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1976: Ryan's Hope's Delia searched for evidence against Frank.

1978: All My Children's Erica Kane married Tom Cudahy.

1985: General Hospital's Robin Scorpio arrived in Port Charles.

2011: All My Children's Erica met Verla Grubbs."History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images."

― Anselm Kiefer

"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.

On this date in...

1948: On radio soap opera Claudia, Claudia (Dorothy McGuire) had opening night jitters.

1976: On Ryan's Hope, Delia Ryan (Ilene Kristen) lied to her husband, Frank (Michael Hawkins), when he found her searching through his things

1976: On Another World, Sharlene Frame (Laurie Heineman) confessed her...

1976: Ryan's Hope's Delia searched for evidence against Frank.

1978: All My Children's Erica Kane married Tom Cudahy.

1985: General Hospital's Robin Scorpio arrived in Port Charles.

2011: All My Children's Erica met Verla Grubbs."The best prophet of the future is the past."

― Lord Byron

"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.

On this date in...

1948: On radio soap opera Claudia, Claudia (Dorothy McGuire) had opening night jitters.

1976: On Ryan's Hope, Delia Ryan (Ilene Kristen) lied to her husband, Frank (Michael Hawkins), when he found her searching through his things

1976: On Another World, Sharlene Frame (Laurie Heineman) confessed her sordid past to a devastated Russ Matthews (David Bailey), then downed a bottle of pills.

Previously, On Warehouse 13

This week sees Claudia and Steve get closer to learning Artie's secret, a visit by a fan(fic) favorite, and ... something we've been patiently waiting for all season.

Let's start with Pete and Myka's "A" story.

Pete proves that he is, indeed, a Secret Service Agent

The team is assigned to investigate possible artifact activity in South Bend, as seemingly random people are experiencing painful growth spurts. Could it be Paul Bunyan's ax? David's slingshot? A magical bag of beans? Artie says, "We have the ax, we have the slingshot, and the beans? Please, that's just a fairytale." Pete responds, "It's good to know where we draw the line."

The people include a nervous hypochondriac, a spunky baker, and a stressed-out lawyer. Add "redneck sheriff" and it would be the perfect acting workshop exercise. "They're all trapped on an elevator, and .....go!"

From the Jack Skellington collection.

A review of last night's "Bunheads" coming up just as soon as we talk about bunions and menopause... "Bunheads" is still in world-building mode at this point, as Michelle gets a tour of the huge property she's inherited, as we meet more townspeople — including the crooked cop, and Steven Eckholdt(*) as Michelle's obvious love interest down the road(**) — and spend more time getting to know the four girls, and start establishing reasons Michelle might want to stay in Paradise rather than selling the property and splitting the cash with Fanny. (*) Eckholdt — who's probably still best known for...

It's definitely rare for the syndication-friendly Two and a Half Men to feature a "to be continued..." ending, but apparently last night's episode, "Crude and Uncalled For" had just too much story to pack in there.

Last night, Alan's Internet date landed him in jail (really, whose hasn't?), and Charlie's fiancee seemed to be crushing hardcore on Alan's lawyer, Brad (Steven Eckholdt).  That takes us somewhere about ten minutes into the episode.

From there, the episode became about Alan convincing Charlie he should be jealous and never have let Chelsea go to Brad's charity event by herself.  Rather than simply arriving, we spent the rest of the time with the boys as they dragged Jake along and failed to follow their Gps to the ranch.  Instead, they get lost and Jake does a horrible mountain lion impression.

Our biggest complaint with the episode isn't the jokes, because they were there,...

Joely Fisher has been tapped to portray Brad Garrett's wife in Fox's comedy pilot 'Til Death. In other casting news, Esai Morales has landed a role in CBS' drama pilot Company Town, Steven Eckholdt and Susan Walters have joined the cast of the CW's drama pilot Split Decision, and Susan Floyd has been cast in the CW drama pilot Runaway. 'Til Death, from Sony Pictures Television, centers on a just-married young couple who move in next door to a long-married couple. Garrett and Fisher will play the long-married couple.

Shannon Elizabeth and Marques Houston have been tapped to topline UPN's potential spinoff of the hit comedy One on One, while Major Dad star Gerald McRaney is taking on another dad role in the WB Network's untitled Flebotte/Burnett comedy pilot. In other pilot casting news, Rena Sofer has been tapped to star in Blind Justice, Steven Bochco's drama pilot for ABC, Steven Eckholdt has come aboard ABC's comedy Plan B, Stephen Dunham is the first cast in NBC's comedy D.O.T.s, Paula Marshall and Elizabeth Lackey are set to star in CBS' drama Cooking Lessons, actress-singer Vanessa Williams has come on board UPN's drama Beck and Call, Ryan Pinkston has joined the cast of Fox's untitled Mark Reisman comedy and Randy Sklar and Jason Sklar have joined the WB's untitled Dana & Julia comedy.

Jesse Bradford is making his television debut with a recurring role on NBC's White House drama The West Wing. At the same time, the actor is poised to join Don Roos' Happy Endings for Stratus Film Co. Bradford is set to appear in 10 episodes of John Wells Prods./Warner Bros. TV's West Wing this season, playing a spoiled twentysomething intern from a known political family. "I've been a fan of Jesse's work since I first saw him in (Steven Soderbergh's 1993 feature) King of the Hill, and I'm thrilled that he has decided to join us on The West Wing," the show's executive producer John Wells said. Bradford joins Annabeth Gish and Steven Eckholdt, who also have signed on to recur on the Emmy-winning drama during its upcoming fifth season (HR 7/24).