Was the Jimmy story mentioned in the Digest recaps? I can't remember. I remember Tina and the big handkerchief that you posted...(the recap, not the handkerchief).

Kevin and Sandy married. I'm not sure what went on then - didn't he go on a drunken self-destructive rampage and die in a car crash?

They could have brought Sandy back when Bob and Kim split up. She could have comforted a lonely Ellen, had a spark with Bob, which would have annoyed Kim as well as quasi-rival Susan. Jimmy could have been in the age group with the Snyder brothers or a little older.

May 1977 Digest.

June 1977 Digest.

Love the fashion spread! Re outfit #5 -Would you iron it or water it??

Some more classic ATWT pix

Penny and Don (Richard Holland)

Brad and Margo

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That's a good one about outfit #5. You can really see Kathryn's fashion model background here.

I love those photos. I hadn't seen most of those before. I don't ever remember who Biff was.

I still can't believe they had that man Brad as some type of hunk. He looks like the neighbor on My Sister Sam.

Carol Burnett's soap spoof

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Using this list http://daytimeroyalt...610/1/?x=20#new does anyone know if As the World Turns was the first original concept soap opera Irna Phillips created for television? Mainly, what was her first soap creation that wasn't based off of a previous radio show, film, or book?

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September 22, 1987 Digest.

Using this list http://daytimeroyalt...610/1/?x=20#new does anyone know if As the World Turns was the first original concept soap opera Irna Phillips created for television? Mainly, what was her first soap creation that wasn't based off of a previous radio show, film, or book?

It was indeed. I quoted this essay on ATWT by Matt P. Smith for his Soap History project several years ago and posted this a few pages back but I've bolded below the parts you're looking for, hope it helps:

For years, creator Irna Phillips wanted to write a 30-minute soap. She had originally proposed merging the successful The Guiding Light (which she had created for radio in 1937) and the successful Search for Tomorrow (created by Roy Winsor), both Procter & Gamble soaps, into one 30-minute super soap. Both P&G and CBS balked at that idea. The established belief at the time was that 15 minutes of angsty soap opera was about as much as the audience could stand from one show. Irna was not convinced of this and began to develop a new soap opera that would run for 30 minutes a day with the help of her long-time protégé and fellow soap writer Agnes Nixon (Nixon had already been the first head writer of Search and had been writing episodes of TGL). CBS agreed to air the soap, but there was some disagreement over when to air it.

*snip*

Irna created and wrote CBS especially for television unlike earlier soap offerings that were either old radio soaps moved to TV or were based on radio soap conventions. Also, instead of including twice as many characters and storylines in the 30-minute soap as would have been in the 15-minute soap, she didn’t. Instead, Irna used the extra time to explore ever facet and nuance of a story. It was ATWT that brought about the endless discussions over cups of coffee where characters would sit and discuss the problems of their friends and family as well as their own problems. ATWT also pioneered the tactic of the long single shot of a character reacting to a statement or event before cutting to commercial. And, in addition to traditional soap problems, ATWT allowed characters to experience real life. Scenes would be allotted to discussions of everyday events. Thanks to ATWT, we got to know each and every single character intimately – their hopes, their dreams, their fears, their opinions on the events happening around them. In fact, so much discussion was going on that the plotlines moved very little. Truthfully, though, in those early years, there was only one true storyline – the extramarital affair of prominent attorney Jim Lowell with Edith Hughes and the effect that affair had on both the Hughes and Lowell families.

That's a good one about outfit #5. You can really see Kathryn's fashion model background here.

I love those photos. I hadn't seen most of those before. I don't ever remember who Biff was.

I still can't believe they had that man Brad as some type of hunk. He looks like the neighbor on My Sister Sam.

That wasn't Brad..that was some bad 70's musician, that was friend of Margos. However, the guy who played Brad was not a hunk either.

Those photos crack me up, especially the bad stage show with Fulton. I can't imagine sitting through that kind of thing. Funny, was Jay supposed to be a blue collar butch kind of guy, as the actor looks quite, uh, not butch.

So that magazine above is from around 1973, 74?

I think Fulton's fun stage shows might have been more entertaining than her serious singing, which doesn't do a lot for me (although her rendition of "As the World Turns" in her 50th anniversary episode was sort of haunting).