If it seems like Days of Our Lives has been on forever, that’s because it has. I started watching at my babysitters house when I was 5 (it had already been on air since my mother was about 10) and 30 years later Bo and Hope are still trying to get it together. Only on TV! Here we include soaps, daytime TV, news and sports series that ran through the 80s and early 90s regardless of original air date.
Soaps
Days of Our Lives – an 80s staple, began in the mid-sixties
All my Children
Santa Barbara
Ryan’s Hope
A World Apart
As the World Turns
The Best of Everything
The Edge of Night
Search for Tomorrow
Texas
Eastenders (UK)
Coronation Street (UK)
Mini-Series
North and South
The Thorn Birds
War and Remembrance
The Winds of War
Wild Palms
The Civil War -Ken Burns’
News and Daytime Talk Programmes
Day One
A Closer Look / The Faith Daniels Show
Dr. Dean
Jane Whitney
Dr. Ruth
Ricki Lake
Regis and Kathie Lee
Donahue
Geraldo
Sixty Minutes
Julia Child
Meet the Press
The People’s Court
Arsenio Hall
Sally Jesse Raphael
Jay Leno
Jane Pauley
Today
Good Morning, America!
Barbara Walters interview specials
Leeza
One on One with John Tesh
The Other Side
The Marsha Warfield Show
Nightline
20/20
America’s Most Wanted
The Oprah Winfrey Show
Sports Regulars
Baseball Night in America
Monday Night Football
Monday Night Baseball
NHL on ABC
Rose Bowl Game
Thursday Night Baseball
ABC’s Wide World of Sports