The Young and the Restless
Mar. 26, 1973
TV Flash files “Mar. 26, 1973” as a desk essential hour — The Young and the Restless (1973–present) on CBS, season 1973, episode 1, aired 1973-03-26, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S1973E01: listed hour 1 of 5785 in the The Young and the Restless guide, first listed hour of season 1973. It aired 1973-03-26 (60 min). No earlier hour is listed in this guide. Next is “Tue Mar 27 1973” (S1973E02). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Essential hour: “Mar. 26, 1973”. March 26, 1973 is the Genoa City open. Daytime retools for youth and wealth instead of kitchen-sink gloom: glamour as a ratings strategy, the billboard-handsome theme still loading.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Mar. 26, 1973 sit in the The Young and the Restless guide?
S1973E01 is listed hour 1 of 5785 — first listed hour of season 1973, season 1973 episode 1.
When did The Young and the Restless S1973E01 air?
Mar. 26, 1973 aired 1973-03-26 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Where do I enter a soap that is still on?
This catalog seat is the 1973 launch: youth, wealth, and a glossier daytime look. Later Newman/Abbott wars are the long rumble, not a required origin binge.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Genoa City boardrooms, bedrooms, and that billboard-handsome theme: daytime retools for youth and wealth instead of kitchen-sink gloom. The Newman and Abbott wars still rumble decades later. The 1970s soap that decided glamour was a ratings strategy, then kept looking like a perfume ad with subpoenas.
The theme walks in like a billboard. March 26, 1973, CBS: William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell open Genoa City and daytime retools for youth and wealth instead of kitchen-sink gloom. The Young and the Restless mixes interlocking families, corporate warfare, and romance in a glossier, younger-skewing soap style — Jaime Lyn Bauer, William Gray Espy, Brenda Dickson's Jill Foster, Dorothy Green, Robert Colbert among the early faces. Famous theme by Barry De Vorzon and Perry Botkin Jr. Boardrooms, bedrooms,…
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Filed against
- Jaime Lyn Bauer as Lorie Brooks
Jaime Lyn Bauer’s Lorie Brooks put youth-and-wealth glamour on The Young and the Restless — Genoa City boardrooms, bedrooms, a 1970s soap that decided looks were a ratings strategy. Billboard-handsome theme, long memory. TV Flash files…
- William Gray Espy as Snapper Foster
William Gray Espy’s Snapper Foster put The Young and the Restless in a billboard-handsome register — Genoa City boardrooms and bedrooms, daytime retooling for youth and wealth instead of kitchen-sink gloom. Newman and Abbott wars still…
- Brenda Dickson as Jill Foster
Brenda Dickson played Jill Foster on The Young and the Restless when Genoa City decided glamour was a ratings strategy. Boardrooms, bedrooms, and that billboard-handsome theme: daytime retooling for youth and wealth instead of…
- Dorothy Green as Jennifer Brooks
Dorothy Green entered Genoa City as Jennifer Brooks on The Young and the Restless — daytime wealth, boardroom heat, and the 1970s soap that decided glamour was a ratings strategy. Youth and money instead of kitchen-sink gloom; she is in…
- Robert Colbert as Stuart Brooks
Robert Colbert’s Brent Maverick shuffled into the western that winked — James Garner’s gambler preferring cards to bullets, charm as anti-machismo — then took The Young and the Restless’s Genoa City glamour as a 1970s soap strategy.…