What was the first TV soap opera in the U.S.?
This is from “The Soap Opera Encyclopedia” by Christopher Schemering: “Although there had been other dramatic serials produced for local broadcast as early as 1946–such as the one-day airing of “Big Sister” on a local station in Chicago and the thirteen-part serial “War Bride” in Schenectady–the first network soap was the DuMont effort “Faraway Hill”, which premiered October 2, 1946, and was broadcast simultaneously in New York and Washington, DC. By the time DuMont had produced “A Woman to Remember” (a television soap about a radio soap) and the highly successful “Captain Video” (TV’s first space opera) in 1949, the network had expanded to include most of the major cities on the East Coast.” It doesn’t say what the first radio soap was. NBC’s first soap was “These Are My Children” in 1949 created by Irna Phillips. CBS’ first soap was “The First Hundred Years” in 1950. Both shows were failures. The first successful soaps were CBS’ “Search for Tomorrow” and “Love of Life”, followed qu
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