General Hospital

General Hospital is an American daytime soap opera, which is currently credited as the longest running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama series, following the now-defunct CBS daytime soap operas Guiding Light and As the World Turns. Concurrently, it is the world's thing longest-running scripted drama series currently in production behind British serials The Archers and Coronation Street, as well as the world's second longest running televised soap opera still in production after Coronation Street. General Hospital premiered on the ABC television network on April 1, 1963 and has almost always aired at 3:00pm (Eastern time) since its debut. Broadcast weekdays and currently repeated nightly on SOAPnet, it is the longest-running serial produced in Holly wood, and the longest-running program in the history of the ABC television network. It currently holds the record for most Daytime Emmy Awards in the Outstanding Drama Series category, with ten wins.

Created by husband-and-wife soap writers Frank and Doris Hursley, the series was originally set in a general hospital in a fictional unnamed city, which was officially named Port Charles, New York in the 1970s