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I'll go find my copy of "Mommie Dearest" and see if I can figure out just when Christina said Joan usurped her role in the soap opera.

I'm thinking it was in the 60's, but not sure of that at all.

A web search might also turn something up.

Glad you're uploading the episodes, Robert!
 
Anyone remember Calgonite?

I remember a Calgonite commercial like the Cascade one only it had "The Spotmaker" who looked like the Riddler on Batman. You had to use Calgonite to keep him out your dishwasher.

As for letting a 14 year old boy come between Wally and "The woman he loved" - maybe the boy is right and Monica is better off without Wally.

I didn't know Wards had a combo washer-dryer but I do know they had a White-Westinghouse front loader some years back.

One more thing, I was at Sams Club last week and noticed that Cascade has a new, more dramatic package!
 
Shhhh, I'm watching my stories...

OK as promised here is a 1955 version of The Secret Storm. The quality isn't great in this clip but its certainly watchable. Since these soap operas were broadcasted live and video tape was not invented as of yet the only way the producers had to record these episodes was the use the Kinescope process. This was nothing more than placing a movie camera in front of a video monitor and speaker and filming the broadcast directly onto 16mm movie film. The quality is not great by doing this but at least there was some record of the broadcast. Unfortunately most of the television kinescope films have been long destroyed, but some do remain and turn up occasionally for us to take a historical peak back into time.

I've got lots of these soaps if you guys want to see more of them.

YouTube seems to be running slow again tonight so the video might first appear choppy if it is downloading too slow to watch it and receive it at the same time. If the video keeps starting and stopping, hit the pause button (located on the gray bar in the lower left hand side of the viewer) and let the video download for five minutes or so and then continue watching it…

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Joan Crawford/ the Secret Storm

Joan did *Storm* sometime around the time of Baby Jane. actually Christina blamed her moms subbing for her role being terminated. shortly after Joan appeared on *storm*, christina was written OUT of the series.
 
Joan filled in for Christina On Secret Storm In the late 196

Baby Jane came out in 1962 and Christina says in her book that she started doing Secret Storm, which was her moms favorite daytime soap, in April 1968 and that the reason she was let go in August 1969 was because there was general house cleaning going on in in CBS daytime tv and that she was not the least bit surprised to be let go (her producer told her it was because her character had long out lived its usefullness).I got this info straight from my copy of the book Mommy Dearest. Also if you watch that scene in the movie the kitchen set they use for Secret Storm is the Cunninghams kitchen on Happy Days. The movie must have been shot in the Happy Days studio when they were on summer hiatus in 1980 or 81
 
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Am i the only one impressed by the slick-ness of the Proctor&Gamble commercials on the clip of *tomorrow*? esp when compared to the commercials on the *storm* clip. i liked the clip of *tomorrow* better, prolly because the music was sooo clownish and over-the-top. esp the music over the opening title, and the flourish when the Dash zooms in, hilarious! ive NEVER seen anything like these clips!
 
I think the big difference between the advertising of Search for Tomorrow and the Secret Storm is on Search all the ads were from Procter and Gamble. I have quite a few earlier episodes of Search for Tomorrow from 1953 with all P&G commercials as well and if I have time I will do a few of those as well later on in the week. I think my As the World Turns is also a P&G show, but it a 30 minute show so I would have to do that one in two parts. I also have vintage episodes of Love of Life, Guiding Light, General Hospital, As the World Turns, Love is a Many Splendid Thing, Another World, the first seven episodes of Days of Our Lives, Valiant Lady, the Brighter Day and others that I can't think of right now.
 
Valiant Lady!?! The Brighter Day?!?, yes both TV soaps in the 50's. Valiant Lady is particularly fun and overacted, I have to post that one too.
 
Robert ... thanks for sharing. These are great and they bring A LOT of wonderful memories!! My Mom was a Search for Tomorrow and Guiding Light fan. Her time in the living at noon was sacred and she was "not to be disturbed"!! She still watches certain "soapies" every day; I'm not even sure what she watches any more. She says they are "full of sex"; but just try to turn off the TV on her or disturb her with a phone call!!

I was the baby of the family and before I started kindergarten in the afternoon, I was Mom's shadow; especially on washday Mondays! Down we would go into the basement and use the Maytag with the suds saver ... clunk!! The smell of Tide (or Oxydol) and Downy ... mmmmm ... nothing like it!!
 
soaps

as a child, i was DEVOTED to The Yound and the Restless. i knew all the characters, it helped greatly that Y&R came on right after The Price is Right (i remember when Bob was a Brunette!). Cricket, Danny, Nina, Mrs Chancellor, Esther, i could go on and on. and the show wasnt complete unless i was able to watch from the beginning, and see the charcoal portraits of the charachters and hear the fabulous, timeless, moving, emotive opening theme (nadias theme?). David
 
Here is another one, just a sick and silly as the others. Its Valiant Lady from 1955. This was a short run CBS soap (1953-1957). It's sponsered by General Mills and we even get to see Betty Crocker, who looks shall we say a bit "tough" to me? Could Betty have been on of us? LOL.

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Scheduling...............

In college, there was a group of about 20 of us, we would arrange our class schedule around *Days of Our Lives* and *Another World*. After lunch in the campus center we would all gather around the TV and be there until our afternoon classes began. Circa 1980.
 
The acting on Valiant Lady is... remarkable. i did like finally seeing the REAL Betty Crocker, she speaks so convincingly on camera, and she seems so friendly. HA!! to think people actually thought she was a real person, and the GALL of General Mills to try to fool the public! i AM curious about what will happen to the unfortunate new mother and baby... they make the birth sound so mysterious and tragic, without being specific.
 
i AM curious about what will happen to the unfortunate new mother and baby... they make the birth sound so mysterious and tragic, without being specific.

That's how these soaps suck you in and get you hooked like a drug! Too bad there are only a few surviving examples left of these fun shows.
 
Thanks Robert these are fun. I remember my folks watching these and never dreamed any of them still existed! :)
 

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