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Continue Soaps have been around since the 1930s, when Proctor & Gamble produced 15-minute episodes of Love and Drama for radio. The term was allegedly coined because these shows were sponsored by a company that made detergents. In the early 1950s, soap operas switched to television, and daytime television had no shortage of offerings. As you'll see, captivating storylines and characters are the key to longevity on daytime television. If you're curious about the shortest running soap, it was NBC's that lasted only 24 days in 1949. But for the longest- running soap operas, see the next page to get started. With more than 15,000 episodes, is not only the longest running soap, but also the longest running non-news program in US television history. Like many of the oldest soaps, Guiding Light began as a radio program in 1937, before moving to television on June 30, 1952. Originally, the soap took place in the fictional town of Five Points, then Selby Flats, and revolved around the Bauer family. Now it's the Spauldings, Coopers and Lewises who are in the spotlight. In the 1960s, The was removed from the show's title to make it sound more contemporary. One of the more bizarre storylines in the series included cloning longtime character Reva Lewis from one of her own frozen eggs! Once the clone was born, it received aging serum so that it could grow up quickly. But she was angry and tried to take Revas's place. Advertisement Set in Oakdale, a fictional city in the Midwest, How the World Turns has been immensely popular since its debut on April 2, 1956. The show is more reality-based than other soaps, but people come back from the dead and children grow up much faster than in real life, as is the norm for the soap world. The first soap opera that uses a two-family setup, against a middle-class family against a wealthy but restless, family. The Hughes family remains the bourgeois hero, but the wealthy family that was originally the Lowells is now the Munsons. After more than 13,000 episodes, the world is still spinning, and this soap is still getting strong. Advertising, which was named the Greatest Soap Opera of all time by TV Guide in 2003, has won the Daytime Emmy nine times for outstanding drama -- more than any soap! The General Hospital began its work on ABC on April 1, 1963, the very day that NBC launched its rival medical drama The Doctors. Today, the show revolves around the Spencers, the Cassidines, the mobster Sonny Corinthos and the wealthy Quartermaine family. The the adventurous Luke and Laura in the late 1970s sparked the trend of the soap opera super pair. In the fictional , , most scenes take place at the docks, or where else . . . General hospital. Throughout the entire History, General Hospital was a springboard for several well-known actors, including Demi Moore, Rick Springfield, John Stamos and Ricky Martin. Advertising How sand through the hourglass . . . Since its debut on November 8, 1965, loyal viewers have seen . The days take place in the fictional midwestern town of Salem, with most of the scenes filmed at University Hospital or Brady Pub. Today, Salem is home to the respected Horton and Brady families, as well as the evil DiMeras. Since the show's debut more than 40 years ago, matriarch Alice Horton has been portrayed by award-winning actress . In the 1980s, the Salem Stalker and Salem Slasher brought romantic adventures to the fore, while Dr. Marlena Evans-Black (Deidre Hall) became obsessed with the devil in the 1990s. Originally broadcast on July 15, 1968, the wealthy was pitted against the bourgeois Nk and Rileys and the Siegels, the first Jewish family in a daytime drama. Now it's the Buchananers, Rapaports, Gannons and Cramers who see most of the action. They live in , Pennsylvania, a fictional suburb of . The inhabitants of Llanview have experienced cults, time travel and out-of-body experiences. Llanview, by the way, is just a 30-minute drive from another fictional soap town: 's Pine Valley. As such, there were several story line crossovers, as both soaps are on ABC. Advertising The idea of soap opera creator, author and producer , All My Children has taken risks since its launch on January 5, 1970. Set in fictional Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, this soap deals with serious issues and has over the years addressed such controversial topics as abortion, drugs, homosexuality, rape and even the Vietnam War. , one of only two actors to remain on the show throughout the series, was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for 18 consecutive years without winning her role as . But Lucci was finally victorious in 1999. Advertisement The Young and the Restless took place on the small screen on March 26, 1973, and more than 10,000 episodes later, it shows no signs of giving up. Home to Y&R characters is Genoa City, Wisconsin, a fictional version of a real village. The TV city is a hotbed of corporate intrigue and granddoicity, pitting two wealthy families -- the Newmans and the Abbotts -- against each other. One of Y&R's most outrageous characters, Grainger Forrester Warwick (Kimberlin Brown), has changed babies, tried to burn her own mother alive, used paternity results as blackmail, shot people, in a psychiatric institution and escaped from a psychiatric institution by persuacly persuacly persuasion someone to take part in a plastic surgery and take her place. She is currently thought dead, but in the soap world, that means nothing -- look for her to threaten her With such storylines, it is no wonder that Y&R has held the top spot in the ratings war since 1988. For the entire run of the show, from September 3, 1951 to December 26, 1986, followed the life of heroine Joanne Gardner. Joanne and her friends lived in the fictional town of Henderson, and many scenes took place at her kitchen table over a cup of coffee. In the mid-1980s, in a last-guessing attempt to bring ratings to the polls, the whole city was wiped out in a flood, but even that didn't do the trick. In 1986, NBC decided that tomorrow's search wasn't nearly as exciting as juicy topics like government scandals, so the soap was axed after 9,130 episodes in favor of a glittering new show called Capitol. Advertising The subject of abortion is not exactly outrageous today, but in 1964 it was groundbreaking, to say the least. During his first year in the air, Another World came up strong with a bold and risky story in which a teenager has an illegal abortion and ends a sterile, acquitted murderer who marries her lawyer. In the early days, Another World, set in the fictional town of Bay City, began playing a middle-class branch and a branch of the Upper Class of the Matthews family against each other. Later, the Randolph, Cory and Hudson families became part of the show's fabric, but in 1999, after 8,891 episodes, Another World was cancelled. Advertising When first aired on September 24, 1951, it did not take any ad-free breaks. The show belonged to a company called American Home Products and was licensed to CBS, so there was no need to break for commercials. American Home Products merchandise was sold either before or after the show. The show first took place in the fictional Barrowsville, then moved to the suburb of Rosehill, New York. The show revolved around the relationship between the good Vanessa Dale and her evil sister Meg Dale Harper. Christopher Reeve's first leading role was that of Meg's son Ben Harper, from 1974 to 1976. After the ratings had plummeted, the show abruptly ended with a cliffhanger on February 1, 1980, and since the show was canceled, the fans really got stuck . . . Forever. From its debut on April 2, 1956 to the 1960s, was consistently one of the highest-ranked soaps on television. Known for his well-staged action sequences, which were filmed on location and not on set, most of the series' storylines were set in the fictional town of Monticello, and revolved around Deputy District Attorney Mike Karr and his love interest Sarah Lane. In 1978, the audience of The Edge of Night was almost 50 percent male! This is probably because the soap is not a traditional love drama theme; it should be a daily version of Perry Mason. After the bounce of various networks and time windows, the show was finally cancelled in December 1984, after more than Episodes. To learn more, watch the 10 longest-running TV shows or take a classic TV quiz to test your knowledge. CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Helen Davies, Marjorie Dorfman, Mary Fons, Deborah Hawkins, Martin Hintz, Linnea Lundgren, David Priess, Julia Clark Robinson, Paul Seaburn, Heidi Stevens and Steve Theunissen If you ever catch some vintage soap opera shots, you can see some familiar faces. Here are some of today's hottest stars getting their start in daytime dramas. For her first 19 years she was called Demetria Guynes, but then she married the musician Freddy Moore and adopted the name that most people know today. In 1982, Demi beat up thousands of actors for the role of Jackie Templeton at General Hospital. She was an instant sensation as a cheeky reporter who struggled to get a scoop. In 1983, she left daily television and eventually appeared in feature films such as Ghost, Indecent Proposal and A Few Good Men. Advertising This hottie was Livin' La Vida Loca in the Port Charles of the General Hospital as Miguel Morez. As a fab example of typecasting, Martin was tapped to play a Latino singer. He had long curly hair and steamed the afternoons from 1994 to 1995. Today it is far from Port Charles; In fact, the Grammy-winning artist spends much of his free time working for children's charities. As a child, Mary Kathleen Turner traveled the world because her father was a U.S. field officer. During this time, the Turner family lived in Canada, Cuba, London, Venezuela and Washington, D.C. At the age of 23, she gave up her first name and got her first big breakthrough in show business at The Doctors. From 1978 to 1979, Turner played the trampling Nola Dancy, a girl from the wrong side of the tracks who married someone from the right. In 1981 she debuted on the big screen as sizzling temptress in Body Heat. Advertising The man listed on Guinness World Records as the world's most watched TV star has made his start on daytime television. Between 1975 and 1982, Hasselhoff appeared on The Young and the Restless as Dr. Snapper Foster, who was taken to college by his poor mother and manicurous sister (Jill Abbott, who is still on the show). After seven years, Hasselhoff left daily television without knowing what was to come next. But he didn't have to be surprised for long -- NBC President Brandon Tartikoff asked him to play the lead role (opposite a talking car) in a new show called Knight Rider. In 1989, the phenomenal Baywatch reached the waves with Hasselhoff at the helm as lead actor and executive producer. Advertising Before they Queen of romantic comedies, Meg Ryan got tangled up in a love triangle on As the World Turns. From 1982 to 1984, the punky actor portrayed the good girl Betsy Stewart, who was in love with Steve Andropolous. Her stepfather didn't agree, so Betsy married Betsy . But true love prevailed when Betsy left Craig and married Steve in May 1984. Their luck didn't last long, but that's how it goes into the soap world. Ryan's film career began when she left the show, and her leading role in When Harry Met Sally in 1989 cemented her place as a leading actress. Elected Girl Most Likely to Become a Solid Gold Dancer by her high school class in 1982, Hatcher took a different direction and studied mathematics at college. Her classmates, however, may have been on something, because she soon left college and found a job as a dancing mermaid on in 1985. From 1986 to 1987, she was cast on the Capitol as Angelica Clegg, the wife of a congressman. But Hatcher did not stay around for long; In 1987, she appeared in several prime-time TV shows, such as Night Court and L.A. Law. In 1993, she landed her first leading role as Lois Lane in the series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. Advertising Speaking of Superman . . . Long before he was personally and professionally characterized as a man of steel, Christopher Reeve played devilishly handsome and selfish Ben Harper on Love of Life from 1974 to 1976. His character was married to two women from the same city at the same time! His wives eventually exposed him to the squad he was, and he ended up in prison. Perhaps a double life on screen leads to why a casting director came up with the idea in 1978 to make him a mysterious superhero in Superman. Advertising This prolific actor had a small role in National Lampoon's Animal House before his TV debut on Search for Tomorrow in 1979. From 1980 to 1981, he played a troubled teenager on Guiding Light. Since then, Bacon has participated in so many entertainment projects that there is even a game called Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, in which almost everyone in Hollywood is somehow connected to him. These days, Kevin and his brother are doing music and touring as The Bacon Brothers. Advertisement The tough guy, who later played a number of gangsters, Liotta started his career as the adorable hero Joey Perrini on Another World from 1978 to 1981. A few years after Liotta's love-loving character left the soap, Robert De Niro proposed him for Martin Scorsese's disturbing film GoodFellas as mobster kingpin Henry Hill. After a tragedy-ridden childhood, Shakespearean-loving Allen Kelsey Grammer found himself at the esteemed Julliard School. After playing JFK's brother-in-law Stephen Smith in a 1983 TV miniseries, Grammer landed a spot on Another World as ER doctor Dr. Canard from 1984 to 1985. That same year, he was tapped to play a different kind of doctor -- Frasier Crane on Cheers. His finicky character was so successful that he starred in the multi-Emmy award-winning sitcom Frasier. After a year-long visit to Boston University University Actress Marisa Tomei landed a role in As the World Turns. She played Marcy Thompson from 1983 to 1985. Her character accused a man of sexual harassment and then married a prince, Lord Stewart Cushing. He swept Marcy to England, where they lived happily after living happily as Lord and Lady Cushing. From 1971 to 1975, the future Oscar winner played a bad seed on . As Dr. Mark Toland, Jones portrayed a moody man who was married to an icy woman. The combination played out as a recipe for disaster until he was eventually murdered by a woman while fleeing the law. Before he was Darth Vader in Star Wars, before he was nominated for an Oscar for his role in The Great White Hope, played doctor. Soap opera doctor, that is! First he was Dr. Jerry Turner on As the World Turns and then Dr. Jim Frazier in The Guiding Light, both in 1966. Many fans recognize his deep voice from his famous line in Star Wars when he said to Luke Skywalker: I'm your father. But in 1966 he probably warmed that voice with lines like Where's my stethoscope? On. In 1968, young Aussie singer and guitarist Rick Springfield (born Richard Springthorpe) was hired by a private promoter to visit military bases in Vietnam and entertain troops. In 1972 he lived in Hollywood, continued to make music and had dropped out of acting. From 1981 to 1983, he played a sweet cake named Dr. Noah Drake at the General Hospital, which broke hearts in the fictional town of Port Charles. However, he never stopped touring with his band, and his song Jessie's Girl won a Grammy for Best Male Vocal Performance in 1982. Rick Springfield is still on tour and releasing CDs and is another musical fame of steep Tv- The highly acclaimed actor started in 1966 on The Guiding Light. It was created in the role of nurse Martha Frazier. Her husband, Dr. Jim Frazier, was played by Billie Dee Williams and later James Earl Jones. Tyson was pulled from the hospital when the producers chose her for the film The Comedians. Their cast in the film was an impressive lot: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Alec Guinness, Peter Ustinov and Lillian Gish. Throughout her career, Cicely Tyson was known for portraying strong African-American women. 1957, more than 20 years before the whole nation on the question who shot JR? A young Larry Hagman played Curt Williams on Search for Tomorrow. From 1961 to 1963, he played a lawyer named Ed Gibson in The Edge of Night. In 1965, Hagman starred in I Dream of Jeannie. But when he put on his cowboy hat in 1978 to Playing Oilman JR Ewing on Dallas seemed to fade all his other characters. Politically active and open, susan Sarandon landed a place on the catwalk as a Ford model as a teenager. But it was her role as Patrice Patrice on the soap A World Apart, which she brought to the small screen from 1970 to 1971. In 1972, she moved to Search for Tomorrow and played a murderous drifter named Sarah Fairbanks. In the same year, Sarandon left the show and appeared in the cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show in 1975. Sarandon was nominated for five Oscars in the next 20 years, before bringing one home in 1995 for her role in Dead Man Walking, directed by her partner Tim Robbins. CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Helen Davies, Marjorie Dorfman, Mary Fons, Deborah Hawkins, Martin Hintz, Linnea Lundgren, David Priess, Julia Clark Robinson, Paul Seaburn, Heidi Stevens and Steve Theunissen Theunissen

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