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All My Children (often shortened to AMC) is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970, to September 23, 2011, and on The Online Network (TOLN) from April 29 to September 2, 2013, via Hulu, Hulu Plus, and iTunes.
- ABC: 10,712 (television), TOLN: 43 (internet and television), Total: 10,755
- Series cast
All My Children: Created by Agnes Nixon. With Susan Lucci, David Canary, Michael E. Knight, Cameron Mathison. Set in the fictional East Coast suburb Pine Valley, this show is the decades-old, risk-taking soap that centers around Erica Kane and her long line of husbands.
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- 1970-01-05
- Drama, Romance, Mystery
- 60
- Alexandra Schonfeld
- Susan Lucci as Erica Kane. While many characters came and went in the 41 years All My Children aired, Susan Lucci’s Erica Kane was a mainstay through and through.
- David Canary as Adam and Stuart Chandler. When David Canary stepped into the roles of twins Adam and Stuart Chandler on All My Children in 1989, he was no stranger to television.
- Michael E. Knight as Tad Martin. Michael E. Knight’s role as Tad Martin on All My Children, was one of the actor’s very first onscreen gigs right out of acting school.
- Cameron Mathison as Ryan Lavery. When Cameron Mathison joined the AMC family in 1998, he had just a few onscreen roles under his belt. As Ryan Lavery, Mathison’s character was a part of one of the series’ famously elaborate weddings when he married Esta TerBlanche’s Gillian Andrassy in 2001.
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- History
- Prospect Park's Revival Plan
- Setting
Origins
Agnes Nixon, then head writer for Guiding Light, first came up with the idea for All My Children in the 1960s. When writing the story bible, she designed the show so it would be a light-hearted soap opera that focused on social issues and young love. She unsuccessfully attempted to sell the series to NBC, then to CBS, and once again to NBC through Procter & Gamble. When Procter & Gamble was unable to make room for the show in its lineup, Nixon put All My Children on hold. Nixon became head wr...
Creation
ABC later approached her to create a show that would reflect a more contemporary tone. That program became One Life to Live, and it debuted in 1968. After the show became a success, the network asked her for another program, and she obliged by reviving her All My Children bible and the Erica Kane character. The poem, written by Nixon, that appears in the title credits' photo album reads: In 1993, The Learning Channel's Furniture To Go did a parody called All My Furniture.
1970s
All My Children debuted on January 5, 1970. Rosemary Prinz was signed on to be the "special guest star" for six months, playing the role of liberal Amy Tyler. Prinz was well known for her role of Penny Hughes on As the World Turns in the 1950s and 1960s and she was added to the show to give it an initial boost due to her name value. From 1970 and into the 1980s, the show was either written by Nixon herself or by her protégé, Wisner Washam. He was groomed by Nixon to eventually take over the r...
Unsuccessful attempt
On August 2011, Prospect Park announced that it was shopping for a cable network to air All My Children in complementary to its future internet television channel. Prospect Park officially began negotiations with the actors of All My Children on September 15, 2011. On September 19, 2011, Cameron Mathison and Lindsay Hartley became the only actors that had agreed to continue the show with Prospect Park. Prospect Park initially intended for All My Children to begin its run on the internet on Se...
Revival
On December 17, 2012, Deadline Magazine reported that revival plans for All My Children and One Life to Live had resurfaced. A few days later, it was reported that Prospect Park had secured studio place in Stamford, Connecticut, where both shows would be filmed. The show had been filmed in New York City from 1970 to 2010, and in Los Angeles from 2010 to 2011. Within the weeks following the reports, Lindsay Hartley, Vincent Irizarry, Debbi Morgan, Darnell Williams, Jordi Vilasuso, Jill Larson,...
Since the series began in 1970, the fictional suburb of Philadelphia, Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, has been the setting for the show. The town exists in the same fictional universe as other soap opera settings such as Llanview, Pennsylvania(One Life to Live), Port Charles (General Hospital, Port Charles), and Corinth (Loving).
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All My Children. Drama 1970. Love, excitement and suspense return to Pine Valley with the unforgettable Chandlers, Cortlandts, Martins and Hubbards in all new episodes of All My Children.
All My Children (TV Series 1970–2011) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
