Daytime Firsts

[Dr Neil Curtis]

Days first knickknack would be the Cameo! 😂😂😂😂

[Paul Raven]

First cancer storyline Bert Bauer TGL 1962

First character to have a mastectomy Meg Baldwin GH 1970

First lesbian character Lynn Carson (Donna Pescow) AMC 1984

First child abuse story AMC 1974

[SoapDope]

In the 70's Y&R hinted at Katherine being interested in Joann Curtis and viewers had a fit.

ATWT had the first character (Liz Talbot) die while falling up the stairs.

Bill Bauer on GL had the first heart transplant on daytime in 1968.

[Paul Raven]

First soap to have no original characters in the cast - Another World 1986 -with the departure of Liz Matthews,none of the original 1964 cast of characters were onscreen.

[Days22]

lmao damn and thats even uglier

rofl truuuuu :/

[Franko]

Well done, Paul Raven! I'm now curious what was the second show to have that dubious honor.

[All My Shadows]

Dark Shadows was the first US soap to regularly air in off-net reruns and to be released on home video.

Wouldn't this be GL? I mean, even if we're only talking the TV series, Bert was the last original TV character when she passed away in 1985. Ed wasn't born onscreen until a few years after the TV premiere.

[Paul Raven]

Thanks All My Shadows.I went through all the shows and somehow missed GL. So AW moves to 2nd place in that list.

First show to have no original cast members left would be Love of Life when Vanessa's mother played by Jane Rose was dropped from the cast in 1960.All other cast had been replaced or written off.

[titan1978]

Was ATWT's Lisa the first true daytime vixen? Many came after but I've never heard of one before.

OLTL- Was Ellen Holly the first leading actress of color on a soap? And was her kiss when viewers thought she was not black the first interracial kiss on daytime?

[Paul Raven]

I guess in the 50's there were troublemakers - Meg on Love of Life for instance but Lisa really caught the public's attention as ATWT was the #1 soap.Also,Eileen Fulton enjoyed and exploited the attention and publicity.

Re Ellen Holly.The first show to have a black actress on contract was AW in 1965 with Micki Grant as Peggy but she was supporting,so Ellen/Carla was definitely the first lead character.

[Dion]

Yes, I don't know about the other soaps but General Hospital did several marital rape storylines before Roger and Holly, usually these resulted in pregnancy, with (correct me if I am wrong as I did not view these stories myself) the resulting pregnancy drama tending to overshadow the effects of the rape itself.

The significance of Roger and Holly's marital rape storyline was I think not the actual rape itself but that this was the first time a wife actually pressed charges against her husband for rape.

[Paul Raven]

Another marital rape was on ATWT when John raped Kim.

Yes,Roger and Holly was groundbreaking with Holly pressing charges.This was inspired by a landmark real life marital rape case in 1978 between John and Greta Rideout.

There was a TV movie on the case with Linda Hamilton and Mickey Rourke.

First LA soap Full Circle 1960

First soaps to expand from 15 to 30 mins Love of Life and Secret Storm 1958

[will81]

Was the cross over between Guiding Light and "The Cradle Will Fall" (1983) TV Movie the first and only one of its kind?

Is ATWT the first to show two men kissing?

Days The Two Romans - Was this ever done before?

[All My Shadows]

The Secret Storm didn't expand until 1962 (along with The Brighter Day, which was the first soap to have a religious theme).

[Pine Charles]

Corvina: "The lay-pore..."