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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.

Michaela Rooney's brief return in front of the camera as Dr Emily Devine has now come to an end with the character being killed off as part of the ongoing 'creep' storyline

Shortland Street's 7000th episode screened on July 3rd. The episode itself was low key but there has been some media coverage. https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/tv-guide/121984423/shortland-street-cast-celebrates-7000-episodes - the photos in this one are cropped in an odd way lol https://twitter.com/ShortlandTweet/status/1278909727884238848?s=20

I think Jay ran (but not sure if he owned) Crimson Lights from 1994 - 99, before Nick and Sharon bought it.

And in a surprise move, Michaela Rooney has reprised the role of Dr. Emily Devine after 23 years. Emily originally appeared from 1995 - 1997. Like many former actors from the show, Michaela Rooney has moved to working behind the scenes on Shortland Street (as a scriptwriter). It will be interesting to see where this goes. I found it interesting that the intruder was planned to be Emily all along, but that Jennifer Ludlam's leave of absence delayed the storyline for a while. https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/tv-guide/121914377/shortland-streets-emily-devine-returns-after-25year-absence hthttps://twitter.com/ShortlandTweet/status/1275692195690012680?s=20tps://twitter.com/ShortlandTweet/status/1275692195690012680?s=20https://twitter.com/ShortlandTweet/status/1275692195690012680?s=20

If you use ctrl + F to search for 'Conn' at the curlyqgirl recaps (Connor and Conner are spelt interchangeably, hence you have to shorten his name to get all the mentions, but unfortunately it will also pick up 'connected' and 'Connecticutt' as well) you'll get an idea of his storylines. http://www.angelfire.com/tv/curlyqgrl/gh/eps/gheps1991.htm http://www.angelfire.com/tv/curlyqgrl/gh/eps/gheps19912.htm http://www.angelfire.com/tv/curlyqgrl/gh/eps/gheps1992.htm http://www.angelfire.com/tv/curlyqgrl/gh/eps/gheps19922.htm Basically the TLDR version is that Connor first appeared June 24, 1991. Mac and Dominique encountered him first and Mac hired him to sing at his new jazz club, The Outback and the now infamous wedding rehearsal scene takes place on June 27, 1991. Connor also became friends with Dominique and Robin. Connor performed again the following month at the opening of The Outback. By September 1991, Felicia had become suspicious of Connor. Connor revealed that he was looking for his father and that Mariah might have some answers since as @AdelaideCate007 mentions, they were connected. Mac, Connor, Felicia and Maxie went to Texas where a friend of Mariah's told them about Connor's father, El Patron. By December 1991, Connor was in trouble with immigration and needed to prove that his father was American. Sean tried to help Connor and was shocked when Connor told Sean that his father was El Patron. Sean revealed to Robert that he was El Patron. This is where the video - "He's my son" - that @victoria foxton posted comes in. Sean saved Connor from deportation by revealing that he was Connor's father. They took blood tests at the beginning of 1992 and the results came back in February. Connor was hesitant to accept Sean as his father (and they still had an uneasy relationship as late as July). Then there was a brief storyline about Connor being hired by Lucy to write a theme song for Deception. By September, Connor had feelings for Dominique but she got ended up getting married to Scott. There is no further mention of Connor in these recaps after October 22, 1992.

It's weird reading about a pre-Monty spy storyline on GH. It does feel very Dobson-ish though. Also good to see what Steve Hardy was getting up to. Those yearly summaries they used to have on Abc.com always seemed to suggest that all Steve did in the early - mid 70s was pining after Audrey.

Not sure why they divorced the first time as I wasn't watching (something to do with Traci having a miscarriage and Lisa locking Brad up in a cage?) **Edit** I didn't see the post by will81** The second time round Brad pretty much lost interest in Traci and had only re-married her because she was pregnant with Colleen. So when Colleen was a few months old, Traci left Brad for her publisher Steve (from memory it wasn't even a big affair storyline or anything, Traci had realized her marriage was over and decided to pursue things with Steve who had been showing interest in her). Taci and Steve left with Colleen to live in New York City. A year or so after that, Traci had married Steve. Brad - concerned that Colleen (now SORASed to 5 years old) didn't know him and viewed Steve as her father - pursued joint custody and/or visitation rights. That lead to a brief quadrangle as Traci still had lingering feelings for Brad but Brad was involved with Lauren. At one point, Brad had a heart attack while being intimate with Lauren; Traci and Lauren feuded over Brad at the hospital. I don't know how that exactly all got resolved because I stopped watching for a while and when I resumed; Brad was with Nikki, Lauren had moved to L.A (for B&B) and Traci and Steve were back in New York.

i guess the inappropriateness of Scotty and Laura's early relationship gets overshadowed by Laura's later storylines with David Hamilton (basically a story about grooming) and Luke (the rape at the disco).

I've read somewhere that Scotty was 23, but I think that may have been in 1979 when he married Laura, who was 17 at the time, so nearly a six year age gap. They actually started dating when Laura was only 15, which I've always thought was a bit problematic (but may have been more common in the 70s? I don't know).

Just caught part of an episode of the 1980s UK sitcom Duty Free (produced by Yorkshire Television) and Frazer Hines was on it playing a womanizing caricature of himself, trying to seduce both of the married female leads. One of the husbands on the show also kept calling him 'Joe' despite Frazer Hines explaining that Joe was the character he played on Emmerdale Farm. The episode was from September 1984 during the time that Frazer was off the show for a few years, and one of the female characters does say that he has left Emmerdale Farm.

And so it begins....

Are you sure about that? Grace died during the period when Marlena and John were off the canvas.

I think Flo was still around in October 1997 when Nina had a breakdown, went missing and then threatened Tricia and Ryan with a gun, only to end up being shot herself. By that point Flo's sole purpose seemed to be to look after Little Phillip (Chance) while Nina and Ryan were having their dramas. **Edit I left this page open for several hours before posting and since then other people have pretty said the same thing lol**

Yes, a retcon is also possible, or somebody on the writing staff misremembering their sorority connection as them being at college together. ** I posted the top half before seeing the post by YRBB and the replies have merged** Aha! thanks. I think earlier my brain may have attempted to rationalize the discrepancy coz now that you have both said that they were retconned in the late 90s to have been in college together I am now back to remembering it that way again too lol

Thanks! I was under the mistaken impression that Ashley and Olivia went to college together but come to think of it in later years they actually only ever referred to themselves as being sorority sisters. So they belonged to the same sorority but at different colleges and never met until Olivia's first episode.

I'm pretty sure Olivia hadn't arrived yet (in fact wikipedia says her first airdate was on the 15th, exactly one week later).

Thanks for that. I'm not sure if I watched this particular episode back in the day, but I do remember seeing Nathan confront Dru and Jack rescuing pre-soras Victoria from the pool so I am pretty sure I've seen the episode after this. I think this was Victoria's last major incident as a child before being shipped off to that magical Swiss boarding school and coming back as Heather Tom about six or seven months later lol.

Young and the Restless That's an interesting back story that also prevents Lorie and Mark from consummating their relationship (as they were due to be revealed as half-siblings). General Hospital I like how several ongoing plot threads came together in this alleged malpractice storyline on GH. Big mistake Peter! If you'd allowed your wife to adopt your own biological son then it's possible you would never have ended up getting dragged into Heather's schemes with PJ/Steven-Lars. And here comes Lee's soon to be second wife!