

Over the years, other families such as the Newman family, the Barber/Winters family, and the Baldwin-Fishers were introduced.

Bell replaced them with new core families, the Abbotts and the Williamses. After a series of recasts and departures in the early 1980s, all the original characters except Jill Foster Abbott were written out. The Young and the Restless originally focused on two core families: the wealthy Brooks family and the working class Foster family.

The series is also syndicated internationally. As of July 1, 2013, Pop still airs previous episodes on weeknights. In 2006, the series began airing previous episodes weeknights on SOAPnet until 2013, when it moved to TVGN (now Pop). The show expanded to one-hour episodes on February 4, 1980. First broadcast on March 26, 1973, The Young and the Restless was originally broadcast as half-hour episodes, five times a week. The show is set in a fictionalized version of Genoa City, Wisconsin. The Young and the Restless (often abbreviated as Y&R) is an American television soap opera created by William J.
