The Young and the Restless
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The Young and the Restless has been the top-rated American
television soap opera for more than 12 years. It debuted on the
CBS network in 1973.
The Young and the Restless, created by husband and wife team William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell stood out from other soaps on the air for its brightness, both literal and figurative. Soap operas at the time tended to be comparatively darkly-lit and lugubrious in tone. The Young and the Restless infused light, humor and youth into the genre.
It follows characters in the fictional Genoa City, and around the companies Newman Enterprises and Jabot.
Longtime characters
- Victor Newman - wealthy, powerful and brooding industrialist
- Nikki Reed Newman - Victor's on-again off-again wife and one great love
- Nick Newman - Victor and Nikki's son
- Victoria Newman - Victor and Nikki's daughter
- Sharon Collins Newman - Nick's wife
- Jack Abbott - Victor's greatest rival and enemy, Jabot executive
- Ashley Abbott - Jack's chemist sister, Victor's other great love
- Brad Carlton - a Newman Enterprises executive
- Jill Foster Abbott - Jack and Ashley's stepmother
- Katharine Chancellor - Jill's longtime rival
- Billy Abbott - Jill's husband's son
- Brock Reynolds - Katharine's long-lost son
- Mackenzie Reynolds - Katharine's long-lost granddaughter, Brock's daughter
- Christine Blair - Legal Aid lawyer and former model
- Michael Baldwin - lawyer and former lover of both Chris and Phyllis
- Paul Williams - Chris's former husband, a private investigator
- Mary Williams - Paul's meddling, judgmental mother
- Malcolm Winters - photographer for Newman Enterprises
- Olivia Winters - was Malcolm's wife, doctor
- Neil Winters - Malcolm's brother, Newman Enterprises executive
External sites
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