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Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (TV series)
Love Is a Many Splendored Thing was a CBS daytime soap opera (September 18, 1967 to March 23, 1973, 1,430 episodes) created by Irna Phillips as a sequel to the 1955 film, whose interracial-romance premise was dropped in 1968 when Phillips resigned.
Love of Life
Love of Life: American CBS daytime soap opera (September 24, 1951 – February 1, 1980), created by Roy Winsor, directed throughout by Larry Auerbach, built on the good sister Vanessa Dale versus her villainous sister Meg, ending as daytime's lowest-rated soap.
Loving (TV series)
Loving was an ABC half-hour daytime soap opera (1983-1995) co-created by Agnes Nixon and Douglas Marland, set in fictional Corinth, Pennsylvania, about the wealthy Alden family; the lowest-rated network soap of its era, ending via a serial-killer plot that spun survivors into The City.
MacKenzie Mauzy
MacKenzie Mauzy (MacKenzie Grace Mauzy), American actress born 1988 in Greensboro, North Carolina; played Rapunzel in Into the Woods (2014), Phoebe Forrester on The Bold and the Beautiful, Lizzie Spaulding on Guiding Light, and Linda Kasabian in Manson's Lost Girls.
Malcolm Winters
Malcolm Winters is a fictional photographer on the CBS soap The Young and the Restless, half-brother of Neil Winters, played mainly by Shemar Moore since 1994, biological father of Lily Winters and, from 2026, Holden Novak.
Marlena Evans
Marlena Evans is a fictional psychiatrist on the soap opera Days of Our Lives, played by Deidre Hall since June 1976; known for the Salem Strangler twin plot, devil possession, and the John Black supercouple.
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
: "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman is an American satirical soap opera by Norman Lear, starring Louise Lasser as an Ohio housewife who faced bizarre and violent events between 1976 and 1977."
Mary Page Keller
Mary Page Keller (born 1961, Monterey Park, California) is an American actress, producer, and writer; starred as Laura Kelly on Duet and Open House, Sally Frame on Another World, and Sara Carver on Chasing Life.
McKenzie Westmore
McKenzie Westmore (born 1977) is an American actress, singer, and host, known as Sheridan Crane on NBC's Passions (1999–2008), host of Syfy's Face Off (2011–2018), and founder of Westmore Beauty, daughter of makeup artist Michael Westmore.
Melissa Claire Egan
Melissa Claire Egan (born 1981, Pound Ridge, New York) is an American soap opera actress who played Annie Lavery on All My Children and Chelsea Lawson on The Young and the Restless, earning eight Daytime Emmy nominations.
Melissa Ordway
Melissa Ordway (born 1983, Atlanta, Georgia) is an American actress who plays Abby Newman on CBS's The Young and the Restless since 2013, after winning MTV's 2004 reality show The Assistant, with film credits including Ted and 17 Again.
Melrose Place
Melrose Place: Fox prime-time soap opera, spinoff of Beverly Hills 90210, created by Darren Star, produced by Aaron Spelling, 1992-1999, seven seasons set at a West Hollywood apartment complex; 2009 CW revival lasted one season.
Michelle Stafford
Michelle Stafford (born 1965) is an American actress who originated Phyllis Summers on The Young and the Restless in 1994, played Nina Reeves on General Hospital 2014-2019, and won three Daytime Emmy Awards.
Mishael Morgan
Mishael Morgan is a Trinidadian-Canadian actress known for Hilary Curtis and Amanda Sinclair on The Young and the Restless, and first Black woman to win the Daytime Emmy for Lead Actress.
Molly Burnett
Molly Burnett, full name Molly Kathleen Burnett, is an American actress known for playing Melanie Jonas on Days of Our Lives and Kelly Anne Van Awken on Queen of the South.
Nikki Newman
Nikki Newman, born Nicole Reed, is a fictional character on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless, played by Melody Thomas Scott since 1979.
Olga Sosnovska
Olga Sosnovska (Olga Sosnowska) is a Polish-born actress (born 1972) who moved to England at 11 and works in the UK and US. Known for Lena Kundera on All My Children (2002–2004), the first same-sex kiss on American daytime TV, and Fiona Carter on Spooks/MI-5.
One Life to Live
One Life to Live (OLTL): American ABC soap opera created by Agnes Nixon, airing July 15, 1968 to January 13, 2012 from Llanview, Pennsylvania, plus a short 2013 Hulu revival; 11,136 episodes, Erika Slezak as Viki Lord.
Paper Dolls
Paper Dolls is an American prime time soap opera set in the New York modeling world, starring Morgan Fairchild, that aired on ABC from September to December 1984.
Passions
Passions (TV series), American supernatural soap opera created by James E. Reilly; aired on NBC 1999-2007 and DirecTV's The 101 Network 2007-2008; set in the fictional town Harmony with families the Russells, Cranes, Bennetts, and Lopez-Fitzgeralds.
Peggy McCay
Peggy McCay (Margaret Ann McCay, 1927–2018), American actress of stage and television; originated Vanessa Dale on Love of Life and played Caroline Brady on Days of Our Lives 1983–2016; won a 1991 Primetime Emmy.
Peyton Place (TV series)
Peyton Place: ABC primetime serial (September 15, 1964–June 2, 1969), TV's first primetime soap opera, adapted from Grace Metalious's 1956 novel; 514 episodes, 60-million-viewer peak, Mia Farrow and Ryan O'Neal breakout stars, revived as Return to Peyton Place.
Phyllis Summers
Phyllis Summers, also Phyllis Romalotti, Newman, and Abbott, is a fictional schemer on CBS's The Young and the Restless, created in October 1994 and played mainly by Michelle Stafford, mother of Daniel and Summer.
Rachel Melvin
Rachel Melvin (born 1985, Elmhurst, Illinois) is an American actress known as Chelsea Brady on Days of Our Lives (2005-2009, two Daytime Emmy nominations), Penny Pinchelow in Dumb and Dumber To, and creator of the How Bitches Are Made podcast.
Rebecca Herbst
Rebecca Herbst, also known as Becky Herbst, is an American actress best known for originating Elizabeth Webber on ABC's General Hospital in 1997, earning three Daytime Emmy nominations.
Ridge Forrester
Ridge Forrester is a fictional fashion designer on the CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful, an original character since March 23, 1987, played by Ronn Moss (1987–2012) and Thorsten Kaye (2013–present), son of Eric and Stephanie Forrester.
Robert Desiderio
Robert Desiderio (born 1951, New York City) is an American actor and writer, Steve Piermont on One Life to Live and Ted Melcher on Knots Landing, husband of Judith Light, screenwriter of Save Me, and author of the 2020 novel The Occurrence.
Ronn Moss
Ronn Moss (Ronald Montague Moss, born 1952) is an American actor-musician, founding member of Player ("Baby Come Back," a No. 1 pop hit) and the original Ridge Forrester on CBS's The Bold and the Beautiful, 1987-2012, later of The Bay and solo albums.
Ryan's Hope
Ryan's Hope, ABC daytime soap opera (July 7, 1975 to January 13, 1989) created by Claire Labine and Paul Avila Mayer, about the Irish-American Ryan family and their Manhattan bar; 17 Daytime Emmys, starring Helen Gallagher and Bernard Barrow.
Saints & Sinners (2016 TV series)
Saints & Sinners (2016) is an American drama that premiered on Bounce TV in 2016. It is the network's first original scripted series, focusing on corruption and murder.