Thirtysomething

thirtysomething (1987 - 1991) was a ground-breaking and award-winning American evening television drama, of the type popularly labelled a soap opera when broadcast during the daytime. It premiered on September 29, 1987. The last of its 85 episodes aired on May 28, 1991.

Impact on popular culture

The style and form of thirtysomething set new standards for television drama and influenced virtually all of the shows which came after it. It was also responsible for the coinage of the word "twenty something" almost immediately upon its debut in 1987, since younger Americans of that era were seen as exhibiting a fundamentally different collective personality than the "thirty something" characters depicted in the story (four years later, Douglas Coupland's watershed novel ' was dedicated to "the generation born in the late 1950s and 1960s;" today this group is often referred to as the "Baby Busters").

Related Topics:
Twenty something - 1987 - Thirty something - Douglas Coupland - 1950s - 1960s - Baby Busters

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