History Series / AnotherWorld

->''"You are my way(You are my way)\\
To another world (To another world)''\\

->''"You are my way'' (You are my way)''\\
To another world'' (To another world)''\\
You are the one that let me fly so high\\

You give my life'' (You give my life)''\\

* BestServedCold: The layabout son of a wealthy businessman, Carl brokered a deal which his father's company folded into Cory Publishing. When the division was later shunted and the elder Hutchins discovered that his business had been sold for a pittance, he killed himself. Carl blamed Mac and set out to ruin him finanically. When that didn't work, he tried to make Mac reeanact his father's suicide.

* AbsurdlyElderlyMother: Rachel gets pregnant--with twins!--when in her early 50's, an age at which most women are going through menopause, if they haven't done so already. Her own mother was an example of this, having had her at a similar age.

Set in the fictional Bay City, the show originally revolved around the super-wealthy Matthews and Randolphs. The show really hit its stride when it introduced the backstabbing social-climber Rachel Davis (originated by Robin Strasser, but most famously played by Victoria Wyndham) and her quarry, scion Steven Frame, and the love triangle between them and Alice Mathews. In the 1970s, the show moved its focus to the newly arrived Cory family, and discovered an unlikely super couple in Rachel and Mac Cory, which ignites a rivalry between Rachel and Mac's daughter Iris. The 1980s introduced several more long-running characters, including ''bon vivant'' writer Felicia Gallant, slick attorney Cass Winthrop, emaciated supervillain (and later ByronicHero) Carl Hutchins, and the Love family (Donna and her twin daughters Vicky and Marley), with Rachel elevated to the top of the pantheon.

* ArtifactTitle: The show was originally envisioned as a spin-off of Series/AsTheWorldTurns, with frequent references to Oakdale and cross-overs by ATWT's Hughes family. Creator/{{CBS}} didn't have room on its schedule to air the show, and refused to allow the show to operate as a spin-off on another network.

* BackForTheFinale: Carl briefly turned heel again as a result of actor Charles Keating being shown the door (along with the other expensive vets) in 1998. He died again--and bounced right back up again to absolutely no one's surprise. He reunites with Rachel in the closing shot of the show, as the camera pays homage to Mac's portrait sitting nearby.

** After the show's cancellation in 1999, several characters (Jake, Cass, Lila, Vicky, Marly and Donna) became regular or recurring characters on Series/AsTheWorldTurns.
** And the character of Michael Bauer from Series/TheGuidingLight appeared on Another World in the 1960's. Yes, a character from a soap on ''another'' network, CBS, crossed over.

* BettyandVeronica: The long-running love triangle involving Steven Frame was an example, with Alice playing the Betty role and Rachel playing the Veronica role.

''Another World'' had a tendency to reinvent itself quite a lot, even moreso than other long-runners, as evidenced by the ever-changing titles (The lyrics above are from the ''[[NarmCharm faaabulous]]'' 1987 sequence.) Today it is most (in)famous for being replaced with ''{{Series/Passions}}'' in NBC's daytime slot.

* LoveRedeems: Rachel's relationship with magazine mogul Mac was at the request of Victoria Wyndham, who was weary of playing the heartless {{foil}} to Alice's [[PuritySue pure]] character. The real motivator was that Wyndham getting attacked by outraged fans in department stores who [[IAmNotSpock mistook her for Rachel.]] Alternatively, however, some accounts claim that then head writer Harding Lemay actually came up with the idea on his own due to being very impressed with Wyndham's acting range, which was inspiring him to take the Rachel character in different directions.

* LoveRedeems: Rachel's relationship with magazine mogul Mac was at the request of Victoria Wyndham, who was weary of playing the heartless {{foil}} to Alice's [[PuritySue pure]] character. The real motivator was that Wyndham was now being attacked by outraged fans in department stores for [[IAmNotSpock mistook her for Rachel.]] Alternatively, however, some accounts claim that then head writer Harding Lemay actually came up with the idea on his own due to being very impressed with Wyndham's acting range, which was inspiring him to take the Rachel character in different directions.

* LoveRedeems: Rachel's relationship with magazine mogul Mac was at the request of Victoria Wyndham, who was weary of playing the heartless {{foil}} to Alice's [[PuritySue pure]] character. The real motivator was that Wyndham was now being attacked by outraged fans in department stores for [[IAmNotSpock mistook her for Rachel.]] Alternatively, some accounts claim that then head writer Harding Lemay actually came up with the idea on his own due to being very impressed with Wyndham's acting range, which was inspiring him to take the Rachel character in different directions.

* LoveRedeems: Rachel's relationship with magazine mogul Mac was at the request of Victoria Wyndham, who was weary of playing the heartless {{foil}} to Alice's [[PuritySue pure]] character. The real motivator was that Wyndham was now being attacked by outraged fans in department stores for [[IAmNotSpock mistook her for Rachel.]]

* BadassGrandpa: Carl Hutchins, the most unlikely of leading men. He was originally a villain (thus explaining his... [[TerrorHero colorful appearance]] to latecomers), a vaguely-defined criminal and unacknowledged lovechild of Peter Cushing and Richard Branson, who gradually became a more neutral and unpredictable presence. He had a tumultuous romance with Rachel, the widow of his former rival, and the pair became a de facto power couple.

* ArtifactTitle: The show was originally envisioned as a spin-off of AsTheWorldTurns, with frequent references to Oakdale and cross-overs by ATWT's Hughes family. Creator/{{CBS}} didn't have room on its schedule to air the show, and refused to allow the show to operate as a spin-off on another network.

* Signature Scene: Ryan Harrison rescuing Vicky hudson in Horse acident. Paulina Exposing her husband Jake on There wedding night. Iris shoots Carl at Rachel and his Wedding.

* LongRunner: Ran for 35 years, from May 1964 through June 1999, for a total of 8,891 episodes.

* RealLifeRelative: Ralph Camargo, who played the justice of the peace at Mac and Rachel's wedding, is the real-life father of Victoria Wyndham (Rachel).

* TheCharacterDiedWithHim:
** Mac Cory died off-screen of a heart attack after Douglas Wattson died of same in 1989.
** The character of Ada Hobson was killed off on the show after Constance Ford died in 1993.

* FollowTheLeader: The updated intro from 1996 (before the cast culling) looks suspiciously like the title sequence of ''{{Series/ER}}''.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes:
** Like many soaps, the early years of the show (through c. 1978, per TheOtherWiki) no longer exist due to wiping.
** Averted in that ''Another World'' is one of the most repeated soaps not named ''Series/DarkShadows'': P&G made episodes from 1980-1981 available on AOL Video for several years, episodes from 1987-1991 were re-run on Creator/SoapNet from 2003-2007, and episodes from 1991-1992 were available on {{Creator/Hulu}}.

* TheOtherDarrin: Rachel is played by three actors: Robin Strasser, Margie Impert, and (most famously) Victoria Wyndham.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Arguably. When Creator/{{NBC}} ordered the soap ''Series/{{Passions}}'' in 1999, it needed to cancel one of its existing soaps to make room on the schedule. Though no longer the ratings powerhouse that it was in the 1970s, the show still earned higher ratings than ''Series/SunsetBeach''. However, a slight uptick in the ratings and the younger demographics of ''Sunset Beach'' caused Creator/{{NBC}} to cancel ''Another World'' in June 1999. The increase in ratings for ''Sunset Beach'' would prove not to be permanent, and the show as cancelled six months later.

* CrossOver: After the show's cancellation in 1999, several characters (Jake, Cass, Lila, Vicky, Marly and Donna) became regular or recurring characters on AsTheWorldTurns.
** And the character of Michael Bauer from TheGuidingLight appeared on Another World in the 1960's. Yes, a character from a soap on ''another'' network, CBS, crossed over.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Arguably. When Creator/{{NBC}} ordered the soap {{Passions}} in 1999, it needed to cancel one of its existing soaps to make room on the schedule. Though no longer the ratings powerhouse that it was in the 1970s, the show still earned higher ratings than ''Series/SunsetBeach''. However, a slight uptick in the ratings and the younger demographics of ''Sunset Beach'' caused Creator/{{NBC}} to cancel ''Another World'' in June 1999. The increase in ratings for ''Sunset Beach'' would prove not to be permanent, and the show as cancelled six months later.

* RealSongThemeTune: The show's theme from 1987 through 1996 was a pop song performed by Gary Morris and Crystal Gayle; it is the only soap opera them song to chart in Billboard's Top 40.

''Another World'' had a tendency to reinvent itself quite a lot, even moreso than other long-runners, as evidenced by the ever-changing titles (The lyrics above are from the ''[[NarmCharm faaabulous]]'' 1993 sequence.) Today it is most (in)famous for being replaced with ''{{Series/Passions}}'' in NBC's daytime slot.

* RealSongThemeTune: The show's theme from 1987 through 1996 was a pop song performed by Gary Morris and Crystal Gale; it is the only soap opera them song to chart in Billboard's Top 40.

A love that's real\\

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Felicia, the pulp romance writer, is based on Jacqueline Susann, author of ''ValleyOfTheDolls'' and something of a camp figure.