Then later I had quit my safe, secure five-a-week spot on a network soap opera to take a part in this play.

* Kristian Alfonso, American soap opera actress.

* Another World ( TV series ), an American soap opera

* Alexandra Brooks DiMera, aka Lexie Carver, character on the American soap opera Days of our Lives

His younger brother Elliot Caplin also became a comic strip creator, best known for co-creating the soap opera strip The Heart of Juliet Jones with artist Stan Drake, and conceiving the comic strip character Broom-Hilda with cartoonist Russell Myers.

He is best known for playing Dave Lister in the British science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf, and Lloyd Mullaney in the long-running soap opera Coronation Street.

In 2005, Charles joined the principal cast of Coronation Street, the world's longest-running TV soap opera, playing philandering taxicab driver, Lloyd Mullaney.

Charles played the emotionally disturbed and violent prisoner, Eugene Buffy, in the high successful Lynda La Plante drama series The Governor ( 1995 ); the title role in the Channel 4 pirate sitcom Captain Butler ( 1997 ); the warden of a women's prison in the Canadian sci-fi fantasy Lexx ( 2001 ); Detective Chief Inspector Mercer in 7 episodes of the BBC soap opera Doctors ( 2003 ); and soccer agent, Joel Brooks, in the Sky TV football soap Dream Team ( 2004-5 ).

* Capitol ( TV series ), a U. S. soap opera

" On its first day, Channel 4 also broadcast controversial soap opera Brookside, which ran for 21 years.

Coronation Street is a British television soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford.

On 17 September 2010, it became the world's longest-running TV soap opera in production, after the United States soap opera As the World Turns ended.

ITV's other flagship soap opera Crossroads saw a marked increase in viewers at this time, as its established cast, such as Meg Richardson ( Noele Gordon ), grew in popularity.

The arrival of Channel 4 and its edgy new soap opera Brookside in 1982 was one of the biggest changes for Coronation Street.

The BBC also introduced a new prime time soap opera, EastEnders in 1985.

Patrick Stoddart of The Times wrote: " The millions who watch Coronation Street – and who will continue to do so despite Lord Rees-Mogg – know real life when they see it ... in the most confident and accomplished soap opera television has ever seen ".

In the Daily Mirror, Victor Lewis-Smith wrote: " Apparently it doesn't matter that this is a first-class soap opera, superbly scripted and flawlessly performed by a seasoned repertory company.

On 17 September 2010 Coronation Street entered the Guinness World Records book as the world's longest-running television soap opera after the American soap opera As the World Turns had its final episode.

The station itself also runs other television shows referenced by Frontline staff, such as 6 o ' clock news program, a 3 hour news review show Sunday Forum, a sketch show The Komedy Bunch, a game show Jackpot, a teen soap opera Sunshine Cove which later changed to Rainbow Island, also lesser mentioned shows such as the football show Ball-to-Ball, Late-Night OZ, Cartoon Crazies and Vacation.

Just days later soap opera parody series Echo Beach premiered alongside its sister series, the comedy Moving Wallpaper.

The exception was the original Crossroads which began as a five-days-a-week soap opera in the 1960s, but was later reduced.

Outdoor shooting later became commonplace and starting in the late 1970s it became standard practice that there will be some location-shot footage in each episode of any Australian soap opera, often to capitalise on the attractiveness and exotic nature of these locations for international audiences.

The movie later inspired a television soap opera in 1967, though without the hyphen in the show's title.

In later years, after graduating from Stanhope College, she changes careers several times, holding jobs in student counseling, news reporting, and acting in a TV soap opera titled Secret Hearts.

Decades later she received a Daytime Emmy Award for her work on the long-running soap The Edge of Night.

In later years, Hudson found success in television, starring in the popular mystery series McMillan & Wife & landing a recurring role on the prime time soap opera Dynasty.

* July 21 – Victoria Wyndham makes her first appearance as vixen ( and later, good girl ) Rachel Davis on the soap opera Another World.

" As a one-off special, the first quiz show called " Uncle Bee " was telecast on WNBT inaugural broadcast day of 1941 followed later the same day by Ralph Edwards hosting the second game show broadcast on United States television, Truth or Consequences, as simulcast on radio and TV and sponsored by Ivory soap.

Their album covers are unusual-naked women, and a naked dwarf sodomizing a rabbit covered in blood, for their 1990 album Blood Guts & Pussy-followed up a decade later, with a similar theme, this time covered in soap suds, for Come Clean.

The longest-running television soap opera produced by the BBC, Pobol y Cwm was originally transmitted on BBC Wales television and later transferred to the Welsh-language station S4C when it opened in November 1982.

She first appeared on screen as Lucy Collins in the Liverpool soap opera Brookside from 1982 to 1988 and later became well known for her film work with directors such as Mike Leigh and Lars von Trier.

However, she achieved stardom on the popular primetime soap opera Peyton Place as naive, waif-like Allison MacKenzie, a role she later abandoned at the urging of first husband Frank Sinatra.

It proved to be so popular that British soap opera Coronation Street later did their own version.

In 1940, he married Charlotte Holland, a Canadian radio soap star of the 1940s and later an actress.

Within These Walls, a prison drama starring veteran actress Googie Withers, seems to have inspired the later Australian soap opera Prisoner Cell Block H. Lillie was based on the real-life story of Lillie Langtry, and saw Francesca Annis reprising the role from ATV's Edward the Seventh, and The Gentle Touch starring Jill Gascoine was the UK's first drama series with a female police detective in the lead role.

Class of ' 74 ( and later Class of ' 75 ) was a secondary school-based, daily soap opera produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation and screened on the Seven Network in Australia starting March 1974.

She was then later cast as another scheming villain, Laura Wilde, in the BBC soap Howards ' Way in 1989.

Two years later, she shot another TV Azteca soap opera, Golpe Bajo, with Javier Gómez and Salvador Pineda.

One year later, on April 24, 1952, “ temporary ” stamps were introduced for sugar and soap.

The ash and soot will stick to the soap which is then easily rinsed off later.

She later appeared on the prime time soap opera Falcon Crest from 1986 to 1987.