As The World Turns Full Episode List

[Brolden]

Another thing I've just noticed is that the episode numbers between the confirmed April 27, 1979 and June 17, 1980 episodes line up perfectly. 

If it is true that all of these episodes aired, it means that 1979 had no pre-emptions for Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Year's Eve, nor did 1980 have a pre-emption for New Year's Day. 

Another thing, though, is that UCLA has episode #6055 in their collection, which according to their info was taped on (Wednesday) August 29, 1979. Following the above logic, that episode would have aired on (Tuesday) September 4, 1979, less than a week after taping. Does anyone know if that sounds about right for those days?

[Brolden]

Ok, so I've recently been digging into some historial newspapers to find listings, and I have reason to believe that in 1981 Thanksgiving Friday was NOT pre-empted. 

 

I realize that although I've assumed both Thanksgiving days to have been pre-empted from the early 80s onwards, I have no actual Thanksgiving Friday pre-emptions confirmed before 1986, forcing me to re-think a lot of the info I have on the early 80s. I'll need to do some double checking on the years between 1979 and 1986, which will take some time. I only wish I had found this before real life started to kick back in again, but I'm really happy about this info regardless.

To be continued...

[adrnyc]

 

Am happy to help! You’ve done such an amazing job of collecting as much information as you can. It’s a big help for me in my watch of the series to discover just what’s out there. Will let you know if I find anything else.

[Paul Raven]

I found a premption for Y&R that may apply to ATWT

 

June 11 2004 Ronald Reagan's funeral coverage

[Brolden]

 

I have an episode synopsis for that day by CBS itself (was on their website, retrieved through the internet archive), so that pre-emption did not apply to ATWT.

 

Still, thanks for letting me know!

[Paul Raven]

July 7 1995 Margaret Reed's final appearance as Shannon

[Brolden]

munecojim has been uploading a lot recently. Mostly not new episodes though.

 

 

 

^ This episode, by my count, was not previously on YT.

 

 

 

 

 

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^ not previously on YT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Paul Raven]

Some 1997 dates

 

Mar 4 Lewis Arlt last date as Judge Shaw - Lily's trial

April 12 Anjelica Torn debuts as Kit (Lily's prison inmate)

Edited January 29, 2020 by Paul Raven

[Paul Raven]

1995 appearance info

April 16 Maura West's debuts as Carly

April 18 John Dauer debuts as Jeremy

Nov 2 Lynn Milgrim's final appearance as Orlena

 

1997

Aug 15 Emmy Rossum debuts as Abigail

             Hilary Scott as Abigail's friend

[Brolden]

@Paul Raven I'm super thankful, as always, for all the info you provide! I'll add these in as soon as I have a moment. Keep up the good work.

[Brolden]

As I mentioned a bit earlier, I have been going over some TV listings in historical newspapers that can be browsed online. I have started a brand new file, in which I am slowly, but surely retracing all of my steps, to ensure that no mistakes are made. That will obviously take some time (but it's also surprisingly fun). 

I'm systematically going over some of the major recurring pre-emptions, to see when they started, leading to some surprising and interesting finds. First up: the US Open. 

For as long as I can remember, the show was always pre-empted on the Monday and Friday of the first full week of September. I knew those pre-emptions date back to the late 80's at least, because nearly all of September 1989 is on YT. I already had those pre-emptions verified from 1987 onwards, with no idea as to how much longer they had been going on. I did find somewhere that CBS aired the US Open from 1968 onwards, but it said nothing about specific dates or pre-emptions. 

The newspapers I've found have led to some discoveries. First off, there was a period in which only the Monday was pre-empted, not the Friday. I found the Friday to have been pre-empted from 1982 onwards, while the episode aired regularly in 1981. The Mondays were pre-empted a lot longer. I found it was pre-empted in 1977, but not in 1972. The years in between are a bit more vague, unfortunately, but my current hypothesis is that the Monday episode was pre-empted from 1976 onwards, while it aired in 1975 and before. 

Having said that, I'm still trying to get used to reading American TV listings (which, honestly, are quite complicated). I wonder if someone with more experience could shed some light on the clipping below, from the September 5, 1976 edition of a paper called The Journal. As you'll see, it lists As The World Turns in the 1.30 timeslot twice: once with the number 3 in front of it, and once with the number 7 (in black ánd in white) in front of it. I'm assuming these are different stations/affiliates? The latter listing clearly states that the show would be pre-empted on Monday September 6, 1976. The former listing seems to suggest it aired all week.

What I think this means, is that on the the show was pre-empted on some stations/affiliates, while airing regularly on others. If that is the case, I'm assuming I shoudn't count the pre-emption, as a new episode did air (just not on all stations/affiliates). I would be super thankful if someone could help me decipher this. 

 

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[~bl~]

I was wondering does the above listing include Canadian stations? As far as I know Coronation Street and Crown Court, which are both UK shows were only seen by US audiences if they lived near the Canadian border. This could explain the weirdness with ATWT (or it could be a typo), - also it is possible that the 1:30 pm airing was a rerun or rather a delayed airing of the previous Friday's episode- (of course this tech may not have existed in the mid-70s) to do this, so I can't be certain.  

[Paul Raven]

I would assume that ATWT was not shown on some affiliates and viewers either missed it or were able to watch it on another affiliate if they lived in a particular area that could pick up both stations.

I don't believe that stations had a late night showing of a pre-empted episode until years later.

 

Some more dates

1995

July 27 Claire Bloom's last day as Orlena

July 31 Lynn Milgrim debuts as Orlena

 

1996

Dec 4 Barbara Garrick's first appearance as Rita

Dec 24 Cassandra Creech debuts as Denise

 

1998

Sept 14 Jordana Brewster's last ep as Nikki.