We Love Soaps recently counted down the 25 Biggest Blunders In Daytime Soap Opera History. Last week we asked for your opinions and the results are in. Here are the rankings of our readers for the Top 25 Blunders plus a few extra that received multiple votes.
25. Misogyny in a genre watched by primarily women
24. Spinning off Iris from ANOTHER WORLD into TEXAS
23. Recycling writers from one soap to another, many times from canceled soaps
22. CBS canceling its remaining radio soaps a.k.a. "The day the radio drama died"
21. Expansion of soaps to 60 minutes
20. The Messy Murder of THE EDGE OF NIGHT
19. Making Jill the daughter of Katherine Chancellor on THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS
18. The early 1970s soap purge
17. Rotating Romans and the forever ret-con of John Black on DAYS OF OUR LIVES
16. Marlena's Devil Possession on DAYS OF OUR LIVES
15. Firing Wendy Riche from GENERAL HOSPITAL
14. The unnecessary death of Maureen Bauer on GUIDING LIGHT
13. Never bringing Laura back permanently on GENERAL HOSPITAL
12. Erica's unabortion
11. The launch of the new GUIDING LIGHT production model
10. Firing Michael Zaslow from GL when he became ill
9. The Mismanagement of the Final Years of AS THE WORLD TURNS
8. Networks not merchandising the soaps
7. Lack of Diversity on Daytime Television
6. WIPING (Decades of soap history destroyed)
5. ABC canceling ONE LIFE TO LIVE
4. Networks and soaps spoiling their own storylines
3. Elimination of Core Families
2. Introduction of focus groups and the obsession with a younger demo
1. Hiring Brian Frons to run ABC Daytime and SOAPnetHonorable mention (write in comments by multiple people):
* Hiring Dena Higley as head writer of DAYS OF OUR LIVES
* The brutal murder of Frankie Frame on ANOTHER WORLD
* Killing Jo's son on SEARCH FOR TOMORROW
* The cancellation of RYAN'S HOPE
* Science fiction storylines/Ice Prince Storyline
* ABC canceling ALL MY CHILDREN
* Elimination of the Executive in Charge of Production of P&G soaps
* Making rapists heroes
* The handling of the Jason Quartermaine Morgan story on GENERAL HOSPITAL
* Actors finding out they are fired on Twitter
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