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
Soap opera 2006; and "Vera Sto Deksi" ("Ring on the Right Hand"), which ran from 2004 to 2006 and proved to be a successful competitor to "Lampsi", causing that show's ratings to decline. "Ta Mistika Tis Edem" ("Edem Secrets"), which was created by the producers of "Vera Sto Deksi", debuted in 2008 and has eclipsed that show's success. Its ratings place it consistently among the three highest-rated daytime programs. IENED (which was renamed ERT2 in 1982) was responsible for the first Greek soap operas "I Kravgi Ton Likon" and "Megistanes". ERT also produced the long-running soap "O Simvoleografos". Since 2000 and with