ONE LIFE TO LIVE AFTER DARK

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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.

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 Sudville.

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 socio-economic 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.

One Life to Live began airing on network television on July 15, 1968. From 1968-1976 the show was only 30 minutes long, but then developed into a 45-minute show during the years 1976-1978. Eventually, however, OLTL became an hour-long show towards the end of 1978.

 CAST LIST for 1968

The Lords, a wealthy family
Victor Lord (ERNEST GRAVES)
Victoria ‘Viki' Lord (GILLIAN SPENCER)
Meredith ‘Merrie' Lord (TRISH VAN DEVERE)

The Woleks, a Polish-American family
Larry Wolek #1 (PAUL TULLEY)
Larry Wolek #2 (JIM STORM))
Anna Wolek (DORIS BELACK)
Vince Wolek (ANTHONY PONZINI)

The Craigs, a lower-middle class family
Dr Jim Craig (ROBERT MILLI)

The Rileys, a poor Irish-American family
Joseph ‘Joe' Francis Riley (LEE PATTERSON)
Eillen Riley Siegel (PATRICIA ROE)
Dave Siegel (ALLAN MILLER)


Sadie Gray (LILLIAN HAYMAN)
Carla Benari (ELLEN HOLLY)
Nurse Karen Martin (NIKI FLACKS)
Dr Ted Hale (TERRY LOGAN)
Dr Price Trainor (THURMAN SCOTT)

Credits:

Producer: Doris Quinlan; Associate Producer: Charlotte Weil; Directors: Neil Smith, David Presman; Writers: Ted Dazan, Gordon Russel; Casting Director: Joan D'Incecco.

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1969-1970 Season (HH Ratings)

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