Historical clue formulations

• Many long-running TV shows — 2025-02-23
• Things commonly found in bars — 2025-02-13
• "The Young and the Restless" and "The Bold and the Beautiful" — 2023-12-14
• Daytime dramas, informally — 2023-11-06
• Detergents, e.g. — 2019-01-08
• Individually wrapped hotel amenities — 2018-09-14
• Bathday cakes? — 2017-08-20
• Melodramatic shows — 2016-06-21
• Wet bars? — 2012-10-28
• Afternoon fare ... or a hint to the ends of 20-, 33-, 41- and 52-Across — 2010-05-25
• Much of afternoon TV — 2009-06-08
• Afternoon TV fare — 2008-12-15
• Bars that gradually get smaller — 2008-07-12
• This puzzle's theme — 2008-01-15
• Afternoon fare — 2007-12-13
• Ivory, Coast and others — 2007-11-27
• Afternoon fare — 2007-09-23
• Daily dramas — 2003-04-25
• Tearjerkers, sometimes — 1997-03-30
• Daytime fare — 1997-01-30