In nineteen thirty-seven, Bob Hope began a series of radio programs called the "Woodbury Soap Show."
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At once a soap opera and an anti-soap, the show was an assault on a TV-addled audience, with its heroine becoming as alarmed by the waxy yellow buildup on her kitchen floor as she was by the revelation that her grandfather was the notorious Fernwood flasher.
In addition to several cons that will unfurl over the course of the show, they say the series will operate on a broader, more traditional soap opera canvas with dueling lives, wives and fathers as fodder.