David Hasselhoff returns to “The Young and the Restless”
From left: Taylor Ann Hasselhoff, Jeanne Cooper, Jess Walton, David Hasselhoff
The Hoff is feeling a little “Restless” again, as he returns to the series that first gave him fame. David Hasselhoff played Dr. William “Snapper” Foster Jr. from 1975-82 on the long-running CBS daytime drama The Young and the Restless, and he will be briefly reprising that role on the series this month. Hasselhoff appears on the episodes airing June 15-18, and June 21.
The character of Snapper has been working in London, but returns home to visit his sister, Jill (Jess Walton), and finds himself unexpectedly caught up in a family drama.
Very young, very restless: The Hoff as Snapper Foster in the '70s
“I was so honored to be asked back by the Bell family for a short visit to Genoa City,” says Hasselhoff, “this time with my daughter, Taylor Ann.” (Taylor Ann will be making her daytime debut on June 16, playing a nurse in scenes with her father). “It was surreal and felt like I never left.”
In other Y&R casting, James Clement, who was a contestant on the recent Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains, will make his daytime debut on the show June 4, playing a police officer in scenes with Greg Rikaart, Peter Bergman, Eric Braeden and Joshua Morrow.
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Top photo: © 2010 CBS Broadcasting Inc. Credit: Sonja Flemming
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two characters from different soap operas ran into each other? What would they say?” The 10-part series, which will also air in condensed versions on ABC Daytime and SOAPnet, includes popular characters from All My Children, One Life to Live and General Hospital interacting with each other. The webisodes will be derivative of the characters and their unique past, but are not related to the current storylines.
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CBS’s daytime drama As the World Turns will broadcast its final episode on Sept. 17, 2010 — one day shy of a year after the network pulled the plug on its 72-year-old daytime flagship Guiding Light. At the time of its final broadcast, the series will have spanned 54 years and more than 13,000 episodes.
James Franco joins the cast of ABC’s General Hospital in the recurring role of Franco, a mysterious man who comes to Port Charles and will become intertwined with many other residents in town. His first airdate is in the Nov. 20 episode, as part of the climax of November sweeps.
In “The Belles Bond,” the girls go away for the weekend, where friction between Shea and Emily results in a surprising makeover. Also, Kelly reveals some deep secrets from her past and later — in a tense encounter — Emily meets with a style consultant who thinks she may need to tone down her look to be taken seriously. 
Created by Irna Phillips, the show debuted on NBC radio on January 25, 1937 as the 15-minute radio serial “The Guiding Light.” It made the switch to 15-minute episodes on CBS Television on June 30, 1952, although it continued to air concurrently on radio with the actors playing parts on both shows until 1956, when the radio show ended. In 1967, the series first started being broadcast in color, and a year later, the show expanded from 15 minutes to 30 minutes. In November 1977, the show expanded to a full hour. The series is credited by The Guinness Book of World Records
