AS THE WORLD TURNS - Complete Final Episode - 9/17/10

[@katkat521]

A show that was a part of my life for 47 years. I miss it to this day.

[@inthewoods80]

This always makes me cry. I was a child when I watched this with my Great Grandmother

[@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc]

I was a child when I watched the soap opera with my mom. Her favorite character was Dr. John Dixon.

[@LostNNYGal]

Started to cry as soon as I started to watch. I miss you all so much. 😘🥲🤗😢😢❤

[@lisamiller8335]

Miss this soap opera so much would record it every day

[@T-Rex-nm1se]

One of my grandmas favorite soap operas along with the young and the restless. I miss you so much grandma. The good days when you babysat me as a little kid and you were watching ATWT and Y&R. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 Rest in peace Grandma 1936-2011

[@cakelady-rh5og]

Yessss I feel you on this this show makes me miss my grandma even more 😢

[@maryirizarry-ll4hu]

I miss ATWT. My late Mom and I, watched it together, every day. I miss my Mom, so much!

[@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc]

As the World Turns was cancelled because the storylines in the last ten years before the show left the air were terrible. Constant recasting of characters was a huge turnoff.

[@maryirizarry-ll4hu]

@@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc I respectfully disagree. I thought the show was great until the very last episode. It was canceled because it was getting too expensive for the network to produce. It's much cheaper to produce talk shows. This is the very same reason why Guiding Light was canceled. It's all about money, not the fans. Sad to see the soap opera genre fading into the abyss.

[@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc]

@@maryirizarry-ll4hu My mother loved The Guiding Light. She cried when the soap was canceled.

[@Boygonebad]

The only soap I watched. Started watching with my mom in 1984 (85-91 was the best era of ATWT) while she watched it from debut episode.

[@sandysmom100]

I started watching in 79 or 80 with my mom ...I miss it a lot .

[@keleennichols8509]

I was in the 4th grade in Clinton ,Tenn. Where I had my first recollection of ATWT. That was about 1953 I believe. Could have been ‘54. Penny was a teen ager, Bob and Lisa were madly in love and Pennys Aunt was carrying on behind everyone’s back with Ellen’s dad on their lunch hour. I would run home from school to watch it with my mother. I grew up with those Huses(miss spelled). I watched it up until after my children were born and half grown and I needed to go to work outside the home. Then it was taped. I had saved the last tape in my forever collection only to come home one day and found my son AND his father had taped a Dallas Cowboy football game over the top of my precious AS THE WORLD TURNS!!! Can anyone top this. That was in the 1980’s. I’m still mad at those two about that. Still Fuming

[@MrIveyIsBonkers]

@@keleennichols8509 Well it couldn't have been '53 or '54 because the show started in '56.

[@DeepScreenAnalysis]

I was really disgusted by the lack of respect for the Lisa character in this final episode, who was an integral part of this soap's success in the glory years. Resigned to a hallway and being a third wheel for John and Lucinda? That was so utterly wrong. Eileen Fulton is a soap legend and she deserved preferential time in this finale.

[@jusssayin480]

I believe the writers were angry with her for previously speaking out against them for not giving long term older characters storylines. So they wrote a nasty ending for her. It was disrespectful for sure.

[@CountryWatchdog]

@@jusssayin480 Someone should have called out each writer by NAME for doing this. They're pieces of SHIT!

[@skycubphilly]

Still upset to this day about this. Final scene should of been Lisa and Bob.

[@samuellavon4846]

​​@@skycubphillyI totally agree with you on this. Bob, Lisa, Tom, and Kim should have closed it out together telling each other good night and Bob turning to the audience and saying good night.

[@zyante1]

I wish all the episodes were available to watch online from the early years to the end

[@jcll0492]

10 years today.... 😭😭😭😭😭😭 I remember the commercials and everything!! ATWT will always be in my ❤️

[@bessielewis9127]

Yes

[@domi6107]

This was one of my favorite soaps.

[@karlakor]

My mother watched As The World Turns when it debuted in 1956 and she followed it through most of its run. During the 190s, when she was working, we would videotape the show on our VHS videocassette recorder, and she would watch the show when she got home from work. I used to watch it with her before I was old enough to start school, and I remember Grandpa Hughes, Judge Lowell, and especially Chris and Nancy Hughes and their children Bob and Penny. I actually remember the episode in which Penny married Jeff Baker. The series was broadcast live in those days, and I remember several mistakes and fortten lines through the years. I feel I honor my mother when I write these memories.

[@Naminski1a]

At the end of the final episode of As the World Turns on CBS, I can hear the theme music from The Prince of Tides (1991). It's from Columbia Pictures.

[@SuberbanCountryGirl2030]

They need to bring it back I miss guiding light and as the world turns so much

[@vistatiger7493]

What a soap and way to go out! First Class!

[@bessielewis9127]

I miss this soap

[@chrismcevoy2503]

Bob Hughes was a wonderful COS at Oakdale Memorial.

[@adrianbush085]

I Missed As The World Turns So Much I Loved Soaps When I Was Little

[@chrisamon80]

I love this CBS daytime soap opera As the World Turns.

[@Auntangieh55]

I agree with what others who stated how they were upset how they treated Lisa on the final show. She wasn't treated very well. But my question is where was Emma Snyder? No she wasn't on as Eileen Fulton; but the Snyders were an integral part of Oakdale for along time. And Emma was the matriarch. She wasn't even mentioned on the final show.

[@zacheryalderton2653]

THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES

[@GenXfrom75]

I miss this show and Guiding Light, so much!

[@matthewcloranmusic7745]

Can someone tell me why Martha Byrne left the show? Anyone remember? Thanks.

[@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc]

Martha Byrne left the soap because of a pay dispute. Martha's husband, Michael McMahon was convicted and thrown in prison.

[@magicandmayhem2561]

Watching these old commercials has been interesting, especially the one with the guy digging a hole while a voice says "we're 13 trillion in debt" 2023 says "hold my shovel!"

[@amiblueful]

Great finale to a great soap opera. I just wish Nancy Hughes was around to say "Good night, Dear."

[@mattb6369]

Father time catches up with all of us. :(

[@tammylewis2408]

My late Mom watched this soap from the beginning and saw it to the end. She and my grandmother watched the episode when Walter Cronkite came on and announced JFK's death in 1963.

[@Jenrae05]

Once this and Guiding Light were canceled, I pretty much stopped watching daytime TV.

[@shelleymullen8403]

Well, after these were taken off the air soap operas died.

[@pennycowher6328]

Me too

[@minhngoctran1966]

To make room for The Talk

[@karenwatson1661]

Same

[@skycubphilly]

Most of us did. 😢

[@clydepringle2474]

Missing atwt

[@stephaniekelly8754]

Ohhhhhh.. the memories❤❤❤

[@nuph5918]

ATWT Last words: Goodnight.

[@drexel3465]

As the world turns was one of the best shows ever. They had amazing actors like John, Lisa and Lucinda. And memorable writers like Douglas Marland. Cancelling this show was defies bad decision.

[@chrismcevoy2503]

I miss As The World Turns on CBS, but all good things must come to an end.

[@hrh-xj4fh]

The way they treated lisa in this episode was shoddy!! ..tarnished the ending..

[@ManuelGuzman067]

Was bob original cast member

[@randyvest2342]

No. The show premiered in 1956 and Don Hastings joined (as Bob) in 1960.

[@ManuelGuzman067]

@@randyvest2342 so he was the only bob or was there one before him

[@randyvest2342]

latino heat There were two other actors who portrayed Bob between 1956 (the show’s premiere) and 1960 when Hastings took over the role.

[@ManuelGuzman067]

@@randyvest2342 👌 thanks

[@mattb6369]

@@randyvest2342 That's phenomenal. 50 years.

[@chrismcevoy2503]

I’m glad Chris and Katie moved into Tom and Margo’s house.

[@chrismcevoy2503]

Roger Howarth played a great Paul Stenbeck.

[@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc]

I liked Roger Howarth when he played Todd Manning on One Life to Live.

[@chrismcevoy2503]

Paul and Emily made a lovely couple.

[@chrismcevoy2503]

Rest In Peace Brad Snyder.

[@chrismcevoy2503]

I’m happy Katie and Chris got engaged.

[@latinoheat5169]

Best Daytime Drama 🏆 1987 1991 2001 20O3 ATWT 🌎 Cbs

[@mcpeanutful]

What was the point of the globe on the desk lighting up and spinning at the end of the episode?

[@Manuel-zo3wg]

Thought it was 😎 🌎 Globe Spinning Desk at End. Drama was called AS The W 🌎 RLD Turns. CBS

[@mcpeanutful]

@@Manuel-zo3wg You mean the globe on the desk lighting up and spinning was saying "Even though this soap has ended, the world still keeps turning"? Was the lights being turned off supposed to symbolize the end, and the globe lighting up was so people could see it?

[@mcpeanutful]

@@Manuel-zo3wg Wait a minute! Is the light coming from inside the globe, or was there a light above the globe casting a light on the globe as it spins?

[@chrismcevoy2503]

I’m glad Casey and Alison went off to Carbondale to see Will and Gwen.

[@chrismcevoy2503]

Maura West played a great Carly Snyder.

[@ManuelGuzman067]

She had a short stint on Ynr as Fiesty Diane Jenkins . they killed her off shame because she was best Diane jenkins ynr had

[@chrismcevoy2503]

Rest In Peace Nancy Hughes.

[@lotsa_nailpolish]

Oh how I miss ATWT 😢 still mad about them killing off Reed, Luke deserved a happy ending too.

[@Lily_of_the_Forest]

Wait! I didn’t watch the last few years. My fav couple was Lily & Holden. Did they end up together or not? I like to think they did, but what is the consensus?

[@T.Calder-dm3by]

I like to think they ended up together. They were my favorite too. Loved them from the beginning.

[@Lily_of_the_Forest]

@@T.Calder-dm3by maybe just my opinion but in the final episode it looks like they are open to the possibility but not going to push it. Let it happen if it is meant to be. That is hopeful, at least. Not how I’d have wanted, but as long as they are willing, there is a way.

[@T.Calder-dm3by]

Holden and Lily have always loved each other. No matter how far apart they were or who they were with. They always find their way back to each other. This time can’t be different. Their love, their chemistry had fans watching for decades. In my mind- they did find their way back to each other. More mature, more accepting and having learned to truly value each other in their lives ( no more 3rd parties interfering) 😊

[@gamevipofficial4883]

I miss ATWT so bad tho

[@loxperience1]

Still remember this day like it was.....YESTERDAY. I fell in love with this 🧼 bc of my mother! I learned about romance, love, family and survival.

[@philipmclaughlin9636]

As The World Turns aired on CBS when the first news report of JFK assassination occurred. 11/22/63

[@chrismcevoy2503]

I remember when Chris got Brad’s heart.

[@matthewcloranmusic7745]

I think it was Reid's heart. Ergo Luke wanting to listen to it.

[@chrismcevoy2503]

I remember when Kim Hughes had heart surgery after having a heart attack.

[@Jenrae05]

John operated her, I remember it too.

[@katiedempsey6404]

@@Jenrae05 that was in late January/early February 1997 when Kim had that pace maker put in. 25 years ago! :)

[@skycubphilly]

Total disrespect for Lisa in this final episode. What a shame.

[@bessielewis9127]

Rip Hal munson..you killed yourself in real life I'm so sorry you had to do that ...

[@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc]

Benjamin Hendrickson committed suicide because he couldn't cope with the deaths of his mother and brother.

[@khambrelllewis1246]

AS THE W🌎RLD TURNS

[@franzschubert9207]

Without Dr. Reid this soap opera was nothing

[@2ToyBoys]

Yeah...he was so great the show is still on the air...../sarcasm/

[@JoeyT1]

🤣

[@franzschubert9207]

@@2ToyBoys This soap opera already had an expiration date long before the character of Dr. Oliver appeared, and it was because all the characters, including the dull Noah, had already gotten bored and the audience had already dropped.😘

[@2ToyBoys]

@franzschubert9207 Then Dr. Stare showed up, and the ratings dropped even further. Check em. The last 9 months were a slog to get through.

[@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc]

@@franzschubert9207 The constant recasting of characters turned me off the show.

[@shadowhunter9835]

I like Katie with Chris. I think they made the right decision recasting Chris cause I don't see the Chris before this one with katie at all. He was too young. My point is I still wish that they never killed off Brad. He should be the one with Katie and the news should've been that Katie was pregnant again.

[@Boygonebad]

Katie was always meant for Simon.

[@shadowhunter9835]

@@Boygonebad Katie and Simon never stayed married. Katie and Brad did. Yes. They had problems but they stayed together.

[@matthewcloranmusic7745]

Katie and Brad all the way.

[@jealousyxkills]

How long did this show last?

[@randyvest2342]

1956 - 2010.

[@donaldhorn1]

@@randyvest2342 gone too soon 😢

[@ericpurkey7502]

@@randyvest2342 My grandmother watched As the world turns 1956 to 1994 that is the year she died.

[@randyvest2342]

@@ericpurkey7502 I grew up with the show. My Mom watched it and I knew who all the characters were before I even started kindergarten. Wonderful memories.

[@a.b.s_productions]

@@ericpurkey7502 My grandmother watched it from day one 1956 until she passed in 2008. She watched all the CBS daytime soaps.

[@LPJISKOOL]

49:07 the one, the only Donna summer! 😍❤️

[@clydeelliott2379]

My friend needs prayer .. I guess.. he just learn he has contracted COVID... 77yrs.. what heck do you say to him after a glorious life.... So stubborn also? Is it a ATWt moment?

[@clydeelliott2379]

Me and him an'it to see....

[@bessielewis9127]

😘😘😘

[@erikpridemore3174]

All of Arizona and all of Florida were happy, and all of Indiana was sad to see As the World Turns end its run on CBS with its final episode as this was a way to say goodbye, and CBS did this with Guiding Light one year earlier, like NBC did with Another World 11 years earlier. And now The Talk and Let's Make a Deal air as replacements to this day on CBS.

[@chrismcevoy2503]

Noelle Beck played a wonderful Lily Snyder.

[@shelleymullen8403]

I loved Martha byrnes so much better.

[@ManuelGuzman067]

@@shelleymullen8403 yes she was the only lily hughes. Just like scott bryce best craig .finn carter best siera . did not care for replacements

[@avphotog]

💚🌎💙

[@seeplusplus5853]

This show seems boring xd

[@dougnish1806]

boring in 1970, boring 2019, gone

[@iramoser6136]

You're an asshole. Go fuck yourself.

[@shelleymullen8403]

Well, he's a man so what does he know. He wouldn't know a good soap opera if it kicked him in the ass.

[@bivio1]

@@shelleymullen8403 Maybe just maybe he might have seen Dark Shadows which was an extraordinary soap opera and captured the hearts of young and old alike.

[@khambrelllewis1246]

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[@khambrelllewis5173]

AS THE W🌎RLD TURNS The Daytime Soap Opera Of All Time On CBS