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As the World Turns (a menudo referido como ATWT ) es una telenovela de televisión estadounidense que se emitió en CBS durante 54 años desde el 2 de abril de 1956 hasta el 17 de septiembre de 2010. Irna Phillips creó As the World Turns como un programa hermano de su otro telenovela Guiding Light . Con 54 años de duración, As the World Turns tiene la cuarta emisión continua más larga de cualquier telenovela diurna en la televisión estadounidense, superada solo por General Hospital , Guiding Light y Days of Our Lives . [a] Mientras el mundo gira se produjo durante sus primeros 43 años en Manhattan y en Brooklyn desde 2000 hasta 2010. [2]

Ambientada en la ciudad ficticia de Oakdale, Illinois , el programa debutó el 2 de abril de 1956, [3] a la 1:30 pm EST , y se transmitió como una serie de 30 minutos. Antes de esa fecha, todas las publicaciones seriadas tenían una duración de 15 minutos. As the World Turns y The Edge of Night , que se estrenaron el mismo día a las 4:30 pm EST, fueron los dos primeros en durar 30 minutos desde sus estrenos. [4] Al principio, los espectadores eran indiferentes a la nueva serie de media hora, pero los índices de audiencia aumentaron en su segundo año, y finalmente alcanzaron el primer lugar en las calificaciones de Nielsen diurnas.en el otoño de 1958. En 1959, el programa inició una racha de victorias semanales en índices de audiencia que no se interrumpió durante más de 12 años. El espectáculo cambió a color el 21 de agosto de 1967 y se expandió de media hora de duración a una hora diaria a partir del 1 de diciembre de 1975, cuando The Edge of Night se trasladó a ABC . En las calificaciones del año hasta la fecha, As the World Turns fue el drama diurno más visto desde 1958 hasta 1978, con unos diez millones de espectadores sintonizando cada día. En su apogeo, actores centrales como Helen Wagner , Don MacLaughlin , Don Hastings y Eileen Fulton se hicieron conocidos a nivel nacional. Tres de estos actores, Wagner, Hastings y Fulton, son también los treslos actores más antiguos en la historia de las telenovelas estadounidenses.

El programa pasó su episodio número 10,000 el 12 de mayo de 1995 y celebró su 50 aniversario el 2 de abril de 2006. El 18 de septiembre de 2009, As the World Turns se convirtió en la última telenovela producida por Procter & Gamble para CBS después de Guiding Light. emitió su episodio final en la red.

El 8 de diciembre de 2009, CBS anunció que cancelaría As the World Turns después de casi 54 años debido a las bajas calificaciones. [5] [6] El programa grabó sus escenas finales para CBS el 23 de junio de 2010, y con un final dramático de la historia, su episodio final en la red se emitió el 17 de septiembre de 2010. El 18 de octubre de 2010, CBS reemplazó a As the World Turns con un nuevo programa de entrevistas, llamado The Talk .

Premisa [ editar ]

La familia principal original, los Hughes, en la década de 1980: en el sentido de las agujas del reloj desde la parte superior izquierda: Kim Sullivan Hughes ( Kathryn Hays ), Bob Hughes ( Don Hastings ), Tom Hughes ( Gregg Marx ), Margo Montgomery Hughes ( Hillary Bailey Smith ), Andy Dixon ( Scott DeFreitas ), Frannie Hughes ( Julianne Moore ) Centro: Chris Hughes ( Don MacLaughlin ) y Nancy Hughes ( Helen Wagner )

As the World Turns fue la creación de Irna Phillips , quien, a partir de la década de 1930, había sido una de las más destacadas creadoras y escritoras de radionovelas. Como escritora, Phillips favoreció el desarrollo del personaje y el realismo psicológico sobre el melodrama , [7] y sus creaciones anteriores (que incluían Guiding Light ) fueron especialmente notables por colocar a los profesionales (médicos, abogados y clérigos) en el centro de sus historias. Phillips escribió: "A medida que el mundo gira, conocemos la desolación del invierno, la promesa de la primavera, la plenitud del verano y la cosecha del otoño: el ciclo de la vida está completo". [8]

Y así fue con As the World Turns , con sus estudios de carácter psicológico de lento movimiento de familias encabezadas por profesionales médicos y legales. La vida personal y profesional de los médicos y abogados siguió siendo fundamental para As the World Turns a lo largo de su carrera y, finalmente, se convirtió en la tarifa estándar de muchas telenovelas. Mientras que las telenovelas de radio de 15 minutos a menudo se centraban en un personaje central y heroico (por ejemplo, el Dr. Jim Brent en Road of Life de Phillips ), el formato ampliado de 30 minutos de As the World Turns le permitió a Phillips presentar a un puñado de profesionales. en el marco de una saga familiar.

El estilo de Phillips favoreció la evolución gradual sobre el cambio radical. Lento, conversacional y emocionalmente intenso, el espectáculo avanzaba al ritmo de la vida misma, y ​​a veces incluso más lento que eso. Cada nueva incorporación al elenco se hizo de manera gradual y generalmente era un contacto clave para uno de los miembros de la familia Hughes. Como tal, el espectáculo ganó una reputación de ser bastante conservador , aunque el espectáculo se presentará una homosexuales personaje masculino en 1988. [9] [10] Durante los primeros decenios de la serie, las políticas de contenido relacionado de su patrocinador Procter & Gamble Producciones puede han contribuido a la percepción del conservadurismo. El gigante de la fabricación de productos para el hogar normalmente desaprueba las historias en las que el adulterioy otros comportamientos inmorales quedaron impunes y, aún en la década de 1980, todavía no se permitía a los personajes de las familias primarias seguir adelante con los abortos .

Historia y logros notables [ editar ]

As the World Turns se estrenó el 2 de abril de 1956. [7] Fue el primer drama diurno de televisión con una duración de 30 minutos; todos los dramas diurnos hasta entonces tenían tiempos de ejecución de 15 minutos. [11]

La serie también fue la primera de CBS en expandirse a una duración de 60 minutos en 1975. [11] En 1958, el programa era el drama diurno número uno en los Estados Unidos, donde permaneció hasta 1978. [12] [13 ] As the World Turns ganó el Emmy diurno a la serie dramática diurna sobresaliente cuatro veces en 1987, 1991, 2001 y 2003.

Reparto y personajes [ editar ]

Helen Wagner [ editar ]

Las primeras palabras pronunciadas en As the World Turns en el primer episodio (emitido el 2 de abril de 1956) fueron "Buenos días, querido", dicho por el personaje de Nancy Hughes , interpretada por la actriz Helen Wagner . [14]

Wagner fue reconocida por el Libro Guinness de los Récords por tener la carrera más larga en un solo papel en la televisión, una posición que ocupó hasta 2010. [15] No interpretó el papel sin interrupción: fue retirada temporalmente de la serie después de la primera. seis meses debido a conflictos con la creadora Irna Phillips. Wagner también dejó la serie en 1981, cuando sintió que los escritores no estaban interesados ​​en los jugadores veteranos y regresó como un personaje regular en 1985.

En el episodio transmitido el lunes 30 de agosto de 2010, se reveló que Nancy había muerto mientras dormía; El episodio del día siguiente trataba sobre el funeral de Nancy. El memorial de Nancy Hughes se emitió solo dos semanas antes del final de la serie. Los productores del programa declararon en entrevistas que tenían que revisar sus planes para el episodio final debido a la muerte de Wagner; esperaban que Wagner dijera las líneas finales del último episodio tal como ella había dicho las primeras palabras del primer episodio. [ cita requerida ]

Cruces [ editar ]

Se han realizado varios cruces entre As the World Turns y otras series:

  • 1962
    • El personaje Mitchell Dru (Geoffrey Lumb) fue llevado a Oakdale después de la cancelación de la telenovela de Procter and Gamble The Brighter Day . El mismo personaje (y actor) fue luego transferido a una nueva telenovela de P&G, Another World , poco después de su estreno en 1964. Irna Phillips concibió originalmente otro mundo como una serie derivada de As the World Turns . Como varios otros personajes de Another World , Mitchell Dru "cruzó" para una o más actuaciones en el primer spin-off de Another World , Somerset , que se estrenó en marzo de 1970.
  • 1965
    • El personaje Lisa Miller Hughes ( Eileen Fulton ) se utilizó como base para crear una telenovela derivada en horario estelar Our Private World (el intento de CBS de duplicar el éxito de la cadena rival ABC, Peyton Place ), con Lisa dejando Oakdale y mudándose a Chicago, donde se casó con el rico John Eldridge, pero tuvo un romance con su hermano Thomas. Aunque Our Private World solo duró unos meses, y Fulton regresó a As the World Turns a principios de 1966, después de tomarse unos meses de descanso, restos del tiempo de Lisa en Our Private World.resucitaron 26 años después, cuando se reveló en 1992 que Lisa había tenido un hijo fuera de cámara, hasta ahora desconocido para los espectadores, antes de regresar a As the World Turns en 1966. Su hijo Scott Eldridge la localizó como adulta y permaneció en Mientras el mundo gira durante varios años.
  • 1999-2003
    • Poco después de que NBC cancelara Another World el 12 de abril de 1999, con el final de la serie que se emitió el 25 de junio del mismo año, los personajes de Cass y Lila Winthrop ( Stephen Schnetzer y Lisa Peluso ), y Jake y Victoria McKinnon ( Tom Eplin y Jensen Buchanan ) cruzó a As the World Turnsbrevemente. Jake y Vicky tenían la intención de mudarse a Oakdale, pero Vicky pronto fue asesinada en septiembre de 1999, luego apareció como un fantasma para Jake y Molly desde noviembre de 2000 hasta febrero de 2001. Cass solo apareció de manera recurrente hasta 2003 (generalmente cada vez que alguien en Oakdale necesitaba un abogado que no fuera el abogado residente Tom Hughes), y Jake ( Tom Eplin ) permaneció como un habitual en la serie hasta que su personaje fue asesinado en 2002. Cindy Brooke Harrison ( Kim Rhodes ) también tuvo apariciones menores en 2000 y 2001. Vicky madre y hermana gemela, Donna ( Anna Stuart ) y Marley ( Ellen Wheeler , quien en ese momento también dirigía episodios de As the World Turns), hizo apariciones recurrentes de 2000 a 2002, y abandonaron el programa cuando obtuvieron la custodia de las hijas gemelas de Jake y Vicky después de la muerte de Jake. También había planes para que un Steven Frame ahora adolescente (el hijo de Vicky con Jamie Frame) viniera a Oakdale y viviera con Jake, pero el personaje fue reconcebido como el adolescente Bryant Montgomery, el hijo de la pareja de As the World Turns, Craig y Sierra.

Desde 2005, varios personajes han cruzado de un lado a otro entre As the World Turns y The Young and the Restless :

  • 2005
    • A medida que el mundo gira : A pedido de Oakdale, Illinois, la fiscal de distrito Jessica Griffin, Michael Baldwin ( Christian LeBlanc ) viajó allí para servir como abogado de Jack Snyder ( Michael Park ) en una audiencia de custodia que involucra al hijo de su difunta esposa Julia Larabee, JJ. (4 al 5 de abril de 2005).

La ironía de su aparición en los episodios antes mencionados es que 20 años antes, LeBlanc dejó el papel de Kirk McColl, el hijo menor del quinto marido de Lisa, Whit McColl (interpretado por la estrella de Wagon Train , Robert Horton, quien fue asesinado poco antes). El regreso de Fulton al espectáculo). Entonces, para muchos fanáticos de As the World Turns y The Young and the Restless , ver a LeBlanc como el personaje de este último programa fue extraño. También se hizo historia durante la aparición de LeBlanc en As the World Turns , ya que ambos programas están hechos por diferentes compañías de producción (Bell Dramatic Serial Company para The Young and the Restless ; Procter and Gamble para As the World Turns), aunque están en la misma red.

  • 2007
    • Los jóvenes y los inquietos : Amber Moore ( Adrienne Frantz ) llamó a su amiga Alison Stewart ( Marnie Schulenburg ) para que la ayudara a engañar a Cane Ashby ( Daniel Goddard ) para que se casara. Después de que Amber drogó a Cane, Alison se vistió como él para el servicio de bodas. (22 de febrero de 2007)
    • Los jóvenes y los inquietos : Emily Stewart ( Kelley Menighan Hensley ) viajó desde Oakdale, Illinois, a Genoa City, Wisconsin, en busca de información sobre su hermana, Alison Stewart ( Marnie Schulenburg ). Emily se reunió con Amber Moore ( Adrienne Frantz ) en Crimson Lights Coffeehouse, pero Amber negó conocer el paradero de Alison. Después de que Emily se fue, Amber llamó a Alison como aviso.
  • 2009-10

El 8 de diciembre de 2009, CBS canceló As the World Turns después de casi 54 años, y el final de la serie se emitió el 17 de septiembre de 2010, lo que la convirtió en la última telenovela de Procter & Gamble en terminar.

President Kennedy's assassination[edit]

The initial CBS News bulletin which interrupted As the World Turns at 1:40 pm (EST), as Nancy (Helen Wagner) talks with Grandpa (Santos Ortega)

On November 22, 1963, the live CBS broadcast of As the World Turns began as always, at 1:30 EST. In this episode, the Hughes family was discussing plans for Thanksgiving. Ten minutes later, a "CBS News Bulletin" slide suddenly appeared on the screen and Walter Cronkite gave the first report of the assassination.[16]

Here is a bulletin from CBS News: in Dallas, Texas, three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade in downtown Dallas. The first reports say that President Kennedy has been seriously wounded by this shooting. More details just arrived. These details about the same as previously: President Kennedy shot today just as his motorcade left downtown Dallas. Mrs. Kennedy jumped up and grabbed Mr. Kennedy, she called, 'Oh no!'. The motorcade sped on. United Press says that the wounds for President Kennedy perhaps could be fatal. Repeating, a bulletin from CBS News: President Kennedy has been shot by a 'would-be assassin' in Dallas, Texas. Stay tuned to CBS News for further details.[16][failed verification]

At the end of this bulletin, CBS rejoined As the World Turns which was still in progress. The cast, performing the episode live, was not yet aware of the rapidly-developing situation.[16] However, just before Don Hastings and Henderson Forsythe began the third scene of the show, Hastings overheard cameraman Phil Polansky talking to the control room through a headset: "Don't tell the actors what? The President's been shot?" The actors received their cues and began the scene while Walter Cronkite was in the midst of reporting further information from Dallas. CBS then returned to the show in the middle of the third scene, which would be the last regular program viewed by the television audience that day. During the commercial break that followed, the "CBS News Bulletin" slide appeared again and Cronkite resumed with audio-only reports of the developments in Dallas until the top of the hour when CBS News was ready to go on the air with video. Once the episode came to a close with Eileen Fulton in the final scene, the cast was finally informed of the tragic news.

As NBC and ABC, the other two major U.S. TV networks, were not programming in that timeslot then (the 1:30–2:00 ET period belonging to their local affiliates), As the World Turns has the distinction of being the last regular U.S. network program broadcast for the next four days as the assassination and funeral of JFK and the transition of power to President Lyndon B. Johnson took center stage.[17]

Broadcast history[edit]

As the World Turns enjoyed a virtually uninterrupted reign as the highest-rated soap from 1958 to 1978,[12] tying for first place with NBC Daytime's Another World (1973–1974, 1977–1978) and Days of Our Lives (1973–1974). By the mid-1960s, it was so firmly entrenched that its strongest competition, Let's Make a Deal, despite developing a devoted fan base in its own right and becoming one of daytime's most popular game shows, could not come close to matching it in the Nielsens.

Its strength was such that ABC ran hour-long drama reruns in the 1:00–2:00 pm. (noon–1:00 Central) slot in the mid-1960s and NBC, after losing Deal to ABC in 1968, ran a total of eight shows, all short-lived (with the exception of Three on a Match, which lasted three years), against As the World Turns and Let's Make a Deal from that point until 1975.

As that year began, Another World was expanded to 60 minutes, with its first hour-long episode airing on January 6, 1975. Although this did not directly affect As the World Turns, as the two shows were not in competition for anything other than the overall ratings win, CBS' afternoon lineup suffered some ratings damage as the popular soap put a dent in the ratings of two popular afternoon game shows, The Price Is Right and Match Game. NBC, pleased by the success that the expansion of Another World had brought to the network, elected to do the same thing with Days of Our Lives beginning on April 21, 1975; this put Days of Our Lives and As the World Turns in direct competition for ratings. Incidentally, the expansions were occurring six and a half years after the last two 15-minute serials, Search for Tomorrow and The Guiding Light, expanded to 30 minutes.

CBS considered expanding As the World Turns and Search for Tomorrow to 45 minutes (eliminating the timeslot during which stations broadcast local or syndicated programs), but eventually decided to expand As the World Turns, its front-runner in the ratings battle, to a full-hour length. Initially, in order to free up the necessary 30 minutes to do so, CBS returned The Price Is Right, which had been paired with Match Game for the previous two years as part of the network's successful 3 p.m. game show block, to the morning. However, CBS changed course and decided that it would also attempt an expansion of Price to 60 minutes; this meant that, if the plans to expand As the World Turns were to go as anticipated, CBS would need to cancel a program to free up that 30 minutes of airtime it needed.

At the time CBS was having ratings trouble with The Edge of Night. Procter & Gamble had demanded that CBS give the serial the 2:30 p.m. slot following The Guiding Light in 1972, moving it from the 3:30 p.m. slot it had held since 1963. This decision proved to be a grave mistake. The Edge of Night, which had a much younger and more male-centric audience than almost any other serial on television when the move was made, lost a large portion of its audience, especially to NBC's The Doctors, at the height of its popularity at the time. In addition, the rest of CBS' drama lineup was performing well in the ratings and the network could not move the long-running serial to another timeslot without risking preemption from local affiliates, which would almost certainly have driven ratings even lower.

At the same time, ABC expressed interest in picking up The Edge of Night for its own lineup as it had been interested in carrying a P&G-produced serial for some time, supplementing its in-house productions. An agreement was struck between CBS, Procter & Gamble, and ABC to get the necessary 30 minutes for the As the World Turns expansion. CBS would not renew The Edge of Night once its contract was up, Procter & Gamble would move the serial to ABC, and thus As the World Turns could go ahead with its expansion.

A major issue arose that halted the planned shuffle, however. CBS was contracted to air The Edge of Night until December 1975, and ABC had no place in its schedule to put it at the time. This forced CBS to temporarily postpone expanding As the World Turns and keep The Edge of Night until ABC could find a timeslot for it. Finally, in November, ABC agreed that The Edge of Night would join its lineup on December 1, replacing the game show You Don't Say! at 4:00 p.m. (closer to its pre-1972 timeslots) and keeping the serial's continuity intact. And thus, As the World Turns became CBS' first 60-minute daytime serial.

The first half of the newly-expanded show continued to perform well against Let's Make a Deal on ABC, which the network moved to the noon/11 a.m. timeslot within four weeks of the expansion. The second half put As the World Turns in competition with ABC's most-popular game show, The $10,000 Pyramid, which had done well against Guiding Light since the network moved it to 2:00 p.m. in December 1974 and kept doing so against As the World Turns. Although the expansion was not a complete success, at the end of the season, the serial was again at the top of the daytime Nielsens, despite a 1.4-point drop from the year before.

Although the eventual hit game show Family Feud ran against As The World Turns from July 12, 1976 until April 22, 1977, it did not become a hit for ABC until its move to the mornings. Only when ABC made its first move to a one-hour soap with All My Children did trouble really begin for As the World Turns (and Days of Our Lives), since ABC kept that serial's starting time at 1:00/noon, meaning that fans of that serial who tuned to NBC or CBS would miss the last half of that day's storyline (or, contrariwise, would not, if they watched until the mid-program commercial break and then changed channels, pick up the As the World Turns or Days of Our Lives activities from the episode's beginning, since ABC strategically placed its break several minutes after, rather than exactly at, the bottom of the hour). Further, All My Children 's emphasis on youth-oriented, sexier storylines provided a sharp contrast to the domestic, almost quaint tone of As the World Turns (and to a lesser degree, the melodramatic, somewhat topical Days). On January 16, 1978, ABC ballooned its decade-old One Life to Live to the 2:00 PM/1:00 p.m. starting time, compounding the other networks' headaches. These factors helped contribute to the fall of As the World Turns from the top spot in the ratings at the end of the 1978-79 season. After finishing the previous season tied with Another World for number one in the Nielsens, As the World Turns fell to fourth behind All My Children, General Hospital, and The Young and the Restless.

On February 4, 1980, CBS moved and expanded The Young and the Restless to a full hour after the cancellation of the long-tenured Love of Life. The Young and the Restless moved from noon/11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m./noon (the former affiliate break timeslot) and As the World Turns was bumped up to 2:00/1:00 p.m. and Guiding Light to 3:00/2:00 p.m. On June 8, 1981, As the World Turns returned to its traditional 1:30/12:30 p.m. start time with Search for Tomorrow following at 2:30/1:30 p.m. and The Young and the Restless leading off the serial lineup at either noon/11:00 a.m. or 12:30 p.m./11:30 a.m. (depending on affiliate preference).

As the World Turns remained at 1:30/12:30 p.m. until March 20, 1987, when CBS cancelled the five-year-old Capitol in favor of The Bold and the Beautiful. CBS scheduled it at 1:30/12:30 p.m., and finally settled As the World Turns at 2:00/1:00 p.m., where it remained until its final network episode in September 2010. Although facing the full length of Another World and One Life to Live once again, the Douglas Marland era of 1985 to 1993 had a resurgence in ratings, and by 1991, it was back in its once-habitual top-four placing. As the World Turns survived NBC's cancellation of its sister series Another World in 1999.

Cancellation and final episode[edit]

On December 8, 2009, CBS confirmed that it would not renew As the World Turns. The final CBS episode was taped on June 23, 2010, at JC Studios in Brooklyn, and aired on September 17, 2010. The final scene included Kim Hughes (Kathryn Hays) telling Bob Hughes (Don Hastings) to take as much time as he needed. After he put his nameplate in his briefcase, Bob said the show's final line, "Good night", and left Oakdale Memorial Hospital for the last time, at which point the globe started spinning before the final fade-out.

Ratings[edit]

Series ratings

One example of the drastic change in daytime television can be found in the following:

  • Daytime history: Highest rated week (November 16–20, 1981)
  • (Household ratings- Nielsen Media Research)

1995 ratings

As the World Turns spent a record-breaking 20 years on top of the Nielsen ratings for American daytime soap operas, from 1958 to 1978. It would retain this record until The Young and the Restless broke it in 2008 when it remained #1 for 21 years and counting.

Years as #1 series

Record low: 1,773,000 viewers on December 25, 2009 (Nielsen Media Research)

Schedule[edit]

CBS:

  • April 2, 1956 – November 28, 1975: 1:30–2:00 PM (12:30–1:00 PM, CT/PT)
  • December 1, 1975 – February 1, 1980: 1:30–2:30 PM (12:30–1:30 PM, CT/PT)
  • February 4, 1980 – June 5, 1981: 2:00–3:00 PM (1:00–2:00 PM, CT/PT)
  • June 8, 1981 – March 20, 1987: 1:30–2:30 PM (12:30–1:30 PM, CT/PT)
  • March 23, 1987 – September 17, 2010: 2:00–3:00 PM (1:00–2:00 PM, CT/PT)

Main crew[edit]

Executive producers[edit]

Head writers[edit]

Crew at cancellation[edit]

  • Writing Team: Jean Passanante, Lloyd Gold, Leah Laiman, Cheryl Davis, Susan Dansby, David A. Levinson, Gordon Rayfield, Dan Mooney, Gigi Swift, Janet Iacobuzio, Josh Griffith
  • Producing Team: Christopher Goutman, Carole Shure, Jennifer Schacor, Vivian Gundaker, Sarah Shaker, Sonia Blangiardo
  • Directing Team: Michael Eilbaum, John O'Connell, Jennifer Pepperman, Matthew Griffin Maria Wagner, Habib Azar, Sonia Blangiardo, Ian Toporoff, Christopher Goutman, Michael Kerner, Carol Sedwick, Janet Andrews, James Kowal, Brian Lydell, Jennifer Blood, Nancy Barron, Alexandra Roalsvig, Brett Hellman
  • Casting Director: Mary Clay Boland

International broadcast[edit]

In South Africa, As the World Turns aired on SABC2 from June 2010 to February 2012 from 14:10 to 15:00 each weekday. Episodes were four years behind the original U.S. broadcast. In Canada, As the World Turns aired on ONtv, and, later, Global Television Network, and on NTV in Newfoundland and Labrador. In Jamaica, As The World Turns started airing on Television Jamaica Monday to Friday 1:00pm beginning in 2011. In Belize, As the World Turns was seen on Great Belize Television at 2:00 pm Central Time, usually the same day as the U.S. telecasts. In New Zealand, As The World Turns was aired on TVNZ 1 from 1962 to 1989. In Australia, As The World Turns was aired on Network Ten first at 1.30 pm, then moved to 5:00pm before ultimately being dropped entirely in 1987[citation needed]. In the Netherlands, As The World Turns was very popular and aired for more than 20 years. From 1989 till its cancellation, it was the best watched daytime soap. In 2010 Terri Conn, Martha Byrne, Marnie Schulenburg, Trent Dawson, Grayson McCouch and Van Hansis visited the Netherlands and were special guests at the "Farewell ATWT" meeting. Elizabeth Hubbard even guest-starred in the Dutch soap "Goede Tijden, Slechte Tijden" for a while, after the cancellation of ATWT.

InTurn[edit]

In 2006, CBS launched a reality show called InTurn on their broadband channel innertube, the winner of which would go on to receive a 13-week acting contract on As the World Turns. The eventual winner of InTurn was Alex Charak, an 18-year-old "Student/Pizza Transportation Artist" from New York.[18] Charak made his debut as the character Elwood Hoffman on September 26, 2006. A one-hour "best-of" show aired on CBS on November 24, 2006.

CBS launched InTurn 2 in the summer of 2007. For the new season, the age restrictions expanded to allow for middle-aged viewers to participate, and there were nine competitors instead of eight.[19] The winner of the second season was Ryan Serhant, a recent graduate of Hamilton College. Serhant made his debut in the contract role on November 7, 2007. He plays Evan Walsh IV, son of Evan Walsh III. He is a young hotshot biochemist prodigy who comes home to Oakdale to try to convince Craig Montgomery to invest in the cutting edge biomedical tech field. He began taping on September 24, 2007, two days after the close of his off-Broadway play Purple Hearts.

Inturn 3 began airing in April 2008 and featured 17 episodes.

Awards[edit]

Writers Guild of America Awards[edit]

  • 2007 "Best Daytime Serial" Written by Jean Passanante, Leah Laiman, Christopher Whitesell, Courtney Simon, Anna Cascio, Lisa Connor, Paula Cwikly, Hogan Sheffer, Judy Tate, Bettina Bradbury, Richard Culliton, Susan Dansby, Judith Donato, Josh Griffith, Elizabeth Page, Melissa Salmons, Charlotte Gibson; CBS Daytime

Daytime Emmy Awards[edit]

As the World Turns won 43 Daytime Emmys:

Show[edit]

  • 1987 "Outstanding Drama Series"
  • 1991 "Outstanding Drama Series"
  • 1993 "Outstanding Directing Team"
  • 1999 "Outstanding Original Song" (tied with General Hospital)
  • 2001 "Outstanding Drama Series"
  • 2001 "Outstanding Writing Team"
  • 2002 "Outstanding Writing Team"
  • 2003 "Outstanding Drama Series"
  • 2004 "Outstanding Writing Team"
  • 2005 "Outstanding Achievement in Casting for a Drama Series"
  • 2005 "Outstanding Writing Team"
  • 2007 "Outstanding Directing Team"

Individuals[edit]

  • 1984 "Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series" Justin Deas (Tom Hughes)
  • 1984 "Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series" Larry Bryggman (Dr. John Dixon)
  • 1985 "Outstanding Juvenile Male in a Drama Series" Brian Bloom (Dusty Donovan)
  • 1986 "Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series" John Wesley Shipp (Doug Cummings)
  • 1987 "Outstanding Ingenue in a Drama Series" Martha Byrne (Lily Walsh)
  • 1987 "Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series" Gregg Marx (Tom Hughes)
  • 1987 "Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series" Larry Bryggman (Dr. John Dixon)
  • 1988 "Outstanding Ingenue in a Drama Series" Julianne Moore (Frannie Hughes/Sabrina Hughes)
  • 1990 "Outstanding Juvenile Male in a Drama Series" Andrew Kavovit (Paul Ryan)
  • 2001 "Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series" Lesli Kay (Molly Conlan)
  • 2001 "Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series" Martha Byrne (Lily Walsh Snyder/Rose D'Angelo)
  • 2003 "Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series" Benjamin Hendrickson (Hal Munson)
  • 2004 "Lifetime Achievement Award" Eileen Fulton (Lisa Grimaldi)
  • 2004 "Lifetime Achievement Award" Don Hastings (Bob Hughes)
  • 2004 "Lifetime Achievement Award" Helen Wagner (Nancy Hughes)
  • 2004 "Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series" Cady McClain (Rosanna Cabot)
  • 2006 "Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series" Jennifer Landon (Gwen Norbeck Munson)
  • 2007 "Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series" Jennifer Landon (Gwen Norbeck Munson)
  • 2007 "Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series" Maura West (Carly Tenney Snyder)
  • 2008 "Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series" Jennifer Landon (Gwen Norbeck Munson)
  • 2010 "Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series" Julie Pinson (Janet Ciccone Snyder)
  • 2010 "Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series" Maura West (Carly Tenney Snyder)
  • 2010 "Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series" Michael Park (Jack Snyder)
  • 2011 "Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series" Michael Park (Jack Snyder)

Other awards[edit]

In 2010, As the World Turns was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for "Outstanding Daily Drama" during the 21st GLAAD Media Awards.[20]

American daytime television firsts[edit]

  • In 1988, the serial made American daytime television history by introducing its first gay male character, Hank Elliot (played by Brian Starcher).
  • In 2007, Luke Snyder and Noah Mayer (played by Van Hansis and Jake Silbermann, respectively) shared the first gay male kiss on American daytime television. They formed a relationship and became the first gay male couple on American daytime television, consummating their relationship on January 12, 2009.

Supercouples[edit]

[clarification needed]

  • Jeff Baker and Penny Hughes
  • Bob Hughes and Kim Sullivan
  • Tom Hughes and Margo Montgomery
  • Steve Andropoulos and Betsy Stewart
  • Holden Snyder and Lily Walsh
  • Jack Snyder and Carly Tenney
  • Luke Snyder and Noah Mayer
  • Will Munson and Gwen Norbeck

In popular culture[edit]

On the TV series Tom & Jerry Kids, while Tom watches Nine Lives to Live, Jerry changes it to As the Cheese Turns.

In the 1960s - 70s The Carol Burnett Show featured a recurring sketch called "As the Stomach Turns", a parody of As the World Turns and soap operas in general.

On All in the Family, Edith Bunker would occasionally mention wanting to watch The Secret Storm, but after that soap opera was cancelled, she would later mention As the World Turns as a viewing preference.

In the pulp series The Destroyer #22 "Brain Drain" by Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir, it was revealed that Chiun is a big fan of the soap opera As the Planet Revolves and constantly sits glued in front of the television to catch the broadcast.

Children's television network Nickelodeon once featured a series of shorts entitled As Our School Bus Turns, with the (actually unconnected) episodes taking place aboard a school bus. Each episode would end with a stereotypical soap opera cliffhanger.

In 1993, the PBS children's show Mister Rogers' Neighborhood featured a parody soap opera in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe called "As the Museum Turns", starring Lady Elaine Fairchild of the Museum Go Round.

In 1999, Eminem recorded the song "As the World Turns" as part of his album The Slim Shady LP.

DVD release[edit]

In October 2011, SoapClassics released a four-DVD collection of 20 selected episodes, marking the first time that any As the World Turns episodes were available on any recorded medium. The oldest episode on the collection dates from September 29, 1979, while the latest episode was from April 10, 2010.[21]

In November 2011, a Christmas in Oakdale DVD was released, celebrating five Christmas episodes from the show. The featured Christmases are 1985, 1992, 1995, 2000 and 2007.

A "CarJack" collection was also released, celebrating supercouple Carly and Jack in 10 of their most memorable episodes.

The Holden and Lily Story collection had 10 of their most memorable episodes.

Farewell to Oakdale had the final 10 episodes of the series.

The James Stenbeck Story collection had 10 of his most memorable episodes.

The "As the World Turns - The Wedding of Bob and Kim" DVD collection contained 10 episodes which aired April 2–15, 1985 that featured the bachelor party, the wedding ceremony, and the reception of Bob Hughes and Kim Sullivan, as played by Don Hastings and Kathryn Hays. This collection was only available online.[22]

See also[edit]

  • History of As the World Turns
  • List of longest-running United States television series

Note[edit]

  1. ^ By number of episodes. In terms of total duration, As the World Turns has run longer than Guiding Light, at 13,763 hours, versus 3,940 hours and 30 minutes of Guiding Light.[1]

References[edit]

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  4. ^ Grant, Matthew. "Daytime Soap Operas – Trivia". MatthewGrantOnline.com. Archived from the original on 21 April 2007. Retrieved 2007-04-30.
  5. ^ Carter, Bill; Stelter, Brian (December 8, 2009). "CBS Cancels 'As the World Turns,' Procter & Gamble's Last Soap Opera". The New York Times. Archived from the original on June 19, 2011. Retrieved November 3, 2020.
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  8. ^ Cox, Jim (2006). The Daytime Serials of Television, 1946-1960. McFarland. p. 160. ISBN 978-0786424290. Archived from the original on 2019-05-15. Retrieved 2019-11-09.
  9. ^ Andersen, Robin; Gray, Jonathan Alan (2008). Battleground: A-N. 1. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 148. ISBN 978-0-313-34168-7.
  10. ^ Nochimson, Martha. No End to Her: Soap Opera and the Female Subject. University of California Press, 1992. 174. Google Books. Web. 12 Jan. 2012. ISBN 0-520-07771-7.
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  15. ^ Fifty years on 'As the World Turns' CNN Archived April 20, 2006, at the Wayback Machine, 30 March 2006
  16. ^ a b c Bugliosi, Vincent (2008-05-17). Four Days in November: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 89. ISBN 978-0-393-33215-5.
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  19. ^ "InTurn Is Back!", CBS, archived from the original on 10 May 2007, retrieved 2007-04-30
  20. ^ "21st Annual GLAAD Media Awards – English Language Nominees". Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. 2010. Archived from the original on 30 January 2010. Retrieved February 21, 2010.
  21. ^ "Classic As the World Turns episodes released on DVD | As The World Turns @". Soapcentral. Archived from the original on 2013-09-07. Retrieved 2013-12-04.
  22. ^ Lambert, David (August 15, 2012). "As the World Turns - 'The Wedding of Bob and Kim' 10-Episode Collection on DVD". TVShowsOnDVD.com. Archived from the original on August 17, 2012. Retrieved August 16, 2012.

Further reading[edit]

  • Browne, Ray B., and Pat Browne, eds. (2001) The Guide to United States Popular Culture. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0-87972-821-3.
  • Frost, Bob. "The Assassination of President Kennedy." Biography 2003. Rpt. in HistoryAccess.com by Bob Frost. Online.
  • Poll, Julie. As the World Turns: The Complete Family Scrapbook. General Pub Group, April 1, 1996. ISBN 978-1881649915.

External links[edit]

  • Official website (archived)
  • CBS's website for the show (archived)
  • As the World Turns at IMDb
  • As the World Turns at The Interviews: An Oral History of Television
  • As The World Turns Collection (Scripts from 1980 April 18 - 1982 October 22), the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute, The Ohio State University Library.