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FLASHBACK: Location Shooting...A Soap Could Visit Your Home Town (Part 1)

Search for Tomorrow went on location to Washtington, D.C.—where it was warmer—to shoot park scenes. Location Shooting...A Soa…

Roger Newcomb • August 20, 2026

FLASHBACK: You Are Cordially Invited to A (Soap) Wedding (Part 1)

When Julie (Susan Seaforth Hayes) and Doug Williams (Bill Hayes) finally set their wedding date, October 1, 1976, Days of our Li…

We Love Soaps • August 19, 2026

FLASHBACK: A Complete, Concise Yearly History of TV Soap Operas - 1947 to 1977 (Part 1 of 8)

Search for Tomorrow's John Sylvester White (Keith) talks with Cliff Hall (Victor), as Sara Anderson, Lynn Loring (Patti), B…

We Love Soaps • August 16, 2026

FLASHBACK: Revealed! Serial Writers' Secrets (Part 1 of 3)

Revealed! Serial Writers' Secrets The Soap Box Vol. V No. 9 September 1979 by Linda Susman Like parents raising their of…

We Love Soaps • August 14, 2026

FLASHBACK: Last Days of 'Search for Tomorrow' at Reeves Teletape Studio (1985)

On February 21-22, 1985, Search for Tomorrow shot for the final time at Reeves Teletape Studio on Broadway and West 81st Street …

Roger Newcomb • September 05, 2025

FLASHBACK: The Complete Story of 'The Doctors' (1963-1973)

Daytime TV covered the world of soap operas for decades before finally folding in the 1990s. In the mid-70s, the magazine did …

Roger Newcomb • December 09, 2024

FLASHBACK: 'General Hospital' Stars Anthony Geary & Genie Francis Host 'Fridays'

Fridays was ABC's weekly late-night live comedy show, which aired on Friday nights from April 11, 1980 to April 23, 1982. T…

Roger Newcomb • December 05, 2024

FLASHBACK: Live from New York...'Search for Tomorrow' (1983)

In the summer of 1983, somebody stole -- or misplaced -- the only two videotapes of the August 4th episode of NBC soap opera Sear…

Roger Newcomb • September 06, 2017

FLASHBACK: 'Love of Life' - Looking Back on the Classic Soap Opera

If you read our "Today in Soap Opera History" column today you know that daytime soap Love of Life debuted 65 years ag…

We Love Soaps • September 24, 2016

FLASHBACK: Mother Daughter Relationships - An "Imitation of Life" on Daytime TV (Part 4 of 4)

Ellen Holly and Lillian Hayman starred as Carla and Sadie on One Life to Live . Mother Daughter Relationships: An "Imitati…

Roger Newcomb • October 12, 2015

FLASHBACK: Mother Daughter Relationships - An "Imitation of Life" on Daytime TV (Part 3)

Gwen Parrish (Dorothy Lyman) clashed frequently with her mother, Leueen, on Another World . Mother Daughter Relationships: An &…

Roger Newcomb • October 08, 2015

FLASHBACK: Mother Daughter Relationships - An "Imitation of Life" on Daytime TV (Part 2)

On Love of Life , Meg Hart (Tudi Wiggins) had an affair with business associate Rick Latimer (Jerry Lacy).  When Rick fell in lo…

Roger Newcomb • October 07, 2015

FLASHBACK: Mother Daughter Relationships - An "Imitation of Life" on Daytime TV (Part 1)

All My Children's spoiled and selfish Erica Cudahy (Susan Lucci) wipes up the floor with her mother (Fran Helflin), and the…

Roger Newcomb • October 05, 2015

FLASHBACK: Location Shooting...A Soap Could Visit Your Home Town (Part 5 of 5)

When Love of Life featured a prison scene, this set was built at the CBS studio. Location Shooting...A Soap Could Visit Your …

Roger Newcomb • October 02, 2015

FLASHBACK: Location Shooting...A Soap Could Visit Your Home Town (Part 4)

Ryan's Hope viewers shared the beauty of Ireland when Jack and Mary Fenelli honeymooned in Erie.  Here, Mary (then, Kate Mu…

Roger Newcomb • October 01, 2015

FLASHBACK: Location Shooting...A Soap Could Visit Your Home Town (Part 3)

This photo, taken when Van Rydell (Paul Thomas) was murdered on Edge of Night , clearly shows how the great outdoors can be recr…

Roger Newcomb • September 30, 2015

FLASHBACK: Location Shooting...A Soap Could Visit Your Home Town (Part 2)

All My Children's Tom Cudahy and Erica Kane Cudahy (Dick Shoberg and Susan Lucci) share a moment of bliss, oblivious to the…

Roger Newcomb • September 28, 2015

FLASHBACK: 'Another World' The Story of Steven, Rachel & Alice (Part 23 of 23)

Mackenzie Cory (Douglass Watson) married Rachel Davis Matthews Clark Frame (Victoria Wyndham) on February 14, 1975. Ralph Camargo,…

Roger Newcomb • September 22, 2015

FLASHBACK: 'Another World' The Story of Steven, Rachel & Alice (Part 22)

Another World expanded to 60-minutes each weekday on January 6, 1975. ANOTHER WORLD: The Story of Steven, Rachel & Alice …

Roger Newcomb • September 20, 2015

FLASHBACK: 'Another World' The Story of Steven, Rachel & Alice (Part 21)

Victoria Wyndham as Rachel Davis Matthews Clark Frame on Another World . ANOTHER WORLD: The Story of Steven, Rachel & Alice…

Roger Newcomb • September 18, 2015