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Buchanan men in 2013 (from left): Robert Gorrie as Matthew Buchanan, Robert S. Woods as Bo Buchanan, Jerry verDorn as Clint Buchanan and Tuc Watkins as David Vickers Buchanan
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Type | Fictional family |
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Created by | Gordon Russell and Sam Hall |
Original run | September 10, 1979 | – August 19, 2013
First appearance | September 10, 1979 |
Last appearance | August 19, 2013 |
Address | Buchanan Mansion 21 Riverside Drive Llanview, Pennsylvania 19100 |
The Buchanan family is a long-running family of fictional characters on the American soap opera One Life to Live. The ensemble was originally inspired by the Ewing family on the 1970s primetime soap opera Dallas, and appears from September 1979 through the end of the serial in August 2013.
Clint Buchanan arrives in Llanview, Pennsylvania in September 1979, soon followed by his brother Bo in November and their father Asa in December 1979. Clint marries central heroine Victoria Lord Riley in 1982, cementing the family's prominence in the series.
Clint adopts Viki's sons Kevin and Joey Riley, and in 1986 discovers he has an adult son, Cord Roberts, with old flame Maria. Clint and Viki have a daughter of their own, Jessica, that same year. In 2001 it is revealed that Viki had been pregnant with twins, one fathered by Clint and the other by Viki's nemesis Mitch Laurence; Jessica turns out to be Mitch's daughter, and Clint and Viki's child — kidnapped at birth — is a young woman named Natalie. On January 6, 2012, Allison Perkins revealed that Nataile and Jessica are both biologically Clint's daughters.
In 1983, Bo and Becky Lee Abbott have a son they name Drew, who ultimately becomes a police officer and dies in the line of duty in 1998. In February 1999, Bo fathers a son (later named Matthew) with wife Nora, though Matthew is thought to be Sam Rappaport's biological child until 2003.