No More Pine Valley and Llanview?

ABC announced that it will cancel two long running soap operas this year. It's the end of the road for All My Children which debuted in 1970 and One Life to Life which hit the air in 1968. I cannot tell you how many hot arizona summers I spent glued to those shows while babysitting, earning a whopping .50 cents an hour. I would end the afternoon with GH (General Hospital) with a belly full of Pepsi (don't think diet had been invented), a can of bean dip and a bag of fritos.

Of course it's a money thing, it cost $30 million more a year to produce soaps than it does to produce talk shows. So now its time to kiss AMC and OLTL goodbye. How do you write an ending for a show that's been around for more than 40 years? Whats the best way to pull the plug on Erica Kane and Vicki Buchanan? When "Little House on the Prairie" ended, they blew up Walnut Grove....I am still not over that. Perhaps they can all turn into Vampires, or maybe everyone from Pine Valley can move to Port Charles and get jobs at General Hospital or Ruby's Diner. Or maybe they could all just wake up and find out it was all a dream like J.R. Ewing on Dallas.

Thank you ABC for the memories. Those soaps were a huge part of my teen years, my "having my babies" years and sweet memories of my mom taking a break after her housework was done to enjoy her "soaps". Thanks for laughter, the tears and the cliff hangers.

I leave you now with one of the most memorable moments from One Life to Life - below