Vine Street (TV series)

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Vine Street, considered the first American television soap opera, was first broadcast on 15 April 1938 by W6XAO in Los Angeles,^[1] as a daily 15-minute serial, and was listed as a comedy-drama. The storyline involved Hollywood life on the lowest rungs of the "ladder" to success. The light humor drama shows the struggles to make it big in Tinsel Town. The stars were Broadway and radio character actors John Barkeley and Shirley Thomas, neither of whom appeared on TV again. The writers, Maurice Ashley and Wilfred Pettit, were brought in from the radio networks to experiment in this new medium.