All My Children
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All My Children (AMC) is an American soap opera that has been broadcast Monday through Friday on the ABC TV network since January 5, 1970; repeat episodes air weeknights on SOAPnet. Created by Agnes Nixon, the show is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia. Since its inception, the show has featured Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime's most popular characters.
The title of the show refers to the bonds of humanity. The poem, written by Nixon, that appears in the title credits' photo album reads:
| “ | The Great and the Least, The Rich and the Poor, | ” |
The show title is sometimes abbreviated by fans and the press as AMC. The first new network daytime drama to debut in the 1970s, All My Children was originally owned by Creative Horizons, Inc., the company created by Nixon and her husband, Bob. The show was sold to ABC in January 1975.[4] Originally a half-hour in length, the show expanded to an hour in April 1977. Previously, the show had experimented with the hour format for one week starting on June 30, 1975, after which Ryan's Hope premiered.
From 1970 to 1990, All My Children was recorded at ABC's TV18 at 101 West 67th St, now a 50-story apartment tower. Since March 1990, it has been taped at ABC's television studio TV23 at 320 West 66th Street in Manhattan, New York City. In December 2009, the show will be relocated to a studio in Los Angeles and produced there. It was confirmed on August 4, 2009 that All My Children and One Life to Live will go HD. All My Children will start filming in High Def. on January 4, 2010 and will air High Def. in February 2010. One Life to Live will go High Def. in December 2009 as soon as they move to All My Children's old studio. One Life to Live will be the third and All My Children the fourth soap opera to go High Def.
At one time, the program's popularity positioned it as the most widely-recorded television show in the United States. Also, in a departure from societal norms at the time, All My Children, in the mid-1970s, had an audience that was estimated to be 30% male.[8] The show ranked #1 in the daytime Nielsen Ratings from 1978-1979. Throughout most of the 1980s and into the early 1990s, All My Children was the #2 daytime soap opera on the air.
With the death of core cast member Ruth Warrick in January 2005, Susan Lucci and Ray MacDonnell are the only two original cast members remaining on the show. However, MacDonnell has announced his intention to retire from the show rather than move with the rest of the production company to Los Angeles at the end of 2009. Lucci intends to continue in her iconic role of Erica Kane, commuting from her home in New York to Los Angeles.
On November 12, 2008, the show celebrated its 10,000th show with a special appearance by Nixon and a special tribute to Myrtle Fargate.
Alternate titles AMC,
All My Children: The Summer of Seduction
(summer title)
Genre Soap opera
Creator(s) Agnes Nixon
Senior cast member(s)
Susan Lucci
David Canary
Darnell Williams
Michael E. Knight
Debbi Morgan
Country of origin United States
No. of episodes 10,250 (as of November 13, 2009
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In her Archive of American Television interview, creator Agnes Nixon told a story regarding the longevity of the series:
"Once we were plotting an episode and I looked down and saw that it was the six thousandth episode of All My Children, and so I said to the group, hey let’s knock off and go to lunch, I’ll take you to lunch and when we came back for the first time in my life I had forgotten that I was supposed to have a telephone interview. So I called the reporter who happened to be a woman in the Midwest and apologized profusely and explained that we had discovered that it was our six thousandth episode we were writing and she some figuring and she said, do you realize, that if you had been writing nighttime that you would have been working 240 years? So it did sort of put that in perspective."
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