Days of Our Lives is an American television daytime soap opera broadcast on NBC. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday since November 8, 1965. A co-production of Corday Productions and Sony Pictures Television, the series was created by husband-and-wife team Ted Corday and Betty Corday. During Days of Our Lives' early years, Irna Phillips served as a story editor for the program and many of the show's earliest storylines were written by William J. Bell, who would depart the series in 1975 to focus full-time on The Young and the Restless, which he created for CBS in 1973. Following the 2007 cancellation of Passions, Days of Our Lives remains the only soap opera airing on NBC. The series primarily focuses on its core families, the Hortons and the Bradys, in a town called Salem. Several other families have been added to the cast, and many of them still appear on the show.
| Genre | Soap opera |
| Created by | Ted Corday, Betty Corday |
| Written by | Ron Carlivati |
| Directed by | Herb Stein, Phil Sogard, Albert Alarr, Grant Johnson, Steven Williford |
| Starring | Present cast, Past cast |
| Theme music composer | Charles Albertine, Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 14,000 |
| Executive producer(s) | Ken Corday and Albert Alarr |
| Producer(s) | See below |
| Location(s) | The Burbank Studios (Burbank, California) |
| Running time | 30 minutes (1965–1975), 60 minutes (1975–present) |
| Production company(s) | Corday Productions (1965–present), Screen Gems, (1965–1974), Columbia Pictures Television (1974–2001), Columbia TriStar Domestic Television (2001–2002), Sony Pictures Television (2002–present) |
| Distributor | Sony Pictures Television |
| Original network | NBC |
| Picture format | NTSC (1965–2010), HDTV 1080i (2010–present) |
| Audio format | Stereophonic |
| Related shows | Another World |
About Days of Our Lives
This long-running show follows the everyday struggles of the people of the fictional city of Salem. The show has aired over 13,000 episodes as of 2017.
Achievement of Days of Our Lives
Episodes of the show were originally 30 minutes long, but became 60 minutes long in 1975. The series won its first Daytime Emmy Award in 1974 for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for Macdonald Carey.
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Latest information about Days of Our Lives updated on July 28 2021.
