ALL: Proposed Soaps Over The Years

[Khan]

The last one has me thinking of this song...

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[kalbir]

I swear that was some show's supercouple's theme song but for the life of me I can't think of the show/couple.

[Spoon]

 

Kelly and Joe, Santa Barbara

Edited December 14, 2023 by Spoon

[soapfan770]

LOL!! Reading about it at first glance gave me Love Boat/Hotel on an airplane vibes immediately.

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I can’t imagine that being a daytime soap, just a prime time soap like Hotel.

I’m quite the song would’ve have made a good theme song, except Spelling probably would have had Dionne Warwick sing it instead

[kalbir]

Thank you for answering @Spoon

Hahaha, you are killing me @soapfan770.

[DRW50]

Not sure if this one was ever up before, but it's a pilot for The Heart of Juliet Jones. 

(not to be unkind, but I'm not sure if the best was to sell the pilot was to start out with so many excessive closeups of "Pop").

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Apologies for anyone I forgot.

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Edited May 26, 2024 by DRW50

[Vee]

Thanks. That reminds me, I don't know if I ever posted too much about Bill Gunn's arthouse public access soap Personal Problems in here vs. other threads.

[DRW50]

I'm sure it's something more people would love to hear about (I kept meaning to watch more of it but something always gets in the way).

[Liberty City]

Hmm quite interesting; thanks for the share.

[Contessa Donatella]

Thanks very much for the tag. I think I saw a red flag when he said, "economic theoreticians". I mean why not say economic theorists if you simply must say that phrase in your pilot episode. 

And here is a cell of the strip.

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Edited May 27, 2024 by Contessa Donatella

[jam6242]

Thanks @DRW50.  I had not seen that one before. 

[NothinButAttitude]

Thanks @DRW50. Do we know what network they were trying to sell the pilot to by chance? 

[Wendy]

Never even heard of this referenced! Great find. Makes me curious how many more pilots like this are floating around somewhere...

[Bright Eyes]

Looking it up, it was based on a very successful comic strip that lasted from 1953 all the way to the year 2000! 

The close up of Pop was strange, but the worst choice was to not end the episode with the reaction from the show's namesake for the series' first cliffhanger. That's just bad soap opera.

[vetsoapfan]

@DRW50, that was a fun curio which I had never seen before. Thanks for tagging me.