Remember when characters on soaps were well-off, but not ultra-rich?

[raccoon]

When the characters were doctors, lawyers, newpaper editors. I would've maybe called them "upper middle class."

Now the characters are multi-billionaires and live in real mansions. I think that change took place around the 1980's.

[flor-de-jasmim]

1. Dallas, Dynasty

[Yeshuah Ben Joseph]

2. I'm more concerned with the "Christian" channels with sets that look like mansions

and somehow claim to be representing Me. :(

[no_hypocrisy]

3. That's true. Phoebe Taylor on "All My Children" thought she ruled Pine Valley

between her marriage to a doctor and likely her trust fund, but that wasn't the emphasis on her fixation of superiority.

There were two camps initially in AMC: upper middle class typified by the Taylor family and the regular middle class exemplified by the Martin family.

[pipi_k]

4. The one that scared me was...

"General Hospital"

there was so much personal drama going on with the doctors and nurses it's a wonder any of their patients survived

[no_hypocrisy]

9. Sorry. Meant Tyler, not Taylor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebe_Tyler_Wallingford

[FLPanhandle]

5. Except for the Collins family in Dark Shadows

As a young boy, it was a soap I could get into.

[Ozymanithrax]

6. Haven't watched Soap Operas since Barnabas Collins was haunting the night. n/t

[Fumesucker]

7. I've never managed to watch more than ten minutes of any soap..

Always found them profoundly depressing.

[Uben]

8. Are you kiddin?

I remember when only rich kids HAD TVs!

[Codeine]

10. They still make soaps?

Who the hell watches that crap? :shrug:

[raccoon]

11. Probably won't for too many more years--two of them bit the dust recently. nt