The Colbys was a spin-off of the opulent prime-time soap Dynasty which had been the highest rating programme in the USA that year.

I don't mean the prime-time soaps, like "Melrose Place" and "Beverly Hills 90210," though I watch them faithfully.

He also produced Hawkins, a drama featuring James Stewart as a defense lawyer, and the prime-time soap, Executive Suite.

Its continuing popularity is due in part to dramatic factors: "Knots Landing" has always been the least formulaic of the prime-time soaps.

Teenage dramas and prime-time soaps have tread this ground for years.

One of her earliest starring roles was as attorney Sara Frank on the short-lived prime-time soap, Paper Dolls.

She is perhaps most familiar to television viewers as the scheming tabloid reporter on the short-lived prime-time soap "Central Park West."

This being the Age of Television, our star is Ms. Principal, the attractive veteran of several seasons on the prime-time soap "Dallas."

The so-called prime-time soaps that flourished in the 1980's are almost all gone, and rumors are rampant about which of the remaining shows are most imperiled.

Even the opening credits are done in a style paying obvious homage to the American prime-time soaps.