Welcome!
Welcome to a brand new message board dedicated to all of those classic soap operas that we all know and love. Feel free to pick your forum and let everyone know how you feel about you favorite shows of the past and your favorite moments in the histories of current shows on the air.
Now, a little about myself. My name is Matt and I've been a lifelong soap fan. I got started with my mother and grandmother watching Days of Our Lives and Another World (my all time favorite) and I later watched Santa Barbara (from beginning to end), Y&R (late 80s, early 90s), Generations (off and on from beginning to end), Ryan's Hope (last couple of years on the air), Loving/The City (off and one since the mid80s and regularly for the last couple of years on the air), Search for Tomorrow (last few months on the air), and more recently As the World Turns and Guiding Light (after AW's cancellation).
I've made it a hobby to look into the history of the soap opera genre and I know at least a little bit about nearly every soap opera ever aired. I love talking about soaps and I hope this board will be an educational experience for me as well as to others who are interesting in classic soaps.
To posters: please refrain from flaming each other as I've seen happen waaaaay too often on other boards. Let's have a nice, warm, friendly discussion about the soaps we love. You break the rules, I won't hesitate to remove you from this board. I really don't want to have to do that, but I want to keep an open and friendly environment. Also, I'm looking for a few people with at least a decent soap knowledge to help me moderate. If anyone is interested, please feel free to respond in this thread.
Also, about myself, I write and produce my own websoap (For Now and Forever, hence my ID). If you're interested, the link is in my signature and feel free to check it out.
Hello Matt. My name is Rick. I really appreciate you starting this board and your comments about the flaming. I hope that it does not become a problem here. As you know at the last board I was at flaming was way out of control.
I am married. My wife and have been married for 17 years. We have 2 girls ages 15 and 13 and 1 boy age 10. I am currently disabled as of January 2001 due to Meniere's Disease and Rheumatoid Arthritis. The only good thing about this is that it gives me time to watch my soaps.
I started out watching soaps with my grandfather who was a big fan of The Edge of Night. I also watched with mom who's favorite soaps were The Doctors, The Edge of Night, Another World and General Hospital. She was also a big fan of As The World Turns in the 60's.
I have watched all the above soaps listed but my all time favorite is Another World. My favorite male character on that soap was Steve Frame (thus my screen name). I have recently had the privilege of sharing a couple of e-mails with Mr. Reinholt. He is a very kind man.
I have also over the years watched all the current soaps on the air except Passions (just can't seem to get into it). I have also watched Loving, Ryans Hope, All My Children, One Life To Live, Texas, and Somerset (the first soap I truly got hooked on), and Search For Tomorrow.
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Welcome, Rick! It's so good to see another classic soap addict. Since you mentioned Somerset (a show, alas, I never had a chance to see since I was born in 1971 and it went of the air in 1976), it brings up a thought. Have you paid a visit to The World of Soap Opera Themes? They've got tons of opening and closing themes (in Real Player format) along with opening and closing videos to classic soaps. They even have the opening video for Somerset featuring the painting of the town. I had never seen it until it was posted on the site and I was taken with how imaginative that opening is. I'd love to hear your comments and thoughts on Somerset. Please continue in the "others" forum of the NBC soaps section.
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My name is Bree and I'm 25 years old (will be 26 this January 29th). I'm a nursing home receptionist in Maryland, single, one cat named Sam. Currently, I watch no soaps now because I'm disappointed with the turn they've taken, but I used to be a huge soap addict. Here's my viewer history:
Edge of Night 1981-1984
DAYS 1981-2001
AW 1981-1991
Guiding Light 1989-1994
ATWT 1989-1993
Search For Tomorrow 1981-1986
General Hospital 1981-1992
Santa Barbara 1984-1990
Texas 1981
I've also watched Loving, AMC, Y&R, and OLTL off and on through the years. Ryan's Hope I never got into, but I did watch Generations until it went off. I tried Passions for a few months, but quickly lost interest. I also watched Another Life and Rituals (does anyone remember these two)? Another soap I missed entirely was Capitol, and I would have loved to seen it.
The last soap I watched was MTV's Spyder Games and I enjoyed it. It was fast-paced, and had a lot of twists and turns. If MTV ever reairs it, I encourage you to tune in.
I also write my own soaps. I have two up on the web right now. Come Nightfall is a 21st century version of Edge of Night, and its spin-off, Where the Day Takes You, which I like to think of as an updated version of Search for Tomorrow. It's a little more traditional than CN.
Matt, thanks for making this forum. Long live the golden days of soaps!
Seems as though a memory is hard to find, always on mind...And frustrated days pass without sight...The edge of night.
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Bree, it's good to see you here! I hope this board will be a good way for everyone to relive the golden days of soap opera and to also learn a little bit about the way soap opera should be!
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Hi!
First of all, I want to say thanks for this fantastic board! Matt, it´s really great!
My name is Hanna and I´m 25 years old. I live in Germany. Though daytime soaps have never been really popular here, I´m a fan of U.S. soaps. I´m especially interested in the rich history of these shows, like Love of Life, Search for Tomorrow or Secret Storm. I think, the point, when I started to be curious, was when I found out that many famous acters/actresses started their career in soap operas. (Sigourney Weaver in Somerset, Christopher Reeves in LoL, Ray Liotta in AW, Jukianne Moore in ATWT and so on....)
I´ve just started with studying a subject called "Mediamanagement".
Hope, everyone can forgive me as my English is quite poor. But unfortunately, it´s not my native language.
Hanna123
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Welcome, Hannah! I hope you find this board to be as entertaining and informative as I hope it to be. I hope to learn a lot about some of the classic moments of soap opera myself (so, the purpose of this board is actually a little selfish ). Continue to jump right into the discussion (as I have no doubt that you will) and, most of all, have fun!
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Okay, here's my intro...
I'm 29, and I've been watching soaps since I was five when my grandmother watched them, mostly the P&G soaps of yesteryear. Her favorites were GL and ATWT-two soaps I still watch today.
I've also watched the following shows:
All My Children-1991-1993(stopped after Natalie died, but I catch a episode from time to time)
ATWT-still watching
AW-off and on from 1985-1999
Days of our lives-1984-1994(I got tired of it being the Bo and Hope show)
One Life to Live-Summer 1986, Summer 1993.
Passions-watched this one for two weeks. Two weird
Y&R-I catch this one when I'm home.
I'm working on a novel, also I'm thinking of doing a webseries... not sure yet.
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Hi, Jenniferkate, and welcome! I hope you enjoy this board as much as I'm enjoying doing it. Feel free to jump into any forum and discuss!
I'm James and I live in the UK. I first inherited my habit for soap watching from my mother although she'd probably deny it vehemently.
I have watched:
Y&R (briefly in 1998 )
DOOL (on and off since 1993)
B&B (since 1994 although it has certainly gone downhill)
OLTL (1992-1993)
GH (1991)
ATWT (1993)
GL (1993)
SuBe (on and off throughout its run)
AW (throughout the 90s)
LOV (whenever it was aired over here)
SB (same as Loving)
My favorite character is undoubtedly Sheila Carter from Y&R/B&B because she was just so damn nutty and exciting to watch.
Even though the only soap still on air over here is B&B, I am fascinated by soap history so I'm looking forward to posting here.
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James, welcome! It's so good to see so many familiar faces on this board. Feel free to jump in at any time in any forum, include the ones for soaps you know nothing about. Ask questions, it's the best way to learn and I'm a firm believer that soaps have to acknowledge and learn from their pasts to move effectively into the future.
For those who don't know me,my name is Dave and I'm fourty years old. I've been a soapfan for almost 25 years.When I was younger I tried catching everything.I fell in love with Kim Zimmer's Nola Dancy on The Doctors,The Suzy Wyatt character on Search For Tomorrow in mid 70's.I just couldn't take any of Sherry Mathis's Liza Sentell.I'm basically just a CBS fan but I've been known to dabble here and there on the other networks.I owe my soap watching to my late mother who got me started at 16 on YR.. At the time,Katherine Chancellor was watching her own funeral. It's good to make my ezboard rounds with a stop at my buddy,Matt's place.
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Dave, it's good to see you here! I hope you don't mind that I borrowed the design I did for your logo for your Yahoo!Group for this board. Considering the area of discussing, I thought it would be fitting (that, and I loved the design so well! ). Feel free to jump into any topic! I'd personally love to see some insightful ATWT and GL comments. Speaking of which, send Leslie this way!
I started watching soaps before I was born, peeked through my mom's belly button! I'm 30 & have been watching soaps as a part of my family life. My grandmother was the biggest soap addict I ever met. There's nothing she would want to miss a soap for! She listened on the radio for years & when she got a TV watched a little of every soap but was mainly a CBS fan (when they didn't oppose she'd watch the other networks, in the early 70's game shows broke up the soap blocks so you could watch multiple networks.) All my mom & grandmother would talk about was soaps. What happened, what would happen, etc.
My soap history:
ATWT 1971-present
Love of Life 1971-demise of show
Search for Tomorrow 1971-it moved to NBC
Capitol first episode-near the end (watched on & off then)
GL 1971-1985
YR 1971-around 1990 (watched on & off at the end)
Ryans Hope c. 1984-1986
DOOL 1986-present
GH 1996-present
PC 1997?(first episode)-present
Sunset Beach 1998-1999
Passions first episode-present
Gosh remembering the years is hard! Those are all the soaps I can think of. I've watched at least an episode or more of most of the soaps that have been on (CBS used to have off on holidays so we always watched GH X-Mas & a lot of other soaps on the other networks. I also like to sample the other shows myself.)
What a cool board Matt! I wish you much success! I think you'll see a bit of me here!
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I hope so, Leslie! One thing that I've noticed about true soap addicts is that one is never enough. Most people I know watch 2 and 3 soaps if they watch one. You're soap experience sounds like mine, but with the wrong network. I was raised an NBC child. I've been doing research on soap opera broadcast schedules and time slots for a page I'm working on (so you can see what soaps replaced each other on the schedule and what soaps competed against each other in what time slot) and I found something quite interesting. I've always had a faint memory of my grandmother watching ATWT. I clearly remember the spinning globe. However, I know for a fact that she always watched Days and AW religiously (in fact, that's how I got started). Well, I finally found out the truth! Once upon a time, ATWT aired at 1:30pm for 30 minutes (for YEARS until a brief 2pm shift in the early 80s to accomodate Y&R spred to an hour and their brief move to 1pm and later the perminant move to 2pm to accomodate B&B). Well, Days aired for years at 2pm! (with The Doctors at 2:30pm and AW at 3pm). Grandmother watched ATWT and then flipped the channel and watched NBC the rest of the day! However, when Days expanded to an hour in the mid70s, it started coming on a half hour earlier...the same time as ATWT so she had to make a choice and picked Days! Oh, how different my life would have been if she'd made the other choice! LOLOL It would have been Steve and Betsy's wedding I watched instead of Bo and Hope's! It's sooooo good to see you here! Stop in and mingle anytime!
Matt,I have no objection to you using the same style logo as you did for Davessoaphabit HQ. After all,you can't plagerize yourself. I enjoy your graphic work very much. I'm hoping that others will follow suit because I'd like try another go at a logo contest next month for the New Soap Notes' board. I think what I'd like to see are my members select one forum to make a logo for. Sound cool to any of you? For all of you who don't know the grand opening of the New Soap Notes:The Way We Were is Jan. 31 at soapnotes.proboards.com/
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I think that this board is a fabulous idea! The classic soaps are the best! My name is Carolyn and I think that I watched soaps since the day I was born (28 years next month).
My mother got me started on NBC. She had watched Another World from the day it went on the air. I can remember so much about it from the time I was very little. I remember watching The Doctors (faintly) and Texas (which I thought was great). She would watch Days on occasion, too. Growing up on a farm in the middle of nowhere in Illinois, soaps were our escape into the lives of the rich & famous! I would flip around to some of the CBS soaps, also.
The soap that became my absolute favorite was Santa Barbara. I loved that show so much. I miss it terribly to this day. I was enthralled with it from the first show. I watched it until the bitter end, when I had become very disappointed by it. I basically gave up on soaps with its cancellation. I am disappointed by the shows now. Whenever I am home during the day (which is almost never), I will watch As The World Turns & Guiding Light. I like to flip around to find any of my old favorite actors, like A Martinez, Marcy Walker & Nancy Lee Grahn. I would watch any show that Lane Davies showed up on in a heartbeat! He is my absolute favorite, ever!
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Carolyn, welcome! And ITA with you about Santa Barbara. I watched that one from first episode until the bitter end. As those final credits rolled, I just couldn't stop crying. IMO, Santa Barbara started to slip around the time Marcy Walker left and they recast Kelly with Eileen Davidson. Cruz and Kelly just never did anything for me as a couple. Heck, to me that was sacrilege! It's so good to see another Santa Barbara fan. Feel free to drop into the SB forum and post anytime!
It's nice to find a place to talk about the good ol' days of soaps, hehe. Technically, I never watched any "classic" soaps or the "classic years" of current soaps because I wasn't old enough (I watched my first soap OLTL and age . Here's my viewer history:
One Life to Live - 1994-Present (recurring)
General Hospital - 1995-Present (recurring)
Young and the Restless - 1995/96-Present
Bold and the Beautiful - 1995/96-Present (recurring)
Days of Our Lives - 1997; 2000; 2001; 2002-Present
Sunset Beach - 1999 (recurring)
Port Charles - 1999-2001 (recurring); 2002-Present (regular)
All My Children - 1999-2001
Passions - 1999-Present
As the World Turns - 2000
So, I've watched every current soap (excepting Guiding Light), but never had the chance to see any of the old ones. However, thanks to two humongous television books/guides/encyclopedias and a nice collection of Web sites, I've had the chance to delve into the history of them. If I could, I'd love to see The Edge of Night, Capitol, Santa Barbara, 1980s Days of Our Lives, 1980s One Life to Live...oh, heck: anything in the '80s!
Anyways, I look forward to getting to read everyone's views on the shows I never got to see. Here's to posting
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Philip, it's great to see you here! My aim for this board is to both be a means of reminiscing and discussing for long time viewers as well as being a source of eduction to newer viewers on the history of the genre. By sharing our knowledge and views, I think that we can all come to a better understanding and appreciation of the genre that so dear to our hearts.
. Here's my viewer history:
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