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Due to availability and the gargantuan number of episodes produced, I’m never going to watch some daytime soaps in their entirety. I am however interested in sampling periods of a show, to get a taste of what it was like at its best.
For example, I picked up The Edge of Night from the beginning of the Mansion of the Damned arc, which ran for a number of months in late 1979 and I’ll eventually continue into the next arc when I’ve time. Similarly, I’ve recently started The Bold and the Beautiful from the very beginning, as I’ve read that those first few years were the show’s imperial phase.
What era/s of a daytime soap would you recommend watching, if someone (me) wanted to see a show during a period when it was really on fire storyline wise? Is there a certain year or storyline arc of say, Guiding Light or Another World, that was a really good watch and would serve as a good taster for a viewer that wants to experience what the show was like? Or a certain storyline where a particular character like Erica Kane or Alexandra Spaulding really shone?
For example, I picked up The Edge of Night from the beginning of the Mansion of the Damned arc, which ran for a number of months in late 1979 and I’ll eventually continue into the next arc when I’ve time. Similarly, I’ve recently started The Bold and the Beautiful from the very beginning, as I’ve read that those first few years were the show’s imperial phase.
What era/s of a daytime soap would you recommend watching, if someone (me) wanted to see a show during a period when it was really on fire storyline wise? Is there a certain year or storyline arc of say, Guiding Light or Another World, that was a really good watch and would serve as a good taster for a viewer that wants to experience what the show was like? Or a certain storyline where a particular character like Erica Kane or Alexandra Spaulding really shone?