# All My Children (1970)

> A long-running American daytime soap following the romantic and family entanglements of the residents of Pine Valley, a fictional Philadelphia suburb.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/831

## Facts

- Seasons: 16
- Episodes: 2389
- Episode runtime: 60 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: drama, romance
- Created by: Agnes Nixon
- Network: ABC
- Cast: Cameron Mathison, Alicia Minshew, Jacob Young, David Canary, Thorsten Kaye, Melissa Claire Egan, Rebecca Budig, Walt Willey
- TMDB rating: 6.8/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065272/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: mild
- Tone: melodramatic, sudsy, warm, heightened, comforting

## Synopsis

All My Children (1970-2011) is an American daytime soap opera created by Agnes Nixon for ABC, running for forty-one years and continuing online since 2013. Set in the fictional Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, the series follows interlocking families whose romances, rivalries and secrets play out across decades. Principal characters include Ryan Lavery (Cameron Mathison), Kendall Hart (Alicia Minshew), JR Chandler (Jacob Young) and Adam Chandler (David Canary), with Zach Slater (Thorsten Kaye) and Annie Lavery (Melissa Claire Egan) among the other ensemble figures. Its engine is the constant churn of love triangles, reunions, betrayals and custody battles that tie one household to the next, so each episode is a braided set of storylines rather than a single case. Spanning well over two thousand episodes across sixteen seasons, it is one continuing serialized story with no endpoint, built as an open-ended soap. The tone is melodramatic and warm, emotionally heightened and sudsy, with a sense of comfort in familiar faces returning again and again. Fans of General Hospital, The Young and the Restless and Days of Our Lives will find the same appetite for romance and generational melodrama, a kind of ritual rewatch for viewers who want interpersonal drama over a long run.

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