On This Day: March 29 1982 Capitol Premiered on CBS

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Mar 29, 2025

Pete

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Pete has published a news story:

On This Day: March 29 1982 Capitol Premiered on CBS.

On this day March 29 1982 the soap opera Capitol premiered on CBS. Set in the high stakes world of Washington D.C. politics and power struggles the series followed the lives of the wealthy Clegg and Tate families whose rivalries played out against the backdrop of national government.

Capitol ran for 5 seasons with a total of 1,293 episodes. The show combined classic soap opera drama with political intrigue and was one of CBS’s first daytime series centered around life in the nation’s...

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