So I was thinking, what would your perfect soap lineup be if you were in charge of daytime programming for a network? You can pick any 4 soaps you like, past or present, but you must only choose 4 and in the traditional lineup sense- 1 half hour soap at 12:30 and 3 hour long soaps to follow. I guess you can sub in 2 half hour soaps for 1 of your hour slots, but choose no more than 3 1/2 hours of soap programming.

My lineup:

12:30- Loving (not The City, LOVING!)

1:00- Days of our Lives

2:00- Another World

3:00- Santa Barbara

Honorable Mention- The Young and the Restless, but those 4 I have shared a lifetime of affection for, whereas I didn't get into Y&R until 92/93. I almost put it in there over DAYS, but, like a typical long-time soap viewer, my loyalty to DAYS won out.

Days of our Lives

Santa Barbara

Another World

As The World Turns

12:30 The Edge of Night

1:00 Days of our Lives

2:00 General Hosptial

3:00 Guiding Light

Mind you, i'd never put Edge at anything but 3:30 or 4, but using the guidelines I've got to work with, the lunch hour would come a close second.

Yeah, I thought about ATWT too, but again, loyalty. I didn't start watching regularly until 2000 (I had watched sporadicaly through the 90s, during Debbie/Hutch/Rosanna and most of Maura West's first run) so I don't have as much of an attachment to it as I do to the 4 soaps I chose.

I will say that from 2000-2006 and again from 2009-2010, ATWT was my favorite of all my soaps I was watching at the time.

My Perfect CBS Soap Lineup (...you know, just in case the choice of shows was not that clear to certain post-ers here)

12:30 pm ~ AS THE WORLD TURNS

1:30 pm ~ SEARCH FOR TOMORROW

2:00 pm ~ GUIDING LIGHT

3:00 pm ~ THE EDGE OF NIGHT

Edited November 12, 201015 yr by Khan

12:30 PM - The Secret Storm

1:30 PM - Brookside

2:00 PM - One Life to Live

3:00 PM - The Edge of Night

Edited November 9, 201015 yr by Amello

12:30 - Port Charles

1:00 - All My Children

2:00 - One Life to Live

3:00 - Sunset Beach

12:30 Ryan's Hope

1:00 Young & The Restless

2:00 All My Children

3:00 The Edge Of Night

12:30 Ryan's Hope

1:00 Another World

2:00 As the World Turns

3:00 Guiding Light

I've always thought the June 8th, 1981 to March 26th 1982 CBS schedule was perfect:

12:30 Y&R

1:30 ATWT

2:30 SFT

3:00 GL

Mind you, I wasn't even alive but looking back I can understand CBS' logic, in fact it corrected their disastrous 1980-81 line up in the long run. Shame on CBS and P&G for not giving SFT a chance in the 2:30 slot.

My honorable mention would be Days.

The Young & The Restless

All My Children

Days of our Lives

Another World

After further deliberation, I couldn't choose just 4 either.

12:30--Search For Tomorrow

1:00--Days Of Our Lives

2:00--Another World

3:00--As The World Turns

4:00--Guiding Light

5:00--The Edge Of Night

Edited November 9, 201015 yr by DAYSfreak1987

Days of our Lives

Sunset Beach

The Bold and the Beautiful

General Hospital

NBC once had a perfect lineup -- Days/AW/Santa Barbara -- but they squandered it, the idiots.

Gah! So many great soaps, not enough timeslots!

12pm Love of Life

12.30pm Loving

1pm Days of our Lives

2pm Another World

3pm Santa Barbara

4pm General Hospital

5pm Sunset Beach

IOW, I can't choose. I could barely decide between my love for Days way back when and Y&R. And how to choose between Santa Barbara and GH? Impossible.

11:30a: Ryan's Hope

12:00p: All My Children

1:00p: As the World Turns

2:00p: Dark Shadows

Edited November 9, 201015 yr by All My Shadows