May 16, 2001 One Life To Live Opening Credits - Version B(Major Update)

Debuted: May 16, 2001
2nd major overhaul after the JFP arranged openings of 2000. Roger Howarth was now featured as lead cast shot, replacing Phil Carey. The major update was purposely done by new producer Gary Tomlin to fit his new February 2001 theme and in all his attempts to rid the show of Jill Farren Phelps.
The first ever appearance of emmy winner Kristen Alderson's footage in a One Life To Live opening sequence by her new April 2001 contract. She first appeared as Starr Manning on March 20, 1998, after shooting her first scenes in late February 1998.
Changes from JFP's November 2000 opening:
Todd(now leads opening, new position)
Blair(new position)
Starr(new, addition of longtime recurring member)
Kelly(returned to original spot, revised & zoomed in)
Max(new position)
Lindsay(new position)
Sam(new-actor)
Nora(new position)
Hank(new position)
Bo(new version of 1999 footage or new 2001 footage?, new position)
Melanie(new position)
Jen(new to B)
Cristian(new to B)
Jessica(new to B)
Ben(returned to Apr. 2000 spot with new format)
Viki

[@CJODell12]

That week, One Life to Live ranked 8th among the soaps with a 3.2/13, second in its 2 pm slot, slightly behind As The World Turns (3.5/13, 4th) and well ahead of Passions (1.8/7, 10th). In the Women 18-49 key demo, OLTL ranked 5th with a 2.4/17, ahead of both ATWT (1.8/13, 7th) and PAS (1.6/11, 9th).

[@CJODell12]

0:27. Kristen Alderson (Starr) was so adorable back when she was a kid.

[@Carmaker1]

Her first day in the opening credits at 9 years old (nearly 10). That footage was shot in late April 2001, but took sometime due to preparation work and the massive cast overhaul.

[@FaytLinegod]

+C.J. O'Dell indeed she was. And Gina Tognoni (Kelly) was absolutely gorgeous.

[@mysticalelfgirl12]

Yeah it was Jeanne. this opening for one life to live is really interesting I haven't seen this one before till today. Thank you for posting it :)

[@MrCraigblaze]

The knots landing of daytime!

[@LeahPCE]

I love this theme so much better haha (:

[@brandonbowles5457]

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[@cwp4eva]

Almost forgot about short hair Blair

[@danneye-raye1995]

Kellyyy!!!😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@diamondking3421]

I miss OLTL.

[@datnohi8612]

Me to 😭😭😢

[@heylovex3]

i was 9 years old

[@GETOSUPASTAR]

i almost forgot there was another actor that played al for like 5 minutes when they first bought gabrielle back, what was his name? he was fine!!!

[@GETOSUPASTAR]

thanx! @tyjuniorweb wonder whatever happened to him...

[@GenXorcist1976]

JEAN RANDOLPH!!!!! ROCK STAR!!! Woot, woot!!

[@TimsDale4ever]

Lisa Peluso was on this show?...... and Kelly was so young.

[@Carmaker1]

@EmmieClassix First day she appeared in it, as for a week they repeated the one with Bo for 6 days. This version was new in this episode, as before Todd did not lead the opening. Asa did.

[@musicman301]

Yes it was

[@EmmieClassix]

KA is SOOOO cute in this one

[@PaisaEsteban]

Why was this a "major overhaul"? What was it that JFP had done with the previous arranged openings that Tomlin wanted to get rid of?

[@CJODell12]

Tomlin probably knew that a lot of fans detested JFP’s tenure on the show, and he was trying to get rid of anything that reminded people of the worst parts of her tenure

[@Carmaker1]

It was a major rearrangement of the contract cast lineup. It was pretty expensive to update TV show openings back then, so the EP JFP was very stingy with frequent updates and the show went almost 11 months with 0 updates. In December 1999, they had to redo the entire opening and a lot of cast shots changed resolution. She hinted at that in an interview. In April 2000, the same thing happened, where many changes were made to everyone featured except Erika. This update was intended to shuffle around many cast members, according to Gary Tomlin's vision. In soaps, the first and the last shown in the cast credits, are the most important. This was the first credits version to feature Todd at the beginning, a lot of new cast shots, etc. Not only that, before this major update, he had the theme music re-recorded back in February 2001. Previous times they either slightly remixed it or re-recorded it with identical notes. Gary Tomlin was very spendy in this area, through the end of his tenure.

[@EmmieClassix]

@KamanForever Yupp. It it :D

[@thedivadanner]

Bo & Melanie were the worst couple in OLTL history!