General Hospital also happens to be the longest-running scripted television show in American television. It can thus be asserted that the ABC show wields a lot of cultural significance and influence.

General Hospital is a daytime soap opera that first premiered in April 1963 on ABC. The show holds the title of the longest-running scripted primetime or daytime show in the U.S.

"General Hospital" airs weekdays on ABC. Catch up on Hulu. The Walt Disney Company is the parent company of ABC and this ABC station.