Oh Grandma! How I miss you! Just hearing the classic soap themes choke me up a bit. R.I.P to my beloved Grandma and all of the other "grandma's" in heaven. At least we have UA-cam to give us sweet memories....
I had a grandma who watched As the world turns from 1956 till her death in 1994 and think of her when I hear this theme and this is the theme the soap used most of the years she watched and is the best theme the soap ever had.
Yes, that theme will always remind me of summer visits with my grandparents in the 1970s. It was my grandmother's favorite and she watched it religiously. So long ago, but still imprinted in memory as if it were only yesterday.
Omg yesss I'm feeling the exact same way for the exact same reasons. These take me back to when me world was so pure and innocent compared to now. I'd bypass living longer so I can instead relive 1975 to 1979 over and over for eternity. Thank you do much for the upload and memories
"Mom, I'm home for lunch", "In the kitchen son with lunch". "Thanks mama". Miss mom (RIP mama) and this soap playing in the background, what wonderful memories, God, miss those days. Love and Peace everyone.
I'm in tears over the theme music because it was my late mother's favorite soap. She was a high school freshman when ATWT began in the spring of 1956 and she watched it until she died in the summer of 1998.
I feel you. I get sentimental over the Guiding Light that way because she loved that soap, or as she would refer to them, "Her Stories." Miss you Mommy!
This particular ending theme is one of the best pieces of music from any daytime show. It's orchestral, grand, melancholy and classy. In general, the '70s soap themes with orchestras and full, rich sounds were the best. I'm a big fan of Another World's ending theme from this era as well.
Oh yes indeed I remember my late mom, watching this soap opera. My mom watched this soap opera religiously., every single day! I just loved the theme song boy that took me back to my childhood! Such a nice memory,!
I agree. Whenever I hear these old soap opera themes they sure bring back memories of my childhood in the 70s. A time when we lived in a much saner world. Those days are gone forever.........Sad.
@@NoHu4 if you're talking about how to download this song and add it to your playlist there is a way for free but it's tedious. Have a desk/laptop get Firefox download an extension in AddOns to capture UA-cam videos, find an flvtomp3 converter online reupload it and redownload it then save it on whatever device you want to play it off of.
@@nativetexanful I agree as well. I didn't realize it so much at the time but things were much simpler and friendlier then, and shows like World Turns were just always three, so familiar, so comforting.
Miss my mom,she was always watching and taking care of house and cooking supper, waiting on us from school and dad from work! Wish I could just go back one more time.love,love, love!!
What a wonderful find. Back when the entire credits for the show were shown and the music was just beautiful. Thank you for the wonderful memories of youth.
The Soderbergs brought new life into ATWT. This was the era where it was Number One in the ratings before the youth wave took over. I remember rushing home for lunch as my Grandma lived right behind the High School and I watched it every day all through my high school years. Then I would go back to school. I just absolutely treasure those memories.
What a Beautiful melody. Reminds me of my mom so much. She passed in 2011 but i remember her watching atwt and remember this music. Mom, I love and miss you so much.❤
I remember my mother, who was in her late 60s at the time, watching about four TV soap operas every day, and she never missed this one, mid-1960s early 1970s. Some say these shows helped people of her generation deal with the turbulent cultural changes of the era. But the soaps still had their power to scandalize. I still remember Mom verbalizing her shock when one of the plots involved things like infidelity, which was never spoken about in our home.
Very soothing. This piece of music is forever imbeded in my memory. The world has always been a troubled place, but for many of us this takes us back to the security and contentment of before it went insane.
my favorite soap opera!!! watched with my mom, grandma, great grandma, and aunts. I was devastated when they decided to cancel this soap. I also loved the Guiding Light.
My mother turned me on to ATWT and then GL, which was my favorite. We didn't always get along but I still miss her and think about her all the time. This vids bring back the memories!!! Thank you!
I must have watched at least a few episodes of just about every soap opera that aired in the US during the late 1960s, '70s and '80s...but of all of them, this is the only one whose theme music I know by heart and hear in my head in its entirety, after all these years. Brings back memories of being sick at home on school days or during the summer, or at my paternal grandma's house when I was laid up after an accident that fractured my pelvis in 1976. Unquestionably one of the best soaps ever made, and this music is just one of many reasons why. Thanks for putting this up!
My earliest memory was sitting in a high chair as my mom fed me lunch while ATWT played on TV. Later in life, we joked about the song being "our song." RIP, mom.
1:58 - "Stay tuned for _The Guding Light,_ next on most of these CBS stations. Join us again tomorrow, for another full hour of drama, on _As The World Turns."_
this theme 'premiered' on December 10, 1973, with the 'for the next full hour' being dropped some time in August 1978...also, the single-note, piano intro to the opening and closing were eliminated some time in 1975.....
I thought ATWT didn't expand to an hour until 1975 because Edge of Night was still strong and it wasn't until Edge of Night moved to ABC that As the World Turns could expand to an hour?
This had to have been sometime between late 1975 (when ATWT expanded from 30 minutes to 1 hour, and live filming was phased out) and 1981 (when this 1967-1981 theme was retired for the 1981-1993 theme). For loyal ATWT fans, this is sure to bring back memories.
I remember seeing this intro a few times during the afternoons of the late 70s because my mother then in her 20s was always hooked on to watching soap operas every afternoon when they show up on this network during the 1970s because I was Stan five years older so when the intro came out and today I don’t think the soap opera no longer runs on television anymore.
Used to watch this in the summers with my mother and grandmother (when we'd go visit her and grandpa for whatever reason) and this sure does bring back the memories of those times in the early and mid 70s!
That's the version I remember when I was little. And then the synthesizer and orchestra with a slight rock beat when I was in my teens. Hearing this reminds me of nice, long afternoons with no school all week and being away from sickening people.
Thanks for posting. There were a number of other ATWT opening and closing credits from the 1974 to 1981 era that were posted on YouTUbe but it looks like they were taken down. I hope they are not trying to claim this is copyrighted material.
This definitely was from 1976, probably summer time frame. John Reilly was playing Dan here, and when I hit 11th grade in fall '76, John Colenback had resumed the role. The show had gone to an hour in 12/75, so, they brought back retired characters (e.g., Dick Martin, Sandy Hughes and Don Hughes, except I wonder why Martin West's name isn't in this cast)and aged children. They also killed off Brian Ellison (off screen) and brought Mary back as a regular. Annie and Dee, who were wonderfully played by Martina and Marcia, were in college now. Betsy was played with continuity by Suzanne. Alma was a regular 'til she left in late '78. What I liked abt World Turns is that it would keep characters on the canvas whether or not they had story. You'd see Nancy, Alma and Kim drop in on Lisa to go out to lunch. Bob and Dan were making house calls then. Even John. (ugh!) Susan was as nasty a witch as he was a warlock back then. This show was just so good. It was about the characters.
I also remembered nurse Pat Holland when she married John Dixon when Dan Stewart was on trial for the so called attempted murder of John. Sadly Pat died while confessing on the witness stand that Dan didn't shoot John and the gun went off accidentally. Pat in haste fled the courtroom and fell down the stairs to her death.
@@tommyparkerparker I followed that storyline and missed that climactic scene. (High school. I must have had some after school activity I couldn't get out of.) I almost cried when I heard what happened to Pat, who finally saw the light. John was awful! But he'd always get his comeuppance. They threw him out of the hospital and he was practically a drunk. (He'd get drunk back then as much as Susan.)
@@tommyparkerparker He also should have gone to jail for staging the kidnapping of his own son and putting Kim and Carol Stallings and the town through he!! trying to find him. Thankfully, Dan, with Lisa's help (she could always spot a rat), figured it out.
Thanks for posting this! Gorgeous, absolutely stinking gorgeous!! Miss this point in time during daytime television!! I hate to sound selfish but is there more?!? The nice afternoons when I was a kid.
0:03 "And now for the next full hour: As The World Turns." The first time ATWT aired 1-hour episodes was on December 1, 1975; they continue to do this until its final episode on September 17, 2010. *Date Range(so far): December 1, 1975 - September 17, 2010* 0:55 "Written by Robert Soderberg and Edith Sommer" Both of these writers wrote for the show from July 1973 to December 1978. *Date Range(so far): December 1, 1975 - December 31, 1978* 1:12 "Bob Hughes - Don Hastings Nancy Hughes - Helen Wagner Chris Hudges - Don MacLaughlin David Stewart - Henderson Forsythe Alma Miller - Ether Remey John Dixon - Larry Bryggman Carol Stallings - Rita McLaughlin Kim Dixon - Kathryn Hays Tom Hughes - C. David Colson Jay Stallings - Dennis Cooney Susan Stewart - Marie Masters Dan Stewart - John Reilly Grant Colman - James Douglas Joyce Colman - Barbara Rodell Betsy Stewart - Suzanne Davidson Natalie Hughes - Judith Chapman Sany Garrison - Barbara Rucker Ellen Stewart - Patricia Bruder Mary Ellison - Kelly Wood Kevin Thompson - Michael Nader Dick Martin - Edward Kemmer Valerie Conway - Judith McConnell Dee Stewart - Marcia McClain Annie Stewart - Martina Deignan Marian Connelly - Clarice Blackburn Pat Holland - Melinda Peterson Doris Haley - Kathleen Klein Pamela Freedly - Kay Arnold Laurie - Laurel Delmar and Lisa Shea Colman - Eileen Fulton" There is a bit of a date conflict with these cast of characters, specifically the ones whose last names are Stewart. John Reilly played as Dan Stewart until January 1976; he was replaced by John Colenback, who played as Dan Stewart AGAIN until September 1979 (John Coleback played as Dan Stewart from January 1966 to January 1973, who was replaced by the aforementioned John Reilly). BUT... Dee Stewart and Annie Stewart came back on June 4, 1976 played by Marcia McClain and Martina Deignan respectfully; both characters stopped appearing on the show at least two years prior to their return. So either Dee Stewart and Annie Stewart returned when John Reilly still played as Dan Stewart, or John Colenback was unavailable for some episodes including Dee Stewart and Annie Stewart so John Reilly took over the role as a substitute until John Colenback came back to play Dan Stewart again. Alma Miller and Pat Holland played as Ether Remey and Melinda Peterson respectfully, until 1977. *Date Range(so far): 1976 - 1977* 1:59 Stay tuned for The Guiding Light, NEXT on most of these CBS stations. The title card just says "Guiding Light", which first appeared on November of 1975. But the announcer say "The Guiding Light", which probably means that this change was recent. *Date Range(so far): early-to-mid 1976*
Watched this with my Aunt Anna way back when...wish I had a time machine. We also went to see the Original Star Wars movie ...Aunt Anna...Uncle Sam and cousin Henry and his wife Lucy and me sat in awe..guess it was the late '70s. This century is a horror !!
Such a classic opening of As The W🌍rld Turns. I really wish there were ways we could stream old episodes of ATWT. There should be a Soap Opera Network.
with Barbara Rodell listed as Joyce COLMAN, this predates her marriage to Donald Hughes..i have audio where Joyce says ''now that i'm having Donald's baby.....'', and that was July 1977..so this goes back farther than that time........
OMG this is mind blowing. About 2 years before this viewer came aboard if this truly is 1976. Alma Miller? Lisa's mother? She must have been with the show a long time to be listed that far up in the credits (back then they listed the cast accordingly by basically who had been on the show the longest - except Lisa). Who was Natalie Hughes? I would simply die if I could watch all those 1970 years that I completely missed. Who was Kay Arnold? Thank you for this treasure!
Alma was Lisa's mother. Natalie Bannon Porter Hughes was played by Judith Chapman; she was Tom's second wife. She had an affair with Jay Stallings during her marriage to Tom and Jay's marriage to Carol Demming Hughes Stallings (Tom's first wife).
Here is the information on Kay Arnold: www.northjersey.com/obituaries/top-obituaries/kay-cooper-bubbly-actress-singer-at-72-1.1058695. She was on "Roseanne" and "As the World Turns".
Ethel Remey took the part of Alma Miller in the early 1960s, so, yes, she had been on there about 12 years or more when this episode ran. She was delicious as Lisa's mother! Her career dated back to NY radio serials and even work on the London stage.
yep, although i don't remember seeing her here on ATWT..i do remember Ethel Remey and have often wondered what happened to Alma..did she just disappear without any fanfare?.....
They were still calling Guiding Light 'The' Guiding Light, if anyone noticed. Even though they dropped The from the title in 1975 they didn't officially start calling it just Guiding Light until 1977 when the Spaulding family was introduced.
staytunedfor Carol's maiden name was Demming, played by Rita McLaughlin (Walter is/was her married name..she was then known as Rita M. Walter..i'm not sure why they changed Carolann and Dawn's names to Annie and Dee; but i've never known a soap to have more than one character with the same first name..there was Paul Stewart, then Paul Stenbeck; Dan Stewart then Dan McCloskey - but never at the same time......
World Turns repeated names a lot. Aside from those Danny mentions, there were John Hughes (Chris' brother/Bob's uncle), John Eldridge and John Dixon; Susan Hughes (Chris & Nancy's dead daughter), Susan Burke Stewart and "Suz" ('82); Jeff Baker, Jeff Ward, and the teacher Jeff whom Emily dated; Brad Hollister and Brad Snyder; Franny Brennan and Franny Hughes; Joyce Colman and Bob & Kim's nanny Joyce; Jay Stallings and Jay Connor; etc. Only when they resumed the role of John Eldridge in the '90s did I recall there being same-named characters on simultaneously: John Dixon was the other. [Of course, there were plenty of Stewart doctors and at least four with that surname at Memorial at the same time. Bob used to joke that they didn't know which Dr. Stewart was being paged.]
I didn't realize that Patricia Bruder had left the show for a time. Are you sure about that? I checked some history on Ms. Bruder's time on the show and it shows that she continually played Ellen from 1960-1995. I was wondering though why her name was kind of far down in the credits.
Looks like between November 1975 and sometime in 1978, after the show expanded to an hour, and while the husband-and-wife team of Robert Soderberg and Edith Sommer were the head writers.
I remember all the P&G products on every CBS soaps, some are still made and I buy this day, Ivory Snow, Joy, Top Job, Biz, and Camay are no longer available on shelves anymore
I think the closing credit: RECORDED AT THE CBS BROADCAST CENTER NEW YORK would be better if the CBS eye logo was included like in the closing credits of the 1970s episodes of "Guiding Light" and "Love of Life".
My grandmother watched As the world turns from 1956 until her death in 1994 and this is the theme that was used most of those years that is 38 years this theme was used for more than 25 of those years.
Does anybody know why Patricia Bruder appears later in. the credits. I would think she should appear right by Henderson Forsythe since they both started at the same time in 1960. But she is much later in the credits.
Probably because she left in 1975 and was off nearly a year. The credits were arranged by seniority at this time, and I guess her leaving pushed her farther down in the credits when she came back.
I'd say the year was 1976; Gillian Spencer (Jennifer) was not in the credits, plus John Reilly was Dan Stewart and Patricia Bruder was back, as she had been away from the show for much of '75.
looks like 1976-1978 since Michael Nader's in the credits - obviously predating his being dashing Dex Dexter on "Dynasty" by 6-8 years. Also this predates Barbara Rodell's character Joyce being married to Don since her surname is still Colman.
Correct. Joyce married Don about '78. Nader left that year and was replaced. (Marie Masters' treatment of Nader was training for his abuse by Joan Collins on Dynasty. Poor sweet jet-setting Kevin. He died in '79 while married to Sandy.)
This was a few years prior to the Montgomery's being introduced. The Montgomery's were introduced roughly between 1977 and 1980, but no later than 1980.
The best daytime soap opera theme! I hated the themes of this once great show.. after 1981 they tried modernizing ATWT’s theme. This had a really classy sound..
Oh Grandma! How I miss you! Just hearing the classic soap themes choke me up a bit. R.I.P to my beloved Grandma and all of the other "grandma's" in heaven. At least we have UA-cam to give us sweet memories....
I had a grandma who watched As the world turns from 1956 till her death in 1994 and think of her when I hear this theme and this is the theme the soap used most of the years she watched and is the best theme the soap ever had.
Yes, that theme will always remind me of summer visits with my grandparents in the 1970s. It was my grandmother's favorite and she watched it religiously. So long ago, but still imprinted in memory as if it were only yesterday.
@@jamesrogers47 I kind of remember it from going to my Grandma's when I was 4 years 0ld I am 44 years old now be safe.
Omg yesss I'm feeling the exact same way for the exact same reasons. These take me back to when me world was so pure and innocent compared to now. I'd bypass living longer so I can instead relive 1975 to 1979 over and over for eternity. Thank you do much for the upload and memories
@@ericpurkey7502my nan watched the soaps here in the UK (emmerdale + coronation Street) the theme tunes always reminds me of her
"Mom, I'm home for lunch", "In the kitchen son with lunch". "Thanks mama". Miss mom (RIP mama) and this soap playing in the background, what wonderful memories, God, miss those days. Love and Peace everyone.
I'm in tears over the theme music because it was my late mother's favorite soap. She was a high school freshman when ATWT began in the spring of 1956 and she watched it until she died in the summer of 1998.
Eric, I’m sorry to hear about your mom , May she Rest In Peace! 🌹🌹🌹🌸🌸🌸🌼🌼🌼
I feel you. I get sentimental over the Guiding Light that way because she loved that soap, or as she would refer to them, "Her Stories." Miss you Mommy!
It was my mother's favorite also... just came here to hear the music and trigger the memories.
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This particular ending theme is one of the best pieces of music from any daytime show. It's orchestral, grand, melancholy and classy. In general, the '70s soap themes with orchestras and full, rich sounds were the best. I'm a big fan of Another World's ending theme from this era as well.
@imelda4464 / My goodness! Rock on with your bad self. If you can find the dance in '70s soap themes, shake it!
These soap opera themes have a very sentimental and nostalgic feeling to them. An era that is gone forever.
Awesome. These were the golden years of the soaps.
An era that's gone forever, unfortunately.
60s and 70s soaps classics
Oh yes indeed I remember my late mom, watching this soap opera. My mom watched this soap opera religiously., every single day! I just loved the theme song boy that took me back to my childhood! Such a nice memory,!
Mama had 9 kids to take care of but always had time to watch this show everyday. That music is ingrained in my head permanently. Miss my sweet Mama.
This is one of the most beautiful soap opera themes ever
I completely agree. I wish I could find some fakebook music for it so I could play it for myself.
I agree. Whenever I hear these old soap opera themes they sure bring back memories of my childhood in the 70s. A time when we lived in a much saner world.
Those days are gone forever.........Sad.
@@nativetexanful I know exactly what you mean
@@NoHu4 if you're talking about how to download this song and add it to your playlist there is a way for free but it's tedious.
Have a desk/laptop get Firefox download an extension in AddOns to capture UA-cam videos, find an flvtomp3 converter online reupload it and redownload it then save it on whatever device you want to play it off of.
@@nativetexanful I agree as well. I didn't realize it so much at the time but things were much simpler and friendlier then, and shows like World Turns were just always three, so familiar, so comforting.
Miss my mom,she was always watching and taking care of house and cooking supper, waiting on us from school and dad from work! Wish I could just go back one more time.love,love, love!!
What a wonderful find. Back when the entire credits for the show were shown and the music was just beautiful. Thank you for the wonderful memories of youth.
The Soderbergs brought new life into ATWT. This was the era where it was Number One in the ratings before the youth wave took over. I remember rushing home for lunch as my Grandma lived right behind the High School and I watched it every day all through my high school years. Then I would go back to school. I just absolutely treasure those memories.
What a Beautiful melody. Reminds me of my mom so much. She passed in 2011 but i remember her watching atwt and remember this music. Mom, I love and miss you so much.❤
I remember my mother, who was in her late 60s at the time, watching about four TV soap operas every day, and she never missed this one, mid-1960s early 1970s. Some say these shows helped people of her generation deal with the turbulent cultural changes of the era. But the soaps still had their power to scandalize. I still remember Mom verbalizing her shock when one of the plots involved things like infidelity, which was never spoken about in our home.
My mom did too on her days off. She'd watch all the CBS ones.
Very soothing. This piece of music is forever imbeded in my memory. The world has always been a troubled place, but for many of us this takes us back to the security and contentment of before it went insane.
my favorite soap opera!!! watched with my mom, grandma, great grandma, and aunts. I was devastated when they decided to cancel this soap. I also loved the Guiding Light.
My mother turned me on to ATWT and then GL, which was my favorite. We didn't always get along but I still miss her and think about her all the time. This vids bring back the memories!!! Thank you!
I loved the opening and closing credits. And the music.I wish they had posted the whole episode from this time.
A magnificent orchestral arrangement of Charles Paul's original theme song!!! Gives me goosebumps every time I hear it.
I must have watched at least a few episodes of just about every soap opera that aired in the US during the late 1960s, '70s and '80s...but of all of them, this is the only one whose theme music I know by heart and hear in my head in its entirety, after all these years. Brings back memories of being sick at home on school days or during the summer, or at my paternal grandma's house when I was laid up after an accident that fractured my pelvis in 1976. Unquestionably one of the best soaps ever made, and this music is just one of many reasons why. Thanks for putting this up!
Wonderful memories of this great soap opera series
My earliest memory was sitting in a high chair as my mom fed me lunch while ATWT played on TV. Later in life, we joked about the song being "our song." RIP, mom.
I remember sitting on the sofa with my Dear Mom in the early 1960's and that Theme brings back pleasant memories of my Childhood.
Mama used to watch this all the time, so I heard and saw this a lot. RIP mama, and ATWT.
It took 31 years for Atwt to win its first outstanding daytime soap for first time back in 1987. 🌎
Everytime I hear this theme I think of my mom&grandmother,they enjoyed the CBS daytime dramas(soap operas. I miss them dearly.
1:58 - "Stay tuned for _The Guding Light,_ next on most of these CBS stations. Join us again tomorrow, for another full hour of drama, on _As The World Turns."_
I miss those days of hearing that!
@@johnothy Me too. I loved announcer Dan McCullough's voice. I always looked forward to how he presents and ends the credits.
That Theme sounds Heavenly
this theme 'premiered' on December 10, 1973, with the 'for the next full hour' being dropped some time in August 1978...also, the single-note, piano intro to the opening and closing were eliminated some time in 1975.....
I remember that dramatic single note opening before the roll into the main theme. It kinda hit you in the gut. Loved it!
i read 1967-1981 on the opening compilation video
I thought ATWT didn't expand to an hour until 1975 because Edge of Night was still strong and it wasn't until Edge of Night moved to ABC that As the World Turns could expand to an hour?
I think I started watching As The World Turns in 1985 and I loved it bring back alot of good memories for me I do miss the show one of my favorite...🌍
This had to have been sometime between late 1975 (when ATWT expanded from 30 minutes to 1 hour, and live filming was phased out) and 1981 (when this 1967-1981 theme was retired for the 1981-1993 theme). For loyal ATWT fans, this is sure to bring back memories.
1975-1978. Judith Chapman played Tom Hughes wife Nancy
bryan deville Natalie.
@@bryandeville322 Judith Chapman was also on Days of our Lives
I remember hearing this as a kid in the 70s ❤.
love this soap.
I have no idea why the show didn't keep this theme tune for its entire run.
Agree
Completely agree!
@mrslloyd they brought that theme music back during the 50th golden anniversary of As the World Turns.
Rest in peace, Kathryn Hays.
My mother LOVED this show!
Rest in peace, Kathryn Hays, who played Kim Sullivan Reynolds Dixon Stewart Andropoulos Hughes for 38 years.
Just awesome...
Makes me think. Of home so many years ago.in now 74 good memoirs.
Oh, man, back when the ads weren't all for prescription drugs.
This is from sometime between 1976 and 1979. That's the years Judith McConnell was on as Valerie Conway as she's in the credits.
That announcer's voice is as much a part of the memories of this show as the theme.
I remember seeing this intro a few times during the afternoons of the late 70s because my mother then in her 20s was always hooked on to watching soap operas every afternoon when they show up on this network during the 1970s because I was Stan five years older so when the intro came out and today I don’t think the soap opera no longer runs on television anymore.
Wish P&G would bring back some of its soap operas and products
Used to watch this in the summers with my mother and grandmother (when we'd go visit her and grandpa for whatever reason) and this sure does bring back the memories of those times in the early and mid 70s!
Those sure were better times than what we're living in now. Those days are gone forever. It doesn't even seem like the same world anymore.
How great! Please post the whole episode
This is a gorgeous theme song.
That's the version I remember when I was little. And then the synthesizer and orchestra with a slight rock beat when I was in my teens. Hearing this reminds me of nice, long afternoons with no school all week and being away from sickening people.
Thanks for posting. There were a number of other ATWT opening and closing credits from the 1974 to 1981 era that were posted on YouTUbe but it looks like they were taken down. I hope they are not trying to claim this is copyrighted material.
This definitely was from 1976, probably summer time frame. John Reilly was playing Dan here, and when I hit 11th grade in fall '76, John Colenback had resumed the role. The show had gone to an hour in 12/75, so, they brought back retired characters (e.g., Dick Martin, Sandy Hughes and Don Hughes, except I wonder why Martin West's name isn't in this cast)and aged children. They also killed off Brian Ellison (off screen) and brought Mary back as a regular. Annie and Dee, who were wonderfully played by Martina and Marcia, were in college now. Betsy was played with continuity by Suzanne. Alma was a regular 'til she left in late '78. What I liked abt World Turns is that it would keep characters on the canvas whether or not they had story. You'd see Nancy, Alma and Kim drop in on Lisa to go out to lunch. Bob and Dan were making house calls then. Even John. (ugh!) Susan was as nasty a witch as he was a warlock back then. This show was just so good. It was about the characters.
why isn't Judge Lowell in the cast list?
I also remembered nurse Pat Holland when she married John Dixon when Dan Stewart was on trial for the so called attempted murder of John. Sadly Pat died while confessing on the witness stand that Dan didn't shoot John and the gun went off accidentally. Pat in haste fled the courtroom and fell down the stairs to her death.
@@tommyparkerparker I followed that storyline and missed that climactic scene. (High school. I must have had some after school activity I couldn't get out of.) I almost cried when I heard what happened to Pat, who finally saw the light. John was awful! But he'd always get his comeuppance. They threw him out of the hospital and he was practically a drunk. (He'd get drunk back then as much as Susan.)
@@NoHu4 John should have went to jail for lying on the witness stand. His lie indirectly caused Pat's death.
@@tommyparkerparker He also should have gone to jail for staging the kidnapping of his own son and putting Kim and Carol Stallings and the town through he!! trying to find him. Thankfully, Dan, with Lisa's help (she could always spot a rat), figured it out.
I was born in 1976 so I was born during the time the Charles Paul theme was used.
Thanks for posting this! Gorgeous, absolutely stinking gorgeous!! Miss this point in time during daytime television!! I hate to sound selfish but is there more?!? The nice afternoons when I was a kid.
0:03 "And now for the next full hour: As The World Turns."
The first time ATWT aired 1-hour episodes was on December 1, 1975; they continue to do this until its final episode on September 17, 2010.
*Date Range(so far): December 1, 1975 - September 17, 2010*
0:55 "Written by Robert Soderberg and Edith Sommer"
Both of these writers wrote for the show from July 1973 to December 1978.
*Date Range(so far): December 1, 1975 - December 31, 1978*
1:12
"Bob Hughes - Don Hastings
Nancy Hughes - Helen Wagner
Chris Hudges - Don MacLaughlin
David Stewart - Henderson Forsythe
Alma Miller - Ether Remey
John Dixon - Larry Bryggman
Carol Stallings - Rita McLaughlin
Kim Dixon - Kathryn Hays
Tom Hughes - C. David Colson
Jay Stallings - Dennis Cooney
Susan Stewart - Marie Masters
Dan Stewart - John Reilly
Grant Colman - James Douglas
Joyce Colman - Barbara Rodell
Betsy Stewart - Suzanne Davidson
Natalie Hughes - Judith Chapman
Sany Garrison - Barbara Rucker
Ellen Stewart - Patricia Bruder
Mary Ellison - Kelly Wood
Kevin Thompson - Michael Nader
Dick Martin - Edward Kemmer
Valerie Conway - Judith McConnell
Dee Stewart - Marcia McClain
Annie Stewart - Martina Deignan
Marian Connelly - Clarice Blackburn
Pat Holland - Melinda Peterson
Doris Haley - Kathleen Klein
Pamela Freedly - Kay Arnold
Laurie - Laurel Delmar
and
Lisa Shea Colman - Eileen Fulton"
There is a bit of a date conflict with these cast of characters, specifically the ones whose last names are Stewart.
John Reilly played as Dan Stewart until January 1976; he was replaced by John Colenback, who played as Dan Stewart AGAIN until September 1979 (John Coleback played as Dan Stewart from January 1966 to January 1973, who was replaced by the aforementioned John Reilly). BUT...
Dee Stewart and Annie Stewart came back on June 4, 1976 played by Marcia McClain and Martina Deignan respectfully; both characters stopped appearing on the show at least two years prior to their return.
So either Dee Stewart and Annie Stewart returned when John Reilly still played as Dan Stewart, or John Colenback was unavailable for some episodes including Dee Stewart and Annie Stewart so John Reilly took over the role as a substitute until John Colenback came back to play Dan Stewart again.
Alma Miller and Pat Holland played as Ether Remey and Melinda Peterson respectfully, until 1977.
*Date Range(so far): 1976 - 1977*
1:59 Stay tuned for The Guiding Light, NEXT on most of these CBS stations.
The title card just says "Guiding Light", which first appeared on November of 1975. But the announcer say "The Guiding Light", which probably means that this change was recent.
*Date Range(so far): early-to-mid 1976*
Aligf Unleashed is in Color on August 26th, 1963 with the closing theme as a intro.
Watched this with my Aunt Anna way back when...wish I had a time machine. We also went to see the Original Star Wars movie ...Aunt Anna...Uncle Sam and cousin Henry and his wife Lucy and me sat in awe..guess it was the late '70s. This century is a horror !!
Any more World Turns finds?
I still love that theme song
Such a classic opening of As The W🌍rld Turns. I really wish there were ways we could stream old episodes of ATWT. There should be a Soap Opera Network.
with Barbara Rodell listed as Joyce COLMAN, this predates her marriage to Donald Hughes..i have audio where Joyce says ''now that i'm having Donald's baby.....'', and that was July 1977..so this goes back farther than that time........
Just like the morning news and soap operas, on a Friday, they show the people who are behind the scenes!!!
Remember Dan McCullough's voice?
OMG this is mind blowing. About 2 years before this viewer came aboard if this truly is 1976. Alma Miller? Lisa's mother? She must have been with the show a long time to be listed that far up in the credits (back then they listed the cast accordingly by basically who had been on the show the longest - except Lisa). Who was Natalie Hughes? I would simply die if I could watch all those 1970 years that I completely missed. Who was Kay Arnold? Thank you for this treasure!
Alma was Lisa's mother. Natalie Bannon Porter Hughes was played by Judith Chapman; she was Tom's second wife. She had an affair with Jay Stallings during her marriage to Tom and Jay's marriage to Carol Demming Hughes Stallings (Tom's first wife).
Here is the information on Kay Arnold: www.northjersey.com/obituaries/top-obituaries/kay-cooper-bubbly-actress-singer-at-72-1.1058695. She was on "Roseanne" and "As the World Turns".
Ethel Remey took the part of Alma Miller in the early 1960s, so, yes, she had been on there about 12 years or more when this episode ran. She was delicious as Lisa's mother! Her career dated back to NY radio serials and even work on the London stage.
Joanna Roos? The actress who played Sarah Caldwell on "Love of Life"?
yep, although i don't remember seeing her here on ATWT..i do remember Ethel Remey and have often wondered what happened to Alma..did she just disappear without any fanfare?.....
They were still calling Guiding Light 'The' Guiding Light, if anyone noticed. Even though they dropped The from the title in 1975 they didn't officially start calling it just Guiding Light until 1977 when the Spaulding family was introduced.
Yep... 1976. Grandpa Hughes' name is off the credits; Patricia Bruder is back; and the new Annie & Dee have joined the show....
anyone know why they altered Carolann and Dawn's names?
staytunedfor Carol's maiden name was Demming, played by Rita McLaughlin (Walter is/was her married name..she was then known as Rita M. Walter..i'm not sure why they changed Carolann and Dawn's names to Annie and Dee; but i've never known a soap to have more than one character with the same first name..there was Paul Stewart, then Paul Stenbeck; Dan Stewart then Dan McCloskey - but never at the same time......
World Turns repeated names a lot. Aside from those Danny mentions, there were John Hughes (Chris' brother/Bob's uncle), John Eldridge and John Dixon; Susan Hughes (Chris & Nancy's dead daughter), Susan Burke Stewart and "Suz" ('82); Jeff Baker, Jeff Ward, and the teacher Jeff whom Emily dated; Brad Hollister and Brad Snyder; Franny Brennan and Franny Hughes; Joyce Colman and Bob & Kim's nanny Joyce; Jay Stallings and Jay Connor; etc. Only when they resumed the role of John Eldridge in the '90s did I recall there being same-named characters on simultaneously: John Dixon was the other. [Of course, there were plenty of Stewart doctors and at least four with that surname at Memorial at the same time. Bob used to joke that they didn't know which Dr. Stewart was being paged.]
I think that's right. There was a Carol Demming Hughes and a "Don" Hughes... so maybe the names were changed to avoid confusion...
I didn't realize that Patricia Bruder had left the show for a time. Are you sure about that? I checked some history on Ms. Bruder's time on the show and it shows that she continually played Ellen from 1960-1995. I was wondering though why her name was kind of far down in the credits.
Mom i miss watching this with you.
This is the ORIGINAL THEME SONG FIRST ORGAN THEN ORCHESTRA
By Charles Paul.
thanks P&G
The theme that was used most of the years my grandmother watched died in 1994.
Given that Willmore was producer, Soderberg and Sommer headwriters and David Colson was playing Tom Hughes, this was from 1976.
This is between 1975 and 1978. Judith Champan appears those 3 years as Natalie Bannon (Hughes), one of Tom Hughes wives
Looks like between November 1975 and sometime in 1978, after the show expanded to an hour, and while the husband-and-wife team of Robert Soderberg and Edith Sommer were the head writers.
I remember all the P&G products on every CBS soaps, some are still made and I buy this day, Ivory Snow, Joy, Top Job, Biz, and Camay are no longer available on shelves anymore
I think all but Top Job are still made, but some not by P&G. I know Joy is.
Joy is still available, primarily at Walmart
Enjoying what I see is there more to see?
Bring these shows back
I think the closing credit: RECORDED AT THE CBS BROADCAST CENTER NEW YORK would be better if the CBS eye logo was included like in the closing credits of the 1970s episodes of "Guiding Light" and "Love of Life".
cartoongameshowman. At one point on ATWT, the CBS logo on the left of recorded at the CBS Broadcast Center was shown around early to mid 1975.
They didn't do it with The Edge of Night and Search for Tomorrow,that was before they moved to ABC & NBC respectively
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That announcer is great . Gold voice along with theme.
My grandmother watched As the world turns from 1956 until her death in 1994 and this is the theme that was used most of those years that is 38 years this theme was used for more than 25 of those years.
Does anybody know why Patricia Bruder appears later in. the credits. I would think she should appear right by Henderson Forsythe since they both started at the same time in 1960. But she is much later in the credits.
Probably because she left in 1975 and was off nearly a year. The credits were arranged by seniority at this time, and I guess her leaving pushed her farther down in the credits when she came back.
@@skipeastport5529 Do you know why she left in 1975?
I'd say the year was 1976; Gillian Spencer (Jennifer) was not in the credits, plus John Reilly was Dan Stewart and Patricia Bruder was back, as she had been away from the show for much of '75.
This was the theme I liked best
ATWT was at no. 1 in the ratings here (likely 1976-78). But it was about to be dethroned (and badly too) when Ally My Children took over the top spot.
Then general hospital a year later.
looks like 1976-1978 since Michael Nader's in the credits - obviously predating his being dashing Dex Dexter on "Dynasty" by 6-8 years. Also this predates Barbara Rodell's character Joyce being married to Don since her surname is still Colman.
Correct. Joyce married Don about '78. Nader left that year and was replaced. (Marie Masters' treatment of Nader was training for his abuse by Joan Collins on Dynasty. Poor sweet jet-setting Kevin. He died in '79 while married to Sandy.)
From the cast list, this is most likely from 1976.
Yes because Margo, Craig and Cricket and their mom Susan is missing.
+patty 8873 I mean Lyla was the mom. Montgomery.
This was a few years prior to the Montgomery's being introduced. The Montgomery's were introduced roughly between 1977 and 1980, but no later than 1980.
Judith Chapman as Natalie Bannon too
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The best daytime soap opera theme! I hated the themes of this once great show.. after 1981 they tried modernizing ATWT’s theme. This had a really classy sound..
The globe 🌎 spinning reminds me of the 1990 Universal Pictures logo.
Thank you so much. This is a wonderful treat. Could you post the full episode here or on Dailymotion? P&G soap episodes are usually not taken down.
And Lisa Shea Colman! ❤
This is CBS!!!😁🤩
Where was Pat Bruder?
Just below Sandy Garrison. (Bruder had left the show and then returned, losing her place in the seniority list.)
Actually it's not a full hour... It was about 42 minutes of DRAMA.... with 18 minutes of commercials.
The world turns was on when walter came on and reported that jfk was shot
Remind me of MCA logo
As the world turns it stopped in 2010
This is probably from 1975. When it first became 60 minutes
As The Stomach Turns! lol
OPERA SHOW
Dan milCcough died how did he die
Made famous by the JFK assassination