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As the World Turns Through the Years [PHOTOS]

  • What’s Cookin’?

    Back in 1958, the Hughes family’s kitchen was the place to be. Here, close talkers “Pa” (Santos Ortega), Nancy (Helen Wagner), Penny (Rosemary Prinz), sweetheart Jeff Baker (Mark Rydell), Don (Richard Holland) and Chris (Don MacLaughlin) enjoy coffee, one another’s company and a time before social distancing. Which was all well and great, but… would there be pie?

  • The Queen of Mean

    Southern belle Lisa Hughes (Eileen Fulton) earned the wrath of the soap’s audience of housewives simply by hiring a maid to do the dishes and a little brightness dusting. OK, maybe that wasn’t the scheme queen’s only offense… But viewers really were legit pissed about the cleaning lady.

  • Three’s a Crowd

    From the looks of this 1997 photo, Lily Snyder (Martha Byrne) has figured out that husband Holden (Jon Hensley) has a past with besotted buddy Molly Conlan (Lesli Kay). Needless to say, this marked the last time that Lily brought home any friends that she made in prison.

  • Love Won

    In 2007, As the World Turns detonated a “Nuke,” making history by airing

    AS THE WORLD TURNS

    Note: This is a reprinting of an article I wrote for my Classic As the World Turns website.

    One thing that makes As the World Turns special is the slow evolution of its opening and closing visuals. While some soaps have made changes every few years and others have abandoned their original inspirational image logos in an attempt to be trendy, ATWT has always had its globe. The look of the globe may have changed, but it is still there, just as it was on April 2, 1956.

    THE ORIGINAL GLOBE OPENING--1956 to 1967

    During ATWT's first eleven years on the air, the show opened with a black and white shot of a globe slowly spinning in space, just right of center. The camera slowly zooms in until the globe is right in the center of the screen, at which point the title of the show slowly appears in white Lydian typeface lettering, and announcer Dan McCullough says, "And now, live for the next thirty minutes, AS THE WORLD TURNS!" Charles Paul's "Theme for 'As the World Turns'" is played in the D-major key on organ and piano.

    In those early years, mid-program station breaks were graced by a beautiful music box like piece in C-major. Acco

    As the World Stops Turning: Soap Actors Turned Super Stars

    Sept. 17, 2010 -- It's the end of one of television's most long-running, beloved affairs: today, after 54 years on the air, "As the World Turns" comes to a screeching halt.

    The CBS soap opera made its debut in 1956, sponsored by Procter & Gamble, the famous maker of household products. It was once a major hit, but last year CBS announced that it would cancel "As the World Turns" on Sept. 17, 2010 because of low ratings. In its place, the network will start a new daytime, female-friendly talk show called "The Talk," in the same vein of ABC's "The View."

    In more than five decades on the air, "As the World Turns" launched a host of careers. It's not the only soap with that distinction: "Guiding Light," which ended its 72-year-long run on television last year, also gave a start to some of today's top stars. So did other soaps like "The Young and the Restless" and "Knots Landing."

    Below, take a look at 12 actors who found serious stardom after a soap opera stint.

    Before the big Hollywood roles rolled in, Juliann

    Eileen Fulton, ‘As the World Turns’ Star, Dies at 91

    Eileen Fulton, who starred as Lisa Miller on the CBS soap opera “As the World Turns,” died July 14 in Asheville, N.C., after a struggle with declining health. She was 91.

    Fulton’s death was announced via an obituary shared through her funeral home.

    Fulton, who pioneered the bad girl persona in daytime soaps, joined “As the World Turns” in 1960 and starred as the villainess Lisa Miller until the show’s end in 2010. Her storied turn as Lisa, who was famously married eight times throughout the show, makes Fulton one of the longest-running soap opera actors in American television. Fulton herself pushed for Lisa’s antagonism, which contributed to the show’s longevity and popularity, as well as the character’s enduring appeal.

    For her “As the World Turns” role, Fulton was inducted into the Soap Opera Hall of Fame in 1998 and honored with a Daytime Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004.

    As she was appearing on “As the World Turns,” which was a live broadcast, she was simultaneously acting in a Broadway production of

    As the World Turns facts for kids

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    Quick facts for kids

    As the World Turns
    GenreSoap opera
    Created byIrna Phillips
    Written byJean Passanante and Lloyd Gold
    Directed bySee below
    StarringSeries cast
    Country of originUnited States
    Original language(s)English
    No. of seasons54
    No. of episodes13,858
    Production
    Executive producer(s)
    • Ted Corday (1956–65)
    • Mary Harris (1965–71)
    • Fred Bartholomew (1971–73, 1980–81)
    • Joe Willmore (1973–78)
    • Joe Rothenberger (1978–80)
    • Mary-Ellis Bunim (1981–84)
    • Robert Calhoun (1984–88)
    • Laurence Caso (1988–95)
    • John Valente (1995–96)
    • Felicia Minei Behr (1996–99)
    • Christopher Goutman (1999–2010)
    Producer(s)See below
    Running time30 minutes (1956–75)
    60 minutes (1975–2010)
    Production company(s)
    Release
    Original networkCBS
    Original releaseApril 2, 1956 (1956-04-02) – September 17, 2010 (2010-09-17)
    Chronology
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    As the World Turns (also known as ATWT) was a popular American soap opera that aired on CBS. It ran for 54 years, from April 2, 1956, to September 17, 2010. Created by Ir

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