The Young and the Restless
Genoa City, and the daytime ratings leader in America for more than thirty-five consecutive years.
The Young and the Restless rebuilt its titles: two distinct opening sequences are catalogued here across seasons 16 and 45, running between 32 and 33 seconds.
At 33 seconds at its longest, it opens well under the 50-second median for drama sequences in this catalogue.
It arrived on CBS in 1973, when Candid Camera, Guiding Light and As the World Turns were also on the network.
Only 139 of the 2,618 shows catalogued here changed their titles at all; The Young and the Restless did so once.
All 2 opening title sequences
Season 16
33sFan upload. The uploader dates this version to 1988 through 1990; counting a season per year from the March 1973 launch, it starts at the sixteenth.
Season 45
32sFan upload of the 2017 titles; counting a season per year from the March 1973 launch, that is the forty-fifth.
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