All My Children-A Daytime to Remember

Did Ruth have any biological children other than Joey/Jake? I don't know. She raised Phillip as her own but she didn't give birth to him.

BTW, the "lottery number" mentioned in the first act was in reference to the Vietnam War- which was very much the crux of the first 13 weeks of All My Children. Agnes Nixon learned very well from Irna Phillips about using daytime drama as a mirror for society, from Vietnam then to transgenderism today.

It wasn't a home movie, it was a telecine(kinescope)print used so that stations on the West Coast, Hawaii and Alaska would have a copy for broadcast. Old telecines of "Dark Shadows" episodes were very much the reason why the series remains intact (all bar one episodes exist- one was reconstructed with cliffhangers, audio and still pictures. Some of those markets did not have color video tape capabilities in 1970. Hell, Australia didn't have color video tape (period) until 1976!

LOVE Ruth's hair!

Tara Martin would later be in Satuday Night Fever...she was Stephanie, the one John Travolta ( Tony ) wanted to dance with

Who's the handsome young hunk by the telephone in the beginning sequence?

That is Phillip Brent

I was so in love with Richard Hatch - the fellow who played Phillip Brent! I remember crying my eyes out when Phillip married Tara the night before he left for Viet Nam! And then he was killed! I must have been 10 or 12 years old. I wrote Richard Hatch a fan letter once! It's so strange to see him in this video as I saw him then - my memory now of him is more how he looked in later years when he was in the Streets of San Francisco and in Battlestar Gallactica. He was SOOO handsome!

A while back, they had sort of an All My Children reunin on Soap Talk. They had so many beloved favorites. Richard Hatch and Karen Lynn Gorney were amongst them. They showed old clips which were charming and sweet. They were a supercouple before the term was coined. Richard and Karen still have the same sweet chemistry. It made me wish they could bring Phillip back from the dead, again, and bring Tara back to town. They would be so sweet.

Is this the first episode?