All My Children AMC: The Prospect Park Era (old production thread)

[Vee]

Can someone please find Khan? I've done everything I am physically capable of doing. I'm sure even he is over the moon.

[SFK]

I wonder. My imagination goes to several possibilities.

Here are PP's Royal Pains opening credits:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Flcd_djin8c

I could imagine something similar for either show, especially if you swapped out those nice wide shots of Manhattan and the country club for Pine Valley or Llanview (Harrisburg bridges).

I, and others, have reached out. Haven't heard back.

[Darn]

Those credits are awful. I hate CGI in tv credits, they're just never good enough. I'd rather just having a title card instead of them trying too hard and coming up with something cheesy.

[Vee]

It irks me that it happened overnight when I was asleep and there wasn't a thing I could do. I tried PMing, I can't anymore. It was a harmless, innocent joke which I'd told a few times before over the years but which I didn't realize so upset him, and it's nothing compared to the scorn and contempt I reserve for the other 75% of the board.

I never apologize for anything around here but I was more than happy to do so for Khan, even if I'd never meant malice and it was an honest misunderstanding. The board is less with him on it, not that it was much to begin with, and I'm sure there's a few more "Prospect Park as bloodthirsty gangsters" jokes we had left to tell. Besides, I think even Khan, curmudgeon though he could be, would be happy about this. If even I'm happy and about 95% past my skepticism - I mean, they are taping - then he's got to be halfway there.

They're a little photoshop. But they're still pretty classy for the soaps.

[marceline]

I feel pretty much the same way but I don't really care much about opening credits either way. It's just not my thing.

[MrQuartermaine]

In other AMC news, Ray MacDonnell (Dr. Joe Martin) is celebrating his 85th birthday today.

[SFK]

Whatever they come up with, I'm sure it will be "hip" (at least in their eyes). I'm thinking a lot of it will have to do with how much they want to sell the visual of a traditional soap versus a more modern serial airing online. I'm having a hard time picturing what we're used to from AMC and OLTL over the past several years, those longish openings with shots of the entire (or half of the) cast.

Netflix's House of Cards has gone with a rather lengthy opening with no cast shots akin to premium cable series. They could have easily gone with a title card, but instead, we get Capitol circa 2013:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=055mIkZXaxo

[allmc2008]

Does anyone have old AMC scripts? I have one from 1983. It is Jenny's Birthday.

[allmc2008]

I know someone asked if AMC taped on the weekends and this script says "Tape Date: Saturday, October 22, 1983"

[MrQuartermaine]

This was just posted on AMC's Facebook page. I'm not sure if it's new or not. I can't recall ever seeing it before.

[SFK]

Wow! If they had put her in front of an actual set, that would have made for a great official photo.

[allmc2008]

Are the Tribute threads for AMC/OLTL going to turn into Classic AMC/OLTL threads or will they be deleted?

[alexisfan07]

That's gotta be new, I wonder if it was from the big photo shoot. Her hair is different though, not sure how many hairstyles they did for them.

[SFK]

I'm sure they won't be deleted. I see no need for a name change, but maybe they could be redubbed "Classic AMC/OLTL: The ABC Years" or something like that. Or maybe not "The ABC Years" because even the Prospect Park years will be "classic" someday.

With different jewelry, I could see Kay Chancellor lounging around the estate wearing that.

[DramatistDreamer]

Each episode of House of Cards was nearly 60 minutes, though. AMC will have to work with 30 minutes.

And I'll take that Capitol reference as encouragement that someone should re-boot that soap.