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80-600: Harry Randell Van Horne Jr. (February 10, 1924 – September 26, 2007) was an American singer and musician. Van Horne's musical group, the Randy Van Horne Singers, performed the theme songs for many classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons including The Flintstones , Top Cat , The Jetsons and The Huckleberry Hound Show . Harry Randell Van Horne Jr. was born on February 10, 1924, in El Paso, Texas . Van Horne dropped out of high school during World War II and enlisted in

160-416: A TAG Heuer stopwatch . Another recent exception is Body of Proof which has no theme song, and barely even has a title sequence. In most television series, the theme song is played during the opening sequence. One exception to this rule is Regular Show , the theme music of which is played only during its ending credits in most episodes. In lieu of its theme music, its opening sequence instead features

240-728: A brief relationship with Joann Curtis (Kay Heberle) in 1977. The serial has won 165 Daytime Emmys, among 360 nominations. The following list summarizes 82 Daytime Emmy awards won by The Young and the Restless : In Canada, the Global Television Network airs new episodes a day ahead of the US broadcast. Most Global stations use The Young and the Restless as a late-afternoon lead-in for their local newscasts, but times vary by market. It also airs on NTV in Newfoundland and Labrador which airs

320-888: A community on U.S. Route 12 in Wisconsin along the Illinois-Wisconsin state line located between their then-home in Chicago and their annual summer vacation spot in Lake Geneva . The Young and the Restless began airing on March 26, 1973, replacing the canceled soap opera, Where the Heart Is . Bell worked as head writer from the debut of the series until his retirement in 1998. He wrote from his home in Chicago while production took place in Los Angeles, California. Originally, Bell wanted to shoot

400-570: A dip to sixth in 1980-81 (its first full season at a full hour, when the first half went against ABC's then-top-rated Family Feud in the Central Time Zone or the second half against the first part of All My Children in the Eastern), it has been one of the five highest-rated soaps since the 1975–76 season. After Feud's decline beginning in 1984 (it would be canceled the next year) and the eventual plateauing of AMC and NBC's Days of Our Lives,

480-418: A large variety of styles, sometimes adapted from existing tunes, and with some composed specifically for the purpose. A few have been released commercially and become popular hits. Other themes, like the music for The Young and the Restless , Days of Our Lives , and Coronation Street have become iconic mostly due to the shows' respective longevities. Unlike others, these serials have not strayed from

560-555: A lead-in to the local noon news for most CBS stations outside the Eastern Time Zone (though some stations in the Central Time Zone opt to air it at 11:30 a.m.). Exteriors used in the late 1980s and early 1990s (and reused years later) included locations in and around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania , including Allegheny General Hospital , One Oxford Centre , the Duquesne Club , Hampton Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania and

640-417: A national scandal when broadcaster CBC Television lost the rights to use the theme in 2008. Most television shows have specific, melodic theme music, even if just a few notes (such as the clip of music that fades in and out in the title sequence for Lost , or the pulsing sound of helicopter blades in the theme music for Airwolf ). One exception is 60 Minutes , which features only the ticking hand of

720-465: A piano arrangement of a medley of the songs " Yes Sir, That's My Baby " and " Jump in the Line ". Botkin wrote a rearranged version of the piece specifically for The Young and the Restless' debut. The song remained unchanged, save for a slight remix in 1988 and a three-year stint in the early 2000s, when an alternate, jazzier arrangement of that tune was used, using portions of the longer closing version of

800-469: A primetime timeslot 20:00-21:00, picking up where Sky left off. This lasted until late 1995. In 2007, Zone Romantica, now CBS Drama , began broadcasting the show weekdays [four years behind US]. In 2009, when CBS went into partnership with and took over the Chellozone Channels the show was relegated to just one showing a day [in favor of repeating shows such as Dynasty and Dallas in the daytime]. It

880-502: A prominent plot in the series. With the success of another iconic character, Kimberlin Brown 's Sheila Carter , Bell successfully crossed her over from The Young and the Restless to his second soap, The Bold and the Beautiful , in 1992. The success of the crossover was due to the creativity of Bell, as the nefarious character of Sheila was presumed to have died in a fire on The Young and

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960-541: A relatively insignificant presence on the show," Bell said. "They didn't have families. Hell, they didn't even have bedrooms. But these became the two characters I would build our two families around." The characters from the Abbott and Williams families were integrated into the series while the Brooks and Foster families, with the exception of Jill, were phased out. The continuity of the feud between Jill and Katherine, which began in

1040-552: A sport include Johnny Pearson 's " Heavy Action " (used for many years as an intro to Monday Night Football ), " Roundball Rock " (composed by John Tesh ) as the theme for the NBA on NBC during the 1990s and early 2000s, and for Fox College Hoops (from 2018–19 to present) and Jr. NBA Championships (2019–present), " Bugler's Dream " (used in ABC and NBC's coverage of the Olympic Games ) and

1120-459: A television watched daily episodes of The Young and the Restless , a series that emphasized family problems, sexual intrigue, and gossip. In Australia, The Young and the Restless airs after Days of Our Lives on Arena . It previously aired on the Nine Network from April 1, 1974, to February 23, 2007, before joining the W lineup from April 2, 2007, to August 17, 2012. On July 20, 2012, it

1200-507: A tone played on a synthesizer overlaid with a ticking sound effect. Notable is the theme for the game show The Price Is Right , reimagined as Crystal Waters 's " Come On Down " which marked the first time that lyrics were added to The Price Is Right theme song and was the first song based on a television theme song (and the first to come from a game show) to reach number 1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart on

1280-448: A valuable source of additional revenue for Hollywood film studios, many of which launched their own recording arms. This period saw the beginning of more methodical cross-promotion of music and movies. One of the first big successes, which proved very influential, was the theme song for High Noon (1952). Theme music has been a feature of the majority of television programs since the medium's inception. Programs have used theme music in

1360-406: Is also currently the highest-rated daytime drama on American television, a rank it has held for 34 years as of the end of the 2021–22 season. As of 2008, it had appeared at the top of the weekly Nielsen ratings in that category for more than 1,000 weeks since 1988. As of December 12, 2013, according to Nielsen ratings, The Young and the Restless marked an unprecedented 1,300 weeks, or 25 years, as

1440-525: Is also syndicated internationally. The Young and the Restless originally focused on two core families: the wealthy Brooks family and the working class Foster family. After a series of recasts and departures in the early 1980s, all the original characters except Jill Foster Abbott were written out. Bell replaced them with new core families, the Abbotts and the Williamses. Over the years, other families such as

1520-469: Is considered the "first to discover sex on a soap opera." During the story, the character is engaged to Chris Brooks ( Trish Stewart ) and having a sexual relationship with Sally McGuire (Lee Crawford). Other plots reflected sexual themes as well. For the first time in the genre, the dialogue and the story situations included explicit sexual themes such as premarital intercourse, impotence, incest , and rape. The first two rape storylines that would be told on

1600-486: Is often used to introduce each segment, and the music (usually popular music of some sort) will often relate to the topic being discussed. John Batchelor is noted for his use of highly dramatic orchestral scores leading in and out of each segment of his weekly show. Many video games feature a theme song that is distinctive to the series. A popular one to date is the " Prelude Theme " from the Final Fantasy series, which

1680-517: Is played on most, if not all, of the title screens of the original games, most notably Final Fantasy I to Final Fantasy IV . The newer ones also feature the theme, albeit usually modernized, and played during the ending credits. The Young and the Restless The Young and the Restless (often abbreviated as Y&R ) is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS . The show

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1760-530: Is set in the fictional Genoa City (named after the real-life Genoa City, Wisconsin ). First broadcast on March 26, 1973, The Young and the Restless was originally broadcast as half-hour episodes, five times a week. The show expanded to one-hour episodes on February 4, 1980. On March 17, 2006, the series began airing previous episodes weeknights on Soapnet until the closure on December 31, 2013, when it moved to TVGN (now Pop ). From July 1, 2013 until 2019, Pop aired previous episodes on weeknights. The series

1840-478: The COVID-19 pandemic ; production on the soap would resume in the summer of 2020. On December 1 of the same year, the serial aired its 12,000th episode. On August 19, 2021, it was reported that actress Briana Thomas had filed a lawsuit against Sony Pictures Television and CBS Studios , alleging sexual harassment on the set from showrunner Tony Morina. On September 29, 2022, a day before the premiere of The Young and

1920-571: The Motion Picture and Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles , California, on September 26, 2007, at the age of 83. Theme song The phrase theme song or signature tune may also be used to refer to a signature song that has become especially associated with a particular performer or dignitary, often used as they make an entrance. From the 1950s onwards, theme music, and especially theme songs also became

2000-563: The Newman family , the Barber/Winters family , and the Baldwin-Fishers were introduced. Despite these changes, one of its most enduring storylines was the four-decade feud between Jill Abbott and Katherine Chancellor , the longest rivalry on any American soap opera. Since its television debut, The Young and the Restless has won 11 Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Drama Series . It

2080-459: The Nielsen ratings to this change, since the lengthening of the show led to the departure of a number of cast members. "The issue of performing in a one-hour show had not been part of their contracts," Bell said. This forced the show to recast multiple main characters and eventually phase out the original core families in favor of new ones. The show expanded to one hour on February 4, 1980, replacing

2160-639: The United States Army . He returned to school after the war and attended the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore , Maryland, and the University of Texas at El Paso to study music. Van Horne married his first wife, Tanya Ingwersen, in the mid-1950s. They had one son, Mark. The marriage ended in divorce. He married and divorced three more times during his life. Randy Van Horne's career began in

2240-461: The state correctional institution - Pittsburgh . Phillip Chancellor died in the Richland, Pennsylvania area, where the police chief was not told and believed the accident really happened. On June 27, 2001, The Young and the Restless became the first daytime soap opera to be broadcast in high-definition . In September 2011, its sister soap The Bold and the Beautiful became the last soap to make

2320-404: The #1 spot for daytime dramas. During the week of December 2, 2013, the series celebrated its 25th consecutive year as the number one daytime drama. The Young and the Restless airs every weeknight on Pop , where it averaged 362,000 viewers from July to September 2013. On the week ending April 6, 2012, The Young and the Restless was watched by a new low of an average of 3,960,000 viewers for

2400-453: The 1960s hit with Allen Ludden as host), vied for the top spot in the ratings. Quite a number of CBS affiliates in the Eastern Time Zone had for years been running local newscasts at noon, despite CBS giving them a 30-minute break one hour later, at 1 p.m., for that purpose. With that scenario, at first, The Young and the Restless was at the bottom of the ratings, inheriting Where the Heart Is' low numbers and affiliate clearances. However,

2480-515: The M.G.'s ), motorsport (Roger Barsotti's Motor Sport and the bassline from Fleetwood Mac 's " The Chain "), tennis ( Keith Mansfield 's "Light and Tuneful"), snooker (" Drag Racer " by the Doug Wood Band), skiing ( Sam Fonteyn 's "Pop Looks Bach", the theme to Ski Sunday ) and gaelic games ("Jägerlatein" by James Last ). Themes in the United States that have become associated with

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2560-500: The Restless around two core families, the wealthy Brooks' and the poor Fosters. Bell borrowed this technique of soap opera building from his mentor, Irna Phillips . While casting for the series, Bell and executive producer John Conboy auditioned 540 actors for the 13 main characters. They assembled the youngest group of actors ever cast on a soap opera at the time, hiring mostly unknown actors whom they considered "glamorous model types". Chemistry between actors also factored into

2640-402: The Restless became popular among black viewers, which Williams and St. John attributed to the writing for the black characters. "I play a CEO at a major corporation, that's something we don't see that often," St. John said. "And the show doesn't use the old African-American stereotypes that we have been seeing on TV, like the hustler, the pimp, the drug dealer. We have come a long way." Though

2720-403: The Restless was no longer the number-one soap opera in the United States, having been dethroned by The Bold and the Beautiful, which took 33 years since its 1987 debut to attain that position. The Young and the Restless then reclaimed the number-one spot the following week. On April 20, 2020, CBS announced plans to begin airing a week of vintage episodes, following the soap's shutdown, due to

2800-470: The Restless . In the 1990s, core black characters were introduced with the Barber and Winters families. Victoria Rowell ( Drucilla Barber ) and Tonya Williams ( Olivia Winters ) were cast as the nieces of the Abbotts' maid, Mamie Johnson , in 1990. The brothers Neil Winters ( Kristoff St. John ) and Malcolm Winters ( Shemar Moore ) were introduced as love interests for Olivia and Drucilla. The Young and

2880-567: The Restless ’ 50th season, the show announced that they would be producing showcasts, an audio form of the show’s episodes. Episodes of the showcast will be available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Stitcher. On October 9, 2024, it was announced Scott would return to the soap as a senior producer. The serial will air its 13,000th episode on November 13 of the same year, barring preemption. Taped at CBS Television City , studios 41 and 43 in Hollywood since its debut on March 26, 1973,

2960-445: The characters held prominent positions in the fictional work place of Genoa City, they had little interaction with other characters outside of their jobs. Sexuality played a major role in the stories. Formerly, soap operas did not delve into the sexual side of their romances. Bell changed that, first during his time as head writer of Days of Our Lives and again on The Young and the Restless . William Gray Espy 's Snapper Foster

3040-476: The credit with Phelps. On June 7, 2016, Serial Scoop announced that Phelps had been terminated from her position as executive producer; a replacement was not named at the time of their reporting. The following morning, Sony Pictures Television confirmed to several list of soap opera media outlets that Phelps had been let go from her position; British television producer Mal Young was announced as Phelps' replacement. Phelps' last appearance as executive producer

3120-520: The criteria for casting. The stories focused on the younger characters, with an emphasis in fantasy. The fantasy element was reflected in the love story between Jill Foster and the millionaire Phillip Chancellor II ; the Leslie Brooks , Brad Elliot , and Lorie Brooks love triangle; and Snapper Foster 's romance with Chris Brooks . When the series lengthened from a half-hour to an hour in 1980, multiple cast members who portrayed characters from

3200-624: The early 1970s but Van Horne reincarnated the group after 2000, which is led by Alan Wilson as of 2018. Van Horne continued to perform in clubs in the Los Angeles area. He also worked as the bandleader of a group called the Alumni Association, which was made up of musicians from the Big Band era. Van Horne created a symphonic suite called The Running of the Bulls , which premiered at La Mirada Civic Theatre in 1981. Randy Van Horne died of cancer at

3280-428: The early years of the show, smoothed the transition. The relationship between the two characters remained a central theme throughout the series and became the longest lasting rivalry in daytime history. Another character introduced in the 1980s was Eric Braeden 's Victor Newman . Originally, the character was "a despicable, contemptible, unfaithful wife abuser" who was intended to be killed off. Braeden's tenure on

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3360-454: The following morning). When BSB merged with Sky in November 1990 to form BskyB, the soap moved to Sky's flagship channel Sky One and aired at 11:00-12:00 weekdays until the end of 1992. When BskyB's original three-year contract to air the soap expired, Sky chose not to renew it. In 1993, Y&R was picked up by satellite channel, UK Living (then known as simply Living, now Sky Witness ) in

3440-549: The highest-rated daytime drama. The serial is also a sister series to The Bold and the Beautiful , as several actors have crossed over between shows. The serial aired its 13,000th episode on November 13, 2024. On February 27, 2024, the series was renewed by CBS to run through the 2027–2028 television season. Some well-known celebrities got their jumpstart on The Young and the Restless , including Eva Longoria , David Hasselhoff , Tom Selleck , Paul Walker , and Shemar Moore . Many other celebrities have made guest appearances on

3520-482: The late 1940s as a Los Angeles studio musician . He formed his first musical group, the Encores, in the early 1950s with three other musicians. The Encores broke up in the late 1950s. He went on to create the Randy Van Horne Singers in the late 1950s following the breakup of the Encores. Several members of the Randy Van Horne Singers would eventually become successful solo recording artists, such as Marni Nixon . The group

3600-465: The latter of which did undergo a brief resurgence in the mid-1980s, Y&R widened the ratings lead to the point where ABC and NBC never caught up again, both eventually ceding the Noon/11 time slot back to their local stations by the 1990s. By 1988–89 it had dethroned long-time leader General Hospital as the top-rated soap, a position it held until 2020. In 2010, it marked its 1,000th consecutive week n

3680-468: The long-running serial Love of Life . On June 8, 1981, it moved to 12:30 p.m. Eastern, the slot occupied by Search for Tomorrow since its premiere in 1951, which ultimately led to the latter show moving to NBC after a disastrous experiment in another timeslot, alienating that program's loyal viewers. It airs 11:00 a.m. on most stations in the Central, Mountain and Pacific time zones, usually as

3760-598: The mid-1980s, Bell and his family moved to Los Angeles to create a new soap opera. During this time, his three children, William Jr., Bradley Bell , and Lauralee Bell , each became involved in soap operas. Lauralee Bell worked as an actress on The Young and the Restless . Bradley Bell co-created The Bold and the Beautiful with his father. William Bell Jr. became involved in the family's production companies as president of Bell Dramatic Serial Co. and Bell-Phillip Television Productions Inc. "It's worked out very well for us because we really all worked in very different aspects of

3840-483: The opening title sequence was updated in anticipation of the soaps's 44th anniversary. In March 2023, the opening title sequence was updated in celebration of the soap's 50th anniversary. The Young and the Restless entered CBS' daytime lineup at 12 noon/11 a.m. Central in March 1973, a timeslot where two popular game shows, NBC 's Jeopardy! (original version, hosted by Art Fleming ) and ABC 's Password (revival of

3920-551: The original core families departed because their contracts only bound them to performing in a half-hour show. A number of the characters were recast until one of the few remaining original actors, Jaime Lyn Bauer , who portrayed Lorie Brooks , decided to leave. When she announced her intention not to renew her contract, Bell decided to replace the original core families. "As I studied the remaining cast, I realized I had two characters- Paul Williams , played by Doug Davidson , and Jack Abbott , played by Terry Lester - both of whom had

4000-544: The original theme mix much, if at all, allowing them to be known by multiple generations of television viewers. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, iconic sports shows have such strong associations with their theme music that the sports themselves are synonymous with the theme tunes, such as association football (The Match of the Day , Grandstand and The Big Match theme tunes), cricket (" Soul Limbo " by Booker T. &

4080-644: The original theme. An LP album was published in 1976 by A&M Records . The track list contains two titles of the French composer Michel Colombier , Rainbow and Emmanuel , a success track which he wrote in memory of the death of his son. In late September and early October 2012, upon the show's 10,000th episode, the current form of opening credits were updated. In the years prior, fans criticized them for their lack of updates and cast additions (some contract players, such as Adrienne Frantz , and Kimberlin Brown came and went without being added). In mid-February 2017,

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4160-464: The program on a same-day-as-CBS basis. In Belize , Channel 5 Great Belize Television airs the soap, while rival Channel 7 Tropical Vision Limited also airs the soap. In Jamaica , the show formerly aired on CVMTV. In Trinidad and Tobago , the show airs weekdays on CBS and has been airing in Trinidad and Tobago since the 1980s. In 1988, 70 percent of Trinidadians and Tobagonians who had access to

4240-475: The serial for three years. On July 31, 2017, it was announced that both Alden and Sussman would retire from their positions; Young was named as Sussman's successor as head writer. Sussman last aired as head writer on October 24, 2017. Young's tenure as head writer aired on October 25, 2017. In December 2018, Young announced his decision to leave the serial, citing that it was a "good time to move on", and cited his desire to pursue his own project. Anthony Morina

4320-461: The serial were controversial at the time as they reflected a more introspective and analytic storytelling style, the first time rape storylines would be addressed in this manner in the genre. The first, in 1973–74, revolved around the rape of Chris Brooks and the aftermath, in which she entertained (and, eventually, rejected) the idea that she was perhaps at fault for her attack. The second, in 1976, involved Chris's sister Peggy (Pamela Peters Solow) and

4400-582: The series in New York City ; however, CBS executives felt that Los Angeles would be more cost effective. John Conboy acted as the show's first executive producer, staying in the position until 1982. Bell and H. Wesley Kenney became co-executive producers that year, with Edward J. Scott assuming the position in 1989. Bell then became senior executive producer. Other executive producers included David Shaughnessy , John F. Smith , Lynn Marie Latham , Josh Griffith, Maria Arena Bell , and Paul Rauch . In

4480-414: The series look dark, shadowy, and moody. The Young and the Restless' look influenced the taping styles of other soap operas. When H. Wesley Kenney replaced Conboy as executive producer, he balanced the lighting of the scenes. Due to the success of the series, CBS and its affiliates pressured Bell to lengthen the series from 30 minutes to a full hour. Bell attributed the show's fall from number one in

4560-430: The show airs as Les Feux de l'Amour on free-to-air channel TF1 . In Turkey , the show aired on the public broadcast network TRT under the name of Yalan Rüzgarı (meaning The Wind of Lies), utilising the abbreviation of the name of the original show. " Nadia's Theme " has been the theme music of The Young and the Restless since the show's debut in 1973. The melody, originally titled "Cotton's Dream",

4640-445: The show was meant to last between eight and twelve weeks. "When I saw Eric Braeden's first performance- the voice, the power, the inner strength- I knew immediately that I didn't want to lose this man," Bell said. "He was exactly what the show needed. Not the hateful man we saw on-screen, but the man he could and would become." Bell rewrote the story to save the character and put Braeden on contract. Victor's romance with Nikki Reed became

4720-433: The show was packaged by the distribution company Columbia Pictures Television , which has now been replaced by Sony Pictures Television . The Young and the Restless originally aired as a half-hour series on CBS and was the first soap opera to focus on the visual aspects of production, creating "a look that broke with the visual conventions of the genre." Similar to the radio serials that had preceded them, soap operas at

4800-466: The show, including Katy Perry , Lionel Richie , Wayne Gretzky , Il Divo , and Enrique Iglesias . To compete with the youthful ABC soap operas, All My Children , One Life to Live , and General Hospital , CBS executives wanted a new daytime serial that was youth oriented. William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell created The Young and the Restless in 1972 for the network under the working title, The Innocent Years! "We were confronted with

4880-574: The show," William Bell Jr. said. "With my father and I, it was a great kind of partnership and pairing in the sense that he had a total control of the creative side of the show and I didn't have even the inclination to interject in what he was doing." After William J. Bell's 1998 retirement, a number of different head writers took over the position, including Kay Alden, Trent Jones, John F. Smith, Lynn Marie Latham, Scott Hamner, Josh Griffith, Maria Arena Bell, and Hogan Sheffer. In 2012, former General Hospital executive producer Jill Farren Phelps

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4960-480: The theme songs. However, the group also continued to record for commercials and radio station spots and jingles . Many of the jingles were written by Randy Van Horne. The Randy Van Horne Singers also recorded several albums including Other Worlds Other Sounds in 1958 with Juan García Esquivel , a Latin musician famous for his " space age pop " style of music, and the winter-themed LP Sleighride (1960, Everest). The Randy Van Horne Singers officially disbanded in

5040-494: The theme to ESPN 's sports highlight show, SportsCenter . A notable theme that was once associated with a sport, but because of its popularity, spread network-wide was the NFL on Fox theme, which was used for Major League Baseball on Fox (2010–2019) and NASCAR on Fox (2011–2015) and Fox UFC (2012–2018) and Premier Boxing Champions (December 2018 to July/August 2019) and Jr. NBA Championships (unknown-2018) broadcasts, and

5120-484: The time primarily focused on dialogue, characters, and story, with details like sets as secondary concerns. The Young and the Restless stood out by using unique lighting techniques and camera angles, similar to Hollywood-style productions. The style of videotaping included using out-of-the-ordinary camera angles and a large number of facial close-ups with bright lighting on the actors' faces. Conboy said he used lighting to create "artistic effects". Those effects made

5200-548: The transition from Standard-definition television to High-definition television before One Life to Live ended its ABC run on January 13, 2012, and began its TOLN run online on April 29, 2013. On April 24, 2006, Soapnet began airing same-day episodes of the series. The final airing on SoapNet was on June 28, 2013. The soap has moved from SoapNet to TV Guide Network. The same day episodes begin airing on TVGN (now Pop ) weeknights on July 1, 2013. Co-creators William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell centered The Young and

5280-429: The very disturbing reality that young America had lost much of its innocence," Bell said. "Innocence as we had known and lived it all our lives had, in so many respects, ceased to exist." They changed the title of the series to The Young and the Restless because they felt it "reflected the youth and mood of the early seventies." The Bells named the fictional setting for the show after the real Genoa City, Wisconsin ,

5360-525: The week of December 29, 2001. Radio programs with notable theme music include Just a Minute , which uses a high-speed rendition of the Minute Waltz by Frédéric Chopin ; The Archers , which has Barwick Green ; Desert Island Discs which has By the Sleepy Lagoon , and The Rush Limbaugh Show , which uses the instrumental from " My City Was Gone ." In talk radio , a different theme song

5440-510: The youthful and sexually-driven storylines, which appealed perfectly to CBS' desired key demographic of younger women, helped it to rise rapidly, surging to ninth by 1974–75 and third by 1975–76. This eventually led to both Jeopardy!'s and Password's cancellations during 1975; a succession of shows (of varying formats) on both networks failed to make any significant impact for the next five years, other than perhaps ABC's The $ 20,000 Pyramid , which aired at noon/11 from 1978 to 1980. Apart from

5520-420: Was July 12, 2016, while Young's first appearance occurred the following day on July 13. On September 13, 2016, it was announced that Pratt was named as executive producer and show-runner of Lee Daniels ' Star . The same day, Daytime Confidential revealed that former Generations and Days of Our Lives head writer Sally Sussman , who previously had positions with the show, such as Associate Head Writer,

5600-560: Was announced as executive producer, while Griffith was named co-executive producer and head writer. On January 30, 2020, CBS announced it had renewed the serial through 2024. In a statement, CBS Entertainment president Kelly Kahl stated: "It's a remarkable achievement and a testament to the extraordinary cast, gifted writers, talented producers and supremely passionate fans, as well as our tremendous partnership with [ Y&R studio] Sony Pictures Television." On March 20, 2020, after 32 years and over 1,500 consecutive weeks, The Young and

5680-418: Was announced that Passanante and Altman were named head writers of the show, with Thomson promoted to co-head writer. On September 18, 2014, former All My Children , Santa Barbara and General Hospital head writer Charles Pratt Jr. was named as the new head writer of the show. Passanante, Altman and Thomson have been demoted to breakdown writers. Pratt was also named as co-executive producer sharing

5760-404: Was announced that the show would move to Arena on August 20 that year after W rebranded as SoHo . Episodes are approximately one week behind those airing in the US at present. In New Zealand, The Young and the Restless aired alongside Days of Our Lives on TVNZ 1 from August 25, 1975, to April 1988 where it moved to TVNZ 2 , but it returned to TVNZ 1 from 2005 to November 6, 2009. The soap

5840-498: Was approximately four seasons behind the CBS season due to being preempted by holiday and sporting programming. In the Philippines , aired from 1987 to 1989 on ABS-CBN . In the United Kingdom, The Young and The Restless has aired on many TV channels starting in 1990, when episodes from 1987 debuted on Galaxy in a regular weekday timeslot, 14:30-15:30 (and repeated in the early hours of

5920-609: Was attracting around 18–20,000 viewers at midnight in the last week of its broadcast in the UK in August 2010. In Italy The Young and the Restless aired as Febbre d'amore from February 1983 to February 1984 on Italia 1 , from October 1984 to June 1995 on Rete 4 , in the summer of 1995 on Canale 5 and from April 1998 to October 2009 again on Rete 4. They were US episodes shown from autumn 1979 to March 1986, from November 1989 to December 1993 and from November 1998 to January 2007. In France,

6000-661: Was composed by Barry De Vorzon and Perry Botkin Jr. for the 1971 theatrical film Bless the Beasts and Children . The melody was later renamed "Nadia's Theme" after the American Broadcasting Company television network 's sports summary program Wide World of Sports lent the music for a montage of Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci 's routines during the 1976 Summer Olympics ; despite the title, Nadia never performed her floor exercises using this piece of music. Instead, she used

6080-447: Was hired as the new executive producer of the soap, replacing Bell. Griffith was also named the sole head writer. On August 15, 2013, it was speculated and reported by several online sources that Griffith had resigned as head-writer of the serial. Further speculation adds that Shelly Altman may take over as the new scribe, alongside Tracey Thomson or Jean Passanante may be brought aboard as co-head scribe. On September 12, 2013, it

6160-477: Was in-talks to replace Pratt as Head Writer. On September 15, 2016, it was confirmed that Sussman was named as the soap's new head writer. On September 21, 2016, Daytime Confidential reported that after ten years since leaving the soap, Alden had been re-hired to be a story consultant under Sussman's regime. Sussman's tenure as head writer began taping on October 20, 2016, and began airing on December 7, 2016. On June 20, 2017, CBS announced its decision to renew

6240-434: Was known for its easy style of music and remained predominantly a studio musical group. However, the Randy Van Horne Singers did make occasional television performances, such as on The Nat King Cole Show in 1957. The group recorded the theme songs for several high-profile Hanna-Barbera cartoons, including The Flintstones and The Jetsons . They were hired by Hanna-Barbera's music composer, Hoyt Curtin , to complete

6320-435: Was meant to serve as a cut-and-dried story in which no viewer could justify this attack, committed out of the blue by an authority figure. The series also explored social issues. Jennifer Brooks underwent the first mastectomy on a soap opera. Other social issue storylines included bulimia , alcoholism , and cancer. Lesbianism was also touched on with Katherine Chancellor , who flirts with Jill while drunk in 1974 and has

6400-528: Was regarded as the network's single theme by October 2010. CBS's longtime March Madness theme is considered one of the masterpieces of Americans sports theme music, said to deliver a euphoric feeling to many sports fans. In Canada, the soaring backbeats of the Hockey Night in Canada theme, " The Hockey Theme ", became so iconic that the piece was sometimes called Canada's second national anthem. It became something of

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