As The World Turns - August 22nd 1960 - Soap Operas Full Episodes

An episode of the popular English soap opera "As the World Turns" from 22 August 1960, complete with the original commercials This popular soap opera ran from 1956 to 2010.
since this was a daytime show, it features more minutes of ads than a prime-time series. In this episode, Jeff is in the hospital due to alcoholism, and Penny wants him to be taken out.The soap operas in English.

[@robertjameslarsen]

I wish the entire series was available to watch.

[@MrCraigblaze]

KZbin has some storyline years !!! I Just Love the origin music !!

[@Riogi]

I do too.

[@debrareisdorf309]

So do I. This was my Gram's favorite,

[@gcfifthgear]

My sister owned a refrigerator identical to the one shown in the Comet commercial (a 1959 single-door Frigidaire) for more than a decade! Plus, the actress who plays Mrs. Dawson in the Joy commercial is none other than Jean Vander Pyl, later to use an elephant's trunk to wash dishes as the voice of Wilma Flintstone, which debuted a few weeks after this episode originally aired

[@727100bear]

that familiar organ theme music certainly brings back the memories - my mother and great grandparents watched ATWT - everyone always seemed to be so concerned about what was going on between Bob and Lisa - Nancy and Chris Hughes were two of my favorite characters

[@der22672]

Wow, Frances Reid. Her run on World Turns was just two years, compared to her most notable daytime role of Alice Horton on Days of Our Lives which she played until basically until her death. These episodes are amazing to watch for me, because i became a fan of World Turns beginning in 1977 and watched until its cancellation. I just love the full episodes with the classic commercials, the bumper music. Shame there aren't more early to mid '70s episodes. I would love to watch those to.

[@TimsDale4ever]

+der22672 I started in late 1978 when I started college and wasn't in class all day like you were in grade school. I literally fell in love with the show instantly and watched and then eventually recorded it daily until the turn of the century when the show moved away from the core families and cast that I had loved for 20 years. There simply was nothing like it. What I wouldn't pay to see those few years in the late 70's again when Lisa, Nancy, Bob, Kim, Barbara, Ellen, David, Joyce and John ruled the show. Mesmerizing!

[@brookehanley3659]

+der22672 It was such a gift for aspiring actresses to perform on these soaps. Great steady work. TV in it's relative infancy. So many opportunities for any young actress or actor. Young and old.

[@Aishiya1]

In the seventies, when Kim was married to the Evil Dr. Dixon, as we called him, my brother and I watched it every day. We HATED that guy! He was a great villain. When he and Kim divorced and they kind of didn't feature him as much, it was a shame. The juice kind of went out of it for me. I liked it in the old days when it was all indoors, and it was like a stage play. It was like the opposite of an action movie. It was all talk, conversation, verbal meditation, just words, words, words. I didn't understand women who liked it, because it was all about relationships, but it was fascinating.

[@ericpurkey7502]

@@TimsDale4ever As the world Turns theme in this era was the best and they should have never changed it.

[@edgefan4437]

Thanks I thought that was Frances Reid in the picture that this clip has.

[@IamTaliaIsrael]

My grandma and her best friend sista holiday use to watch these stories religiously! they'd be on the phone watching them together 😂 they'd talk about about everything that was happening 😂I miss those days so much

[@lindauribe6872]

Oh these adverts we all loved 😍

[@kirkmorgan-austin1187]

This must be the window of time when the 1st Ellen left and the time Patricia Bruder came on.I wish there was a show with the first Ellen.

[@marvinway4476]

The chemistry between Mark Rydell and Rosemary Prinz.

[@lindauribe6872]

lol I do use comet and use to watch this soap with my baby son.. Memories 💜

[@MrCraigblaze]

Thanks for the upload !! Nice to see Grace wants to really solve the problem !!

[@ErickGainesSanders]

Ahhh, Rosemary Prinz as the legendary Penny Hughes. It's so shameful that she wasn't included in the finale, nor was she at her mother Nancy's funeral or the 50th Anniversary in 2006. And Mark Rydell as Jeff Baker--truly the first true soap opera supercouple.

[@Marcus-yk3kn]

This was Great 🙏

[@HighSierraDawn]

The cheesy organ music is so soothing.

[@pennybourban3712]

I'm reminded of the ignorant and secretive way addictions used to be treated. It was bold for 1960.

[@deewilson3239]

The announcer for comet...Mel Blanc

[@sharoncalay150]

Wow the beautiful Francis Reid from Days of our lives

[@marcelparker6755]

Grace Baker was a LOT less understanding compared to Alice Horton...

[@MrCraigblaze]

I guess so . And wouldn't discourage Jennifer Horton NOT to have sex .I LOVE the organ music !! 🤣🤣 Thank God Barbara Ryan isn't around yet !!

[@asheisadora]

Was Grace Jeff's mother? I don't remember her.

[@marcelparker6755]

@@asheisadora Yes

[@anncarper8163]

This isn't an English soap opera. It's American.

[@fromthesidelines]

Kinnies like these were often "bicycled" (through the mail) to stations that aired the program several weeks AFTER the original telecast. The "pre-recorded" network I.D. in the middle- and at the end- replaced the original that might have mentioned a "current" program airing that evening, or the next day {i.e. 8/22/60- "See Dick Van Dyke in 'The Trouble With Richard' on 'NEW COMEDY SHOWCASE', tonight on the CBS Television Network."/"Tony Bennett, Arlene Dahl and George Jessel are Sam Levenson's guests on 'CELEBRITY TALENT SCOUTS', tonight on the CBS Television Network."}.

[@tomservo56954]

Just what WAS the Trouble with Richard?

[@fromthesidelines]

At 13:52, a 30 second "station identification break" appeared.

[@rivaridge7211]

Thanks for the post, but my I politely point out that "As the World Turns" was an American soap opera?

[@marvinway4476]

OMG, Frances Reid😊

[@Noworwhenever55]

Wow, a 1960s commercial with a man washing the dishes, I am very surprised!

[@daddy2299]

Don't be. Men were present in almost every commercial geared to women but to VALIDATE the woman's viewpoint. You know, like a Man had say the product was OK.

[@rivaridge7211]

I was almost exactly a four-year old boy at the time of this 08/22/60 ATWT broadcast. My mom would stand me up on a kitchen chair (next to the sink) and have me wash and rinse the dishes. No kidding here! (I am not sure if we used "Joy," however!) She always claimed that I did an excellent job - well, maybe I did (LOL!) In any case, mom loved her "stories" (as the soaps were often called back in the day) and I well recall watching a good many of them with her. Today, I enjoy looking back at these very fun soap opera treasures, out here on KZbin, with a smile. P.S. I was no child servant - I loved cleaning those dishes and I knew mom was treating me like an older and responsible child. I realized this even then - It was her best gift to me when I think of it today. Cheers to all!

[@ericlarsen4050]

0:35 - 29 cents a gallon for gas. My goodness.

[@ericsamuelson5656]

28:39 Enjoy "Full Circle" on the CBS Television Network

[@donnagelina8548]

LOL This was a week before I was born.

[@gianni1388]

Enter Gianni: Gianni: [Organ Music ] As the World TUR (my abuela’s maiden name! Shea: [breaking through something, somehow] A small and early, dear! Gianni: Yes! A small and early, this morning….Dear?

[@m.e.d.7997]

Comet is still the BEST!

[@lindauribe6872]

I should have used Joy than my 77 year old hands would look 16 again Sigh 😥

[@victoriahanke5086]

It cracks me up that the doctors smoked in these shows!!🤣

[@itiswhatitaintanditaintwha1427]

Is that Frank Cady announcing during the first Comet commercial? Sounds like Sam Drucker!

[@tomservo56954]

No...but in the Joy ad that is the voice of Wilma Flintstone, Jean VanderPyle, as Grace.

[@user-rz8bu6vl8x]

Anyone know what happened to Penny?

[@ClassicSoapOperas]

no i don't know.

[@JosephPratt1986]

Something isn't quite right here. If "As the World Turns" was a live soap opera back in 1960, why does it say, "The preceding program was pre-recorded" at the end of the show?

[@kavan30013]

Joseph Pratt-Probably live on tape for the West Coast.

[@JosephPratt1986]

kavan30013 Very interesting. It still aired live on the East Coast, of course, right?

[@allmc2008]

+Joseph Pratt yes

[@templetolleson]

This is a kinescope (a film in which the camera is aimed at a television monitor). The kinescopes were sent to stations which didn't air the program live, and stations would air the program on a one (or several) day delay. They were, as the other users have noted, also used for the West Coast feed.

[@hebneh]

Probably the show was live in the Eastern and Central time zones, and was videotaped at the same time. Then taped version would then have been transmitted via cable to the Mountain and Pacific time zones respectively over the next two hours. A kinescope version - that is, a 16mm film shot of a TV screen showing the program - would also have been made, to mail to places outside the continental USA. That's what this is. Often the only surviving copies of some '50s and '60s television shows are such kinescopes. I live in Hawaii and until the 1980s, all our network TV programs were delayed a week because they had to be sent to us as 16mm films or videotapes. Nothing was live (or even was shown the same day) till the cost of satellite usage became inexpensive enough for daily programs to be sent that way.

[@MrJoeybabe25]

Were all TV soaps live in 1960?

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

All the ones broadcast from NYC were.

[@asheisadora]

I remember all the characters except Grace. Who was she?

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

jeff's mother