My favorite Sunday morning cartoon from childhood.
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March 9, 2014
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![]() As the World Turns Premieres (1956)Soap operas began in the early 1930s as 15-minute radio episodes and continued in that format when they began appearing on TV in the early 1950s. As the World Turns premiered as the first half-hour TV soap. The show, which primarily focused on two professional families in the fictional town of Oakdale, Illinois, ran for 54 years and aired nearly 14,000 episodes. For 20 of those years, it was most-watched daytime drama in the US. What interrupted a live broadcast of the show in 1963? More... Discuss |
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Mine too! Fractrued Fairytails, Peabody and Sherman,Dudley Doo-Right (I liked his horse better), Moose & Squirrel... loved them all. Who knew Frostbite Falls Minnesota was a real place?
Oh yeah, I liked those too, but esp. Boris and Natasha, a parody of the Cold War that was going strong then.
Cartoons are brighter these days w/ more special effects, but I don't think there's been any like Rocky and Bullwinkle and the cartoons that were the shows within the show.
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