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- Summary: General questions (and answers) about AMC & Pine Valley
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- Here's the first of four sections of the AMC FAQ. You might want to
- save it to a file for reference, since it's only posted once every
- couple of months. The AMC FAQ is also available through anonymous
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- If you know any of the unknown answers below, or have any additional
- questions & answers to add, please email me (gibbsm@ll.mit.edu).
- Thanks!
-
-
-
- general questions about AMC and Pine Valley:
- Q: Why is it called "All My Children?"
- Q: Where is Pine Valley?
- Q: What are the street names of Pine Valley?
- Q: What are the restaurant and store names of PV?
- Q: What are some of the house names, and who has lived in them?
- Q: Where can I get the AMC theme music?
- Q: What is the mailing address for AMC?
- Q: Where can I buy t-shirts, etc. with AMC themes?
- Q: Books about AMC?
- Q: AMC Videos?
- Q: Album featuring actors from AMC?
- Q: When did AMC start, and when did they change over from B&W
- to color?
- Q: Whose hand opened the book in the original opening?
- Q: When did the AMC theme song change?
-
-
- Q: Why is it called "All My Children?"
-
- A: Some people think the "My" refers to Kate Martin or Phoebe
- Tyler Wallingford. But what does the creator of the show have
- to say about it?...
-
- Oprah asked Agnes Nixon that question when she had a bunch of them
- on a special commemorating the 20th Anniversary special back in
- January of 1990...Agnes Nixon replied:
-
- "All My Children refers to the Brotherhood of Man (MY is God).
- You are All MY Children".
-
- The Great and the Least,
- The Rich and the Poor,
- The Weak and the Strong,
- In Sickness and in Health,
- In Joy and Sorrow,
- In Tragedy and Triumph,
- You are All My Children
-
-
- Agnes Nixon wrote this at the beginning of the first episode but
- unfortunately it never aired.
-
- Extra tidbit: Agnes originally wrote AMC for Proctor and Gamble
- for CBS but it was turned down and Agnes tossed
- it into her drawer at home. She went on to write
- for Another World for Proctor and Gamble. Then
- she was approached for a soap for ABC and wrote
- One Life to Live. Then after OLTL success, she
- again was approached for another soap. She said
- to her husband Bob, how can I possibly come
- up with another soap, and her husband said what
- about "All My Children" and Agnes took it out of
- the drawer and the rest is history {:-)
-
-
- Q: Where is Pine Valley?
-
- A: Agnes Nixon, AMC creator, said in Episodes that PV was modeled on
- her home town on the Main Line in the Philadelphia suburbs.
- However, the outside shot they occasionally show before a scene
- is Palmer Square in Princeton, NJ, according to Randi Schweriner
- (schwerin@phoenix.Princeton.EDU). Also, the exterior of Cortlandt
- Manor is really a mansion called Waveny in New Canaan, CT.
- WildWind is actually Lyndhurst, on Rt. 9, in Tarrytown, NY. It
- was the home of Jay Gould, the Railroad robber baron, and is open
- to the public.
-
- According to Ruth Warrick in her book ``The Confessions of Phoebe Tyler''
- (Berkeley Press, 1982):
-
- "A careful viewer might be able to place the geographical location (of
- Pine Valley) a bit more specifically. It is the suburb of `Center City,'
- which somewhat resembles Philadelphia. And it is about ninety miles from
- New York City -- close enough for illicit or clandestine adventures, but
- distant enough to avoid Fun City's distinctive flavor. In fact, Pine
- Valley occupies roughly the same map position as Bryn Mawr, the affluent
- Philadelphia Main Line community which is the home of a famous institution
- of learning.
-
- Which is not surprising, since Bryn Mawr is also the home of a certain
- soft-spoken woman who has become something of an institution in her own
- right. She is Agnes Nixon, creator of One Life to Live and All My
- Children, and she is the acknowledged queen of daytime television serials,
- more commonly known as soap operas or simply soaps."
-
- One more clue that Pine Valley is actually in Pennsylvania...
- after Mona Kane died, her daughter found her suitcase. On the
- suitcase's tag was the following address:
- Name: Mona Kane Tyler
- Street: 20 Adams Street
- City: Pine Valley, USA
- State: PA ZIP: 199??
-
- Yet another: When Erica was at the Betty Ford Center (1996), she
- told her roommate that she was from Pine Valley, Pennsylvania.
-
- More trivia: in early 1992: Will and Hayley were in a limo. Will
- said "Pine Valley, 19010" in sarcastic comparison to Beverly Hills 90210.
- 19010 is the US Postal code for Bryn Mawr, PA. On March 27, 1995,
- Kendall said "Pine Vally, 09109". This postal code is not in use
- in the US.
-
- There have been other clues in the show which point to the fact
- that Pine Valley is in Pennsylvania, but I haven't room for them
- all.
-
-
- Q: What are the street names of Pine Valley?
-
- A: River Road, Old River Road, Main Street, Route 29, Route 10, Maple
- Street, Front Street, Adams Street, Hillcrest (1219 is the
- Martin's house), Staunton Drive (where Belinda lives). Others???
-
-
- Q: What are the restaurant and store names of PV?
-
- A: Here's what I came up with (if you can think of more, please let
- me know):
- McKay's
- The Valley Inn Restaurant
- The Goal Post
- The Serving Spoon
- The Hearth (Jesse used to work there)
- The Chateau
- Hal's Country & Western Bar
- Lacey's (the Department Store)
- Kelly's
- Foxies (Center City)
- Erica's Disco (burned down)
- The Boutique
- The Glamorama
- The Health Club
- The Cluck-Cluck Chicken Shack
- Panache (Tom's old night club)
- Nexus (NYC)
- The Country Club
- The Steampit (where Jesse sang)
- Cyclops (run by Billy Clyde Tuggle)
- Bruno's Pizza (Dixie & Brian used to order from there)
- a Diner which Jack & Angelique used to frequent
- The Roadside Diner (new-Laura met Janet there)
- The Insomniac Cafe (where Julia works)
- The Hunter Gallery
- Holidays (Hayley & Mateo's club)
-
-
- Q: What are some of the house names, and who has lived in them?
-
- A: Linden House (Erica)
- Wallingford Mansion
- The Gatehouse (Wallingford) (Donna, Nico & Cecily, Brooke)
- Wildwind (Dimitri, Erica, Edmund, Maria, Peggy, Anton)
- Hunting Lodge at Wildwind (Anton, Kendall, Gloria)
- The Penthouse (which somehow moved to the ground floor!) -
- (Trevor & Natalie, Jack & Laurel)
- Cortlandt Manor (Palmer)
- Chandler Mansion (Adam, Natalie, Adam)
- The Boat House (Trevor, Alec)
- The Carriage House (Stuart, Cindy, Scott)
- The Martin's house
- Next door to the Martin's (Harlan Tucker & Ellen Shepard; Devon
- & Wally; Carrie, Lenora & Curt; Frank & Nancy Grant;
- Angie & Jesse, now Trevor???)
- Martin's Mansion (didn't it have another name?)
- Myrtle's Boardinghouse (too many to mention)
- Pine Cone Motel (hmmmm, business or "house")
- The Valley Inn (ditto)
- Must be some apartments where Terrence, Taylor, Maria, Julia,
- Charlie all live, and Will used to live.
- The loft (Dixie & Tad, Opal, Derek & Mimi, Terrence & Livia)
- The Solar House where Ellen and Mark Dalton used to live?
- Jeremy & Natalie's dream house
- Trevor & Natalie's dream house
- Tom & Skye's house (& then Dixie & Brian, then just Dixie)
- (does anyone live there now?)
- Tom & Livia's house in Whitewood Developments
- The Brooke English Homeless Shelter (Laura, Janet)
- Pierce's hide-out near Willow Lake
-
-
- Q: Where can I get the AMC theme music?
-
- A: The old AMC theme is on an album by the group Flim & The BB's called
- "This Is A Recording" and it was written by Billy Barber. It's pretty
- much identical to the long version that sometimes plays over the
- closing credits of the show.
-
- You could also try http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/kennyp/sounds.html
- (The WWW TV Themes Home Page, maintained by Patrick Kenny), which
- has the 1990-1994 AMC theme. Don't ask me how to play it, though!
-
-
- Q: What is the mailing address for AMC?
-
- A: All My Children
- 320 W. 66th Street
- New York, NY 10023
-
-
- Q: Where can I buy t-shirts, etc. with AMC themes?
-
- A: Soap Duds, Inc.
- P.O. Box 843
- Hollister, CA 95024-0843
- 1-800-634-SOAP or (408) 636-8808
- Fax: (800) 247-8738 or (408) 636-8738
- Email: info@soapduds.com
- Web site: http://www.hollinet.com/~soapduds/
-
-
- Q: List of some books about AMC?
-
- A: Be aware that many of the books listed below are out of print:
-
- "The Wonderful World of TV Soap Operas", printed in 1972 by
- Dell.
-
- Three books whose main title is "Agnes Nixon's All My Children".
- Each has its own subtitle:
- Book 1: Tara & Philip, covers 1970-1972, isbn 0-515-04892-5
- Book 2: Erica, covers 1972-1974, isbn 0-515-04895-X
- Book 3: The Lovers, covers 1974-1976, isbn 0-515-04896-8.
- The author of all three books was Rosemarie Santini, published by
- Jove Publications, Inc./200 Madison Avenue/New York, NY 10016. The
- first two have a copyright date of 1980; the last was copyrighted
- in 1981.
-
- "All Her Children" by Dan Wakefield; Doubleday & Co, 1976
- a behind the scenes story of the show by an unabashed fan.
- You have to stumble on it in a used bookshop. Worth finding.
-
- "The Confessions of Phoebe Tyler" by Ruth Warrick
-
- "The Soap Opera Book" by Manuela Soares, Latham Publishing, 1978
-
- "Soap World" bu Robert LaGuardia published by Arbor House,
- New York 1983. ISBN: 0-87795-482-8
-
- "Soap Opera Mania - Love, Lust & Lies from Your Favorite Daytime
- Dramas" by Tom Biracree.
-
- "All My Children: The Complete Family Scrapbook" by Gary Warner
- (email address abcgary@aol.com); Los Angeles: General Publishing
- Group, 1994, ISBN: 1881649458 : $25.00 (can order by phone
- 1-800-937-5557)
-
- "The Soap Opera Book of Lists," by Gerard J. Waggett
- (Harper Paperbacks, 1996)
-
- "Having It All" by Erica Kane will be on the bookstores
- bookshelves very soon (June 1997). Apparently one of the AMC
- staffers ghost wrote the book. List price of the hard cover
- book is $17.95, Amazon will have it for 30% less.
-
-
- Q: I've heard that ABC has put out some AMC videos - what are they
- and how can I get them?
-
- A: They should be available where most videos are sold. The first
- one is called "All My Children: Daytime's Greatest Weddings",
- and it was put out in September 1993. Another video, put
- out around February 1994, is "AMC: Behind the Scenes", and
- features Walt Willey (Jackson Montgomery) guiding viewers
- around the many sets. Both videos are put out by "ABC Daytime
- Home Video", carry a retail price of $14.98, and run about an hour.
- A third video, "All About Erica" came out in November, 1994.
-
-
- Q: I've also heard that there is an album featuring people from AMC -
- how can I get that?
-
- RCA Victor produced a Christmas album in 1994 titled "A Soap
- Opera Christmas -- Holiday Songs From Your Favorite Daytime
- Stars" featuring some of daytime's best singers. The album
- features Scott Holmes (Tom, "As the World Turns"); Peter
- Bergman, Scott Reeves and Diana Barton from Y&R; Eva LaRue
- (Maria) and Tommy Michaels (Timmy) from AMC; Robyn Griggs
- (Maggie, "Another World"); Brad Maule (Tony, "General Hospital");
- Tonya Walker of OLTL, and others.
-
- You can also purchase Louis Edmonds' "Nobody Cares About Langley"
- CD for $13.99 plus $2.50 shipping by writing to:
-
- Dark Shadows
- P.O. Box 480726
- Los Angeles, CA 90048
-
- Info source: E! Entertainment Television's PURE SOAP (July, 1994).
-
-
-
- Q: When did AMC start, and when did they change over from B&W to color?
-
- A: It first aired January 5, 1970, and it was a half-hour show for
- the first six years. I think they went to color in late 1971.
-
- The photo album that used to be at the beginning of the show
- showed a hand turning the cover. A friend told me that the photo
- album is Kate Martin's and that the hand turning it is hers. This would
- make sense since the Martins were the centerpiece family of the show.
- However...
-
-
- Q: Whose hand opened the book in the original opening?
-
- In the original, black & white opening, where Rosemary Prinz
- (Amy - Ruth's sister) is on the first page of the album, an
- unknown hand opens the book. There is no listing in the ABC
- AMC archives of the person performing the page turning, thus
- the hand remains unidentified to this day.
-
-
- Q: When did the AMC theme song change?
-
- A: Friday, January 5, 1990, when they aired the 20th Anniversary show,
- and again on Tuesday, January 3, 1995.
-
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