As the World Turns
1956, Series, 60 min, Drama, Romance, English, United States, MoviePedia score 62
As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1956 to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a sister show to her other soap opera The Guiding Light. Running for 54 years, As the World Turns holds the second-longest continuous run of any daytime network soap opera in American history, surpassed only by Guiding Light. As the World Turns was produced in New York City for all of its time. Set in the fictional town of Oakdale, Illinois, the show debuted on April 2, 1956, at 1:30 pm EST.
Directed by Paul Lammers, Cort Steen, Ted Corday, Maria Wagner, Michael Eilbaum, Jennifer Pepperman, Christopher Goutman, Habib Azar, Sonia Blangiardo, Jill Mitwell, Robert Schwartz, Larry Carpenter, John O'Connell, Ellen Wheeler, Charles C. Dyer, Dan Hamilton, James A. Baffico, Barnet Kellman, Richard Pepperman, Grant Aleksander, Richard Dunlap, Ian Toporoff, Brian Mertes, Scott McKinsey, Rob Decina, Peter Brinkerhoff, Larry Auerbach, Greg Saccaro, Heather Hill, Allen Fristoe, Bruce Minnix, Casey Childs, Andrea Giles Rich, James Sayegh, Steven Williford, Bruce S. Barry, Gary Bowen, Conal O'Brien, Corey Steen, Leonard Valenta, Andrew D. Weyman, Joost van Rees, Joe Butt, Jenny O'Hara, Alan Skog, Susan Dansby, Lisa Brown, Jennifer Peterson, Angela Tessinari, Kristina Romero, James DePaiva, Portman Paget
Cast
- William Johnstone as Judge Lowell
- Ethel Remey as Alma Miller #2 (until her death)
- Hal Simms as Announcer
- Elizabeth Hubbard as Lucinda Walsh Dixon
- Jon Hensley as Holden Snyder
- Ellen Dolan as Lucinda Walsh
- Colleen Zenk as Barbara Ryan Stenbeck
- Don Hastings as Dr. John Dixon
- Scott Holmes as Dr. John Dixon
- Eileen Fulton as Lisa Mitchell
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