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1970: A World Apart and The Best of Everything premiered on ABC.

Another World spinoff Somerset premiered on NBC.

Dark Shadows' Maggie found a mysterious note."History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into d ifferent and unexpected images."

― Anselm Kiefer

"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.

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1970: Daytime soap opera A World Apart premiered on ABC. The show was created by Katherine L. Phillips, Irna Phillips' daughter, and combined Irna's own life story with examples of the generation gap. Susan Sarandon and Matthew Cowles were siblings Patrice and Chris Kahlman, adopted children of soap opera writer Better Kahlman (played by...

1970: A World Apart and The Best of Everything premiered on ABC.

Another World spinoff Somerset premiered on NBC.

Dark Shadows' Maggie found a mysterious note."All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut."

― Anne Brontë in "Agnes Grey"

"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.

On this date in...

1970: Daytime soap opera A World Apart premiered on ABC. The show was created by Katherine L. Phillips, Irna Phillips' daughter, and combined Irna's own life story with examples of the generation gap. Susan Sarandon...

Genre master George A. Romero’s 1980’s cult anthology series Tales From The Darkside looks to be getting a radical 21st century-makeover should the fine folks over at The CW have their way.

Deadline is reporting today that the network is looking to resurrect the long-forgotten half-hour anthology series which was a late-night staple on independent stations during its initial four-year (1984-1988) syndicated run. The CW has partnered with producers Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci (Star Trek: Into Darkness) and writer Joe Hill (Stephen King’s progeny and himself a renowned author in his own right) as they attempt to revive the revered series for a summer 2014 run on the network.

Tales From The Darkside was a weekly half-hour anthology devoted to scaring viewers with its unnerving stories which were culled from a creative cauldron that boiled with elements of horror, fantasy and the supernatural. The show was a spooky...

Sopranos star Nancy Marchand has died at her home in Stratford, Connecticut - just a day before her 72nd birthday. The Emmy- winning actress died on Sunday of lung cancer, HBO spokeswoman Tobe Becker said. Marchand had continued to work on The Sopranos even after her diagnosis of lung cancer. Her husband of 47 years, Paul Sparer, died in November, also of cancer. On film, Marchand appeared in Dear God (1996) with Greg Kinnear, the 1995 remake of Sabrina (1995), Regarding Henry (1991) and the first of the Naked Gun comedies, among many others. Marchand was a series regular on such shows as "Lou Grant" and "Another World" as well as making guest appearances in numerous other series throughout her distinguished career. She leaves behind three children.