Nixon was a huge player in the world of soap operas, as both writer and creator. She developed the soap One Life to Live, but, more importantly (to my family), she also created All My Children.
I'm not quite sure how my family got involved in AMC. I have a vague sense Mom started watching while we were first in Colorado, in the late 70s (the soap itself started in 1970). She became a pretty dedicated viewer, but so did her mom somehow. By the time I was in college, I had absorbed a lot of the show by osmosis, and so had no objections to eating lunch in the TV room at the dorm when AMC was on (some years the crowd went for AMC, some years it was Twilight Zone reruns. Win-win as far as I'm concerned).
With the invention of the VCR, both Mom and Nona could time-shift the AMC watching to their convenience. My own viewing stopped with graduation, and the soap itself ended in 2011 (with two added years on cable), but I always appreciated, and still do, the many hours of melodramatic plot-twisting entertainment that Ms Nixon produced for us.
Thanks for the entertainment, ma'am.
Agnes Nixon dies at 93; creator of ‘One Life to Live’ and ‘All My Children’
The grand dame of daytime television drama, Agnes Nixon liked to say that “everyone’s life is a soap opera.” For proof, she offered up her own.
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