That's All, Folks

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)