Do you/Did you ever watch a soap opera?

[Wendy31]

Haha yes we should do that spin off.
Recall when John was hit by the car in 2007?
Deidra Hall said she was reading the script while on the treadmill and was sobbing from then until the filming was over.
That was probably the most I've sobbed too because it went on for several days of them just saying goodbye.
And when Maggie took a bullet for Victor was another time I cried.
Sometimes I felt like I was watching ER since almost every episode of that gives you something to cry about.

Kayla & Patch/Steve when Steve died the first time!

And Hope & Bo had me in tears frequently.

And remember John & Isabella?

 

[Tigerlulu]

I’ve been a lifer for Young and the restless. Both of my grandmothers watched faithfully everyday and it came on in the late afternoon so after school with them, every single day for years and years. Some days it would be me, my dad and my grandmother sitting down together to watch. So I say I inherited it.
I go through periods where I don’t watcg regularly but I always go back.

 

[NYCgrrl]

Yes.
Spent a summer with my Nana and Papa. Papa would be at the store until 4 or 5:00 PM and Nana would spend her morning up until time to bring Papa his lunch, watching a medical setting sp ( The Doctors? The Hospital?) followed by Another World whilst she ironed clothing; during commercials she vacuumed. She used to talk to the TV same as when she listened to the radio on Sunday morning before she went to church but the words were different. For the soap operas it was all teeth sucking and mutterings of "Jezebel" and "Why don't you listen to your mother?!". For the radio sermons it was "Hmmhm", "Praise the Lord" and "Yes, Jesus". For the Catholic raised grrlie I was this was allll a revelation

Next soap opera I watched was.....Dark Shadows which was all the rage. Run home from school, do some homework and then sit there glued to the boob tube letting Barnabas, Angelina, and Quentin have at it.

In the mid to late '70's it was Poldark on Masterpiece Theatre shown on Sunday nights. Lots o' bosom heaving and scowling.

Finally, I finished any need for soaps with Dallas in the late 70's, early '80's. After the "Who shot JR?" season I turned the TV off and went back to reading.

 

[mom2rtk]

How dare they preempt her stories for such garbage!!!

I don't remember which soaps my mother watched, but she also got mad that the Watergate saga was on every network channel. Why can't they put it on PBS?, she lamented.

Did the soaps continue where they left off after the hearings, or were those episodes lost forever?

I'm not sure, but I'm guessing the uproar would have been deafening if they left episodes out. So surely they picked back up where they left off?

It was worse because back then, 3 networks plus PBS, and no DVRs.

 

[tvguy]

I'm not sure, but I'm guessing the uproar would have been deafening if they left episodes out. So surely they picked back up where they left off?

It was worse because back then, 3 networks plus PBS, and no DVRs.

The networks don't burn up episodes of soaps if they aren't going to air on the East Coast. West Coast, not so much.

I was in the same as @Julie's Haircut's mom back in 1963 when President Kennedy was assassinated and every channel carried the funeral. As a First Grader I didn't understand why they did that.

 

[wenrob]

Yes.
Spent a summer with my Nana and Papa. Papa would be at the store until 4 or 5:00 PM and Nana would spend her morning up until time to bring Papa his lunch, watching a medical setting sp ( The Doctors? The Hospital?) followed by Another World whilst she ironed clothing; during commercials she vacuumed. She used to talk to the TV same as when she listened to the radio on Sunday morning before she went to church but the words were different. For the soap operas it was all teeth sucking and mutterings of "Jezebel" and "Why don't you listen to your mother?!". For the radio sermons it was "Hmmhm", "Praise the Lord" and "Yes, Jesus". For the Catholic raised grrlie I was this was allll a revelation

Next soap opera I watched was.....Dark Shadows which was all the rage. Run home from school, do some homework and then sit there glued to the boob tube letting Barnabas, Angelina, and Quentin have at it.

In the mid to late '70's it was Poldark on Masterpiece Theatre shown on Sunday nights. Lots o' bosom heaving and scowling.

Finally, I finished any need for soaps with Dallas in the late 70's, early '80's. After the "Who shot JR?" season I turned the TV off and went back to reading.

If Another World was on right after it was most likely The Doctors.

 

[NYCgrrl]

If Another World was on right after it was most likely The Doctors.

I think it was the medical show that came on before Another World because eventually after it was Somerset. I'd had enough with Rachael and her mother, Ava/Aida(?) sooooooooowell even though my Nana (and I loved her so) continued to keep me up to date w/ AW I tuned the rest out. Oops. And not to think Papa was perfect and maybe Nana wasn't, he watched the fights every Friday or Saturday nights which included midget fighting, Ivan the Terrible, and the Kaiser.
My older sister and I are still pondering this aspect of our saintly grandparents' lives.

 

[NYCgrrl]

I've only watched two soap operas when I was much younger. Both were in Spanish, and they were very melodramatic. The first was Topacio, about a young, blind woman who finally ends up with the handsome, rich suitor after many ups and downs. The other was Maria Mercedes, which I don't really remember. It was probably about a lovely, young servant who eventually marries her handsome, rich boss. I do like the format of having a final resolution, rather than having shows run for decades. I did watch Ugly Betty, and I am watching Jane the Virgin. I cried and cried when Michael died. I thought he was safe, and then he was ripped from my heart so suddenly! My husband had a good laugh at that

Telemundo? "Abuelita", the Cuban born grandmother of one of my bestest GFs used to watch channel..56 or 57 on VHF in NYC when I was growing up. Didn't know much Spanish at the time but realised she was just as engrossed as my only American born grandmother was watching her soap operas.

 

[mamamary]

I watched As the World Turns for years. My mom and grandmother watched also. I lived in NY and would see the actors sometimes in passing on the street. One day I was with my mom and we passed a character that had amnesia. My mom just said to him as we passed by that she hoped he gets his memory back soon.

 

[maxiesmom]

Watched Days and General Hospital back when I was younger. Ryan's Hope too. And I loved Port Charles when it was the whole vampire thing with Livie and Caleb. They had such chemistry, it is too bad there isn't a way to get those 2 actors back together as a couple on GH.

 

[Colleen27]

My grandmother started following Guiding Light when it was a radio serial, through the transition to TV, and didn't stop until she died (two years before it went off the air). Since she was my "daycare", I grew up watching it with her on sick days, half days and during vacations. And I LOVED Dark Shadows, which was on cable in reruns when I was in middle/high school.

 

[Kitty 34]

When I first moved back to Michigan in the early 80s I tried to get into Days of Our Lives because my sister loved that show. I probably watched maybe 8 shows and that was it.

 

[Skippy918]

I used to watch All My Children when I stayed with grandma when I was home sick from school. That was in the 80s. Then my friend got me hooked on Days of Our Lives in the early to mid 90s. Who remembers the storyline when Marlena was possessed by the Devil? Then the priest had to do the exorcism.
Then Bo and Hope got back together sometime in there.

 

[RangerPooh]

Zac dying on Days was sad, as was the first Christmas after Alice had passed.

With Marlena and John's most recent wedding I tend to think of all of the Days weddings and what issues they each had. From Shawn Douglas busting through the window on his motorcycle during Belle and Phillip's wedding, to Sami's multiple trips down the isle.

 

[mumto3girls]

My mom watched Ryan’s Hope and All My Children. My sisters and I weren’t even allowed in the room when they were on. She said it was inappropriate for us but I think she just wanted peace and quiet for an hour and a half—she had 4 kids. Ryan’s Hope ended before I was allowed to start watching, but I eventually got hooked on AMC and watched until it ended. At some point I started watching General Hospital (college maybe) and still watch. I am very behind though. I DVR it and then transfer to VHS as I run out of room in the DVR. Sounds crazy but I am watching 2016 right now. I try to watch an episode or two each evening, but obviously I don’t always accomplish that. Occasionally when I get sick I binge watch.

 

[hereyago]

I remember having half day of Kindergarten and coming home and watching the end of Search for Tomorrow and Young and the restless.

I enjoyed watching One Life to live and actually named my DD after a character.
I also was into GH, but have become bored. Lol.

 

[E&Cmom]

I watched Another World, Bold and the Beautiful and Y&R in my late teens and early 20s. I also watched GH but not as often. I remeber liking “ Generations” but it didn’t last long.

Another World was my favourite.

 

[BellaBaby]

I started watching All My Children in 1978 when I was 10 with my mom and older sister. Remember the Nina and Cliff storyline? And Palmer Cortland and Daisy...while I was in HS it was Jenny and Greg, Jesse and Angie and of course Liza & Tad the Cad. Loved it!! Erica and her many loves. I watched One Life to Live and GH for awhile on and off. I have a friend who named her daughter after Tea on OLTL. My mom watched AMC, Port Charles, and Loving and Ryan's Hope. I watched RH for a bit. Nowadays I'm watching GH and DOOL. Been watching DOOL since 2000 I think. Really happy to have Roger Horwath and Michael Easton and James Depavia on GH. And Kassie DePaiva on DOOL.

Also was a big fan of Knots Landing during HS. Cool to see "Abby" on GH as Nina's mom!
I just looked it up and Donna Mills is 77! She looks great!!

 

[RedAngie]

I started watching Dark Shadows about two or three years after it started. Lots of kids at Catholic school used to talk about it, but the nuns would punish us if they overheard, so we had to be sneaky about it.

In high school a local UHF station started airing reruns and I watched again for a few years. I remember a sequence about a "Dream Curse." I think Angelique cast some spell that caused a character to have a nightmare. That person would continue having the nightmare until he/she told another character about it. Then the second character would have the dream, and would have to pass it along to a third character, etc. Eventually the nightmare would pass to Barnabas Collins and it was supposed to "kill" him again.

Then there was a flashback to the late 1700's where Victoria Winters was accused of being a witch and was about to be hanged until something weird happened and everyone was suddenly transported back to the present day.

 

[L&Lfan]

The dream curse and 1795 flashback aired in 1968. I started watching that summer with the Adam storyline. I have the entire series (1966-1971) on DVD which is in a coffin shaped box. I'm currently rewatching the show and am up to December 1968.