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{{Short description|American television soap opera}}
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{{Infobox television
| image                = One Life to Live (logo).svg
| genre                = [[Soap opera]]<br />[[Drama (film and television)|Drama]]
| creator              = [[Agnes Nixon]]
| writer               = [[Thom Racina]] and Jessica Klein (head writers)
| producer             = ''[[#Producers|See below]]''
| director             = ''[[#Directors|See below]]''
| starring             = [[List of One Life to Live cast members|List of cast members]]<!--"List of cast members" is not a proper title and, hence, is not capitalized-->
| theme_music_composer = [[Snoop Lion]] (web series)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tvguide.com/News/Snoop-Lion-One-Life-Live-1063994.aspx |title=Snoop Lion Is Writing a New Theme Song for ''One Life to Live'' |last=Abrams |first=Natalie |website=[[TV Guide]] |date=April 12, 2013 |access-date=May 31, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130517051018/http://www.tvguide.com/News/Snoop-Lion-One-Life-Live-1063994.aspx |archive-date=May 17, 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| opentheme            = "Brand New Start"
| country              = United States
| language             = English
| num_seasons          = 45
| num_episodes         = 11,136
| executive_producer   = Doris Quinlan (1968–77)<br />Joseph Stuart (1977–83)<br />Jean Arley (1983-84)<br />[[Paul Rauch]] (1984–91)<br />[[Linda Gottlieb]] (1991–94)<br />Susan Bedsow Horgan (1994–96)<br />Maxine Levinson (1996–97)<br />[[Jill Farren Phelps]] (1997–2001)<br />[[Gary Tomlin]] (2001–02)<br />[[Frank Valentini]] (2003–12)<br />[[Jennifer Pepperman]] (2013)<br />[[Jeff Kwatinetz|Jeffrey Kwatinetz]] (2013)<br />[[Richard H. Frank|Richard Frank]] (2013)
| company              = {{Plain list |
* Creative Horizons, Inc. (1968–74)
* [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] (1974–86; 1996–2012)
* [[Capital Cities/ABC Inc.|Capital Cities/ABC Video Enterprises Inc.]] (1986–96)
* [[Prospect Park (production company)|Prospect Park]] (2013)
}}
| location             = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]] (1968–2012)<br />[[Stamford, Connecticut]] (2013)
| runtime              = 30 minutes (1968–76; 2013)<br />45 minutes (1976–78)<br />60 minutes (1978–2012)
| network              = [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]
| network2             = [[The Online Network]]
| first_aired          = {{Start date|1968|7|15}}
| last_aired           = {{End date|2012|1|13}}
| first_aired2         = {{Start date|2013|4|29}}
| last_aired2          = {{End date|2013|8|19}}
| related              = ''[[All My Children]]''<br />''[[General Hospital]]''<br />''[[The City (1995 TV series)|The City]]''<br />''[[Loving (TV series)|Loving]]''<br />''[[Port Charles]]''
}}

'''''One Life to Live''''' (often abbreviated as '''''OLTL''''') <!-- STOP...do NOT change to 'was' -->is<!-- NOTE-remains as "is" per Wikipedia convention; see [[WP:WikiProject Television/Style guidelines#Lead paragraphs]]. --> an American [[soap opera]] broadcast on the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] television network for more than 43 years, from July 15, 1968, to January 13, 2012, and then on the internet as a [[web series]] on [[Hulu]] and [[iTunes]] via [[Prospect Park (production company)|Prospect Park]] from April 29 to August 19, 2013.<ref name="1985 Encyc">{{cite book |last=Schemering |first=Christopher |author-link=Christopher Schemering |title=[[The Soap Opera Encyclopedia (Schemering book)|The Soap Opera Encyclopedia]] |date=September 1985 |pages=158–166 |publisher=Ballantine Books |isbn=0-345-32459-5}}</ref><ref name="1997 Encyc">{{cite book|last=Waggett|first=Gerard J.|title=[[The Soap Opera Encyclopedia (Waggett book)|The Soap Opera Encyclopedia]]|publisher=[[Harper Paperbacks]]|date=November 1997|pages=[https://archive.org/details/soapoperaencyclo00wagg/page/163 163–188]|chapter=''One Life to Live''|isbn=0-06-101157-6}}</ref><ref name="NY soaps"/> Created by [[Agnes Nixon]], the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature ethnically and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social issues.<ref name="1985 Encyc"/> ''One Life to Live'' was expanded from 30 minutes to 45 minutes on July 26, 1976, and then to an hour on January 16, 1978.

''One Life to Live'' heavily focuses on the members and relationships of the [[Lord family]]. Actress [[Erika Slezak]] began portraying the series' protagonist [[Victoria Lord]] in March 1971<ref name="1985 Encyc"/> and played the character continuously for the rest of the show's run on [[ABC Daytime]], winning a record six [[Daytime Emmy Award]]s for the role.<ref name="SOD stats Slezak">{{cite web|url=http://www.soapoperadigest.com/soapstarstats/erikaslezakbio/|title=SOAP STAR STATS: Erika Slezak (Viki, ''OLTL'')|publisher=SoapOperaDigest.com|access-date=February 20, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081218121338/http://www.soapoperadigest.com/soapstarstats/erikaslezakbio/ <!--Added by H3llBot-->|archive-date=December 18, 2008}}</ref> In 2002, the series won an Emmy for [[Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series|Outstanding Drama Series]].<ref name="Emmy 2002">{{cite web|url=http://www.soapoperadigest.com/Emmys/winners2002/index.html|title=Daytime Emmy Winners & Nominees: 2002|publisher=SoapOperaDigest.com|access-date=February 20, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070912162844/http://soapoperadigest.com/Emmys/winners2002/index.html|archive-date=September 12, 2007|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

On September 17, 2010, ''One Life to Live'' became the last American daytime soap opera taped in [[New York City]]; it earned this distinction after ''[[As the World Turns]]'', which had been taped in New York since its 1956 premiere, aired its final episode. No daytime serial has emanated from New York since; ABC's lone soap, ''General Hospital'', CBS' ''The Young and the Restless'' and ''The Bold and the Beautiful'', and Peacock's ''Days of Our Lives'' are all recorded in California and CBS' other serial, ''Beyond the Gates'', is produced outside of Atlanta.

On April 14, 2011, ABC announced that it was canceling ''One Life to Live'' after nearly 43 years on the air due to low ratings.<ref name="LA Times cancel">{{cite news | url=https://www.latimes.com/business/la-xpm-2011-apr-15-la-fi-ct-soaps-20110415-story.html | work=[[The Los Angeles Times]] | first=Meg | last=James | title=ABC ending soaps ''All My Children'' and ''One Life to Live'' | date=April 15, 2011 | access-date=October 24, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141215110948/http://articles.latimes.com/2011/apr/15/business/la-fi-ct-soaps-20110415 | archive-date=December 15, 2014 | url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="cancellation notice"/> On July 7, 2011, production company [[Prospect Park (production company)|Prospect Park]] announced that it would continue the show as a [[web series]] after its run on ABC,<ref name="Prospect Park">[http://abc.go.com/shows/one-life-to-live/OLTL-licensing-announcement ABC.com - - One Life to Live Announcement<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021045607/http://abc.go.com/shows/one-life-to-live/OLTL-licensing-announcement |date=October 21, 2012 }}</ref> but later suspended the project.<ref name="suspended"/> The show taped its final scenes for ABC on November 18, 2011, and its final episode on the network aired on January 13, 2012, with a [[cliffhanger]]. On January 16, 2012, the following Monday, ABC replaced ''One Life to Live'' with a new and short-lived talk show called ''[[The Revolution (TV program)|The Revolution]]'' that aired until July 6 of the same year.

On January 7, 2013, Prospect Park resumed its plan to continue ''One Life to Live'' as a  daily 30-minute web series on Hulu and iTunes via The Online Network.<ref>{{cite news |title=One Life To Live, All My Children – New Episodes On The Way This Spring Via Hulu, iTunes |author=Jolie Lash |url=http://www.accesshollywood.com/one-life-to-live-all-my-children-new-episodes-on-the-way-this-spring-via-hulu-itunes_article_75634 |newspaper=[[Access Hollywood]] |date=25 January 2013 |access-date=26 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141223195134/http://www.accesshollywood.com/one-life-to-live-all-my-children-new-episodes-on-the-way-this-spring-via-hulu-itunes_article_75634 |archive-date=December 23, 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Relaunch premiere">{{cite news|title=''One Life to Live'', ''All My Children'' Set Online Premiere Date; Roger Howarth Returning To ''OLTL''|website=[[Access Hollywood]]|date=2013-03-11|access-date=2013-03-11|url=https://news.yahoo.com/one-life-live-children-set-online-premiere-date-171306715.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305063819/http://news.yahoo.com/one-life-live-children-set-online-premiere-date-171306715.html|archive-date=March 5, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>  The relaunched series  premiered on April 29, 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rogersmediatv.ca/pr_detail.php?id=864|title=FX Canada Brings New Episodes of All My Children and One Life to Live Back to Television in Exclusive Canadian Broadcast, Beginning April 29|publisher=Rogers Media TV Access|date=April 16, 2013|access-date=April 16, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202224537/http://www.rogersmediatv.ca/pr_detail.php?id=864|archive-date=December 2, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> The new series was plagued with several behind-the-scenes problems, most notably a litigation between Prospect Park and ABC regarding the misuse of ''One Life to Live'' characters on ''[[General Hospital]]''.<ref name="OLTL suspended">{{cite news|title=Reviving canceled ABC soap operas becomes a real-life drama|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/la-xpm-2013-sep-03-la-fi-ct-epic-soap-20130828-story.html|first=Meg|last=James|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=September 3, 2013|access-date=January 27, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140106131707/http://articles.latimes.com/2013/sep/03/business/la-fi-ct-epic-soap-20130828|archive-date=January 6, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> On September 3, 2013, Prospect Park suspended production of the series until the lawsuit with ABC was resolved.<ref name="OLTL suspended"/>