ISBN: | 978-5-5110-0695-6 |
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Hawkins Falls, Population 6200 is the first successful American television soap opera. Sponsored by Unilever`s blue detergent, Surf, the program began as a one hour comedy-drama on June 17, 1950, and ran in prime time on the NBC network until October 12, 1950.