
While the show originally started off as a hospital-based drama, by 2001 the show transformed its storytelling to adopt a more telenovella style of 13-week storylines it called "books." The show also skewed towards supernatural storylines, incorporating vampires, angels, and time travel. Port Charles was set in the fictional upstate New York town of Port Charles. It ran for seven years, airing its final broadcast on October 3, 2003. Port Charles premiered on ABC in a special Sunday primetime event on June 1, 1997. Soap Central's Port Charles section celebrates the General Hospital spinoff, Port Charles, created by Richard Culliton, Carolyn Culliton, and Wendy Riche. Actress Erika Slezak (Victoria Lord) earned six Outstanding Lead Actress Emmys for her work on the show, the most by any female performer.

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One Life to Live was named Outstanding Drama Series at the Daytime Emmys in 2002. One Life to Live featured daytime's first openly gay teenager as well the first display of 248 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt on a soap opera. During its run, some of the families whose stories were told included the Buchanan, Carpenter, Cramer, Delgado, Gannon, Gordon, Gray, Hane, Hayes, Hesser, Holden, Lord, McBain, Moody, Olanov, Randolph, Saybrooke, Thornhart, Vega, and Wolek families. As Soap Central reported exclusively, the rights to One Life to Live reverted to ABC in late 2016. The show was revived briefly in 2013 by Prospect Park for its The Online Network. The show's original working title was Between Heaven and Hell. Set in the fictional town of Llanview, Pennsylvania, OLTL debuted on July 15, 1968, and aired on ABC for more than 43 years, with its final episode airing January 13, 2012. Soap Central's One Life to Live sections pays tribute to the long-running, Emmy-winning series created by Agnes Nixon.

Guiding Light was named Outstanding Drama Series at the Daytime Emmys on three occasions: 1980, 1982, and 2007. Through the years, Guiding Light told the stories of the Bauer, Chamberlain, Cooper, Layne, Lewis, Marler, Norris, Raines, Reade, Reardon, Santos, Shayne, Spaulding, Spencer, Thorpe, and Winslow families. Guiding Light was created by Irna Phillips and Emmons Carlson, and produced by Procter & Gamble Productions. Including its radio run, Guiding Light was broadcast for 72 years. After 57 years, Guiding Light aired its last episode on CBS on September 18, 2009. In 1977, Guiding Light expanded from a 30-minute broadcast to an hourlong one. In November 1975, Guiding Light dropped the "The" in its title. There was a 19-year period between Januand June 29, 1956, when Guiding Light aired on both radio and television. Beginning on radio on June 30, 1952, The Guiding Light eventually transitioned to television on June 30, 1952. Soap Central's Guiding Light section honors the longest-running soap opera in broadcast history. From 1978 to 1979, All My Children was the most-watched soap opera.

The show won 93 Emmys and tallied 449 total nominations. All My Children was named Outstanding Drama Series at the Daytime Emmys on three occasions: 1992, 1994, and 1998. All My Children told the story of life in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, which a young Erica Kane said wasn't exactly "the corner of Hollywood and Vine." The Martin, Chandler, Cortlandt, Wallingford, Tyler, Kane, Marick, Santos, Frye, Hubbard, English, and Brent families are just some of the families whose stories were told. There are currently plans for a primetime sequel - tentatively called Pine Valley - that would air on ABC. As Soap Central reported exclusively, the rights to All My Children reverted to ABC in late 2016. AMC debuted on January 5, 1970, and aired on ABC through September 23, 2011, when it was unnecessarily canceled. There’s also the romance and intrigues of the doctors and nurses at General Hospital.Soap Central's All My Children section pays tribute to the long-running, Emmy-winning series created by Agnes Nixon. But he hides behind the guise of a legit coffee importer. Now, the soap features the lives of the Quartermaine, Webber, Spencer, and Corinthos families, among others.Ĭentral in focus are Carly and Sonny Corinthos and his mob antics. First, the key family was the Hardy clan, headed by Dr.
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Then, it began as a 30-minute serial exploring the lives and loves of doctors, nurses, and locals in Port Charles, New York.

It features action at both the hospital as well as among the local mob cartel, publishing companies, and legacy families.īack in the day, Frank and Doris Hursley launched the soap in 1963. Now, the ABC soap opera is the longest-running daytime drama in America. Find updated General Hospital spoilers and news every day at Soap Dirt.įrom the latest chatter behind the scenes to GH spoilers for coming daily and weekly episodes of General Hospital, we’ve got it all.
