ALL MY CHILDREN {THE MARTINS DURING CHRISTMAS} (TV)
Summary
One in this daytime serial about the lives and loves of the residents of Pine Valley, Pennsylvania. This episode includes the following plot developments: Alex gives Natalie her Christmas present and she loves it until she sees what he got Erica; the Martins are spending the holiday together and Tad is thinking of a way to tell Talia that he can no longer continue their relationship; Hillary wants to break off her engagement to Tad because she feels he hasn't changed his lifestyle; Langley wants to prove his love for Phoebe with an expensive gift and sells his toupee to get extra money; Talia comes to the Martin's house unexpectedly and tells Tad to meet her at her hotel room; Jeremy is told to go see Kantu to talk about his relationship with Erica; when Langley and Phoebe exchange presents, an awkward situation arises because of the gift she got him; Ross waits for Adam to come over so they can talk about business; Langley tells Phoebe the reason he sold his toupee and she is very flattered; Tad goes to Talia's room and tells her of his feelings for Hillary; he then quits the movie for fear of sleeping with Talia; Erica is ecstatic over the gift from Alex and Natalie; she also gets a call from Jeremy who says that he's been released from his vow and wants to marry her immediately in Bangkok; Tad tells Hillary he quit the movie and declares his undying love for her which Phoebe finds hard to believe. Includes commercials and promos.
Details
- NETWORK: ABC
- DATE: December 25, 1985 1:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:57:51
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:35388
- GENRE: Drama, daytime serial
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama, daytime serial
- SERIES RUN: ABC - TV series, 1970-2011; Hulu/OWN - Internet series, 2013
- COMMERCIALS:
- TV - Commercials - 9 Lives cat food
- TV - Commercials - American Family Sweepstakes
- TV - Commercials - Caress soap
- TV - Commercials - Children's Tylenol pain reliever
- TV - Commercials - Clorox 2 bleach
- TV - Commercials - CoTylenol cold medicine
- TV - Commercials - Fresh Step cat litter
- TV - Commercials - Hidden Valley Ranch salad dressing
- TV - Commercials - Huggies diapers
- TV - Commercials - Lee High Fashion Nail Tips
- TV - Commercials - Lee Press-On Nails
- TV - Commercials - Mexican Velveeta cheese
- TV - Commercials - Miss Clairol hair products
- TV - Commercials - People magazine
- TV - Commercials - Playtex baby nurser
- TV - Commercials - Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes
- TV - Commercials - Shake 'N Bake Original Barbeque
- TV - Commercials - Sun Light dish soap
- TV - Commercials - Tackle cleaner disinfectant
- TV - Commercials - Wisk laundry detergent
- TV - Promos - "ABC News"
- TV - Promos - "New Love American Style"
- TV - Promos - "Supergirl: The Making of the Movie"
- TV - Promos - "Superman II"
- TV - Promos - "The Colbys"
CREDITS
- Terry Cacavio … Coordinating Producer
- Jaqueline Babbin … Producer
- de Villiers, Thomas … Associate Producer
- Kristin Laskas Martin … Associate Producer
- Jack Coffey … Director
- Sherrell Hoffman … Director
- Henry Kaplan … Director
- Francesca James … Director
- Agnes Nixon … Created by
- Wisner Washam … Writer
- Lorraine Broderick … Writer
- Victor Miller … Writer
- Jack Wood … Writer
- Mary K. Wells … Writer
- Clarice Blackburn … Writer
- Susan Kirshenbaum … Writer
- Elizabeth Page … Writer
- Karen L. Lewis … Writer
- Harold Wheeler … Composer
- Julia Barr … Cast, Brooke Cudahy
- Peter Bergman … Cast, Cliff Warner
- Vasili Bogazianos … Cast, Benny Sago
- Stephen Caffrey … Cast, Andrew Cortlandt
- David Canary … Cast, Adam/Stuart Chandler
- Kate Collins … Cast, Natalie Hunter
- Candice Earley … Cast, Donna Sago
- Louis Edmonds … Cast, Langley Wallingford
- Mary Fickett … Cast, Ruth Martin
- Robert Gentry … Cast, Ross Chandler
- David Hayward … Cast, Larry Barnes
- Frances Heflin … Cast, Mona Tyler
- Eileen Herlie … Cast, Myrtle Fargate
- Barbara Kearns … Cast, Nina Warner
- Michael E. Knight … Cast, Tad Martin
- Gilles Kohler … Cast, Gilles St. Clair
- Laurence Lau … Cast, Greg Nelson
- Elizabeth Lawrence … Cast, Myra Murdock Sloane
- Jean LeClerc … Cast, Jeremy Hunter
- Susan Lucci … Cast, Erica Kane
- Ray MacDonnell … Cast, Joe Martin
- Robert Duncan McNeill … Cast, Charlie Brent
- James Mitchell … Cast, Palmer Cortlandt
- Deborah Morehart … Cast, Robin McCall
- Debbi Morgan … Cast, Angie Hubbard
- Kathleen Noone … Cast, Ellen Chandler
- Mitchell Ryan … Cast, Alexander Hunter
- Richard Shoberg … Cast, Tom Cudahy
- Gillian Spencer … Cast, Daisy Cortlandt
- Carmen Thomas … Cast, Hillary Georgia
- Tasia Valenza … Cast, Dottie Martin
- Ruth Warrick … Cast, Phoebe Tyler Wallingford
- Darnell Williams … Cast, Jesse Hubbard
- Stephanie Winters … Cast, Julie Rand
- Paul Avery … Cast, Hughie
- Robert Bonvento … Cast, George
- Kay Campbell … Cast, Kate Martin
- J. Kenneth Campbell … Cast, Dabney Paine
- Michael Campbell … Cast, Frank Hubbard
- John Canary … Cast, Alan Voight
- Lee Chamberlain … Cast, Pat Baxter
- Linda Cook … Cast, Lucy Voight
- Jane Crawford … Cast, Corinne Winston
- Anne Delehanty … Cast, Laura Cudahy
- Ronald Drake … Cast, Jasper Sloane
- Jane Elliot … Cast, Cynthia Cortlandt
- Dan Foster … Cast, Dan
- Sandy Gabriel … Cast, Edna Ferguson
- Michael Garfield … Cast, Dave Young
- Taro Meyer … Cast, Talia Lamar
- David Brinkley … Reporter, ABC News promo