question: How are you supposed to watch “soap operas” if some of them have over 10,000 episodes? Do you start from the first episode or what?
comment: No, where would you do that? It's not like they're generally available on Netflix. You just jump in and pick it up. They're written in a way to allow that.
passages: Due to the masses of episodes produced for a series, release of soap operas to DVD (a popular venue for distribution of current and vintage television series) is considered impractical. With the exception of occasional specials, daytime soap operas are notable by their absence from DVD release schedules (an exception being the supernatural soap opera, "Dark Shadows", which did receive an essentially complete release on both VHS and DVD; the single lost episode #1219 is reconstructed by means of an off-the-air audio recording, still images, and recap material from adjacent episodes).
  
  Section::::United States.:Daytime serials on television.:Performers.
   BULLET::::- runaway
  
  BULLET::::- beautiful and liar
  
  BULLET::::- cotton candy
  
  BULLET::::- teenagers
  
  BULLET::::- the returner
  
  BULLET::::- when the soil cries
  
  BULLET::::- memory
  
  BULLET::::- the first time
  
  BULLET::::- Nada the advocate
  
  BULLET::::- the fault of my life
  
  BULLET::::- the widow and the devil
  
  BULLET::::- the old love
  
  BULLET::::- the last news
  
  BULLET::::- the last night
  
  BULLET::::- between Beirut and Dubai
  
  BULLET::::- the fountains
  
  BULLET::::- family
  
  BULLET::::- knight of dreams
  
  BULLET::::- torn roses
  
  BULLET::::- little sins
  
  BULLET::::- the despot
  
  BULLET::::- era of women
  
  BULLET::::- the prisoner
  
  BULLET::::- my son
  
  BULLET::::- the stranger
  
  BULLET::::- without memory
  
  BULLET::::- beb idris
  
  BULLET::::- the winners
   List of Quererte Así episodes
  
  Quererte Así ("Loving You Like This") is a Mexican telenovela produced by Eric Vonn for Azteca. Filming lasted from 30 January 2012 to 15 June 2012. During the week of 16 April, TV Azteca broadcast "Quererte Así" weeknights at 7:30pm. From 23 April to 25 May, TV Azteca moved the telenovela from 7:30pm to 6pm. From 28 May – 3 August 2012, it was moved again from 6pm to 4pm.
   With the advent of internet television and mobile phones, several soap operas have also been produced specifically for these platforms, including "", a spin-off of the established "EastEnders". For those produced only for the mobile phone, episodes may generally consist of about six or seven pictures and accompanying text.
   List of Soap episodes
  
  The American sitcom television series "Soap" originally aired 85 episodes over four seasons from September 13, 1977 to April 20, 1981. The series is a parody of soap operas and features a large ensemble cast.
  
  The show ran for 85 episodes in its original ABC broadcasts, but its syndication package included 93 episodes (several one-hour ABC episodes, mostly from the condensed Season 4, were split into half-hour syndication episodes).
   Section::::List of longest-running Tamil Language television series.
  
  This is a list of the longest-running Tamil Language television series, ordered by number of episodes the show has aired. This list includes only programs aired five years and above.
  
  Section::::Notes.
  
  BULLET::::- 3D
  
  BULLET::::- Mayavi: It was the first Indian & Asian 3D series.
  
  BULLET::::- Guinness World Records
   BULLET::::- "Geliebte Schwestern" (1997−1998)
  
  BULLET::::- "Die Anrheiner" (1998−2011)
  
  BULLET::::- "Schloss Einstein" (1998−present)
  
  BULLET::::- "In aller Freundschaft" (1998−present)
  
  BULLET::::- "Mallorca – Suche nach dem Paradies" (1999−2000)
  
  BULLET::::- "Berlin Boheme" (2000−2005) (53 episodes)
  
  BULLET::::- "Bianca – Wege zum Glück" (2004−2005)
  
  BULLET::::- "Verliebt in Berlin" (2005−2007) (telenovela) (series 1 based on "Yo soy Betty, la fea")
  
  BULLET::::- "Sturm der Liebe" (2005−present) (telenovela)
  
  BULLET::::- "Wege zum Glück" (2005−2009)
  
  BULLET::::- "Sophie - Braut wider Willen" (2005-2006) (telenovela)
  
  BULLET::::- "Schmetterlinge im Bauch" (2006−2007)
  
  BULLET::::- "Das Geheimnis meines Vaters" (2006) (+ Best of) (telenovela)
  
  BULLET::::- "Alles was zählt" (2006−present)
  
  BULLET::::- "Rote Rosen" (2006−present) (telenovela)
   BULLET::::- zahia said that
  
  BULLET::::- Inn
  
  BULLET::::- teacher's son
  
  BULLET::::- flying eagles
  
  BULLET::::- story of Amel
  
  BULLET::::- my cousins my daughter and I
  
  BULLET::::- my wife and I
  
  BULLET::::- my wife my son and I
  
  BULLET::::- Mariana
  
  BULLET::::- Abdo and Abdo
  
  BULLET::::- a man from the past
  
  BULLET::::- the flower of the autumn
  
  BULLET::::- doctor hala
  
  BULLET::::- al sharoura
  
  BULLET::::- dream of may
  
  BULLET::::- the corner
  
  BULLET::::- nidal
  
  BULLET::::- jamile and jamilee
  
  BULLET::::- neighbors
  
  BULLET::::- sign 13
  
  BULLET::::- broken bird
  
  BULLET::::- something powerful
  
  BULLET::::- chance
  
  BULLET::::- the falling of a woman
  
  BULLET::::- a love step
  
  BULLET::::- forbidden love
   BULLET::::- to yara
  
  BULLET::::- a beat of heart
  
  BULLET::::- spot of love
  
  BULLET::::- like a lie
  
  BULLET::::- she and she
  
  BULLET::::- cords in the air
  
  BULLET::::- scenario
  
  BULLET::::- approximately a love story
  
  BULLET::::- from all my heart
  
  BULLET::::- the team
  
  BULLET::::- life is drama
  
  Section::::Bolivia.
  
  BULLET::::- "Amor en tiempo seco" ("The love in time of drought")
  
  BULLET::::- "Cambas en apuros" ("Cambas in difficulties")
  
  BULLET::::- "Carmelo Hurtado"
  
  BULLET::::- "Carmelo Hurtado - El Retorno" ("Carmelo Hurtado Returns")
  
  BULLET::::- "Chantaje de Amor" ("Blackmail of love")
  
  BULLET::::- "Coraje Salvaje" ("Wild courage")
  
  BULLET::::- "La Fundación" ("The Foundation")
  
  BULLET::::- "Hotelucho" ("Poor Hotel")
  
  BULLET::::- "Indira"
   BULLET::::- "Złotopolscy" (1998–2010)
  
  BULLET::::- "Życie jak poker" (1998–1999)
  
  Section::::Puerto Rico.
  
  BULLET::::- "Alejandra"
  
  BULLET::::- "Coralito"
  
  BULLET::::- "Cristina Bazán"
  
  BULLET::::- "De qué color es el amor"
  
  BULLET::::- "Dueña y Señora"
  
  BULLET::::- "El Idolo"
  
  BULLET::::- "Julieta, Una Historia de Amor"
  
  BULLET::::- "Karina Montaner"
  
  BULLET::::- "La Isla"
  
  BULLET::::- "La Otra"
  
  BULLET::::- "La Sombra de Belinda"
  
  BULLET::::- "La Verdadera Eva"
  
  BULLET::::- "Laura Guzmán, Culpable"
  
  BULLET::::- "Milly"
  
  BULLET::::- "Natalia"
  
  BULLET::::- "Pacto de amor"
  
  BULLET::::- "Preciosa"
  
  BULLET::::- "Rojo Verano"
  
  BULLET::::- "Tanairí"
  
  BULLET::::- "Vida"
  
  BULLET::::- "Yara Prohibida"
  
  BULLET::::- "Yo Sé Que Mentía" (1982)
  
  Section::::Romania.
  
  Section::::Romania.:Media Pro Pictures.
  
  BULLET::::- "Numai iubirea" (2004–2005), ("Only the Love")
   The Soap Opera Encyclopedia (Schemering book)
  
  The Soap Opera Encyclopedia is a 1985 reference book by Christopher Schemering which assembles comprehensive information about all daytime and prime time soap operas broadcast up to the date of publication. It was revised and reprinted in 1987 and 1988, but is currently out of print.
   BULLET::::- "Vera Sto Dexi ["Wedding Ring on the Right (Hand)"]" (2004–2007)
  
  BULLET::::- "Erotas ["Love"]" (2005–2008)
  
  BULLET::::- "Haravgi ["Dawn"]
  
  BULLET::::- "Dromoi Paraliloi ["Parallel Roads"]
  
  BULLET::::- "Sti skia tou hrimatos ["In Money's Shadow"]" (1990–1991)
  
  BULLET::::- "To galazio diamanti ["The Blue Diamond"]" (1991–1992)
  
  BULLET::::- "simphonia ["Agreement" or "Symphony"]" (1991–1992)
  
  BULLET::::- "İ Dipsa ["The Thirst"]" (1990–1991)
  
  BULLET::::- "Gia mia thesi ston ilio ["For a Place in the Sun"]" (1998–2002)
  
  BULLET::::- "Ta mistika tis Edem ["The Secrets of Eden"]" (2008–2011)
  
  BULLET::::- "Sto Para Pente ["At Five Past"]]" (2005-2007)
  
  Section::::Hungary.
  
  BULLET::::- "Barátok közt /Among Friends/" (1998–present)
  
  BULLET::::- "Jóban Rosszban /In Good And In Bad Times/" (2005–present)
   BULLET::::- List of US daytime soap opera ratings
  
  BULLET::::- Love in the Afternoon
  
  BULLET::::- Mobile soap opera
  
  BULLET::::- Tamil television soap opera
  
  BULLET::::- Indian soap opera
  
  BULLET::::- Philippine drama
  
  BULLET::::- Radio drama
  
  BULLET::::- Radio theater
  
  BULLET::::- Soap Opera Digest
  
  BULLET::::- Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome
  
  BULLET::::- Supercouple
  
  BULLET::::- Telenovela
  
  BULLET::::- Soaplife
  
  BULLET::::- Soapnet
  
  Section::::References.
  
  Section::::References.:Bibliography.
  
  BULLET::::- Ang, Ien. "Watching Dallas: Soap Opera and the Melodramatic Imagination", Methuen, 1985.
   BULLET::::- "La famille Plouffe"
  
  BULLET::::- "14, rue de Galais"
  
  BULLET::::- "Les Soeurs Elliot"
  
  BULLET::::- "Chambres en ville"
  
  BULLET::::- "Grand Papa"
  
  BULLET::::- "Les Hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin"
  
  BULLET::::- "Au nom de la loi"
  
  BULLET::::- "Plus belle la vie"
  
  BULLET::::- "Providence"
  
  BULLET::::- "Les Soeurs Elliot"
  
  BULLET::::- "Terra humaine"
  
  BULLET::::- "Virginie"
  
  Section::::China.
  
  BULLET::::- "Xieng Fujie" (2000–2002)
  
  BULLET::::- "A Kindred Spirit" (1995–1999)
  
  BULLET::::- "Spirit of Love" (2005–2007)
  
  BULLET::::- "Dwelling Narrowness" (2009)
  
  BULLET::::- "Golden Marriage" (2010)
  
  BULLET::::- "loveo20
  
  Section::::Croatia.
  
  BULLET::::- "Zabranjena ljubav" (2004–2008)
  
  BULLET::::- "Najbolje godine" (2009–2011)
  
  BULLET::::- "Ruža vjetrova" (2011–2013)
  
  BULLET::::- "Horvatovi" (2015–2016)
  
  Section::::Cyprus.
  
  BULLET::::- "Vourate Geitonoi" "Run, Neighbours!" (2001–2005)
   American soap operas air in the afternoon, five days a week, without any significant break in taping and airing schedules throughout the year. This means that these serials air approximately 260 episodes a year, making their cast and crew members the busiest in show business. These shows are rarely, if ever, repeated (unless the network chooses not to air a new episode on certain major holidays), making it difficult for viewers to "catch up" when they miss an episode, though the television networks' adoption of online streaming during the late 2000s has made it easier for viewers to watch recent episodes of a particular soap. Cable channel SoapNet provided weekly repeats for some broadcasts until it shut down in December 2013, after which TVGN (now Pop, and originally a television listings service formerly known under several names including the Prevue Channel) began airing same-day repeats of some network soaps.
   Australia has had quite a number of well-known soap operas, some of which have gained cult followings in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and other countries. The majority of Australian television soap operas are produced for early evening or evening timeslots. They usually produce two or two-and-a-half hours of new material each week, either arranged as four or five half-hour episodes a week, or as two one-hour episodes. 
   Prominent personalities in the 1990s and 2000s such as David Hasselhoff and Mexico's Thalia (currently based in the U.S.) starred in primetime series such as the "Las Tres Marias" trilogy shows ("Maria Mercedes", "Marimar" and "Maria la del Barrio"), "Rosalinda" and "Baywatch", which were broadcast in about 180 countries and still remained among the world's most-watched non-U.S.-produced television series.
   BULLET::::- "Dark Shadows", created by Dan Curtis, which ran from 1966 to 1971, has the distinction of being one of the few soap operas to have nearly all of its original episodes preserved. As a result of kinescope, many earlier episodes of which the master film was lost are still available. However, episode #1219 was lost but reconstructed with an audio recording for home video release.
  
  BULLET::::- Two long-running soaps have full archives: "Days of Our Lives", which premiered in 1965, and "The Young and the Restless", which premiered in 1973. Both series were originally distributed by Screen Gems.
   Section::::Telenovelas by country.:Indonesia.
  
  In Indonesia, a similar format exists called the "sinetron" (a portmanteau of "sine", short for cinema and "tron", from "elec"tron"ic"), which are essentially soap operas in a miniseries-style format. While most English-language soap operas can continue indefinitely, almost all Sinetrons have a predetermined duration, usually running for only five-, six- or seven days a week and in total for more than five months.
   From 1 July 1992, the channel broadcast a host of Latin American series. These included: "Nobody but you", "Señorita", "The Forbidden Woman", "Revenge", "The Ugly Duckling", "Guadeloupe", "Sweet enemy", "Widow Blanco", "La Usurpadora", "Stolen Love", "I can't live without you", "Once we grow wings", and many others. 
   BULLET::::- "The Nurses" (1965–1967)
  
  BULLET::::- "Dark Shadows" (1966–1971)
  
  BULLET::::- "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing" (1967–1973)
  
  BULLET::::- "One Life to Live" (1968–2012, 2013)
  
  BULLET::::- "Bright Promise" (1969–1972)
  
  BULLET::::- "Somerset" (1970–1976)
  
  BULLET::::- "A World Apart" (1970–1971)
  
  BULLET::::- "All My Children" (1970–2011, 2013)
  
  BULLET::::- "The Best of Everything" (1970)
  
  BULLET::::- "The Young and the Restless" (1973–present)
  
  BULLET::::- "Ryan's Hope" (1975–1989)
  
  BULLET::::- "Texas" (1980–1982)
  
  BULLET::::- "Capitol" (1982–1987)
  
  BULLET::::- "Loving" (1983–1995)
  
  BULLET::::- "Rituals" (1984–1985)
  
  BULLET::::- "Santa Barbara" (1984–1993)
  
  BULLET::::- "The Bold and the Beautiful" (1987–present)
  
  BULLET::::- "Generations" (1989–1991)
  
  BULLET::::- "The City" (1995–1997)
  
  BULLET::::- "Port Charles" (1997–2003)
  
  BULLET::::- "Sunset Beach" (1997–1999)
  
  BULLET::::- "Passions" (1999–2008)
  
  Primetime
   In addition, the DVDs omit the three 90-minute "Soap" retrospective clips shows, which aired before each season began to remind the audience of what happened in the story during the previous season. The season 1 retrospective "Who Killed Peter Campbell?" and season 3 retrospective "Jessica's Wonderful Life" were released on VHS in the 1990s.
   Most domestically produced Philippine telenovelas, however, use ensemble cast which tend to be more flexible when new characters are introduced throughout a series' entire run. The Philippines is one of the first few nations in the world outside the United States to introduce international encore television programming (despite varying timezones abroad) – where television series are exported abroad not as canned shows but good for simultaneous broadcasting during their original runs in the source nation – through overseas satellite channels by the major Philippine television networks.
   BULLET::::- "Walking on Sunshine" (2019–)
  
  Section::::Belgium.
  
  BULLET::::- "Emma, telenovela" (1 January 2007 – 27 June 2007)
  
  BULLET::::- "Familie" (30 December 1991 – present)
  
  BULLET::::- "Thuis" (23 December 1995 – present)
  
  BULLET::::- "Vennebos" (20 January 1997 – 23 February 1998)
  
  BULLET::::- "Wittekerke" (31 August 1993 – 26 August 2008)
  
  BULLET::::- "Sara" (2007–2008) (telenovela)
  
  BULLET::::- "LouisLouise" (2008–2009) (telenovela)
  
  BULLET::::- "David" (2009–2010) (telenovela)
  
  BULLET::::- "Ella" (2010-2011) (telenovela)
  
  BULLET::::- "ZOOP" (7 April 2004 – June 2006) (Made & aired in the Netherlands for The Netherlands & Flanders)
   BULLET::::- "Het Huis Anubis" (26 September 2006 – 4 December 2009) (Made in Belgium for airings in the Netherlands & Flanders)
  
  BULLET::::- "Het Huis Anubis en de Vijf van het Magische Zwaard" (2010–2011) (Made in Belgium for airings in the Netherlands & Flanders)
  
  Section::::Lebanon.
  
  BULLET::::- when the soil cries
  
  BULLET::::- the crazy love
  
  BULLET::::- ameliah
  
  BULLET::::- and the sun shone
  
  BULLET::::- the returner 2
  
  BULLET::::- The streets of humiliation
  
  BULLET::::- The resurrection of guns
  
  BULLET::::- Root
  
  BULLET::::- goodbye
  
  BULLET::::- Ruby
  
  BULLET::::- ajyal
  
  BULLET::::- love duet
  
  BULLET::::- luna
  
  BULLET::::- sarah
  
  BULLET::::- madame carmen
  
  BULLET::::- casanova
  
  BULLET::::- kinda
  
  BULLET::::- the mask
  
presuppositions: Soap operas must be watched from the first episode. Watching soap operas requires a person to start with the first episode.
corrections: You can pick up a soap opera from any episode. Soap operas are written in a way to allow people to start watching them at any point.
raw_presuppositions: Soap operas must be watched from the first episode. Watching soap operas requires a person to start with the first episode.
raw_corrections: You can pick up a soap opera from any episode. Soap operas are written in a way to allow people to start watching them at any point.