One Life To Live - MESSAGE BOARDS

One Life to Live has been on the air for 40 years now and the show will continue to thrive with stories of love, passion, betrayal, loss, and triumph that surround the daily lives of many residents of Llanview, Pennsylvania.

We want to thank the woman who is responsible for making OLTL an enduring legacy on daytime television for the past 4 decades: the creator of this show, Agnes Nixon.

And that brings me to ask you a very particular question.

How did Nixon really come up with the title?

Agnes Nixon was originally going to call it "Between Heaven and Hell," but sponsors of the show at that time found that title too controversial and it was changed to "One Life To Live." Even though the title was changed, when the show first debuted, the first opening scenes were closeup footage of flames in a fireplace, which seemed to suggest a symbolic hellfire.

Hope this answers your question.

How intresting! Would love Soapnet air the Original episodes! Would be nice for a Holiday event!

I would love to see the original episodes as well. I would also love to see the starting episodes of GH. I weould love to know if you could find the episodes of GH from from 1963 to 2008. What I mean is for people who wasn't born(like me)when GH 1st appeared.

I've watched OLTL and GH since they debuted and I loved the early days of both. I've searched the Internet and haven't been able to find videos of early shows (yet), but I'll keep looking.