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Air Dates: 1963 - ????General Hospital News
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The 1963 soap opera, General Hospital is generally credited for starting the trend of the "supercouple" in all daytime TV!
The storyline focuses on the trials and tribulations of hospital staff, mobsters and other residents of the fictional Port Charles, N.Y.
General Hospital is the longest-running daytime soap opera broadcast on the ABC television network. It is also the longest-running soap opera produced in Hollywood.
The show originally aired for a half-hour until the network expanded it to the unusual length of 45 minutes in 1976, and then to a full hour in 1978. The serial was created by soap writers Frank and Doris Hursley, a husband-and-wife team.
GH is known for its fast-paced action-adventure plots that are remarkably different from the more traditional domestic and social issues that had been the sole focus of most soap operas for decades.
In 2003, when General Hospital celebrated its 40th anniversary, TV Guide named it "The Greatest Soap Opera Of All Time."
