Even today, the commercials are sort of comforting, and I always loved the organ music On this show. Ahhh childhood in the fifties and sixties! 🙏🕊♥️🌞🇺🇸
My Mom watched this from 1956 to the end. Jeez,she's 87 and remembers it all...Jeffs death, Lisa and the Willows, the Bookshop, Barbara fashion store....
So did mine. When she mentioned a Hughes daughter named Susan drowning, I realized that my mother saw the original opening episode of this show in 1956.
I grew up watching this show. This is a little more dramatic than I remember. What I remember from the old episodes is David, Chris, Nancy and Grandpa having their coffee together and tut-tutting over Lisa.
I remember this show being on our one tv (black and white) in the early 60's before I started 1st grade and she went back to work in 1966. I think it was still on our tv in 1965 when I was in kindergarten since kindergarten was only a half day. Back then you walked to school, even kindergarten. My mother walked with me the first day and that was it, I walked alone or with other kids everyday after. First grade was an even farther walk, you would walk over a half mile to school (catholic school, no cafeteria, no gym just a parking lot with a basketball backboard and net, walk home for lunch, walk back to school for the afternoon and then walk home again.
Wow, great comment - I think we may have gone to the same school! At age five (1961) I mostly walked alone to my Kindergarten school - having to cross two very busy intersections. Usually, I walked with neighbor/classmate, "Donna," but I was often alone when I missed her. Those walks scared the hell out of me - especially when by myself. In first grade, I was at a different school, but largely with the same scenario. Years later, I asked my mom WTH was she thinking (?) and I got the most blank look. Mom replied that she knew I was a "smart kid" and could "handle it." Erm, well, okay Mom, thanks for that vote of confidence...All these years later, I still have this recurring ("bad") dream about trying to cross the most busy/wide street imaginable, and getting caught in the middle when the light changes before I can make it across. Well, I did survive - thanks for your thought provoking comment. Cheers to all!
I started watching this with my mom sometime in the 1970's. Loved it to the end. The episodes before my time I find more interesting, partly because back then life was so simple, and it puts a smile on my mom's face, which is unusual these days.
I remember this story very well. My favorite episode was the argument between Ellen and the Stewart housekeeper who threatened to tell Dan that Ellen was his mother. A struggle ensued and Ellen shoved the woman down the stairs, killing her. Ellen landed in jail. Then we were given memorable episodes of Ellen in jailbird wardrobe. I loved it. It was great soap opera fun for a sickly school kid who spent those days looking at four walls. Another favorite episode came later when the grown up brothers Dan and Paul were having a fist fight and Paul's toupee fell off - on live TV. What a surprise for the viewers!
As Fred Gavin said she Killed Franie, the Housekeeper, with a vase as I remember it. She threw it across the room striking her. Of course it was on a FRIDAY, so the suspense was unbearable. This shows the great drama and acting ATWT was capable of.
There was a pair of statuettes on the bookcase. Ellen's weapon was one of the statuettes which became evidence. The other one remained on the set for months as the story developed.
omg! I remember that!. I must have been 4 or 5 years old! Eating my lunch, playing with my toys while mom watched ATWT. I knew who Ellen and Lisa were before I had ever heard of Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey.
@@38ddkelly It's also why folks remember the earlier characters and storylines so well. There was an intimate feel to the scenes, which drew the viewer into them. Dialogue was longer and more conversational and natural and scenes were longer with fewer people.
Fascinating margarine comparison...corn oil Mazola, with the ahead of her time mom concerned about hydrogenated fats, and traditional Nucoa, with the animated mother voiced by Janet Waldo.
As the World Turns may have had a long run-only The Talk is occupying the time slot 2:PM ET/1 CT,RMT and PT.Whatever that big announcement planned Tuesday shall concern the firing to DINGHY,EVE & SHERYL.
