The First Hundred Years and fewer still watched during the afternoon. The series was replaced with the television version of "Guiding Light", which would prove to be much more successful, airing for 57 years (72 years total when its 15-year run on radio is taken into account). The First Hundred Years The First Hundred Years is the first ongoing TV soap opera in the United States that began as a daytime serial, airing on CBS from December 4, 1950 until June 27, 1952. A previous daytime drama on NBC, "These Are My Children", aired in 1949 but only lasted one month, and NBC's "Hawkins
Soap opera outlines. These are "Verbotene Liebe" (Germany, 1995–2015); "Skilda världar" (Sweden, 1996–2002); "Apagorevmeni agapi" (Greece, 1998); "Cuori Rubati" (Italy, 2002–2003) and "Zabranjena ljubav" (Croatia, 2004–2008). Both "The Restless Years" and "Sons and Daughters" were created and produced in Australia by the Reg Grundy Organisation. The Norwegian soap opera "Hotel Cæsar" aired on TV 2 from 1998 to 2017, and is the longest-running television drama in Scandinavia. Popular foreign soaps in the country include "Days of Our Lives" (broadcast on TV6 (Norway), "The Bold and the Beautiful" (TNT (Norway) and "Home and Away" (TV 2), all of which are subtitled. Serials have