Thank you so much for these episodes! I live watching the early days of soaps! I wasn't born til 1976. When I got older though, I was amazed at the stories, but didn't enjoy til late 80's. At least I came around during the final golden age.
I was born in 1980 and became hooked (first on AMC in '89) as a kid, but became obsessed with finding old episodes as a teen, something that's become much easier now. It's just too bad that so many from the very first years of OLTL (and AMC) simply don't exist. The Paley TV museum in New York apparently has a colour 1969 episode of One Life with the Carla "passing" story and Gillian Spencer as Vicki/Nicki I need to see lol Glad you enjoy!
@@EricMontreal22 I do enjoy! I watched OLTL beginning with like 1987 when my mother was glued to the show with Tina going over the falls! I loved the show at that time, but my real addiction came when All My Children had Natalie thrown down the well.
@@EricMontreal22 I was glued to my television during the Natalie down the Well story. Kate Collins was brilliant as Natalie, Janet and then Janet posing as Natalie. When that story ended I stayed with AMC for the next two years. I loved Agnes Nixon's way of telling a story. And I loved Megan McTavish's dark storylines.
@@roddycurt9139 It really was a great era for AMC and, as you say, probably the last. Felicia Minei Behr as executive producer was able to work well with McTavish.
I read that when Lilian Heyman was fired she was followed to her car after a day of filming at ABC Studios and was informed by Paul Rauch’s assistant that was her last day of work. What an insult for an original cast member:
Yes, he really could be cruel. Agnes Nixon no longer had any rights to OLTL (though at some later times she would help consult--like during the Malone era) but she was so upset that she offered to bring Heyman and her character (and I think a couple of other characters?) over to her still new soap Loving. But Heyman wasn't interested, in part because she felt it was a big downgrade (understandably.)
Great scene between Doris Belack and Lillian Hyman ... very real, very immediate, very good acting. Two very good actors in their element and making their material work.
Doris didnt look too different here than from her parts in comedy movies in the 90s. I remember Dr Craig seeming like a good guy when I watched this as a child.
i first started watching around this time. loved anna! a few years later I was in a cab through central park toward the west side. I saw her stopped at a crosswalk with her dog. i think this was filmed on the upper west side studio.
Holy $hit I never thought I'd see anything before 78 ! Amazing!! I heard everything was destroyed or recorded over. Also I cant believe I've never seen one single scene of victor lord before his character originally died on screen & I'd also love to see the arrival of Dorian. This is amazing though I'd love to see carla grays original story & og viki played by the original. I never knew erika was viki #3 until I got the 30th anniversary book.
Some colour footage of Carla's story actually exists--a bit was used in a biography feature about Agnes Nixon, but who knows where it is. Up until 1971 ABC (which did "wipe" their soap opera video tapes as it was expensive, until midway through 1977 when Agnes Nixon, agreeing to make All My Children an hour made ABC agree to archive ALL their soaps) occasionally episodes would be save via black and white kinescope for particular reasons. I've posted five from 1970 from All My Children, but this is the only One Life to Live I've found, though the Paley Broadcast Museum has at least one more to watch--I'd love to see anything else available. Glad you enjoyed!
@@EricMontreal22 tg agnes had the mind set to archive all the footage. It's always such a treat for fans before yt to see old clips & flashbacks montages etc. I wonder who is the keeper of all those oltl episodes now that it's been off air for 10 yrs it seems thanks to so many fans saving tapes we get to see everything.
@@natalieps2387 When I was doing research for a soap opera PhD paper, the people I talked to at ABC said that all their soap opera episodes from the late 70s till the end (or now in the case of Gen Hospital) are still safely archived. I really wish they'd do something with them... We have so many streaming services, and yet there's no market for classic episodes?
Man, these episodes of "One Life To Live" from 1969 are like platinum and virtually impossible to find anywhere. I commend you for going the extra mile to track this one episode down.
Thanks for the Upload 👍 !! To me Victor Lord..Seems like he is a nice guy .I don't know where this "molester" He became that Dorian said he was in 1995.. XD
Yeah he was VERY controlling of Vicki--raised her as a boy as he never had a son, and to take over his paper, but otherwise was very loving. It wasn't until the 80s that they wrote about him having a secret room where he had sex with Vicki's friend, etc--and then in the 90s we found out about the incest abuse with Vicki (which was written because by the 1990s we had discovered that multiple personalities almost only occurs from sexual abuse, not just a controlling parent). Which is funny because in 1988 when Vicki went to Heaven she saw her dad and was very happy to see him ol How I wish there were more episodes from these early years.
And her husband who when they owned the shows handled a lot of the finances--she finally sold both shows to ABC in the late 70s (when she also agreed to expand to an hour despite not liking the longer format--in exchange she made a deal with ABC that they would now archive all their soap operas which is why AMC/OLTL and GH regular colour tape copies exist from mid 1977--Ryan's Hope was already being archived by Labine/Meyer who owned it.). By the time she created Loving which was never sold to ABC her new company name was Dramatic Creations Inc
The neighborliness of Anna and Sadie still raised the eyebrows of some Americans in 1969. At the time this episode was telecast, racial disturbances were happening in York, Pennsylvania which resulted in two deaths.
An Agnes Nixon documentary that aired on Lifetime in the 90s had brief colour clips from 1969 of One Life to Live, and I've heard an entire episode has been saved in colour from then (probably what they're from) but it has never seemed to have leaked...
Thanks, was this in colour? I ask because the Lifetime profile of Agnes Nixon has (soundless) clips from what seems to be this reveal, and in videotape/colour quality.
this is more like Peyton place everyday with a dark shadows feeling. one life to live was everyone favorite soap among all my children to be gust out from.the dust. I love the directors cue,costumes and script therapy to be fitted to the character. now, I believe that patti gbyour self in tv was a very hard edge just to put your name on.thanks OLTL and AMC,and dark shadows.
Agnes Nixon was a fan of Dark Shadows. When it ended and she was already starting to focus more on All My Children, she went out of her way to hire DS writing Gordon Russell to work on One Life to Live, moving him into the headwriter slot in 1973 (with another DS writer, Sam Hall, coming along as associate and taking over when Russell suddenly died in 1980)
Joseph Gallison was a very good looking young Bill Matthews on Another World. Funny how names come to mind after 51 years. I don't think I watched this back in the day but it's good to see Victor Lord as a decent man rather than the monster the writers turned him into in later years. It's one of the great flaws of daytime drama how they rewrite history and destroy the entire premise of the genre, that being entertainment, not depression.
For OLTL fans from this era, in my upload of All My Children episode 41 part 3--on this channel, is a fun and never mentioned cameo from "Eileen Reilly" from OLTL who visits with her friend Joe Martin (just an attempt to bring OLTL viewers to the then new AMC.) th-cam.com/video/7_V7KapwbfQ/w-d-xo.html
In the 1980's when they did a Profile on Blacks On Soaps in Ebony Magazine, they talked about how things were slowly changing. This is a prime example of how Black Actors were there to listen to the White Actors problems. Sadie was a very wise lady. In The UK they gave an Honorary Award to Rudolph Walker who has been playing Patrick Trueman on Eastenders since 2001 and he is the longest running Black Soap Opera Actor in the UK.
I love Trueman. It's true though--Carla had some story after her big reveal, and there were Frank and Nancy on All My Children, but no real soap supercouple until the 80s with Angie and Jesse. Still, I guess baby steps--Agnes Nixon mentioned when she created One Life to Live she was amazed that she could even write black characters--Proctor and Gamble when she wrote soaps for them only allowed them as maids and refused her idea to have a black woman and a white woman be roommates...
@@EricMontreal22 Yes. In The UK Eastenders has been the most consistent in terms of having Black Actors. Coronation Street has Two Black Characters but they don't do much with them. Emmerdale that takes place in a Farming Town has only Two Blacks while Hollyoaks has been consistent with Black Characters. Agnes Nixon did alot to bring Black Characters to TV most notably with Dr. Jim & Nurse Martha Frazier on Guiding Light.
@@laminage I try to keep up with Eastenders, and of course Corrie has always been massive here in Canada and I've watched it for much of my life though I admit I had to think hard about current black characters featured much on the canvas... Of course they've had a relatively strong East Asian representation on the show, a demo rarely touched in US soaps. Nixon has talked about how Even with Jim and Martha on GL Procter and Gamble were very restrictive of their airtime.
@@EricMontreal22 I believe you! I know deep in her heart she was happy when The Late Vince Williams was the First African American Contract Actor as Hampton "Hamp" Speakes on Guiding Light in 1989. His TV Daughter Kat was played by Nia Long and that show had the Midas Touch for Casting African American Actors who would go on to work with Spike Lee, John Singleton and Tyler Perry. Jesse L. Martin, Giancarlo Esposito, Taye Diggs, Sharon Leal, and it's the only Soap Opera that had four Dreamgirl Alumni most notably Jennifer Holliday (The "Original" Effie On Broadway). As for Indian Actors we see them here and there but there's never been a successful Indian Actor/Actress on A US Soap. My Favorite is that Crazy Suki Pansear on Eastenders, her kids are all grown but she runs that Family with an Iron Fist.
@@EricMontreal22 She did, when Erica Slezak was hired as the 3rd person to play Victoria Lord, she was talking with her agent on the day she was hired when he got call and said no I will not do this and hung up. They wanted him to say to Miss Dorian she was being replaced.
@@carterbentonjr399 Right--funny as in the youtube tribute to Agnes Nixon a few days back Erika said she thought Dorian was no longer interested in playing the role (which is not the story she has told before). I just wish we could get some footage of Spencer!
Thank you so much for these episodes! I live watching the early days of soaps! I wasn't born til 1976. When I got older though, I was amazed at the stories, but didn't enjoy til late 80's. At least I came around during the final golden age.
I was born in 1980 and became hooked (first on AMC in '89) as a kid, but became obsessed with finding old episodes as a teen, something that's become much easier now. It's just too bad that so many from the very first years of OLTL (and AMC) simply don't exist. The Paley TV museum in New York apparently has a colour 1969 episode of One Life with the Carla "passing" story and Gillian Spencer as Vicki/Nicki I need to see lol
Glad you enjoy!
@@EricMontreal22 I do enjoy! I watched OLTL beginning with like 1987 when my mother was glued to the show with Tina going over the falls! I loved the show at that time, but my real addiction came when All My Children had Natalie thrown down the well.
@@roddycurt9139 I started watching AMC with Natalie in the well as, well, well :D
@@EricMontreal22 I was glued to my television during the Natalie down the Well story. Kate Collins was brilliant as Natalie, Janet and then Janet posing as Natalie. When that story ended I stayed with AMC for the next two years. I loved Agnes Nixon's way of telling a story. And I loved Megan McTavish's dark storylines.
@@roddycurt9139 It really was a great era for AMC and, as you say, probably the last. Felicia Minei Behr as executive producer was able to work well with McTavish.
I read that when Lilian Heyman was fired she was followed to her car after a day of filming at ABC Studios and was informed by Paul Rauch’s assistant that was her last day of work. What an insult for an original cast member:
Yes, he really could be cruel. Agnes Nixon no longer had any rights to OLTL (though at some later times she would help consult--like during the Malone era) but she was so upset that she offered to bring Heyman and her character (and I think a couple of other characters?) over to her still new soap Loving. But Heyman wasn't interested, in part because she felt it was a big downgrade (understandably.)
Great scene between Doris Belack and Lillian Hyman ... very real, very immediate, very good acting. Two very good actors in their element and making their material work.
Lillian Hayman.
@@NYRNGR1 Oh dear ... oops. At least I didn't use an "e". Thanks for the correction, and my apologies to the memory of the wonderful Lillian Hayman.
I remember rushing home after school to ask Mom what happen on this show.🙂
Love the old, dramatic, soap opera music playing in the background.
Me too. The hit Proctor and Gamble soaps at the top were still using organ accompaniment.
these actors were fantastic. that's why we remember them 50 yrs on.
Doris didnt look too different here than from her parts in comedy movies in the 90s. I remember Dr Craig seeming like a good guy when I watched this as a child.
They’ll never be able to duplicate soaps like this....
One of my favorite actresses--Doris Belack! Loved her throughout the years.....especially the several appearances on Law and Order. :)
Shane Brown She had a sophisticated quality about her, class! Something you can’t teach, she just had it.
She was the BEST Anna Craig, hands down -
i first started watching around this time. loved anna! a few years later I was in a cab through central park toward the west side. I saw her stopped at a crosswalk with her dog. i think this was filmed on the upper west side studio.
Holy $hit I never thought I'd see anything before 78 ! Amazing!! I heard everything was destroyed or recorded over. Also I cant believe I've never seen one single scene of victor lord before his character originally died on screen & I'd also love to see the arrival of Dorian. This is amazing though I'd love to see carla grays original story & og viki played by the original. I never knew erika was viki #3 until I got the 30th anniversary book.
Some colour footage of Carla's story actually exists--a bit was used in a biography feature about Agnes Nixon, but who knows where it is.
Up until 1971 ABC (which did "wipe" their soap opera video tapes as it was expensive, until midway through 1977 when Agnes Nixon, agreeing to make All My Children an hour made ABC agree to archive ALL their soaps) occasionally episodes would be save via black and white kinescope for particular reasons. I've posted five from 1970 from All My Children, but this is the only One Life to Live I've found, though the Paley Broadcast Museum has at least one more to watch--I'd love to see anything else available. Glad you enjoyed!
@@EricMontreal22 tg agnes had the mind set to archive all the footage. It's always such a treat for fans before yt to see old clips & flashbacks montages etc. I wonder who is the keeper of all those oltl episodes now that it's been off air for 10 yrs it seems thanks to so many fans saving tapes we get to see everything.
@@natalieps2387 When I was doing research for a soap opera PhD paper, the people I talked to at ABC said that all their soap opera episodes from the late 70s till the end (or now in the case of Gen Hospital) are still safely archived. I really wish they'd do something with them... We have so many streaming services, and yet there's no market for classic episodes?
thank you
Man, these episodes of "One Life To Live" from 1969 are like platinum and virtually impossible to find anywhere. I commend you for going the extra mile to track this one episode down.
I know right.
Sad both actresses are deceased now.
Thanks for the Upload 👍 !! To me Victor Lord..Seems like he is a nice guy .I don't know where this "molester" He became that Dorian said he was in 1995.. XD
Yeah he was VERY controlling of Vicki--raised her as a boy as he never had a son, and to take over his paper, but otherwise was very loving. It wasn't until the 80s that they wrote about him having a secret room where he had sex with Vicki's friend, etc--and then in the 90s we found out about the incest abuse with Vicki (which was written because by the 1990s we had discovered that multiple personalities almost only occurs from sexual abuse, not just a controlling parent). Which is funny because in 1988 when Vicki went to Heaven she saw her dad and was very happy to see him ol
How I wish there were more episodes from these early years.
It was a re-write... like millions of things that happened on this show.
@@marcelparker6755 And then rewritten again around 2004 when he wanted a new heart in an especially terrible story
I wish I can buy every episode
Creative Horizons Inc...AKA Agnes Nixon .
And her husband who when they owned the shows handled a lot of the finances--she finally sold both shows to ABC in the late 70s (when she also agreed to expand to an hour despite not liking the longer format--in exchange she made a deal with ABC that they would now archive all their soap operas which is why AMC/OLTL and GH regular colour tape copies exist from mid 1977--Ryan's Hope was already being archived by Labine/Meyer who owned it.). By the time she created Loving which was never sold to ABC her new company name was Dramatic Creations Inc
The neighborliness of Anna and Sadie still raised the eyebrows of some Americans in 1969. At the time this episode was telecast, racial disturbances were happening in York, Pennsylvania which resulted in two deaths.
Amazing. I know a few stations dropped the show due to the Carla story.
It's 2022 and there are still "racial disturbances" happening there.
I’d like to see the Victoria Lord from this era she’s the one that did the split personality Nikki first
No one did it better than Gillian Spencer--her transformations to Niki Smith were chilling and genius.
@@tomdavis9198 I remember it only vaguely I just wish somebody would accidentally come across some of them that were recorded on early VHS machine
This is awesome! Thanks for posting. Will you be posting more OLTL form 1968-1969? I would like to see clips with the original Victoria Lord
So would I--I've never seen anything of Gillian Spencer in the role. Sadly this is the only full episode from this era I've ever found :(
EricMontreal22 no problem. Thank you for posting. I know how hard it is the find early episodes of the ABC soaps.
An Agnes Nixon documentary that aired on Lifetime in the 90s had brief colour clips from 1969 of One Life to Live, and I've heard an entire episode has been saved in colour from then (probably what they're from) but it has never seemed to have leaked...
EricMontreal22 ahh. I see
Thanks, was this in colour? I ask because the Lifetime profile of Agnes Nixon has (soundless) clips from what seems to be this reveal, and in videotape/colour quality.
best years on OLTL 1968 until the arrival of the Buchanans.
Like she didn’t leave the door open on purpose waiting for her to get home. Talk about desperate.
this is more like Peyton place everyday with a dark shadows feeling. one life to live was everyone favorite soap among all my children to be gust out from.the dust. I love the directors cue,costumes and script therapy to be fitted to the character. now, I believe that patti gbyour self in tv was a very hard edge just to put your name on.thanks OLTL and AMC,and dark shadows.
Agnes Nixon was a fan of Dark Shadows. When it ended and she was already starting to focus more on All My Children, she went out of her way to hire DS writing Gordon Russell to work on One Life to Live, moving him into the headwriter slot in 1973 (with another DS writer, Sam Hall, coming along as associate and taking over when Russell suddenly died in 1980)
I never noticed that the same people that did the dark shadows clothing did the clothing for this one life to live to same era so I go figure
Joseph Gallison was a very good looking young Bill Matthews on Another World. Funny how names come to mind after 51 years. I don't think I watched this back in the day but it's good to see Victor Lord as a decent man rather than the monster the writers turned him into in later years. It's one of the great flaws of daytime drama how they rewrite history and destroy the entire premise of the genre, that being entertainment, not depression.
Lillian Hyman is great here.
@@peregrino9154 Sadie Gray....
Lillian Hayman.
Ah, those were the days--1969, when one could leave the apartment door open without any fear of a psycho walking in.
Tate-La Bianca happened the month following this telecast.
For OLTL fans from this era, in my upload of All My Children episode 41 part 3--on this channel, is a fun and never mentioned cameo from "Eileen Reilly" from OLTL who visits with her friend Joe Martin (just an attempt to bring OLTL viewers to the then new AMC.) th-cam.com/video/7_V7KapwbfQ/w-d-xo.html
In the 1980's when they did a Profile on Blacks On Soaps in Ebony Magazine, they talked about how things were slowly changing. This is a prime example of how Black Actors were there to listen to the White Actors problems. Sadie was a very wise lady. In The UK they gave an Honorary Award to Rudolph Walker who has been playing Patrick Trueman on Eastenders since 2001 and he is the longest running Black Soap Opera Actor in the UK.
I love Trueman. It's true though--Carla had some story after her big reveal, and there were Frank and Nancy on All My Children, but no real soap supercouple until the 80s with Angie and Jesse. Still, I guess baby steps--Agnes Nixon mentioned when she created One Life to Live she was amazed that she could even write black characters--Proctor and Gamble when she wrote soaps for them only allowed them as maids and refused her idea to have a black woman and a white woman be roommates...
@@EricMontreal22 Yes. In The UK Eastenders has been the most consistent in terms of having Black Actors. Coronation Street has Two Black Characters but they don't do much with them. Emmerdale that takes place in a Farming Town has only Two Blacks while Hollyoaks has been consistent with Black Characters. Agnes Nixon did alot to bring Black Characters to TV most notably with Dr. Jim & Nurse Martha Frazier on Guiding Light.
@@laminage I try to keep up with Eastenders, and of course Corrie has always been massive here in Canada and I've watched it for much of my life though I admit I had to think hard about current black characters featured much on the canvas... Of course they've had a relatively strong East Asian representation on the show, a demo rarely touched in US soaps.
Nixon has talked about how Even with Jim and Martha on GL Procter and Gamble were very restrictive of their airtime.
Thats why OLTL fired them in the early 80s. Ericka Slesak called them black bitches
@@EricMontreal22 I believe you! I know deep in her heart she was happy when The Late Vince Williams was the First African American Contract Actor as Hampton "Hamp" Speakes on Guiding Light in 1989. His TV Daughter Kat was played by Nia Long and that show had the Midas Touch for Casting African American Actors who would go on to work with Spike Lee, John Singleton and Tyler Perry. Jesse L. Martin, Giancarlo Esposito, Taye Diggs, Sharon Leal, and it's the only Soap Opera that had four Dreamgirl Alumni most notably Jennifer Holliday (The "Original" Effie On Broadway). As for Indian Actors we see them here and there but there's never been a successful Indian Actor/Actress on A US Soap. My Favorite is that Crazy Suki Pansear on Eastenders, her kids are all grown but she runs that Family with an Iron Fist.
Terrible what the show became.......
Is there any footage of the second Victoria Lord, Joanne Dorian?
I've never even seen a photo! I think she lasted under 6 months?
@@EricMontreal22 She did, when Erica Slezak was hired as the 3rd person to play Victoria Lord, she was talking with her agent on the day she was hired when he got call and said no I will not do this and hung up. They wanted him to say to Miss Dorian she was being replaced.
@@carterbentonjr399 Right--funny as in the youtube tribute to Agnes Nixon a few days back Erika said she thought Dorian was no longer interested in playing the role (which is not the story she has told before).
I just wish we could get some footage of Spencer!
I didnt realize the show was black n white.
It wasn't. It's a B&W kinescope.
I know ;)