Episode
Episode 455- Forgotten Soap Opera Episodes
- Podcast
- Forgotten Hollywood
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- Aug 20, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 462
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Summary
It’s one of the saddest parts of television history. Thousands of episodes of American daytime soap operas from the 1950s, ’60s and into the ’70s are gone, and in many cases the networks themselves deliberately erased them. Guest Host talks about the whole debacle.