Claire Labine has Died

The news came out earlier this week about the death of soap writer and creator Claire Labine passing away. Below are my thoughts about her and her legacy.

Soap Stars in Other Places: Wheel of Fortune 2006

Soap stars week in 2006 paired soap celebrities playing for charity with regular contestants. This advertised not only the soaps, but SoapNet.

AMC & SoapNet Dead Again

Just wanted to post my thoughts on the two recent soap items about All My Children's online revival being defunct and SoapNet finally closing shop. While both things are disappointing they are not unexpected. My favorite version of the coverage on these topics comes from TVLine.com as they combine the topics and link to the pertinent articles.

GH: Short Summaries of Six Marathon Episodes

Below are my short summaries of six of the episodes that aired on the GH50 marathon on SoapNet this weekend. These covers the episodes that aired between 1983 and 1993.

GH: In an Early 80s Haze

I've been catching up on the General Hospital marathon viewing the late 70s and early 80s episodes. I feel like I'm in a time warp or some sort of haze. Below are my general thoughts on the episodes from 1979-1981 that were in this weekend's marathon.

GH: 50th Anniversary Marathon

The 50th Anniversary marathon for General Hospital began airing tonight. Unfortunately many of us no longer have access to Soapnet.

GH: Valetine's Day Supercouple Marathon

Below are my summaries of the first two episodes that aired on SoapNet's General Hospital marathon that aired on February 10, 2013. Thanks goes to LoriJoGH for sharing the episodes for those of us who no longer receive the channel.

Likes & Yikes 2012

Here is my version of best and worst for 2012. This is far from a complete list and just how I feel today about daytime soap opera related items. First will be general soap opera thoughts and later I will have two for each of the four soaps still on the air plus One Life to Live, which aired its last show in January 2012.

GH: Quartermania Thanksgiving Marathon

SoapNet had a General Hospital marathon on Thanksgiving night, Thursday November 22, 2012. The episodes which aired were from 1995, 1997, 2001, 2009 and 2011.

GH: Gold Medal Moments

For the last two weeks, SoapNet aired Gold Medal Moments, which were General Hospital episodes people on Facebook voted for as the channel didn't have any new Days of Our Lives episodes they could air as it was preempted for the Olympics.

Days: Last Week Before Olympics Pre-Emption

Due to the Summer Olympics, Days of Our Lives won't be on for two weeks starting after the July 27, 2012 episode. The show is having an event promoted as a "Dayaster", which will be a cliffhanger, spoilers are included below.

Anniversary of Another World's Last Episode

Today is the 13th anniversary of the last episode of Another World (June 24, 1999). I just wanted to post some thoughts I had about the program.

TV on DVD: Knots Landing Season One

For this long Memorial Day weekend, I took the opportunity to view the first season of Knots Landing, which I purchased on DVD earlier this year during the WeLoveSoaps sale. I've watched very few episodes of this series, so I was going in with little or no expectations. What follows is my summary and thoughts about about the Dallas spinoff, which used to air on SoapNet.

Losing SoapNet

Earlier this week, SoapNet stopped broadcasting in my area. For some reason I'm bummed by it and it brought back my feelings about cancellations.

TV on DVD: Hotel

One of my recent purchases was season one of the television show Hotel that reran SoapNet. It was an Aaron Spelling production that aired in the 1980s for five seasons. During most of its run it came on after Dynasty on ABC.

Random Soap News

Just wanted to make an entry about some recent Soap Opera related news.

OLTL: SoapNet New Year's Day Marathon Part 1

This weekend SoapNet is airing a 14 hour marathon of One Life to Live episodes. The programs date from 1979-2010. I am going to summarize the episodes in 3 parts. Part one will focus on the three episodes from 1979, 1987 and 1988. Part two will be the episodes from the 1990s. Part three will be episodes that aired after 2000.

Starlit Book

Starlit is a 2010 novel, by Lisa Rinna best known to daytime soap opera viewers as Billie Reed on Days of Our Lives, her stint on Melrose Place or as host of the defunct SoapNet show, SoapTalk. She's also been a competitor on Dancing with the Stars, had her own reality show, and appeared in various television movies. This entry has plot references and spoilers for the book, so if you don't want to know, don't continue reading it.

GH: Lucky Friday General Hospital Marathon

On Friday, November 25, 2011, SoapNet aired a General Hospital marathon focusing on the character of Lucky Spencer as played by Jonathan Jackson. The marathon featured four episodes from the 1990s and one from earlier in 2011.

AMC: Last Chance for Romance Marathon Part 2

In this entry, I am going to discuss the last four episodes that aired during the “last chance for romance” All My Children marathon on 9/18/2011.