Word: soapers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only since television has the soaper got right down to the nubby-grubby of everyday existence - suicide attempts (The Doctors), incestuous desires (Days of Our Lives) and various physical com plaints, such as "uterine inertia" (An other World). The trouble with such contemporary traumas is that no one does much about them onscreen; the folks just sit around talking about their problems and drinking black coffee in the kitchen. The only time there is any live action in the typical soaper, it seems, is Friday. That's when the writ ers always slip in the "tease" that will lure...
Only ABC's Dark Shadows tapes as if every day were Friday. The 30-min ute show is TV's first gothic soaper (Monday through Friday, 4 p.m. E.D.T.) and the first to star a vampire. Ex plains one of the directors: "If the char acters sat around and talked to each other about vampires, you would turn people off. It's the actual vampirizing that makes the show." No doubt about it. Dark Shadows has put the bite on a rapidly-rising audience that now aver ages 15 million viewers a week. When Barnabas the Vampire...
...talking books so far, including the King James version of the Bible, Shakespeare, a 68-record LP reading of War and Peace and Joyce's Ulysses. He also does recitations, occasionally with his actress wife Lori March, who is better known as Valerie Ames on the CBS-TV soaper The Secret Storm...
...NURSES (ABC, 2-2:30 p.m.). A new daily soaper. Premiere...
...successful has this soaper been in prime time, that it's spreading itself to a third night a week...