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About This Site

Welcome To One Life To Live After Dark!

I created this site for fans of the Daytime drama, One Life To Live.  You only have one, you know, so live it to the fullest. That's the motto of the citizens of Llanview PA.

This site is dedicated to the established history of the show as well as current storylines, as they play out.

My love for the show stems from my love of storytelling, which is an ancient art.  The soap opera perfected the art of storytelling through its continuing stories, complete with daily cliffhangers. As those stories are told daily, the viewers become more familiar with the characters and their stories than any new writing regime cares to appreciate.  

This is what Agnes Nixon, creator of One Life To Live had to say about the genre, known as the soap opera:

"This is what soap opera gives us. There is always tomorrow. A tomorrow fraught with problems, tragedies and traumas, to be sure, with hate mixed with love and sorrow and joy. But how does this differ from life itself? There are more of humanity's horrors to be found in any issue of the daily newspaper than abound in all of Sudsville."

I hope you find something here that will please you!

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Facts About The Show

Agnes Nixon, the creator of One Life To Live, had as her original premise for the show, the classic soap formula of a rich family and a poor family, however, the main center of attention was to be on the ethnic and socioeconomic diversity of the citizens of Llanview, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. The original title of OLTL was going to be Between Heaven and Hell, but the sponsors for the show, at that time, felt the name was too controversial and the title change was made to One Life to Live. The fictional city of Llanview was actually modeled after the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia. When OLTL first aired, it centered around the wealthy Lord family, the middle class Siegels (an interesting mix of a Jewish/Catholic family), and the working-class families of the Rileys, the Woleks and the Grays. OLTL was the first soap opera to have a racially integrated cast. The show went so far as to deal with the taboo of an African American woman, Carla Benari (a.k.a. Clara Gray) (Ellen Holly). Carla’s mother, Sadie Gray, who was the neighbor and friend to the Woleks and worked in the Housekeeping Department at the hospital (she later became Head of Housekeeping there), discovered that her daughter, Clara, was pretending to be a white woman; she eventually persuaded her to reveal her true racial identity. OLTL was also first to deal with interracial relationships as Carla was engaged to a white doctor.One of the last vestiges of the early denizens of Llanview can be found in Victoria Lord Riley Buchanan Carpenter Davidson.  Victoria, known as Viki is the daughter of the newspaper tycoon, Victor Lord, the patriarch of dysfunctionality.  (Technically, Viki’s two son’s Kevin and Joey are Rilelys, their father being Joseph Reily, Viki’s first husband.) Victor had several illegitimate children among them, Tony Lord (now deceased), Tina Clayton and Todd Manning. Viki is also the mother of (fraternal) twin girls, Jessica, who was thought to be fathered by Clint Buchan (Her actual father is Mitch Lawrence, a man who raped Viki) and Natalie who was actually fathered by Clint Buchanan.  

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 1969-1970 Season (HH Ratings)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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