Soap opera funeral in 1997 (32.1 million viewers) which were transmitted on both BBC One and ITV. An early television serial was "The Grove Family" on the BBC, which produced 148 episodes from 1954 to 1957. The programme was broadcast live and only a handful of recordings were retained in the archives. The UK's first twice-weekly serial was ITV's "Emergency - Ward 10", running from 1957 until 1967. In the 1960s "Coronation Street" revolutionised UK television and quickly became a British institution. On 17 September 2010, it became the world's longest-running television soap opera and was listed in "Guinness World Records". The
Time of Your Life (1988 TV series) Time of Your Life (1988 TV series) Time of Your Life was a Canadian television soap opera which ran production from August 1988 to May 1989. It was created by producer Harry Jakobs and Maryse Wilder, Rhea Cohen and Maurice Thevenet. The series was loosely based on the low budget Canadian independent feature "Rebel High" (a modern 1980s "High School Confidential"). It debuted on October 17, 1988 and was aired right after the American soap opera "General Hospital" at 4pm, daily Monday through Friday replacing Bob Barker's "The Price Is Right". Making it at the time Canada's first daily syndicated