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... That’s how Phillips, who would later become the most prominent television soap opera creator, conceived the very fist soap opera. ... One of which (“Betty and Bob”) was the first true network soap. ... Soap companies plunged into business of producing serials that featured their products, and they so dominated daytime that serials became known as “soap operas”. ... The first local attempt to bring soap operas to television was “A Woman to Remember”, which was telecast from a studio in New York for short time in 1947. ... But in 1951, radio soap veteran Roy Winsor created two daytime serials. ...
Over the next five years, the networks aired 25 additional soap operas. ... In 1956, Phillips astonished most industry observers when she created a successful half-hour soap “As the World Turns,” which was soon joined at the top of the ratings by her crime oriented half hour “The Edge of Night.”
The next soap opera revolutionary was Agnes Nixon, a protégé of Irna Phillips. ... Nixon translated the turmoil of the 1960’s into two soap operas that were based on the real social concerns of the time, covering the Vietnam War to abortion. ...
Soap operas had traditionally been low budget productions, and it showed in their quality. ... Many soap opera characters, like the viewers, seek the stability of a traditional marriage and family life. ... Modern soap writers inject enough humor to make the experience of watching a soap opera more fun than wrenching. ...
The content of soap operas has changed drastically over the years, from once being a family show, to now being rated PG 16. ... And not surprisingly, sop operas had the highest level of sexual content with 84 percent of soaps containing regular scenes with sexual dialogue or a scene in which sex is portrayed. ... Soap operas aid in the process of making them think fasley, as though every thing is a fairy tale.
Approximate Word count = 1532
Approximate Pages = 6.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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