All My Children
Monday Jan 5, 1970
TV Flash files “Monday Jan 5, 1970” as a desk essential hour — All My Children (1970–2011) on ABC, season 1970, episode 1, aired 1970-01-05, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S1970E01: listed hour 1 of 2997 in the All My Children guide, the only listed hour of season 1970. It aired 1970-01-05 (60 min). No earlier hour is listed in this guide. Next is “Jan 2 1990” (S1990E01). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Essential hour: “Monday Jan 5, 1970”. Monday, January 5, 1970 is the first Pine Valley filing. Agnes Nixon's social-issue soap as a daily machine: Erica Kane still a long game, the canvas already built for decades.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Monday Jan 5, 1970 sit in the All My Children guide?
S1970E01 is listed hour 1 of 2997 — the only listed hour of season 1970, season 1970 episode 1.
When did All My Children S1970E01 air?
Monday Jan 5, 1970 aired 1970-01-05 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Where should I start a soap that ran for decades?
For this 1970s catalog seat, start with Nixon's Pine Valley launch and Erica Kane as the ambition engine. Later decades are continuation, not a required front-to-back novel.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Agnes Nixon's Pine Valley makes Erica Kane, via Susan Lucci, into daytime's defining diva, then withholds the Emmy long enough to mint a mythology. Social-issue soap with a supermodel of ambition at the center. Lucci's long game: marriages, schemes, and the victory lap America demanded.
The drought was the story. The victory lap was the after-party. January 5, 1970, ABC: Agnes Nixon opens Pine Valley as a daily machine and Susan Lucci's Erica Kane becomes shorthand for daytime ambition before anyone has a chance to file the first marriage as amicable. All My Children is a 1970s soap launch that runs to 2011 — 2,997 hours, twenty-three seasons in the pack — and the withheld Emmy then the lap is pure daytime mythology. David Canary, Ruth Warrick's Phoebe Tyler, Julia Barr's Brooke. If you only…
Filed against
- Susan Lucci as Erica Kane
Susan Lucci made Erica Kane daytime's long-game diva on All My Children — Agnes Nixon's Pine Valley, marriages, schemes, an Emmy withheld long enough to mint a mythology. Social-issue soap with a supermodel of ambition at the center. TV…
- David Canary as Adam/Stuart Chandler
David Canary’s Adam and Stuart Chandler made All My Children’s Pine Valley a double — Agnes Nixon social-issue soap, Susan Lucci’s Erica as daytime’s defining diva, a man who could play saint and schemer in the same family tree. TV Flash…
- Ruth Warrick as Phoebe Tyler
Ruth Warrick's Phoebe Tyler queened All My Children's Pine Valley as daytime society weather — Agnes Nixon's social-issue soap, Susan Lucci's Erica Kane as the supermodel of ambition, a long game of marriages and schemes. TV Flash files…
- Julia Barr as Brooke English
Julia Barr’s Brooke English held All My Children’s Pine Valley as long-game daytime — Agnes Nixon’s canvas, Susan Lucci’s Erica Kane as defining diva, social-issue soap with a supermodel of ambition at the center. Marriages, schemes, a…