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86-599: Paper Dolls first aired on May 24, 1982 as an ABC Monday Night Movie , which revolved around the lives of two teenage models, Taryn and Laurie, and their strong-willed mothers. The cast included Joan Hackett as Julia Blake, Jennifer Warren as Dinah Caswell, Daryl Hannah as Julia's daughter Taryn, Marc Singer as Wesley Myles, Antonio Fargas as photographer Oliver, Barry Primus as Alan (credited as "also starring"), Alexandra Paul as Dinah's daughter Laurie (in her first role, credited as "introducing") and Craig T. Nelson as husband Michael. Joan Collins appeared as Racine,

172-464: A Richard Matheson short story from Playboy , was director Steven Spielberg 's first feature film, catapulting his career and enabling him to move from television to theatrical films. ABC earned four Emmys , a Peabody Award and citations from the NAACP and American Cancer Society for an airing of Brian's Song in 1972. The 1971–72 season of the series finished as the fifth highest rated series of

258-642: A double agent that the West wants to plant high in the KGB . Starring: Robert Horton , Jill St. John , Sebastian Cabot , Eric Pohlmann , Dudley Foster , Eleanor Summerfield A racist commando must lead an all-African-American squad of misfits on a secret mission in Nazi Germany . Starring: Stephen Boyd , Robert Hooks , Susan Oliver , Roosevelt Grier **, Moses Gunn **, Richard Pryor **, Billy Dee Williams **, Glynn Turman **, Paul Stewart ** A documentary tracing

344-474: A pacifistic hippie draftee . Starring: Darren McGavin , Jan-Michael Vincent , Earl Holliman Three of the gang reunite to help a geriatric comrade, especially after he becomes marshal of Waco and has to face down bank robbers. Starring: Walter Brennan , Edgar Buchanan , Chill Wills , Andy Devine , Fred Astaire **, Parley Baer , Walter Burke , Lana Wood Two notorious outlaws work to earn amnesty , but their former gang has other plans for

430-410: A $ 2 million diamond from a tycoon, but they find they have competition. Starring: Patrick Macnee , Connie Stevens , Herbert Lom , Marty Allen Double-crosses abound as various people try to get $ 38,000 that was embezzled from a Santa Fe bank. Starring: Roger Davis , Pete Duel , Walter Brennan , Joan Hackett , Wally Cox A man blinded by guilt comes home to live with his sister, but

516-514: A business rival to Grant. During the series, Blair is 30 years old, pregnant and fearing the end of her modelling career. Despite health problems, she was determined to carry her baby to full term. David is too proud to accept financial assistance, and resorts to accepting money from loan sharks to fund his upcoming collection, putting him and Blair in danger. Eventually, he is forced to ask his father in-law for help, resulting in Tempus being brought under

602-417: A cab driver. Starring: Jason Evers , Judy Pace , Zalman King , Tom Fielding, Anjanette Comer *, Keenan Wynn *, James Shigeta *, Richard Pryor *, Dick Bass *, Michael Parks **, George Macready ***, Louise Latham ***, Barry Atwater ***, Georg Stanford Brown *** Former government assassin turned private investigator John Smith finds himself caught in a web of deceit involving a notebook containing

688-547: A dying billionaire after his blood is found to provide almost miraculous healing and life extension properties. Starring: Christopher George , Carol Lynley *, Barry Sullivan *, Jessica Walter *, Ralph Bellamy * Four elderly Texas Rangers come out of retirement to oust the corrupt crime boss mayor of a frontier town. Starring: Walter Brennan , Pat O'Brien *, Edgar Buchanan *, Chill Wills *, Edward Andrews *, Jack Elam *, Andy Devine *, Gypsy Rose Lee *, Ricky Nelson * Unlicensed private investigator Gus Monk

774-520: A famed gunslinger gives up violence but has to find a way to save a frontier town. Starring: Lloyd Bridges , John Beck , Ed Begley, Sr. , Edd Byrnes , Pernell Roberts , Susan Howard After breaking up with Moondoggie, Gidget becomes a United Nations tour guide and begins a love affair with an older Australian agriculture consultant. Starring: Karen Valentine , Edward Mulhare , Paul Peterson , Warner Anderson **, Bob Cummings **, Nina Foch **, Paul Lynde ** Independent scholars try to find

860-452: A general decline in the soap opera genre as a whole, and the growing adoption of digital video recorders , cable/satellite video on demand , and streaming video options making its primetime soap encores increasingly unnecessary on a traditional linear network, Disney announced in 2010 that Soapnet would be replaced by the new preschool-oriented network Disney Junior , which launched on March 23, 2012. While some providers removed Soapnet upon

946-470: A handbuilt glider . Starring: Doug McClure , Rene Auberjonois , Richard Basehart **, Max Baer Jr. **, Chuck Connors **, Tom Skerritt An ESP researcher investigates mysterious happenings surrounding a widow to find out if she is being gaslighted by someone with psychic powers. Starring: Alex Dreier , Stefanie Powers **, Pat Hingle , Louise Latham , Steve Ihnat , Brenda Scott , Chris Robinson Death takes human form and falls in love with

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1032-414: A kidnapped scientist who has developed a biological agent that can turn humanity into mindless slaves. Starring: Christopher George , Avery Schreiber , Marlyn Mason *, William Windom *, John Vernon *, William Schallert *, Gloria Grahame * An OSS officer tasked with smuggling a nuclear physicist out of Nazi Germany plots to fly themselves out of a POW camp located in a mountain castle using

1118-402: A lead-in from 7:30 to 8:30, bringing the younger demographic . The shorter running time of the film freed the 10 p.m. time slot for a full 60-minute program, initially Marcus Welby, M.D. during the first season. Starting earlier at 8:30 could also prevent viewers from switching to competing movies at 9:00. Beginning with the 1971 season, ABC added a second MotW on Saturday night and adjusted

1204-547: A list of names of spies. Starring: Robert Horton , Jill St. John , Sebastian Cabot , Lee Montague , Eleanor Summerfield , Barbara Shelley Struggling wedding consultants desperately try to get three couples legally married after finding out they accidentally had an actor officiate the original weddings. Starring: Michael Callan , Ann Prentiss , Eve Arden **, Ruth Buzzi **, Christopher Connelly ,** Bill Daily **, Elinor Donahue **, Herb Edelman **, Paul Ford ,** Elsa Lanchester ** After nearly shooting an innocent,

1290-462: A long lost Spanish galleon while an unscrupulous, wealthy thief shadows them to get the treasure for himself. Starring: Keir Dullea , Bradford Dillman , France Nuyen , Aron Kincaid , Lana Wood , Jacques Aubuchon , Paul Hampton , Ricardo Montalbán ** Former government agent turned private investigator John Smith agrees to participate in a scheme to be captured by the Soviets and exchanged for

1376-551: A matter of hours, negated the further need for a linear channel devoted to the genre. Disney–ABC Television Group head Anne Sweeney solicited concepts for a new network to replace Soapnet. The ABC Daytime division pitched two concepts for a women-focused network, including "Carrie" (named after Carrie Bradshaw of Sex and the City )—a "hip and cool" channel, and "Disney Moms"—which focused on "[programs] moms would want to watch and their families would watch with them". They competed with

1462-593: A motorhome on a journey of self-discovery to a hippie music festival , where he falls in love with gravely ill girl. Starring: Carl Betz , Vera Miles , Jeff Bridges , Ruth McDevitt , Michael Anderson, Jr. *, Howard Duff *, Kim Hunter *, Renne Jarrett *, Sal Mineo *, Tyne Daly An African American sheriff tries to prove that a racist raped a young black girl. Starring: Ossie Davis , Kaz Garas , Kyle Johnson , John Marley *, Edward Binns *, Lynda Day George *, Ruby Dee *, Moses Gunn *, Ross Martin *, Brenda Sykes * A famed escape artist has to find

1548-442: A mysterious boarder may be trying to kill him. Starring: Anthony Perkins , Julie Harris , Joan Hackett , Kent Smith , Robert H. Harris A man with a steel plate in his skull sees everyone else in a town he is visiting leave in a trance -like state every night. Starring: James Franciscus , Lee Grant , Leslie Nielsen **, Tisha Sterling . An elderly man sees a close friend beaten to death, but all witnesses contradict him,

1634-628: A new fresh teen face, a young woman named Laurie Caswell (Farrell). The naive and innocent Laurie still attends public school in Stonehurst in Long Island and is not prepared for the fast life, despite her mother Dinah Anderson Caswell's (Warren) best efforts to keep her grounded. Dinah, a former model herself, focuses too much time on her daughter's career, putting a strain on her marriage to Michael Caswell (Perry), Laurie's stepfather. Despite their vast differences, Taryn and Laurie become good friends, while

1720-505: A new wide-ranging multi-year carriage agreement with Disney for its various broadcast and cable channels, which included the addition of Disney Junior. In April 2013, Soapnet lost the rights to same-day broadcasts of The Young and the Restless to TVGN (which CBS Corporation , owner of the show's originating broadcaster CBS , had acquired a 50% ownership stake in the previous month), effective July 1. TVGN eventually picked up The Bold and

1806-473: A proposal by Disney Channels Worldwide for a network devoted to preschool programming. Much to the dismay of the ABC Daytime staff, Sweeney would choose Disney Channel's proposal. On May 26, 2010, Disney Junior was officially announced as Disney Channels Worldwide's new preschool television brand. Replacing Playhouse Disney , Disney Junior would launch as a block on Disney Channel on February 14, 2011, and

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1892-470: A series of rave reviews in People urging viewers to give the show a chance, ratings were low and the series was not able to find an audience, due in large part because it had been pre-empted on some weeks by the baseball playoffs. The final episode of the series found David on the verge of failure after an influential fashion critic is blackmailed by Wesley and Racine to pan his new sportswear collection; Marjorie

1978-563: A short time in December 2012 before being quickly dropped due to negative viewer reaction. During the course of its lifetime, the channel occasionally aired past episodes in thematic format, such as Daytime's Most Unforgettable Weddings , spotlighting the best episodes of popular couples on ABC's soaps. Other thematic episode blocks included the "Sonnylicious!" marathon, featuring select episodes highlighting Maurice Benard 's best performances as his General Hospital character Sonny Corinthos , and

2064-561: A story on the fashion industry. Mark becomes enamored with Racine, much to the horror of Sara, who despite agreeing that she's "done well for a girl named off of a map of Wisconsin ", warns that Racine has "been in more beds than a hotel breakfast tray!" Reruns of the series have been shown on the SOAPnet cable channel in the United States. The series was also shown in the United Kingdom by

2150-429: A weekly series based on the original film. Jennifer Warren and Jeffrey Richman (in the minor role of Conrad) were the only actors to reprise their roles, with Hackett (who died unexpectedly before production), Hannah, Paul, Nelson and Collins replaced by Brenda Vaccaro , Nicollette Sheridan , Terry Farrell , John Bennett Perry and Morgan Fairchild respectively. New characters included Grant Harper ( Lloyd Bridges ),

2236-780: A woman who was supposed to die, so people stop dying. Starring: Yvette Mimieux , Monte Markham , Myrna Loy , Bert Convy , Melvyn Douglas SOAPnet Soapnet was an American basic cable network owned by the Disney–ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company . The network's programming was oriented towards the soap opera genre; on launch, Soapnet carried primetime encores of ABC's current soaps, as well as reruns of classic daytime and primetime soap opera series. Soapnet also broadcast programming related to soap operas, including news and behind-the-scenes programs. In later years, Soapnet increased its focus on acquired reruns of drama series. Due in part to

2322-428: Is entangled in a scheme involving a Mob-connected lawyer who claims his boss is out to kill him. Starring: George Maharis , Janet Leigh , Rick Jason , Carl Betz *, Jack Albertson **, Raymond St. Jacques ***, William Smithers , Jack Soo , Mary Wickes A Boston attorney leaves to take control of a legal aid program staffed by students. Their first case is to defend two Black men accused of robbing and beating

2408-594: Is feared dead in a plane crash; and Racine receives a call from Mark intimating that his digging into her secretive past and had uncovered something very interesting. The cliffhangers were left unresolved. ABC Movie of the Week The ABC Movie of the Week was an American weekly television anthology series featuring made-for-TV movies that aired on the ABC network in various permutations from 1969 to 1975 . In

2494-416: Is getting a massage, asking "Do you want me to wait outside until you're decent?" Racine responds "How much time do you have?" In another scene, an irate Julia, brandishing a Barbie-style fashion doll of her daughter, storms into Racine's office. "This will not be the new Taryn Blake doll!" she barks. "The eyes are brown!" Coolly, Racine quips, "I guess they couldn't quite match that bloodshot tone." Even with

2580-516: Is often cited as the creator of the Movie of the Week (MotW), although the concept was actually originated by producer Roy Huggins . Huggins reasoned that many older theatrical films ran shorter than 90 minutes so requiring a 120-minute time slot was unnecessary. His proposal was rejected by NBC and CBS but became the subject of a cover story in the March 21, 1968 issue of Variety magazine. ABC executives read

2666-482: The 33rd Daytime Emmy Awards , the channel showed episodes of soaps that showcased performances that garnered award-nominating attention – including those from Guiding Light and As the World Turns – a first for the channel. Also, during its 13-year existence, the channel aired marathons of its acquired programs; such as on September 3, 2007, when it aired a marathon of The O.C. called "Summer Spice", showcasting

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2752-634: The ABC Friday Night Movie and the ABC Sunday Night Movie . The Tuesday Movie of the Week would later be incorporated as part of ABC Late Night , a replacement of ABC's Wide World of Entertainment that ran from 1976 to 1982; the late-night version would mainly feature repeats of movies, both made for television and traditional theatrical releases, that were previously seen on ABC and other networks. ABC continued to premiere new TV films on Sunday nights in prime time until 2005. During

2838-587: The ITV network in the mid-1980s, though schedules varied per region. It was also shown in Italy on Canale 5 under the name Il profumo del successo ( The Taste of Success ), and in Germany under the title Karussell der Puppen ( Doll Carousel ). In South America and Spain, it was broadcast as Muñecas de Papel . In Sweden, it was broadcast 1986 on TV2 under the name Modedockorna ( The Fashion Dolls ). The series attempted to ride

2924-628: The Sony-owned/produced NBC soap Days of Our Lives . The plans for the SoapCity cable channel were abandoned early in 2000 after Sony failed to secure cable carriage, though the website component remained. Soapnet's inaugural lineup aired current soaps such as All My Children , One Life to Live , General Hospital and Port Charles , along with canceled daytime and nighttime soaps such as Falcon Crest , Knots Landing , The Colbys , Hotel , Sisters , and Ryan's Hope . As

3010-580: The Variety article had effectively placed the concept into the public domain , ABC continued to develop it without Huggins' permission or involvement. ABC consoled Huggins by allowing him to produce several films, including The Young Country, precursor to Alias Smith and Jones . Michael Karol repeated the claim in his book The ABC Movie of the Week Companion: A Loving Tribute to the Classic Series that

3096-499: The "Tad the Cad" marathon, with classic 1980s episodes of All My Children involving the Michael E. Knight character of Tad Martin 's romantic trysts with Liza Colby and her mother, Marian . These kinds of marathons were usually limited to series to which Soapnet had the rebroadcast rights (ABC's soaps, Days of our Lives and previously, The Young and the Restless ). However, in a lead-up to

3182-413: The 1960s, movie studios viewed television as a second-rate medium but also as a threat to their theatrical revenue, so they charged high fees for the privilege to broadcast their films. The networks experimented with having films made specifically for TV to lower expenses. NBC created the first weekly umbrella for such films with their World Premiere Movie in 1966, running in a two-hour time slot. Until

3268-455: The 1970s, ABC's local owned-and-operated stations ( in a few of the nation's biggest cities ; at the time, they all broadcast on channel 7) featured The 4:30 Movie on weekday afternoons (the actual time varied by city, but generally after ABC's morning/midday game shows and soap operas); it featured mainly major Hollywood theatrical releases, but some installments of the Movie of the Week were also rebroadcast here. A man flees from

3354-866: The 2006–07 season. After airing the CBC Television series MVP (which was canceled by the CBC due to low ratings) in 2008, Soapnet also acquired the rights for the American broadcast of the Canadian dramedy Being Erica (which began in January of that year on the CBC) beginning in February 2009. According to Nielsen Media Research , Soapnet was available to 75,259,000 cable and satellite subscribers in December 2010, an increase of 4 million subscribers from May 2009. Due to declining viewership in

3440-649: The Beautiful after Soapnet ended, a soap never carried by the network, and both are now carried in high definition on Pop's HD simulcast network, along with eventually, Days of Our Lives . In November 2013, Disney announced that Soapnet would shut down on December 31, 2013, after 13 years of soapy drama. The network's impending discontinuation had been previously reported by several cable providers, including AT&T U-verse , Comcast , Charter and Cox , among others. Soapnet quietly went dark shortly before midnight ET on January 1, 2014, without ceremony. Prior to

3526-497: The Fox primetime soap Pasadena , including nine episodes that were not aired during the show's initial run. On March 16, 2006, Soapnet announced that it had acquired the rights to broadcast same-day episodes of The Young and the Restless , which began airing on Soapnet on April 24, 2006 – making it the first CBS network soap to air on the channel. Since the channel was a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, it also broadcast events from

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3612-474: The Harper World Wide banner, paying off the loan in full, and also the interest. Meanwhile, Racine struggles to manage Taryn Blake (Sheridan), the top teen model in the business, who has problems with drugs and alcohol, and a sensationalized romance with 1980s pop star John Waite (playing himself in a recurring role). To keep Taryn and her demanding mother Julia (Vaccaro) in line, Racine decides to promote

3698-517: The Movie of the Week was Diller's idea, but this was based on hearsay. The shorter format allowed a smaller budget than two-hour TV movies. At $ 350,000 per film, it was less than half the budget of NBC's World Premiere movies. It featured the work of producers like Aaron Spelling , David Wolper and Harve Bennett (all of whom later developed hit series of their own), and was produced by different production companies such as Bing Crosby Productions and

3784-497: The Restless were retained, with repeats of ABC Family programming and reruns of Veronica Mars being added to the schedule. The rights to Veronica Mars were transferred to Pivot when that network launched in August 2013. A 1-hour two-week Live Well Network block was broadcast on Soapnet weeknights from 11 PM to 12 AM (ET/PT) starting on July 30, 2012 through Friday, August 10, 2012. On January 15, 2013, AT&T U-verse reached

3870-446: The Week ). The title sequence was designed by Harry Marks and animated by Douglas Trumbull using the slit-scan process that he had created for 2001: A Space Odyssey . The accompanying theme music was an orchestral version of "Nikki", a song composed by Burt Bacharach and named for his daughter. The theme was chosen by Marks and arranged by Harry Betts . Over the music was narration voiced by Dick Tufeld . "The Movie of

3956-520: The Week. Presenting the world premiere of an original motion picture produced especially for ABC (or 'for the Movie of the Week' in some seasons)." That would be followed by a promotional teaser for the movie. The opening for the Saturday Movie of the Weekend featured footage of a silhouetted "rotating cameraman " operating a 35 mm movie camera ( [1] ). This footage would later be incorporated into

4042-694: The actors in non-recurring roles appeared only once or twice in the series. Notable exceptions who appeared in three or more films as different characters include Doug McClure , Darren McGavin , Dennis Weaver , Clint Walker , Earl Holliman , Leonard Nimoy , Robert Culp , Barbara Eden , Larry Hagman , Elizabeth Montgomery , Donna Mills , Ed Nelson , Ken Berry , Connie Stevens , Lee Majors , James Brolin , Lloyd Bridges , Cloris Leachman , Ricardo Montalbán , Richard Anderson , Lesley Anne Warren , Janet Leigh , John Marley , William Schallert , Karen Valentine , Ben Murphy , Barra Grant , Myrna Loy , Carl Betz , Henry Jones and William Windom . Many of

4128-457: The annual ABC Super Soap Weekend , which was held every November at Walt Disney World , and each summer at Disney's California Adventure until the event was discontinued in 2010. Soap Talk hosts Lisa Rinna and Ty Treadway served as hosts for question and answer sessions at the events, allowing fans to ask questions to their favorite soap stars. Some viewers complained about what they viewed as an overabundance of prime-time programming on

4214-411: The article and contacted Huggins, who did not want to sell the idea but could produce the series through Universal , where he was under contract. Universal demanded a larger budget than ABC wanted to spend, as well as the exclusive right to produce all future TV movies for ABC, conditions that pushed ABC to control production on their own, purchasing films from various studios and production companies. As

4300-523: The bank where they are employed. Starring: Pete Duel , Ben Murphy , Forrest Tucker , Susan Saint James , James Drury , Jeanette Nolan , Earl Holliman ** Cold War intrigue with traitors trying to steal top secret anti-ballistic missile controls being tested on a U.S. nuclear submarine. Starring: Leonard Nimoy *, Joseph Cotten *, William Windom *, Keenan Wynn *, Lloyd Haynes *, Dewey Martin *, Malachi Throne , Ron Masak A medical intern visiting his home town comes to believe his mentor ,

4386-654: The blame on ABC's overreliance on the MotW, which had suffered from ratings fatigue and a perceived drop in quality despite some notable films. The latter was symptomized by an increased number of pilots as well as remakes and variations of established intellectual properties, such as The Swiss Family Robinson, The Mark of Zorro , The Hatfields and the McCoys and Matt Helm. After that, ABC's made-for-TV movies were aired either as stand-alone specials or shown in time slots that included both original and theatrical movie presentations, notably

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4472-495: The channel added highly requested programming such as reruns of Another World and Dallas ; replacing Falcon Crest , The Colbys , Hotel , and Sisters . In 2004, Soapnet acquired the rights to broadcast Days of Our Lives episodes on a same-day basis. The channel also aired the 1975 to 1981 episodes of Ryan's Hope , which had not been seen on television since its 1989 cancellation by ABC. At that time, many viewers who did not have Soapnet at its inception petitioned to have

4558-525: The channel broadcast the show from the very beginning. In 2003, the channel aired the first episodes starting on St. Patrick's Day . In 2004, Soapnet acquired reruns of the short-lived 1980s soap Paper Dolls . In January 2005, the channel began airing reruns of the Fox dramas Beverly Hills, 90210 and Melrose Place ; this was followed that spring with the addition of repeats of short-lived nighttime soaps The Monroes and Skin . In July 2005, it picked up

4644-424: The channel with then- ABC Daytime president Brian Frons assuming her duties. In August 2008, it was revealed that Soapnet had lost the broadcast rights for both Dallas and Melrose Place ; both shows left the schedule that September. In 2009, the channel started to further expand its acquired programming; and began airing Greg Behrendt's Wake Up Call , a program that was originally set to air on ABC during

4730-520: The channel's promos, instead only advertising their telecasts on Soapnet. The channel also aired primetime drama series such as One Tree Hill , Gilmore Girls and Beverly Hills, 90210 each weekday during the late morning and afternoon hours, and as part of the "Breakfast in Bed" block between 6:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. ET each weekend. Weekend morning marathons of ABC's cooking show The Chew (which had replaced All My Children on ABC) aired for

4816-515: The channel, some of which ( 90210 and Melrose Place ) had ended their original broadcast runs only a few years prior and had been repeated in syndication on other networks. These fans also objected to the large number of new episodes of the ABC lineup and Days of our Lives , and repeatedly requested rebroadcasts of old daytime soaps such as Loving , The Edge of Night , Santa Barbara , and Search for Tomorrow . On February 7, 2007, Soapnet acquired

4902-444: The conniving owner of Taryn and Laurie's modelling agency, credited in the opening as a "special guest star". Eric Stoltz , William Brian Curran, Jeffrey Richman and Lillibet Stern appeared in co-starring roles. The film was directed by Edward Zwick and written by Casey T. Mitchell and Leah Markus, with a theme song written by Mark Snow and performed by Brock Walsh. It garnered 20.5 million viewers. In 1984, MGM decided to produce

4988-556: The cooking show The Chew (which aired until June 2018) and the lifestyle talk show The Revolution (which was canceled in April 2012 due to low ratings; its timeslot was assumed by General Hospital and the remaining hour given back to ABC's affiliates). The decreasing number of active soaps, as well as the growing adoption of digital video recorders (which made it more convenient to record multiple soaps), along with cable and Internet video on demand options caching episodes online within

5074-422: The former two series in 2011, daily reruns of All My Children , One Life to Live and General Hospital aired on the channel in that respective order as they had aired on ABC's daytime schedule. All My Children had the most airings on the channel airing four times each weekday, one in the morning and three at night. Rebroadcasts of each soap's episodes for the entire week aired each Saturday and Sunday during

5160-473: The genre, the Big Three networks had begun to cancel selected soaps and replace them with less-expensive talk show and game show programming, including ABC's All My Children and One Life to Live (an attempt to license the two soaps to Prospect Park to continue them as internet television series in 2013 was discontinued after a few months due to production and licensing conflicts), which were replaced with

5246-404: The late 1960s, ABC ran a distant third behind rivals CBS and NBC , leading to jokes about it coming in fourth among the three networks or about its acronym meaning "Almost Broadcasting Company". Desperation and a looser corporate structure allowed ABC to consider plans that the other two networks would not. Barry Diller , then a junior executive at ABC and later a co-founder of the Fox network,

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5332-503: The late afternoon and nighttime hours; as of 2012, the network aired the past week's episodes of Days of our Lives in Sunday primetime. Due to it being owned by The Walt Disney Company , which also owns ABC, Soapnet cross-promoted All My Children and One Life to Live using the tagline "weekdays on ABC and weeknights on SOAPnet" when both shows aired on ABC. The same slogan continued to be used in promotions for General Hospital until

5418-541: The launch of Disney Junior, the channel continued to operate on some providers until it finally shut down on December 31, 2013. When Soapnet launched on January 20, 2000, the channel aired only current ABC soap operas in the evening and early morning, so that people who were at work or school during the day could watch them at their convenience. Programming was inclusive, as the channel was owned by ABC. Soapnet eventually gained high cable carriage due to Disney 's aggressive policy of pulling ABC- owned broadcast stations and

5504-502: The manipulative chairman of the conglomerate Harper World Wide, who was frequently at odds with Racine (Fairchild); his second wife Marjorie ( Nancy Olson ); his son Wesley ( Dack Rambo ), chief executive of Harper Cosmetics, who allied with Racine against his father, blaming him for the accidental death of his mother, Virginia, Grant's first wife; his daughter, Blair Harper Fenton ( Mimi Rogers ), Racine's top model; and Blair's husband David Fenton ( Richard Beymer ), head of Tempus Sportswear,

5590-501: The metamorphosis of Summer Roberts (played by Rachel Bilson ) throughout the series. The network only aired one dramatic series produced exclusively for the network, a prime-time spin-off of General Hospital entitled General Hospital: Night Shift , which aired for two seasons from July 2007 to October 2008. This is a list of programs formerly broadcast by Soapnet prior to its closure on December 31, 2013. NOTE: Programs broadcast by Soapnet before shutdown. In late 2008,

5676-505: The network entered into a distribution agreement with Sony Pictures Television to air a package of recent films from the studio's library and some archived content on weekend evenings, along with several 20th Century Fox films and some in ABC and ABC Family 's telefilm archive aimed at the network's target audience. The network discontinued airing films on April 30, 2011 as the network's operations began to wind down, with much of its film library migrating to Lifetime Movie Network (which

5762-1112: The network is eventually phased out. The Los Angeles Times reported that some television providers had been hesitant to immediately drop Soapnet, as they "didn't want to risk legions of vocal soap opera fans getting into a lather, or worse, moving to a rival service." On March 1, 2012, Soapnet's operations were taken over by ABC Family following the dismantling of the ABC Daytime corporate structure under Brian Frons, who had resigned in December 2011. Some television providers, including certain Xfinity systems, immediately replaced Soapnet with Disney Junior in its channel space on launch. Soapnet continued to be carried on providers who had not yet made carriage agreements for Disney Junior (such as Dish Network ), as well as for certain providers that retained Soapnet as part of their channel lineups, while also adding Disney Junior as an additional channel (such as Cablevision , DirecTV , Verizon FiOS , RCN . and Time Warner Cable ). Same day rebroadcasts of General Hospital , Days of our Lives and The Young and

5848-623: The network's own ABC Circle Films . Spelling was particularly prolific, producing films under his own credit as well as through Spelling-Goldberg Productions and Thomas-Spelling Productions (partly owned by Danny Thomas ). The MotW provided ABC with a ratings hit and, along with Monday Night Football , helped establish the network as a legitimate competitor to rivals CBS and NBC . The films themselves varied in quality and were often escapist or sensationalistic in nature ( suspense , horror and melodrama were staples), but some were critically well received. For example, Duel (1971), based on

5934-685: The opening of ABC's New York City television station WABC-TV 's various movie umbrellas beginning around 1972–73, including and especially their weekday afternoon movie showcase The 4:30 Movie . The series was often used as a platform to show pilots for possible series for the network. It allowed the network to air pilots that it had already commissioned and paid for but had not ordered as regular series. As well, pilots that had already been sold as ongoing series or were being tested such as Kung Fu , The Six Million Dollar Man , Starsky and Hutch , Longstreet , Toma , Alias Smith and Jones and Get Christie Love! premiered here and returned on

6020-550: The police won't believe him and his son suspects him of paranoia . Starring: Edward G. Robinson , Diane Baker , Ruth Roman , Percy Rodrigues , Sam Jaffe , Martin Balsam **, Edward Asner , Martin E. Brooks , Virginia Christine A woman who has inherited an old Georgetown manor learns that her family property is a breeding ground for the supernatural. Starring: Barbara Stanwyck , Richard Egan , Michael Anderson Jr. , Kitty Winn A Marine drill instructor comes to respect

6106-481: The political life and career of Robert F. Kennedy . Starring: John Huston (narrator) Conflict and crises at a hospital run by a medical patriarch and his three sons – all doctors – including a cholera outbreak and a movie star with kidney failure . Starring: Gary Collins , John Dehner , Susan Howard , Gordon Pinsent , Dan Ferrone, Wally Cox *, Sam Jaffe *, Terry Moore *, Sharon Farrell ** Suave con artist Dudley Jerico and his sidekick scheme to steal

6192-481: The popular ESPN channels from cable providers if they did not agree to carry Soapnet as well. This was the main reason for ABC owned-and-operated station WABC-TV being pulled from Time Warner Cable 's New York City system for two days in May 2000. When Soapnet was announced, Sony Pictures Entertainment planned to launch a competing cable channel and website called SoapCity , which would air all CBS soap operas and

6278-406: The reduction to two first-run soaps on the schedule, from July 2013 up until Soapnet's cease in production, the timeslots in which same-day/day-behind repeats of the network soaps were reduced, with the two remaining first-run soaps airing on the channel – Days of Our Lives and General Hospital – airing in repeat blocks from 7:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. ET. Prior to ABC's cancellations of

6364-580: The regular schedule after minor to major alterations to the premise and/or cast. Other programs are sometimes mistakenly believed to have aired under the Movie of the Week banner. Marcus Welby, M.D. , for example, premiered after Seven in Darkness and was the lead-out for the Tuesday installment. Still others, like Earth II and Robert Conrad 's version of Nick Carter were actually shown on other movie series, such as The ABC Sunday Night Movie . Most of

6450-434: The rights to air reruns of The O.C. and One Tree Hill . The syndication deal also gave Soapnet an option to order a fifth season of One Tree Hill to air on the channel in the event that The CW chose not to renew the show (this option was never exercised as first-run episodes of One Tree Hill remained on The CW until the series ended in 2012). In November 2007, Deborah Blackwell stepped down as general manager of

6536-400: The rivalry between their two mothers, Julia and Dinah, intensifies. The vindictive and mean-spirited Julia sees her daughter as a meal ticket, and dreads the day Taryn that turns 17 and becomes more financially independent. Rounding out the cast is Blair's friend Sara Frank ( Anne Schedeen ), a sensible lawyer, who is involved with Mark Bailey ( Roscoe Born in a recurring role), a reporter doing

6622-520: The show ceased filming original material. Other original series included 1 Day With , a half-hour program featuring interviews with soap actors, that was hosted by General Hospital actor Wally Kurth ; I Wanna Be a Soap Star , a recurring reality series in which twelve young actors compete for a contract role on a daytime soap; and Soapography , a 30-minute show profiling the lives and current shows of two different soap opera actors. In 2002, Soapnet began airing reruns of Dynasty , and by 2003,

6708-442: The switch to an automated schedule, repeats of current soap operas made up the majority of Soapnet's daily schedule; the channel usually aired daily episodes of network soaps it had carried (the previous weekday's broadcasts airing weekday mornings from 6:00 to 11:00 a.m. ET, along with two same-day evening airings with one block from 6:00 to 11:00 p.m. ET and a repeat of the earlier block from 12:00 to 5:00 a.m. ET). With

6794-492: The telefilms had actors credited as guest stars , special guest stars and "special appearance by", even if the movie was not a pilot for a series. Death Race and The Weekend Nun billed their lead actors as special guest stars. In the unusual case of Assault on the Wayne , all of the first-billed cast members were credited as guest stars. The series proper ended in 1975 as ABC's ratings collapsed that season. Analysts laid part of

6880-641: The titles of the shows to the Movie of the Week and Movie of the Weekend . The following season, the Saturday installment was moved to Wednesday night, and the titles were adjusted to Tuesday Movie of the Week and Wednesday Movie of the Week . During the 1973–74 season, ABC added another movie on Saturday nights to their schedule, this time titled the ABC Suspense Movie , and usually consisting of thriller, mystery and horror type films (some of which were reruns of movies which had originally aired as Movie s of

6966-568: The town's doctor, is murdering troublesome residents with poison. Starring: Bing Crosby , Frank Converse , Blythe Danner **, Barnard Hughes , Bethel Leslie Insurance investigator Mike Longstreet searches for the culprit who bombed his home, killing his wife and leaving him blind . Starring: James Franciscus , Martine Beswick *, Bradford Dillman *, John McIntire *, Jeanette Nolan *, Barry Russo A college dropout convinces his parents and grandmother to join him in an old bus converted into

7052-457: The wave of popular glossy nighttime soaps, such as Dallas and Dynasty . When Paper Dolls premiered in September 1984, the first episode achieved an 18.4 rating, and featured the requisite stock pleasures of the genre, such as big business, glamour, intrigue, catfights and verbal spats (particularly between Racine and the other cast members). In one scene, Mark enters Racine's office while she

7138-491: The week of April 30, 2012 (inclusively). After a three-month hiatus, the "weekdays on ABC and weeknights on SOAPnet" slogan was revived in August 2012, but was used only for General Hospital promos airing on Soapnet and not those seen on ABC. References to Days of our Lives's first-run airings on NBC (and until it was dropped from Soapnet in July 2013, The Young and the Restless 's first-run airings on CBS ) were not included in

7224-600: The year. The series was documented by Michael Karol in his 2005 book, The ABC Movie of the Week Companion: A Loving Tribute to the Classic Series , which was updated in 2008 ( ISBN   1-60528-023-2 ), and by Michael McKenna in The ABC Movie of the Week: Big Movies for the Small Screen . The MotW originally aired on Tuesday nights at 8:30 pm Eastern /7:30 pm Central . Established series The Mod Squad acted as

7310-743: The years went on, Soapnet introduced original programming such as Soap Center and Soap Talk , the latter of which was nominated for several Daytime Emmy Awards . Soap Center , which debuted on Soapnet's launch day schedule, was initially hosted by former soap stars Brooke Alexander and David Forsyth . They were replaced the following year by Peggy Bunker : based on the East Coast and covering New York-based soaps; and Tanika Ray discussing West Coast-based soaps. Peggy Bunker also hosted all events from Super Soap Weekend from Walt Disney World in Florida, including an exclusive interview with Susan Lucci. By 2003,

7396-468: Was to launch a 24-hour cable channel in January 2012, replacing Soapnet. On July 28, 2011, due to issues in reaching carriage deals for the new network, the launch of the Disney Junior channel was delayed to an unspecified date in early 2012. Disney Junior's launch date was later set to March 23, 2012. Disney also stated that on some providers, Disney Junior would be carried in parallel with Soapnet until

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