Go Towards the (Guiding) Light: As The World Turns is getting cancelled

I should have watched "Days of Our Lives" a few months ago when Alice Horton was killed off (her portrayer, Frances Reid, died earlier this year at age 95). They brought back a lot of old favourites whom I'm sure will never be seen again before that show is inevitably cancelled in a year or two.

 

I flipped on Days the other night on SoapNet, while I was waiting for Y&R to come on. I couldn't believe that everyone from Passions ended up on Days. Very bizzare.

 

Amazingly, ATWT was on the air for so long, CBS cut into the show when JFK was shot:

 

Starman, Julianne Moore returned to Oakdale this past spring for a guest appearance.

 

Starman, ATWT was a favorite of my mother's for years. Although I have just turned three at the time, I can remember vaguely my mother taking me with her to clean my grandparents' house and she and I would always have lunch when ATWT came on. I have seen on You Tube the CBS News bulletins that came on during the show annoucing John Kennedy having been shot (I only have vague memories of the actual moments, even now). Last week, watching the last show, if someone had not called her character, Lisa, by name, I would not have recognized Eileen Fulton. She is about a year older than my mom. It was kind of nice to see Don Hastings, playing Bob Hughes one last time. How ironic that Helen Wagner, who played Nancy all those years, would die just this summer.