In 1989, Mills announced her intention to leave the long-running nighttime soap after nine years as Abby.

Decades later she received a Daytime Emmy Award for her work on the long-running soap The Edge of Night.

It was claimed that actors from Australia's long-running soaps, Neighbours or Home And Away, were being considered.

On a recurring basis, he appeared in more episodes of the long-running soap, up to and including its final episode in 2009.

The series was created by Roy Winsor, who also created the long-running soap operas Search for Tomorrow and Love of Life.

In 1998 he worked as a script editor on ITV's other long-running soap, Emmerdale, moving across to write several episodes himself the following year.

Ron Raines - actor best known for the role of Alan Spaulding on the long-running soap, Guiding Light.

In 1981, he began playing his most high-profile daytime role as Ed Bauer on the long-running soap Guiding Light.

His most notable acting role was of Nick Bates in the long-running British soap Emmerdale Farm between 1985 and 1996.

She also cited "Loving" and "Santa Barbara" as two long-running soaps that have never achieved high ratings.