The Buchanan family is a long-running family of fictional characters on the American
soap operaOne Life to Live. The ensemble was originally inspired by the
Ewing family on the primetime soap opera Dallas,[1][2] and appeared from September 1979 through the end of the serial in August 2013.
Rafe Garretson (Ken Meeker) Born circa 1957 to Jeannie Buchanan Garretson and Miguel Garretson.
Ben Davidson (
Mark Derwin) Born off-screen March 27, 1961, to Asa Buchanan and
Renée Divine, adopted by Sam Davidson and Jane Rappaport; dies onscreen May 27, 2004.
Jason Webb[3] (Mark Brettschneider) Born circa 1969 to Paul Webb and Donna Webb.
David Vickers Buchanan (
Tuc Watkins) Born off-screen 1969 to Bo Buchanan and Emma Bradley, adopted by Ned Truman; birth year changed to 1969 as of 2008.
Joseph "Joey" Francis Riley Buchanan (
Nathan Fillion, Don Jeffcoat, Bruce Michael Hall, Tom Degnan, and
others) Born onscreen January 8, 1980, to Joe Riley Sr. and Victoria Lord Riley, adopted by Clint Buchanan; birth year changed to 1976 as of 1992.
Drew Buchanan (Keith Bogart, Victor Browne, Sam Ball and child actors) Born onscreen September 23, 1983, to Bo Buchanan and
Becky Lee Hunt Abbott Buchanan, birth year changed to 1976 as of 1989; dies onscreen September 16, 1998.
Jessica Eugenia Buchanan (Erin Torpey,
Bree Williamson, and
child actors) Born off-screen September 23, 1986, to Clint Buchanan and Victoria Lord Buchanan; birth year changed to 1981 as of 2001 then to 1978 in 2005. Fraternal twin of Natalie Buchanan.
Natalie Buchanan (
Melissa Archer) Born onscreen September 23, 1986, to Clint Buchanan and Victoria Lord Buchanan; birth year 1981 as of 2001, then to 1978 in 2005. Fraternal twin of Jessica Buchanan.
Rex Balsom (John-Paul Lavoisier) Born off-screen 1983 later change to 1978 to Clint Buchanan and
Echo DiSavoy, adopted by Walter Balsom and
Roxy Lipschitz Balsom; birth year changed to 1979 as of 2010.
Demerest "Duke" Buchanan (Matthew Metzger and child actors) Born onscreen June 29, 1992, to Kevin Buchanan and
LeeAnn Demerest Buchanan, birth year changed to 1986 as of 2004; dies onscreen May 12, 2006.
Liam Asa McBain (child actors) Born onscreen January 11, 2011, to Natalie Buchanan and
John McBain as of 2011.
Ryder Asa Ford (child actors) Born onscreen January 11, 2011, to Jessica Buchanan and
Robert Ford as of 2011.
Drew Buchanan II (child actors) Born onscreen January 13, 2012, to Matthew Buchanan and
Destiny Evans; birth year changed to 2010 as of 2013.[6]
Fifth generation
Zane Buchanan (child actors) Born onscreen October 31, 2006 then to October 31,1995 in 2010, to Duke Buchanan and
Kelly Cramer.
History
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.
Patriarch Asa marries multiple women during his decades in Llanview, and in 1999 Viki's husband
Ben Davidson turns out to be Asa's biological son. Ben is shot and slips into a coma in 2002; he eventually dies in 2004. Asa passes away on August 16, 2007,[7] and it is revealed that he had believed con-man
David Vickers is his son. David is ultimately proven to be Bo's biological child in 2009.
In 2010, it is revealed that
Rex Balsom, the man who was raised with Natalie by
Roxy Balsom, is actually Clint's son with
Echo DiSavoy, who was conceived after an affair in 1983 later revised to 1978.
Buchanan Enterprises
Buchanan Enterprises, founded by billionaire Asa Buchanan, is a multinational, family-owned corporation with offices worldwide. After visiting in Llanview in 1979, Texas-born Asa moves the headquarters of his company to Llanview in 1980 to stay close to sons Clint and Bo. As ruthless in business as he is devoted to his family, Asa's machinations (and attempts to both protect and control his family members) drive much of the drama in the series over the next two decades. In 1997, Clint's son Cord Roberts leaves Llanview for the
London office of Buchanan Enterprises, and in 1998 Clint follows him. Clint returns to Llanview for good in 2005, and his adopted son Kevin later succeeds him in London in late 2006. Clint's daughter Natalie joins the company in 2007 after a failed attempt to become a police forensics investigator. Natalie's sister Jessica as well soon joins B.E. to fund her husband Nash's vineyard. Asa remained at B.E.'s helm until his death in August 2007 in which his son Clint succeed him as CEO. Asa's will forces his heirs[8] to work together as board members for the company to earn their inheritance. The usually-upstanding Clint finds himself using the underhanded tactics of his father to fend off the multiple takeover attempts of Asa's business rivals. Fueled by a desire for personal revenge against Clint,
Dr. Dorian Lord plots a secret, hostile take-over of the company, which succeeds at the Buchanan Enterprises shareholder meeting on June 3, 2008.[9] Dorian renames the company Cramer Enterprises. In October 2008, District Attorney and Clint's love interest,
Nora Hanen, manages to finesse Dorian into signing controlling interest of the company back to the Buchanan family in exchange for dropping potential attempted murder charges. The company is re-christened Buchanan Enterprises or BE.
In December 2008, the Buchanans gather for a video message from Asa. A year prior, Asa had stipulated in his will that the family had one year to fulfill a challenge in order to receive their inheritance: work together as a family to raise the price of BE stocks. If they succeeded, they would be rich, if they failed...they would not receive a cent. Due to the takeover commandeered by Dorian and the near collapse of the US economy, BE shares have declined. As punishment, the Buchanan inheritance is left to Asa's long-lost son,
David Vickers.[10] David learns of his true parentage,[11] and soon claims what is his.[12] However, a DNA test confirms that David is instead Bo's son,[13] rendering Asa's original will null and void.
On episode first run June 28, 2011, in order for
Clint Buchanan to get a heart transplant and live, he was forced to give his estranged son
Rex Balsom Buchanan Enterprises. In return, Clint would get Rex's finances,
Gigi Morasco's heart. All existing shares, funds and properties were signed over to
Rex Balsom. On the October 21 episode of that year,
Rex Balsom returned all of the Buchanan holdings to its rightful owner
Clint Buchanan.
Subsidiaries
Lone Star Records - record label started and run by
Bo Buchanan in the 1980s. It was sold to rapper
Snoop Dogg in 2008.
Cobb Industries - A company owned by rival Warren Cobb, but was bought out by B.E. in the 2008.
Webster International - a company owned by Virgil Webster another rival of
Asa Buchanan, but was bought out by B.E. in 2008.
^The "1968 storyline" that begins in July 2008 establishes that Maria is newly-pregnant with Cord in 1968, originally Cord was stated to be 25 in 1986, when he first came to town, making his birth year 1961.
^After Asa's death, the Buchanan Enterprises Board consists of sons Clint and Bo, grandchildren Cord, Kevin, Joey, Jessica, Natalie and Sarah, and Asa's initially unnamed "secret son." Jared Banks poses as this heir, who is actually David Vickers.