As the World Turns - April 10th 1957 - Soap Operas Full Episodes

Here's a rare episode of As the World Turns from April 10th 1957. This popular soap opera ran from 1956 to 2010. This classic episode also contains the original commercials. Image is a bit distorted at times

[@IamTaliaIsrael]

My grandma and her best friend from church use to be on the phone watching these stories 😂 my grandma would have a big bowl of green beans picking them and taking on the phone watching these stories I really miss those day's I wish I could go back like you wouldn't believe! then everyone would still be here 🤧 then I could hug and kiss her and my grandparents again 🤧 and talk to them I miss them so 😢🤧

[@caroldry9262]

I think about my grandma seeing this. She loved her AS THE WORLD TURNS. You could not talk when it was on❤

[@deloreswillis9224]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@teeayagaskin225]

Not at all. I was watching in the 80s with my grams. We only had one TV. I hated it but grew to love it lol

[@HighSierraDawn]

@@teeayagaskin225 So many future movie stars were on AWT in the early 80's. Meg Ryan, Julianne Moore, Marisa Tomei etc... 😀

[@kirahastings9900]

My mother watched this soap from the beginning until she died in 1974. I watched it with her on sick days and during the summer. Sometimes I'd come home from school and she'd excitedly tell me something that happened on the soap as if it were our own family. In 1986, I rented a VCR to record 30th anniversary show which brought back all the old characters like Ellen and Penny. The actor who played Chris died a few months later. I still have that tape and watch it occasionally. Started watching semi-regularly during the period when Meg Ryan, Marissa Tomei and Julianne Moore were on. Notice in this episode how leisurely the commercials were then. Now they'd fit 5 of them loudly into the same time slot.

[@junesondrab3833]

The margerine commercial is wonderful! Thank you for not removing these old commercials. I LOVE THEM SO MUCH! I used to watch ATWT in the late 70s, early 80s when school was out. (Born in '65), so I enjoy watching these episodes before I was in the world.

[@ClassicSoapOperas]

Glad you like them!

[@notgivinup]

I wasn’t even born yet for this episode, I came along in 1960. My mother watched this show, Search For Tomorrow, Edge of Night, Love of Life. I miss my mom so much and those days when I was home sick from school and she had these shows on TV. 💔

[@kimsteinke713]

I remember laying in my grandma's lap. It was time for me to take a nap. It was her time to watch your stories. I'm 61 and I still love my grandma the most the most of my life she was so good to me. She wasn't here very long but long enough to imprint on my life and my heart what unconditional love could be. 🙏🌈☝️♥️ Love you Grandma

[@lc-bb6bd]

Same here. Mine lived with us and she was my rock. I lost her when I was 23. That was 34 years ago and I would give anything to see her one more time

[@diamondtiara84]

I love the old commercials! Both my grandmothers loved this show, and my mom and aunt used to watch it, too. What I wouldn't give for a time machine!

[@sodality3970]

My mom watched this every day...thank you for the memories !

[@sleeplessdreamer1814]

Mine watched daily, as well. My first memory of watching television was a scene with Chris, Nancy and Bob.

[@jad8123]

This is when woman weren’t in the working force and had time to catch up on their stories which were only 15 minutes long. I’m 56. My Mom never watched the soaps before, during or after. She watched once (I think ATWT) in the 60’s and my Father came home from work early and caught her crying. He said WTH are you crying about? She never watched a soap again. LOL!!! It just wasn’t her jam. She had 4 kids by then and didn’t have time or the desire to sit and watch tv during the day. After, I was born she always worked. That said, it must been so neat to watch these shows in the early days. They were simple but were high drama at their best.

[@elainemurley9509]

Sounds like you don't really like soaps😮

[@estellesilva1404]

My mom always said she did not have time to watch with 4 kids also she said she had her own soap opera 😅

[@teeayagaskin225]

My grams raised us and trust me, she had us well trained to not be bug a boos during soap times 😂😂😂, she watched every day

[@sodality3970]

The beautiful organ music , carried over from radio .

[@guitarlight3935]

Thank you so much!! This is great stuff. There are no decent soaps on today..an art lost I suppose. I was three when Mom would watch this, glued to the set, she would never miss an episode, and I would watch them with her as I grew.

[@der22672]

I’ve read some backstory on Edie over the years, but it seems that there’s always some holes or gaps missing in her story. Too bad there aren’t more episodes available involving her story. Does anyone know why Edie and Penny were on the outs at this time? I think it’s interesting that her and other Hughes members were actually mentioned when Chris died in 1986. And I think Edith was also mentioned again in 2000 from what I read, but I can’t recall why? 🤔🤔

[@m.e.d.7997]

It must have been really good when it started. It had loyal followers. My grandmother watched from its inception in April 1956.

[@amiblueful]

Ruth Warrick had such an elegant way of speaking.

[@arlenacampbell7671]

I am glad I am not the only one that wanted to go back to the beginning. I watched this with my Mom

[@mitzibrownstone1960]

Such wonderful memories of my childhood watching with my mom.

[@Alexaklr]

Thanks so much for posting this. I recognized Chris and Pa right away. I don't remember Edie or brother John. I do remember Penny, Nancy, Don and Bob. At least I knew who they were talking about. Drew a blank on Jim. I also remember all the products advertised - and I still use that "new, green" Comet. I was a sickly kid and I'd watch ATWT when I couldn't go to school.

[@MsTexas73]

Jim Lowell was Ellen Lowell Stewart’s dad.

[@Alexaklr]

@@MsTexas73 Thanks for the refresher about Jim. I remember him now.

[@Soapking1965]

John was played by Laurence Hugo, the second actor to play Mike Karr on THE EDGE OF NIGHT from 1961-71.

[@reneegordon5827]

They mentioned John…I was wondering if it was John Dixion they were referring to

[@LibbyRal]

@@reneegordon5827 - John Hughes

[@allenjones3130]

The theme song used at the time on "ATWT" gave me goosebumps! Originally performed with a piano and an organ, it was later rerecorded with a full studio orchestra.

[@stephanienewbern769]

I didn't start watching ATWT until around 2007 or 2008, just a few years before it went off the air. Thank you for these uploads, and please upload more! It's amazing seeing earlier decades of this show.

[@daviddemarco8327]

This is amazing, thanks! I found out something I didn't know: that Chris & Edith had a brother named John. I was born in '63, so the earliest episodes I remember (when I was home from school, sick) were from the late '60s maybe. I remember Grandpa Hughes. As for Ruth Warrick, she went on to play Hannah Cord in primetime's "Peyton Place" before she got the offer to play Phoebe on "All My Children".

[@awms.145]

When did the first episode aired my mom used to watch as the world turned so about time I turned 10 years old in 1979 that's when I realized what she was watching. So I started watching it I pretty much watched it all of my adult hood.....So now I want to go back to the beginning and watch from the beginning because this is an absolutely wonderful soap opera

[@mysky]

ATWT premiered on April 2, 1956. You can’t go back and watch from the beginning because the episodes no longer exist.

[@markcoronado9270]

I love how people smoked and had cocktails

[@debrareisdorf309]

As the World Turns was my Gram's favorite soap.

[@johnerwin9024]

My Gram as well✔️

[@asheisadora]

I remember my mom telling me Aunt Edie was a hussy. And Lisa was a pill. LOL. I figured out what she meant by her tone, and that I'd better not grow up to be a hussy. Hussy or not, Mom was glued to the TV.

[@billfeld5883]

I still use Comet ,hahaha and thankfully we did have a TV back in 1957!!!

[@Soapluvva]

My first visit to the set of ATWT was on 12/20/71 for the live broadcast of Episode #4068. Charles Paul (the musical director and organist) let me sit on the left end of the organ bench while he played the theme song and background music. He used a Steinway piano, Hammond B3 organ, and a Simone celeste. (The celeste was used for the bell tones in the middle break and the long closing theme.). At that time, the show originated from Studio 42 at the CBS Broadcast Center in Manhattan at 524 West 57 Street.

[@nkley1]

When we were kids in the 1960’s, when my Grandmother would visit, my brother would say to her, “Nana, are you gonna watch the world turn?”

[@jasminedubois6711]

The commercials really make it feel like you're watching it on TV.

[@MovieJon]

The most amazing thing of all is that it is 15 minutes in before a single female character appears in the program! That would never happen today. Ruth looks like Ruth... she just wore far bigger hair and more makeup as Phoebe (and, yes, submitted to cosmetic surgeries as time marched on.)

[@NoHu4]

Agree. This really was more of her look historically, as in the '40s she was in Hollywood movies, in the mid-late '60s on Peyton Place, and in her early days as Phoebe on AMC. Before World Turns, she was on The Guiding Light for 2 years as a villainous nurse.

[@mysky]

@@NoHu4 There’s an episode of “Guiding Light” from 1953 on KZbin in which Ruth Warrick appears.

[@Soapking1965]

@@NoHu4 Her character on GL was a precursor to Sheila Carter (Y&R/B&B).

[@martinanderson784]

🙄

[@marcusjones2094]

I Remember the very first Episode

[@kirkmorgan-austin1187]

All I know is that at least the first show featured Chris,Nancy,Penny and William Lee as Pa Hughes who was fired after a few days replaced by Santos Ortega who would stay with the show until his death in 1976.

[@bethelle9099]

I don't recall the first episode. I was born in 1955. I do distinctly remember when Bob brought Lisa home after getting married. This was my mother's favorite soap so then it became mine. It had THE best cast. Missed Eileen Fulton when she was gone. I never liked Lisa or Bob with anyone else but each other.

[@gcfifthgear]

"Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Junior's tickled in his soft safe clothes." I wasn't even five years old when that commercial aired, and I recognized that line the minute I saw it...

[@der22672]

Wow. Ruth Warrick is so unrecognizable in this. Guess I'm more familiar with her looks 20 years later when she would be a regular on All My Children.

[@m.e.d.7997]

I knew it was her but I wonder if she had some work done or her nose fixed. Many of them did and you notice changes over the years.

[@lorraineb.4698]

She looks really beautiful.

[@hebneh]

"Pa" is also in the famous clip of this same soap opera that was interrupted by the news bulletin that President Kennedy had been shot on Nov. 22, 1963.

[@scottandrews9453]

"Pa" was Santos Ortega who was a regular on numerous old time radio shows.

[@marcelparker6755]

@@scottandrews9453 Fun fact, the original Pa Hughes was played by Will Lee who lasted about a month. Will Lee was famous for playing Mr. Hooper on Sesame Street.

[@awms.145]

Wow That's some history that's interesting I'm getting a little excited on this video.

[@awms.145]

@@marcelparker6755 Wow I remember Mr Hooper on sesame Street.

[@dukemantee2978]

Johnson was in on that.

[@Soapking1965]

The legendary Ruth Warrick as Edith Hughes

[@brookehanley3659]

+Terrence Pickett Did not recognize her. Thanks! The voice is detectable after you told me. Watching these makes me miss the old days.

[@OPTIONALWATCH]

0:44 LOL the NO putting pressure on the ring finger and pinky trick.

[@MASTEROFEVIL]

You noticed that too?

[@awms.145]

Watching from the beginning.....excited.❤️

[@lynnekerr8158]

Wow Thank You so much! I love ATWT.

[@mrpontyboi]

He didn’t even wipe the unnamed cleanser lol

[@arlenacampbell7671]

Thank you for this

[@jenniferjacobs228]

This sounds like the start of Could It Be You? with Tommy Hanlon jr...that's a blast from the past.... I feel ancient now hahaha

[@murieltainter5936]

OMG I was nine years old. I remember when Pa died.

[@jenniferhansen3622]

Kind of makes me chuckle because of how many times Pa and Chris say each other's names.😂

[@brookehanley3659]

Comet was new then? Never knew. Still the best.

[@m.e.d.7997]

Yup. It is.

[@sbbrph2651]

Comet is good for Covid 19!!@

[@m.e.d.7997]

@@sbbrph2651 And so are some mouthwashes like Listerine.

[@awms.145]

Exactly I compared Ajax and Comet and no lie Comet is the better brand. It's like Ajax is just powder without any cleaning power ....

[@awms.145]

@@m.e.d.7997 The original Listerine will knock your socks off....🤣

[@richardr5928]

😅I grew up in Chicago and had to miss my favorite Children’s television program Bozo’s Circus because my Mother watched ‘As the World Turns’ when Bozo was on.

[@chastityduarte1770]

April 10, 1957 class do you guys remember those days.

[@amiehampton867]

Woww its soo old.Happy 65th Anniversary ATWTs

[@gianni1388]

Good morning, Dear…

[@chastityduarte1770]

I JUST GET MISSING AROUND BUT NOT THAT MUCH BUT THAT'S HOW I FEEL FROM MY HEART HIGHSCHOOL AND MIDDLESCHOOL AND I CRY ABOUT IT LATER ON WITH MY WHOLE LUNGS HERE.

[@user-js3wc4ci8o]

I remember a lot of these soaps d.w.

[@lindaaguilar5858]

I miss this soap

[@johnerwin9024]

Wow/Everyday my grandma watched ATWT at lunch-

[@originalsynthesist2268]

Where can I stream a whole soap series like this from the 60s?

[@reneegordon5827]

Following…I talk to my friend about watching soaps from start to finish. It would be nice if there were a streaming channel dedicated for soaps from way back when until about the year 2000. One can dream right?

[@johnemery285]

I think this was a kinescope copy. These I would expect are far and in between,

[@pinedelgado4743]

So their characters (at around 24:40 and throughout this episode) were "Chris" and "Pa." Yet, I'll always associate the both of them with playing out a scene of ATWT on the Friday afternoon episode of November 22, 1963 at 1:40pm ET when, at that moment, they were abruptly interrupted by that CBS News bulletin that would change America forever. :( BTW. I was born in 1967 and I only have that knowledge from reading about it and by watching ingeminations (replays) of that particular footage on various documentaries produced over the years concerning the assassination of President Kennedy and about the history of television.

[@laminage]

William "Pa" Hughes must have been so proud of Chris. He certainly didn't have problems that Frederick Bauer aka "Papa" had with "Willy". on Guiding Light. You should see how it was on UK Soaps. They are mostly Blue Collar and on Eastenders Lou Beale the Family Patriarch had an "Intervention" with her Children. There was her Son Pete, his Wife Kathy and their Son Ian. There was Pete's Twin Sister Pauline, her Husband Arthur, and their Children, Michelle, Martin (A Late In Life Baby), and Mark who would die of AIDS (He had unsafe sex with his Girlfriend). She didn't mince words and she tried to tell them to get their "act" together, only Kathy, Ian & Martin are still on the Canvas but they don't listen and pay the price.

[@kendalson7100]

I used pink Camay!

[@deloreswillis9224]

Me 2 😂

[@chastityduarte1770]

ladies from the old times do you ladies know my grandma her name is jennie duarte.

[@bubbadon7540]

The organ rules.

[@mrob75]

I wonder why Edie's character was so short lived...

[@Phoenix-zy1cx]

From what I read, she and Jim were meant to eventually marry and live happily ever after, which was planned by Irna Phillips (creator and writer of As the World Turns, and one of the originators of the soap opera genre on radio before moving the television). Unfortunately, the execs at Proctor and Gamble who financed the soap didn't want to look like they approved of adultery, so Jim had to die, and within a few years Edie was out. But Ruth Warrick did well in music and acting for decades before returning to soaps on All My Children years later.

[@asheisadora]

Aunt Edie! Oh my gosh!

[@chastityduarte1770]

April 10, 1957 My Uncle Said It's From The Past Madonna.

[@DraGnFly007]

So very sad they cancelled ATWT & GL for rediculous Let's Make a Deal and local news! Appalling network choice. CBS👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎

[@neitherpenalty]

15:38 looks like the sound mixer was having an off day and had the wrong mic faded up

[@chastityduarte1770]

NO NO THAT'S HOW I FEEL FROM MY FUCKEN HEART CLASS.

[@chastityduarte1770]

i was born in 2002 ladies and girls.

[@shelleydee]

Where can I find these in order from beginning to end?

[@TW1257]

Don't think you can. They weren't filmed. They were live. They had a process called kinescope where they filmed the show on a monitor. Probably only a few exist. I was born later in the year and remember when ATWT and Edge Of Night went from live to tape in the 70s.

[@yeah_right88]

@@TW1257 wow interesting information

[@LibbyRal]

Of course, a cow named Bessie - LOLOL

[@chastityduarte1770]

her name is jennie duarte.

[@chastityduarte1770]

ME AND MY FAMILY REMEMBER THESE DAYS YOU GUYS DON'T HA HA MY UNCLE SAID.

[@mariasalas8475]

we are housewives

[@saffirechanning7286]

Was that the very first TV broadcast of the show? I know it actually started on radio. Gosh, I guess since the shows were filmed in black & white, the actors didn't have to be good looking, huh?

[@ruthgoldbergives6945]

😊

[@AlansNewMutant]

It just blows my mind how folk just be sparkin' up on set and have that smoke trailing all over the stage. Couldn't be me

[@larkpraise]

Do they still make Oxydol, Camay and Ivory Snow?

[@Melodycat918]

justess martin yes but Procter and Gamble sold the products Comet to prestige brands and oxydol to another company along with Biz. They still make Ivory soap

[@theresewilliamson9057]

They stopped making Ivory Snow because it was soap, and not detergent & would deactivate the fire retardant on children's pajamas.

[@m.e.d.7997]

Have not seen Oxygol in years. Camay you can find online not in any stores I see.

[@awms.145]

I'm trying to find out at this very moment. I know Camay is sold in Dollar Stores and some supermarkets.

[@awms.145]

I just checked Ivory Snow is sold at Walmart...maybe other stores.

[@dorothyjacobs294]

Poor Penny the father making her do something she does not want to.

[@misterhot9163]

I think Ruth Warwick was around 42 here.

[@roxannesantoro7503]

@@draperscott7698 What has her age has to do with her being "The other woman"??🤔

[@Phoenix-zy1cx]

​@@draperscott7698 That's more of a judgement than a fact. Middle-aged folks have affairs. Whether or not they should, it definitely happens! :D

[@chastityduarte1770]

kathia i was born in 2002 I'm not from the old times my grandma is.

[@Manuel-zo3wg]

That was an old opening AT 🌎 T

[@jacobmeeks8410]

CBS tv 1957

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

Was Pa stoned? He sure is ACTING like it!

[@Phoenix-zy1cx]

LOL that's Pa's vibe. I never know what to make of it, but he's subversively paying attention all the time. Classic stoner.

[@aclark1197]

Who y'all.

[@chastityduarte1770]

highschool and middleschool is she dead including this man two on the tv show that's called as the world turns.

[@chastityduarte1770]

michael I'm not on tv oh ok.

[@chastityduarte1770]

brother I'm not the exorcist oh ok I'm not on tv brother.

[@rexlex1736]

Commercials back then were as bad as they are now.

[@hudsony777]

Loving pink Camay? Particular about their coffee? What kind of life is this?

[@saffirechanning7286]

Oh my goodness, were white people the only type of people on TV during its infancy?

[@tremaynefigures5506]

Yep

[@Phoenix-zy1cx]

Note: I did more research and learned I was incorrect. That info is in the following comment. That's correct. It's unfortunate because there were so many creative people who never had the chance to make their mark on this new medium until racist barriers were broken down. And the struggle still continues, but we have great television from a diverse array of talented creators now.

[@Phoenix-zy1cx]

Wait, I was wrong! I just did some research and discovered The Hazel Scott Show, which was created and hosted by Hazel Scott, a jazz pianist and Civil Rights activist. Here is the wiki article on her show: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hazel_Scott_Show None of the episodes still exist, but in 1950 she made her mark on television and she definitely deserves to be remembered. Hazel Scott's break into TV is told in the book "When Women Invented Television" by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, which includes the stories of the rise of 4 women who had significant impacts on the creation of TV before it became dominated by white men. It's a great book and a fun read!

[@esmith6656]

geese theses people were so racist back then. i never knew they said the n word so often on soaps back then. damn.

[@yeah_right88]

As boring then as they are now Lol.

[@SleepwalkFan]

#Q #Qanon