A decade later NBC would be appointment TV.
I looked up Fantasies. It did not have just soap stars from GH. I was pretty certain I remembered Peter Bergman in it, and looking it up confirmed that. But they also had Robert S. Woods and John Gabriel, along with Bergman, so it was ABC soap stars.
This just goes to show how strong a draw soaps were back then. There was a feature film around that time called Young Doctors in Love that was a spoof of soaps. I had the opportunity to see a raw print of the film that was shown to theater bookers because I knew someone who did that and he knew I liked soaps. It starred Michael McKean and Sean Young. It was packed with cameos by soap stars, most of them from GH, but from other shows, too, including Kin Shriner, Janine Turner, Demi Moore (yeah, they were really pushing her), Jackie Zeman, Stuart Damon, etc.
It was directed by Gary Marshall so it wasn't completely awful, but there was no, um, affection for the genre so a lot of jokes landed like lead.
BTW, the theater bookers thought it was effing hilarious. I was a representative of the audience they were making the film for and I kept looking around, thinking, "What's wrong with you people? It's not that funny." Possibly some were plants by the studios to encourange the bookers to book the film, I don't know. Definitely one of the most bizarre movie going experiences of my life.
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