Possible Clues:

• Sentimental TV serial, sounds clean
• Long-running story supposedly true to life
• Daytime TV drama (2 words)
• Daytime show
• Tool of Figaro's trade might have made Il Barbiere the first
• Flattery works in drama
• Illiterate prose article including retiree's sentimental story
• Old radio option
• Rocket transporting poet, a drama
• 'Dallas,' e.g.