Day #7 of the 30 Day Television Challenge

[shadowkat]

This is Day #7 of the 30 Day Television Show Challenge.

The prompt is A soap opera (daytime or nighttime or both) that you watched (old or new)

Curious if people can rise above the temptation to pick parodies of soap operas ie - SOAP and Mary Hartman Mary Hartman, which aren't really soap operas but parodies of soap operas. Be kind of like picking Brooklyn Nine Nine for a police procedural. [You had your chance to pick those. No obvious parodies. ]

This can however be any other kind of soap opera, supernatural, teen, medical, etc and soaps kind of fall into parody all on their own - doing a parody of a soap, I always found to be a tad redundant. I think SOAP was the only parody that made me laugh.

Anyhow, mine is...

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Comments

[petzipellepingo]

Santa Barbara that had a Mexican/Native American lead "gasps" and was the start of Robin Wright's career.

[shadowkat]

I remember Santa Barbara - although never quite got into it. My mother watched it more when she was in Australia, than she had in the US. It's very popular overseas. Apparently it's in the top ten in Scandinavia. Did better overseas than it did here, weirdly.

A lot of stars on that soap jumped to General Hospital.

A Martinez as the male star on Santa Barbara, but he didn't pop up until closer to the second season. Prior to him - it was Joe Perkins, who was run-of-the-mill poor white guy. He was the romantic lead with Robin Wright - but he didn't get along with the producers so got recast and then killed off.

[wendelah1]

Dark Shadows!

[shadowkat]

Oh, I loved Dark Shadows as a kid. We used to watch it during sleep-overs - it was rerun at 11 pm and Midnight on Saturdays in the 1970s.