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I wonder if she is playing Chloe Jennings, Maxie's nurse

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 🤣

Oh gawd I hope not, it'd just be too weird for RH & RH to go from spouses (albeit with a brother in common lol) to siblings on the same damn show! Perhaps it is Shawn that Alexis meets.

Aha! I had a feeling it was that particular period. I actually remember Sonny being off the show for two weeks while it focused on Lulu's kidnapping. And then he came back just before the 50th anniversary episode for the storyline involving Brenda's brief return. Cheers again

And of course, Steven was actually Franco's big brother too lol - i don't know whether that has been acknowledged on the show since that storyline with Hayden's mother and Heather Webber. I'm also happy that Shawn is coming back. I always liked him.

Yep, I certainly did notice and was wondering about that. What was the second longest gap? Was it sometime during Ron Carlivati's tenure? Cheers for the counts

Post Nighttime Hope, Jennifer (who'd been away for several years except for a brief appearance at Alice's funeral) returned to Salem and reached out to Hope who was incarcerated. Jennifer even got herself a job at the prison after Hope tipped her off about an organ trafficking scheme being operated out of the prison. But that was probably the only time they were involved in a mystery together.

I seem to recall SOD making a snarky remark about Olivia owning a radio station that she never went to, so perhaps it was part of the Richards Communications Group. Also I'm fairly sure that Richards Communications Group owned the newspaper that Vanessa worked at.

Oh yes that's right, I remember that now.

Interestingly, Laura mentioned today that "it's been so long since Amy died" (hence her rushing to have a connection with Martin). Is this the first time Amy (and Shell Kepler's) passing has been acknowledged on the show? (at around 1:40)

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 I think everyone knew that was coming lol

I'd hazard a guess and say they probably copied the spelling from the character in The Sound of Music

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.

Anna did get an angry phone call from Frisco so at least he was acknowledged but I agree they could have done more with Frisco (even if he remained off screen). He could have been in cahoots with Liesl Obrecht to expose Peter but perhaps not fully sware (or turning a blind eye) to her methods of doing so (by brainwashing Dante).

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.