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Paul Raven

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While the mentioning of beloved classic soaps was nice, they clearly did not do actual research. The first error they made was announcing that As the World Turns ran for 72 years. Um, nope, that was The Guiding Light.

Also, they were wrong about the creation of the soap genre. The first one was neither TGL nor ATWT. Clara, Lu and Em, and Irna Phillip's Painted Dreams predated them (debuting in 1930).

https://www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com/soap-opera/clara-lu-and-em

https://www.otrr.org/FILES/Synopsis_txt/P_Series/Painted_Dreams.htm

This is as careless as referring to Mary Stuart as Mary Stewart on screen, when the actress died.

Yikes!

 

 

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There are so many errors out there.

Schemering pg. 334 chronology of US TV serials: 

Faraway Hill DuMont 1946 (not daytime)

These Are My Children NBC 1949

A Woman to Remember DuMont 1949

The O'Neills DuMont 1949-50

One Man's Family NBC 1949-55

Hawkins Falls NBC 1950-55

The First Hundred Years CBS 1950-52

Miss Susan NBC 1951

etc.

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I have never seen Guiding Light, I just posted the video on this GL thread because it's interesting. 
He specifies in the video that this is a piece of the mantel -- related to their wedding, "they had carved their names always forever".  Hopefully what he said is enough to go on for those familiar with the storylines.

I just think it's interesting that P&G had that "artifact" as he called it, in some sort of archive or storage or something.

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Ha...and Wheeler tried to convince us this was to reflect on the "unfinished" aspect of Gus and Harley's relationship...(and they were trying to sell us on them being a supercouple.)  Someone upthread mentioned the junk in the backyard, that was Harley's house....I kept thinking DCFS was going to come and take those kids...I was watching the show one night and my partner asked what the hell I was watching, I told him, and he said, "Looks like a bunch of white trash hillbillies running around."  I could not argue. 

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