TVXOHOF, 08/2017 - NIXON'S THE ONE! (NOT THAT NIXON....)

September, a rueful month.... Summer is ending, Winter is on the horizon.

It's also the month during which we honor the Powers Behind The Screen who expand the TV Universe - the writers, the directors, the producers, the art designers.

And so it is a memorial month then for our September inductee into the Television Crossover Hall of Fame.  I don't think I could have made a better choice than one of the grande dames of the afternoon stories - the venerable soap operas.

AGNES NIXON

From Wikipedia:

Agnes Nixon (née Eckhardt; December 10, 1922 – September 28, 2016) was an American television writer and producer. She is best known as the creator of the long-running soap operas 'One Life to Live', 'All My Children', and 'Loving.' 

(O'BSERVATION: 'Loving' would later morph into 'The City'.)

Nixon's work as producer and writer introduced a number of new story-lines to American daytime television – the first health-related storyline, the first storyline related to the Vietnam War, the first on-screen lesbian kiss and the first on-screen abortion.

She won five Writers' Guild of America Awards, five Daytime Emmy Awards, and in 2010 received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Nixon was often referred to as the "Queen" of the modern American soap opera.

Ms. Nixon came close to joining the TVXOHOF as one of her characters as well.  In both 'All My Children' and 'One Life to Live' she played the character Agnes Eckhardt.  But unfortunately she only has those two shows to Ms. Eckhardt's credit.  

But as the creator of those three soap operas, she expanded Toobworld with the locations of Llanview, Corinth. and Pine Valley, all located in Pennsylvania.  And since they were relatively close to each other within the televersion of Pennsylvania, naturally characters from one show could show up on one - or both - of the others.  

For example: 

• Angie Hubbard is a future member of the Hall of Fame because of how she moved from Pine Valley to Corinth before she moved to New York City in the sequel to 'Loving', 'The City'.
• A 'General Hospital' character left Port Charles, New York, and moved south to Manhattan in Nixon's 'The City' - the power-hungry Tracy Quartermaine.
• Another two GH refugees had a mother and child reunion in 'All My Children' as it was revealed that Alex was really Anna Devane suffering from amnesia. Her daughter Robin Scorpio journeyed from Port Charles to Pine Valley in order to meet her mother again.
• Starr Manning, Cole and Hope Thornhart moved to Port Charles from Llanview but the baby Hope and her father Cole seem to have died in a horrific car crash.  Starr had to move on in life without them.
• A scandalous baby switch roiled the people in Llanview and Pine Valley.
• One of the very first inductees into the Hall was Gretl Rae Cummings who showed up in all of the soaps on ABC.

And so, Agnes Nixon deserves to take her place in the Hall.  Welcome, Madam.....

BCnU!