Serial (radio and television) usually ran from Monday through Friday at exactly the same time every day. A show called The Smith Family which ran only one night a week on WENR in Chicago during the early 1930s was credited as the "great-granddaddy of the soap operas" by radio historian Francis Chase, Jr. One of the other shows that helped pioneer the daytime soap opera/serial was "The Guiding Light", which debuted on NBC radio in 1937, and then switched to CBS Television in 1952. "The Guiding Light" final episode aired on September 18, 2009, having a total of 15,762 episodes air on CBS. Some
Screening of soap operas in Australia +2 at 2:45 pm EST. Australia is approximately three episodes behind the US broadcast at present. "Doctors" is a British soap opera that began airing in Australia from 2 April 2013 on BBC UKTV each weekday. Episodes were around two weeks behind the UK airings. BBC UKTV ceased screening episodes of "Doctors" from 29 August 2014. "All My Children" is an American soap opera that aired briefly on Network Ten in the late '80s, on Fox Soap in the late '90s, and on 7TWO from 2009 to 2011. "Another World" is an American soap opera that appeared variously on both