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CBS soap operas
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The list CBS soap operas includes
The Young and the Restless, The Bold and the Beautiful, Guiding Light, As the World Turns and The Secret Storm.
The list consists of 28 members
and 7 sublists.
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The Young and the Restless
American daytime soap opera
Overview: The Young and the Restless (often abbreviated as Y&R) is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictionalized version of Genoa City ...
Release date: 26 March 1973Genre: DramaDirector: Sally McDonald, Owen RenfroeProducer: Edward Scott, John C. FisherWriter: Lee Phillip Bell, William J. BellSet in Genoa City, Y&R is the long-running soap that tells the story of the struggle behind the business- and sex-savvy Abbott and Newman clans.
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The Bold and the Beautiful
American television soap opera
Overview: The Bold and the Beautiful (often referred to as B&B) is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. It premiered on March 23, 1987, as a sister show to the ...
Release date: 23 March 1987Director: Michael Stich, Cynthia J. PoppCast: Katherine Kelly Lang, Ronn Moss, John McCook, Susan Flannery, Hunter Tylo, Jacqueline MacInnes WoodProducer: Bradley Bell, Rhonda FriedmanWriter: Bradley Bell, William J. BellThe saga of high fashion glamour, honor, romance, passion, and most importantly, family. 0
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Guiding Light
American radio and television soap opera (1937–2009)
Overview: Guiding Light (known as The Guiding Light before 1975) is an American radio and television soap opera. It is listed in Guinness World Records as the longest-running drama in television in American history ...
Release date: 30 June 1952Genre: Drama, RomanceDirector: Roy B. Steinberg, Brian MertesProducer: Christopher Cullen, Janet M. MorrisonWriter: Melissa Salmons, David KreizmanGuiding Light takes place in the fictional Midwestern town of Springfield. In its early years the stories centered on the middle class Bauer family... 0
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As the World Turns
American television soap opera (1956-2010)
Overview: As the World Turns (often referred to as ATWT) is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS for 54 years from April 2, 1956, to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as ...
Release date: 2 April 1956Genre: Drama, RomanceDirector: Paul Lammers, Cort SteenProducer: Lyle B. Hill, Joe WillmoreWriter: Irna Phillips, Robert SoderbergSet in the fictional town of Oakdale, this long-running serial focuses on the relationships and difficulties of its inhabitants. 0
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The Secret Storm
American television soap opera (1954–1974)
Overview: The Secret Storm is an American soap opera which the CBS television network transmitted from February 1, 1954, to February 8, 1974. It was created by Roy Winsor, who also created the long-running soap ...
Release date: 1 February 1954Genre: Drama, RomanceDirector: Gloria Monty, Robert MyhrumProducer: Roy Winsor, Tony ConverseWriter: Roy Winsor, Lou ScofieldFamily secrets and hidden passions are the hallmarks of this dark, moody serial. Set in the fictional community of Woodbridge... 0
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The Edge of Night
American television crime drama and soap opera (1956–1984)
Overview: The Edge of Night is an American television mystery crime drama series and soap opera, created by Irving Vendig and produced by Procter & Gamble Productions.
Release date: 2 April 1956Director: John Sedwick, Richard PeppermanProducer: Erwin Nicholson, Charles FisherWriter: Irving Vendig, Henry SlesarIn the fictional city of Monticello, attorney Mike Karr and his colleagues are involved in solving crimes... 0
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Search for Tomorrow
American soap opera (1951–86)
Overview: Search for Tomorrow is an American television soap opera. It began its run on CBS on September 3, 1951, and concluded on NBC, 35 years later, on December 26, 1986.
Release date: 3 September 1951Genre: Drama, RomanceDirector: Gregory Lehane, Ned StarkProducer: John Edwards, Robert DriscollWriter: Ralph Ellis, Eugenie Hunt 0
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Love of Life
American television soap opera (1951-1980)
Overview: Love of Life is an American soap opera televised on CBS from September 24, 1951, to February 1, 1980. It was created by Roy Winsor, whose previous creation Search for Tomorrow had premiered three weeks ...
Release date: 24 September 1951Genre: Drama, RomanceDirector: Larry Auerbach, Heather HillProducer: Bruce Barry, Darryl HickmanWriter: Robert Soderberg, Loring MandelInitially set in fictional Barrowsville, New York, this serial tells the story of extremely disparate... 0
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Falcon Crest
American television series
Overview: Falcon Crest is an American prime time television soap opera that aired for nine seasons on CBS from December 4, 1981, to May 17, 1990. The series revolves around the feuding factions of the wealthy G ...
Genre: Drama, RomanceDirector: Reza Badiyi, Harry HarrisProducer: Michael Filerman, Victoria LaFortuneWriter: Earl Hamner Jr., Ernie WallengrenSet in the vineyards of California, this prime-time soap opera featured the conflict within the powerful Gioberti family... 0
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Capitol
American TV series or program
Overview: Capitol is an American soap opera which aired on CBS from March 29, 1982, to March 20, 1987, for 1,270 episodes. As its name suggests, the storyline usually revolved around the political intrigues of people ...
Release date: 26 March 1982Genre: DramaDirector: Corey Allen, Patrick CorbettCast: Constance Towers, Debrah Farentino, Rory Calhoun, Carolyn Jones, Rosie Malek-Yonan, Bill BeyersProducer: John Conboy, Stockton BriggleWriter: K.C. Ligon, Elinor KarpfThis daytime serial dramatized the power struggles and personal machinations between two feuding political... 0
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Where the Heart Is
American TV series or program
Overview: Where the Heart Is is an American soap opera telecast on the CBS television network from September 8, 1969 to March 23, 1973. Created by Lou Scofield and Margaret DePriest, the program ran for 25 minutes ...Release date: 8 September 1969Genre: DramaDirector: Richard Dunlap, Bill GlennProducer: Paul Avila Mayer, Margaret DePriestSet in Northcross, Connecticut, "Where the Heart Is" followed the dysfunctional lives of the Hathaway family and those near them... 0
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The Doctors and the Nurses
American TV series or program
Overview: The Nurses is a serialized primetime medical drama that was broadcast in the United States on CBS from September 27, 1962, to May 11, 1965. For the second season, the title was expanded to The Doctors ...Release date: 27 September 1962Genre: DramaDirector: Paul Bogart, Stuart RosenbergProducer: Herbert Brodkin, Marvin J. ChomskyWriter: Alvin Boretz, Albert RubenThe story takes place in a large hospital and revolves around two nurses, Liz Thorpe (Shirl Conway)... 0
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2000 Malibu Road
American soap opera
Overview: 2000 Malibu Road is an American prime time soap opera television series that aired on CBS during the summer from August 23 to September 9, 1992. The series stars Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Beals, Brian Bloom ...Release date: 23 August 1992Genre: DramaDirector: Joel SchumacherProducer: Terry Louise Fisher, Aaron SpellingWriter: Terry Louise Fisher, Kimberly CostelloA story of four women living together at a beach house located at 2000 Malibu Road - Jade, a former... 0
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The Brighter Day
American TV series or program
Overview: The Brighter Day is an American daytime soap opera which aired on CBS from January 4, 1954, to September 28, 1962. Originally created for NBC Radio by Irna Phillips in 1948, the radio and television v ...Genre: DramaDirector: Marvin Silbersher, Erwin NicholsonWriter: John Haggart, Sam Hall"Our years are as the falling leaves. We live, we love, we dream, and then we go. But somehow, we keep... 0
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Emerald Point N.A.S.
American television series
Overview: Emerald Point N.A.S is an American television drama starring Dennis Weaver that premiered on CBS on Monday, September 26, 1983. It was cancelled in 1984 after twenty-two weeks, its final episode airing ...Release date: 26 September 1983Genre: DramaDirector: Robert Becker, Larry ElikannProducer: Michael Filerman, Freyda RothsteinWriter: Esther Shapiro, Richard ShapiroThe story took place on a naval base and dealt with the Mallory family headed by patriarch, Admiral Thomas Mallory... 0
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Executive Suite
American television series 1976–1977
Overview: Executive Suite is an American drama television series based on the 1954 film of the same name. It aired from September 20, 1976, until February 11, 1977.Release date: 20 September 1976Genre: DramaDirector: Charles S. Dubin, Joseph PevneyProducer: Don Brinkley, Norman FeltonWriter: Peter Allan Fields, Barbara AvedonThe machinations of the powerful Cardway Corporation, headed by president Don Walling. 0
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Beacon Hill
American TV series or program
Overview: Beacon Hill is a prime time drama series shown on CBS in 1975.
Release date: 25 August 1975Genre: DramaDirector: Fielder Cook, Mel FerberProducer: Jacqueline Babbin, Beryl VertueWriter: Lionel Chetwynd, Sidney CarrollSoap opera about rich family and their servants in 1920s Boston. 0
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Valiant Lady
American soap opera television series
Overview: Valiant Lady is an American soap opera which ran daily on CBS radio and television from October 12, 1953, to August 16, 1957, at 12:00 PM (EST). The show's title was taken from a 1930s radio soap opera ...Genre: DramaDirector: Ira Cirker, Ted CordayProducer: Charles Elwyn, Adrian SpiesHelen Emerson was daytime's "valiant lady", a fortyish matron who was widowed in the serial's first year... 0
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Behind the Screen
American television series
Overview: Behind the Screen is an American late-night weekly serial which aired on CBS (Fridays, 11:30 PM EST) from October 9, 1981 to January 8, 1982. It was created by David Jacobs (Dallas, Knots Landing) for ...Release date: 9 October 1981Genre: DramaDirector: William E. GlennProducer: Cathy Abbi, Michael FilermanWriter: David Jacobs, Ronnie Wenker-Konner 0
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The First Hundred Years
Television series
Overview: The First Hundred Years is the first ongoing TV soap opera in the United States that began as a daytime serial, airing on CBS from December 4, 1950 until June 27, 1952. A previous daytime drama on NBC ...Release date: 4 December 1950Director: Everett Gammon, Gloria MontyProducer: Hoyt AllenWriter: Jean Holloway 0
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