For nearly two decades, Jerry Douglas has pretty much owned Genoa City as patriarch John Abbott on The Young and the Restless.

On Sunday, December 9, though, the 75-year-old actor will be shifting his gears to primetime as he makes a guest appearance in an episode of Cold Case.

The episode will be called "Family 8108" and Douglass will play Eugene "Skip" Robertson on the police procedural drama that stars Kathryn Morris.

Douglas will be part of a storyline in which the cold case detectives attempt to solve the 1945 murder of a man who moved his family to Philadelphia following their release from a Japanese-American internment camp in California during World War II.