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.

Edited November 5, 201213 yr by DramatistDreamer

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).

Edited November 5, 201213 yr by Pine Charles

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.

AW every day once we got one. Can't remember when it was exactly but I wanna say around '86.

Y&R/B&B/ATWT/GL.

Ditto!

"Passions" in summer '00.

I had boxes and boxes of tapes in my basement for years which was a real pain in the neck. I've recycled most of them when I started archiving Lizard Lick Towing and The Chew.

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

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?

Edited November 6, 201213 yr by Pine Charles

GH

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

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

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

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?

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

Port Charles

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.

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.