Congratulations are in order for Days of our Lives, which managed to garner an audience large enough to bump it up into the slot of third most watched daily drama out of the four remaining soap operas on the air. The move knocked General Hospital into fourth place, meaning the ABC soap is now the least watched daily drama in the group.

DAYS, which will be celebrating its 50th anniversary in two weeks, pulled in a total of 2,647,000 viewers for the week of October 12 through the 16, beating GH by a mere 1,000 audience members. The storyline that managed to bump it into third place (for the first time since 2013) included the return of both Alison Sweeney (Sami Brady) and Freddie Smith (Sonny Kiriakis), who came back to Salem following the news that legacy character Will Horton (Guy Wilson) had been murdered.

The nearly 50-year-old soap was up 172,000 viewers, making it the soap that boasts the most added viewers for that week. The NBC series also bested GH in the key 18-49 and 25-54 demographics, as well.

Meanwhile, CBS's The Young and the Restless averaged a total of 4,794,000 viewers, up 136,000 from the previous week and up 216,000 from the year before.

The Bold and the Beautiful was the only soap down in total viewers, slipping by 59,000. It still managed to pull in a total of 3,559,000, however, which helped it maintain its long-standing position as the second most watched daily drama.

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