We all ran home for Dark Shadows...pretty terrifying for kids. I guess we were tough cookies except for my little sister who had nightmares
I inherited my older brothers Dark Shadows books. Wasn’t Dark Shadows the first soap opera essentially?
Nah, half of Dark Shadows appeal was that it was almost a satire of a soap opera - since they’re all vampires and blood suckers anyway why not make them real vampires and blood suckers.
I think of Peyton Place as the original Tv soap opera, but the TV soaps were merely a continuation of a genre that originated on radio.