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 ("Goodmorning Life"), which ran from September 1993 until its cancellation in June 2006 due to low ratings. Mega Channel began producing soap operas in 1990 with the prime time serial "I Dipsa" ("The Thirst"), which ran for 102 episodes. Other daytime soaps have included "Paralliloi dromoi" (1992–1994) and its successor "Haravgi" ("Daylight", 1994–1995), both of which were cancelled due to low viewership; as well as the serials "Apagorevmeni Agapi" ("Forbidden Love"), which ran from 1998 to 2006; "Gia mia thesi ston Ilio" ("A Spot Under the Sun"), which ran from 1998 to 2002; "Filodoxies" ("Expectations"), which ran from 2002 to