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This group collects the Television Programming Landmarks subcategory's members whose own description names them a soap opera, spanning the American primetime soaps Dallas and Dynasty and the British and Australian daytime and evening soap tradition of Coronation Street, EastEnders and Neighbours, kept apart from this subcategory's Drama Series group by the serialized, open-ended, never-concluding storytelling format each member's own description identifies as a soap opera.

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1930 1
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The first program generally considered to be a "soap opera" or daytime serial by scholars of the genre is Painted Dreams, written by and starring Irna Phillips, which premiered on WGN radio Chicago, on October 20, 1930.
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