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1975: Another World expanded to an hour full-time.

1983: Felicia Gallant arrived in Another World's Bay City.

1986: General Hospital's Monica was at odds with Alan.

1997: Aaron Spelling's Sunset Beach premiered on NBC."History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different 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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1966: On Peyton Place, Rodney Harrington (Ryan O'Neal) visited Allison Mackenzie (Mia Farrow) at Doctors Hospital. She had told Rodney she loved him on the day of his arraignment but she no longer remembered her feelings for him. The episode was written by Sonya Roberts and Rita Lakin.

Join our newsletter to get more stories like this The murder of Jessica Keen by Marvin Lee Smith, Jr. is the subject of this week’s episode of the Investigation Discovery show Dead Silent. In early 1991, Jessica Keen was a fifteen-year-old girl living in Columbus, Ohio. An honor roll student and cheerleader, she was every parent’s dream child. But that all started to change when she fell for 18-year-old Shawn Thompson, a high school dropout. Shortly after they started dating, Jessica began to rebel – her grades dropped, she started skipping school, and she quit cheerleading. Desperate to get her […]

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1975: Another World expanded to an hour full-time.

1983: Felicia Gallant arrived in Another World's Bay City.

1986: General Hospital's Monica was at odds with Alan.

1997: Aaron Spelling's Sunset Beach premiered on NBC."History is a vast early warning system."

― Norman Cousins

"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...

1966: On Peyton Place, Rodney Harrington (Ryan O'Neal) visited Allison Mackenzie (Mia Farrow) at Doctors Hospital. She had told Rodney she loved him on the day of his arraignment but she no longer remembered her feelings for him. The episode was written by Sonya Roberts and Rita Lakin. Lakin went on to become head writer of daytime soap opera The Doctors.

Bill Cosby's wife gave few answers about her husband during a contentious deposition in February, according to a transcript of the questioning released Friday and obtained by NBC and the Associated Press.  Camille Cosby claimed she had "no opinion" on whether or not it is "deceitful" to give Quaaludes to someone for the purposes of sex, according to The New York Daily News. (Bill had admitted in a 2005 deposition he had obtained Quaaludes to give to women.) The deposition is part of a defamation suit filed against Bill by seven women who claim they were portrayed  as liars after...

Bill Cosby's wife gave few answers about her husband during a contentious deposition in February, according to a transcript of the contentious questioning released Friday and obtained by NBC and the Associated Press.  Camille Cosby claimed she had "no opinion" on whether or not it is "deceitful" to give Quaaludes to someone for the purposes of sex, according to The New York Daily News. (Bill had admitted in a 2006 deposition he had obtained Quaaludes to give to women.) The deposition is part of a defamation suit filed against Bill by seven women who claim they were portrayed  as liars...

Former NBC employee Frank Scotti claims Bill Cosby used to give him money to pay off women. Scotti, who worked as a facilities manager at the Brooklyn studio where The Cosby Show was filmed, told the New York Daily News that Cosby had him hand out monthly payments to eight women between 1989-1990. "He had everybody fooled," Scotti told the Daily News. "Nobody suspected." Read more Bill Cosby Finds Protesters and Supporters at Florida Stand-Up Show Scotti said the women received up to $2,000 a month, with Shawn Thompson, whose daughter Autumn Jackson alleged that Cosby was her

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