Daytime Firsts

[Bright Eyes]

Was there another true soap psycho before Marcy Wade (OLTL) or Kit Vested (GL)? The latter character being one of the top ones I wish I could see footage of.

[Scrapple]

Hank Elliott on ATWT was daytime's first gay male character.

 

It's probably a safe bet to say that Barnabas Collins was soap's first vampire.

[Dr Neil Curtis]

Simone Russell was the first African American female Lesbian on Passions

 

Vincent was the first hermaphrodite...

[soapfan770]

Any idea of who Daytime's first "Who's the Daddy?" story was about? 

[Paul Raven]

Would that have been the Bill/Laura/Mickey story on Days?

[SoapDope]

 

I got to thinking, on Y&R in 1978/79 Casey Reed started having nightmares about her father and had a fear of being intimate with a man. She then confessed to Brock that her Dad came into her room at night. Nick Reed arrived in town and had an unhealthy attachment to Nikki. He became jealous of Nikki's relationship with Greg Foster. He tried to rape her and Nikki killed him by hitting him in the head with a lamp. 

 

I read that Katherine flirted with Jill in 1974 while drunk, although it has never been confirmed by a viewer. Kay later started being attached to Joanne Curtis and gave off lesbian vibes. Viewers balked and the storyline dropped. 

 

In the late 60's on Days, Marie Horton fell in love with a guy that turned out to be her long lost brother Tommy. Bill Bell wrote that story and later on he did it again on Y&R. Lorie Brooks fell in love with Mark Henderson who turned out to be her half brother. 

 

In 1979 on GL Holly Thorpe charged her husband Roger with raping her. 

 

 

[Khan]

 

One of daytime's best storylines ever, IMO.

[watson71]

 

Not sure if it was the first, but Rachel fighting Janice Frame in the swimming pool in St. Croix in 1980 had to be one of the first.  

[Gray Bunny]

 

Was Valerie/Vincent also the first to get impregnanted by her own father and give birth to their lovechild? I just hope it came through her vagina and not his urethra. 

 

Passions was f#cked up... 

[victorlord75]

How about a daytime last, just to mix things up.  I am pretty sure General Hospital was the last American daytime soap to drop using organ music.

[Gray Bunny]

Other than special stunts and "lost tapes" (Search for Tomorrow), I think the last soap to air live was The Edge of Night. Yes? 

[victorlord75]

That sounds right, though I could not find confirmation online for that fact.  However, another "last" I saw mentioned online was that Edge of Night was the last ABC show regularly scheduled in the 4 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. time slot.  After EON's cancellation, the time slot was handed over to the local ABC affiliates to fill.  It might be safe to say that in alot of markets, that contributed to the further rise of the Oprah Winfrey talk show.

[Paul Raven]

First show to swap networks

Edge of Night from CBS to ABC 1975

 

First half hour soaps

As The World Turns/Edge of Night April 1956

 

First show to expand to an hour

Another world 1975

 

First show to expand to 90 mins

Another world 1979

[Khan]

First Soap to Piss Me the Hell Off: AMC, 1992 (-ish).

[Gray Bunny]

 

There would've been a gap in between. EON ended in December '84. Oprah went national (i.e. not just airing in Chicago) in September '86. 

 

As a Chicagoan, I always equate the 9am timeslot as Oprah's time. She stayed there from start to finish.

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