Premiered
Apr 2, 1956
As the World Turns
About
Created as a companion to Guiding Light, the show was a slow-moving character study of the people in the fictional town of Oakdale, Illinois.
Trivia
Marked the second longest running soap opera at 54 years, it was the most watched daytime drama between 1958 to 1978. It was named Outstanding Daytime Drama Series by the Daytime Emmys in 1987, 1991, 2001, and 2003.
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