#WATCH SWITCHED AT BIRTH SEASON 2 EPISODE 1 SERIES#
On the series Switched at Birth, the characters Bay and Daphne were switched at birth.īaby switching storylines are a staple of daytime drama, as in the case of The Young and the Restless mentioned above. In the Philippine television series Mara Clara, the characters Mara Davis/ David and Clara del Valle were switched at birth by Gary for revenge after his former lover was married to another man. In Desperate Housewives, the characters Juanita Solis and Grace Sanchez were switched at birth by a nurse named Teresa Pruitt. A non-human example occurs in the Planet of the Apes franchise, when the son of intelligent apes Zira and Cornelius is swapped with a 20th-century circus ape's infant, in order to assure the survival of the offspring that can become sentient. It continues to be a popular theme in the 1990s and 21st century with (for examples) it being employed as a plot device in Veronica Mars (the characters Cindy "Mac" Mackenzie and Madison Sinclair), in Neighbours (the characters Bree Timmins and Anne Baxter), Night and Day (the characters Jane Harper and Della Wells) and in The Young and the Restless (children of Lauren Fenmore Baldwin and Sheila Carter). It is one of the themes that television films regularly exploited in the 1970s and 1980s. Mark Twain later used this plot device in The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (1893), where two babies, one white and one black, are switched at birth, resulting in both passing for races that they are not. In both cases, well-born babies were switched with commoners. Gilbert, including in the Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas H.M.S. The device was used a number of times by W.S. The use of this common theme has continued ever since. It is one of the several identifiable characteristics of melodrama that are plot devices dealing with situations that are highly improbable in real life.
The plot device of babies who are switched at birth, or in their cradles, has been a common one in American fiction since the 18th century.
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