Didn't Erica have a crush on Nick and then he eventually swept her off her feet and they got married? I have patches of memories of the show from back then when I was 6 and would be playing with cars and trucks on the floor as my granny watched her "sereals" !
she was always so tiny! me too, just the same, same height, waist, everything. whenever i feel insecure about being so small and thin, i think of her and feel better! LOL
TV killed radio shows, and now the internet will kill TV. I'm glad I decided to get on the wave:) I hope All My Children does prevail on the internet:)
Brians Frons should stay away from the two soap operas of All My Children and One Life to Live, and he's certainly have no right to call it a cancellation and ending the two soaps. The two soaps must go back on air only on ABC Daytime. The two evil shows The Chew and The Revolution should get their freaking boring and disgusting cooking talk show off and away from the daytime soap opera television viewers. All viewers doesn't like The Chew and The Revolution because we're useless.
@chr5210 if 'The View' amd 'The Revolution', though the former has been panned left and right, break even with AMC & OLTL ratings-wise, that's the point..whether the networks, et. al. lose money, it won't be as much from producing food and talk shows as opposed to expensively-produced soaps..this is the only reason why they're going away - and rather quickly, with GH being next..it's all a matter of finances - and to hell with us!!!
@johnyzero2000 Some shows were kept, I think Days is intact from the beginning and Y&R as well. I know Agnes Nixon kept shows but they were destroyed in a fire or something.
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Oh my goodness! MEMORIES! I began watching this show when I was 19 very shortly after it came on. I tried to watch every episode for years. Loved it. So much that I named my second daughter Erica. Little did I know that she would look so much like her and sometimes act like her. Uncanny for real.
Ladies and gentlemen, unless there are some more early episodes out there, this is THE earliest Erica Kane scene still in existence (besides Susan Lucci's audition tape). Savor it. Thanks, Donna.
can anyone name all of Erica's husbands. I think 1st two were Phillip Brent and Jeff Martin. Can someone out there help me. I remember the real early ones,but I don't remember who came first.
@gotch09 Erica Kane Martin Brent Cudahy Chandler Montgomery Montgomery Chandler Marick Marick Montgomery. Soon to be Montgomery again because Jackson and her are supposedly getting married. Got her name from pinevalleybulletin . com :]
@gotch09 Jeff Martin came first; then Phil Brent; then she was married to Tom Cudahy; then to Adam Chandler (twice) Dimitri Marick (twice); Travis Montgomery (twice) and Jackson Montgomery (twice). Does that help clear up the confusion?
@gotch09 She certainly was. However a couple of her marriages were null and void, because of the chicanery of Adam Chandler. When it came to marriage, he was quite the fool too! As many times as HE was married. First, he was married to Althea, then to, among others, Brooke (who often brought out the best in him); Erica (twice); Liza (twice) Gloria; Arlene (Hayley's mother); Dixie. He was no better with marriage than Erica was.
@AlbieGray Oddly enough I didn't watch David that much on AMC. But I do remember him very well as "Candy" on Bonaza, After Parnell Roberts left, I guess they had to put somebody in his place.
@gotch09 Yeah, that is so true. But then again, until he joined AMC as Adam and Stuart, he was mainly known as the last Steve Frame on Another World. Then in 1984, he joined as Adam Chandler and Stuart Chandler. And he had done a fantastic job.
I think todays soap opera writers directors and producers could learn something from these scenes no over acting the actors look like normal people not like theyve all walked out of a top modeling agency the plot bulds up slowly and the dlouge between characters is the thing not shocking revalation after revaltion and an over reliance on sugistive fliriting and sex which with lashings of incedental music today soaps are all gloss and no depth
I always thought th denizen of Pine Valley, especially in the beginning looked down thei noses on Erica to begin with, especially that bitch Phoebe Tyler
What Erica's problem was that she did not know how to love herself. She wanted more for herself in life & lets be real who the hell doesn't? I'm not condoning some of her behavior over the years, but referring to her just as merely a "bitch" is superficial & shallow.
you know what the bad part is? erica treated mona kinda crappy because she thought mona could have did more to keep their father, but it was not until mona died that erica realized what she had in her mother.
@toony826 I always loved Mona----the stalwart, ever-adoring, always-wise mother. Fra Heflin (Van's sister) was an amazing actress. When she "died", I mourned and loved that Erica suffered, as she had mistreated this wonderful woman so often, leaving Mona to clean up her many, many messes. When my own beloved mother passed away, I thought of Mona....and I was so happy I treated my own mom with respect and love.
Erica's problem was that she couldn't handle not being the center of attention. Also, you see even then how her Father's leaving her affected her when she talked about her future with a Man.
@KRstar78 - And still is. But the funny thing is, it all made more sense after all of the Richard Fields/Kendall Hart mess came out. I guess getting raped and impregnated at 14 AND finding out that your dad set it up would make a woman a man-hating bitch, too.
Isn't it funny how Nick and Mona hung out as friends? You don't see that now. Now, it's like every man and woman have to be screwing. No wonder people don't think men and women can be JUST FRIENDS.
@1203kitkat - Yes. The Kendall Hart storyline came about in the 90's but the history of it pre-dates the show. The rape would have occurred when Erica was 14; which would have been 1969. So despite all of the AMC character "re-aging", Kendall would actually be 41 and Erica would be 55 (Although Susan Lucci will be 64 next week and Alicia Minshew is 36 - per Wikipedia).
@KRstar78 I thought she was 17 too on this show but she is now 65 and the show has been on for 40 years and she has been apart of it from the very beginning.
@KRstar78 Bitch is profanity. Bitch is not allow in the 1970's according to censorship Seal of Good Practice Television Code from the National Association Broadcasters.
@chr5210 its fuuny that you say this because things changed in the 80's when i commeted on erica i was refering to her behavor and her attitude as a teenager not becacuse she's a woman. She was vary difficult.
@KRstar78 Stop. You didn't type and post spellings while spreading comments correctly. It's goes. "It's funny that you say this because things changed in the 80's when I commented on Erica, I was refering to her behavior and her attitude as a teenager not because she's a woman. She was very difficult". First use an upper cases, lower cases and punctuations, that's what Grammar American English language is.
I'm a dude and I've loved amc for many years. it has to be one of the best shows ever. I don't know what's going on now, but i know about the good ol' days.
philly suburb...small community...young love...old money...people from the wrong side of the tracks...and you can't go wrong...that's all my children.
I remember on Oprah seeing a clip from 1974 when Erica Kane Brent miscarried Phil Brent's baby. Erica was so stunning in her half turban & you could see that she desperately wanted to have Phil's baby. I think she had a breakdown right after that happened if I'm not mistaken.
erica also miscarried dimitri's baby in 96 or 97,. i think that was what motivated her to kidnap maria's baby b/c she wanted to use that baby to replace the one she lost with dimitri and especially since she thought maddie/sonya was dimitri's daughter. didn't erica also blame maria for her miscarrying dimitri's baby. if i remember correctly erica suffered a miscarriage during her last wedding to dimitri
Yes Travis you are right on all accounts. erica found out about Dimiti and Maria's one night stand and believed that Dimitri was the father(Skye seduced Andy, a lab technician to fudge results to make it look like Dim's instead of Edmund's coz she wanted Edmund) Anyhoo, she miscarried at Dimitri's wedding and wanted revenge so she delivered Maria's baby in the cabin, lied to her that the child was stillborn, then moved to Europe with Maddie and raised her as "sonya."
yeah it is. It was found on a minseries that Reba McEntire hosted in 1997 after The City was cancelled and before Port Charles came on. For the month of that May, Reba hosted a bunch of classic episodes that were reran. I guess favorites that made ABC daytime history and apparently this one from 1970 made the cut.
Yeah soaps also examined the power of mother-daughter relationships back in the day too. Those were just as important as husband-wife teams. I think the whole idea of Erica/Mona came from AW's Rachel and Ada as Agnes Nixon created both AW and AMC.
the very first episode I watched was when Philip came back from Vietnam and found out that Tara had married Chuck. I think this was about 1974. I was 13 years old, and I was hooked. The storylines and characters were soooo much better than they are now. I loved Phil & Tara, Benny & Estelle, Chuck & Donna, Cliff & Nina, Greg & Jenny, Jeff & Mary.
susan was very young in this scene and still takes care of herself butt theirz really nothing anyone can do about old age its inevitable. theirz no fountain of youth to drink from. no chance whatsoever anyone will reverse to the age they felt comfortable at.
Wasnt her first husband a martin? Also how was nick phil brent bio dad? Wasnt phil erica's second? thats gross she had an afair with nick right and she married his son? Please fill me in on the history lol
phil's antural parents are nick davis and amy. amy gave him to her sister ruth brent when he was born .ruth along with her husband mr brent raised phil as their own
adam Chandler was #4 Mike Roy was #5(invalid) Travis was #6 and 7 Adam was number 8 Dimitri was 9 and 10 and Jackson was 11. All out of piggies! But Adam Chandler and Asa Buchanan have her beat!
How is he Phli's bio dad? Was phil adopted by ruth and her husband? I wasnt born when the soap premiered so I dont know all the history I started watching in the 80s when i was about 6 during the jenny/greg era
I used to watch this back when it started in 1970, and when I look at this clip, I can't believe it was almost 40 years ago! Soaps were a lot more believable back then..........storylines were more believable and the people all looked like normal people, and not overly processed, carved-out-of-cream-cheese supermodels.
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Thanx a million for posting. I was born in 1987. I didn't even start watching 'til 2006. I'm waaaay, waaaay late. I'm trying to watch every episode I can get my hands on from 1970-2006. I've got a long way to go.
I was born in 1976 and i started watching in 82 lol. I was around during the greg/jenny era. I stopped watching back in 1997 after they "killed"off Maria and then when i tried to watch later it just got stupid to me so i lost interest lol. I remember the glory days of amc. its just not the same anymore.
I was lucky to see Agnes' work on ANOTHER WORLD as a child in the late 1960s before (abc) lured her over there to premiere her own creations (AMC and OLTL). This scene looks exactly like the bitchy young Rachel (then played by Robin Strasser, now Dorian on OLTL) and her single hardworking blonde mama Ada (the late Constance Ford). When Agnes got the job as AW head writer, she invented Ada & Rachel, based on her earlier stories stowed away of Mona & Erica. AMC was dejavous to AW fans.
the actress who played TAra and in Saturday night fever was fictionally portrayed in the movie 54. (about Studio 54, not such a great movie, but pretty Neve Campbell played the said actress)
GOD!! Where did you get this wonderful classic? remember all those fabulous characters ??Phil Brent,Ann Tyler,Margo Flax,and of course the grand dame of Pine Valley---Phoebe Tyler..ahhh yesteryear..
As I sit here watching this again,(because I love classic episodes of soaps), I wonder if the writers' strike would have gone on longer, would the networks have pre empted soaps with classics episodes like this one, I would have loved that.
Erica was one of the original vixens. She's selfish, self-centered, rude, childish, narsacistic, etc. but at the same time she's very charming and once she grew up she developed a very warm and kind heart.
Considering that Agnes, Bill Bell and Irna Phillips had a hand in creating the first three bad girls of daytime history---Erica in 1970, ATWT's Lisa in 1960 and AW's Rachel in 1966.
Bad girls on soaps back then were written that way. Erica, Lisa, Rachel, SEARCH's Stephanie Wyatt (played Maree Cheatham), EDGE's Raven (Sharon Gabet).
Erica always called Mona "plain". She was very attractive. Simple, not alot of makeup, but a wonderful face. She was a long-suffering mother. She was made to be a homebody, but she was lovely in her own way.
This is when I first started watching AMC. I skipped school for one month to watch it when I was in the 7th grade. I hated going back to school. Didn't want to miss a show. When I was growing up I wanted to be Ms. Kane. I loved her and still do. It used to be on for 1/2 hr in black and white. Wow this is great!
sugaplum02:WOW Ericka Kane in black and white. How old is she in this episode
They weren't in black and white, originally; most of the time MOST shows were NOT saved, on any network, because videotape was extremely expensive then. They would re-use the same tape reels over and over again. Occasionally, someone would save a few episodes, here and there, on either U-matic video or b&w kinescope 16mm FILM (this one) or open reel video machines, which were also b&w, for the most part.
It was Phil Brent, played by Richard Hatch (not the one from Survivor). He was part of AMC's first super couple, Phil and Tara (Martin). I started watching in '71 or '72 so this episode is before my time-not sure why he's on the floor. It was odd to finally see Ted Brent. He was gone when I started to watch.
Phil was on the floor because of a gas leak in the house...in the next episode, Nick comes to his rescue (against Mona's wishes, he goes to the Brents' house).
@sorman10 FYI, in an attempt to keep Nick from telling Philip he was his 'real father', Ted got into an accident and was killed six months into AMC's run....
i was born in 1985 and i didn't become familiar with this show until 1997 when i migrated from jamaica to the united states.i am 22 years old and i prefer the old black and white episodes over what's been offered on the soaps these days. soaps are all about character and plot comes after but these days plots are taking precedence over characters and their histories
In the earlier episodes, she had stright hair parted in the middle. About half way down her back. That hairdo was da bomb in 1970. Semi-shag like Jane Fonda. I love Erica in this ep - she was such a Be-atch.
Yeah, she was definitely that; but now, she's mellowed, but she can still rear her be-atchy side on occasion, especially when her family is threatened.
I loved Erica with very dark hair. Probabaly dark brown. Unfortunaely this is one of the few episodes saved prior to 1978. It was originally in color. It was so faded they converted it to B&W. When Agnes Nixon sold
AMC to ABC, one of her requirements was that they arquive every new episode. Every episode that still exists from July, 1978 until the present. especially the episodes with Phoebe and Langely. Greg and Jenny - what can I say - the Golden Years of "All My children".
Not to be picky or anything, but they actually started saving the episodes some time in 1976. ABC wanted to expand the show to an hour, but Agnes wouldn't do it unless they promised to start keeping archives of the show. They did, and so the show expanded on 4/25/1977.
It's funny how Erica is calling Nick a creep here but a few years later she was all up in his bed. In fact, "that creep" had her strung out for a while - LOL!
Lucci(Erica) was only 22 here -- of course she's playing, like, four years younger. But she had already graduated from college by the time she got this part.
yea i can see this
15247319 6 days ago
Thanks, disabled1955. That explains a lot. One question remains - how did Ted last six months? Not a good actor! :)
sorman10 2 months ago
The cancellation is a total mistake and ABC will realize this when the ratings hit rock bottom! I guess they will have to *chew* that one.
21Nax 5 months ago
These two were my favorites. Nick and Mona. Erica was 15 yrs. when she joined the show. She treated her good and sweet mother badly.
Faith111213 5 months ago
These two were my favorites.
Faith111213 5 months ago
Erica, always looking for the corner of 5th street and pine
nopseee89 5 months ago
Didn't Erica have a crush on Nick and then he eventually swept her off her feet and they got married? I have patches of memories of the show from back then when I was 6 and would be playing with cars and trucks on the floor as my granny watched her "sereals" !
LerfaMu1 5 months ago
she was always so tiny! me too, just the same, same height, waist, everything. whenever i feel insecure about being so small and thin, i think of her and feel better! LOL
mediterraneanqueen 5 months ago
I already know how to cook thank you...now chew THAT.
Kell1295 5 months ago
TV killed radio shows, and now the internet will kill TV. I'm glad I decided to get on the wave:) I hope All My Children does prevail on the internet:)
LoquaciousByNature 5 months ago
Brians Frons should stay away from the two soap operas of All My Children and One Life to Live, and he's certainly have no right to call it a cancellation and ending the two soaps. The two soaps must go back on air only on ABC Daytime. The two evil shows The Chew and The Revolution should get their freaking boring and disgusting cooking talk show off and away from the daytime soap opera television viewers. All viewers doesn't like The Chew and The Revolution because we're useless.
chr5210 5 months ago
@chr5210 if 'The View' amd 'The Revolution', though the former has been panned left and right, break even with AMC & OLTL ratings-wise, that's the point..whether the networks, et. al. lose money, it won't be as much from producing food and talk shows as opposed to expensively-produced soaps..this is the only reason why they're going away - and rather quickly, with GH being next..it's all a matter of finances - and to hell with us!!!
disabled1955 2 months ago
@disabled1955 All viewers got enough of Brian Frons' scheming The Chew and The Revolution are liars as frauds.
chr5210 2 months ago
The lovely Mary Fickett!
monialicia73 5 months ago
I wish they would show AMC on the SOAP channel. The episodes that are missing, Susan can explain what happened....
JanetteCHAN 5 months ago
mary fickett who played ruth has passed away(sept 8, 2011) at age 83
travis082185 5 months ago
drake sent me here
kevinrules99 5 months ago
@kevinrules99 the rapper? what did he say?
MrKnowles11 5 months ago
@MrKnowles11 he said "Soap opera rappers, all these niggas sound like all my children" from "headlines"
kevinrules99 5 months ago
wow! How far AMC has come from this! But one thing hasn't changed. It's all about ERICA ! LOL
nyirishann 6 months ago
You've got to be kidding they never preserved the old soaps from 1970 to 76?! What the hell were they thinking?!
johnyzero2000 7 months ago
@johnyzero2000 Some shows were kept, I think Days is intact from the beginning and Y&R as well. I know Agnes Nixon kept shows but they were destroyed in a fire or something.
flagler88 5 months ago
I bet Susan Lucci had no idea 40 years from now she would still be on the show and would be the star of it
thestateofboredom 8 months ago
how old is she........5?
mabelle66 9 months ago
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SoapFansUnited 9 months ago
all my children is not the same anymore the writers are maken everyone stupid.and not interesting anymore sorry for the spelling.
1968musicdude 10 months ago
Oh my goodness! MEMORIES! I began watching this show when I was 19 very shortly after it came on. I tried to watch every episode for years. Loved it. So much that I named my second daughter Erica. Little did I know that she would look so much like her and sometimes act like her. Uncanny for real.
thegreenieye 10 months ago
Ladies and gentlemen, unless there are some more early episodes out there, this is THE earliest Erica Kane scene still in existence (besides Susan Lucci's audition tape). Savor it. Thanks, Donna.
jaetee83 10 months ago
was this back when the soap was only half an hour long?
moxie96 1 year ago
@TLContessa the tall guy with dark hair? i think i remember.
millennialgirl 1 year ago
@TLContessa omg! is that why erica hated kendall? who is bianca's dad? demetri?
millennialgirl 1 year ago
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Angela2BPecked 1 year ago
Great seeing this again 40 years later!!
DeeDeeSmiles 1 year ago
Pre-plastic surgery.
uppityhomo 1 year ago
can anyone name all of Erica's husbands. I think 1st two were Phillip Brent and Jeff Martin. Can someone out there help me. I remember the real early ones,but I don't remember who came first.
gotch09 1 year ago
@gotch09 Erica Kane Martin Brent Cudahy Chandler Montgomery Montgomery Chandler Marick Marick Montgomery. Soon to be Montgomery again because Jackson and her are supposedly getting married. Got her name from pinevalleybulletin . com :]
reva383 1 year ago
@reva383 So over the years, Erica's had a real thing about marrying Montgomerys, Chandlers and Maricks?
gotch09 1 year ago
@gotch09 lol pretty much.
reva383 1 year ago
@gotch09 Jeff Martin came first; then Phil Brent; then she was married to Tom Cudahy; then to Adam Chandler (twice) Dimitri Marick (twice); Travis Montgomery (twice) and Jackson Montgomery (twice). Does that help clear up the confusion?
AlbieGray 1 year ago
@AlbieGray Thanks. Erica was a little marrying fool.
gotch09 1 year ago
@gotch09 She certainly was. However a couple of her marriages were null and void, because of the chicanery of Adam Chandler. When it came to marriage, he was quite the fool too! As many times as HE was married. First, he was married to Althea, then to, among others, Brooke (who often brought out the best in him); Erica (twice); Liza (twice) Gloria; Arlene (Hayley's mother); Dixie. He was no better with marriage than Erica was.
AlbieGray 1 year ago
@AlbieGray Oddly enough I didn't watch David that much on AMC. But I do remember him very well as "Candy" on Bonaza, After Parnell Roberts left, I guess they had to put somebody in his place.
gotch09 1 year ago
@gotch09 Yeah, that is so true. But then again, until he joined AMC as Adam and Stuart, he was mainly known as the last Steve Frame on Another World. Then in 1984, he joined as Adam Chandler and Stuart Chandler. And he had done a fantastic job.
AlbieGray 1 year ago
I think todays soap opera writers directors and producers could learn something from these scenes no over acting the actors look like normal people not like theyve all walked out of a top modeling agency the plot bulds up slowly and the dlouge between characters is the thing not shocking revalation after revaltion and an over reliance on sugistive fliriting and sex which with lashings of incedental music today soaps are all gloss and no depth
Runrome 1 year ago
omg erica was so young in 1970 i luv her hair lol so 70s
TheDangergirl35 2 years ago
I loved the eye roll!
gabrielandvalli 2 years ago
i love the long meaningful scenes with each characters interacvting with each other and no bitch slapping and carrying on and illiscit sex
travis082185 2 years ago
I always thought th denizen of Pine Valley, especially in the beginning looked down thei noses on Erica to begin with, especially that bitch Phoebe Tyler
tallulah1961 2 years ago
What Erica's problem was that she did not know how to love herself. She wanted more for herself in life & lets be real who the hell doesn't? I'm not condoning some of her behavior over the years, but referring to her just as merely a "bitch" is superficial & shallow.
tallulah1961 2 years ago
and SO BEGAN one of the greatest soap characters in TV history - and 40 years later, STILL looking better than EVER!!!!
christheone8773 2 years ago
you know what the bad part is? erica treated mona kinda crappy because she thought mona could have did more to keep their father, but it was not until mona died that erica realized what she had in her mother.
toony826 2 years ago 7
@toony826 I always loved Mona----the stalwart, ever-adoring, always-wise mother. Fra Heflin (Van's sister) was an amazing actress. When she "died", I mourned and loved that Erica suffered, as she had mistreated this wonderful woman so often, leaving Mona to clean up her many, many messes. When my own beloved mother passed away, I thought of Mona....and I was so happy I treated my own mom with respect and love.
jekorb 9 months ago
erica was such a bitch when she was 17
KRstar78 2 years ago 16
Erica's problem was that she couldn't handle not being the center of attention. Also, you see even then how her Father's leaving her affected her when she talked about her future with a Man.
laminage 2 years ago
My dad left us wen i was veary veary young i can see were she's coming from, but when i was 17 i was a good kid and i was good to my mom.
KRstar78 2 years ago
@KRstar78 : she was suppose to be 15 in this scene FYI.
HnHBlkM 1 year ago
That's funny because in the spring of 70 she graduated high school.
witch would have made her 17. i think15 is just the base the writers wanted
KRstar78 1 year ago
@KRstar78 Erica is till a bitch
amcfan100 1 year ago
@KRstar78 - And still is. But the funny thing is, it all made more sense after all of the Richard Fields/Kendall Hart mess came out. I guess getting raped and impregnated at 14 AND finding out that your dad set it up would make a woman a man-hating bitch, too.
Isn't it funny how Nick and Mona hung out as friends? You don't see that now. Now, it's like every man and woman have to be screwing. No wonder people don't think men and women can be JUST FRIENDS.
rpm8064 1 year ago
@rpm8064 So she already had Kendall?
1203kitkat 1 year ago
@1203kitkat - Yes. The Kendall Hart storyline came about in the 90's but the history of it pre-dates the show. The rape would have occurred when Erica was 14; which would have been 1969. So despite all of the AMC character "re-aging", Kendall would actually be 41 and Erica would be 55 (Although Susan Lucci will be 64 next week and Alicia Minshew is 36 - per Wikipedia).
rpm8064 1 year ago
@rpm8064 so kendal was conceived from erica being raped?
millennialgirl 1 year ago
@KRstar78 I thought she was 17 too on this show but she is now 65 and the show has been on for 40 years and she has been apart of it from the very beginning.
millennialgirl 1 year ago
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@KRstar78 Watch your language.
chr5210 5 months ago
@KRstar78 Bitch is profanity. Bitch is not allow in the 1970's according to censorship Seal of Good Practice Television Code from the National Association Broadcasters.
chr5210 2 months ago
@chr5210 its fuuny that you say this because things changed in the 80's when i commeted on erica i was refering to her behavor and her attitude as a teenager not becacuse she's a woman. She was vary difficult.
KRstar78 2 months ago
@KRstar78 Stop. You didn't type and post spellings while spreading comments correctly. It's goes. "It's funny that you say this because things changed in the 80's when I commented on Erica, I was refering to her behavior and her attitude as a teenager not because she's a woman. She was very difficult". First use an upper cases, lower cases and punctuations, that's what Grammar American English language is.
chr5210 2 months ago
@chr5210 So you are a professor of english, really? You knew what I ment.
KRstar78 2 months ago
sorry about the typo ( witch) but other then that--your a idiot!---P.S rent the movie
headlesskittys 2 years ago
sorry i was watching '' boys in the band '' and trying to figure out witch one was you. ;)O
headlesskittys 2 years ago
thats becus your a OLD FAG!!!
headlesskittys 2 years ago
you for got to add homophope in your profile.
KRstar78 2 years ago
@KRstar78 lololol
Gayjeffrey28 2 years ago
i am aso a dude and i am 24 years old and i love soaps like cooked food
travis082185 2 years ago
I'm a dude and I've loved amc for many years. it has to be one of the best shows ever. I don't know what's going on now, but i know about the good ol' days.
philly suburb...small community...young love...old money...people from the wrong side of the tracks...and you can't go wrong...that's all my children.
MrLaxpax 2 years ago
i love watching old clips especially of erica kane. hahaha the music was so dramatic
Texasgurl251 2 years ago
I love the chemistry between Erica and Mona. Frances Heflin was also a beautiful woman. May she R.I.P.
nightowlchad 2 years ago
Erica/Susan is a true Diva
Peteyr1982 2 years ago
Speaking of AMC, is anyone else getting massively bored with Kendall?? Gawd, gag me already. She's become a whiney, stuttering BORE.
BuzzardFlats 2 years ago
I had more of my fiar share of Kendall. She, JR, Ryan and Jesse are the reasons I do not watch anymore.
imachildofthe80s8089 2 years ago
I remember on Oprah seeing a clip from 1974 when Erica Kane Brent miscarried Phil Brent's baby. Erica was so stunning in her half turban & you could see that she desperately wanted to have Phil's baby. I think she had a breakdown right after that happened if I'm not mistaken.
tallulah1961 2 years ago
erica also miscarried dimitri's baby in 96 or 97,. i think that was what motivated her to kidnap maria's baby b/c she wanted to use that baby to replace the one she lost with dimitri and especially since she thought maddie/sonya was dimitri's daughter. didn't erica also blame maria for her miscarrying dimitri's baby. if i remember correctly erica suffered a miscarriage during her last wedding to dimitri
travis082185 2 years ago
Yes Travis you are right on all accounts. erica found out about Dimiti and Maria's one night stand and believed that Dimitri was the father(Skye seduced Andy, a lab technician to fudge results to make it look like Dim's instead of Edmund's coz she wanted Edmund) Anyhoo, she miscarried at Dimitri's wedding and wanted revenge so she delivered Maria's baby in the cabin, lied to her that the child was stillborn, then moved to Europe with Maddie and raised her as "sonya."
imachildofthe80s8089 2 years ago
Yes Susan Lucci had a real life miscarriage. It was the pregnancy before Liza Huber.
imachildofthe80s8089 2 years ago
that is awsome that someone could find an episode as old as this! :D
kidzVSbabysitter 2 years ago
yeah it is. It was found on a minseries that Reba McEntire hosted in 1997 after The City was cancelled and before Port Charles came on. For the month of that May, Reba hosted a bunch of classic episodes that were reran. I guess favorites that made ABC daytime history and apparently this one from 1970 made the cut.
imachildofthe80s8089 2 years ago
I wish they still had long scenes like these, not now like music videos.
east215 2 years ago
Yeah I noticed the difference.
imachildofthe80s8089 2 years ago
Erica had Mona, just like AW's Rachel had Ada and ATWT's Lisa had Alma.
Soapking1965 2 years ago
Yeah soaps also examined the power of mother-daughter relationships back in the day too. Those were just as important as husband-wife teams. I think the whole idea of Erica/Mona came from AW's Rachel and Ada as Agnes Nixon created both AW and AMC.
imachildofthe80s8089 2 years ago
the very first episode I watched was when Philip came back from Vietnam and found out that Tara had married Chuck. I think this was about 1974. I was 13 years old, and I was hooked. The storylines and characters were soooo much better than they are now. I loved Phil & Tara, Benny & Estelle, Chuck & Donna, Cliff & Nina, Greg & Jenny, Jeff & Mary.
Mandyville2591 2 years ago
susan was very young in this scene and still takes care of herself butt theirz really nothing anyone can do about old age its inevitable. theirz no fountain of youth to drink from. no chance whatsoever anyone will reverse to the age they felt comfortable at.
ButtCrackSally 2 years ago
when is the real erica kane coming back i'm getting bored of cing her play nurse to adam chandler.
ButtCrackSally 2 years ago
who's the boy erica is talking 2
ButtCrackSally 2 years ago
it is strange seeing how she calls him a creep yet she has an affair with him years later.
ButtCrackSally 2 years ago
this is susan lucci's first scene on the show that made her a living legend the queen of daytime and the reason y we love erica kane.
ButtCrackSally 2 years ago
Wasnt her first husband a martin? Also how was nick phil brent bio dad? Wasnt phil erica's second? thats gross she had an afair with nick right and she married his son? Please fill me in on the history lol
jasoncarly 2 years ago
phil's antural parents are nick davis and amy. amy gave him to her sister ruth brent when he was born .ruth along with her husband mr brent raised phil as their own
travis082185 2 years ago
oh ok thanks so much.
jasoncarly 2 years ago
Jeff Martin (Tad and Jake's brother) was La Kane's first husband. Phil was #2. Tom Cudahy was #3.
Soapking1965 2 years ago
yeah i remember now jeff martin was her first husband thanks i knew he was martin i just couldnt remember the name lol
jasoncarly 2 years ago
adam Chandler was #4 Mike Roy was #5(invalid) Travis was #6 and 7 Adam was number 8 Dimitri was 9 and 10 and Jackson was 11. All out of piggies! But Adam Chandler and Asa Buchanan have her beat!
imachildofthe80s8089 2 years ago
who's the guy sitting on the couch
ButtCrackSally 2 years ago
the talking to to mona is nick davis,phil brent's biological dad
travis082185 2 years ago
How is he Phli's bio dad? Was phil adopted by ruth and her husband? I wasnt born when the soap premiered so I dont know all the history I started watching in the 80s when i was about 6 during the jenny/greg era
jasoncarly 2 years ago
Little did she know then how popular and famous her character would be - and that she would be on the show 40 years!
anticorpration 2 years ago
Susan Lucci grew up on daytime television, she was 17 or 18 in 1970 when
All My Children debut.
TIPTON340 3 years ago
More like 23 and a newlywed when the show premiered in 1970!
zachw225 2 years ago
Susan Lucci grew up on daytime television, she was 17 or 18 in 1970 when
All My Children debut.
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No Erica Kane was 17 or 18. :)
sonyab1974 2 years ago 2
I used to watch this back when it started in 1970, and when I look at this clip, I can't believe it was almost 40 years ago! Soaps were a lot more believable back then..........storylines were more believable and the people all looked like normal people, and not overly processed, carved-out-of-cream-cheese supermodels.
Simon5005 3 years ago
all my children has a tense story line it just keeps going on and on...look at that and look at it now!!
wember099 3 years ago
wow I was born in 98 and and AMC been around long time !! my mom was 2 when it came out
aaaabbbbccccghhhhhhh 3 years ago
i sell/trade soap opera stuff and i also want to know who out there has soap stuff they don't mind trading/selling.please contact me if you want to trade with me or sell any soap stuff or buy
travis082185 3 years ago
"People and needs change" You tell it Mona that is why Erica has been married 10 times?
LovesMike33 3 years ago
thats mona!!!!!! OH my god!!! shes so young
wember099 3 years ago
What a Gem,Thanks again Donna for sharing.
ginnlee2 3 years ago
Thanx a million for posting. I was born in 1987. I didn't even start watching 'til 2006. I'm waaaay, waaaay late. I'm trying to watch every episode I can get my hands on from 1970-2006. I've got a long way to go.
Jax420CKY 3 years ago
jax420cky i was born in 1985 so don't feel bad ok bro or sis? my name is travis by the way
travis082185 3 years ago
I was born in 1976 and i started watching in 82 lol. I was around during the greg/jenny era. I stopped watching back in 1997 after they "killed"off Maria and then when i tried to watch later it just got stupid to me so i lost interest lol. I remember the glory days of amc. its just not the same anymore.
jasoncarly 2 years ago
I was lucky to see Agnes' work on ANOTHER WORLD as a child in the late 1960s before (abc) lured her over there to premiere her own creations (AMC and OLTL). This scene looks exactly like the bitchy young Rachel (then played by Robin Strasser, now Dorian on OLTL) and her single hardworking blonde mama Ada (the late Constance Ford). When Agnes got the job as AW head writer, she invented Ada & Rachel, based on her earlier stories stowed away of Mona & Erica. AMC was dejavous to AW fans.
rhettsamigo2003 3 years ago
WOW this was GREAT to watch!
MochaBear33 3 years ago
the actress who played TAra and in Saturday night fever was fictionally portrayed in the movie 54. (about Studio 54, not such a great movie, but pretty Neve Campbell played the said actress)
yaywhewclips242 3 years ago
GOD!! Where did you get this wonderful classic? remember all those fabulous characters ??Phil Brent,Ann Tyler,Margo Flax,and of course the grand dame of Pine Valley---Phoebe Tyler..ahhh yesteryear..
hlywdplayer 3 years ago
thank you so much for posting this,I was six months old when AMC was on the air,so i never did see this..
amcfan100 3 years ago
i was born in 1985 so if this episode aired in 1970 i wasn't even a gleam in anyone's eyes
travis082185 3 years ago
Well Travis, you're without a doubt a Gleam to your family, friends, and love now.
laminage 3 years ago
As I sit here watching this again,(because I love classic episodes of soaps), I wonder if the writers' strike would have gone on longer, would the networks have pre empted soaps with classics episodes like this one, I would have loved that.
ClassicLoverA 3 years ago
thanks for the memory....................
indyrandy 3 years ago
Erica was one of the original vixens. She's selfish, self-centered, rude, childish, narsacistic, etc. but at the same time she's very charming and once she grew up she developed a very warm and kind heart.
BethnJulia 3 years ago 2
Considering that Agnes, Bill Bell and Irna Phillips had a hand in creating the first three bad girls of daytime history---Erica in 1970, ATWT's Lisa in 1960 and AW's Rachel in 1966.
Soapking1965 3 years ago
Bad girls on soaps back then were written that way. Erica, Lisa, Rachel, SEARCH's Stephanie Wyatt (played Maree Cheatham), EDGE's Raven (Sharon Gabet).
Soapking1965 3 years ago
was susan lucci wearinf falsies? not to be disrespectful, but she's so thin now, and has a very small bustline.
east215 3 years ago
Erica: "Are you here again?" <Looking disgusted)
Wow, Erica was even a bitch in 1970! LOL Love it
fireballnc2 3 years ago
Erica always called Mona "plain". She was very attractive. Simple, not alot of makeup, but a wonderful face. She was a long-suffering mother. She was made to be a homebody, but she was lovely in her own way.
east215 3 years ago
Damn!! Mona actually looks kinda sexy here..it's so long ago! LOL!
vigilance77 3 years ago
This episode was actually taped in 1969. All My Children first debuted on January, 5 1970.
They tape soap operas weeks in advance. It's such a shame AMC has gone down the tube. I'm glad they brought angie and jessie back!
robinzinek 3 years ago
This is when I first started watching AMC. I skipped school for one month to watch it when I was in the 7th grade. I hated going back to school. Didn't want to miss a show. When I was growing up I wanted to be Ms. Kane. I loved her and still do. It used to be on for 1/2 hr in black and white. Wow this is great!
lornacd 3 years ago
love it
east215 3 years ago
it's my understanding that both amc and oltl debuted in color but the black/white episodes are from kinescope
travis082185 3 years ago
WOW Ericka Kane in black and white. How old is she in this episode? I love watching these old shows. This show has changed so much.
sugaplum02 3 years ago
sugaplum02:WOW Ericka Kane in black and white. How old is she in this episode
They weren't in black and white, originally; most of the time MOST shows were NOT saved, on any network, because videotape was extremely expensive then. They would re-use the same tape reels over and over again. Occasionally, someone would save a few episodes, here and there, on either U-matic video or b&w kinescope 16mm FILM (this one) or open reel video machines, which were also b&w, for the most part.
ANATOLIACHTZEIN 3 years ago
i wasnt born until 1976 and didnt watch amc from the beginning. who was that laid out on the floor unconcious by the phone?
jasoncarly 3 years ago
It was Phil Brent, played by Richard Hatch (not the one from Survivor). He was part of AMC's first super couple, Phil and Tara (Martin). I started watching in '71 or '72 so this episode is before my time-not sure why he's on the floor. It was odd to finally see Ted Brent. He was gone when I started to watch.
sorman10 3 years ago
Oh ok thanks.
jasoncarly 3 years ago
it's so fun to watch a soap for years and some of the same charcterd from decades ago are still around.
travis082185 3 years ago
what i like about these episodes is that there is no music until the ending of the scene. it causes me to focus more on what's going on in the scene.
travis082185 3 years ago
Phil was on the floor because of a gas leak in the house...in the next episode, Nick comes to his rescue (against Mona's wishes, he goes to the Brents' house).
allmyshadows 3 years ago
@sorman10 FYI, in an attempt to keep Nick from telling Philip he was his 'real father', Ted got into an accident and was killed six months into AMC's run....
disabled1955 2 months ago
i was born in 1985 and i didn't become familiar with this show until 1997 when i migrated from jamaica to the united states.i am 22 years old and i prefer the old black and white episodes over what's been offered on the soaps these days. soaps are all about character and plot comes after but these days plots are taking precedence over characters and their histories
travis082185 3 years ago
In the earlier episodes, she had stright hair parted in the middle. About half way down her back. That hairdo was da bomb in 1970. Semi-shag like Jane Fonda. I love Erica in this ep - she was such a Be-atch.
east215 3 years ago
Yeah, she was definitely that; but now, she's mellowed, but she can still rear her be-atchy side on occasion, especially when her family is threatened.
AlbieGray 3 years ago
who is that erica is talking to?
travis082185 3 years ago
His name is Nick davis a friend of Erica's mother and in 1976 Erica had an afair with Nick, how weird is that?
jasoncarly 3 years ago
thanks but i was talking about the other young lad she was talking to after she had words with nick
travis082185 3 years ago
You know what? I think that might be a young Charles Tyler
jasoncarly 3 years ago
thanks.
travis082185 3 years ago
@jasoncarly i thought that was 1977?.....
disabled1955 2 months ago
@disabled1955 Ohhh. I was born in 76 what do I know? LOL
jasoncarly 2 months ago
God, Erica was so funny-looking back then
ClarenceFisher 4 years ago
I loved Erica with very dark hair. Probabaly dark brown. Unfortunaely this is one of the few episodes saved prior to 1978. It was originally in color. It was so faded they converted it to B&W. When Agnes Nixon sold
AMC to ABC, one of her requirements was that they arquive every new episode. Every episode that still exists from July, 1978 until the present. especially the episodes with Phoebe and Langely. Greg and Jenny - what can I say - the Golden Years of "All My children".
east215 3 years ago
Not to be picky or anything, but they actually started saving the episodes some time in 1976. ABC wanted to expand the show to an hour, but Agnes wouldn't do it unless they promised to start keeping archives of the show. They did, and so the show expanded on 4/25/1977.
allmyshadows 3 years ago
@allmyshadows if memory serves, the 'teaser' to keep the audience going was Philip Brend (Nick Benedict) being shot in the line of duty...
disabled1955 2 months ago
sadly, based on this clip alone i can tell the show was much more entertaining than it is now. amc hasn't been good in a long time...
bigmacrr 4 years ago
Did Erica's father ever appear? xx
APrincessRose 4 years ago
yes he did in the late 80's early 90's
zellacurry 4 years ago
It's funny how Erica is calling Nick a creep here but a few years later she was all up in his bed. In fact, "that creep" had her strung out for a while - LOL!
fwdthinker 4 years ago
Erica, Erica you wicked little creature!
rickram1961 4 years ago
Seeing Erica this young is surreal.
Nexisfan87 4 years ago
ABC needs to stop playing and put "Daytime to Remember" back on and stop showing the crap they show today.
This was when soaps had conversations that was realistic.
coolwafferman 4 years ago 2
Lucci(Erica) was only 22 here -- of course she's playing, like, four years younger. But she had already graduated from college by the time she got this part.
JHicks25 4 years ago 2
the days of charcaters on soaps having meaningful conversations are over
travis082185 4 years ago 3
I agree.
coolwafferman 4 years ago