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.

* Soap Opera Digest

* 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.

The Soap Opera Encyclopedia.

Category: Soap Opera Digest Award winners

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.

* William Valentine Wright, creator of Wright's Coal Tar Soap, died September 1877.

When Soap premiered on September 13, 1977, 18 out of 195 ABC affiliates had refused to air the program with others choosing to broadcast it after 11PM.

Soap premiered on Tuesday, September 13, 1977 at 9: 30PM.

Richard Mulligan ( November 13, 1932 – September 26, 2000 ) was an American television and film actor best known for his role as Burt Campbell in the 1970s sitcom Soap and later as Dr. Harry Weston on The Golden Girls and its spin-off Empty Nest.

Alexander Gordon Jump ( April 1, 1932 – September 22, 2003 ) was an American actor best known as the clueless radio station manager Arthur " Big Guy " Carlson in the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati and the incompetent " Chief of Police Tinkler " in the sitcom Soap.

The Barn Theatre in Augusta Michigan staged a production starring four time Emmy winning Soap star Kim Zimmer from August 23 to September 4, 2011.

They were both featured in the reality show Dirty Soap which debuted on September 25, 2011.

On September 5, 1994, he went on to host CBS Soap Break.

William Dean ( 8 January 1840 – 4 September 1905 ) was the second son of Henry Dean, manager of the Hawes Soap Factory in New Cross, London.

In September 1998 she was inducted into the Soap Opera Hall of Fame.

Eugene Harrison Roche ( September 22, 1928-July 28, 2004 ) was an American actor ( Foul Play, Soap ).

Starting on September 25, 2011, Bjorlin has been one of the stars of the reality television series Dirty Soap which gave viewers a behind-the-scenes view of Nadia's departure from Days, and afterward, including a bit of insight into the tenuous relationship between Nadia's live-in boyfriend and her mother who doesn't like him because she believes that he doesn't treat her well enough ( e. g. flowers ).

It aired on CBS from November 25, 1944 to September 28, 1958, it had a variety of sponsors ( including Lava Soap, Wildroot Cream-Oil, Lucky Strike, Nescafe and Wrigley's ) over the years.

On September 25, 2011, Fath will star on Dirty Soap with many soap opera alumni including her boyfriend, John-Paul Lavoisier.

In July 2007, it was confirmed by Soap Opera Weekly magazine that Giddish and All My Children parted ways in a mutual decision and that she would make her final appearance as Di on September 19, 2007.

Myron E. Scott ( September 16, 1907-October 4, 1998 ) was the creator of the All-American Soap Box Derby.

The gay couple was featured in a story in the British magazine reFRESH and in an article in the September 23 issue of Soap Opera Weekly.