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[Goldensoaps]

The first daytime soap I taped was Santa Barbara....when Kelly and Nick Hartley were in the Ghost town and Christie Duvall was raped ....and my first nighttime soap was Dynasty...the Moldavian wedding!!!

Edited by Goldensoaps, 05 November 2012 - 08:21 AM.

[CarlD2]

Y&R/B&B/ATWT/GL.

[All My Shadows]

AMC.

[Silver Lord]

Loving

[dmarex]

Sunset Beach as far as soaps go. I think it was in 1999.

As for the very first TV show I filmed, I think it was Argentinian Muneca Brava.

Ah, the memories.

[CassieFan]

Sunset Beach/Passions.

[reallyhateskateonlost]

It was the 80's, we had one vcr, it was CBS Y&R, B&B, sometimes at 2pm it was Another World or
ATWT. I had to watch AMC, OLTL, DOOL live..lol At 3 it was GH, Santa Barbara or Guiding Light. The local NBC station kept changing SB to morning so usually GH was taped.

[Steve]

I bought my first VCR as a college student in 1986 because I had a class that conflicted with AMC.

[Khan]

"The Oprah Winfrey Show." I mean, GUIDING LIGHT.

[London]

Passions... I used to skip school (not the whole day... just the last two or three periods) Junior year when my recorder wasn't working just so I could watch certain episodes.

[SFK]

AW and OLTL around 1976 on a big old clunky $1,000 VHS. I had boxes and boxes of tapes in my basement for years which was a real pain in the neck. I've recycled most of them when I started archiving Lizard Lick Towing and The Chew.

[dragonflies]

Port Charles, AMC, & GH

[VirginiaHamilton]

AMC when SMG (a.k.a.: original recipe Kendall) arrived in town. Those were the days...

[tune_in_tomorrow]

1983 - DAYS shortly after the Salem Slasher murders began. I had been following that story via weekly recaps in the paper until my family got a VCR & I started recording a few days before Trista Evans Bradford was killed.

[Gray Bunny]

AW and OLTL around 1976 on a big old clunky $1,000 VHS. I had boxes and boxes of tapes in my basement for years which was a real pain in the neck. I've recycled most of them when I started archiving Lizard Lick Towing and The Chew.

They had VCR's in 1976?

Steve, how much was a VCR in 1986?

For me, my first VHS taping was August 1995 when I started back up in school (7th grade) and found myself not wanting to miss Days of Our Lives, which I got hooked on a month prior.

Is it weird that I totally remember the first episode I taped? It was when John almost died in the magician tank that Tony rigged. Meanwhile, Bo and Hope traveled to Santa Rosa to get a divorce and were haunted by memories of the past. Ooh...

Edited by Gray Bunny, 05 November 2012 - 06:10 PM.

[DramatistDreamer]

I started early in life recording the soaps. I think by the time I was 10 or so, I had learned how to program a VCR (I used to make my older brother set it for me but he got fed up and told me to learn how to do it myself ). I would record shows for my Mother and myself. I read the instruction manual, messed up a few times before finally getting it down pat (back then in the mid 80s, setting a VCR was still complicated).

Anyhoo,

I would say Y&R/ATWT. Sometimes Capitol might get caught up in there for a few minutes.

Years later, when I started watching Guiding Light, I might record an occasional episode here and there but most days I would be home from school by then.

Edited by DramatistDreamer, 05 November 2012 - 05:21 PM.

[Pine Charles]

All My Children

Well, my mom started taping it (with me and my sisters watching the tape after school) around the late eighties/early nineties. I started taping it myself circa 1994 (during the 'Jane Cox' storyline).

Edited by Pine Charles, 05 November 2012 - 05:28 PM.

[Nothin'ButAttitude]

Guiding Light. Around the Reva/Annie saga. Just a great time for GL. And I loved how Annie had a part in almost everything going wrong in Springfield at the time. Great umbrella story. Must see TV.

[Melroser]

AW every day once we got one. Can't remember when it was exactly but I wanna say around '86.

[Soapsuds]

Y&R/B&B/ATWT/GL.

Ditto!