The Newman Ranch Is Back On Young And Restless!
With its landmark 13,000th episode right around the corner, Young and Restless marked the special milestone by unveiling a huge surprise for fans and the actors: restoring the original Newman Ranch set, which was notoriously burned down in 2012. The blast from the past brought one of the show’s biggest stars, Eric Braeden (Victor Newman), to tears.
What’s Old Is New Again
Deadline was at the studio and shared an interview with Braeden, who started as the millionaire tycoon back in 1980, and longtime co-star Melody Thomas Scott, who plays his on-screen wife Nikki Newman (she started a year earlier in 1979). Both actors gushed about the emotions that were brought out by having their longtime set rebuilt to its former glory in the video, which also featured them touring the set for the first time.
“I never thought that I’d become attached to a set where I worked but 44 years… imagine that!” marveled Braeden. “I was actually moved to tears because it was so long coming, you know,” he said.
Thomas Scott walked around, inspecting all the little touches added by the prop team, when her eye spied one particularly familiar piece of the set that had seen a lot of action in the past. “Our staircase,” she said in a sentimental tone, as Braeden interjected proudly, “I used to carry you up that.” Thomas Scott immediately quipped back, “You’re gonna do that again today.” The 83-year-0ld Braeden simply laughed as he said, “No, no.”
The set will look very familiar to long-time fans, who have for years been saying they wished the show had never had Sharon, then suffering her first bipolar episode (a story being revisited today), burn the beloved set down. Now it’s back, complete with the aforementioned staircase, Nikki’s piano and many other touches that may be familiar to viewers.
“Oh, it feels like the original… When I’m in there, I feel like that’s my house again because I always felt very protective,” remarked Thomas Scott. “It was my house and now it’s my house again. And I’ve wanted this back here for so long.” She then added, “See if you hang around long enough, your greatest desires will come true.”
Josh Griffith, Y&R’s executive producer and head writer, told Deadline, “[It] was not lost on us that the Newman family and Genoa City just weren’t the same without Victor and Nikki’s original home.” He went on to note, “I must give special thanks to Y&R’s art department and stage crew who went above and beyond in executing the return of one of Y&R’s most iconic sets.”
The 13,000th episode of Y&R is slated to air on Wednesday, November 13, but viewers will catch their first on-air glimpse of the Newman Ranch set on Friday, November 8.
Conversation
All comments are subject to our Community Guidelines. Soap Opera Digest does not endorse the opinions and views shared by our readers in our comment sections. Our comments section is a place where readers can engage in healthy, productive, lively, and respectful discussions. Offensive language, hate speech, personal attacks, and/or defamatory statements are not permitted. Advertising or spam is also prohibited.