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Melrose Place
Melrose Place is an American prime time television soap opera that aired on Fox from July 8, 1992, to May 24, 1999, for seven seasons. The show follows the lives of a group of young adults living in an apartment complex on Melrose Place, in West Hollywood, California. Created by Darren Star and executive produced by Aaron Spelling, Melrose Place stars an ensemble cast that includes Josie Bissett, Thomas Calabro, Doug Savant, Grant Show, Andrew Shue, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Daphne Zuniga, Heather Locklear, Laura Leighton and Marcia Cross.

A continuation of the series, also called Melrose Place, aired for one season from September 8, 2009, to April 13, 2010, on The CW.

In April 2024, another reboot of the series was announced to be in development at CBS Studios, to be written by Lauren Gussis and with Locklear, Leighton and Zuniga attached to reprise their roles from the original series.


 * Kimberly Shaw (Previous)
 * "The Bitch Is Back (Melrose Place 1992)"
 * At first it’s just a bunch of lover’s quarrels—typical soap opera stuff—but with the introduction of Dr. Kimberly Shaw (Marcia Cross) things get weird quick. While Kimberly terrorizes everyone, television history was perhaps made in the 1994 episode “The B*tch Is Back,” when she has perhaps one of the most epic wig reveals in history.
 * "The Bitch Is Back (Melrose Place 1992)"
 * At first it’s just a bunch of lover’s quarrels—typical soap opera stuff—but with the introduction of Dr. Kimberly Shaw (Marcia Cross) things get weird quick. While Kimberly terrorizes everyone, television history was perhaps made in the 1994 episode “The B*tch Is Back,” when she has perhaps one of the most epic wig reveals in history.

Precious

 * Precious (Passions character)

In 2003, Passions submitted an orangutan named BamBam, who had been portraying the recurring role of Precious, for a Daytime Emmy Award. Precious was the non-speaking live-in nurse and caregiver for elderly Edna Wallace, and held an unrequited love for Luis Lopez-Fitzgerald, which was depicted in elaborate fantasy sequences. In early 2004, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, which administers the awards, disallowed the entry with the following statement: "Our ruling is based on the belief that the Academy must draw a line of distinction between animal characters that aren't capable of speaking parts and human actors whose personal interpretation in character portrayal creates nuance and audience engagement that uniquely qualifies those performers for consideration of television's highest honor."



Verbotene Liebe

 * Verbotene Liebe Verbotene Liebe  Clarissa von Anstetten  Tanja von Lahnstein  Oliver Sabel and Christian Mann
 * List of Verbotene Liebe cast members List of Verbotene Liebe characters (redirected)  List of Verbotene Liebe minor characters
 * Lahnstein family (redirected) Family trees: Von Anstetten  Brandner  Schneider  Lahnstein family
 * Verbotene Liebe (German WP) Fandom: Christian Mann  Oliver Sabel Tanja (German)


 * Clarissa 2011


 * title=Verbotene Liebe Recap: Episode XXXX |website=Das Erste |language=de |archive-url=


 * archive-date= |access-date=10 May 2023 |url-status=dead


 * Duration - Miriam Lahnstein
 * Episode 109 (21 June 1995) to episode 177 (4 October 1995)
 * Episode 210 (24 November 1995) to episode 266 (15 February 1996)
 * Episode 318 (2 May 1996) to Episode 601 (18 July 1997)
 * Episode 682 (19 November 1997) to episode 830 (15 July 1998)
 * Episode 1500 (24 April 2001) to episode 1605 (5 October 2001)
 * Episode 2196 (16 April 2004) to episode 2470 (9 June 2005)
 * Episode 2653 (20 March 2006) to episode 2894 (30 March 2007)
 * Episode 3068 (12 December 2007) to Episode 3525 (14 December 2009)
 * Episode 3588 (6 April 2010) to episode 3951 (28 October 2011)
 * Episode 3986 (20 December 2011) to episode 4664 (26 June 2015)
 * Verbotene Liebe: Next Generation - since episode 9

ISC
Infobox soap character

I've been considering my own suggestion about coming up with some more specific usage guidelines for this template as a means to improve consistency across our character articles. I don't think our current practices are necessarily flawed or bad, but I do think we should be refining and defining our preferences for new and future editors. I'm presenting "recommendations" and questions below as topics of discussion, not necessarily my ideas for new guidelines. Obviously there are many articles and many variables, few explicitly "right" and "wrong" methods, and varying editor preferences. My goal in bringing up this topic for discussion is to clarify how and why we use certain parameters and see if we can come up with a methodology. I am NOT advocating that we eliminate any parameters or make any other big changes that will affect a thousand articles, so no panicking! And any examples I choose are just to illustrate varying usages, I am not trying to suggest changes to those specific articles.


 * Basic idea
 * We may want to discourage the use of too many derivative parameters in certain cases where we agree it may negatively impact readability. Or be stupid. LOL.

A. We currently agree on the optional use of gender-divided parameters (son, sister, father, grandmother, husband) B. The divisional parameters "step-" and "adoptive" are always used when applicable C. We currently agree on the optional use of "half-"
 * Assumptions

D. Were the divided parameters introduced, and are they being primarily used, because we think defining gender or halfness is an important distinction? E. How helpful are they as a means to separate longer lists of names for improved readability?
 * General questions

Misc useful external links

 * The prime time closet: a history of gays and lesbians on TV Michael Tropiano, Stephen Tropiano, 2002, page 112-113; ISBN 1557835578, 9781557835574.
 * http://www.soapoperadigest.com/emmys/winners/  1972-present
 * See Days of our Lives for soap refs (various Time magazine, etc.)
 * 1991 EW article - behind the scenes at GH
 * Darren Star about gay Melrose:
 * MP reviews
 * MP EW.com
 * Also see: Bab al-Hara for other Ramadan soap refs
 * Agnes Nixon/OLTL: http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/N/htmlN/nixonagnes/nixonagnes.htm
 * Extensive list of research materials - Soap operas
 * ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS OF PROMOTING PROSOCIAL MESSAGES THROUGH THE POPULAR MEDIA
 * Fi-Core article
 * "Jozi is a SOAPDISH." Gauteng Film Commission. Retrieved 9 September 2008. "The soap opera genre was created for American radio during the 1930s, and owes its name to the sponsorship of the programs by large soap powder companies. They were initially targeted at women, particularly housewives, and designed to entertain, without distracting women from their daily chores while their husbands were out earning a dime. The common trait of soap operas is they have no ending points, only particular storylines that have endings – in other words they can go on forever..."
 * James E. Reilly EW links: http://search.ew.com/EWSearch/ew/search/search.html?search=james+e.+reilly&x=0&y=0
 * http://www.nypost.com/seven/12022008/tv/lucci_cuts_pay_to_save_amc_141747.htm
 * http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2008/12/03/tv_soaps_and_their_stars_face_cost_cutting/
 * "Soaps on the Rope" - EW 1993
 * "Soaps on the Rope" - EW 1993

SORAS

 * http://www.tvguide.com/news/Dancing-Stars-sure-60226.aspx (2006)
 * http://www.tvguide.com/soaps/Word-Children-recasting-57850.aspx (2006)
 * http://www.tvguide.com/Soaps/General-Hospital-recast-1003972.aspx (2009)
 * http://www.soapoperadigest.com/features/young-and-restless/features/phyllistriviachallenge/index.html
 * http://www.soapoperadigest.com/recaps/general-hospital/2005/103105/index.html

OLTL
"Goodbye Llanview, I'm gonna miss you ... but, you have not seen the last of Tina Lord Roberts. That, I promise you."

http://www.geocities.com/historypg/oltl1993.html and http://www.geocities.com/historypg/oltl1994.html  (etc etc)
 * "One Life to Live Photo Gallery of the Stars! Andrea Evans." About.com
 * SOD news archive 2009

The series has received multiple Daytime Emmy Award nominations and wins, including a 2002 award for "Outstanding Drama Series," as well as Erika Slezak's six Emmys and Judith Light's two.
 * OLTL Emmy wins
 * OLTL teen pregnancy
 * One Life to Live interviews - SoapOperaDigest.com
 * One Life to Live: Encyclopedia II - Storylines and characters
 * Rabinowitz, Naomi. "One Life to Live Timeline: The Fall Guys (And Gals) of Llanview." SoapOperaDigest.com Retrieved 4 August 2008. (Used in Tina Lord and Cord Roberts)
 * Flynn, Lauren. "One Life to Live: Putting on Heirs." SoapOperaDigest.com (2007) Retrieved 4 August 2008. (Used in Tina Lord and Cord Roberts, also could be used in Max Holden, David Vickers, Natalie Buchanan, Adriana Cramer and Spencer Truman)
 * Carter, Alan. "The Soap Box" Taking a Tina Turn." Entertainment Weekly, July 22 1994, Issue #232. (Small bit about Krista Tesreau)
 * Rabinowitz, Naomi. "Where Are They Now? From Soap To Nuts: Catching Up With OLTL's Barbara Garrick (ex-Allison)." SoapOperaDigest.com.
 * Dargan, Michele. "Soapbox: Happy 40th Birthday One Life to Live!" PalmBeachDailyNews.com16 July 2008. (40th Anniv. plus mention of Craigs, Carla Gray etc)
 * http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:7ejh6KEE4p0J:www.learcenter.org/pdf/Sentinel06Program.pdf+jessica+one+life+to+live+hepatitis&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=112&gl=us&client=firefox-a Award for Viki breast cancer story
 * http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSN0735430420080308 ABC soap opera tackles teen sex and pregnancy (March 7, 2008)
 * http://www.soapoperadigest.com/features/one-life-to-live/interviews/one_life_in_real_life_kristen_alderson/
 * Viki & Joe on SOD cover - January 1977
 * http://soapoperadigest.com/features/one-life-to-live/features/memorablemurders/
 * October 1979 issue of Ebony, with Ellen Holly and Arthur Burghardt of One Life to Live on the cover. Inside there's an interview with Ellen Holly and it details her time from 1968 to 1979 on the show, her background, specifically the name of the New York Times column that got Agnes Nixon's notice
 * http://sn.soapnet.go.com/galleries/best-of-decade-villains?page=12 (Mitch)
 * http://sn.soapnet.go.com/galleries/best-of-decade-villains?page=11 (Spencer)
 * http://sn.soapnet.go.com/galleries/best-of-decade-villains?page=18 (Margaret)

Oliver Fish, etc.

 * http://www.tvguidemagazine.com/soaps/one-life-to-live-kos-kish-4337.html
 * http://tvguidemagazine.com/soaps/fathers-day-for-one-life-to-lives-fish-4424.html
 * http://www.soaps.com/onelifetolive/news/4920/One_Life_to_Live_Scott_Evans_Mother_Joins_Cast
 * http://www.soaps.com/onelifetolive/news/4551/One_Life_to_Live_Gay_Storyline_On_The_Horizon
 * http://www.soapoperadigest.com/features/one-life-to-live/interviews/nicholas_rodriguez_nick/index.html
 * Major Gay Wedding Drama on One Life to Live
 * http://www.soaps.com/onelifetolive/actor/741/Scott_Evans
 * http://www.soaps.com/onelifetolive/actor/723/Brett_Claywell
 * http://www.soapoperadigest.com/features/one-life-to-live/interviews/kishing_around/
 * http://www.soaps.com/onelifetolive/actor/723/Brett_Claywell
 * http://www.soapoperadigest.com/features/one-life-to-live/interviews/kishing_around/
 * http://www.soaps.com/onelifetolive/actor/723/Brett_Claywell
 * http://www.soapoperadigest.com/features/one-life-to-live/interviews/kishing_around/

Allison Perkins

 * Allison Perkins
 * Notoriously Remembered: Mitch Laurence
 * Notoriously Remembered: Allison Perkins
 * Allison Perkins profile - SoapCentral.com

WikiProject Soap Operas
WikiProject Soap Operas

WikiProject Soap Operas

Mission statement

 * I can't disagree with a thing you've said, and I'll certainly leave the Days decisions to editors more dedicated to the show. But where you (and others) are still going amiss is that you're still thinking "storylines"; when I mentioned Joe and Thaao in the press, I was talking about their possible comments about the show itself, the impact of the DiMeras on the show and ratings over the years, comments about Jim Reilly's (and Hogan's) handling of them and their characters, etc. I believe both spoke in interviews during the Marlena serial killer storyline (and that when Thaao came back in 2002 he had talked about how he had personally added some business with Tony smoking before the character was killed in 1995 to make it possible that Andre was being killed). That's what most soap articles need right now, real-world context. Again, Pauline Fowler is the ultimate example, Bianca Montgomery is also great, even Alexis Colby is decent. Somewhere in WP guidelines it actually says plot summary info should be kept at a bare minimum; we ignore this because we see some notability and importance there, but we have to remember that the scope of an encyclopedia article is supposed to be real-world first and fiction later. This is not always possible and usually undesirable to us, but it is what it is. TAnthony 17:48, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * The relevant guidelines here are WP:FICTION, WP:PLOT, and WP:WAF (Writing about Fiction). These topics aren't unique to soap articles...  Wikipedia has had extensive, long, drawn out, bloody battles about fictional subjects.  For example, Wikipedia is often criticized for having more info on individual Pokemon characters, than about bonafide historical subjects.  There are many folks who have tried to use Wikipedia an an info repository for fictional subjects: Plot lines of books, "biographies" of every character in a sci-fi series, extensive "battle" articles about space opera warfare in computer games, even collections of recipes for fictional meals. But the result of all these debates among the members of the Wikipedia community, is that the consensus of Wikipedia editors is that we're here to provide an encyclopedia for a general audience, not a collection of plot summaries that are of interest primarily to fans.  See Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and search on "plot summaries". See also Fancruft.


 * Now, because of the millions of people around the world that are fans of soap operas, we do have a lot of people flooding in to Wikipedia and creating articles about soap characters, where the "articles" are little more than plot summaries. My own feeling on this (and I think that I'm speaking for most of the members of this WikiProject), is that we accept that these articles are being created in good faith, often because there's confusion about just what Wikipedia is for. So we're fairly tolerant of these articles, as long as it's made clear that they're just stubs in place for later expansion into "real" articles, a la Pauline Fowler.  But this is a very generous and tolerant view on our part, and we're well aware that to other editors on Wikipedia who are working on more "serious" subjects, they'd probably be absolutely horrified at the amount of crap low-quality information that's accumulating in the soap topics.  And the only reason that most of the soap articles haven't been nominated for deletion, frankly, is because other editors don't want to waste the time to do it.  Now, having said that, I think we, here at this WikiProject, can definitely do our best to organize the existing soap articles, categorize them and rate them, and do what we can to try and find a middle-ground between what soap fans want, and what the standards of an encyclopedia are.  But in terms of ratings, we should stick with the standards of Wikipedia, not the standards of fandom.  And the standards of Wikipedia are that a short article, with little information except a plot summary, is really little more than a stub (see WP:ASSESS).  To call it "Start" class is being generous.  To call it "B" class is not acceptable, and if it causes enough controversy, is probably just going to increase the chance that the article is going to get nominated for deletion. --Elonka 18:43, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I do believe that diatribe completely misses the point of the discussion. We are talking in general about how to rate things, diatribes telling people to go other places don't help.  As we are attempting to discuss ratings, I have removed the rating leaving the page in the unrated class for now.IrishLass0128 18:51, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for keeping an open mind! :) --Elonka 19:07, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * My minds open, there's just not enough room for that much stuff at one time. :) Remember, I pull this editing stuff off at work.  No home computer with internet connection.IrishLass0128 19:08, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I for one appreciate Elonka's well-crafted comment above and think it's spot-on for this discussion; I am actually going to archive it myself for reference. WP has established rules and conventions, and such "go to" references to back up arguments are an important and essential part of any debate on this or any issue. We can decide whatever we want on this page, but without taking actual WP standards into consideration it means nothing beyond this page. TAnthony 19:16, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks TAnthony. If you think it's that useful, maybe we should save part of it, and work it into a "Mission statement" on the main WikiProject page? --Elonka 23:11, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
 * That is a great idea; as always, you're always one step ahead. &mdash; TAnthonyTalk 16:04, 12 October 2007 (UTC)