This group collects the Television Programming Landmarks subcategory's members that are scripted narrative dramas outside this subcategory's own Crime and Police Procedurals and Science Fiction and Fantasy Television groups, spanning Western drama (Bonanza, Gunsmoke), medical drama (ER, Grey's Anatomy, St. Elsewhere), political drama (Borgen, House of Cards, The West Wing), and period and prestige drama (Downton Abbey, Mad Men, The Crown, Upstairs Downstairs, Twin Peaks, The Fugitive).
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Era of EmergenceEarlier once-a-week evening melodramas are noted in the same source but not individually dated. Browse By
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Wikimedia FoundationWikipedia: Soap opera, United States, Daytime serials on television sectionQuote, Wikipedia: Soap opera, United States, Daytime serials on television section
The first daytime TV soap opera in the United States was These Are My Children in 1949, though earlier melodramas had aired in the evenings as once-a-week programs.
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