All My Children

All My Children is an US soap opera which has been broadcast Monday through Friday on the ABC TV network since January 5, 1970. Originally a half-hour in length, the show moved to an hour in 1977. The show has taped over nine thousand episodes, with the 9,000th episode having aired on December 16, 2004. It is videotaped at one of ABC's television studios in New York City (sometimes mistakenly labeled as the "ABC Television Center," of which there is no confined nucleus in New York City).

Spoofs

• This show is spoofed in the Matt Groening's series Futurama as a huge robot soap opera called All My Circuits, starring Calculon.
• The soap opera featured in the film Soap Dish was called All My Trials.
• This show was spoofed in an episode of Spin City called "My Life is a Soap Opera" which also featured John Callahan as Edmund Grey and Esta TerBlanche as Gillian Andrassy Lavery.
• On the television series Clarissa Explains It All, Clarissa once narrated the family's collective drama as a faux soap opera called All My Darlings.
• On the cartoon television series Fairly Odd Parents, the hottest show in the Fairy World is called All My Biceps. The fairy world has been waiting for 18 years for Wanda's twin (but slightly more attractive) sister Blonda kiss the good doctor.