MUSEUM OF TELEVISION & RADIO EXHIBITION SERIES, THE: WORLDS WITHOUT END: THE ART AND HISTORY OF THE SOAP OPERA, PACKAGE 5: THE SIXTIES
Summary
The Sixties The sixties brought the medical profession to the forefront of the serial world with the debut of its two most famous medical series, ABCÕs "General Hospital" and NBCÕs "The Doctors," both of which premiered on the same day: April 1, 1963. Two years later, NBCÕs "Days of Our Lives," although concentrating on the family unit, featured a doctor, Tom Horton, as its patriarch. While these shows would, in time, encompass a wider variety of characters, settings, and subplots, the initial episodes of "General Hospital" and "The Doctors" focused on the personal and professional lives of doctors and nurses. By using the hospital as the backdrop, the writers could emphasize such significant life moments as births and deaths, while getting plenty of dramatic mileage from life-threatening injuries and diseases. It is interesting to note that the premiere episodes of these serials present simpler, less polished dramas than they would later become. The latter half of this diverse decade also brought the debut of soap operaÕs most unusual series, ABCÕs "Dark Shadows," a cult favorite whose central character, Barnabas Collins, was a vampire.
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- DATE: November 30, 1997
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- CATALOG ID: T:51738
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