Illustrated Soap Ads - the good, the bad, and the oddities

[72Hearts]

Wow! What a collection.  My favorite is Ryan's Hope Tempting Fate - good golly, who is the husband and who is the brother, and is either one the guy in the background?  lol.

[j swift]

Jill's husband Frank (Daniel Hugh Kelly) is in the background and the character who was as poorly conceived as he was named, Dakota Smith (Christopher Durham), is in the foreground.  I am amused by artist's choice to have Frank and Jill be barefoot, while Dakota is wearing shoes but is depicted as bare chested.  I don't think most accomplished sailors like Dakota would be wearing Reebok's on deck.

Edited April 25, 2021 by j swift

[Titus Andronicus]

I liked this one enough to save it. Early 1987.

 

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[j swift]

I found one for the premiere of Texas

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I think the drawing is more flattering than the photos, but I find the copy to be amusingly hyperbolic

[amybrickwallace]

I personally like this print promo from early 1985. This really was a suspenseful story and it was performed well.

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[j swift]

In honor of the 40th anniversary

I have no idea why Lorenzo Lamas is unrecognizable in the image and they made Vicky a brunette.

 

Edited December 19, 2021 by j swift

[amybrickwallace]

"Lusty and bold".

[Paul Raven]

Another Life went with illustrations for its debut. I don't know the show well enough to know how close the drawings were to the characters.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Paul Raven]

[j swift]

This one's funny because the text says that it's "like no other series done before", and then the ad looks exactly like the ad for Texas, with the dominate woman at the center top.

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Also, I know neither of us were fans of this soap, but what are the chances that one of the plots was about an interracial gay love affair with the Gorton's fisherman? Now, that would be like nothing I've ever seen before!

Edited January 8, 2022 by j swift

[Marco Dane]

Anymore?

[victoria foxton]

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[Paul Raven]

Hope in that drawing looks nothing like Kristian Alfonso.

[j swift]

Delilah, Phoebe, and Victoria all have such exaggerated chins

Edited July 28, 2022 by j swift

[Spoon]

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