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I didn’t know this old soap opera was still being made! My grandmother and great aunt used to watch it all the time.
The official word is that it wasn’t making money anymore…are these soap operas pretty much a thing of the past?
I think so. Daytime TV is about talk shows now, and reality shows provide drama, albeit in the evening.
Anyone ever watch this one? What were the memorable storylines?
My earliest soap watching was not really watching, just playing with toys at the foot of my mom’s bed while she watched. She watched As The World Turns, Guiding Light, and Another World.
A few years later my sister and I started watching the two CBS ones because they were on after school. I’ve had a few other bursts of watching as an adult.
As the World Turns is where I first became aware of Meg Ryan, Marisa Tomei, and Julianne Moore.
I think the answer to memorable storylines will depend on when a person watched. There are mny characters who have remained since the watching with my mom days. When I watched in junior high the show’s main villain was James Stenbeck. There was a bizarre kidnapping story which led to Tom and Margo becoming a couple, and they have endured (despite affairs for each of them) to present day (though played by different actors).
The summer teen story one of my teen years was Lily and Dusty, and he was sooooo dreamy so to me it’s memorable, but as soap plots go wasn’t all that original. Rich girl, he worked in the stables on her family’s estate. Mother wouldn’t allow them to be together. They ran away to the big bad city.
I think part of the demise of soaps is that we have so many streams of entertainment, and escapism. Even when I was in high school we had three network stations, three local ones, and PBS. 7 channels. If I’d had 122 channels then, including MTV (when there was still M on it and it was new and exciting) I wouldn’t have been watching As the World Turns.
So the world is gonna stop turning? Oh my god! Panic in the streets, let’s riot 
That means the sun will never set! Or rise, depending on your geographic location.
I just finished watching the last episode. I’ve been a fan many years-from the Wonderland/Mr. Big adventure to the many deaths of James Stenbeck, from the princess wedding of Marisa Tomei to the shrunken head of Shannon O’Hara McKechnie(it’s o.k.-she got better), from Lucinda Walsh’s marriage to John(what the hell did he do this time?) Dixon to…Lucinda Walsh’s return to John Dixon in the final episode. The characters were well written and pretty much stable, the story lines never got too complicated to follow, and it flowed.
Here’s a toast to Tom and Margo, Lucinda and John, Lilly and Holden, James(I’ll be back, even if it has to be as a zombie) Stenbeck and all the others. To the writers, the producers, the directors and the crew.
Thank you.