LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Four decades of love, death, returning from the dead, weddings, outings and Emmy wins (namely Susan Lucci's, finally) comes to an end today -- on TV, anyway -- as "All My Children" airs its series finale on ABC (1 p.m.; repeat at 8 p.m. on SOAPnet).
"All My Children" -- known affectionately as "All My Kids" to its devoted fans, some of whom have been watching the show since they were kids -- premiered on ABC on January 5, 1970.
Lucci, arguably the most popular actress in soap opera history, joined that same year, as a 22-year-old playing the then-15-year-old Erica Kane, a troublemaker who would go on to become the first TV character to get an abortion and to become one of the most married characters in daytime (nearly a dozen for the love-loving Erica).
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