 "Sally Jessy Raphael" was one of the first audience-participation, issue-driven talk shows to have a female host, predating "Oprah" by three years.The program was an iconic part of the tabloid talk show genre that pervaded daytime television throughout much of the 1980s and 1990s.When the show started out it covered topics such as people with extreme religious beliefs, but in the later shows Sally and her after specialist Pat Ferrari moved on to more personal family matters such as pregnant and/or out-of-control teens.