Two wealthy families in the cosmetics industry, the Newmans and the Abbotts, compete with each other in Genoa City, Wisconsin, in “The Young and the Restless.” Daytime’s top-rated soap opera stars Peter Bergman as playboy CEO Jack Abbott and Eric Braeden as billionaire Victor Newman.
As the center of the relatively new soap opera, “The Bold and the Beautiful,” the wealthy Forrester family is involved in fashion design (and love, divorce, and scandal) in Beverly Hills. Recently, the working class Logan family, which was featured at the series start is now working its way into a new series of plots.
Set in Oakdale, Illinois, “As the World Turns” is the second longest-running drama on American television. Meg Ryan and Marisa Tomei both got their start on this series, which features the public and private lives of the town’s wealthy professional doctors and lawyers.
This popular prime-time soap opera follows the exploits of the Carringtons and Colbys, both "oilrich" family dynasties in Denver, CO, as they accrue and manipulate power and wealth.
The soap opera “Guiding Light” is the longest running drama in television history follows the lives of several families (the working class Bauers and the wealthier Spauldings, Chamberlains, and Lewises) in a small Midwestern town named Springfield.
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