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Originally appeared on E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n Days of Our Lives<\/em><\/a> has been on for 60 years.<\/p>\n For those counting, that’s 21,900 days. And while there haven’t been quite that<\/em> many episodes of the enduring NBC soap opera<\/a>\u2014which made the move to Peacock<\/a> in 2022\u2014the sands of the hourglass have signaled the passage of 15,000 episodes and counting.<\/p>\n Which means that fictional Salem, Ill., has seen more than its fair share of drama, with love affairs, weddings and babies vying for time with feuds, comas, serial killers and all variety of backstabbing. Yet, wouldn\u2019t you know, people keep coming to town.<\/p>\n Deidre Hall<\/strong>, whose Dr. Marlena Evans has survived so <\/em>much, remains at the center of the drama after 49 years, but the show’s stalwart cast has welcomed quite the revolving door of familiar faces, as well, many of whom went on to become household names.<\/p>\n Or were already legends when they happened to pop up on daytime TV for the first time and walk away with a Guest Actor Emmy, as Dick Van Dyke<\/a> <\/strong>did at the 2024 ceremony.<\/p>\n More from E! Online<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t believe this. I feel like a spy from nighttime television,\u201d Van Dyke, who became the oldest-ever Daytime Emmy winner at 98 for his 2023 turn as amnesia patient Timothy Robicheaux, said as he accepted his statue. \u201cCan you believe it? This really tops off a lifetime of 80 years in the business.”<\/p>\n