On This Day: March 27 1989 Generations Premiered on NBC

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Mar 27, 2025

Pete

Mr. Eighties

Pete has published a news story:

On This Day: March 27 1989 Generations Premiered on NBC.

On this day March 27 1989 the groundbreaking daytime soap opera Generations premiered on NBC. The series ran for 2 seasons with a total of 470 episodes and made television history as the first soap opera to center around an African American family from the very beginning.

Generations followed the lives of the Marshall and Whitmore families as they navigated love business and personal struggles across generations. The show featured a talented cast including Vivica A. Fox in one of her...

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