Sunday, September 11, 2011

Today in Soap Opera History (September 11)


On this date in...

1917: Future soap star Henderson Forsythe, best known as AS THE WORLD TURNS' David Stewart, was born. He died in April 2006.

1972: THE EDGE OF NIGHT began airing at 2:30 p.m. ET, moving from its usual 3:30 p.m. timeslot where has been performing well in the ratings. CBS and Procter & Gamble made the decision to move the show to create blocks of P&G soaps that would not compete against each other on CBS and NBC. EDGE's ratings took a nose dive, and was eventually moved to ABC on December 1, 1975 to make room for the AS THE WORLD TURNS expansion to one hour.

1989: On AS THE WORLD TURNS, the investigation into the murder of James Stenbeck continued.



Celebrating a birthday today are:
John Hawkes (ex-Sol, DEADWOOD) - 52
Virginia Madsen (ex-Catherine, THE EVENT) - 50
Laura Wright (Carly, GENERAL HOPSITAL; ex-Cassie, GUIDING LIGHT; ex-Ally, LOVING/THE CITY) - 41
Tyler Hoechlin (ex-Martin, 7TH HEAVEN) - 24

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