All My Children
Pine Valley, Agnes Nixon's serial, and the first American soap to put issue storylines in daytime.
All My Children rebuilt its titles: two distinct opening sequences are catalogued here across seasons 23 and 41, running between 45 and 47 seconds.
It arrived on ABC in 1970, when One Life to Live, The Bugs Bunny Show and ABC's Wide World of Sports were also on the network.
Only 139 of the 2,618 shows catalogued here changed their titles at all; All My Children did so once.
All 2 opening title sequences
Season 23
45sFan upload dated January 1992; counting a season per year from the January 1970 launch, that is the twenty-third.
Season 41
47sFan upload dated December 2010; counting a season per year from the January 1970 launch, that is the forty-first.
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