View Poll Results: Favourite Soap of All Time?
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Crossroads
4 21.05% -
Coronation Street
1 5.26% -
Eastenders
2 10.53% -
Prisoner: Cell Block H
3 15.79% -
Neighbours
0 0% -
Sons & Daughters
1 5.26% -
Brookside
2 10.53% -
Dallas
4 21.05% -
Home & Away
0 0% -
Emmerdale
2 10.53%
Thread: Favourite Soap Opera Of All Time
Results 1 to 25 of 39
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25th May 2007, 12:52 PM #1
Favourite Soap Opera Of All Time
What's your favourite soap of all time, past or present, and why?
This is the place to celebrate your personal favourite and explain its appeal to others!
I've tried to include all the major ones in the poll, but there are more than 10 so if your fave isn't included then tell us about it anyway!
Si.
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25th May 2007, 1:07 PM #2
Dallas ought to be up there!
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25th May 2007, 1:13 PM #3
Solely for nostalgia, it has to be "Crossroads" - like death and taxes, it was just always there as a fact of life as a kid. We would watch it avidly, then maybe drift away for a few months, but then we would tune back and it was still there just the same.
Second choice, again for nostalgia (mainly the image of the whole family watching the season 1 repeats one Summer and all laughing at Barbara Bel Geddes line: "It's my breast") would be "Dallas" which should be there, as Ralph so rightly says!
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25th May 2007, 1:16 PM #4
Albion Market or Castles for me.
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25th May 2007, 1:18 PM #5
I've voted for Prisoner:Cell Block H as I used to watch it when it was on late at night years & years ago, (Channel 4 I think or was it ITV?).
But I'm no soap watcher so I doubt I'd watch it now & I avoid soaps of all types that are made these days. They just don't interest me, I'd rather watch real life in the form of sport.
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25th May 2007, 1:21 PM #6
Crossroads! Without a doubt. I loved it. My second choice would be Neighbours.
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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25th May 2007, 1:21 PM #7Castles
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25th May 2007, 1:24 PM #8
I voted for Crossroads, but only because The Sullivans and Triangle appear to be missing!
One Day, I shall come back, Yes, I shall come back,
Until them, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties, Just go forward in all your beliefs,
and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine!
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25th May 2007, 1:27 PM #9
Without doubt the pinnacle of Soapdom - achieving viewing figures and whipping up excitement in soaps never seen since!
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25th May 2007, 1:35 PM #10
No Hollyoaks?
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25th May 2007, 2:01 PM #11
Dallas wasn't a soap though, imo. A 'soap', for me, is something that runs weekly, and continuously. Dallas had seasons, in fact the first only being 6 episodes long (iirc). If you included Dallas, then you should have things like the X-Files & the like....
I voted for Corrie, obviously, still going strong after 40+ years!“If my sons did not want wars, there would be none.” - Gutle Schnaper Rothschild
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25th May 2007, 2:46 PM #12
I knew I'd never get everyone's favourite in! I had "The Young Doctors" up there, but swapped it when I realised I'd missed off "Emmerdale".
I've added in "Dallas" now in place of "Eldorado"!
Si.
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25th May 2007, 3:16 PM #13
I've been disenfranchised!
You should have Dynasty, Falcon Crest, The Colbys and Santa Barbara as well.
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25th May 2007, 3:25 PM #14
And "Take the High Road".
Come on, own up, who voted for "Eastenders"!
Si.
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25th May 2007, 3:43 PM #15
A Country Practice, Shortland Street and Eldorado! James beat me to Albion Market.
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25th May 2007, 3:54 PM #16
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25th May 2007, 4:21 PM #17Pip Madeley Guest
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25th May 2007, 4:44 PM #18
I've voted for Dallas - I don't care if its not a traditional soap, it certainly wasn't an episode driven format, and was the first and best for the outrageous plotlines.
I do have a fondness for Take The High Road too - mainly because it was on for long stretched duirng the afternoon on school holidays, and because of that actress who played the mean old biddie who used to also play her far psoher twin sister who'd turn up occasionally.
Most other soaps are just Blahhhhhhhhh.Bazinga !
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25th May 2007, 5:12 PM #19
The best thing about Take the High Road was the theme. Nice little tune that.
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25th May 2007, 5:31 PM #20
The Archers should be up there-is the longest running of them all
I would have to say Prisoner Cell Block H
Crossroads
Dallas
in the absence of The Archers
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25th May 2007, 8:43 PM #21
I was a huge Dynasty and The Colbys fan! Loved Dallas as well, so my vote has gone to it, and yes, it was a 'soap opera', regardless of the way we make them in Britain. But the epic American shows were just pure loony lavish escapism!
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25th May 2007, 9:24 PM #22
Shame on the absence of Family Affairs!
Brookie almost took it, but Crossroads stormed to victory. Jane's Gurnett and Asher are icontastic, as is all time soap icon Nolly Gordon!
It's the best, and you know it!
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25th May 2007, 9:26 PM #23
Clear Waters? That's a great soap- although it may actually be Crossroads...
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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25th May 2007, 9:43 PM #24Captain Tancredi Guest
Although it's ages since I actually watched it, I kind of have to say Emmerdale because they still film bits of it in this very town- ran across some filming last Friday actually- at one point my bus to work used to regularly pass a Tate Haulage van going up to the location.
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25th May 2007, 9:46 PM #25
I think you're being a bit nitpicky, Perry - I can't imagine (m)any people would consider Dallas to NOT be a soap, nor (m)any who would consider The X-Files to be one. For that matter, Emmerdale Farm used to have seasons for many years, which were then repeated during the Summer, and I'm fairly certain the same is true of Take The High Road - which was also excellent in its "Take The" days. They should never have killed off the old lady at the Big House (whose name escapes me).
Sorry, rambling.
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