Days of our Lives is an American soap opera, which has aired nearly every weekday since November 8, 1965^[5] on the NBC network in the United States, and has since been syndicated to many countries around the world.^[6][7][8] The series was created by husband-and-wife team Ted Corday and Betty Corday along with Irna Phillips in 1964,^[2] and many of the first stories were written by William J. Bell.