I watched an episode of this in 1989 and was hooked from the off!!! I have recently started re-watching episodes of this on TY and I am so grateful to whoever uploads these as I am so enjoying them.Brilliant storytelling, well-thought out characters and the acting is second-to-none. I was gutted when this was cancelled in 1999 as I feel it still had legs.I am very familiar with the years from 1989 till about 1993-94 as that's when I watched it in the UK but am always striving to collect episodes from different periods of the show.My favourite characters were Jake, Pauline (both versions), Rachel, Frankie and Vicky (Anne Heche incarnation).I highly recommend this show (above all the other American soaps of that time).For me, it's definitely the best one going!!! Still

The best villains on daytime came out of this show. Though I watched it from the beginning, the early years did not grip me as much as when the series took off in the mid-70s with Mac and Iris. The show lost some luster when Beverlee McKinsey left for her own limelight. But, the series really ended with the death of Douglass Watson and limped along for a few years, but even in death he had an influence on story lines, and his photo was always part of the show the next decade. The return every few years of Carl Hutchins proved amusing, as he and Cecile were always hilarious in their nefarious plans to undermine Bay City. I look for the actors to see if they are busy, but see them less and less each year. Cass Wintrop is on commercials for pain relievers, looking much the same. Every once in a while, I suffer a pang and wonder what the characters would be like today... Gone ten years this summer of 2009. What a shame.

I started watching this show in 1984 when Sally and Catlin were in trouble and Cecile disappeared in the tunnel of love, they were all involved in the David Thatcher murder storyline - i was 13 years old in a new town and had no friends, the one friend i made watched Days of Our Lives, AW came on after it, I watched it for 15 years and was shocked it was cancelled! now i watch As The World Turns, this month is my 20th anniversary for watching a 1 hour soap continuously for 20 years! THANKS NBC FOR AIRING THIS SHOW, BUT SINCE YOU CANCELLED IT I NEVER WATCHED ANYTHING ELSE ON YOUR NETWORK EVER AGAIN! ERIC

Instead of lambasting NBC for cancelling this show, "AW" fans should be grateful the network kept it around as long as it did. This show had no continuity and underminded its own rich past repeatedly. Any show that would fire serial legend Jacquie Courtney (Alice Frame) not once -- but twice -- deserves the axe. In its last 15 years, "AW" was a meandering, pallid borefest that made a TV test pattern seem like "Masterpiece Theatre." Victoria Wyndham -- the show's remaining link to its past at the end -- somehow acquired costar Charles Keating's Shakesperean lilt, making a character she so effectively recreated unrecognizable to veteran viewers (apparently, there weren't many of us). I'm grateful final executive producer Chris Goutman is now with a show that actually gives him something to work with, for "As the World Turns" is a thoroughly entertaining showcase with creative plots, top-notch veterans, and intriguing newcomers. Oakdale -- and, dare I say, even Harmony -- is a much more exciting place to visit than Bay City.