Unknown Facts About As The World Turns.
As the World Turns was one of television’s longest running series and has many secrets, facts, and stories that most people aren’t aware of. Here are some of those facts:
As the World Turns produced 13,661 episodes before it was cancelled and ran from April of 1956 until September of 2010.
When the soap opera Another World was cancelled in 1999, several of its characters moved and started to appear on As the World Turns.
As the World Turns was performed live until 1975 when they began to tape it pre-recorded instead.
When President Kennedy was assassinated November 22, 1963 the show was interrupted by the news broadcast announcing the assassination but the actors kept performing and so a full copy of the episode still exists to this day.
As the World Turns was originally only a half hour long show. It expanded to one hour on December 1, 1975. It was only the third soap opera and the first on CBS to expand to airing for a full hour.
As the World Turns didn’t begin to air in color until it had been on the air for nearly 11 years. Color broadcasts of the show began on February 20, 1967.