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The Young and the Restless
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Also known as Y&R
Genre Soap opera
Created by William J. Bell
Lee Phillip Bell
Written by Mal Young
Directed by Sally McDonald
Owen Renfroe
Conal O'Brien
Casey Childs
Michael Eilbaum
See below
Starring Present cast
Former cast
Theme music composer RC Cates
Sharon Farber
Rick Krizman
Dominic Messinger
Opening theme "Nadia's Theme"
by Barry De Vorzon and Perry Botkin, Jr.
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of episodes 11,000 (as of September 1, 2016)[1]
Production
Executive producer(s)
Mal Young
(and others)
Producer(s) Supervising Producers
Lisa de Cazotte
John Fisher
Anthony Morina
Producers
Matthew J. Olsen
Jonathan Fishman
See below
Production location(s) CBS Television City
Los Angeles, California
Camera setup Multiple-camera setup
Running time 30 minutes (1973–80)
60 minutes (1980–present)
Production company(s) Bell Dramatic Serial Company (1973–present)
Corday Productions (1973–present)
Screen Gems (1973–74)
Columbia Pictures Television (1974–2000)
CPT Holdings, Inc. (1988–present)
Columbia TriStar Television (2000–2002)
Sony Pictures Television (2002–present)
Distributor Sony Pictures Television
Release
Original network CBS
Picture format
NTSC (480i) (1973–2001)
HDTV 1080i (2001–present)
Audio format Mono (1973–87)
Stereo:
CBS StereoSound (1987-1997)
Digital Stereo (1997-present)
Original release March 26, 1973 – present
Chronology
Related shows
As the World Turns
The Bold and the Beautiful
External links
Website
The Young and the Restless (often abbreviated as Y&R) is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin.[2] First broadcast on March 26, 1973, The Young and the Restless was originally broadcast as half-hour episodes, five times a week.[3][4]