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• The theme song, "Nadia's Theme" is from the movie "Bless the Beasts and Children" (1971), where its original title is "Cotton's Dream".
  
  
• In 1976, ABC's "Wide World of Sports" used "Cotton's Dream", the theme song of "The Young and the Restless", as a musical background for a montage of Olympic gymnast Nadia Comaneci in action at the 1976 Olympics. Although Nadia never actually performed to this tune, it became associated with her; eventually, the song's writer officially renamed it "Nadia's Theme".
  
  
• The show's original working title was "The Innocent Years".
  
  

• In 1983 actor Veleka Gray portrayed two different characters simultaneously: Patti's psychiatrist Dr. Sharon Reaves, hotel manicurist Ruby. Unusually, the characters were neither lookalikes nor related, they were involved in different storylines and shared no scenes together.
  
  
• 'Christopher Douglas' who played Sean Bridges was fired in July 2001, due to a reported power struggle between head writer Kay Alden and executive producer 'Edward Scott'. His role was recast with David Lee Russek.
  
  
• First US soap opera and "daytime" program to be shown on HDTV.
  
  
• Jeanne Cooper who plays Katherine Chancellor is the only member of the cast who has been with the show since it first premiered in 1973 - although she didn't join in until 6 months after it premiered.
  
  
• When Jeanne Cooper (Katherine) decided to have a face lift, rather than going out on leave and replacing her with a stand in, the producers wrote a story line in which Katherine had a face lift, complete with hospitalization and recovery.
  
  
• One of the favorite plot devices is to send children away to boarding school or out of town to live with former characters only to have them return a short time later as teenagers. Among those involved in this type of plotting were Victoria Newman (age 10 returned a year later as an 18-year-old), Nick Newman, Billy Abbott, and Lily Winters.
  
  
• The china that we have seen Katherine Chancellor drinking out of for quite a number of years is a 'Royal Albert' pattern titled "Heirloom".
  
  

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