"All My Children" (1970) TV series 1970-????

Creator:

Agnes Nixon

Seasons:

1 | unknown

Release Date:

5 January 1970 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Romance | Mystery

Tagline:

She's holding her baby, she just doesn't know it yet.

Plot:

Set in the fictional East Coast suburb Pine Valley, All My Children is the decades-old, risk-taking soap that centers around Erica Kane and her long line of husbands.

Plot Keywords:

Soap | Male Female Relationship | Wedding | Tragedy | Soap Opera

Awards:

Won Primetime Emmy. Another 160 wins & 454 nominations

Cast

Alicia Minshew	...	Kendall Hart / ... (715 episodes, 2002-2009)
Cameron Mathison	...	Ryan Lavery (695 episodes, 1998-2009)
Eileen Herlie	...	Myrtle Fargate / ... (688 episodes, 1976-2008)
Michael E. Knight	...	Tad Martin (641 episodes, 1983-2009)
Thorsten Kaye	...	Zach Slater (638 episodes, 2004-2009)
Susan Lucci	...	Erica Kane (628 episodes, 1970-2009)
David Canary	...	Adam Chandler / ... (612 episodes, 1984-2009)
Jacob Young	...	JR Chandler / ... (555 episodes, 2003-2009)
Melissa Claire Egan	...	Annie Lavery / ... (488 episodes, 2006-2009)
Bobbie Eakes	...	Krystal Carey Chandler / ... (476 episodes, 2003-2009)
Aiden Turner	...	Aidan Devane / ... (454 episodes, 2003-2009)
Walt Willey	...	Jackson Montgomery / ... (426 episodes, 1989-2009)
Kal Cauthen	...	Kal (345 episodes, 1997-2004)
Rebecca Budig	...	Greenlee Smythe / ... (338 episodes, 1999-2009)
Jill Larson	...	Opal Sue Gardner Purdy Cortlandt #2 / ... (328 episodes, 1989-2009)
Chrishell Stause	...	Amanda Dillon / ... (324 episodes, 2005-2009)
James Mitchell	...	Palmer Cortlandt, Sr. / ... (322 episodes, 1979-2008)
Darnell Williams	...	Jesse Hubbard / ... (317 episodes, 1981-2009)
Vincent Irizarry	...	David Hayward / ... (297 episodes, 1997-2009)

Also Known As:

All My Children: The Summer of Seduction (USA) (promotional title)

Runtime:

USA:60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (1970-1983) | Stereo (1983-)

Certification:

USA:TV-PG

Filming Locations:

ABC Studios, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Company:

American Broadcasting Company (ABC)

Trivia:

In April 1995, the show was setting up a storyline in which one of the characters was planning on setting a bomb at the wedding of two other characters. When the Oklahoma City bombing occurred, producers immediately cancelled the storyline, and appeared at the beginning of one of the episodes to explain their choice.

Quotes:

Simone Torres: Greenlee regrets what she did to you. If you would only meet her halfway.
Kendall Hart Cambias: No, not even to direct her the rest of the way to hell.

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in "Futurama: Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV (#5.15)" (2003)

The Only Soap I've Ever Watched

The summer I was 17, before I went away to college, I tuned into a black and white episode of AMC(half an hour)and since then I have always tuned in to see what was happening. Through various jobs and the birth of my son and times when I couldn't watch for over a year,AMC was always there. And, let's face it AMC means Erica Kane.

But as I am middle aged,I would like to suggest that the show deal MORE with reality. Erica is on trial right now for yet another murder - after 30 years of watching, I can hardly recall all the people she has been accused of killing -- and the prosecutor is her former lover. Could the writers please get a clue??? Prosecutors are not allowed to even KNOW the people they are trying. Please deal with the rules of 2002.

Also, The Greenly and Leo story is a total BORE. Unless you are 17,,,,, interesting...But I suspect Leo is gay, myself.

Nice twist on Proteus, however, I like it.