Soap Opera Confidential by Searle, Elizabeth -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Acknowledgments Introduction EPISODE 1 Days of Our Lives Soaps as Part of Growing Up

Quentin, We’re Trapped! Latchkey Lunch with Love of Life Sunny, Seductive Summer Bay Lesbians, Jews and Patriarchal Oppression “Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller” Dynasty II: The Colbys

Part I: The Dynastys Part II: The Moves Part III: The Aftermath

EPISODE 2 All My Children Soaps as Family Affair

Dr. Steve at Bat The Doctors and William Beaumont General Hospi-tale My Years of Tonsillitis A Boxer’s Secret A Soapy Life My Mother’s Stories Their Show The Kind That Lasts Forever

EPISODE 3 Another World Soaps as Cultural Commentary

Thoughts on the Rooftop Dark Shadows Accepting an Invitation to Love Learning to Watch

I. Soap II. TV III. Reruns and Reunions IV. Still with Cats

Bringing Hope

EPISODE 4 Dynasty Soaps as Insider Game

Waterbed Three Months on the Inside Everything I Ever Wanted to Know About Sex (But Was Afraid Mike Douglas Would Ask Zsa Zsa Gabor) For the Love of Adam I Thickened the Plot—and Other Confessions of a Soap-Opera Writer Charm!ed An Unexpected Stage How Luke and Laura Killed the Modern Soap Opera

EPISODE 5 As the World Turns Soaps as Life-Long Passion

As My World Turned Sister Soaps

What a Way to Live Lorie and Leslie (and Lance and Lucas…) The Young and the Rest of Us Traci and Ashley (and Brad and Victor) Ashley Abbott’s Lost Baby Bold and Beautiful (and Sick and Riveting) Brooke and Bridget (and Deacon and Nick) John Abbott’s Death Victor Newman Lives On

A Guiding Light Extinguished A Fan’s Perspective Undying Vampire Love Soaps Thirty Years in Pine Valley

Sleepless in the Land of Soaps About the Contributors List of Names and Terms