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Do you miss watching soaps (except for the one or two left)?

chihuahuamom — Sun, 01 Jan 2017 03:05:50 GMT

I watched All My Children for years, and thought when they ended it and several others, I would miss it so much. Well, I did, but now I am used to not having it. I'm not sure I would want to be "chained" to it like before. How about you?

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cherry — Sun, 01 Jan 2017 03:15:25 GMT

I have one I have watched for decades. It is the longest running soap on tv. It started in 1960. I have been able to watch it since the 70's ,Its from the UK ,and I watch it on a Canadian tv station. I hope it never ends

It's not like and American soap it moves very fast and there is lots of humor in it.

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mac116 — Sun, 01 Jan 2017 03:18:23 GMT

I loved All My Children and watched it for years. I taped it to watch when I got home from work. I was disappointed when it ended, but life goes on :-D

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Annabellethecat66 — Sun, 01 Jan 2017 03:19:10 GMT

@chihuahuamom Yes! I miss more soaps. I used to like to watch All My Children, Guiding Light and As the World Turns. Then with some of them those stupid Dr shows had to have a place to go and that's when (in my area) they did away with the soaps so the Dr shows (which incidentally are now gone) should be on......

It is fun watching soaps. I doubt though that the soaps as we know them will ever be back (in full force). It's funny now because they used to be considered 'racy' now look at what you see on regular TV, forget cable shows!

Soap actors get a bad name and it's not fair. They aren't allowed more than 1 take and have to know many lines each day. They're on every day (5 days a week) not like those shows that are on for 1 day and then they're only on every now and then (maybe 10 episodes and then they break for Winter, Summer whatever)...again...UGH!

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sandraskates — Sun, 01 Jan 2017 03:28:00 GMT

Do the evening soaps count? I'm speaking of Dallas, Dynasty and Melrose Place. I enjoyed those shows very much.

@cherry- are you speaking of Coronation Street?

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cherry — Sun, 01 Jan 2017 03:28:56 GMT

@sandraskates wrote:
Do the evening soaps count? I'm speaking of Dallas, Dynasty and Melrose Place. I enjoyed those shows very much.

@cherry- are you speaking of Coronation Street?

@sandraskates yes I am. I love that program

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sunshine45 — Sun, 01 Jan 2017 03:52:00 GMT

there are actually four left on tv.

i still watch the young and the restless and thebold and the beautiful and have for many years now.

i was one of those college students that scheduled my classes around the soaps i liked. LOL.......as the world turns and capitol......

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lovesallanimals — Sun, 01 Jan 2017 04:08:40 GMT

@sandraskates wrote:
Do the evening soaps count? I'm speaking of Dallas, Dynasty and Melrose Place. I enjoyed those shows very much.

@cherry- are you speaking of Coronation Street?

I loved watching Dallas and Dynasty. Would never leave my house on those nights (this is before VCRs!) So I purchased all 14 seasons of Dallas plus the two follow- ups of what happed to JR at the end and the reunion movie and spent the last few months watching it. Oh what fun! I cannot tell you how much I enjoyed watching this show after all these years. I did not realize how bad some of the acting was with some of the minor actors and the clothes!! OMG those shoulder pads - the women looked like football players. My DH asked if I will be giving this set away now that I am through and I said no way! In a few years I will watch it all over again. I am now going to start on Dynasty. I just love getting up early on a cold morning, getting my coffee and cuddling back in bed to watch these shows.

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Pandalady — Sun, 01 Jan 2017 04:21:20 GMT

I started watching "The Young and the Restless" and "As the World Turns" with my grandmother in 1984. I added "The Bold and the Beautiful" when it started in the late 80's. I would go to her house, which was near my college to eat lunch after classes. I would watch the shows wtih her and then leave to go to work at my part time job at a daycare center. My granny has been gone 15 years and had Alzheimer's for 10 years before she passed away. I miss those times with her but I cherish the memories and the laughter each day, more than I do the shows. I am down to "Y&R" only when I am off work and able to watch.

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sunshine 919 — Sun, 01 Jan 2017 04:28:49 GMT

@Annabellethecat66 wrote:
@chihuahuamom Yes! I miss more soaps. I used to like to watch All My Children, Guiding Light and As the World Turns. Then with some of them those stupid Dr shows had to have a place to go and that's when (in my area) they did away with the soaps so the Dr shows (which incidentally are now gone) should be on......

It is fun watching soaps. I doubt though that the soaps as we know them will ever be back (in full force). It's funny now because they used to be considered 'racy' now look at what you see on regular TV, forget cable shows!

Soap actors get a bad name and it's not fair. They aren't allowed more than 1 take and have to know many lines each day. They're on every day (5 days a week) not like those shows that are on for 1 day and then they're only on every now and then (maybe 10 episodes and then they break for Winter, Summer whatever)...again...UGH!

Oh my goodness, I watched the Guiding Light, As The World Turns. I also watched a soap called the Doctors, which by the way comes on Retro tv. I still remember some of the characters. I loved watching soaps growing up. Young and the Restless one of my favorites. I use to tape Days when Marlena came back, well one of her come backs. LOL

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RedTop — Sun, 01 Jan 2017 04:36:56 GMT

I watched The Doctors, Days of our Lives, Another World, and General Hospital. At that time we used a TV antenna and only received 2 channels. In 1999 we switched to satellite TV programming, and once I had more programming available, I lost all interest in soap operas. Walked away and never looked back.

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sunshine45 — Sun, 01 Jan 2017 05:51:12 GMT

oops.......almost forgot......i watched SEARCH FOR TOMORROW also.

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libbyannE — Sun, 01 Jan 2017 07:59:37 GMT

I have never watched a soap. Yuk.

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qualitygal — Sun, 01 Jan 2017 11:02:20 GMT

Once upon a time, I use to enjoy the stories. Then I couldn't watch them due to work. The part I missed was seeing them at holiday time, all the glamour and clothes and jewelry. It seemed to be a party all the time. They always had champagne in their hands.

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Laura14 — Sun, 01 Jan 2017 18:14:26 GMT

I grew up on GH. And while my soap is still on, it's not GH. I'm almost sad I didn't get my show taken away too. When you identify too much with the alcoholic lush character as what you do to get through watching an episode, you know there is a problem.

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AuntG — Sun, 01 Jan 2017 12:08:06 GMT

Don't know why they took off All My Children. I now watch Days and can't believe how lame it is.

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violann — Sun, 01 Jan 2017 12:26:40 GMT

I ALWAYS had at least one soap going, even when I was working. I juggled Days and AMC simultaneously, survived the peanut butter pancakes disaster, and was absolutely crushed when AMC and ATWT were taken off the air.

I'm presently attempting to get into GH, but it's actually surprisingly difficult because soap plots DO move faster now than in the '80's and '90's.

I sure do with I could let go of my old "friends" as easily as some of you folks have!

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halfpint1 — Sun, 01 Jan 2017 17:21:09 GMT

I miss them. I use to watch As the World Turns and Guiding Light since my son was a baby. He will be 59 this week. I only keep the tv on for noise and company. I am not interested in the stars lives. The news I look at but sick of the accidents and death. I should do housework but sick of that too.

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kelsey17 — Sun, 01 Jan 2017 17:45:54 GMT

I used to watch Guiding Light, As The World Turns, and loved the episodes....when they got canceled i started watching the Young & the Restless which i still DVR and watch at my convenience..........years back i watched General Hospital (w/Steve Hardy & Jesse) but then stopped but got back into this soap about 2 years ago............with all the horrible talk shows, lame sitcoms, etc. I find soaps are

more quality programming (weird storylines...haha) but definitly a nice escape for an hour to unwind before getting back to reality...ha.

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stevieb — Sun, 01 Jan 2017 20:04:38 GMT

I really don't. They changed, I changed and the world changed and what used to engross me years ago stopped being as compelling. I was weaned on the NBC soaps (Days, Doctors, Another World and the myriad of short termers like Somerset, Bright Promise and so on) then I stopped watching altogether. When I went back to watching several years later, it was the CBS soaps, Y&R, Capitol/BB, ATWT and GL... I stuck with them for years and then walked away again... Just a year or so ago I started watching Y&R again and it really is enough for me.

They just don't write or produce them like they used to. I also think that what was 'cutting edge' when I started watching wouldn't seem titillating today because pretty much nothing would seem titillating today... The various forms of media have left no holds barred... I think that if soaps got back to relationships, family units (of whatever type) and interactions between characters they might recapture some of their lost audience... All the forays into the supernatural, big business intrigue, plot-driven and 'disaster flick' sorts of stories and 'in the news' plot devices appear to have driven away more traditional soap viewers, which might well be a dying breed, anyway...