The Young and the Restless
Tues Jan 2 1990
TV Flash files “Tues Jan 2 1990” as a desk essential hour — The Young and the Restless (1973–present) on CBS, season 1990, episode 2, aired 1990-01-02, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S1990E02: listed hour 40 of 5785 in the The Young and the Restless guide, first listed hour of season 1990. It aired 1990-01-02 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Fri Jan 30 1987” (S1987E23). Next is “Tuesday January 09 1990” (S1990E07). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Essential hour: “Tues Jan 2 1990”. January 2, 1990 is a New Year filing in a still-running empire. Mega-list discipline: one weekday as a stake, not a recap of the bedroom-and-boardroom decades already stacked.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Tues Jan 2 1990 sit in the The Young and the Restless guide?
S1990E02 is listed hour 40 of 5785 — first listed hour of season 1990, season 1990 episode 2.
When did The Young and the Restless S1990E02 air?
Tues Jan 2 1990 aired 1990-01-02 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.…