Is there any additional information about the soaps that were announced earlier in the year to be on DVD?

Exactly which soaps were announced? If I remember correctly, all I really heard about was All My Children.

General Hospital, and All My Children.

I can understand why All My Children would make it to DVD, it is the most entertaining soap on tv. It moves very fast. I hope they keep it that way. All the other soaps, like NBC for example, just suck. They have supernatural things that just doesn't make sense. I wonder what episodes of All My Children will be on DVD. I hope they include episodes with Janet from another planet, Kendall played by Sarah Michelle Gellar, and the most shocking experience on AMC I have ever seen, Frances Heflin (Mona) death. I read that hurt Susan Lucci a lot. :(

Originally posted by GoldenFamilyTies
General Hospital, and All My Children.

Are they the ONLY ones? :mad:

Dark Shadows is the only soap out on DVD, and GH and AMC are the only soaps announced so far to be out on DVD.

I'm sure more will come out at a later date... maybe CBS and NBC are waiitng to see how the GH and AMC sets do.

I hope they include Greg/Jenny stuff in the AMC set!

I'm really curious as to how they'll go about this :)

I'd like to see the 1st season of OLTL.

Originally posted by ONE LIFE TO LIVE
I'd like to see the 1st season of OLTL.

That'll be a hell of a lot of DVD's, lol :D

I'm seriously wondering how they will go about this. I mean, it would be hard to fit almost an entire year's worth of episodes into an affordable DVD collection. I guess maybe if they did it in volumes, but that would take forever.

They will probably just put in important stuff like weddings, deaths, babies being born, etc. I hope they have Luc and Laura's wedding on the GH one! :)

Originally posted by ONE LIFE TO LIVE
I'd like to see the 1st season of OLTL.
That would be impossible. Most soaps were erased during the 40s, 50s, 60s, and early-mid 70s. Several shows were able to escape that, including "Dark Shadows," "Ryan's Hope," "Days of our Lives" and "The Young and the Restless." OLTL premeired in 1968, so it is lost. The earliest episodes they might have, that are full episodes, are probably from around 1978-1979.

Originally posted by JT
That would be impossible. Most soaps were erased during the 40s, 50s, 60s, and early-mid 70s. Several shows were able to escape that, including "Dark Shadows," "Ryan's Hope," "Days of our Lives" and "The Young and the Restless." OLTL premeired in 1968, so it is lost. The earliest episodes they might have, that are full episodes, are probably from around 1978-1979.

I never thought of it that way. But, I like the idea iloveTV said. The important dates should come out.

Recently i did a project at school on the history of Soap Opera, by the late 1960's most soaps were being taped. So you WOULD be able to get early episodes of "One Life To Live" and "All My Children", however episodes of "General Hospital" from the early 60's would no longer be in exsistance. Ditto for virtually every "Guiding Light" episode until probrally somewhere around 1967 ot 1968.

Originally posted by factsoflife
Recently i did a project at school on the history of Soap Opera, by the late 1960's most soaps were being taped. So you WOULD be able to get early episodes of "One Life To Live" and "All My Children", however episodes of "General Hospital" from the early 60's would no longer be in exsistance. Ditto for virtually every "Guiding Light" episode until probrally somewhere around 1967 ot 1968.

Although most soaps did begin taping by the late sixties (the last to stop airing live were As the World Turns and The Edge of Night, which both began to be taped in 1975), these tapes were taped over or destroyed -- so most episodes of all the P&G and ABC soaps from pre-1977/1979 do not exist. A few episodes do exist on tape from this period -- mostly special occasions, but besides that only kinescopes (which most networks stopped using by 1970) exist.

There are a few shows with just about every episode of their runs on tape -- Days of Our Lives (owned by Sony/Corday I think), The Young & the Restless (owned by Sony/Bell I think), Ryan's Hope (Labine-Mayer Productions/ABC), and Dark Shadows (Dan Curtis Productions) are the only soaps which began pre-1979 which have (almost) all their episodes from what I've read.

Does anyone know what COMPANY is putting out the soaps on dvd?
AND:
Where can we order/buy them from?
PLEASE WE ALL WANT TO KNOW, Thanks.
Lesli

it is ABC. you can order it at probally any online store like Amazon. or pick it up at any store that sells DVDs.

I hope they go and find the EON episodes at least from the mid seventies, which is when they started taping and release them on DVD. GREAT mystery soap.
Greg

I think they should do a best of DVD, let fans vote on which episodes they want on DVD or do something the The best of AMC-the best of the 1980's collection or something, make it box set or something :)

All i know is the DVD is a waste of money, i bought it and all it is is the same Greatest Weddings that were released on VHS back in the 1990's. There is not even a new segmeant or anything its the same thing simply transfered to DVD. I'm mad i was told it would be acutal episodes.