My mother and my grandmother watched AMC from day one ! At 12 noon - it came on and the world stopped …….. ERICA KANE truly was a modern day Scarlett O’Hara ……..it took a special actress to keep viewers wanting more of ERICA for 41 years ! She could have been just a bratty kid - but LUCCI brought so many layers !!
This is the first show my mom watched when she came to America in 1971 she thought the characters were real and the people could see her thorough the screen.
Don't worry. In The African American Community as you know they are called "The Stories". My Grandparents and other Family Members loved watching them. It was like a form of voyeurism. My Grandfather would have screamed "Get Up Boy, Call The F@ckin Doctor!"
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.
What are you talking about?! Susan Lucci, especially in this episode, looks like an 'overly processed, carved-out-of-cream-cheese supermodel.' And that's not a bad thing, but it's the truth.
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.
Erica and Nick had a wonderful Scarlett/Rhett-type of relationship, and Nick and Mona had a pleasant brother/sister relationship.. Nick was the perfect anti-hero at a time when most of the characters were legal or medical professionals or idealistic high school/college students. It was good that Nick visited Pine Valley throughout the years.
This is about when i started watching it. I was a kid - but i loved it. I watched it whenever i was homee from school on a sick day or hp;idau….then i watched in college… then VCR’d it…then watched it on the SOAPPNET chsnnel. Now i watch The Ypung and the Restless which is the only decent soap ioera on tv.
The Guy Sitting on The Coach was Nick Davis who was the "Bio" Father of Phillip Brent, whose Bio Mother was Amy whom Phillip thought was his Aunt. Also keep in mind that Erica was involved with Phillip, Nick, and then Charlie Brent whose real name is Phillip Charles Tyler Brent Jr., who also thinks of Chuck Tyler as His Father. She's been with Three Generations of The Same Family.
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.
When she talks to her Mother about her Father you even see how his leaving her affected her. A lot of Soap Characters are in that Boat. Jill (Y & R) and Brooke (B & B).
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.
Also when Phillip chose to be with Tara over Erica, she felt that she was being "rejected" again. I don't think that Eric Kane had any idea of what his "leaving" did to her, and how he "betrayed" her affected her as well.
It's sad to watch this scene now, with Erica being SO in love with her father, considering what he did to her. He didn't ALWAYS have her with him, now did he?
what I like about Erica is that she was written to be multifaceted to show all sides of life and she did a superb life being the busted teenager caught between divorce she was winning Emmy's (and hearts way back then) but no one was taking her serious but man she made this show and she was the show but there was so many more who did as well but she was the GLUE.
Frances Heflin was the sister of Van. My mother told me that a man she worked with looked just like him. I saw him one time and he looked like he could be Van's twin.
I always thought that ABC didn't have these old shows. That they were destroyed. But I know over the years I've seen a few from 1970. Which is it? Do they have them or not? I would love to see them all again!
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.
It's a joke she made at the 1999 Daytime Emmy Awards (when she finally won a Best Actress award after 18 previous nominations); it's based on an old daytime tv joke about how often 2nd or 3rd-tier characters would appear. It's an exaggeration (usually), but the gist of it means someone who only appears in a few episodes a month, at most, for "x" plots/subplots (though said days might be in a row, and then the character not be seen for 3-4 weeks).
Leslina Youngest True! She was originally supposed to be a 2nd tier/supporting character (and the "bitch"-type who would try to steal boyfriends, as her character was only around 16 when she first appeared). However, as the years passed, she became the character many people (women, primarily, at that time in the 70's) loved-to-hate, then wound up just loving. (Lucci has commented many times how blessed she felt as an actress, having an occupation that is so known for its ups-and-downs and lack of job security but she got to have job security -- a true rarity -- for literally her entire working career from her early 20s (she was playing several years or more younger than herself throughout her entire run as Erica) to her mid-60's... a truly virtually unheard of thing outside of the soap world during its heyday back when she started).
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!
In the UK there was a Soap Special called "Back To Ours" where Soap Actors from Eastenders 1985 to the present, talk about themselves, and their history and the scenes that they have done.
She was actually 23 in 1970. Her Birthday is December 23rd 1946. I heard she tried out for the part of Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island but don't quote me. Her character was supposed to be only 15.
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.
@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.
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)
I started watching this in 1970 at 6 yo...At age 60 I now think the then 50 yo Frances Heflin (perpetually disappointed Mona Kane) was pretty cute... Just a few years later in 1975 Mona would walk in on both sleazy Erika and Nick Davis bang!ng....The late Frances Heflin would be 103 years old today...I loved the crazy twist later on in 1977 when Dr Charles Tyler finally left Phoebe Tyler for Mona Kane...
In the original script of "All My Children" Erica Kane was 16 years old making her birthdate December 1953. Susan Lucci had just turned 23 about 2 weeks prior to "All My Children's" debut. At the time of the soap opera's debut on January 5, 1970 Mary Fickett was 42, Ray MacDonnell was 42, Frances Heflin was 47 and Ruth Warrick was 54.
Yes, it happens. There is only an Eight Year Difference between John McCook (Eric Forrester) and Ron Moss (Ridge Forrester #1). There was also a Ten Year Difference with Phylicia Rashad (Ex-Clair Huxtable), and Sabrina Lebeuf (Sondra) on The Cosby Show.
Steven Davis in hindsight, this would have been 2 years after she had Kendall. Funny how Erica didn't raise her, yet she turned out bratty and manipulative as her mother was at the same age. DNA...
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).
@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.
I sometimes look at US Actors on Soaps and I would love for them to do a UK Soap Opera. Susan would be perfect on Hollyoaks as Tony Hutchinson's American Cousin. She'd be a riot on that show. Have Erika Slezak do Eastenders and play Janine Butcher's Cousin and set her straight. Or if she was alive have Katherine Chancellor invite Pat Butcher to Genoa City from Eastenders.
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..
it did..AMC started in color like all shows beginning at that time (and that started in the mid-60s)..in most cases, the only thing remaining are b&w prints, with the color broadcast videos no longer being in existence....
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!
Erica Kane was actually based on Rachel Davis #1 on Another World. If you see "Rachel" on the show in 1968 when Steve Frame came to town, it was so amazing. The Love Triangle with them and Alice Matthews really helped the show become a success.
She was "Angry". She lived in a Blue Collar Section of Town, her Mother was a Secretary, also her Father was probably a B Movie Actor who just didn't have that thing to make it in Hollywood.
My mother and my grandmother watched AMC from day one ! At 12 noon - it came on and the world stopped ……..
ERICA KANE truly was a modern day Scarlett O’Hara ……..it took a special actress to keep viewers wanting more of ERICA for 41 years ! She could have been just a bratty kid - but LUCCI brought so many layers !!
Always loved the interplay between Mona and Erica. Frances Heflin and Susan Lucci were great together throughout the years.
I was 13 when this aired. I still remember for some reason this very episode.
I think they would be wise to come out with DVD series, like "All My Children, Season 1, The Beginning " they would cash 💰 in...
We that have missed this show, and being addicted to it definitely need a revival of the entire series
They would have to get Disney's clearing that now owns the rights to Ed Sullivan
It would take 40yrs to watch all of it.
So agree!!
@@RR-kb4uc
Lol
Susan Lucci looks like fifteen years old here. She acted in that soap until it ended, I believe. Absolutely amazing!!!❤❤❤
Her character was 15 here but Susan was an out 19
This is the first show my mom watched when she came to America in 1971 she thought the characters were real and the people could see her thorough the screen.
Lorenzo Herbert I love that! Thanks for sharing!!
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Don't worry. In The African American Community as you know they are called "The Stories". My Grandparents and other Family Members loved watching them. It was like a form of voyeurism. My Grandfather would have screamed "Get Up Boy, Call The F@ckin Doctor!"
Bless her heart!
@@laminage😂😂😂
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.
What are you talking about?! Susan Lucci, especially in this episode, looks like an 'overly processed, carved-out-of-cream-cheese supermodel.' And that's not a bad thing, but it's the truth.
Such a memory. My mother watched this and got me hooked. This series helped me through many moves and life changes
I understand My Mother did Too
I watched AMC from day one to the last day. I was with AMC from the start to the last day. I was devastated when they cancelled AMC.
Was born in 70s& ill always love this old stuff😂❤
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
Erica Kane was always GORGEOUS💖FRom the beginning to the END💖💖
I watched This as a teenager!!! I'm fifty nine now. 😄
Just a puppy!
So did I- in gorgeous B&W!!
Me too but I'm 57
I’m 64 - watched the very first episode of AMC when it first came on. Love seeing these vintage clips.
@@LoranPeterman 68 here! I forgot about Nick!
Man I'm old, I remember watching these original shows when I was a kid!
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.
Erica and Nick had a wonderful Scarlett/Rhett-type of relationship, and Nick and Mona had a pleasant brother/sister relationship.. Nick was the perfect anti-hero at a time when most of the characters were legal or medical professionals or idealistic high school/college students. It was good that Nick visited Pine Valley throughout the years.
I love the chemistry between Erica and Mona. Frances Heflin was also a beautiful woman. May she R.I.P.
I've watched from the very first episode until the end. I even remember the opening scene with Rosemary Prinz.
I would pay dearly for the DVDs!!!
and SO BEGAN one of the greatest soap characters in TV history - and 40 years later, STILL looking better than EVER!!!!
It's such a shame more tape of the early days of this show didn't survive.
I cannot believe this show was on so very long ago. We watched an episode of AMC on our Senior class trip at My Airy Lodge, March 1972.
I started watching in '72 as well. ❤
Nick was a terrific character.
I remember this like it was yesterday! I loved Erica and Phoebe!
This is about when i started watching it. I was a kid - but i loved it. I watched it whenever i was homee from school on a sick day or hp;idau….then i watched in college… then VCR’d it…then watched it on the SOAPPNET chsnnel. Now i watch The Ypung and the Restless which is the only decent soap ioera on tv.
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.
Put them on dvd!
wow! How far AMC has come from this! But one thing hasn't changed. It's all about ERICA ! LOL
Love how Erica tried to get Chuck on her side. Even then she could twist reality to suit her purposes. Lol
Chuck or Nick Davis?
@@dquinn8344 chuck
The Guy Sitting on The Coach was Nick Davis who was the "Bio" Father of Phillip Brent, whose Bio Mother was Amy whom Phillip thought was his Aunt. Also keep in mind that Erica was involved with Phillip, Nick, and then Charlie Brent whose real name is Phillip Charles Tyler Brent Jr., who also thinks of Chuck Tyler as His Father. She's been with Three Generations of The Same Family.
Crazy time machine ,when this episode came on what we are doing in our Everyday lives today Was Considered science fiction
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.
Classic!!!
So sad they cancelled 😠☹️ still don't know why.. miss my story. They should bring it back. Wonder if they ever will?
When she talks to her Mother about her Father you even see how his leaving her affected her. A lot of Soap Characters are in that Boat. Jill (Y & R) and Brooke (B & B).
Nick was the only man in Erica’s long string of men who she could not push around.
WOW this was GREAT to watch!
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.
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.
Omg..
I go back THIS FAR!
Erica, no man was ready for you!! Well maybe Jack.
Also when Phillip chose to be with Tara over Erica, she felt that she was being "rejected" again. I don't think that Eric Kane had any idea of what his "leaving" did to her, and how he "betrayed" her affected her as well.
Nick Davis, the only one Erica couldn't snare. HE was her true love. :)
50 years ago.
I've been on that corner too and totally agree: It's not all that.
Well Travis, you're without a doubt a Gleam to your family, friends, and love now.
These two were my favorites.
Jf they qould stream old episodes of soap operas i bet there would be a market for it. I would pay for it!!!!
It's sad to watch this scene now, with Erica being SO in love with her father, considering what he did to her. He didn't ALWAYS have her with him, now did he?
More like 23 and a newlywed when the show premiered in 1970!
What Goes Around Comes Around Erica.Memories
January 1970. I was 14 years old when i saw this first episode.
Tunisia, Susan Lucci at her worst! She did learn how to act over the years. The greatest soap character ever. sure do miss those days of old!
i love this when erica and her mom mona had there mom and daughter talks
what I like about Erica is that she was written to be multifaceted to show all sides of life and she did a superb life being the busted teenager caught between divorce she was winning Emmy's (and hearts way back then) but no one was taking her serious but man she made this show and she was the show but there was so many more who did as well but she was the GLUE.
The only thing is that Susan Lucci didn't win an Emmy until 1999 after 19 nominations
The FAMILIES made the show. Just because Erica tried buying them all up didn't make it ALL about her though.
Frances Heflin was the sister of Van. My mother told me that a man she worked with looked just like him. I saw him one time and he looked like he could be Van's twin.
I always thought that ABC didn't have these old shows. That they were destroyed. But I know over the years I've seen a few from 1970. Which is it? Do they have them or not? I would love to see them all again!
You've got to be kidding they never preserved the old soaps from 1970 to 76?! What the hell were they thinking?!
They got damaged in a flood at the studio back then
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.
Susan Lucci at her best.
Tunisia Tucker And to think, she was only supposed to be on every other Tuesday!
Really?
It's a joke she made at the 1999 Daytime Emmy Awards (when she finally won a Best Actress award after 18 previous nominations); it's based on an old daytime tv joke about how often 2nd or 3rd-tier characters would appear. It's an exaggeration (usually), but the gist of it means someone who only appears in a few episodes a month, at most, for "x" plots/subplots (though said days might be in a row, and then the character not be seen for 3-4 weeks).
tideoftime Thank you! I didn't know that. How interesting and how funny that she wound up being the star of the show!
Leslina Youngest True! She was originally supposed to be a 2nd tier/supporting character (and the "bitch"-type who would try to steal boyfriends, as her character was only around 16 when she first appeared). However, as the years passed, she became the character many people (women, primarily, at that time in the 70's) loved-to-hate, then wound up just loving. (Lucci has commented many times how blessed she felt as an actress, having an occupation that is so known for its ups-and-downs and lack of job security but she got to have job security -- a true rarity -- for literally her entire working career from her early 20s (she was playing several years or more younger than herself throughout her entire run as Erica) to her mid-60's... a truly virtually unheard of thing outside of the soap world during its heyday back when she started).
I'd these on DVD! Oh yes!
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!
Aw baby Erica :)
Is there a way i can watch every episode from the beginning
This was the first episode I saw of AMC. 1970.
Erica: "Are you here again?"
Ah, that modern phone at the end!
In the UK there was a Soap Special called "Back To Ours" where Soap Actors from Eastenders 1985 to the present, talk about themselves, and their history and the scenes that they have done.
She was a riot!
This was the REAL AMC!
Black and white in 1970. All the soaps we're in color by the mid to late 60's
I was wondering why it was black and white too.
Producers saved B&W kinescopes, but not many. Didn't save videotaped shows until 1976-77. Per Wikipedia.
A lady helping a man put on a coat, that's rare these days. :)
Susan Lucci grew up on daytime television, she was 17 or 18 in 1970 when
All My Children debut.
Tim Tipton she was 23
@@ericaardell500 Damn Right because I was born in 1947 and Lucci was born in 1946.
She was actually 23 in 1970. Her Birthday is December 23rd 1946. I heard she tried out for the part of Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island but don't quote me. Her character was supposed to be only 15.
Wow....
Erica/Susan is a true Diva
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.
they were the best but not the first.Meg Harper on Love Of Life was the soaps first bad girl
@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.
Those hair do's are a hoot!!!
Wow rotary phone, I remembered that!?
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)
I wish they would show AMC on the SOAP channel. The episodes that are missing, Susan can explain what happened....
Mona is actor Van Heflin's sister.
I started watching this in 1970 at 6 yo...At age 60 I now think the then 50 yo Frances Heflin (perpetually disappointed Mona Kane) was pretty cute... Just a few years later in 1975 Mona would walk in on both sleazy Erika and Nick Davis bang!ng....The late Frances Heflin would be 103 years old today...I loved the crazy twist later on in 1977 when Dr Charles Tyler finally left Phoebe Tyler for Mona Kane...
In the original script of "All My Children" Erica Kane was 16 years old making her birthdate December 1953. Susan Lucci had just turned 23 about 2 weeks prior to "All My Children's" debut. At the time of the soap opera's debut on January 5, 1970 Mary Fickett was 42, Ray MacDonnell was 42, Frances Heflin was 47 and Ruth Warrick was 54.
Yes, it happens. There is only an Eight Year Difference between John McCook (Eric Forrester) and Ron Moss (Ridge Forrester #1). There was also a Ten Year Difference with Phylicia Rashad (Ex-Clair Huxtable), and Sabrina Lebeuf (Sondra) on The Cosby Show.
Steven Davis in hindsight, this would have been 2 years after she had Kendall. Funny how Erica didn't raise her, yet she turned out bratty and manipulative as her mother was at the same age. DNA...
@@fwdthinker And it was always weird to know Erica was 14 when she had Kendell, but Erica was so much older then Kendell's character later on.
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).
It’s too bad so much of AMC was erased. It seems the middle 70’s is when things were erased but saved more moving into the 80’s.
The lovely Mary Fickett!
Mona was actor Van Heflin's sister.
@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.
I sometimes look at US Actors on Soaps and I would love for them to do a UK Soap Opera. Susan would be perfect on Hollyoaks as Tony Hutchinson's American Cousin. She'd be a riot on that show. Have Erika Slezak do Eastenders and play Janine Butcher's Cousin and set her straight. Or if she was alive have Katherine Chancellor invite Pat Butcher to Genoa City from Eastenders.
Erica had Mona, just like AW's Rachel had Ada and ATWT's Lisa had Alma.
@emerald20061 you're not the only one who wants to know..keep me in the loop....
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..
Erica, always looking for the corner of 5th street and pine
it did..AMC started in color like all shows beginning at that time (and that started in the mid-60s)..in most cases, the only thing remaining are b&w prints, with the color broadcast videos no longer being in existence....
My god ..The hair...XD
yes! those hair-dos!
Valley o the dolls lol 😂
@@KRstar78 yea.. XD
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!
Jeff Martin (Tad and Jake's brother) was La Kane's first husband. Phil was #2. Tom Cudahy was #3.
@allmyshadows if memory serves, the 'teaser' to keep the audience going was Philip Brend (Nick Benedict) being shot in the line of duty...
Philip Brent was played then by Richard Hatch.
I miss Billy Clyde
Erica Kane was actually based on Rachel Davis #1 on Another World. If you see "Rachel" on the show in 1968 when Steve Frame came to town, it was so amazing. The Love Triangle with them and Alice Matthews really helped the show become a success.
Yes! Love Another World.
ROBIN STRASSER THE ORIGINAL RACHEL THEN DORIAN LORD O N OLTL
I forgot this was in B&W when I first started watching when in high school. I hated Erica from the beginning. She treated her mother like dirt.
True. I hated that mess.
She was "Angry". She lived in a Blue Collar Section of Town, her Mother was a Secretary, also her Father was probably a B Movie Actor who just didn't have that thing to make it in Hollywood.