6.8 /10
All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC for 41 years, from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011, and on The Online Network since April 29, 2013 via Hulu, Hulu Plus, and iTunes. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia which is modeled on the actual Philadelphia suburb of Rosemont.
Average Episode Run Time: 59` . MMPA: . 1970 - 2011
Total Seasons: 15 . Total Episodes: 2378
Director: Francesca James , Andrew Lee , Lisa Connor
Producer:
Stars: Bobbie Eakes , Michael E. Knight , KaDee Strickland , Tonya Pinkins , Daniel Kennedy , Malachy McCourt
6.7 /10
All is Forgiven is an American sitcom from the creators of Cheers that aired from March 20 until June 12, 1986 with the premiere episode being repeated as a "special presentation" on August 23, 1986. Bess Armstrong starred in the series as Paula Russell.
Average Episode Run Time: 30` . MMPA: . 1986
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 9
Director: Jim Drake , Barnet Kellman , Glen Charles
Producer: James Burrows
Stars: Bess Armstrong , Terence Knox , Shawnee Smith , David Alan Grier , Carol Kane , Bill Wiley
6.6 /10
North Shore is an American prime-time soap opera It centered around the staff and guests of the fictional Grand Waimea Hotel and Resort on Oahu's North Shore in Hawaii.
Average Episode Run Time: 1hr . MMPA: . 2004 - 2005
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 20
Director: David Straiton , Kevin Hooks
Producer: Marc A. Kahn , Kenneth Biller , Chris Brancato
Stars: Kristoffer Polaha , Brooke Burns , Corey Sevier , Nikki DeLoach , Jason Momoa , Jay Kenneth Johnson
6.5 /10
Secrets of Midland Heights is a short-lived American nighttime soap opera which ran on CBS from December 6, 1980 to January 24, 1981 for eight episodes. Produced after the enormous success of Dallas, Lorimar Productions likewise produced the new serial for CBS. Secrets of Midland Heights was aimed at the teen audience, and featured romantic triangles and secrets among the teens and their parents who populated a fictional midwestern college town called Midland Heights. Aired on Saturday night at 10 PM EST/9 PM Central, the series never found an audience and was canceled after eight episodes. The show resembled a dark, 1980s-style Peyton Place, both dealing with hidden secrets and scandalous affairs in a small town. Lisa Rogers carried on with college jock Burt Carroll while also seeing fraternity jerk Mark; good girl heiress Ann Dulles secretly dated high school dropout John; Holly Wheeler wanted to lose her virginity to her boyfriend Teddy Welsh, but the teens were shocked to discover her mother Dorothy was having an affair with Teddy's father Nathan.
Average Episode Run Time: 1hr . MMPA: . 1980 - 1981
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 10
Director: Jeff Bleckner , Alexander Singer , Gabrielle Beaumont
Producer:
Stars: Melora Hardin , Lorenzo Lamas , Stephen Manley , Bibi Besch , Martha Scott , Doran Clark
6.5 /10
Guiding Light is an American television soap opera that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running television drama in history, broadcast from 1952 until 2009, preceded by a 15-year broadcast on radio. Guiding Light stands as the third longest-running program in all of broadcast history; only the Norwegian children's radio program Lørdagsbarnetimen and the American country music radio program Grand Ole Opry have been on the air longer. On April 1, 2009, it was announced that CBS canceled Guiding Light after a 72-year run due to low ratings. The show taped its final scenes for CBS on August 11, 2009, and its final episode on the network aired on September 18, 2009.
Average Episode Run Time: 1hr . MMPA: TV-14 . 1952 - 2009
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 202
Director: Matt Lagle , Roy B. Steinberg , Robert Scinto
Producer: Rob Decina
Stars: Kim Zimmer , Ron Raines , Beth Chamberlin , Robert Newman , Krista Tesreau , Nicole Forester
6.5 /10
Flamingo Road is an American prime time soap opera that aired on NBC. It was first seen as a TV movie on May 12, 1980, and as a series on January 6, 1981, after a rebroadcast of the pilot on December 30, 1980. The show is based on the 1949 movie starring Joan Crawford, which is, in turn, based on the novel by Robert Wilder. Flamingo Road was created to compete against CBS's Dallas and Knots Landing, nighttime dramas that were inspired by the daily afternoon soap operas that had been a staple of TV for years. The character of Constance Weldon ranked at #16 on E!'s list of The 50 Most Wicked Women in Primetime.
Average Episode Run Time: 1hr . MMPA: . 1981 - 1982
Total Seasons: 2 . Total Episodes: 37
Director: Fernando Lamas , Alan Cooke , Don Weis
Producer: Edward S. Feldman
Stars: John Beck , Stella Stevens , Morgan Fairchild , Mark Harmon , Howard Duff , Barbara Rush
6.4 /10
Malibu Shores is an American primetime teen drama/soap opera that aired on Saturday Night at 8:00PM EST from to June 1996 for ten episodes on NBC. Created by Aaron Spelling and starring Keri Russell and Tony Lucca, the program followed the exploits of Southern California teens.
Average Episode Run Time: 1hr . MMPA: . 1996
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 10
Director:
Producer: Aaron Spelling , Jeffrey Lurie
Stars: Ian Ogilvy , Christian Campbell , Keri Russell , Susan Ward , Greg Vaughan , Randy Spelling
6.4 /10
Love Is a Many Splendored Thing is an American daytime soap opera which aired on CBS from September 18, 1967 to March 23, 1973. The series was created by Irna Phillips, who served as the first head writer. She was replaced by Jane Avery and Ira Avery in 1968, who were followed by Don Ettlinger, James Lipton, and finally Ann Marcus. John Conboy was the producer for most of the show's run.
Average Episode Run Time: 30` . MMPA: . 1967 - 1973
Total Seasons: 2 . Total Episodes: 248
Director: Irna Phillips
Producer: Joseph Hardy
Stars: David Birney , Donna Mills , Beverlee McKinsey , Leslie Charleson , Michael Zaslow , Andrea Marcovicci
6.1 /10
A scorned woman plots revenge against the man who abandoned her 25 years earlier in order to marry another woman with money to advance his career. The plan is to have her two sons seduce and marry her former lover's two daughters, and in the process destroy the man's life.
Average Episode Run Time: 1hr . MMPA: . 2006 - 2007
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 71
Director: P. David Ebersole , Terry Cunningham , Jeremy Stanford
Producer: Stu Segall , Joan Etchells
Stars: Tatum O'Neal , Clive Robertson , Jack Krizmanich , David Smith , Jessie Ward , Kate French
5.9 /10
Passions is an American television soap opera which aired on NBC from July 5, 1999 to September 7, 2007 and on The 101 Network from September 17, 2007 to August 7, 2008. Passions follows the lives and loves, and various romantic and paranormal adventures of the residents of Harmony. Story-lines center around the interactions among members of its multi-racial core families — the African American Russells, white Cranes and Bennetts, and half-Mexican half-Irish Lopez-Fitzgeralds — as well as the supernatural including town witch Tabitha Lenox. Created by writer James E. Reilly and produced by NBC Studios, the series was subsequently picked up by direct broadcast satellite service DirecTV, which broadcast new episodes airing on its exclusive channel The 101. In December 2007, DirecTV decided not to renew its contract for the series, and the studio was unable to sell the show elsewhere. The final episode aired on DirecTV on August 7, 2008.
Average Episode Run Time: 1hr . MMPA: . 1999
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 1
Director: James E. Reilly
Producer: Richard R. Schilling
Stars: Dana Sparks , Rachel G. Fox , Mary Elizabeth Winstead
5.7 /10
Santa Barbara is an American television soap opera, first broadcast in the United States on NBC on July 30, 1984, and last aired on January 15, 1993. The show revolves around the eventful lives of the wealthy Capwell family of Santa Barbara, California. Other prominent families featured on the soap were the rival Lockridge family, and the more modest Andrade and Perkins families. The serial was co-produced by NBC and Dobson Productions until February 1985, when New World Pictures joined NBC and Dobson as a production partner. The newly created partnership, New World Television, then served as the distributor for the show. Santa Barbara aired in over 40 countries around the world. The show's popularity continued to rise, and it even had fans in the White House. In 1985, when character Augusta Lockridge was blinded following a tunnel collapse, Ronald Reagan sent actress Louise Sorel a letter saying he and Nancy were praying for her and hoped she recovered. Santa Barbara has won 24 Daytime Emmy Awards and was nominated 30 times for the same award. The show also won 18 Soap Opera Digest Awards, and won various other awards. In 1993, NBC replaced Santa Barbara with game shows Scrabble and Scattergories. Shortly before the program was canceled by NBC, New World Television tried to shop Santa Barbara to other broadcast and cable networks, but failed to find one that would air the show.
Average Episode Run Time: 1hr . MMPA: . 1984 - 1993
Total Seasons: 10 . Total Episodes: 2137
Director: Rick Bennewitz , Jeffrey Hayden , Linda Day
Producer: Julie Hanan Carruthers , Jill Farren Phelps , John Conboy
Stars: Jed Allan , Robin Wright , Lane Davies , Nancy Lee Grahn , Todd McKee , Robin Mattson
5.1 /10
Loving is an American television soap opera that ran on ABC from June 26, 1983, to November 10, 1995, a total of 3,169 episodes. The serial, set in the fictional town of Corinth, Pennsylvania, was co-created by Agnes Nixon and former actor Douglas Marland. The show was broadcast in France under the title Amoureusement Votre and in Italy as Quando si ama.
Average Episode Run Time: 30` . MMPA: . 1983 - 1986
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 2
Director: Agnes Nixon , Douglas Marland
Producer:
Stars: Leigh Murray
0 /10
Continuing drama combining romance and intrigue set against the glittering backdrop of Beverly Hills and the American fashion industry.
Average Episode Run Time: 25` . MMPA: TV-14 . 1987 - 2023
Total Seasons: 36 . Total Episodes: 6157
Director: Cynthia J. Popp , Evgeny Afineevsky , Lee Phillip Bell
Producer: Casey Kasprzyk , Mark V. Pinciotti , Bradley Bell
Stars: Katherine Kelly Lang , Jill Whelan , Tanner Novlan , Denise Richards , Steven Christopher Parker , Tariq Logan
0 /10
Follow the complicated dynamic between the rich and powerful Cryer family and the hired help who work in their opulent Savannah, Georgia, mansion.
Average Episode Run Time: 45` . MMPA: TV-14 . 2013 - 2021
Total Seasons: 8 . Total Episodes: 198
Director: Tyler Perry
Producer:
Stars: Renee Lawless , Jaclyn Betham , Tyler Lepley , Eva Tamargo , Tika Sumpter , Aaron O'Connell
0 /10
The saga of a wealthy Denver family in the oil business: Blake Carrington, the patriarch; Krystle, his former secretary and wife; his children: Adam, lost in childhood after a kidnapping; Fallon, pampered and spoiled; Steven, openly gay; and Amanda, hidden from him by his ex-wife, the conniving Alexis. Most of the show features the conflict between 2 large corporations, Blake's Denver Carrington and Alexis' ColbyCo.
Average Episode Run Time: 46` . MMPA: TV-PG . 1981 - 2006
Total Seasons: 9 . Total Episodes: 220
Director: Don Medford , Curtis Harrington , Jerome Courtland
Producer: Denise Chamian , Esther Shapiro , Douglas S. Cramer
Stars: John Forsythe , Linda Evans , Joan Collins , Heather Locklear , Gordon Thomson , Jack Coleman
0 /10
Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The series is set in a fictional private charity hospital in Chicago, Illinois. The show is set to return in the fall of 2013 on TVGN in reruns.
Average Episode Run Time: 1hr . MMPA: . 1994 - 2000
Total Seasons: 6 . Total Episodes: 141
Director: James Frawley , Joe Napolitano , James R. Bagdonas
Producer: Dawn Prestwich , Michael Braverman , Henry Bromell
Stars: Adam Arkin , Mark Harmon , Hector Elizondo , Rocky Carroll , Lauren Holly , Barbara Hershey
0 /10
Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons, from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. A total of 227 episodes were produced. The series revolves around the feuding factions of the wealthy Gioberti/Channing family in the Californian wine industry. Jane Wyman starred as Angela Channing, the tyrannical matriarch of the Falcon Crest Winery, alongside Robert Foxworth as Chase Gioberti, Angela's nephew who returns to Falcon Crest following the death of his father. The series was set in the fictitious Tuscany Valley northeast of San Francisco.
Average Episode Run Time: 1hr . MMPA: NR . 1981 - 1990
Total Seasons: 9 . Total Episodes: 227
Director: Joseph Manduke , Roy Campanella II , Stan Lathan
Producer: Earl Hamner, Jr. , Sheri Anderson , Michael Donovan
Stars: Jane Wyman , David Selby , Lorenzo Lamas , Gregory Harrison , Rod Taylor , Kristian Alfonso
0 /10
Another World is an American television soap opera that ran on NBC for 35 years from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. Set in the fictional town of Bay City, the show in its early years opens with announcer Bill Wolff intoning its epigram, “We do not live in this world alone, but in a thousand other worlds,” which Phillips said represented the difference between “the world of events we live in, and the world of feelings and dreams that we strive for.” Another World focused less on the conventional drama of domestic life as seen in other soap operas, and more on exotic melodrama between families of different classes and philosophies.
Average Episode Run Time: 1hr . MMPA: TV-14 . 1964 - 1999
Total Seasons: 19 . Total Episodes: 1680
Director: William J. Bell , Irna Phillips
Producer: Michael Laibson , John Valente , Mary S. Bonner
Stars: Tom Eplin , Linda Dano , Charles Keating , Victoria Wyndham , Matt Crane , Thomas Gibson
0 /10
Dark Shadows is an American gothic soap opera that originally aired weekdays on the ABC television network, from June 27, 1966, to April 2, 1971. The show was created by Dan Curtis. The story bible, which was written by Art Wallace, does not mention any supernatural elements. It was unprecedented in daytime television when ghosts were introduced about six months after it began. The series became hugely popular when vampire Barnabas Collins appeared a year into its run. Dark Shadows also featured werewolves, zombies, man-made monsters, witches, warlocks, time travel, and a parallel universe. A small company of actors each played many roles; indeed, as actors came and went, some characters were played by more than one actor. Major writers besides Art Wallace included Malcolm Marmorstein, Sam Hall, Gordon Russell, and Violet Welles. Dark Shadows was distinguished by its vividly melodramatic performances, atmospheric interiors, memorable storylines, numerous dramatic plot twists, unusually adventurous music score, and broad and epic cosmos of characters and heroic adventures. Now regarded as something of a classic, it continues to enjoy an intense cult following. Although the original series ran for only five years, its scheduling as a daily daytime drama allowed it to amass more single episodes during its run than most other science-fiction/fantasy genre series produced for English-language television, including Doctor Who and the entire Star Trek television franchise. Only the paranormal soap opera Passions, with a total of 2,231 episodes, has more.
Average Episode Run Time: 30` . MMPA: TV-PG . 1966 - 1971
Total Seasons: 12 . Total Episodes: 1225
Director: John Sedwick , Lela Swift , Dan Curtis
Producer:
Stars: Jonathan Frid , Grayson Hall , Joan Bennett , David Selby , Kathryn Leigh Scott , Lara Parker
0 /10
Families, friends, enemies and lovers experience life-changing events in the large upstate New York city of Port Charles, which has a busy hospital, upscale hotel, cozy diner and dangerous waterfront frequented by the criminal underworld.
Average Episode Run Time: 36` . MMPA: TV-14 . 1963 - 2023
Total Seasons: 18 . Total Episodes: 3358
Director: Tina Keller , Rob Markham , Allison Reames Smith
Producer:
Stars: Aaron Bradshaw , Leah Caruana , Haley Pullos , Porter Fasullo , Jonathan Stanley , Stuart Ambrose
