Guiding Light: The Soap Opera That Lasted Over Half a Century

Guiding Light’s final logo

The Guiding Light, now known as Guiding Light, was an American television and radio opera soap that made its place in the Guinness Book of World Records for the second-longest-running television soap opera. The show was first aired on radio in 1937 and was canceled in 2009. The show lasted for 15 … Read more

A Look at the Soap Opera “As the World Turns”

The original core family, the Hugheses, in the 1980s

ATWT (As the World Turns), aired on CBS from 2nd April 1956 to 17th September 2010, is an American television soap opera. The show was created by Irna Phillips and written by Lloyd Gold and Jean Passanante. This show remained successful in capturing the heart of the audience for 54 years. This … Read more

These Are My Children: Soap Opera on TV

A vintage television set

The soap opera genre is not everyone’s cup of tea, but it does have a loyal audience. If anyone is interested in the very early versions of soap operas in television history, they might be interested in knowing about the show ‘These Are My Children’.  This TV soap opera started airing on … Read more