Bay State Celebrates 150 Episodes

Any other school with Beacon Hill College’s reputation for trouble would long ago have been shuttered. But after 26 years of blackmail, cults, a serial killer, and numerous other lurid plotlines, the fictional college forming the backdrop of BU’s student-run soap opera Bay State is alive and well. The show—believed to be the nation’s oldest college soap opera—marks a milestone Thursday evening, when BUTV10 airs its 150th episode.

“I appreciate the freedom as well as the history that the show has,” says Bay State head writer Tom Laverriere ’17, who first discovered the show while he was in high school. “It’s fun for me and the writing team to look back at what’s been done and to keep it fresh and keep it going.”