1977: Agnes Nixon interview/AMC celebrates 2,000 shows

[Scotty]

Well that's certainly true. You know, it's hard to believe she is the oldest contract cast member on OLTL right now.

[DRW50]

I know. Before she has left after about 7 years, each time, 7 or 8, so I'm kind of worried that will happen again, if OLTL stays on...

I have some 1971 interview with her and photos I'm going to post in a few days, if you want to see it.

[Scotty]

That would be great....RS is an interesting actress in my book.

And hopefully she'll stay with OLTL until whenever the show ends.

[EricMontreal22]

HAH I knew I had it wrong. It was 4am

[EricMontreal22]

This might be overstated but from at least 1975 (All Her Children and a NYTimes article both mention this) through to the early 80s, AMC really blew up among college students. I'm sure the articles exagerate it but they go on about colleges starting to teach about it, etc--stuff you never read about the other soaps to the same degree. I think it shot up by then to number one just cuz it was kinda the right soap for the right time--and it sounds like it attracted a number of people who hadn't been previous soap viewers--so a significant part of its audience wasn't necesarily being leeched from other soaps, but brand new. There definitely was a feeling--warranted or not--that AMC was a different kind of soap (again Dan Wakefield in *that book I mention too much according to some* says the only other soap he could get into after trying each one was Edge of Night, and a number of people he speaks to felt basically the same way--that AMC was somehow different. Again I'm not necesarily saying that was true, but...

but yeah, I'd love to see something from 74-77 to compare it to.

[Pine Charles]

???

[EricMontreal22]

They're making jokes about the mustachioed guy with the actress who plays Donna--saying he looks like Clint Richie who played Clint Buchanen on OLTL

[DRW50]

No I was saying Candice dated Clint Ritchie after this. They are on some soap magazines in the early 80s, I think the cover of SOD, talking about their love.

[EricMontreal22]

OH HAHAHAH I was kinda wondering cuz I didn't think they looked too similar. I wonder what she's doing now--I know there's probably no point but I'd love to see her back on AMC (though actually even more I'd love to see Mark and Ellen return--in Erica Kane's travel blog she mentioned she just went to visit them as part of her pre honeymoon with Jack in Hong Kong Apparently Mark spends half the year playing the piano on cruiseships )

[Paul Raven]

Candace ended up marrying some businessman she met on a plane. i think the story goes that his daughter recognized her, but he had no idea who she was. Anyway,they started a long distance romance and Candi eventually left to live marry him and live somewhere other than NY.

[Sedrick]

AMC in the late 70's and into the 80's was extremely popular with men, and it benefited greatly from its timeslot, capturing huge lunch time audiences. I remember my aunt Brenda used to come home from work on her lunch break just to watch the show, and I'd ride my bike over to her house in the summer time and eat and watch with her as a kid.

[EricMontreal22]

Yeah some of the same articles that talk about the college audience also say it was "by far" the top show among men... (A big part of the reason it was the soap I got hooke don prob was I could watch it when I'd come home for lunch from school)