Index > It's been slow lately > Re: It's been slow lately > Re: Re: It's been slow lately > Re: Re: Re: It's been slow lately > In these days of obsessive, completest fandom > Probably 90+% of episodes are lost. Less in the digital age, but people don't do that. You can with WWF/WWE though (nt) > Is it really that high, with VCRs now having been around for over 50% of their history? > Re: Is it really that high, with VCRs now having been around for over 50% of their history?
Posted by Joe (@joe) on March 13, 2024, 6:40 p.m.
I’m unfamiliar with the world of soap operas, but I guess they don’t generate that type of fandom, which would be beside the point of their appeal.
It sounds like there are archives collecting them now (although I didn’t actually read this article):
I was serious about wonder whether people collected and watched old episodes and whether they were available anywhere, but I didn’t really think people would go back to the very beginning and watch them all. It looks like the ones that started on radio aren’t around anymore, but General Hospital started in 1963 and aired its 15,000th episode on June 22, 2022. If you watched it for 2 hours a day it would take over 10 years to get to 15,000 episodes. They’d have been making more episodes in the meantime, although I’m not doing that math.