Word: soaped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...asks questions later, a sort of Dirty Harriet. Red-haired Jamie Rose wields her .357 magnum like a pro, and Danny Aiello is fine as her exasperated boss. The series is scheduled to be replaced in November by Dynasty II: The Colbys, a spin-off of the hit soap. But if it maintains the quality of its exciting two-hour pilot, Lady Blue deserves assignment to a permanent beat...
...Bill Kurtis and, last week, Phyllis George. The Saturday-morning kidvid schedule remains No. 1. Carson is still king of late-night, and Letterman the hippest of clown princes. Only daytime is a slum for profits when it could be a gold mine; ABC's supremacy with its afternoon soaps helps it lead NBC in total network profits, despite the tailspin ABC has taken in the evening. Recently, NBC's afternoon schedule has begun to mimic the NBC prime time of the early '80s: its ratings are still abysmal, but its share of women...
...teenagers pay black-market prices for blue jeans and television viewers the world over are addicted to Dallas and Dynasty. Radio Marti, the Reaganauts' new propaganda tool aimed at Castro's Cuba, is a huge success, not for its anti-Communist editorials but for its pop music and steamy soap opera Esmeralda...
...haven't told us where you found it or where we might come in contact with it," the husband of an American journalist protested to Charge d'Affaires Combs. Asked what precautions to take, Charles Brodine, a State Department doctor, could only suggest lamely, "Wash your hands frequently with soap and water...
...almost an entire month, we will have to concern ourselves with the latest round of soap opera baseball. In this episode, the players are right. In fact, the players are always right, and in this case, for three very good reasons: 1) players are underpaid, 2) the owners are walking off with embarrassingly large profits, and 3) the owners have kept the players under Stalinesque bondage for too long...