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General Hospital Through the Years: Your Rx for Excitement [PHOTOS]
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Flesh Wound
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection General Hospital’s first patient was Angie Costello (Jana Taylor), a young woman who wound up worse for wear after a joyless ride with boyfriend Eddie Weeks (Craig Curtis).
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The Doctor Is In… Demand
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Angie was treated by Dr. Steve Hardy (John Beradino) — that is, when he wasn’t being distracted by the likes of Nurse Jessie Brewster (Emily McLaughin), fiancée Peggy Mercer (K.T. Stevens), Priscilla Longsworth (Allison Hayes of Attack of the 50 Foot Woman fame) and… Angie?!? What the heck are you doing in there?
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Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Game
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection We can only assume that this is a photo of Steve and buddy Lee Baldwin (Peter Hansen) looking at that last picture and going, “Dude! You had it goin’ on!”
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‘Take Two Aspirin and Don’t Call Me Ever’
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Of course, Steve was destined to fall in love with flight attendant-turned-nurse Audrey March (Rachel Ames), who first had to brush off infatuated patient Randy Washburn (Mark Miller).
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Sister Act
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Giving Audrey advice every step of the way — on everything from gentlemen callers to how to open an envelope — was her no-nonsense sister, fellow nurse Lucille (Lucille Wall, who joined the cast in episode No. 14).
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‘Lord, Give Me Patients’
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Throughout the 1960s and beyond, Steve’s right-hand woman was Jessie, who had her hands full with philandering husband Phil Brewer (Roy Thinnes). In hindsight, his wandering eye would’ve been easier to spot if they hadn’t all been looking in the same dang direction.
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Doctor, Heel, Thyself
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Jessie knew better than to buy into Phil’s BS. But then he’d look at her like this, and the words “Take a hike, bub!” would get stuck in her throat.
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‘You’re Hired’
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection After what doesn’t look at all like it was the world’s awkwardest job interview — hello, HR! — Steve added to the hospital’s staff Dr. Lesley Williams (Denise Alexander), who’d end up providing as much drama as she did medical care.
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Don’t Mind If ‘I Do’
Image Credit: Jerry Fitzgerald/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Did we mention that Steve and Audrey got married? Because they did — three times, as a matter of fact. Apparently, the on-again/off-again Hardys were advised that the third time really was the charm.
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The Perfect Couple
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Once the Hardys got it right, buildings were tested against their solidity. If Steve and Audrey couldn’t withstand it, then neither, inspectors wagered, could skyscrapers.
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For Keeps
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection The Hardys epitomized #relationshipgoals right up until his death in 1996. Though Audrey still had a lotta life left in her, she never remarried.
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A Show of ‘Force’
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection In the early 1970s, future Luke Skywalker Mark Hamill was a General Hospital regular as Kent Murray, who moved in with aunt Jessie along with sister Carol (Anne Wyndham).
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Hail, Hail, the Gang’s All Here
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Occupying the front burner in 1978 were Craig Huebing as shrink Peter Taylor, Alexander as Lesley, Michael Gregory as her love interest Dr. Rick Webber, newcomer Genie Francis as her long-lost daughter Laura and, naturally, Beradino as Steve.
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Young Love
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection General Hospital was in danger of cancellation when it struck pay dirt in 1978 with the pairing of Francis’ Laura and Kin Shriner’s Scotty Baldwin. After that, the show was only at risk of being… well, too popular!
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Spoiler Alert
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Is a supercouple really super if it doesn’t have a spoiler? Probably not, right? So Laura and Scotty’s title was secured — and then ripped away — by a jealous Bobbie Spencer (Jacklyn Zeman), who sought to break them up with the help of big brother Luke (Anthony Geary, pre-perm).
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The Honeymooners
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection That umbrella might’ve shielded newlyweds Laura and Scotty from the sun, but nothing could protect them from the runaway train that was the bride’s forbidden attraction to Mob flunky Luke.
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An Inauspicious Beginning
Image Credit: Curt Gunther/TV Guide/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Luke’s rape of Laura should have put the kibosh on any chance that they might have had as a couple. Somehow, it did not. All it did was ruin Herb Alpert’s “Rise” for the rest of us.
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Heart Over Mind
Image Credit: Curt Gunther/TV Guide/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Laura thought long and hard about her feelings for Luke. And then she cast aside all of those sensible thoughts to go with her gut.
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Over and Over
Image Credit: Curt Gunther/TV Guide/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection No matter the obstacles that life put between her and Luke, Laura surmounted them. Yep, even an understandably vengeful Scotty.
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When Push Comes to Shove
Image Credit: Curt Gunther/TV Guide/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Mind you, Luke didn’t make it easy for Laura to choose him. He was as determined to have her as she was at first unsure that it was a good idea to be, well, had.
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Making a Scene
Image Credit: Curt Gunther/TV Guide/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Executive producer Gloria Monty took a hands-on approach with Francis as she studied her lines.
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‘Who, Me?’
Image Credit: Donna Svennevik/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Yup. Francis made Laura the hottest thing since sliced bread. And who doesn’t love sliced bread?
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Nice Duds
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection While all of that was going on, Rick (by then Chris Robinson) showed an interest in auditioning for Deliverance. Cue the banjos!
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Jungle Fever
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection When not sucking face, Laura and Luke sought to thwart the villainous Cassadines’ attempt to turn the world into a popsicle with a formula for carbonic snow hidden in the base of a supremely ugly statuette called the Ice Princess.
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‘Danger Is Our Business’
Image Credit: Curt Gunther/TV Guide/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection The daring endeavor called for the couple to hurl themselves into one scenario after another that had to have been lifted from a James Bond movie.
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Ice, Ice, Baby
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection In the end, Laura and Luke were so successful in their endeavor to stop climate change before anyone even knew that climate change was a thing that Port Charles insisted they have the biggest, best wedding ever.
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Hot Shot
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection During this period, the sweethearts were so beloved that their portrayers took part in photo shoots that we’d never even seen before putting together this gallery — and we’d have sworn that we’d eyeballed every picture of them that had ever been taken!
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RSVP Much?
Image Credit: Craig Sjodin/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection An unexpected — and unwanted — guest at Luke and Laura’s wedding was Helena Cassadine (Elizabeth Taylor), who blamed the bride and groom for the demise of her husband, Mikkos.
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Diamonds Are Forever
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection At least Luke’s pal, Robert (Tristan Rogers), appeared to be able to hold Helena’s interest as much as the notion of retribution.
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‘I’ll Drink to That’
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Then again, the she-devil might have just been plotting to poison him. She’s always been like that, you know.
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Dressed to Overkill
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection How was Laura — or any bride — supposed to compete with a diva in an outfit like this? The curse that Helena placed on the Spencers was almost superfluous!
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Much ‘I Do’ About Something
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Aaanyway… Laura and Luke’s nuptials wound up being a simple affair… attended by some 30 million viewers, making it the most-watched episode of a soap opera in TV history.
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‘Till Death Do Us Part’
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection The newlyweds saw a bright future ahead of them. They just didn’t realize how short it would be, at least at first.
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In Your Face, Victor and Nikki
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection To this day, the Spencers’ lavish wedding remains the standard against which all other soap ceremonies are measured.
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When Yin Met Yang
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection In other plots — and yes, there were some — once Monica Webber (Leslie Charleson) had for the most part stopped ping-ponging between Rick and his brother, Jeff, she focused her attentions on… well, as you can see, General Hospital’s newest doctor, filthy-rich Alan Quartermaine (Stuart Damon).
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Generation Vexed
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Alan’s parents, Edward (David Lewis) and Lila (Anna Lee), knew better than to involve themselves in his squabbles with Monica. This, of course, did nothing to stop them from involving themselves in the Bickersons’ quarrels.
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Business as Usual
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Here, Edward sits idly by waiting to see if Monica is going to remind his son of the time he almost dropped a roof on her and loverboy Rick. (Hey, we only said that she was done ping-ponging between the Webber boys, not that she was done ping-ponging.)
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Red Alert
Image Credit: Craig Sjodin/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Mind you, Alan was not without his own peccadilloes. In addition to his fling with Susan Moore, he up and married gold digger Lucy Coe (Lynn Herring), a move that could’ve put his family in the same color as her plus-sized hat and gown.
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Nothing Up Their… Hey, Where *Are* Their Sleeves?!?
Image Credit: Craig Sjodin/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection At least Alan’s affair with Susan brought into the fold golden boy Jason (Steve Burton), the saintly antithesis of his ne’er-do-well older half sibling, A.J. (Sean Kanan).
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Young and Restless
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Jason and A.J.’s early-1990s peers included scheming Brenda Barrett (Vanessa Marcil), muscle-bound Jagger Cates (Antonio Sabato Jr.), secret stripper Karen Wexler (Cari Shayne) and Robin Scorpio (Kimberly McCullough), the daughter of superspies Robert and Anna. More on them in a bit…
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‘This? Again?’
Image Credit: Craig Sjodin/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Neither Monica nor brother-in-law Paul Hornsby (Paul Satterfield) were really interested in hearing how justified Alan had been in contemplating dropping a roof on her and Rick. Let it go, buddy. Let. It. Go.
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No Shirt, No… Um… Sorry, We Got Distracted
Image Credit: Craig Sjodin/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection A car wreck with a drunk A.J. transformed Jason from a promising future doctor into a Mob flunky who, if he was going to wear any shirt at all, was going to wear a tight black T. No exceptions.
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Not So Fast…
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection But we’re getting way ahead of ourselves. Let’s rewind to the 1980s once more, shall we?
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Putting the ‘Special’ in ‘Special Guest Star’
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection In its Golden Age, General Hospital attracted a Who’s Who of famous folks, among them Sammy Davis Jr., who passed through Port Charles as Eddie Phillips for a fraught family reunion with estranged son Bryan (Todd Davis) and daughter-in-law Claudia (Bianca Ferguson).
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‘That’s *Uncle* Miltie to You’
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Legendary funnyman Milton Berle briefly played Mickey Miller, the talent agent responsible for the career of B-movie starlet Tiffany Hill (Sharon Wyatt).
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Now You See Her, Now You Don’t
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Mickey was also the mover and shaker that turned Luke’s bride into a supermodel who vanished in the fog on Port Charles’ docks. That is, Mickey made Laura Miss Star Eyes; as far as we know, he had nothing to do with the weather that fateful night.
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You Don’t Know Jackie
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection After Laura’s disappearance, Luke teamed up with reporter Jackie Templeton (then Demi Moore) in hopes of finding not only his wife but her sister.
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Close But No Cigar
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Jackie’s younger sibling, Laura (Janine Turner), did turn up. But Luke’s Laura? No such luck.
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Hit and Ms.
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Viewers didn’t buy Laura 2.0 as a new love interest for Luke. And they soon discovered that they preferred Jackie with Luke’s BFF Robert than with Luke.
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Too Close for Comfort
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection In the 1980s, it was tough for Robert to go anywhere without running into someone with whom he’d been involved. Tiffany? Check. Jackie? Check. Yeah, his little black book really wasn’t little at all.
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Who’s Behind Those Foster Grants?
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection “Widower” Luke’s romance with impish con artist Holly Sutton (Emma Samms) was just heating up when he was “fatally” snowed in by an avalanche. (On General Hospital, matters of life and death have pretty much always belonged in air quotes.)
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The Next Best Man
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection To save Holly from deportation in 1983, Robert (Tristan Rogers) stepped up and made his “late” buddy’s pregnant girlfriend his wife. As you can see, she wasn’t the least bit nervous.
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A Marriage of Convenience
Image Credit: Craig Sjodin/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Really, it was convenient for the Scorpios to be hitched once they realized that they’d fallen for one another. Naturally, that was when Luke thawed out enough to return to Port Charles alive and well… ticked.
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My Best Friend’s Girl
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Losing Holly to Robert turned out to be a blessing in disguise for Luke, who’d have had a lot of explaining to do once Laura emerged from the fog with a wild story about having been held prisoner for years by Stavros Cassadine.
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Doc-Blocked
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Monica’s ex, Jeff (future MacGyver star Richard Dean Anderson), tried in vain to get virginal Nurse Anne Logan (Susan Pratt) to play doctor with him.
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Dr. Feel-Good
Image Credit: Mario Casilli/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Noah Drake (Rick Springfield) also attempted to get Anne to sample his bedside manner. And Noah scored with, like, everybody! But Audrey’s niece managed to leave Port Charles with her virginity intact.
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Rock-’n’-‘Role’
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection We don’t have to tell you that while Springfield was making the rounds as Noah, his music career was taking off, do we? Yeah, he wouldn’t be a “working-class dog” for long.
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All in the Family
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Edward’s illegitimate son, Jimmy Lee Holt (Steve Bond), and Celia Quartermaine (Sherilyn Wolter) became kissing cousins… once removed, at least.
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Three for the Road
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Among Jimmy Lee’s Port Charles pals were Lou Swenson (Danielle Von Zerneck) and her boyfriend, Blackie Parrish (the John Stamos), a baby-faced hooligan-turned-baby-faced pop star taken in by Rick and Lesley.
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Kid Stuff
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Even stylish Tiffany had to admit that Blackie cleaned up pretty nicely. If he was a street kid, that street must’ve been Fifth Avenue.
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Solid Gold
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection By 1983, Blackie and his band, the Riff Raff, were on the fast track to fame and fortune, thanks to manager Steffi Brand (Elissa Leeds). But the drummer cracked under the pressure to produce a hit.
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Yours, Mine and Ours
Image Credit: Craig Sjodin/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Blackie wound up stealing a song from bellhop Josh Clayton (Jimmy “Brother of Kristy” McNichol), a crime that indirectly led to Lou’s death and a new gig… headlining at the state penitentiary!
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‘Wait… So, Like, I Die?’
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Sorry, Lou. We did not want you to have to find out this way.
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All’s Stare in Love and War
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Once Frisco Jones (Jack Wagner) saw through the boy drag donned by Felicia Cummings (Wagner’s future wife, Kristina Malandro), he only had eyes for the lady of his heart.
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Adventure Time
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection If something exciting went down in Port Charles in the 1980s, Felicia and Frisco were guaranteed to turn up.
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‘With These Handcuffs, I Thee Wed’
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection By the time the couple tied the knot, Frisco had already given up on becoming the next Michael Damian to begin a career in law enforcement.
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Social Distancing
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection After a while, it was hardly even awkward anymore that Frisco’s doctor brother, Tony (Brad Maule), married his sibling’s ex-girlfriend, Tania Roskov (Hillary Edson). As long as Frisco didn’t hum “All I Need,” anyway.
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Friends and Lovers
Image Credit: Bob D’Amico/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection After Tania’s untimely demise, Tony wound up slipping a ring on the finger of his confidante, Bobbie.
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Marry-Go-’Round
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Tony was definitely the one of Bobbie’s four husbands with whom she made the best match. And their marriage outlasted all the rest, including her union with lawyer Jake Meyer (Sam Behrens).
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Double Trouble
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Having lost his moral compass when he had Laura, Scotty hooked up with scheme queen Heather Webber (Robin Mattson), with whom we’d find out decades later he had a son: Franco.
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Birds of a Feather
Image Credit: Craig Sjodin/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Scotty found a kindred spirit in fellow conniver Lucy, who arrived on the scene in the least convincing disguise since Felicia passed herself off as a guy. Lucy Coe a mousy librarian? Don’t make us LOL.
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Meanwhile, Across Town…
Image Credit: Craig Sjodin/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Lucy and Scotty were so popular that they — along with Kevin Collins, the third leg of a long-running love triangle — were spun off into their own soap, Port Charles. They eventually took a back seat to angels and vampires and so on, but that’s another story for another day.
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Gossip Girl
Image Credit: Craig Sjodin/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection If you wanted to know who was doing what to or with whom in Port Charles, Laura’s sister, Nurse Amy Vining (Shell Kepler), was your go-to. She couldn’t have kept herself from spilling the tea if it had come in a sippy cup.
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That’s It, Amy…
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection … pretend you’re not paying any attention whatsoever to what Jessie and Bobbie are saying. There’s no high quite like eavesdropping in plain sight.
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Young Doctors in Love
Image Credit: Craig Sjodin/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Simone Ravelle (Laura Carrington — yes, the blind sculptress in Lionel Richie’s “Hello” music video) was torn between Harrison Davis (Kevin Best) and… wait for it…
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… Her Husband
Image Credit: Craig Sjodin/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection By the time Stephanie Williams started playing Simone, she was married to Steve’s son, fellow doctor Tom Hardy (David Wallace).
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If at First You Don’t Succeed…
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Later, Tom (by then Matthew Ashford, better known as Jack on Days of Our Lives) had a short-lived relationship with Felicia and a thing for colorful African jewelry.
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Live Fast, Die Young
Image Credit: Craig Sjodin/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection That might as well have been the motto of Monica’s illegitimate daughter, Dawn Winthrop (Jennifer Guthrie). After being torn for a couple of years between Mom’s onetime boy toy — nephew Ned Ashton — and Decker Moss (Michael Watson), she met her maker decades before their scheduled appointment.
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Just Duet Already
Image Credit: Tony Costa/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection More than the ivories got tinkled when Robert made it his mission to protect from harm pianist Katherine Delafield (Edie Lehmann).
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Whodunit
Image Credit: Tony Costa/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection It turned out that it was Katherine’s cousin/fiancé from whom she needed protecting; he’d arranged for “accidents” to befall her entire family, and she was next on his hit list.
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The Spy Who Loved Me
Image Credit: Craig Sjodin/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection The reunion of once-married secret agents Anna Devane (Finola Hughes) and Robert shed light on a lot of unfinished business between them — and revealed that she’d given birth to his daughter, Robin. Surprises all around, then!
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Carrying a Torch
Image Credit: Craig Sjodin/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Following Holly’s “death,” Robert and Anna gravitated toward one another anew. And, according to this picture, they did so by candlelight.
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Moving On
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Robert and Anna not only dealt with that pesky business about her once having been a double agent, they burned this hat. Or so we can hope!
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Brothers at Odds
Image Credit: Craig Sjodin/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection In the early 1990s, Robert was also reunited with estranged sibling Mac Scorpio (John J. York). As you know, they ultimately made peace. But at first, things were so tense between them that Robert accused Mac of trying to have him rubbed out!
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Once More, With Feeling
Image Credit: Jerry Fitzgerald/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Though Robert and Anna remarried, her heart was earmarked for another man, one she’d yet to meet…
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It’s Kill or Be Kilt
Image Credit: Bob D’Amico/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection So many sparks flew between Anna and Scottish mobster Duke Lavery (Ian Buchanan) that they were regarded around town as a fire hazard.
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Two to Tango
Image Credit: Bob D’Amico/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Duke didn’t so much sweep Anna off her feet as he pointed her toes in the direction of the dance floor.
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Suitable for Framing
Image Credit: Bernard Boudreau/TV Guide/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection So handsome a fellow was Duke, who cheated both death and, at one point, on Anna, we barely noticed the elaborate painting behind him. That’s handsome.
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I Love View
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Brainwashing victim Dusty Walker (grownup teen idol Shaun Cassidy) was no better at forging a lasting relationship with Terry Brock (Robyn Bernard) than he was at sightseeing. Again, Mount Rushmore is behind you, kids. Behind you.
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Better ‘Late’ Than Never
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Though Edward was “killed” in a 1989 plane crash and Lila spoke with his ghost, by 1991, the Quartermaines’ patriarch (now played by David Lewis) was available again to appear in family portraits. “That’s just the way it goes in Port Charles,” said Monica’s unfazed expression.
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House Party
Image Credit: Craig Sjodin/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Whenever her in-laws became too much, Monica reminded them who owned the roof over their heads and threatened to put out the unwelcome mat.
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The Face Is Familiar, But…
Image Credit: Steve Granitz/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection In 1991, Geary returned to General Hospital — but not as Luke, as his lookalike cousin, Bill Eckert.
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Bride and Prejudice
Image Credit: Craig Sjodin/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection For some reason, it was a big deal that Bill’s sister, Jenny (Cheryl Richardson), wasn’t a virgin when she married man-ho Ned. Double standard, anyone?
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At Last
Image Credit: Bob D’Amico/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Jenny eventually blackmailed Tracy Quartermaine into freeing husband Paul (Paul Satterfield) to be with her. This was, of course, decades before Dillon’s dad became a serial killer. That probably would’ve been a deal-breaker for Cheryl.
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Seems Like Old Times
Image Credit: Bob D’Amico/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Like his cousin, Bill found it hard — make that impossible — to resist Holly’s charms.
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Black-Tying One On
Image Credit: Craig Sjoin/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Bill also romanced Brenda’s older sister, Julia (Crystal Carson). Obviously, neither of these relationships was quite as successful as, say, Luke and Laura’s.
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‘We’re Baaack’
Image Credit: Craig Sjodin/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection In 1993, General Hospital killed off Bill and returned Geary to his original role and his original leading lady.
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Don’t Leave Us Hanging
Image Credit: Timothy White/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection The actors’ comebacks were a resounding success. Geary added seven (!) more Daytime Emmys to his trophy case, and in 2007, Francis finally won her long-overdue first.
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Today’s Special
Image Credit: Craig Sjodin/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection While away from Port Charles, the Spencers had been running a diner with son Lucky (Jonathan Jackson). What? Everybody needs a break from high-stakes adventures once in a while.
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Bedtime Stories
Image Credit: Cathy Blaivas/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection If the Spencers thought that their return to Port Charles was going to be smooth sailing, they were in for a rude awakening. But first… about that nap…
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Lucky Strikes
Image Credit: Craig Sjodin/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection An insta-hit with the soap’s viewers, Jackson went on to score five Emmys and, recasts notwithstanding, basically own the role of Luke and Laura’s firstborn.
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Smells Like Teen Spirit
Image Credit: Craig Sjoin/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection It was while helping Elizabeth Webber (Rebecca Herbst) recover from a sexual assault that Lucky realized that he was in love with Audrey’s granddaughter.
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Parental Guidance Rejected
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Lucky was understandably horrified to learn that back in the day, Dad had forced himself on Mom — and still, they’d forged a life together.
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Take Two