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Friday, October 5, 1979 according to both Curlyqgrl and Luke and Laura unrevised.

August 12 & 13, 1981 Heather attempts to reconcile with Joe, but he remains frosty towards her. A customer attempts to ask Heather out; Joe intervenes when the man grabs Heather and kicks him out of Kelly's. Joe leaves and the other waitress (I've never caught her name, but I believe Rose hired her so that she'd have more free time and thus be able to volunteer at GH) remarks that Joe is one guy that you want to have on your side. Heather agrees and the other waitress lets Heather leave Kelly's for a while, provided that she is back before the lunch rush. Steve and Audrey show Anne and Georgia a letter that they have received from Tommy at summer camp. It seems that he has met a girl named Lana and she is a perfect 10 with exclamation marks. Dan comes in complaining about Hutch still being present at GH and that he'll have to explain that to the board. Rick and Lesley meet with Ballantine in Washington. Ballantine continues to deny that Luke and Laura are involved in the caper with the Cassadines. Things get heated and Rick accuses Ballantine of lying. Rick and Lesley threaten to go to the papers about the WSB, so Ballantine is forced to tell them everything, including the purpose of the WSB, everything that the WSB knows about the Ice Princess and that noone at the docks will cooperate with the WSB investigation. Later, Rick tells Lesley that they could question the inhabitants of the docks themselves. The two decide to go to dinner in Georgetown and discuss visiting the Lincoln Memorial. Alice is on the phone to Lesley and Amy wants to know the news about Laura. Amy gets sulky when Alice tells her that there is no news and leaves for GH. Heather turns up to see Alice and Heather asks if Jeff and Anne are still planning to get married. Heather demands to know where Jeff is and says that she needs him to protect her as Joe and Burt are trying to frame her for Diana's murder. Heather insists that she didn't do it and begs her mother to help her; Alice gets upset. Heather attempts to look for Jeff's details in Alice's address book but Alice doesn't have them. After Heather leaves, Alice pours herself a drink, gulps it down and says "What have I done". Burt is happy because another witness, Harry Greg who could identify Heather has just arrived in town. Joe and Burt go over to Elizabeth Turner's house where they meet Harry. I'm sure Harry has been on before but I've only just realised HARRY IS MIGUEL FROM Y&R!!! Harry positively identifies Heather as the woman who posed as Shelley Vernon. Later Heather visits Joe and finds Joe holding a Polaroid of her in the line-up. The two argue and Heather taunts Joe about him falling in love with her. After Heather leaves, Joe contacts Forest Hills to request a visit with Sarah. Monica gives a lecture to an audience including Steve, Audrey, Bryan, Georgia and Amy. Monica reveals that her convention in Houston was about the medical uses of carbonic snow. Monica says that carbonic snow could be useful in plastic surgery and skin grafts. After the lecture, Amy asks Audrey if she can be reassigned from Hutch's case, explaining that she can't treat the man who once tried to kill her sister. Robert sets off by himself on a mission to determine the extent of the island's radar detection. Meanwhile, Mikkos insists that Kemo accompany the women on their trip outside to the beach. Later, Mikkos is furious when Max attempts to bring Noel to a meeting and Noel is forced to leave the meeting. Max protests, saying that he and Noel operate as a team; Mikkos tells him that that will not be the case anymore. Mikkos then lays out some of his plans for world domination and adds that Nigel (who is not yet present at the meeting) doesn't know the true purpose of their plans. Mikkos snaps at Max when he makes a snide remark. Nigel then arrives for the meeting. Nigel gives the men an update on the diamond making factory, Mikkos announces that this means that they now have the power to make carbonic snow. Mikkos raises a toast to "Our glorious new world". Kemo accompanies Alex, Corinne and Tiffany outside. Meanwhile Laura attempts to give Luke a shave with a shell. They are unaware that Kemo and the women are nearby wandering around the island on their way to the beach. After the shave is done, Luke and Laura end up fooling around in the pool under the waterfall. Laura changes into a sarong she made from some curtains they found on the yacht. The two end up making out, though Luke is reluctant to take things further as he is worried that they will be interrupted by either Robert or the guards. Meanwhile on the beach, Tiffany and Alex argue and insult each other about Tony and Victor. Alex calls Tiffany a tramp; Tiffany slaps her, Alex slaps her right back as Corinne and Kemo watch on and prepare to intervene. Tiffany runs off and Kemo goes to look for her. Luke and Laura's make out session is disrupted when they hear Kemo calling out for Tiffany. The couple quickly pack up their camp and hide from Kemo. At the same time, Tiffany continues running through the jungle. She encounters Robert who just stares at her...

August 7, 10 & 11 Luke, Laura and Robert learn that Victor is planning to search the crew, so plan to swim to the island. They watch as the guests head to the island via boat and note that the island does not seem to have any infrastructure. Luke, Laura and Robert swim to the island; when Robert goes off by himself to explore the island, Luke and Laura are frightened by the birds. Meanwhile, the Titan guests are taken to the vast Cassadine bunker, which lies underground where they are greeted by Albert. Tony is also there and tells Victor that Alex still thinks that the plan is to manufacture diamonds. Noah takes Bobbie to his Uncle Martin's penthouse. She is amazed by the view from the terrace. The butler informs her that the maid has drawn a bath for her. After her bath, a towel clad Bobbie chats with the maid. Noah visits Bobbie. Noah tells Bobbie that he will be sleeping in the adjoining room and invites her to sleep with him. Bobbie declines, saying that she isn't ready. Monica, having returned from Houston, thanks Gail for picking her up at the airport. Monica informs Gail that Susan is pregnant with Alan's child. Alan walks in and insists that Gail stay for dinner. After dinner, Monica tells Gail that Alan has changed since she left, he's no longer morose. Kathy arrives, and Gail leaves. Kathy tells Monica to call Corrigan. Corrigan tells Monica that Alan has hired a PI of his own to find Susan so all they have to do is Noah, Bobbie and Martin have dinner on the penthouse terrace. Bobbie brings up the subject of Luke, which leads to Martin asking questions about her family, learning that Bobbie did not 'debut' (as a debutante) and was raised by her aunt Ruby and starts to talk about one of Noah's exes. Bobbie manages to change the subject back to Luke and Martin promises to contact the WSB. Later, Noah tries his luck with Bobbie again but she is still not ready. Luke, Laura and Robert have dinner on the island. Later, Luke and Laura snuggle and Laura invites Luke to make love to her but Luke is reluctant as they might be disturbed. Robert interrupts and tells them that he's detected a signal coming from the island. Later Luke has to go on sentry duty, while Laura and Robert sleep. A party is held in the underground bunker and Mikkos finally introduces himself. Tiffany wants to take a walk on the beach with Victor but Alex snidely tells her that she doesn't know the rules. When Tiffany asks Mikkos if she can go above, Mikkos tells her that no one goes up to the top. At GH, Jesse thanks Dan for taking her to a concert the previous night. Rick and Lesley arrive and Dan tells them that they missed a great concert. Rick and Lesley are still worried about Laura. Rose arrives and tells Jesse that is she concerned about Rick. Lesley meets with Alan and notices his good mood. Lesley asks Alan to take over the running of the clinic while she and Rick go to Washington. Alan hesitates, saying he has to go to New York, but then changes his mind. Tiffany and Victor argue about Mikkos. She is furious about being locked down. Victor snaps when Tiffany describes Victor as Mikkos' 'yes man' but Tiffany stands firm and tells Victor that she'll be going up to the beach if she has to blow up the entire place to do it. At breakfast Tiffany is still mad. Noel and Max talk about how great the bunker is, but Tiffany says they are prisoners. After Tiffany storms out, Noel and Max reveal to Victor that they 'know everything' but Mikkos doesn't know that they know. Victor warns them that they don't know his brother very well. Laura and Robert are concerned when they find Luke is missing. However, before long Luke is back with food. Luke tells Laura and Robert that the Titan has sailed away. Later, Robert walks in on Luke and Laura fooling around again. After Luke notes the irony of them ending up in a tropical sweat box while chasing after something called the Ice Princess, Robert gives Luke and Laura more information about the formula, sying that it can be used to create some kind of energy. Later Robert and Luke are trying to explain Laura how to use the explosives when they realise some guards are drawing near. The trio quickly pack up their camp and run away from the guards. They end up near the entrance to the bunker and Robert notes a high radioactivity count with his Geiger counter, indicating that something is being protected by an alarm. The trio later set up camp by a waterfall. Amy takes Hutch's temperature and is still not happy to be treating him. Joe visits Hutch, followed soon after by Rose who returns Hutch's watch. Joe notes that it's nice that Rose and Hutch are talking now. Rose and Hutch talk privately and Rose offers to accompany Hutch to therapy as Mike won't be there today. Later, Rose and Hutch talk and Rose admits that she wanted to see him. Bryan and Gail are having lunch in the cafeteria when Lesley and Lee arrive. Bryan departs, and Lee gives Lesley lots of contact numbers. Steve and Rick arrive. Steve has agreed to cover for Rick at GH. Then Jesse tells Rick and Lesley that Bobbie has some good news for them. Later, Bobbie arrives and tells Rick and Lesley that Martin Drake has agreed to make inquiries about Laura. Mikkos informs Tony and Victor that Nigel has the plant running at full capacity. Victor tells Mikkos that Max has told his wife everything and Tony says that he doesn't trust Max. The three brothers argue, but Mikkos says that he still trusts Max and that one of the crewman must have stolen the formula. Victor appeals to Mikkos to let the women outside, Mikkos isn't pleased. Tiffany later pleads her case to Mikkos with Corinne and Alex present. Mikkos agrees to relax the restrictions but not until he's certain that they weren't followed to the island. Later Alex plays chess with Victor and starts asking him lots of questions. Alex admits that she's starting to lose respect for Tony as she doesn't like being kept in the dark. Alex threatens to bring down the house of Cassadine, but Mikkos arrives and menacingly warns her not to threaten the house of Cassadine again. Meanwhile, Robert tells Luke and Laura an anecdote of some caper with Alex. Luke and Robert end up fighting over whether Robert snores. Soon afterwards, Robert finally works out that the Cassadine base is underground.

Likely 1977. Genie didn't start airing until February 77.

I really like the attention to minor details (Such as how the trio launder their clothes and get food) that I think today would be glossed over. And the show certainly took the opportunity to have fun with them. I've also enjoyed Rick and Lesley going around town trying to piece together the mystery of Laura's latest disappearance while reconnecting as a couple.

Early August 1981 Victor and Max play chess. Victor wins. Tiffany, Corinne and Max’s wife Noel tease Nigel after he complains about his sunburn. Later, Laura is sent up to Tiffany’s room as a maid to search for Victor’s copy of the formula. Laura, using her old moniker ‘Lucy’ searches the room while Tiffany applies her make up. Tiffany is in a good mood because Alex is gone and ends up trash talking Alex to Laura. Laura agrees with her sentiments. Tiffany warms to Laura right away and admits that her actress personality is basically an act. After Tiffany departs, Laura continues to search but does not find the formula. Instead, Laura finds Victor’s secret hiding place. Meanwhile Robert creates a listening device for Luke. Slick arranges for Rick and Lesley to meet Emma (though in the end Rick is unable to make it because the clinic is too busy). Lesley asks Emma about the Ice Princess and Emma explains that she sold it to Alex. Slick tells Emma that it was Charlie, not Luke, who stole the statue from the auction. This makes Emma willing to set up a meeting between Charlie and Lesley. Later, Slick, Rick and Lesley meet with Emma and Charlie at the bucket of blood. Charlie denies knowing anything. Rick intervenes when Charlie tries to drag Emma away and gets punched by Charlie for his trouble, leaving a shiner 🥴 that several characters will comment on over the course of the next few episodes. At Kelly’s, Joe denies trying to avoid Heather after the other night. Rose interrupts their conversation and asks about Hutch. Meanwhile, Hutch is being massaged by Nurse Stacy. He gives her a warning when she becomes too flirtatious with him. Joe arrives followed soon after by Amy. Amy invites Stacy to the disco. Hutch asks Amy about Laura and Amy says that Laura can take care of herself. Stacy and Amy leave. Joe tells Hutch that the parole board is dragging its feet about his case. Joe then meets with Audrey in the cafeteria; Audrey is upset after receiving a package addressed to Diana Taylor (the nurses’ uniforms). When Joe returns to Kelly’s, he ends up in an argument with Heather. Luke is planting the listening device in the radio room when Victor walks in. Victor is suspicious of ‘Thor’ (Luke’s name when posing as a steward) and questions him about his background. Max arrives and Luke subtly plant seeds of doubt in Victor’s mind about Max. Luke later tells Robert and Laura that Victor has the formula in his wallet. Victor later tells Tiffany that he suspects ‘Thor’ may be working for Max. Victor notices that his hiding place has been disturbed but Tiffany says that only the maid has been in the room. Victor wants to fool around but Tiffany prefers to read her book. Robert, Luke and Laura go topside. Robert breaks into Tiffany and Victor’s room and attempts to get into Victor’s secret hiding place. However, a radio alarm suddenly blares, waking Victor and Tiffany up (turns out it was set for 11pm not am). Robert is forced to hide while Victor and Tiffany decide to make love. Once they are asleep again, Robert searches their room for the formula since he didn’t find it in the hiding place. Outside, Max is bemused to see Luke and Laura kissing and tells them to continue doing what they were doing. Robert eventually leaves without the formula, waking Victor and Tiffany up. Victor is convinced Max broke into their room. It seems Monica’s PI, Larry Corrigan was successful in his bid to fill in for Susan as manager of the disco. He uses his new position to continue to spy on Alan. The next day, Luke and Laura spend some time on the deck making out while the rest of the boat is asleep. Later Laura visits Tiffany again. Tiffany tells Laura that the Titan will arrive at its destination the day after tomorrow and that there is going to be a broadcast of the Royal wedding (Charles and Diana) on the yacht. In the salon, Victor is explaining what will happen when the Titan arrives at the island to Max and Gen but notices that Luke aka ‘Thor’ is there and orders him to leave (as Victor is convinced that ‘Thor’ is working for Max). The incident fuels Victor’s distrust of Max. Later, Luke searches the room for the formula and spots one of the radio guards sneaking drinks. This gives Luke an idea to spike his drink to get into the radio room. Laura returns to Tiffany’s room while Victor is there and listens as Victor tells Tiffany about his suspicions of Max. Laura returns to Luke and Robert with a suitcase full of food. The three have dinner. They are forced to hide when a crewman and a maid come looking for some luggage and are bemused when the crewman attempts to seduce the maid. Ruby tells Jesse that she is worried about Bobbie. Zach invites Bobbie to the Disco and Ruby warns her that she will lose Noah if she doesn’t stop playing silly games. Stacy excitedly informs Bobbie and Jesse that Noah has invited her for dinner. Mike and Hutch spend time together during a hydrotherapy session. Gail shows Rose around on her first day as a volunteer and Rose learns that she will be helping Hutch. Rose reminds Mike that Hutch is a criminal. Now that the Baldwins and the Webbers have reconciled, the four have dinner. Lee offers to help Rick and Lesley find out more about what is going on with Luke and Laura. Lee brings congressman Sterner to meet with Rick and Lesley. After hearing Rick and Lesley’s story, the congressman tells them that he will get in touch with Washington. Later, Congressman Sterner brings a man named Ted Ballantine to meet with them. Ballantine tells the Webbers that Laura is not officially involved in anything but requests more time to figure out what is going on. Luke drugs a drink and the radio room guard drinks it and passes out as he planned. Robert attempts to contact the WSB via the radio. However, they are interrupted by Victor and are forced to leave. Victor finds absinthe and assumes it was Max who broke into the radio room as Luke and Robert planned. Rick and Lesley are frustrated by the stonewalling they faced from the WSB and look to Hutch for answers since Robert visited him when Luke went missing. Hutch tells them that Robert Scorpio is for real and that it seems that the WSB is involved in keeping world peace. Rick and Lesley also talk to Georgia who them Robert’s ID number as she heard it the night that O’Reilly died. Georgia also remembers that O’Reilly made Robert promise to get on the boat. Rick and Lesley later confront Congressman Sterner about the WSB and threaten to expose the organisation. Sterner says that he didn’t know anything until Ballantine got in touch with him and gives Ballantine’s contact details to the Webbers. Bobbie is jealous when Noah brings Stacy to the Disco. Zach, Amy and Kathy are also there. Bobbie eventually admits to Noah that she is worried about Luke. Noah and Bobbie end up ditching the others to go and find Rick and Lesley. Rick and Lesley give them an update and Noah reveals that his uncle is a senator so could also be able to help. Ballantine calls, and Rick tells him that he is willing to go to the press. Ballantine agrees to meet with Rick and Lesley in Washington. Back at the Disco, Kathy has a brief chat with Corrigan about any updates in the investigation into Alan while Stacy has a hissy fit as Amy teases her about being ditched. The Titan guests prepare for the broadcast of the royal wedding. Since the crew are also invited, Luke, Laura and Robert plan to steal the formula while the guests are distracted by the wedding. Actual footage (with sound) is shown of Charles and Diana’s wedding vows. Luke and Laura are so engrossed by the wedding and in each other that they forget their part of the plan (to turn on the air conditioner so that Victor will remove his coat). Robert is forced to steal Victor’s wallet while he is still wearing his coat. Robert also gets Tiffany’s attention and she later asks Laura about him. Later as Luke, Laura and Robert toast to the fall of the house of Cassadine, Victor has noticed that his copy of the formula is missing. He contacts Mikkos’ communications person; blaming Max and ‘Thor’ for the theft and saying that he will organise a search for the formula when they reach the island.

That's a really good show. Need to have a rewatch at some point.

Thanks, that's another character I now know the name of I'll watch out for that. Hopefully it is in the playlist. Yes, Laura always seemed to be a bit friendless when I watching in the 90s. Even Monica, who would have been Laura's oldest friend, stayed in her own storylines (and their friendship cooled after Monica's affair with Rick anyway). At least in current episodes, Laura has built strong friendships with Curtis and *surprise surprise* Carly. I remember asking my friend once why Laura wouldn't tell Amy that Stefan was blackmailing her to leave town (When Genie Francis was going off on that long maternity leave) and she explained to me that Amy would probably blab to everyone in town! And in the 1981 episodes the first thing Amy does after Lesley gives her a stern telling off for gossiping is to gossip about Laura and Susan to half the disco!

Thanks! it's hard to keep track of all the guest characters introduced on the Titan lol. There's soooo many! Oh and I have been here all along; just had a minor boradband internet issue back in February which meant I stopped watching the clips initially only for a few days but for some reason (not COVID related lol) never resumed until the other day when I noticed some of the episodes had been deleted from the playlist.

Late July 1981 Slick drove Rick and Lesley to several places around Port Charles, humorously explaining to them what he knew about the Ice Princess caper (and providing a recap for the audience). Rick and Lesley eventually confronted Edward at the Q mansion. Edward stonewalled them. After Rick and Lesley left, Alan who had overheard, questioned Edward about Laura. Edward shut Alan up by bringing up the subject of Alan’s child. Rick and Lesley updated Amy on some of what was going on with Laura. Amy then told Rick and Lesley about Susan’s pregnancy. Lesley explained that she and Rick already knew about it and Lesley gave Amy a tongue lashing for gossiping. This did not deter Amy, as she later told Bryan, Claudia, Kathy and Zach about Susan’s pregnancy at the Disco. Monica’s PI, Larry Corrigan, overheard and beckoned Kathy to join him and they decided to inform Monica. Kathy rang Monica and passed the phone to Corrigan who broke the news to Monica. Monica was devastated. Luke, Laura and Robert managed to launder their clothes and waited in the sauna where one of the yacht’s guests joined them and said it was great that the staff are allowed to use the facilities. Burt learned one of his officers, officer Woods, recognised Heather as the woman he saw on the night that Diana Taylor was murdered. Burt sent Officer Woods to Kelly’s to confirm that Heather was the woman he saw. Meanwhile, Heather was alarmed to learn that Sarah was recovering and the she would be allowed to be out on day release. Noah put his foot in it when he said that it was good that Toby had recovered and was being released (genuinely meaning that he was happy that Toby had recovered and forgetting that Toby would be sent back to prison). Toby asked Noah if there was anything he could do to keep him at the hospital but Noah was unable to help. Some partial and missing episodes follow, mainly focussing on the Ice Princess and Hutch storylines. Rose accompanied Mike (who had broken his leg) to some sort of hydrotherapy session. Rose was concerned when she saw that Hutch was also there, undergoing the same therapy. Joe later arrived and spoke to Rose after speaking to Hutch. Rose was unforgiving as Hutch was in the organisation that killer her husband, Joe’s father. Gail later suggested that Rose volunteer at the hospital and Rose accepted the offer but finished the scene glaring at Hutch. Alex is upset by Tiffany’s presence on the Titan but Tony explains that she is with Victor and that Mikkos allowed Tiffany’s presence. The two were packing because Mikkos had requested that Alex and Tony join him at the island in advance of the others. Alex wanted to know why the plans had changed but Tony and Victor wouldn’t tell her. Meanwhile, Luke, Laura and Robert raided the fridge for food. Later, Laura snuck on deck while the guests were having a party. Luke and Robert attempted to tap into the yacht’s communications. When Laura returned, they were mystified to hear a seaplane headed for the boat. Robert, successful in tapping into the yacht's communication lines, learned that Alex and Tony had departed the Titan for the island; that Victor has one of the copies of the formula; and that the Cassadines do not trust Max, one of the guests who apparently controls five countries in the third world. A crewman arrives and Robert is forced to knock him out. Missing from the partial episodes was a confrontation between Stacy and Bobbie over the hospital’s new nurses’ jumpsuit uniform. Later, Anne gave Bobbie some advice on how handle Stacy's obvious pursuit of Noah, suggesting that she ignore her. Gail suggested Rick and Lesley seek Lee’s help in talking to the commissioner. Gail was hopeful that this would thaw relations between the Webbers and the Baldwins (they’ve been estranged for over a year). Lee was happy to help but was left mystified when he called the commissioner and the commissioner wouldn’t help. Rick and Lesley eventually manage to meet with the commissioner, but he denies anything is going on. Rick and Lesley later had dinner and mysteriously started speaking German with completely different voices 😜 (JK - this particular episode was cobbled together from several different sources including the German dub). Now that Tony and Alex have departed the Titan, Luke is able to go topside dressed as a crewman since Victor doesn’t know who he is. Summer madness by Kool & the Gang played as Heather removed her blouse (but was still wearing a slip and a dress) and attempted to seduce Joe during a game of Solitaire at Kelly’s. Joe wasn’t having it with her flirty behaviour though and took off upstairs. Heather angrily pushed the cards off the table. Joe returned to his room definitely looking like he needed to take a very cold shower.

After six months I've resumed watching 1981 episodes of General Hospital. I won't be doing detailed summaries as I found doing that to be a bit too much. Sadly in the interim a number of the episodes from the playlist were deleted so we lost about two weeks or so in July, skipping the fallout of James Duvall's murder, O'Reilly's murder and Victor Cassadine's introduction. Some highlights so far: Alexandria finally convinced Emma Lutz to give her the Ice Princess in exchange for a $3k donation made to GH in Emma's name. When Luke, Robert and Slick found out from Emma that Alex had the statue, they headed over to the Q mansion to search the place, upsetting Stella and causing (the unseen) baby AJ to cry from the disturbance (None of the other Qs were home). Meanwhile, Alex relayed the good news to Tony and gave him the statue's copy of the formula. Alex later met with James Duvall at Laura's apartment in an attempt to get him to hand over his copy of the formula. James was suspicious and opened the base of the statue finding the statue's copy missing. James and Alex argue when he realises that she's with Cassadine; she ended up hitting him with the Ice Princess and he was killed instantly. Alex was very upset but managed to compose herself enough to find James' copy of the formula. At the exact same time the fourth of July picnic was being held. Most of Port Charles attended, including the Qs and Jesse (who was out of her nurses uniform). Mike (later Mike Webber) was introduced pretty much as a random kid. Mike and Jeremy won the three legged race. Bobbie ended up having a flashback of the previous picnic when Luke got her to light fireworks for him so he could run off and do something without anyone suspecting. Meanwhile Laura and Slick waited for Alex to show up at the picnic (Alex arranged for Laura to meet her at the picnic, but it was a ruse to ensure her meeting with Duvall would not be interrupted. When Alex didn't show, Laura gave Slick the slip and went off to her apartment. When she arrived she found the door ajar... We then unfortunately skip all the parts where Laura finds the body, is triggered and finally tells Luke about what happened with David Hamilton. The playlist picks up with Robert, Luke and Laura already on the yacht. Hutch and Toby recovered from poisoning at GH. During the missing episodes, The GH staff (except for Amy - who pointed out that Hutch was a hitman who'd been after Luke and Laura - and Dan) had apparently become quite fond of the two cons. Dan and the hospital board were not happy about their presence in the hospital and Dan tried to convince Steve to release Toby since he was sufficiently recovered. Audrey strongly came into bat for Toby and pleaded that he couldn't be sent back to prison while his life was in danger. However Steve felt he had no choice but to release him. Lee met with an old friend to discuss Hutch's case. Meanwhile Gail was showing Zach, a new intern, around the hospital. Zach was interested in Nurse Stacy (but I think Stacy is still interested in Noah). Susan has fled town and Alan has finally told Edward that she is pregnant with his baby. While Edward was supportive of Alan having a mistress, he was furious about the pregnancy and declared the child illegitimate. Monica's PI attempted to talk to Alice about Susan, but Alice wouldn't tell him anything. Amy later eavesdropped as an upset Alice declared out loud her feelings that she had failed both Heather and Susan. Amy was most surprised to learn that Susan was pregnant and she quickly crept upstairs before Alice could see her. Heather and Joe grew closer and shared a kiss. Burt organised a line-up but the woman failed to be 100% sure that it was Heather that she saw on the night Diana Taylor was murdered. Anne was upset by Joe and Heather's growing closeness and warned him about Heather yet again. Now that several characters are on the yacht en-route to the island, Victor Cassadine and Tiffany Hill has finally become apart of the cast.

Pretty much lol

Mr Mom's coverage of the Victor/Nikki/Kevin triangle. It's funny how at the end even the kids want to know who the father of Nikki's baby (Victoria) is "Kevin's a skunk!" "Kevin gets all the girls!" "Sure got Nikki!"

I've seen a few references over the years to Monica possibly being raped by Alan in early 1980 ( so only a few months after Luke and Laura). I've never seen clips so I don't know the exact circumstances and it seems that if it occurred it was seriously downplayed. Other than that there were a few attempted rapes and rapes mentioned in backstory until Carla Greco (as it happens she's mentioned up thread) was raped by her ex in 1990. But that was during Joseph Hardy's run, several months before Monty returned.

The closest I can think of is the rape storyline involving Matt Clark, Sharon and Amy, though that started long before the summer (Sharon's rape was in December '94) and I think the social issue aspect was downplayed somewhat. I did enjoy the run of social stories that Cricket was involved in post David Kimball; kept her and Danny busy for a few years without having them cheat on each other. Of course that didn't last forever. Danny always seemed to be getting into trouble with drugs lol, often through not fault of his own.

@cassadine1991 Thought I'd reply here rather than in the ATWT thread. Frankie Greco was the brother of Carla Greco (Carla was Colton's new love interest once Felicia had reunited with Frisco and was played by Laura Harring). Frankie was on for at least 6 - 7 months; involved in storylines with Colton, Ned, Decker and Dawn etc. I don't know what happened to him, but it's likely he got axed when Gloria Monty returned.

He was also on The Doctors in the 60s. He wasn't very happy on Soaps though.

Thanks kalbir; yes, come to think of it I do vaguely remember the engagement party and Dina pretending to be ill.

It did take Jill several years to convince John to remarry her. In 1990, Rex and Jill were together as a result of the original Marge storyline. But they quickly split and Rex ended up with Leanna Love for a time and Jill ended up pursuing John again (she may have actually cheated on Rex with John, but I'm not sure). Unfortunately for Jill, John was reluctant to commit. In 1991, John wasn't happy when Jill sought custody of Little Phillip (Chance) during Nina's imprisonment ordeal after she shot David Kimball; Jill had wanted her and John to raise Phillip together but John wasn't having it. Later that year, Dina returned to Genoa City for Brad and Traci's second wedding and John got engaged to her. Jill hired Paul to find some info about Dina's past. Paul sent Nathan to look into it because he was busy helping Lauren grieve for the baby that Sheila had switched. I think Nathan found out something (I forget what) and Jill managed to use the info to stop John from getting married again. In 1992, Rex and Katherine were back together and about to get remarried. IIRC, I think Jill tried to convince John to have a double wedding, but again John wasn't having it! Jill ended up seeing Blade for a period, but Blade broke up with Jill as he wanted her to work things out with John. However, Jill fell into an affair with Victor; he was on the rebound from both his failed marriage to Ashley and his failed reconciliation with Nikki (who'd gone back to Jack after learning she was pregnant with Jack's baby). Jill allowed herself to believe that Victor was going to propose, he dumped her instead. This made John take pity on Jill and they finally got engaged. In 1993, Jack tried to pressure Jill into a pre-nup. This enraged John and he ended up marrying Jill in a quickie ceremony partly to spite Jack!

Oh interesting! I recognise the TV2 channel idents; this is actually a recording of the New Zealand airing in 1997 (New Zealand was 4 years behind). If you pause at the right time you can also see about one frame of a Shortland Street promo after the opening credits, and one frame of a Friends promo after the end credits. As for the episode itself, the Dru/Lillie Bell confrontation was a long time coming. It took a long time but it was great to see Dru finally vindicated. I've always wondered what the original intention was supposed to be with Danny and Bernadette. Seemed like it was building up to something like what later happened with Phyllis the following year.

I'm thinking that a significant turning point was when she discovered Nathan's affair with Keesha. Olivia completely lost it, though at the time her rage was completely reasonable and justified considering the circumstances. It's probably one of Tonya Lee Williams' most memorable performances, and could have been the beginning of a more complex, stronger and hardened Olivia. Unfortunately, later storylines instead placed Olivia into situations where she acted unreasonably and often out of spite. While her behaviour in later years mostly made sense in the context of Nathan's betrayal, I do think it is a shame that the writers (Alden?) chose to take her in a bitter direction.

@titan1978 I'd stopped watching by this time so I didn't know this myself, but yes, Lucky burned down the house 😔

I seem to recall Lucky (I think it was still GV then) wanted Liz and the kids to move in there with him when they got engaged in 2009 and Lucky surprised her with an engagement party there. Of course, Liz and the kids never moved in there because her affair with Nikolas was exposed; Liz ended up staying in her house in Queens Point near to Patrick and Robin while Lucky got an apartment for himself (Patrick's old apartment). On April 1st, 2010 (the 47th anniversary, but I don't know if it was intentional or not because celebrating the anniversary every year seems to be more of a Valentini thing), Lucky (now JJ) took Maya Ward on a tour around the house. However, we only saw them talk on the exterior porch, we didn't actually see the interior.

Yes, it is a bit frustrating but on the other hand, the fact that Michaela Rooney already works behind the scenes and probably wasn't interested in having Emily recur does lessen the disappointment somewhat. That said, Shortland Street does tend to rely on serial killers, killer epidemics and Big pharma a bit too often. It's possible but I think that it was intended to be a short stint all along. It was filmed shortly after the show resumed production in May but would have been written earlier in the year when COVID didn't yet have such a foothold; as far as I know, the show hasn't had to make wholesale rewrites.