It's expected that at least some of the former cast (including Ripa and Consuelos) will make appearances. The new series would follow a "young journalist with a secret agenda" who goes to investigate the dark history of the town and becomes entangled in a feud between the Kane and Santos families. In December 2020, it was reported that a prime time revival of the series, tentatively titled Pine Valley, was in development by Andrew Stearn and Robert Nixon (son of the late Agnes) as well as former stars Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos. or so it seemed, true to soap opera form. Croix, which sister series General Hospital would soon follow suit.
As well as social issues, the show broke ground on technical levels and was the first Soap in History to shoot outside the studio and on location, with Erica and Tom Cudahay's honeymoon in St. It was the first daytime drama to feature a larger working class cast of characters, as well as the first major African American and Hispanic families in the cast, and touched upon many topics that were taboo, including the first legal abortion in television, protest of Vietnam, and one of the characters contracting AIDS. The show was considered groundbreaking on many levels. Lucci was famously nominated 18 times for a Daytime Emmy for this role without a win, finally winning on #19. A notable character is much-married Erica Kane (Martin Brent Cudahy Chandler Roy Roy Montgomery Montgomery Chandler Marick Marick Montgomery), played since the show's inception by Susan Lucci. The show is set in fictional Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, close enough to New York for day travel.
Its memorable Title Sequence, at least through 1989, showed a woman's hand opening a family photo album. Within the framework of a traditional Family Drama soap, Agnes Nixon created a show that incorporates young love, relevant social issues and high comedy. Long-running Soap Opera on ABC, premiering in 1970.
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