The Young and the Restless 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. First broadcast on March 26, 1973, The Young and the Restless was originally broadcast as half-hour episodes, five times a week. It expanded to one hour episodes on February 4, 1980. In 2006 the show began airing on weeknights SOAPnet. The series is also syndicated internationally.

Genre: Soap opera
Website: http://www.theyoungandtherestless.com/index.php
Name: The Young and the Restless
Number of Episodes: 9,426 (as of June 23, 2010)
Created By: William J. Bell
Created By: Lee Philip Bell
Executive Producer: Maria Arena Bell
Executive Producer: (co-executive producer)
Executive Producer: Paul Rauch
Executive Producer: (co-executive producer)
Length: 30 minutes (1973–1980)
Length: 60 minutes (1980–present)
First: March 26, 1973
Name: The Young and the Restless
Distributed By: Bell Dramatic Serial Company and Corday Productions, Inc.
Distributed By: in association with Sony Pictures Television (Columbia TriStar Television 2001 until 2002, Columbia Pictures Television 1974 to 2001, and Screen Gems until name change in 1974)
Last: present

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