


Home and Away has become the second longest-running drama series in Australian television, after Neighbours. Since then, each subsequent episode has aired for a duration of twenty-two minutes. The show premiered with a ninety-minute pilot episode (subsequently in re-runs and on VHS known as Home and Away: The Movie). The soap opera was initially going to be called Refuge, but the name was changed to the "friendlier" title of Home and Away once production began. Bateman came up with the concept of the show during a trip to Kangaroo Point, New South Wales, where he noticed locals were complaining about the construction of a foster home and against the idea of foster children from the city living in the area. It was created by Alan Bateman and commenced broadcast on the Seven Network on 17 January 1988. Home and Away (often abbreviated as H&A) is an Australian television soap opera. Southern Star Group/Endemol Australia (1988–2015) Seven Studios (formerly Seven Productions).What are the best '60s soap operas? Did the daytime soaps you think were the best make this list? Vote up the 1960s soap operas you think are the best of the decade and see where the soaps you loved to watch during the '60s rank. Many of the new soap operas of the '60s only lasted one or two seasons, such as Morning Star, Paradise Bay, and Never Too Young. While these popular old soap operas made their debut during the 1960s, there were also quite a few flops. Both soaps went on to live long lives on television, still airing new episodes today.

General Hospital debuted in 1963, while Days of Our Lives first aired in 1965. Many of the most popular daytime soap operas of all time were introduced in the 1960s. This l ist of the best daytime soap operas that aired between 1960-1969, has been voted on and ranked by your votes. The biggest soap operas of the 1960s were As the World Turns, Guiding Light, and Search for Tomorrow. There were anywhere between nine and seventeen soap operas on at the same time, delivering entertainment to large audiences every day. Although television was still relatively new and still finding its groove, in the '60s soap operas were extremely popular.
