One Family

One Family is an American television soap opera. Created by the husband-wife team of Joseph G. Beggiato and Carol-Anne Beggiato, the series premiered on the RKO Network on September 8, 1969. The show is set in the fictional city of Summerville.

One Family originally focused on its core family, the wealthy Blackhurst family, who run a plastics manufacturing business, Blackhurst Manufacturing. By 1974, the show added a second core family, the initially-working-class Pernette family, who started out as employees of the Blackhurst's plastics firm before they formed their own plastics company, Pernette Plastics Company. Over the years, other families such as the Garrett family, the Chambers family, the Harmon-Batts family, the Benavente family and the Mahajan family have been added. Since 2013, Joan Blackhurst (Debra C. Hartwich) is the only remaining original character.

Throughout the years, the show has originated some iconic storylines, such as the enduring conflict between Joan Blackhurst and Francine Pernette (Kathleen Sandridge), as well as the rivalry between Gordon Chambers Jr. (Terrence Rodgers) and his cousin Alvin Chambers (Thomas Montgomery Wells), both of which are among the longest rivalries on any American soap opera.

Celebrities that have made an appearance on the show include K. J. Collins and Venus Montero. Several persons in the entertainment world, including actors Steven Kardos, C. George Cashman and Kathryn Wellington and singer Juniper Cardinal, got their start on One Family.

Videotaping and broadcasting
Taped in stages 1, 2 and 4 of New Amsterdam Studios in since its 1969 debut, the show is produced by Beggiato Productions in association with RKO Television Studios.

Exteriors used in the late 1980s and early 1990s (and reused years later) included locations in and around and, including , , , the , the , the , the , ,  and.