A-Z of American Soaps

[nosiblings]

What about ...The Best of Everything, A World Apart, The Young Marrieds, Bright Promise, Where the Heart Is, How to Survive a Marriage, Return to Peyton Place, nighttime Peyton Place, Our Private World (ATWT's short-lived prime-time spin-off), Hidden Faces, Young Dr. Malone...

[LENTICULARPLASTIC]

Wonderful archive! Vera Allen was on two obscure old-time soaps, THE O'NEILLS, and FROM THESE ROOTS. Might any of our more seasoned Youtubers have a recollection of these?

[191965]

Where was Beverly Hills, 90210?

[scrowfan41]

I love this . Thanks for posting. Very well done I might add.

[GenXorcist1976]

Was One Life to Live on here???

[VaultMasterDBT]

Ahem, this was already answered..

[GenXorcist1976]

@VaultMasterDBT

Well, I didn't see that - you could have done without the rudeness.

[VaultMasterDBT]

I wasn't being rude..sorry if it appeared that way. The answer is mentioned in the "uploader comments" section.

[runnerrk]

can anyone tell me the name of the actress in the back row at 1:24?

[ConscienceOfTheTube]

@runnerrk Its not Claudia Shipman, she is confessing her Sexual sins.... i heard theres a meatball stuck in her vagina.... this woman has a strange fetish for a creationist like yourself

hehehe still thinking continental drifting and evolution are myth's?

[ConscienceOfTheTube]

Runerk is for sure the Dumbest person ive seen on the tube... everybody take a look at this racist channel..... the ignorant fuck is stuck in medievil times

[jett87rink]

Really fantastic! Wish you'd been able to include Peyton Place, but otherwise, so many memories!

[pianist58]

awesome job with this! I really enjoyed

watching, brought back some good memories!

[awtribute]

Great work but you kinda rushed through it, *especially* Another World.

[octogirlpretty]

ATWT and Dante's Cove= MORE PLEASE.

:DD

[StefanoFan27]

Happy 4th Of July Everyone.

[dacrlit]

Falcon Crest is my best American Soap Opera ever.

[DrWho12345677]

american soaps are shit rather watch emmerdale for goodness sake

[ImConnectingWithYou]

american soaps are amazing! emmerdale is only good when its copying american soaps, when they bring in the big families like the Kings and the Tates. Home farm is just a mini Carrington mansion or South fork.

[dalehinely]

The "ballad" sounding ones are always the best like...WORLD TURNS; DAYS; PASSIONS; SAVANNAH; Y&R. My heart stops when Ken Roberts says "this is... LOVE OF LIFE." Beautiful.

[km222222]

I wasnt even born ;d

[kxx46]

Peyton Place ?

[Fonjil]

Couldn't find it.

[km222222]

never heard of it

[kxx46]

It was a movie in the 50s with Lana Turner and Hope Lange based on a novel by Grace metalious.

In the 60s it was a soap opera with Mia Farrow and Ryan O'Neal.

[LOLFanme]

@kxx46

I agree. Peyton Place was groundbreaking as the first primetime serial & set the trend for Dynasty, Knots Landing, Dallas & Falcon Crest.. It should be there! :-) So should How To Survive A Marriage, Rituals & Valley of the Dolls.

[xreth03]

A few other ideas: "Secrets of Midland Heights", "The Yellow Rose", "King's Crossing" (short lived prime time soaps of the early to mid 80s)

[derekmimi]

"Full Circle" is missing...

[CheekyThrill]

Port Charles...

[boldconfused]

awesome post...love y&r

[j5bata]

Aint Beverly Hills 90210 a soap as well?

[chazcomix]

very cool!! I waited for twin peaks??

[GCRams2]

Wow, I seen soaps form the early days. I knw of a few of them but, wow that is a lot of them. Its sad to see many leave the air thru the years, but we will always have memories of them all. I glad you put some of the Prime Time soaps in there. Even the half comedy one form CBS Mary Heartman Mary Heartman

[18canada67]

I luv your soap montage of opening titles now lets see what soaps are missing shall we

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A Flame in the Wind (sometimes referred to as A Time for Us)1964-1966 ABC daytime

A World Apart (1970-1971) ABC daytime

Bare Essence (1982-1983) NBC night time

Berrenger's (1985) NBC night time

The Best of Everything (1970) ABC

Beverly Hills, 90210(1990-2000)Fox night time

Bright Promise(1969-1972)NBC daytime

The Clear Horizon(1960-1962)CBS daytime

[derekmimi]

What about "Full Circle"?

[18canada67]

Desire(2006)MyNetworkTv night time Emerald Point N.A.S.(1983-1984)CBS night time Fashion House(2006)MyNetworkTv night time The First Hundred Years(1950-1952)CBS daytime First Love(1954-1955)NBC daytime From These Roots(1958-1961)NBC daytime Golden Windows(1954-1955)NBC daytime Gossip Girl(2007- )theCW night time Hidden Faces(1968-1969)NBC daytime Homefront(1991-1993)ABC night time How to Survive a Marriage(1974-1975)NBCdaytime I'll Take Manhattan(1987)CBS night time

[18canada67]

Lovers and Friends(1977-1978)NBC daytime Malibu Shores(1996)NBC night time The Monroes(1995)ABC night time The Nurses(1965-1967)ABC Ocean Avenue(2002-2003) Our Five Daughters(1962)NBC daytime Our Private World(1965)CBS night time *private world was a spin-off of As the World Turns* Peyton Place(1964-1969)ABC nighttime Return to Peyton Place(1972-1974)NBC daytime Rituals(1984-1985)syndicated Soap(1977-1981)ABC Where the Heart Is(1969-1973)CBS daytime

[18canada67]

whoops, I forgot

Twin Peaks (1990-1991)ABC night time

[tmyboys]

WOW!!!! IM impressed!! EXCELLENT!

[threesix85]

As a die hard soap fan and history buff this is wonderful!

[doinme626]

Very nice montage!! Please consider creating a "Pt. 2" to include: Peyton Place, Our Private World, Berrengers, The Survivors, Secrets of Midland Heights, Bare Essence, Emerald Point, N.A.S., Beverly Hills 90210, Winnetka Road, The Yellow Rose, Number 96, and Kings Crossing. Thank you!!!

[derekmimi]

was one life to live in there?

[Fonjil]

YEP.

[derekmimi]

why did you not include "the greatest gift"? did you try to find it?

[Fonjil]

Never heard of it.

[derekmimi]

check it out. it was an acutal daytime drama...

[phoenixvalley]

I love Undressed. They should release it on DVD.

[j5bata]

you forgot Beverly Hills 90210

[mekos]

Nostalgically wonderful video!

[bhickman3]

This is great. Must have been fun to compile this. Where did you get all that great material?

[radrobd]

pretty cool

[travis082185]

i can't commend this video enough

[travis082185]

i keep watching this over and over and i can't seem to stop. i especially live to see the black and white stuff.

[travis082185]

this is perfection

[travis082185]

i would do anything to get my hands on some of the classic nightime/daytime soaps. i sell/trade tons of soap stuff and i am always looking for more soap stuff so if anyone has episodes i could buy/trade please let me know

[travis082185]

i loved to watch some of the old soaps here on youtube but the guy who put the episodes up pulled all of them(or they were pulled for him by youtube). he doen't even have an account with youtube anymore

[lockebell]

Do you have full Titans opening?

Only other one I can think of that I didn't see was Malibu Shores...short lived Spelling soap.

[travis082185]

this is splendid

[Yesimustbestupid2]

I know of at least three that you left off, the 1960's "Never Too Young" & "Peyton Place" & the early 1990's "Twin Peaks". Also, the 1970's TV comedy "Soap" could be considered and should be considered a soap opera, as well -- because despite it's unconventional flaunting of soap conventions, it's storylines were definitely told in a soap opera way. And there are a couple of other nighttime shows that have some soap conventions of storytelling.

[Fonjil]

I couldn't find Peyton Place and I had never heard of Never Too Young. I left out Soap because I think of it more as a comedy than a soap. Many of the nighttime shows with soap conventions of storytelling are still considered different because of the weight given to story lines that are resolved within one episode.

[travis082185]

i can't seem to make out if that "love of life" opening was in black and white

[prydain17]

Point Pleasant...Woot.

[Phideaux777]

What, no Spyder Games? otherwise, Kudos!

[angelssprt]

Neat vid

[LIngoCarJaxfan07]

This is pretty cool. Thanks for posting this. It's really interesting to know how many soaps have been on tv over the past several decades. The only ones that I know of is AMC, Another World, ATWT, B&B, The City, Dallas, DOOL, The Doctors, Dynasty, Generations, GH, GH: NS, GL, Knot's Landing, Loving, Melrose Place, OLTL, Pacific Palisades, Passions, Port Charles, Ryan's Hope, Santa Barbara, Search for Tomorrow, Sunset Beach, and The Young and Restless. Those are the only ones that I know of.