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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.tv.soaps,net.tv
Subject: Re: here's your group
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Date: Fri, 11-May-84 11:49:25 EDT
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> In the more recent definition of a soap, the line between "continuing
> episode drama" and "soap" is not very fine.  I tend to think of shows
> like HSB, St. Elsewhere, etc. as continuing episode dramas, rather than
> soaps, because their intent is not so much to leave their viewers
> spellbound at the end of each episode (although they do that anyway, it
> was not their original intent), but to provide the continual daily
> activities of the characters in their environments.

Yay, networkspeak!  Next:  "laughter-inducing human interaction drama"
and "knowledge-based inquisitional prize incentive programs". :-)
-- 
Pardon me for ...  oh, never mind!!
					Rich Rosen    pyuxn!rlr