In honor of AW's 45th anniversary,I thought I'd start this thread and perhaps all future posts concerning this show could be in one place.at present there are several threads.

Here's a description from Irna Phillips at the time of debut.

"What I want to say is that none of us can face reality 24 hours a day. We must have private 'worlds', made up of our down dreams and pleasures and emotions, into which to retreat. Otherwise, it would be simply too much!"

The story follows the lives of the families of two brothers, William and James Matthews, in a suburban university town. It opens with the death of William, then shows how the sad events affects the widow and their children and the other brother and his family. Grandma Matthews gets into the action, to. The writer promises to relate to contemporary problems; two of them she mentioned are school dropouts and illegitimacy.

Are Eddie D and Chaseforever the only 2 AW Channels?

4 hours ago, Marissa Gallant said:

Are Eddie D and Chaseforever the only 2 AW Channels?

basically, at least those are the more recent cases of episodes popping up

5 hours ago, Marissa Gallant said:

Are Eddie D and Chaseforever the only 2 AW Channels?

There's also SaveOLTL1741 and bmuz.

7 hours ago, victoria foxton said:

There's also SaveOLTL1741 and bmuz.

Thanks. I'll look for those also

 

  

 

 

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Edited March 4, 20223 yr by Faulkner

 

 

15 hours ago, victoria foxton said:

 

 

A decision that turned sour which was one of the initial “nails in the coffin “ that helped with the series downhill spiral

And today's the anniversary of John's death, which was supposed to be the big event that kicked off the 90 minute episode. I wonder if how the show did in the ratings for that first week. 

After 15 years at 3pm AW moves to 2.30. I imagine a lot of viewers were unwilling or unable to change their habits and the 90 min did drag.

 

13 minutes ago, Paul Raven said:

After 15 years at 3pm AW moves to 2.30. I imagine a lot of viewers were unwilling or unable to change their habits and the 90 min did drag.

 

Not to mention that ABC and CBS came ready to fight. This was the week of Karen on the stand on OLTL and Roger raping Holly on GL. Not sure what was going on on GH (Lassa Fever?).

A daily, 90-minute soap was never going to work.  You'd either have scenes with too much padding, or a cast with so many characters that audiences wouldn't be able to know who was who.

2 hours ago, Khan said:

A daily, 90-minute soap was never going to work.  You'd either have scenes with too much padding, or a cast with so many characters that audiences wouldn't be able to know who was who.

I think AW managed to do both!

The ONLY way I could see a 90-minute soap MAYBE working is if you were to split up those 90 minutes into three 30-minute blocks, with each block focusing on a particular set of characters, but all under the banner of ANOTHER WORLD.  Even then, however, you still have the risk of viewers watching only the blocks that interest them and tuning out the rest.