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Prior to ABC's cancellations of the former two series in 2011, daily reruns of "All My Children", "One Life to Live" and "General Hospital" aired on the channel in that respective order as they had aired on ABC's daytime schedule. "All My Children" had the most airings on the channel airing four times each weekday, one in the morning and three at night. Rebroadcasts of each soap's episodes for the entire week aired each Saturday and Sunday during the late afternoon and nighttime hours; as of 2012, the network aired the past week's episodes of "Days of our Lives" in Sunday primetime.
Joe Riley (One Life to Live)
Series creator Agnes Nixon cast Patterson as one of the leading protagonists on "One Life to Live" in 1968. After two seasons with the show, Patterson departed the role in 1970, filming "Chato's Land" opposite Jack Palance and making guest television appearances including on ABC's "The Immortal" during his absence from the serial. The actor reprised the role on-contract with the series in 1972, playing Joe until the character's onscreen death October 3, 1979. In 1986, Patterson returned to "One Life to Live" in the contract role of Joe's long-lost twin brother, Tom Dennison. The actor made his final appearances on the series as Joe in episodic dream sequences aired in March and April 1987.