Goal #1, reach Dark Shadows; Goal #2 , reach OLTL. If I set down 24/7 straight for a week or two, maybe I can finally reach that second goal. LOL

I don't mind at all. I couldn't find a site that listed all of the soaps properly, separating daytime & primetime, so I was kinda guessing a bit there, trying to remember the old list. Thanks AMS! This week, I'll use the updated list. smile.gif

I recommend Matt's amazing Soap Opera History, which is a list of *all* US daytime soaps, with basic info on *all* of them. There's some neat storyline info on the a lot of the older ones (the ones that came out between 1949 and 1965) and Family Trees for all of the current soaps plus AW. Some pictures for a lot of them too, and my favorite part, SOD synopses from all of the soaps from the 1975-1978 period. It's a really great site, one of the best online.

Juniorz, here are the top 40 Daytime soaps in order of longetivity if you would like to use them. I am working on adding the primetime soaps into this too, but have not gotten them completed. Just throwing these out there just in case you might want it. (figures are as of November 10, 2006)

01) The Guiding Light 54 years, 4 months, 11 days

02) As The World Turns 50 years, 7 months, 8 days

03) General Hospital 43 years, 7 months, 9 days

04) Days of Our Lives 41 years, 0 months, 2 days

05) One Life To Live 38 years, 3 months, 26 days

06) All My Children 36 years, 10 months, 15 days

07) Search For Tomorrow 35 years, 3 months, 23 days

08) Another World 35 years, 1 month, 21 days

09) Young & the Restless 28 years, 8 months, 26 days

10) Love of Life 28 years, 4 months, 8 days

11) The Secret Storm 20 years, 0 months, 7 days

12) The Doctors 19 years, 8 months, 30 days

13) Bold & the Beautiful 19 years, 7 months, 18 days

14) Ryan’s Hope 13 years, 6 months, 5 days

15) Loving 12 years, 4 months, 15 days

16) The Brighter Day 8 years, 8 months, 24 days

17) Santa Barbara 8 years, 5 months, 16 days

18) Passions 7 years, 4 months, 5 days

19) Somerset 6 years, 9 months, 1 day

20) Port Charles 6 years, 4 months, 2 days

21) Love Is A Many Splendored Thing 5 years, 6 months, 5 days

22) Capitol 4 years, 11 months, 22 days

23) Dark Shadows 4 years, 9 months, 6 days

24) Young Doctor Malone 4 years, 3 months, 0 days

25) Hawkins Falls 4 years, 2 months, 29 days

26) Valiant Lady 3 years, 10 months, 4 days

27) Where The Heart Is 3 years, 6 months, 15 days

28) From These Roots 3 years, 5 months, 29 days

29) Another Life 3 years, 4 months, 4 days

30) Sunset Beach 2 years, 11 months, 25 days

31) Bright Promise 2 years, 6 months, 2 days

32) Texas 2 years, 4 months, 27 days

33) The Catlins 2 years, 1 month, 0 days

34) Flame in the Wind / A Time for Us 1 year, 11 months, 18 days

35) The Clear Horizon 1 year, 11 months, 0 days

36) Generations 1 year, 9 months, 15 days

37) Return to Peyton Place 1 year, 9 months, 1 day

38) The First Hundred Years 1 year, 6 months, 23 days

39) The Nurses 1 year, 6 months, 4 days

40) First Love 1 year, 5 months, 25 days

41) The Young Marrieds 1 year, 5 months, 20 days

42) Three Steps to Heaven 1 year, 4 months, 28 days

43) The City 1 year, 4 months, 10 days

44) How to Survive a Marriage 1 year, 3 months, 11 days

45) Portia Faces Life / The Inner Flame 1 year, 2 months, 26 days

46) One Man’s Family 1 year, 1 month, 0 days

47) Concerning Miss Marlowe 0 years, 11 months, 26 days

48) The Egg and I 0 years, 10 months, 29 days

49) The Greatest Gift 0 years, 10 months, 1 day

49) Moment of Truth 0 years, 10 months, 1 day

51) For Richer, For Poorer 0 years, 9 months, 24 days

52) Miss Susan 0 years, 9 months, 16 days

53) Morning Star 0 years, 9 months, 4 days

53) Paradise Bay 0 years, 9 months, 4 days

55) Never Too Young 0 years, 8 months, 28 days

56) Golden Windows 0 years, 8 months, 27 days

57) Our Five Daughthers 0 years, 8 months, 24 days

58) Kitty Foyle 0 years, 8 months, 4 days *

59) Full Circle 0 years, 8 months, 3 days

60) Hotel Cosmopolitan 0 years, 7 months, 23 days

61) The Road of Life 0 years, 6 months, 18 days

62) The Bennetts 0 years, 6 months, 2 days

63) Hidden Faces 0 years, 5 months, 28 days

64) A Time to Live 0 years, 5 months, 26 days

64) Today Is Ours 0 years, 5 months, 26 days

64) The Best of Everything 0 years, 5 months, 26 days

67) High Hopes 0 years, 5 months, 24 days

68) Fairmeadows, U.S.A. 0 years, 5 months, 23 days

69) Kitty Foyle 0 years, 5 months, 14 days *

70) Follow Your Heart 0 years, 5 months, 5 days

70) The Seeking Heart 0 years, 5 months, 5 days

72) Woman With A Past 0 years, 5 months, 1 day

73) A Woman to Remember 0 years, 4 months, 24 days

74) Tribes 0 years, 4 months, 8 days

75) Lovers & Friends 0 years, 4 months, 3 days

76) Ben Jerrod 0 years, 2 months, 27 days

77) Faraway Hill 0 years, 2 months, 16 days

78) These Are My Children 0 years, 0 months, 25 days

* two different sources give 2 different dates for those.

When I get all the primetime soaps figured I will add them in and post this on the site somewhere.

Edited January 2, 200718 yr by SteveFrame

Thanks Steve, but I want them in order of their cancellation date. Only the 9 current soaps are arranged by longevity.

I think you forgot EON, Steve. I think you accidentally put EON's Y/M/D next to Y&R and skipped over EON.

I think you forgot EON, Steve. I think you accidentally put EON's Y/M/D next to Y&R and skipped over EON.

Thanks AMS. I checked my list and it is there. I just somehow erased it out when I transferred. I will try to correct that later.