| rdfs:comment | - Passionate Dreams is an American television soap opera that aired for 61 years on BGC Television from June 25, 1951 to December 21, 2012, preceded by an 11-year radio broadcast. Passionate Dreams was created by Irna Phillips, and began as a radio serial on LBC Radio on January 25, 1940 and ran for 15 minutes until June 22, 1951. The show expanded to 30 minutes and moved to BGC Television on June 25, 1951, a year before Guiding Light launched its CBS debut on June 30, 1952. The show expanded to a full hour on July 26, 1976.
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| abstract | - Passionate Dreams is an American television soap opera that aired for 61 years on BGC Television from June 25, 1951 to December 21, 2012, preceded by an 11-year radio broadcast. Passionate Dreams was created by Irna Phillips, and began as a radio serial on LBC Radio on January 25, 1940 and ran for 15 minutes until June 22, 1951. The show expanded to 30 minutes and moved to BGC Television on June 25, 1951, a year before Guiding Light launched its CBS debut on June 30, 1952. The show expanded to a full hour on July 26, 1976. On March 27, 2009, Passionate Dreams competed against Guiding Light in a matchup, but Passionate Dreams thumped Guiding Light in a 74-60 score before CBS on April 1, 2009, canceled Guiding Light. On September 18, 2009, Passionate Dreams broadcast its 15,000 episode on television, the same day as Guiding Light ended. On October 5, 2009, while Let's Make a Deal debuted and replaced Guiding Light, Passionate Dreams competed against As the World Turns in a matchup, but Passionate Dreams thumped As the World Turns in an 84-75 score. On September 17, 2010, Passionate Dreams became the last Procter & Gamble produced soap opera after As the World Turns ended. On April 9, 2012, Passionate Dreams competed against All My Secrets in a matchup, but Passionate Dreams lost in a 79-54 score to All My Secrets. On July 11, 2012, BGC announced that it canceled Passionate Dreams after 61 years on television (following 11 years on radio with a total of 72 years) due to low ratings. The show taped its final Procter and Gamble scenes on November 16, 2012, and its final episode aired on December 21, 2012. On December 24, 2012, the following Monday, BGC replaced Passionate Dreams with a short-lived talk show called Beauty Queens and then on March 18, 2013, it replaced Passionate Dreams with a newly debuted Our Screams Can Last spinoff called Universal Lives .
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