My best soap of all time wasn’t even a choice but it should be – PORT CHARLES!

Y&R true fan forever.

ALL MY CHILDREN !!

My favorite soaps of all time were no.1, Dark Shadows, no.2, The Edge of Night, no.3, Another World(1970s), no. 4, Days OF Our Lives, no. 5, ties with Santa Barbara and Passions, no.6, General Hospital, no. 7, ties with ATWT, AMC and OLTL, no. 8, Ryans Hope, no. 9, The Doctors, no.1O, ties with Guilding Light, Strange Paradise, and the British imports of Upstairs, Downstairs, Coranation Street, and now Downtown Abbey…i also like Somerset, Return To Peyton Place, Sunset Beach, Love of Life and Search For Tomorrow, Generations, Bright Promise, The Secret Storm and a few others…i always loved the… Read more »

“Dark Shadows,” but it didn’t even make the bracket! Here’s hoping “Edge of Night” will pull an upset!

I personally believe that General Hospital should be voted Best Soap of All Time, with All My Children a close second!!!!!!

I would pick As The World Turns. ATWT always had something juicy for everyone to sink their teeth into. Whether it was Luke and Noah, funny lines from Henry, drama from Carly and Jack, or even the many back from the dead storylines that the character of James Steinbeck had. I only watched ATWT from 2008 to 2010. But I could see that this wonderful and powerful soap opera had something for everyone!

ATWT…..there will never be a soap that had everything…& some of the best actors around.& the first gay storyline with Lukes’story.A strong sense of family, friendships,love, heartache, villians, kpokie characters, etc.I still miss it .It will always be #1 with me

One Life to Live!

Guiding Light!!!!!

General Hospital and Days1

OLTL is and always will be #1

1. GH
2. GL
3. DAYS
4. ATWT
5. Port Charles

Y&R pay attention as a former fan ,you better start doing whats best for the soap opera ,if not you will go down the drain,and i was a hard core fan ,for many reaon! Am truly sad of the events of the past few weeks ,

To be voted out and being the # 1 for how many years ,you would of think wouldnt go in the first round… Pay attention executives of the show its the fans telling you something and to the writters for the love of God pick a flipping story line and stick with it ,how do i know since i stop watching it? Read the twitters and fans letters

weeeeellllllll

The Young & Restless has always had the most viewers but has never been the best soap ..

General Hospital #1 ….

That’s a very tough choice. Have loved, and lost, so many in my lifetime. Dark Shadows was my first soap love, but OLTL is the one I considered “my soap” for the longest and most consistently. Really tough, but makes me realize how lucky I have been to enjoy so much great entertainment over a lifetime. Daytime and primetime, soaps will ALWAYS be part of my experience.

Thanks for bringing back those memories, Mr. Fairman.

I have to say;
The Edge of Night
Ryans Hope
Guilding Light
Search For Tomorrow
The Secret Storm
and many others, HUH never seen any..
Think my great grandma had liked them or some such thing

good grief who would even recall watching them..
The newer viewers, past 20yrs, would have never even heard of 70% of those soaps to vote on them LOL 🙁

General Hospital, followed by Another World and Days.

One Life To Live (best soap), GH (second best), AMC(third best).. I started watching these three soaps with my Mom and never changed. And still watch GH and don’t watch any other soaps but this one now… I always preferred LLanview,PA…

General Hospital vs. The Bold and The Beautiful. With General Hospital crowned as the Best Soap

ATWT and DAYS!

As the world turns!

Guiding Light forever!

Bizarre that the two currently highest rated shows are doing the worst here.

Hands down General Hospital is the best Soap Opera of all-time! No question!

A timeless classic…Days of our Lives…The sands continue to trickle.

Hands down best was All My Children, followed by As the World Turns and Ryan’s Hope!

AMC. OLTL. B/B. RYAN’S HOPE.

THE #1 SOAP WAS & IS ONE LIFE TO LIVE

This is so hard. Growing up I watched whatever whoever I was with watched, i.e. my great-grandmother loved Days, my grandmother loved ATWT, Mama watched OLTL, my great-aunt GL, you get the picture. I watched & loved all of them. In the 80s, I was ABC, switched to CBS in the 90s & damned if I didn’t watch everything from 2001 to date! Hard to juggle but I did it & I miss the ones that we’ve lost.

ATWT and I am NOT referring to the later years with Luke, Janet and the rest. I am thinking of the decades of the trials and tribulations of the Hughes, the Stewarts, and the Snyders with healthy doses of the scheming and selfish actions of Lisa and Lucinda.

Why do media people always pit soaps against each other as if there has to be a competition? The best soap is whatever soap you most enjoy watching, plain and simple. I have watched many over the years, and I had my favorites, but I never thought one soap was better over the other– and this particular “contest” is pointless because you could get a totally different results if certain soaps were pitted against a different soap in the match ups. This will not determine the all time greatest soap just like dancing with stars doesn’t determine the best dancer–

#1 is As The Wold Turns followed by General Hospital, then All My Children, and finally Guiding Light. Days of Our Lives comes in fifth.

General Hospital, without a doubt….. I love Dante

#1. As the World Turns
#2. Days of OUR Lives
#3. All My Children
#4. Another World
5. Guiding Light

The poll is flawed. After Day 2, you can see the pattern of fans voting the other strongest shows out of their brackets. YR was taken out on Day 1, GH on Day 2. You’ll most likely see the disgruntled GH fans vote against Days today.

A lot of soaps didn’t even get put into the brackets.

The biggest system flaw is that you can vote several hundred times a day, again using those votes against other potential bracket winners.

Silly.

ALL MY CHILDREN

Y&R has always been my favourite & still is.

So as for my all time favorites I’ll go with YR, ATWT, BB, and Days (up until about 77/78)

Other great shows over the years are Somerset, The Doctors, Secret Storm, Another World, Love of Life, Edge of Night, Guiding Light, and Search For Tomorrow.

And since they strayed too far from the genre at times, I have to name Passions, General Hospital, Port Charles, Sunset Beach and sometimes Days as the worst. Sorry but soap opera (for me) is not talking dolls, Ice Princesses, and aliens and possessions. I guess throw Dark Shadows into that as well.

i think it’s hilarious that 3 of the final 4 are off the air….

Oh my gosh was there ever a better soap than ” Another World” I was a loyal viewer until it went off the air. Once the wonderful Douglas Watson (Mac Cory) died in real life the show just didn’t have the same feeling.

Old as the world turns and guiding light— take your pick…