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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.

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

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

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

Daytime Diary soap opera recaps from the December 1955 issue of Radio Television Mirror.

I've personally been working on curating various YouTube playlists with available episodes in chronological order, including one for EDGE.  My playlist covers the years from 1974-1984 (including clips & audio only recordings) and is *mostly* complete between June 1980 and the end (there's a gap that the EON Archive channel has been filling in between October 1982 & March 1983).  The entirety of the material between Fall 1980 and the end is from the EON Archive channel, so all credit for the uploads go to them.  The playlist currently has over 1200 individual eps, clips, & audio recordings all in chronological order.

Daytime Diary soap opera recaps from the November 1955 issue of Radio Television Mirror.

Daytime Diary soap opera recaps from the October 1955 issue of Radio Television Mirror.

3 minutes ago, robbwolff said:

Who is Scarlet? I have no recollection of a character by that name.

Deborah Saxon.  Scarlet was the nickname she was called quite a bit (I know Cliff used it a lot.)

Daytime Diary soap opera recaps from the September 1955 issue of Radio Television Mirror.

Daytime Diary soap opera recaps from the August 1955 issue of Radio Television Mirror.

Daytime Diary soap opera recaps from the July 1955 issue of Radio Television Mirror.

Oh, I absolutely love these episode synopses because they're the closest possible to streaming since the episodes themselves no longer exist.  I was reading the individual ep synopses for The Young Marrieds on IMDB and was highly engrossed.

Daytime Diary soap opera recaps from the June 1955 issue of Radio Television Mirror.

Daytime Diary soap opera recaps from the April 1955 issue of Radio Television Mirror.

Daytime Diary soap opera recaps from the March 1955 issue of Radio Television Mirror.

Daytime Diary soap opera recaps from the February 1955 issue of Radio Television Mirror.

Daytime Diary soap opera recaps from the January 1955 issue of Radio Television Mirror.

Daytime Diary soap opera recaps from the December 1954 issue of Radio Television Mirror.

Daytime Diary soap opera recaps from the November 1954 issue of Radio Television Mirror.