Fifty years in the past, Bill and Lee Bell got here up with a brand new cleaning soap opera to mirror the occasions, realizing that they couldn’t name the present The Innocent Years as they’d deliberate.
“Lee and I came to an inescapable conclusion when we were creating the show in 1972,” Bill wrote within the e-book The Young and the Restless: Most Memorable Moments. “We were confronted with the very disturbing reality that young America had lost much of its innocence. Innocence as we had known and lived it all our lives had, in so many respects, ceased to exist. We needed another title, one that reflected the young and mood of the early seventies. Thus was born The Young and the Restless!”
Hitting CBS on March 26, 1973, The Young and the Restless initially targeted on the Brooks and Fosters households, however in later years, the highlight fell on different Genoa City clans, just like the Abbotts, the Williamses, and — most notably, maybe — the Newmans.
And now, half a century later, lots of the Young and the Restless actors have appeared in 1000’s of episodes of the CBS daytime drama.
In honor of the present’s fiftieth anniversary, listed below are the Y&R stars who had the very best episode tallies on IMDb per week earlier than the massive anniversary.