ABC’s ‘One Life to Live’ Ends 43-Year Run on Friday
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JPI Studios/ABC, Inc.(NEW YORK) — One Life to Live will come to an end on Friday. After 43 years, the ABC daytime soap that chronicled the lives of the fictional Buchanan, Lord and Cramer families in Llanview, Pa., will air its final episode.
One Life to Live premiered on July 15, 1968. The series finale will take a look back at the moments that have defined the soap through the years.
Longtime One Life to Live star Erika Slezak, who plays the heir to the Lord publishing fortune, Viki Lord Banks, says it will be sad for both her and the show’s fans to say goodbye.
She says, “I think that the core audience is still very strong, and they’re going to miss us terribly because they looked forward to that hour or that two-hour or that three-hour stretch every day.”
Slezak will reflect on the soap’s run as a guest co-host on ABC’s The View Friday morning.
The final episode of One Life to Live airs at 2:00 p.m. Eastern time. The new lifestyle program The Revolution will fill the One Life to Live time slot beginning Monday.
One Life to Live is the second ABC soap in five months to leave the air. All My Children signed off in September after 41 years.
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