FLASHBACK: Cable's Great Freedom Has Not Improved Soaps 1983

Cable's Great Freedom Has Not Improved Soaps

By 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.

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ONE LIFE TO LIVE: Todd's hearing continued on Thursday with Marty on the stand and Tea asking her if she was in love with Todd.

RATTING OUT GLORIA: On Thursday's episode of THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS, Jeffrey told Jill and Ashley that Gloria confessed to being behind the deadly "GloAgain" face cream.

JADE'S IN TROUBLE: Luke tried to help Jade on Thursday's AS THE WORLD TURNS, but she ended up in jail anyway.

ALICE BARRETT: Long before she was ANOTHER WORLD's Frankie Frame, the actress starred as Jacqui McCormick on the WTBS soap THE CATLINS.