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In reply to the discussion: What was your favorite soap opera daytime or night.. My favorite was the Guiding light. What was yours.? [View all]Fiendish Thingy
(19,864 posts)1. Dark Shadows
Of course,, being a young boomer boy, it was the only soap that captured my interest.
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What was your favorite soap opera daytime or night.. My favorite was the Guiding light. What was yours.? [View all]
debm55
Jun 21
OP
Me too. I remember watching starting as a kid. It has been of the air for a long time. Thank you LizBeth.
debm55
Jun 21
#21
Thank you very much FloridaBlues. I watched it from the beginning and stopped while in college.
debm55
Jun 21
#20
HAHAHAHAHAHHa. Thank you very much. I would watch the Young and the Restless. Eric has been on there forever.
debm55
Jun 21
#19
I never got into it, but my grandmother watched. "As the World Turns". Religiously every day ,wouldn't miss it
Walleye
Jun 21
#28
I remember rushing back to my dorm, heading to the basement where the tv was and watching Days with everyone
oregonjen
Jun 21
#37
Thank you maspaha. I so lucked out after college that the VCR came out and we didn't have to miss and episode.
debm55
Jun 21
#46
Never watched any of them except Dark Shadows for a short time, and The Young And The Restless
highplainsdem
Jun 21
#35
Thank you very much Biophilic for sharing with us. Your right about that, But my favorite stopped production-The Guiding
debm55
Jun 21
#42
Guilding Light---I started watching it when I was young as that is what my grandmother and mother watched. I liked the
debm55
Jun 22
#73
I remember the Secret Storm at my grandmothers. when I was very young. Thank you Katinfl
debm55
Jun 22
#63
Thank you displacedvermoter. I have never seen Dark Shadows as Guiding Light was on at the same time, different station.
debm55
Jun 22
#62
Same here. When my son was a baby and toddler, I didn;t have time to sit and watch. I still know how it ended. Thank you
debm55
Jun 22
#84
Thank you very much. macwriter. Did you appear on a local Pittsburgh show once a week to tell what happened and was
debm55
Jun 22
#92
Thank you MuseRider. Yes, I remember the 15 min, Soaps, the Guilding Light was one of those, Shared the half hour with
debm55
Jun 22
#88
Thank you radical noodle. Same thing happened with the Guilding Light. Reva kept come back from death. I got tired of it
debm55
Jun 22
#90