Watch As The World Turns

In America in the forties a culture for stay at home Mom's was created. Those Mothers who were housewives found themselves entertained in the daytime hours by, As the World Turns, a soap opera that has seen generations of actors and began in April of 1956. Since then it has become a part of Americans way of life, and the characters that grace the television are well known for their roles, and can be easily recognized in this society for the characters they portray. As The World Turns story centers around its sister show, The Guiding Light. The show is based in a fictional town called Oakdale,Illinois, where the lives of its inhabitants are the focus of each show. Their every day lives, the dramas they face and create, the affairs they find themselves in, and their individual relationships with family and friends as well as all other aspects of the lives of those who called Oakdale home is the basis of the episodes. The creator of this fictional world is Irna Phillips, one of the foremost writers, and creators of soap opera on the radio, which is where the world of the soap opera began. Her vision became a television show and it took off, changing the way daytime television is viewed. The shows main stars are Terri Conn, Maura West, and Michael Park. It is the second longest running daytime soap opera, only surpassed by its sister show, The Guiding light. For twenty years between 1958 and 1978 As The World Turns was the most watched television soap opera according to Nielson ratings. It had ten million viewers per day tuning in to see what would happen next, as the world turned. The length of the show gave many producers a chance to work in television, including Ted Corday (1956