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When I was about 6 I used to tell my mum that if she ever gave me a sister then I wanted her to be called Marlena lol!

Yes I believe Emma Samms lives in England, somewhere in the Cotswolds. She was actually supposed to come back to GH for a guest stint last year but that all got delayed by COVID. Fortunately Emma had recovered enough to be able to film a cameo remotely that showed Holly in captivity. Robert and the rest of Port Charles currently believe that Holly is dead; unwittingly the writers have actually set up a very plausible explanation for Holly not being at Sean's memorial.

The real Nurse Chloe Jennings. And then Peter sent Kimberly J Brown's character over to Maxie as an imposter.

Yeah, the hypnotism is a bit silly but overall I enjoyed her return. Nicole and Maeve did get married off pretty quickly but that's generally normal for this show. They work well together. Leanne and Rosalyn have mad chemistry and I hope we see more of them.

I don't know about Eddie but it certainly looks that way. Marley (though with the kiwi accent it does kinda sound like they are saying Miley sometimes) was introduced last year when his drunken father (with Marley in the car) crashed into Maeve and Nicole after their wedding. Marley's dad died and Drew and Harper (who'd recently found out that Drew had a very low sperm count and thus was unlikely to father more children) fell in love with him and were able to foster him. Talia is Marley's mum who is in prison (for drugs I think). We haven't seen her yet.

Yeah and that kind of character can often serve as an audience surrogate. One of my favourite Neil scenes is when he informs Victor and Kim that Andrew can't be Victor's son. Kim's quietly processing the information while Neil gets to give Victor the telling off on behalf of the audience.

I think so, pretty sure Olivia may be involved too as there must be a reason why it was she of all people who overheard Maxie pouring her heart out at Nathan's grave. Plus Olivia has experience with both of her children lol.

Terri was the eldest Webber sibling. She was a widow who was paired off with Dr Mark Dante (played by Gerald Gordon from The Doctors), but he had a mentally ill wife Mary Ellen (Mellie) who was in an institution. Long story short, Mellie was released from the institution and tried to kill Terri by getting her chauffeur to tamper with the brakes of Terri's car. Terri survived the resulting car crash and left town in the aftermath and Mellie was re-institutionalized. Terri's other main contribution to the show was after Jeff shot himself in the head due to his failing marriage to Monica etc. Terri told Steve Hardy about the existence of a letter from Helene Webber (Terri, Rick and Jeff's mother) and this letter revealed Jeff's true paternity (that Steve, not Lars Webber was Jeff's father).

Never ever trust a Lazy Susan when you're in Port Charles.

I just hope he's a doctor or a nurse coming to work at General Hospital. Yes I know that's too much to ask for 🤣

Mickey became a prosecutor in the DA's office at the time, so they may have been trying to establish Chris as Salem's new go-to defence attorney. Chris represented Kim (for Emma's murder) and Steve (for Duke's murder) before being written out, with Josh Taylor going full time on Valerie/The Hogan Family; previously he'd been doing that show part time while he was still on DAYS.

Aha Thanks 🙂

Herbert was actually introduced in 1987 and killed off just as quickly in a murder mystery involving the Qs (including Celia's parents Quentin and Betsy), Robert and Robert's love interest at the time. It looks like it was a weird timing though as Celia had already left the show 18 months prior and yet they had finally introduced her immediate family - well Quentin had recurred when Celia was around but he was recasted for Herbert's murder mystery storyline.

Apparently Alexandria was the daughter of an unseen and unnamed brother of Edward's.

Yeah, he's a game show host and was a regular on Doctor Who amongst many, many other things. He's pretty much had constant work since leaving Coronation Street, unlike other actors who leave and are never heard from again.

I've often thought that it would be interesting to see Sharon and Jenny onscreen at the same time so I'm glad it's actually happening. Yeah, killing off Susan and retconning her abortion to create Adam was really just a plot device to stir up some conflict for Ken and Mike for the 5000th episode (and that renewed conflict felt a bit contrived coming so soon after Mike and Ken had finally buried the hatchet during the Freshco seige). That being said, I agree that Adam at least has cemented his place on the show.

They even killed off Jane Dawson's daughter Joanne as part of Jane's exit story 🙄. I have a feeling Martha's death was to provide extra motivation for Diana to adopt Steven-Lars, but I think they could have easily kept her and provided another reason for Diana's desire to adopt (I mean, Diana had already tried fostering, but lost custody of her foster child Mike shortly before the hurricane that killed Martha).

Yeah, basically I believe the story was that Jessie had dumped Phil after suffering a miscarriage; got engaged with Lee, but Phil found out and raped Jessie. Jessie fell pregnant and initially tried to keep it a secret until the divorce. However Phil did find out and called off the divorce. Jessie gave birth to Nancy prematurely, so Lee called off the engagement (see above) but Nancy passed away so Jessie divorced Phil. However, Lee and Jessie did not get back together because he was now in love with Meg. Jessie then married John Prentice, but he had a terminal illness. After he died, Jessie was put on trial alongside Tom Baldwin. Phil proved that Jessie and Tom were innocent (I think John's daughter Polly had accidentally given him an overdose) and Jessie remarried him. Phil then had an affair with Polly, but she died in a car accident they were in together so Phil left town and was later presumed dead in a plane crash. Jessie married Peter Taylor, but Phil secretly returned to town and started seeing Diana Maynard. Phil later found out he'd been cleared of responsibility for Polly's death so he went back to Jessie, although he ended up in some sort of accident along the way which left him impotent. Peter and Diana got together and Peter posed as the father of Diana's baby by Phil. Diana had a son named Tracy and when Phil found out he left Jessie (again) and became obsessed with Diana. Eventually Phil realized he wasn't impotent anymore, so he raped Diana. Tracy died and Diana learned she was pregnant by Phil for the second time; Diana eventually gave birth to a daughter, Martha and Phil went off to Nairobi, Kenya. Peter learned that he wasn't Martha's father, separated from Diana, and started having an affair with Augusta McLeod. Diana agreed to marry a dying patient, Owen Stratton, but he died before Peter and Diana's divorce came through and Peter reunited with Diana. Augusta learned she was pregnant by Peter and lured Phil back from Kenya but of course he ended up murdered. Jessie was initially in the frame for the crime and she and Lee had a 'moment' during this period but nothing came of it as Lee eventually married Caroline Chandler. Diana was put on trial, but it was eventually revealed that Augusta had committed the murder. Augusta eventually gave birth and I don't think Diana ever found out that Peter was the father.

He was also the songwriter that Blackie plagiarized wasn't he?

Ended up lasting 18 months as Josh Clayton in the end (though I don't know whether it was a continuous 18 months or several short runs); got killed off during the Asian Quarter story.

That hasn't really been dropped though. Peter originally managed to get out of it by framing Liesl for it but she's now back in town seeking revenge. Peter also confessed to Valentin that he was behind the attempt on Andre and Franco's lives just last week.

Hmmmm....Laura and Scotty in the shed was pre-Monty during the September storm as far as I know. Is it possible Kin Shriner misremembered? After all, GH was notorious for its axing sprees during the period from 1975 - 78 so I image it would be easy to confuse which producer/writer did what to get rid of who lol. On a related note, that storm killed off Diana's daughter Martha and introduced both David Hamilton and Nurse Dorrie.

Was it Monty who did the storm? I thought that was in September 1977 and Monty's episodes didn't start til January 1978.