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Well after two days and no guesses, I looked up the Island of Sodor and found it was the home of Thomas the Tank Engine.

Having never seen the series and assuming that no guesses meant that no one else knew, I also looked up the characters, Thomas, Gordon, & Sir Handel are all blue.

So now name three fictional lands.

Potsdorf, from "The Great Race".
Freedonia, from "Duck Soup".
Tomania, from "The Great Dictator".

Name three character classes from "Final Fantasy III".

Desh, Elia, Allus.

Name three US Presidents named for Benjamin Franklin.

Franklin Pierce
Benjamin Harrison
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Name three soap operas that ran for more than 25 years, but still got cancelled.

Secret Storm
One Life to Live
Days of Our Lives.

Will check to see if my guesses are correct.

Well sort of correct. All have run for more than 25 years, but two are still in production.

Actually, The Secret Storm only ran 20 years: from 1954-1974.

As far as I know, there are only three US soap operas that qualify as having at least 25 years and having been cancelled.

I can count most of the time.

No problem. I've been known to post six-word posts in the "Inane Five-Word Post" thread at least twice.

see when you get beyond my fingers & toes, then I have a problem

One Life to Live
Days of Our Lives
The Edge of Night

The Edge of Night (1956-84) is correct; however, as per above, Days and OLTL are still in production.

I have no idea what's still on or not, and how long they've been running, but here are some guesses...

Edge of Night
As the World Turns
Guiding Light

As the World Turns and Guiding Light are still in production after 51 and 69 years, respectively (GL started out on the radio).

Sixty-nine years! Wow. So, has Guiding Light maintained a consistent continuity in all that time? Did it flow seemlessly from the radio to television? Are events and characters from the early days still referenced occasionally today? Did they ever feel the need to create a cosmic event that rebooted the entire series to make it more accessible to new fans? That's got to be one of the longest continuously-told stories ever.

It actually originated on radio as "the Adventures of Perry Mason," believe it or not; but as it built up its own original characters it phased out the PM cast.

The Edge of Night is the one the morphed out of Perry Mason. Guiding Light originated on the radio in 1937.

Anyway, does anyone out there know the three soaps that lasted longer than 25 years and then were cancelled?

Thought of another one which I think I've confirmed...

Another World

But can't think of any others

Another World (1964-99)
The Edge of Night (1956-84)

And one more.

Here's a hint. Its title is a full sentence.

Actually, after a glance at the wikipedia, I think I've found *two* others, one which I had heard of, and one which I had not

yes. I thought that was the one we were talking about. my bad.

To repeat on this page:

Name three soap operas that ran for 25 years or more and were cancelled:

We already have:
Another World (1964-99)
The Edge of Night (1956-84)

The title of the other I know of had a complete sentence as its title and ran for 35 years on CBS and NBC.

OK I did look this up. The final one is "Search for Tomorrow" running from 1951 to 1986

Oh yeah and name 3 Public Domain characters.

John Wellington Wells from The Sorceror
Sir Joseph Porter from H.M.S. Pinafore
Major-General Stanley from The Pirates of Penzance
(all of the relevant copyrights have expired)


While I'm thinking of G&S:
Name the 3 Gilbert & Sullivan collaborations whose titles are also the names of their respective female romantic leads.