC switching over to a full serial format was in part inspired by The Doctors, which had also originally began as an episodic series with continuing characters, switching to fully serialized (rather successfully) earlier in 1964.

I also have this curated/chronological playlist I put together last year covering the whole run of Loving/The City with full episodes, dated clips, edits, & dated promos (to fill in blanks)

Don really had a thing for older women, didn't he?

Having watched all of this wonderful clips, what I'm most taken with is exactly how much I'm enjoying Ariana as Marianne. IMO, she's quite strong and has a fantastic screen presence. The brief appearance by Alice & the dialog tells me that this is near the end of Jacquie's run considering the mention of Steve already being in Australia and his plan to fly back so that Alice can discuss adopting Sally, at which point she'll go to Australia with him. I'm betting this flight back is the one that crashes, killing Steve (which happens in May 1975 after George Reinholdt left in March. Jacquie is gone in July).

Doug & Julie's wedding brought DAYS up to #3.

I typed a bunch of them up on a Tumblr years ago. https://www.tumblr.com/blog/vintage70ssoaprecaps

Draper/April's house was in Oakdale (later sold to "Kirk" & Emily during the amnesia story). And when Jody came to town, it was said that she was raised in Springfield.

For years & years, WLEX aired Y&R at 9am a day behind because of hourlong news. Then, for years and years, they'd bump Y&R to 1pm and aired B&B at 10:30.

Daytime Diary soap opera recaps from the August 1956 issue of Radio Television Mirror.

Dinah Shore was big in the 70s

Daytime Diary soap opera recaps from the July 1956 issue of Radio Television Mirror.

Text based serials have been called "websoaps" for well over 25 years. Yes, there were a very small handful of websoaps with video, but these were definitely outliers. The newer crop of fully produced, video based non-broadcast/cable soaps are more accurately streaming series or, specifically, streaming soaps & would be an entirely separate classification. You don't get to just jump into a place that already exists, claim it as your own, and then act like the originating group doesn't belong. I think there's actually a term for that, but I can't think of it off the top of my head.

Daytime Diary soap opera recaps from the June 1956 issue of Radio Television Mirror.

Daytime Diary soap opera recaps from the April 1956 issue of Radio Television Mirror.