All: What was the storyline that got you hooked?

[detroitpiston]

Erica and David They always had the hottest love scenes. So did Leo and Greenlee. I miss them!

[Kylie]

Yes they did. I loved them so much, heck I still do. AMC was stupid to end them and never go back there. If you ever want to check it out My You Tube Channel I have a ton of D&E clips there, and more to come as soon as I finish ripping this and get their scenes from Rio.

I loved Leo and Greenlee as well. She's never been the same since he died.

[Faulkner]

Me too...Josh Duhamel was a rare bright spot in what has been a very dark period (the last decade) for AMC. And he was HOT HOT HOT. Looked way better back then than he does now. (Maybe it's the Fergie influence?) He's just a once-in-a-lifetime kind of a star, and I actually think he won't find a better outlet for his talents than Leo duPres.

[dragonflies]

I liked her with Leo as well, he actually gave her some heart and depth, and yep she definitely hasn't been the same since he died(same with Ryan about Gillian)

[DrewH]

B&B - Brooke and Deacon's affair is what really brought me into this show. I remember hearing that infamous B&B dramatic music and it made everything so much better, especially once Bridget found out about the affair. My grandmother watched the show, and I would be in the room while it was on, but I didn't know any of the characters, except Sally Spectra. But I quickly learned who Bridget, Deacon, Stephanie and Brooke were. It took me another year or so to figure out who was and wasn't related to who. It seemed like everyone was a Forrester on that show, at one time or another.

DAYS - Two words: Sami Brady. It wasn't necessarily a storyline that got me hooked, it was her. I remember wanting to watch something different during the summer before third grade. I was kind of over the whole Nick Jr. phase, but the CBS soaps, which were what my mother and grandmother watced, were always so boring for me. So I was flipping throught the channels and the first scene, I'll never forget it, was Sami and Lucas sitting at the pub discussing how they were going to break up Austin and Carrie. Sami seemed so damn determined and from the moment I saw her, I knew she was the bitch of the show. Then, the scene went to Austin and Carrie in bed together, and I realized that must be who they were talking about. That was the moment I realized how the soaps worked, particularly DAYS. In one scene, characters will discuss other characters, and then it shifts to a scene where they are featured. At 7, I knew about that. The storylin going on at the time, the one that I remember so vividly, was the Paris storyline where Stefano held Malrena in the golden cage. Stefano freaked me out so bad and I couldn't understand why this creepy man was keeping this woman in the cage.

Y&R - Like I said before, Y&R was always on in my house when my mother was home because that was her soap. I remember, as a really young child, when Nicholas and Sharon got together for the first time, and when Matt Clark was played by Eddie Cibrian. That was freaking 15 years ago! But like I said, as a young child, Y&R never hooked me. I just knew the theme song and I knew that it was Y&R. I didn't care much, just because I never saw any outrageous storylines that caught my eye because Y&R was pretty much the most realistic soap at the time, so I wouldn't have been itnerested as a child. It wasn't until 2002 that Y&R became my soap. As much as the teens are looked down upon in the soap world, Y&R's teens are what brought me, as a teen myself then, into the show. It was Lily, Colleen and Sierra that got me hooked on the show. And from then, I met JT, Brittany, Raul, Mac, Billy, etc. I already knew who most of the older characters were just because they were on when I was younger. The first storyline I remember being hooked on from beginning to end on Y&R was when Jill learned she was adopted and then found out that Katherine was her mother. Talk about drama! I can still remember the location scenes when Jill rushed to stop Billy and Mac's wedding and had to run when John's car was caught in traffic.

[Kylie]

Ryan Lavery as I knew and love him died in that ER room with Gillian. The man that came out of that hospital room isn't the same one who went in, and he'll never be, no matter what AMC tries to sell.

[applcin]

I don't watch most of these shows anymore but the first hook was:

GH- first show I ever saw was Scotty punching Luke on the yacht and L& L beginning their first "on the run" storyline. A few years later I ran home from school so I could watch L & L's wedding.

GL - I followed Larkin Malloy there after Edge of Night was cancelled so I would say Kyle Sampson hooked me.

DOOL - the beginning of Steve & Kayla

AMC - I'm not sure if they "hooked" me but the characters I remember the most from the time were Chuck, Donna, Kelly and Linc.

OLTL - the Buchanans...Olympia being held captive, Viki & Tina living in the carriage house, Jenny not knowing her baby was Katrina's; Marco/Mario, and Edwina

AW- probably would be when Michael Hudson came to town and that whole story and flashbacks with Michael, Donna and Reginald.

EON - Sky (Jeff Brown) and Raven

[ian]

I'm a relatively new sudser but I've been reading a bunch of history, and I've watched all of them at one time or another and I have a decent knowledge of all of them, but, my order of when I started is as follows, and some of the things that come to mind around the time I started watching

PASSIONS: My first soap started watching the summer after it started, when the tension about Ethan being Sam's son really heated up with Ivy.

DAYS: My grandma watched it for years, I got into it around the time of Bo and Hope's Christmas/New Year wedding, they found Marlo in the ice, thats one of my first memories - and the Bope baby switch, the ep where they lost JT - I have to admit I teared up

Y&R - Crazy Gabrielle, er, I mean Isabella Eva Longoria... but my grandparents have watched it for years.

B&B - Brooke and Nick get married just after she has RJ and they think he's Nick's... I think they had a night wedding? I also have vague memories of scenes involving Macy and Deacon.

OLTL - Todd is in the cabin cause of Crazy Margaret!

ATWT - the baby switch with Gwen and Jennifer and Craig etc.

GL - Jonathan's crazy San Cristobel father, Alfred? I think was his name?

GH and AMC I've just watched sporadically and I don't really have any "memories" of them.

[maconrich]

I'd already been watching Days but became addicted when Stefano and Tony arrived in Salem. Stefano was so unique and amazing and captivated me from day one. Tony was just plain hot and the Renee/Tony tragic love-story is still one of my all time favorites. After all these years I've yet to find another "family" as intriguing as the DiMera's - and I'm sure I never will. But Days is still my main soap.

I fell into GH during the Alexis lung cancer story. It was on Soapnet before Days and I started by having it on the last ten or so minutes - until I caught a scene where she was in the hospital not wanting to have chemo. My father had been diagnosed with stage III-B, inoperable lung cancer during the same time-frame. I didn't expect GH to be overly realistic (as in for Alexis to die which more often than not is the reality of the disease), but there were parts that I was able to relate to -and some of it even helped a bit. I'm still watching and have managed not to fall into any fanbase wars - probably because I missed so much of the history and didn't have a clue who was "supposed" to be with who or which family was supposed to be the most important.

Does Dark Shadows count? If so I used to watch it after school (none of my same-age friends weren't allowed to watch which made no sense to me at the time). I caught a lot of the episodes later on cable and those are much less blurred memory wise, but I loved Angelique and wanted to be just like her when I grew up (ok not the best role model but I was very, very young!)

[JackPeyton]

in the words of my second fave soap bitch ever, Taylor of spyder games, 'what would sami brady do?'

[Sedrick]

question brings back sooo many great memories!!!!

As a young kid I got hooked on the ABC lineup, as that was what all my family watched (with the exception of Y&R).

My earliest memories as a kid are of the drama, love, and adventure that played out like sweeping sagas on daytime television in the early 80's...

AMC: I vividly remember the special summer in NYC shared by Jesse and Jenny, and the exquisite love story of Jenny and Greg. I fondly remember the Friday cliffhanger when nasty Liza arranged for the pornographic video of Jenny to be shown on campus at PVU, a humiliated Jenny running from the scene, followed onto a catwalk by poor Greg, who ended up falling and was paralyzed!

ONE LIFE: As a kid, I remember the show always stood out in terms of its production. The sets were HUGE, expensive, and grand...the clothes were FABULOUS, and the show went on location ALOT. The first actual story that gained my elementary attention was the Echo DiSavoy tale, particularly the awesome Friday cliffhanger in which Echo attempted suicide by jumping off a bridge (of course filmed on location) as Clint tried to stop her, with Viki and Dorian (wearing a huge black hat that had to have come straight out of Alexis Carrington's closet!) watched the scene unfold from below. The following week, Echo was presumed dead (no body found) and suddenly revenge-thirsty Dorian tells the police that Clint PUSHED Echo off the bridge!

But the story that grabbed me as well as a lot of other I know was Viki's 1985 breakdown and reverting back into Niki Smith as Andrea Evans wiggled her way into daytime superstardom as Tina!

GH: In November 1981 I was barely going on four years old, but I vividly remember the day I didn't have to go to my nanny's house...in fact, both my parents stayed home from work, and my older sister didn’t go to school....holiday it was not...it was the wedding of Luke & Laura!

RYAN'S HOPE: I developed my first star crush on Marg Helgenberger and fell completely in love with her Siobhan Ryan!

LOVING: The action-packed wedding of Trisha and Steve (filmed on location) in which bullets from a sniper began flying as soon as the vows were taken instantly drew me into what was otherwise a dreary show.

Y&R: For years as a kid and teenage I couldn't stand Y&R...it moved too damn slow for my taste! However, in the mid 80's I did flip for a tale that took years to climax: Jill sleeping with her stepson Jack on a bearskin rug in front of a roaring fireplace as a secret photographer snapped naughty pics outside the window...and then crusty old broad Kay Chancellor has the most explicit of the photos made into a jigsaw puzzle that she sends to Jill's husband John piece by piece for what seemed like a delicious eternity!

I'll post the rest of my FIRST in a few hours after workout! Have a great day everyone!

[Sindacco]

DAYS: Maison Blanche, I was 7 (it aired in 1998 here).

[JackPeyton]

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Was Echo played by my fave soap diva of all time Kim Zimmer? I would KILL to see that.

[Jude]

AMC was always my favorite because it had a campy sense of humor and the characters seemed like people you might actually know in real life. I loved Billy Clyde Tuggle! He was evil but there was something so lovable about him. I actually rooted for him a lot.... and the first scene I remember with him was burying one of his hookers----Estelle LaTour---alive in a cemetery.

But the story that "hooked" me was Cortlandt Manor (Daisy coming back as 'Monique Jonville', the spooky séance performed by Myra, the masquerade party, and Palmer's dobermans)!!! I loved Cliff & Nina, too; their first wedding was so beautiful.

[JamesF]

As the US soaps over here have come and gone at fairly arbitrary points, it's been more a case of whether they hooked me from arrival.

B&B started over here with episodes from 1994 and while I started watching casually, amused by the nonsense with Princess Layla in Morocco, I was immediately hooked by Sheila staving off a bitter divorce from Eric. She seemed like such a great character and the best part was that with no background knowledge of Y&R/B&B, she remained a mystery to me until Lauren showed up to expose her. I loved it when she was sleeping with Connor to get pregnant, unaware that Eric had had a secret vasectomy with Stephanie's help. The show was a lot more balanced in those days so even though I had little interest in the Ridge/Brooke stuff, there was always something else to keep me hooked (Dylan, Anthony Armando framing Thorne for Ivana's murder etc).