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Episode 6618 - Tuesday August 18th, 1995

TV Flash files “Episode 6618 - Tuesday August 18th, 1995” as hour 588 of 2997 in the TV Flash guide — All My Children (1970–2011) on ABC, season 1995, episode 162, aired 1995-08-15, 60 min.

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This leaf is S1995E162: listed hour 588 of 2997 in the All My Children guide, hour 162 of 180 in season 1995. It aired 1995-08-15 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Episode 6617 - Monday August 14th, 1995” (S1995E161). Next is “Episode 6619 - Wednesday August 16th, 1995” (S1995E163). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

All My Children — Episode 6618 - Tuesday August 18th, 1995 (S1995E162)

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Tad's children reveal that Janet Green saved their brother as Tad rushes him to the hospital. There, Maria arrives for another in vitro treatment and is blindsided by Erica, who pushes for a reckoning over their feud. Erica later seeks out her questionable doctor again, this time accepting an injection. Elsewhere, Mateo and Hayley are trapped in an elevator, triggering Hayley's claustrophobia.

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Where does Episode 6618 - Tuesday August 18th, 1995 sit in the All My Children guide?

S1995E162 is listed hour 588 of 2997 — hour 162 of 180 in season 1995, season 1995 episode 162.

When did All My Children S1995E162 air?

Episode 6618 - Tuesday August 18th, 1995 aired 1995-08-15 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.

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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…

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