"All My Children," the soap Agnes Nixon launched on January 5, 1970, may be on its deathbed, but at least ABC is paying tribute to the woman who started it all.
Nixon, who is often referred to as "the queen of the modern soap opera," will return to the soap on August 31 as Agnes Eckhardt, a role she first played in 2005 to celebrate the soap's 35th anniversary.
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The character, who is a board member at Pine Valley Hospital, will be admitted for treatment at the facility this time around and, according to an ABC statement, "has a profound effect on all of the characters she interacts with that changes the course of their lives" — including Susan Lucci's Erica Kane.