This page is about the television program. For the rock band of the same name see Ryan's Hope (band).

Ryan's Hope is an American soap opera which aired from July 7, 1975 to January 13, 1989 on ABC. A total of 3515 30-minute episodes were broadcast.

Origins

In late 1974, ABC Daytime approached Claire Labine and Paul Avila Mayer, the Head Writers of CBS' Love of Life, about creating a new soap opera similar to General Hospital. Labine and Mayer added a large Irish-American family — the Ryans — to what ABC was initially calling City Hospital. The show was also going to be called at first "A Rage to Love", however that was soon changed.