Let's be General Hospital

I'm Lila Quartermaine and every time I appear, I'm always sitting on the sofa with a cane. WTF do I have to hold onto this damned cane if I'm not walking anywhere?!!

This is the third active GH thread. Please post in the other 2 or the Webmaster will delete all soap threads

oh my goodness! jonnysbro, jerry, and eboneece have finally made their grand returns to soap opera network (son). it is a sight to behold. they have had several accounts for years because they knew the day would come when they would need to make a dramatic reentrance into the soap boards. it makes my day to watch them make the son posters go insane. one of their names, dona, is actually making some posters go bezerk.

jonnysbro? that freak is still around?

GH is such a lame soap opera; when will ABC finally cancel it?

[R4] yes, jonnysbro has been around, but he had to underground for a bit. he knew the day would come when he would need to go into hiding so he created several covert accts at SON. He set these identities into motion at sifferent points in time. At any one point over the last year theres been at least 4 jonnys at SON. He also made a pact with a poster named Jerry who has done the same thing. its taken marvelous planning and coordnation. ive been impressed

R5 probably sometime after Days has been cancelled.

I'm Luke's fabulous 70s perm!

I’m Kristina Malandro Wagner’s weird accent.

r6, hi Jonnysbro!

I'm Jimmy Lee Holt art model

I'm the Ice Princess. The annoying Lucky threw me in the lake in 2001. I'm worth millions.

I’m the undeserved gravitas of the early 80s.

FTLOG quit making GH threads! This make 4 active GH threads. The Webmaster will ban the soap threads.

I'm Valentin's facial wrinkles. I've become more obvious lately.

I’m Heather making iced tea for Larry Joe.

Is Mart T still the casting director? He laid a huge goose egg with this new Nikolas.. Not handsome and far too young. He doesn't even look 30.

The actor is 41 IRL

Is it the guy for One Tree Hill they're saying on other forums, Brett Claywell? He was also on OLTL 10 years ago.

I'm disappointed.

Oh how they wasted Coby Ryan McLaughlin. SMH.

Not Brett, it's Marcus Coloma.

Unless he's some phenomenal actor, I don't like the looks of him.

I have to laugh whenever I see 27 year old Jordan actress playing mother to 22 year old TJ actor, lol.

She’s 27 but acts and looks much older.

I’m waiting for his scenes with Genie.

Have they officially announced that they have recast Nikolas or is this gossip?

I'd be happy to be wrong about this Nik actor, I want the character on canvas. I realize the guy hasn't even uttered a word yet but my first impression was who is this kid.

We saw him last seconds of today's episode.

I am the wifebeater Sonny wears to show off his flabby arms.

I’m Nurse Jessie. My niece is fucking my boyfriend. My nephew went on to become Luke Skywalker.

I'm Sonny's hair gel. Sonny thinks if he uses more of me people won't notice his thinning hair.

Nik 4.0

I'm Sarah Brown circa 1996. I'm chubby, small breasted and have a butch haircut. Within 5 years I'll lose weight, get implants and grow out my hair.

I'm the way Stefan would roll his Rs.

I'm Zander's weird block head.

I'm Audrey's pet cat Gatsby. I was never mentioned after 1997.

I'm Lucille March, and I think today's nurses are a bunch of LAZY FAT WHORES!

Im the Campus Disco circa about 1978

I’m Rise by Herb Albert. I’m the song Laura will be raped to in the Campus Disco!

I'm the bowl of moss on the Corinthos kitchen counter, I have received more SM attention than some of the story lines.

I’m the doll that Heather’s roommate, Sarah, hides the gun in.

I'm Richard Simmons, who for some reason, teaches an exercise class in a disco.

I'm Chloe's tumor. Nobody will ever know why I made Chloe see through Helena's eyes.

I see a troll has invaded. Yawn.

We're LSD-laden iced tea and a lazy Susan!

R30 When was Sarah Brown ever chubby except having baby weight on her? She was thin and in midriff tops when Carly and Jason were sleeping together in 1996.

So is MEK is headed back to South Carolina or wherever that accent is from? His work appears to be done in PC, he lost a case and won a case. Was it just stunt casting with no intention of ever really doing anything with his character?

SOD says his stay has been extended.

I'm calling Alexis' condition as arsenic poisoning, due to the presentation of the rash on her palms. Expect emergency chelation to be performed JUST IN THE NICK OF TIME! as her organs start shutting down whilst they all scratch their heads and wring their hands.

NuNik looks good. I wonder if he can act.

Oh and can someone who can post to the other GH threads please let them know the reason there are almost no new posts is not that because no one is interested in the show but that those of us who are not paying members are not allowed to post so DL would rather let threads die than allow most people here who actually see the ads that DL is getting paid to show post.

the fuck, pay the 2 fuckin dollars

Sad that a Kiefer revenge story is the best they can come up with for NLG.

I’m Amy Vining’s ghost and I still visit the set.

I can't believe this POS show is still on the air.

ABC must be DESPERATE.

R47

He has a long imdb resume with lots of episodic work.

The 2 concerns will be can he handle the 70 pages of dialogue per day with only 1 take and if he has chemistry with those connected to Nikolas: Laura, Elizabeth, Ava, Lulu,Alexis.

GH might should have chosen an actor with soap experience because they're used to the workload.

Do tptb even have actors auditioning test with the actors they will be working with?

Clearly they didn't test CW with JPS or anyone for that matter.

I'm Carlos (rolling that "r"), who you think is dead, but right now I'm in Genoa City.

R16 and R27 really made me laugh! :):)

I'm Jennifer Bransford. I played Carly. I swear, I did!!

Does the new writing team's work start airing in November? Hope they are as sick of the Wiley story line as I am and they wrap.it.up.stat.

The last 2 days has been the new writing team.

Thanks r58

I'm NLG's center bang spike shard that moves about like a compass point when she emotes.

I'm Richard Burgi and is GH writers' tradition they screwed me, my story line and wasted a good actor.

The new writers stuff started this week. Hopefully, they can make a difference.

Why would they test JPS with CW when he doesn't have a contract on the show? And with the arrival of hunky nuNik, it seems like he won't have a story on the show much longer.

There's no reason to have Nik/Valentin fights when they can just have the same Nik/Jax fight scenes.

CW tested with Ingo

Well if they tested her with IR and still hired her then whoever made that call was hungover or otherwise impaired that day.

I think Ingo is the plan. My bet is Valentine is not going to be around much longer.

Would you fucking butt holes go to the goddamn GH thread to talk about your fucking daily train wreck of a show!!!! This is a LET’S BE thread! DO YOU FUCKING UNDERSTAND THAT RETARDS!!! ITS A LETS BE THREAD!!!

No wonder you idiots still watch General Hospital

Another contract person is allegedly leaving,..I had so hoped it would be WR....sadly, I think it's FH, the longer she's gone the more I believe the illness rumors.

I wouldn't be surprised if JPS is on his way out.

I thought this thread was a cover and refuge for displaced GH posters looking for home...

Yes, bringing a cute child to town and announcing that your significant other is the father has a way of breaking up even the best of relationships.

Karma's a bitch, Anna

[quote]I thought this thread was a cover and refuge for displaced GH posters looking for home...

Let's use this old Kelly Monaco thread that was started as a cover and let this one die.

It's a good idea to concentrate all the postings onto one thread, so let all the other ones go, too. There's really no point to posting on a thread that only subscribers can access, anyway. The conversation is virtually nonexistent and it creates confusion and irritation with multiple threads. Someone on another thread pointed out that one of the things that gets a thread locked down is a low ratio of posters to posts, so let's beef up our poster count by sticking with only one. And don't just lurk, post!

Fuck you r71

Thank you for the link r71. I think that's a great idea and I just posted to that thread. I hope others here join me for as long as common sense lasts and the thread isn't turned into another graveyard by a plan that will never work. I'm way less likely to become a paying member of a site that does shit like that and always has technical problems. I was always a paying member before the DL format was changed to this problem ridden format and now with the thread lockdowns, forget it.

R69 No, I started it bc I like "Let's be" threads and thought it would be fun since there are a few long-term GH watchers here.

I'm the "permanent lock" that Lucky and Elizabeth has circa 2001.

I'm the stolen English test from 1997. There have been worse plotlines than me, but none have been more boring than me.

I'm Hester. The birth name Heather refused to call herself. When Heather was the alter ego of a DL icon's sibling.

(OP - who am I talking about?)

I am Heather Weber..the ORIGINAL GH Heather ,BITCHES!!!!

I am Leslies constant look of confusion

I’m Jeremy the stupid son of bitch kid that vanishes

I'm the glassware Sonny throws against the wall when he's having one of his hissy fits.

I'm the bush that everyone who comes back from the dead lurks behind.

I’m the mob stories that were better than anything currently airing.

I'm the titular hospital. I'm not on very much.

We're Susan Moore and Diana Taylor. We will both be murdered within two years of each other. Two of the same suspects (one of whom accidentally killed one of us) will be interrogated by Lt. Bert Ramsey and his glass of milk. One of those suspects will use my name while she is on the run in Llanview.

I’m Beechers Corners

I'm Sally, your friendly deep voiced cocktail bar manager who is really a transexual hitman in disguise.

I'm the much married Tracy Quartermain....One of my married names made me Tracy Spencer.

I'm Genie Francis and I've left this show in a huff in addition to being let go numerous times. Also, TG is not my biggest fan.

I'm hot, sexy, Phil Brewer, the one you all lust over.

I'm Carly #4. My snaggletooth can bite into an apple from the other side of a fence!

I'm the youngest recast for the oldest character ever. The actor who played my son was the same age as me.

I'm the Brownstone, Michael fixed me up but I've since been forgotten again.

I am the original Frank Smith, Port Charles' first great mobster. My character will be youthened twice over the next 30 years. I will go on to serenade Dustin Hoffman in drag in a fictional movie soap opera, play the surrogate father to a punk named Brewster and the head of a bunch of rookie cop idiots in the "Police Academy" series. People will forget that I was once a Broadway musical star.

I am the extremely noble Lee Baldwin who made many mistakes as a recovering alcoholic. I will go onto be the lecherous Dr. Elliott Clayton on "Golden Girls", but will return to my best known role on the misguided "GH" spin-off, and fade nobly into the sunset after attending the funeral of Lila Quartermaine with my wife of 27 years, Dr. Gail Baldwin. I will remain close to the veteran actors and will be at the show's 50th Anniversary party reunion of the past cast, even if I am hooked to an oxygen machine. The fans deserve to remember the entire "GH" past, not just the Cassadine and Corintho years!

I'm Gia Campbell. I was recast and then disappeared. Nobody remembers or talks about me.

I'm the plethora of former film stars who have had roles on "GH" over the years, lasting from a day to decades: Mae Clarke, K.T. Stevens, Mamie Van Doren, Anna Lee, Carole Cook, Jeff Donnell, Elizabeth Taylor, Milton Berle, Sammy Davis Jr., Marie Windsor, Anne Jeffreys, June Lockhart, Martha Scott, June Havoc, Janis Paige, Adrienne Barbeau, just to mention a few.....

I'm the show's first spinoff, Port Charles. I start as a proto-Gray's Anatomy about the love lives of hospital interns and eventually become a show about time-travel and vampires. I was the greatest soap opera of all-time.

R98 "I can't believe you went there."

I'm Beverlee McKinsey, and I am soap royalty.

I graced Port Charles with my presence briefly.

We're JFP and Guza, and fans loved us!

R99 I scheduled my classes in college around PC. I taped all the ABC soaps, but I had to watch PC live bc I couldn't wait.

I'm a fan of Adrienne Barbeau's, and I would watch Maude on Retro while Adrienne played the dangerous Suzanne Stanwck, watching GH within the little picture in picture box, and switching every now and then to see how she had not really changed all that much. I jumped for joy when she slit husband Theo's throat!

I am Ginny Blake who caused a ton of trouble for Rick and Lesley, indirectly causing the supposed car accident death of Lesley. I will sue for custody of my son, Mikey, and eventually marry Rick so we can raise him together. Eventually, I'll kill Bobbie's abusive husband, D.L. Brock, give birth to Rick's natural son (Rick Jr., no relation to Ric Lansing, apparently no relation either to Gina & Gary Lansing), be mentioned by Laura as still married to Rick in 1993, but divorced from him when Rick returns in 2002 for Luke and Laura's re-marriage which never happens. My portrayer will go to New York and back for various other soap roles and become very notorious and popular as the zany Gloria Abbott on "The Young and the Restless". Eventually, she will also portray Genie Francis's character on "Days of Our Lives", even though she had already replaced Jane Elliott as Angelica Devereaux years earlier. People forget that she was also a brief sub for Jill Abbott as well.

That sucks r96 but I wouldn't know anything about that

I'm Dr. Steve Hardy's BDF.

I'm Shawn Butler and I'm rotting away in prison for a crime I didn't commit whilst mobsters and their hitmen roam free in Port Charles. I wonder if that southern lawyer Tad Martin Grey would consider taking my case pro bono.

I'm Jimmy Lee Holt's musky jock strap.

Game over. I win!

I’m Emme Rylan’s bug eyes when Lulu is shocked or surprised.

I'm sniffing Jimmy Lee's musky jock.

I'm Oliivia's numerous mentioning of an impending pizza oven purchase/installation for the past two years or so. Hey writers, can you please get her her damn pizza oven already?

I'm Damian Smith. I was played by the handsome Leigh McCloskey. My murder was a big deal, but the reveal was underwhelming.

I’m Jane Dawson a nurse no one probably remembers. I am married to abusive Howie.

I'm Monavie!

R113 I remember you.

I’m Lucas’s dick and I want to stick myself into one of the many hot guys running around Port Charles. Why do I have to be regulated to guys I’d never be into in real life?

R113 Poor Howie died earlier this year.

I'm Dr. Henry Pinkham. I homely as a mud fence and provide comic relief.

We're sister and brother, Carol and Kent Murray, who come to live with our Aunt Jessie after she becomes our legal guardian.

We're fucking, IRL.

I'm Celia.

My cooch was so magical I had Jimmy Lee Holt AND Grant Putnam!

I'm Jimmy Lee's dadbod, and I look good even now.

R112

Refresh my memory. Who killed Damian Smith?

Laura stood trial for Damian's murder, but Justus Ward got her off. Later Justus confessed to knocking Damian unconscious with a baseball bat and then leaving him to die in a fire that Damian had set at the Ward House Orphanage.

Oh, Jimmy Lee.

*sigh*

I am Edward Quartermain #1, and we never had pizza for Thanksgiving when I was the Quartermain patriarch. I was too busy standing over Stella complaining about her coffee as she basted the turkey. Had it been Alice Gunderson or any of the other temperamental cooks, post Stella, I would have been wearing the turkey as a hat. But my Edward took no guff, even in my dotage years before they youthened me. Monica would never dare to tell me to "Shut up, Edward!" and remind me that it was her house, although once, she did kick us out, forcing us all to move into Kelly's. I was broke at that time, so I had no choice but to comply.

I am the one and only Alice Gunderson, aka "The Dominator". I had a huge crush on Luke and Dobson, but was horrified to find out that he was really a "she", Alexis Davis, copying an old "Santa Barbara" storyline. I was one of the few people able to force Miss Tracy to shut up, once shoving her in a closet while her husband, Luke, married ex-wife Laura. One Thanksgiving, I got the best of that psychotic BLT eating Heather Webber who had a knife on Sky by clonking her over the head with a baseball bat. I'm probably the funniest butch woman on TV.

I am the Ice Princess. Poor Robert, Luke made sure he never got a piece of me.

I am Stacey Baldwin. I was the original Laura Vining. I still cry myself to sleep every night thinking about what could have been.

I'm a future soap opera mega bitch who spent a year as a kind-hearted doctor after spending nearly six years as a sweet lab technician on another medical soap. My role on "GH" is basically forgotten because I really never had anything juicy to do, but oh the tides turned when I went back to New York, subbed for Maeve Kinkhead as the bitchy Vanessa Chamberlain, then spent over a decade as the unforgettable Donna Love: Bitchy, scheming, neurotic, secretly vulnerable and often very funny. My "All My Children" daughter is currently on the show as Hayden Barnes. As my Oscar nominated husband sometimes goes to L.A. to make movies, I wouldn't mind a return to "GH", whether as Gina Dante or as a new character. Even at 70, I've still got it!

R129

I have always wanted Anna Stuart to be Elizabeth's cold & critical mom. We've never seen Carolyn Webber. I'd love to see a 3-4 month arc where she confronted her parents for how they abandoned her on a neighbor's door step in Colorado. They had safely sent her sister to PC to live with Audrey but just dumped 15 y/o Liz.

They really need to be dragged for never returning for any of Liz's traumas- rape, blindness, death of a child, etc... I've always believed this was the root of Liz's abandonment issues & why she either hung on to a man long after it was over or ran from a relationship because she was scared. Thankfully, Liz finally conquered that with Franco. She's herself without any fear but her parents need to know how their poor choices affected her past life choices

R130 That's amazing.....I had thought of Anna for the same part, quite a different role than Dr. Gina Dante who was ironically Heather's gynecologist. Or Gina and Gary Lansing as Ric's parents. Years ago, I had thought she would be great as the latest in Erica's rivals, and bam bam bam, she was cast as Mary Smythe. Of course, she didn't have the same quality of writing she had while playing Donna Love, although her scenes with Greenlee, Erica, Opal and Vanessa were great. Anna worked briefly with Jane Elliott on "Guiding Light" at the height of the Diane Ballard murder, having just missed her on "GH" by a few months.

I'm "The Young Loves of General Hospital," the 1982 spinoff that was ordered, but never made it to the airwaves.

I’m Leslie Charleston’s dentures slipping when I deliver dialogue.

I loved AS as Donna Love.

Anna Stuart is now probably retired, but if GH brought her on in a guest role as Hayden's mom, I wouldn't be mad at all. Even if she was a pale Donna/Vanessa imitation, it would still be marvelous to see her.

Hayden has a mom. We've seen her. Anna should do an arc as Elizabeth's mom.

They have no interest in Liz’s parents. We’ll see Dev’s parents before hers.

r136

we will never see Liz's parents

I don't know why. Richard Dean Anderson was a long time ago and it's not like too many of the people who watched then are still alive.

They should bring back Jeff Webber for at least a short few months. Maybe he's dying and wants to reconcile with Liz.

And they could always bring back Nurse Anne Logan! That snatch is STILL permasealed!

Andrea Evans as Liz’s long lost mother!!!

I'm Emma Lutz - who went on to do a great exploitation movie opposite Perry King and a pre-Family Ties Michael J. Fox.

R140

Andrea Evans would be horrific.

I'm the officially now unpermasealed snatch of Anne Logan who went on to be sexually active bad girls on "Guiding Light" and "All My Children". Scotty Baldwin found it amusing that I won the heart of Noah Drake away from fellow auburn haired bad girl Boobie Spencer. Noah liked the fact that I left my deliciously moist lips alone rather than turn them into Goldie Hawn's huge "First Wives Club" lug nut remover lips.

I'm pleasantly chubby (but not fat) Beverly DeFreest whom the writers made it appear that I had a very subtle romance with exercise guru Richard Simmons. The writers thought they might have fooled the audience, but they knew better.

I'm the watch that belonged to Alexis' mother. A storyline started around me that was dropped and forgotten.

I'm Carly #4. The actress who plays me got her younger and better looking boyfriend a gig on the show. His character is boring and useless but I will make sure he stays on as long as he keeps fucking me.

I'm Drew Cain and life has not been fair to me or my original portrayer.

I'm Rosalie Martinez: I started out as Nina Clay's Personal Nurse. TPTB didn't know what to do with me after Nina got up out of her wheelchair so they first tried to make me Brad's ex wife, then they had me sleep with Michael, spy for Nik, put me in Morgan, Tracy, Helena and anyone else's orbit they could think of. Nothing stuck. I disappeared.

Im the nurses station where all the good gossip from the yentas came from

I'm the voice of the intercom, "Bobbie Spencer, 3rd Floor Nurses' Station please...."

I'm the hospital library where a pre-Robin Mattson Heather and a young Laura Baldwin both worked. Monica is going to have a great scene here telling off Bobbie after Bobbie threatened Laura.

I'm Emily's fake nude photos. I got Elizabeth's rapist sent to prison.

I'm Laura.

Think of me, and laugh, don't cry. I want it that way.

I'm sexy Brit Holly Sutton, heiress and con-artist. Baby, come to me.

Come to Me!

Let me put my snatch around you

This is ecstasy!

I'm Charlotte Cassadine. I've had 3 dads and two moms since I've been on the show. I'm going to need a lot of therapy in the future.

I'm Lulu's dead aborted fetus.

F U MOMMY

R156 It's 3 moms, isn't it? Lulu, Nina - (a step-mom is still a mom), and Jessica from OLTL. - (what was her GH character's name?)

I'm the constant retread of long-time characters having children never mentioned before. It started successfully with Leslie, and has trickled down over the years to Monica, Laura, Bobbie, Heather and several others. I'm surprised that Jessie, Audrey and Gail never had to go through this storyline twist.

R158 Her name was Claudette. I only said two moms, because I was talking about her changing parentage, which was extremely dumb.

I'm Stefan. Despite being super-hot, I only ever married Bobbie.

I AM Helena.

And I PRETENDED to be Helena a few times.

I mean, a turban just brings out the ingenue in me!

I'm Tony Geary and I gave a scathing interview when I left the show. No worries though, when the show is cancelled I will still be invited back for the finale with boatloads of money thrown at me as incentive.

After retirement, I decided to become an honorary member of A Flock of Seagulls.

Daytime soaps are very concerned about the impeachment hearings. Will they lose fans if it goes too long? GH considering Hulu?

Wasn't the OJ trial the beginning of the end? Of course, there weren't the viewing options then that exist today.

I'm the thousands of videos out there of episodes from 1977 forward that shows the quality of the show rise from the pre-Gloria Monty days to recent clips that shows basically a show in constant decline since the introduction of Sonny and the lack of focus on the hospital.

Well, what OJ didn't kill Trump's hearings will.

Bye, GH.

I'm BJ's heart, now beating in the chest cavity of a sulky bottle blond.

Prayers for BJ's heart, now fighting clogged arteries and high cholesterol

LOL r171

This seems somewhat promising

I’m James Franco. I will come in and shit all over the place.

R173

Setton is a great casting but they need to get rid of Sasha, Nina & Valentin. Plus, Setton is too dynamic to pair her with slack jawed Duel so that needs to not happen.

r175

DOD Duell would be playing her cousin so they won't be together

I'm the slap that Lesley Webber gave that bitch Monica for lying about A.J.'s paternity -- even after that bitch Monica had his identify confirmed due to the Bombay phenotype.

She was great on OLTL! We need more Q’s so finally a casting notice that sounds promising!!!

I'm Genie Francis and I can turn the world on with my smile...oh wait no, that's Mary Tyler Moore....never mind.

Valentin used to be an interesting and dynamic character. What happened?

By never signing a contract, JPS showed that he had no interest in staying long-term on GH. Having scenes with MS kept him around longer, but once she left, he lost more interest and it seems like he told the show to wrap up his storylines.

I am General Hospital 1978. I do not know anyone in the hospital anymore. Who are these people?

I'm Cynthia Watros, the new Nina.

I am apparently on strong painkillers, because my acting skills have been subdued.

R182 I don't understand why he doesn't want to stay. According to IMDB his only upcoming role is in film with a cast of actors that I've never heard of where he plays "Kidnapped Customer." At least GH offers a steady paycheck!

1978-1980 and 1981, too, were possibly the best years of GH ever.

Doug Marland started writing; we had the David Hamilton trial; Bobbie making Laura's life miserable (fans loved to hate Bobbie); the Lassa Fever epidemic, Audrey telling Jeff with more earnestness than Ann Curry does in an interview "Steve Hardy is your father. (Beat). Steeeve Harday is YOUR Farther!" Tracy Quartermaine arrived on the scene. Edward and Lila were added to strengthen the Q's. The words Great Uncle Edgar (Q) were uttered. Rick wouldn't shut up about his parents Lars and Helene having the best marriage.

Mary O'Brien played a great Heather Webber (she had a psychotic Sheila Carter-edge to her). The Lesley/Rick/Monica/Alan quadrangle ruled the show and fans couldn't wait for Lesley to slap that bitch Monica. Alan gave Monica the house. Luke was added. Frank Smith was the scariest villain soaps had seen in a while (along with AW's Sven, who was airing around this time over on NBC).

The supporting cast were a classy bunch of folks you'd want as your friends: Susan Moore, Mitch Williams, Lee and Gail, Gina and Gary, Howard, Joe Kelly, Peter and Diana Taylor. Alice (!)

The Floating Rib, the 7th Floor Nurses Station, the Webber, Hardy, Q homes...Jeff's apartment. Kelly's Diner. The hospital cafeteria, Lee's office. Jessie and Bobbie's apartment. The Campus Disco. This is were the stories unfolded.

Pat Falken Smith took over as head writer by the fall of 1979 and Doug was off to spin his magic in Springfield after a stint in Oakdale, a place he'd return to in late 1985.

I didn't think much of the writers after Smith left (to go to DAYS where she created the DiMeras, the Bradys). The popularity of the show rode on the characters that were created and fleshed out at this time. (Tho I did like Robert and Holly's romance).

It was a golden age, never to be repeated.

I first came to GH during the Ice Princess saga and was quickly hooked. Loved Robert Scorpio and his shenanigans with Luke and O'Reilly. I lost interest once Laura disappeared into the fog in early 1982 and started watching GL instead.

But I would love to watch GH from 1978-81. The handful of episodes I've seen from before I started watching in 1981 (thanks to SoapNet repeats) reveal a show that was firing on all cylinders and seemed to true joy to watch.

Thanks for you post r185.

r185 YES YES YES! I think they were the best years for all I ABC soaps I was hooked on. This was an era where being cheated on was really the worst thing that could possibly happen on a soap , well along with being pregnant by your married lovers child. Once GH morphed into a "mystery" soap, I lost all interest in it.

I’m Tracy Quartermain’s weird braided 70’s hairdo.

Supposedly, Jane Eliot is coming back?

I’m Bobbie Spencer’s face that looks like a melted purse.

I never knew Doug Marland wrote for GH?

R191 he did and it was spectacular! He changed it over night.

Gloria gets the credit, but if it ain't on the page it ain't on the stage.

Thanks for the comments. I'm glad I'm not alone in my love of that era.

Denise Alexander is eligible for that Daytime Emmy in the guest spot category. I wish she or the show would enter her. It'd be great to see her win.

r189

link?

Yeah, Douglas Marland did wonders for three shows, and GH was the first.

He wasn't there for long, but most of the characters he created or added fueled the show for decades to come. I mean, Luke, Bobbie and all of the Q's!

I give Pat Falken Smith MAJOR props for continuing Doug's stories...tho she wrote under Bill Bell for Denise Alexander at DAYS so she knew what she had there.

This clip is from 1983, but it was so powerful watching Lesley discover Laura was alive after going to some dark places, the gambling and then finally accepting her 'death.'

How Alexander only got one nom for playing Lesley is beyond me.

go to 5:24

Tiffany's reaction is hysterical.

Too bad they had to retcon Rick and make him someone who attacked Laura - which would have never ever ever ever happened.

Genie was asked fixing that awful history re-write in a TV Insider interview.

I know Chris and Denise are up there now but I bet it could still be done;

Three days. It was all Helena. Happy ending. They come back for Christmas episodes.

I'm beautiful but boring, bitchy, misanthropic, judgmental, woe is me cold fish Anne Logan. I can manage to be kind and pleasant, but only for a few minutes at a time!

I am Laura's awful fillers

I'm Diana Maynard Taylor #1, former waitress turned nurse, aka Valarie Starrett, who had dark hair. I was replaced by a blonde and was never seen again.

R198 You'd be bitchy too if your snatch was perma-sealed shut!

R200

Is the woman in that pic the same actress who played the Tom & Alice's nun daughter?

R202

No, that was Lanna Saunders, who does resemble that sad woman with the split ends at R200.

I just saw Lanna Saunders in "Body Heat" as Kathleen Turner's sister-in-law. Ironically, Lanna & Brooke Bundy were among the million Patti's on "Search For Tomorrow" with Tina Sloan, Melinda Cordell (spy Natalie Dearborn) and Nancy Pinkerton (the original Dorian Lord) among the others.

None of those bitches could hold a candle to ME, R204!

I'm Dr. Rick Webber, the hottest hunk around.

I'm Oscar Nominee Martha Scott, best known for playing saintly women in "Our Town", "The Ten Commandments" and "Ben Hur". After my performance as Sue Ellen's manipulative social climbing mother on "Dallas", I will convince Hollywood casting directors that I can be more than just Moses' mother. Gloria Monty will hire me for a four month role as the nasty Jennifer Talbot, Terri Brock's harpy of a grandmother. I will disappear and presumed dead, and when they find my body, it will be stuffed in a large pipe on the side of a highway outside of Port Charles. Now that's an exit!

I am Lila Quartermaines ancient, antique Victorian hairdo

R203

Thanks for identifying the actress. I'm glad I'm not alone in thinking she looks like Marie Horton

R208

I always thought Lila looked like an antique porcelain doll

I'm Meg Wyllie, a beloved character actress who flirted with the casting directors into my 80's, being cast in four different roles on "Golden Girls" and two on "Designing Women". "General Hospital" used me in their unaired pilot, then cast me as nurse Doris Roach who on her deathbed told Lesley Faulkner that she had switched another dead baby with Lesley's. Years later, I will be cast as auction clerk Hester Frumpkin who works for David Gray, the man who kidnapped Laura at the bequest of Helena Cassadine. I will be a temporary Lila Quartermain while Anna Lee is having surgery and recovering.

thanks for the history lesson, R210

I would love to see that scene where Lesley learns Laura's alive.

Again, kudos to Douglas Marland; he told the story of a mother lying on the witness stand to protect her daughter three times: Lesley lied after Laura killed David Hamilton on GH; Jennifer Richards (nee Jane Marie Stafford) lied about killing Lucille Wexler so her daughter Amanda wouldn't learn she was illegitimate (apparently, that was HUGE back in the early 80s) on GL, and he really perfected the story by having Kim Hughes lie on the witness stand that she had killed Douglas Cummings, thinking Frannie had done it, but the real killer was Marsha Talbot, ATWT.

Brilliant. Fans ate up the story each time. Long before Luke came onto GH, the numbers had soared to the second spot from the top of the ratings.

R211 (R210 here....) I love soap opera history, so your comments on Douglas Marland's use of the same story format over is fascinating. The Doug Cummings story was one of my all time favorite stories, and Marsha Talbot was a fascinating supporting character. Very theatrical! (Actress Guilia Pagano was from "the theatah" after all.....) It is a shame that other than occasional reunion bitch fights with Monica (where the writing wasn't always the best, nullifying the fact that Monica and Lesley had long before made amends) and supporting Laura and her grandchildren through their various issues that Lesley never really had anything substantial to do. Lesley was devoted to her career and comforting patients so the fact that she never went back to work at the hospital in any capacity didn't make sense. Certainly, she could take courses and get therapy from Gail to resume her life 100%. Nevertheless, it was still great to see them fix at least one past mistake (killing her off), even if the execution of it wasn't well done.

I'm the awful painting of Lucky that Elizabeth painted when he was presumed dead. I was hideous and fans dubbed me "Lucky on velvet."

I'm the Quartermaine & friends response to the unveiling of Tracy's painting right before her dramatic "Golden Girls" exit.

It was the first time in Quartermaine family history when there was near silence in the Q's living room.

I'm Wes Ramsey's enormous, thick cock.

So why is Tracy coming back?

This week highlighted that Sam is a character who’s no longer needed on canvas.

I have not read any news about Jane Elliot since she left the show other than her exit interviews. I would be more than happy to see her back, but would blast a recast. Even if she returns for a holiday celebration just to be with her family (and brings no intrigue, just a minimal amount of snark....), it would be a welcome return.

will never forget the time she walked back and asked new nephew Justus to hang up her coat.

Lila: Tracy, that's Justus. I wrote you about him.

Tracy.: Yes. Mother, about didn't tell me...

Lila: Tell you what, dear?

Tracy: You didn't say he's....

Hilarious.

Tracy: Yes. Mother, but you didn't tell me...

Tracy was back today.

Tracy technically could submit for that guest Emmy category; it used to be for . well guest stars, but with Thaao and Kate Mansi both being nominated I think you can be a previous regular back for some guest spots.

Not only Tracy, but Tony Ghost Jones and Dr. Lesley Webber could be eligible.

I'm the junk food that Charlotte is fed constantly. She's going to be a 300 lbs diabetic before she hits puberty thanks to me.

on today's rerun from a year (?) ago when Kevin and Laura got married, Lesley was on; someone talked about how it was good she was able to get through the snow storm and Lesley quipped: "It's the icy roads that are the problem." (paraphrasing.)

Intentional?

if so, hilarious.

As I revealed a few weeks ago, Jonny has returned to SON to terrorize the regulars. He has enlisted the help of Donna B, an escaped mental patient/nuthouse resident. The Soap Network posters will not be able to sleep a wink with these two on the loose. The drama over at SON is just gripping. I am on the edge of my seat wondering what Jonny and Donna will do next!

The Jane Elliot returns thread is subscribers only now. Is there another thread out there?

[quote]The Jane Elliot returns thread is subscribers only now. Is there another thread out there?

It's titled "Ava, Princess of Wyndemere"

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Thanks R230