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Two Soaps Reach Milestones

I've probably mentioned this more than once, but "GH"'s original
time slot was 1 PM (ET)/12 N (CT), from April 1-December 27,
1963. That means that it had already aired in the Eastern and
Central time zones on November 22, 1963, when JFK was shot.
ABC didn't feed 1:30/12:30 and as I think everyone here knows,
WFAA was in the middle of its local "women's show," "The Julie
Benell Show," when news director Jay Watson rushed in, slightly
breathless, to announce what he'd seen, or thought he'd seen, in Dealey Plaza.

The 3/2 show at the time was "Queen For A Day," which moved
to 3:30/2:30 with the cancellation of "Who Do You Trust?" starting
Dec. 30.
 
I should also mention that "The Doctors" (the soap, not the
talk show) would have turned 50 yesterday as well, along with
"You Don't Say!" in its original (NBC) network version, and "People
Will Talk," which evolved into "Celebrity Game" and then "Hollywood
Squares."
 
brian4 said:
I started watching Y&R around 1985, big story was John found about Jack & Jill's affair and had a stroke. I watched all CBS soaps (then Guiding Light, As The World Turns and Capitol) but Y&R was the last one I started actively watching. Up into about a year ago, I was DVRing Y&R every day. Suddenly I realized I didn't need to view it daily.

The one thing I never got is why CBS never touted that they had the #1 daytime lineup for the past 25 years. I've seen a couple of promos where fellow network starts gives Y&R congratulations. I doubt it's airing on prime time.
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I started watching in 1982. Around that time the Abbotts became important and Paul Williams went undercover with the mob. I can't remember specifically what got me started. A few years later I had to give up soaps (the other one in daytime was "The Guiding Light", which I started watching because of Nopla and Morgan, and then Annabelle, Tony, Phillip, Rick, Mindy and Beth). No time to watch every day, and I didn't have a VCR for the days I couldn't.
 
bpatrick said:
"Guiding Light" was my favorite and I gradually weaned off as
characters were either killed off or demoted to minor roles.

I purposely avoid "Y&R" and "B&B" because to me the two shows
come down to this: on "Y&R" who's running Jabot this week--Victor
or Jack; on "B&B" it's which Forrester male Brooke's sleeping with.
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I completely agree with your sentimets about "The Guiding Light", and the two Bell soaps.

In the cases of "The Guiding Light" and "As The World Turns"....it had become painfully clear in the last several years these shows were around that Procter & Gamble was in the process of slowly starving these shows to death....with repeated rounds of budget cuts and the constant chaos regarding writing staffs.

When the end came....these two shows were very sad, sorry shells of what they once were.
 
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