Most black-friendly soap during early '80s?
Is it safe to say that AMC was the most black-friendly soap opera on American television during the early 1980s? After all, that's when Debbi Morgan and Darnell Williams joined the show's cast.
shareI remember a soap called Generations that went on to feature many different black characters and had racial diversity, but I can't recall whether it premiered in the 80's or 90's. If the 90's then yes, AMC would have been the most black friendly show of the Reagan Era. Angie and Jesse were wildly popular back then and became a major Supercouple. When Darnell left the show (and Jesse "died") viewers were devastated!
shareGenerations premiered in 1989.
shareYes, Generations premiered in 1989 and only lasted two years ending in 1991. Debbi Morgan actually jumped ship from the highly rated, "All My Children" to the low rated "Generations" to be part of the integrated cast. ABC was upset that Morgan didn't give them a chance to offer her a better deal, but Morgan was still upset that her interracial romance storyline between Cliff and Angie the year before was quickly shelved because some viewers objected.
Morgan bolted and was quickly replaced with Saundra Quarterman who lasted a year in the role. Two years after "Generations" was cancelled, Morgan returned to ABC in 1993 and reprised Angie, but not AMC, but on "Loving." When Loving was cancelled in 1995, Morgan moved Angie to the spin-off series, "The City." When The City was cancelled in 1997, Morgan joined the GH spin-off, "Port Charles," as Dr. Ellen Burgess, but left a year later in 1998. It would be 10 years later in 2008, that Morgan rejoined AMC as Angie (18 years after she originally left).
I can't believe a significant number of viewers objected to Debbi Morgan's character having an interracial romance. Maybe I should believe it because there are a lot of morons out there. Many soap opera characters have sexual relations with their in-laws and/or people who are totally off limits. I don't see what the big deal is with an interracial relationship.
shareWell you can't for get that OLTL had black characters in the 1970's and early 80's. Ed and Carla Hall they seem to be the forgotten super couple of Aftican American's in daytime. And actually Days of our Lives had the first interracial couple around 1976.
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I always thought that the reason viewers didn't want to see Cliff and Angie together was because the only woman that they wanted to see Cliff with was Nina.
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