Days of Our Lives passes Guiding Light to become Second-Longest Running Soap

[mlauenstein]

Today, Days of Our Lives has passed The Guiding Light to become the US Soap Opera with the second-longest time-span on television: 20900 days.
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[WalnutGirl]

Wouldn't that be GH, it premiered in 1963.

[mlauenstein]

Wouldn't that be GH, it premiered in 1963.

General Hospital is still running. Days of Our Lives won't ever pass it unless it ends first.

[jcollins4641]

Guiding Light was on for 72 yrs and started in the 1930s, it's still the longest! #facts 💯

[supersage]

Sad thing. I still miss Guiding Light.

[GuidingLite]

I was watching old clips on 'the sight that shall remain nameless' of 1983 GL when Philip and Beth first got together...and Philip found out Alan was not his father...such good writing at that time.....

[marciat]

I miss it!!! I keep telling the the fans of the remaining soaps don't ever get Ellen Wheeler as your EP. That will be the death of it!!!

[Mefisto]

Her official title: Ellen Wheeler - Destroyer of Soaps

[marciat]

Also, they are complaining about the budget cuts on their soaps. I told them to live with fewer sets, because they could get those cheap idiotic outside sets that were shot in NJ!! They don't want that, so If I were them I would rather have fewer sets.

[Mefisto]

Why did your post get removed? I saw responses to my message, but I could not read them as I was too late. Dopamine rush denied.