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Traditional
  
意難忘

Mandarin
  
Yì Nán Wàng

First episode date
  
22 September 2004

Program creator
  
TransWorld Production Co.

Languages
  
Chinese, Taiwanese

4.7/10
TV

Simplified
  
意难忘

Hokkien
  
Ì Lân Bông

Final episode date
  
28 September 2006

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Also known as
  
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Genre
  
RomanceCompetitions between family businesses

Networks
  
Formosa Television, Mediacorp Channel 8, MediaCorp TV

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The Unforgettable Memory is a Taiwanese prime-time soap opera, originally broadcast on Formosa Television from 22 September 2004 to 28 September 2006 for 526 episodes. With a run-time of over 50,000 minutes, it is the longest Taiwanese TV drama in the 21st century.

Contents

Broadcast

  • Taiwan — Formosa Television (22 September 2004)
  • Malaysia — Astro AEC (24 August 2005)
  • Singapore — MediaCorp Channel 8 (9 June 2006, dubbed in Mandarin)
  • China — China Central Television Channel 8 (2 September 2007, dubbed in Mandarin)
  • Hong Kong — Asia Television (29 September 2008, dubbed in Cantonese)
  • Vietnam — THVL Channel 1 (1 April 2014, dubbed in Vietnamese as Tình Đầu Khó Phai)
  • Cast

    Wang Shengtian is the main protagonist in this drama. Villains include Huang Kunshan, Cai Jianpao, Du Wenjie, Wu Pinde and many others.

    Viewership in Taiwan

    The Unforgettable Memory has the distinction of being the longest primetime drama ever in Taiwan history, with a total of 526 episodes produced. It has the highest viewership of all TV shows in Taiwan when it debuted at primetime on September 22, 2004 till its ending on September 28, 2006 almost daily (hitting above 10). It was rerun again at 6.00–7.00 pm from July 5, 2010 and still running.

    Overseas reception

    The series received very good critical response and viewership in other countries too and as of 2009 being shown in Singapore's MediaCorp Channel 8 (in weekday one hour series from June 9, 2006 to October 23, 2009, 4.30–5.30 pm, becoming the longest running drama on Channel 8 in 46 years) rerunning in the pre-dawn hours from Tuesdays to Saturdays 4.00–6.00 am from January 7, 2009 to September 9, 2010, and the third time from 4 October 2010 from Mondays to Thursdays at 10.00 am – 12.00 noon and ended in 2012. Singapore's Channel 8, China's CCTV-8 and Hong Kong's ATV Channel all aired with each episode running 1 hour, with a total of 872 episodes. It has ended its run on Malaysia's Astro Cable Service. The Vietnamese dub "Tinh Dau Kho Phai" was broadcast on THVL Channel and is streamable on YouTube with a total of 767 episodes.

    Singapore broadcast

    Due to local broadcast laws prohibiting radio or television broadcasts in non-Mandarin varieties of Chinese the show was dubbed into Mandarin when it aired on MediaCorp Channel 8 thus making it the first channel to broadcast the show in Mandarin.

    References

    The Unforgettable Memory Wikipedia


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