The practice of accelerating the age of a television character ( usually a child or teenager ) in conflict with the timeline of a series and / or the real-world progression of time is popularly known as Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome, or SORAS.

These were: Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One ( 1970 ), Muswell Hillbillies ( 1971 ), Preservation: Act 1 ( 1973 ), Preservation: Act 2 ( 1974 ), Soap Opera ( 1975 ) and Schoolboys in Disgrace ( 1976 ).

According to the 2006 Preview issue of Soap Opera Digest, it was briefly discussed that all ABC shows might do telenovela arcs, but this was rejected.

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* Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome

Watching Dallas: Soap Opera and the Melodramatic Imagination, Methuen, 1985.

The Aesthetic Experience in Women and Soap Opera: A Study of Prime Time Soaps, Polity Press, Cambridge, 1991.

* Soap Opera overview – Museum of Broadcast Communications

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* In the Mexican Soap Opera Alcanzar una estrella II ( 1991 ) starring singers Ricky Martin and Sasha the intros of all four new songs from the album Then and Now were used at the closing of each scene before a commercial break.

Mulgrew remains friends with former co-star Ilene Kristen and presented a special Soap Opera Digest Award to Ryan's Hope creator Claire Labine in 1995.

When the Kinks changed record labels from RCA to Arista in 1976, Davies abandoned his then-recent propensity for ambitious, theatrical concept albums and rock operas — the RCA era ( 1971 – 75 ) had produced Muswell Hillbillies, Everybody's in Show-Biz, Preservation Act 1 and Act 2, Soap Opera and Schoolboys in Disgrace — and returned to writing more basic, straightforward songs.

* Kristian Alfonso, Soap Opera Star

For his work on the series, he was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award in 2000 and won two Soap Opera Digest Awards in 2000 and 2001.

In her book Soap Opera, Hobson said Ken and his brother David initially represented the younger males of society.

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For her role as Angela Channing, Wyman was nominated for a Soap Opera Digest Award five times ( for Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role and for Outstanding Villainess: Prime Time Serial ), and was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1983 and 1984.

* Steve McDonald ( Coronation Street ), a character from popular English Soap Opera Coronation Street

Christopher Schemering's The Soap Opera Encyclopedia notes that later, " capitalizing on that success, the show put out a men's fashion line, Dynasty sheets and towels, ' Forever Krystle ' perfume, dolls, and — in keeping with the nothing-is-sacred spirit of the show — even wall-to-wall carpeting and panty hose.

Preservation: Act 1 & Preservation: Act 2, The Kinks Present A Soap Opera and Schoolboys in Disgrace.

While the article was little more than a rehash of views expressed in a 1955 article " Royal Soap Opera ", its timing caused outrage back in Britain, and he was sacked for a short period from the BBC, and a contract with Beaverbrook newspapers was cancelled.

The reveal that heroine Marlena Evans was somehow the killer made the February 3, 2004 cover of Soap Opera Digest.

* Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome, a plot device in television dramas

In 1986 MacKenzie was temporarily recast as Katherine Chancellor on the Soap Opera The Young and the Restless.

He was nominated for a Soap Opera Digest Award seven times for Outstanding Villain on a Prime Time Serial, Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role on a Prime Time Serial, Favorite Super Couple: Prime Time and Outstanding Actor in a Comic Relief Role on a Prime Time Serial, and won five times.

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Several episodes later in " The One Where Dr. Ramoray Dies ", Joey costs himself the Days Of Our Lives gig when during an interview with Soap Opera Digest, he lies claiming that he makes up his own lines.

He was nominated five times for the Soap Opera Digest Awards, also winning twice.

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All nine American network soaps began to impose an unwritten rule of avoiding any sort of risqué adult scenes, and in the months following, soap opera periodical Soap Opera Digest editors wrote about how daytime television was losing its steam.

In the late 1980s, Soap Opera Digest named Falcon Crest's eighth season as " Most Ruined Show ".

Category: Soap Opera Digest Award winners

Category: Soap Opera Digest Award winners

Category: Soap Opera Digest Award winners

He has made appearances on Baywatch Nights and Acapulco H. E. A. T .. Harmon told Soap Opera Digest about his guest stint on H. E. A. T.

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During her thirteen seasons on Knots Landing, Van Ark earned two Soap Opera Digest Awards for Best Actress and was nominated a further six times.

Quartermaine from 1993 – 1997 and was nominated for outstanding newcomer by the Soap Opera Digest awards.

" bove all, the show is, and should always revolve around, Erica ," he said in an interview with Soap Opera Digest.

In an interview with Soap Opera Digest, he said, " Actually, my father is an obstetrician / gynecologist and my brother is a doctor, as is one of my best friends, and their collective opinion is that this is possible ; it is possible to take a fetus out of one woman and place it into the womb of another woman, but it's only possible within the first week of pregnancy, before the fetus actually starts attaching itself to the uterine lining.

She has won three Soap Opera Digest Awards for outstanding lead actress in 1984, 1985, and 1995.

* Soap Opera Digest Award-Winner, Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Soap Opera ( 1984 )