Which Soap (Past or Present) is "Your" Soap?

[Pine Charles]

AMC

[Quent]

Three soaps stand out (at different times in my life)

Edge Of Night: I was just a kid when this was on, but one storyline (the murder of Stephanie Martin, with Nicole Travis as the accused) got me totally hooked on this soap.

Dark Shadows: Every kid who raced home from school to watch Barnabas, Angelique, Victoria, Rev. Trask, Quentin, Willie Loomis, etc knows exactly why this was must-see TV.

As The World Turns: And then I grew up. This is without a doubt "MY" soap. I t grabbed me from the first scene I accidentally tuned in to. Great plots and the best acting on daytime mad this my all-time favorite soap from the days of Meg Ryan, Marisa Tomei and Julianne Moore until the invasion of the Ciccones and FakeLily.

[marceline]

AMC. No matter what, I always managed to come home to Pine Valley.

[MissLlanviewPA]

Since some of you said "your" soaps sometimes evolved, I'll mention the two soaps that were "my" soaps before OLTL permanently took over that title: B&B and GL (GL probably a little bit more). I watched a few other soaps before/during the time I watched those, but never seriously. These were the two I watched the most seriously first. But once I found OLTL, I never went back (okay, I tuned to GL a little bit again later on, but not with any great regularity like I used to). It took awhile, but I found my One True Soap with OLTL.

[applcin]

I watched a lot of them over the course of the years. My first was AMC, followed by the entire ABC lineup, then GL, then Days and AW. But, I think in the end, the one I kept with the longest and for which I had the most fondness is OLTL. That being said, I didn't watch its last couple of years because I didn't care for what it had become. But, boy, did I enjoy the heck out of it for a long time back in the good old days. The OLTL of old is the one I'm most nostalgic for.

[glatwt]

oh my, if we're talking primetime than i have to add Savannah as mine! great writing, producing and acting!! such a gorgeous, lushing looking soap. one of spelling's best and im so mad it was cancelled after only two seasons! that yacht set.....WOW!!!

[CCCapwell]

"Santa Barbara" was the first soap I started watching as a regular viewer and no soap has ever come close to what SB meant to me. With that said, I grew up in an NBC soap house. My grandmother and mother watched DAYS and AW in the late 70's/early 80's and so one of my earliest memories is the DAYS hourglass. As a toddler I would get afternoon cookies and I knew exactly what time I'd be getting those cookies without even knowing how to read a clock. DAYS aired at 2pm in the late 70s/early 80s and 2pm was my snack time so I knew it was time when I heard those chimes and Mac's voice, "Like sands through the hourglass....." I guess that why even to this day I still like snacks watching DAYS!!!! I was hooked on DAYS in the late 80's and into the 90's, stopped watching late 90's, watched various soaps, fell in love with OLTL so I was heartbroken when it left us, I wanted to still watch a soap, I was tempted to check back into GH, but instead went home to Salem where as Stefano would say: "it's good to be back!"

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[Sindacco]

DAYS has always been my number one soap.

[beebs]

DAYS was my first and favourite for most of my life, GH is the show I feel the strongest emotions for though. And it's the show I get the most upset over its destruction.

[EricMontreal22]

Obviously for me it's AMC. There's just something about it, even during its darkest days, that feels like "home" to me. It's hard to even explain why. Oddly, the second one for me that came close was Loving (even when it morphed into The City), with One Life to Live third, although I will say 93-95 OLTL had some of the best TV I've ever seen.

[NothinButAttitude]

I love all the soaps (except Passions) but I grew up being a CBS child, so my love for them goes deeper. Hands down, ATWT. I truly think that it was also the last soap to have class distinctions as they still had the blue collar Snyders and the upper-crest Walsh clan. I think it was the last soap to also have that true small town feel to it. I just loved the characters so much and it has been the only soap I have seen go off the air (watched all the soap finales since AW) that I cried like a newborn baby. When Bob said "goodnight" and that globe started to spin (which I knew it would) with the swan song from The Prince of Tides, I broke down. I think it also had to do with the timing also as my grandmother had died months before (this month, May) and this was one of OUR shows. She never got to see the finale. It felt like losing her all over again.

But GL, Y&R, and B&B are my shows too along with AW. I got teary-eyed when GL and AW ended, but along with ATWT, a part of me was glad when they went off the air because they no longer had to suffer under the hands of Chris Goutman and his protege, Ellen Wheeler. Till this day I still curse their names for destroying three soaps that still had so much life left in them if they had the right EP and HW.

[Eric83]

Guiding Light

[JtSmarts]

Guiding Light was the first soap I ever watched back in 1989 at 3 years old, but I became absolutely hooked on Days between 96-98 and have watched ever since. "My" all time soap is Dool followed closely by GL, but my favorite show of the past four years was OLTL without a doubt.

[P.J.]

ATWT. Hands down. I don't really know why, but it always has been. I watched all the CBS lineup, found them all exciting at one time or another---but ATWT is the one I couldn't miss, the one I raced home to see, the one I made and kept tapes of. The one I never gave up on no matter how far off-course they went.

GL is a distant second. You'd think they'd be neck-and-neck, being sister soaps. But to this day, while I have fond memories of it, I don't really MISS it.

There's still a pang in my heart at 1 o'clock when I can't find my show.

[Soapsuds]

Ditto..same...with Y&R a far third......