As The World Turns 1962

Here is a 1962 episode of the hit CBS soap opera, As the World Turns, complete with commercials

[@gcfifthgear]

I was surprised to run into this episode, because I remembered the Nucoa jingle almost word for word...talk about an earworm!

[@2snowgirl520]

I just love the organ music

[@Tayjahbaby8371]

If my grandmother was still living I would show her these old soaps...she loved them.

[@lynnebraun4845]

My Mom watched this from 1956 to the end. Jeez,she's 87 and remembers it all...Jeffs death, Lisa and the Willows, the Bookshop, Barbara fashion store....

[@NoHu4]

So did mine. When she mentioned a Hughes daughter named Susan drowning, I realized that my mother saw the original opening episode of this show in 1956.

[@victoriahanke1990]

Even today, the commercials are sort of comforting, and I always loved the organ music On this show. Ahhh childhood in the fifties and sixties! 🙏🕊♥️🌞🇺🇸

[@gwenfluker3436]

Oh yes the good old days when soaps were good.

[@mariellclement8092]

Yes. I live for the commercials. They're so soothing. I don't even have to mute them because they are not annoying.

[@Aishiya1]

I grew up watching this show. This is a little more dramatic than I remember. What I remember from the old episodes is David, Chris, Nancy and Grandpa having their coffee together and tut-tutting over Lisa.

[@mickeymch876]

I remember this show being on our one tv (black and white) in the early 60's before I started 1st grade and she went back to work in 1966. I think it was still on our tv in 1965 when I was in kindergarten since kindergarten was only a half day. Back then you walked to school, even kindergarten. My mother walked with me the first day and that was it, I walked alone or with other kids everyday after. First grade was an even farther walk, you would walk over a half mile to school (catholic school, no cafeteria, no gym just a parking lot with a basketball backboard and net, walk home for lunch, walk back to school for the afternoon and then walk home again.

[@rivaridge7211]

Wow, great comment - I think we may have gone to the same school! At age five (1961) I mostly walked alone to my Kindergarten school - having to cross two very busy intersections. Usually, I walked with neighbor/classmate, "Donna," but I was often alone when I missed her. Those walks scared the hell out of me - especially when by myself. In first grade, I was at a different school, but largely with the same scenario. Years later, I asked my mom WTH was she thinking (?) and I got the most blank look. Mom replied that she knew I was a "smart kid" and could "handle it." Erm, well, okay Mom, thanks for that vote of confidence...All these years later, I still have this recurring ("bad") dream about trying to cross the most busy/wide street imaginable, and getting caught in the middle when the light changes before I can make it across. Well, I did survive - thanks for your thought provoking comment. Cheers to all!

[@brookehanley3659]

@@rivaridge7211Kids really did get their exercise

[@phillipmorales8886]

I like those nostalgic commercials, Love the organ music!

[@williamtebokkel634]

This is my favorite soap for sure😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@margaretbonnette678]

I started watching this with my mom sometime in the 1970's. Loved it to the end. The episodes before my time I find more interesting, partly because back then life was so simple, and it puts a smile on my mom's face, which is unusual these days.

[@Alexaklr]

I remember this story very well. My favorite episode was the argument between Ellen and the Stewart housekeeper who threatened to tell Dan that Ellen was his mother. A struggle ensued and Ellen shoved the woman down the stairs, killing her. Ellen landed in jail. Then we were given memorable episodes of Ellen in jailbird wardrobe. I loved it. It was great soap opera fun for a sickly school kid who spent those days looking at four walls. Another favorite episode came later when the grown up brothers Dan and Paul were having a fist fight and Paul's toupee fell off - on live TV. What a surprise for the viewers!

[@fredwiley3731]

As Fred Gavin said she Killed Franie, the Housekeeper, with a vase as I remember it. She threw it across the room striking her. Of course it was on a FRIDAY, so the suspense was unbearable. This shows the great drama and acting ATWT was capable of.

[@RachelDavisMatthews]

OMG I remember the toupee incident - hilarious

[@halfdome5705]

There was a pair of statuettes on the bookcase. Ellen's weapon was one of the statuettes which became evidence. The other one remained on the set for months as the story developed.

[@relathan1]

omg! I remember that!. I must have been 4 or 5 years old! Eating my lunch, playing with my toys while mom watched ATWT. I knew who Ellen and Lisa were before I had ever heard of Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey.

[@NoHu4]

@@halfdome5705 Yes, it was a statuette. Ellen clobbered her with it.

[@9340jr]

This is why ATWT was number one for a long time.

[@fromthesidelines]

0:21- Caroline O'Connor speaks for Mazola Margarine. By 1965, she was pitching Blue Bonnet margarine {and other fine Standard Brands products}.

[@JJJBRICE]

I wonder what happened to her ?

[@MrEDWARDCULLEN1917]

LOVE THIS SHOW MISS IT SO!! LOVE THIS CLASSIC EPISODES!!

[@Aishiya1]

These old shows were so claustrophobic! Everything took place indoors!

[@38ddkelly]

Daytime shows were done on a shoestring budget and the camera/lighting equipment was massive. Too much to move around.

[@NoHu4]

@@38ddkelly It's also why folks remember the earlier characters and storylines so well. There was an intimate feel to the scenes, which drew the viewer into them. Dialogue was longer and more conversational and natural and scenes were longer with fewer people.

[@der22672]

Happy 58th anniversary "As The World Turns", April 2, 1956. Ohhh i soooo miss this show.

[@salliecofer9514]

Happy Anniversary As the World Turn

[@salliecofer9514]

David character is great.

[@aquillafleetwood8180]

Sent me out the door to go play "Cowboys and Indians" in 1962!

[@laminage]

During Summertime My Cousins and I would watch Another World and we'd say "And Now For The Next 60 Minutes The Continuing Story Of Another World"

[@dwood37]

WOW!!! Now THIS is drama!!!! If ATWT had stories like this in its last years, it never would have been cancelled!

[@williamtebokkel634]

The ommercials were good also😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@travisjames1437]

Awesome!

[@RachelDavisMatthews]

Nat Polen, Nancy Wickwire, Henderson Forsythe, wow classic daytime stars of 60's and 70's, Wonder how David became married to Ellen.

[@misterhot9163]

Doug’s use of “dear” is overkill.

[@rtrout57]

Needs to be a drinking game!

[@edgefan4437]

isn't that Jim Craig from One Life to Live at 8 minutes in?

[@edgefan4437]

Yup it is . Nat Polen played Doug Cassen from 1961 to 1966.

[@ericsamuelson5656]

27:47 Allen Ludden has all the fun on Password on the CBS Television Network

[@brookehanley3659]

I remember my mom watching ‘Password’. Seemed not into the Soaps when I was young about age 3

[@mariellclement8092]

Claire's name should've been Bambi. Doug is always calling her "Dear."

[@zachw225]

March 29, 1962...

[@tomservo56954]

Fascinating margarine comparison...corn oil Mazola, with the ahead of her time mom concerned about hydrogenated fats, and traditional Nucoa, with the animated mother voiced by Janet Waldo.

[@marcusjones2094]

I Heard when Ellen took them to court that was the best scenes

[@mariellclement8092]

Claire flubbed her line. She called Danny David.

[@charlesmeadows6285]

As the World Turns may have had a long run-only The Talk is occupying the time slot 2:PM ET/1 CT,RMT and PT.Whatever that big announcement planned Tuesday shall concern the firing to DINGHY,EVE & SHERYL.

[@jdurao6112]

Lol! let me say that powdered milk is the nastiest tasting stuff there is.

[@lolaschiefelbein9089]

...gee, so much of this heartache could've been solved with DNA...

[@ThorneAstor]

I'm pretty sure this 1961.

[@marcusjones2094]

ThorneAstor it is 1961

[@mariellclement8092]

Didn't David ended up marrying Ellen? Dee is their daughter isn't she?

[@ThorneAstor]

@Moionfire Because that's when the baby storyline took place.

[@randyfrancis2808]

It's not nice to fool mother nature!

[@rebeccaquartieri5509]

😂

[@brookehanley3659]

Wasn’t that Parkay Margarine?

[@Moionfire]

@ThorneAstor why??

[@gordon317]

OMG!!..the "acting is HORRENDOUS!!..Totally tacky, and non existent ! But I love the commercials.

[@baf236]

The acting was great!

[@2snowgirl520]

I disagree. I think the acting is much better than current soaps. Nowadays they seem to cast for looks first, acting second.

[@brookehanley3659]

@@2snowgirl520Agree!!