My mom has watched Days Of Our Lives since i was a baby. My grandparents used to watch it as well. They used to also watch Passion, Another World, Dallas, falcon Crest etc.

For those of you who used to watch them. How long do you watch them for? soap operas just last so damn long. And recycle the same storylines decade after decade. Until they make up some really out there shit. These shows have been going on for decades and decades. How long do you watch them? or do you still faithful year after year?

I just soaps so interesting in the TV realm. Cause they just go on for years and years. And the characters of the show have decades of story.

Too much great stuff on during primetime, I can't watch any show 5 times a week.

Daytime soaps?

No.

But night time soaps are all the rage again and are actually quite entertaining.

But they're only 22 episodes a year as opposed to 5 times a week every week.

I watched a few different shows over the course of 10-15 years starting in my twenties when I would watch during lunch breaks at college. Let's see: for me there was Guiding Light, As the World Turns, The Bold and the Beautiful, General Hospital, and the Young and the Restless.

Now that I think about it, I probably got a taste for it when I would watch Dallas, Dynasty, and Falcon Crest with my mom. We had one tv at the time and if I was gonna stay up and watch tv that was what we were watching. A few years ago I just stopped watching altogether. Oddly enough, soon thereafter I met my wife and started a family.

I watched soaps for years, since I was a teenager, I'm 54 now. Like many, I started watching because my mother, aunt, etc, watched before me. I used to watch Young and Restless, As The World Turns, Guiding Light, Bold and Beautiful, and All My Children. I don't watch anymore, since 3 of them no longer exist, and the rest now get on my nerves, big time. When you've watched them as long as I have, the characters and repetitve stories start to get on your nerves, and bore you.....at least that's how it is with me.

http://prince.org/msg/100...?&pg=2

We had this conversation some while back... I gave me thoughts then.

MY mom raised me on As The World Turns and Guiding Light. She stopped watching CBS during the day when they took them off the air. She even stopped buying P&G products.

I sometimes watch DOOL's but it more to make fun of the stupid storylines and the crappy fashion. Lord Nicole was wearing a bird coat last week.

I never was in to soaps, not even Dallas and Falcon Crest. I never saw the appeal.

lazycrockett said:

MY mom raised me on As The World Turns and Guiding Light. She stopped watching CBS during the day when they took them off the air. She even stopped buying P&G products.

I sometimes watch DOOL's but it more to make fun of the stupid storylines and the crappy fashion. Lord Nicole was wearing a bird coat last week.

it's funny yu mention Nicole. I told my mom she looks like a Prince girl.

No love for one of the best so-bad-its-good soaps on television?

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phunkdaddy said:

I used to watch Passions back in the decade for the hot girls and Generations for a then unknown Vivica Fox and it was the first soap that was built around a black family. I don't care for any of them now but if I'm flipping through channels in the evenings I will cross Young And The Restless on the Tv Guide channel and it's hilarious just to listen to Victor Newman talk.

I haven't watch Y & R in about a decade plus, but I betcha I could jump right back into it were I left off 10 years ago.

I forgeet which day time soaps I watched for a brief time, but they were addicting and were kind of over dramatic. lol Now if I watch a soap, it's one of those that last for a year and come on weekly such as a novella or kdrama.

My mother was a die hard CBS daytime soap girl so I was raised on

Young and the Restless

Bold and the Beautiful --before B & B there was a show called Capital

As the World Turns

Guiding Light

Prime time soaps were Dallas, Falcon's Crest, and Knots Landing

I still watch Y & R and B & B daily

I will occasionally watch an evening telenovela. But spanish telenovelas are on avg about 6-8 months long, some shorter, some longer. But its a different type of affair than with english language soaps.

I only watch the ones that have dark themes.. many of the most popular spanish language soaps are about successful drug dealers (female drug kingpins are pretty popular at the moment) or mafioso types or criminals or really rich people who engage in delinquent or scandalous activity.

My Grandmother used to watch soaps daily; they were boring to me as a kid. Then, in the 80s, the shows started catering to a younger audience and then suddenly they became more intrigueing. Seemed like everyone was watching them--exotic locations, sexier plots, bigger budgets. After the 90s, they just weren't interesting anymore. I guess a lot of people watched (or still watch) because it's like family members you haven't seen in years...you can drop in on them occasionally and, even though they're older and grayer, there still there doing the same old dependable stuff...and their problems are always worse than your own.

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SuperSoulFighter said:

Does Ally McBeal count? I used to really like that one because all the characters were a bit crazy.

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Primetime soap.

OK lets just cut to the chase. THIS is the real reason to watch daytime television. And though his look screams douchbaggery to the trained eye, he's still eye candy nonetheless!

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Back in the day, I'd watch Ryan's Hope, All My Children & One Life to Live.

It's a SHAME what Reality TV has done to the Soap opera. Back in the day Soaps use to be the BREAD & Butter for all the networks...It was nothing for ABC to get 30-Million viewers for General Hospital...I get that times have changed and Reality shows are cheaper to cast and produce but Soaps kept CBS, ABC & NBC battling for the highest ratings and Sponsors for Decades...Then to get Dumped from the Daytime lineup as if you were an old Senior Citizen that needed to retire...I think in about 10yrs the remaning four Soaps will be gone...

I think that acting on a soap opera would be a lot of fun. Showing up every day, with something completely new to do would be cool.

One of my best memories is when Eileen Davidson played about 5 different characters, to perfoect comedic affect! ow she has a co-starring role on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills with former Days co-star Lisa Rina. The times they are a changin'.

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I still watch "Young and theRestless". I've watched it since it started...
It's my guilty pleasure when I first come home from work. After a long day of teaching, I like to lie on the couch and cue up that DVR...

The only daytime soap I used to watch was "As The World Turns" from 1980 until 1998. I tuned in a time or two in the 2000s after I had stopped watching the show and I didn't recognize hardly any of the cast. There were grown characters in their 20s that should have only been around 5 or 6 years old because they were infants right before I stopped watching the show. They grew those characters up way too fast.