Thank You ATWT!!

[Soapsuds]

A big thank you to all the actors who have come ang gone and to those who have stayed. Thanks to Douglas Marland, a true genious, for the magic of the 80's. Thanks to everyone assoicated with the show from the writers to the producers/directors all the way to lighting. Thanks for giving me almost 40 years of enjoyment. I will truly miss my show. It will be a truly sad day on Sept 17, 2010.A BIG F U C K you to Goutman and Pissy for ruining my show. I truly wish you both would stay unemployed for all the grief you put me and all the ATWT fans through. A [!@#$%^&*] you to FMB for firing my Connor, Allison Rice Taylor. And another f u ck you to John Valente for starting the ball rolling by firing the first vets like Patricia Bruder.So many actors and people associated with ATWT to thank that I will just let the credits role(my favorite theme song btw)......Once again Thank You and you will be truly missed<OBJECT width=480 height=385><PARAM NAME="movie" VALUE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhpjJoS9GL0?fs=1&hl=en_US"><PARAM'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhpjJoS9GL0?fs=1&hl=en_US"><PARAM NAME="allowFullScreen" VALUE="true"><PARAM NAME="allowscriptaccess" VALUE="always"><embed src=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhpjJoS9GL0?fs=1&hl=en_US type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></OBJECT><OBJECT width=480 height=385><PARAM NAME="movie" VALUE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJRgPYNQZfA?fs=1&hl=en_US"><PARAM'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJRgPYNQZfA?fs=1&hl=en_US"><PARAM NAME="allowFullScreen" VALUE="true"><PARAM NAME="allowscriptaccess" VALUE="always"><embed src=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJRgPYNQZfA?fs=1&hl=en_US type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></OBJECT><OBJECT width=480 height=385><PARAM NAME="movie" VALUE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyV3wfW9QBA?fs=1&hl=en_US"><PARAM'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyV3wfW9QBA?fs=1&hl=en_US"><PARAM NAME="allowFullScreen" VALUE="true"><PARAM NAME="allowscriptaccess" VALUE="always"><embed src=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyV3wfW9QBA?fs=1&hl=en_US type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></OBJECT><OBJECT width=480 height=385><PARAM NAME="movie" VALUE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvdoG4yF2p0?fs=1&hl=en_US"><PARAM'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvdoG4yF2p0?fs=1&hl=en_US"><PARAM NAME="allowFullScreen" VALUE="true"><PARAM NAME="allowscriptaccess" VALUE="always"><embed src=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvdoG4yF2p0?fs=1&hl=en_US type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></OBJECT>

[DRW50]

Thanks ATWT for reminding me of the best of family and friendship, and for so many wonderful Thanksgivings, Christmases, Memorial Days.

And such moving, touching, fascinating characters on a show which rarely got enough credit for just how complex it could be.

I don't want to say goodbye to ATWT, even if I know I already did long ago. But then we're never really saying goodbye as long as we have our memories.

Nancy and Chris, and Iva, and Frannie, and Bob and Kim, and Barbara, and Hal, and John and Lucinda, Ellen and David, Duncan, Shannon, Jessica, Julie, MDM's Caleb, Carly, Seth, Angel, Lisa, Andy, Margo, Tom, Meg and Josh, Emma, Kirk, Samantha, SB's Craig, Susan, Emily, Cal, Connor, Evan, Edwina, JW's Linc, Larry, Henry, Rose, Sierra, Camille, Betsy, and so many others.

Oakdale was, for such a long time, a place you could call home. You knew how people would react. You knew everyone would learn the latest twist or turn and reflect on their own lives. You knew people would have conversations, and laugh and cry and gossip and care. You always knew loved ones would return for special occasions and if they didn't there's be a good reason why. You could put your faith in the show and treat it as someone you loved, not just something you sit in front of to waste time.

I don't think anyone but a soap fan can ever understand how much soaps meant to so many people and the power of what a soap can do. My only wish for ATWT is that those who always made me feel better have the happiness and peace they deserve, and that this show's best years serve as a point for future writers and producers who can make soaps what they should be again, wherever the soap form may be.

And I hope all my relatives who watched ATWT for many years and who are no longer here are sitting with Irna Phillips and Doug Marland for the last episode...

[Bright Eyes]

I hope Ed Trach can be with Irna, Doug and your relatives too.

[Soapsuds]

Ed Trach ..sigh.....then we got MDD...ugh!

[Cat]

This is the classiest kind of thread and I'm so glad it's on DTS. It is important to give thanks to all those people over the years who toiled to bring ATWT to life every weekday for 40 years.

Though ATWT was never "my" soap, I can understand what you all must feel as you prepare to say farewell to the show you have loved. I've said goodbye to more soaps than I care to remember. And I fully understand Carl's assessment that he said goodbye a long time ago, but that it is still no less a moving experience.

There was a few years where I found ATWT unmissable -- 1993 and 1994. I'd get goosebumps watching it and I'd run home to watch it. Holden had amnesia and did not remember Lily. Lily, heartbroken, left Oakdale and married Damian Grimaldi in Italy. Good lord I loved that triangle. I also loved Emily running M&A in direct competition with Lucinda. It was so great seeing these two women run these international conglomerates, one a vixenish upstart, the other the grande dame of Oakdale! And John & Lucinda, and Lucinda's brother played by Terry Lester... good times.

Carl is right. These stories and characters live on... in one's memories and heart.

[All My Shadows]

:( Sigh.

I'm so much younger than you all, I almost feel out of place because by the time I started watching ATWT myself, it was already circling the drain. But I don't know...there's something about ATWT, and it's always been there, that made it different, that separated it from all of the other soaps. It has its own unique look and feel, and that became even more evident once GL switched over to Hillsvision. Maybe it was a P&G thing.

Thank you to the entire cast, the entire crew, and every single person who ever contributed anything to the legendary As the World Turns. You've all given us something to enjoy and now remember forever. Afternoons will never be the same.

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[Soapsuds]

Almost anything 80's is worth watching AMS. There is a lot of new 80's ATWT clips on Youtube. Like Cat said the show was good up to 94. I think that was the last great year besides Hogan's first year.

[DRW50]

I thought 1995 was pretty decent, I preferred it to 1994, but 1994 also had some moments.

If not for all the wonderful episodes and clips on Youtube I'm not entirely sure I would have gotten back into ATWT or GL. I had only let myself remember the worst because I did not want to get burned again. Those scenes reminded me of the best and helped me decide to come back for the end.

[All My Shadows]

It's funny that you say that, because I was kinda the same way. I didn't really express any interest in ATWT because I was knee deep in AMC at the time, and ATWT seemed too slow, maybe even a little too depressing to me. It was really a lot of the discussion of old school World Turns on WoST that made me tune into the show. I liked it a lot for a good two or three years, but then the bad days started to outnumber the good days, and it just became easier to stop watching regularly.

Thank God for YouTube and similar sites. The networks and the production companies have all but rested on the decision that soaps can not and will never generate any secondary interest. It's totally and completely false.

[dsvd79]

The world stopped Turning when Douglas Marland died. Sheffer brought it back with some CPR, but then it just spun crooked on its axis.

[DRW50]

I would also give credit to Richard Culliton. 1995 was a better ATWT year than most of what I can remember since.

[Soapsuds]

I pretty much agree with both of you. Sad that there is just 4 episodes left.

[Soapsuds]

Thank You...Kathryn Hays, Don Hastings, Colleen Zenk, Larry Bryggman and Eric Sheffer Stevens for outstanding performance on Sept 1, 2 and 3 episodes of ATWT.