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In this Thursday, Nov. 20, 1981, picture, Zsa Zsa Gabor goes through her lines with Anthony Herrera in New York as they prepared to shoot a segment for the soap opera “As the World Turns.” The network announced the show’s cancellation today - the day “As the World Turns” broadcast its 13,661st episode. Its last episode will air in September 2010, CBS said. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler) Question: Which soap opera is your favorite? Why?
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OrangeTV on December 08 at 4:23 p.m.
One Life to Live. There was a time when I didn’t have cable and the only channel I could get was ABC. I’ve been hooked ever since.
sue on December 08 at 5:40 p.m.
Best nighttime soap: Brothers and Sisters. Last episode was really good.
Arpie on December 08 at 7:37 p.m.
I fear this will hasten my dear mother’s death. She has been a faithful fan of this show since before I was alive. and I’m over 50. Last summer when she visited I got to teach her how to tivo the show.
spokelooneh on December 08 at 9:40 p.m.
That’s the one my Mom watched for 30 years.
Think I even got hooked on it a time or two during the summer.
Escapee on December 09 at 12:45 a.m.
I used to watch “The Guiding Light” in the afternoons just before going to work…and for a couple months, it featured a really interesting story line in which a man was conspiring with others to kill his wife…the plot inched forward slower than an arthritic caterpillar, and I gave up watching, because nothing was happening. The detergent commercials were more interesting by then. About a month later, I tuned back in, and saw the episode after the guy finally killed his wife. I guess he had to do it himself. Something about him flipping her over a banister railing. That was in 1970. Haven’t watched a minute of soap opera since then. Is it any wonder…?
Arpie on December 09 at 9:16 p.m.
I talked to my mom tonight. She reports that her world will continue to turn without As the World Turns. She is still Tvoing it daily. She admitted that she lost track of who is married to who about twenty years ago. She has heard rumors that another network may pick up the show. “Probably some cable channel that I don’t get,” she said.