All My Children 1989 #1 Jan thru June

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Thank you to original archivist/up-loader (s) as noted below. You truly are St. Nick. All My Children 1989 #1 Jan thru June ** UPDATE: 18-08-08: Jan thru June as complete as (at this time) possible; thanking St. Nick now for her/his lifetime work, I will continue to attach any (NEW) files that may pop up. ** UPDATE: 18-07-05: Many, many new-found 1989 episodes have popped out of the woodwork, since November of last year (when I published this file), thanks to (to name just a few) people like Ken George Jones w Houston TV News, Pannoni4, and quag jocko. I must (and do) however, send out a special thanks to VintageAMC and munecojim w heartgal54 for their phenomenal dedication to keeping this, and many other soaps, publicly available (at no charge!), for all present and future generations. Thank you all for the archiving of each of these episodes, and for now freely sharing them with the world. They, and you, are treasured. def gp ddh *** ** I am not the original protector of these 1989 All My Children episodes and information. That honour belongs to (in alpha order): AMCRewind, AMCthroughtheyears, Andrew Wyatt, bmuz, bradamloverAMC, creolefemme1, Ken George Jones w Houston TV News, munecojim w heartgal54, no2souls.com, Pannoni4, quag jocko, RetroWinnipegTV, saynotoursoap, Soap Promo King, and VintageAMC. Thank you for your foresight and your valued donation to the world. **Felicia Minei Behr was hired as the new executive producer in early 1989. Having been a producer on Ryan's Hope, Behr was familiar with All My Children, having been an associate producer from 1970 to 1975. Among the stories featured was a baby story line involving the characters of Adam, Brooke, Tad, and Dixie (Cady McClain). By this time, the show had also found a "hit couple" in Cecily and Nico (portrayed by Rosa Nevin and Maurice Benard), but Behr was unable to convince either to remain with the show, and the duo left at the end of 1989. ABC was pleased with Behr; Nixon was as well, and decided her creation was safe in the hands of the new producer. Behr, however, made the unpopular decision to fire Peter Bergman (Cliff Warner) during this time, as well as Ellen Wheeler (Karen) and Robert Gentry (Ross Chandler). Bergman's departure was particularly frustrating to Debbi Morgan (who thought it was a cop-out by ABC on the promising interracial Angie/Cliff pairing; Morgan later defected to the new NBC soap opera Generations in protest), Taylor Miller (who was misled when Behr approached her to bring back her character Nina - Miller was frustrated to find out she had only been brought back for two weeks to facilitate Bergman's departure. Cliff & Nina reunited, married yet again, and left Pine Valley, leaving Miller to lament to Soap Opera Digest that she felt it was going backward for both characters (and emotionally difficult to play), her and Bergman himself. Behr then brought back fan favourite, Opal Gardner, but instead of contacting Emmy winner Dorothy Lyman to reprise the role, Behr hired Jill Larson. Lyman later noted her disappointment in never being contacted about reprising the role. (Source: Wikipedia) ** Color Picture (B/W during poor weather conditions) ** Stereo/Mono - The 'earlier' AMC years, were recorded many, many years prior to digital television - so, all sound and audio quality of the video recordings, was entirely dependent on the current weather condition. If the weather was stormy, at time of videotape recording, that weather was reflected in the quality of the recording. ** I will, at this time send a huge ''thank you'' to the person (or persons) who took the time to record the episodes as they played; more likely than not, they were preserved for private use ..... never knowing that the option would be made available, to share those recordings, for people around the world. If I had a Nickel for all of the times I have given thanks for the VCRs used at that time, to record these programs, I'd be a very wealthy person! I also now give thanks to the person who, many years ago, took the time to upload the following All My Children Synopsis, as well as for all of those written that I have used in past issues and ones that I will use in the future AMC years I upload. Thank you to each of the above! ** SYNOPSIS: Jan to Dec 1989 ** With Nina out of his life, Cliff was drawn to Angie, herself still grieving from the untimely loss of her beloved Jesse. Cliff and Angie got engaged. While they planned the wedding, Nina returned to town. It was not Nina's intention to break up Cliff and Angie, but Cliff and Nina soon discovered what they always suspected - Michael was Cliff's, not Matt's son. The ordeal shattered Nina's marriage to Matt, but it did have a greater purpose. It brought the former sweethearts together again. In a heartfelt moment, Nina admitted to Angie that she still loved Cliff. In a beautiful garden ceremony held at Cortlandt Manor, Cliff and Nina remarried for the fourth - and seemingly final time - and left to s