US EPISODE FOR MONDAY
1/ Daniel Romalotti, Jr/F2/
Daniel Graziadei
2/Lucy Carter/
[child SAG actor]
3/Nicholas “Nick” Newman/F3/F4/
Joshua Morrow
4/Phyllis Summers Romalotti Abbott Newman/F5/F6/F7/F8/
Michelle Stafford
5/George Summers/B1/
Kenneth “the white shadow” Howard
6/Avery Bailey Clark, Esq./
Jessica Collins
7/Angelina Veneziano/
Diana DeGarmo
8/Kevin Fisher/F9/
Greg Rikaart
9/Michael Baldwin Esq./
Christian Jules LeBlanc
10/Lauren Fenmore Baldwin/
Tracey E. Bregman
11/Jill Foster Fenmore Abbott Atkinson/
Jess Walton
12/Daisy Carter/
Yvonne Zima

Minute/element/character
1/B1/5>5
17/F2/1>3
17/F3/3>1
17/F4/3>1
18/F5/4>5,6
22/F6/4>6
35/F7/4>5,6
36/F7/4>5,6
52/F9/8>7

Soap box score
Family=8
Company=0
Business=1
Total = 9

The Young and the Restless

Genre Soap opera
Created by William J. Bell
Lee Philip Bell
Starring List of Cast Members
Country of origin United States
Language(s) English
No. of seasons 39
No. of episodes 9,853 (as of February 24, 2012)
Production
Executive producer(s) William J. Bell and John Conboy (1973-1982)
William J. Bell and H. Wesley Kenney (1982-1987)
William J. Bell and Edward J. Scott (1987–2001)
William J. Bell and David Shaughnessy (2001-2003)
William J. Bell, David Shaughnessy and John F. Smith (2003-2004)
William J. Bell and John F. Smith (2004-2005)
John F. Smith (2005-2006)
Lynn Marie Latham (2006)
Lynn Marie Latham and Josh Griffith (2006-2007)
Josh Griffith (2007-2008)
Maria Arena Bell and Paul Rauch
(2008-2011)
Maria Arena Bell (2011-present)
Running time 30 minutes (1973–1980)
60 minutes (1980–present)
Production company(s) Bell Dramatic Serial Company, Corday Productions, Inc. and Universal Television (1973-1998; 2002-2004; 2011-present) Studios USA (1998-2002)
Distributor in association with Sony Pictures Television 2002 to present (Columbia TriStar Television 2001 until 2002, Columbia Pictures Television 1974 to 2001, and Screen Gems until name change in 1974)
Broadcast
Original channel CBS
Picture format 480i (SDTV) (1973-2001)
1080i (HDTV) (2001-present)
Audio format Mono (1973-1987)
Stereo (1987-present)
Original run March 26, 1973 – present
External links
Website
The Young and the Restless (often abbreviated to Y&R) is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin.[1] First broadcast on March 26, 1973, The Young and the Restless was originally broadcast as half-hour episodes, five times a week.[2][3] It expanded to one hour episodes on February 4, 1980.[4] In 2006, the series began airing weeknights on SOAPnet.[5] The series is also syndicated internationally.[6]

The Young and the Restless originally focused on two core families: the wealthy Brooks family and the poor Foster family.[2] 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 the new core families, the Abbotts and the Williams.[2] Over the years, other families such as the Newmans and the Winters were introduced.[7][8] Despite these changes, one storyline that has endured through almost the show’s entire run is the feud between Jill Foster Abbott and Katherine Chancellor, the longest rivalries on any American soap opera.[9][10]

Since its debut, The Young and the Restless has won seven Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Drama Series. It is also currently the highest-rated daytime drama on American television. As of 2008, it has appeared at the top of the weekly Nielsen ratings in that category for more than 1,000 weeks since 1988.[11] The series, along with NBC’s Days of our Lives, has been renewed through 2013 with optional 2014

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