The View Salutes All My Children

Susan Lucci Guest Hosts a Special Edition of The View. A salute to 41 years of All My Children.

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• All My Children
• Dixie
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• TadnDixie
• amc
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[Kylie1115]

Oh my...when Susan gets choked up. I can't even imagine what that was like for her.

[daboys1215]

@Kylie1115 Keep in mind that this was 3 weeks after that last taping. So it is an obviously still very emotional time for all of them.

[partyhouse88]

Where is Vincent Irizarry going??? He was the best actor on the show!!!

[daboys1215]

@partyhouse88 No idea where any of them are going. Only Cameron and Lindsay have signed with PP so far.

[snoops71]

@prckay My sister and I had the same theory, how if the soaps aired in primetime, they would more than likely do better in the ratings. I actually prefer watching them at night.

[prckay]

@snoops71 Thanks.. Because coronation street airs here in Canada on primetime at 7pm if AMC did the same they would do better

[snoops71]

@prckay That would be such of a good idea.

[prckay]

@snoops71 yep here in canada the show was the highest rated dayime show in it time slot beating abc ratings,,, i hope they could ccnsider doing something that cornation street does in the uk play amc durgin both dayimte and primtime...... because if corrie did not do that the would have ;pst viewers

[snoops71]

@daboys1215 Wow, that shows a strong connection with her character. I remember when she came to the show.

I've heard about some of the storylines during that period of time. Some I missed b/c I wasn't watching, while others I saw up close, like the death of Babe. That head writer they had for a while, Chuck Pratt, took things further downhill. Makes you think he wanted to sabatoge the show on purpose. Or else he was just that much of an idiot.

[partyhouse88]

David made the show!

[daboys1215]

@snoops71 I came back in May because that's when Cady/Dixie came back. When she left originally in '96 I realized afterward that she was the only reason I watched so ever since I came and left when she did the same.

If only they hadn't destroyed the characters over the last 10 years many of the viewers might not have been pushed away. Too sad.

[snoops71]

@daboys1215 I can relate. We got our first VCR in '88. I kept up by reading the soap mags of the day, and the recaps in the paper on the weekends during the school year. Then there were the times when I would miss school an extra day or two when I had been sick with a cold :) So, you started back watching in May? Wow! I too realize now more than ever just how much AMC means to me, the impact it has had on my life thru the years.

[daboys1215]

@snoops71 I was 9 and vaguely remember some of that story but no vcr until '87 and school made it difficult to follow so my memories are bits and pieces at best. I hadn't watched for 4 years before returning in May. I never realized how much this show actually meant to me until TAHIC took it away.

[snoops71]

Thanks for posting this. It's a piece of history- TV history, and our own individual history.

I first started watching AMC when I was 11, in the summer of 1982, at my best friend's house. It was the Jesse/Jenny storyline which got me hooked. I watched for about 11 years, stopped, then started again when Angie and Jesse returned.

I'm glad it was a part of my like for so many years :)

I'm also up for its return!

[daboys1215]

@399wnka They'll return but it won't be the same. :( Yes. I think we all hope The Chew fails and Frons gets fired for being a moron.

[399wnka]

Staying positive. Pine Valley and its citizens will return to us :) And, since it's obvious we are all fans here I hope the Chew fails :)

[daboys1215]

@labodorlover Hard to believe. I've watched off and on but always knew it was there to come back to. Not anymore. They can only be on cable because ABC didn't want to sell it to another network.

[daboys1215]

@EmmerdaleFarmer  No sure but I think she said Susan wanted to get out earlier.

[labodorlover]

Man I can not believe its over, I've watched AMC since I was a kid and I'm now 46, so that's a long time and it was in black and white when I started watching with my mom. I hope another network will pick them up and bring the show back. Just doesn't seem right.

[EmmerdaleFarmer]

What did Kim say to Susan at 31:10?

[daboys1215]

@b017ni3 I didn't like the ending either BUT I understand that PP didn't exactly give them much of a choice. I would have preferred the original 2hr ending they were going to do and end with a flash forward to update the characters in the future. That would have been better.

[b017ni3]

@daboys1215 - you're only a couple of years older than me, I know you understand completely...it's sad when more than 40 years of history can be so easily disregarded...I thought that ending was totally subpar and not at all what the show, or its loyal viewers, deserved...

[daboys1215]

@b017ni3 You're welcome. I'm 38 and started watching when I was about 10-11. When Cady showed up as Dixie I was instantly hooked on her and have been ever since. It's been a part of my life for so long seeing it leave the air is like watching a family member die. :(

[b017ni3]

thank you so much for uploading this...

all my children has been a part of my daily life since 1986 when my mom bought a VCR to restart what had began for her back in 1971...

I watched through elementary, jr. high, high school, college, boyfriends, babies, break-ups and divorces...even if I was mad at my mom, we could talk about uncle trevor, dimitri, anton, gillian, jeremy, mona, derek and, of course, erica...

I'm really going to miss it...

thanks again...

[daboys1215]

@ladybadone You're welcome. :)