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

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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.

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3 hours ago, 72Hearts said:

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.

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.

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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

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In honor of the 40th anniversary

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

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ee/a5/e2/eea5e25d5ee7e17cb320ec3c3163d00e.jpg

 

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On 12/5/2021 at 12:14 AM, j swift said:

In honor of the 40th anniversary

BTW Jayne Wyman is not doing a salute to Steve Burton (iykyk), that was the CBS eye gestures that all the network star did back in the day.  Also, I have no idea why Lorenzo Lamas is unrecognizable in the image and they made Vicky a brunette.

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"Lusty and bold". 😂😂😂😂😂

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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.

“The New TV Drama You Don’t Dare Miss…” - ANOTHER LIFE
Soap Opera Digest Print Ad (September 29, 1981)

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
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18 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

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.

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!

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https://64.media.tumblr.com/039a10ed0e521552232d5c87dee9ff32/e6915c60a42d60c8-11/s640x960/ef8ac7cf0d7f66695320b94cbc963e14eeec1916.jpg

Delilah, Phoebe, and Victoria all have such exaggerated chins

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