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Nov 8, 2023 · The NBC soap was created by the husband-and-wife team of Ted and Betty Corday, and is currently executive produced by their son, Ken Corday. Due to the show’s success, DAYS was expanded from 30 minutes to a full hour in April 1975 and in subsequent years been syndicated to numerous countries around the world.
Jul 6, 2020 · She thanked NBC and the late Days co-creator Betty Corday, “who took a chance on me many years ago and changed my life,” her castmates, crew members, as well as the show’s “incredibly loyal...
Nov 9, 2021 · Ted and Betty Corday started out in radio, but created DAYS for television. Ted also served as a director for both Guiding Light and As the World Turns. Betty took over his duties at DAYS after...
Nov 20, 1987 · Elizabeth (Betty) Corday, creator and executive producer of the first color daytime television soap opera “Days of Our Lives,” has died of respiratory failure. She was 75. Mrs. Corday, known to...
Nov 26, 2013 · Tuesday, November 26, 2013 4:40 PM. 0 Comments. "Days of our Lives" Courtesy of Corday Productions, Inc. When Ted Corday and Betty Corday watched “ Days of our Lives ’” NBC debut on November...
01:54. Ken Corday. View Interview. Ken Corday on his parents, Ted and Betty Corday. 02:19. Ken Corday on the opening sequence of Days of Our Lives. 00:48. Ken Corday on how his mother got involved with Days of Our Lives. 01:19. Ken Corday on becomong a producer for Days of Our Lives. 02:53.
With Ted’s death soon after the program’s launch, Betty took charge, producing the soap until their son, Ken Corday, took over in the 1980s. The family control of the program for its entire history is a practice found only in the world of daytime soap opera, and one the Cordays have mastered longer than any other.
