That's All, Folks

By David Bjerklie, Tam Gray, Daniel Levy, Lina Lofaro, Michele Orecklin, David Spitz, Flora Tartakovsky and Chris Taylor

FROM ANOTHER WORLD TO OURS After 35 years on the air, Another World, NBC's longest-running soap opera, has been canceled. You may not know anything about Bay City, but a number of important plot developments and future stars premiered there, some more welcome than others:

--It was the first television program to allude to an illegal abortion (1964)

--It was the first soap opera to expand from half an hour to an hour (1975)

--It's where Ray Liotta got his start (1978)

--It was the first soap opera to expand from an hour to an hour and a half (1979)

--It's where Morgan Freeman (1) broke out of children's television (1982)

--It was the first soap opera to feature a dwarf as a regular character (1984)

--It was the first soap opera to feature a character with AIDS (1987)

--It's where there have been 18 disrupted weddings since 1977

--It's where Anne Heche (2) got her start (1987)

--It's where Beverly Hills 90210's Gabrielle Carteris (3) got her start (1988)