 I'm your host, Greg Bell, and soap operas were a major part of the golden age of radio. Today, we don't hear them as much on the revival shows as the primetime series tend to dominate the programming. But during the daytime back then, it was these serialized programs that mainly housewives enjoyed as they went through their daily routines. It was only logical, considering the target audience, that most of the daytime dramas were sponsored by home cleaning products, and thus the nickname soap opera.