Top 10 Soap Operas That Don't Exist Anymore

Some soaps never end, but these ones did. Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for soap operas that have sadly been lost like sand through the hourglass. Our countdown includes "Passions," "Guiding Light," "Dark Shadows," and more! What’s YOUR favorite forgotten soap? Let us know in the comments!
Watch more great soap opera videos here:
Top 10 Soap Opera Cliches - • Top 10 Soap Opera Cliches
Top 10 Greatest Daytime Soap Operas - • Top 10 Greatest Daytim...
Top 10 Greatest Primetime Soap Operas - • Top 10 Greatest Primet...
Don't forget to play our Live Trivia games at 3pm and 8pm EST for a chance to win cash! The faster you answer, the more points you get!: www.watchmojo....
Have Your Idea Become A Video!
wmojo.com/msmo...
Subscribe for more great content!
wmojo.com/msmo...
MsMojo is a leading producer of reference online video content of Top 10 Lists, Origins, Biographies, Commentary and more on Pop Culture, Celebrity, Movies, Music, TV, Film, Video Games, Politics, News, Comics, Superheroes. Your trusted authority on ranking Pop Culture.
#SoapOperas #Soaps #Cancelled #Drama #ABC

[@MsMojo]

What’s YOUR favorite forgotten soap? Let us know in the comments!

[@sharennyberg7795]

Dark Shadows was the first soap I watched, I loved it!! All My Children was my second fav

[@crisvanfan]

Port charles deserved way more than honorable mention

[@alexciarlo280]

Santa Barbara

[@pamelakibildis1177]

OLTL & AMC Were My Absolute Favorite Soap Operas & Guiding Light Too I Want Them Back 🥺🥺

[@brucewilson6781]

The Edge of Night

[@jessetorres8738]

The saddest fate of a tv show isn't its final episode, but rather when there's no 1 left who remembers/talks about it.

[@NazriB]

Lies again? Bang Bros Bubble Baths

[@jlhabitan50]

Thank goodness for Univision.

[@1phindy]

Passions was crazy as F. Timothy and Tabitha were humorous

[@joannewhite877]

“The Guiding Light,” was my favorite. My mom watched it in the 60s and I started watching it when I was 13 and, it was the longest running show ever in history at that particular time before it went off on the air. Josh and Reva, the last scene, riding into the sunset….Love that they ended the show getting back together.

[@darnellanders8768]

Same here ..I knew they would get back together upon Jeffrey dying. Riva Josh and little Colin starting over was great...I love Marra and Shane...

[@iamsportscards]

I loved One Life to Live and All My Children. Watched them with my mom when I was a kid.

[@chellecunningham25]

Same especially when it came to One Life To Live like I used to go over my great grandmother’s house everyday after school and it would be on at 2 on ABC

[@lynnevetter]

Yeah those two and General Hospital and DOOL were the ones my Grandma and mom watched. ❤

[@mervyngreene6687]

​@@lynnevetter You just mentioned my vacation watching: All My Children (AMC) One Life to Live (OLTL) General Hospital (GH)

[@ToniT-to9rr]

Same here. Got hooked on them when I was a kid during summer vacation. I was mad I had to miss episodes when school started again!

[@KevinPiland]

@@chellecunningham25 In Denver Colorado Days of our Lives aired at 3PM. That changed after Passions was cancelled.

[@brianandersen915]

As the World Turns is my forever favorite. It lives on in my heart and the generations of fans that watch it. I watched everyday from 1997 until 2010 when it ended. I miss it alot. It should be # 1 or 2.

[@teddyjam8134]

As the world turns is my all time favorite soap opera. You missed the best years though. The mid 80s to early 90s was incredible.

[@teresahegerich8835]

ATWT and Guiding Light were my favorites in high school. If you know about Roger and Holly, you know. They were my favorite toxic couple #1. My daughter and I watched AMC and OLTL, where the favorite toxoc couple was Erica and any man. And let's not forget 'Janet from another planet', and of course Blair and Todd. We also watched Passions.

[@1999dlatwt]

I still miss As the world turns and Guiding light. They were so good, I used to tape them and come home from work in the morning and watch them.

[@paulaisomura4894]

I did exactly the same. Loved GL and ATWT.

[@josephgraefe4886]

I have two soaps that were my favorites. They were As The World 🌎 Turns and Guiding Light!! Both of these should still be on the air.

[@mscoop8361]

James Stenbeck (sp?) was the best villain.

[@josephgraefe4886]

I agree. Him and Roger Thorpe from Guiding Light!

[@stevennieves3327]

All My Children was my show growing up. Whenever I was out of school sick at my grandma's house I would always watch it. 🥹 My dad worked security at ABC Studios back in the 80s and said the cast of AMC was so nice, especially Susan Lucci.

[@leobertoalbano]

All My Children. The Long-Running Soap Opera Is Officially Synonymous With Two Words In Soap Opera History...Susan Lucci.

[@leobertoalbano]

Since Susan Lucci And Her Nickname As Daytime's Leading Lady And 1-Time Daytime Emmy Award Winner For Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series For Her Portrayal Of All My Children's Erica Kane In 1999 After 19 Long And Grueling Nominations.

[@WolfModig]

Susan Lucci was an overrated hack of an actress

[@mervyngreene6687]

Actually, the two words are: Erica Kane!

[@mervyngreene6687]

​@@leobertoalbano Susan Lucci has always fascinated me. The rumor was that she was considered the joke of the industry--who was "crazy popular."

[@WolfModig]

@@mervyngreene6687 Sorry But Susan was the most overrated actress ever, there's a reason she only one 1 Emmy and even that was handed to her.

[@veronicalloyd7902]

My mother and I loved As the World Turns.. Lucinda Walsh was our favorite character.. Rest in Peace Elizabeth Hubbard..🙏

[@violetvillard1347]

I watched Days of Our Lives & would tape it to watch after HS got out."Like sands thru the hourglass so are the days of our lives." My mom enjoyed General Hospital. I do remember watching Luke & Laura's wedding with her as a kid too. Thankfully we had 2 VCR's cos one was programmed to tape my show & the other was programmed to tape mom's. It fell to me to record them too. lol - RIP Mom ❤

[@Indigo810]

Guiding Light should have been higher on your list because of the soap’s longevity. This was my absolute favorite soap that Mom and I watched in the 80s. Kevin Bacon was on this show briefly in ‘81 or ‘82.

[@mscoop8361]

Tamara Tunie, Meg Ryan, Julianne Moore, William Fichtner, and Brian Bloom did their time on ATWT. Seems like I’m forgetting someone. Anne Heche was on Another World for a time.

[@alyzu4755]

I LOVED. "Santa Barbara". My roommates and I would watch it in college whenever we could. In the late 90's I did a lot of work as an extra on DOOL. They always treated us very well.

[@Texaslawhorn]

Being an extra on DOOL sounds fun! Loved DOOL back in the '90s.

[@Niklarus2010]

Another World was my and my mom’s favorite. We loved Rachel and Mac.

[@Texaslawhorn]

I loved watching reruns of Another World on Soapnet when I was in college in the early 2000s. Great show

[@joebarzo9935]

Mac and Rachel, Janice and Mitch in St. Croix...the best of the best on daytime.

[@Blaqjaqshellaq]

It prompted the spinoffs SOMERSET and TEXAS.

[@darnellanders8768]

Yeah me and my mom loved Another World 🌍. My mom and I always liked Mac but we hated Rachel for the way she treated Alice stealing Steve Frame from Alice and then we he died she tried taking that house Steve built for her... Rachel was nasty condescending woman using Jamie her son as a bargaining chip with Steve.... So When she landed Mac moving into that mansion we thought it was unfair that she could find love believing she was a gold digger...Eventually me and my mom grew to love Rachel years later and she actually loved Mac and had his daughter...She also knew how to ✋ handle Cecile and I remember the arguments she had with Mac... Rachel could for sure hold her own....... Rachel also had a million dollar smile...I didn't notice how beautiful she was until she was battling with Janice Frame who married Mac and tried to kill him with poison... Rachel was right about Janice marrying Mac for his money....

[@darnellanders8768]

​@@joebarzo9935Oh yeah Rachel saved Mac and stabbed Janice who had first stabbed Mitch who was protecting Rachel ..I remember the arguments Rachel and Mac would have... Rachel Sure could hold her own....

[@asiavernacobb8643]

I Miss watching Passion and One life to live and All my children. Those Daytime Soaps were Awesome!! I Enjoyed Watching Them.😊✌🏼✌🏼 Loved Them So Much!!❤❤❤❤

[@jons.6216]

Definitely room for a part two on this topic! My mom stuck with the NBC soaps and several now household names came out of several! From "The Doctors" 1963-82, we got Sigouney Weaver, Kathleen Turner, Alec Baldwin, Julia Duffy and Armand Assante to name a few. Another World also had a few firsts like it being increased into a 90 minute soap for a couple of years in the 70s. Ray Liotta came out of this cast among others. It also had spinoffs Texas and Somerset, where Ted Danson got a start.

[@cindeed4422]

Soap operas are a relic of the past. Passed on from generation to generation. My mom passed them on to us gen Xers. My gen Z daughter hated them! I watched many and so did my mom. Edge of Night, Guiding Light, All My Children, Search for Tomorrow, Generations, Ryan’s Hope, Loving, One Live To Live, As The World Turns. A good time to watch TV! And the summer story lines with super couples! Classic. Luke and Laura, Morgan and Kelly, Betsy and Steve, Jessie and Angie and others, with accompanying songs. The song “Think of Laura” from Christopher Cross comes to mind. Great time to come of age!

[@WendieRenee]

Now, you can't mention super couples without Greg and Jenny from All My Children! My family was travelling on the road for a summer vacation destination and my mom and I made my dad (who wanted to drive until evening) stop midday so we could check into a hotel just to watch that episode where Jenny had the waterski accident that killed her!

[@Texaslawhorn]

My mom, born in 1950, watched them growing up with my grandmother, born in 1927. I was born in 1982, and some of my earliest memories are sitting in my high chair eating cereal while watching The Young and the Restless.

[@Lily_of_the_Forest]

@@WendieReneewow! Your dad was very kind.

[@VideoKilledMyZZZ]

This generation knows nothing about content creation.

[@amandaredd3057]

Agnes Nixon was amazing! I still think it's incredible that Guiding Light was a radio show first. I remember watching it's finale!

[@silverstreammusic1325]

Search for Tomorrow, Another World, The Doctors, DOOL, As the World Turns, Dark Shadows

[@mrs.rucker2448]

Dark Shadows, As the World Turns, Guiding Light, the Edge of Night. My childhood.

[@lisah8748]

DAYTIME: Capitol!!! No one I ask has ever heard of it. It wasn't on long, 2-3 years (if I remember correctly), but it ended on a MAJOR cliffhanger and back then, there was no final note/word/article for the writers to share the vision of the intended episodes, so the cliffhanger remains unanswered. NIGHTTIME: Flamingo Road. One of Mark Harmon's earliest roles. Also starred Morgan Fairchild.

[@josephgraefe4886]

I loved Capitol! It was on the air for 5 years, 1982-1987.

[@kathymcburnette4597]

I too loved Capital. Great soap.

[@elhadjhabbouche663]

I live in France, and "Santa Barbara" was broadcast here in the 1980's. It was a HUGE hit, broadcast every evening around 7pm just before the evening news. It was so popular you had the whole family watching it, children included (I was around 7). It was also spoofed by "Les Inconnus", a famous French humour band, under the title "ça te barbera" (which means "it will bore you" lol).

[@MarioSonicDKPokeFAN]

Wow, I always wanted MOJO to do a top 10 regarding soap operas. I was surprised to see this. Can there be a future top 10 about Memorable character, best storyline, greatest villan, best soap actor-turned Hollywood stars??

[@lynnevetter]

"Timmy's down the bloody well!" -Spike 😂😂

[@briannastultz1468]

Best.line.ever!!!!!

[@amandaredd3057]

Passions gave awesome bitch slaps and cat fights too! Much like DOOL. Gwen and Theresa were almost on par with Kristen and Marlena 😂❤

[@espor9297]

I love that theresa won at end of show. An gwen and her mom went to jail

[@leobertoalbano]

As The World Turns. A Legendary And Long-Running Soap Opera In History.

[@MsNekaa26]

85 years I miss that show it was everything and more I mean I remember watching it with my grandmother, my great grandmother, loving this show as an adult, watching it myself that and guiding light even when I was in school I had the VCR set to record guiding light, and as the world turns and I will watch it when I got home and when the world stopped turning, I stopped watching

[@jaclynsanture6643]

My mom would watch As The World Turns and I would watch 90210 and Passions in high school.

[@Texaslawhorn]

My grandmother, my mom and I watched ATWT. Kim, Lisa, Barbara, Lucinda... Such great characters!

[@MichaelLovely-mr6oh]

I was rather surprised to learn Rue McClanahan (Blanche Devereaux on "The Golden Girls") was a cast member on "Another World" from July of 1970 to September of 1971. Rue portrayed Caroline Johnson; who was hired as the cook for Patricia and John Randolph and the nanny for their infant twins Marianne and Michael. Rue described Caroline as the best nanny and a great cook in her autobiography "My First Five Husbands... and the Ones who got Away."

[@johnfronczek2658]

All My Children will never be forgotten.

[@donaldwilson2620]

Quite possibly, the best acted scene in all soap operas was Karen Wolek's(played wonderfully by Judith Light) courtroom confession in One Life To Live. That scene was so well acted, Judith Light actually won a Daytime Emmy for it.

[@leobertoalbano]

I Love Dark Shadows. A Late-1960s Soap Opera.

[@karmabum21]

I watched the 90's revival and was gutted when it was cancelled on a cliffhanger.

[@hallowmare3737]

I have all of Dark Shadows on DVD

[@tnate6004]

Search for Tomorrow (1951-86), Love of Life (1951-80) and The Secret Storm (1954-74) were pioneering and popular soap opera that should have been on the list. Sunset Beach? Pulleeze!

[@paulaisomura4894]

I watched Secret Storm as a child and fell in love with the name Amy, for Amy Ames. I named my daughter Amy.

[@kathymcburnette4597]

I was named Kathy after a character on Search for Tomorrow.

[@cameron8930]

I agree Sunset Beach was trash.

[@almetz79able]

I miss my All My Children. Watched it back in 1988 with my mom until it was cancelled.

[@mervyngreene6687]

Me too. I was sure that the plethora of cable networks (and Internet platforms) would be these shows survival.

[@Whisper_292]

My grandmother never missed the CBS soaps, The Edge of Night, As the World Turns, and Guiding Light. Never. She sat in front of the TV and didn't allow me to bother her while she was watching her "stories." When my dad retired, he sat right theemre with her. He especially loved John Dixon of ATWT.

[@Texaslawhorn]

My grandmother and mother were CBS soap fans, too. Some of my earliest memories were of sitting in my high chair eating cereal as a toddler watching The Young and the Restless in the mid 80s. I loved John and Lucinda's banter on ATWT.

[@Trix897]

Larry Bryggman is a LEGEND!!!

[@Whisper_292]

@Texaslawhorn OMG, Lucinda! She made John look like a choir boy!

[@Trix897]

@@Whisper_292 I LOVED Lucinda! She was so deliciously fun! Lisa was too!

[@Texaslawhorn]

@@Whisper_292 haha yes! As a kid in the late '80s and '90s I loved every time Lucinda came on the screen. I miss those characters so much. My mom watched it and kept me up-to-date on them after I went away to college. She would talk about them as if they were family, and I guess they were 😊

[@lancesalmon2724]

As the World Turns will always have a place in My heart. It was sad when it said Goodnight.

[@erickirk6966]

A few more soaps that didn't make the list, or if the list had been longer... I'd add the following... - Capitol (1982-1987) - Search For Tomorrow (1951-1986) - Love Of Life (1951-1980)

[@kendra.1]

Passions was ahead of its time.

[@Texaslawhorn]

I remember watching the first episode back in high school. It was definitely unique.

[@Denis-89]

Yeah, it was a soap that also was a parody of the genre. It never took it self seriously and was never afraid to get crazy. Had it been made today,it would have been an excellent example of meta show

[@cocoaorange1]

I liked it in the early years, but it got stupid storyline wise, I did not like how it took rape lightly.

[@donaldwilson2620]

Fun Fact: Liza Huber, who played Gwen Hotchkiss on Passions, is the real-life daughter of Susan Lucci.

[@x3klynnx3]

also has the best theme song!!!!

[@albalass54]

As The World Turns fan---Lily and Holden !!!!

[@wantstobeasuperhero6837]

The Port Charles scene was actually from General Hospital.

[@AnnDroidGirl]

Came here to say that!

[@mervyngreene6687]

Right! "General Hospital" was set in Port Charles, (upstate) New York While All My Children and One Life to Live were set in suburban Philadelphia (Pine Valley and Llanview). ALL My Children" was in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania.

[@lovefuave]

I miss One Life To Live. Tina and Cord were my first favorite super couple. Rest In Peace Andrea Evans.🙏🏾🕊

[@KevinKlineisawesome]

Primetime TV in terms of airing schedule is like going to school. Each season starts in the fall and ends in the spring. When their shows get canceled, it’s the equivalent to graduation. Daytime programming is like going to work. Episodes air daily Monday through Friday, and when their shows get canceled, it’s the equivalent to retirement. I highly recommend watching Soapdish (1991) as that’s a film poking fun at soap operas.

[@amandaredd3057]

All My Children was my absolute favorite besides General Hospital! I watched Y&R with my mom sometimes because I had a crush on Malcolm and Nick, but AMC was rad because they had one of my top all time favorite supercouples - Tad and Dixie ❤❤❤

[@crystalhuffman2241]

I definitely agree with Tad and Dixie. I started watching All My Children just when Dixie was pregnant with Adam Jr. and loved ever since. I was sad to see it end

[@Trix897]

I was a MASSIVE fan of As the World Turns and Guiding Light since the mid-80s. I was so sad when they went off the air.

[@Julie-p6u6m]

I remember when I was pregnant with my oldest daughter back in 1978 and my afternoon was spent watching Ryan’s Hope, All My Children,One Life To Live and General Hospital!

[@caseymacmacl7463]

My mom watched Another World from the first episode to the last. She even married a man named Mac! When I was a kid in the 70s, staying home from school sick meant ginger ale, chicken noodle soup, a mustard plaster (don't ask) and Another World.

[@Texaslawhorn]

I've watched several '70s episodes of Another World on KZbin. Definitely seemed great back then. I watched reruns of AW from the '80s on Soapnet when I was in college in the early 2000s and was hooked on it.

[@stacypappas9677]

I had the biggest crush on Cass Winthrop 😍

[@angelaholmes8888]

Here's a fun fact susan lucci daughter Eliza huber was on the show passions

[@crystalmichellef3rg23]

I loved Guiding Light...Reva and Josh put me through emotional rollercoasters for years!

[@rockinrandy8910]

Sunset Beach...Annie & Her Hilarious Daydreams Was The Best 😂🤣😂🤣

[@donnadrane4977]

Does anyone remember Soap with Billy Crystal? It was a zany evening soap opera. It was a big hit for awhile.

[@paulsoxl7739]

It was actually a sitcom that spoofed Soap Opera’s, great show.

[@ladonnaragsdale8959]

It was called Soap it's on u tube free

[@the_Real_Grammy_of_6]

I do!!

[@missmandy67]

I was in college when Santa Barbara was on, back in Nova Scotia, where I lived. It came on twice a day, once in the afternoon and once in the evening. I scheduled my classes around Santa Barbara and The Young and the Restless whenever i could. Lol

[@dianehansen9526]

All My Children was great for other reasons than Susan Lucci. Not everybody loved Susan Lucci/Erica Kane. It took her about 19 tries to get one Daytime Emmy.

[@KimbaLoveAdams]

I miss guiding light the most!

[@sheilafreisthler4421]

Hurrying home from high school to watch Dark Shadows. We would gather at one house or another to watch, then discuss the episode the next day at school only to do it all over again!!

[@tom-ks6hz]

Hands down Guiding Light! In the late 70’s early 80’s when it was written by the Dobson’s and Marland the show was unstoppable! ATWT is another giant in the industry

[@JMTE27]

Sunset Beach was my all time fav ! Would give anything to see it on streaming. Breaks my heart it had no mention In the top list. Also loved OLTL & its DID storylines.

[@RealTalk1411]

I am begging please do more Top 10 soap opera lists. I have so many ideas for lists. Top 10 Saddest Soap Opera Deaths. Top 10 The Bold and The Beautiful Moments That Changed The Course Of The Show Top 10 Greatest Soap Opera Villians Top 10 Greatest Soap Opera Supercouples Top 10 Greatest Bold and The Beautiful Supercouples Top 10 Times Brooke Logan Was The Worst On The Bold and The Beautiful. Top 10 Times The Bold and The Beautiful Tackled Serious Issues. Top 10 Greatest Soap Opera Families Top 10 Greatest Soap Opera Performances Top 10 Greatest Soap Opera Rivalries Top 10 Greatest Bold and The Beautiful Couples. Top 10 Worst Bold and The Beautiful Couples. Top 10 Times Brooke Logan Got What She Deserved.

[@Texaslawhorn]

Mojo would have been all over these 20 years ago!

[@PrincessofPower84]

Yes to Brooke comeuppance!

[@karenstacymayne4156]

When I heard that All My Children was being canceled, I was not a happy camper. But all good things must come to an end. Problem is, it didn’t end. The last episode was a cliffhanger, then the reboot came along, and it ended on a cliffhanger. I have not watched ABC since all my children and one life to live were canceled.

[@jasonrandom372]

Those were my two childhood soaps along with General Hospital that I use to watch with my mom all the time after I got out of school.

[@JoystickVersusMachine]

I'm 47 at the time of writing this, and I remember watching All My Children with my mom and sister back around 1981 and 1982. As soon as we got a VCR a couple of years later, I learned how to program that thing so we never missed an episode. It went off the rails in the late 2000s, but when it was good, it was fantastic.

[@najhoant]

I’ve read that with its 18,000+ episodes, Guiding Light might be the longest-running narrative in human history

[@MarioSonicDKPokeFAN]

I really hope GH doesn't beat that record.

[@katrinachance]

Between radio and tv, it was on the air for 72 years!

[@ddjr6673]

It has competition form UK Radio soap The Archers over 20,000 episodes and counting - broadcast since 1951! But never made it to TV

[@MarioSonicDKPokeFAN]

@@ddjr6673 how is that possible If it started in 1951? Guiding light starting in the late '30s and it only had 18K +

[@ddjr6673]

@@MarioSonicDKPokeFAN Number of broadcasts per week? The Archers has 5 episodes per week.

[@elizabethhirst9419]

Passions was a good soap opera too! I miss One Life to Live!

[@MsNekaa26]

This show gave you everything. I remember when I took it off the TV in and put it on soap, net work and not a lot of people had soap net work and I remember I was waiting for my cable people to get it, and they finally got it. they took it off of there. I didn’t put it on like their website and I hate it those years.

[@leesashriber5097]

Loved One Life to Live.

[@aangelkaa]

Sunset beach was lovely

[@cathleanjohnson675]

Geez, remember running home from elementary school to watch "Dark Shadows" also watched OLTL and AMC and well remember "Love of Life and "The Secret Storm" " Edge of Night" mid to late 80s until they ended watched all the CBS soaps, sadly we will never see this again, the golden era of the soap, long gone but never forgotten..

[@juliemassam933]

I loved Port Charles and was so sad when it got cancelled!

[@susandunn7207]

All My Children, Ryan’s Hope and Dark Shadows were definitely my favorites, but I’m a little surprised that Peyton Place wasn’t mentioned. Wasn’t that the soap that started the whole thing?

[@jsimpers]

There were quite a few old soaps missing. I remember Where the Heart Is, Love is a Many Splendored Thing, and The Secret Storm were all on CBS (the only channel my mom watched). I believe some may have been 15 minute soaps before they transitioned to 30 minutes, then an hour.

[@Cheesycheddar642]

Passions was my jam back in the day

[@the_Real_Grammy_of_6]

I only watched 2 soaps; Days of Our Lives because my mom watched it everyday. And General Hospital because my step mom watched it every day (I went back and forth between my parents after they divorced). I was very young when I first saw DOOL, so I kinda grew up with it. It was the only soap my mom watched, so it was the only one that I watched, UNTIL I was introduced to Luke & Laura when I was 15 years old. Anyway, I haven’t watched any soaps for many many years.

[@MarioSonicDKPokeFAN]

So glad that AMC was #1. It was my all time fav to watch. That is, up until 2006, when the writers then just completely trashed the once great show and it's legacy characters. I stopped watching for a while, then eventually came back when I heard they brought Angie & Jesse back.

[@frankieseward8667]

They NEVER should've retconned Erica's abortion

[@citrinedragonfly]

Another World. I grew up on that, along with Days of Our Lives. My mom literally watched them in the hospital room the day I was born. I had the biggest crush on Cass when I was in middle school.

[@stacypappas9677]

So did I 🤭😍

[@pennykeller3048]

I grew up watching search for tomorrow, as the world turns and guiding light. The only soaps I've been growing up watching now is young and the restless and bold and the beautiful.

[@hollynovak4789]

Dark shadow is my favorite soap to watch with my mom

[@daniellebrown9381]

I grew up watching dark shadows with my mom I loved it so much

[@fangirlable]

OMG, I loved Passions and I miss it so much.

[@sg6633]

Search for Tomorrow not mentioned. When it ended it was the longest running show on tv to end. 1952-1986.

[@jameswalker68]

It actually started in 1951

[@SG-jw8mo]

Yes. Perhaps I got it mixed up with the adventures of Superman. In the late 70s down under, we got Search for Tomorrow at 3.30 and Superman at 4.00. Actor Robert Rockwell was on Search at the time, he also featured in the first episode of Superman, as his krypton father Jor-el.

[@jameswalker68]

@@SG-jw8mo Australia here too! I grew up in rural Victoria. We didn’t get all the shows Melbourne did as we only had to channels (!) But oddly, Search for Tomorrow was one we did get when the commercial channel started in the afternoon. Was a Superman fan as well 😄

[@SG-jw8mo]

@@jameswalker68 that's cool. Sounds like we have heaps in common. I love the adventures of Superman to this day. I have the first 3 DVD sets. I'm surprised you got Search for tomorrow in the country as it wasn't one of the big shows like Days or Y&R.

[@jameswalker68]

@@SG-jw8mo I’m surprised too when I think back about it! It was before Y&R debuted on tv here - but we actually had 3 in a row that were on daily. As the World Turns Days of our Lives Search for Tomorrow This would have been about 1972-73, but still remember it so clearly! 😄

[@ElleCee62978]

All the soaps I watched are gone: All My Children, One Life to Live, Santa Barbara, Another World, As the World Turns, Loving, The City, and Port Charles

[@jimbear62]

Dark Shadows started out as a traditional soap opera in danger of cancellation until the introduction of Barnabas

[@mspfinney]

Ahhh. Dark Shadows. My first soap opera. I used to race home from school to watch it! I always thought Angelique was so pretty. That started me down the path of watching The Doctors, Another World and Ryan’s Hope. ❤❤

[@maxlee8780]

Passions was my favorite soap before I knew about the magic. After that it was just a more dramatic version of Charmed to me

[@T.Calder-dm3by]

As The World Turns was one of my favorites- unfortunately started declining in 2008 until it got cancelled in 2010. I loved Holden and Lily ❤️

[@Muffy-b1g]

I watched ‘General Hospital’ as a kid in the late 1960s. Continued on and off throughout the years. During 1983-85 I was a Marine stationed on Okinawa. Marines in our work section watched it on lunch break. As the closing theme music played all the chairs started scraping on the floor as the Marines headed back to work! The episodes that aired on the Armed Forces network were a few months behind the USA. So when someone came back from leave, they would give everyone a ‘preview’ of the upcoming episodes. 😉

[@stingrey1571]

Swans crossing-a soap opera for teens and tweens, starring Sarah Michelle gellar.

[@lizzybethnj617]

She was everything as Kendall

[@ann-mariemeyers9978]

All my friends loved "Dark Shadows," and I remember my mom watching "The Edge of Night."

[@ann-mariemeyers9978]

And my sister and I loved "Ryan's Hope."

[@danielcorreard3746]

i fell in love with dark shadows when i was about 5 or 6 years old angelique played by lara parkers was my first celebrity crush i still love that show and i went to four DS festivals and met a number of it's stars including the gorgeous Lara parker. and just as gorgeous Kathryn leigh Scott. i still stream it even today.

[@markryaniversen]

Santa Barbara was actually very critically acclaimed by critics. Won many Emmys because the writing was top notch and very clever and witty.

[@phaedraD]

Guiding light is the longest running show! Ran from 1933 until 1952 on radio and 1952-2010 on tv

[@lisalacroix4780]

I was a teenager when I began watching Santa Barbara. I saw every episode of Passion. I watched Sunset Beach also. It's weard that they said Port Charles. I watched the scene in General Hospital. My grandma was watching it on tv when I was a kid.

[@williethomas9953]

OLTL, was the best soap it was number 1 on ABC for a while but the Daytime president of the network Brian Drone hated all the interracial relationships. It was the best soap on tv.

[@bethbattjes9991]

Port Charles. I used to be obsessed with it. I still have the binders of pics and stuff towards the end of its run, it did go downhill. Anyone else remember this soap? I would occasionally watch the other ABC soaps.

[@nakedize]

I enjoyed this soap as well. The Steven Clay Experience. I remember looking to find the song to download. Disliked the way the series ended

[@kayefird2564]

My most favorite was One Life to Live. I also loved The Edge of Night and The Secret Storm.

[@shoikler]

I spent 20 months of 2021-2022 rewatching Dark Shadows (at two episodes a day, every day), which shows an easily overlooked reason for its enduring legacy: it exists. Of 1225 episodes, only one's missing, and even it still has the audio. A lot of soaps have little or no surviving footage from before the late 70s! Those are the truly forgotten.

[@patrickparent17]

I loved Passions, Sunset Beach and One Life to Live

[@KittiesofEvil]

Loved Santa Barbara as a kid. Although it got very Cruz/Eden heavy.

[@sharonkaysnowton]

Hi. When I was a girl (in the 1960s) I watched Dark Shadows (1966-1971), Peyton Place, The Edge of Night (1956- 1984), Perry Mason, the Avengers with John Steed and Emma Peel, Secret Agent Man, Man from UNCLE, Girl from UNCLE, and a soap with a character called Asa Buchannan. I loved him. It might have been One Life to Live. As I got older I watched General Hospital, PineValley with Erica Kane (she was married to everyboday in PineValley) and at night a sitcom called SOAP. It was very funny. I also watched at night Dynasty, Falcon Crest and the Colbys. I even watched the soaps in Spanish. yeah, I watched a lot of television growing up. Now as an old lady, I read books. Don't watch much television now.

[@user-vg6ym5xy2r]

Dark Shadows was more than a soap opera. It was great theatre!,

[@elizabethdouglas3417]

I am still bitter about ABC canceling OLTL. It was so good!!!

[@ccowley2740]

How about Search for Tomorrow and The Doctors? I used to watch it with Grandma as a kid. We only had 1 TV then and Grandma insisted on watching these shows along with roller derby and wrestling if she had to babysit us.😅❤😂

[@Newkids33]

God i miss watching all my favorite soaps Young and the restless As the world turns All my children One life to live General hospital Bold and beautiful Guiding Light I'm going to stop because those are the ones that I would watch every single day after school, especially with my mom. I miss that

[@danaestorms6957]

ok One Life to Live was literally my favorite soap opera when the main three came on during the week on ABC it was so many different stories and yet the show felt so cohesive and put together

[@katwithattitude5062]

Edge of Night was the first soap I got hooked on when I was a teenager and I was sad when it ended. Appropriately, it ended with Mike Karr barking out orders to start investigating another crime. I was also hooked on One Life to Live and Guiding Light and All My Children, but I stopped watching them before they ended. Two broke my heart too often with stupid writing and plot decisions and the other just got boring.

[@Texaslawhorn]

My mom was mainly a CBS soap watcher, but we would also check out ABC and NBC. I was born in 1982 and enjoyed soaps in the '80s and '90s. I loved tuning in to see Marlena being possessed by the devil on "Days." So many good storylines back in the day. Times change, but it was great when soaps were so popular and had their own award shows.

[@leesashriber5097]

I watched Y&R, Bold and Beautiful, One Life to Live, and GH. I miss One Life to Live. Don't watch them now. Luke and Laura's wedding was the biggest part of daytime television. Times are so different now. Thank you m friend 😊

[@tarnishermack94]

One life to live and all my children!❤