Random question but I was wondering when did soaps start doing next day previews.

All I remember is that GL started doing them in 2004. I remember it being the Friday that a pregnant Olivia fell down the stairs at the Beacon after Lizzie had torn the carpet. (that sounds so lame when I type it lol). I also remember B&B doing it like once in 2004/05. What about the others I have no memory of Days and other CBS soaps. And once I started looking at ABCD they had gotten rid of them.

ABC started it with AMC in the mid 90s. Their other soaps soon followed. I believe they were the first network with CBS and NBC coming after

Edited October 30, 201114 yr by Cheap21

In 1992 "Santa Barbara" had a next day preview although it wasn't clips of the next day's show rather an actor would be in character talking about what he/she will be doing or thinking about doing that next day, it was a brief 15-20 second dialogue of just the character talking to the audience, then it would go right into SB's closing credits. anyone else remember this????

Mary Hartman Mary Hartman had next-day previews in the 70s. Nothing fancy, just a quick voiceover and clips from the next episode.

AW actually did a same day preview in 1983 before the show began if that counts.

I think Y&R started them in 2001/2002 or so. ATWT and GL by 2003 for sure. I don't believe B&B has ever had next day previews.

I hate next day previews.

I hate next day previews.

Same here. The days of the credit crawl one could actually read is genuinely missed.

B&B has them. They are very rare though.

I miss the closing credits to soaps!

In 1992 "Santa Barbara" had a next day preview although it wasn't clips of the next day's show rather an actor would be in character talking about what he/she will be doing or thinking about doing that next day, it was a brief 15-20 second dialogue of just the character talking to the audience, then it would go right into SB's closing credits. anyone else remember this????

I remember that, but SB also had next day previews of what actually was going to happen the next day. It was a little bit of each.

AMC started late 90s--maybe '99? I believe all the ABC soaps did at that time. They also had a previously on segment. But Mary Hartman, Soap, etc, did this earlier. I believe some of the radio serials would have the announcer say "Tune in tomorrow to find out..." etc, but not all of them.

AMC started in the fall of '96, with OLTL and GH following in early '97.

I thought AMC started with that not long after O.J. They did do recaps during O.J. when the show would get preempted. I remember one in particular where they were in the park and Noah screamed to scare Kendall the hell away and she scurried off all big-eyed...

Edited October 31, 201114 yr by SFK

Hrmmaybe they did start earlier, but I wouldn't have thought till '97 at the earliest...

I hated the period where they had no "prologue" instead just having the previously on and flashing to the credits. I dunno, it just felt wrong

I also disliked that. I've noticed that Y&R does their credits almost immediately now. I remember watching the show back in the day and it felt like eight minutes had gone by before they started the credits, and in some cases, they had an almost complete rendition of Nadia's Theme under the longish teaser scene right before the opening rolled.

AW started doing this in either late 1998 or early 1999.

I'm not sure if this was just done for the reruns on USA, but I have seen an early-80's SFT episode with a "Tommorow on Search" preview coming on right before the closing credits.