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GoldenFamilyTies · 09-03-2003, 11:37 PM

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

ClassicTV4Ever · 09-06-2003, 10:51 AM

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

GoldenFamilyTies · 09-06-2003, 01:02 PM

General Hospital, and All My Children.

Christopher · 09-06-2003, 01:10 PM

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.

HIGH ENOUGH · 09-06-2003, 11:02 PM

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

Are they the ONLY ones?

GoldenFamilyTies · 09-06-2003, 11:33 PM

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!

ClassicTV4Ever · 09-07-2003, 12:46 PM

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

HIGH ENOUGH · 09-07-2003, 06:21 PM

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

ClassicTV4Ever · 09-07-2003, 09:30 PM

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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

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.

iloveTV · 09-10-2003, 05:04 PM

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!

JT · 09-11-2003, 06:09 PM

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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.

HIGH ENOUGH · 09-12-2003, 05:03 PM

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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.

factsoflife · 01-06-2004, 06:08 PM

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.

Sean Snow · 01-06-2004, 06:44 PM

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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.

Lesli · 01-31-2004, 10:22 PM

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

09-03-2003, 11:37 PM	#1
GoldenFamilyTies Por siempre tú Senior Member Join Date: Jan 15, 2002 Location: United States Posts: 1,329	The Soap DVDs Is there any additional information about the soaps that were announced earlier in the year to be on DVD?

01-06-2004, 06:08 PM	#13
factsoflife Member Forum Fanatic Join Date: Sep 11, 2000 Posts: 8,741	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.
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01-31-2004, 10:22 PM	#15
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09-06-2003, 10:51 AM	#2
ClassicTV4Ever Coming November 27th! Senior Member Join Date: May 02, 2002 Location: TV Land! Posts: 1,420	Exactly which soaps were announced? If I remember correctly, all I really heard about was All My Children.

09-06-2003, 01:02 PM	#3
GoldenFamilyTies Por siempre tú Senior Member Join Date: Jan 15, 2002 Location: United States Posts: 1,329	General Hospital, and All My Children.

09-06-2003, 01:10 PM	#4
Christopher The OG Core Four Forum Fanatic Join Date: Apr 15, 2001 Posts: 14,833	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.

09-06-2003, 11:33 PM	#6
GoldenFamilyTies Por siempre tú Senior Member Join Date: Jan 15, 2002 Location: United States Posts: 1,329	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!

09-07-2003, 12:46 PM	#7
ClassicTV4Ever Coming November 27th! Senior Member Join Date: May 02, 2002 Location: TV Land! Posts: 1,420	I'm really curious as to how they'll go about this

09-07-2003, 06:21 PM	#8
HIGH ENOUGH Member Senior Member Join Date: Jun 19, 2003 Location: making out with Hilary Duff and Tara Reid at the same time. Posts: 1,283	I'd like to see the 1st season of OLTL.

09-10-2003, 05:04 PM	#10
iloveTV Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Sep 08, 2002 Location: West Virginia Posts: 261	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!