Cable's Great Freedom Has Not Improved SoapsBy Steve Reddicliffe
Dallas Times Herald
May 26, 1983
By day, GUIDING LIGHT, RYAN'S HOPE, GENERAL HOSPITAL, THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS, AS THE WORLD TURNS, ANOTHER WORLD, CAPITOL, DAYS OF OUR LIVES, EDGE OF NIGHT and ALL MY CHILDREN.
By night, DALLAS AND DYNASTY, FALCON CREST, and KNOTS LANDING.
The soap operas have come to cable television. Not an armada of soaps, but one here and there. Showtime, the pay-cable service, currently offers two nighttime adult soaps ("adult" meaning occasional bare breasts and behinds), A NEW DAY IN EDEN and LOVING FRIENDS AND PERFECT COUPLES. EDEN debuted late last year, LOVING FRIENDS in January.
And Ted Turner's cable "superstation," WTBS, has a new weekday soap called THE CATLINS, which is set in the Big Peach, Atlanta.