Which Soap Opera Do You Watch and Why?

There are four remaining soap operas on network television as any Soaper will tell you.  If you are a soap fan, which show do you watch and why?

I continue to watch General Hospital when I can because it is the last ABC soap holdout.  There are familiar faces in Port Charles, some of which are faces from beloved soap operas past.  I also began watching The Young and the Restless when Michael E. Knight (Tad Martin - All My Children) joined the cast as Dr Simon Neville.

There are only four left.  Which one is your story?

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Who do you watch your soap operas with?

I watched my stories for years with my family.  My husband, daughters, and I would watch together in the evenings after VCRs became popular.  Later, with the onset of DVRs, we were able to binge watch a week's worth of our story on the weekend when we set aside our together time.

Our family grew up and our favorite story, "All My Children" was cancelled.  Now days, it's just me and the cat.  Okay, admittedly the cat sleeps through most of the shows.  But he is right there next to me and once in a while he does look up and catch a few minutes.

Who do you watch your stories with?

Where did you spend weekday afternoons?

Back in the days before VCRs, DVRs, and on-demand viewing TV Guide was the weekly television bible and daytime afternoons were booked with soap operas.  Viewers were forced to make choices like Days of Our Lives or All My Children, Another World or One Life to Live.  Most soap fans watched one channel lineup throughout the afternoon and were loyal to all the soaps in that lineup.

With the onset of VCRs and DVRs, it opened up a whole new world for soapers to be able to watch whatever stories they wanted even when they aired against each other.

Before recording devices were available I started out with Days of Our Lives and Another World.  In the late 1970s I switched over to All My Children.  When I was home I would be in Pine Valley, Llanview, and Port Charles between the hours of twelve and three.  All My Children was my favorite show and when it was over I would often leave the television on and catch One Life to Live and General Hospital.  As much as I disliked missing episodes when I was at work or away from home, the beauty of soap operas is how easy it was to pick storylines back up after being away from them.

Where did you spend weekday afternoons?