| The Soap Opera Encyclopedia |  | Author: Christopher Schemering
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 1616083
Media: Paperback
Edition: Expanded
Pages: 370
Number Of Items: 1
ISBN: 0345353447
EAN: 9780345353443
ASIN: 0345353447
Publication Date: June 30, 1987
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Excellent resource July 23, 2005
Billie Rae Bates (U.S. South)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've used this book a lot over the years, for both personal and professional research. It is an alphabetized guide to every soap opera TV show until 1987, with background info and a quite-robust cast list for each. It's amazing to read through and see how familiar the names become -- how many actors and actresses hopped from show to show over the years. Ironically, the author comments that he did a second edition because the soap opera world had changed "tremendously" from 1985 to 1987! Twenty years later, that's all the more reason for an update.
Amazing! January 11, 2004
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is just what it says, an encyclopedia of EVERY soap opera with story sumaries and cast listings up unto the time of publication. The best part of it is it's insight in the behind the scenes of the shows! I've had this book for years and still love it! I agree with the other reviewer and wish there would be an update! Highly recommended to anyone who is interested in the history of soaps!
If there could only be a new edition! August 26, 2001
Nelson Aspen (Los Angeles, CA USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
No soap opera enthusiast should be without this immaculately researched and detailed manual of daytime television. Brilliant in its simplicity and execution and I still find myself referring to it for accurate information. I don't know why there hasn't been an update, but even so...it still serves as one of the all time handy authorities on the subject of the American Soap Opera.
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