All My Children Episode 41 Part 4/4

[@Serenity5]

My mother (died 2012) said I was the VCR at 4 yrs old. She was a nurse and had to work. So she would have me watch them and tell her everything that happened (early 70s)that day. Boy, I can tell you about a movie or a situation like you were there😁 I miss my mom🥺🤱🏿

[@castlist44i58]

Phillip and Tara had a wonderful chemistry and set the standard for star-crossed high school sweethearts like Greg and Jenny, and Jesse and Angie. I would love to see more episodes of AMC from this period.

[@EastCoastGal66]

I loved Tara and Phil! I watched as a teeenager, My favorite soap opera of all time!

[@karlsmith4168]

Ray MacDonnell was absolutely wonderful as good Doctor Joe, and he had wonderful chemistry with Mary Fickett's Ruth.

[@anthonyL1995]

This is a great kinescope.

[@Theasworld1984]

Richard Hatch was just so delicious back then 😍💖💖💖💖

[@GLBizzie]

The picture Quality is Stunning.. wow and i Love Tara Martin.. shame No one has more Episodes and what a shame Agnes Nixons own Tapes got destroyed because of a fire :(

[@EricMontreal22]

These episodes I posted actually were discovered by her son 5-10 years back when helping clean out a storage closet for his mom--no one remembered she had some original kinescopes still around and she posted them on her (very short lived) website--luckily I managed to save the files.

[@rhsharp]

Agnes Nixon said in an interview that ABC didn't want to save all the episodes of One Life to Live and All My Children because videotape was so expensive and they could reuse it by recording over earlier episodes. It wasn't until AMC expanded to an hour in April 1978 that ABC agreed to start saving the videotapes. There were a few kinescopes from early 1970, and this is one of them. Supposedly ABC stopped making kinescopes around September 1970. I guess Dan Curtis had more clout with ABC because all but one of the episodes of Dark Shadows were saved. Perhaps his company, Dan Curtis Productions, absorbed the cost of the tapes.

[@4021971]

@@rhsharp Thank goodness Curtis kept almost every episode. I am watching it again for the 4th time. I do wish all the other soaps kept their episodes too, but those shows were mostly erased.

[@daytime70s]

AMC went to an hour in April of 1977, but I think they started saving shows in 1976, with the experimental hour-long episode that Nixon agreed to do. So about half of 76 as well as all of 1977 AMC should be available, if Abc would ever care to start streaming the old episodes......

[@richarddixon7855]

It was great to meet Karen Lynn Gorney in person at an autograph convention in the late '90s. As kids, on snow days, my sisters and I got to watch her and Richard Hatch on AMC. Thanks for this wonderful clip!

[@makeittrue]

I read way back in the day that when the Tara/Phillip romance super couple ended is when the writers brought the Cliff/Nina story. Ironically, I started watching AMC in June 1979 when Cliff/Nina storyline began.

[@EricMontreal22]

Yeah, Agnes Nixon always mentioned how indebted she was to Dickens' serials, but that really showed in All My Children. She would always try to have on the cast some young lovers to root for (who tended to be pretty innocent with their love thwarted by circumstance or outside interference), villains, over the top comic characters who often *verged* on being villainous but were loveable (and often had crazy names--Billy Clyde Tuggle, etc) and to throw in social issues. She did seem to constantly try--with varying degrees of success, to have a roating cast of the young lovers.

[@tjames9698]

This is the REAL AMC!

[@mmcost]

thanks a million!!!!!!!!really enjoyed the 2 eps!!!!!hope u got more!!!!!!!!!ciao from italy.

[@donnamiller5222]

RIP Richard Hatch

[@clydethurman2037]

I want to see episodes with Erica in the mix. Would love to see a very young Erica scheming and plotting.

[@laminage]

@Tom Lowery Yes. It happens. Yet practice makes perfect. Remember Gretchen Heilberg on Degrassi Jr. High, she wasn't very good as Mrs. Jeremiah but her acting improved many years later.

[@davidbrunson8887]

Who cares? SL sucks! That's why it tôok her so long to win an Emmy!

[@deniseg812]

Wasn't Aunt Amy really his mother?

[@laminage]

Yes, and Nick Davies was his Father. Isn't it amazing how The Corduroy Jacket was part of Fashion. It was featured in The Talented Mr. Ripley or The Paper Chase.

[@aspenrebel]

Diff actors from what I remember. I think I came in, Phil was MIA or escaped from POW camp in Vietnam. Tara waiting at home thinking he's dead or something.

[@EricMontreal22]

Yep when Phil was found--rescued by a Vietnam boy, he was played by Nicholas Benedict who played the role the longest. Gorney was still Tara when he was found but only for a year, then Stephanie Braxton played her for two years, than Gorney returned for a year and went off to make Sat Night Fever, then Nancy Frangione played her...

[@aspenrebel]

@@EricMontreal22 yikes!! You know more than me.,I don't remember so well.

[@EricMontreal22]

@@aspenrebel It was before I was born but as a teen I was OBSESSED and read about AMC history as much as I could and got as many videos as I could ;)

[@aspenrebel]

@@EricMontreal22 only AMC? No "One Life to Live", "General Hospital", "Days of Our Lives", or "Dark Shadows"?

[@percyholland5592]

I often think about what it would have been like if Karen had stayed on AMC after Saturday Night Fever alongside Susan Lucci It probably would have been one of the greatest rivalries in the history of daytime

[@EricMontreal22]

Interesting that the other female lead, Donna Pescow (sp?) would come to AMC in 1983 playing the first openly gay or lesbian character on daytime, Dr. Lynn Carson. Karen returned to AMC around 1996 ish when her daughter Kelsey Jefferson came to the show to stay with Joe and Ruth (and her son Charlie Brent was on the show, as well). Apparently she campaigned hard to be kept as a regular character but sadly by all reports she was at an unstable time in her life and it was seen as impossible to put her on contract.

[@Tristin1974]

Richard Hatch and Karen Lynn Gorney!

[@wilfordfraser6347]

If Phillip got married to Tara wouldn't being married have qualified him for a draft deferment?