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1968: Agnes Nixon's One Life to Live premiered on ABC. "History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's think…

Roger Newcomb • July 15, 2019

1968: Agnes Nixon's One Life to Live premiered on ABC. "All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the …

Roger Newcomb • July 15, 2018

1968: Agnes Nixon's One Life to Live premiered on ABC. "History is a vast early warning system." ― Norman Cous…

Roger Newcomb • July 15, 2017

1968: Agnes Nixon's One Life to Live premiered on ABC. "If you don't know history, then you don't know anyth…

Roger Newcomb • July 15, 2016

1968: Agnes Nixon's One Life to Live premiered on ABC. "History never looks like history when you are living through …

We Love Soaps • July 15, 2015

"History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies." - Alexis de Tocqueville "T…

Roger Newcomb • July 15, 2014

On this date in... 1925: Actor Philip Carey was born. The actor played Asa Buchanan in ONE LIFE TO LIVE for many years. Among…

Roger Newcomb • July 15, 2013

Mixing Comedy & Soap: A History of the Serialized Situation Comedy By Doug Prinzivalli As one of the producers of the hit w…

Guest Editorial • December 02, 2010