All My Children
Tues Apr 7 1998
TV Flash files “Tues Apr 7 1998” as hour 842 of 2997 in the TV Flash guide — All My Children (1970–2011) on ABC, season 1998, episode 68, aired 1998-04-07, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S1998E68: listed hour 842 of 2997 in the All My Children guide, hour 68 of 85 in season 1998. It aired 1998-04-07 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Mon Apr 06 1998” (S1998E67). Next is “Wed Apr 8 1998” (S1998E69). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Tues Apr 7 1998 sit in the All My Children guide?
S1998E68 is listed hour 842 of 2997 — hour 68 of 85 in season 1998, season 1998 episode 68.
When did All My Children S1998E68 air?
Tues Apr 7 1998 aired 1998-04-07 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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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…