<br />The Young and the Restless<br />The Young and the Restless (Title Card, 2017).png<br />Also known as Y&R<br />Genre Soap opera<br />Created by William J. Bell<br />Lee Phillip Bell<br />Written by Mal Young<br />Directed by Sally McDonald<br />Owen Renfroe<br />Conal O'Brien<br />Casey Childs<br />Michael Eilbaum<br />See below<br />Starring Present cast<br />Former cast<br />Theme music composer RC Cates<br />Sharon Farber<br />Rick Krizman<br />Dominic Messinger<br />Opening theme "Nadia's Theme"<br />by Barry De Vorzon and Perry Botkin, Jr.<br />Country of origin United States<br />Original language(s) English<br />No. of episodes 11,000 (as of September 1, 2016)[1]<br />Production<br />Executive producer(s) <br />Mal Young<br />(and others)<br />Producer(s) Supervising Producers<br />Lisa de Cazotte<br />John Fisher<br />Anthony Morina<br />Producers<br />Matthew J. Olsen<br />Jonathan Fishman<br />See below<br />Production location(s) CBS Television City<br />Los Angeles, California<br />Camera setup Multiple-camera setup<br />Running time 30 minutes (1973–80)<br />60 minutes (1980–present)<br />Production company(s) Bell Dramatic Serial Company (1973–present)<br />Corday Productions (1973–present)<br />Screen Gems (1973–74)<br />Columbia Pictures Television (1974–2000)<br />CPT Holdings, Inc. (1988–present)<br />Columbia TriStar Television (2000–2002)<br />Sony Pictures Television (2002–present)<br />Distributor Sony Pictures Television<br />Release<br />Original network CBS<br />Picture format <br />NTSC (480i) (1973–2001)<br />HDTV 1080i (2001–present)<br />Audio format Mono (1973–87)<br />Stereo:<br />CBS StereoSound (1987-1997)<br />Digital Stereo (1997-present)<br />Original release March 26, 1973 – present<br />Chronology<br />Related shows <br />As the World Turns<br />The Bold and the Beautiful<br />External links<br />Website<br />The Young and the Restless (often abbreviated as Y&R) is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin.[2] First broadcast on March 26, 1973, The Young and the Restless was originally broadcast as half-hour episodes, five times a week.[3][4]