My mother has the entire week, the oprah special, and the carol burnett special all on one tape. I actually have it in my VCR right now lol!

I remember Oprah! It was a good anniversary week and a good time for the show if I'm remembering right. My mother made me go to bed during the Carol Burnett primetime special and then watched it herself. I was TOO angry and laid next to the door hoping I would hear the TV. Years later when I saw it on Youtube, I was sure to let her know I finally got to enjoy it and that I would never do that to any soap fan child I may have.

An interesting take on AMC from the somewhat hard to find 1978 The Soap Opera Book. The author takes some of the usual soap press confusion on the show of the time (there feels a tad bit f resentment that it's not as serious as other soaps yet has a trendy young following and press) but it's not without praise:

All My children

The Soap Opera Book, 1978

The Viewer's Guide to the Soaps

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All My Children is a light-hearted soap—perhaps the only light-hearted soap on the air. It may also be characterized as a home-and-familv soap, in the doctor-lawyer formula. The setting is the small town of Pine Valley. The major families are the Tylers (who founded the town) and the Martins.

All My Children was created and originally owned by Agnes Nixon, who also wrote or created Another World and One Life to Live. Today the show is owned by ABC; but Nixon retains creative control and her production company is listed as producer. As of January, 1977, All My Children is still in the half- hour format, but there are pressures to move to an hour, and this may well happen in the Spring of 1977.

In its home-and-family orientation, All My Children very much resembles traditional soaps.

But there are differences in tone. All My Children seldom succumbs to dark feelings of loneliness or instability (as does As the World Turns) or to sexual despair (as does Days of Our Lives). On All My Children, there is little serious evil. Bad characters like Phoebe, Erica, Mrs. Lum, or Benny Sago, tend to be fun, or funny. They do not ask much of us.

It is weird haring someone refer to Myrtle as "Mrs. Lum" and I find it shocking that she was at one time a villain. I would love to see some of that Era.

Love Erica in this. It's kind of disturbing to look back now with the benefit of hindsight and realize that she and Jack had variations of this same conversation over and over and over again, every couple of years.

I remember Oprah! It was a good anniversary week and a good time for the show if I'm remembering right. My mother made me go to bed during the Carol Burnett primetime special and then watched it herself. I was TOO angry and laid next to the door hoping I would hear the TV. Years later when I saw it on Youtube, I was sure to let her know I finally got to enjoy it and that I would never do that to any soap fan child I may have.

Oprah was the 20th not 25th...

Oprah was the 20th not 25th...

Both. I have moms tape still in my VCR with the Oprah Special on it. I hope she recorded the 20th Anniversary AMC Special with Oprah.

Edited June 25, 201312 yr by allmc2008

Come to think of it. My mom also has the week Tad proposes to Dixie in the Chicken Suite and Brooke is tending to Adams heart. Also during that week Erica introduces Eric Kane to everyone in PV meanwhile Natalie and Jermey seem to be wanting back to be with one another. I like all of the scenes with her and Trevor during that time!!

Mom also has the week Tad comes back and comes face to face with Dixie. It is funny yet sweet how Opal passed out. That tape also contains a Phil Donahue special.

Anyway, would anyone be interested in seeing those???

Come to think of it. My mom also has the week Tad proposes to Dixie in the Chicken Suite and Brooke is tending to Adams heart. Also during that week Erica introduces Eric Kane to everyone in PV meanwhile Natalie and Jermey seem to be wanting back to be with one another. I like all of the scenes with her and Trevor during that time!!

Mom also has the week Tad comes back and comes face to face with Dixie. It is funny yet sweet how Opal passed out. That tape also contains a Phil Donahue special.

Anyway, would anyone be interested in seeing those???

I would!

I'd love to see them as well. I'll beg anyone who has AMC clips to please, please, please upload them to youtube and make them public!

Another 1988 promo. Who is that man in the blue jeans jumping around?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV4DAD_t7mA

Come to think of it. My mom also has the week Tad proposes to Dixie in the Chicken Suite and Brooke is tending to Adams heart. Also during that week Erica introduces Eric Kane to everyone in PV meanwhile Natalie and Jermey seem to be wanting back to be with one another. I like all of the scenes with her and Trevor during that time!!

Mom also has the week Tad comes back and comes face to face with Dixie. It is funny yet sweet how Opal passed out. That tape also contains a Phil Donahue special.

Anyway, would anyone be interested in seeing those???

Any of it sounds great if you have time to post. Wish there was more of Natalie in the well on YT- out of all the classic AMC stories I missed, that is the one I want to see most

Another 1988 promo. Who is that man in the blue jeans jumping around?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV4DAD_t7mA

I think that's Lonnie Quinn (the original Will Cortlandt).

I think that's Lonnie Quinn (the original Will Cortlandt).

It looks more like Robbie Duncan McNeill as Charlie Brent to me.

It looks more like Robbie Duncan McNeill as Charlie Brent to me.

If the date of that promo is correct, Robert Duncan McNeil was already off the show by then, he left around July or August of 1988.

Edited June 26, 201312 yr by ghfan89

Still trying to work on the episodes.......

Thanks for typing up those articles for us Eric!

They were great reads.