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A format which has not been widely used for some time. See Dramatic Hour Long, except shorter.
This format was fairly common in the 1950s and 1960s, particularly for Soap Operas, but has fallen out of use in favor for the Dramatic Hour Long. In the 1970s, most soaps in the United States switched to an hour-long format. The format was more common in the United Kingdom, and still is to a degree, probably because that half-hour doesn't get quite as severely whittled down by commercial breaks.
Among the few live-action half-hour dramatic shows remaining in production in North America today are the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful and Degrassi, although the latter now almost exclusively consists of two-part episodes.
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