TV milestone: US soap opera Days of Our Lives to celebrate 50th anniversary

By Michael Idato
Updated November 26 2015 - 1:08am, first published 12:15am
Action from <i>Days of Our Lives</i>:  Lauren Koslow, Alison Sweeney and Josh Taylor at a wedding gone soapily wrong. Photo: Supplied
Action from <i>Days of Our Lives</i>: Lauren Koslow, Alison Sweeney and Josh Taylor at a wedding gone soapily wrong. Photo: Supplied

It seems almost ironic that the opening title monologue for the long-running series Days of Our Lives speaks of "sands through the hourglass". In truth, as it approaches its 50th anniversary, there is something glacial and unchanging about US television's second-oldest surviving daytime soap opera.

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