Broke: I really accomplished something watching One Piece. It's so long, with over 1,000 episodes.
Bespoke: Powering through and listening to / watching all 18,262 episodes of Guiding Light, from its original radio broadcast in the 1930s to 2009 when it ended.
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"EastEnders," the U.K. soap opera set in the fictional Albert Square, London, is 40 years old. While it's no longer pulling in the ratings of its golden age (30 million people tuned in on Christmas day 1986 to see Dirty Den hand divorce papers to wife Angie after discovering she had been faking a terminal illness) it's still a success for the BBC. For @TheConversationUK, Jamie Medhurst looks at its significance in blending melodrama, realism, and public-service messaging, all in 30-minute episodes, each capped with a doof-doof.
The ConversationEastEnders at 40: how a ‘public service soap’ became a national institution
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Programmes that appeared on British television in the 1960s. Whether you saw them at the time, or in later decades, which programmes stand out for you? Which individual shows or series do you regard as your favourites? Which shows had the biggest cultural impact?
Roger Howarth has confirmed he will not be returning to "General Hospital" after more than a decade in the role of Dr. Austin Gatlin-Holt, who was shot, now fatally, on the November 17 episode.
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TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY
CORONATION STREET: Episode 5,772 - May 31, 2004, ITV
In the early 2000s on this long-running British soap, teenagers Todd and Sarah started dating. By 2004, she was pregnant by him and they were engaged, though he was questioning his sexual orientation.
Partway through the pregnancy, Todd told Sarah that he had realized he was gay and was now dating a nurse named Karl. Shortly thereafter, the pregnancy developed life-threatening complications. In this episode, her family blames Todd and are bitter towards him. In these clips, we also see Todd's boyfriend Karl (who works at the hospital) and Todd's mother, Eileen.
Todd has often been portrayed as immature, self-involved, and irresponsible, even when he tries his (inadequate) best to do the right thing.
TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY
DAYS OF OUR LIVES, 5/30/1977, NBC
This week in 1977, this daytime soap was airing a story about a lesbian, Sharon, who'd married a man out of social pressure but was attracted to her straight best friend. Sharon had never accepted her own feelings for women.
In this episode, Sharon had been hospitalized after a suicide attempt. Therapist characters talked about how some people think being gay is a mental illness though it is not and that she needs to accept herself. This was about 3 years after homosexuality was declassified as an illness.
In the next episodes her husband can't cope with her sexuality and tries to pull her out of the hospital, beyond the reach of the supportive liberal psychologists. Sharon and Karl were written off of the series soon thereafter.
As far as I can tell, the first sustained, multi-month queer character on a soap came six years later, on ALL MY CHILDREN.