As the World Turns

“As the World Turns” was the creation of Irna Phillips who, beginning in the 1930s, had been one of the foremost creators and writers of radio soap operas. The personal and professional lives of doctors and lawyers would remain central to “As the World Turns” throughout its run, and would eventually become standard fare on…

Search for Tomorrow

For the show’s duration, Search was centered on a midwestern housewife named Joanne Gardner (played for the entire run by Mary Stuart) who lived in a fictional town called Henderson. In the earlier years, Joanne’s friends and next-door neighbors, Stuart and Marge Bergman (played by Larry Haines and Melba Rae) received much screen time as…