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The City (1995 TV series)

The City
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An image from the first opening title sequence of The City (Morgan Fairchild pictured as Sydney Chase).
Genre Soap opera
Created by Agnes Nixon
Barbara Esensten
James Harmon Brown
Starring Series cast
Theme music composer Scott Schreer
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 2
No. of episodes 352
Production
Executive producer(s) Jean Dadario Burke
Location(s) New York
Running time 30 minutes
Release
Original network ABC
Original release November 13, 1995 – March 28, 1997
Chronology
Preceded by Loving
Followed by Port Charles
Related shows All My Children
One Life to Live
General Hospital

The City is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from November 13, 1995 to March 28, 1997. The series was a continuation of the serial Loving, which ran from 1983 until 1995, and featured the surviving central characters of its final major story arc, which saw most of the show's characters fall victim to a serial killer. The characters that survived moved from Corinth, Pennsylvania to New York City and settled in the Manhattan neighborhood of SoHo.

The show was co-created by Agnes Nixon, the creator of Loving, and the show's last pair of headwriters, Barbara Esensten and James Harmon Brown. The show won two Daytime Emmy Awards in 1996.

While it was started by Loving creator Agnes Nixon, The City was different from other soaps of its day, as the city wasn't the main setting of the series: the loft and its surroundings took precedence, and the city was secondary. Also, the show was shot on videotape using the FilmLook process for its entire run (one of two soap operas ever to do so, All My Children also used the FilmLook processing from 2006 to 2010).

One of the most daring storylines was one involving a transsexual. Photographer Bernardo had a one night stand with model Azure C. He went to the corner to get some orange juice when he saw a picture of Azure C. before the sex change operation. The modeling agency which they both worked had to do a lot of damage control. The storyline began to take off but was soon dropped, in part due to the subject matter and in part due to lackluster reaction to Chang's performance. Azure and Bernardo reconciled and left town.


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