My mom used to watch "Another World"- the organ music back then could be chessy. and of course the voice overacting, and characters crying lol. Another show my mom watched was"Concentration"-was that with Hugh Downs? he was on "Today at the same time, wasn't he?
On Thursday, September 29, 2016 at 12:04:58 PM UTC-4, Tom Wolper wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Marti Lawrence <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I often worked shifts and was home during the day to watch the soaps. I >> really enjoyed All My Children, Watched One Life to Live less often, but >> found both to be enjoyable. I always thought the soaps got a bad rap for >> being low quality TV. The story-lines were often engaging and touched on >> social issues that night-time TV was afraid to handle. The amount of >> dialogue the actors had to learn was phenomenal, I think Agnes Nixon >> brought a lot of entertainment to a lot of people, and should be honored as >> a true great in the TV industry. >> May she rest in peace. >> > > Now that we have the Internet Archive it's possible to stream/download > episodes of the original soap operas and understand why they got a bad rap. > Without any visual information characters had to be differentiated by their > voices which led to voice overacting. Add in that they needed daily scripts > and were not interested in paying for quality and the organ music used for > act breaks. In the early years of TV all of that carried over and it took > them a couple of decades to get beyond it. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
