As the World Turns (ATWT) is the second longest-running American television soap opera (the first being Guiding Light), airing each weekday on CBS.
Set in the fictional town of Oakdale, Illinois, the show debuted on Monday, April 2, 1956 at 1:30pm. Before this show (and The Edge of Night, which premiered on the same day), all soaps were fifteen minutes in length; ATWT was the first half-hour serial.
At first, viewers did not respond to the new half-hour serial, but ratings picked up in its second year, eventually reaching the top spot in the daytime Nielsen Ratings by the fall of 1958. In 1959, the show started a streak of weekly ratings wins that would not be interrupted for over twelve years. In the year-to-date ratings, As the World Turns was the most-watched daytime drama from 1958 until 1978, with ten million viewers tuning in each day. At its height, core actors such as Helen Wagner, Don MacLaughlin, Don Hastings, and Eileen Fulton became nationally known.
The show transitioned from black-and-white to color in the mid-1960s, with the final black-and-white episode airing on February 17, 1967. The show expanded from a half-hour in length to one hour starting on December 1, 1975. Also in 1975, it transitioned from being televised live to being taped in advance. (ATWT was among the last soaps to make this transition.)
The show aired its 13,000th episode April 23, 2007; the 10,000th episode aired on May 12, 1995. As the World Turns is notable for having been taped in New York City for all of its 51 years on television (43 years in Manhattan and eight in Brooklyn).
soap opera terpanjang yg aku pernah tengok - Days of Our Lives...
dulu aku rajin follow citer ni lepas tu bila dah masuk generasi anak2 dorang, dah tak follow lagi dah... tak larat dah...
satu lagi The Young and The Restless...tapi masa tu kecik lagi so tak follow...then there was Santa Barbara....bold and beautiful tak ingat pernah tengok ke tidak...
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Guiding Light pun soap Opera jugok ke? Ingat ke cite pedoman/ pengajaran...
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