General Hospital, the innovative, award-winning drama series, celebrated 43 years of broadcasting on April 1, 2006.
Days of our Lives debuted on
November 8,
1965,
The American soap opera
The Guiding Light started as a
radio drama in January
1937 and subsequently transferred to television. With the exception of several years in the late 1940s when
Irna Phillips was in dispute with
Procter & Gamble,
The Guiding Light has been heard or seen every weekday since it started, making it the longest story ever told. Other American soaps that have been telecast for more than thirty years (and are still in rotation) include
As the World Turns,
General Hospital,
Days of Our Lives,
One Life to Live,
All My Children, and
The Young and the Restless.
WOW!!!!!!! Even I wasn't here in 1937!
