Gosh, I am just crushed that ATWT is leaving the air. My mother and grandmother have been watching ATWT since it premiered, so I have grown up with the show and I feel as if characters like Nancy and Lisa are members of my own family! I was a faithful viewer during the show's golden age - i.e. when Doug Marland was headwriter - and kept up with the series on and off since Mr. Marland's untimely death. I became a regular viewer again when the series introduced the Luke-Noah storyline. Truth be told, the show's writing leaves a lot to be desired nowadays and its obvious the series has been affected in every area due to budget cuts. There are still, however, some fine actors on the series and I hope they will get the quality scripts they deserve in the show's final months. I still remember seeing Jerry Lacy as a mysterious man of wealth in the '70's on ATWT - Margaret 'The Wicked Witch of the West/Miss Gulch' Hamilton played his "girl Friday". I also recall episodes with Donna Wandrey as the original 'Barbara Ryan'. I hate that - one by one - the soap genre is dying. I've read that the networks will lease their daytime spots to syndicated programming like all those trashy 'Real Housewives of...' shows. I'll take ATWT on its worst day over that Housewife crap!