Because of SoapNet's ridiculous plans to start airing movies unrelated to soaps on Sunday nights, I started thinking about movies that actually relate to the industry. I came up with a few and hit a roadblock.

Soapdish

Tootsie

Passion Fish

Are there more?

Soapdish is the best. But i could just think that beacuse of my love for Elizabeth Shue.

there is some john candy movie where he is a soap opera writer and he falls into a coma and wakes up in his soap opera town.

'Soapdish' is absolutely the best. Naturally, it was produced by Aaron Spelling.

there is some john candy movie where he is a soap opera writer and he falls into a coma and wakes up in his soap opera town.

That's "Delirious" I think.

They could so totally pick up those soapy TVmovies and mini-series from the 80s and early 90s. I'm talking..."Hollywood Wives"..."Bare Essence"..."Scruples"...hell, even "The Thorn Birds."

'Hollywood Wives' ----> I remember that one! It was a trashterpiece! The funny thing was how talented the cast was (Anthony Hopkins, Candice Bergen, Steve Forrest, Stefanie Powers etc) and how out of place they all seemed in a mini series that was so camp.

Soap dish is definitely the best.

There's also Nurse Betty. Renee Zelwegger witnesses a traumatic event, and thinks her favorite soap opera is all real.

'Hollywood Wives' ----> I remember that one! It was a trashterpiece! The funny thing was how talented the cast was (Anthony Hopkins, Candice Bergen, Steve Forrest, Stefanie Powers etc) and how out of place they all seemed in a mini series that was so camp.

I effing LOVE it. Candice Bergen married to Steve Forrest, who's screwing Mary Crosby? And Stefanie Powers married to Anthony Hopkins, who's sleeping with Suzanne Somers? Not to mention Stefanie stole him from Joanna Cassidy. And you have Andrew Stevens married to Catherine Mary Stewart, and then Andrew finds out his birth mother is Angie Dickinson...and his father is Steve Forrest! And Candice is a kleptomaniac, stealing Gucci bags whenever she gets upset.

I [!@#$%^&*] LOVE IT! AND MISS IT, SO, SO, SO MUCH!!!

There's always the made-for-TV movie "The Cradle Will Fall," based on the Mary Higgins Clark novel. Several GL cast members--Charita Bauer, Jerry verDorn and others--were featured predominately in the movie and the setting was moved to Springfield's Cedars.

There's also Nurse Betty. Renee Zelwegger witnesses a traumatic event, and thinks her favorite soap opera is all real.

I totally forgot about that one.

There's always the made-for-TV movie "The Cradle Will Fall," based on the Mary Higgins Clark novel. Several GL cast members--Charita Bauer, Jerry verDorn and others--were featured predominately in the movie and the setting was moved to Springfield's Cedars.

There was also "Woman On The Ledge," With Colleen Zenk Pinter, Leslie Charleson and a few more soap vets.

Fantasies was an ABC TV movie from 1982

A crazed killer stalked the cast of a soap.

ABC daytime stars of the time appeared

Peter Bergman

Stuart Damon

Robin Mattson

John Gabriel

Robert S Woods

Susan Lucci also made a series of ABC TV movies

I think she got these as part of a renewal deal with AMC.They include

Seduced and Betrayed

French Silk

The Woman Who Sinned

The Bride in Black

Lady Mobster

Haunted By Her Past

Love Boat also did a soap episode.I think Kim Delaney and Sharon Gabet were some of the guests.Maybe others will have more info.