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All My Children

★ 6.9 4K votes 1970–2011 6 seasons · 9024 episodes Ended ABC
Soap & telenovelaHeightened, continuing melodrama.This show: 10/10Long-runnerA show whose sheer longevity shapes how it's watched.This show: 10/10SerializedContinuous arcs where every episode builds on the last.This show: 9/10Family sagaBonds and fractures across generations of one family.This show: 8/10Love storyA love story as the engine of the show, not a side plot.This show: 8/10Secrets & liesHidden truths straining every relationship.This show: 8/10Cliffhanger-drivenEngineered for the 'one more episode' effect.This show: 7/10Ensemble castMany characters carrying equal weight.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Susan LucciDavid CanaryMichael E. KnightCameron MathisonWalt WilleyAlicia Minshew
Starring
Susan LucciDavid CanaryMichael E. KnightCameron MathisonWalt WilleyAlicia Minshew

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"Decades of small-town scandal as comfort television"

A long-running daytime soap set in the fictional town of Pine Valley, following the tangled loves, betrayals, and scandals of its residents across decades. It's a comfort-watch in the classic soap mold: melodramatic, unhurried, and built around recurring faces you grow attached to over years rather than episodes. The appeal isn't tight plotting but immersion, a sprawling community whose ups and downs unfold at a leisurely, often theatrical pace. Newcomers should expect broad performances and old-school pacing rather than modern prestige-drama polish.

Watch it for

the sprawling, decades-deep sense of a fictional community you can settle into.

Maybe skip if

you need tight pacing or modern production values rather than classic soap-opera rhythms.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

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Season 11970
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Season 332002
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Season 352004
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season 372006
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Season 382007
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Season 39
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Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Susan Lucci Erica Kane, Jane, Jane Campbell
David Canary Adam Chandler, Stuart Chandler, Adam
Michael E. Knight Tad Martin
Cameron Mathison Ryan Lavery
Walt Willey Jackson Montgomery
Alicia Minshew Kendall Hart Slater, Kendall Hart
Eileen Herlie Myrtle Fargate, Myrtle Lum Fargate, Myrtle Lum
James Mitchell Palmer Cortlandt
Julia Barr Brooke English, Brooke Cudahy
Jill Larson Opal Cortlandt, Opal

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