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DeniseNY
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One One Life to Live, I also think Viki had some kind of weird experience in a place called Eterna, or something like that. I vaguely remember it.
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Peeps
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Another Life is appropriate viewing even for the most conservative Christians!
My husband LOVED this soap opera! It was on at a time that he was working from home and was able to watch it. He was so upset when it went off the air.
Golly, that was a long time ago.
My husband LOVED this soap opera! It was on at a time that he was working from home and was able to watch it. He was so upset when it went off the air.
Golly, that was a long time ago.
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Peeps
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The only soap opera that I loved was Dark Shadows! Barnabas Collins–sigh! THAT was a soap opera! And did you know that since it ended in 1971, it has NEVER been off the air! It has aired somewhere in the world for all these years!
I remember how exciting it was in college when Luke and Laura were the center of the General Hospital plot–the TV rooms were jam-packed. But I have to admit, I loved the show when Jessie Brewer, Dr. Hardy, and Audrey were the center of attention. I wonder how many women became nurses or other health care professionals because they grew up with General Hospital in their home.
I’m frankly amazed that anyone still watches a soap opera these days–I think it’s an attempt to hang onto a part of the past that is gone with the wind.
My mother (R.I.P.) told me about the radio soaps that she loved. Sigh–the good ol’ days!
I remember how exciting it was in college when Luke and Laura were the center of the General Hospital plot–the TV rooms were jam-packed. But I have to admit, I loved the show when Jessie Brewer, Dr. Hardy, and Audrey were the center of attention. I wonder how many women became nurses or other health care professionals because they grew up with General Hospital in their home.
I’m frankly amazed that anyone still watches a soap opera these days–I think it’s an attempt to hang onto a part of the past that is gone with the wind.
My mother (R.I.P.) told me about the radio soaps that she loved. Sigh–the good ol’ days!
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Dlee
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One Life to Live had a storyline where Viki went to “heaven” and met up with all the old characters who had “died” on the earlier shows.
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dochawk
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Something I learned from a grandmother: The Guiding Light was named for the minister who guided the town (or whatever it was). I don’t know if that character was still there when it jumps to television ,. , ,
At some point as walked through the room I did a double-take, and asked if it was really what it looked like.
Yes, indeed, a lingerie-clad vampiress was attempting to seduce a priest, or some such . . .
How many of those died of salary demands? :crazy_face:
And were the ones who came back down and turned out to have amnesia on boats (even though they clearly were blown to bits on screen) up there, or did they have to leave, or . . .
Oh, and back in the radio days, they were indeed frequently sponsored by soap, thus the name.
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Maxirad
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Remember when Liza falsely accused poor Jesse of raping her?
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observing
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When Vicky died and went to heaven then somehow came back to life the show became weird. That’s when I stopped watching it. Up until then I was hooked on that show. Leave it to Hollywood to mess up a show.
I also watched Love of Life years before the more popular ones.
I also watched Love of Life years before the more popular ones.
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Dlee
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There was a plot where they all went back to the days of the wild, wild West. That was strange, too. The Buchanans ruled!
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I don’t recall a minister on “Guiding Light” in the 1970’s. It was better then, I think, when it was only a half-hour. I remember the never-ending trial involving the murder of some notable person (Malcolm Granger?) that involved the Bowers family and others, and must admit it was exciting and well-scripted stuff at the time. Anyone remember Rita and her younger sister Eve and their boyfriends, one a lawyer and the other a doctor? I can hardly believe I still remember some of the names of these people.
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dochawk
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uhm . . . that was more than a couple of years after it jumped to television, I presume . . . probably more Han a couple of decades, for that matter . . .
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Dlee
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My mom watched Search for Tomorrow while doing the ironing.
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Peeps
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Isn’t it amazing that there was once enough ironing in a home that an entire half-hour was necessary to get it all done?
I don’t think I’ve had enough ironing in nearly 40 years of marriage to take a half hour! Everything’s permanent press.
My mother kept an ironing board set up permanently, and ironed every day, and it still never got done. Of course, she would iron sheets, towels, etc., along with work shirts, jeans, our school clothing, etc.
I don’t think I’ve had enough ironing in nearly 40 years of marriage to take a half hour! Everything’s permanent press.
My mother kept an ironing board set up permanently, and ironed every day, and it still never got done. Of course, she would iron sheets, towels, etc., along with work shirts, jeans, our school clothing, etc.
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Dlee
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It took all afternoon - remember how you would have to sprinkle the clothes to refresh them before ironing? Bed sheets, some people even towels and wash clothes. Hankies were easy!
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dochawk
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. . . . uhm . . . it was the lack of that (which I hid with suits and ties) that, well . . . led to my now-wife breaking in to steal my laundry if I didn’t hand it over . . . it seems that you lose the permanent of permanent press when you leave it in the dryer . . . do you think it might have something to do with my not being allowed to touch laundry these days?
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TheLittleLady
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I LOVE ironing. Makes me sad that DH does not wear dress shirts because that is my favorite thing to iron. Noting like the smell of pressed cotton.
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tomarin
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I haven’t ironed anything in ages. There was something oddly satisfying about it though.
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tomarin
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I’ve never seen a British soap (except East Enders but I imagine that’s not typical) but the American ones are strange; even today they seem to reflect a certain kind of older suburban mom’s timeless fantasy world, in which everyone has big hair, the men are all executives or rogues and everyone has big hair and drinks from cut crystal glassware in their mansion’s dining room while they scheme pitilessly against their enemies and flaunt their big hair. No one is nice or likable in an American soap opera. If you’ve ever seen SCTV’s ‘The Days of the Week’ parody, they really nailed the genre.
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tomarin
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@(name removed by moderator) why do they cut to the next scene so quickly, is there any particular reason? The few times I’ve tried watching I had to change the channel because the scenes are so short that I feel like it’s ‘short attention span theater’ or something. Other than that, it always seems like there’s something suspicious afoot (sort of like the Harry Potter movies) but because I don’t know the characters and their backstory I have no idea what it is.
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tomarin
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There’s long been a kind of British tv show, often historical, that looks nostalgically at a time when only ethnically British people lived in Britain; I guess East Enders fits into that genre although it might not appear so at first given that it’s contemporary. (And actually from what I’ve seen at any given time about 10% of the cast is non-white). But I imagine the East End has gentrified quite a bit from whenever it was how popular culture portrays it.
In a similar vein, the Andy Griffith Show and its locale Mayberry is kind of strange for a Southern town in that there are almost no black people to be found anywhere - although I guess it’s possible it’s in the mountains of North or South Carolina where historically there were no industries that used slave labor, therefore the black population is few and far between there. Still it paints a peculiar picture, this kind of bucolic little southern town where there are no black people.
In a similar vein, the Andy Griffith Show and its locale Mayberry is kind of strange for a Southern town in that there are almost no black people to be found anywhere - although I guess it’s possible it’s in the mountains of North or South Carolina where historically there were no industries that used slave labor, therefore the black population is few and far between there. Still it paints a peculiar picture, this kind of bucolic little southern town where there are no black people.
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dochawk
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It smells wonderful, especially with the starch.
She’s not particularly fond of ironing, but, apparently, that was the only way to make some presentable after my laundry attempts . . .
For a while, she was ironing my dress shirts to get the heavy starch in them . . . and for a while, we were dropping them at cleaners for the heavy starch.
Now, though, there’s enough grey in my beard that I really don’t need to wear a suit to meet clients :crazy_face:
I think that I only left an iron shape on a dress shirt once . . .
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