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Port George is an Mantralian television soap opera. It was first broadcast on NBT on 4 March 1968 and has since lasted more than 10,000 episodes, making it the longest-running soap opera on Mantralian television.

The series was created by husband-and-wife team Mark and Mary Hutch. It is produced by NBT Media, and is filmed at The Village Studios in Bluechester, New Ontario. Gordon Sears has played Charles Ralph since 1974, making him the soap opera's longest-running cast member.

The series takes place in Port George, a fictional London city, as its main setting. Since the early 1980s, the show's storylines mostly revolved around the Rochester and Webster families. It also centered on the Trevor family until Eric Trevor was killed off in 2019. While the Clark/Rice family was not a main family, it did play important roles in some episodes.

Port George has been met with positive reception. In 1988, it won the Daytime Tammy Award for Greatest Soap Opera, and won Greatest Daytime Show twice in 1995 and 2011, respectively. It also won the MAFT Award for Best Soap Opera in 2004.

Conception
Port George co-creator Mark Hutch got the idea for the show in 1967, when he thought about making a soap opera that would revolve around. Former star Anna Rice stated in a 2014 interview, "[Mark] Hutch wanted a soap that would be about the middle class. [He] thought it would make an interesting show."