Which soap was the first you taped in your VHS video recorder??

[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.

[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).

[NothinButAttitude]

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]

Ditto!

[DynamiteKiddo]

"Passions" in summer '00.

[Khan]

You're kidding, right? Please tell me you're kidding.

[Pine Charles]

LOL.

Leave SFK alone! Wouldn't you much rather watch Carla Hall whip up some of her Granny's fried okra than a classic Viki vs. Dorian fight?

[Mr. Vixen]

GH

[Khan]

Really, Soapboy? I never took you for a GH fan!

[Mr. Vixen]

Haha stop it! I love a lot of soaps but GH was my first.

[SFK]

Of course I'm kidding! I wasn't even born in 1976.

[Cheap21]

Port Charles

[SFK]

I was used to my mom taping the whole ABC line up when I was growing up, but the first soap I ever made it my business to tape for myself was OLTL during the DID s/l.

[yr9190]

My dad use to tape Passions for me when i was still in elementary school, until i eventually learned how to do it myself LOL.