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As the World Turns

  • TV Series
  • 1956–2010
  • TV-14
  • 1h
IMDb RATING
6.3/10
2.4K
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POPULARITY
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172
As the World Turns (1956)
As The World Turns
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The focus in on the upper class Hughes and Stewart families plus their tribulations in Midwest Oakdale. The Stewarts fade away eventually to be replaced by the rural Snyders and wealthy Luci... Read allThe focus in on the upper class Hughes and Stewart families plus their tribulations in Midwest Oakdale. The Stewarts fade away eventually to be replaced by the rural Snyders and wealthy Lucinda Walsh with her many intrigues.The focus in on the upper class Hughes and Stewart families plus their tribulations in Midwest Oakdale. The Stewarts fade away eventually to be replaced by the rural Snyders and wealthy Lucinda Walsh with her many intrigues.

  • Creator
    • Irna Phillips
  • Stars
    • Elizabeth Hubbard
    • Jon Hensley
    • Ellen Dolan
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.3/10
    2.4K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    2,538
    172
    • Creator
      • Irna Phillips
    • Stars
      • Elizabeth Hubbard
      • Jon Hensley
      • Ellen Dolan
    • 36User reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 90 wins & 456 nominations total

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    Elizabeth Hubbard
    Elizabeth Hubbard
    • Lucinda Walsh…
    • 1984–2010
    Jon Hensley
    • Holden Snyder
    • 1985–2010
    Ellen Dolan
    Ellen Dolan
    • Margo Hughes…
    • 1988–2010
    Colleen Zenk
    Colleen Zenk
    • Barbara Ryan…
    • 1978–2010
    Don Hastings
    • Bob Hughes…
    • 1960–2010
    Scott Holmes
    Scott Holmes
    • Tom Hughes…
    • 1985–2010
    Eileen Fulton
    • Lisa…
    • 1960–2010
    Kathryn Hays
    Kathryn Hays
    • Kim Hughes…
    • 1972–2010
    Kelley Menighan
    Kelley Menighan
    • Emily Stewart…
    • 1985–2010
    Marie Masters
    • Susan Stewart…
    • 1968–2010
    Kathleen Widdoes
    • Emma Snyder
    • 1985–2010
    Helen Wagner
    Helen Wagner
    • Nancy Hughes…
    • 1956–2010
    Larry Bryggman
    Larry Bryggman
    • Dr. John Dixon…
    • 1969–2010
    Terri Conn
    Terri Conn
    • Katie Peretti…
    • 1998–2010
    Tamara Tunie
    Tamara Tunie
    • Jessica Griffin…
    • 1987–2009
    Maura West
    Maura West
    • Carly Tenney…
    • 1995–2010
    Michael Park
    Michael Park
    • Jack Snyder…
    • 1997–2010
    Martha Byrne
    Martha Byrne
    • Lily Walsh Snyder…
    • 1985–2010
    • Creator
      • Irna Phillips
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    bonnieegg

    A fan since the beginning.

    As The World Turns started on my birthday in 1956. I was in high school and since the show was only 1/2 hour, I was able to watch it on my lunch hour. I have watched it all these years and really love it. ATWT has produced some great actors and actresses. I loved Meg Ryan as Betsy and Julianne Moore as Franny. I thought Brian Bloome was terrific as Dusty. I was very saddened when the Judge and then Christopher Hughes died. I feel I have grown old with Bob, Kim and Lisa. I wish some of the older actresses could be brought back. I really miss Frannie and Betsy. This year (April 2, 2006) I will have been watching this show for 50 years. So, happy birthday to me and to As The World Turns.
    DeweyQ

    2000-01 was a great season for this series

    The number of nominations this soap opera received at the 2001 Daytime Emmy Awards is just one indicator of how excellent this show has been lately. The writing has been especially good, and the acting seems much better than most daytime fare. Of particular interest is the dual roles of long-estranged twin sisters Lily/Rose played to perfection by the talented Martha Byrne. Her scenes opposite herself are brilliant.

    This soap opera's best feature, though, is the pace at which story lines move along. There is no spoon-feeding the audience. You have to watch consistently to get involved in the plots: there are no recaps of the past month's twists. Conversely, there have been incredible flashbacks and memories using real original footage from as far back as the series first season (1956). This really adds a warm sense of continuity for characters like Nancy Hughes, played since the beginning by Helen Wagner.
    richard.fuller1

    Everyone who Has Watched This Show Has A Fave Moment

    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!
    8dog_luver12

    It's a soap. But it's a good soap.

    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.
    danfling

    The classic soap opera

    This show, the first half-hour soap opera, had the classic soap opera setting - a suburb with two families who were good friends. Three and later four or five generations of these families were featured. The two families were the Hughes (middle-class) and the wealthier Lowell family. Chris and Nancy Hughes had a more secure marriage than did Jim and Claire Lowell. In fact, Chris's sister had an affair with Jim, who later divorced and was killed. The show was the first to offer the teen romance of Penny and Jeff. Penny's friend Ellen, after being rejected by Don Hughes, had an affair with a married, older doctor and bore an illegitimate son The Hughes family's storylines were more conventional and less plot driven, but those of the Lowell family were daring for their time. Penny and Jeff eloped, but the marriage was annulled. Later, they had a grand wedding to which the viewers were actually invited to attend at the end of the program. The show moved very slowly in the early days. The ratings were not the greatest, but eventually this show became the number one rated soap opera. 1960 proved to be a good year for the show. Don Hastings, Henderson Forsythe, Patricia Bruder, and Eileen Fulton all joined the show that year. Ms. Fulton, as Lisa, was the first great bad lady who was hated by the public. The role was originally intended to be a minor, short role, but the performances of Ms. Fulton insured that the audience would immediately notice the character. In 1965, the production company and network spun-off Lisa to a twice-a-week primetime soap opera called Our Private World. Irna Phillips, the show's creator and headwriter, left the show in the late 1960s. The show struggled creatively. Eventually Ms. Phillips returned, but the ratings had suffered. Ms. Phillips killed off a lot of the Lowell relatives during a short period of time. She was eventually fired from the show herself. Two other headwriting teams (Robert Sonderberg and Edith Sommer, Ralph Ellis and Eugenie Hunt) were able to keep the show interesting. (Others had failed.) But, later, a former actor from the show, Douglas Marland, became the headwriter on two occasions. By the time of his second term, the show had lost so many of the previous characters and had failed to add any new, interesting ones that the show seemed lost. Mr. Marland allowed the unthinkable to happen when the sister-in-law of the show's leading physician (Kim) who had once had an affair with the doctor, was allowed to marry him after the death of her sister. The show continued its downward slide while Mr. Marland and his successors wrote the show. Helen Wagner (Nancy), Don Hastings (Bob), and Eileen Fulton (Lisa) continue on the program today. And the show lights up whenever these performers are given occasionally good storylines or even scenes. But the show has continued to stray away from the core families - always a bad sign for a soap opera.

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    • Trivia
      The episode of 22 November 1963 was broken into by CBS to announce the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The actors, however, continued performing (as it was done live until 1975), and a complete, uninterrupted copy of this episode still survives.
    • Goofs
      On the episode that aired 4 January 2005, Julia refers to Holden (Jon Hensley) as "Jon" in an emotional scene at the Lakeview Lounge while talking to Lisa.
    • Quotes

      Paul: That woman is unbelievable. She's awesome. She knows exactly what I want her to do, and she does it before I even ask her to do it.

      Henry: I had a woman like that once. Once was all I could afford.

    • Alternate versions
      Also available in a computer colorized version.
    • Connections
      Featured in TV Guide: The First 25 Years (1979)

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    • Release date
      • April 2, 1956 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • CBS
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    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Как вращается мир
    • Filming locations
      • Clinton, New Jersey, USA
    • Production companies
      • Procter & Gamble Productions (PGP)
      • CBS
      • TeleNext Media
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    • Runtime
      1 hour
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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