Members Bright Eyes Posted August 12, 2018 Members Share Posted August 12, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Scrapple Posted August 13, 2018 Members Share Posted August 13, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dr Neil Curtis Posted August 13, 2018 Members Share Posted August 13, 2018 Simone Russell was the first African American female Lesbian on Passions Vincent was the first hermaphrodite... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soapfan770 Posted August 13, 2018 Members Share Posted August 13, 2018 Any idea of who Daytime's first "Who's the Daddy?" story was about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted August 13, 2018 Members Share Posted August 13, 2018 Would that have been the Bill/Laura/Mickey story on Days? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SoapDope Posted August 13, 2018 Members Share Posted August 13, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted August 13, 2018 Members Share Posted August 13, 2018 One of daytime's best storylines ever, IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members watson71 Posted August 13, 2018 Members Share Posted August 13, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gray Bunny Posted August 13, 2018 Members Share Posted August 13, 2018 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members victorlord75 Posted August 14, 2018 Members Share Posted August 14, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gray Bunny Posted August 14, 2018 Members Share Posted August 14, 2018 Other than special stunts and "lost tapes" (Search for Tomorrow), I think the last soap to air live was The Edge of Night. Yes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members victorlord75 Posted August 14, 2018 Members Share Posted August 14, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted August 15, 2018 Members Share Posted August 15, 2018 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted August 15, 2018 Members Share Posted August 15, 2018 First Soap to Piss Me the Hell Off: AMC, 1992 (-ish). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gray Bunny Posted August 15, 2018 Members Share Posted August 15, 2018 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. Please register in order to view this content Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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