See EW’s list of dearly departed daytime obsessions, including Passions and Port Charles.

What started onABCas a half-hour show expanded to an hour seven years later.

Too little, too late.

ALL MY CHILDREN CAST

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Who didn’t want to belly up to the bar at their tavern?

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This ABC soap delivered both camp and vamp.

Or her right-hand man, er, doll-turned-boy, Timmy (Josh Ryan Evans)?

One Life to Live | The folks in Llanview know a thing or two about personalities — multiple ones like Vicki Buchanan’s (Erika Slezak) and her daughter Jessica’s, big antihero

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When ratings declined and the web connection dropped it,DirecTVstepped in and ran it for another year.

It even won an award from the Mystery Writers of America.

In addition to folks like Douglas Watson and Victoria Wyndham, it also featured actresses such asAnne HecheandJane Krakowski.

As the World Turns | When its final episode aired on Sept. 17, 2010, ATWT was the longest-running soap opera still on television. The show, the first-ever 30-minute TV soap,

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Despite the fact that it never scored in the ratings, the show lasted 12 years.

But neither that nor the then-provocative transgender storyline could save it from cancellation.

who murdered Channing Capwell Jr.?

The Guiding Light | GUIDING LIGHT (CBS) I never really followed Guiding Light — I’m a dyed-in-the-wool fan of The Young and the Restless — but that didn’t make

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Just about everyone was a suspect at one time or another.

), but, hey, we got Kelly Monaco out of the deal.

Ryan’s Hope | The close-knit Irish-American Ryan clan fascinated many with their working-class life in New York City. Who didn’t want to belly up to the bar at

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Dark Shadows | This ABC soap delivered both camp and vamp. Barnabas Collins' tortured vampire defined the show, along with the werewolves, zombies, and witches that existed in

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Speaking of the otherworldly, who could forget the ancient witch, Tabitha Lennox (Juliet Mills), over in the quaint New England town of Harmony? Or her

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The Edge of Night | This show, which followed intrepid lawyer Mike Karr (played by three actors over the course of the series: John Larkin, Laurence Hugo, and Forrest Compton)

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Another World | Another Irna Phillips creation, this soap, set in fictional Bay City, Ill., only won one Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Drama, but it had fans enthralled

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Sunset Beach | It was on the air for a little less than three years, but the late-’90s show was an attempt to give the flailing soap opera

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Loving | The Alden family ruled life in the Corinth, Pa., world of this ABC show, where soap staples like faked pregnancies, kidnappings, and murder played big.

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The City | This Loving spin-off followed the survivors of its predecessor’s final story line, the Corinth Serial Killer, as they moved from Pennsylvania to New York City

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Joan Pringle | It was the first network soap to feature an African-American family from day one, as it looked at the lives of two Chicago families —

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A. Martinez | The entire run of this NBC show was its own version of ‘‘Who shot J.R.?’’ — Who murdered Channing Capwell, Jr.? Just about everyone was

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Port Charles | What started off as a simple spin-off of General Hospital ended up venturing way out there , with vampires and werewolves stalking around Port Charles.

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