TV: Soap Operas
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- CreatorIrna PhillipsWilliam J. BellStarsVictoria WyndhamConstance FordHugh MarloweThe life in the Midwestern town of Bay City, and the love, loss, trials, and triumph of its residents, who come from different backgrounds and social circles.
- CreatorDan CurtisStarsJonathan FridGrayson HallAlexandra IslesThe rich Collins family of Collinsport, Maine is tormented by strange occurrences.
- CreatorJerry AdelmanDaniel Gregory BrowneNorman LearStarsLouise LasserGreg MullaveyMary Kay PlaceA small-town housewife struggles to cope with the increasingly bizarre and violent events unfolding around her.
- CreatorPaul MonashIrna PhillipsStarsEd NelsonBarbara ParkinsWarner AndersonPeople married and divorced, loved and lost. Murder, illicit passion, insanity, and secrets were the staples of Peyton Place.
- CreatorSusan HarrisStarsKatherine HelmondRod RoddyRichard MulliganThe soap-operish antics of two families: the Campbells and the Tates.
- CreatorDan CurtisStarsBen CrossBarbara BlackburnJim FyfeVictoria Winters comes to Collinwood, an isolated mansion in Maine, to work as a governess, but soon finds herself drawn into a strange world of vampires, ghosts and curses.
- CreatorEarl Hamner Jr.StarsJane WymanLorenzo LamasChao Li ChiSet in the vineyards of California, this prime-time soap opera presented the conflict in the powerful Gioberti family, owners of the vast Falcon Crest Winery.
- CreatorRita LakinStarsJohn BeckWoody BrownHoward DuffThe lives and trials of the residents of Truro, Florida.
- CreatorWilliam BastPaul HusonEileen PollockStarsCharlton HestonJohn JamesKatharine RossThis spin-off of Dynasty (1981) featured the adventures of Jeff and Fallon Colby and Jeff's other wealthy relatives in California.
- CreatorPaul RauchStarsCarla BorelliBeverlee McKinseyJerry LanningDaytime Drama, spun off from "Another World," which followed Iris Carrington from Bay City as she rediscovered Alex Wheeler, a former love, and moved to the Houston area. The stories centered around the daily lives of the wealthy Wheelers and Bellmans and the middle-class Marshalls and their ranching and oil interests. Beverlee McKinsey, as Iris, was the first daytime performer to be given starring credit.
- CreatorJerry AdelmanDaniel Gregory BrowneAnn MarcusStarsGreg MullaveyMary Kay PlaceGraham JarvisAfter Mary Hartman left town with her policeman boyfriend, the focus shifted to her heartbroken ex-husband Tom and the rest of the oddball residents of Fernwood, Ohio.
- CreatorNorman LearAnn MarcusStarsLois NettletonBarbara BaxleyAnita GilletteSatirical look at a world where women rule and men are objectified.
- StarsJulie ParrishWarren StevensLawrence P. CaseyThis daytime soap was a sequel of sorts to the primetime series Peyton Place, revolving around the lives of the citizens of that community. It did not carry over the stories, however, and only some of the original cast recreated their roles.
- CreatorRobert CenadellaStarsGeorgann JohnsonPaul SparerSusan MacDonaldSomerset debuted as a daytime drama, revolving around the powerful conglomerate Delaney Brands and its effect on the fictional community of Somerset, Illinois. Two years into its run, the serial was transformed into a crime-laden melodrama similar to CBS's "The Edge of Night". For the next four years, newspaper publisher Julian Cannell took center stage as Somerset was besieged by arson, blackmail, extortion, and murder.
- CreatorIrna PhillipsStarsEileen FultonJulienne MarieRobert DrivasLisa arrives in Chicago without her wedding band, moves in with a family, gets a job at a hospital & begins to associate with the wealthy Eldridge family.
- CreatorAgnes NixonStarsErika SlezakMichael StormMichael EastonOne Life to Live centres takes place in the fictional town of Llanview, PA.around the wealthy Lord family, and the middle-class Woleks and Rileys.
- CreatorIrna PhillipsTed CordayAllan ChaseStarsDeidre HallKristian AlfonsoDrake HogestynA chronicle of the lives, loves, trials and tribulations of the citizens of the fictional city of Salem.
- CreatorDavid JacobsStarsMichele LeeTed ShackelfordJoan Van ArkThe residents of Knots Landing, a coastal suburb of Los Angeles, deal with various issues such as infidelity, health scares, rape, murder, kidnapping, assassinations, drug smuggling, corporate intrigue and criminal investigations.
- CreatorDavid JacobsStarsLarry HagmanKen KerchevalPatrick DuffyJ.R. Ewing, a Texas oil baron, uses manipulation and blackmail to achieve his ambitions, both business and personal. He often comes into conflict with his brother Bobby, his arch-enemy Cliff Barnes and his long-suffering wife Sue Ellen.
- CreatorIrna PhillipsStarsElizabeth HubbardJon HensleyEllen DolanThe focus in on the upper class Hughes and Stewart families plus their tribulations in Midwest Oakdale. The Stewarts fade away eventually to be replaced by the rural Snyders and wealthy Lucinda Walsh with her many intrigues.
- CreatorIrna PhillipsStarsLeslie CharlesonDonna MillsRobert BurrMia Elliot, a Korean immigrant who fell in love with Paul Bradley and Dr. Jim Abbott. These interracial relationships stirred trouble for those involved.
- CreatorOrvin TovrovStarsJames PritchettDavid O'BrienLydia BruceDr. Matt Powers is chief of Hope Memorial Hospital in the city of Madison, and he cares about the lives of staff and patients.
- CreatorIrving VendigStarsAnn FloodForrest ComptonDonald MayAttorney Mike Karr and his colleagues are involved in solving crimes and intrigue which touch the lives of many citizens.
- CreatorRoy WinsorStarsJada RowlandPeter HobbsLori MarchTells the story of the long-suffering Ames family and their seemingly endless domestic tragedies.
- CreatorRoy WinsorStarsAudrey PetersRon TommePeggy McCayInitially set in fictional Barrowsville, New York, this serial tells the story of extremely disparate siblings: long-suffering Vanessa Dale and her bitchy sister Meg. After Meg was written out of the series in the late 1950s, the serial's setting moved to Rosehill, New York, where Van settled down with college professor Bruce Sterling and endured the usual soap-opera maladies (murder, amnesia, incurable illness). In 1974, writers resurrected the character of Meg as the serial once again focused on the internecine struggles between two sisters.