Word: soapers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PRIVATE WORLD (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). Part II of the nocturnal soaper...
...paper's birth in 1880. (The first Starbeam: "Modjeska [a prominent 19th century actress] is fond of onions.") In 1953, when the Detroit News's able paragrapher, Harry V. Wade, moved up to editor of the News, Vaughan took over Wade's syndicated column, "Senator Soaper Says." Soaper now bubbles in more than 120 U.S. papers and five abroad...
...serious video drama. With plots more intricately involuted than anything in Dickens or Trollope. and with up to two dozen actors enmeshed in a plot spread over eight months to a year, the live, half-hour show in effect presents an annual play in 250 acts. In outline, the soaper as reborn on TV is not too different from the old radio formula, but video has added a whole new set of visual symbols-for instance, the ferocious grille-work of a noncurrent Buick under which Monticello's noble and innocent Sara Karr lay unconscious last month...