I liked the Days of Our Lives Episodes in which John de Lancie played Eugene Bradford. They involved time machines and androids, rather colourful ingredients for daytime soaps. I used to watch Loving and even went to see Roya Megnot, who played Ava Rescott, while she was on a tour.
In the UK, I sometimes watch Emmerdale. My favourite episodes by far were the two that were supposed to cover Debbie Dingle and Pete Barton's wedding. In the run up to the wedding, Debbie's father, the scary (but gorgeous in an ugly sort of way) and appropriately named Cain Dingle imprisons another suitor, Petes's brother Ross, in a van dangling over the edge of a cliff above a quarry lake. He manages to escape but falls into the lake. In the meantime, Chrissie, who has discovered that her husband Robert is gay, has a row with him and trying to damage his car, causes a fire and explosion that shoots down a helicopter. The helicopter crashes into the wedding party, killing off a large percentage of the characters. While staggering away from the wreckage, soot-covered Pete Barton meets his sodden brother Ross and beats him so severely that he thinks he has killed him. He buries his brother in a shallow grave in the woods, as brothers do. He feels a pang of conscience, though, and confesses to his parents. When they go to the gravesite, though, Ross' body is missing! He had recovered consciousness, dug himself out and staggered to the road where good Samaritans picked him up and took him to a hospital. All the fault of a gay man getting married! (Just kidding.) I enjoyed the episodes so much that when they were repeated, I recorded them. In general, though, I only watch Emmerdale if I have been shopping and want to sit down for a rest.
As a child, I watched the first episodes of Coronation Street with my family but I only watch it now if I am too lazy to stand up after Emmerdale finishes.
I used to watch the Australian soap Home and Away but stopped after the funny characters Lance Smart and Martin Dibble were axed. If I recall correctly, Martin caused mayhem while he was exploring a tank but still left to join the army.
