As the World Turns

1956

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Released: 02 April 1956 Ended
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Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.cbs.com/daytime/atwt/
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As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1956 to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a sister show to her other soap opera The Guiding Light. Running for 54 years, As the World Turns holds the second-longest continuous run of any daytime network soap opera in American history, surpassed only by Guiding Light. As the World Turns was produced in New York City for all of its time. Set in the fictional town of Oakdale, Illinois, the show debuted on April 2, 1956, at 1:30 pm EST.

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As the World Turns Audience Reviews

Mjeteconer Just perfect...
Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
Dark_Lord_Mark I remember watching this coming home from school with my mother. My mother worked nights and when I came home, she would be awake in the kitchen making lunch and dinner for her boys.Gosh I loved this soap from the mid 90's till early 2000s. I loved Holdyn and Lilly and just terrific memories.Yeah Soaps are hokey and cheesy but that's why its fun. It's made for mothers and sons and it's a wonderful show.It was actually very good and MOST of the characters were likeable and at some point in your life, you can relate to multiple characters in the show.
dog_luver12 We all know how soaps are. Over dramatic, cheesy and completely unrealistic. But this is one soap, I find, that does it in a more clever way. It's actually enjoyable to watch, and sometimes even funny. I never liked day time drama. Sure, I'd watch for the sake of laughing at the awful writing and acting. But then I watched an episode of As The World Turns. And then the next day. Soon, I was addicted to it. The characters intrigued me and there story lines often made sense and were logical. The Luke and Noah story line made the show for me. Not many times do you find a day time drama with a gay couple on it, and the fact that ATWT took the risk, really impressed me and I enjoyed the show ever more. If anything, watch this show for them. I am a new viewer of this show, as new as they come. 1 months to be exact, but I've heard many people say that it's not as good as it was back then, when it first began. Well, I wouldn't know. As I see the show right now, I would say it is the best day time drama on television today.
Catherine_Grace_Zeh Ah, yes. I can remember when I was in high school. One thing I would do during my junior and senior year when I was home from school was watch this classic soap opera. From that moment on, I was hooked on it. In addition, If you ask me, Lucinda (Elizabeth Hubbard) really is devious. You would have to have seen some of the things she's done if you want to know why. I also enjoyed the days when Dan Region was the announcer. Ever since Molly (Lesli Kay Sterling) left the show, I haven't watched it as much. You'd have to have seen the show between 1997 and 2004 if you want to know why. However, this is still a good soap opera. In conclusion, I highly recommend this classic soap opera to all you die-hard CBS fans.
richard.fuller1 For me, ironically enough, it was '84, when Meg Ryan left and was replaced with Lindsey Frost, that I started watching. Doug Marland became the writer and suddenly this show was truly different from the other soaps. We got the Snyder farm family and Lily Walsh was recast. The standout situation to me was Lucinda Walsh shoving Susan Stewart into that Christmas tree and injuring Susan's back. Susan is in the hospital and the gloating Lucinda pays her a visit.Susan, a recovering alcoholic, becomes addicted to the pain killers for her back. Kim Hughes is helping her son, Andy Dixon, deal with his alcoholism after the bad girl he loved, Julie, has dumped him for Tonio Reyes.Turns out it was Lucinda who brought Julie to town to begin with. Kim's husband, Bob Hughes, feels ignored by Kim. He aids Susan with her withdrawal, and next thing you know, the pristine Bob Hughes is having a one night stand with Susan, whose husband Dan had had an affair with Kim decades earlier. But the fun didn't end there. Bob and Kim learned they had a long lost daughter, Sabrina Fullerton (originally played by Julianne Moore). Sabrina (later played by Claire Beckman) was not the most welcoming person. She would feel sorry for the villianous Tonio Reyes (Peter Boynton), giving him all her inheritance from her adopted parents. Bob would learn of Tonio's evil deeds, and attempt to stop him.Tonio shot Bob in the back, then fled to South America with Sabrina.As they drove across the outback, Tonio began confessing to Sabrina all he had done; the lies, the thievery and even shooting her father.Tonio would say very calmly "Don't try to escape"Sabrina would respond "I have no where to run to. You've seen to that."I couldn't believe I had just heard such a powerhouse line in a soap opera. There would be more, with Julie on the rebound from Caleb Snyder and Holden broken up with Lily, Julie and Holden would have the infamous one night stand that would rebound throughout the show with Julie getting pregnant.Andy would deliver the baby with Snyder sister Iva, who would adopt the baby. It was all amazing to watch. Then Kim would have to trust Bob and Susan again when they went to South America to do medical duties and they vanished. Turns out they had been kidnapped and had to operate on the wounded Tonio Reyes!Remarkable show.When Conor Jameson was recast, and Neal Alcott (Mary Kay Adams) left the show (she was murdered), it was losing its fun. Doug Marland would die as the murderer was revealed, but it wasn't exciting. Then Iva Snyder would suddenly marry and leave the show, and so did I.Ah well. The moment was gone. But what a moment it was!