Here is the exclusive video;

http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/03/26/young-and-the-restless-first-episode-40th/

You haven't seen the full episode of Phillip pleading with Kay for a divorce? Also includes the Fosters learning that Bill is dying and Leslie/Brad.

No, only the "miniepisode" that was (is?) on youtube... i think anyway.

No, only the "miniepisode" that was (is?) on youtube... i think anyway.

!!! It's one of my fave classic soap episodes! The Museum of Broadcast Communications has it available on their site to watch (and illegally download). All you need is to register for a free account: http://archives.museum.tv

I registered but it seems to stop dead whenever it tries to log me in. Blank screen.

It wouldn't let me log in, either, but I did some poking around and saw something about the server having technical difficulties. Sorry I had the episode saved at one point, but I must have deleted it. Actually, I think I still have it on my ipod, so when I get a chance, I'll try to pull it from there and upload it to YT.

I'm just curious as to what other soaps they might have.

Oooh? The only other full episoe from the 70s I remember seeing (I have seen of course the drunk clips of Kay) was the breast cancer episode I believe from 1975.

Yes.. I have goodies in the works.

IIRC, their selection isn't very big (compared to what they have from other genres). Some 1979-1980 GH episodes, two episodes of Peyton Place, two heavily-edited episodes of Dark Shadows, an episode or two of AMC from the late 80s, ATWT's 50th anniversary episodes (and also an 80s ep), a good bit of 50s 15-minute episodes of various soaps. The Y&R ep is probably the biggest "find."

Just wait... your wish will be coming true. wink wink

Wait, what does this mean? Are we getting more 70's episodes in some way soon?

I'd seen part of this but never the full episode. I'm still so impressed at how they cast attractive actors who were not cookie cutter. They look real. Chris was probably the show's main junior leading lady and she looks like someone you could pass on the street.

The most Bill Bell-esque scene was probably that Leslie/Chris scene, where I was amused by some of the dialogue.

I had no idea that Deirdre Hall got the last scene of the first episode. I wish someone could interview her for the anniversary.

That scene of Pierre singing "Theme from a Man and a Woman" to a mostly empty place made me laugh for a while. That's not really a song that I'd want to hear performed.

70s Y&R is really good. It will definitely give you a new perspective on the whole Katherine versus Jill feud. If you ever get to the Paley Center, they have some key episodes there, but for you new soap fans - a warning- it is really slow. Lots of pauses, five minute scenes, lots of flashbacks. If you like that kind of thing, you'll be in heaven.

70s Y&R is really good. It will definitely give you a new perspective on the whole Katherine versus Jill feud. If you ever get to the Paley Center, they have some key episodes there, but for you new soap fans - a warning- it is really slow. Lots of pauses, five minute scenes, lots of flashbacks. If you like that kind of thing, you'll be in heaven.

Don't forget the iconic background music!

What a wonderful premiere episode!! Tom Hallick (Brad Eliot) was so handsome. The Brooks and Foster families were so dynamic and complex, not to mention unique. If only we could see the next episode following this one, if that was the episode which put the spotlight on the Foster family (sans Snapper): Liz, Jill and Greg. Y&R was in a league of its own in its first five years give-or-take. It's a shame, however, that the Brooks and Foster families have been wiped out of existence. The idiocy of the current-era writers making Jill a Fenmore nailed the coffin shut once and for all.

I think online streaming the first ten years (perhaps extending it a few years more, ending with Terry Lester's final performance as Jack) would be a godsend. So many memorable characters and names graced Genoa City during those years.

This first episode was a treat to see. I wish those characters, background music and sets were still on the show today. I noticed the foyer/staircase in the Brooks house was painted solid instead of that ugly 70's mod zig zag wallpaper that was put up in later years that was identical to the paper on the Jefferson's. I also always thought that mod painting at the back of the livingroom was weird.

They need to do a DVD release. Maybe box sets for each decade.

Yay, my first real YouTube upload! Picture quality isn't the best, but it's watchable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly2TxDl-QzY

Loved this era of Y&R. The rivalry between Leslie and Lorie was always my favorite, first with Brad, then with Lance. I do think it's kind of funny that Bell used the sibling writing the family tell-all book in the guise of fiction here because he had done the same thing on Days a few years earlier (in that case it was Greg and Eric Peters who were the siblings). The book titles were even basically the same--In My Sister's Shadow vs. In My Brother's Shadow.