Proposed Soaps Over The Years

[SFK]

Wanda's World, funny title but I'd love to hear more about that one.

[DRW50]

So would I. I'd never heard of it. That title seems odd. For some reason it reminds me of that Jamie Foxx character on In Living Color.

1971 might have been a little too late, as that was when the country was starting to flee from wanting to talk about race.

[Soaplovers]

What year was 'The Women's Group' being talked about as a soap?

[psychofan]

I know I'm in the minority here, but I would have LOVED to see Megan McTavish's soap opera. Say what you will about her, but she had me hooked on AMC when she was writing...regardless of her dark plotlines.

[DRW50]

I was very up and down with her writing but when it was up, it was some of my favorite soap stuff. So I would have liked seeing it too, as long as it didn't turn into a vile rapefest or any of that.

[SFK]

Which post # mentions McTavish's proposed soap?

[Y&RWorldTurner]

Purgatory or something?

[John]

Wait McTavish Developed A Soap?

[Paul Raven]

In August 78, ABC officially announced it was developing a new soap 'The Best Years' from Annn Marcus.It involved the love triangles of parents,students and teachers of a Southern California beachtown high school community. Headwriters will be Joyce Perry and Ray Goldstone,all then working on Days.

This is the first I ever read about this.I wonder if ABC had it in development due to GH almost being cancelled in late 77.Of course,GH had a remarkable comeback but ABC might still have been interested.

[Khan]

"Purgatory"? That sounds about right. ;-P

[DRW50]

An early 70s Daytime TV mentions a proposed Sam Jaffe Productions soap called Justice for Three, or something like that. Have you heard of it?

[John]

Arleen Sorkin Wrote A Pilot For A Comic Soap Called Dirty Laundry

Days' Calopie and Eguene almost got a spinoff at one point as well

Sandra Dee Robinson Was Cast In A MTV Soap Called Hell House but It Went Nowhere

[John]

John Conboy Did Develop a Serial Called Casino

The Original Concept For TEXAS Was A Series Called Celebration, A Period Piece Soap Set During The Revolutionary War

[John]

Before Creating The Real world Its Creators and MTV wanted To Create The nets First Daytime Drama But When That Became Clear it Would cost MTV Too Much Cash They Retooled the concept & created The Real World

[All My Shadows]

RW really began as sort of a "scripted reality" show like The Hills. They got seven strangers and gave them character personas to take on as well as storylines to play. They decided that they didn't need to do all of that because the seven people on their own could create enough drama, so they scrapped the cast they had assembled and started all over again with the first season.