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Soap opera
A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on television or radio. The name "soap opera" stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers such as Procter & Gamble, Colgate...
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The Archers
The Archers is a British soap opera broadcast on the BBC's main spoken-word channel, Radio 4. Originally billed as "an everyday story of country folk", a familiar phrase now "dumbed up" on its R4 page as "contemporary drama in a rural setting". it...
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Portia Faces Life
Portia Faces Life was a soap opera which began on CBS October 7, 1940. Sponsored by General Foods (Post Bran, Post Flakes), it followed the hardships of attorney Portia Blake (Lucille Wall) as she fought corruption in the small town of Parkersburg....
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Ma Perkins
Ma Perkins (sometimes called Oxydol's Own Ma Perkins) was a radio soap opera which was heard on NBC from 1933 to 1949 and on CBS from 1942 to 1960. Between 1942 and 1949, the show was heard simultaneously on both networks. Oxydol dropped its...
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Today's Children
Today's Children was a name shared by two thematically related American radio soap operas created and written by Irna Phillips, the earliest of which was her first nationally networked series.
The original series, which debuted on September 11, 1933...
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Painted Dreams
Painted Dreams was a radio soap opera, generally recognized as the first soap opera program in the United States.
In 1930 radio station WGN asked Irna Phillips, who worked for them as an actress, to create a 15-minute daily show "about a family," to...
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Guiding Light
The Guiding Light (TGL) was a long-run radio series which became the longest-running American television soap opera.
The series was created by Irna Phillips, who based it on personal experiences. After giving birth to a still-born baby at age 19,...
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The Romance of Helen Trent
The Romance of Helen Trent was a radio soap opera which aired on CBS from 1933 to 1960 for a total of 7,222 episodes. The show was created by Frank and Anne Hummert, who were among the most prolific producers during the radio soap era.
The program...
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Against the Storm
Against the Storm was a radio daytime drama which had three separate runs over a 13-year period on NBC and ABC. It ran in the years 1939 to 1942, 1949 and finally in 1951-52. Created and written by Sandra Michael, the drama was the only daytime...
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- 1939
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- 1952
Aunt Jenny’s Real Life Stories
Aunt Jenny’s Real Life Stories was a 15-minute radio soap opera which aired from January 18, 1937 to November 16, 1956 on CBS, sponsored by Spry shortening. The program was heard weekdays at 11:45am until 1946 when it moved to 12:15.
Aunt Jenny ...
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Backstage Wife
Backstage Wife is an American soap opera radio program that details the travails of Mary Noble, a girl from a small town in Iowa who came to New York seeking her future.
Vivian Fridell had the title role from 1935 until the early 1940s. It was then...
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Just Plain Bill
Just Plain Bill was a long run 15-minute daytime radio drama program heard on CBS and NBC. The series was sponsored by Anacin for 18 of the program's 23-year run. Other sponsors over the years were Kolynos toothpaste, Clapp’s baby food and BiSoDol....
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Amanda of Honeymoon Hill
Amanda of Honeymoon Hill was a 15-minute daily radio soap opera produced by Frank and Anne Hummert. Broadway actress Joy Hathaway had the title role, sometime described as "the beauty of flaming red hair."
Sponsored by Cal-Aspirin, Haley's MO,...
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Bachelor's Children
Bachelor's Children was a domestic daytime drama broadcast which originated on Chicago's WGN in 1935-36, continuing on CBS and NBC until 1946.
It followed the daily travails of two friends, Dr. Bob Graham and Sam Ryder, and the two women they loved....
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Stella Dallas
Stella Dallas was an America radio soap opera that ran from 1937 to 1955. The title character was the beautiful daughter of an impoverished farmhand who had married above her station in life. She was played for the entire run of the series by Anne...
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Young Widder Brown
Young Widder Brown was a daytime radio drama series broadcast on NBC from 1938 to 1956. Sponsored by Sterling Drugs and Bayer Aspirin, it daily examined the life of "attractive Ellen Brown, with two fatherless children to support."
The convoluted...
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Perry Mason
Perry Mason adaptations for radio were broadcast on CBS Radio from 1943-1955. The series was adapted into Edge of Night which ran on television for an additional 30 years..
Erle Stanley Gardner's literary success with the Perry Mason novels...
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Clara, Lu, and Em
Clara, Lu, and Em was radio's first soap opera, beginning June 16, 1930 over WGN Chicago. It continued through the 1930s and early 1940s on the Blue Network, NBC and CBS, finally airing as a syndicated series in 1945.
The program began as a...
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When a Girl Marries
When a Girl Marries was a daytime radio drama which was broadcast on three major radio networks from 1939 to 1957. Created by Elaine Sterne Carrington (who also was responsible for Pepper Young's Family and Rosemary), it was the highest rated soap...
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Big Sister
Big Sister was a daytime radio drama series created by Lillian Laugerty and broadcast on CBS from September 14, 1936 to December 26, 1952. It was sponsored by Lever Brothers (Rinso) until 1946 when Procter & Gamble became the sponsor.
Set in the...
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