Network: ABC
Episodes: 10,712 (half-hour, hour)
Seasons: 42
TV show dates: January 5, 1970 — September 23, 2011
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Alicia Minshew, Michael E. Knight, Cameron Mathison, Susan Lucci, David Canary, Thorsten Kay, Jacob Young, Walt Willey, Aiden Turner, Melissa Claire Egan, Bobbie Eakes, James Mitchell, Rebecca Budig, Jill Larson, Alexa Havins, Ray MacDonnell, Chrishell Stause, Darnell Williams, Colin Egglesfield, Eden Riegel, Debbi Morgan, Julia Barr, Amanda Baker, Justin Bruening, Sabine Singh, Leven Rambin, Cady McClain, Jeff Branson, Sydney Penny, and Ambyr Childers.
TV show description:
This long-running ABC soap opera revolves around the lives of the residents of the fictional East Coast town of Pine Valley.
The series’ early plotlines focused on rich snob Phoebe Taylor (Ruth Warrick); sensible Dr. Joseph “Joe” Martin (Ray MacDonnell) and his family; and single mother Mona Kane (Frances Heflin) and her prima-donna daughter Erica (Susan Lucci). Lucci and MacDonnell have remained with the program for over 30 years. Erica Kane has become well-known for her many marriages and remains the soap’s trademark character.
Other popular past and present characters include twins Adam and Stuart Chandler (David Canary), Tad Martin (Micheal E. Knight), Ryan Lavery (Cameron Mathison), Palmer Cortlandt (James Mitchell), Julia Santos (Sydney Penny), Jackson Montgomery (Walt Willey), Donna Beck (Francesca Poston, then Candice Earley), and Phil Brent (Richard Hatch, then Nick Benedict). Well-known actors who appeared as regular castmembers include Mischa Barton, Kim Delaney, Josh Duhamel, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Lee Meriwether, and Kelly Ripa.
Episode 10,712
The final week featured Dr. Joe and Ruth Martin relocating to Pine Valley to cover (recently arrested) David Hayward’s hospital duties. The return of Adam Chandler and Brooke English coincided with the revelation that David had somehow resurrected Stuart Chandler. Jackson Montgomery dissolved his relationship with Erica after she admitted that she prefers not to remarry.
Unresolved is JR Chandler’s plunge into insanity as he drunkenly aims a gun at a crowd of regular characters during a welcome-home party for Stuart. The screen darkens before revealing the victim, leaving the story open for an eventual continuation online. Those plans were later abandoned.
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What do you think? Were you a fan of All My Children? Would you like to see the soap return someday, perhaps in another form?
I’ve been watch all my children for years i would love to see it return
YES! I would love to see it return! I watched it since I was 10! I am turning 50 this year so…! Bring it back!!
I loved All my children watched it for over 30 years until the lady day!
All my children was my favorite soap opera,I was pretty mad when it was cancelled,I watched it for years.
OF COURSE AMC was cancelled. All the good shows are cancelled. The shows that nobody likes is the ones that is not canceled.
Bring it back I loved it
Please keep this on good soap. Our tv time.
Just saw this! OMG, please, please bring back AMC. It was an awesome daytime show. It had so many current real life issues that really helped people. It made it ok to be different and showed how to deal with life’s problems. It did its share of public service. BRING IT BACK!!!!
Come on now, the lawsuit is over bring it back, I’m waiting, swoop up those original cast mates at least most of them
Hell Yes, I would love to have All My Children back on TV.
yes I think amc should be back on tv they need to write a new script and take up where they left off it was the top soap and they should put arka the same onewho play her I cry went they took amc off tv put it back on
I started watching AMC right after graduating from high school in 1971. I know this may sound stupid but I felt like those characters were part of my family. When AMC was taken off the air I almost felt like that part of my family had been murdered….in favor of what???? More reality tv garbage?????
I think that the idiots running ABC should be tared and feathered. I was a loyal fan of all my children for years and years and years and years. I feel completely dissed and unappreciated. And I no longer watch ABC during the daytime except for General Hospital.
I was very upset about the cancellation of all my children I had watched the show since I was a little kid I would love to have it back
YES YES YES
Yes I’ve watched since day one please bring them back