What was the first Soap Opera you ever watched?

Question

How old were you when you watched it?
Did you start watching it because someone else in the house watched it, a freind watched it and told you about it, heard other people talk about it, what?

Are you still watching it?

Answer 1

Young and the Restless since I was a little girl about 4 years old and now I am 31 and I still love it I start watching it with my mother she watches all the soap operas on that the same channel Y&R is on and I watch them sometimes but Y&R is the best to me, I love it even more because Nick Newman grown now:).

Answer 2

I can remember watching the opening credits of As the World Turns when I was really small. My grandparents watched it every day. I started watching One Life to Live and General hospital in 1968 when my mother went to work for the first time and left us with a sitter that was a soap fan. Been watching ABC soaps ever since.

Answer 3

Another world & All my children not sure the exact age maybe 5-6. The lady that watched me watched those soaps. Don't watch them anymore now I watch General Hospital. Started watching that in high school about the time that stone was dying.

Answer 4

General Hospital in 1980. Was 14 years old. Stopped watching from about 1990-2001. Have been watching again now for last six years.

Answer 5

All My Children when I was 6 and no because its off the air

THen I started Watching General Hospital with I was 7 in 92 and yes I am a very devoted fan!

Answer 6

General Hospital. My mom's always watched it, and she used to send me out of the room saying it wasn't a show for kids -- so of course I started watching little bits and pieces whenever I could. I didn't really start getting into it until I was around 12 or 13. I still watch sporadically, but the writing is really dismal. I prefer watching older clips of it online.

Answer 7

I began watching General Hospital and One Life to Live when I was 11 years old. I still watch them both today, I'm now 19. My mom got me hooked.

General Hospital (commonly abbreviated GH) is the longest-running daytime American serial broadcast on the American Broadcasting Company television network. It is also the longest-running serial produced in Hollywood (having been taped at the Prospect Avenue ABC Television Center West and Sunset-Gower Studios).

Set in the fictional city of Port Charles, New York, General Hospital debuted on April 1, 1963, the same day that rival network NBC launched its own medical daytime drama, The Doctors. The show originally aired for a half-hour until the network expanded it to the unusual length of 45 minutes in 1976, and then to a full hour in 1978. The serial was created by soap writers Frank and Doris Hursley, a husband-and-wife team.

General Hospital is credited for starting several trends in the soap opera genre in the 1980s, most notably that of the fast-paced action-adventure plotlines that were remarkably different from the more traditional domestic and social issues that had been the sole focus of most soap operas during the previous decades. In 2003, when GH was celebrating its 40th anniversary, TV Guide named it "The Greatest Soap Opera Of All Time." In addition, GH was also named as one of TIME Magazine's "Top 100 Television Shows of All Time."

One Life to Live (OLTL) is an American soap opera which has been broadcast on the ABC television network since July 15, 1968.

Impressed with the ratings success of NBC's Another World, ABC sought out Another World writer Agnes Nixon to create a serial for them. Nixon, "tired of the restraints imposed by the WASPy, noncontroversial nature of daytime drama, presented the network with a startingly original premise and cast of characters. Although the show was built along the classic soap formula of a rich family and a poor family, One Life to Live emphasized the ethnic and socioeconomic diversity of the people of Llanview, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia."[1] Nixon would go on to create All My Children in 1970 and Loving in 1983.

The title of OLTL was originally going to be Between Heaven and Hell, but sponsors hoped for a change to something less controversial. Though the title change was made, the first opening titles (closeup footage of flames in a fireplace) seemed to suggest a symbolic hellfire.

OLTL's first sponsors were the Colgate-Palmolive company, who also sponsored The Doctors. ABC bought the show from Agnes Nixon in December 1974 when they purchased all stock to her Creative Horizons Inc. The show was originally a half-hour serial until it was expanded to 45 minutes in 1976 and to one hour in 1978.

Answer 8

GH was the first one I watched.
I was about 5 or 6. I would get up from my nap and sit with my mom.
Yes, my mom was watching it as well as OLTL and AMC
Sometimes I'll watch it but it's been awhile. Last episode I saw was when Nic burned a shirt of his for stabbing Jerry and Em coming in and seeing some of the material.

Answer 9

Days of Our Lives when I came from Portugal 22 years ago. I wasn't enrolled in school yet so I watched t.v all summer long and picked up the language.Still a Days fan, but they need to get some new plots in I'm bored.

Answer 10

Watched Y&R with my Mom when I was a kid....dont watch it anymore it is getting boring.....I started watching As The World Turns when I was in grade school....have watched it ever since and I am now 33......I have a HUGE love-hate feeling for Carly!!!