FrenchFan

12 minutes ago, YRfan23 said:

Well Paul’s first episode was May 23, 1978, so he and Nikki were definitely onscreen by then. 

Do we have Erica Hope’s first airdate ?

23 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

I would so love to see some of this story. Along with Jingles the Clown it's maybe the highest on my list of bits I wish I could truly dive into. 

The guy who shared the screenshots of 1973 episodes has 2 episodes with Nancy Addison and Melinda O’Fee. Wanted to buy them to share with you but he wouldn’t sell to France

8 minutes ago, kalbir said:

Thanks @FrenchFan . Y&R's first mention of Nikki. I'm guessing the next summary will be the first mention of Paul.

No mention of Paul in June. Nikki arrived in Genoa and was described as flirty. I imagine Paul was just a random guy at first. Nikki is said to have sex with a guy named Ted (who has a girlfriend named Carol). The guy gives Nikki a veneral disease. In August 1978 summary, Casey was said to be relieved Nikki was seeing a young doctor but Paul accused Nikki of giving him the veneral disease. It is his first mention. I will have to double check with SoapOperaDigest.

MAY 1978

All My Children

Written by: Agnes Nixon

Produced by: Bud Kloss

Dr. David Thornton slipped a fatal dose of Digitoxin into his wife Edna's drink after insisting that they have an early dinner before Edna reported to work that evening. His small daughter, Dottie, had been put to bed early but sneaked out to sample the wine. Edna was ill in the bathroom as the phone rang and as David went to get her, Dottie scooted back to her room without an opportunity to taste the drink, hurriedly putting Edna’s glass back at David’s place setting. After Edna left, David doubled over in pain but managed to call Christina Karras. When Chris arrived, David told her that the ambulance she had called would be too late, as he knew how strong the dosage was. He confessed to Chris, saying he was getting what he deserved for trying to play God. Chris was distraught when a homicide detective questioned her, insisting that the poisoning was not a suicide attempt, but an accident. When Edna arrived home she accused Chris of killing David because she couldn’t have him.

When the facts of Chris’ former relationship with David emerged, and some of the background of her past episodes of somnambulism were brought out, she was arrested for murder. Jeff returned to town and hearing that the theft of Digitalis from the hospital drug supplies went back over a month, he reasoned that David had been administering it to Edna, accounting for the episodes of arythmic heartbeats she had been experiencing, which he pretended were due to a chronic but not serious dysfunction. On the day of David’s funeral services Jeff obtained a portable EGK machine and convinced Edna to submit to a test as a precaution as she was facing the strain of the day. Back at the hospital he showed Dr. Frank Grant the normal pattern in contrast to the one he had administered to Edna when she came to him during the period when she was having attacks. He phoned a Dr. Russell at San Francisco General after learning from Edna that she had a series of checkups with him when she and David were living there.

Kelly Cole walked out on her manager/ lover and flew to Pine Valley with the airline ticket Myrtle Fargate had given her. Linc was floored by the resemblance to his dead wife, Kitty, but when Kelly learned that Myrtle was not her mother and had no idea of the whereabouts of her natural father, she reacted bitterly saying that she had been conned again and prepared to walk out. Linc stopped her by showing her a picture of Kitty. After prevailing upon Kelly to stay a few more days in Pine Valley, they learned Kelly was told she had been born there and her birthdate was the same as Kitty’s. Myrtle and Kitty visited Kate Martin and learned that Kate once heard from Kitty’s grandmother, who raised her, that Lucy Carpenter had given birth to twins. While waiting tor access to the town birth records, Kelly, Myrtle, and Linc dined at the Château and Claudette Montgomery reluctantly and half-heartedly asked Kelly to perform. After noting Kelly’s reception by the patrons of the Chateau, Claudette offered Kelly an engagement which she quickly accepted. On the afternoon of the day when Linc and Kelly found proof of Kelly's identity, a birth certificate showing that she was Constance Carpenter, born four minutes after Kitty; Myrtle answered the door to find Eddie Dorrance, Kelly’s manager, on her doorstep.

Brooke English’s plan to tell Devon Sheppard about Brooke and Dan’s relationship misfired as Devon was rushed to the train for an out-of-town stay by her mother. By the time Devon returned, Phoebe Tyler had surprised Brooke and Dan in bed in the poolhouse at the Tyler estate. Phoebe’s outraged report to Kate Martin of the episode and Dan’s letter from the dean of the School ot Architecture, warning that Dan was about to flunk out, prompted him to call off, once and for all, his affair with Brooke. Brooke managed to keep from being sent home at the minute when she saw Phoebe out of her wheelchair, getting herself a drink, as Benny was loading up Brooke’s suitcases. Phoebe submitted but when Brooke told Dan that she would not be sent away, he insisted that nothing was changed; that he had a responsibility to his career and himself first.

Erica Kane consented to a weekend trip with Tom Cudahy at a country inn, but insisted on separate rooms. However she called the Inn later to change the reservations to a single room with a double bed so that she could appear to be overwhelmed by the circumstances and her attraction to him, against her better judgment.

Eddie Dorrance took over Kelly’s life by insisting to Claudette that Kelly would not go on, in spite of advance publicity, if she didn’t get an additional $150 for the week, and talking Kelly into cancelling a dinner with Myrtle and Linc. He moved her things out of Linc’s place. Eventually Dorrance learned from Claudette that Linc made up the difference himself but he did not tell Kelly. Linc convinced Myrtle that it would be a mistake to attend Kelly's opening as she seemed to be making if clear that her choice was Dorrance.

While visiting with Christina at the jail, Nancy Grant Blair experienced sharp pains and went immediately to Pine Valley Hospitai. As Dr. Clader was not available it was Frank Grant who admitted her. Nancy had a partially ruptured membrane and was threatened with a miscarriage or a premature birth. Caroline Grant was upset when she heard that Frank’s attention was once again taken up with Nancy, particularly since her own efforts to get pregnant had not so far been successful. She remarked that Nancy wouldn't be the only woman who had lost a baby and she might be a lot better off if she did. Frank told Caroline that remark was the most heartless thing he had ever heard, and when Caroline protested that she was just being realistic, he countered that her attitude was not even human for someone who called herself a nurse. Frank walked out leaving Caroline to speculate that if the baby died, she – Caroline - would be the only one to bear Frank’s child. Nancy eventually learned that the rupture was small and would cure itself and she had a good chance of going to term, with a lot of bed rest.

Brooke English learned from Phoebe that Nick dumped Erica and threatened to tell Tom Cudahy he was being manipulated, forcing Erica to tell Tom herself to defuse the situation. Erica also told Tom, in a maidenly “confession,” that she set up the change of reservations, saying that she had come to trust Tom's feelings for her and wanted no deception between them. Tom received Brooke’s news when she gave it as a jealous personal attack on Erica but dressed Erica down for withholding the fact that Brooke had called a number of times to speak to him.

Phil and Tara just made up another quarrel after Phil adamantly refused to consider a dinner invitation from Donna when he learned that Tara had called Chuck to accept without consulting him. Little Philip – Charlie – spent the evening at the Tyler apartment where Donna overheared his wish that he, Tara and Chuck could be together as a family. Chuck admonished Donna not to take the wishful thinking of a little boy to heart, concealing his own fantasies of reuniting with Tara. As Phil and Sgt. Jacoby came into the Brent home lugging an antique barber pole from Nick’s office as a gift for the boy’s room, Chuck was there. Tara explained that little Philip was running a fever and she couldn't call Dr. Karras. The boy had a slight case of tonsilitis and was not cheered much by the present until Mel Jacoby mentioned it was a symbol of barber-surgeons of bygone days and “Charlie” took pride in the connection with Chuck’s profession.

Brooke, stymied in her pursuit of Tom Cudahy for a time, turned back to Dan Kennicott, following him to the library where he was studying. Devon had just finished a sweater she made as a gift for Dan and looked for him among the bookstacks, stopping short as she saw Dan and Brooke in a passionate embrace.

Another World

Written by: Harding Lemay

Produced by: Paul Rauch

Alice Frame Gordon had been bitter since Willis Frame told her he couldn't marry her because he still loved Angie Perrini. Alice tried to explain to adoptive daughter Sally about her breakup with Willis. She told Sally she married Ray Gordon without really being over Steven, and that was the reason for the collapse of that marriage. Alice continued that the situation with Willis was summed up in that sometimes things just didn’t work out. Liz Matthews dropoed by to ask Alice, Susan Shearer - Liz's daughter -, and Sally to dinner. Liz wanted to push Alice out socially, preferably with Dr. Cal Zimmerman. Alice firmly told Liz she would do as she pleased with her life and that all she needed or wanted was Sally and her job. Liz confided that loneliness had a way, as days became weeks and months and years, of making someone into someone he didn’t want to be. Alice realized Liz was talking about herself and looked thoughtful. Sally arranged to meet Willis in his office. She wanted to continue seeing him. Willis would like that, too, but felt Alice wouldn’t agree. He went to see Alice, who didn’t want to keep them apart, but couldn’t stand even talking to Willis. Susan offered to be intermediary. Alice agreed. Susan and Alice decided to have a barbecue. Susan suggested they have people over, saying she'd like to invite Cal. Alice agreed, provided everyone understood Cal was Susan's guest. She was very cool towards Cal, which Sally noticed. Sally liked him and Susan and told Alice she hoped Alice wouldn’t drive them away, as she had done Ray and Willis. Alice tried to explain again, but Sally was too contused to listen.

Greg Barnard, John Randolph's law partner, was in love with Pat Randolph. Pat, however, had made it clear she had no interest in Greg. Thus, Greg began to date Pat's daughter Marianne secretly. Marianne was in love with Greg. They arranged for a friend of Marianne’s on campus to provide alibis for their evenings and nights together. Greg and Marianne often met at the campus coffee shop, thinking nobody would know Greg there, but they were seen by Eileen Simpson, a girl Marianne got a job in John’s office. Eileen had been dating Marianne’s brother Mike. Unaware Marianne and Greg’s affair was a secret, Eileen told Mike, who confronted Marianne. She told Mike that if he told anyone about them, she would leave home and drop all family contact. Mike agreed to keep quiet. Meanwhile, John and Pat had been seeing each other socially. The night John received word from Brian Bancroft that his estranged wife Olive would give up her demands for a huge  financial settlement, John went to see Pat. He joyously announced that they could then make plans to remarry. Pat refused, crushing John. Liz's imminent arrival forestalled Pat’s running after John to continue the discussion. When the family learned of Pat’s decision, Marianne, at Greg’s urging, suggested John take a vacation. Mike supported her, as John never took any time off after the murder charges were dropped. He also needed time to completely get over the nervous breakdown he suffered at that time, as Susan added. John decided to take a trip to the Rockies. Marianne was delighted as she could spend more time with Greg without interference.

Dennis Carrington had been despondent since learning that Eileen and Mike had been dating, feeling Mike was too much competition. He saw them together at a party Alice gave for Sally. Dennis left immediately. Nobody seemed able to pull Dennis out of the dumps. Finally, Dennis heard from his mother, Iris Carrington Bancroft. She wrote a letter from St. Tropez, inviting him to join her for the summer at Millicent Marberry’s villa. Dennis was tempted to leave immediately, but Elena de Poulignac needed  him at the Gallery until school was out, because she had to go to New York to meet with artists and dealers. Dennis, however, was the only person who had heard directly from Iris. She was upsetting Millicent, whose live-in lover, Georgio, was attracted to Iris. Millicent urged Iris to contact friends and family in Bay City.

After learning Iris’ whereabouts when Mac Cory and Brian discussed it, Liz called Iris, saying she was needed at home. Slightly reassured about their feelings for her, Iris called her father, Mac, but was dissatisfied when he wouldn't say what she thought he should — that he loved her and wanted her home. Dennis called her to discuss his visit, but Iris put him off by immediately bringing up Eileen in a disparaging way. He hung up. Millicent suggested Iris call Elena to find out what was going on. Iris was upset that Brian sold her house to Elena so quickly, even though she left such orders. Elena tried to reassure her, but suggested Iris talk with Brian, who was there having a bon voyage drink. Iris hung up when she heard Brian’s voice. Millicent was exasperated.

Brian had been seen in the company of Olive Randolph, John’s estranged wife. Dennis, Liz, Louise, and others expressed their concern to Mac. Mac passed along the concern. Brian assured Mac he was only seeing Olive to gain her confidence so that she would give up her demands for a large divorce settlement from John. Brian was successful, playing on Olive’s need to be with rich, important people. He suggested that her apparent money-grubbing would be considered declasse by those in his set. Thus, Olive capitulated. Brian, however, was treading on dangerous ground. Olive had given up seeing Cal Zimmerman, her psychiatrist, reassured by Brian’s interest and money that she would be all right. Olive had a history of using men to get money. However, when she accidentally shut herself in a closet, she panicked, recalling childhood horrors, proof she was still in need of help.

Willis had proposed to Angie. After several days, Angie turned him down. She had discovered she didn’t love him anymore. Willis was crushed. When Willis’ brother Vince learnd the news, he proposed to Angie. She accepted. Vince tried to find Willis to tell him before anyone else can, but found Willis was in California on vacation. Vince urged Angie to marry him immediately so they could start on their new life together. They eloped to Ogden. They were married by a justice of the peace with Charlie and Clarice as witnesses. Angie hadn’t told Rose yet.

Clarice McGowen was reluctant to join husband Burt in Detroit until her father was settled down with someone - Ada McGowen -. Rachel Cory, Ada’s daughter, liked Charlie and Ada together, but realized it was too soon after Gil McGowen’s death for Ada to get interested in Charlie. However, Ada was mending Charlie’s sweaters and fixing him treats, so Rachel was hopeful. Clarice was persuaded to leave when Ada and Charlie confronted her together. They told her they could become interested in each other, but her insistent presence was a hindrance, rather than a help. Clarice joined Burt.

Russ Matthews’ engagement to Gwen Parrish had been endangered by the arrival of Gwen’s mother Leueen, who suggested Russ‘ past track record in marriages hadn't been too great. Gwen was basically insecure anyway, and when Russ refused to discuss his marriage to Sharlene or to terminate his friendship with Elena completely, Gwen began overreacting to everything. Gwen turned more and more often to Willis to sound things out, a situation Leueen found delightful, as she had chosen Willis to be Gwen's husband. However, the strain in Gwen’s relationship with Russ was having deleterious effects on Gwen’s health and work. With Russ’ help, Leueen got Gwen to accept psychiatric help from Cal.

Dan Shearer arrived in Bay City. He told Liz that it was his idea that he and Susan separated. He then wanted to talk with Susan, who avoided him. Dan moved in with Russ.

Rose was furious when she learned of Angie’s marriage to Vince because they weren't married in the Church. - Angie wanted to avoid a big Church wedding because that was what she had planned with Willis. – Angie suggested that she felt Vince would go along with a second ceremony. Vince agreed with alacrity, which bothered Angie, because Vince discussed it openly with Rose before they had a chance to discuss it privately. - The newlyweds were living at the Perrini house. -

Gwen kept her next appointment with Cal, reporting sudden, puzzling paralysis of her hands and brief fainting spells.

Iris called Louise to check whether Brian was seeing Elena. Brooks forbade Louise to discuss Brian, but Louise has inadvertently fed Iris’ fantasy by not telling her the truth. Brian was vulnerable, and feeling he had lost Iris, found Olive an enticing substitute. Iris accepted Georgio’s attentions, which infuriated Millicent, who threw her out.

Greg again pleaded his case with Pat, who told him plainly that she was notinterested and also found something untrustworthy about him. When Mike learned that Greg subtly threatened Eileen with the loss of her job if she didn’t keep her mouth shut about Marianne and hirn, he confronted Greg. Greg handled the situation. He then found Mike's final divorce papers had arrived, but didn’t process them, keeping them as a weapon against Mike.

As The World Turns

Written by: Robert Soderberg & Edith Sommer

Produced by: Joe Willmore

Sandy Thompson had consented to let her husband visit her at the hospital, but she would not let him or anyone else discuss her relationship with Kevin. She needed another operation on her ankle, but would not consent. Without it she would  never walk, and even with it, there is was possibility that she couldn’t. John Dixon, who had ankle surgery himself, was the one who talked her into it. No one was able to convince Sandy that Kevin did love her. _ When the accident occurred, they were arguing about Kevin's feelings for Susan Stewart and in the heat of the argument they agreed on a divorce. –

Jay Stallings was still trying to get Carol back, but only alienated her more by his actions. The only person who still believed in him was Dee Stewart, but even she was shocked when he became intoxicated at dinner and insisted on seeing Carol. Kevin rushed across the hall when he heard the commotion and rescued them. Jay warned both Carol and Kevin that he thought there was something between them and he wouldn't stop until he had won Carol back.

Ellen Stewart argued with Dee about Jay and wanted David to reason with Dee. He said the only thing he knew personally about Jay was that he saved Annie's life not long ago. Everything else had been hearsay.

Jane Spencer was unreasonable the day she heard from her estranged husband, asking her to push ahead for the divorce because Michelle was expecting his child in October and he would like to be married by then. Jane visited her lawyer, asking to postpone her divorce until after the first of the year, because her accountant said it would be to her advantage to file a joint tax return. Ron called Beau, entreating him to speak to his mother. Jane said Ron owed her this much after all the money she had given him over the years.

Even though Beau’s first love was the law, he was trying very hard to make a career in the family hotel business for Annie's sake. Jane was trying to hold on to Beau, and Annie was making it easier with all the time her schooling was taking up. Melinda Grey was doing her best to become the other woman in Beau's life.

No one had heard from Karen Peters since she disappeared from the Spencer Hotel. Bob Hughes told Walter Vested, the D.A. for Winterbrook and Karen's fiance, that he felt Karen mentioned something to him that he should have remembered. Walter chastized "Eric" for frightening Karen after Bob left for Boston. Bob would have told her to turn over the file her father had on some criminal activities in Winterbrook, but then they had no idea where she had gone. When Bob remembered that Karen mentioned visiting Moose Lake with her parents, he has his mother call Walter. Vested arrives first and learns that Karen has always had the papers with her, but still refuses to give them up after protecting them for all this time. Karen realized that she never really loved Walter, but only thought she needed him. Vested and Eric decided that the only way to get the papers was for something to happen to Dr. Bob Hughes.

When Bob left the hospital to meet Karen, his car would not start. A van came out of the darkness, trying to run Bob down. Making sure that Bob was not injured, Karen called Walter, promising to turn over the papers.

Nancy Hughes told her husband that she thought something was going on between their daughter-in-law, Joyce, and Ralph Mitchell. Chris went to Switzerland to see if his grandson Tom could handle the case there alone so that Don could return to Oakdale to save his marriage.

Joyce did not get the response she hoped for when she told Ralph she was pregnant. He had no intention of marrying her and demanded that she see a doctor to confirm it. She told him it was a false alarm.

Thinking Ralph’s reluctance might be due to his affection for Mary Ellison, Joyce confided to Mary that she might be pregnant and wanted Mary to make an out of town doctor's appointment for her. She told Mary that she was pregnant. Ralph said he couldn't go away for the weekend because he had a real estate deal coming up, and Joyce accused Mary of taking Ralph's attentions from her. Joyce was frantic when she learned Don was returning home.

John Dixon again proposed to Mary, telling her to think it over. Laurie intervened, hoping to stop Mary. Ralph admitted that he turned to Joyce out of jealousy when John intimated that he and Mary were living together. Mary confronted John and told him to stay out of her life. John said she would be sorry, because he would be on top again. - John had been trying to recruit people favorable to his rejoining the staff at Memorial. He felt the publication of his book on cardiac surgery would help win them over. –

The world seemed to be coming down around Dr. Dan Stewart. He blamed himself for losing a patient while assisting Dr. Forest, who suffered a heart attack during the operation. Dr. Alex Keith was considerate, at first, when Dan refused to perform any surgery, but when weeks passed, he scheduled Dan for an operation with himself as first assistant, saying that if Dan didn't operate, he was useless to his service.

Betsy Stewart, suffering from hysterical deafness, would only trust her stepmother, Kim, and Dr. Keith. It was with Alex's help that Dr. Devan was able to put Betsy under hypnosis. After several sessions, Betsy was able to hear under hypnosis. When told, she had a hard time accepting this fact.

Thinking she was helping, Susan told Dan of Alex's attraction for Kim. This preyed on Dan's mind, and he looked for reasons to say Kim was keeping things from him.

Nick Conway, Valerie’s ex-husband, had come to Oakdale to fight for two hundred acres of the farm he claimed his grandparents' will stipulated he was not entitled to give her in the property settlement. Lisa Colman saw Nick as the perfect opportunity to keep Valerie and Grant from one another. She lunched with Nick and hinted that he could have the farm and Valerie, too. Grant Colman, Valerie's lawyer, was surprised when Nick said he was not going to pursue his law suit. Grant was not satisfied and, in checking, learned that his lawyer knew nothing about Nick's dropping the suit. He drew up an agreement for Nick to sign, and Nick agreed because he did not have the money to fight it out in court. If he could win Valerie back, he would have the whole farm.

Once this was settled, Grant told Valerie that he had no excuse for seeing her. Nick told Lisa that he was sharp and was sure that she didn't want him to see that Grant was the other person in Valerie's life. Nick stuck around town, saying that if he could find a suitable piece of property, he would like to stay right here. Lisa told her mother that she was not sure she wanted Grant back, but she did want them to suffer.

Ellen Stewart begged Jay to remember their friendship of the past and to do her a favor by breaking off with Dee. But when jay called to cancel their date, Dee saw through his excuses. She went to his motel room to inform him that she would stop seeing him when he no longer wanted to see her and not before.

Jane Spencer was put out when Annie said she had an exam and didn't have time to chat. She implied that Beau was upset over the time Annie spent with her books. Beau and Annie had their first major argument. They both were so miserable that it was easy to make up with a little encouragement from Dee.

Lisa’s plan to make Valerie and Grant suffer backfired. Grant had then become jealous enough of Nick Conway's attention to Valerie that he might leave Lisa. She asked him to take a vacation for several weeks as Chris and Donald Hughes would be returning, but he still claimed he had too much work.

Ralph Mitchell offered to marry Joyce Hughes for the baby's sake, but she had never seriously considered it. He said that the baby did have a legal father — Don. Joyce was waiting at the Hugheses' when everyone arrived home from the airport. She explained that she realized she had been irritable and touchy for the past few weeks, but she had been keeping a secret until she knew everything was all right. They were going to have a baby.

Karen Peters was to have lunch with Bob and Nancy before taking the papers to Winterbrook, but decided to do it immediately. Vested called Bob to ask if he recognized the driver of the white van. Bob told Dick Martin that Vested was involved because there was no mention of the color of the van. He set off for Winterbrook, but car trouble befell him. He called Karen, warning her that Vested was the enemy and to get out of the house. Vested realized that he had been found out by Karen and kept her from leaving the house. When Bob arrived, Vested pulled a gun, but the men in the white van and the police arrived. Vested was shot protecting Karen. Dick had decoded the files and assured Bob that those people involved in the rigged elections would be brought to justice. Karen agreed to stay in Winterbrook to help clear matters up, but promised to return to Bob.

Dan turned his patient over to Alex in the middle of the operation, causing Alex to request that Dan take a leave of absence. Dan thought everyone was against him when even Susan said he shouldn't fight it.

Days of our Lives

Written by: Ann Marcus

Produced by: Betty Corday & H. Wesley Kenney

Chris Kostichek, recently appointed head of research and development at Anderson Manufacturing, found the expectations of both the job and lover Mary Anderson aggravating. Thus, when he ran into an old friend, Suzie, at a beer bar, he ended up spending the evening drinking and reminiscing about "the good old days," forgetting, temporarily, that Mary was waiting dinner for him. Chris finally got to Mary's studio at 2:30. She was furious, but Chris calmed her by telling her he met an old friend and was reminiscing. He tried to call, but another guy monopolized the phone. Mary's calm lasted long enough for her to whiff cheap perfume on Chris' collar. She physically pushed Chris from the studio. Chris and Bob couldn't see eye to eye on what his job was as head of R&D. Bob saw it as strictly administrative, riding hard on all projects in development. Chris felt he should have time to work on pet projects, too. When they finally had a confrontation because Bob didn't want Chris to work personally on a new process, both men realized Chris had to make a choice.

Marlena Evans, fiancée of Don Craig, was very concerned about Donna Temple, a teenager an old flame of Don's tried to pass off as Don's child, costing him the election to the state senate. Since Donna's mother couldn't be found - she ran off to Houston to join a "john" -, Marlena was considering asking for temporary custody, feeling juvenile hall was a place that could turn Donna into a real juvenile delinquent. Don surprised Marlena with an engagement ring. When Marlena persisted in talking about Donna, Don became angry. Marlena admitted Donna wasn't his daughter, but she felt they had a responsibility towards her because she was all alone. Don felt Lorraine dumped Donna on them when she realized she couldn't win a paternity suit. Don finally agreed to let Marlena help Donna, provided she didn't become emotionally involved. Marlena got temporary custody of Donna, who was very suspicious of her, telling Marlena she wouldn't take any shrink stuff. After a rocky beginning, Donna accepted Marlena's rules and began to like the simple life Marlena led. Donna would like to stay on with Marlena, but recognized Don's hostility, and tried to come between them. Don caught her drinking, which caused an argument with Marlena, who took Donna's word first. But Don handed her the glass of vodka he took from Donna. He again pleaded with Marlena not to let Donna come between them. He pointed out that Marlena was already emotionally involved, then asked her to send Donna back, for the sake of their relationship. Marlena agreed, reluctantly.

Margo Anderman, believing she was well then, told Mike Horton she was very scared while in the hospital. - Margo was in remission from myloblastic anemia, a disease process in which her body manufactured too many of the wrong kind of white cells. Mike insisted his grandfather, Tom Horton, keep her true condition from Margo. - Afraid of never doing the things in life she wanted to, Margo said she saw many things for the first time. Overcome, Mike asked Margo to marry him. He never wanted to leave her again, and he loved her. Margo was stunned. She admitted she loved him so much it hurt, but had learned never to expect love back, feeling loving was something only one person did. She accepted his proposal. Mike arranged to have dinner with his parents, Bill and Laura, and told them the news. Bill and Laura gave their blessing. Margo was in great spirits when she went in for a checkup. Tom was called away. An intern found Margo and lauded her for her bravery, in view of the graveness of her illness. Margo played it cool and got the details from him. She left the office and went to her mother in West Virginia, without telling anyone. Mike and Tom figured out what happened. Mike got Chris to help him search Salem, to no avail. Mike decided to fly to West Virginia to tell Mrs. Anderman the truth, hoping she would help him file a missing person's report. He called ahead, which gave Margo enough time to leave. Mrs. Anderman was devastated by the truth Mike brought and agreed to help. Margo walked in. Reassured of Mike's love, that it wasn't pity, they returned to Salem, determined to make the most of the time they had.

Julie Williams’ trial for the murder of Larry Atwood began. DA Hazeltine made an inflammatory opening statement. Mickey waived his. Lt. Danton testified first. He told about checking Doug's alibi, questioning the Williamses, finding the murder weapon in Julie and Doug's apartment, finding a dress of Julie's with Atwood's blood. Danton continued that Amanda Peters saw Julie leave the scene. Mickey tried to bring out Atwood's underworld connections, to no avail. When the state called Dominic Sutro, Atwood's right-hand man, Mickey tried to bring up the gambling at Atwood's and the safe he kept at his place with lots of money, information supplied by Neil Curtis. The judge disallowed the testimony. It appeared Mickey couldn't bring up anything that could show Julie wasn't the only person who could have killed Atwood. He and Hazeltine had many heated exchanges. When the judge called them to the bench to admonish them, Doug sneaked out and called Don, saying Mickey was bungling the job. Later, Doug told Mickey the same thing, in so many words. But Julie refused to fire Mickey. Don agreed to help Mickey. Mickey met with Judge Reynolds and accused her of trying too hard to show she was not sympathetic to Julie because they were both women.

Don managed to ruin some of Jeri Clayton's credibility, after she testified that Julie and Atwood were having an affair. Amanda testified. Things came to a head when Laura testified as a friend. She said Julie was almost an ideal wife and mother. During cross, Hazeltine brought up Julie's past—two marriages that failed, an illegitimate child, her pre-nuptial relationship with Bob Anderson — casting the worst possible light on everything. Don and Mickey finally realized the only way to counter such testimony was to put Julie herself on the stand. They cautioned her it would be hard, that Hazeltine was tricky, and she had to avoid mentioning the rape at all costs. Julie replied that it was about time she took a hand in her own defense. Things went well, until Hazeltine demanded whether Julie ever had sexual intercourse with Atwood. After his previous badgering, Julie almost unconsciously blurt out that Atwood raped her. Hazeltine made much of the fact that Julie never reported the rape, hoping to cast doubt on her believability. Don and Mickey called Marlena, who explained that Julie's not calling the police was a common reaction. The case went to the jury, after another inflammatory speech by Hazeltine.

The jury couldn’t come up with a unanimous ballot, four jurors voting not guilty. The confrontation on the jury was between Mr. Rausch, a businessman who dwelled on the rape and other sordid details of the case, and Miss Miller, a former teacher, who insistsed she had a reasonable doubt. The jury went back twice for testimony and additional instructions from Judge Ellen Reynolds. Judge Reynolds agreed, when Mickey asked, that the jury might be hung. Mickey had requested the meeting with the judge because of possible new evidence, the discovery of Arlo Roberts.

Julie’s son David Banning had hired Ted McManis, a private detective to find his runaway wife Trish. McManis had connected Arlo and Trish and felt Arlo might be able to give them a lead. He traced Arlo to Chicago. When McManis entered Arlo's room, showing his I.D., Arlo said he didn't know any-thing about Atwood's death, before McManis said anything. When McManis revealed he was looking for Trish, Arlo panicked and assaulted him, leaving him semi-conscious on the floor. Arlo went to a club in Gary where he found Trish, singing under the name of Tracey Keaton. He warned her people from Salem were on her trail and offered to accompany her. She refused. McManis found the clipping about "Tracey" and also went to Gary, where he trapped Arlo in Trish's deserted motel room. Meanwhile, McManis had called Mickey from Chicago and Mickey had persuaded Danton to run Arlo through R&I. Thus, when McManis called to say he had Arlo, it was only a matter of hours until he was in custody in Salem, but only for 24 hours. Arlo continued to deny even knowing Atwood, even after Danton revealed they had at least two witnesses who saw them talking together. Arlo hung tough. Mickey took Julie to see Arlo. She pleaded with him to confess, if he was guilty. She promised legal help. Arlo was unmoved, but lived through his accidental shooting of Atwood in his head. Danton summoned Arlo and left him alone with Dominic. Dominic said the organization had great plans for him, when he was released. Arlo recalled their other "great" plans, a beating and a murder attempt on him. When Danton returned, Dominic denied knowing Arlo.

Danton sweated Arlo, who finally admitted knowing Atwood. Danton kept bringing up the fact that Dominic and his friends were waiting for Arlo's release. The jury returned with a verdict. Just as the judge asked Julie to stand and face the jury, Danton rushed in with Arlo's confession.

Joanne Barnes, who had seen Janice with Maggie in Brookeville, arrived in Salem and found an apartment near Janice's school. She began meeting Janice in the park, enticing the child into conversation, and even giving her a book of fairy tales. Joanne cautioned Janice that she was her fairy godmother, and if Janice told anyone, the magic would be gone. Maggie sensed something wrong, but Janice wouldn't confide in her.

Linda made an appointment for a check-up with Neil, coyly flirting with him. She next persuaded Bob to buy an estate for them, making sure he thought it was his decision. Bob had the expected confrontation with Chris. Bob insisted on Chris' acting like an executive and adhering to the chain of command. Chris refused and quit. Mary assured Chris that Bob really didn't want to lose him, but before the two men met again, Linda intervened, "on Bob's behalf." She told Chris that Bob was adamant about his stand, but offered to intercede on his behalf. Chris didn’t buy it. He was leaving. Mary sensed something strange. She found out about Linda’s interference, but knew Bob wouldn't believe her over Linda.

Marlena found a foster home for Donna, who still resented Don’s interference. Don and Marlena were to be married the following week. As a pre-wedding surprise, Don told Marlena that all charges had been dropped against her twin sister Samantha, and Sam had been released from the mental hospital. Samantha was to be their Maid of Honor.

The Doctors

Written by: Linda Grover

Produced by: Chuck Weiss

Billy Aldrich, the father of pregnant Greta Powers' baby, told friend George that Greta intended to have the baby, something he couldn't face, as he still had years of school ahead of him. Besides, Billy admitted, he didn't love Greta. George offered to talk to Greta. He found her in the soda shop the following day, but Greta was in heavy conversation with best friend Judy. Judy told Greta she thought Greta was stupid for having the baby, that she thought Greta was being a coward. Greta responded that Judy wasn't being very friendly when she talked like that. Judy, angry, pointed out that only a friend would have made the appointments for her to have an abortion and accompany her. Judy thought Greta was foolish for being afraid of the abortion. Greta drove Judy away by asking if she had ever had one. Judy joined other kids in a booth and proceeded to tell them all, loudly, that Greta was pregnant and Billy was the father. George sat down to talk to Greta as Judy was mouthing off. He tried to sympathize with Greta, telling her he understood how tough it was to go it alone, as he had a cousin who went through the same thing. George told Greta how his cousin went oft to Maine and handled the whole thing alone. Greta couldn't bear to listen to George or Judy anymore and left.

The Powers became increasingly worried about Greta after she missed babysitting for Michael Paul. When Maggie called Judy, Judy was abrupt. Greta was in the park, trying to sort out her feelings. She decided she didn't need anyone but her baby. She decided Billy was being pushed too much, that that was why he didn't see that she was right about everything, including marrying her. Mike and Sara searched teen hangouts for Greta, to no avail. Matt was very angry about Greta's behavior lately, then dissolved into strong concern and worry, saying, "She's just a child." He promised to be cool when Greta returned, but relief and concern were expressed in anger. Matt suggested to Maggie that they get professional help for Greta. Greta called back that he was the one who needed help. Matt and Maggie agreed that psychiatric help was needed, and Matt agreed to family counseling, if it would help. He met with Dr. Spears, expressing his deep concern. Spears agreed to see Greta, but he also wanted to see the whole family together. Matt reluctantly agreed. Greta called Billy, asking if he had any suggestions for names for their baby, since he was the father, but reminded him the name had to go with Powers, not Aldrich. Her gynecologist told Greta she might have an Rh factor problem. She wanted Billy to have a blood test. Greta called Billy. After this call, Billy confided to George that the baby was becoming a reality to him.

Nola Aldrich, insecure because husband Jason was investing in a restaurant with his ex-wile Doreen, told Jason she had none of the social graces Doreen had. Jason kissed her, replying she was the wife he wanted. He then showed her Mongo, a wooden Indian he was giving the restaurant. He talked about the restaurant in terms of what it would do for her father Barney and her brother Luke. Nola, however, was feeling left out. She admitted she wanted him to hack out of the restaurant. Jason refused for the sake of her family and for the investment value of the endeavor. But Jason finally realized Nola was afraid of losing him. Nola then told Jason that her sister Sara Dancy might not marry Mike Powers, that she had been seeing her former lover Colin Wakefield again, and spent the night with him. Jason, stonefaced, was upset that Nola condoned Sara's behavior. Nola retorted that Sara and Mike weren't married yet. Jason firmly called it "immoral." Finally, Nola expressed her greatest fear to Jason: "Don't leave me. I lost Mama, and I can't lose you. I don't want to be alone." Nola continued to hide her fears and insecurities in too much alcohol. Mona Croft, Jason's mother, tried to talk to Nola about her social position, etc., but Nola wouldn't listen.

After spending the night with Colin, Sara realized he still had a strong attraction for her. Thus, she determined never to be alone with him again. She met him one more time at his apartment, telling him it was really over this time, and returning the locket he gave her while they were in the Peace Corps together. But the night with Colin had Sara in a state of panic. She avoided making love with Mike, fearful she might call out Colin's name. So she suggested to Mike that they not sleep together before the large church wedding they were planning, saying it would give them a new beginning. Mike didn't like the idea, but went along out of love for Sara.

Jason received a call from the assistant D.A., Hank Carew. Carew summoned Jason to his office. The results of the investigations into the fire at Andre's, which killed Virginia Dancy, Tom Carroll, and another person, were in. - Doreen, with Luke as her partner, owned Andre's. Luke had hired an unlicensed electrician to redo the place. The man used faulty wire and bad technique. Luke had blamed himself for the tragedy ever since. - Carew felt he had enough evidence to convict Doreen and Luke of willful disregard, etc. Jason pointed out Carew would have a hard time proving his charges, as Luke lost his mother in the fire. Carew summoned Doreen and Luke and came on strong. He didn't bring charges, but warned they might face many law suits. Doreen's insurance company paid her claim to the tune of $175,000. She hoped for more. Luke said then they wouldn't need Jason's money. Doreen told Luke not to say anything about the settlement, as they could use Jason's money. Doreen, however, neglected to mention that she was still interested in Jason and found this a convenient way to stay close to him.

Much to Maggie Powers' relief, the clinic gained a new receptionist, H. Sweeney, who whipped everything into shape in short order. Sweeney found keeping all the Doctors Powers straight confusing at first. She also openly flirted with Steve, to Carolee's amusement.

MJ Match Carroll’s efficiency as a cardiac crisis specialist was increasingly impaired by her grief for Tom. At Carolee's suggestion, Maggie asked Matt to move MJ to less strenuous duty for a while.

Greta began childbirth classes. Billy was confronted with hard questions from Erich, which he answered truthfully, under Carolee's watchful eye. She told Steve it was time to tell her mother and Mona. Neither was looking forward to that. Steve was angry that Greta was having the baby, pointing out to Matt that an abortion would have eliminated all the problems the two families were then having because of the pregnancy. Jonathan Spears reassured Maggie that Greta's condition wasn't her fault. He pointed out that the pregnancy was probably Greta's way of asserting her individuality, that she would have asserted herself, eventually. He suggested they stop assessing blame and examine the roots of the real problem.

When Doreen accepted Jason's check without telling him of the insurance settlement, Luke couldn’t keep quiet. He told Jason of the settlement, saying Doreen wanted to keep him around. Jason left his money in.

Colin persuaded MJ to see Jonathan. After the session, Jonathan was concerned that MJ’s inability to move on in her grief might be an indication of a pre-existing case of manic-depression. He feared suicide. Colin talked to MJ again. He seemed to get through, but they were interrupted. MJ had been asked to take a leave of absence from the hospital until she was better able to deal with things.

The Edge of Night

Written by: Henry Slesar

Produced by: Erwin Nicholson

Raven Jamison was pregnant and a second series of tests confirmed that her husband Kevin was sterile. When Kevin accidentally learned of the pregnancy from his doctor’s nurse, he confronted Raven and asked her the name of the baby’s father. Raven told him that just after they were married she went to a party, drank a great deal, smoked, and went to bed with a nameless stranger. - Raven went to New York to have an abortion after Geraldine Saxon told her of Kevin's sterility. Raven, however, had delayed seeing a doctor because of her terrible fear and it was then too late for a safe abortion. Logan Swift followed her to New York since she had told him that he was the father. After he learned that she would have the baby, he suggested that they marry. She refused, claiming she could not live on an assistant D.A.’s salary. - Raven’s original plan to spend the pregnancy in Europe with her mother was useless when Kevin confronted her with his knowledge.

Kevin’s political future, which had seemed assured with James Brandon's support in the Congressional race, was endangered when he left the Whitney mansion and spent the night drinking. He passed out and was found in the morning when the bartender arrived. The policeman called recognized Kevin and called Steve Guthrie to take him home. After sleeping at Steve’s apartment Kevin returned home and told Raven that their marriage was over. Kevin was also furious with Geraldine, who considered him like a son, since she knew of Raven's pregnancy and said nothing. He also regretted following her advice and not telling Raven of his sterility. Geraldine pleaded with him to consider his future career before he made any decisions.

Raven used a similar argument when she tried to convince Kevin to stay with her. She asked him if he would have wanted children and he said yes, so she suggested that they start over again and look at her pregnancy as a way of having what they would have been denied.

April Cavanaugh Scott’s pregnancy was confirmed just after Raven visited to tell her that her husband of just a few weeks, Draper Scott, was the father of Raven’s baby. Raven told April that it happened before their wedding when April was hospitalized. She convinced April not to tell Draper since the reve- lation might strain their new marriage. When April told Draper that he would soon become a father he told her that he was pleased, although concerned that it happened so soon after their wedding.

Draper’s workload had increased since his law partner, Mike Karr, assumed the chairmanship of the Crime Commission on Kevin's recommendation. Under Mike's leadership the Commission had decided to devote itself to eliminating corruption in the city government. Tony Saxon, City Planning Commissioner, believed that Mike was dedicated to his destruction and feared that he might succeed. A crony at City Hall told him that when the Commission met, « topic A on the agenda was A for Anthony. » Tony told Raney Cooper, an ex-hood working for him, that « we have to do everything we can to discourage that man. » The conversation was overheard by Chip Beamer, an ex-con whom Raney hired to do some of Tony's dirty work. Chip had been following Mike and checking on his daily schedule despite Raney’s and Tony's decision to keep him out of it since he « lacks subtlety. »

Mike Karr’s wife, Nancy, while worried about her husband's renewed activity against Tony Saxon, was becoming involved with Tony’s daughter Deborah. Nancy planned to do continuing series on Deborah's training after the Police Academy. Nancy told Deborah that, although she did not consider herself a militant feminist, she believed such a series would help women in the way they saw themselves. Deborah, despite feared that she might fail, agreed to the series which would begin with her graduation from the Academy. Nancy told Mike that she felt Deborah might eventually be Monticello’s first woman detective.

When Mike first considered returning to the Crime Commission Nancy told him that one of her concerns was the fact that Tony Saxon was surrounded by violence. One evening when Mike answered the door he was greeted by someone wearing a Halloween-type mask; when he asked if this was some kind of joke, the intruder threw a liquid in Mike’s eyes,

In agony, Mike shouted for Nancy; he was rushed to the hospital where a visiting eye specialist was paged to treat him. Nancy learned that Mike’s face would not be disfigured but that he was blind, although she did not yet know if it would be permanent.

Deborah had been assigned to do her field training with her former boyfriend, Steve Guthrie. She was concerned when she learned that Steve’s only case was to find the man who blinded Mike Karr. Deborah was aware of the speculation which linked her father with the case and she did not want to be in the position of investigating him. Steve assured her that she should continue since she would then be able to find the culprit, which would put an end to the gossip.

The police had no clues to begin their investigation, but Chief of Police Marceau, Mike's closest friend, had decided to begin with Tony Saxon, wondering if Saxon might have thought that the best way to keep Mike from looking into his affairs would be to keep Mike from seeing anything. Tony, meanwhile, was wondering who called him anonymously and told him that his interests were being watched over.

Denise Cavanaugh had lured Miles back to Mayfield by showing him false medical reports which indicated that she was dying. She told him that she wanted him with her during the short time she had left and, as Denise expected, Miles agreed to leave both Nicole and his work at the clinic in Monticello in order to be with her. After his return to Denise, Miles called Nicole and Denise walked in on their conversation. After falling to the floor she asked him, « Did you come home to comfort me or to drive nails into my coffin? » Denise told Miles he had choose between comforting her and going to Nicole and Miles promised he would not contact Nicole while he was living with Denise. As soon as Miles left, Denise called her rival and told her, laughing, “You're not going to see Miles again except over my dead body.” Denise's father Dr. Norwood was uncomfortable about his role in convincing Miles of Denise’s fatal illness, but his daughter convinced him that it was the only way she could get her husband back. She warned him to be convincing when it was time to tell Miles of her recovery.

Denise, still hiding the fact that she poisoned Charlie Richmond and was responsible for the death of Katherine Dane, gained revenge on her fellow nurse at the Claremont, Carole Barclay. – When Denise was in need of her medication she asked Carole to look for her prescription in her locker. Carole found Charlie’s address and, suspicious, told April Scott about it. April, already knowing from Charlie that Denise had framed him, did not accept the excuse that she had the address in order to send flowers. She shared her suspicions with Miles who claimed that April's story was unthinkable. When Miles asked Denise about it Denise decided to get Carole out of the picture. -

Mrs. Chase, one of the Claremont’s more difficult patients, was Carole’s responsibility. Denise came to the woman's room and convinced an exhausted Carole that, since she had a light schedule, Carole should rest while Denise covered for her. After some persuasion Carole left to nap and Denise removed the patient’s breathing tube. Mrs. Chase managed to buzz for help and Carole was blamed for leaving her charge unattended. Denise denied everything when Carole claimed that Denise was responsible. Dr. Norwood dismissed Carole but told her that for the good of her career and the hospital he would not bring charges.

Miles had asked Tree Worthington to come to Mayfield as Denise's nurse. She was leaving the clinic where they worked together because she felt that, with Dr. Dave Roper's upcoming marriage, she would be uncomfortable remaining.

She arrived at Denise's home in time to see her dancing with her father, celebrating how beautifully her plan was working.

For Richer, For Poorer

Written by: Tom King

Produced by: Paul Rauch

Paco – Esteban Morales - was to be charged with the kidnapping of Megan Cushing and the murder of Donny Quinn on testimony of R.C., another Savage Avenger member. Megan and Bill Saxton knew that Paco had nothing to do with the kidnapping because he helped free her. The witness who identified Turk as one of the two who killed Donny did not get a good look at the other gang member. Lawyer George Kimball showed Sgt. Damico that Mr. Baldwin might have seen enough to know generally whether Paco was the other hoodlum. Mr. Baldwin pretended to be a doctor consulting on Paco's case. He said that Paco was too short and his hair was too dark. The young ruffian he saw had hair that came below the cap he wore. Sgt. Damico dropped the murder charge, but still thought Paco could have been in on the kidnapping.

Ellie Kimball was transcribing the taped interview with Megan for George when she came across Megan's confidence of her call to Bill the night she was kidnapped. Connie Saxton was frantic when Ellie played this tape for her, suggesting that Bill would find out. Connie destroyed the tape. Ellie explained the events to George, claiming that she was only trying to help. Connie decided to see Megan herself after George told her that Megan had no intention of telling about the call. As Megan was assuring Connie, Bill arrived, adding to Connie's already bitter jealousy.

Connie was notified that Bill was expected at the hearing. She rushed to Lee, afraid to give Bill this message. Lee said she couldn't keep this from him and things would work out since Megan had promised to remain silent.

The D.A. was trying to prove that the call Megan received bringing her to the spot where she was kidnapped could have been placed by Paco. George finally insisted that Megan tell about the phone message she left with Connie for Bill to meet her to prove she was not in the habit of putting herself in danger unnecessarily. Bill was livid hearing this. Megan said she started to tell him while they waited in the clubhouse for the police, but when he did not comprehend what she was saying, she dropped the subject. She said she did not want to cause any problems between Bill and Connie, and it was unimportant since she was safe. Bill finally located Connie at her father's and insisted that she come home. She suspected what was on his mind and pleaded with Amy to intercede. Amy took Connie and Billy to the apartment, and before leaving, asked Bill to remember that Connie loved him. He explained that she put Megan's life in danger, and if she had given him the message after Megan had been kidnapped, they could have found her sooner. Bill thought they might have straightened things out when Connie admitted her jealousy, but could see that he was wrong when, in the next breath, she insisted that he never see Megan again.

Bentley Saxton had lost a lot of cash in the noontime poker game at Lee's garage. He had used a good deal of the money from his savings account to buy a new stereo system and couldn't bear to tell his father that the money they had been saving jointly for his return to college in June was gone. One of the guys at the garage suggested a floating game, where the men didn't play cut-throat and were not afraid to lose money. He said it was like shooting fish in a barrel.

Amy Cushing was continuing her modeling career, but wished her mother-in-law could understand her need for a career of her own. Austin admitted that he would like to head the firm someday, but knew that he hadn't had enough experience yet. Amy said she would always support him, but couldn't be the corporate wife — heading fund-raising committees and being the perfect hostess. Edith had thought it over and understood that Austin married Amy for what she was.

Ellie and George Kimball wanted a baby, but Ellie still had fears after having had a miscarriage. She confided to her mother that she had had some symptoms but was fearful of finding out. Josie made Ellie promise to see her doctor. Afraid that she wouldn't keep this promise, Josie told George of Ellie's suspicions and fears. Ellie was upset with her mother when George brought this up. She promised that she would make a doctor's appointment. Looking for shaving cream, George found a do-it-yourself pregnancy test. He confronted Ellie, who said that it couldn’t hurt anything and if she wasn't pregnant, she wouldn't have to see the doctor. George insisted that she see the doctor anyway, to be sure that she was healthy and to discuss her fears of miscarriage.

Jason Saxton could see that Viola Brewster held all the cards when she showed him the photos of Laurie and himself in a compromising position. She insisted that he put a halt to his relationship with Laurie or she would see that he was fired. Laurie couldn't believe that Jason would give her up in favor of his career, but Jason switched his attention to Megan Cushing. Edith was opposed to Megan's seeing Jason, even though Megan claimed all Jason had offered was friendship. Edith compared Jason to his brother Bill, forcing Megan to tell her mother that she had to put Bill out of her mind, since he was married to Connie.

Desmond had thought that Laurie's problems stemmed from not having a home of her own and decided to get them out of Viola's house. Viola told Roger that she wanted to help Laurie and Desmond by giving them her house and finding an apartment. Desmond knew from his father that in an emergency this could leave her short, so he insisted on paying her the market value. When Viola had the safe open, Laurie removed the envelope of photos, threatening to expose them if she tried to stop her. - Laurie had wanted to make her affair known and leave Desmond to be with Jason, but Viola and Jason had prevented this so far. - Roger agreed to help Viola when she decided to invest money in a small business.

Megan wanted Paco to have the $15,000 her mother offered for information leading to her rescue. Paco was insulted and refused it, until Lester Saxton had a serious talk with him, explaining that he could do something with his life, and this $15,000 could be a big help.

Bill was so furious that he left the house. Connie took the baby to Josie's. Learning that Connie and Bill were having problems, Ellie told Josie that this wasn't the first time Connie had kept things from Bill. She explained that George overheard Lee telling Amy that the suicide was a fake and Connie never tried to get an abortion. Connie decided to run away so that Bill would miss her, but on her way to the shelter for wives that she read about in a magazine, her car broke down. Josie told Bill about the article and he headed for Midville after Ellie tolds him about the suicide and abortion. Connie called Josie and decided to return after she learned that Bill was worried. Driving in the rain Connie lost control of the car when distracted by the baby.

Laurie and Desmond had plans to redo the house completely, until Edith offered Viola her pool house. Desmond agreed to buy her an estate that would have no bad memories.

Jason Saxton was trying to discredit Barbara Manners' work at the office because she wouldn't agree to side with him against Austin. Barbara said she wouldn't allow Jason to use Megan to get ahead.

Lee Ferguson was contacted by his old employers and told that he was back in busi-ness. - Lee painted and altered the serial numbers on stolen cars. –

Bentley told Lee that he had lost all his college money and was encouraged when Lee said he had some extra work for him. Lee warned Paco that he should leave town it he didn’t want Megan to get hurt because people thought he might tell the police what he knew. Lester arrived as Paco was dressing to tell him that the kidnapping charges had been dropped and he had to live up to the faith Megan had in him.

General Hospital

Written by: Douglas Marland

Produced by: Gloria Monty

Under the threat by Lamont Corbin to ruin Dr. Mark Dante if Katie did not resume her role as his wife, Katie left for Boston phoning Mark from the airport to tell him she was going to stay with her sister Sally while she sorted things out. When Mark followed her, she told him that when it came to signing the final divorce papers she realized she couldn't give up everything that being Mrs. Lamont Corbin meant. Though Katie returns to Corbin, he ordered his man Dan Rooney not to proceed with trying to uncover the real culprit in the stock manipulations because he might still want to keep active his threat to use manufactured evidence against Mark. Rooney, who had begun to date Jessie Brewer and was showing signs of rebellion, apologized to Katie for his part in Corbin’s schemes and Katie told him that no one knew better than she, herself, that Corbin was not a man to cross.

Lee Baldwin’s drinking had resulted in missed appointments and a loss of confidence by some of the men working on behalf of the Hauser Corporation in Lee’s reliability. Alan Quartermaine questioned Lee but was assured by him that the missed meetings were due to pressure of work by other clients. Scotty Baldwin, who had seen Lee’s seedy condition which he had managed so far to keep from business associates, begged Lee to admit to himself he was out of control so that he could begin again but Lee wound up telling Scotty his life was none of Scotty’s business. When Monica learned of Scotty’s concern she tried to appeal to Gail to take a good look at what Lee was coming to and her responsibility for it, but had to stop short of telling Gail about Lee’s reversion because of her pledge to Scotty. Gail refused to listen.

Monica’s suspicions of David Hamilton were vindicated when Hamilton was forced by his backers to back down on the price he was asking for the land under the threat of losing out on the deal, and she watched as he met with Pierson, representing Hauser Chemical. Monica told Rick, backed up by Pierson’s description of the man. When Rick confronted David, who was in his apartment to await word on the sale of his car against orders from the syndicate, he learned of the years of jealous hatred David had been waiting to get revenge for. As Rick started to leave, telling David that he was determined to forget he ever knew him, Hamilton yelled out that Lesley and Laura were not going to let him forget. Rick punched David and they traded blows. Then Rick warned David as he left to get out of town or he would return and finish what he started. Hamilton prepared to leave holding in his hand an envelope addressed to Rick and Lesley containing all the love letters and notes he had gotten from Laura. As he opened the door, she was standing there.

Jeff and Heather returned from their vacation trip to announce that they had been married in Toronto. Mrs. Grant was very upset but finally agreed to Susan's plan for a surprise party for the couple at the Floating Rib where Susan had begun work as a hostess. When Jeff broke the news to Steve and Audrey, he accepted Audrey's congratulations but Steve was visibly upset, saying only that he thought the timing was bad, as Jeff was planning to take exams soon for his Medical license. - Steve was Jeff's natural father, a fact only Audrey knew, and neither were aware that the grandson Steve could never acknowledge and whom they believed to be dead had been adopted by Dr. and Mrs. Peter Taylor. -

Lamont Corbin had been readmitted to General Hospital for testing after he had experienced a number of episodes of numbness in his hand, a repetition of symptoms he experienced before his recent neurosurgery. At Dr. Steve Hardy’s insistence, Mark had taken himself off the case.

Lesley arrived home to find a note from Laura saying that she was in love with David and he was taking her away. She was unable to contact Rick and drove immediately to Hamilton’s apartment. As she got to the corridor, Laura burst out and stood in a state of shock, keening over and over that David laughed at her. - David was furious at finding Laura at his door and took delight in telling her that he used her and planned to run out on her. When he learned that Laura had already left a note revealing their relationship he showed her the envelope with her letters that he planned to send and told her it was not necessary then, tearing them to pieces and throwing them up in the air to scatter all over the room. Laura struck out at him and David went down. As Laura and Lesley were in the hall he got up and staggered around the room. -

Lesley told Laura to stay where she was while she went into David’s apartment to call Rick. She stepped to the doorway and saw David on the floor. Lesley looked back to see that Laura had disappeared. She examined David and found him dead. She gathered up the fragments of paper and retrieved a night-gown of Laura's and the sketch Hamilton did of her and stuffed them into a suitcase Laura had brought with her, hiding them in the trunk of her car. Unable to reach Rick, she picks up the phone and called the police to report that she, Dr. Lesley Webber, had accidentally killed a man.

At the police station, Lesley contacted Rick but as he was delayed by virtue of the fact that he had been unable to locate Lee Baldwin - Scotty had lied that Lee’s whereabouts were unknown and sent Barbara Spencer home when he found Lee drunk in his room -. Lesley went ahead and gave the police a statement, waiving her right to have an attorney present. Rick finally arrived with Howard Lansing but Lesley had already made her statement alledging that David was drunk and attempted to rape her. - Lesley’s story was convincing as she was reliving the episode months before, which she had kept from Rick. -

Lesley was released on her own recognizance and Rick took her home. Laura was asleep, having gotten home on her own. The following morning Lesley woke Laura and learned that she had no recollection of being with Lesley in the corridor or anything past the moment when David threw up the letters and poems. Lesley told her that she had destroyed any evidence that Laura was there and insisted that she never mention it, saying that she had not told Rick. Lesley told Laura that David attacked her and she – Lesley - killed him.

Indications were that Corbin’s artery, which Mark Dante replaced in surgery, was malfunctioning. After conferring with Dr. Copeland by phone it was clear that another operation was out of the question. Mark told Katie Katy that the trouble might be due to strain and if she was responsible for Lamont’s emotional strain, as she had indicated in their personal life, she had better see what she could do to counteract it. At Steve Hardy’s insistence Mark arranged for Dr. Cantrell to fly to Port Charles and Mark himself prepared to leave for a vacation in Boston.

When the District Atttorney reviewed the Coroner's report the following day, he was faced with contradictions: there was no trace of alcohol in Hamilton’s system and David appeared to have fallen against the hearth where there were traces of blood, not to have been struck by the statuette which Lesley reported was the cause of death. - Lesley was not aware that the statuette was a present to David from Laura and was charged to Lesley’s account. -

Guiding Light

Written by: Bridget & Jerome Dobson

Produced by: Allen Potter

Bill Bauer’s murder trial ended in an acquital when a visit to Geno's Roadhouse, where Victor Kincaid was killed, shook loose his memory of that night ten years ago. Mike Bauer, Bill's son and defense attorney, helped Bill reenact the events. When Bill clearly remembered the place where he and Kincaid wrestled, he realized that he really dropped the brick he had picked up and left, unable to kill Kincaid. - Bill had been living with Simone Kincaid and her children under the name Bill Moray since Victor's death. Simone and Bill had an affair before she married Victor and when Bill returned to his family, Simone was already pregnant with their daughter Hillary. Kincaid blackmailed Bill for over a year before he died, in what the police then presumed was a mugging. When the plane he was supposed to take, but didn't, crashed, Bill allowed his family in Springfield to believe he was dead. After Simone helped him to conquer his drinking he "married" her and remained with her in Vancouver until Mike accidentally learned he was alive. Then, tormented by guilt and a faulty memory, he confessed to murdering Victor Kincaid. –

When the not-guilty verdict was announced Bill accepted the congratulations of his wife Bert and then went to kiss Simone; he left the courtroom with her. Bill's joy at learning that he did not murder was dampened by the fact that his other son, Ed Bauer, and his daughter, Hillary Kincaid, were not in the courtroom. Ed had been unable to accept his father's return and confession. Believing his father to be a murderer who deserted his family, Ed began drinking after having abstained for a number of years. After taking a leave of absence from Cedars Hospital, Ed stayed at the Greenville Inn while he drank and walked the streets, haunted. Ed's girlfriend, Rita Stapleton, finally located him and convinced him to return to Springfield.

When Rita left to check him out of the hotel, Bill came to speak to Ed, who was antagonistic towards him. Bill admitted that he caused a great deal of hurt but he wanted to help Ed accept what had happened before he left Springfield. He told Ed that he drank because he hated himself for all that he thought he had done; he wanted Ed to stop drinking and to face the fact that he was hurting not just himself but many others. Ed answered that "it doesn't matter if I drink or not because I'm not you." Bill challenged Ed's assertion that wae is not like his father and Ed became furious, but Bill continued. He told Ed that he couldn't conquer his drinking alone; Ed shouted at him that he didn't want Bill's love or his help, that he just wanted to forget that he was his father.

When Bill left, he saw Rita and asked her to help, saying, "I think I've done enough to ruin my son's life." Rita returned to Ed who, shaking, was still drinking. She tried unsuccessfully to convince him of Bill's love and desire to help. Rita asked Ed not to drink any more and he told her that his drinking was none of her business. As she tried to take the liquor away from him her hand was badly cut.

Ed was looking out the window and he saw his distraught father pacing in the street below. Bill looked up at Ed's window as he began to cross and he was suddenly struck by a car driven by a drunk driver who hit a telephone pole a few blocks away. Since there were no hospitals in Greenville Rita immediately called Cedars and arranged to have an ambulance met by Dr. Peter Chapman. Although Bill was unconscious Ed told him he loved him and he regretted what he said.

While waiting to hear of their father's condition after emergency surgery Ed and Mike were able to resolve their differences. They agreed that they both should have done things differently. When Simone arrived at the hospital with Hillary she urged Ed to go to Bill, telling him that his presence could help Bill more than anyone's. Despite considerable internal bleeding and a concussion Bill was beginning to recover and to regain his strength. Ed told Rita that he knew he could never drink again. She remained concerned, however, since Ed did not remember when she cut her hand or anything about their argument just before Bill's accident.

Elizabeth Spaulding had gone to see Mike Bauer about her plans to divorce Alan. Since he took their son Philip to Kenya without notifying her and had not contacted her since, she felt that there was no hope for their marriage. Mike assured her that custody was usually given to the child's mother. Alan's only contact with Springfield had been a business call to Adam Thorpe, whom he told to replace Mike as his company's attorney; Alan claimed that Mike didn't have the necessary time to devote to his company.

Jackie Marler had shared Elizabeth's loneliness, missing Philip as much as his mother does. - Only Jackie knew that she and Justin Marler were the boy's natural parents. - Elizabeth had told Jackie that her parents were divorced when she was young and that her mother did not want her; she vowed that Philip would never know that kind of rejection. Jackie had fallen in love with Mike. She told him that she hoped their relationship could go beyond friendship. When she realized that she was being too serious too soon for Mike she changed the subject. Later Mike apologized to her, saying that his life had been “unsettled” but that he hoped it wouldn't always be so. In addition to seeing Jackie he also seemed quite fond of both Elizabeth and of his secretary Ann.

Jackie’s ex-husband Justin blamed her for his inability to win back Sara McIntyre’s love. - Jackie told Sara that Justin was continuing to see Brandy Shalloe while he was dating Sara; having been hurt by Justin in the past, she refused to see him and went to a convention in Hawaii. - When Justin learned that Sara met a dashing lawyer in Hawaii and married him after a whirlwind courtship, he told Jackie, “You are more than even with me now.” Before learning of Sara’s marriage to Dean Blackford, Brandy offered to leave town if that would make it easier for Justin to win back Sara. Justin was touched by the offer but he did not accept. Jackie came to Justin’s apartment to apologize, but when she met Brandy there she told Justin that she was right to warn Sara about him.

Roger Thorpe returned to Springfield after having had a number of financial successes in California real estate. He saw his ex-wife Peggy and their son Billy, as well as his daughter Christina, born to Holly Bauer while she was still married to Ed. When Rita refused to make a date to see Roger, he told her to steer clear of Ed because of his drinking. Rita told him that she appreciated what he had done for her in the past, but that she didn't want him to meddle in her life. Despite warnings from Rita and Holly not to meet with Ed, Roger was determined to see him even though he remembered the bitterness of their last meeting.

Since his return, Roger's relationship to Christina had become a problem for him. He told Holly he did not want to feel guilty or have to make excuses whenever he visited his daughter, and he planned to visit often and to take an active part in bringing her up. He therefore planned to confront Ed with his desire to let people know that he was Christina’s real father. - When Roger left Springfield only a few people knew that Christina was his. Even Ed’s immediate family did not know that she was not his child. - Holly was concerned about both Ed’s and Christina’s reactions, and Roger assured her that Christina needed never know; Ed told her not to worry, that he would not let it happen.

Eve Stapleton’s marriage to Ben MacFarren was beautiful. Mike Bauer sang, Ed Bauer gave the bride away and her sister Rita was maid of honor. The bride and groom selected writings from Helen Keller, Anne Morrow Lindburgh, and the Bible and everyone attending the wedding was deeply moved. Evie and Ben were spending their honeymoon in a cabin in the country and were then planning to fly to the Bahamas; the trip was a wedding gift from Ben’s first patron, Jackie Marler, who also arranged their reception. Ben was planning to personalize a picture for Jackie in order to thank her for all she was doing.

Eve was concerned that her blindness might make it impossible for her to be a good mother some day but Ben assured her that she would be able to do anything she set her mind to. They decided to wait before making any decision and to speak to the people at the Institute about the problems involved.

Dean Blackford announced his arrival in Springfield by sending his new wife an extravagant bouquet of roses. News of Sara’s marriage was received with mixed emotions by Mike Bauer; he was concerned about Dean’s reputation as a lawyer. Mike told his secretary Ann that Blackford was known for taking “shortcuts” in order to win cases.

Upon Alan’s return to Springfield he learned of Elizabeth’s desire to divorce him. He was shocked and he told Elizabeth that he never expected a divorce, that he took Philip away in order to give her time to think. Elizabeth retaliated that the purpose of the trip was to punish her and that she couldn’t continue to live with him. Alan warned her that he was not the kind of man who would settle for visiting his son every other weekend. Diane, who accompanied Alan and Philip Spaulding to Africa, irritated Elizabeth further when she told her that Philip missed his mother at first, but that she helped him to get over it.

Alan went to see Mike and told him that he and Elizabeth might have been able to solve their problems if Mike hadn’t interferred. When Alan continued the conversation by asking just how close Mike and his wife had been, Mike's anger bubbled to the surface and he showed Alan to the door.

Love of Life

Written by: Gabrielle Upton

Produced by: Darryl Hickman

Meg Hart made Michael face his love for Cal Latimer. Mary Jane Owens asked Cal to speak to Michael on her behalf when she was unable to understand his behavior. Michael misunderstood Cal's consolation when he felt he had lost everything. She stopped his advances as Rick entered the garage apartment. Rick found Cal on Michael's bed and could only think the worst, after all the ideas Meg had put into his head to break up his marriage. Rick ordered Michael out of the apartment immediately, and in the argument following, ordered Cal out of the house. She took shelter at the Sterlings', hoping that Rick wanted to make the first move. Cal finally took Van's advice and returned to the house to talk to Rick. The meeting was disastrous, with Rick insisting that she never see or speak to Michael Blake again. Cal would not have Rick dictating whom she might see or not see.

Hearing that Michael and Cal left home on the same night, Mary asked Cal if one had anything to do with the other. Cal said that it was all a misunderstanding. Lynn Henderson overheard the conversation and blamed Cal for the problems between Michael and her best friend. Mary returned the engagement ring, telling Michael that she was fine and he was not to worry about her. Lynn pleaded with him, assuring him this was all a front on Mary's part.

Mary Jane had decided that she should quit her job at the hospital and return to her family in Three Rivers as she had broken her engagement to Michael.

Ben Harper moved in with Mia Marriott after she understood that her accident and his ex-wife's remarriage had nothing to do with his realization that he had loved her for some time. Mia returned to her job as a photographer and Ben tried to come up with an idea for his second novel. Mia photographed the local boys playing basketball to put in the paper, hoping that the publicity would find the boys another place to play. Young Danny Ryker thought that since Ben's probation was up, he would forget about them, but learned that Ben had been off probation for the past two months and had continued coaching them.

Lynn was preparing for graduation and the party they were having at the Sterlings'. She was happy that Ben was coming, but upset when he told her that Mia would be there also. Mia cautioned Ben about hurting Lynn's feelings. She said that Lynn obviously had a crush on him and all women were very sensitive.

Cal was sure that Hank would tell Rick that Michael was at Van's, making him even madder. She blamed Lynn for not thinking about the consequences of inviting him to the house to talk about Mary. Cal decided to go to the lake so that she didn't tense at every ring of the phone, thinking it was Rick. Lynn thought she was driving everyone away and apologized for the way she had treated Cal lately. She was surprised when Cal asked her to spend time at the lake before graduation, to keep her company.

Bruce tried talking to Rick, citing his own situation as a very good reason why he should not spend another day without solving his problems with Cal.

Arlene and Ray Slater took April Joy home from the hospital, but Arlene refused to show any interest in her newborn daughter. Carrie, Arlene's mother, and Ray thought that Arlene would have to care for the baby, if left alone, but it didn't work. She threatened to move out if they tried anything like that again. Arlene would like a reconciliation with Tom Crawford and resented the help Dorrie Patton was giving him.

Tom continued to drown his troubles in liquor and found himself at Dorrie's late one night after a battle with the bottle. He passed out and spent the night on her sofa. In the morning, Dorrie’s daughter, Kirsten Patton refused to be civil to Tom, saying that it wasn't necessary to be polite to drunks. Tom's drinking problem reminded Kirsten of her father. Kirsten had trouble relating to Edouard Aleata, who was very much interested in her mother.

Arlene agreed to dinner out. Ray wanted to show her off at Beaver Ridge. He could see that the memories of Ian Russell and Tom Crawford bothered her, but she said she was fine.

Tom sobered himself up and prepared for his return to the hospital. Seeing Dorrie and Kirsten Patton in the hospital cafeteria, he thanked Kirsten for doing what no one else had been able to do — making him see what he was becoming.

Bruce Sterling’s incurable illness had prevented him from running for reelection as mayor of Rosehill and had left him at loose ends. He spent much of his time trying to bring Van and his best friend, Andrew Mariott, together. Bruce's plan worked in that Andrew fell in love with Van, but he tried to keep his feelings from showing by making a play for Meg in front of the Sterlings, much to Meg's delight, as she wanted his attention to make Rick Latimer, her son-in-law, jealous.

Bruce was feeling very low when he was shut out by his old co-workers and was ripe for Meg's jibes when she brought up his impotence and his plan to throw Andrew and Van together. Bruce confronted Van, telling her how angry he was that she confided in Meg, a vicious gossip. Van told Meg that she had talked to her in the strictest confidence, but never would again. She explained that Bruce was not impotent, but was only experiencing temporary problems due to his illness. Even Bruce's jealousy had not kept him from continuing to throw Andrew and Van together. He told Andrew that he had even spoken to Van about this. Embarrassed, Andrew said he would not be able to face Van. Andrew told Bruce that they were starting a fund-raising project at the hospital and thought that Bruce was just the kind of person to head the committee as its administrator.

Dr. Marriott was concerned when he heard a heart murmur during Kirsten's examination. He consulted with Tom Crawford, asking him to run the tests. Tom told Dorrie Patton that they would know more after the tests, but Kirsten's frequent bouts with colds and spells of tiredness needed to be checked into.

Cal Latimer wrote a note to Rick explaining that she had come to her senses. One year ago their positions were reversed and she was the one who needed to he reassured. She told him how much she loved him and that she would be waiting at the lake. Lynn left the note for Rick when she returned to town for her graduation.

Meg Hart suspected that Lynn had some reason for going to Rick's, making her late for graduation. She found the letter and when she read it, found she could use the second half of the letter to help her win Rick back. She put this into an envelope she addressed to Michael and slipped it under his door. She proved to Rick with a phone call that Michael had gone to the lake to see Cal.

Michael arrived at the cottage, surprising Cal. Learning that part of her letter had found its way to Michael, Cal realized her mother has been at work again. Rick found Cal at the grocery store trying to call him. Meg thought she might have gone too far this time.

As he was leaving, an old man asked Michael's help in starting his motor boat so that he could locate his grandson, who was sailing on the lake, before the squall came in.

One Life to Live

Written by: Gordon Russell

Produced by: Joseph Stuart

Cathy Craig told Brad Vernon she haD decided not to follow through on her call to Ed Hall to tell him that she learned from Will Vernon that Brad had been with Lana on the night she died and that Brad was responsible for the attacks on Cathy herself. When Larry Wolek showed Cathy the autopsy report indicating that Lana had taken two doses of sleeping pills separated by a long period of time, together with alcohol, it tended to indicate that Lana, herself, had taken the second larger dose, perhaps accidentally. - Only Brad knew that he administered the final set of sleeping pills in order to buy time after Lana threatened to tell Jenny she was pregnant and ruin the plans for Brad and Jenny's wedding the following day. - Cathy's main concern was for Brad's wife Jenny and his sister Samantha, who would be subject to prosecution for lying to the coroner's jury. When Brad admitted moral responsibility, Cathy took it as a hopeful sign that he would make good his word to straighten up and try to he the husband Jenny deserved.

Brad’s elation after Cathy's decision was short-lived when Jenny announced that she was going away for a week-long retreat to think over what was happening to their marriage. In Jenny's absence Brad knuckled down to business, telling Sam he had even begun taking a course of religious instruction he had promised to consider before his marriage. Dr. Pamela Sheppard reported to Will, however, that Jenny was out of town only a few hours before Brad was trying to take Pamela to dinner.

Peter Janssen had asked Melinda to marry him and Melinda had accepted his proposal but begged off for a time talking about a ring or setting a date, not ready to face Dorian. Melinda had been taking some riding lessons and though Dorian heard about it and was furious, she did not yet know that Melinda was considering taking out a horse that was a "jumper" in the future. - Melinda injured her arm in a fall while riding with Dorian, who dared her to compete in a jump though Dorian was by far the better horsewoman. Dorian's guilty obsession with "protecting" Melinda stemmed in a large part from that long ago incident. –

Edwina Lewis met with Luke Jackson after tracking him down when he came to Llanview in response to the publicity story on Becky she had planted in Becky's home town paper. She then knew that Luke wais Becky Lee's husband. Becky herself had finally told Mrs. Hopkins about Luke but had refused to  tell Richard. On the night before she and Richard were scheduled to leave for Europe she failed to turn up at a farewell party at the Rileys'. Richard went to Ina's boarding house where Becky and Luke were behind Becky's locked bedroom door as Luke held a gun ready to use on Richard if Becky tried to get away. Luke and Becky slipped out, but Marco Dane saw Becky stop to put some hills to cover the rent money on a table for Ina. She rushed out and he reported her departure to Richard and Joe, but he didn't see Luke Jackson. Later Becky called Richard, in tears, telling him to go on without her and Luke took the phone to say that he was Becky's husband. Luke claims his "marital rights" at the motel in Llanview where he had decided to stay for a time and then insisted that there was no reason why Becky couldn't keep her singing engagement at the Blue Ridge club as the money was good. At first Becky refused but then decided that she would try to make enough money to buy Luke off if he would leave her alone, even though she saw no hope of being with Richard. Luke made it clear that the money was secondary to the fact that she was his wife and he would track her down again and again if she tried, as she had threatened, to get away from him. He also threatened, as a final step, to bring in the police, a threat which terrified her.

After the reported death of the leader of the escaped revolutionaries sworn to kill Paul Kendall, Pat and Paul's relief was short-lived when it was realized that the leads that the two remaining had headed for cover were false and they were actually in Llanview. Bonny Harmon was determined to see that Cantrell kept to his pledge and they both boldly turned up at Tony's Place. Tony spotted Cantrell's tattoo and tried unsuccessfully to stall them. When they left, he had his bartender call the police and rushed to the Kendall house to tell them. As Paul and Pat left moments later, heavily guarded, the two observed with satisfaction that everything was going according to plan. As Pat and Paul waited in the VIP room of the airport, a man and woman purporting to be the pilot and stewardess on their flight insisted on being admitted as it was the only way to the field where the plane was being readied. The guard opened the door, locking it immediately behind them, and Harmon and Cantrell turned to face Pat and Paul with guns drawn.

In the seconds before the police broke in, Bonnie Harmer shot Paul but Herman Cantrell took a bullet in his arm before they got away, with help from their organization, to a hideout in Philadelphia. After an operation to remove a bullet lodged near the  spine, Paul seemed to be on the way to recovery.

Jenny returned to tell Brad that she would not be sharing his bed until she was convinced he could reform, and warned him their life together was over if he ever stroke her again. Brad accused her of being manipulative and told her that she had changed. She replied that she had to, in self-defense, and he had to agree when she made it clear she meant to call a halt to their marriage if he did not.

Carla Hall discovered that Dr. Scott had scheduled Dr. Jim Craig for a coronary by-pass operation the following morning and parted with Jim tearfully as he went home at the lunch hour that day to tell his wife Anna and his daughter Cathy. Jenny left the hospital with him on the day after Kendall's shooting and they were taken by Harmon and Cantrell in a van. As Jim was examining Cantrell's wound he had an attack. Though at first Bonnie suspected he was faking, after Jenny administered some medicine Jim was carrying on him, she accepted the fact that they had no instruments to probe for the bullet and allowed Jenny to clean and dress the wound. She drugged Jim and Jenny with sleeping pills and called Joe Riley. She offered a swap, trading Jim and Jenny for Paul Kendall whom she had learned was alive from radio reports. Joe Riley agreed to put an ad in the next morning's edition if the terms were acceptable. Joe Riley and Ed Hall called on Dorian, telling her of the kidnapping and proposing to offer a counter-proposal of money if the Lord Foundation would back them. Dorian agreed. In the meanwhile Harmer told Cantrell she planned to hit the hospital dressed as a nurse to get Paul while the authorities believed they were holding off. Cantrell was to drive.

Melinda agreed to accept Peter's engagement ring and to tell Dorian later that day, along with Peter. Before news of Jim's kidnapping circulated, Melinda talked Dorian into cancelling her plans to attend a board meeting that afternoon and go riding with her. Dorian was apprehensive, but as it was evident that Melinda was in control and thoroughly enjoying herself, even taking her horse over jumps, they settled down to a companionable ride. Dorian proposed, as Melinda was so obviously in control, that she sealed their new found closeness by arranging for Melinda to leave the boardinghouse and move into Llanfair. Melinda had to answer that her plans were set up a different course and told her that she and Peter were planning to be married. Dorian reacted angrily and as the horses began to gallop, Dorian was thrown.

At dinner, Melinda put on Peter’s ring and told him about the episode, saying that Dorian was not seriously hurt, but stormed off and drove home alone, leaving Melinda to make her own way back to town. At Peter’s insistence Melinda and he called at Llanfair, where Dorian sent word that she refused to see Melinda and asked Peter in. When he came into the room, Dorian insisted that Melinda attempted to kill her.

Ryan’s Hope

Written by: Claire Labine & Paul Avila Mayer

Produced by: Claire Labine, Paul Avila Mayer & Robert Costello

Frank Ryan, candidate for the Senate, proposed to Jill Coleridge, his long-time friend, some-time lover, and mother of his son, Edmund. Frank would like to be married immediately, but marriage to Jill, outside the Church, would damage his campaign. Thus, Frank contaceds Father MacShane about the possibility of getting an annullment from his ex-wife, Delia, whom he divorced. Frank's grounds for the annullment would be fraud, claiming, correctly, that Dee married him as a substitute for Pat, his brother, and to become a Ryan. Mac told Frank there were no precedents for such a case, in which case, the Chancery would act slowly. It would help if Dee would testify to her state of mind, but Dee wasn't rational. After contacting the Chancery, Mac notified that the annullment would not come through before November, if at all. Frank suggested he and Jill go out of state and get married anyway. Jill, aware of how much the Senate had come to mean to Frank, refused, but they set up housekeeping, Frank spending his nights with Jill and his son.

Rae Woodard, Frank’s sponsor, couldn't locate him one night, claiming to friend Polly Longworth that she had campaign business to discuss. Polly suggested Rae try Jill's apartment. She did, and was hurt when Frank answered the phone, hung up, and took the phone off the hook. Polly got Rae to admit she was in love with Frank. The campaign interfered with Frank and Jill's time together. Jill arrived for lunch with Frank at Lem's and found him surrounded by reporters - sent by Rae -, so she left. They set up a brief time with Edmund in the park, then Frank received a call from an important man who could deliver three counties and lots of money, so he had to cancel. Seneca Beaulac, Jill's former lover, who wanted Jill back, watched from the sidelines, waiting for his chance. When he learned Jill had to leave Ryan's by the back door on Mother's Day, he arrived at Jill's with a present, and agreed to a game of chess, to pass the time. - True to form, however, Seneca couldn't lose gracefully to Jill, until she badgered him into it. - Frank arrived as Seneca was leaving.

Frank objected to Seneca's being there, but Jill replied that Seneca was a friend. Seneca confided to Bucky Carter that he intended to win Jill back, and took her an antique chess set that belonged to his family. Jill refused the set as a gift, but allowed him to leave it, "on permanent loan." Frank was due shortly, so Jill sent Seneca away, but Rae had Frank stop at a softball game, which Seneca was only too happy to report to Jill. Rae's plans to win friends and influence people extended into the Ryan family. She made Jack Fenelli a lucrative offer to join her newspaper chain. He refused, saying his style of working and writing and hers weren't compatible.

Jack and wife Mary were having some problems incumbent with two working parents. Mary's job at Channel R had her galavanting all over the city at all times during the day, taking away time from daughter Ryan and thoughts of domestic details. Mary decided she needed a job with more reasonable demands. Their biggest problem was the laundry, so for Mother's Day, Jack bought Mary 5 new shirts for him and 5 new blouses for her, saying that gave them a week's leeway. Mary was touched. His other gift, also from Ryan, was a diamond ring. Rae, constantly tuned into the Ryans, learned of Mary's discontent from Frank and offered her a job as assistant press secretary on the campaign, with emphasis on TV and radio ads. Mary accepted, after Rae said she could name her own hours, bring Ryan along, and gave her a raise. Jack didn't like it, saying Rae was trying to control all the Ryans. He also pointed out that Mary would work harder because it would be for Frank. Mary was too relieved to listen.

Pat Ryan was divorcing wife Delia. Pat found out about Dee's miscarriage occurring before their wedding, and that she faked a breakdown. He was through. When the Ryans and Dee's brother Bob Reid learned of her deceptions, they, too, turned their backs on her. Dee went to find her mother – who was dead -. She knelt on her mother's grave and asked to stay with her. Dee spent her nights in the park, then wandered back to the apartment. Roger Coleridge, Dee's former lover, had gone there to find her. When he found the radio on, the phone off the hook, her money on the table, and the door open, he became very concerned. Upon leaving, he locked the door. As Dee couldn't get in, and heard voices telling her to go away, she returned to the park. Meanwhile, Roger went to see Dee's psychiatrist, Al Pagano, who agreed with Roger that Dee might have gone over the edge. Roger convinced Bob to start a police search. Angel Nieves stumbled over Dee in the park. Confused by her behavior, Angel reported to Alicia and Rae. Rae hired private detectives to assist the local precinct, forestalling a larger alert, as it would hurt the campaign. Dee took all her money out of the bank and returned to the park. There, she was approached by a man named Lloyd, who promised her a job and a place to live. Dee went with him, but when she figured out Lloyd's real intentions, she panicked. As Lloyd started to assault her, she hit him with her purse. Lloyd was distracted by the money that spilled out. Desperate, Dee jumped out the window. Roger, meanwhile, had Clem cover for him at the hospital and stayed home, calling hospitals, waiting for word. He heard a dull knocking on the door. Dee had made it to his apartment, bruised, cut, incoherent. Roger took care of her.

Tom and Faith Desmond had time for only a weekend honeymoon in the city. One night, Tom reacted with unreasonable anger when Faith teased him about being flirtatious over one of the ballerinas they had seen. Tom calmed down and told Faith his anger got out of control when he had been drinking.  – They had been having brandy. - He recounted examples of childhood incidents where his anger went out of control. Faith urged him to examine his anger and deal with it. Tom just promised not to drink or lose control again.

Pat and Faith crossed paths, finally. Pat declared his love for Faith, who shut him off. She told him she loved Tom and had married him. Faith had every intention of honoring her wedding vows and making the marriage work. Pat pointed out that Tom could apply for citizenship in a year. Faith told Pat she didn't want him to wait for her, that she was staying with Tom. Pat accepted her edict. Tom arrived. Faith reassured him that she and Pat were through, but Tom confronted Pat, who backed up what Faith said. But it was painful for Faith to see Pat, as Tom observed. Pat went out of his way to appear to be over Faith, to be beginning a life without her.

Tom became jealous when Faith became involved in organizing a softball game for Angel Nieves that would include Pat. Faith suggested they get away for awhile, and they went to the beach house. Faith told Tom that she and Pat shared patients and his jealousy was unnecessary. At the beach house, Tom persuaded Faith to make love with contraception. Several days later, when Tom suggested it again, Faith refuses, saying she was not ready to get pregnant, that only people who planned a long life together should have children.

Frank was lambasted by Mary when he chose to allow a TV news crew to film Ryan's first birthday party. In order for there not to be questions, Frank had to ask Jill and Edmund to not attend the party. Mary accused Frank of choosing the campaign over Jill. Meanwhile, Jill invited Seneca to play chess. After a break to play with Edmund, Seneca was playing with one of the baby's toys when Frank arrived. He had earlier almost dared Jill to have Seneca over. Jill said she would see whichever friends she liked.

Roger agreed to look after Dee, pay for her therapy, etc., provided she saw Al Pagano regularly. Dee, with no one else to look after her, agreed. She admitted to Al that she had nobody to blame but herself for her trouble, then tried to regress with Roger, who wouldn't allow her to become dependent.

Search For Tomorrow

Written by: Henry Slesar

Produced by: Mary-Ellis Bunim

Kathy Phillips noticed that Douglas was fussy and had a slight fever. His temperature continued to rise and Stephanie Wyatt, a former nurse, suggested that they take him directly to the hospital. Doctors Maria Thompson and Amy Carson were stumped, but continued an around the clock watch for any change in his symptoms. Amy called Dr. Carolyn Hanley when Kathy began blaming herselt for returning to work at the law office for a few hours each day. Kathy felt she should have known Douglas was ill. Everyone was concerned that the strain of Douglas' illness and blaming herself could cause a relapse. - Kathy spent several months in a sanitarium before Douglas' birth. - Antibiotics and constant care soon had Doug well enough to go home.

Stephanie read Scott’s military dog tag that Eric had incorporated in his mobile for Doug's cradle. Suspecting that something was wrong, she double checked Doug's blood type, under the pretense of giving blood in case it was needed. As she thought, Doug and Scott did not have the same blood type. Stephanie told Kathy that David Sutton was very attracted and should be let go from the firm. She was sure that John would think it important, if Kathy asked. Kathy wouldn't.

Scott and David were representing opposing business partners in a libel suit. Scott had trouble keeping things on a purely professional basis, because he couldn't forget that David could have been the father of Kathy's baby. John chastized them both and demanded that they try harder to keep the case out of court. Scott and David came to an agreement on behalf of their clients and agreed that having to confront one another and having to work things out had helped them personally.

The title insurance company told Stu Bergman that the man who checked the title on Hartford House when they bought it no longer worked for them. They admitted he made a mistake, but the most they would do was pay the amount of the insurance policy. Bill Mendel spoke to Ted Adamson, who suggested he might let them keep the building. Stu and Ellie Bergman, Jo Vincente, and John Wyatt trie to show that they didn't feel they would lose in a court battle. Stephanie resented the time John was spending with Jo. Stephanie's joy over moving into the new house was dulled when John rushed off to the Inn for business meetings.

Tom Bergman suggested that they located a new piece of property and had the Inn moved. Jo said that all the land around Henderson had been built on and this was why Adamson was interested in their property. Even if they retained the building, having houses built around the Inn would spoil all the charm and keep away their patrons, who visited to roam its beautiful grounds. Stephanie went to Adamson with a proposition. She would like to give Stu and Jo a piece of property larger than what they had with the same type of landscape, trees, and a heart shaped lake, as a gift. Knowing they wouldn't take charity, but could accept a business proposition, she would like them to present it with no mention of her. The property was 40 miles from Henderson, making it a very attractive site, as far as Stephanie was concerned.

Adamson made the offer to Jo and Ellie, explaining that it was too far out for homes, but since much of their clientele came from afar to vacation, it would not hurt their business. He would hold off with any construction until they made arrangements to have the Inn moved, using the insurance money. Jo did not like the idea of leaving Henderson, and John felt there was something fishy about Adamson offering such an expensive piece of land. He was sure there was someone behind it all. As Jo and Stu came closer to accepting Adamson's offer, John pleaded that Suzi was devastated at the thought of her aunt moving so far away. Finally, he admitted that he could not bear the thought of Jo's leaving town. Stephanie already objected to his visiting her at the Inn and would not agree to his driving forty miles out of town.

Dr. Carolyn Hanley felt that it would be good for Kylie Halliday to visit outside Tudor Oaks. When Carolyn mentioned that she invited Kylie to the house, Gary and Janet had to tell her that they had planned a family gathering at Janet's for Carolyn's birthday. They decided that including Kylie in a family gathering might be good for her. Chance was in the room when Carolyn told her of the change of plans and suggested that he need go along to make sure Kylie felt safe.

Chance used his charm on Janet and her son Danny. He had shown an interest in Janet, after finding out that she was a widow and the major stockholder in the Collins Corporation. Tom Bergman and Kylie learned that they shared an interest in the works of William Shakespeare. Although Kylie had not had much formal schooling because she hds been shunted from one hospital to another since she was ten, she had read every book made available to her. Kylie was excited when Tom asked her to attend a college production of « A Mid-Summer Night's Dream ». As before, Donna had to have several drinks before visiting Kylie, because of all the memories it brought back. Donna told her that there was only about ten percent happiness in any marriage, shattering Kylie's illusions of love. Kylie cancelled her date with Tom, telling Carolyn that she was sure Tom would be ashamed to take her to meet his college friends. Carolyn suggested that Tom could take her out alone first. Jo and Ellie agreed Kylie was probably frightened because she had never dated, and Tom should ask her out again. Kylie agreed to dinner, but then had a nightmare, where she heard a woman crying hysterically. She thought she was worse and admitted to Carolyn that it happened when she was little, but she told no one, for fear of being punished. Carolyn still felt she should go to dinner with Tom, hoping to keep Kylie's confidence up.

Steve and Liza Kaslo had returned from his concert tour, but it looked like another one was in the near future. Steve realized that this life was not much fun for Liza, but until he sold enough of his music, they couldn’t settle down. Liza knew that Steve would not agree to a family and asked Janet if it would really be so bad if she let herself get pregnant without asking him.

Tom Bergman was a few minutes late for his date and Kylie became very nervous. She heard a woman crying and panicked. The date was called off and Dr. Carolyn Hanley tried to calm Kylie. A nurse asked if Kylie was disturbed by the new patient in the next room when she had a bad crying spell a few minutes ago.

The real estate secretary called John Wyatt by mistake about the purchase of a piece of property. He asked Stephanie, who said she had considered a piece of investment property by the reservoir, thinking they might build on it before finding this house. Jo Vincente called saying she and Stu had decided to take Adamson's offer, but John asked them to wait. Stephanie blew up in front of Suzi. As Stephanie and John prepared for bed, Wendy rushed in to tell them Suzi was gone.

Bruce Carson was asked to come to New York to interview with one of the best national magazines as an investigative reporter. Amy didn't want to spoil his enthusiasm, but hated the idea of moving to New York. Bruce ran into Donna at the Inn when he went there to tell Jo the news. She was drunk and threw her arms around Bruce, saying he was the only one she had any feelings for.

The Young and The Restless

Written by: William J. Bell

Produced by: John Conboy

Linda Larkin was determined to find a job to relieve the boredom she felt at home. Jeffrey Allen said Linda  didn’t have the qualifications for the position of receptionist that he advertised for, but was willing to make a place for her as his Girl Friday. Larry was stunned when she tolds him that she had found a job so quickly, but finally told her that he had always been proud of her because he considered taking care of his home and children important. Greg and Snapper Foster didn’t like it when they heard how Allen hired Linda. Snapper arrived at the office as Linda was leaving after quitting upon hearing that Allen hired her with the thought of an affair motivating him. Linda didn’t want to tell Larry about Mr. Allen’s advances because she was sure that the only reason he let her look for a job in the first place was his belief that she wouldn’t find one. Snapper was not at all sure that a job was the best thing for a woman as discontent as Linda was. Larry guessed why Linda quit a job she liked so well and said that it was probably for the best, because her job is at home. Summer was almost here and the kids would be out of school. If she wanted to look for a job next fall, he would agree, but he “demanded” that she spend the summer taking care of his children. He thought she was selfish to think of her own needs. Linda retorted he had never taken any of the responsibility for the kids.

Snapper learned that Casey Reed’s apparent dislike of men probably stemmed from her early family life. Her father drank and beat her mother. Her younger sister, Nikki, lived with her mother, but Casey tried to keep tabs on her. Snapper set up a meeting between Casey and his brother Greg. Neither was very happy about it, but Greg later decided he would like to see more of her. Snapper confided Casey's past and said he thought she needed company. He told her that he could understand her feelings because his father walked out on them, not returning for seven years. She admitted that Greg was at least a man of his word.

Having lost the lease on his old salon, Derek could only find a rental in a poor neighborhood. When everything went wrong, Derek walked out and ended up at the new “Golden Comb” that he and Mrs. Chancellor designed. Kay invited Derek in « just to look around »  and made him a proposition. He could run the Golden Comb and have his freedom if he would live with her for one year. She would set up a trust of $100,000 for little Phillip that he could have at the age of eighteen. The only conditions were that he could see other women, provided Jill was not one of them, and no one, including Jill, had to learn of this arrangement. Jill could see that something was bothering Derek, but could only agree to trust him when he wouldn't confide in her. - Kay Chancellor managed to trick Derek into marriage one evening when he was so under the influence of alcohol that he awoke the following morning with no memory of what had happened. -

Derek discussed the arrangement with Mrs. Chancellor and signed an agreement when she agreed to some of his conditions. He took Jill to dinner to explain the situation. He said that they could be married after one year and he would own the Golden Comb. The stipulation was that he live in Kay’s house and see only women she had never met before. Jill said she couldn’t live with these conditions, even though Derek had assured her there would be no other women in his life, and he would not be sleeping in the same bed with Mrs. Chancellor. He felt this would be as much for Philip as for them, since they could be together several years sooner.

Leslie Brooks had had several bouts of dizziness. One occured while Lucas Prentiss was visiting, and he insisted on taking her to the hospital to be checked out. She admitted the possibility of being pregnant to the doctor and the test confirmed their suspicions.

Lorie Brooks Prentiss planned to tell Lance about Roger Dorsett’s offer to manage her and the possibility of her book's being made into a broadway play, but Lance mentioned first that he was glad she hadn't tried to promote the book and profit by Leslie’s misery. Lucas told Lance that Leslie’s refusal to talk about Laurie meant that she could be willing to forgive. If she were really unforgiving, she would be only too glad to vent her anger. Lance stopped by to see Leslie on his way home from a business trip, to thank her for the good advice she gave him about making up with his wife. Lorie appeared at the door, just as Lance kissed Leslie goodbye. Lorie left unseen, and returned home urging Lucas to accompany her to New York to see Dorsett. Lance was surprised that she had gone to New York, as he had planned a surprise vacation in Europe. Lorie called Lance, but didn’t tell him why she was in New York or where she was staying. Vanessa assured him that Lorie looked upon Lucas as a brother and must have had a very good reason for asking him to go with her.

Lorie was thrilled with the attention she was getting, but made it clear to the interviewers that Leslie did not have another breakdown and she was proud of her sister for overcoming her difficulties. Lucas could see that something was wrong between Lance and Lorie and said he would be there to listen whenever she wanted to talk.

Brock again helped Leslie find peace with herself, and she had come to a decision about him after a talk with her father. Stuart had a lot of respect for Brock and believed that she could never find a better man. Leslie said there were many things Brock didn’t know, but he said he was happy to take her the way she was.

Lance learned why Lorie had gone to New York, when he was asked to give an interview to supplement Lorie’s. Lance tells Leslie that Lorie had begun to exploit her.

Lorie was enjoying all the attention she was getting. Roger Dorsett called her to inform her that Lance was contacted about an interview. She broke down and told Lucas how she went to see Leslie to reconcile the differences they had, but found her in Lance’s arms. Lucas said that if he had known this was the problem, he would have advised her to talk to Lance before coming to New York.

Lance felt he didn’t know his wife. If she had plans to promote this book when she talked to him about starting a family, then he could only believe that she was the person everyone said she was before he met her.

Derek had moved into Kay’s house, but let her know that as far as he was concerned, this was strictly a business arrangement. Brock talked to his mother and then visited Derek at the salon. Brock knew that Derek was doing this for Jill and Phillip, not for the Chancellor money.

An article about Chapman’s death. 

28 minutes ago, Paul Raven said:

The original Matthews girls. Susan Trustman as Pat and Liza Chapman as Janet were frontburner for the first two or so years. Jacquie as Alice was supporting.

Susan left show business after AW and Liza died in a car crash after leaving the show. Rare to see a photo of all three

 

Thanks for this ! I never realized Liza Chapman died only 6 months after leaving AW. She was 38, so sad !

19 minutes ago, kalbir said:

Thanks @FrenchFan Y&R getting close to Paul and Nikki's introductions.

Yes Nikki is mentionned in May summary and she appeared in June.

APRIL 1978

All My Children

Written by: Agnes Nixon

Produced by: Bud Kloss

Shorly after she heard from Paul Martin that her daughter Anne's doctor had told him that he had done everything in his power but that Anne had not improved in her mental or emotional state and probably never would, Phoebe Tyler learned that Donna was scheduled for surgery to reverse her sterilization. Estelle walked into Donna's hospital room just after Phoebe had gotten Donna hysterical by telling her that Anne's condition was a result of the loss of her severely retarded child and implying that Donna's life as a young prostitute before her marriage to Phoebe's grandson Chuck Tyler might have an adverse effect on the health of a child she could conceive. Estelle managed to calm Donna down and the operation was pronounced successful by Donna's doctor. Estelle visited Phoebe at the Tyler mansion to warn her to stay away from Donna or Stelle would tell Phoebe's estranged husband Dr. Charles Tyler that she could prove that Phoebe's paralysis was phony. - Estelle saw Phoebe walking out of the Harbor Lights Bar when Phoebe met with Billy Clyde. –

Following a deposition by Ruth and Joe Martin's testimony in the assault, robbery and rape trial, Ray Gardner was found guilty on all three counts and was sentenced to 25 years in prison with no provision for earlier parole.

Phil Brent learned that little Philip had been using the name Charlie - after Chuck - at school and that Tara and Chuck had known and kept it from him. He told Tara that whenever there was a problem in the house, she went to Chuck. Phil remarked that Tara and Chuck had been real chummy lately - keeping back that he had seen Chuck with his arms around Tara -, and that he felt like an outsider in his own home. He went to the hospital and quarrelled with Chuck, ordering him to stay out of his and Tara's lives. Phil then told Sgt. Jacoby that he was little Philip's real father. He got drunk and stayed overnight at Jacoby's, but the following night he asked to stay with Claudette at the apartment she had sublet from Nick. Ruth learned about it and begged him to go home but when he went to see Tara, she was not in.

Joe Martin was concerned about his part in going along with Tara's decision to keep little Philip's name change from Phil. After Phil's confrontation with Chuck, Joe told Chuck that he had to face the fact that Phil and Tara were in charge of little Philip and was taken aback when Chuck protested vehemently that after her treatment by Phil, Tara had "every right to turn to someone else."

Erica Kane visited Donna at the hospital, telling her that Tara seemed to be deeply troubled in her marriage. Donna speculated that Phil might have heard about the name change. Erica remarked that she understood Phil's frustration about not even being able to give the boy his "first" name. Joe walked in just after Erica had said she was amazed at Chuck's keeping secrets from Donna. As Erica left, she suggested that Joe might be a more appropriate person to tell Donna the secret about his grandson. Joe attributed the remark to Erica's vivid imagination and when Donna questioned Chuck, he told her that Erica was only referring to Phil's having wanted to adopt little Philip legally, after he married Tara.

Phil finally went home, to find Chuck there once again, but he calmed down eventually after Tara assured him that there was nothing between herself and Chuck but friendship. He said she might have to put that aside and Tara offered to arrange that she and Chuck not see each other. Phil accepted that as the most sensible solution and apologized to little Philip for his overreaction, telling him that if that was what it took to make the boy happy, he would call him Charlie.

As Jeff Martin was seeing Edna Thornton in his office, David stormed in and ordered Edna to leave, insisting that he would take care of his wife's illness personally. Edna left despite Jeff's protests that she had a right to consult whomever she chose. Later, Jeff gave Dr. Christina Karras a diamond, which she accepted but did not wear out of consideration for David's feelings. Nancy Blair saw Chris' ring and urged her to wear it.

David Thornton got a call from Gladys, Edna's boss at the Beauty Spot where Edna had returned to work, telling him that Edna had collapsed. She was appalled when David refused to take Edna to the hospital, ordering her home instead. Chris was with David when the call came and remembered that David had denied her contention that it was too late for them, insisting that, on the contrary, it was "too late for Edna." She wondered aloud to Nancy if it was possible that David would withhold treatment. Nancy was not willing to accept that David would be capable of what would amount to murder and changed the subject, telling Chris that she believed that Frank Grant was sincere in his wishing her well, apparently accepting the story that the baby Nancy was carrying was the son of the late Carl Blair. When Caroline saw Frank and Nancy together, she blurted out that she didn't want Frank seeing Nancy, and didn’t want her living in Pine Valley. - Caroline knew that the child was Frank's but couldn’t bring herself to tell him, especially since Frank and she had decided to start their own family. –

Linc Tyler had flown to Minneapolis after hearing from Myrtle Lum Fargate who insisted that she had seen his late wife Kitty "in the flesh," at a piano-bar under the name Kelly. Linc attributed Myrtle's obsession that she had seen and heard Kitty to Myrtle's emotional state after the loss of her husband Nigel from a heart attack. Myrtle insisted Linc see a publicity photo which would convince him but learned when she and Linc arrived at the place that Kelly's agent had picked up the photo to send on to Chicago, the site of her next engagement. Myrtle was determined to fly to Chicago.

After seeing Frank and Nancy talking together, Caroline blurted out that she didn't want Frank seeing Nancy and didn't want her living in Pine Valley. When Donna mentioned that Frank was worried that something was bothering Caroline which she wasn't sharing with him, Caroline told her that she knew the baby Nancy was carrying was Frank's.

David learned from Frank Grant that Chris was wearing Jeff's ring and confronted Chris, shaking her and telling her she didn't realize what he had been doing for her but it would "all be over soon." He apologized just as Chris took another call from Gladys, who was at the cabin, saying that Edna had had another attack. David got rid of Gladys, dismissing her contention that Edna was worse and should at least be undergoing further tests. As Edna went to lie down, he told himself he was determined to "get it over with" that night. - David was prepared to administer a lethal shot to Edna the day before, but Dottie's presence caused him to reconsider and he emptied the hypodermic and replaced the solution with plain water. –

Linc Tyler had returned from a trip to Minneapolis convinced that Myrtle Fargate's insistance that she had seen his late wife Kitty singing in a night club, under the name of Kelly Cole, was a manifestation of her unstable emotional state after the loss of Kitty and the death of her husband Nigel Fargate a short time previously. He was shaken when Myrtle phoned from Chicago, where she had gone on to trace the girl and he heard Kitty's singing voice quite unmistakeably as Kelly was doing her act. Myrtle told him she was determined to bring the girl back to Pine Valley.

Another World

Written by: Harding Lemay

Produced by: Paul Rauch

The lives of many Bay City residents were in a state of flux. Iris Carrington Bancroft couldn’t accept son Dennis' moving in with Jamie Frame. Iris felt Dennis would fall prey to unscrupulous people, especially girls like Eileen Simpson, who might really be only interested in his money. Despite pleas from husband Brian and father Mac Cory, Iris persisted in her objections, going so far as to ask housekeeper Louise Goddard to spy on Eileen. Louise's refusal to go along led to Iris' firing her. Louise and Brooks, Iris' chauffeur, found immediate employment with Mac and Rachel Cory. When Brian continued to defend Dennis' leaving, Iris insisted he didn't love her - or he'd be on her side - and ordered him to leave. Brian refused, saying it was just because he loved her that he would stay and help her overcome her self-destructive ways. Shortly thereafter, Brian returned from work to find Iris gone. She had left him a note ordering him to dispose of all her property in Bay City and to communicate through her banker in New York. Dennis was distressed at first, then accepted his mother's leaving, aware of her flightiness.

Brian found himself at loose ends. He tried to deepen his relationship with Countess Elena de Poulignac, who knew better at this time. Elena did, however, offer to buy Iris' house, planning to use it for herself and for artists and dealers who came to town to deal with Gallery 285, the gallery she helped build to showcase Rachel's sculpture. Dennis and Brian liked the idea of Elena's having the house. Brian began to see a lot of Olive Randolph, a client, and titillated her with prospects of introducing her to the social set that included Elena - the Countess! -, the Corys, etc. Olive, from a deprived background, could see only the glamor of the people, rather than the people themselves.

Olive’s therapy with Cal Zimmerman progressed to an impasse when she refused to discuss her relationship with the dead Evan Webster or her marriage to John Randolph, or anything Cal deemed important. He wanted to halt the sessions at Olive's home, but Olive refused to go to the hospital for them, as she was reluctant to run into John's ex-in-laws, Alice Gordon and Russ Matthews. Olive's sister Doris urged her to follow Cal's advice, to no avail.

While Willis Frame was away in Chadwell, on his mysterious trip to think through his feelings for Alice and for Angie Perrini, Alice accepted a dinner date with Cal, which her cousin Susan Shearer instigated, to try to draw Alice out about her problems. Alice learned more about Cal than he did about her. Cal came from a background similar to Willis', but ambition took a different tack with Cal. He learned to channel his drive into productive alleys, but his first marriage suffered. Susan accidentally let the dinner slip to her mother, Liz Matthews, who told Willis, at the first opportunity, that Alice might be interested in someone else. Willis confronted Alice, who reassured him, but their relationship had been shakier than ever since Willis' return, especially when Willis learned Alice was going through with her divorce from Ray Gordon immediately. Liz, after promising Susan she would stay out of things, arranged a dinner party, to which she invited Alice and Cal without telling either the other was coming. Susan, in exasperation after this incident and after learning Liz called her estranged husband, telling him Susan needed him, moved out and found a home with Alice. Actually, Alice was glad of the company. Willis, upon learning Alice's divorce would be final in two months, broke with her, telling her he had just realized his true love was Angie. Alice was hurt and angry, and withdrew from family and friends, humiliated that they were all right about Willis after all.

Angie’s mother, Rose Perrini, had been waging a battle to drive Willis out of Angie's mind by encouraging Willis' brother Vince to see Angie, and vice versa. Angie knew Vince cared for her, and tried to avoid him. Meanwhile, Ada McGowan had learned from Alice about her break-up with Willis. Ada told Alice's father, Jim, for whom Angie worked part-time. Rose became aware that her plan wasn't meeting with great successs, so she went to see Willis, to tell him to stay out of Angie's life. Willis told her about the break-up and his intention to re-win Angie. Rose vowed to stand in his way. But Angie learned of the break-up and found Rose had known about it. She forbade Rose to withhold any more phone calls or to bar the door to Willis. Willis arrived and proposed to Angie, who asked for time to think. She refused to be pushed, unable to get Alice and Willis' past treatment of her out of her mind.

Gwen Parrish and Russ Matthews were engaged to be married. The news had drawn Gwen's mother Leueen to town. Leueen didn’t quite approve of Russ, and when she latched on to Liz, who disapproved of Gwen, Leueen began to plant seeds of discord. Russ was puzzled when Gwen began to ask about his past marriages, especially his most recent one to Sharlene. Russ good-humoredly refused to discuss Sharlene, then got angry when Gwen refused to let it go. - Russ' marriage to Sharlene failed after Russ discovered Sharlene had been a B-girl, information supplied by Willis. Their sex life began to deteriorate, and when neither of them could overcome Sharlene's past, they split. Russ was too much the gentleman to talk about it. - Just as the lovers patched up this rift, Russ asked Gwen to quit her job with Willis, as nobody in his family was on good terms with him after what he did to Alice. Gwen refused; Russ walked out, to Leueen's delight.

Burt McGowan had been offered, tentatively, a job in Detroit. It would be a big step up for him, but his wife Clarice was dragging her heels, having only recently established a good relationship with her father, Charlie Hobson. She didn’t want to leave Bay City until she knew he was settled down with a good woman – Ada -. Clarice was also wary of leaving her friends and going to a totally new place, where she didn't know anybody. Rachel sensed interest in Charlie on Ada's part and put a bug in Charlie's ear. Charlie took Ada to dinner, but Ada forestalled talk of anything deeper than friendship. Charlie, discouraged, took Liz Matthews out, a fact Rachel was happy to reveal to Ada, who was disturbed by the news.

Rachel was pregnant. Mac strangely commented one night that he'd like the baby to be a girl, as he had always wanted a daughter. Rachel was puzzled, as he had a daughter.

Marianne Randolph was in love with Greg Barnard, her father's law partner. Her mother, Pat, objected, telling Marianne the age difference was too great, that she went through a similar marriage with John and found too many situations she was too immature to handle. At Pat's urging, Greg willingly agreed to curtail seeing Marianne. He truthfully told Marianne he was interested in someone else, who turned out to be Pat. When Marianne guessed Greg's interest is in Pat, she was devastated, hiding in the house and not going to classes. Eventually, Pat, John, Mike Randolph, and Greg all became aware of the situation: Greg was interested in Pat, who couldn’t return his admiration. But they realized Marianne's interpretation was wrong and she had to be helped somehow.

Marianne had gotten Eileen Simpson, Dennis' amour, a job in the Randolph law offices. Eileen had led a protected and sheltered life. She had an open relationship with her parents and was reluctant to go against their wishes. However, she found herself attracted to Mike, and accepted dates with him. When Dennis learned of her interest in Mike, he was plunged into deep despair, cutting classes and moping around the loft he shared with Jamie. Rachel was able to learn what happened. She sympathized, telling Dennis it had happened to all of them at one time. Dennis received a postcard from Iris. She was in Paris, but moving along soon. Mike had begun divorce proceedings against Molly, who wouldn’t contest it.

Joey Perrini, Angie’s brother, alone in the fix-it shop, gave himself a tremendous electric shock that knocked him unconscious. Vince returned from making deliveries and found him. Angie happened by, and they rushed Joey to the hospital. Rose blamed Vince for the accident at first, then relented, when she realized Vince saved Joey's life. Angie and Vince grew closer as they waited through the night forword of Joey. He regained consciousness, but Russ insisted he stay in the hospital to ascertain whether there was any heart damage. Willis finally learned what happened and rushed to the hospital. Angie and Rose were in the cafeteria. Vince threw Willis out of the hospital.

Olive began a campaign to attach herself to Brian. First she suggested he move in with her. He refused, gently. She then suggested she could come to his hotel room at any time. The Corys invited Brian to dinner, saying he might bring a date. Brian decided to go alone, but told Olive he could have taken her. Olive faked a scene, saying he didn’t think she was good enough for his friends - part of her campaign -. Rachel was distressed when she heard Brian was seeing Olive. Olive went to California to visit her sons.

Greg tried to convince Marianne to go on with her life, instead of shutting herself away. She agreed, provided she could see him secretly. The first night they had dinner, they ran into Olive and Brian. Marianne demanded they change restaurants. The following day, Marianne told Eileen that she was in love. Eileen admitted she also thought she was in love, but wouldn't say with whom. Having learned Dennis' recent bad mood had been over Eileen, Jamie tried to talk to her, but she ran off.

Alice shut herself off from people so she wouldn’t be hurt again. Leueen and Liz threw Elena and Russ together at a dinner at Liz'.

As The World Turns

Written by: Robert Soderberg & Edith Sommer

Produced by: Joe Willmore

Grant Colman had been concerned about Lisa's dependence on sleeping pills. After she determined that Mary Ellison was not the other woman in Grant's life, Lisa set out to check his female clients. She accidentally stumbled over Grant's concern for Valerie. Ralph Mitchell related Valerie's fear when she suspected someone had been in her house. Unable to reach anyone but the Colmans, Valerie appealed for help when she again felt someone had been in the house. Everyone commented on how well Lisa looked recently. Since she had a purpose she no longer needed sleeping pills. She vowed Grant and Valerie would be sorry.

Valerie found that her imagination was not playing tricks on her when she caught Nick Conway, her ex-husband, in the farmhouse. He claimed the farm had sentimental value for him, but she remembered that he related stories of being dragged to the farm to visit his grandparents. All communication about the farm was to be through her lawyer. Grant told her that if Nick took it to court, there was slight possibility Nick could win.

Lisa told Valerie to call upon Grant and her whenever she needed help, and then made sure Grant knew of every meeting between Nick and Valerie. Because he had chosen not to hurt Lisa by ending his marriage, he knew he had to live with this situation.

Betsy Stewart had recovered physically from her ordeal, and Kim agreed to take her on a vacation while she tried to learn to live with the knowledge that her "Uncle" Dan was really her father. She had become good friends with Dr. Alexander Keith during her hospital stay and called him just to chat while she was away.

Beacuse they were short on vascular surgeons Dan was assigned to assist Dr. Forest. During surgery, Dr. Forest had a heart attack and dropped a clamp. The patient died and Dan blamed himself, even though everyone said the old man had no chance without surgery and very little with it. Alex assigned the next operation to another surgeon, but then thought better of it. Dan refused to agree that he needed to operate for his own self-confidence. He told Alex to stay out of his professional and personal life.

Jay Stallings had not been successful in clearing up his debts and, after getting a job with Fred McGill, finally appealed to Chris Hughes for help in getting his creditors to agree to installments. Dee Stewart felt sorry for Jay when he had to close his office. She began seeing him, much to her mother's dismay. Dee and Tom Hughes seemed to be the only ones who believed Jay didn't force himself on Melinda Gray as she testified at his trial.

Natalie Hughes sent a note from New York, telling Jay and Carol she had a baby girl on January 20th. Jay asked Chris to find out where the baby was without letting Carol know. Jay concluded that the baby might not be his since Natalie listed the father as unknown. Carol felt responsible since she talked Natalie into having the baby and thought Natalie had not named the father so that adoption would be easier.

Kevin and Sandy Thompson continued to run into Susan Stewart in restaurants and at the hospital. Kevin was still trying to burn the candle at both ends, convincing Sandy that Susan was still on his mind. She decided to fight fire with fire by not turning down the attentions of other men at the next party they attended. Kevin was furious when he found her having a drink with a man he considered a wolf. They argued on the way home and came to the conclusion that it all boiled down to Susan. In the heat of the argument, they agreed to a divorce. Always a fast driver, Kevin was worse when he was mad, and at this point the car swerved and an accident occured. Kevin escaped with only a few scratches, but Sandy's condition was serious. She had a lacerated liver which Alex watched closely after the surgery. They were concerned about her badly injured foot also. Sandy refused to see Kevin.

Joyce Colman Hughes was inventing remodeling jobs so that she could remain in Oakdale to continue her affair with Ralph Mitchell, rather than join Donald in Switzerland. Laurie Keaton, Ralph's secretary, told Mary Ellison that she suspected Ralph was seeing Joyce, and if she still had any feelings for Ralph, she had better make them known. Joyce tried to pry information from Mary, thinking Ralph was cheating on her when he broke several dates.

Ralph visited Mary, who brokes into tears when he couldn’t deny that he was seeing Joyce. John Dixon arrived to soothe Mary. She explained that she still loved Ralph, but wasn’t sure how he felt about her. John said he understood that Mary only wanted to be friends with him, and so to show that friendship, he would ask Ralph about his intentions. While in Ralph's office John called Mary and had her repeat into the phone that she did ask John to make this visit and then told Ralph that it was Mary's wish that he stay away from her.

Karen Parker – Peters – returned to Oakdale with Bob Hughes because her former fiance, DA Walter Vested, had agreed to try to find other means to uncover whatever illegal doings Karen's father was accidentally mixed up in. Karen had decided to protect his name by not turning over the secret file her father gave her with his dying breath. Walter was followed when he visited Karen in Oakdale to ask her to give it to him unofficially. A call informed Vested that time had run out and if he didn’t get that file in short order, Karen would have to be taken care of permanently, and they knew where she was staying. Walter pleaded with Bob to side with him, but Bob felt he had to respect Karen's judgment.

Bob wanted to be in Boston when an old instructor had heart surgery, but disliked leaving Karen. The Hugheses suggested that she stay with them so that Bob wouldn’t worry. Walter urged her to return to Winterbrook so that he could protect her. Karen considered these possibilities as well as going to a secluded resort she had visited with her parents, and decided to stay with the Hugheses. When Walter heard of this arrangement, he told his mysterious caller that he needed something to frighten Karen into returning to Winterbrook. Upon returning from the airport Karen found her luggage had been searched. She told Chris she wasn't ready, but would come to the house soon. Karen left the Spencer, where a man had been following her since she took Bob to the airport. When Karen didn't arrive, Chris and Nancy called the Spencer to learn she left some time ago.

Annie’s telling Beau that she was willing to give up anything because she loved him so much made Beau decide to sacrifice his future as a lawyer so that she could return to medical school. Jane refused Beau a loan to see him through until the next bar exam, hoping this would force him to come into the family hotel business. Jane used innuendo to make Annie uncomfortable and to cause trouble between Beau and Annie. Melinda Gray, Jane's new secretary, also saw her opportunity in Beau.

Jane and Beau had an argument when she insisted on taking an office at the Spencer. Beau said she asked him to take over the business and he couldn't if she thought she was going to make the decisions. Jane agreed, but told Dick Martin that Beau had shown himself incapable by failing the bar exam twice and making several mistakes at the hotel. Beau confessed to Dick that he wasn't happy, but loved Annie so much that he wanted to make this sacrifice.

Lisa had continued to make Grant and Valerie uncomfortable by claiming she was Valerie's friend. She took Grant to Jane Spencer's party for Nick Conway and then said she was only curious about the man. Grant said he cared very much for Valerie, who asked him to prove it. Grant didn't get the opportunity to say anything to Lisa because she said she wouldn't know what she would do if Grant were unfaithful to her, as Nick obviously was to Valerie.

Valerie intened to give in to Nick's demands and sold her portion of the farm to pay her debts and then leave Oakdale, pleasing Lisa. Grant persuaded Valerie that this could be disasterous.

Joyce told Ralph that she thought she was pregnant and this would be his baby. She did not want to see a doctor in town and would not go to any doctor for a few days. She wanted Ralph to stand by her through this by marrying her. He reminded her that this was strictly an affair of passion in which they both agreed that love would have no part. He said that any child born to parents who did not love him would not benefit. Nancy Hughes found Joyce distraught and could see the change when Ralph Mitchell dropped by to tell her about their new neighbors. Nancy said she felt terrible for suggesting this, but she thought something was going on between Joyce and Ralph. Chris agreed that it would not help to bring Don back from Switzerland at the moment.

Kim had returned to Oakdale with Betsy, who was suffering from a hearing problem. Kim had thought it would go away, but the closer they got to home the worse it got. Dan had a specialist check her out, but it was only Alex Keith who could calm Betsy enough to see him. The doctor said there was no physical reason for her deafness, and they should see Dr. Devan, a psychiatrist, for treatment of possible hysterical deafness. Again it was Alex who got Betsy to trust Dr. Devan. Kim asked Alex not to help Betsy so that she would go to Dan, but Dan was willing to take help from anyone who could help Betsy.

Days of our Lives

Written by: Ann Marcus

Produced by: Betty Corday & H. Wesley Kenney

Julie Williams had been indicted for the murder of Larry Atwood. The evidence against her was strong: her dress with Atwood's blood on it, the murder weapon found in her apartment, a note from Jeri Clayton accusing Julie of having an affair with Atwood, Amanda Peters' admission she saw Julie running from Atwood's studio the night of the murder. -  Atwood wanted to put gambling in the rooms behind Doug's Place. Doug refused and soon found himself in the midst of a hassle about his liquor license, which was revoked. His wife Julie bought the club. Atwood was always thereto offer advice and help Julie solve problems, when Doug took out-of-town jobs. Atwood told Julie he could get Doug's license for him, if Julie would become his mistress. Julie refused, but visited Atwood to try to gain his cooperation out of friendship. Atwood mistook her intentions; then when Julie refused to cooperate willingly, he raped her. Julie told Doug finally, when Jeri's note arrived, and Doug went hunting for Atwood. Julie went to the studio to warn Atwood, to protect Doug, and found Atwood dead. Julie had since told her lawyer, her uncle Mickey Horton, about the rape. Mickey had cautioned Julie not to tell anyone else, as it would give the prosecution a perfect motive for her killing Atwood. –

Julie was out on bail. But Doug's and her problems were compounded by his sudden impotency. Since Julie was able to give herself to him, Doug was unable to respond, bringing additional tensions to bear on Julie. Mickey sensed what was going on when he visited Julie to prepare her for the preliminary hearing, so he asked psychiatrist Laura Horton to visit Julie, to try to help. Julie was reluctant to talk to Laura, insisting Mickey cautioned her not to talk to anyone. After Laura assured Julie it would be strictly confidential, Julie revealed the whole story. Doug, meanwhile, was tortured by his inadequacy, feeling he was letting Julie down horribly. Doug paid a visit to Laura, asking for advice. Laura assured Doug his impotency was only temporary, that it would probably disappear as soon as he dealt with his anger. Doug revealed his deep anger at Atwood, and felt angry at himself for taking out-of-town jobs, instead of staying with Julie. When Laura suggested he might also be angry with Julie, Doug denied it vehemently, but Laura was skeptical.

Meanwhile, Julie’s son, David Banning, whose wife Trish had taken their son and left him, received a letter from a "fan" of Trish's. He called Julie, who came over to try to help David gain some insight from the letter. Jeri arrived to check on David, her son-in-law. The two women went at each other, Jeri accusing Julie of having an affair with Atwood; Julie denying it vehemently. Jeri left. David turned the letter over to McManis, the private detective he had hired to try to find Trish and Timmy. The letter was unsigned, so they went through people Trish might have known, coming up with Arlo Roberts, a bus-boy at Doug's Place, who was fired by Julie and who secretly worked for Atwood. - When Arlo was fired, he went to Atwood and asked for more to do in the Organization. When Atwood refused, saying he couldn't trust him, Arlo threatened to blow the works. Atwood had Arlo beaten up. –

Jeri, at Atwood’s death, lost a singing job and a lover. She had also lost Trish. David decided to dispose of Trish's things and invited Jeri to help him. They fought about Julie. Jeri felt ostracized because of her insistence that Julie and Atwood were having an affair. Unable to deal with her feelings of loneliness, Jeri attempted suicide. As she got weaker, she called her lawyer, Don Craig. Don's service called him with a strange message: "You might as well say I did it .. . headlines in tomorrow's paper." Don was confounded by the message, but when other possibilities didn’t pan out, he and fiance, psychiatrist Marlena Evans, tried Jeri. They got to her just in time. Laura got Jeri to see that she was trying to hurt Trish and others by killing herself, when all she was really doing was hurting herself. Jeri denied anything to do with Atwood's murder to Lt. Harry Danton and Mickey.

David found a note from Arlo in one of Trish's pockets. He gave it to Mickey to look at. Mickey asked Julie about Arlo. She recalled he was not a good worker. It then occured to her that a lot of her troubles in running Doug's Place began after Arlo started to work there. Mickey asked if Arlo could have been tied to Atwood. Julie didn’t know. Mickey then asked Julie to buck up, pointing out he could refute testimony that Atwood was an upstanding citizen. He had been checking into Atwood's background. Mickey figured Atwood failed the people he fronted for when he failed to get gambling into Doug's Place, and opened the Pines, where he didn't have gambling either. Mickey then felt that if that tack failed, he could get to Jeri on cross-examination. He reminded Julie that she couldn’t be convicted of Murder I if there was any doubt of her guilt.

Don Craig was being blackmailed by Lorraine Temple, a woman he lived with for a month, 14 years ago, until he found out she was sleeping around for money. Lorraine claimed to have Don's thirteen year old daughter, and she wanted $50,000, to keep quiet so his campaign for state senator wouldn’t be ruined. Don had adamantly refused to pay, refusing to believe her daughter was his. Marlena backed Don, but she was concerned about the effects of all this on the daughter, whom Lorraine had brought to Salem. When Don refused to pay again, Lorraine went to Arleen Harris, the gossipy newswoman, who had written other things in a way that had damaged Don's campaign. Arleen was delighted to print the story about Don's abandoning Lorraine. Lorraine then hired a lawyer to file a paternity suit against Don.

Right before the election, on a final interview show, Arleen kept bringing up Lorraine and Donna, simultaneously denying Don the opportunity to give his side. After the show, Don told campaign manager Jim Bradley that he wanted to withdraw from the election. Jim told him it was too late. Meanwhile, Lorraine's lawyer, Mr. White, dropped by her hotel room to discuss something with her. He found Donna alone. Donna talked freely, assuming White was in on the "scam." She told him her father was an Air Force pilot who was shot down in Vietnam; that she dyed her hair for this "scam"; that she spent a lot of time at all-night movies when Lorraine entertained male visitors, etc. White made an appointment with Lorraine for the following morning. He first showed her Donna's birth certificate. Donna was born in February; Lorraine claimed to have lived with Don during February and March the preceding year. Lorraine tried to cover, but White wouldn't bite. He told her of his conversation with Donna, and dropped the case. When Lorraine returned to the hotel, Donna wasn’t there. She received a call from juvenile authorities: Donna had been picked up for shoplifting. Lorraine said she would be right there, but instead called a "friend" in Dallas and persuaded him to send her a plane ticket. She left the hotel, leaving everything behind so she wouldn't have to pay the bill.

Mary Anderson couldn’t stand the idea that her father Bob was marrying Linda Phillips. But Mary agreed to be Maid of Honor for Linda. Chris Kostichek, Mary's lover and Bob's protege at Anderson Manufacturing, urged Mary not to make waves, pointing out Bob loved Linda and she had no right to interfere. Mary gave in and had the happy couple over to dinner. After dinner, Bob had a dizzy spell. Mary called step-father Neil Curtis, who examined Bob. Neil found Bob's BP was elevated, but felt it was just a touch of flu. Neil dropped by Linda's apartment that night to reassure her. Later, Neil dropped by again, after visiting Bob at home, and was invited by Linda to stay and eat. Neil and Linda understood each other, one having married Anderson money and power, the other about to. Neil dropped by a third time, to suggest Linda make sure Bob see Tom Horton for another EGK.

Bob was late for the wedding rehearsal. When he arrived, he revealed that his best man couldn’t serve. He tried other friends, to no avail. Bob asked Chris, who accepted. Linda was furious, suggesting in a veiled way that Chris wasn't good enough to be best man at her elaborate society wedding. Bob was glad he asked Chris, so Linda dropped it. Mary and Melissa, Linda's daughter, hit it off well. Tom examined Bob, and as he was going over the EGK, Neil dropped in. Tom showed him the strip. Bob was concerned when he saw two doctors discussing it. Tom pointed out there has been a change and urged Bob to take it easier, work shorter days, eat less, put himself under less stress. Bob didn’t take the advice well.

Tom’s tests confirmed that Margo Anderman had leukemia. With Mike's help, he hospitalized her for chemotherapy and blood transfusions. Tom located Margo's mother, who arrived for a visit. The woman was too wrapped up in her own life to afford Margo much comfort, a job willingly accepted by Mike and Alice. Margo went into temporary remission and was sent home.

Neil received another call from Dominic, Atwood's former right-hand man. Having already taken Neil's expensive watch on account for the $9000 Neil owed Atwood, Dominic wanted more money. When Mickey dropped by to ask if Neil knew about Atwood's being a professional gambler, Neil denied any knowledge of it.

Neil told Mickey that he thought Arlo had been professionally beaten up when he hospitalized him some months ago. When Dominic visited him again, at his office, Neil called his bluff - Dominic hadn't told the police about Neil's debt to Atwood, hoping to get the money for himself -, by telling Dominic he knew about Atwood's safe and the large amount of money that was there just before Atwood was killed.

Don’s state senatorial campaign bit the dust when a story appeared that Donna had been picked up for shoplifting and Lorraine had left town. Donna was being housed at the Family Crisis Center.

Bob and Linda were married in a traditional formal ceremony. After a reception at Doug's Place, the newlyweds left for a European honeymoon.

The Doctors

Written by: Mel & Ethel Brez / Linda Grover

Produced by: Chuck Weiss

Greta Powers, living in a fantasy world, thinking Billy Aldrich would marry her because she was carrying his child, refused to have an abortion. Her parents, Matt and Maggie Powers, had agreed to back any decision Greta made, but both realized she was not being realistic about the baby. Matt continued to blame Billy for Greta's predicament, although he realized it took two. The problems between Billy and Greta were interfering in the close friendship between the Powerses' and the Aldriches'. Steve felt Billy wasn't accepting his responsibility for Greta's condition. Billy honestly told Steve that he didn’t love Greta and that he wouldn’t marry her and ruin his future. Billy planned to become a doctor. At 19, he knew he had many years of study and work ahead of him that would be hard enough without a wife and child. Steve, recalling his disastrous marriage to Karen, whom he married out of a sense of duty, told Billy he would back him. The two families decided to meet to discuss the situation. Before the meeting, Greta confronted Billy about marriage again, finally hearing from him that he didn’t love her and had no intention of marrying her. Billy reiterated his threat: no abortion, no relationship.

The meeting was disastrous, both sets of parents talking about the kids as though they weren't there. When Carolee realized the effect on the kids, she walked out, feeling nothing productive would be accomplished. However, neither family wanted the rift to remain, but the first steps towards resuming the friendship were taken by the women. Maggie asked Greta about a gynecologist. Greta lashed out, telling Maggie that she never consulted her about anything else, why asking her then? Maggie was stunned, having tried to contact Greta on an adult level. Maggie made the appointment. When Greta left the room, Matt suggested they also have Greta see a psychiatrist, as it was becoming increasingly evident that she was living in a fantasy world. At the doctor's office, Greta met a woman who was pregnant with her third child. The woman naturally told Greta about her first baby: the sleepless nights, diapers, the time and attention a baby demands. Greta seemed affected.

MJ Carrol and the Dancys decided to have a double funeral for Tom and Virginia, both casualties in the disastrous fire that destroyed Andre's restaurant, owned by Doreen Aldrich and managed by Luke Dancy. Nola Aldrich felt guilty about the hard times she felt she gave her mother, recalling the times she snubbed Virginia to be with "better" people. She felt unable to attend the funeral, but husband Jason and mother-in-law Mona Croft managed to get her thereafter Jason gave her another tranquilizer. Barney gave an eloquent eulogy to his wife and Tom. The survivors had to face getting on with their lives. MJ, married only a short time to Tom, regretted their lack of time together. She virtually locked herself in her apartment, refusing to go out. Her sister was there from Vermont and urged MJ to let her take little Ricky, her nephew whose parents were killed in an auto accident, and for whom MJ promised to care forever, back to Vermont with her. Ricky and his parents used to live there and Ricky would have old friends and lots of cousins and relatives to care for him, a more normal environment than MJ could then provide, as she had to work. After agonizing for many days, MJ gave in to her sister, realizing letting go was best for Ricky. But it still took time for her to get herself back to work as a member of Colin Wakefield's staff.

Luke had had Andre's rewired recently by an unlicensed electrician. Luke blamed himself for the fire and his mother's death. Brother-in-law Jason Aldrich told Luke that neither he nor anybody else really knew what started the fire and to keep quiet until the authorities had investigated. Doreen Aldrich, Jason's ex-wife, had filed an insurance claim for her losses at Andre's. She felt it would be settled immediately, and was stunned when the claims adjuster told her there would be no settlement until the insurance company, the fire department, and the police department were finished with their investigations. Doreen had planned to use the insurance money to buy another restaurant near the hospital. She asked Luke to remain her partner in the new venture and asked Barney to be the bartender. When both agreed, she went to Jason and asked him for the $100,000 she would need to buy the place. Meanwhile, Jason asked Luke if the electrician, Leon Matthews, gave him an inspection certificate before Luke reopened Andre's. Luke didn’t have the certificate, but was sure Matthews had it. Burt, Matthews' assistant, under his boss' orders, pretended not to know anything about it, leading everyone to believe Matthews never called the inspector. Matthews later admitted to Burt that the wiring wouldn't have passed inspection, and suggested he and Burt get out of town for a while. Although told to stay out of it, Barney used an assumed name and tried to learn more about Matthews' practices at the source, but was found out. Jason was checking with the Better Business Bureau and other sources about Matthews' past performance.

Sara Dancy was engaged to Mike Powers, who suggested she might recover from her grief over her mother sooner if they married sooner. Sara was reluctant. The fly in the ointment of her happiness with Mike was Dr. Colin Wakefield, with whom she had an affair in Africa when she was with the Peace Corps. Sara left him when she found out he was married and had a child. She had since learned the child died after a tragic fire. Colin wanted Sara back, telling her that what they shared in Africa was so special and rare that it came only once in a lifetime. Sara reiterated her stand: she would have nothing to do with a married man. Colin finally told Sara that his wife was dead. She died in the same fire that killed his daughter. He suggested they resume their relationship as nothing stood between them. Sara pointed out that she was engaged, and that he had never mentioned love! Sara was, however, confused, as she admitted to sister Nola. Nola felt Colin and Sarah belonged together. But Sara wanted the solidity and security of marriage to Mike, although Colin excited her more. Nola met with Colin and promised to help him with Sara. Sara gave in to an invitation to Colin's apartment for a drink.

Nola was still not dealing well with Virginia's death and got drunk and ùade a fool of herself with one of the social committees she wanted so badly to join. Mona tried to warn Jason.

Jason agreed to give Doreen the money for her new restaurant, The Medicine Man, telling her that it was a loan until the insurance money came through; however, if she couldn’t repay the loan, his money became an investment. She agreed. Nola hated the whole idea.

Sara ended up spending the night with Colin. Colin and Mike engaged in a professional squabble over placement of cardiac patients from the emergency room. Sara turned down a date with Mike and Michael Paul, saying she was not cheerful enough to be around the little boy.

MJ continued to deny her grief. She returned to work in the cardiac critical care unit. When the signal for a cardiac arrest went off, she froze, recalling Tom's death.

Carolee dropped by to see Maggie and Greta. Trying to sort responsibilities, Carolee asked who would care for Greta's baby. Maggie said she and Matt would assume some of the responsibility. Carolee asked if that was fair, upsetting Maggie.

The Edge of Night

Written by: Henry Slesar

Produced by: Erwin Nicholson

Kevin Jamison, having decided that the Crime Commission on which he served was a farce, called newspaper reporters to the meeting and publicly condemned the commission for allowing conflicts of interest in its members and for not investigating white-collar crime. The Commission then went into closed session and voted to remove Kevin for disrupting "the unity and effectiveness of the Crime Commission." The motion was made by Alan Demler and seconded by George Monks, two of the men against whom Kevin had evidence. Kevin arrived home dispirited, knowing that his wife Raven would be furious.

Tony Saxon and his new wife, Geraldine Whitney Saxon, were surprised when they learned what Kevin had done. Geraldine told Kevin it was a foolish gesture and she wanted Tony to use his influence in city government to have Kevin reinstated. Kevin rejected the idea immediately. - Geraldine felt that Kevin was like a son to her. She did not know that Tony had a number of shady dealings with Demler and Monks. Kevin knew of the relationship through the information supplied to him by Logan Swift, Steve Guthrie, and Mike Carr, who had been investigating Saxon's business dealings. –

Both of the local newspapers support Kevin's actions in their editorials, speaking of his "refreshing morality"; they reported the charges he made on page one. Tony said that Kevin had become an "instant hero," which seemed to be true when the editorial praise was followed by a letter from James Brandon, the head of the party, suggesting that Kevin meet with him for lunch. Geraldine, having had a great deal of experience in a political family, realized the importance of the invitation for Kevin's political career and urged him to contact Brandon immediately. Brandon was considering supporting Kevin in the upcoming Congressional election, a possibility which thrilled Geraldine and Raven.

Raven was anxious to tell Kevin that she was pregnant and due in November; she felt that a baby could only help Kevin's chances. Geraldine quieted her immediately by telling her that the news would destroy Kevin since the baby couldn’t possibly be his. Kevin was sterile. Raven was sure Kevin would have told her if that were true, and Geraldine explained that she felt it was an "unnecessary disclosure" and that she persuaded Kevin to keep silent. Saying, "We can safely rule out Immaculate Conception, particularly in your case," she demanded that Raven say nothing to Kevin about the pregnancy. Instead she insisted that Raven plan a trip to New York, where she was to have an abortion. Raven agreed and told Kevin she wanted to go to New York to see some old friends and to do some shopping.

Raven went to see Logan Swift to tell him that she was pregnant with his child. Before they could talk they were interrupted by Logan's date, Winter Austin. Winter was aware that Logan was upset and distracted, and she guessed that he and Raven, whom she immediately disliked, had had an affair. Logan, who had tried to avoid Raven since her marriage, telephoned her and accused her of lying, saying they had not been together for over two months. The conversation was abruptly ended when Raven had to leave to catch her flight to New York.

Tony’s daughter, Deborah, was continuing her course at the Police Academy where she had been placed in an accelerated program. She was dating Tony's assistant, Raney Cooper, who had fallen in love with her. When Chip Beemer, a young ex-con Raney hired to do some of Saxon's dirty work, suggestsedthat Raney was dating Deborah to gain more control of Saxon's business, Raney threatened to kill him if he ever even mentioned Deborah's name. Chip apologized and then went on to say that when he was in prison he heard about some of Tony's dealings that even Raney didn’t know about.

Logan Swift was best man and Raven Jamison matron-of-honor at April Cavanaugh's marriage to Draper Scott. It was a beautiful chapel wedding, and even the presence of Denise Cavanaugh, April's sister-in-law, did not marr the proceedings. - Miles Cavanaugh had told his wife Denise that he wanted a divorce. - Moved by the wedding, Miles told Nicole Drake how much he loved her. She also loved him but refused to discuss marriage while he was still married to Denise.

Using the name Dorothy Cartwright, Denise rented a room overlooking Nicole's patio. From this vantage point she watched Nicole, looking for a way to hurt her romance with Miles. Denise photographed Nicole when she gave Ben Everett, her boss on the news, a friendly kiss and she sent it by special delivery to Miles. Miles was concerned only by the possibility that someone was spying on Nicole.

While Timmy Faraday, the Karrs’ soon-to-be adopted son, was babysitting for Nicole's baby Adam, he saw a black-taped woman outside the patio window. He was frightened, particularly by the thought that he was going crazy and would be institutionalized like his mother. When he insists on going back a second time, Nancy Karr accompanied him. Again he saw the woman, but this time Nancy searched the patio and found a scarf with the initials D M C on it. She showed it to Miles and Nicole when they returned home and Miles immediately recognized it as one he gave to Denise. Realizing it was Denise who had been spying on Nicole, he found her in her rented room and confronts her with the evidence. Miles told her that their separation arrangement was cancelled because of her evil activities.

Denise, in severe pain from one of her recurring headaches, wanted to have her prescription for Venetrol renewed. Miles refused and her father had already said no, claiming the drug was too dangerous. Denise called Carole Barclay, a fellow nurse at the Claremont Hospital where Denise worked, and asked her to search her locker for her old prescription. Carole left her rather difficult patient, Mrs. Chase, in order to look. She couldn’t find the prescription but she did find a scrap of paper with Charlie Richmond's address on it.

When she called Denise, she asked about it and Denise abruptly told her to leave her alone, that she was in pain. A few minutes later Denise called back to apologize and to tell Carole that she had Charlie's address in order to send his widow condolences. – As a nurse at the Claremont, Denise ignored the call button of one of Miles' patients, a woman of whom she was jealous. When the woman died Charlie was fired for allowing faulty wiring when in fact Denise had cut the wires as an alibi for why she did not answer the call. When Charlie refused Denise's bribe she slipped Venetrol into his coffee, killing him. The police knew Charlie died of an overdose of Venetrol, but until then only April Cavanaugh knew of Denise's connection with Charlie. –

Carole was suspicious of Denise's story and she told April about the scrap of paper. April decided it was time to confront Miles with what she knew. Miles was incredulous, saying that it was "unthinkable."

Denise, in great pain and without medication, called her father for help. She told him that she had lost Miles. He insisted that she return to the Claremont for a full examination. He found that she was very run down but Denise wanted him to make the tests appear that she was dying.

Miles saw Denise at her request and examined the test results she showed him. She pleaded with him not to leave her alone at a time like this, but to stay with her until the end. Miles was upset when Denise mentioned that her dying made a divorce unnecessary.

April told Miles that Denise would do anything to keep him; she wanted Miles to remain in Monticello. Miles told her he had to return to Denise since he couldn’t ignore what might be her last demand.

Logan flew to New York to see Raven who, having just returned from the doctor, told him she was too late for an abortion.

Demler and Monks had resigned from the crime commission following their move to unseat Kevin who had suggested Mike Karr as the new chairman.

For Richer, For Poorer

Written by: Tom King

Produced by: Paul Rauch

Paco called Bill Saxton and asked him to hurry to the hideout so that Megan Cushing could he saved. To clear the hideout he claimed the police were moving in. Bill overpowered Turk and R.C. and tied them up to await the police. They freed themselves with a concealed knife and used Megan to work themselves to the doorway, as the police arrived. Shots were heard as Paco ran out after Turk and R.C. Turk and Paco were shot, but R.C. managed to escape. Megan and Bill contended that Paco was trying to stop Turk. Sgt. Demico said the officers had no way of knowing.

Ellie was with Connie when Bill rushed out to Megan's aid. Connie became hysterical, finally locking herself in the bedroom. Ellie asked Lee Ferguson, Connie's brother, to help calm her. Connie was not only concerned that Bill could be in danger, but was afraid that Megan would tell Bill that she left a message with Connie that she was meeting a witness in the Donny Quinn case and wanted Bill to meet her at the coffee shop. She contended that her anxiety was strictly for Bill's safety.

Once Paco was out of surgery at City General, Megan had him moved to Point Clair Memorial where he could be taken care of by the family doctors. The family was frightened when Megan disappeared again. She was at the hospital waiting for word on Paco's condition. She was found there by Bill and Stan Hillman, who had come to give blood for Paco.

Megan became fretful when Sgt. Demico asked her to describe any of the other members of the Savage Avengers she saw while held captive. She had tried to block the whole incident from her mind. Her only objective at the moment was to see that Paco, Estaban Morales, got the best possible medical care and the charges against him were dropped. She had felt all along that Paco was looking for a way out of the gang. After the sergeant left, a vision of R.C. appeared before her in the hall, frightening Megan into screaming. Amy rushed in and became worried when Megan explained that R.C. disappeared before her very eyes. Amy told Austin that she didn't think Megan should be left alone. Austin agreed, but wouldn't let Amy give up her appointment to have new photos taken for her modeling portfolio, since she had decided to get back into the business. Just before Austin arrived, agent Claire told Amy that this was a session for a fashion spread in one of the top magazines. When the photos came back, she had to admit that they were very good. Claire's best model was won over by a competitor, but she was sure that Amy could be as good or better.

Tessa Saxton had been dating Lee Ferguson on the sly because she knew her parents would disapprove. Bentley got wind of this and confronted his new boss on Tessa's behalf. Lee said he had seen Tessa occasionally, but she was dating someone named Clark from school and spent her time talking about him. She met Lee one evening at the garage and was rushed out when they heard a noise that Lee said was probably a drunk looking for a place to sleep. He returned to his office to find R.C. Lee gave him cash to get out of town and R.C. vowed that he would take care of Paco for turning the police on Turk. Feeling she had too little freedom at home, Tessa asked Josie if she could have an apartment near campus. Josie explained that Lester was out of work for quite a time and they were trying to pay off debts. An apartment of her own was an impossibility until after graduation. Lester was matching every dollar that Bentley saved for his return to college this summer.

Bill asked his brother-in-law, George Kimball, to represent Paco and visited Paco hoping to cheer him up. Austin and Amy took Megan to see Paco and while there, she reacted violently when she saw R.C. They thought she might be imagining this again, until she reported that he went down the hall toward Paco's room. On the slight chance that it might not have been a hallucination, Bill and Austin rushed to his room and found R.C. trying to suffocate Paco, while the police officer was at the nurses' station confirming Megan's visit. Paco's condition was touch and go for a while, but excellent care tipped the balance in his favor.

Sgt. Demino couldn’t give R.C. immunity, but said any cooperation would be in his favor. R.C. gave the gang name for members and then said the kidnapping was Paco's idea because he helped Turk kill Donny Quinn. Sgt. Demico hinted to Kimball that getting the charges dismissed against Paco might not be as simple as he thought. Roger advised George that Megan wanted the reward Edith offered to go to Paco.

Megan mentionned her call to Bill to Amy and added she was surprised that he didn't meet her. She left the message with Connie, and when she called again, the line was busy. Amy confronted Connie who became defiant, saying the kidnapping had upset Megan so that she couldn’t remember details. Amy said that the truth would come out.

Viola Brewster had told Higgins, the detective she hired to follow Laurie, that she needed some real evidence against Jason Saxton. Higgins didn't want to get mixed up in blackmail, but Viola assured him that she only intended to take this to dear friends who would see that he lost his job. Laurie and Jason saw Higgins in the hall, at a restaurant, and then at Cushing and Sons with Barbara Manners. Barbara told Jason that he said he was running a credit check on Jason. Learning that he was a detective, Laurie was sure that Desmond became suspicious and hired him. She told Viola who couldn’t admit that she was the one. Desmond thought that Viola was causing the tension and suggested that they go ahead with looking for a house of their own. Higgins followed them to Jason's apartment, where he entered quietly and photographed them embracing. Laurie's reaction was to stay with Jason as she thought Desmond knew and went ahead with a divorce. Knowing that this was wrong, Jason phoned Viola for help. Laurie then felt that no one wanted her and asked to stay at the Cushings'. Viola explained that they had an argument and Desmond was unable to get Laurie to go home. He couldn't understand why she was mad at him. Laurie was frustrated when Desmond acted as if he knew nothing.

Connie had tried to keep Bill by her side to insure that he would not learn of Megan's call on the night she was kidnapped. Connie faked a respiratory difficulty with Billy to get Bill out of the Cushing house. She said she called Dr. Miller and the baby was fine then. The following day Bill ran into Dr. Miller and learned that Connie had not called her the night before and mentioned no problem when she brought Billy in for his regular checkup.

Megan told George that Paco seemed surprised to see her at the hideout, making her sure that he knew nothing about it before hand. She and Bill were willing to testify for Paco even though he would not say anything against the gang in his own behalf.

Viola confronted Jason and agreed to remain silent if he would give up Laurie. If not, she would be forced to show the photos. She confessesd her part to Laurie, who couldn't admit that Jason would put his career ahead of her. She made up with Desmond and he felt the best thing was to push for their own house so that Laurie was away from Viola. Roger admonished Viola for her interference. Viola insisted that she wanted to make amends by giving Laurie and Desmond her home even though Roger said a financial setback could ruin her.

General Hospital

Written by: Douglas Marland

Produced by: Gloria Monty

Dr. Lesley Webber learned about Monica's involvement with Dr. Gail Adamson's late husband from Gail, and she and Rick disagreed about Gail's refusal to listen to Monica's side. She was angered that Rick had invited Monica to a dinner they were hosting for purchasing agents of Hauser Chemical and just then her daughter Laura came in three hours late. Lesley and Rick demanded to know where she was, and to cover up the affair she had been having with David Hamilton, she gave them money out of the advance David had given her for posing for him, saying she had been working for a teacher after school in secret so that she could pay back some money she took from Lesley's household funds when she ran off to Buffalo.

Monica Webber learned at the meeting that large pieces of critically situated land were unavailable for purchase, having been acquired by phone transactions by a man calling himself William Slattery, representing a "Port Charles Development Company." After she accepted an engagement ring from Alan Quartermaine, he left town to go to New York and she tried to get in touch with him, believing that David Hamilton might very well be Slattery.

Laura was suspicious of David when she cleared up some dishes in his apartment and found a lipstick stained wineglass - Monica's - and did not accept his story that he spent the previous evening with Cates and took the phone off the hook so they wouldn't be disturbed. Mr. Cates covered for David but Laura waited in a hallway and saw David leave for dinner again that evening with Monica.

Dan Rooney reported that he was on to some good leads in the stock manipulation of Corbin Limited but was told by Lamont to hold off on the investigation. Corbin insisted that if they exposed the man responsible, they would lose out on their trump card, the money he had deposited in Dr. Mark Dante's account, to make it seem that Mark was involved. Corbin made it clear to Rooney that it was more important to him to ruin Mark than to avoid jeopardizing his business empire.

Dr. Steve Hardy met with Mark and learned about his involvement with Katie and the divorce she was seeking from Corbin. He endeavored to explain Mark's position with regard to turning over Corbin's outpatient treatment to another doctor, but the board insisted that he try to talk Mark into continuing in accordance with Corbin's expressed wishes and he began to get some idea of Corbin's manipulations when he learned that the board had made Corbin an honorary member.

After talking things over with his brother Howard, Dr. Gary Lansing met with Lamont Corbin and turned down the grant he had just been awarded from Corbin Ltd. However, when Gary saw Steve Hardy to accept his offer of a permanent position on the staff of General Hospital, which he had previously stalled on, Steve had to tell him that while he was away at a medical convention in Chicago, his administrative replacement had filled the post.

Against Mark’s strong objections, Katie met with Lamont to discuss disposition of some property and Lamont told her that he had information that Dante killed a man in Boston in a fit of rage. Katie was unmoved, saying she knew of the incident; that the man tried to rob Mark's father's store and his father was killed. Mark was a young Golden Gloves champion and the beating was considered assault with a deadly weapon. Corbin went on to tell Katie that Mark had an affair while his wife, the daughter of the judge who took an interest in Mark, was institutionalized. Finally, he told Katie that Dorrie Fleming was seeing Mark at the same time Katie was, before Lamont's surgery, and that Rooney had been following Mark and had records to substantiate a number of meetings. - There was only one episode, the night preceeding Corbin's surgery. Corbin ordered Rooney to add to his notes to strengthen his case against Mark. - Katie burst into Mark's office afterwards, to find him talking with Dorrie, but she went on to tell him all that Corbin said. Mark talked over with her his situation with his late wife Mary Ellen, and the truth about Dorrie and himself. Katie told him this was an example of what Corbin was prepared to do and emphasized that Howard Lansing had to know, so he could deal with Corbin as her lawyer.

After Baby P.J.’s crisis and recovery from pneumonia, Diana Taylor took a leave of absence from the hospital upon the baby's dismissal, determined to care for him herself until her mother could move in with the Taylors. Peter finally told Diana that her excessive concern was turning their home into an intensive care unit and begged her to move out of the nursery where she had been keeping constant vigil and return to their bedroom. Diana replied that P.J. still had congestion in his lungs and that she was not in need of therapy from her psychiatrist husband.

David Hamilton managed to talk his way out of a confrontation with Laura, telling her that Cates cancelled his meeting at the last minute and that he ran into Monica and decided to have a bit to eat with her since she was at loose ends because of Alan's trip to New York. Laura apologized profusely for doubting David and gave him a gift of a statuette which she had charged to Lesley's account, intending to pay for it with the final fee for posing for David. She begged him to take her away with him for awhile and he told her he had been making plans to do just that.

Dr. Steve Hardy asked Lesley to attend a two-day seminar in Syracuse and Rick told Les he welcomed the chance to spend some time alone with Laura as he wanted to tell her he would like to adopt her, legally. When Les ran into David Hamilton she warned him that she had not told Rick about the pass David made, but if he went back on his promise to avoid the entire Webber family, she would.

On his return, Alan downgraded Monica's suspicions of David, even after she had told him she learned from Jessie Brewer that David had been in Alan's office while she, Alan and Rick were in New York for Rick's presentation. He insisted that the group behind the land speculation was a powerful New York syndicate. They learned from one of Hauser's purchasing agents that the man, Slattery, refused to do business in person and was insisting on a price way out of line for certain parcels of land. - Monica made it a point to tell David what was patently not true; that Hauser would pay any price for the land. –

Monica intercepted Gail at the hospital and told her that she was destroying her relationship with Lee Baldwin out of her refusal to face her late husband's guilt in his relationship with Monica. Monica angrily added that she refused to take the entire blame any longer and would not try again to speak to her. That evening, at dinner with Lee, Gail told him that she felt it was unfair to go on seeing him at all after what happened between them some nights before. - Lee was trying to get through to Gail and she turned to him for comfort, only to call him "Greg" when he had his arms around her. - After she left and Scotty and Bobbie said goodnight, Lee, an alcoholic who had been dry for years, downed a Scotch and pushed the shot glass back to the bartender.

On the day final settlement papers were signed, Lamont got rid of Howard and showed Katie the bank deposit slip and a statement from the wife of the man Mark killed, claiming Mark had robbed her husband before the final beating. He threatened to ruin Mark if Katie didn't return. Katie phoned Mark to tell him she was flying to Boston to see her sister.

Jeff insisted Heather see Peter professionally but she was reluctant. Her cousin, Susan, got a hostess job at the Floating Rib Restaurant near the hospital.

Guiding Light

Written by: Bridget & Jerome Dobson

Produced by: Allen Potter

Bert Bauer and Simone Moray met one another for the first time as the trial of Bill Bauer/Moray began in Springfield. - Bill Bauer had been "married" to Simone for the past ten years while his first family, Bert, Ed and Mike Bauer, thought he was dead in a plane crash. They learned he was alive just weeks before he came to Springfield to confess to the murder of Victor Kincaid, Simone's first husband. - Both women were hurt and confused but both had decided to attend the trial despite their concerns over publicity and over meeting one another. Bert awkwardly introduced herself to Simone, who thanked her for her kindness to her daughter Hillary who had been studying in Springfield. As the trial began, Mike's move to have Bill's confession thrown out was denied. When pictures of Geno's Roadhouse were entered into evidence, Bill claimed something was wrong; it didn't look like that.

Mike Bauer was serving as defense attorney for his father, despite Bill's desire that neither of his families be involved in anyway. He had even gone so far as to refuse to see both Bert and Simone. Bill had told Mike that he and Kincaid fought when Bill refused to pay Victor the hush money he demanded. Victor knew that Bill was Hillary's real father and he had been blackmailing him for a number of months. Mike, however, had promised his father that he would not divulge this information. At Mike's insistence Bill had returned to the roadhouse where they fought and he was beginning to remember a number of previously forgotten details. Ten years ago the parking lot where the murder happened was not yet landscaped and it was littered with bricks, bags of concrete, and a cement mixer. Mike hoped the visit would prompt more memories since as the trial began, he had almost no case. He believed there was probably more to the story than Bill then remembered. He was sure that his father was not the type of man who could kill.

Ed Bauer was suffering with very different thoughts. Ed went to the jail and saw Bill, who confirmed that he had killed Kincaid. Ed, furious, refused to call him Dad. He told him of the guilt he felt ten years ago when he thought Bill had died, of how he had placed his father on a pedestal and worried that he was not a good enough son. Ed screamed to his father, "Do you think you were the kind of man who deserved a good son?" Ed accused Bill of murdering so that he and his girlfriend could continue their affair without any interference. When Bill told him it wasn't like that, he refused to listen. Tension has developed between Mike and Ed since they were both dealing with their father's confession in such different ways.

When the trial turned to the defense, Mike called Bill to the witness stand. Bill said he was not taking the stand in his own defense, but rather in the defense of truth; he told the courtroom that he considered the trial only a formality and that there was no defense.

Mike questioned Bill and learned that there was a twenty-five to thirty foot discrepancy between where Bill claimed he killed Victor Kincaid and where the police found the body. The pathologist testified that death was instantaneous and that Victor could not have moved after he was hit.

When the district attorney began his questions he examineed the relationship between Victor and Bill. Bill revealed that between December 1966 and February 1968 he paid $6,000 blackmail money. The D.A. refused to accept Bill's explanation that it was to keep his relationship to Simone a secret from his Springfield family. He forced Bill to confirm the fact that he met Simone in October 1957, that she married Kincaid in March 1958, and that Hillary was born in August 1958. Under direct questioning, Bill admitted the fact that Hillary was his daughter.

Rita Stapleton, Ed’s girlfriend, and his family were concerned because Ed had begun drinking again after having successfully stayed away from liquor for so long. He told Mike to mind his own business and he told Rita that he loved her and didn't want her to see him like this. Ed refused to let anyone close enough to help, and finally he decided to go away for a while, taking a leave of absence from Cedars Hospital where he was chief-of-staff.

Mike was so preoccupied with the trial that he had very little time for Jackie Marler, whom he had been dating. Jackie was in love with Mike. She told her father that because of Mike she was over her ex-husband Justin Marler "completely, irrevocably, forever." Mike, however, seemed oblivious to any change in their relationship.

Alan and Elizabeth Spaulding were in the midst of major marital problems which erupted on the night of their big party but which had been building for weeks. Alan and son Philip planned a weekend skiing in Aspen. In order to meet a deadline for her free-lance photography work Elizabeth had to stay in Springfield. When Elizabeth called to find out about their first day skiing, she learned for the first time that Alan had invited Diane, Philip's former nanny whom she fired, to go with them. She was furious with Alan, claiming he had no right to invite her, knowing how she felt about Diane.

On the evening of their cocktail party—given for both business and social reasons—Alan criticized Elizabeth's dress choice and asked her to change. She refused, telling him that if he didn't like it he should wear a blindfold or turn her in for a new model. She told him she couldn't seem to please both him and herself anymore. Alan became angrier still when he overheard Mike Bauer, whom he noticed Elizabeth was quite fond of, compliment her on how beautiful she looked.

As a result of conversation during the party, Alan learned that Max Chapman was so impressed with Elizabeth's photography work that he had offered her a permanent position on the newspaper. She planned to accept it as soon as she could make arrangements for Philip. Alan used the opportunity to remind her that it was her idea and not his to let Diane go.

When all of their guests had left the party, Alan and Elizabeth quarrelled loudly in their room. Philip, awakened by the shouting, overheard part of their argument. Elizabeth was so distraught she took a sleeping pill and went to sleep on the living room couch. Alan, also upset, left the house. Unable to sleep peacefully and dreaming about their fight, Philip called for his parents. When he got no answer he went to their bedroom and, finding it empty, he left the house, looking for them. Elizabeth was so soundly asleep that she heard nothing until Alan returned. When he found Philip's bedroom empty he shook Elizabeth awake.

Alan called the police and then went out into the storm to search for his son. Elizabeth telephoned Jackie to see if he was there and Jackie came to the Spauldings immediately. - Unknown to anyone except Jackie, Philip was really her natural son. - When the police arrived, they searched the house and assured Elizabeth that it did not look like a kidnapping, which she had feared. Meanwhile Alan found Philip in the woods where he had fallen and sprained his ankle; he was headed in the direction of Jackie's house. Alan carried him home and called Dr. Peter Chapman to examine him.

When Philip was safely in bed, Alan berated Elizabeth in front of the police and her friend. He told her she couldn't care for Philip because she drank too much at the party and then took pills on top of it. She denied this, saying she had only two glasses of wine all night. Later she accused him of deliberately trying to humiliate her in front of others, something she felt he had done a number of times in the past.

Alan insisted that Philip be taken to the hospital; he was taken to Cedars where an x-ray proved that nothing was broken. He would remain overnight, however, since the doctors were concerned about a fever he was running. Philip had had a slight cold even prior to his exposure in the storm.

When Alan and Elizabeth returned home from the hospital she began packing to leave. She told Alan that he deliberately lied about her to Jackie, the police, and her son and that she would not stay with him any longer. Elizabeth moved into a hotel, telling her friend Jackie that they were then separated.

Alan was furious with Elizabeth, telling her she would regret her decision to move out. Alan hastily made arrangements to fly with Philip and Diane to Nairobi via London. Elizabeth learned of the trip from Alan's secretary, who had no idea she was unaware of it.

Peter Chapman enjoyed the Spauldings party with his date, Holly Bauer, whom he was seeing frequently. After the party they went to Peter's apartment, where a soaked Holly warmed up in one of Peter's robes. Holly found a scrapbook from Peter's Peace Corps days in the Carribean. She asked him about one picture of a beautiful young woman, saying she looked happy. Peter cryptically replied that yes, she was happy when that picture was taken; he then changed the topic quickly.

The arrival of a friend of Peter's from his days in Santo Domingo added further to Holly's confusion about Peter. He was pleased that Peter "doesn't dwell on it" any longer, but when Holly asked for an explanation he wouldn’t elaborate. While painting Peter's apartment Holly discovered scuba diving equipment in the corner of a closet; when Peter saw it he wanted to get rid of it as soon as possible.

Holly had heard from her daughter's natural father, Roger Thorpe, for the first time in quite a while. Roger told her he was doing well in Lake Tahoe and would send her the money he owed in a few weeks, as well as some money for Christina. Holly told Roger that his ex-wife Peggy was coming back in Springfield, once again a nurse at Cedars. Roger was also sending support money to her.

Peggy Thorpe and her son Billy had returned to Springfield and were moving into the same apartment building as Justin Marler and Brandy Shalloe. Despite Justin's determination to win back Sara McIntyre's love, he was seeing a great deal of Brandy. Brandy told Justin it used to be only her writing that was meaningful to her, but that then their friendship was also very important.

Brandy felt that Justin should accept the fact that Sara planned to make a life for herself without him and that he should do the same. Justin accused her of suggesting; herself as a part of that new life and told her that he prefered to convince Sara to come back to him.

Sara McIntyre, meanwhile, was in Hawaii attending a medical conference and seeing a great deal of a lawyer she met at the conference. - Sara went to Hawaii after she told Justin she wouldn't see him anymore. She believed he was having an affair with Brandy, who was one of the causes of Justin's divorce from Jackie. –

Ben McFarren and Eve Stapleton were thrilled with their decision to re-schedule their wedding, and to be married despite Evie's blindness. Although she rarely spoke of it, Ed had given her great hope by telling her that research was going on in Philadelphia which could one day result in a cure for her blindness. Both Evie's mother Viola and Rita were delighted with her decision to marry Ben.

Love of Life

Written by: Gabrielle Upton

Produced by: Darryl Hickman

Dr. Tom Crawford had trouble accepting Arlene's marriage to Ray Slater and found himself confronting Ray after he had had a few too many drinks. Ray was knocked out in the resulting fight and the police were called. Ray asked Dorrie Patten to bail Tom out. The hospital board was all for dismissing Tom and it was only through Dr. Andrew Marriott that he drew a suspension instead. He refused Joe Cusack's suggestion that he thought things out away from home and continued to drink. Dorrie found herself becoming very concerned over Tom's situation and tried to help him. Edouard Aleata had been trying to bring Dorrie out of the shell she had built around herself since her husband's death, and he felt that she was not emotionally capable of taking on Tom's problems.

Dr. Albertson was shocked when Arlene told her that she wanted the baby fed in the nursery while in the hospital. She explained to Ray and her mother that she had money of her own and intended to hire a nurse. The apartment across the hall would be vacant and she planned on renting it for the baby nurse. Carrie suggested she move into the apartment and help care for the baby instead. Arlene told Ray that she couldn’t forget that this was Ian Russell's baby and it came between her and Tom. She would only be able to accept the baby when she got over Tom. She arrived to find Dorie with a drunken Tom and left when she agreesd that she couldn’t help him unless she was willing to make a lasting commitment.

Michael Blake agreed to a June wedding, but hadn't been willing to make many plans. Although Meg Hart didn’t know either Michael or Mary Jane Owens well, she saw her opportunity by planning an engagement party. She planned to show Rick that Cal and Michael were the same generation. She persuaded Mary Jane to invite Dr. Marriot as he was the head of pediatric services at the hospital. Mary asked Charles Lamont to come as a favor to her, since she knew very few people and was very shy. The evening of the party, Meg harassed Michael, saying she knew he was in love with Cal and was sorry she had made it harder for him to break off with Mary Jane. Michael said she was being ridiculous. Then Meg intimated to Cal that Michael had confessed that he was in love with her.

Ben Harper and Mia Marriott decided that the hero in Ben's book should go to California to find out what his feelings for his ex-wife were. The end was to be left to the reader's imagination. Mia sent Ben oft to London to confront his feelings about Betsy, his ex-wife. After driving him to the airport, Mia's mind was flooded with memories of Ben. She caught herself speeding and slowed down, but later drove off a cliff when she misses a detour. She was rushed to the hospital, unconscious.

Edouard Aleata was taking the same plane to New York and questioned Ben about his reasons for flying to London. Was he going to find out if he loved Betsy? If she loved him? Or was he going to show her he could make it on his own without her? Ben thought this over and saw that he was going out of spite. Betsy had always tried to change him to fit the mold of the man she wanted. Mia was the woman who had always supported him. He began to see that Mia was the woman meant for him and he took the next plane back to Rosehill. Ben and Wendy Hayes, Mia's best friend, became worried when she didn’t return. In the morning Ben tried to reach Andrew and learned of Mia's accident. Andrew remembered that he met Mia when she tried to commit suicide over another lover who jilted her.

Betsy wrote Tom, Cal and Ben that she had married Elliott Hampton Lang, the American she had been seeing in London. Tom became depressed because it reminded him that his marriage to Arlene never materialized. Ben's letter arrived while he was in New York at the airport. Cal told the rest of the family about Betsy's marriage, and they all assumed that this was what brought Ben back. Meg thought Ben was vulnerable because he had been hurt and Mia would use her feminine wiles to trap Ben. Andrew heard Van and Bruce discuss it and thought Ben returned because of rejection. Van had no way of knowing that Ben had come to the realization that he had loved Mia for some time and warned him against giving Mia the wrong impression by taking her roses. Ben pleaded with an unconscious Mia to understand that he loved her.

Mia woke with Ben’s name on her lips, but upon becoming fully conscious she remained silent. Andrew visited her and promised to stay close by. Mia explained that it really was an accident, but asked Andrew how, when you fell in love with someone who was wrong for you, you forgot them. Andrew told her that Ben was in Rosehill and she asked that he tell Ben she didn’t want to see him. Andrew did as Mia wished. Mia relented and let Ben visit her. He told her all about the feelings he couldn't face before. Mia wanted to believe him, but she couldn’t help but think he found about Betsy's marriage and had come back on the rebound.

Bruce Sterling recovered after his brush with death. Mary Owens visited him in the hospital and helped Bruce over a few rough spots when she told him that she had had cancer and knew that feeling of hopelessness. Bruce decided to make things easier by playing the game everyone else was. Bruce knew he was dying of aplastic anemia, a fatal disease, and didn’t have long to live, but was willing to pretend that he thought he had a chance of living a long life to make Van happy. Much to Charles Lamont's disgust Bruce continued to throw Van and Andrew together in the hope that they would fall in love, not as friends, but as man and woman. He wanted to be assured that Van would have someone to love and to care for her when he was gone. Bruce's illness and then Mia's accident drew Van and Andrew together in mutual suffering.

Arlene gave birth to a six pound baby girl, but still refused to see or care for her daughter. She did show concern for her daughter's welfare when she asked to be told if the baby had any problems. Ray told Rick that Tom showed up at the hospital and asked if people would think he was crazy to keep Tom away from Arlene. Arlene made Dorrie feel guilty over the concern she had shown for Tom.

Michael was moody after his talk with Meg and tighted with Mary when she asked to share his problem. He left the party, with Cal following to find out why. She was shocked to hear him admit that Meg was right. Mary asked Cal's help in learning what was wrong when Michael gave her the choice of forgetting him or the evening. Michael said he had lost Maly Jane and Cal's friendship. Cal comforted him, but found herself struggling to get free when Michael forced his kisses on her. Rick walked in to find Cal on the bed and Michael straightening his clothes. Rick threw Cal and Michael out, shouting he would not be made a cuckhold.

Meg had decided that she had to win Andrew's attentions to show Rick that she was still attractive to other men. Andrew felt he had to hide his growing feelings for Van from both Bruce and Van. Meg was surprised when Andrew spent an evening flirting with her.

Ben explained that he knew nothing of Betsy's marriage and Eddie could back him up on this. Mia wanted to believe him, but was afraid of being hurt again. Ben moved in with Mia and assured her that Betsy's return to Rosehill this summer had nothing to do with them.

One Life to Live

Written by: Gordon Russell

Produced by: Joseph Stuart

Marco Dane had been pressuring Karen Wolek to turn pro, with himself as her "manager," as long as it appeared that Karen seemed bound to go on picking up men. Karen begged Marco for a break, as the first time he set her up to meet a John was the evening of her first wedding anniversary. She managed to give both the man and Marco the slip, only to be greeted by the two of them as she was having dinner with Larry at the Colonial Inn. The following day, Marco called her, insisting that she would not get away with it again, and telling her she had better prepare Larry with a story of wanting a job so that she would have time to pursue their new business venture. Karen was terrified to see Aldo Pierson walk into the Free Clinic the following day, using a phony name. Both Larry and Cathy noted his familiarity and Karen's reaction but she claimed that he was nothing but a "type" she recognized. Later that night Jenny called Larry to tell him that Cathy had been mugged leaving the Free Clinic but that Jenny had arrived to frighten the mugger off after he took Cathy's bag. Karen called Marco in a panic, convinced that he sent Pierson - whom Marco knew was the man who beat her up - to frighten her and Marco did not deny it.

Brad arrived back in Llanview to learn from Jenny that Will had paid off the loan to Dorian. He was angry when Jenny told him she believed they should return a pearl necklace he had bought for her because they owed his father the money. He stalked off but soon became interested when Jenny mentioned how she arrived to help Cathy. Doing a fast about face, he talked Jenny into attending Edwina's party for Jack Scott that evening. When he got there Sam told him Cathy was still wearing the ring he was after and accused him of hiring the mugger.

Edwina’s party was a success despite Dorian's attempt to steal her thunder by arranging a dinner party afterward at Llanfair. Dorian herself showed up after being unable to take being out of things. After Jenny and Brad got home, he left again, telling her he wanted to check things at the Health Club. He met with Aldo, insisting that he had to try again to get the ring, and was rattled when Marco saw them together. When he got home Jenny was waiting up for him. He accused her of pressuring him to get her pregnant and when she rushed to him to deny it and put her arms around him, he hit her with his fist, knocking her down. When Jenny tried to leave he stopped her and hit her again, saying she was married to him for better or worse and continued with the beating. Anna and Jim Craig heard Jenny's shouts but she called through the door that she had a bad dream, saying that Brad was there with her. She turned to Brad and told him he had better not ever so much as touch her again. She locked herself in the bathroom.

The following day, Brad insisted that he was drunk the night before and that he intended to stop drinking. When Anna and Will saw Jenny's face, even though she had stayed home from work for the day, she insisted that she fell. Brad called at the clinic the following day, having made it up with Jenny and afterwards called Aldo to tell him that Cathy was not wearing the ring and would be working till five. Aldo agreed to break into Cathy's house. Jenny accepted a bracelet from Brad, engraved with the words "I will never forget."

Dorian arranged a birthday celebration for Melinda to present her with a gift of a Grand Tour — a European Music Festival, covering a period of six months. Melinda left the room and Dorian followed her out. Dorian pointed out to Peter Janssen that Melinda was abstractedly playing with a paper knife. After a scene between Dorian and Melinda alone, at which Melinda accused Dorian of "committing me to Europe" and Dorian dredged up an old letter of their late mother's asking Dorian to care for her, Melinda left. Dorian called Melinda at her boarding house to tell her she was not to worry about the portrait. Melinda replied that she had no idea what Dorian is talking about. When she was told that Dorian's portrait has been slashed, she accused Dorian of trying to put something over on her. Dorian then overplayed her hand by ordering Dr. Overton, who had been present all along, to take Lynn back to the sanitarium or she herself would have Lynn committed. When Overton told her that the only thing that was obvious is her determination to get rid of her sister, Dorian insisted that she felt she had to before Lynn attacked her.

The slashed portrait was attributed, by Peter, to common valdalism - Dorian had said that the french doors were left open) - and the subject was apparently dropped with the removal of the portrait. But some days later, when Edwina reported that she had seen Peter and Melinda sharing an idyllic picnic in the park, Dorian maintained that Melinda had a luncheon date with her which she had forgotten.

Cathy asked Will Vernon to drive her home from the Free Clinic and they walked in to find her apartment rifled. Will called Ed Hall and when Cathy showed them her jewelry, which she had hidden after the last burglary, Will picked up his late wife's ring. He learned from Cathy that it was Lana's and he realized that Brad had just gotten it from the Vernon family lawyer on the night Lana died. He waited for Sam at his home and forced her to admit lying for Brad. He was shaken to learn that Sam knew about the mugging and didn't say anything even though she knew Cathy might have been hurt. Will was about to call the police when Sam turned on him, saying they were not sure Brad was involved in Lana's death and the accusation would ruin the Health Club as a business, devestate Jenny and have Sam herself thrown in jail for perjury. She taunted him that to do something right, he would sacrifice his own children. Will promised to see Brad before he went to the police.

Richard Abbott had been offered a foreign correspondent's post in Europe and Becky seized upon it as an excuse to delay the wedding, saying they could be married in Paris or some other European city after they had left the country together. She broke down at home, afterward, and confessed her secret to Ina Hopkins. - Part of the past which haunted Becky was that she was forced by her father to marry a man named Luke, the father of grown sons. Thanks to Edwina's feeding information to a reporter in North Carolina, Becky's picture and the place where she was singing in Llanview was featured in a front page article in her home town paper. Luke had seen the article and was headed for Llanview, armed with a gun. –

Pat Kendall had returned from a trip to the Carribean after seeing copies of stateside papers headlining the story of the escape from a maximum security Federal prison of the surviving members of the underground organization which Paul had infiltrated. When Paul tried to minimize the danger to her, she reminded him that she had met a fellow agent and recognized his name as a man who had been killed. Paul insisted that she take advantage of a "safe house" in the North Woods put at the disposal of the Bureau by the Canadian Government 'til the escapees were rounded up, but she refused to go without him. She told Paul that she had been tempted by a letter from a self-professed mystic, offering to contact the spirit of her dead son, Brian, but the trip helped her put that behind her. She was determined then to be with Paul for however long a time he might need her.

Ryan’s Hope

Written by: Claire Labine & Paul Avila Mayer

Produced by: Claire Labine, Paul Avila Mayer & Robert Costello

Pat and Dee Ryan, currently ensconced on a Caribbean cruise ship, a trip Dee and circumstances conned out of Maeve and Johnny Ryan, who'd planned the vacation for themselves, attracted Howard Simpson, a salesman, whose wife was spending a lot of time in sick bay. Howard found Dee fascinating, and Pat, who took the trip to rest, occasionally left Dee in Howard's company to get some sleep. Dee, of course, had envisioned the cruise as a fun-filled second honeymoon and constantly griped at Pat for sleeping so much. - Dee became hysterically blind when Roger Coleridge threatened to tell Pat about her two miscarriages, the real one before their marriage, and the faked one after it. Roger further threatened to reveal that Dee's most recent breakdown was a fake. However, while living comfortably at the Ryans', with everyone at her beck and call, Dee regained her sight, a secret she had kept in order to keep Pat tied to her. Dee persuaded Maeve and Johnny to give them the cruise by telling them of Pat's recent addiction to amphetamines and saying Pat needed the rest. She also coyly pointed out that the rest might give her back her sight. –

After another argument about Pat's sleeping so much, during which Pat drifted off, Dee slammed out of their cabin and bumped into Howard. She said, "Excuse me, Howard," which gave away her secret, as there was no way she could have recognized him unless she could see. Howard took this opportunity in hand and "invited" Dee to his cabin, otherwise he would tell Pat. Dee accompanied him. They were interrupted by Howard's wife, as Dee was sipping a drink while Howard massaged her feet. When Mrs. Simpson discovered the deception Dee had been living, she swore to tell Pat, in revenge for Dee's rendezvous with Howard. Thus Pat was chagrinned when Dee suddenly refused to leave the cabin, as he felt rested and ready for fun. Finally, the second time Pat forced Dee on deck, she was again confronted by Mrs. Simpson, who refused to listen to her pleas and went in search of Pat. She found Pat and told him all. Pat found Dee in their cabin. She denied everything, saying Mrs. Simpson would say anything because she resented the little attention Howard paid them. When Dee asked if Pat could see her hairbrush, he found it on the floor, and threw it to her. Dee caught it. Pat demanded they leave the ship. Dee asked to stay, telling him they had been working things out. He was incredulous, cataloging all her lies and deception. He pointed out the trip had been a "lonely, desperate time" for them both, that there was no hope anymore. They were stranded on the ship by fog, but left the ship at the next port.

Tom – O’Brien – Desmond had received a letter from the immigration department. It demanded he appear in 10 days for a hearing to determine whether he would be deported. Tom realized that the Irish-American grapevine, which had ties in Ireland, would pick up the news of his being alive from the hearing. Thus, his life would be in jeopardy again from the Donohues, who wanted Tom dead in revenge for the deaths of three family members, the latest killed in an attempt to kill Tom. Liam Donohue had sent a faked obituary to his father before he died, so Tom was thought dead, for then. Tom, who was then Faith Coleridge's lover, asked Frank Ryan to intercede for him, but Frank's friend at immigration couldn’t do anything until after the hearing. Jack Fenelli also tried to intercede, but received the same answer. Tom loved Faith deeply. Faith loved Tom, but had a few residual feelings for Pat Ryan, which she felt she was overcoming. Mary Ryan Fenelli made a suggestion: if Faith and Tom were married, the hearing would be cancelled. Faith discussed the idea with her sister Jill and brother Roger. Jill was against it; Roger was for it. Faith pointed out that she and Tom had some love and a lot of honesty going in, and she thought they could work it out. Johnny backed the idea; Maeve and Jack didn't. Jack as especially concerned after seeing Tom drunk. Tom himself didn’t like the idea, afraid Faith's feelings for Pat were still too deep, but Faith won him over. They were married in the Coleridge parlor. The wedding was beginning as Pat and Dee returned.

Learning of the wedding, Pat left Dee with Kevin and raced to the ceremony. But he didn’t stop it. Dee escaped from Kevin and arrived to find Faith in the kitchen. She was relieved when she learned the ceremony was over. But Faith took this opportunity to tell Dee what she thought of her and her lies. - Roger told Faith about the miscarriages and the breakdown. - Pat came in unseen as Dee told Faith she knew nothing about the miscarriage. Faith pointed out she knew there were two, the real one and the fake one. Pat asked what Faith meant. Faith passed to Dee.

Learning Frank Ryan and Jill Coleridge, the mother of Frank's illegitimate baby, were dining together at Lem's, Rae Woodard persuaded Seneca Beaulac, who'd been living with Jill until he told her the truth about the baby's parentage, to take her to Lem's for dinner. Frank was surprised to find he was jealous seeing Rae with Seneca, but Jill helped him see that it was more jealousy of her relationship with Seneca inverted, combined with his gratitude to Rae versus his hatred for Seneca. Frank later revealed this conversation to Rae, who continued to interfere with what little private life he had. Each time she learned he had a date with Jill and son Edmund, Rae came up with campaign business that had to be settled immediately. Rae arranged a press conference for Frank to officially announce his candidacy for Senator.

Jill and Johnny and Edmund dropped by to invite Frank to dinner. In an unguarded moment, Frank was snapped kissing Edmund. Rae was livid when the picture appeared, demanding Frank keep Jill and Edmund away from the campaign. Judy Johnson, one of the reporters, wanted a more personal interview with Frank. Rae sneaked into the outer office and overheard Judy and Frank arrange for an in-depth piece, for which Judy would follow Frank around for a couple of days. Rae went home and had Judy transferred to Washington. The day of Tom and Faith's wedding, Rae dropped into Frank's office with copy for TV spots. Frank refused to look at them, telling Rae he was taking the rest of the day off, as he was put in an extremely hectic week and he intended to get drunk or whatever at the wedding, to relax. Rae gave in, only because she knew Frank was right.

Clem Moultry was reprimanded by Seneca for gathering signatures in support of Frank's candidacy from hospital personnel. Clem pointed out he did it on his own time, and in the residents' lounge, which was neutral territory. Seneca, although working on a committee drafting a position for Frank on national health care for children, still couldn’t stand Frank. He consoled himself with the analysis that Frank was a purely political animal, who would eventually alienate Jill through his devotion to politics.

Dee tried to cover with a torrent of lies, then said that Faith just wanted Pat for herself. Faith put herself out of it all by telling Dee that, when she married Tom, she took herself out of the little "triangle" Dee constructed to cover for her own lies and inadequacies. Roger entered and sent Faith out. His presence forced Dee to tell Pat everything, and Roger filled in the gaps. Hopefully, Dee said it all didn’t matter, that Pat married her out of love. Coldly, Pat told Dee that he married her because he thought she was pregnant. He fave her the keys to their apartment and forbade her to return to Ryan's, except to get her things. Pat left. Bob overheard Dee's cries in the kitchen. When he entered, Dee begged him to get Pat back for her. Roger stopped Bob, saying there were two reasons: Dee faked blindness for weeks; Dee faked the miscarriage, as she'd already lost the baby. Bob was furious when he realized how Dee used the Ryans. Dee ran out and Roger sent Bob after her, afraid of what could happen if Dee and Pat were alone.

Pat told Dee at the Ryans', where he had packed her things, that he was starting divorce proceedings in the morning. Maeve and Johnny arrived. They were horrified when they learned all Dee had done. Dee's answer was, "I did what I had to do." When she threatened suicide, Pat opened the window and invites her to jump. Dee, of course, didn’t. Maeve and Johnny could no longer excuse Dee's lies and behavior. The pattern of her life disgusted them, and they asked her to leave. Bob took Dee back to the apartment and left her, also too disillusioned to feel or offer any love or sympathy. Dee talked to her dead mother.

Frank and Jill planned to be married as soon as Frank could get a church annullment from Dee. They made joyful love. They were interrupted by the ringing phone, which Frank answered, hung up, and took off the hook. It was Rae, looking for Frank. She admitted to perceptive Polly Longworth that she loved Frank.

Search For Tomorrow

Written by: Henry Slesar

Produced by: Mary-Ellis Bunim

Unable to get any money out of Carolyn or Gary Walton, Didi Turner took the information about the mix-up in the blood types to David Sutton. She explained that she knew the tests were to prove paternity of the Phillips' baby and since there was a mistake made - Dede herself transposed the blood types before she reported them to Dr. Carolyn Hanley -, it meant that David was really the father of Kathy's baby. David gave her the money in his wallet and warned her to get out of town. David discussed the situation with Gary and Carolyn. They decided that no one needed know that he was the father because this could cause Kathy a relapse. - The stress of not knowing who was the father of her baby caused such stress for Kathy that she spent the last few months of her pregnancy in a sanitarium. Kathy was recovering, but learning that Scott was the father enabled her to go home after the baby's birth. –

While Scott was in London, John Wyatt told Kathy that they were swamped at the law office. She found a sitter for Doug and returned to work for a few hours a day. When the sitter was sick, Scott suggested that this wasn't working and she should give up trying to work. Kathy found an alternative by taking Doug to the office while she attended to a few matters, planning to take the rest home. Seeing Doug brought out in David the feelings he had been trying to fight.

Since Dr. Greg Hartford had taken a position in a New York hospital so that his daughter Meredith could be treated by a psychologist where she was not known, his house was on the market. Jo Vincente realized that to have married Greg would have been a mistake. There was not enough trust in their relationship. When she ran into Stephanie Wyatt she mentioned Greg's house and since Stephanie had not found a house that fit her new family's needs, she asked her realtor to show it to her. Jo was sure that John would not buy a house that she came so close to living in. But this was one of the very reasons Stephanie had her heart set on this house. - The animosity between Jo and Stephanie was longstanding. Stephanie had an affair with Jo's late husband and tried to break up the marriage by claiming Wendy was his daughter. The recent conflict was over John. - John tried talking her out of the decision by explaining how expensive this estate could be but in the end he gave in to Stephanie and the girls.

Donna Davis had an unexpected visitor when her ex-husband, Chance Halliday, appeared on her doorstep. He managed to talk her into letting him stay at her apartment a few days. His sister, Kylie, had been transferred to Tudor Oaks and soon could be put on a program where she could go home for visits. Chance told Donna that he needed a job so that he could stay in Henderson, and he wanted her to talk to her boss at Collins Corporation. Donna did talk to Bill Mendel about Chance, but did not build him up. She felt very torn because she knew that if he couldn’t find a job he would move on, but she had a deep feeling for Kylie. Mendel found a place for him on the foundation crew for the new hospital wing. He expected to work his way up because honest toil with his hands was not exactly his thing. Chance was interested to learn that the major stockholder of Collins was a widow, Mrs. Janet Collins.

Donna was having trouble finding companionship because Chance drove her to drink - Donna was fighting alcoholism on her own - and although she enjoyed Bruce Carson's company, Amy had become jealous of the time Donna spent with Bruce while she was on duty at the hospital. Bruce thought that Dr. Thompson disliked him because her own marriage broke up when her husband couldn't cope with her career. Bruce and Amy both felt she had unfairly called on Amy in every emergency, under the pretense that women had to fight harder for a professional career.

Dr. Carolyn Hanley was seeing Kylie Halliday at Tudor Oaks until a permanent doctor was assigned. Kylie told her how much she had looked forward to a room that had no locks on the door or bars on the windows. Since the records showed that she had improved and this meant so much to her, Carolyn gave in to this request. Kylie was delighted, but Chance was furious that Carolyn had taken this decision upon herself. Chance was determined that Kylie would be assigned an older male doctor who had had years of experience.

Carolyn found Kylie a very intelligent and puzzling girl. Chance had taken care of her since their parents' death when she was six. Her illness was not noticed until she reached ten. One evening Kylie became disturbed and insisted on seeing Dr. Hanley. Later Carolyn was called from dinner when they found Kylie was missing. Chance rushed to Kylie over Carolyn's protests and took her from the roof. He used this as one more reason why Carolyn should not treat her. Carolyn told Kylie that she didn’t see this as a setback, but she had to be moved to a room that could be locked at night for her own safety so she couldn’t sleepwalk again.

Chance and Carolyn argued violently over Kylie's treatment. He objected to her age and sex while Carolyn explained that Dr. Bryson would not assign her if he didn't feel she was capable of handling the case. Kylie stood up to Chance, telling him that she didn’t want an old man. She needed someone she liked and could be friends with. Chance relented and said that If Dr. Bryson objected, she should come to him.

Stu Bergman had gone to Chicago to uncover anything in connection with Ted Adamson's claim that he and Jo did not really own the land around Hartford House. Janet Collins asked Bill Mendel, who knew Adamson professionally, if he could find out how serious Adamson was. Gary Walton objected to his mother seeing so much of Mendel. He warned that many people saw her as a wealthy, attractive, young widow. Janet was worried about Liza and Steve. They had thought they could handle this musical tour knowing all the pitfalls from personal experience, but Janet felt that it was the things Liza didn’t say in her letters that showed there were problems.

Stu Bergman returned to Henderson without any encouraging news. The title company even felt that Adamson's claim had a good chance of winning. The insurance money wouldn't begin to buy them a different restaurant and inn. Mendel told them Adamson might be agreeable to letting them keep the building, but Stu felt that surrounded by houses the Inn would lose all its charm.

Chance had an accident on the job and was taken to the hospital and treated by Gary Walton for a knee injury. Donna felt compelled to visit and wondered if this was like the truck accident in St. Louis. Chance assured her that he was hurt. He was planning on insurance money while he mended. Gary threw a monkey wrench into his plans when he said Chance was going to be released and could work at any job that didn’t put stress on his knee. Chance had decided that an office job suit him much better and put this plan into motion by sending the flowers he received from Kylie to Janet and then calling her.

Amy asked Dr. Thompson to dinner to mend fences, but Bruce was hostile during the whole evening. They were arguing over Bruce's behavior when Donna appeared at the door in need of a doctor. Donna had several drinks before visiting Kylie because she knew it would bring back memories. At home she cut her hand slicing bread. Out of the blue Donna said that she once had a baby.

The Young and The Restless

Written by: William J. Bell

Produced by: John Conboy

Greg Foster ran into an old school friend of Snapper's, who thought she might need Greg's help when she learned he was a lawyer. Linda Larkin married and had children right out of school, as most girls of her generation were expected to do. As the romance had ended, Linda was dissatisfied and thought she wanted a divorce. Greg suggested that she look for a job to get her out of the house so that she could make friends of her own and find new interests. This was easier said than done because employers weren’t willing to hire "inexperienced housewives." Linda was unsettled by a talk with Snapper when he suggested the problem was hers because she had refused to communicate her feelings to her husband. She felt he should know there was a problem, what was causing it, and do something to change it. Linda thought that because their sex life was no longer what it was, Larry was probably having an affair. Snapper said her emotional conflict could have something to do with this. She had to communicate before her problems got worse.

Snapper had found living in the empty apartment lonely while Chris was away trying to find herself and a purpose to her life, since Karen Becker had gone back to her parents. Dr. Casey Reed didn’t care for the inconvenience of sharing a bath with Snapper in the residents' quarters. Snapper related Linda's problem to Casey who thought people should work things out before marrying. Her method was complete uninvolvement for the time being. Casey was surprised that Snapper wasn't out chasing women while Chris was gone.

Casey managed to pull Kay Chancellor through cardiac arrest, but was disgusted that someone who had "everything" could decide to throw it all away. Before Mrs. Chancellor left the hospital, Casey gave her a lecture on "giving up," putting a plan in Kay's head.

After Mrs. Chancellor consented to a divorce, Derek and Jill made some plans for the future. Derek wanted to adopt Philip after their marriage. He knew how much Jill would like a home of their own and was sure the plans for the new salon would continue because Mrs. Chancellor had really changed since her brush with death. He asked Liz to move in with them because both he and Jill would have to work for a while and she could care for Philip.

Kay told her lawyer that she had changed her mind and intended to fight the divorce. She phoned Jill and asked to see her about something very important. She relayed her decision to fight the divorce and explained why. It it were only for Derek, she would consent, but by giving him the divorce she would be helping Jill also and couldn’t bring herself to do this. Her hatred for Jill had not changed. She hated her for taking Phillip from her and having his baby. She said if Jill really loved Derek she would have to prove her love by waiting, and it could be years. Kay was very cool as she explained all this. Jill's hand found a letter opener on the desk. In her anger she held the opener as a dagger with the intention of stabbing Mrs. Chancellor. Kay turned and dared Jill to kill her, saying she hadn't the nerve. Jill missed and the opener bent. She cursed God for stopping her, and then took charge of herself, saying she wouldn’t let Mrs. Chancellor push her into doing something that couldn’t possibly set her free.

Derek and Liz found Jill in a trance-like state and draw out the reason for her meeting with Mrs. Chancellor. Derek was sure that she couldn’t hold up the divorce, but Jill became hysterical, saying Kay's money could buy her anything. Jill said she had to end it all and rushed for the door. Liz and Derek could only contain her after Liz slapped her in the face. Jill calmly said the only way out was for Mrs. Chancellor to die. Derek said she might be able to keep them from getting married, but there was no way she could keep them apart; they loved each other and could live together to give Phillip a father. Their plans fell apart when Greg told them that this would make Kay the injured party and she could keep Derek from ever getting a divorce. Brock heard of his mother's intentions and told her Derek and Jill would survive this because they were young and in love, but her hatred could only wither her on the inside. Brock walked out when she refused to reconsider. Liz found that she could no longer stand by a woman so filled with hatred that she could almost drive her daughter to murder.

Leslie Brooks was fighting her feelings for Lance Prentiss by convincing herself that she was interested in the other men in her life. She had dinner with her ex-husband, Brad Eliot and later agreed to wear the ring Brock Reynolds gave her after her divorce. She told Brock that she wanted to love him.

Vanessa said she could see that Lance's interest in Leslie was more than in her artistic ability and suggested to Lorie that she and Lance should consider starting a family. Lorie wasn’t sure she was ready for a baby yet.

Dorsett arrived in town and wanted to discuss promoting Lorie and her book. She went to the meeting with the idea of turning down his offer, but agreed to think over his proposition. Dorsett wanted to promote Lorie herself, but they needed to jump on the bandwagon of popularity her book was causing. Leaving for the meeting, Lorie told Lance she would tell him if anything came of this unexplained appointment, and when she returned, he assumed she visited the doctor and found she was not pregnant. He suggested they keep trying. Lorie wasn't willing to give up her pills, because the time wasn't right.

Leslie thought she should see what Laurie's book was about and read the sections dealing with her admittance and stay in the mental hospital. Reliving the humiliation of that time caused Leslie such distress that Stuart refused to let her continue.

Lucas visited Leslie again and remarked on the time she spent alone and with her music. He suggested that she needed to get out occasionally. He was surprised when she agreed to have dinner with him. Learning of his date, Lorie said he should wear a suit because this was the kind of dress Leslie was used to. Lance guessed that his date was with Leslie when Lucas borrowed a shirt and tie. Lance's distress continued all evening and was evident to both Lorie and Vanessa. Leslie dressed in jeans to accommodate Lucas and he asked her not to change. They had dinner in a small seafood restaurant where Lucas explained his theory that Leslie was really all woman but tried to hide it. Stuart wondered why she would go out with someone who was so unlike any man she had ever dated before.

Lorie urged Lance to call Leslie to see that she got home safely. He continued to keep an eye on the boathouse, watching for Lucas to return. Lucas checked in upon his arrival, causing Lance and Lorie to collapse in laughter.

Derek and Jill tried to lease the Golden Comb again, only to find that Mrs. Chancellor had taken a two year lease on the building. Derek started the search for a new beauty salon. Kay asked Liz to see her about something that was vital to them all. She knew that there was a shortage of money for them at the moment and offered Liz her job back at $300 a week. Jill decided that the way to get back at Mrs. Chancellor was to ask more, because Kay was lonely enough to pay for it. Kay agreed to the $400 a week that Liz asked.

Linda Larkin told her husband Larry that she was at the end of her rope. He didn't agree that their lives were sterile and couldn’t see that she needed a job, not for the money, but to find herself, Larry agreed not to stand in her way.

Lorie was about to tell Lance of Roger Dorsett's offer when she saw that he was dis-turbed. Lance had just told his mother that he and Lorie had plans to start a family and then discovered that Lorie was still on the pill. He felt better when she brought this up herself and admitted that she had held off because she thought he agreed only to please her. Lance said he wanted a family, but wanted her to be ready on her own first.

43 minutes ago, NothinButAttitude said:

 

Yeah. I quickly realized that. 

 

 

I contacted him and was willing to buy some copies but he didn’t sell outside of the USA

On 7/22/2022 at 3:24 AM, victoria foxton said:

The same member in my soap Facebook group.  Who has an episode of ATWT. Also has an episode of GL from the summer of 1973. @DRW50@DramatistDreamer@Joseph@Michael @Tonksadora@Mitch64@cassadine1991@Franko@Paul Raven@j swift@TVFAN1144@Broderick@jam6242@soapfan770@bboy875@zanereed@Vee@slick jones@Patrick D@chrisml@heffos@titan1978@Spoon@AlexGrimaldi@applcin@RavenWhitney@Forever8@Liberty City@Khan@DAMfan@vetsoapfan@Darn

Is the older lady on the phone Carol Teitel who played Leslie’s estranged mother Victoria ?

I would pay to see soaps from the 1970s’ in all their glory ! Why can’t networks get that they are sitting on a gold mine ?

22 hours ago, danfling said:

Also, concerning Susan (Judy Lewis), there is a lot of misinformation about the cast of The Secret Storm.  (the whole show, not just the Susan character).

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I watched the show as much as I could.  I began college in August of 1973, and the town in which my college was located did not have a CBS afflliate.    Therefore, I could not watch The Secret Storm.

But, I do not remember that Judy Lewis ever left the show.     It is reported online and probably in some books that Mary McGreggor (or MacGreggor) replaced Ms. Lewis, but I do not remember seeing her in the role.   (Also, it is said that this is not the singer who, a little later in the 1970s had a top forty hit with "Torn Between Two Lovers" but it is odd that this actress and this singer share the same name.    I do know, of course, that co-incidents happen.)     Also, that Diana van der Vlis substituted for Ms. Lewis (which I did not see, either, but that probably happened).

I really do not remember Mr. Loggia in the role of Frank (only Lawrence Lukinbill), but I have known for years that he did play Frank.   i just do not remember.

It is also reported that most of the Ames family had been written off the show (except Amy and her children), but I really do not remember Susan being off the show.   Additionally, Grace Tyrell (Eleanor Phelps) had replaced Marjorie Gates, but she was seen sometimes.    Valerie, although not an original member of the Ames family, was also on the show (with her new husband Dr. Ian Northcoate.

So, if all of this is true (and my memory is somewhat ignorant because I was not getting to watch the show), only Peter and Jerry (and Aunt Pauline) were missing.

I found an article on newspapararchive.com from November 1973 in which Judy Lewis talked about her time on "The Secret Storm". It is said she left the show after 8 years so she probably left in late 1972 (It is said that Susan was on a trip in Europe). She may have left with Loggia who is credited in the role of Alan in 1972 only. I wonder if Susan and Frank left Woodbridge after she was exonerated from Alan's murder. It would make sense.

22 hours ago, danfling said:

Now, going back to the man in the mustard looking suit above, an idea has come to me.   

There was a district attorney named Ursulla Wintrhop who had a grudge against the Ames family.    She procecuted Susan for the murder of Alan Dunbar.   Ursulla's son was Doug Wintrop (played by Robert Sherwood).   Mr. Sherwood is also known as Bruce Sherwood.    I think it possible that this man is the one pictured.    I seem to think of Doug being younger, but I guess not ....

You must be right about Doug Winthrop. He was involved with Joanna Morrison before she fell for Robert Landers.

On 7/22/2022 at 3:26 AM, victoria foxton said:

I just knew you guys would get a kick out of it.  If only the episode was on youtube.

This is beyond incredible ! It is the same who posted the Secret Storm episode from 1972 ?

5 minutes ago, DemetriKane said:

@FrenchFan Thanks so much for continuing posting these.

I love doing it in summer when I have time off work. The last available issue covers November 1978 so I hope I will have everything done by a few months.

MARCH 1978

All My Children

Written by: Agnes Nixon

Produced by: Bud Kloss

Following his recovery in the prison hospital, Ray Gardner made a phone call to the Martin home, trying to reach Ruth. Joe had taken the call and informed Paul, who met with Gardner and warned him not to attempt to contact Ruth again. After speaking with Nancy Grant, Ruth had decided to press the rape charge but just as she told Phil of her decision, she received a letter in the mail from Gardner, which stated that he needed to see Ruth about her foster-son Tad - Gardner's child - claiming that the boy's whole future was at stake. Phil got Ruth to promise not to do anything until she talked with Joe and Paul Martin.

Donna Beck Tyler arrived at Mrs. Maggie Flannagan's door, weak and feverish, but refused to stay unless Maggie promised not to contact either Estelle or Chuck. Billy Clyde checked out his suspicions of Estelle's movements and met Maggie as she and Stelle were on their way to church. He played rescuer by warning off a young hood who had snatched Maggie's purse and learned that Maggie had a young woman staying with her. When Stelle and Maggie went on, he entered Maggie's rooms and saw Donna asleep. After he was convinced that Stelle knew nothing about Donna's whereabouts, he contacted Phoebe Tyler and arranged a meeting.

Linc Tyler had brought Phoebe the news that he met with the judge in her reckless driving case and had had her sentence commuted. She told Benny that she had no intention of leaving her wheelchair as she meant to use her apparent paralysis to get her husband, Dr. Charles Tyler, back. The call from Billy Clyde was enough to tempt her to risk having Benny drive her to Center City to meet with him. She paid him $2,000 for information about Donna's whereabouts, but was shocked when Billy Clyde offered to get rid of Donna, telling him that she only wanted her out of her grandson's life and would contact him further when she had an idea of what to do. Brooke English learned that her aunt Phoebe had been out of the house, but Phoebe pretended that Benny had taken her to see a friend, carrying her to the car, as she was suffering from the confinement and needed to get out.

Chuck and Donna were finally reunited after Estelle came to see Mrs. Flannagan, found Donna there and shamed her into calling Chuck. At home, Donna insisted that Chuck contact Dr. Clader to arrange an operation to reverse the sterilization. - Donna still felt threatened by Chuck's feelings for his former wife, Tara, and her belief that little Philip was Chuck's son. She had told Estelle that she would not feel secure in her marriage until she had given Chuck a child. –

Tara and Phil had quarreled over the fact that Phil had forbidden little Philip to see an older boy he met while on the clean-up duty with Sgt. Jacoby, as the boy had stolen some money from their home. Tara couldn’t argue with Phil's decision but resented his manner of dealing with the situation. Phil burst out that he couldn’t seem to do anything right with either little Phil or Tara and stormed out. Sgt. Jacoby convinced him that he should try to make peace at home and they swang by the house for a few moments while on duty. Phil came in to see Tara in Chuck's arms as he comforted her. When he returned later that day, Tara was looking over some old high school photos of the three of them and made no mention of the fact that Chuck had been there, saying she had spent the day cleaning out the closet. In a frustrated outburst Phil told Tara that he and Chuck had been friends since first grade, but when she came to Pine Valley she changed all that. Tara was hurt and told Phil she couldn’t believe she heard him right.

Edna Thornton had attributed the symptoms of illness she has been feeling to the possibility that she might he pregnant. She gleefully informed Christina Karras that she was to be tested and when Chris accepted David's insistance that Ray Gardner was probably the father if Edna was indeed pregnant, Chris saw this as a way for David to divorce Edna and get custody of his daughter Dottie. – David was determined to get rid or Edna and hds been lacing her drinks with some substance from his medical bag. When it turned out that Edna was not pregnant, he went on with his plan. - After Dr. Jeff Martin told Chris he was convinced of Edna's sincerity regarding David, Chris went to see Linc Tyler and learned by a ruse that David had lied to her. David tried to talk to Chris after this as she was in her office with Jeff, but she refused to listen and he walked out, cursing them both. He went home and continued with his attempt to get rid of Edna. telling her he had stopped divorce proceedings.

Nick Davis had accepted a position with a corporation called Uni-Rest, an expanding restaurant chain, and planned to leave for Chicago to take up his duties. When Erica learns or it from waiter Freddie, she envisioned a life at traveling with Nick as his wife. Nick was forced to tell Erica the truth, but to his astonishment she would not take him seriously, insisting that it was just a case of pre-wedding jitters. Mona tried to convince Erica that Nick had no intention of going through with the wedding but Erica only appeared to take it in when Nick pointedly sang "My Way" at the Chateau. Erica asked him to take her home but after one last night together changed nothing, her pleas to Nick turned to fury at being jilted.

Carl Blair had been seriously injured in the crash of a private plane as he was flying to Pine Valley. He and Nancy were married in the hospital at his insistance, so that Nancy might have a legal father for the child she was carrying. Caroline was with Carl when after a period of unconsciousness, he mistook her for Nancy, and she heard him say that Frank should never be told that the baby was his. When Carl died some time later, Caroline learned that he did not say anything further about it and she resolved never to tell in order to save her own marriage to Frank.

Afraid that Gardner might tell her that he lied in telling the Martins that his wife was dead, Ruth phoned Paul Martin and asked him to hold off filing the rape charge. Paul finally convinced Ruth that if she had to see Gardner, Paul, and not Joe, should go with her. Gardner's implication was that if he was jailed his wife's sister would seek custody of Tad unless Ruth was willing to "write off this prosecution for rape." Ruth firmly told him the answer was no.

Claudette Montgomery, who had taken over the management of the Chateau, informed Erica Nick told her days ago he wouldn't marry Erica. Erica pleaded with her not to tell anyone. Erica arranged to see Tom Cudahy, telling him that he was right all along and that she had finally seen the light and broken off with Nick. She asked for her old job back, and Tom promised it to her, though he was disturbed at the prospect of having to tell Brooke English.

One of the symptoms Edna Thornton was experiencing was heart palpitations and, unknown to her, David had justified his asking Linc Tyler to hold up divorce proceedings by telling him that Edna was under a strain and had a history of congenital heart disease. He had told Edna that she had the flu and the particular strain she was suttering from was not dangerous to Dottie.

In performing an emergency appendectomy on one of Chris' young patients, David "froze," leaving a young intern to close. He told Chris that he was failing apart at the thought that she would turn her back on him. After Jeff told Chris that David might have staged his distress for her benefit, Chris told David that she was not going to be seeing him again; that it was all over between them.

When Edna’s employer at the Beauty Spot came by to see her, she was very worried over Edna's failure to improve under her husband's care and emphasized that it was not wise for a physician to treat someone in his own family. Edna called Jeff Martin.

Another World

Written by: Harding Lemay

Produced by: Paul Rauch

John Randolph had been under guard in the psychiatric ward at the hospital since he went into catatonic shock following the death of Evan Webster, which resulted as the two men struggled over a gun Evan was trying to use to force John out of the house so that a hit man could run John down with a car, thus enabling John's wife Olive to collect insurance money that would far surpass any settlement she might get through divorce. When Olive revealed her love for Evan, John went into shock, thus preventing a coherent defense from being built by Greg Barnard. Susan Shearer, a psychologist and Liz Matthews' daughter, was assigned to John and was making progress, especially with the help of John's ex-wife Pat, whom John still loved. Susan got the whole story of what happened from John, and Greg prepared to go before the Grand Jury. Greg was able to persuade the Grand Jury to allow John to appear, an unusual concession, and with the help of depositions from Olive and Claude Kelly, who masterminded John's death with Evan, John was released for lack of evidence. John hurried to Pat's apartment with the good news, making it clear he wanted them back together. Pat wasn't sure she could forget the past; John's affairs with other women and his bout with alcoholism.

Meanwhile, Olive was deteriorating badly. Her sister Doris Bennett was trying to help her, but realized Olive needed professional help. Susan offered her services, but Olive felt that since Susan was Pat's cousin, her concern was phony. Susan persuaded Olive to see Cal Zimmerman, who agreed to treat Olive at home, initially. Olive's childhood was less than ideal. She and Doris were abandoned to their grandmother at an early age. Doris was old enough to go to school, but Olive was too young. So to keep Olive out of trouble when she went to work, the grandmother locked Olive in a small room. Olive had to admit she had used men to get what she couldn't have otherwise. Greg visited Olive to sound her out about a divorce from John. Olive would give John a divorce if he would give her the house they had Evan build, plus enough money to live in it. John refused, and even Olive's lawyer, Brian Bancroft, told her her demands were unreasonable, considering it was then common knowledge she was having an affair with Evan. When John told her there was no way he would meet her demands, Olive threatened to tell everyone in Bay City that his daughter Marianne had an abortion. When Marianne learned of the threat, knowing John would give in to Olive to protect her, she told Olive she herself would tell everyone about the abortion rather than let her father be taken advantage of. Olive told Doris she would burn the house before she let anyone else have it.

Joan Barnard, John’s secretary and Greg's sister, confessed to Greg that she had been in love with John for a long time. Greg sympathized, admitting he was in love with Pat. Aware of Pat's reluctance to resume a relationship with John, Greg suggested Joan tell John how she felt. Finally, unable to conceal her feelings anymore, Joan told John of her love. Tactfully, John told Joan that he wanted only Pat, but if Pat wouldn’t have him, he would spend his life alone. Joan resigned. Marianne was becoming interested in Greg.

Willis Frame’s continuing confusion over whom he really loved was troubling Alice Gordon, his sister-in-law, one of the women he loved. Alice felt there was something wrong in their relationship, but she couldn’t get Willis to talk about it. Meanwhile, Angie Perrini, the other woman, was troubled enough to go off by herself for a few days, driving Willis wild. Willis was angry when Alice told him Greg had received favorable responses from her estranged husband Ray Gordon regarding a divorce. Shortly after Angie returned, Willis left for Chadwell, ostensibly to find his sister Molly. While he was gone, his older brother Vince had come to realize he also loved Angie and wanted her for himself. - Vince had been dating Angie to make Willis jealous, a plan which worked too well. Vince had told Angie that she was the wife he wanted for Willis. - Vince explained Willis' nature as he saw it: Willis needed someone who knew all his flaws and loved him anyway – Angie - ; on the other hand, he needed someone who thought he was perfect – Alice -. When Vince told Angie of his feelings for her, Angie told him she loved Willis and always would. Before leaving for Chadwell, Willis had guessed Vince's feelings for Angie and ordered Vince to move out of the apartment they shared before he returned.

Gwen Parrish found that even the best laid marriage plans could be put askew when her mother Loueen arrived to help. Loueen and Gwen's father had smothered her with love as a child and Loueen couldn’t understand Gwen's drive to have her own career. Loueen felt Gwen was less than serious about Russ Matthews and found a strange ally in Liz Matthews, who felt Gwen wasn't good enough for Russ, despite her society background. When Gwen learned the two women lunched together and that Liz talked freely about « Russ’ penchant for always choosing the wrong woman to marry, » Gwen enlisted Russ' father Jim's help in pulling Liz off. Liz, as always, swears she meant no harm, but, even though Jim warned her she could lose Russ' affection for good, she again met with Loueen, feeding her more information. Loueen worked on Gwen, who asked Russ what happened in his marriage to Sharlene. Russ refused to discuss it, adding to Gwen's already evident sense of insecurity.

Iris Carrington Bancroft still couldn’t accept the fact that her son Dennis Carrington might be better off living with Jamie Frame, away from home. Her latest idea was that Dennis didn’t know how to protect himself from unscrupulous women who would take advantage of him to get their hands on his fortune. Brian and others told her she was being ridiculous, that it was just such an attitude that could drive Dennis into the arms of such a woman. Dennis found a young waitress at a campus hangout very attractive. Eileen Simpson, the daughter of a grocer, had strict rules about dating, and accepted an invitation to dinner at the boys' apartment only, after being assured Mac and Rachel would be there to chaperone. In fact, when Mac and Rachel were late, Eileen felt she had to leave. They were interrupted by the arrival of Iris, who, finding out Eileen's family was "from the wrong side of town," made the evening difficult for Eileen and everyone. The following day, Iris asked her housekeeper, Louise Goddard, to spy on Eileen for her. Louise refused and told Dennis of his mother's request. Louise went to see Mac about the situation. Liz reported Louise's visit, which angered Iris further. When Iris found out Louise told Dennis she was planning to make trouble about Eileen, she fired Louise. Brooks, Iris' chauffeur, who was fond of Louise, resigned.

Meanwhile, Ada McGowan had been taking over housekeeping duties for Mac and Rachel after the departure of Cliff and Regine Tanner. Ada, however, missed her own home. Learning Rachel was pregnant, Ada decided the Corys needed more help than she could be and started looking for a housekeeper. When Mac and Rachel learned Louise had been fired, they hired her immediately and gladly. They also hired Brooks. Iris was furious. But as the day passed and she saw how dependent she had been on Louise, she went to the Corys and apologized. Louise refused the apology. Iris turned on Mac, accusing him of taking away everyone she loved. Mac refused to accept that and sent Iris packing, refusing to take any further responsibility for her self-destructive ways. When Brian returned that evening, Iris lashed out at him, accusing him of not loving her and supporting her. Brian pointed out that she drove people away herself. He told her he loved her and intended to stay, but she had to learn to love someone besides herself. Iris rejoined that she didn’t need his amateur psychoanalysis. Iris was waiting for him to leave her, unable to accept his love. When Brian again stated his intention to stay, Iris said she would leave him before he had a chance to leave her, like everyone else had. Brian threw up his hands.

Willis returned to Bay City, and the first person he went to see was Angie. He told Angie he cared about her, but Angie denied that, saying he wouldn't have left if he really cared. Willis finally met with Alice in her office, refusing to admit why he went away. Alice informed him she was going ahead with her divorce from Ray, upsetting Willis. He finally agreed to try to talk out what was wrong, when they were interrupted by Cal Zimmerman. Willis half-heartedly promised to see Alice that night, but reneged.

Feeling unloved, Iris told Brian, again, to leave the house. He refused. Dennis went to visit her, trying to convince her it was time he tried life on his own. When Iris tried emotional blackmail, Dennis left in disgust. Brian saw Elena to try to gain insight into Iris. Elena was sympathetic. The following morning, after spending the night alone at a hotel, Brian was again faced with a battle with Iris when he went home to change. She informed him his clothes were at the guest house. Iris again drove him off with her lack of belief in his love. When he returned that night, he found a note from Iris informing him she had left him, and he was to dispose of all her possessions in Bay City.

Pat was concerned that Marianne was interested in Greg. When Marianne failed to see the possible problems in involvement with an older man, Pat asked Greg to break it off. He began, seeing how upset Pat was. Marianne was crushed when she overheard Greg making a dinner date with Elena. Pat went to John, to ask him to use his influence over Marianne to stop her from making the same mistake she made. John was incredulous to learn Pat thought their marriage was a mistake. Pat admitted she loved him, but pointed out there was a difference between loving and making a marriage work. John didn’t understand and Pat left in tears.

As The World Turns

Written by: Robert Soderberg & Edith Sommer

Produced by: Joe Willmore

Jay Stallings had been cleared of Pete Larson's murder, but in providing him with an alibi, Melinda Gray accused Jay of forcing himself on her that night. Carol has refused to believe Jay and was then filing for a divorce. Tom Hughes had never been a big fan of Jay's, but did believe he was telling the truth this time. He had confronted Melinda, asking her to tell Carol the truth, but Melinda continued with her story that she never asked Jay over.

Jay’s construction firm had been in serious trouble since Pete Larson and Natalie Hughes took most of his capital. During and since the trial there had been no new business. Jay was ready to lay Laurie Keaton off, but Mary Elison quit first because Jay wasn't the kind of person she wanted to work for.

Ralph Mitchell had given up on dating Mary because John Dixon always seemed to be in the way. He called her apartment to offer her a job only to have John answer and imply he and Mary were very close. John told Mary about the call, claiming he didn't have to and adding he didn’t want her to work for Ralph. Mary promised to consider Ralph's offer until he asked about her relationship with John. She turned him down. John proposed marriage, but Mary had to say no.

Jane Spencer had to hire a secretary because of her involvement in running the Spencer Hotel. Laurie interviewed with Jane, but didn’t want to be the equivalent of a social secretary. Laurie became Ralph's secretary and refered Mrs. Spencer to Melinda Gray who had just finished business school. The undisciplined situation suited her.

Melinda ran into Carol, asking for and receiving her understanding. Bob Hughes could see how depressed his son was and suggested he set the situation right with Melinda. Things were going well until she said she had "won." The look in her eyes told Tom she had been lying all along. She finally admitted she invited Jay over.

Joyce Hughes seemed to make life miserable for those around her even though Don had tried to give her everything. She had the house she wanted and Don had to borrow money from his parents so that she could remodel and furnish it to her taste. Then the property behind them had come on the market and she used her feminine wiles on Ralph while she tried talking Don into buying the lot for a swimming pool. Don was notified that he had to go to Switzerland again, but this time Joyce would be able to go. After one interlude with Ralph, Joyce made plans to delay her trip.

Beau Spencer continued to work as a law clerk, study for the bar exam and run interference with the hotel staff for his mother. Jane called on Beau constantly and he was unable to refuse since she was going through a divorce. Dick Martin asked her to find someone else to handle her legal problems because she was hurting Beau. Jane told Dick and Ellen Stewart, Annie's mother, that Annie was the one who was pushing Beau to become a lawyer. Beau, exhausted, got in very little studying the few weeks before the exam and considered throwing in the towel and managing the hotel as his mother had suggested. Pulling everything together, Beau took two days off from work and locked himself in the apartment for a four day cramming session. When Beau got home from Centerville he admitted that he was too tired. He learned that he had failed a second time. Annie felt that it wasn't entirely his fault and tried to cheer him up. He had a difficult decision to make. He could try for the exam again, continue indefinitely as a law clerk or manage the hotel. Jane reminded him that if Annie really wanted to go back to medical school, it would be expensive.

John Dixon’s inuendoes to people about Betsy forced Dan Stewart into taking Betsy out of school for a day to tell her that he was her father rather than her uncle as she had believed for years. Betsy refused to discuss it with Dan or Kim. She believed he denied it because she was not the kind of child anyone would want to call their daughter. Betsy felt she couldn’t trust Dan anymore. She went to her grandparents for one night, but returned in the morning. Several days later Betsy didn’t return from school, Dan rode with patrol officers searching for her, but they couldn’t find a trace. Alexander Keith was the last to see her when he stopped by the house. They hoped she would return on her birthday, but all they received was a call where no one spoke when Dan answered.

Kevin and Sandy Thompson planned to spend some time at their mountain cabin, but a sudden rainstorm prohibitted this. The following day they arrived at the cabin and found Betsy's suitcase. Kevin called from the diner and Dan recognized the music in the background. Kevin found Betsy in the snow suffering from exposure and exhaustion. She was taken to the hospital where they worked around the clock to prevent pneumonia.

Alexander Keith finally decided to break a confidence and tell Susan Stewart that Mark Lewis had become ill in Ann Arbor, but had recovered. Susan was furious, but relieved that he was well. Alex received a call from Michigan that Mark was in serious condition, but was unable to reach Susan. She was unable to reach Alex when she got a call that Mark had died so she phoned Kevin who stayed with her until Alex got back to explain. Alex and Susan went to Michigan for the funeral services.

Grant Colman was trying to continue his marriage, but couldn’t keep his thoughts from drifting to Valerie Conway. He and Lisa went back to the resort where they honeymooned, but returned early after he made the excuse of checking on a client. Lisa knew that something was wrong and when Grant tried to tell her he was not sure he was happy in their marriage, she was so sweet he couldn’t bring himself to hurt her. Valerie was about to tell Grant that she couldn’t remain silent any longer when Tom broke the news that Grant and Lisa had worked everything out.

Grant and Valerie were thrown together when Nick Conway claimed that some of the land on the Conway farm was not part of the divorce settlement. If she couldn’t use this land to extend into dairy farming Valerie would have a hard time meeting the loan she took out to pay the internal revenue fine she got stuck with when Nick filed a fraudulent return. Valerie and Alex found they had a love of farms in common. Over dinner they learned they were both in love with a married person with no hope of the situation changing. - Alex was in love with Kim Stewart. –

Dr. Bob Hughes continued dating Karen Parker even after he learned that she left behind a fiance whom she loved. He learned that her name was Peters when they ran into some friends. Karen asked that they not tell her fiance where she was. She finally told Bob and Chris Hughes that she left Winterbrook after her father was killed in a traffic accident and told her with his dying breath to protect a secret file. He was mixed up unwillingly with some people who had illegal dealings. When he learned this he evidently planned to make it public. Karen fekt he was killed on purpose. Bob suggested she take this information to the district attorney and ask help in clearing her father. Even after he learned her fiance, Walter Vested, was the D.A., he thought she should return and he would go along to help her.

Bob Hughes and Walter Vested were concerned when Karen Peters left Oakdale, but did not arrive in Winterbrook. After worrying sufficiently, they found that she had come alone, taking her time so that she could think everything through. She had two announcements to make to Walter. She was breaking their engagement and had decided that she would not turn over the file. Bob could no longer remain in Oakdale and arrived to help Karen. Walter said that since Karen had read the file but could not understand it, they had no reason to believe that it was evidence, so Bob should not read it in case he might understand it. He did believe that Karen was in danger and asked Bob to take her back to Oakdale where she would be safe. He had nothing to base this on, but would rather be: safe than sorry. He also warned Bob that he would be coming to Oakdale often, trying to win back Karen's love.

Joyce Hughes planted the seed of suspicion in Lisa's mind that Grant might be thinking of another woman and this could be the reason for his preoccupation. She started her campaign by questioning Mary Ellison. She finally believed that they only shared concern over Teddy.

David and Ellen Stewart offered to pay Annie's schooling expenses so that Beau would not give up his future as a lawyer. Jane promised a loan, but then gambled by telling Beau that it would ruin him to give him the money. Beau said they would manage without her help, but after he discussed Annie's career with her and Susan Stewart, he gave in to his mother for Annie's sake, extracting a promise from her that she never tell Annie that he was doing it for her.

Days of our Lives

Written by: Ann Marcus

Produced by: Betty Corday & H. Wesley Kenney

Laura Horton couldn’t bring herself to let husband Bill return home following the dismissal of malpractice charges against him and anesthesiologist Kate Winograd. Bill had moved out when he felt Laura wasn't supporting him when he decided to fight it out. Bill tried to turn to Kate, but Kate refused to become involved. Laura knew Bill wasn't unfaithful with Kate, but she also knew it wasn't from want of trying. Bill had been reinstated as a surgeon on the hospital staff. Bill's mother Alice Horton tried to get them together, as did sister-in-law Maggie Horton, who felt very threatened by Laura's seeming availability, as her husband Mickey was once married to Laura. Mickey didn’t understand Maggie's sudden hostility towards Laura, until one night Maggie admitted her insecurities. Greg Peters, chief of staff, assigned Bill to perform a mastectomy on one of Laura's psychiatric patients. Laura told Greg she didn’t like the assignment. Greg pointed out that he couldn’t let personal feelings get in the way of the best treatment for his patients. He left Laura the option of assigning another psychiatrist, but Laura stayed on the case. Laura admitted she was discouraged because it appeared that, despite their love for each other, their marriage fell apart at the first test. Bill persuaded her that they hadn't really had enough time in marriage to work out newlywed problems and that the most reasonable course would be to try to work things out, for the sake of their love. Laura agreed, and they reconciled.

Don Craig and Marlena Evans planned a big wedding for the middle of May, following Don's campaign for state senate. The announcement of their engagement increased Don's popularity in the polls. But their happiness was threatened by the arrival of Lorraine Temple. She and Don had lived together for a month during his last year in law school. Lorraine claimed that when Don walked out on her, after discovering she was sleeping around and suspecting she was a call girl, she was pregnant. Lorraine claimed to have a 13 year old daughter, Donna, who was Don's child. When pushed, Lorraine said she wanted $50,000, back child support payments. When Don told her she was crazy, Lorraine pretended to be a patient and visited Marlena. Marlena told Lorraine her problem was more legal than psychological and offered to talk to a friend for her. When Don admitted he was the man Lorraine was talking about, Marlena was furious he never told her about Lorraine. But when Don revealed the true scope of Lorraine's demands, Marlena came to his side. Lorraine's ace in the hole was Don's campaign.

David Banning received a letter from wife Trish. She told David she had never had a chance to find her own identity, to find out what kind of man she prefered, whether she really wanted a career. Trish suggested she wouldn’t return and revealed she had given their son Timmy to others to care for, saying neither of them was really ready for parenthood. David was devastated at losing his son and wife, both of whom he loved dearly.

Chris Kositchek had accepted the position of head of research and development at Anderson Manufacturing. That night at lover Mary Anderson's studio, Mary presented Chris with a suit, telling him that it was the kind all rising executives should wear. Chris was furious, telling Mary he wouldn’t let her dictate his life. When he arrived for work the following day he found his new office. He was overwhelmed by its decor, telling proud Linda Phillips, who had arranged it all, that it was not to his taste. But as time went by on the job, Chris apologized to Mary. But when Linda tried to choose his secretary for him, someone who would be presentable, Chris "horrified" both Linda and Mary by choosing Margo Anderman, a cute, somewhat naive girl he once dated. Both Linda and Mary tried to talk him out of it, but Chris was adamant. Meanwhile Tom Horton discovered Margo might have leukemia.

Linda Phillips continued her plan to con Bob Anderson into marrying her. She found excuses, such as daughter Melissa, to avoid dates with Bob that could end in more than dinner. Bob admitted he missed Linda in his bed, but she remained adamant. Bob loved Linda, but felt his age and health were barriers to marriage. Linda stayed cool, and finally Bob proposed. They revealed their engagement at a dinner to celebrate Chris' promotion. Mary was furious, feeling Linda was only after her father to increase her power and wealth. Chris later pointed out that Bob loved Linda, so Mary should stay out of it. Linda had a "chat" with Mary and warned that if Mary tried to make trouble for her, she could cut Mary off from Bob.

Julie Williams, raped by Larry Atwood when she enraged him by, destroying a sculpture of her Atwood claimed embodied the culmination of his feelings for her, had not been able to deal with the situation, feeling she was dirty, not fit company for anyone. Atwood continued to try to contact Julie, who was disgusted every time she heard his voice or sew him. When Julie told him Doug's liquor license was granted without her consenting to become his mistress, Atwood claimed to be responsible and told Julie she owed him. Robert LeClair and Amanda Peters noticed something was wrong with Julie, but she claimed to just have a flu bug. Matters came to a head when Doug, Julie's husband, returned from a singing engagement on a cruise ship. Julie couldn’t bear to let Doug touch her, using excuses like she was just getting over a bug and didn’t want him to catch it; it was "that time of the month," she was tired. Doug was astonished and asked Amanda to try to find out what was wrong. The only thing Julie said to Amanda was that she mustn't mention Atwood to Doug. Meanwhile, when Don Craig, who had been contacted by Jeri about breaking her contract with Atwood, visited him, Atwood decided he'd better mend fences with Jeri and took her to bed that night. On the way out the door to meet her, Atwood received a phone call. Learning that "he" was still around, Atwood told the caller to take care of that situation permanently. Jeri enjoyed the night with Atwood. After saying goodbye, she returned to his studio to look for a lost bracelet. Noticing Atwood was on the phone, she picked up the extension and heard Atwood telling Julie he loved her, that nobody else meant anything to him. Jeri went home, where she cut letters out of magazines to compose a note to Doug, whom she considered her best friend in the world. Jeri was convinced Julie was having an affair with Atwood.

Doug could no longer stand Julie's distance and confronted her. She made up all kinds of stories, some of which directly contradicted what others had told him. They were interrupted by the delivery of an "anonymous" note: "Your wife is having an affair with Larry."  Hysterical, Julie blurted out the whole awful mess to Doug, who stormed from the apartment swearing to kill Atwood. Meanwhile, Jeri paid a visit to Atwood and told him his dreams of Julie were over. She told him about the note she sent Doug. Atwood was furious and began to stalk Jeri around the studio. At Atwood's restaurant, Atwood's man Dominic had just demanded Dr. Neil Curtis come up with the $9,000 he owed Atwood from the poker game he was in the night before Doug's hearing on the liquor license. Neil told Dominic he would discuss the money only with Atwood and left. Doug arrived at the Pines looking for Atwood. Dominic told him Atwood wouldn’t be there until later. After satisfying himself that Atwood wasn’t on the premises, Doug left. Jeri arrived a half hour late for her singing job. Julie, frantic to prevent Doug's doing anything rash, tried to contact Atwood. Finding he wasn’t at the Pines, she called the studio — busy signal. Learning from the operator that the line was out of order, Julie decided to go there.

Amanada Peters arrived at the studio to meet with Atwood about the hospital art show. She was surprised to see Julie running out and tried to stop her, but Julie was hysterical and drove away. Puzzled, Amanda entered the studio and found Atwood's dead body. She called her husband Greg, who rushed over after calling the police. Neil, meanwhile, stopped at the studio and asked Chris, who was with Mary, to help get his car started, claiming not to have been out all evening. Chris later told Mary there was something strange about it all, but thought nothing more about it. Amanda neglected to tell the police about Julie, but was torn up with suspicion. Julie returned home and removed a gun from her purse, hiding it in a highboy in the living room. There was a red stain on the hem of her dress. Lt. Danton questioned Dominic about anyone who might have seen Atwood that night and got two names: Jeri and Doug.

While Danton questioned Doug and Julie at home, he noticed the stain on Julie's dress, but didn’t mention it. Jeri was picked up at the airport and arrested. She called Don, who found the police really had no evidence against her. Finally, Jeri told Danton her suspicions about Atwood and Julie and revealed she sent an anonymous note to Doug. Danton had Doug and Julie picked up for questioning as he had a search warrant prepared. Julie had tried to remove the gun and the dress from the apartment, to no avail. When the gun and dress were found, tests proving the gun, with Julie's prints on it, was the one that killed Atwood and the stain was Atwood's blood, and Amanda reluctantly revealed seeing Julie outside the studio, Julie was charged with the premeditated murder of Atwood. Julie couldn’t stand jail, and her lawyer, her uncle Mickey Horton, promised he would get her out either on her own recognizance or on bail at the arraignment. Everyone was stunned when the judge refused bail. Mickey promised a writ of habeas corpus in two hours, but the judge wouldn't accept it until Monday, meaning Julie had to spend the weekend in jail.

Don refused to allow campaign manager Jim Bradley to meet Lorraine or pay her off. Don made it clear to Lorraine he wouldn't pay her, no matter what she did. Jim and Marlena decided to see whether Lorraine would lower her price. When Don found out they had decided to meet with Lorraine without consulting him, he blew his top at Marlena, telling her it was his business and she had no right to interfere. After Jim's visit, Lorraine decided to fight it out with Don for the money.

Jeri admitted to Don she had no real proof of a sexual affair between Julie and Atwood. Mickey felt Julie was holding something back. He got Julie out on a writ of habeas corpus with a different judge and planned to bring the original judge up on charges. Mickey then told Julie he had to know the whole story or she would go to prison. Marlena told Don she suspected Julie's recent interest in volunteering at the rape clinic was a secret cry for help.

Julie told Mickey about the rape, begging him not to tell anyone. Mickey agreed, saying this could provide the prosecution with a strong motive for murder.

The Doctors

Written by: Mel & Ethel Brez

Produced by: Chuck Weiss

Greta Powers, pregnant with Billy Aldrich's baby, found she couldn’t get an abor-tion without her parents' permission, as she was under age. Billy begged Greta to tell Matt and Maggie, but Greta wanted Billy to marry her. Billy pointed out that doing so would ruin both their futures. Greta couldn't bring herself to tell her parents, feeling they would never trust her again. Maggie was called to Washington to testify before a Congressional committee, and Great avoided telling her before she left, managing to prevent Billy from doing so as well. Finally, Billy couldn't stand it any more. He told Steve and Carolee Aldrich. After explaining the situation, Billy was told by Steve that Greta must be given one more chance to tell Matt, but if she didn’t do it, he, Steve, would. Greta was horrified that Billy had told his pa-rents, but she still refused to reveal her situation. Meanwhile, Steve told Carolee that he didn’t believe Billy had accepted his full responsibility in the matter. Billy reported back that Greta intended to keep her pregnancy from Matt and Maggie; therefore, Steve told Matt, who was furious, succumbing to his immediate instincts to place blame. Steve calmed him, pointing out that trying to assess blame was useless, that the important thing was to help Greta. Matt went home. He confronted Greta, who could only say she was sorry. After conquering his anger, Matt was able to talk with Greta, reassuring her of his continuing love for her. Matt couldn’t bear to interrupt Maggie's trip, so he and Greta waited for her return. Greta couldn’t face Maggie, but before Matt could reveal the problem, Maggie guessed that Greta was pregnant. She, too, assured Greta of her love.

Barney and Virginia Dancy had been planning to buy a candy store near Madison H.S. But the day Barney went to close the deal, they found someone had outbid them for the shop. Virginia told Barney not to worry, that she could always get a job as a maid again to support them. Their daughter Nola Dancy Aldrich, wife of prominent attorney Jason Aldrich, was horrified to think that her mother might be hired by someone in the elite social circles she was just entering, due to her marriage to Jason. She got Jason to agree to lend her parents money to buy another store, but Virginia refused. Luke Dancy, their oldest son, saved the day by getting Barney a job as bartender at Andre's Restaurant, which he then managed for Doreen Aldrich, Jason's ex-wife. Virginia was uneasy, saying every time one of their family got mixed up with Doreen; there was trouble. - Doreen tried dirty tricks to keep Jason and Nola from marrying. She also recently got Luke into emotional trouble by using his drive for success to cause him to abandon Eleanor Conrad, who attempted suicide. –

Sara Dancy, to whom Mike Powers had proposed, found the presence of former lover Colin Wakefield a threat. Colin made it clear that he'd like to resume their former relationship, but Sara refused, saying she wouldn’t get mixed up with a married man again. - Colin and Sara served together in the Peace Corps, where they fell in love. Sarah found out from others that Colin was married and had a child. Sara left Africa immediately, not giving Colin any time to explain. Since then, Colin's child had died after jumping from a hotel window to avoid a fire. The child suffered head injuries. Colin was present in the OR when his child died. - Colin seemed on the brink of telling Sara something when Mike arrived and took Sarah skiing for a few days. On the trip, Sara accepted Mike's proposal.

Luke had plans to modernize Andre's and Doreen gave him the green light, provided he didn’t exceed certain amounts of money. The immediate job was to rewire the restaurant to accommodate additional lighting and air conditioning. A licensed electrician presented Luke with an estimate that Luke felt was outrageous. The contractor pointed out that all the wiring had to be replaced to meet code. Luke found another electrician whe would do the job for half, and signed him. Meanwhile, Luke persuaded Doreen to make him a 1/3 partner, saying he needed partnership to properly negotiate contracts. Doreen agreed. The electrician's helper, who was assisting the man hired by Luke, was uneasy that his boss wasn't using the kind of wire he told Luke he would. The electrician warned him to keep quiet, assuring him it would work the same and pass inspection.

Luke persuaded Sara and and Mike to celebrate their engagement as part of the grand reopening of Andre's. Many people in Madison flocked to Andre's to see the inimitable Melba Moore, who appeared that night. As Miss Moore finished her set, and the Dancy party - Jason and Nola, Barney and Virginia, MJ and Tom Carroll, Mike and Sara - began to cut the cake, Colin, who was there having a drink with Doreen, smelled smoke, as did Jason. The light panel had caught fire! Jason talked the crowd towards the door, and all went smoothly until the first explosion took out the lights. Panic ensued. Finally everyone was out, except MJ and Virginia. Luke, in a last search of the premises, found his mother unconscious on the floor. Tom returned to find MJ. He was trapped under a beam just after finding her. MJ and Colin worked desperately and freed Tom, whose back was injured. Despite Colin's best efforts, Tom died. Virginia was placed in intensive care when fluid filled her lungs. Matt and Maggie worked over her, finally resorting to dopamine treatment. Maggie feared Virginia's kidneys wouldn’t take much more of the treatment, but Matt pointed out that she would surely die without it.

Nola and Mona Croft - Jason's mother -, had been persuaded by politician Hugh McCloskey that Jason should run for judge of the state court. Jason was adamantly against it, saying he hated politics, but Nola felt people would forget sooner that she was the daughter of Mona's housekeeper if she was the wife of a judge.

Luke blamed himself for the fire. Jason warned him not to say such things, as the real cause of the fire had not been determined. Virginia lost her fight for life, dying of pneumonia. Nola was unable to unwind, asking Mike for tranquilizers. MJ suggested they have a double funeral for Tom and Virginia as they were very close to each other. The Dancys agreed.

MJ finally told Ricky of Tom's death. Her sister arrived from Vermont and tried to convince MJ to let her take Ricky back with her, pointing out that when MJ promised Betsy she'd take care of Ricky, MJ and Tom were a family. Her sister pointed out that Ricky might be better off in familiar surroundings in a more normal family situation. MJ had to think about it.

As Billy admitted to Steve and Carolee that he didn’t love Greta, Greta was telling Maggie that she loved Billy and knew he loved her. Greta felt they would get married eventually anyway, even though she and Billy never really talked about his feelings for her.

The Edge of Night

Written by: Henry Slesar

Produced by: Erwin Nicholson

Miles Cavanaugh took his wife Denise out for dinner to tell her that he wanted a divorce. She offered to move to Monticello to be with him, but he said there was more wrong with their marriage than the 60 miles between the Claremont Hospital and the free clinic where he then worked. -Miles resigned as Chief-of-Staff of the Claremont Hospital after an argument with Denise's father. She originally refused to move with him. - Miles claimed he was driven to divorce by Denise's jealousy and her constant reminders that her family paid for his medical career. She quickly pointed out to him that Nicole Drake was the reason and he acknowledged that she was partly correct.

Denise convinced Miled to try a three month separation, claiming that she deserved that after 10 years of marriage. When she promised not to drag him through a court fight, Miles agreed. Denise told her father, though, that rather than give Miles an uncontested divorce, she would "see him dead first." Denise was not beyond murder in order to get her way. She killed Charlie Richmond by giving him an overdose of her medication, Venetrol, when he refused to accept a bribe for his silence. - As a nurse at the Claremont Hospital, Denise was jealous of Miles' patient, Katharine Dane; she therefore ignored her call button which resulted in the patient's death. Charlie was fired for allowing faulty wiring when in fact Denise had cut the wires as an alibi. Only Miles' sister April had spoken to Charlie and heard his story before Denise poisoned him; April had not told Charlie's story to Miles. - The police report stated that Charlie's death was the result of an improper use of a variety of pills. Detective Steve Guthrie had told Dr. Dave Roper, who was at the clinic when Charlie came for help, that the autopsy showed a large dose of Venetrol.

Nicole Drake was Denise's next target. Since the birth of her baby Nicole had begun to work as a TV newscaster. Despite the attentions of her new boss, Ben Everett, Nicole loved Miles. When Denise interrupted a quiet dinner for two between Nicole and Miles, she emptied a bottle of Venetrol into the carafe of wine waiting on the table. One of her usual headaches made it too dangerous to drive home so Miles took her to his apartment while Nicole tried to relax with some wine from the carafe. She passed out and was not found until her housekeeper arrived the following morning. Both Miles and Dr. Lacey attended to her and she was revived quickly. She said it must have happened because she was unaccustomed to having wine; Dr. Lacey claimed it had all the earmarks of a narcotic.

Denise’s hopes of eliminating Nicole were smashed when she asked her father for more Venetrol and he confessed to her that he was worried about the effect of such a strong drug. He had, therefore, substituted a mild tranquilizer in her last bottle.

Jealousy had led Denise to check through a batch of cancelled checks which Miles had left in his office at the Claremont. She found a series of checks made out to Winter Austin. Denise couldn’t wait to tell Nicole that she was not Miles' only infidelity —that he also had a mistress. Although Nicole told Miles she didn’t need an explanation she did ask April if she recognized the name. April remembered an Austin family in Northborough and through her fiance Draper's investigation, she learned that Winter Austin had a police record. Anxious to learn more she asked Logan Swift to find out whatever he could.

Winter was then on probation for exto-tion and grand larceny. She also had one arrest as a juvenile for vagrancy and theft. On the night when Denise confronted Nicole and Miles she demanded an explanation of the checks to Winter Austin. Miles insisted on telling both women the entire story: Miles’ father had been a doctor in the small farming village of Northborough. He was an alcoholic who could hide his disease when necessary. When Winter's father was hurt in a tractor accident he was improperly treated by Dr. Cavanaugh. Miles, then 16, recognized that his father had treated the leg wounds poorly and that Tom Austin was dying. After his death there was an inquest at which time Miles' father, appearing sober, said that he was not to blame. A year later Winter's mother Mary committed suicide. Winter lived with an aunt briefly and was then sent to a series of institutions.

When Miles met her again she was a patient at Cleveland Hospital. After he learned of the life she had led, he wanted to help her out since he felt that he was somehow responsible for not speaking out against his father.

Old Dr. Cavanaugh had also misdiagnosed his daughter April's rheumatic fever which resulted in her near death from heart disease. After successful surgery, however, she was then home recuperating and making plans for her marriage to Draper Scott, set for April 7th.

Deborah Saxon, having found satisfaction when she assisted the police department in undercover work, had applied to, was accepted by and was then attending the Police Academy. Her father fought the application but his wife, the former Geraldine Whitney, had convinced him that arguing wouldn’t help. Deborah, having broken up with Detective Steve Guthrie, was presently dating Raney Cooper. Raney was a "business associate" of Tony's, involved in some of his illegal enterprises.

The « suicide » of Raymond Jackson had caught the attention of Logan Swift and his friend Steve Guthrie. Jackson's wife told Swift that she was sure it was not a suicide. Jackson intended to quit his position at the Monticello Uniform Company. Tony Saxon instructed Raney and his new "assistant," Chip Beamer, to pressure Jackson into staying on since he knew too much. Jackson refused and Raney and Chip left, despite Chip's desire to increase the pressure beyond just talking. Chip later returned to Jackson's office and pulled a gun. The police report on his death noted only that Jackson jumped out of the sixth floor window. Raney questioned Chip who denied any additional knowledge; Raney did, however, ask for Chip's gun.

Chip Beamer had convinced Winter Austin, whom he knew before they both came to Monticello, to go to dinner with him even though she felt that associating with him would be a violation of her parole. He had hinted that he and Raney were in business together and might hire her as their secretary if she were cooperative.

Steve and Logan, working from the DA's office, had learned that the owners of the Monticello Uniform Company included two members of the Crime Commission —George Monks and Alan Demler — suspected to be in Tony Saxon's back pocket. They suspected a great deal about Tony but they had no substantial evidence. Knowing of Kevin Jamison's dissatisfaction with the Crime Commission they approached him. He said that he couldn’t be very effective on the commission if he was spying on two of its members.

Kevin, whover, was upset with himself. When he heard a part of a conversation between Tony and Demler and Monks, he called Logan back and promised his full cooperation in learning about conflicts of interest on the Commission. Logan - who had had to tell Kevin's wife Raven to leave him alone -, Steve, and Mike Carr, knowing they needed the evidence Kevin could provide, were pleased.

Nancy and Mike Karr were faced with the unhappy chore of telling Timmy Faraday that his mother had died of viral pneumonia. They assured him that at present they were his guardians, but that they would like to adopt him if he was willing. Nancy, at Timmy's offhand suggestion, had decided to become the crime reporter on Monticello's newspaper.

As a result of Tony's meeting with Demler and Monks, Raney had received orders that Logan Swift was to be "discouraged." When Raney realized that Chip couldn’t be trusted not to be violent, he told him he would handle it himself. However, when Chip went to pick up Winter for dinner he saw Logan in the hall; he had just left Winter's apartment. Chip stabbed Logan as he waited for the elevator.

Thanks to a heavy jacket Logan was not seriously injured; he even felt well enoughto make a future date with Winter Austin.

When Kevin asked Tony some pointed questions Tony became incensed.

Denise was then renting a room in Monticello under the name of Dorothy Cartwright — the room faces Nicole's apartment.

For Richer, For Poorer

Written by: Tom King

Produced by: Paul Rauch

When Amy Cushing heard that her old beau, Lee Ferguson, had given her young cousin, Bentley Saxton, a job in his garage, she visited Lee to warn him against getting Bentley into any trouble. She couldn’t help but believe that Lee was still mixed up in something illegal. Lee admitted to his sister Connie that he thought he was over Amy, but since he had been back in town she was in his blood more than ever. He began wooing Bentley's younger sister Tessa, even though she was sure her parents wouldn't approve of her developing a relationship with Lee. Tessa began sneaking out for dates with Lee.

Since Connie had married Bill Saxton and wouldn’t be living at home with their semi-invalid father, Lee gathered brochures from several resthomes. He explained to Connie that he could never move back/home. Lee told Ira that they would visit the homes until he found one he liked, assuring him he wouldn’t be pushed into anything.

Laurie Hamilton was stunned when Desmond broke the news that he was taking her to St. Martin for a second honeymoon. She realized that her mother had a hand in planning this. She ran to Jason Saxton with this news and was told that it might be for the best. Laurie couldn’t understand how he could think this, but he explained that this would throw Viola off the track. Viola was not easily shaken though and she visited Jason's mother, Josie, to enlist her help in keeping Jason away from Laurie. Josie asked Jason about the situation, but he denied it all, laying it to Viola's imagination. Feeling that her children would never lie to her, Josie took Jason's word as the truth.

Lester Saxton had developed confidence in himself since being hired as an office assistant by Desmond Hamilton. He brought home a bottle of liquor, telling Josie that he knew he had conquered his problem with alcohol and wanted this bottle to remind him of where he came from. Josie placed it on a shelf in the kitchen cupboard. His daughter Ellie saw the bottle and wondered if he was going back to drinking. Several days later she confronted him and he explained. He realized that of all his children; Ellie was hurt the most by his drinking.

Connie was in a real emotional state when Amy told her that Ellie overheard Lee tell her about the planned suicide attempt. Ellie finally relieved Connie's mind when she promised not to tell Bill. Connie's condition improved steadily and she was allowed to go home if she rest. Bill's apartment had been readied for her homecoming, but Megan's picture was forgotten. Having hidden it in her purse Connie was resting on the couch waiting to surprise Bill when he came in with Megan to use the phone. A nasty remark from Connie sent Megan away. Connie used the excuse of Bill's safety as he was a father in asking him to give up doing the story on street gangs with Megan. When the Saxtons brought dinner, Connie announced that they had named the baby William Saxton Jr. after his father. Josie realized how upset Connie was when Megan's picture fell from Connie's purse.

Megan Cushing had been warned to give up her articles on youth gangs in Point Clair, but she was determined to find out who killed Donnie Quinn and who was behind the gangs. Bill had insisted on her telling him each time she intended to venture into the Savage Avengers' neighborhood.

Knowing that they would be under surveillance soon, Turk had Paco furnish a new hideout and keep it a secret from the gang. Turk decided to harass Mrs. Quinn again as an example when Megan Cushing didn’t heed Paco's warning to stop her series. The boys started with abusive phone calls. Turk was in the Quinn apartment showing Mildred what he could do with a knife when Megan showed up at the door. Mildred used the excuse of an ill husband to keep Megan outside. She left Mrs. Quinn with hope by telling her that a witness had come forward and she was meeting with him. Turk tied up Mildred to keep her from warning Megan and then phoned Megan, telling her that he knew something and wanted to talk to her. Megan left a message with Connie for Bill to meet her for the interview with her caller. Connie agreed to give him her message. Bill arrived home for dinner, but Connie didn’t mention the phone call.

Stan Hillman became worried when Megan didn’t show up for their meeting with Mr. Hamilton. He called Bill who became worried also because they both knew how important this interview was to Megan's series. They gave Hamilton a room in the magazine office where the gang couldn’t find him.

Megan waited for Bill, but he never showed up. Returning to her car after trying to reach Bill again, Megan was grabbed from behind and told not to turn around. She was blindfolded and taken to the new hideout. Turk tried to pressure her into telling the identity of her witness, but she remained firm although scared.

When Megan didn’t turn up, Stan and Bill informed the police. They kept an eye on all the known Avenger hideouts. Since they had no evidence that the Avengers kidnapped Megan they couldn’t search the hideouts or bring the guys in for questioning. They were trying not to tip their hand. If Hamilton could give them a clue to the identity of Donnie Quinn's killer, they could start from there. The composite sketch he came up with looked very much like Turk in his beret. Roger Hamilton and Viola Brewster tried consoling Edith Cushing and keeping the reporters away. Roger finally convinced Edith that a television appeal offering a reward might help.

Paco assured Megan that he was really on her side and would be looking for a way for the two of them to escape. Turk made Paco « Minister of information » in charge of extracting the needed information from the "Cushing dame." Paco got him to untie Megan, but she refused to tell them the witness' name because she knew Turk intended to kill him. She realized he had no intention of letting her go when he removed her blindfold.

Megan’s disappearance gave Laurie the excuse she needed to call off their trip. She visited Jason to tell him she wouldn’t be leaving town. Viola decided to plead with Josie again, telling her that she was sure Jason would have denied it. Josie told Lester who planned to have a talk with Jason. Paco set up a diversion by telling Turk that the police were planning a raid on the main hideout. He persuaded Turk that he could get some information out of the girl and was left behind. Just as Paco was ready to take Megan out, she became faint and they heard Turk returning.

Connie felt guilty because she had never told Bill about Megan's call, but was advised by Lee to remain silent. Her spirits perked up when Dr. Ballad agreed to let them take Billy home. She did resent all of Ellie's ad-vice. Ellie and George would like to start a family, but she confided to Josie that she didn’t think she could handle another miscarriage.

A derelict wandered into the Avengers’ hide out, giving the police a clue when they found him stabbed. Seeing the neighborhood overrun with police, Turk decided that it was time to clear out. He gave Paco the job or killing Megan after he overheard their friendly chatter. Paco said they couldn’t just leave her for the police to find. When he and another Avenger, R.C. wet for kerosene to burn the place down, Paco belted R.C. and ran to a phone to call Bill for help in getting Megan out.

The police had identified Turk as a veteran who was dismissed foi psychological reasons. Turk recognized Megan's earring on a chain around R.C.'s neck and wanted nothing to do with them.

General Hospital

Written by: Douglas Marland

Produced by: Gloria Monty

After Gail had read Greg's notes for "Forever Spring," Monica begged to speak with her, saying that what had happened wasn't the way Greg wrote it; that he forced himself on her. She went on to say that Gail had worshipped the ground Greg walked on and had turned him into a saint, so that Monica was afraid she wouldn't have been believed. Afterward Greg threatened to tell Gail that it was Monica who had seduced him and it was still going on. Gail cried out that she saw Monica go through one man after another and it was always someone she had no right to. Gail turned to Lee to say that she had no further interest in Greg's royalties or works and ordered him to transfer everything to Maria Schuler. Miss Schuler protested that she wanted only what was due to her from "Forever Spring"; that she came to right a wrong, but Gail stopped her saying she no longer trusted anyone or anything and told Miss Schuler to keep the money, spend it or give it away — it was no longer any concern of hers.

Monica returned to Alan at the hotel saying that she wanted the money to help Gail but she couldn’t tell him about it except to say Gail had turned on her and hated her. Alan suggested they combine a short vacation to his home on Long Island with a trip to N.Y. he planned to take with Rick for a presentation concerning the cardiac wing, and Monica agreed gratefully.

While Rick was in New York, David Hamilton got drunk at a dinner with Lesley, Jeff and Heather, and stopped off at his apartment before taking Lesley home. He made a play for Lesley, insisting that she had been coming on to him all along and was as big a tease as her daughter, Laura. When Les said she couldn't bear to think of David having been for so long a time in the same house with Laura, he told her to come off it; that she knew that Laura had been sleeping around and it wouldn't hurt Lesley to loosen up, too. Lesley threatened to scream the place down and shortly after she got home, Jeff stopped by and learned what had happened. He went to David's place to get a scarf and Lesley's purse, which she had left behind, but David denied everything, insisting that he didn’t have Lesley's things. Jeff could barely keep his hands off David and left without them. Lesley was unable to reach Rick by phone that night and when she heard from him, he was so wrapped up in his chance to head the cardiac wing that she decided nothing should interfere with his concentration. When David came to see her, to apologize, she threw him out, warning him to stay away from herself and Laura, and she was convinced that was all that was necessary for the time.

Hamilton contacted Cates again, and arranged to cash in on his knowledge that Hauser Chemical planned to relocate in Port Charles. Cates backed David with the money to buy up the land which the company would eventually need. In a continuance of his private vendetta, David told Laura that Mr. Cates had agreed to using drawings David wanted to do of her in an advertising campaign but that Lesley had priggishly refused to hear of it. Laura arranged to pose for David, using dates with Scotty's roommate Darren as a cover.

Bobbie Spencer broke a date with Scotty to care for Jessie Brewer, who had been having dizzy spells and was anxious that it not be rumored around the hospital. Barbara received a present of a lovely music box from Jessie's collection. When Bobbie's landlady discovered Scotty in Barbara's room a few days later, she ordered Bobbie out of the house. Scotty offered to ask Lee for the money to cover the cost of finding a new place but when Jessie heard that Bobbie was being evicted - she believed her story of being thrown out in favor of some relatives of her landlady -, she offered to have Bobbie as her guest until she could find something of her own. Bobbie also accepted a present of a wrist watch from Lamont Corbin - against hospital policy - in return for an errand she did for him. The errand involved delivering a gift of a check for $1,000 as a shower present to Dr. Gina Dante, causing a disagreement between herself and her fiancee Dr. Gary Lansing. Despite this additional insight into Gary's attitude toward money, so different from her own, Gina and Gary were married.

Lamont had for his right hand man, Dan Rooney, telling him he wanted his wife Katherine's movements watched, as he believed she was a potential target for kidnapping. Dorrie noticed the fact that Corbin had been checking very closely on Katie and relayed her uneasiness to Dr. Mark Dante. At one point she called down to the cafeteria where Mark and Katie were having coffee to alert them that Rooney was on his way down. Corbin made it clear by his attitude toward Mark that there was a confrontation coming. His gift to the hospital had resulted in major renovation, and though the board thanked him informally after a celebration at which city and state politically figures were present, Steve was anxious to get permission from Mark for Corbin to appear at a more formal ceremony. He was exasperated at Mark's refusal to give a date and was convinced that there was something behind Mark's behavior.

Mrs. Grant then knew that her grandson, Steven Lars is alive and was all the more frightened that Heather continued to see Jeff. As the Taylors had the final adoption papers for the child, Mrs. Grant warned Heather that she did not believe that Heather could keep her promise to be silent. Heather's cousin Susan had noticed both Heather's and Mrs. Grant's unease on the night of a party at the Taylors' - where Mrs. Grant saw the baby and recognized him - and was determined to find out Heather's secret.

When the files of the Hauser Corporation were missing, Lee Baldwin revealed that David Hamilton knew of the plans and claimed that Monica had told him. Monica confronted David who sticked to his story and agreed that she might have mentioned the project on the day she was so upset because of Gail, but insisted that she never used the name. She was atraid that no one would believe her because of her past but Alan told her he did and Lee confided to Alan that he believed Monica was telling the truth. The files reappeared - David had gotten them back - and Monica conceded that she might have misfiled them for a time.

Mark Dante arranged to be alone with Lamont Corbin to break the news of his and Katie's love for each other. Corbin pretended to be devestated at the news but when Katie saw him, he told her that he had had her followed and had had Dan Rooney keep a record of the times she spent with Mark, calling it a complete history of their sordid affair with every detail carefully documented. Lamont insisted that if Katie wanted a lover he would permit it, but Katie was shocked and insisted she wanted a divorce. He told her that he would hate to have to take her to court and charge her with adultry, and asked if she believed Mark would still love her after he was made more famous as a seducer of patients' wives than as a surgeon. When Katie told Mark of Lamont's threats, Mark insisted that Corbin had too much pride to make a public scandal and would think better of it in time.

Mark called Gary and Gina to tell them the news and asked for a key to their apartment so that Katie could stay there for the time they were away, rather than return to her residence in the Corbin suite at General Hospital. Gary hesitated but finally told Mark that his brother had the key and that he would call Howard and tell him to turn it over to them at Mark's apartment. When Howard arrived, Katie retained him as her lawyer as he had accepted a position with a law firm in Port Charles. Gina was upset at Gary's hesitation, agreeing that Corbin hasd been very generous to them but maintaining that they had no choice but to take sides with Mark and Katie. - Gina was unaware that Gary had reapplied for a grant from Corbin Limited, urged on by Lamont, who insisted that there would be no strings attached. –

Howard was a guest for dinner at Peter and Diana's house earlier that evening but the plans were cancelled when P.J. was taken to the hospital with a fever and the threat of developing pneumonia. Heather had come unstrung and followed the Taylors to the hospital. She phoned her mother from there, and Susan overheard Mrs. Grant insisting to Heather that she leave immediately and not try to contact Jeff, as he was the last person in the world for Heather to talk to in her distraught state.

Lamont Corbin had told Dan Rooney that he suspected from Dorrie's attitude to his personal questions about Mark that there might be more than a professional relationship between them. - On the evening before Corbin's surgery, Dorrie and Mark spent the night together, but there had never been a repetition and Dorrie had assured Mark that she wished him and Katie happiness together. - Rooney was instructed to order the New York office to check thoroughly into Mark's background. Rooney then went on to tell Lamont about the stock manipulations and though they both conceded that neither Dr. Copeland nor Mark were likely to have been involved, Corbin told Rooney to check out Mark's personal account, saying he intended to see to it that an amount of money was deposited into it, reflecting a payoff stock manipulators would have made for information.

Guiding Light

Written by: Bridget & Jerome Dobson

Produced by: Allen Potter

The Bauer family was just resuming normal life after learning that Bill Bauer was alive when they were shocked to learn that he had once again returned to Springfield, this time to confess to murder. Bert Bauer and her sons, Mike and Ed, had thought Bill was killed in a plane crash 10 years ago. When he was discovered to be alive, both the Springfield papers and the newspapers in Vancouver, where he was living as Bill Moray, flashed all the details, making life miserable for the Bauers and for Bill's new family, Simone, Hillary and Paul Kincaid.

Bert Bauer and her son Mike, a lawyer, suspected from their earliest confrontations with Bill that he was not revealing all of his true reasons for deserting them. These suspicions, coupled with his son Ed's fury at what he'd done to them, weigh heavily on Bill when he returned to Vancouver. Bill and Simone had owned a successful lumber mill, but with all the publicity about Bill's desertion of his Springfield family, customers began leaving him. Since he felt a strong moral obligation to pay back the insurance money Bert collected, Bill attempted to get a bank loan. When he was turned down as a bad risk he and Simone decided to sell the mill and their home and to leave Vancouver. Although Simone maintained her love for Bill she realized that he had not been completely truthful with her. Finally, after arranging the sale of the mill, he confessed all to Simone and flew to Springfield.

Springfield police Chief John Craig, who knew Bill Bauer 10 years ago, refused to hear his confession until Mike is present. Once Mike was located Bill confessed to having murdered Victor Kincaid in a roadhouse fight on July 16, 1968. - Kincaid, Simone's first husband, was cruel to Hillary, whom only he, Bill and Simone knew was really Bill's child. - Bill told Mike that Kincaid had demanded "hush money" from him and that they had fought after he told him that he didn't have it. Bill didn’t want a trial since he didn’t want either family publicly involved. Mike won bail for his father, but Bill refused to leave the jail, claiming that after 10 years of guilt it almost felt good to be there. Bill's one request of Mike was that he make sure Hillary never learned that he, a murderer, was her real father.

Ed Bauer was determined to put the past behind him and he was anxious to spend as much time as possible with his ex-fiancee, Rita Stapleton, a nurse at Cedars' Hospital where he was chief-of-staff. Rita's contentment with Ed was so strong that she hads temporarily forgotten about the one person who would most like to harm her, Georgene Granger.

When Rita’s apartment was burned by arson, Georgene feebly denied doing it, after which she went into hiding. While Mike Bauer and Georgene's attorney, Raymond Schaeffer, tried to locate her, Georgene was busily planning to kill Rita. By listening to a conversation between Rita and her blind sister Evie, Georgene learned that Rita would soon be in the usually empty laundry room. As Rita moved her things back into her apartment, renovated since the fire, the deranged Georgene waited for her in the laundry room. Instead Evie went down while Rita made a date with Ed. Georgene held a gun on Evie until Rita came in, at which time shocked Evie to the floor and aimed the gun directly at Rita's head.

Georgene told Rita that she intended to punish her for all the "bad things" she has made happen. Rita knew that her only hope was to keep Georgene talking, so she asked her enough questions to learn the entire story: Georgene's father-in-law, Cyrus Granger, disinherited Georgene and Malcolm when he learned of his son's mistreatment of Rita, his nurse. Georgene smothered him under a pillow, hoping to kill him before he had time to change his will. It was too late, however, as Cyrus had already left Rita a fortune. While she was supposed to be in a rest home, Georgene came to tell Malcolm, hooked up to a variety of life-support systems at Cedars, what she had done "for him." He became so distraught by her presence that he pulled the needles from his arm and, with Georgene looking on and not calling for help, he died.

Georgene told of how she had pushed Rita down the steps at the hospital and how she had managed to set fire to Rita's apartment. In her sick emotional state Georgene continued to claim that Rita deserved all of this because she had created the situation whereby Georgene killed Cyrus for nothing. She screamed that Rita had ruined her life!

Jist as Georgene fired the gun, Evie knocked her down and the shot was deflected. Rita grabbed the gun and aimed it at Georgene until the police arrived and arrested Georgene for the attempt on Rita's life and the other crimes to which she confessed.

Eve Stapleton, despite the frightening experience in the laundry room, continued in her determination to be independent despite her blindness. She had started dating her ex-fiance Ben McFarren again and they were still very much in love. Viola was pleased at Evie's progress and attitude, but she steadfastly believed that Evie would see again some day.

Ed Bauer’s happiness with Rita was the talk of the hospital staff and it forced Holly, Ed's ex-wife to face the fact that there wouldn’t be a reconciliation, Holly was unable to forget Ed, despite her active dating with Dr. Peter Chapman. Then on the staff at Cedars, Peter was in the Peace Corps eight years ago. Once, while the couple was walking through the park, they heard screams from the skating pond. Peter ran in the direction of the screams and saved the life of a young woman, Linda, who had fallen through the ice. When Holly remarked about how impressed she was, he told her he had run into similar situations before. He completely dropped the subject, however, before she could learn more. Since he invariably changed the topic when pressed for details about himself, Holly considered him a mystery which she would like to unravel.

Holly’s daughter, Christina, had re-ceived a $1,000 savings bond from Roger Thorpe, her natural father. The envelope had no return address. Holly's mother presumed she wouldn’t accept it, but Holly had decided that Roger had the right to some involvement in Christina's life.

Sara McIntyre was depressed and moody after she stopped seeing Justin Marler. - Sara and Justin had been engaged while in medical school, but Justin broke the engagement in order to marry Jackie, whom he felt was better for his career. Sara was hurt and when Justin, divorced from Jackie, wanted a committment from her, she was unable to make it, fearful of being hurt again. - Sara finally invited Justin for dinner, which he happily accepted. When he arrived at her apartment the following night, however, Sara asked him to leave. When Justin demanded an explanation, she told him it was because he was "together" with Brandy Shalloe again. - When Justin was married to Jackie, she walked in on him with Brandy one night. Although he swore to her that it was his first and only infidelity, she left him, telling him she planned to abort the baby she was carry-ing. Instead she put the baby up for adop-tion, a fact she never told Justin. - Despite Justin's denials and his assertion that Brandy had been pushing herself, Sara was adamant. She had seen them together, heard Brandy answer the phone in Justin's apartment, and learned that they had been out to dinner together. Justin was furious with Jackie for not minding her own business. She claimed that her sole reason for speaking to Sara was to prevent Sara from being hurt again; he claimed that she was still seeking revenge. Jackie screamed that there was no way she would ever forgive him for ruining her life.

Sara was unhappy, curt with her patients, and teary-eyed. She decided to go away for a while, combining a medical convention to Hawaii with a vacation. Justin, too, was un-appy, but when Brandy spent an evening with him, after having gone to him for advice about a sprained ankle, he told her she might be right about not seeking committment. The following morning, Justin told Brandy that last night "shouldn't have happened."

Elizabeth and Alan Spaulding were settling into Springfield where Alan was opening a new industrial park. Elizabeth quit her job as a photographer for the Springfield Ecology Association since she wanted her work to be her own, and not something Alen had bought for her. After meeting Peter Chapman at a Pops concert she went to see his father Max, publisher of the local paper. Max looked skeptical when he heard the Spaulding name, but he told Elizabeth she might do free-lance work so that he could see her local work.

Diane Ballard was beginning to work as a secretary for Alan Spaulding's manager, Adam Thorpe. She originally came to Springfield to be a companion for Philip, the Spauldings’ son. - Unknown to his parents Philip was the child Jackie gave up for adoption. - Elizabeth began to feel replaced by Diane and she felt that Diane ignored her wishes in favor of Philip's and Alan's. Elizabeth therefore fired Diane without Alan's previous knowledge. Diane would like a more social relationship with Alan, but he didn’t seem to notice.

Alan’s attorney in Springfield was Mike Bauer, who resented Alan's demands on his after-hours time. Mike was, however, quite fond of Elizabeth, whom he had escorted to dinner, encouraged professionally, and treated warmly.

On the plane back to Springfield from a medical conference, Ed Bauer, who learned of his father's confession by phone, ordered a vodka and tonic.

Love of Life

Written by: Gabrielle Upton

Produced by: Darryl Hickman

Ben Harper had managed to finish a novel between his shifts as an ambulance attendant. As the pressure was off, Ben told his family jokingly about his accomplishment. Mia Marriot, Ben's editor and paramor, had sent his manuscript off to publisher Jay Edminston, vowing to pursue this until someone agreed to publish the book. Jay contacted Mia, asking her to bring Ben to New York to discuss revisions. The publisher would pay their expenses. Mia debated this with her friend Wendy and convinced herself that she shouldn't go along, but couldn’t resist the opportunity to be alone with Ben. They arrived for their appointment to find that Edminston had been called out of town and their appointment had been rescheduled for Monday. After an enjoyable weekend Ben agreed to Edminston's revisions and was pleased with the advance he received. This was the first money he had ever earned doing something he really enjoyed. Edminston wished him luck in his writing career. Mia overheard Ben inquiring about flights to England. On the plane home he noticed that she was moody and learned that she was jealous of the fact that he wrote this book for Betsy and intended to take it to her. He reminded Mia that they both went into this affair with their eyes open. He said he had never hidden the fact that he still loved Betsy. Mia couldn’t help that she had gotten involved, and hoped his book would impress Betsy. Once at home, Ben regretted having agreed to the revisions, but saw that Mia was right in that his hero had never had to make a decision and by having him return to his wife at the conclusion he had finally asserted himself.

Mary Jane Owens' ad in the personal column did not catch Michael Blake's eye, but when he visited the hospital for a lecture, Janie was there. She asked for a chance to explain their broken engagement. Their first meeting didn’t go well because she had to return to work. When she said she was in Rosehill alone, Michael assumed Janie had left her wealthy husband behind in Twin Rivers. Michael agreed to another meeting and learned that Janie had never married Luke. After Michael left for Vietnam she found that she had cancer and needed a hysterectomy. She knew how much Michael wanted children and couldn't deprive him of them. She knew he would insist they should marry anyway and was afraid he would hate her later. The only way to make him forget her was to think of a reason for him to get very angry. After she sent him the "Dear John" letter and had her surgery, he had been taken prisoner and she didn't know where to write him. When he was brought back to the States she kept in touch with his doctor. She had come to look him up at her father's urging. Janie offered to give him back the engagement ring, but Michael said he forgave her and could never stay mad because he loved her. He placed the ring on her finger and they resumed their engagement.

When he came in for therapy, Charles Lamont sought out Mary to make sure she was happy. She told him that she was engaged to her childhood sweetheart from Twin Rivers and Charles insisted that she bring him to the house because he felt responsible for her. Charles admitted that he grew very attached to her while she was little Charlie's nurse.

Edouard Aleata’s life had changed since Charles let him legally adopt Felicia's son. He invited the family to the christening, asking Charles to be the baby's godfather. When the minister asked for the name to be used in the christening and Eddie said the baby was to be named Charles, Lamont was touched to his soul. Dorrie Patton finally agreed to a family evening at Eddie's, but made it clear that she is not ready to get interested in anyone. Eddie said he only wanted to get to know her a little better.

Ray Slater and Arlene Lovett were married and then returned to tell her mother. Carrie had a hard time believing that Arlene could go to such lengths to keep from marrying Tom Crawford after she found out he hadn't told his family of their forthcoming marriage. Ray asked that Arlene tell people that the baby she was carrying was his. - Arlene became pregnant during her affair with the late Ian Russell. Tom got Arlene released from prison when he proved an ulcer attack caused Ian's fatal fall down an elevator shaft. - Arlene tried to explain to Carrie that this was a marriage in name only and Ray understood that she still loved Tom who was devastated when he heard. His roommate Dr. Joe Cusack worried when he disappeared. After trying to sort out his feelings, Tom asked Carrie where Arlene was living.

Ray had spent a lot of time trying to find a two bedroom apartment that he could afford. He had some furniture delivered before they moved in and told Arlene she could finish decorating when she felt up to it. As she had gotten over the shock, Carrie pitched in to make the apartment a home. Carrie said as Arlene was married to Ray, she had a duty to him as his wife and a man couldn’t keep a promise like that very long. Beginning to feel like a father, Ray brought home a crib and set it up. Arlene refused to show any interest and changed the subject every time Carrie brought up the baby. She told Arlene that it was about time she got her mind on this baby because it would be here soon.

Cal and Rick Latimer spent an extra week in Europe and returned to Rosehill with Cal hoping that she was pregnant. She was disappointed, but she and Rick decided to keep trying.

Michael finally broke the news to Cal that he was engaged to Jamie. He had something on his mind, but put off discussing it with Cal.

Bruce Sterling told Charles Lamont that he was dying and his biggest worry was that Vanessa would be lonely after his death. He wanted to throw Van and his friend Dr. Andrew Marriott together, but Charles extracted a promise trom him to forget this. Charles realized how insignificant his own problems were since he had learned or his friend's prognosis.

In spite of his promise, Bruce continued asking Andrew to join them and leaving Andrew and Van alone at every opportunity. Van finally rebelled and told Bruce that she didn’t want him planning her future. Bruce began feeling sorry for himself. He claimed to be a rotten conversationalist because he wasn't interested in anything but his own health and slammed out of the house. Van called Andrew who was unable to find Bruce. Bruce was recognized by the bartender who called Van. When Andrew retrieved him, Bruce apologized to Van and agreed to take a different view of his illness. Andrew agreed that if a patient had the will to live, he could lengthen his life. Van noticed a bruise on Bruce's arm and suggested he mention this to the doctor. Joe was concerned that Bruce might contract hepatitis or start hemmorhaging.

Tom refused to believe that Ray was the baby's father even after Arlene supported Ray's claim. Ray wanted to get a new job so that his child would not have to say that his father was a pit boss. Arlene asked Rick if Ray might work at Beaver Ridge and was encouraged when Rick suggested that he tell Ray it was his idea.

Meg told Andrew that the town would begin to talk if he continued seeing so much of Van. A small razor nick on Bruce's finger became infected, causing red streaks up his arm. In emergency, he went into shock and Joe worked over Bruce to pull him through. The tension eased when his temperature went down. The whole family knew how serious Bruce's anemia was.

Michael had constend to a June wedding, but rejected Cal's offer of adding a room to his garage apartment so that he and Mary Jane could live there.

One Life to Live

Written by: Gordon Russell

Produced by: Joseph Stuart

After talking with Ina Hopkins’ nephew, an attorney, Becky learned that she couldn’t legally be married to Richard Abbott as she had promised, and she dismissed the young man with thanks, unable to face the steps she might have to take toward a resolution of the problem she had confided only to him. She allowed Richard's plans for the wedding to go on until she was panicked at finding an empty envelope, in her mail distribution basket, addressed to "Rebecca Lee Jackson" which had obviously not been through the mail. - Edwina Lewis had learned of Becky's identity from a newsman in Becky's home town and requested him to write the name on an envelope, marked "deliver by hand," which she slipped into the mailroom –

Having to play hostess to Pat Kendall - who had no idea that Karen was in the car which killed her son Brian in a hit and run – drove Karen to resume her old pattern of picking up men. When Larry left on an emergency call after Paul and Pat had been to dinner, Karen went on the prowl. When she returned at 2 a.m., she found little Danny awake and told him that she had just been out to return a briefcase Paul left. Cathy Lord was at home the following day and Danny confided to her that he knew Paul did not bring a briefcase that evening.

Karen rounded up all the gifts she had received for her "favors," telling Larry that they were gifts from Dorian, but that she would get rid of them as a token of her love. She pawned them, surprised to find that she had gotten $800, but she did not keep it long. Marco had seen the transaction at the pawnbrokers and demanded the money saying he had a gold lighter from her which she had gotten in the same way and Larry might be interested to know she was up to the same tricks as when he knew her years ago.

Dorian had confided to Will Vernon that she lied to Melinda, telling her that she and Peter Janssen were lovers, but had told Peter when he learned of it that Melinda’s saying that was a manifestation of her illness. Will told Dorian that she had to face Peter and Melinda and tell them the truth for the sake of her own sanity, but Dorian arranged a trip out of town to stall, only to be faced by Peter on her return with a demand that the three of them meet at Llanfair. Melinda had received a visit from her former psychiatrist who had recommended that Melinda face Dorian down. Later that day, at Tony's place, while Melinda was playing the piano her left hand went numb.

Brad Vernon had been experiencing some episodes of impotence with Jenny and had started spending time with a call girl named Rita, who was a member of the Health Club. He had to confess this to Samantha when the woman's partner in a badger game ripped off $2,500, money Jenny had given him from her savings to pay Dorian Lord back some of the principal she had demanded as return on her loan. - Dorian learned from her accountant that Brad had been playing games with the financial report he had given her, "cooking the books", and when he denied that they did not reflect the true condition of the club's finances, called him out by saying if it were true he was easily in a position to pay. - Brad begged Sam to report the theft as being from the club so he could recover from his insurance company. Samantha refused to make the call but as Jenny was in the room when Lt. Hall came to inquire - Brad made the call himself -, she did not give Brad away. Sam was sickened by Brad's behavior, and Will Vernon was puzzled by Sam's reaction to Brad from then on. When Brad took offense at Ed Hall's asking Jenny for her bankbook as proof that she had withdrawn the money, Ed told him that he had better be warned of the sharper attitude the insurance investigators would take. Brad promised to return to Rita's apartment for the money atter threatening to kill Rita if it was not recovered. Convinced he meant what he said at the time, Rita gave the name of her partner who had assured her he could take care of Brad if he came back.

Pat Kendall had been persuaded by Viki Lord to return to work, with Viki to help her, at the Banner. Tony and Pat had met at Brian's graveside, but were unable to resolve the sense of resentment between them. Tony couldn’t help but observe bitterly that Brian's stone had the wrong name on it. When he admitted that they had both said things better left unsaid, Pat replied - meaning herself, and the fact that she told Brian that Tony was his father, which caused him to run out in the street to his death - that some words could never be taken back. Tony took this as a sign of her bitterness toward him but said that they still had their future. Pat told him their future was buried with Brian.

Ever since Samantha noticed Tony was dating Lola Daniels, an attorney, she had been hanging around Tony's place, keeping a jealous eye on him and drinking with younger men she knew he was sure to disapprove of. Wanda told Tony that Sam was obviously trying to make him jealous and observed to herself that it seemed to be working, whether Tony recognized it or not.

Wanda had more than a twinge of jealousy herself when Vinnie, who had become increasingly irritable at home but refused to talk about it, came home with lipstick on his mouth. Later, she was afraid that Vinnie might have deeper problems, and suggested he see Will Vernon about the articles of feminine make-up he seemed to have about him a lot. Vinnie brought home his partner on a special assignment to convince Wanda that the articles were hers — the story was that make-up was frowned on in her regulation purse and Vinnie was carrying it for Sgt. Consuella Reed in case of a surprise inspection. Wanda admitted that the very imposing appearing, and happily married Consuella was not a likely rival, but did not buy the story entirely. Later, at Tony's with Vinnie, she searcheed through a briefcase, looking for a pocket calculator he was to bring her and found a case of false eyelashes!

 Dorian scored in the confrontation with Melinda by insisting that Melinda's story of Dorian having told her sister that she and Peter were lovers was a product of her fantasy. Melinda was unnerved by Dorian's tears and Peter's questions and left to lie down in another room at Llanfair. As Dorian was having a dinner party that night to celebrate the first edition of the new magazine « Pulse, » she kept Peter on with the expectation that Melinda would join them later, though she knew well that Melinda had gone back to her boarding house. She read over a copy of the magazine before her guests arrived and when Edwina Lewis arrived, she told her it was the last time she would ever see the inside of Llanfair. She told Edwina to pick up her severance pay in the morning because she wrote an article about Dr. Jack Scott with a hard slant when Dorian had been trying to woo Dr. Scott to join the staff at Llanview Hospital, insisting it was a deliberate attempt on Edwina's part to humiliate her. Though she did not make the firing public, she did humiliate Edwina by pointedly praising Paul Kendall and denigrating Edwina's contribution to the preparation of the magazine.

Brad Vernon had returned to Rita's apartment and worked Rita over enough to learn the last name of the man who stole his money, Aldo Pierson. - the same man who once beat up Karen Wolek. - Brad tracked him down in a bar and atter getting rid of a former schoolmate of Samantha's who knew them both - a young punk who Sam had been using to make Tony Lord jealous -, he made a deal to forget about the theft if Aldo would steal Lana's ring from Cathy Lord's house the following day. Brad arranged to be out of town, replacing a famous tennis player who had dropped out of a tournament in New York. Jenny was very upset when she learned that Brad had arranged to play, fearing that he would permanently injure his knee but believed that Brad had hopes somehow of winning the $10,000 prize money.

Before he left, Brad met once with Mr. Burr, the insurance investigator, promising to make his phone number in New York available through Jenny. When Burr chided Brad on the inadequate protection of the money, Brad insisted that the drawer was locked, that Sam was in the outer office, and that though Jenny remembered the name Rita, there was nobody by that name in his membership file.

Dorian had to reinstate Edwina at Dr. Scott's insistence. She then pretended she did this because of Paul's threat of resignation.

Ryan’s Hope

Written by: Claire Labine & Paul Avila Mayer

Produced by: Claire Labine, Paul Avila Mayer & Robert Costello

Tom (O’Brien) Desmond had been shot by a man named Liam, who had been assigned by his father in Ireland to kill Tom whom the family blames for the death of another son and the only daughter. After firing the shot, Liam fled. Faith Coleridge was there, having gone for money and Tom's passport when they learned Tom was a hunted man. - Liam showed his hand when he accidentally shot Seneca Beaulac, whom he'd mistaken for Tom. Tom then made plans to run, not wanting to endanger his friends further. Faith volunteered to help. - The wound wasn't tatal, but was serious. Faith helped Tom inside, but he then refused to go to the hospital, pointing out Liam would find him there and that he was in the country illegally and could be deported. Faith called the hospital, hoping to reach her brother Roger, aware that with the right equipment and drugs she could treat Tom at his apartment. Roger was about to perform a lamonectorny on Seneca to relieve pressure on the spinal chord caused by Liam's shooting him, so Faith asked Bucky Carter to help. Bucky agreed. Luckily, the tenant before Tom had built a « secret room » in the apartment, which Tom then used as a bedroom. Fearing Liam might return to finish the job, Faith hid Tom in the bedroom. Bucky brought the supplies, then returned to the hospital. Faith treated Tom, but he was feverish that night, and she had to almost gag Tom when, as expected, Liam returned. Finding nothing in the apartment, Liam began to question neighbors about whether an ambulance was around the building. Tom worsened and Bucky and Faith had to try desperate measures to keep him alive. As Bucky left the building, accompanying a stretcher, he was accosted by Liam. Bucky told Liam Tom was dead.

The wake was held at Ryan's, following a simple funeral, where Johnny Ryan gave the eulogy. Faith left in the middle of the prayers at the funeral home. After everyone left, Liam sneaked in and checked the casket. He slammed down the lid and follows Faith, surprising her at Tom's apartment. As he threatened her, not believing that Tom was dead, despite the funeral and the obituary he sent to his father, because the casket was empty, Tom emerged from the bedroom. They struggled, working their way out to the roof. Faith, inside the apartment, was desperate when she heard a scream. But it was Liam who fell. Faith got Tom to the hospital and Bob Reid assured them there wouldn't be a problem with Tom's being in the country ilegally. Tom was allowed to return home to recuperate, provided there was always someone there to take care of him. Faith volunteered for night duty. She and Tom grew closer together, and Faith succumbed to his romantic onslaught, for once putting aside her logical tendencies and giving in to her feelings of love for Tom.

Roger’s surgery on Seneca was successful.

Jill Coleridge visited Frank Ryan at his office. She told him that she understood that his campaign for the Senate would take much time, but that she was willing to take the time that was left for Edmund and her. Frank was delighted. - Recently, Seneca confessed to Jill that Edmund was Frank's son, not his. Jill was horrified that Seneca could have kept such information secret. She and Frank were carefully working towards a reconciliation. - Rae Woodard interrupted their talk by demanding Frank arrive early for a big dinner party she was giving for prospective campaign donors. Frank promised to continue the conversation later. Rae knew about Jill and Frank and Edmund. She felt Jill and Edmund would be a liability. Rae also wasn't coy. After the party, which was very successful, she was on the verge of propositioning Frank when Bob Reid interrupted them. Frank took the opportunity to leave. He went to see Jill, anxious to keep her up on the campaign. Both wanted to spend the night together, but neither was sure enough about the other's feelings to propose it.

Rae dropped into the St. Patrick's Day celebration at Ryan's and was annoyed to see Frank with Jill, Edmund, and Little John. She made a phone call to an important backer of the party and arranged to take Frank to see him. Rae whisked Frank away. Frank decided that Jill would be more understanding of the demands of the campaign if she were involved, so he asked Rae to find a small place for her in it. Rae decided Jill should serve on the panel to draft a position on health care for children. Rae then persuaded Seneca to serve, as well as Maeve Ryan. Alicia Nieves had to lie to friend Bob Reid about Rae's intentions - an explosion of personalities that would drive Jill away — from the campaign -. Alicia was very uncomfortable about it, but when Rae asked how she felt, Alicia replied that she and her brother had never had such financial security as her job provided. Rae increased her salary.

Maeve and Johnny Ryan planned a cruise vacation, realizing they hadn't been away together for years. Delia, their son Pat's wife, was furiously jealous when she learned of the cruise, pouting and complaining that everyone had fun but her. - As her ex-lover Roger Coleridge threatened to tell Pat that she miscarried before their wedding, suspecting Pat only married Dee because she was pregnant, and also to reveal that her recent breakdown was faked, Dee became blind. After careful examination, it was concluded that the blindness was hysterical. To relieve Pat's burden, the Ryans insisted Pat and Dee move in with them. There, Dee regained her sight, but didn’t tell anyone. - Dee began a campaign to wrest the trip away from Maeve and Johnny. When suggestions that Pat needed the rest and that she might regain her sight fail, Dee used the only weapon left. She told Maeve and Johnny, "accidentally," about Pat's recent bout with amphetimines. Johnny still refused to give in, telling Maeve that at least at home Pat could go to the hospital to get away from Dee. - Johnny was aware Pat would like to dissolve his marriage to Dee, which not only demanded most of his time but which was keeping him from the solace of the sacraments. - Maeve gave in to Johnny, until Rae called, saying she was needed for the child health-care panel and both Ryans were needed to help with the campaign that weekend. They persuaded Pat to accept the trip. Pat's sister Mary Fenelli was furious, telling Maeve, then Dee, that she thought Dee tricked them into turning over the cruise.

Rae told Alicia she hoped the presence of Seneca at the meeting would drive Jill off, showing Frank she had no place in the campaign. Rae had Seneca come early and got him drunk. When Jill arrived, Seneca attacked her for being a poor mother, for being hung up on Frank, for being hung up on her late father. Jill left. Later, both Jill and Seneca wondered, separately, if Rae could be capable of setting them up. Seneca decided to ask Rae, who had just learned Frank and Jill had a date at Lem's that night. Rae manipulated Seneca into taking her to dinner at the same place.

Johnny urged Pat to inform Faith of his intention to leave Dee so Faith wouldn’t make a committment to Tom. Dee scotched the idea by telling Pat that Faith and Tom were lovers. On the cruise, Dee was as demanding as ever, driving Pat to drink.

Tom received a letter from the Immigration Department which could put his life in jeopardy again.

Search For Tomorrow

Written by: Robert J. Shaw / Henry Slesar

Produced by: Mary-Ellis Bunim

Kathy Phillips had settled into motherhood much more easily than she expected. Scott and their adopted son Eric helped with little Douglas. Kathy told Stephanie Wyatt that she wasn’t sure when she would go back to work, assuring Stephanie that it was not David Sutton's presence at the law firm that kept her from returning.

Didi Turner, a young lab technician who continued forcing her attentions on Dr. Gary Walton even after his recent marriage, tried causing problems. She brought up the fact that Carolyn still went by the name of Dr. Hanley since her marriage. Gary explained that it was less confusing. She remarked that it was strange that Dr. Hanley, a psychologist, would order blood tests on Mr. Phillips and Mr. Sutton the day Mrs. Phillips had her baby. Gary related this to Carolyn who told the young tech that all matters were confidential. Didi said it was only speculation until Dr. Hanley confirmed her suspicions. Gary found David's blood test in Scott's folder and noticed that Didi mixed the blood types and therefore Kathy's baby was David's rather than Scott's.

John Wyatt, attorney for Hartford House, received a letter from Mr. Jorgensen notifying him that Stu Bergman and Jo Vincente did not have a clear title to the land around Hartford House. They intended to put up a housing development and part of the Hartford House land was to be involved. John asked Stu to bring in all the papers he could find, trying not to alarm him. Stu caught on and had to be told the truth, but John tried to assure him that it might be nothing. They decided not to tell Jo in case there was no problem.

Stephanie was looking without success for a house for the new Wyatt family. Living in Stephanie's apartment was a hardship for both Suzi and Wendy because they were used to having their own rooms.

After Bill Mendel’s ultimatum that he would either take orders or Bill would take over the hospital project, Steve Kaslo decided to quit. Howard Horton was aware of the problems between Bill and Steve and discussed this with him. Steve told Howard that the problems only made him realize that he was not cut out to survive in the business world. He called a friend in the music business and he and Liza prepared for a tour of one night appearances. They thought they could handle it better this time. After they left, Bill Mendel took the plans for the new wing to Janet since she missed the board meeting due to the illness of her young son. He explained that he didn't handle himself well with Steve because he was jealous. He asked Janet to apologize to Steve when she talked to him.

Amy and Bruce Carson were trying to work things out in their marriage so that Bruce didn’t resent the time she spent at the hospital during her residency. The appearance of some of his articles on the front page of the newspaper helped his confidence and a division of duties at home would allow them to spend more time together. When Donna Davis heard that Bruce would not be depending on her companionship so much, she became depressed enough to start the drinking she had curbed during her relationship with Bruce.

Evelyn Reedy was desperate when she learned that $1,500 was needed immediately for an operation to save her grandson. Other methods having failed, she told Meredith Hartford that she had to take the family pearls and pawn them for $1,500. Meredith balked, but Evelyn reminded her that she already stole the pearls once from Jo Vincente and her father could hear about that. After school Meredith took a bus to the other side of town where Evelyn told her she should pawn the pearls, later explaining that she lost them. She told the pawnbroker that they were real and demanded at least $1,500. He asked for identification and noticed that she was only 17 when she produced her driver's license. Meredith fled, but was afraid to return home. She checked into a hotel, making the owner suspicious because she had no luggage. Meredith made up a story about arriving by bus and her parents being called away on diplomatic business.

Everlyn made excuses to Dr. Hartford for Meredith's tardiness. Greg called kids from her school, but no one was able to give him clues as to her whereabouts. The following morning he had no choice but to notify the police.

Meredith heard the police giving the description of a runaway to the hotel owner and slips out the window, but had to leave her coat behind when it became caught on a chair. The police felt this should make her more noticeable on the street and force her inside.

Bruce Carson persuaded Dr. Hartford to let him run an article on Meredith in the hope that someone would report seeing her. Greg didn’t want to upset her. He had convinced himself that Meredith ran away so that he and Jo would make up. The pawnbroker saw the article and called Greg, who refused to believe it was Meredith until he found the pearls were missing. Jo finally convinced him the police had to know in case she tried to pawn them again. He was reluctant to tell anyone she took the pearls without his consent.

Tom Bergman asked for more work at the inn and an advance so that he could sell his car and buy a sports car from a friend. Stu suggested that he get his car appraised first. The dealer insisted Tom look at a car on his lot. Tom was surprised to find a half-frozen Meredith in the back seat. He took her home where she blamed everything on Evelyn. Jo offered to stay while Meredith slept off the sedatives because Greg had surgery to perform which Dr. Bob Rogers convinced him was necessary for the patient's confidence and well being.

Evelyn confessed all to Jo because she was afraid she would be blamed for everything. She admitted she was willing to break up Jo and Greg because Jo had her daughter fired from the hospital. She felt terrible when Jo explained that her daughter didn't make an error, but was selling stolen supplies and she kept her from being arrested. Evelyn gave Jo Meredith's diary after tearing out the page about the blackmail, insisting that Jo read it because Dr. Hartford could never face it. They agreed that it was best Evelyn leave. After reading Meredith's confession she understood her loneliness and insecurity. She gave the diary to Meredith asking her to tell her father how she felt. Meredith burned the diary, but when her father returned she told him everything she had done and why. Meredith agreed that she needed psychiatric help but didn’t want to see anyone in town. Jo and Greg ended their relationship because there wasn't enough trust involved. Greg would take a position in New York and get help for Meredith.

Didi Turner blamed Gary when she was fired. Didi claimed Gary told Dr. Rogers that she transposed the blood types of David Sutton and Scott Phillips, but she was let go after another mistake that almost cost the life of a young man whose allergy tests Didi fouled up. She suggested to Gary and Carolyn that if they gave her money, she would leave town. They were afraid that she might tell someone that Scott was not the father, but would not give in to blackmail.

David noticed that Donna would like to be more than a neighbor to Bruce and hoped that Bruce had the good sense to see what a good wife he had, although he was upset that Dr. Thompson kept Amy at the hospital so much of the time.

Stu had gone to look up old papers on the Hartford property to prove that no one else had a claim on it. John tried to reassure Jo and Ellie.

Didi spitefully told David the truth about Kathy's baby.

The Young and The Restless

Written by: William J. Bell

Produced by: John Conboy

Chris Foster was very concerned that the judge might give Karen back to the Beckers after reading the psychiatrist's report. The Beckers saw Karen several times after being given visiting rights. Karen refused to call Nancy "Mommy," but talked to Chris about her other mommy and frequently called her (Chris) "Chris." Ron and Nancy took Karen to the zoo, helping her to recall her past with them. - Karen remembered Ron, but felt abandoned by her mother when Nancy was taken to a mental hospital in a catatonic state. - Brad Eliot talked to Chris and got her to admit that if it were in Karen's best interest to return to the Beckers, she couldn't hurt Karen emotionally by keeping her. Chris and Karen discussed Nancy, and Karen asked if she could go to live with her other mother and father because she missed them. Chris called Snapper, asking him to come home. She was too hysterical to call the Beckers to come over. Nancy could see how hurt Chris was and felt sorry for her. Snapper came home from the clinic to find Chris packing her own suitcase and said she would never solve anything by running away. Chris explained that it wasn't enough to be just his wife. She had to find out what she wanted out of life for herself. Snapper was remembering that his father went away for nine years. Chris said she didn’t think she would even be away for nine days.

Snapper’s suspension from the hospital was up and he could return to the staff there.

Lance Prentiss found Leslie Brooks in a highly agitated state in Denver after newspaper reporter Rod Jackson told Leslie that her sister Lorie confirmed that she wrote the book about two rival sisters; one a writer, the other a pianist who spent time in a mental institution after a breakdown. Lance was ready to call the paper for printing an unsubstantiated story until Leslie told him what Jackson claimed. Lance called home to read Lorie out, but Lucas told him that Lorie had denied everything. The Maestro had contacted another pianist to take Leslie's place, but Lance took the responsibility of convincing her that she had to perform. He got her to eat and then had a piano brought to the suite for Leslie's practice. The Maestro was against this because he remembered the other time Leslie was in such a state. He felt she would not be able to take the stress.

Brock Reynolds and Stuart Brooks were making plans to fly to Denver after they learned Leslie had cancelled two concerts. Psychiatrist Brad Eliot, Leslie's ex-husband, told them that the worst thing they could do would be to go to her. It would show her that they didn’t have confidence in her ability to handle herself. He said that the friendship she had with Lance was what she needed at the time because he understood her talent.

Lance promised to be in the wings during her performance. Leslie heard people discuss her and the book, but pulled herself together and walked on the stage. She started very well, but when Rod Jackson walked up behind Lance, she floundered, started again and floundered, then ran from the stage. She retreated through the cold night to her suite without her coat. Lance had her get out of her wet clothing while he ordered hot tea. She confessed that she fled before she did have a breakdown because Jackson made her nervous. Lance felt responsible for this mistake. Leslie couldn’t bear to be alone yet. The experience drew them closer and though Lance knew he should leave her suite, he couldn’t. Later, they both felt this was a moment they would always remember. They met too late; Leslie used to be married and then Lance was.

Lorie got a call from a man who wanted to promote her book and she turned him over to Lucas, calling him her business manager. She said that maybe she needed someone to help her since Lance was always helping Leslie. Lucas suggested to Laurie and then to Lance that Leslie might be dependent on Lance as a revenge against Lorie.

After they returned to Genoa City, Lance couldn’t stay away from Leslie. She told him that night should never have happened and he should forget it. Brad arrived at that moment asking her to dinner. Leslie accepted, but they knew it was only to free her from Lance. Leslie wanted to go on with her life, but being a concert pianist might never be a part of it again.

Jill Foster didn’t believe Kay Chancellor's story about being married to her fiance Derek Thurston, but was so upset that Derek drew the story out of her. They agreed that Kay must have flipped out. Derek went to see Kay to set her straight, but found that she was serious. She explained that they were married by a friend of hers and then spent the night together. When he didn't remember the marriage in the morning, she put off telling him, hoping he would remember. She reminded him that she had explained to him that night that she wanted them to open the new beauty salon as man and wife or not at all. Derek shouted at her that he didn’t want any more to do with her or the salon. He went straight to Greg Foster to find out about getting an annulment quickly so that he and Jill could get married. Several things bothered Greg. The judge who performed the ceremony had an excellent reputation and would not have allowed the marriage if Derek was so drunk that he didn’t remember. After learning that Derek spent the night with Kay, he said they would have to file for divorce instead even though Derek claimed to have been too drunk to have consummated the marriage. It would only be his word against hers. Since Kay wanted this marriage desperately, it could take a year to obtain the divorce.

Brock was with his mother when Jill arrived to tell her that she wouldn’t get away with this, but she couldn't get through to the drunken woman. Hearing the details, Liz told Mrs. Chancellor that she was quitting because she couldn’t work for someone who was so devious.

Brock had been unsuccessful in pleading with his mother to allow the divorce. Derek decided to try once more. Brock suggested that he tell her that he was not angry with her. They went up to her room where they assumed she was sleeping off the results of her drinking. Brock found a medicine bottle cap and their search turned up an empty sleeping pill bottle. They rushed her to the hospital, hoping they weren't too late.

Jill became very worried when she didn’t hear from Derek and there was no answer at the house. Remembering that Kay tried to kill Philip by running the car off the road when Philip obtained a divorce to marry her, Jill was sure that Mrs. Chancellor had harmed Derek. He called to tell her of the suicide attempt. Jill said their problems would be solved if Mrs. Chancellor died because Derek would inherit one-third of her estate.

Stuart was furious when Lorie wanted to straighten things out with Les so that she and Lance could solve their problems. Lorie suggestes that Leslie might be seeking revenge and Stuart didn’t know Leslie as well as he thought he did. Lance was not willing to give up his relationship with Leslie, but she had decided to face reality and knew that they had to not see one another again. Lucas had suggested to Les that deep down she really was a woman and hoped that her music did not get in the way when the right man came along. Over the Maestro's protests, she had given up concert work for the time-being to teach music.

Feeling guilty, Derek returned to the hospital to urge Kay to fight for life. Dr. Casey Reed, a new resident, and Brock refused to give up when she went into cardiac arrest. Their persistence paid off and she was brought back among the living. Jill couldn’t help but feel that they would have all been better off if Kay had died.

After her close brush with death, Kay agreed to whatever Derek wanted if he would remain her friend.

6 hours ago, sheilaforever said:

Unfortunately not. I've been busy uploading data to IMDb but haven't done my ep counts yet. I will do it eventually. And by then, it might be the complete database for all recuring and contract players... Only about 500 episodes are missing in the Vault to help me make it a full database with my previous counts.

That is terrific ! What a work !

3 hours ago, sheilaforever said:

It's just un-be-lie-vable! A dream come true indeed!

It is ! Have you completed some episode counts you are willing to share ?

6 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

GH

Bobbie was introduced as Barbara and seemed to be referred to by that name for a few weeks. Then she became Bobbie. I wonder how that was handled onscreen.?

Perhaps Jackie got a scene where she talked about growing up as Bobbie but choosing Barbara when she went into nursing. Then beingtold that Bobbie was a fine name. The subtext was that she associated Bobbie with her hooker past.

Was that choice made because Barbara Vining was returning and they didn't want two Barbara's onscreen?

I thought it was linked to Barbara Vining appearing at the same moment. Marland must have thought it was better to give the Bobbie nickname to avoid confusion. 

FEBRUARY 1978

All My Children

Written by: Agnes Nixon

Produced by: Bud Kloss

Ruth Martin had regained consciousness after being attacked in the parking lo of the Pine Valley Country Club. She was aware that she was beaten and robbed of a diamond necklace and had guessed that the man in the ski mask was Ray Gardner but was as yet unaware that she had been raped. Because of her concussion and the possibility that she might not be aware of the sexual assault, the police called for Gardner's arrest mentioned only the beating and robbery. Rumors at the hospital had made the rape an open secret. When Phoebe Tyler, who had been persuaded to return home, though confined to a wheel chair, heard about it from Benny Sago during a thunderstorm, a door suddenly opened by the wind startled her into leaving her wheelchair. Benny promised to keep her secret so that she would not have to return to serve out the rest of her prison sentence, and she resumed her pose as an invalid.

At a second session with Dr. Polk, Donna remembered conversation between the doctor who performed the sterilization and his nurse which she had overheard but suppressed when coming out of the anaesthesia. She rushed out of the hospital and went to see Stelle. Billy Clyde confirmed the truth, and though Donna promised Stelle she would stay with her elderly friend Mrs. Flannagan, Donna did not show up. When the umbrella Stelle had loaned to Donna turned up by the river the folowwing day, Billy Clyde admitted to Stelle that he had given Donna a bottle of barbituates - he traded them for a necklace, Chuck's Christmas present to Donna -, and Stelle went to Pine Valley to tell Chuck. Dr. Charles Tyler called the police, convinced that they should drag the river.

Phil Brent had personally gone to Center City with his partner to question a pawnbroker who had reported that Gardner had tried to pawn Ruth's diamond necklace but had left the shop when the man called in to report Gardner's presence. After Phil grilled the man and he and his partner returned to Pine Valley, Philip learned that little Phil had told Tad that his father had been seen in Center City. Phil remained adamant that little Philip had to go along with Sgt. Jacoby for the clean-up weekend as a punishment for his truancy. Alone with Tara, Jacoby insisted that she should try once again to get Phil to remove himself from the case. Phil insisted that Tara not leave Tad alone with only Kate, but when Tad asked him not to leave them without a man in the house, he insisted that he was going to see Ruth and then took off on his own, looking for Gardner.

After Edna heard about Ruth's assault, she called David and insisted that he come to the cabin to protect herself and Dottie. David again had to cancel plans with Dr. Christina Karras, who had given him back his ring. When Chris returned David's call, sorry that they had quarrelled, she got a busy signal as Edna had taken the phone off the hook. Edna got David groggy with drinks and after he was asleep for some time he responded to her lovemaking, waking the following morning unaware of what had happened.

When Caroline told Frank Grant she has found out that Nancy was pregnant he insisted that they weren't living together after their separation and the baby could be "anybody's." When Caroline asked if that included him, he admitted it was possible. Frank asked Caroline why she didn't take Nancy at her word that Carl was the child's father. Caroline replied she believed Nancy was lying in order not to hurt her because she was just a little bit kinder than Frank.

Carl Blair flew in from Chicago but he and Nancy were late getting to the license bureau, meaning that Carl would have to return the following weekend, postponing their wedding plans by a week.

When it was evident that something was being held back from her and she insisted on knowing what it was, Joe confirmed Ruth's suspicion that she was raped. Word reached her that Gardner was in critical condition in a Center City hospital - he was stabbed by Billy Clyde as he was about to attack Estelle -, and Ruth wondered if Gardner's death might not solve the problem of deciding whether or not to add the charge of rape against Gardner which would mean exposing Tad to further trauma. - Phil Brent disregarded proper police procedure in going in after Gardner alone when Benny Sago telephoned to tell him Gardner had been spotted by Stelle arranging a deal to sell Ruth's diamond necklace to Billy Clyde. When Sergeant Jacoby got to SteIle's room immediately after the stabbing to take Gardner and arrest Billy Clyde, Phil was on the floor, just coming to from a blow over the head by Gardner, who had struck him with a heavy-based candlestick after Phil rushed into the room, gun in hand, unaware of the danger of Gardner's having been behind the door. - Phil reversed his position after he heard that Gardner was off the critical list and insisted to Joe that Gardner should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, including the rape charge.

Estelle went to see Billy Clyde in jail to thank him for saving her life but he turned on her for bringing in the police. Stelle laughed off his threats, calling him a cheap hillbilly and no better than Gardner.

A police detective reported to Phoebe Tyler that Chuck's car - which had been driven to Center City by Donna - had been impounded by the police there, after being left, with the keys, in a garage. Phoebe insisted she would pass the information on to Chuck so that he could recover it, but when she did, she added that the man indicated to her that he believed Donna was dead. Phoebe noticed that Claudette Montgomery was flirting with Linc and she highly disapproved.

Nick Davis was about to tell Erica, after she had been transferred to Pine Valley Hospital, that he had no intention of going through with the wedding, but a slight relapse threatened, and he delayed. In the meanwhile, Mark Dalton visited Erica and she learned about his relationship with Ellen Shephard. She phoned Ellen to ask her to visit and told her how happy she was that her brother, too, had found someone he wished to marry, and urged Ellen to disregard the age difference, as she had with Nick. Ellen pleaded a migraine - quite real; she had been suffering from strain over her ambivalent feelings - and left. When Mark walked into the Boutique, and called her "sweetheart" as she was talking to Paul Martin, she turned on him after Paul left and accused him of deliberately trying to humiliate and embarrass her, by implying in front of Paul, by his words and manner, that they were lovers. She told him she had gotten a whole routine from Erica about her "hang up."

Dan Kennicott had been fired from his job at the Zodiac Bookstore after he took off to go skating with Brooke and was caught out by his boss. He gave Devon a snow-job about his employer's unfairness and walked out on Joe when he was asked about it, calling his boss a creep and telling Joe there were plenty of other jobs available.

Carl Blair insisted to Frank, when Frank showed up at his apartment, that he – Carl – was the father of the baby Nancy was expecting, but Frank threatened to see that a blood test was done when the baby was born. Later, Nancy panicked and told Carl that she couldn’t go through with the marriage.

Another World

Written by: Harding Lemay

Produced by: Paul Rauch

Rachel Cory, kidnapped by Sven Petersen, had realized that he was holding her not far from home. She was in some kind of outbuilding that contained pumping machinery. Sven had delivered his ransom demand to Rachel's husband Mac — half a million dollars. Rachel, however, decided to make some effort to gain her own freedom, so she used a milk carton to jam the machinery. Meanwhile, the Cory chauffeur, Brooks, had identified the sound of machinery in the background of the ransom tapes as that similar to the machinery in the pump house at the far end of the estate. Mac sent Brooks for the police, then, despite pleas from Brooks and Regina, the daughter of his housekeeper Helga, Mac set off alone for the pump house. Finding Rachel alone, Mac broke in the door, and they embraced. Sven arrived at that moment with a knife and swore to kill them both. He and Mac struggled, Mac finally getting the upper hand. The police arrived to find Mac pinning Sven to the floor. In the dark, they had trouble locating Rachel, who'd been pushed aside during the fray. They found her unconscious and rushed her to the hospital. There they discovered she suffered a blow to the head and was blind!

Neurologist-psychiatrist Cal Zimmerman did extensive tests and decided they might be able to help Rachel with an operation. While she lay in darkness, Rachel received visits from two interesting people — Regina, who told her the baby she was carrying wasn’t Mac's; and Mac's daughter, Iris Bancroft, who apologized for allowing herself to be duped by Sven. Iris swore to move heaven and earth to help Rachel regain her sight. Iris further promised not to interfere between Rachel and Mac again. – Since Mac and Rachel were married, Iris had tried several schemes to break them up. Her latest was to bribe Sven to keep Rachel away from Mac when they parted over Mac's inability to accept sculpture as part of Rachel's life, too.) – Mac and Rachel reconcile and Rachel agreed to the surgery. After some delay, the operation was performed. Rachel could see!

Sven’s incarceration had freed Helga, who left Bay City to return to Sweden. Regina planned to join her as soon as she could find another housekeeper for Mac and Rachel. Cliff Tanner, the father of Regina's baby, would join Regina and Helga as soon as the John Randolph case was resolved. Ada McGowan, Rachel's mother, planned to become the Cory housekeeper.

John Randolph had been in a catatonic state since the night he and Evan Webster struggled over a gun that went off and killed Evan. John's wife Olive arrived right after and accused John of murdering the only man she ever loved. Since then, the only person able to move John to speak lucidly had been his ex-wife, Pat. Cal Zimmerman felt John needed the help of a psychologist, and with Russ Matthews' help, Cal hired Susan Shearer, Liz Matthews' daughter, who'd been a practicing clinical psychologist in Boston before separating from her husband and returning to Bay City. Susan discovered that John wasn't talking, and wasn't defending himself, because he was punishing himself for past mistakes, such as marrying Olive over the objections of his entire family. Liz was furious that Susan wouldn’t discuss John's situation/progress with her.

Greg Barnard, having learned from John that Evan brought the gun the night he was killed, tried to use that information to get Olive to give more information about her involvement. ( Olive wanted to divorce John and marry Evan, but she wanted to do it in such a way as to get a large settlement and the new house they'd had Evan build. She and Evan went to Claude Kelly, who suggested they set John up in a compromising situation with another woman. But Evan had bigger plans. He and Kelly planned to murder John, as his insurance settlement would be far larger than a divorce settlement. Olive learned of the plan after Evan died. - Greg soon realized Olive was on a self-destructive path and brought Olive's sister Doris from California to take care of her. Greg also hoped to persuade Doris to help him get Olive to agree to divorce John.

Russ Matthews proposed to Gwen Parrish. Gwen was reluctant to accept, pointing out that she was very insecure about herself, the same thing that destroyed Russ' marriage to Sharlene. Russ was undaunted and won Gwen over. Gwen revealed to Willis that her father died the previous summer. She then called her mother with the news of her engagement, but her mother wasn't enthusiastic. Liz felt Russ was making a mistake, and asked Elena de Poulignac to continue to fight for Russ' affections. Elena refused, saying Russ had made his choice.

Jamie Frame, Rachel’s son, had gained Rachel's permission to stay at the loft when she went home with Mac. Jamie asked Dennis Carrington, Iris' son, to share it with them. Dennis loved the idea, but his mother absolutely forbade it, musing to herself that nobody was going to take her son away from her. Iris thus intended to ignore husband Brian's imprecations that Iris let Dennis go and grow, warning Dennis would resent her if she didn't.

Willis Frame and Alice Frame Gordon continued their love, which hurt Angie Perrini deeply. In fact, Angie wanted to avoid all reminders of Willis. Angie admitted to Vince, Willis' brother, that she didn’t want to be around him because he reminded her of Willis. But when Vince showed a willingness to talk about his childhood with Willis on the farm in Chadwell, Angie agreed to have dinner with him, to talk. Willis was furious when he found out, not to mention a mite jealous. So, that night when Alice told him she wanted a divorce soon from husband Ray so that she and Willis could share their lives fully, Willis said there was no hurry. Next, when Alice suggested they have a dinner for Vince so she could get to know him better, Willis suggested they invite Russ and Gwen, having learned of their engagement. When Alice extended the invitation, she suggested Vince bring a date. He invited Angie, who was reluctant, until Vince told her she was the wife he wanted for Willis, and he would help her fight for him, if she wanted. Angie accepted the invitation. They were the last to arrive. Willis left.

Mac and Rachel arranged for Cliff and Regina to be married at their house before the newlyweds left Bay City.

Despite Iris’ objections, Dennis moved in with Jamie. Everyone else applauded the move. Iris threatened to cut off Dennis' allowance, hoping to bring him back. On Rachel's advice, Mac decided not to give Dennis an allowance, so Elena gave Dennis a job at the Gallery. When Elena told Iris, Iris lashed out with fists at Brian, who let her work out her anger. - Iris was afraid Dennis wouldn't need her anymore, and was feeling guilty because her first husband, Eliot Carrington, had custody of Dennis for years, precluding Iris' mothering Dennis when he was young. –

Susan began to make progress with John, finally getting the story of what happened the night Evan died. Meanwhile, recognizing Olive was in a very bad way, Doris Bennett, Olive's sister, allowed Susan into the house. Doris revealed Olive had a history of breakdowns, which prompted Susan to beg Doris to let her or someone else help Olive, none of which could occur without Doris' permission. When Olive continued to deteriorate, Doris asked Susan for help.

Willis avoided Alice after walking out on the dinner party. Alice visited him and asked him to make up with Vince. Angie told Vince she wanted to back out of their arrangement, but Vince offered Willis' leaving Alice's as proof that their plan was working. Willis warned Vince to stay away from Angie and stay out of his life. Vince refused. Willis' confusion over who he really loved continued.

As The World Turns

Written by: Robert Soderberg & Edith Sommer

Produced by: Joe Willmore

Karen Parker had left the hospital without her physician's permission, and although Dr. Bob Hughes was afraid she might have a relapse, Karen was such a reluctant patient that he did not pursue her. Karen sought Bob out to tell him that she was recuperating at the Spencer Hotel and asked him to dine with her. Over dinner she explained that she was engaged, but broke it off and would like to remain hidden awhile longer. Karen remained a mystery, telling only her name. Bob was attracted to her.

Sandy Thompson noticed that her husband had become restless and wanted them to travel and party with friends he had several years ago. Kevin had put all this behind him once before after he had a serious skiing accident. Sandy pretended to enjoy the parties until she and Kevin were spending very little time alone together. She explained that she was tired and realized that he was trying to fight his feelings for Susan Stewart. Unable to face this, Kevin visited some friends, but when he returned home he found a note from Sandy, saying she had gone away for a few days to think things over.

Mark Lewis was well enough to be released from the hospital. Since he couldn’t get into a college in Oakdale in mid-term, he returned to his school in Ann Arbor. Mark hated leaving Susan and she was going to miss her friend. When Mark's doctor, Alexander Keith, helped Susan through the weekend when Mark's life hung in the balance, she began to see him in a different light. Kevin visited Susan to see if he really was attracted to her, and she told him she was interested in someone else, Alexander Keith. After admitting this to herself, she told John Dixon, who always brought out the worst in people, that she really felt she had a chance with Alexander.

David Stewart tried to ignore John's insinuations that Keith was after his daughter-in-law, but David worried when Alexander brought her into their conversation. Alexander asked Susan if he might confide in her, since she was the only one who would listen. He told her that he lost the woman he loved before because he didn't speak up and wondered if he should make known his love for a married woman then. Susan was startled to hear that it was Kim Stewart.

Keith left town without telling Susan, putting her in a destructive mood. When Kevin explained that Sandy was away and he wanted to see her, Susan asked him over, telling him he had to decide between Sandy and her, because he couldn’t have them both.

Betsy Stewart became very depressed over a friend's problem. She explained to Kim and Dan that Doris found out from another friend that she was adopted and was hurt that her parents lied to her. Dan asked advice from Kim and his parents as to whether he should tell Betsy that he was her father rather than her uncle. Ellen agreed that she waited too long to tell Dan that she was his real mother. Remembering his reaction, Dan decided to tell Betsy when Betsy revealed that Doris had run away. Later Doris was found at her grandparents'. Betsy was relieved when Doris and her parents came to a better understanding. Dan felt the urgency was gone then and he could pick the appropriate time to tell Betsy. John Dixon happened to hear of Betsy's reaction to Doris' problem and told Susan that Dan was in trouble again. Worried that he might be looking for revenge, Susan told Kim that John knew.

John was still causing problems for Mary Ellison. He suggested that he not move back to his apartment and then said he had to. Mary explained to Ralph Mitchell that she refused to uproot Teddy again. Ralph suggested that she was attracted to John and wouldn’t give up on him, even though she knew he was no good. Mary asked John to move and he agreed.

Jane Spencer asked her son to join her in managing the Spencer Hotel, causing a rift between Beau and Annie. Beau said Jane and Annie were tearing him apart. Annie said she only wanted him to make up his own mind. Beau told his mother that the only thing he wanted was his law career, and he had to work hard the next few weeks for the bar exam. He could give her advice occasionally, but he was going to be a lawyer. Jane called him that same evening with a problem.

Grant Colman and Valerie Conway had been fighting their attraction for one another since he reconciled with Lisa, but a sudden snowstorm threw them together. Rather than spend the night at Valerie's farm, Grant rode a snowplow to town and arrived home half frozen. Nancy Hughes would like to see Bob dating Valerie again and planned a dinner party for the night Don and Joyce were moving to their new house. Undelivered furniture sent Don and Joyce to his parents where Joyce made a scene. She suggested that Bob and Valerie should announce an engagement. When they tried to save Valerie from embarrassment, Joyce only became indignant, saying she had never been welcome and Nancy was glad to be rid of her. Bob admonished Joyce and had to apologize the following day. Joyce said she then knew what was going on and why Grant was so embarrassed. Bob and Grant feared Joyce would hurt Lisa, so Grant planned to tell her himself. He was saved when Lisa mentioned that Joyce came to the house and accused her of being attracted to Bob. Lisa explained that she set Joyce straight. Lisa noticed that things hadn't been the same recently and confided in her mother that she didn’t know what to do because she honestly didn’t feel she was at fault this time.

Tom Hughes had tried every way he could think of to put enough pressure on Jay Stallings to find out the truth of what happened the night Pete Larsen was murdered. Jay finally admitted he picked up a girl who was passing through, but didn’t remember where they went. Jay asked Tom why he had his gloves and took them with him. Tom remembered that Melinda Gray had delivered these to him thinking that he had left them at her apartment. After establishing that the gloves were Jay's, Tom came down on them both. Jay still refused to use Melinda as an alibi because his wife Carol would leave him for good this time. Seeing how serious Jay was, Tom decided to leave it in his hands, taking the cue from Jay. Testimony from Jay had amassed, showing that he was furious with Larsen for stealing from him. Tom established that Jay was only there a few minutes and left Larsen completely clothed. - Larsen was found in his robe, wet from the shower. - Jay testified that he couldn’t remember where he stopped for coffee or a beer. After Dick Martin's careful cross-examination, it looked bad for Jay. Tom said he had one more chance when Tom asked questions on redirect examination.

Kevin called Susan, asking to come over, and was told that she didn’t want to see him. He arrived later in a very drunken state. Knowing what that was like and remembering all the times Kevin cared for her, Susan took him in. In the morning she forced black coffee down him before he went to the cabin where he had suspected all along that Sandy might be. When she returned to town, Sandy asked Susan to leave Kevin alone.

Dan was worried after his talk with John and decided not to put off telling Betsy. They kept her home from school so that Dan could take her for a ride to be alone with her. Taking advantage of a sheltered bus stop in a downpour, Dan told her that he and her mother felt it best not to tell her or his brother Paul that she was his daughter. He assured her that he always had and would love her. Betsy wass stunned and when they got home, she went to her room. Kim tried to comfort her, but she said she was not coming downstairs.

Bob brought Karen home to dinner and was surprised when his mother learned more about her in one evening than he had in all the time he had known her. Nancy mentioned the dinner to Lisa and told her how much she liked Karen. Lisa was still determined that Bob and Valerie should get together so she made a point of telling Valerie that Bob was seeing someone else, but added if she expressed a desire to see Bob, she was sure that Nancy would be on her side. Valerie told Bob about her conversation with Lisa and said she couldn’t go on much longer. She never tried to take Grant from Lisa when they were happy and felt she and Grant had in no way behaved badly. She explained that she sometimes fell that she wanted to tell Lisa that she was in love with her husband and was sure that Grant had deep feelings for her.

Tom asked for a continuance when Jay said that he would change his testimony, but had to tell Carol the whole story first. Carol was stunned, but believed that he only had dinner with Melinda at her request because they were at odds. In court Jay explained that he told Larsen that he had two days to come up with part of the money he had stolen and then went to Melinda Gray's. He arrived at 6:20 and stayed until 8:45. Melinda confirmed that Jay arrived at 6:20, insisting that she let him in and fix dinner. She testified that he left at about 8:45. Since the argument during which Larsen was killed was heard at 6:30, Jay was acquitted, but Carol ran from the courtroom after hearing Melinda's testimony. She refused to let Jay into their apartment or talk to him through the door. Tom forced his way into Melinda's apartment by telling her he couldn’t say what he came for in the hall. Melinda continued to insist that she did not invite Jay to dinner, but Tom said that he believed Jay this time. He wanted her to tell just Carol the truth because she owed her that much. Melinda stood firm on her lie.

Days of our Lives

Written by: Ann Marcus

Produced by: Betty Corday & H. Wesley Kenney

Don Craig’s campaign for the state senate was affecting his relationship with psychiatrist Marlena Evans. The two of them had been living together, happily. Don had proposed to Marlena, who had refused, but Don understood that her recent troubles with her sister - Samantha had Marlena incarcerated in a sanitarium under her name - had given Marlena identity problems which would not be helped by becoming Mrs. Don Craig. Managing Don’s campaign, Jim Bradley then pointed out to Don that the people of his constituency were rather old-fashioned and didn’t understand his adult relationship with Marlena, a fact which could cost him the election. Thus, Don moved back to his own apartment, regretfully.

Doug Williams found it intolerable waiting around for the judge to decide whether to issue him a new liquor license. Therefore, he accepted a job on a Caribbean cruise ship as an entertainer. Julie, his wife, was unable to bear the idea of being separated from Doug again. Doug convinced her to turn over the running of Doug's Place to Robert LeClair, their maitre d', and accompany him. Julie joyously shopped for cruise clothes and made arrangements for Doug's daughter, Hope to stay with Maggie and Mickey Horton. However, on the day they were to leave, Dr. Neil Curtis stopped by the apartment and informed them that Robert had been hospitalized with double pneumonia. Doug went on the cruise and Julie stayed behind, hoping to join Doug later. But Robert's recovery was slow.

Larry Atwood, the person responsible for Doug's license being rescinded, and Doug's being questioned about drugs that were planted in his dressing room just before the hearing to regain his license, lured Julie to his studio one night with the suggestion that he had news from some of his sources about Doug's license. Reluctantly Julie went, and became anxious when Atwood insisted they shared an elegant dinner before they talked. Finally he admitted he had no real news, but told Julie he could insure Doug would get his license, if Julie would become his mistress! He told Julie he loved her. She refused to listen and rushed out of the studio. Meanwhile, Jeri Clayton, who was in love with Atwood and was miffed because he broke a date with her that night, observed Julie's arrival.

Shortly thereafter, Mickey received word from a reliable source that Doug would not be granted his license. He had to tell Julie, who told Doug. Determined to return her life to some semblance of normality, Julie called Atwood and agreed to meet him at the studio, "just to talk."

After being stuck in the elevator with Marlena for a number of hours, time during which he revealed a great deal about himself, Fred Barton was haunted by Marlena's message that only through therapy and finding the deep sources of his anger would he walk again. He made a tentative call to Marlena, which prompted her to remove herself as Mickey's expert psychiatric witness in Bill Horton and Kate Winograd's defense in Fred's malpractice suit against them. Marlena felt that her time with Fred in the elevator constituted a counselling session. - Fred fell down a flight of stairs in pursuit of his wife, Jean, who was leaving him after a try at reconciliation. Jean had left Fred because he beat her. Fred was rushed to the hospital, and later was rushed into surgery. The second year resident who was to do the operation panicked and ran from the OR. Bill Horton, not board certified for surgery, although he'd been a practicing surgeon before his brother shot him and damaged his arm, performed a life-saving brain surgery on Fred with Kate's help. Subsequently, Fred suffered hysterical paralysis and sued the two doctors. - Having gained some insight from Marlena, Fred found he could walk. He called his attorney the day the case went to court, hoping to call it off, but Langford wouldn’t listen to him. Fred was late to court. During a brief recess after Jean left the courtroom because she was unable to stand Langford's castigations of people who saved Fred's life, Fred showed Langford he could walk. Langford warned there was a million dollars at stake, but when court resumed, Fred walked in, causing the case to be dismissed.

Bill’s troubles with Fred were over, but his troubles with wife Laura weren’t. Bill was infatuated with Kate, who was finding it more and more difficult to resist his advances, admitting to herself that she might be falling in love with him. However, Kate was very determined not to be the "other woman." She insisted to Bill that it was just too painful all the way around. When the malpractice suit was dismissed, and the second-year resident, Rick Stevens, told the truth about walking out of the OR, Bill and Kate were reinstated on University's staff. Kate, however, accepted another job in Cleveland. Greg Peters, chief of staff, expedited Bill's surgical certification. In a final meeting with Kate, Bill finally admitted that his attraction to her was probably due to their being thrown together so much over the suit, and that he really did love Laura, although he had a lot to make up for and hadn't moved home yet.

Bob Anderson told Linda Phillips that he loved her, but felt unready for marriage. Linda put up a good front, pretending to be happy to wait until Bob's ready, but was secretly furious. She was further upset when Bob promoted David Banning to be her assistant. Linda didn’t want to share her power as Bob's executive assistant, having just arranged things so that her power was equal to his in the company. When David chafed at being little more than a "go-for," Linda suggested to Bob that David be made assistant general manager at a plant 75 miles away. Bob accepted her idea. While Linda and Bob were spending a cozy weekend together at Linda's apartment, Linda's daughter Melissa returned unexpectedly from a friend's house. Linda managed to get Bob out of the apartment without Melissa's knowing he was there, but his great reluctance to leave gave Linda a new approach. She began to turn down dates with Bob, explaining she had to spend more time with her daughter and also set some kind of moral standards for her.

David found it difficult to find time to discuss his transfer with wife Trish. He realized it would be hard on her, moving so far away from their families and also having to give up her job singing at Doug's place. David kept putting off giving Bob an answer. He was then summoned by Laura Horton, Trish's psychiatrist, who pointed out that Trish was having doubts about her identity. Laura suggested regular therapy. Thus, David decided he would turn down the promotion. But when he arrived at home, he found Trish had taken their son Timmy and left him, leaving a note saying she needed time to find herself. Trish had been unable to believe in his growing love for her and was confused by her continuing feelings for Mike Horton. Everyone was stunned. Even David's mother Julie lashed out with uncharacteristically harsh invective, seeming more upset that Trish got the money to leave by singing at the club, than that Trish took her grandson. Mickey helped David get in touch with a private investigator, who pointed out that the incidences of young housewives running away were rising.

Walter Griffin and daughter Patti decided together to move back to Chicago. Patti told Mike Horton that she loved him, but she was going with her father.

Julie arrived at Atwood's studio, again observed by Jeri. Atwood professed his love for Julie, but when she tried to appeal to that love as the reason Atwood should get Doug's license for him, Atwood refused. The only payment he would accept was Julie's body. Julie unleashed a tirade of loathing, simultaneously guessing Atwood was behind their troubles. Atwood showed Julie a bust of her he was working on, saying it was the embodiment of all his feelings for her. Julie destroyed the bust, enraging Atwood, who raped her. Julie felt dirty. After a futile attempt to reach Marlena, Julie retreated into depression, avoiding everyone. Ironically, notification that the judge ruled in Doug's favor arrived the following day. Meanwhile, Jeri had told Atwood she was quitting. He reminded her he had an exclusive contract; thus, she would be unable to work in any unionized club. Meanwhile, cruise director, Helen made a pass at Doug.

Don proposed to Marlena again, romantically, sincerely, passionately. Marlena still couldn’t accept. But after they made love, Marlena proposed to Don, saying his love was more important than seeking her individuality.

Linda finally let Bob know that they couldn’t remain lovers outside of marriage. Bob stomped out. Chris, meanwhile, had been fending off both Linda's and Mary's demands he accept the job as head of research and development. Chris told Mary he would advance at his own pace. But when Bob offered him the position, assuring Chris he was accepting no input from either Mary or Linda, Chris took the job.

The Doctors

Written by: Mel & Ethel Brez

Produced by: Chuck Weiss

Greta Powers was pregnant. She summoned the father of her baby, Billy Aldrich, who was angry at being called away from his family while his brother Erich was so ill. When Greta told him the news that he was about to be a father, Billy calmed down. As he and Greta assessed their situation, Billy and she decided the best option was abortion. Billy suggested Greta discuss her situation with her mother Maggie, but Greta refused, saying she didn’t want to lose Maggie's trust. Greta decided to go out of town for the abortion, since the doctor who confirmed her pregnancy knew her identity. Greta's friend Judy arranged for Greta and her to spend intersession with Judy's cousin in Springfield, telling the Powers' it was a ski holiday. Greta was haunted by the possibility that she could die, since an abortion is a type of surgery. She kept her appointment, but couldn't go through with the abortion. Billy was incredulous when she told him. Greta suggested they get married, but Billy pointed out that that idea was foolish: he was in college and only 19; she was in high school and only 16. Billy felt they'd ruin their futures by marrying and refused. Greta wouldn’t let go of the idea, until Billy told her he would never see her again unless she got the abortion. Greta promised to make the appointment.

Erich Aldrich had to undergo open-heart surgery to remove two obstructions in his heart called Bundles of Kent. His surgeon was Colin Wakefield, a pediatric cardiologist from Duke University. Erich's parents, Steve and Carolee, had not been able to establish any rapport with Colin, feeling he was too brusque. Sensing the antagonism towards him, Colin invited Steve to scrub and observe. Steve refused. During the ensuing conversation, Colin revealed he lost his child on the operating table, and thus knew what the Aldriches were going through. Colin rehearsed the surgical team. Finally, it was time. During the surgery, Colin suspected there was a third bundle. They had to stop the pump briefly while Colin used a mapping probe to locate it. Colin found the bundle, then looked up to see Steve in the OR. The Aldriches had been frantic because of the length of the surgery. Colin excised the bundle, and the surgery proceeded to closure. Erich survived.

The success of this delicate and unusual surgery had brought great publicity to the hospital. Aware that Colin's presence as a staff member could allow him to add a top-rate pediatric unit to Hope, Matt offered Colin a position. Matt's son, Mike Powers, was furious that Matt had made the offer, as Mike knew his girlfriend Sara Dancy was once in love with Colin. Matt pointed out that he couldn’t let his son's love life dictate policy decisions at Hope. Sara and Colin had met from time to time. Sara told sister Nola Aldrich that she had spent two years getting over Colin, but his presence had her on the verge of dredging up those suppressed emotions. Although Sara had strong feelings for Mike, she had refused to marry him, pointing out that she was enjoying her independence, after having been taken care of all her life, first by her parents, then the Peace Corps, then her parents again. Nola told husband Jason that she thougt Sara was going to be hurt.

Tom and MJ Carroll had worked together to overcome Tom's child abuse syndrome. They sought help through Parents Anonymous, and Tom had come to understand and overcome his problem. He was working for the state education board on a research project, which kept him away from MJ a lot, but the job would soon end. Steve asked the possibility of his returning to teaching - Tom had given it up, not trusting himself -, and Tom admitted he might be ready to give it another try.

Matt and Maggie reconciled physically.

Nola Aldrich was enjoying the social stream her mother-in-law was trying to introduce her into. Jason refused to see the importance of all the socializing, but his mother Mona Croft insisted it was important to his career. Mona also suggested it was a little difficult to introduce Nola into things, as many of the social lions knew Nola's background. - Nola was the daughter of Mona's former housekeeper. - Jason accepted the socializing because it made Nola happy. During a party planned by Mona, socializer Hugh McClosky asked Jason to run for the state supreme court.

Billy accompanied Greta to see Dr. Partnell at the free clinic. Despite her fantasies about forming a family with Billy and their baby, Greta agreed to an abortion. Both Greta and Billy were shocked when Dr. Partnell informed Greta she had to have her parents' signature for the abortion, since she was underage. Greta put off telling Maggie, who had been invited to Washington to testify regarding needs of inner-city health care facilities. Greta told Maggie that what was bothering her could wait until Maggie returned in a couple of weeks.

Mike reiterated his proposal to Sara, who promised an answer in two weeks. Colin revealed to the Aldriches his child died as the result of an auto accident. Sara told Colin she had no intention of becoming involved again, as he's still married. Doreen Aldrich, Jason’s ex-wife, realized that Colin was living in the same building as she was.

Virginia Dancy was sad when she and Barney lost their chance at buying the candy store they were hoping to acquire. Nola allowed Mona to turn a party to celebrate Nola and Jason's marriage into a social event. Nola agreed not to invite her family. Jason was reluctant to attend, finding the guest list contained names of people he definitely didn’t admire.

The Edge of Night

Written by: Henry Slesar

Produced by: Erwin Nicholson

As an unofficial police decoy, red-headed Deborah Saxon had been captured by a deranged cop — who was also the Block Street Murderer! Officer Vinnie Ryerson's psychopathic personality emerged when he grabbed Deborah, sounding off that as a red-head, she was not human; all redheads were tramps. It was in their blood. He was helping the human race by getting rid of redhead garbage. Detective Steve Guthrie found him and talked to him as Vinnie pointed his gun at Deborah's head. Deborah's partner in the stakeout, Calvin, jumped Vinnie from behind deflecting the gunshot aimed at Steve. Case solved! Calvin received a verbal slap on the wrist by Chief Marceau for involving Deborah, then a promotion to join Steve in the ranks of detective.

Deborah’s success in police work had placed her in the Monticello limelight. Her father, Tony Saxon, also a wellknown – political - figure about town, was furious at the risk Deborah put on her own life. She placated him quickly by asserting to his new wife, Geraldine Whitney, if he was one-tenth the husband that he was a father, Geraldine had herself one terrific guy.

Tony’s newest associate was not the devotee Deborah was to the mighty politician. Raney Cooper had anonymously tipped Steve about a bank account under an alias which belonged to Tony. He continued his leak of information, notifying Steve the abundance of money that passed through this account was transferred to Swiss accounts. Steve questioned Tony about any impropriety in this matter, and by doing so, alienated Deborah and put a halt to their romantic relationship.

Steve rapidly rebounded from Deborah's rejection and made a date with cute and cuddly Maggie, secretary - and occasional date - to Logan Swift, Monticello's swinging Assistant DA.

Raney turned the tables on a would-be mugger, recognizing him as a former hit-man for the syndicate. Grateful Raney didn't kill him, this ex-con, Chip, took $100 from Raney - out of Tony's cash box - in return for a favor. Raney assured Chip he was going straight as Tony's employee because some day he hoped he would be Tony's son-in-law.

The facts April Cavanaugh wanted so desperately to keep from her fiance Draper Scott were common knowledge to all who knew and loved April. She was disturbed that Draper talked to her cardiologist, Dr. Bernham, and found out her chances are 50/50 that she would live through her heart surgery. Anxious to get on with her life unburdened by a marred heart, April requested immediate surgery. A constant irritant to April had been her sister-in-law Denise. Denise was panicky because April was told the truth about Katharine Dane's death. - April met Charlie, the hospital electrician. He recognized her from the days he worked at the Claremont Hospital where her brother Miles was Chief-of-Staff. Charlie swore he was blamed by Denise, a nurse at the Claremont, for faulty wires on the patient call board. He insisted Denise let Katharine, Miles' flirtatious patient, die by ignoring her call for help. Charlie was fired because of the cut wires she created for her alibi. –

Before April’s surgery, Denise sneaked into April's room and threatened her. If she breathed one word about Katharine to Miles, it wouldn’t matter if April died on the operating table, as Denise had the power to snuff out April's life right then. April had Miles and Draper guessing when the surgical nurse reported that while under anesthetic, April mumbled the name "Katharine Dane." The surgery was a success and April survived! While April's loved ones celebrated her recovery, Denise had plans to curtail it. Using a miserable headache as an excuse to get her hands on medication, and failing to get it from Miles, Denise scored with her father, who rewarded her dramatics in the headache department with a renewed prescription for Venetrol - lethal if taken in large doses -. Still heavily sedated, April was confused, thinking Denise's threat was a dream. Denise returned and confirmed April's doubts. She asserted the sooner Katharine Dane became a memory, the better off they would ALL be. April had to solemnly promise her silence to Denise. With April's word on her side, Denise tracked down Charlie.

Having failed to bribe Charlie for his silence — he ripped up her check — Denise neatly solved the problem by slipping her Venetrol into Charlie's coffee. She spied on Miles and Nicole sharing a drink together. When Nicole exited, Denise took her place at Miles's table. She informed him she would not leave the comforts of her home to live with Miles in Monticello. This, however, didn’t give Miles his freedom; she wouldn’t allow Miles to see Nicole ever again. Miles retorted it was Denise's choice to live apart, and he would do what he wanted and see whoever he wanted. Before Denise could offer her usual sarcastic objections, Miles' co-workers at the clinic Dave and Tree came in. They were obviously upset by the death of a patient — Charlie Richmond. When the coincidence hit Miles, Denise staged a convenient fainting spell then invited herself to spend the night with Miles.

Miles tried to connect the recurrence of Charlie with April's mentioning Katherine Dane. He questioned if Charlie's termination was justified, then found the Venetrol bottle in Denise's purse with one pill remaining!

Nicole Drake and her newborn son Adam were adjusting well to their new life in Monticello. Nicole's baby nurse, Mrs. Goodman, spoke freely about the obvious nervousness in Nicole prior to seeing Miles again. This would be their first meeting since Nicole left the Claremont, where she and Miles spent five months waiting out her high-risk pregnancy. Miles commented that becoming Nicole's neighbor was one of the good things that had happened to him lately. His footsteps barely had time to fade when Denise was retracing them. She made no bones about her jealous possessiveness and demanded that since Miles was no longer Nicole's doctor, there was no need to keep in touch. She reported back to Miles that she just visited his "Monticello Attraction," minus her warnings, of course. - While Nicole slept after Adam's birth, Miles admitted his love to her. - Together again in April's hospital room, Miles confided to Nicole "when happiness isn't continuing, there's no other choice but to have it end." He confirmed there was nothing left between Denise and him. Nicole wanted to evade the topic, but when April's request that they kissed each other since she couldn’t do it herself, turned into a lover's kiss from Miles, Nicole responded passionately.

Miles later confided to to Dave he was not sure he wanted Denise. Dave enlightened him that Miles was obviously in love with Nicole, and she obviously felt the same way.

Nicole was giving serious consideration to the job offer as a TV commentator for consumer protection, passed on to her by Nancy Karr. She passed the audition test and was hired at WMON TV.

Raven Jamison had earned the title of "lemon in the garden of love" from her former lover Logan. Logan came to his senses when he realized that even though she had Kevin for a husband, and Logan himself as an extra-curricular lover, she still had designs on Draper.

Raven shook up April's faith in Draper's committment by calling his request for marriage a "deathbed proposal." Draper reassured April his intentions were lovingly sincere and they set a wedding date. Raven tried every excuse in the book to postpone the April 7th wedding.

Geraldine Saxon found it necessary to correct Raven's criticism of Kevin's "weakness" to "gentleness." Kevin had strong views that the Crime Commission was looking the other way when it came to crime in high places. He threatened to publish his opinions and got kicked off the Commission. Without that position, Raven's expectations for Kevin's political career – and hers as a politician's wife - were all washed up. Raven used vivacious persuasion to convince Kevin to rip up his written report for the press.

Tony forbade Deborah to take the Police Academy Entrance Examination, then Raney advised him that he should worry about trouble that could arise from the resignation of Morris P. Jackson, manager of his uniform company.

For Richer, For Poorer

Written by: Tom King

Produced by: Paul Rauch

Viola Brewster told Jason Saxon that if he didn't stop his affair with her daughter Laurie Hamilton, she would use her influence with Edith Cushing to have him fired from Cushing and Sons. Knowing that position for Laurie in a wealthy family was important for Viola, Jason suggested that Desmond would learn of the affair. Laurie was thrilled when Desmond found a lovely home and agreed to put a deposit on it. She felt she had always been under her mother's thumb and this would give her some freedom. While Laurie and Desmond talked of moving from her home, Viola clutched her chest in pain. She refused to go to the hospital and the doctor was called to the house. He prescribed rest for Viola's symptoms when tests showed nothing. Laurie was frantic and told Jason that she had to stop seeing him for her mother's health. Jason suggested that she made sure that Viola was really on the verge of a heart attack. Returning home, Laurie found a medical book with the symptoms of heart attack underlined and her mother up and around. Laurie confronted her mother and cried, explaining that she was in love with Jason and couldn’t give him up. Eager to keep her daughter's marriage intact, Viola agreed to help keep her affair a secret. Laurie wanted to bring everything into the open, but Jason said they couldn’t then because of her career.

Connie Ferguson had succeeded in stopping Bill Sutton's marriage to Megan Cushing, but had failed to get him to marry her. She got pregnant deliberately and then had resorted to a suicide attempt with plans for Bill to find her shortly after ingesting sleeping pills. Lee Ferguson, privy to her plans, returned to find that Bill didn't read her note and Connie was unconscious. Connie developped a respiratory infection and then went into premature labor. Bill was by Connie's side in the delivery room to calm her when she went into cardiac arrest. Her heart was started again and she gave birth to a son who was whisked away to the premie nursery.

After the birth of her baby, Connie's condition worsened. Trying to give her something to live for, Bill proposed and told her he would make plans for an immediate wedding. George Kimball set about clearing all the obstacles.

Ellie Kimball mentionned to Dr. Bailin that he probably was happy that Connie had the baby instead of going through with the abortion he had set up for her. He said she had never planned an abortion. George happened to be around the corner when, in a moment of guilt, Lee confessed to Amy Cushing, Connie's best friend, that they had planned the suicide attempt to scare Bill. George let this slip to Ellie and then had to convince her that it would be best for everyone if Bill was not told.

After a shortened ceremony, Josie gave Connie a locket that belonged to her mother. At Bill's apartment, the wedding party, minus Connie, celebrated with a glass of wine and discussed readying the apartment for Connie and the baby. Ellie was preoccupied and left early. On her way home, she confronted Amy with Lee's confession, but learned nothing.

While at Mildred Quinn's, Megan Cushing saw Paco get into a car across the street. She was convinced that the "Savage Avengers" were being used by adult criminals because the young gangs wouldn’t be sent to prison. - The man who picked up Paco was Lee Ferguson. - One evening Megan and Edith surprised Paco in their kitchen. Megan felt Paco could have gotten out without being seen, and was asking for help. Edith tried to get Megan to give up writing articles on street gangs and enlisted Austin's help. She agreed to be cautious. Turk, leader of the Savage Avengers, cautionned Paco about seeing Megan, saying he was only supposed to scare her. Turk confessed that he killed Donny Quinn as an example and didn’t want her snooping around or writing any more articles. Paco asked Megan to find a safe place to meet.

Bentley told his brother Jason that Connie and Bill were getting married in the hospital. Austin was there to hear the news and planned to tell Megan later himself so the shock wasn't too great. As soon as they left, Jason rushed to the magazine to see Megan, but she was out.

Megan thought that Paco might agree to meet at Bill's apartment since he had already met him. She heard that Bill was still at the hospital and went there to get his permission for use of his apartment. She overheard the minister congratulating Bill on his marriage. Bill tried to reason with her, but Megan was too distraught.

Edith Cushing and Roger Hamilton felt that Austin had been doing an excellent job since he had been at Cushing and Sons. They agreed that although he had been able to attract clients from Jason and those who had left the firm since Richard's death, he would be more effective as a vice-president. Austin accepted the promotion and told Amy the news.

Amy went to Barbara Manners to ask why Austin was given a promotion when he was only to stay with the firm until Jason was stopped from taking over the firm. Barbara said that Austin earned it, and he seemed to be enjoying his work. Amy was sorry after she said she didn’t want Austin to wind up the same kind of man his father was. She apologized. Barbara asked if Austin really wanted to be an artist or if she wanted him to be one. - Barbara was the mistress of Richard Cushing, Austin's father. –

Connie told Lee that she would really kill herself if Bill ever found out that she had planned the suicide attempt. Amy explained to her that Ellie knew and her only chance was to tell Bill herself so that she could explain how desperate she was. Connie was sure that Bill would never forgive her if he found out. Amy blamed Ellie when the doctor expressed concern over Connie's depression and extracted a promise from Ellie that she would remain silent.

Lee – who was eyeing Tessa Saxton – gave Bentley a job in his garage, but then rushed him out because he was expecting a delivery from the Avengers. Turk was annoyed that he had to wait until the stolen car was sold for their share.

Desmond remarked to Viola that he had thought Laurie's restlessness was due to concern over Viola's health, but as she was better, Laurie continued not to be herself. Viola suggested that Laurie needed a vacation to rest and that it might be better if he set it all up before telling Laurie. She was sure that she could stay with Edith during their absence and her attack was only a warning that she had to take it easy. George was agreeable to taking over Desmond's clients while he was away in exchange for the use of his office. Viola continued to cover for Laurie, hoping that she would come to her senses and Desmond needed never know of her infatuation with Jason. Jason also continued to remain discreet, unwilling to have their affair become common knowledge.

Austin and Amy discussed her talk with Barbara. He told her that he really enjoyed stockbrokerage and wanted to put off painting for a while. Amy agreed to support his decision as she knew he actually enjoyed his work.

General Hospital

Written by: Douglas Marland

Produced by: Gloria Monty

Dr. Jeff Webber arrived at Heather's apartment as Lana was holding Heather with a letter opener poised at her throat, trying to force her out through an open window. Jeff couldn’t reach Lana without risking Heather's life but he told her he knew all about her past and addressed the Lisa part of her character. As Lisa struggled to emerge, Lana passed out - the fugue state between periods of dominance of different personalities. - Heather saw the transformation as Lisa woke, terrified at what had nearly happened. Lisa was hospitalized at General and Peter made arrangements for long term therapy at Long Island Sanitarium with high hopes for Lisa's eventual recovery.

Lamont Corbin had come through the delicate surgery performed by Dr. Mark Dante, who noted in his diary that after Corbin regained consciousness and spoke to Katie, he put Corbin's chances for recovery at 98% positive. David Hamilton had been hanging around General Hospital all that day with a trumped-up story of wanting to see Mark about some pain he was experiencing and, noting the information in Mark's personal diary, prepared to pass it on to Cates.

The following day, Dr. Steve Hardy was beseiged by calls from members of the board of Corbin Limited, as rumors of Corbin's imminent death were published by newspapers and wire services. The stock syndicate David Hamilton was supplying information to was buying up stock in small batches, relying on Hamilton's information that Corbin's condition was stable, the opposite of the rumors they had planted. Laura Webber had seen Cates and believed he was David's new employer in an advertising firm. Later, as Cates paid off Hamilton and prepared to leave town, Lesley called at David's apartment and was told the same thing.

Lesley had learned from David that Monica was the doctor who prescribed birth control pills for Laura. She confronted Monica at Alan Quartermaine's apartment while Alan was out of the room and took her to task for interfering in the lives of the Webber family "out of jealousy." She warned Monica that if she didn’t stay completely out of Laura's life, she would go to Steve Hardy and report Monica's unprofessional conduct in prescribing the pills for a girl of Laura's age without a complete gynecological examination. In the light of Monica's past record this was an effective threat against Monica's ambitions concerning the expanded Cardiac section. When Lesley left, Alan asked who called and Monica told him the maid wanted to know if they wanted the beds turned down. Alan told her he had heard everything and believed she lied to him because Lesley's belief that she was not over Rick was correct. Monica accused Alan of playing games and trying to trap her and told him she intended to move out permanently.

Barbara « Bobbie » Spencer’s actions had made it clear that she was not interested in Darren, Scotty's roommate. She had learned that his personal ambitions did not include sharing in his father's lucrative business, When Darren realized this, he walked out on her. Barbara had helped Laura prepare for a date with Scotty by restyling her hair and make-up and lending her a dress. Scotty was taken aback at Laura's appearance and refused to take her out to a night club, so Laura went home saying only that she had quarreled with Scotty. The following morning she told Lesley she had decided that she should be seeing more of people her own age. She went to see Barbara after refusing to talk to Scotty that day and saw him in Bobbie's room, drinking wine with her. She turned and left. When she called Monica and asked to see her, Monica refused to talk with her. As a last resort she phoned David's apartment but Lesley was there to help David with some decorating ideas and he too dismissed her. Laura then phoned Barbara Vining.

Dr. Gail Adamson had met Maria Schuler who had flown in from Zurich with her attorney, claiming she worked with Gail's late husband Greg on a manuscript for his most successful book, "Always Spring," but never received credit or royalties. In Lee Baldwin's office, Gail acknowledged Greg's signature on some documents setting up a trust fund from which royalties were to be paid to the woman, but insisted on seeing proof which Miss Schuler claimed to have in the form of original notes, both hers and Greg's. Privately, Miss Schuler tried to convince Gail to accept the evidence she had presented so far, saying that she wished to spare Gail unwelcome revelations in the notes. Gail refused and both Lee and Miss Schuler's attorneys agreed to meet again the following day when the notes were available. Gail called Monica, who had made up her quarrel with Alan at his apartment in the same hotel in which Maria was staying, and told her what had happened. When Monica appeared at Miss Schuler's door some time later, she was told that she was expected and that she – Monica – was exactly as Greg described her.

Lamont Corbin had quickly gone from the solicitous husband who urged his wife Katie to get away for a time from the hospital atmosphere to insisting that nurse Jessie Brewer track Katie down and "bring her back here where she belongs." He sent for Steve Hardy and Mark to announce that he wished Steve to report in an upcoming meeting of the hospital board that he intended to donate $5,000,000 to General Hospital. Katie met with Mark and told him that the money wasn't a gift, that Lamont didn’t give away anything without a good reason. She said she was sure Lamont knew about them; he sensed what was going on. When Mark asked if she was frightened, she replied she was because she had seen Lamont in action. Mark answered that one thing wasn't going to change ... she was still Mrs. Corbin. He said he intended to make things as easy as he could to pick up his life after Katie and Corbin left. Katie told him she had no intention of leaving the hospital with Lamont. She said she did not intend to go on being Lamont's possession, even a prized one. She intended to divorce Corbin when he was well enough. Mark admitted he loved Katy but told her that Lamont's convalescence had a long way to go and warned her not to speak about their plans even to Gina.

Maria Schuler had made it clear to Monica that the notes she intended to produce to verify her claim would make it clear that Greg and Monica had an affair.

When Alan noticed Monica's nervousness and agitation she refused to tell him what was the matter, but said she needed $50,000 - the sum Maria Schuler had asked to turn the papers over to Monica and return to Zurich -. Alan told Monica he would get the money but there would be a delay and offered his personal check. When it was clear that only cash was acceptable to Miss Schuler, Monica stole the envelope containing the notes while Maria was at dinner. Miss Schuler assured her attorney Herbert Berman that she was not so foolish as to keep only one copy of the notes and that she had a second set in safekeeping at the hotel and one in Zurich.

Monica was confident that the problem had been solved and offers to attend the meeting with Gail, giving Rick very little notice to replace her as his assistant in some scheduled surgery. When Maria Schuler cooly produced the notes and Lee read them, he asked Gail to step into another office for a moment and glared at Monica as he passed. He told Gail that it was his recommendation that she honor Miss Schuler's claim as she could readily see that the handwriting was Greg's and to do so without reading them. Gail couldn’t accept this and stepped back into the room where the papers were handed to her and she began to read. As Monica got up to leave, Miss Schuler stopped her.

Laura had left Port Charles with some of her clothing and without leaving a note for Lesley. Finally Lesley got a call from Barbara Vining to tell her that Laura had phoned her and then appeared at her door in Buffalo. She said that Laura did not want her to get in touch with Les and recommended that Lesley wait for further word. Barbara and her husband Jason had been divorced and their daughter Amy was living with Jason - the man Laura believed to be her father, just as she believed Barbara Vining, who raised her, to be her mother -. Barbara was living with a musician and there was very little money to spare. She told Laura that if she stayed, even for a time, she would have to help out. After Barbara went to the store to put together a meal, Laura phoned Lesley and asked her to drive up and take her home. David drove Lesley up to Buffalo and while he and Laura were getting some things Laura had left with Barbara before going to live with Lesley into David's car, Barbara told Lesley that she responded to her maternal feelings for Laura instinctively but she wanted Les to tell Laura that her call had opened old wounds. When Lesley relayed the message to Laura at a roadside restaurant, Laura said she wouldn't take advantage of Barbara again. Lesley told Laura that when she was going through her room looking for clues to where Laura might have gone, she found her cigarettes and warned her of the danger of smoking for someone on the pill. Laura reassured Lesley, telling her she no longer smoked and as they got up to join David, who was getting the car gassed up, Laura concealed the elongated purse designed to hold cigarettes in her bag with a scarf.

Bobbie Spencer had made good time with Scotty in Laura's absence and they had been sleeping together with Bobbie already suggesting to Scotty that Lee would probably help out with the finances if Scotty were to get a place of his own without Darren as a roommate. When Darren asked about Scotty's break with Laura, he learned that Laura had left town and Scotty told him that from the evening Laura arrived overdressed and made-up, he felt he didn't really know her.

Bobbie had told Lesley when Laura was first missing that Laura had been spending quite some time visiting with David Hamilton at his apartment. Lesley took the information only as an indication of how little she knew about Laura's friends, David among them. On the way up to Buffalo in David's new sportscar - the first fruits of his Lamont Corbin deal -, Lesley remarked to David that she was grateful that Laura decided to come home and she felt she had to see to it that Laura never wanted to leave again ... no matter what it took.

Diana Taylor felt uncomfortable with Heather nursing to PJ as she noticed how attached she had become to her adopted son. Heather couldn’t conceal her pain when she was informed.

Gina Dante finally told Gary Lansing she didn’t feel like marrying him. They reconciled on condition that he did not restort to ambitious career pranks.

Guiding Light

Written by: Bridget & Jerome Dobson

Produced by: Allen Potter

Ten years ago while Bert and Bill Bauer were apparently resolving some of their marital problems, Bert was unaware that Bill was having an affair with Simone during his business trips in Switzerland. Bill and Simone parted so Bill could fulfill the obligations of raising Mike and Ed with Bert. Simone married Victor Kincaid, later writing Bill of her unhappiness with him. During a visit to Simone, Bill learned from Victor that Hillary, Simone's first born, was Bill's child. Bill was torn between his desire to help Simone, who was in a desperate situation with Hillary because of Victor's brutality, and his responsibilities in Springfield. When an unforeseen tragedy occurred, Bill thought he had the answer to all his problems. During a stopover in Washington, Bill did not reboard a plane that later crashed. With his Springfield family thinking he died in the crash, Bill, after a relapse into alcoholism lasting almost a year, chose to live with Simone and Hillary. His solution was not infallible, however, as Mike fortuitiously discovered his father living in Vancouver as Bill Moray. Bill kept his promise to Mike and came to Springfield to confess all to Bert and Ed.

The initial shock of Bill's return had settled with Bert, but his explanations did not pardon his actions, Bill being the first to admit it. Bert asserted to him all the reasons in the world couldn’t change what they felt when he died. He had destroyed her memories. She asked if he had told her everything; he hesitantly assured her he had.

Ed had learned about his father's "return from the dead" at the tail end of a chain of divulged secrets. Ed found it incredulous and was frantic to see his father. Just seconds before Ed tracked Bill down at his hotel, Mike forestalled the confrontation. Bert and Mike wanted Ed to wait until Bill could reveal his reasons for desertion himself, but Ed's impatience forced them to explain about his "Vancouver family." Thoroughly appalled by his father's conduct, Ed ranted it would have been better if he had died! Seeking consolation, Ed visited Rita Stapleton. - She knew about Bill as she was the first one to discover his true identity. Because she had hurt Ed so badly in the past by previous secrets she kept from him, she fought her better judgment about concealing this also. Bill begged for her silence. - Rita explained her situation, sorry for not telling Ed sooner. He was disappointed but blamed Bill, resenting the position he put Rita in. Rita was greatly relieved it was all out in the open and told Ed she knew Bill had suffered terribly for what he had done. Ed was calmed by Bert's strength in overcoming this sadness. She remembered the love in their family and believed she had a right to that memory. Simone supported Bill, reminding him he had earned Hillary's love. - Hillary still did not know Bill was her real father. –

Meanwhile, Bill had missed his confrontation with Ed because he was meeting with Max Chapman, editor of the Journal. He was trying to dissuade him from printing his picture and what Max claimed was "the biggest human interest story to hit Springfield in a decade." Mike was the one who got an extra 48 hours from Max before the story was released.

Bert called to warn Bill of Ed's intended encounter. Simone intercepted the call. The few words the two women spoke were heavy with strain. Simone left Bill to tell her son Paul the story first before it made headlines. Ed, unlike Mike, was extremely eloquent in his disapproval of his father. He sumed up his verbal assault that Bill was a coward with no guts and he wished he'd never come back. As far as Ed was concerned, he didn’t care if there were untold reasons - which Bert and Mike made allowances for -; Ed had disowned his father! Bill pondered to himself "it's not over yet, there are so many things they don't know." Bill left Springfield, but his presence lingered on as the headlines ignited a flurry of curiosity in Springfield. Bert's main concern then was the rift this had caused in their family because Ed and Mike couldn’t agree on each other's attitudes towards Bill.

Although Rita’s birthday started with celebration and good wishes from her friends and family, Rita's only enemy, Georgene Granger, put an abrupt end to the day's festivities. Rita's sister Eve, recently turned blind, delivered her gift to Rita's apartment then remained there to nap in Rita's bedroom. Obsessed with the ultimate revenge because Rita received the inheritance from Georgene's father-in-law, Georgene used the key she had duplicated to enter Rita's apartment. While Evie slept, Georgene drenched the furnishings with paint thinner and set the apartment ablaze. Eve awoke from the smell of smoke but couldn’t escape. Her ex-fiance Ben McFarren and her mother were on the way to Rita's when Ben saw the smoke. He barged into the burning room and pulled Eve out. Eve regained consciousness at the hospital and was deeply touched that it was Ben who saved her life. - Due to her blindness, Eve broke their engagement. She didn't want to burden Ben with her handicap. They were still very much in love and Ben was not giving up on a future with Eve. –

Rita suspected Georgene as the arsonist when the fire chief reported a deliberate attempt was made to start the fire. Enraged that Eve almost died because of Georgene's maliciousness, Rita faced Georgene with her accusations. Georgene made a feeble attempt to deny it, and Rita threatened to go to the police. When Rita left, Georgene was scared and moved out, but vowed to herself she was not finished with Rita yet.

Rita’s own investigation of Georgene uncovered the fact she was not at work the day of the fire and she had Rita's unlisted phone number in her desk drawer at Cedars. Georgene was panicking and called her Texas lawyer for money but didn’t give out her hotel address. He forewarned Mike sensing Georgene was tense and angry — maybe going off the deep end. Mike moved fast, notifying the police to put a watch on the post office where Georgene's money would be wired.

Alan Spaulding was slowly realizing that he couldn’t buy his wife's happiness. He noted that her new job as a photographer for the Springfield Ecology Association had put a smile on her face that all his money and gifts couldn't do. - Elizabeth didn’t know Alan made a healthy donation to the Association which practically guaranteed Elizabeth's job. - Alan's confidence was jolted when journalist Brandy Shelloe revealed her knowledge of the "bribe" and if Alan's donation was to remain anonymous, he would have to grant her an interview.

When Alan’s business affairs preempted their lovemaking, Elizabeth escaped with her disappointment to Jackie Marler's. During a confidential chat, Elizabeth expressed to Jackie how the closest relationship was between a mother and her child. Jackie knew the irony of Elizabeth's statement but suffered silently through it. - Discovering her husband Justin was having an affair with Brandy, Jackie led him to believe she aborted her pregnancy and divorced him as punishment. She instead gave up her son and Alan and Elizabeth's son Phillip was Jackie's child, but only Jackie knew this. - Later at home, Elizabeth and Alan discussed exactly where they stood with each other. Her comments about how she hoped sharing a child would bring them closer caused Alan to recall the day he learned that their expected child was dead, just three weeks before he was to be born. The doctor and Alen kept this news from Elizabeth, as it would have devastated her, and let her believe the child Jackie gave birth to was Elizabeth's child.

Brandy managed to disrupt both Jackie and Elizabeth in one day. During their cut-throat conversation in Alan's office, Brandy couldn’t resist mentioning she and Justin shared the same apartment building. She also recommended Jackie read her new book soon to become a movie — it was based on real life and Justin just happened to be one of the charac-ters  ... !

Continuing her little game, Brandy slyly let it slip about Alan's donation and Elizabeth picked it up immediately. Elizabeth protested Alan's interference in her attempt "to be her own person" by quitting the job he bought for her. Alen labelled her actions childish with no concern for Elizabeth's convictions. She gave him the cold shoulder; he retaliated by leaving the house, then went to Brandy's apartment to reprimand her. He accepted her apology but still forbade her to print an article about him.

Dr. Justin Marler had tried in vain to win Sara McIntyre's love. His confession that none of his life was important until his time alone with Sara receivds a passionate kiss from her, but not her promise of marriage. He proclaimed how tragic it would be to lose what they havd together. Sara couldn’t forget the hurt Justin inflicted on her when in medical school he broke their engagement to marry Jackie. He sensed her feelings at the time had to do with her feelings then. She didn’t want to ruin their friendship. Justin interjected they couldn't go on with the relationship as it was; he wanted more.

His frustrations over Sara were interfering with Justin's responsibilities as Cedars' Chief of Cardiology. They had to confer over an emergency medical case. Sara could see the discontent in Justin but tried to overlook it. Justin had opted for immediate surgery, and Sara backed his decision. With all vital signs positive, Justin continued from the initial surgery to an additional heart valve replacement. The patient died for no obvious reasons and Justin blamed himself. Sara jumped in, assuring Justin he had no control over the failure.

Justin and Emmett had a conflict over the Bradley case. Emmett felt Justin was overwhelmed by too many responsibilities resulting in his incompetence. Justin welcomed the review by the Board giving himself the opportunity for defense, but couldn’t conceal his disappointment that Emmett was voted to replace him as Head of Cardiac Surgery. Even Brandy gave him the benefit of the doubt, asserting he was a good man and judged himself too hard. Justin swallowed his pride and offered Emmett congratulations and a trade to his administrative office.

Ben would teach at the Springfield Institute for the Blind and Eve would study Braille there. Viola marveled how Eve, with her blindness, was showing the way to her family.

Holly told Peter Chapman she needed time to get over her feelings for her ex-husband, Ed Bauer.

Love of Life

Written by: Gabrielle Upton

Produced by: Darryl Hickman

As Charles Lamont had been given legal custody of Felicia's son, he could give serious thought to the welfare of the child. After considering everything, he told Eddie that he could adopt the boy. - Eddie was the baby's natural father, but because Felicia was still married to Charles, he was the legal father. –

Eddie Aleata had spent much time with his lawyer Dorrie Patton while trying to acquire custody of his son. He asked Dorrie to bring her children to visit, but she declined. Dorrie was a widow, trying to raise her children and afraid of a close relationship with any man.

Charles’ baby nurse, Mary Owens, had decided to stay in Rosehill, taking a job at the hospital. She found a studio apartment, which Lynn Henderson envied. Mary finally confided to Lynn that she broke an engagement and was then looking for the man, whom she believed to be in Rosehill. Because he was not listed in the phone book, she placed an ad in the personals column of the newspaper, telling the man – Michael Blake - that she was in town.

Cal and Rick Latimer had finally decided to bare their souls to one another and then understood their love and goals for life. Rick arranged to take time off to take Cal to Europe for two weeks. Although their reservations were mixed up, they found the time alone delightful.

Mia Marriott was driving her friend Wendy Hayes mad with her on-again, off-again affection for Ben Harper. Just when Mia was ready to give up, Ben would get upset about his ex-wife Betsy and turn to Mia for comfort. Ben always made it clear that any intimate relationship they had couldn’t be seri-ous. Mia tried her best to hide her feelings, but frequently Ben aroused her jealousy.

Bruce Sterling’s inability to make love to his wife or to discuss it was driving a wedge between them. Van was worried that she was no longer attractive to him. When Meg overheard a conversation between them, she suggested another woman might be the problem and offered Van a shoulder to cry on. Dr. Andrew Marriott, Bruce's friend and chess partner, suggested that Bruce see a doctor because he appeared to be anemic. Bruce confirmed this and had to concede that Andrew's suspicion that he had aplastic anemia was true. Andrew tried to convince Bruce that Van had to know, but didn’t succeed any more than Dr. Joe Cusack did. Van was hurt when the topic of remarriage in case of a death of one spouse came up, and Bruce said he would remarry and expected Van to do the same.

Andrew saw that Van was depressed and disturbed because of Bruce's recent behavior. He gave Bruce an ultimatum: either Bruce told Van or he had to. Bruce was upset that Van confided in Meg and assured her that there was no other woman in his life. He took her upstairs to bed, and while holding her in his arms, he told her that he was ill and had seen Joe. His illness had been diagnosed as aplastic anemia. He had to tell her that he was terminal. Van quietly cried, trying to reject this news.

Facing the truth, Van visited Joe to find out everything she could about Bruce's condition. Joe explained that usually the chances were 50-50, but because in the type Bruce had they didn't know the cause of the anemia, the chances were 80-20. Van told Joe that she refused to accept this. She had to give Bruce hope that he was going to live, not only for him, but for herself as well. She admitted to the family that Bruce was anemic and she would be making a special effort to see that he stayed rested. Van agreed that he couldn’t run for mayor again this year, but wouldn’t accept that he wouldn’t be there to run the following year.

After the District Attorney was convinced that Ian Russell had an ulcer attack which caused him to stumble and fall down the unfinished elevator shaft, he arranged for Arlene Lovett's release from prison. Arlene took the advice of her mother and lawyer to tell Tom that she was carrying Ian Russell's child. Tom Crawford was full of marriage plans when he came to take her home, making it harder for Arlene to tell him. Tom, of course, was stunned by the news. Trying to take Tom off the hook, Arlene told him that the marriage was called off. Recovering a little, Tom told Arlene that they would still be married. Tom's roommate and friend, Joe Cusack, felt Tom was making a mistake. He said Tom needn't feel duty-bound and should not marry Arlene if he had any doubts.

Arlene told Carrie that she had come to the conclusion that the only possible solution was to give the baby up for adoption. Learning of this from Carrie, Tom rushed to Dorrie's office to stop Arlene. He assured her that the baby was no problem and set February 18th as their wedding day. He arranged to take a week off from the hospital so they could go on a honeymoon.

Tom ran into Ben, who was entertaining Susie Ryker. Tom could see that Ben missed his daughter, who was in London with Betsy. Ben said he didn't realize that you could love a child so much that belonged to someone else. Tom thanked him for this bit of wisdom.

Arlene was still having doubts on her wedding day. Carrie tried to stop her from reading a letter from Betsy that asked if Arlene and Tom still saw one another since Tom hadn't mentioned her in his letters. Convinced that Tom was too ashamed of her to write his family of their marriage, Arlene called Ray Slater. Seeing that she was determined to leave town, Ray agreed to take her.

Vanessa’s unhappiness caused Meg to expound her theories on the wandering husband. When she could no longer listen to her, Van broke down, telling Meg that Bruce was dying of a disease called aplastic anemia and she was having trouble accepting it. Meg forgot her sarcasm and held Van while she cried silently.

Charles was feeling self-pity as he had given up the baby. Bruce gave him something else to think of when he explained that he was dying and was depending on Charles to keep an eye on Van after his death. Bruce said he had made financial arrangements, but would like Charles to help him think of a way to ease the loneliness he knew would engulf Van. After hearing Bruce's problems, Charles felt very glad to be alive.

Bruce’s insistence that Van learn about all the household things he had taken care of for years depressed Van. Andrew suggested that she make light of what Bruce was doing to prove that she felt he would be around for a long time. Van promised to try her best.

Tom was miserable when Carrie broke the news to him that Arlene had left because she felt she wasn't really wanted. Joe felt a little responsible since he had tried to stop Tom. He assured Tom that he could tell Arlene that he really did want the baby when she returned.

Ray told Arlene that the baby would need a father and he would like her to consider marrying him. When she said that it would be stretching friendship a little too far to ask that of him, Ray admitted that he had loved her for a long time. Arlene agreed to apply for a marriage license and use the three-day waiting period to think it over. At the end of the second day Arlene agreed, telling Ray that he had to realize that she still loved Tom.

One Life to Live

Written by: Gordon Russell

Produced by: Joseph Stuart

After taking up residence at Ina Hopkins' boarding house, Melinda Cramer got a job in a sports equipment store. Peter Janssen patronized the shop and made a date for dinner with Melinda. At Tony's Place with Peter, Melinda overheard Dorian's reservation confirmed and managed to avoid being seen by Dorian, who wondered aloud to Edwina Lewis who her "competition" with Peter was. Marco arranged for "Linda" to try out as a piano player at Tony's Place after she was let go at the store. When Linda insisted that she couldn’t play in the atmosphere of Dorian's old cottage, Marco realized who she was. He went to see Dorian and offered to locate Melinda for $5000. Melinda got the job but both she and Dorian were furious with Marco when he brought Dorian in without warning. Melinda stood her ground and refused to throw up her job and move into Llanfair. The following day, when Linda told Tony Lord of Dorian's threat to close the place, Tony let her know he welcomed a chance to take Dorian on and insisted on a binding contract with options for renewal at an increase.

Brad Vernon was at home, unnerved over an unsuccessful attempt to recover Lana's ring from Cathy - she came home and nearly saw Brad after he lifted a key from Anna's kitchen and got into her house -, when Dorian arrived to accuse him of indifference to business since he got married. She told him his personal reputation - after the inquest into Lana's death - had been damaging to the financial stability of the club and her investment in it. She reminded him that it was collateral against the loan she advanced him and threatened to replace him with someone "hungrier," for instance Marco Dane. Brad had to promise in writing to have his troubles turned around by the end of the month or offer his resignation. Marco, in his turn, was fired as her chauffeur and she told him he could sue her for the $5000 he expected for producing Melinda.

Karen’s voice on tape, reporting Brian Kendall's hit and run, had been broadcast over the local radio stations. Frightened by this and revolted over her compulsive behavior in picking up strange men, she phoned Will Vernon for help. She was unable to tell Will what was troubling her even after he assured her that what she told him was confidential "even if a crime is involved." Karen was unaware that Cathy Lord had seen her with one of her pickups in a local dive, but when Karen volunteered some time at the Free Clinic, she became aware that Cathy was falling in love with Larry.

Vinnie’s surprise party for Wanda had backfired when a second commercial, with Wanda touting uplift bras, replaced the expected beer commercial, before the assembled friends, relatives and Vinnie's boss, Lt. Siever.

Pat Kendall had left the Riley home, insisting on going through Brian's things to dispose of them herself. When Viki had to be delayed in going to help her, she sent Paul Kendall who found a packet of letters among Brian's things, written when Paul was reported dead, and addressed to him, the boy's way of keeping alive the belief that the reports were false. When Pat learned of them, Paul insisted on staying to help her and when Tony finally called Pat, he hung up after hearing Paul's voice.

Edwina Lewis had obtained the promise of a raise from Dorian after her complaints to Joe Riley, of having to do both her own and Paul's work in the period of Kendall's bereavement, met with no sympathy from Joe. Even Dorian was shocked when Edwina tried to get Dorian to fire Pat Kendall by saying she could write Pat's column better. Dorian wondered aloud if she should change the lock on her own office door as there seemed to be no limit to Edwina's arrogance and ambition. She refused by reminding Edwina that Pat's column was a very popular feature and the whole town was aware of her tragedy, to say nothing of incurring Joe Riley's wrath.

Richard Abbott slipped a note to Rebecca under her door and heard sounds of someone in the room when he had been told that Becky had gone out for the evening to a Bingo game with Ina. He went in to find a vase knocked over and a window open, with footprints in the snow as evidence that someone – Marco - made a hasty exit. The police were called in but Ina and Mrs. Lovelace were left to deal with them, as Richard and Becky set off to find Marco. When they discovered him at the Blue Ridge Club and found he was limping badly from a twisted ankle, Richard and Marco began to mix it up and Becky joined in the near riot that ensued. Marco managed to escape before the police took over but Becky and Richard were jailed, awaiting the payment of $1000 bail before they were to be brought up on various charges. Becky was obviously frightened at the thought that her prints had been taken and the possibility of their being checked for identification.

Larry Wolek was about to declare his love for Cathy when Anna told him that Karen was in Emergency at Llanview. Karen left the clinic after she saw Larry and Cathy together and her latest playmate beat her up in his motel room. She managed to hit him and get out, but was found wandering in the parking lot of a nearby moviehouse and told Larry she had been attacked there. Ed Hall was puzzled that she showed no signs of the kind of scrapes and contusions that the gravel-covered ground would have produced. Vince Wolek tried to get Karen to look at some mug shots but Karen flipped through the book in seconds and shoved it back at him, saying she just wanted to go home with Larry and forget it. Larry moved back into the house, bringing Danny with him.

Will Vernon had been told by his colleague Dr. Pamela Sheppard that Brad made a point of coming on to her at a dinner she had prepared for Will, Brad and Jenny, turning his attention to his wife only when he noticed Will talking to her. Brad bought a low-cut dress and insisted Jenny wear it to a Birthday celebration for Pamela. He continued his flirtation with Pamela but hauled Jenny home after accusing her of making a play for one of the guests. At home, Jenny was hurt and furious at Brad's accusation and told him that she believed she was pregnant.

At Tony Lord’s, Will saw Samantha, who had passed up an invitation to the party, with Talbot Huddleston. - Sam made a point to be seen with Huddleston by Tony but had Huddleston take her home immediately after her dinner with him at the Colonial Inn. - When Will waited up for Sam, she told him she found Huddleston a bore.

Ina Hopkins picked up a paycheck for Becky at the paper and made it a point to tell Edwina Lewis that Richard and Becky had become much closer since the night they spent in jail and she wouldn't be surprised to hear wedding bells. Edwina tried to call Marco to fire him for the mess his efforts to help her break up Richard and Becky had made, but he left town, telling Ina he would be back in about a week.

Richard got a raise and told Becky he had worked out a household budget for them for after they were married. Becky accepted his proposal, telling him she would set the date after she had made a wedding dress for herself. When he asked about her family, she said she ran away from them and that even if she could bring herself to forgive them for the things that led up to it, they would never approve of her marrying a "Yankee."

Viki was very worried about Pat, telling Tony and then Joe that Pat had Brian's chess set up in the living room and a model plane he made on the mantle, and the place looked like a shrine. She resolved to get Pat out of the house and Paul helped by insisting that Pat keep a dinner engagement at the Riley's after she had tried to beg off. Pat had been very snappish at any suggestion that she return to work but when Joe said that he was worried that Dorian might someday hand him a column she had decided to do, subbing for Pat, and fall in love with her own byline, Pat laughed.

Huddleston called on Karen at her house and offered to take her on a shopping spree but Karen turned him down. Jenny came by and Huddleston pretended he had called on Karen to ask her to intercede with Dorian on behalf of one of his favorite charities. After Huddleston left, Jenny told Karen that she believed she was pregnant and that Brad was delighted. Karen said that if Jenny wasn't sure, she herself might be the first to provide their parents with a grandchild, explaining Larry didn’t know it yet, but when he came home that night, they were going to try to have a baby.

Ryan’s Hope

Written by: Claire Labine & Paul Avila Mayer

Produced by: Claire Labine, Paul Avila Mayer & Robert Costello

Jill Coleridge told Frank Ryan that he was the father of her son. Frank was stunned, especially since his political mentor, Rae Woodard, had just suggested he run for the Senate. Neither Jill nor Frank made any demands regarding Frank's rights or duties as a father.

Frank told Rae his situation. She pointed out he has two options: marry Jill and create a family appearance; marry Jill off to Seneca and run as a bachelor, the alternative preferred by Rae. Frank told his parents about Edmund and they were delighted to learn they had another grandchild. Frank confided his confusion to brother-in-law Jack Fenelli, who suggested Frank see Edmund. While at Jill's apartment, the two of them bridged a gap, but were interrupted by Seneca. Frank left, but promised to return for Edmund's birthday party the following day. Seneca stayed behind and told Jill that Frank would only hurt her, pointing out Frank had had several opportunities to marry her, but had let them all pass. This added to Jill's doubts. She earlier told Maeve that she was leery of letting Frank into her life, feeling he would put his political career ahead of his family.

The night of Edmund's party, Rae whisked Frank and Bob Reid, his friend and campaign treasurer, off to Washington to meet the chairman of the national party. Frank felt he was forgetting something, but didn't remember the party until many hours later. His call to Jill was unfruitful. Rae pointed out that Jill had changed her priorities, of course, since becoming a mother, which was why she lacked understanding.

Unbeknownst to Tom Desmond, he was being stalked by a man from Ireland named Liam. Liam had bought a gun, but when he aimed and pulled the trigger at Tom, who was returning from a date with Faith, the gun didn’t go off — crooked firing pin. Liam replaced the gun and waited again, but this time Tom spent the night at the hospital, where he had accompanied Faith on an emergency. However, Liam's third attempt hit a target — Seneca! Tom and Seneca had identical coats and were built alike. Faith and Tom responded when they heard the shot. Faith had Tom get Roger and they rushed Seneca to the hospital with a bullet in his back. Jill and Bucky Carter rushed to Seneca's side. His life hung by a vital thread — the will to live, which appeared to be breaking. Tom went to see Mary Fenelli, having guessed the bullet was meant for him. After hearing Mary repeat her story about seeing his picture in a bar in Limerick, while honeymooning with Jack, Tom warned her to keep her door locked. He was sure he was a hunted man.

Delia Ryan, recovering from a concussion suffered when she fell down a flight of steps after husband Pat pushed her aside while strung out on caffeine and amphetimines, sneaked out of her room searching for Pat. She saw him laughing with Faith Coleridge. Dee returned to her room and wrote a nasty letter about Faith's pursuing her husband to Faith's department head, Dr. Frankel. When Dr. Frankel called Faith in about the letter, gently warning that Faith had to rebuild her reputation since the incident during the hospital strike, Faith went straight to Dee, accompanied by her brother Roger. - Roger knew that Dee suffered a miscarriage before she married Pat, then faked a miscarriage shortly after their wedding. Roger also helped Dee fake a breakdown recently. Roger loved Dee, and wanted her, and also was privy to the disastrous effects the marriage was having on Pat, personally and professionally. - Roger wanted to see if Dee was ready to face truths. Noting Dee's reactions as Faith raked her across the coals, Roger decided Dee was well enough for the truth to come out. After Faith left, Roger told Dee he was going to tell Pat about the miscarriage and breakdown. He pointed out that Dee had to learn to stand on her own two feet, that she had to face what she had done and go on from there. In an effort to stop Roger, Dee fell out of bed. She was fine, except she couldn't see! Thorough optholmological examination confirmed that the blindness was hysterical. Roger promised not to tell Pat until Dee could see again.

Meanwhile, Pat, who could then admit he only married Dee because she was pregnant with his child, went to see Father MacShane. Pat felt guilty about Dee. Mac pointed out that guilt over her fall was useless and unnecessary. But, continued Mac, guilt feelings arising from keeping Dee in a dependent, child-like state, even if that was what she wanted, had to be dealt with. Dee's blindness tied Pat even closer. Dee's brother Bob Reid persuaded the Ryans to take Dee in, saying the protection of the family would help Dee recover sooner. They agreed. Johnny apologized to son Pat for talking him into marrying Dee because of the baby. Johnny told Pat they had to all stop coddling Dee. Dee demanded to see Roger, saying she needed his medical reassurances about her condition. She again pleaded with Roger to keep her secrets. Roger told her he had made arrangements for her to see a psychiatrist. Roger promised to keep her secret as long as she kept her appointments.

Mary and Jack Finelli were expanding their apartment by cutting through a wall to an adjoining building. They found their working and living arrangements suited them all well. Since Jack worked at home, he watched Ryan during the day while Mary continued to work at Station R.

Pat took Dee home to the Ryans'. Maeve gave Dee a bell to call for help, which Dee used often. However, safe and relaxed in the bosom of the Ryans, Dee regained her sight, while alone. Pat had told Mac he wanted out of his marriage.

Jill refused to forgive Frank for missing Edmund's party, pointing out that his priorities would always put politics ahead of family. She admitted her priorities had changed since Edmund's birth. Rae again tried to advise Frank about his relationship with Jill, pointing out she wanted a full-time politician if she was going to use her money and resources to back him. Frank replied that his private life was none of her business, even IF he ran for the Senate. Rae told him he would come around.

Seneca improved slightly, but there appeared to be pressure on the spinal chord.

Tom realized the bullet that struck Seneca was meant for him. After closely questioning Mary and the Ryans, Tom was sure someone was hunting him, and wanting to spare them all any further danger, he decided to run. Faith went for his passport and was startled in Tom's office by Liam's appearance. - Tom explained that he was running from the family of a girl he loved in Ireland. She was the daughter of an almost bankrupt textile mill owner, who wanted her to many the son of another wealthy mill owner. When the girl, Theresa, refused to give up on Tom, her brother Jim tried to beat Tom to death. Tom, however, beat Jim to death instead. He was later acquitted, after pleading self-defense. The night before the verdict, Theresa tried to climb out of her bedroom window - her father had locked her in her room for days - and fell to her death. The family blamed Tom. - Tom went home to pack when Faith called to report Liam would be waiting in his office. But Liam overheard her, and Tom faced Liam's gun. Just as Liam was about to pull the trigger, Faith arrived, distracting Liam and giving Tom a chance to try for the gun. In the struggle, Tom was shot.

Search For Tomorrow

Written by: Robert J. Shaw

Produced by: Mary-Ellis Bunim

As Kathy Phillips went into labor, she made psychologist Carolyn Hanley promise that blood tests would be taken to see if the parentage of her baby could be proven. She gave birth to a boy and refused to see Scott until the tests were completed. They were able to confirm that Scott was the father of her baby. This was the first step to Kathy's recovery. Scott had decided to accept part of the blame for driving Kathy to infidelity and raise the child as his own. The concern and care given Kathy by both Scott and their adopted son Eric had given her ease of mind.

Stephanie Collins had persuaded John Wyatt that he should take his vacation in the ski country of Vermont rather than on a sunny beach. This was a family outing with both of their daughters accompanying them. After a few days John began to enjoy himself. Reflecting on his relationship with Stephanie and Wendy, John could see how good they had been for him and his daughter Suzi. John proposed to Stephanie and they were married on their last day in Vermont in their own suite. Knowing that his sister-in-law, Jo Vincente, disliked Stephanie due to events in the past, John broke the news to her himself. Stephanie began looking for a house because they were very crowded in her apartment.

Dr. Gary Walton had asked Carolyn Hanley to become his bride on February 14th, Valentine's Day, so he could remember their anniversary and because he thought they had waited long enough. Carolyn's mother returned to Henderson to help with the plans for the wedding. After a beautiful ceremony, Janet Collins told her son and his bride that she was giving them the house at the lake as a wedding present. She knew they liked it there and the peace and quiet of a simple life would be good for them after a hectic day at the hospital.

Janet told Steve and Liza Kaslo that she was setting up a trust fund for her young son Danny and had given a wedding present to Gary and Carolyn. She would like to give them a down payment for a house. Janet explained that this would come to Liza later anyway and she wanted them to have it then when it could do the most good. Steve reluctantly accepted because he could see how happy this made Liza.

The hospital had decided to name its new wing after Dr. Wade Collins. The Collins Corporation won the bid for its construction. President Howard Horton decided to give Steve Kaslo the responsibility for this project, based on the promise Steve had shown since his association with the company. Bill Mendel was charged with giving Steve any help he might need, but Bill was concerned that he could soon be replaced by Steve. Mendel came right out and told Steve that he was going to keep his eye on him, looking for a mistake. It wasn’t long before Mendel took a mistake in calculations to Howard. Steve said he was sure that he did not make the mistake. Howard cautioned him. Later Howard caught a mistake and called it to Mendel's attention. Mendel charged that Kaslo was receiving special privileges because he was Janet's son-in-law and that Howard looked on him as a replacement for his deceased son. He claimed anyone else would have been fired under these circumstances.

Amy Carson continued to pull extra duty at the hospital, due to illness and vacations of the other residents. Most evenings planned with Bruce had to be cancelled. Dr. Thompson explained that her own marriage broke up because her husband couldn't cope with her career. She said that because they were women, they were expected to sacrifice their careers for their families. Bruce became more intolerant as he spent his evenings at home or with Donna Davis. His own feelings of frustration over his career contributed to his discontent.

David Sutton continued his search for relatives of orphan Jamie Lawrence, who ran in front of his car while trying to run away from a boy's home. Jamie's mother died of pneumonia while a farm worker. She had originally been hired in California. Her papers showed she was from Chicago. Checking birth records, David learned she was unmarried and her father was named as next of kin. David located George Lawrence and told him of his grandson. They were both delighted to learn they were not alone in the world. Jamie returned to Lake Geneva where his grandfather was the caretaker on an estate.

Meredith Hartford returned the pearls to the back of the drawer in Jo Vincente's room after Jo showed her the scarf she deliberately dropped so Jo would accuse her of taking the pearls. Jo assured Greg that she and Ellie scoured the whole suite, but in his search he turned up the pearls. When Jo refused to back down Greg suggested that Jo was jealous of Meredith and resented her rather than the other way around as she had continually suggested. He asked Jo to think over her feelings before they went ahead with their wedding plans.

Meredith had promised the house-keeper Evelyn Reedy financial help for her grandson, who had a fatal blood disease, in return for her help in seeing that Dr. Hartford never married Mrs. Vincente. She promised a substantial amount from her trust fund that was accessible in March on her eighteenth birthday. Evelyn brought up Meredith's plans with Dr. Hartford and learned that when she was eighteen she could only receive money for education until she was twenty-five. Furious, Evelyn slapped Meredith and called her a liar. She made demands that Meredith couldn’t refuse. She wanted a raise to $175 a week in salary and extra money from Meredith herself. Meredith was able to get a checking account for herself and a raise for Evelyn.

Evelyn’s plan to have Dr. Hartford give them cash for household expenses backfired when he said Meredith was taking on too much. Evelyn became desperate when her daughter called to ask for $1500 that she needed for an immediate operation for her son. She finally developped a plan, Meredith was to take the pearls that Mrs. Vincente returned from the desk drawer and sell them. Meredith balked, but Evelyn reminded her that Dr. Hartford could learn that she stole them once before. This would cause him to reconcile with Mrs. Vincente and she would move into the house.

Amy attended a medical conference in Baltimore with Dr. Thompson. The evening of her expected arrival home, Bruce arrived with flowers to learn that Amy called the babysitter to say the conference has been held over. Frustrated, Bruce considered turning to Donna, but was too good a friend to use her. Finding that Dr. Thompson had returned for an emergency added fuel to Bruce's fire. Amy came home to find her home life on the brink of disaster.

Janet gave Steve and Liza $35,000. Bill Mendel changed instructions on how to prepare a cost estimate and refused to submit it to Howard. Steve was sure that Mendel was changing the figures, but wanted to handle it himself without involving Howard. When Steve asked advice of Bruce and Amy, she said he had to tell Liza that he felt he had been handed too many things and wanted to earn things. If he bought a house he would have to stay at Collins to pay for it whether he liked the work or not.

Mendel told Steve that he had to take orders from him and if he refused to, he would take over the hospital project himself. When Steve told Liza that he might be out of a job, she agreed that his happiness was more important than any house.

The Young and The Restless

Written by: William J. Bell

Produced by: John Conboy

Nancy Becker was having nightmares about her daughter Karen. Mr. Kincaid petitioned the court and won visitation rights for the Beckers. Chris Foster noticed that Karen made reference to her other mother. Chris was upset when she was informed that the Beckers were coming to seek Karen. Karen remembered Ron and was glad to see him, but was very hostile to Nancy.

Greg Foster had decided to stay in Genoa City and set up a private law practice, intending to become wealthy. He felt he served his fellow man when he was a lawyer for Legal Aid. He thought Snapper was right to have a clinic for the poor, if that was what he wanted, but he wanted something from life then. Jill and his mother sacrificed for years, and he wanted to make things easier for them.

Jill Foster had accepted Derek Thurston's marriage proposal and engagement ring. She teased her mother, finally showing her the ring. The new beauty salon that Derek was opening, with Kay Chancellor's backing, was to be operable February 25th. Derek told Jill that he wanted her there as his wife. They would be married the day before, February 24th. Jill and Liz began preparations. Jill would like to be married at home, so Liz set about readying the house. Snapper was concerned that his mother was going to wear herself out. Snapper and Greg would take over the painting and cleaning.

Derek asked that no one tell Mrs. Chancellor until after the wedding, but Jill suggested that since his relationship with Kay was built on trust, Kay might feel he wasn't being honest. Seeing that Jill could be right, Derek visited Kay with the intention of telling her, but Kay had a suggestion for him first. She thought that women responded so well to Derek that the new salon would benefit from all male operators. Derek said Jill was his right hand, and he couldn’t do without her. When Kay conceded, he felt this was not the right time to bring up his forthcoming marriage. Knowing that Derek was on his way over to tell Mrs. Chancellor, Liz, Kay's housekeeper, almost discussed the wedding, until Jill called to warn her.

Kay’s lawyer, Mitchell Sherman, was concerned when she told him that she intended to wait until after the opening of the salon to tell Derek she tricked him into marriage. - Kay claimed a friend needed a blood transfusion and then had Derek sign the license, along with papers for the salon. She gave him champagne until he became drunk before having a friend perform the ceremony. Derek awoke in Kay's bed, unable to remember the night before. - Sherman was concerned that Kay had no written contract with Derek. She relented when Derek himself insisted that it was only fair to her that a lawyer draw up a partnership to protect her. He insisted that she receive more than 50 percent because she put up all the money. Greg asked Derek about his future and was assured that, although he was sure there could never be a problem, Mrs. Chancellor's lawyer was drawing up a contract.

Liz showed Jill the bridal gown that had been in the family for years and gave it to her. Liz saw that Jill didn’t really want to wear it, and the problem was solved when they discovered that it was too small. Liz and Jill went shopping for a nice wedding gown. They were shocked at the prices, and Jill couldn’t find that special dress. A salesperson remembered a dress that was on sale. Jill fell in love with it. Trying to be practical, she decided to shop around. The following day Jill returned to look at the dress again and ran into Brock. She told him of her wedding, and he agreed that the dress was perfect. Brock agreed that he might be able to help prepare his mother for Derek's marriage.

Mitchell Sherman tried to convince Kay that Derek was serious about Jill. He suggested having a detective follow Derek again, but Kay said he should follow Jill instead. When he reported that she was looking at wedding gowns, Kay suggested that young girls did foolish things. He came back to report that she bought a gown in the company of a tall dark man. Shown a photo of Derek, he had to say this was not the man. Brock arrived as they were leaving, and the detective confirmed that this was the man. Brock broke the news to Kay, who became hysterical. She wanted a drink, but Brock told her that Derek would feel terrible if she went back to drinking. While he was making tea, Kay sneaked several swallows of Vodka to calm her nerves.

Leslie Brooks was afraid she couldn’t per-form since she knew Lorie had written of her breakdown for the world to read, even though it was under a pen name. The Maestro called to remind her of a concert series in Denver. Lance played the piano with her until her confidence returned. He said he would fly her to Denver and stay with her. Hearing Lance arrange for the jet, Lorie assumed he was making plans for the trip he promised her. Only when he asked his brother Lucas to come to the main house to be with their mother, who would be home after her second surgery on her scarred face, did he remember his promise to Lorie. Lucas' comment that Lance was overly concerned with his sister-in-law earned him a punch in the jaw.

Leslie was very nervous about her performance, but once she started playing, she was lost to her music. When she finished, she sent Lance home to his wife.

Lorie received a call from a reporter, Jackson, in Denver who recognized the similarity in writing style and asked Lorie if she was the author of the book, which she denied. Lance called, asking her to meet him at the airport, to take off to Tahiti. After the concert, Leslie consented to an interview with the press. Everyone began to notice that Jackson was becoming obnoxious by monopolizing the interview and asking person questions. He asked her if her sister wrote "In My Sister's Shadow." Leslie denied any knowledge of the book, but fell to pieces when he said Lorie confirmed it.

Snapper forced Chris to read the psychiatric evaluations of themselves, the Beckers and Karen. The report on themselves was everything she could have expected, but she became distressed when she read that the psychiatrist felt that the Beckers were then rehabilitated and blamed no one for the mistakes in their lives. Through doll play the doctor established that Karen loved both fathers and her second mother but was trying to pay back her first mother for abandoning her by insisting that mother was dead. Rather than having no feeling for her natural mother, Karen harbored deep emotions for her. Chris wanted what was best for Karen.

Learning by phone that Leslie had cancelled her concerts, Lance drops Lorie off in Genoa City and flew on to Denver to be with Leslie. He told Lorie that he was supportive because Leslie possessed a great talent. When Lance called to accuse her of confirming Rod Jackson's story, Lucas sticked up for her.

Kay visited Jill at home to tell her that she couldn't possibly marry Derek because he was already married. She produced copies of the marriage license and certificate. Jill ripped them, saying that Mrs. Chancellor was insane and in need of professional help. Distraught, Jill burnt the papers and called Derek. Having calmed down she was embarrassed to tell him. Jill said she had seen Mrs. Chancellor drunk enough times to know that she was sober.

As I have some time off work this summer, here is a little treat. The beginning of 1978, the last year covered by the DNS.

JANUARY 1978

 New schedule beginning on Monday, January 16th.

	ABC	CBS	NBC
11 :30 – 12 :00 am		Love of Life
12 :00 – 12 :30 pm		The Young And The Restless
12 :30 – 1 :00 pm	Ryan’s Hope	Search For Tomorrow
1 :00 – 1 :30 pm	All My Children		For Richer, For Poorer
1 :30 – 2 :00 pm		As The World Turns	Days of Our Lives
2 :00 – 2 :30 pm	One Life to Live
2 :30 – 3 :00 pm		Guiding Light	The Doctors
3 :00 – 3 :30 pm	General Hospital		Another World
3 :30 – 4 :00 pm
4 :00 – 4 :30 pm	The Edge of Night

All My Children

Written by: Agnes Nixon

Produced by: Bud Kloss

Against both Joe and Paul Martin's advice, Ruth Martin met with Ray Gardner to tell him that she arranged to cash in an insurance policy to raise the entire $10,000 demanded as the price for signing papers clearing the way for the Martins to adopt the boy he had abandoned in a State Park years before. When Gardner learned she hadn't got the money with her, he told her that the delay had upped the ante and he wanted $15,000. In a fury, Ruth told him that she would not give him one penny; that she and Joe would spend any amount to see that he never threatened Tad again. - After Gardner terrorized Tad and little Philip in the Martin home while Kate was ill, Nick Davis learned that his employee "Ray Green" was Gardner, and fired him. - After Ruth left, Paul Martin reported that Gardner had skipped from his motel room and though Joe believed that Gardner had realized that he pushed the Martins too far with his last demand, Kate did not believe that they had seen the last of him. Ruth told Tad that his father had apparently left town and she hoped someday she and Joe could legally adopt him, with or without Gardner's permission.

David Thornton had learned that Gardner spent a night at the cabin and refused to believe Edna when she told him how it came about. When he threatened to use the information to get custody of Dottie, Edna told him that if he tried to use her kindness to a stranger against her, she would counter with testimony about his trip to the Caribbean with Christina Karras, which could easily be documented. David had to back down again.

Jeff Martin had told Chris that he was in love with her and David's high-handed attitude over Chris' attending a party given by Tara with Jeff began to get to her. David made plans to have dinner with Chris but Edna refused to buy his story of late surgery and he admitted he intended to be with Chris. Edna threatened to leave with Dottie if he did not come home on time after hospital hours. She told him she had saved some money from her job and was financially able to make good her threat. When David told Chris and canceled their plans, Christina insisted that Edna was bluffing and begged him not to give in, saying she was tired of being "understanding." David insisted he couldn't take the chance and left. Chris called Jeff and asked him to take her to dinner, admitting when she saw him that she was beginning to have doubts about any future with David.

Nancy Grant had told Christina that she was pregnant with her ex-husband Frank's child and that Carl Blair had asked her to marry him but she had turned him down. - Carl then knew about the child Nancy was carrying, and left saying that his offer stood indefinitely. - Chris told Nancy she was a very lucky woman to be loved in that way and Nancy agreed, saying she might have been too hasty.

Back from her honeymoon, Caroline Grant received a bill from Dr. Clader's office for a pregnancy examination and when she went to clear it up learned that the Mrs. Grant involved was Nancy. She confronted Nancy and learned that she was four months pregnant. When Caroline asked if Frank was the father, Nancy replied that it was none of her business and finally told her the child was Carl Blair's. Nick Davis had arrived at Erica's to find her note saying that she couldn’t bear to hear him deny her love for him nor stand the idea of a future without him. He called Mona and tried to soothe her concern over her daughter's disappearance, reminding her of Erica's need to get her way, but he later received a call from police headquarters advising that Erica's wallet was found in a trash basket in a rough section of another city. Finally, Mona took a call from a Dr. Chun of the Good Samaritan Hospital in New York City, telling her that Erica had been admitted with what appeared to be pneumonia. Nick went up to New York with Mona and saw Erica who told him that she wanted him to believe that she loved him but "didn't mean for this to happen." Nick told her it helped him to see how much she meant to him and how he took her for granted. He told her, crying, that he loved her. Dr. Charles Tyler took leave from Pine Valley Hospital to be with Mona and he had to tell Nick that Erica's pneumonia was viral in origin and they could only rely on Erica's own strength to pull her through.

Before leaving Pine Valley, Dr. Tyler cornered Benny Sago to tell him that he was barred from the hospital after Charles found the vodka flask Benny had kept replenished for Phoebe. Benny told Charles that he felt sorry for Phoebe and, when Charles insisted that Benny was in a better position than even Phoebe's family to influence her for good, Benny insisted that he had tried and agreed to try harder in the future. Charles told him he appreciated that but, nevertheless, his presence was off limits until Phoebe was out of the hospital.

Brooke English, having struck out in her attempt to scare Devon Shephard away from Dan Kennicott, picked up on the relationship between Mark Dalton and Ellen Shephard and went to work, telling Mark that Erica had been hospitalized. When Mark left to phone Charles she mused that Mark might have a case on Erica. When that remark didn’t hit home - Ellen knew that Erica was Mark's halfsister, though Brooke didn’t -, Brooke speculated that the campus co-eds would be devestated since Ellen seemed to have fully engaged the "young" man's - Mark's - attention.

Dr. Chuck Tyler had had to tell his wife Donna that the latest test definitely proved that she was not pregnant. He explained that she had a tubal blockage and that her symptoms were indicative of an hysterical pregnancy. - Chuck couldn’t bring himself to tell Donna that the blockage was scar tissue from the tubal ligation which Ty had ordered done along with an emergency appendectomy on Donna. He hoped the sterilization might be reversible with surgery in the future and Donna needed never know. - Donna wavered between belief, accompanied by despair, and denial. She agreed to see a psychiatrist but when her first session ended and Dr. Polk prepared to see the next patient, she felt rejected and told him and then Chuck that she was not going back.

Donna’s best friend from her Locust Street days, Estelle, had been visiting a friend she made during the Christmas holidays, an elderly widow, Mrs. Maggie Flannagan who momentarily mistook Stelle for her grand-daughter, in church. With Maggie, Stelle was Maristella Clancy, light years removed from Estelle LaTour of Locust Street. Stelle treasured her visits, bringing groceries and a room heater when Maggie was taken ill. She tried to cover up when Billy Clyde followed her to Maggie's building by telling him she was seeing a John who didn’t like her in her working wig, but when she could produce only six dollars after telling him it was a hundred-dollar call, she took a beating at Billy Clyde's hands. Later she averted a second beating by asking Donna for some money to cover another trip she made to see Mrs. Flannagan during "working hours." - Stelle had told Mrs. Flannagan she worked as a maid for a lady in Pine Valley. –

While Devon Shepherd was performing in a college production of Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing," Dan sat in the audience with Ellen Shephard and Mark Dalton. Kate Martin and Harlan Tucker were also in Devon's cheering section, while Ray Gardner skulked around the Martin property. When it was apparent that Ruth and Joe were settled in for the evening - they decided against attending, not trusting completely in Gardner's apparent disappearance -, Gardner, who had seen that Mark and Ellen were the last to leave the Tucker home without locking up, got in and helped himself to $100 from Harlan's dresser. He picked up a pair of antique opera glasses and watched as Ruth prepares for bed. The glasses enabled Ray to focus on the diamond necklace which was Joe's Christmas present to Ruth, and his mind re-echoed the thought he had after his last confrontation with Ruth; that there was more than one way to get money out of the Martins.

Edna Thornton tried to talk Donna into thinking about enjoying being Chuck's wife, saying that raising a child was no picnic and she should be happy to live it up for a while. Donna was too depressed to respond and asked Edna as a favor if she would sell the raffle tickets Donna had for the Medical Society Dance to take place that evening. Edna wasted no time letting David know that she intended to go and he would take her if he knew what was good for him.

Ellen Shepherd had convinced Mark that he should go to New York to see Erica. When Erica told him she was glad he came, he said that he would have walked to get there, and Erica asked his forgiveness. She asked him to promise to look after Mona.

Outside, Mona told Nick that Erica had lost the will to live and begged him to ask her to marry him, to give her a reason to get well. Nick was shocked, saying he couldn't deceive her, but he questioned Dr. Chun again and learning that Erica was critical, he went in and told her that he wanted them to have a life together "for better or for worse." He tells told he needed her to get well so that they could be married.

Ray Garnder, in need of money, sold the opera glasses for $35 to the owner of the diner where he first met Edna Thornton. He dropped in on Edna, his "first pal in Pine Valley," but she sent him nicely on his way, making it clear that she was very happy with her husband and child. She mentioned the Medical Association Dinner that evening at the Country Club. Gardner then bought a ski mask and waited in the back of the Martin car as Joe called in to the hospital and Ruth headed for the parking lot to warm up the car.

Caroline Grant had told Jeff Martin that Nancy's claim that Carl Blair was the father of her expected child just didn’t ring true.

Ellen’s doubts about Mark resurfaced with Claudette Montgomery’s taunts about her own mother’s – Margo Flax - affair with a younger man. Meanwhile, Claudette grew closer to Linc.

Brooke played up to Tom Cudahy after he hired her as Erica’s temporary remplacement as she was still hospitalized in New York, then set another drap for Dan.

Another World

Written by: Harding Lemay

Produced by: Paul Rauch

Evil Sven Petersen, although fired by Mac Cory when Mac learned that Sven conspired with his own daughter, Iris Bancroft, to keep Rachel away from him, continued to terrorize Helga and Regina. - Sven would apparently use any means to get what he wanted. According to Helga, Sven killed her husband Knut because Sven wanted Helga to be his wife. Sven's current plan was to use Regina's pregnancy as a means to gain access to Mac's fortune. Using threats of harm to Helga, Sven had forced Regina to tell Mac the baby was his, conceived the night they ostensibly spent together, although neither remembered it. Sven had arranged it to look like they'd slept together after finding out Regina was pregnant with Cliff Tanner's baby. - Regina refused to leave the house because she didn’t want anyone to know she was pregnant - and because she was afraid of running into Sven -, so Mac was arranging to send Regina and Helga to Sweden.

Meanwhile, Sven had checked out the layout of the Gallery and Rachel's daily routine. He then confronted Rachel, demanding she give Mac his freedom. Rachel refused to be intimidated. Sven swore Rachel wouldn't stand in his way.

Rachel’s son, Jamie, and Mac's grandson, Dennis, decided to mend some sails. Regina accompanied them, as she had had experience doing it in Sweden. When they couldn’t get the needles to penetrate the dry sail, Regina said they had to soak it. They opened the trapdoor in the boathouse to tie the sail in the water and discovered a body in a plastic bag. To their horror, they identified Rocky Olsen, the former stableman for Mac and Rachel. They called the police. The boys felt Sven murdered Rocky, recalling a time last summer when Dennis caught Sven about to hit Rocky with a shovel. Presented with clear evidence of what Sven was capable of, and feeling secure that she and her mother would be safe in Sweden soon, Regina talked to Mac. She told him she knew Sven killed Rocky, that according to Helga, Sven murdered her father. Sven, she stated, killed Rocky because Rocky knew how Sven was juggling accounts and thus, stood in Sven's way. Regina confessed that her baby wasn't Mac's, that Sven used threats of harm against Helga unless Regina went along with him. Sven overheard the confession. Mac was ecstatic to learn the truth and began immediately to try to reach Rachel. Ironically, that night Rachel had decided to get an out-of-state divorce so that "Mac's" baby could have its father. Rachel refused all calls from Mac. She made plans to go to Aspen for six weeks.

On the day Rachel was to leave, Sven found her alone in the Gallery. He chloroformed her and took her to a hiding place that he claimed was miles from anywhere. Learning Rachel was to have dinner with Ada and Jamie at Ada's house before leaving, Mac went there to wait. When she didn’t show up and couldn’t be located, everyone assumed she was gone to Aspen without saying good-bye because she was too distraught. Ada, however, started questioning anyone who had contact with Rachel. They found she never arrived in Aspen, and there was no record she took the flight. The mystery deepened when Elena de Poulignac found Rachel's purse behind the Gallery, everything intact. She took it to Mac, who called the police, suspecting foul play.

Rachel, meanwhile, was uncooperative with Sven, refusing to make a tape for Mac. Sven intended to use Rachel to make sure he got lots of money and a way out of the country. Rachel searched for paper and pencil, hoping to write a note that could be found. She was finding the constant sound of engines in her prison annoying. Finally, she accepted food from Sven, to keep up her strength, and agreed to make the tape, aware the sounds might give Mac a clue to her whereabouts.

John Randolph continued in a state of catatonic shock following his accidental shooting of Evan Webster when the two men struggled over Evan's gun, and his wife Olive's grief-prompted revelation that she loved Evan, not John. - Olive had been plotting with Evan to dissolve her marriage to John in such a way as to receive a large divorce settlement. To that end, they engaged the services of Claude Kelly. Olive thought Kelly was going to set John up with some woman in a compromising situation. In reality, Evan and Kelly were plotting John's death in order that Olive would collect his large insurance settlements. Evan was trying to force John outside, where a hit-run driver was waiting to run John down, when the men struggled over the gun. - John's daughter Marianne, recently returned from Europe where she had gone after discovering Olive's affair with Evan and trying unsuccessfully to warn John, had decided Olive killed Evan and was trying to blame John. Marianne went to see Olive, who had confined herself to the house, drinking and dreaming of Evan. When Marianne told Olive her suspicions, Olive inadvertently revealed the name Kelly, blaming Kelly for the whole mess. Marianne reported to lawyer Greg Barnard, who began searching for Kelly, as did Marianne and brother Mike.

Meanwhile, Gwen Parrish and and Willis Frame had learned that Mike's wife Molly was having an affair with Cliff Tanner, who worked for Willis. Gwen suggested to Russ Matthews, John's ex-brother-in-law, that he talk to Cliff about Olive, since Molly had disappeared. Cliff told Russ that Olive gave Molly and him a cabin to conduct their affair in, then tried to use the knowledge of the affair to blackmail Molly into testifying against John in a divorce action she planned to bring. But Cliff wouldn’t testify to this in court without Mike's approval, wanting to save Mike any further embarrassment.

Mike and Marianne pretended to be Evan's sister and cousin and conned their way into Evan's room. There they located the address and phone number for a C.K., whom they discovered was Claude Kelly. Kelly was suspicious after they visited him, so he visited Olive, demanding why, as they said, she sent them to him. Drunken Olive denied sending anyone, and Kelly learned their true identity after seeing a picture of them. The police finally traced the gun Evan had to Kelly, which was enough to draw him in for questioning. Inconsistencies in his story were enough to have the police put him under surveillance.

Greg went to see Olive, trying to get her to reveal more about the plans she and Evan had made with Kelly, but Kelly had told her the whole story about John's planned murder, and she kept quiet, fearful of involvement. She passed out, drunk.

Visits from everyone else had failed to bring John out of his shock, so Greg visited Olive, asking her to see John. She refused, so Greg reverted to subterfuge. He told Olive that Kelly was saying that she killed Evan. Olive said Evan was dead when she arrived, as John could verify. Greg pointed out that they couldn’t ask John, and in order to save herself, she had to help bring John out of his catatonic state.

Otis Vincent « Vince » Frame arrived in Bay City, worried about his younger brother Willis after having spent the holidays in Chadwell with the family. Vince had a history of checking up on Willis. Vince was upset to learn that Willis had dropped Angie Perrini and was seeing Alice Frame Gordon, hoping to marry Alice someday. Vince antagonized Alice and Willis when he tried to talk Alice out of her involvement with Willis. Burt McGowan offered Vince a job and Vince had an interest in Angie but she had not forgotten about Willis.

Regina told Cliff that the baby was his. She wanted him to accompany her to Sweden, but he refused, saying he had to stay around to help a friend. But he promised to join her later.

Helga found the tape Rachel made for Sven. The ransom demanded was half a million dollars. Brian arrived at Mac's right after Mac and Ada heard the tape. Despite the tape's imprecations not to contact the police, Brian insisted that Mac do so, as only they could advise him properly. The phone lines had been cut, and they feared the phone might be tapped, so Ada went home and sent Vince Frame to the police, telling him only that Mac wanted two officers in an unmarked car to drop by. Ada tried to keep the news from Jamie, but told him finally, as they feared he could also be taken. Regina told Mac she knew the kidnapper was Sven, and she feared for Rachel's life if Mac contacted the police. When the police arrived, Regina told them her reasons for thinking Sven was behind the kidnapping. Meanwhile, Mac made a tape promising to comply, as ordered. Sven had Rachel make another tape with orders where to leave the money. She had been examining her prison carefully and, from things Sven said, realized she was not far away. She managed to use the word kidnapper – singular – on the second recording, confirming Regina's feelings. Burt McGowan, using the pretext that he had business with Mac, went to the house on Ada's behalf and listened to the first tape. He recognized the background noise on the tape as coming from a machine, but said it was not clear enough to identify the specific machine.

Liz Matthews’s daughter, Susan arrived in Bay City, having separated from her husband. Gwen Parrish avoided working with Elena, convinced she had sunk her hooks into Russ. Gwen beat Elena to the punch and was the one who cuddled with Russ.

Desperate for some reaction from John, Greg, with Pat's permission, arranged for Pat and Olive to see John at the same time. Olive was angry at Pat's presence and lashed out at John, who backed her into a corner, saying, almost incoherently, "I loved you." Olive fled; Pat was broken-hearted, believing John still loved Olive. At home, Marianne realized Pat still wore her wedding ring. When Pat started to remove it, Marianne begged her to keep it on for John's sake and hers. Kelly was brought in while Mike gave a deposition to the police. Overhearing Mike's opinions, which put him in the middle of things, Kelly told the police to talk to Olive, who knew more than she was telling. Lt. Lafferty went to see Olive, who was uncooperative.

As The World Turns

Written by: Robert Soderberg & Edith Sommer

Produced by: Joe Willmore

Lisa Colman had planned a party that had grown quite large. Grant didn’t think they should advertise being back together. One of the provisions of reconciliation was that they decided things together. Grant began to wonder if they could really make it when she announced at the party that she was going back to work full time. Grant questioned her decision and she felt he didn't want her to work.

Grant and Valerie Conway had tried to avoid one another since Grant's reconciliation with Lisa, but as Valerie's lawyer, Grant had to see her on business. He asked Chris Hughes to take her over as a client, but Chris’ calendar was full. Nancy Hughes told Lisa that she regretted that Valerie and her son, Dr. Bob Hughes, were no longer seeing one another. Lisa thought that promoting this relationship would show Grant that she was no longer infatuated with Bob. Bob and Valerie both tried discouraging Lisa.

John Dixon was playing on Mary Ellison's sympathy by continually reminding her that he was in the hospital because he saved her and her son from a fire. He used Dr. Alexander Keith in his effort to keep people from warning Mary against seeing him. After several broken dates, Ralph Mitchell told Mary he wouldn’t wait around. Realizing how much Ralph meant to her, Mary told John she wouldn’t be visiting any more. Ralph couldn’t stand being without her company and they made up. When John asked Mary to bring a contract from his apartment, he was furious when Mary's friend, Laurie Keaton delivered it.

Sandy Garrison Thompson was still very insecure in her marriage to Kevin. They had taken Natalie Hughes' apartment, across the hall from the Stallingses. When Dr. Susan Stewart showed up at the same restaurant with her daughter and niece, Kevin talked to them, but didn’t mention this to Sandy, who was on the phone. Kevin left the apartment after an argument, during which Sandy accused him of keeping this secret because he was still in love with Susan. Sandy called Susan looking for Kevin and was then ashamed of herself. Sandy was angry when Susan denied seeing Kevin at the hospital when Kevin himself had told her.

Dr. Bob Hughes was working in emergency when a hit-and-run case turned out to be the young woman who gave his daughter an ornament at Christmas. Bob felt she was lying when she claimed to remember nothing. She had no identification, but finally admitted she was Karen Parker and asked if she could have been run down on purpose.

Dee Stewart was feeling very depressed. Tom Hughes had told her that a relationship between them was impossible because she was so much younger than he. As he was dating Melinda Gray, who was even younger.

The Grand Jury thought there was enough evidence to try Jay Stallings for Pete Larson's murder. After his alibi fell through, Jay had insisted that he had coffee and a beer, but didn’t remember where he went. He couldn’t tell Tom Hughes that he was with Melinda Gray because he had to protect his marriage. Tom was sure Jay was lying, because, if he were alert enough to call Fred McGill for an alibi, he should remember where he went.

Beau and Annie Spencer told Beau's mother that they had decided against her gift of a country club membership because Annie would be returning to med school when he passesd his bar exam. When Annie suspected she might be pregnant, she told Beau and her mother. Hearing the news from Beau, Jane accused Annie of maneuvering Beau and keeping him from her.

Jane agreed to write a letter so that Joyce and Don Hughes could be accepted for membership to the country club, but forgot. Joyce reminded her and suggests that she use Don for her divorce lawyer. Joyce's demands for the country club, a new house, remodeling and new furniture left Don short. He wanted to forego the country club, but she threw a fit, demanding he ask his father for help. Once he agreed, Joyce was all sweetness.

Mark Lewis’ condition was serious. David Stewart blamed Dr. Keith for Susan's involvement. She was going without food and sleep. David said Keith was responsible for Susan because he used her to keep Mark's morale up. Keith saw that David was right and insisted on taking her to dinner and then home to sleep. He spent the entire weekend with Susan, to keep her from drinking until the crisis was over. As he had recovered from pneumonia and his blood disease was in remission, Mark could be released. Keith thought he should go back to his college in Michigan, since they would admit him in the middle of the year. Mark would like to remain in Oakdale be near Susan.

Kim Stewart had tried to see both sides of the conflict between Dr. Keith and her husband Dan. Kim finally felt Keith was being unjust. One day she and Keith were stuck between floors in the elevator and, as they waited to be rescued, he explained that Mark's mother, whom Kim resembled, was in love with him and was going to ask her husband for a divorce on the day their sailboat capsized and they were both drowned. He decided that he would no longer remain silent about anything that mattered to him. Maybe he had gone too far. Kim and Dan both felt easier then.

Bob had his father check into Karen's accident, telling him that all she had was a large sum of money and an expensive piece of jewelry. Bob decided not to get involved when Karen walked out of the hospital.

Carol assured Tom that Jay was not involved with another woman, but Tom could think of no other reason for Jay to lie about where he was the night Pete was killed. The other lawyers agreed that Tom had done the best he could, but Jay was in serious trouble. Jay was losing clients and, with the money Natalie stole from him, he had little capital. Tom finally told Jay that he had five minutes to come clean before he called Dick Martin, asking for a postponement. Further delay would cost him more business, so Jay admitted he was with a girl. He picked up a girl who was only in town for the night and didn’t know where they had a drink.

Melinda dropped a pair of gloves that she said were Tom's. Dee gave them to Tom, but he said they weren't his and Dee put them on the file cabinet.

Annie told Beau that she was not pregnant and they should tell their mothers right away. Beau and Annie were relieved, but both were sad also. They decided, though, that it was for the best if Annie was to return to med school. Jane told Ellen before Annie got the chance. She also told Ellen that she thought Annie manipulated Beau.

Joyce told Don that they wouldn't have financial problems if Don was paid more. She said that Grant was deliberately holding Don back because he was jealous. Don asked his father to speak to Grant, but Chris refused.

Sandy could see that Kevin seemed to be returning to the tormented person he was before coming to Oakdale. Susan sent Kevin on his way, telling him she really was interested in Alexander Keith, but Dr. Keith confided his attraction for Kim to Susan.

Days of our Lives

Written by: Ann Marcus

Produced by: Betty Corday & H. Wesley Kenney

Don Craig was then a candidate for state senator. Everyone who knew him felt he was an excellent choice for the post as he was fair minded and willing to take time to examine all aspects of an issue. The fly in the ointment proved to be reporter Eileen Harris, whose particular forte was gossip. Harris wrote a juicy piece, after Don announced, about his living arrangements with Dr. Marlena Evans. Don and Marlena were living together, even though Marlena was unable to make a committment to marriage at this time. Both were annoyed at Harris' article, but decided to let it ride. Harris next aggravated Don by talking to Marlena about the rape crisis center at the clinic. Marlena, unaware of who Harris really was, talked freely about her support of federally funded abortions for rape and incest cases. Don blew his stack, telling Marlena that she had then made him an abortion candidate. He warned Marlena that she had to watch what she said because people would assume she was speaking for him. Marlena refused to give in to that, pointing out that she had a right to her opinons. But again the ugly spectre of Harris stalked them. She wrote an article about how Marlena's twin sister Samantha was mentally ill, crudely implying that since the girls shared the same genes and were twins, the same could be true of Marlena. Don warned Harris to stay out of his personal life or he would find grounds to sue her.

After Larry Atwood made a call to the owner of the ski resort where Doug Williams was singing over New Year's, the police searched his room and found cocaine, planted by a chorus girl while Doug was on stage. Not wanting to worry his wife Julie, Doug called her in Salem and told her he had been held over by popular demand. However, Julie learned the truth the following morning when a huge article proclaimed Doug's trouble on the front page of the paper. Atwood rushed to Julie's side, asking if there was anything he could do. Julie was pleased by the offer of help. Atwood then pretended to have just remembered that he knew the owner of the ski lodge, and called the man, asking him to intervene. Doug was released, never having been officially arrested or booked. Julie was grateful to Atwood. Lawyer Mickey Horton suggested that Doug and Julie have their hearing in front of the state liquor control board, an appeal to have Doug's liquor license renewed, postponed, in light of the news article. Doug and Julie insisted they go ahead, as Doug needed to return to the club, and Julie couldn’t stand being alone anymore. Atwood called a contact and asked for the list of the character witnesses who would appear for Doug. One of them was Dr. Neil Curtis. Atwood invited Neil to a poker game the night before the hearing and got Neil drunk. Neil spent the night on Atwood's couch, waking an hour before the hearing. Atwood sent him on his way with orange juice, liberally laced with vodka, unbeknownst to Neil, The hearing went fairly well, Doug able to explain away the cocaine incident, and the other witnesses speaking well of him. Then Neil burst in, reeling drunk. Julie dragged him outside and told him of her complete disgust, ending by telling Neil that it would be his fault if Doug didn’t get his license. The judge promised an answer in 30 days. That same night, Julie fired the busboy Arlo, planted at the club by Atwood. - Atwood wanted to put gambling in the back rooms of Doug's Place. When Doug turned him down cold, Atwood began his behind the scenes manipulations to force Doug to accept his offer. –

Trish Clayton Banning and husband David were making a go of their marriage, despite small problems. Trish enjoyed singing at Doug's Place three nights a week, but was annoyed that David found it necessary to be there, too, jealous of other men gawking at his wife. The Bannings worked through these problems.

Bob Anderson had persuaded Linda Phillips to become his executive assistant at Anderson Manufacturing. Linda had persuaded Bob to become her bed partner. Linda's presence at the plant was a thorn in Bob's daughter Mary's side. Before Bob left on a promotion tour, he asked Linda to break her engagement to Tommy Horton, but couldn't promise anything else yet, though he admitted he was falling in love with Linda. After Bob left, Linda broke with Tommy, whom she had only been using to make Bob jealous. While Bob was in L.A., he suffered chest pains and was hospitalized. Mary told Chris, who helped her make travel arrangements. Linda interrupted, saying Mary was overreacting, and that she, not Mary, should go, as Mary would just upset Bob. Mary and Chris saw through her, and it was Mary who went. Chris was delighted to have blocked Linda this time, but Linda wasn’t to be thwarted. When Bob and Mary returned, she had reorganized the chain of command so that she then decided what Bob saw, making all executive decisions about which projects would be funded. Bob accepted her plan, presented as a way of helping him lighten his work load, in view of his recent problems. Bob almost proposed to Linda, having discovered he loved her, but wanted to make sure he was in perfect health before making a committment to a "young wife." Tom Horton checked Bob out and told him to proceed with marriage plans if he wanted, but Bob wanted to wait until all test results were in.

Bill Horton and Kate Winograd were fired from the hospital's staff after a young intern lied that Bill had ordered him from the operating room and taken over delicate brain surgery on Fred Barton, even though Bill wasn't board certified for surgery at the time. In truth, Rick Stevens panicked and walked out, concocting his story to cover himself. Chief of Surgery Walter Griffin had Stevens transferred to Chicago after the incident. Barton was paralyzed from the waist down. He had filed a malpractice suit against the hospital, Bill and Kate. The hospital wanted to settle, but Bill, with Kate's support, refused, saying what he did save Barton's life and Stevens was lying. Chief of staff Greg Peters, unable to get through to Bill, went to Bill's wife Laura, asking her to intervene. Greg felt that if Bill settled, he could get his case reopened in front of a board of inquiry and get Bill and Kate reinstated. Laura, who felt Bill was being unreasonable in not settling, that he was tilting after windmills of principle, presented the case, but Bill was adamant that the case come to trial, as that was the only way to be exonerated of something he didn't do. Feeling Laura was not on his side, Bill turned to Kate. Kate, however, resisted his advances, with difficulty, as she was falling in love with him. Bill moved to the Salem Inn after a fight with Laura. The family tried to get them together.

Langford, Barton’s attorney, felt the strongest things they had in their favor were Fred's confinement in the wheelchair, which would make the jury sympathetic, and the fact that Bill was not board certified for surgery. Langford warned Fred not to lose his vile temper in court or to let it become public knowledge that he beat his wife. Fred denied beating Jean, blaming neighbor Maggie Horton for spreading rumors. Jean had been attending a group for battered wives. Fred demanded she stop attending; Jean refused, adding she would no longer take any abuse from him. Fred started after her in the wheelchair, but Jean managed to lock herself in the bedroom. She called Marlena for help, then packed her bag. Getting past Fred, Jean left, brushing past Marlena on her way out. Fred came out of the elevator as Marlena pushed the button. She told him Jean was gone and asked to talk. They got stuck in the elevator.

Walter Griffin, who refused to return to the hospital to do the surgery on Fred because he was worried about his daughter, Patti, who was out past curfew, sent Patti to visit his sister-in-law after Patti was involved in an accident with Ron Garvey, who had been drinking. Ron had broken up with Patti before she left Salem.

Greg learned from Rick Stevens, after Mickey visited Stevens, that the intern would return and testify on Bill's behalf. Griffin, who had had a long-standing feud with Bill, who felt Griffin was knife-happy, couldn’t believe that Bill was story is the true story.

While trapped in the elevator with Fred, Marlena gained insight into his psychological problems: Fred was a battered child, whose alcoholic father not only beat his mother and him, but occasionally locked Fred in the closet. Thus, he was angry at himself and not only abused himself with incredible expectations for success that were impossible to achieve, he stroke out at the extensions of himself, Billy and Jean. After loosening up briefly, Fred again became wary. Meanwhile, when Don couldn't reach Marlena while on a speaking tour, he finally called Greg Peters. Greg learned from Marlena's secretary that she was headed for the Barton apart-ment. When he couldn’t get any answer on the phone, Greg became concerned and went over, discovering Fred and Marlena's plight. Although Fred continued to resist therapy, he was haunted by Marlena's words that she could help him.

David Banning was promoted by Bob to become Linda's assistant. Bob gave Linda the title of chief administrative officer. Linda didn’t want David in her office; Mary and Chris were delighted that a friend would be close to Linda.

Arlo went to Larry Atwood and asked for a bigger piece of the action, threatening to blow the whistle on Atwood if he didn’t get it. Atwood told him he couldn’t trust someone who could't follow orders, like keeping his job at Doug's Place. He warned Arlo to just get out of town. Atwood then had Arlo beaten up. Arlo found his way to Mary's studio, where Mary and Chris got him medical attention. In the hospital, Arlo received a threat: get out of town or he would be killed. Arlo was touched by Robert's overtures of friendship and concern. Unsuspicious, Jeri Clayton let herself being seduced by Atwood and spent the night with him.

Bill tried to persuade Kate to become his mistress. Kate refused, telling Bill she refused to spend her life being alone on important occasions, as all married men loved their wives on some level and spent those occasions with them.

Mike Horton was casually dating Margo Anderman. Margo began an improvement program to impress Michael but he was only interested in hanky-panky.

The Doctors

Written by: Mel & Ethel Brez

Produced by: Chuck Weiss

Steve Aldrich’s son, Erich had been having periodic bouts of tiredness, which had prevented him from playing with friends or attending school. Alarmed because of Erich's heart trouble when he was an infant, Steve and Carolee took Erich to Matt Powers for an evaluation. After examining Erich, Matt concluded that Erich had one of two conditions: paroxysmal tachicardia, small episodes of runaway heart beats which could be controlled by drugs, or Parkinson-White syndrome, a fatal condition, usually. When medication didn’t work, Matt put Erich through more tests, which revealed Erich definitely had the latter condition, in which tissues called the Bundle of Kent were obstructing proper blood flow through the heart. There were two methods of treatment, both extremely risky: surgery or a restricted lifestyle. While Steve and Carolee were trying to decide which option to choose, Erich made the decision. He asked for surgery, as he couldn’t stand not being able to play and be active. When Steve and Carolee concured, Matt began the search for a surgeon, as the operation was fairly new and few men had done it. Matt discovered that a pioneer in the area was then living in the U.S. Matt contacted Dr. Colin Wakefield, who agreed to a consultation. When he arrived, late, from Duke Medical Center, he insulted everyone by insisting on redoing the tests, without consulting those already done, and refusing to discuss anything further until he met Erich. Wakefield also insisted on taking Erich to Duke for the surgery, until he toured Hope's facilities and decided they were adequate. He and Erich got along fine. Everything ran smoothly for a while, until Wakefield insisted he wouldn't do the surgery, even though he had discovered two Bundles of Kent, until Steve and Carolee told Erich he could die on the table.

Learning ex-husband Jason Aldrich and Nola Dancy had eloped, Doreen Aldrich attempted to re-establish a relationship with former lover Luke Dancy, Nola's brother, who was then working as an artist for the newspaper. Luke wasn’t over-enthusiastic about resuming their relationship, even though Doreen offered managing Andre's as an enticement. However, Luke hadn't counted on interference from his father, Barney. Having parleyed $875 of wife Virginia's savings into a $5000 nest egg by playing the horses, Barney had gone after more of a good thing. He and Virginia planned to spend the $5000 to buy a candy store. But they needed stock and display cases, etc. So Barney had been playing long-shots again with the nest egg. He was then broke, as Luke discovered one day. Unable to disappoint his mother, Luke told Barney he could bail him out. Luke went to Doreen and got a loan for $5000, and agreed to discuss taking over Andre's again, in a positive light.

Matt Powers finally swallowed his pride and suggested wife Maggie move home again, hopeful they would be able to work things out. - Maggie moved out when Matt withheld forgiveness and understanding after daughter Greta told him Maggie had spent the night once with architect Kyle Wilson. Even Maggie's assurances that her love for Matt had grown stronger hadn't moved him 'til then. - Greta was in love with Billy Aldrich and they had been making love without contraception, as Greta felt it was the only way to keep Billy's interest as he was in college and surrounded by "all those college girls." Greta had been trying to get counsel from Maggie, whose own problems had led her to neglect Greta. So, Greta and friend Judy journeyed to a birth control clinic in a nearby town. But Greta panicked. She told Billy, however, that she got a diaphragm. After Maggie moved back home, she and Greta finally got to talk, and Maggie realized the pressure Greta felt, but she was concerned about permitting contraceptives. Matt refused absolutely, saying he wouldn’t push away his standards to conform to Greta's wishes, feeling that giving her contraceptives was giving her a license to make love. Greta returned to the clinic for a diaphragm, but couldn’t be fitted until after her next period — which was a week late! Maggie and Matt discussed Greta again, and Maggie convinced Matt that it was better to be safe than sorry because Greta really believed she was in love with Billy. Ironically, Billy was not committed to Greta, confiding to a buddy that he was seeing other girls, and that even though he was fond of Greta, he was not going to see her exclusively. Greta made another appointment at the clinic and was talked into a pregnancy test. Matt talked to Steve, suggesting Steve talk with Billy. Billy understood what Steve was saying about Greta's feeling pressure to make love with him, but also suggested to Steve that the male wasn't always the initiator.

Mike Powers was in love with Sara Dancy, who had quit her job as Jason's secretary to take courses and to work at Hope as a psychiatric social worker. Sara sidestepped marriage at this point, saying she was too busy with starting a new career and wasn't ready for a marital committment. Mike asked if she was still in love with the doctor from the Peace Corps? Sara sad not, that she got over Colin Wakefield when she learned he was married. Sarah decide to move into Nola's old apartment. Mike avoided telling her that Wakefield was in town to operate on Erich Aldrich.

Jason and Nola Aldrich returned from a glorious honeymoon in Mexico following their elopement. They decided to live with Mona for a while. Mona, although not altogether approving of Nola, appeared to be going out of her way to introduce Nola into their social world and to also make Nola comfortable in it. Nola was enjoying her new status, but was annoyed when Jason wouldn’t drop his work late in the evening to go dancing.

When Carolee and Steve were unable to tell Erich he could die on the operating table, Colin took it upon himself to reveal the hazard to the boy. Steve and Carolee were furious, but Colin explains to Steve that knowing the truth usually caused the patient to muster his will to live, an important factor in Erich's recovery. Erich didn’t seem too upset.

Colin and Sara ran into each other outside Erich's room. Sara was able to banter lightly with Colin, but when he visited her office later, she seemed very tense. Mike was helping Sara move into Nola's old apartment. While she was packing, Sara told Virginia that it was totally over with Colin, in addition to which, she had never got involved with a married man, which Colin obviously was. Mike still felt threatened by Colin. Sara's feelings for Mike were strong, but she didn’t find him particularly exciting. Everyone wondered about the mysterious personal tragedy in Colin's life.

Mona made great effort to introduce Nola into her social circle. Nola felt great pressure to impress Mona's friends, as she sometimes still thought of herself as the housekeeper's daughter, not Jason's wife. Jason warned that the best way to impress those people was to be herself.

Greta was pregnant. She called Billy, who was furious at first at being summoned. They agreed that the best course was an abortion, but Greta refused to confide her condition to Maggie. Judy tried to persuade Greta to accompany her to her cousin's house in Springfield, where Greta could get the abortion without seeing anyone who knew her. Greta was afraid of complications and death.

The Edge of Night

Written by: Henry Slesar

Produced by: Erwin Nicholson

Things had barely had time to cool down at Monticello's Police Headquarters since Ray Harper confessed to the Richardson/Drake murders. On his first day on the job as detective, Steve Guthrie received an anonymous letter written by Raney Cooper, Tony Saxon's new associate, tipping him about an account in the name of James Armstead at Monticello Trust. The tip was Tony Saxon's name was connected with the account. Attorney Mike Karr used his influence with the bank manager resulting in the discovery that sixty to seventy thousand dollars went in and out of that account at one time and James Armstead was an alias for Tony Saxon. Tony was already famous for his surreptitious maneuvers behind a political facade. This led assistant D.A. Logan Swift to comment that Kevin Jamison's recent appointment to the Crime Commission was manipulated by Tony to get Kevin "in his back pocket." Kevin might as well be there, since he had reached a frustrating dead end with the other cronie members of the commission who seemed satisfied to dwell only on the up-front crimes occurring on the streets. Kevin's goals were to dig into the underground operations.

Raney made an intentional - ? - mistake of relaying a message from Armstead for Tony while in the presence of Steve, who caught and questioned Tony's association with the name. Tony walked out without an answer.

Eager to join Steve in the rank of detective was Steve's police buddy Calvin. The Richardson/Drake murder case had been put to rest, but the Block Street Murder mystery was wide open. Calvin involved Steve's girlfriend Deborah Saxon in some undercover work, hoping to uncover the identity of a man who had murdered several red-heads, one of whom was a policewoman in disguise. Knowing Steve was against risking Deborah's life in police work again, Calvin was reluctant to continue. Deborah, however, having the taste of challenge from her undercover work for Steve, insisted going through with it. Together they set up an unofficial stakeout using Deborah as a decoy and her natural red hair the prime lure for her suspect. Calvin was riding high as he and Deborah nabbed a man on the make for her. Steve stumbled on a contradiction that the man booked for suspicion of the Block Street murders was their culprit when he shut the locker door of a cop whose beat just happened to be Block Street and discovered several photos of women … all redheads!

Lt. Chandler felt there was good consideration to be given to his friend Dr. Roper's suggestion that the murderer was "trained to kill." He had a hard time convincing Chief Marceau that their suspect could be a cop. Even with Steve's latest bulletin, received from Officer Vinney Ryerson's former partner, Marceau couldn’t believe one of his men could've gone astray. Steve knew this was their man because of his past in Vietnam, gaining instant killing techniques and his wife, a redhead herself, left him cold and dry for her lover. Ryerson repaid them both with a beating that left permanent scars. Chandler asserted that a mentally insane person could work in any profession.

Meanwhile, Ryerson learned from Calvin of the decoy and, using his protective police business as his own decoy, got Deborah away from Calvin's eagle eye and out the back door of the bar into an alley.

Dr. Miles Cavanaugh had been instructed to meet philanthropist Owen Crimmons at the clinic where Miles' friend, Dr. Dave Roper worked. - Miles refused to pussyfoot Crimmons to please his father-in-law for the sake of a healthy donation to the Claremont Hospital. - Furious with the news that Crimmons took his half million dollars and gave it to the underprivileged clinic, as Miles suggested, Denise's father ordered Miles to forget his medical duties for as long as it took to replace the money he poured down the drain. In the heat of an argument, Miles resigned as the prestigious Claremont's chief-of-staff. Miles' wife Denise thought Miles would have his sulk, then be back. To the contrary, Miles had gone to Monticello and accepted Dave's job offer as a physician on the clinic staff. Denise received a letter from Miles instructing her to begin apartment hunting in Monticello. With the evidence clear he was not returning to the Claremont, Denise vowed Nicole Drake would not take Miles away from her. - When Nicole spent her high risk pregnancy at the Claremont, Denise, consistent to her possessiveness, never missed an opportunity to accuse Miles of desiring vivacious, widowed Nicole. He denied her every accusation but while Nicole slept after the birth of her son, he admitted his love to her. –

April Cavanaugh was very excited that despite her delicate heart condition, Draper Scott proposed to her. The excitement proved too much for her weakened heart to handle and while Miles was visiting his sister, she passed out. He had her rushed to the hospital. Realizing her days were numbered, April, at first, refused to marry Draper. She explained she couldn’t guarantee her permanency. Draper's love and thoughtfulness penetrated April's fear over the surgery that could save her life. She surprised and pleased both Miles and her doctor, Dr. Bernham with her approval for the microsurgery because—she was going to be married!

April, while resting before surgery, met Charlie, the hospital electrician. He recognized April because he used to be employed at the Claremont, until Denise fired him. April found it unbelievable that Denise, as Charlie swore, blamed him for cutting the wires of the patient call board. He went on that it was Denise who let Miles' patient die and blamed Charlie for the faulty wires. - Denise's jealousy, pushed to the limit by the attractive and flirtatious Katharine Dane, made her deliberately ignore Katharine's call for help, using faulty wires as her alibi. –

Newlyweds Raven and Kevin Jamison had yet another lover's quarrel because of Raven's dishonesty. Her excuse to Kevin that she was visiting sick April backfired when Draper told Kevin April had been hospitalized. Raven wiggled out of Kevin's angry accusations and was once again on her way to Logan Swift's apartment with Kevin's apologies. Logan wasn't welcoming Raven with open arms, protesting to being the object of her infidelity. He even dated his secretary Maggie to raise Raven’s jealousy. Just to ensure her story this time, for Kevin's benefit, Raven called April. April's news of her engagement did not sit well with Raven. She blurts out "Draper took pity and proposed to Little Miss Heart Attack." The bell rang clear to Logan — she didn’t want Kevin or himself— Raven wanted Draper Scott! He pushed her out the door and out of his life.

Raven checked out Draper's intentions, hoping his proposal wasn't a gesture of goodwill. Draper just learned from Dr. Bernham April might die on the operating table because of the damage caused to her heart when her father misdiagnosed her illness. Her reserves were poor. Despite this news, he assured Raven he intended to spend the rest of his life with the woman he loved. He credited Raven for the proposal. When she had alerted him to the seriousness of April's illness, it forced him to face his feelings and then he knew he wanted to marry April.

Raven was living up to Kevin's description of his wife as having a terminal case of spoiled rottenness by refusing to leave the comfort and luxury of Geraldine Whitney's mansion, even after Geraldine became Mrs. Anthony Saxon. That gala event took place at City Hall on Friday, January 13. Geraldine boasted to her new bridegroom, she was the happiest woman alive.

For Richer, For Poorer

Written by: Tom King

Produced by: Paul Rauch

Jason Saxton gave Roger Hamilton an ultimatum. He wanted a partnership in the Cushing brokerage house or he would leave with his clients. He had had an offer and couldn’t wait long. Roger told his son Desmond about Jason's threat. Roger would propose a vice-presidency and let him know Edith's decision. Roger told Edith and Austin Cushing that he suggested the vice-presidency as a compromise because Jason wanted a partnership. Maybe they could use this to buy time to win back some of the influential clients Jason had acquired since Richard's death. Austin had to break the news to Amy that he would be working full-time until Jason could be stopped.

Roger and Desmond asked Laurie to take her stock account away from Jason. Laurie went to Jason with that intent, but was seduced by Jason and then confided to him that Roger, Edith and Austin intended to take clients from him. Jason confronted Edith, but she denied any plot. Jason visited Barbara Manners to enlist her aid in his fight, saying they were both outsiders, as far as the family was concerned. - Barbara was Richard's mistress before his death. He left her stock and a seat on the board, Richard's daughter Megan was grateful to Barbara for keeping him there. Her parents marriage had been almost non-existent. –

Laurie couldn’t resist Jason even though she feared Desmond might learn of their relationship. Laurie's mother overheard a phone conversation and showed up at Jason's to retrieve Laurie. Jason tried to convince Laurie that nothing had changed.

Megan Cushing was throwing herself into her job at the magazine since her breakup with Bill Saxton. Stan Hillman had put her in touch with Mrs. Quinn, who lived in a rough neighborhood that was terrorized by the Savage Avengers, a street gang. Her son's body was found in a burnt tenement, and the police implied he set the fire. She claimed her son was helping an old woman who had been frightened by the gang move her belongings. Someone saw a gang member follow her son into the building.

A member of the Savage Avengers, Paco, the Information Minister, contacted Megan and insisted she meet them at Mrs. Quinn's to talk things over. Hearing that Megan was investigating street gangs, Bill was concerned for her safety. He insisted that if Stan was unable to accompany her in that part of town, she call him to go along.

Lee Ferguson visited Amy Cushing and insisted that she talk to him or he would camp on her doorstep. He said he was not leaving town until he found out what had his sister Connie so uptight. Lee learned nothing from Amy, but bluffed Connie into spilling the whole story. She not only told him she was pregnant and got Megan Cushing to call off her marriage to Bill Saxton, she even admitted she got pregnant on purpose. Lee confronts Bill and said that if Bill wouldn’t do right by Connie, he would take things into his own hands. Lee told Connie that they could force Bill into marriage if he thought he would never see the baby again. He made arrangements for Connie to go to a home where « private » adoptions were arranged for money. This way Bill wouldn't be able to find her. Connie talked a little too much to Harriet, the potential adoptive mother. Realizing that Connie had no intention of giving up her baby, Harriet tried to force Connie into signing papers giving Harriet the right to arrange adoption. Lee arrived just in time to take Connie from Harriet's care.

Hearing that Connie intended to give the baby up for adoption, Bill told his brother-in-law, lawyer George Kimball, that he wanted custody of the baby. George thought that Connie might be involved in an illegal adoption. Lee brought Connie into court and she was able to make a favorable impression, causing the judge to deny Bill's petition. While at Harriet's, Connie was told how one girl faked suicide to get out of the home. She told Lee that she was sure Bill would fall for this. First they had to make people think that her state of mind was such that she would take her life. They had George over to discuss support and Connie cried without reason. Then she visited Amy and talks about understanding why people killed themselves.

Ellie Kimball let it slip in front of her father that Bentley was quitting school to get a job. Learning that his wife Josie knew about this as well as her keeping secret that Bill was the father of Connie's expected baby led Lester Saxton to believe that his family didn’t need him. He had stayed sober for several weeks, but was still unable to get a job and his family treated him as an emotional cripple.

Josie and Bill had both asked Jason to find Lester a job at Cushing's, but he had refused. When George told Desmond how down Lester was, Desmond said he really could use Lester.

Bentley asked Austin's help in finding Lester. Lester refused to leave the bar so Austin stayed with him. When told about Desmond's offer, Lester was too proud to take a job he didn't find himself.

Connie visited Bill to tell him not to worry about her. Learning that he was leaving on an assignment, she put her suicide note in his camera case. Lee had taken Ira to friends for the day. He told Connie that if he didn’t hear from her in an hour and a half, he was coming back. Connie emptied the remaining pills down the drain after taking three, and then lay down to await Bill's arrival.

Bill’s assignment was to accompany Megan to Mrs. Quinn's. Upon their arrival they found that Paco was already there and had intimidated Mrs. Quinn. When he returned home, Bill opened his camera case and found Connie's note. He phoned, but there was no answer.

Lee called an ambulance when he found Connie unconscious. Lee let it slip that this wouldn't have happened if Bill had gotten there earlier. Bill blamed himself for not taking Connie seriously. When Lee told him that Connie was in a coma from an overdose, Ira remembered that it was Lee who wanted him out of the house.

Desmond had found a house that he thought they would like. Upon hearing this news, Viola told Laurie that she would not let her move into a situation where it would be easier for her to cheat on Desmond. Confronted by Viola, Jason said that if she asked Edith to fire him, Desmond would surely learn of Laurie's infidelity.

After he sobered up, Les decided to see Desmond about the job he was offering. Desmond needed someone to set up his new law office, but when he leared that Les did law research in the service he told him that he needed him more than ever.

Bentley told Lester that he quit school because he was a lousy student. After a calm discussion Bentley agreed to enroll for summer classes.

Edith had Roger and Jason to dinner to celebrate Jason's promotion to vice-president. Edith tried to remain jovial even when Jason showed how happy he was that Megan was able to join them for dinner.

Jason was sympathetic when Megan asked if he understood why she had to call off the wedding. Jason said that it was the only thing she could do. Megan was startled when Jason said that Bill had been spending a lot of time with Connie.

General Hospital

Written by: Richard & Suzanne Holland / Douglas Marland

Produced by: Tom Donovan / Gloria Monty

On Monday, January 16th, the soap expanded to 60 minutes, airing from 3:00 to 4:00.

Alan Quartermaine had been summoned to a meeting in New York by the chemical corporation which was considering setting up its executive center in Port Charles. All indications were that the decision would be positive, making a new Cardiac Wing at General Hospital more suitable to the sudden population growth than the helicopter relay service Alan felt would be adequate. Alan telephoned Monica to ask her to cancel a scheduled test-run helicopter flight he had set up with Rick Webber as part of a demonstration of the plan he had been prepared to recommend. Dr. Gail Adamson was a witness as Monica lied to Alan, making it clear to Gail when she hung up, that despite the threatening weather, and Alan's specific orders to the contrary, she intended to go ahead with the flight, substituting herself for Alan.

That evening, Rick and Lesley Webber were to host a holiday party which Lesley had decided to go ahead with despite her depression - which she gave out to be illness - for the past few days over her unhappy situation with her daughter Laura.

Laura told Scotty Baldwin that she intended to ignore Lesley’s messages asking her to be home early that day before the party, saying that David Hamilton could help Les with the last minute preparations but she needed time to think of a way to keep Lesley from checking further into the prescription records at Mercy Hospital Clinic and learning that she was referred there by Monica. She arranged to join Scotty, his father Lee, and Dr. Gail Adamson to drive over together, arriving after the first guests were there and intending to give Lesley no opportunity to talk to her as she would have to change into suitable party clothes. By the time they arrived, Lesley had learned that Rick had not been back to the hospital and Gail murmured to Lee Baldwin that she could strangle Monica when Dorrie called back to relay a message from the flight base that the helicopter was overdue in a heavy snowstorm and when last heard from, the pilot was looking for a place to put down to wait out the storm.

After an anxious wait with a houseful of guests, Lesley heard that Rick, Monica and the helicopter pilot had made it to Lake Forrest ranger station where they had made radio contact and intended to spend the night. Laura had been so upset by Lesley's unhappiness that Lesley gently apologized to her, saying that she had been accusing when she just should have asked what she wanted to know. When she questioned Laura, she was told that she heard about the clinic through friends but when Lesley asked who was the doctor who prescribed the pills, Laura mentioned the name of the doctor who examined her and Leslie did not detect the distinction.

After Monica and Rick returned to Port Charles, Monica arranged to have a reporter from the Daily Record interview Rick about the fact that their pilot had hurt his arm and Rick had flown the helicopter out.

Alan Quartermaine, after seeing the paper and talking with Rick, asked Monica whether he did or did not cancel that helicopter run. He went on to say that the whole trip was unnecessary to the survey and he was then reading about her as if she was some heroine who risked her life on a rescue mission. He told her evidently she couldn’t obey orders and make decisions that weren’t based upon personal gain. Monica told Alan that she would not stand there and be treated like a school girl and walked out, but to Gail Adamson she admitted that she arranged the whole thing on nothing more than a whim. She insisted that Rick was ancient history and confided to Gail that she had been thinking Alan could give her a life she never knew existed.

Heather Grant had moved into the papartment Dr. Jeff Webber leased for her when he hoped to bring her and their baby son Stephen Lars back from New York. - Jeff had been told that the baby died from pneumonia when Heather was ill with the flu in N.Y., but the adopted son of Peter and Diana Taylor, Peter Jr. – called P.J. – was really his son. –

Heather, who paid for the forged documents necessary out of the $10,000 settlement Peter and Diana believed had been made with the child's grandmother, had been frightened by strange, silent, and finally threatening phone calls warning her to leave town. The calls had been made by Lana Holbrook – Holden - a jealous psychotic, who was in love with Jeff, in her fashion. Dr. Peter Taylor had urged Jeff, who was determined to check into Lana's background in Canton, New York, to pretend to go along with Lana's expressed wish that he not try to check into her "sister" Lisa's medical history or the source of the report of Lisa's death, because Peter was worried about Lana's violent streak, and needed a few more sessions with her to make things clear to him. Peter had not told Jeff the full extent of Lana's hatred of Heather, but when Jeff called from Canton saying that there was no trace of a "Carrie Simpson," Lana's supposed Aunt who had signed the telegram reporting Lisa's death, or of an L. Holden, to whose account it was charged, Peter told Jeff to see him for a conference as soon as he got back.

Just before Jeff left town, he was having dinner with Heather, and Lana, overhearing their date arrangements, got into Heather's apartment, removed some pictures of Stephen Lars, and threw them out into the snow. Later she visited Heather because she had called her once and spoke as Lisa, the gentle side of the split personality phenomenon that existed side-by-side with Lana's bitter violence. She wanted to impress Heather that she had been having an attack and was calling to locate Jeff, and that Heather had been mistaken in thinking she heard the name "Lisa." While there, she took a phone call while Heather was tending P.J. and used it as an excuse to test Heather's reaction to the name Mrs. Hadley.

Against Dr. Steve Hardy's strong objections, Mark Dante had begun a final series of tests preparatory to his decision to go ahead with a highly dangerous operation on Lamont Corbin. Mark had told Lamont and his wife Katy that he would operate as soon as famous surgeon Dr. Copeland arrived to assist him, saying he then believed he had no right to deny Lamont his chance since they both understood the risks he would be taking.  Katie fantasized making love with Mark and felt guilty about it.

David Hamilton had decided to use the information he had obtained by virtue of his being at General Hospital for therapy and his insider's position in Drs. Rick and Lesley Webber's home, to offer a day-by-day, hour-by-hour report of Lamont's operation - which had been kept secret by a strict news blackout by Corbin Enterprises - to a Mr. Cates for the purpose of stock manipulation, even in the face of a warning by Cates that Hamilton would be playing in rough company and risking his life if the information should prove false. As Hamilton was on his way down from this meeting, he met Laura and Scotty - who had spent the night together in Lee's suite - in the hotel elevator. Lee was out of town with Dr. Gail Adamson on some personal legal business of Gail's – Gail was having trouble collecting her husband’s inheritance because of her ex-mother-in-law –. David told them that he would make it a point to see that he forgot the meeting if they would do the same, though they were convinced he was being kind and had no real reason to want to cover up his own presence there, as he had just been on a job interview.

Laura, who had told Lesley that she spent the night with a young nurse-in-training, Barbara Spencer who covered up for her, had lost her wallet. As Scotty searched in vain for it, a hotel maid found it in Lee's suite.

When Gail Adamson contacted Monica Webber, she learned that Monica had stayed the night with Alan Quartermaine at his hotel and that Alan had offered her the use of his hotel apartment - and room service -, and planned to make his base of operations in Port Charles. Gail expressed the hope that Monica was not building another fantasy around Alan but Monica insisted that she had changed.

Lesley got a call from the Charleston Hotel, informing her that her daughter's wallet was found in Mr. Baldwin's suite. Lesley told Rick what had happened and that she couldn't close her eyes any longer; that she had to have it out with Laura. Rick corrected her—they both had to confront Laura. Lesley was concerned that if she didn’t speak to Laura in private, she would lose the chance to be Laura's friend. Rick told her, "be her mother."

Laura told Lesley that she probably had dropped the wallet when Scotty picked her up at Barbara's that morning and she went with him to pick up something for Lee. Lesley told her that Barbara had volunteered, as part of the cover-up story, that she had seen Laura directly to the bus-stop that morning. Laura wailed, accusingly, that the last time they'd talked, they had agreed that their relationship would be one of trust but Lesley interjected "based on lies?" Scotty’s roomate, Darren Blythe, was showing interest in Laura while Barbara tried to learn more about Scotty’s future inheritance. Barbara reased and taunted Darren.

Dr. Peter Taylor , awaiting Jeff's return, had persuaded Heather to stay on overnight, babysitting, in order that Heather would have to cancel a dinner Lana had arranged with her. The following day, he warned Heather not to let anyone in and to call him if there was trouble. Heather learned from her mother, when Mrs. Grant unexpectedly dropped by, that Lana had been trying to reach her, even calling up Mrs. Grant's house early that morning and that the girl sounded "strange." Heather was preoccupied, worried that P.J. would awake from a nap before Mrs. Grant - the baby's real grandmother - left.

When Jeff arrived, Peter played the tapes he had of Lana, spliced together, for Jeff and Steve, and told them he believed that Lisa and Lana were twins who co-existed in the same body, an hysterical condition, and that what Jeff took to be the symptoms of Breechman's Disease, might be physical manifestations of a fugue state, after the loss of consciousness by one person and before the other emerged. Peter suggested that when Lisa appeared in Port Charles, she might have been fleeing from a murder Lana committed.

Guiding Light

Written by: Bridget & Jerome Dobson

Produced by: Allen Potter

Eve Stapleton’s sister, Rita was learning to adapt to Eve's blindness from Blake Came Syndrome. A psychiatrist enlightened her that friends and relatives tended to smother a blind person's impulses for self-help. At the Springfield Institute for the Blind, Mr. Farrell, a blind person himself, counseled Rita that Eve's rejection for her fiance Ben McFarren was Eve's instinct Ben wouldn’t have the patience and understanding to withstand the tribulations of marriage to a blind woman. He advised Rita to give Eve encouragement to do things for herself. Ben persisted he would marry Eve. He blamed himself because the Syndrome was initiated by a fall Eve had to avoid seeing Ben with his former fiancee. He asked Eve if he were blind, would it make a difference to her? Was she punishing him? After balking at Rita's suggestion that she get her own drink, Eve conceded to Rita's insistence and succeeded at her first task in darkness. Inspired by her triumph, she made a difficult trip down stairs to Rita's apartment. Ben was hopeful because of Eve's progress. At the Institute, Ben convinced Mr. Farrell that his devotion to Eve was not out of pity or guilt. Ben recorded a tape because Eve had refused to see him. In it he admitted to some guilt. They would have to be patient with each other. It was a risk he wanted to take.

Mike Bauer had been mentally tormented by his recent discovery that his father, who was reported killed in an aircrash ten years ago, was alive! He could keep the secret no longer and decided he had to go to Bill Bauer/Moray to ensure Bill upheld his agreement to return to Springfield and tell the truth to Bert and Ed.

As a last attempt attempt to dissuade Mike, Bill answered Mike's repeated question, "Why didn't he let his family know he was alive?" The story was : Bill met Simone during business trips to Switzerland. They both realized his responsibility was to his Springfield family and even though their friendship grew into deep love, they agreed they had to part. Simone married but finally depressed by her frustrations over her alcoholic husband wrote Bill. Still loving her, Bill went to Simone to investigate any hardships done to her. There was where he was told by Simone's embittered husband, Victor Kincaid, that Hillary was Bill's daughter. Bill later gave Hillary a keepsake locket for a birthday gift. During one of his tirades, Victor tore it off her neck and hit her brutually. When Bill called Simone before changing planes, she needed him to help Hillary who was in a deep depression, locked in her bedroom for three days. Bill had called Bert, she and the boys were his contented family and so Bill's choice was inevitable. He didn't board the plane that later crashed, he went to Vancouver to help Hillary. He explained the locket as overstepping his boundaries with her "father" so Victor took his resentment for Bill out on Hillary. She was pacified, but not told in her vulnerable state about Bill. The plane crash was Bill's personal hell and his guilt drove him onto an off-and-on bender that lasted almost a year. It was Simone's devotion that saved him. As the years went on, Bill never forgot the pain he felt because he deserved to die, but it was his good friends who perished.

Mike introduced the news to Bert with the statement "It'll be difficult to under-stand, it will make you happy and it will hurt you." As the shock settled, Bert was filled with confusion. She also echoed, "why didn't he call and let us know he was alive?" She remembered how she clung to the memory of their happiness before Bill left and those memories were what gave her the strength to overcome her grief. Mike's phonecall to Bill was intercepted by Hillary, who was also confused by her stepfather and mother's reason for being in Springfield. Bill explained his "second" family, Mike's call answered Hillary's "who were they?" Simone tried to get Hillary to see past the dishonesty Bill perpetrated to the man who gave them the love and security they needed so desperately.

The moment arrived, Bert in tears, embraced Bill, ecstatic that he was alive. She demanded all he owed her is an explanation. She got just that with no excuses from Bill for his behavior. Unable to absorb more, Bert asked Bill to leave. He pleaded to let him finish but she couldn’t bear to listen to any more. Alone Bert cried profusely. Bill called Mike, regretful he came to Springfield, that the secret should have been between Mike and Bill. Then, to himself, Bill pondered that he just couldn’t reveal it all to Mike.

Hillary was the first to ask how Bill could have two wives. Simone replied that she and Bill pretended to go through a marriage ceremony for her and her brother's sake, but they knew their marriage could be in spirit only. He returned to Simone but was in such a dismal state of mind, he couldn’t answer her question if his feelings for Bert or for herself had changed.

They discussed whether Georgene Granger was really a threat to Rita. Since Rita inherited a fortune from Georgene's father-in-law, Georgene seemed obsessed with re-venge. They knew it was not coincidental that Georgene was working at Cedars, where Rita was a nurse. Georgene reassured Rita that she was there because the only way to end the pain was to experience it till it was all burned out. Rita seemed mollified by this, but didn’t know that Georgene was responsible for recent harassments against Rita. Georgene narrowly escaped exposure when Eve walked in on her spying inside Rita's apartment.

Jet-setted industrialist, Alan Spaulding had launched his new industrial park in Springfield. Adam Thorpe was Alan's general manager. Accustomed to being the dictator in all his endeavors, including his marriage, Alan was dismayed by his wife Elizabeth's recent frankness. He gave no merit to an architectural suggestion by Elizabeth, which Mike, Alan's legal aide, heartily endorsed. Elizabeth stood up to Alan, who had just labelled her interest in photography "a phase she’s going through," and protested living her life as his shadow.

Elizabeth’s first step towards becoming "someone important" was to interview for a job as photographer for the Springfield Ecology Association. Alan, as usual, was one step ahead of her and offered a healthy but anonymous contribution to the Association, which did wonders for Elizabeth's qualifications for the position. She was proud to announce she was hired on her own merit and Alan responds with innocent congratulations. Journalist Brandy Shelloe was one step ahead of Alan as she traces his footsteps to the Ecology office where her eyes landed on Alan's check—so much for "anonymous contributions."

Brandy was in Springfield to interview Alan. She was seen by Alan's friend, Jackie Marler. Jackie was unnerved at the sight of Brandy and warned Alan about her. - Jackie caught her husband Just having an affair with Brandy the day she came to announce her pregnancy. Jackie divorced Justin and led him to believe she aborted the pregnancy. Only Jackie knew that her eight year old son was Phillip, the Spauldings' adopted son. –

Dr. Justin Marler was again in love with Dr. Sara McIntyre, the woman he was engaged to in medical school, but jilted to marry Jackie. Sara was hesitant to accept Justin's proposal because her memories were still tender for her late husband Joe.

Holly Bauer had resigned herself to a life without Ed. A pleasant distraction for Holly was Dr. Peter Chapman. Paralleling Holly and Peter on the dating scene were Barbara and Max, their mother and father, respectively. Max's social life was temporarily halted when he was rushed to the hospital with an aortic aneurism. Dr. Emmett Scott believed an operation was the immediate solution while Justin prefered to withhold surgery. Justin was forced to agree when Max went into respiratory arrest. Justin was distraught by his mistake in medical judgment.

Peter allowed his past to seep through discussing his experience in the Peace Corps with Holly. He mentioned Dr. Waterman and his family, with whom he became close while in the Corps. but he still chose not to dwell on what seemed to be a sensitive nerve.

Love of Life

Written by: Gabrielle Upton

Produced by: Darryl Hickman

Arlene Lovett was sentenced for Ian Russell's murder and removed a day early to prison. She finally admitted to her mother that she was pregnant with Ian's child and didn’t want Doctor Tom Crawford to learn about it. She was determined to give the baby up for adoption.

Dory Patton, Arlene’s lawyer, was looking for something to support her appeal. She was convinced that Arlene blocked the moment from her mind and they only needed to learn how Ian fell down the elevator shaft to his death. Dory came up with the idea of having a doctor hypnotize Arlene to learn what happened. Tom contacted a specialist in New York who agreed to question Arlene about the evening of Ian's death. Mrs. Patton was disappointed when D.A. Merrick insisted on being present during the examination. She had hoped that she could submit the tapes to the D.A. only if they would help Arlene.

Arlene wouldn’t agree to submit, espe-cially knowing that Tom would be there, until Dory promised that she wouldn’t let them question her about anything other than how Ian fell. Dory was directed to the dispensary and learned that Arlene was pregnant. Arlene would rather spend the next 25 years in prison than let Tom learn she was carrying Ian's child.

Under hypnosis, Arlene remembered trying to shoot Ian, but dropping the gun when she was unable. Ian became violently mad, but as he came towards her he was holding his side. He brought something out of his pocket and dropped it. Arlene put this in her pocket so she could reach for Ian because he was stumbling backwards. Arlene was too late and Ian fell down the elevator shaft. Tom told D.A. Merrick that he could prove what happened, if he would go with him to find the dress that Arlene was wearing.

Mia Marriott was confused when Ben Harper ignored her for days and then showed up with several chapters of his book. A New Year's kiss gave her hope. Meg learned from Andrew, Mia's ex-husband, that Mia knew publisher Jay Edminston from the crowd she ran with in New York. Determined to free her son from Mia's influence, Meg imparted this information to Ben. He in turn confronted Mia, who insisted that Jay did read it and liked it on its own merits. Ben threw his manuscript into her fireplace in a rage. Mia burnt her hand retrieving it. Touched, Ben comforted Mia by kissing her hand, but left when he found himself responding to her.

Ben got a postcard from Betsy, his ex-wife, and learned from Cal that she wasn't skiing in the Alps alone. He dropped by Mia's and received the comfort he was looking for. Ben’s mother, Vanessa, would like to see her sister Meg closer to Andrew Marriot.

Rick Latimer was jealous that Cal was concerned about Michael Blake, their booarder. Meg tried to play on this, but Rick saw this as a problem that he created by not confiding in Cal and spending so much time away from home. Rick decided that they were ready for the baby Cal wanted last summer and was surprised that she had changed her mind because she was serious about her studies in architecture. When Meg learned of this, she encouraged Cal to stand firm about having a career. She said she admired Cal for deciding to postpone motherhood.

Michael finally confessed to Cal that he was ambivalent towards so-called "promiscuous women" because Marla, his mother, saw men behind his father's back. She was so conscious of her age, she insisted he call her Marla and introduced him as her little brother. She ran off with another man when Michael was 12.

Mayor Bruce Sterling had been promising his doctor that he would tell his wife that he was dying of aplastic anemia. He put it off over Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's, but when pressed by Dr. Joe Cusack Bruce admitted that he had no intention of telling Van because he didn’t think she was strong enough to handle this. When his condition was visible, he would be forced to tell her. Bruce was experiencing a lack of energy and attributed an unsuccessful attempt at lovemaking to his illness. He casually talked about impotence with his friend Dr. Andrew Marriott who offered some books on the subject. Suspecting that Bruce might be concerned for himself, Andrew said that usually the problem was psychological and easily corrected.

While Edouard Aleata and Charles Lamont waited for the judge's decision on who would get permanent custody of little Charles, they were able to talk together. Charles then couldn’t bring himself to tell Aleata that the judge had denied Edouard's petition for custody.

Charles had decided that it was time Johnny Prentiss, his grandson who had been staying with the Sterlings, should come home, as he had a baby nurse and a housekeeper. Bruce objected because when Lynn, their ward, left for college and he was gone, Van would have no one to care for if Johnny went home.

Lynn was sure that Charles' nurse, Mary Owens, had some secret that she was unwilling to share. Mary had come to Rosehill to find someone and one day thought she saw him at the hospital, only to find she was mistaken.

As Charles had won legal custody of the baby, he could think rationally. Taking everything into consideration, especially Felicia's desire to marry Aleata when she learned she was carrying his child, Charles decided to let Eddie raise the baby. He hid behind external gruffness when he admonished Aleata to raise the child with love.

Tom and Merrick found a pill box with Russell's initials in the pocket of the dress Arlene was wearing. Tom said Russell had seen him on the pretext of a heart condition, but he had advised Russell to see his own, doctor about his ulcer. Merrick had the pills analyzed and agreed that Russell's anger brought on an ulcer attack which caused him to stumble into the elevator shaft. Merrick would arrange to put things in motion so that Arlene could be released.

Arlene was worried when Tom commented that the starchy prison food had fattened her up, but he was sure that as soon as she was released she would slim down so that she would look lovely in her wedding gown. Dory told Arlene that she had faith that Arlene was honest enough to tell Tom about Ian's child before she married him.

Van thought that Bruce might find her unattractive since he avoided making love to her. The catch on Bruce's briefcase was broken and spilled its contents, exposing the book on human sexuality that Andrew had loaned Bruce. Andrew commented to Bruce that Van was unusually quiet. He had also noticed Bruce's symptoms of anemia and advised him to see his doctor.

Cal told Rick that Dory Patton had young children and was in partnership with her husband until his death. They must have worked together so that she could have a career. This led to an argument which ended in the realization they were only hurting each other. This led to a better understanding of each other's feelings.

One Life to Live

Written by: Gordon Russell

Produced by: Joseph Stuart

On Monday, January 16th, the soap expanded to 60 minutes, airing from 2:00 to 3:00.

Karen Wolek had accepted Dorian Lord's invitation to stay with her at Llanfair. Dorian was feeling lonely after her sister Melinda begged to be allowed to stay on at the private sanitarium she had been in for the past three years rather than face being under Dorian's roof and intimidated by her. Marco Dane had also implied that Dorian's offering a position as social secretary to Karen had more to do with the fact that she hated Larry Wolek and realized the humiliation Karen's living and working at Llanfair during their separation would cause him.

Shortly after taking up residence at Llanfair, Karen was back at her old pattern and was, in fact, making a compulsive play for an electrician called in to service a balky furnace at Llanfair when Larry came by to urge her to move back into their house while he took Danny and moved in for a time with Anna and Jim Craig. Karen told him she wouldn’t move back to that dreary, lonely house to satisfy his pride. Larry was also jealous of Marco's presence at Llanfair and warned Karen not to let him find out there was anything going on between them.

When Tony Lord forced a confrontation with Brian Kendall, he learned that the boy's hostility toward Tony and Pat was based on the fact that he had seen them together on Paul's birthday and wanted to protect Paul Kendall, the man he believed to be his father, out of fear that Paul would be hurt enough to give up on Pat and leave town. Tony forced Pat to tell Paul that they were lovers and Paul momentarily considered leaving town after moving out of Pat's house.

Brian ran away, finally being found by Edwina Lewis on the couch at Paul's office where he had spent the night. When Brian was returned home, Paul told him and Pat that he had decided to fly to the Caribbean to obtain a quick divorce, but promised Brian he would not move out of Llanview. Tony and Pat planned to be married immediately after Paul's return and Pat unsuccessfully tried to talk Brian into visiting the house Tony planned to buy, where he would be living with them.

In the Carribean, Paul ran into Brad and Jenny Vernon and got a glimpse of a situation where the Casino gaming tables were proving something of a rival to Jenny. Jenny, herself, saw enough - but not all there was - to experience twinges of jealousy at Brad's behavior toward the Island's attractive cocktail waitresses. Jenny was relieved that an extra long session at the tables had resulted in Brad getting even for some rather heavy losses. Brad insisted that he could then go home that night and it would be like starting over fresh.

Richard Abbott literally turned on the charm for Becky Hunt by sending her a tape recorder with an amusing message of love, forestalling all her likely protests by imitating her voice and speech mannerisms in all the places where she was likely to - and did – think up an argument. Becky left for Richard's apartment but she arrived to find Edwina making her own time with Richard, on his couch, making no effort to conceal the cozy scene Becky's coming had interrupted. Edwina went too far the following day by expressing her sympathy for the awkward situation Becky was in, but for once Becky got some of her own back by answering that when Richard came back over to her place last night, "he said I was real good about it." Humiliated to learn that Richard had hustled her off and gone running over to see Becky, Edwina asked Marco Dane to find out what he could about Becky's past. Marco agreed and tried to get Dorian to finance his setting up as a private detective. Dorian told him she would let him know.

Dorian Lord’s attitude toward Karen increasingly took on a "Lady of the Manor suffering incompetent help" tone. Karen showed some spirit but stopped short of packing up. - Dorian, by virtue of refusing to continue paying for any further resident treatment, had forced the issue and was then expecting her sister to arrive to take up residence at Llanfair. - Meanwhile, Karen had again been "shopping" with Talbot Huddleston, who, it turned out, was a member of a committee at Llanview Hospital. After picking out a fur hat to match a jacket he had previously gifted her with, Karen urged him to hurry to make up the time they had lost, as she was to have a meeting with Larry to work out their future plans. Huddleston, annoyed, put on too much speed and his car stroke a child who had run out suddenly between two cars. Horrified, Karen recognized Brian Kendall and begged Huddleston to stop. He drove on but allowed Karen to phone the police anonymously to report the incident. Just prior to this, in reaction to a remark by Brian, Pat had blurted out that Tony Lord was Brian's real father and went on to tell him the whole story. Brian was unbelieving, shocked at the thought that Kendall was not his real dad, and angry at Pat, saying that if Tony wanted to make them both happy, he should die. He screamed out that he hated her for lying to him and he didn’t want her to be his mother and ran wildly out of the house and down the streets, to dart out in front of Huddleston's car.

Dr. Larry Wolek was raving to Anna about the futility of, expecting Karen to take their marriage seriously enough to show up to meet him when he got a call from Jim asking him to tell Pat that Brian had been the victim of a hit-and-run, and had suffered massive internal injuries and a fractured skull.

When Tony learned about it from Viki, he was refused admittance to Brian's room but later, when Peter allowed him in with Pat, he realized it was because the boy is dying. After Brian died, Tony couldn’t keep in the bitterness he felt because he believed that Brian died not knowing the truth after all the times he had begged Pat to tell him. Pat couldn’t bring herself to tell Tony the truth even when he berated Will Vernon for having done enough by being party to "this deception." After Tony left, Pat told Will she couldn't tell Tony that Brian hated him at the end as Tony believed they would love each other when he knew.

Paul Kendall heard about Brian's accident and went to the hospital to learn that the boy was gone. He consoled himself that in the ways that really mattered, he was Brian's father. - Brian's last words were "where's Dad?" meaning Paul. - At Viki's, Paul told Pat that he came back from the Caribbean without getting the divorce, recalling that Brian begged him not to.

Dorian Cramer Lord had asked Karen Wolek, not too nicely, to leave Llanfair, but when Melinda did not show up on schedule, and she was not on any flight to Llanview, Dorian began to have second thoughts about being alone with her anxiety. Marco assured her it was an easy matter to cash in an airplane ticket. When Karen came down, Dorian insisted that they have a farewell drink, saying it was a mistake to hire Karen but that they had always gotten on well, socially. Unable to stop herself, she had to imply that it was a good thing that Karen would be taking up residence in the Wolek house so she could keep an eye on Cathy and Larry. Karen left in confusion. - Karen had no place else to go; Huddleston had made it very clear that she was liable for prosecution with him, in Brian's death, at least for withholding evidence, and that her marriage would be over if the truth came out. –

Richard Abbott was visiting with Mrs. Hopkins when Becky walked in with Marco Dane. When Marco went off with her, to look at the rest of the rooms in her boarding house, Richard demanded to know what Becky was doing, pointing out that she had trouble taking up with a stranger before and insisting that Marco Dane hadn't got a sterling reputation. Becky answered defensively, that lots of people had things they weren't proud of to live down, and that "don't make them bad people." Richard told her that he had been talking to the president of Marathon Records and arranged for her to cut a demo record. He insisted he wanted her trust instead of her gratitude. Becky reacted by saying that with the people around her, a person had to "give their soul away — or they're holding back." Just then, Marco came back with Mrs. Hopkins to announce that he had taken a room.

Brad and Jenny got back to hear Anna tell them that Brian had been killed and Brad said bitterly to Jenny "that's the real world you were so anxious to get back to!" The following day, Sam woke Brad up, demanding to know where he was the past evening, as she had tried to see him at the Health Club, where he had told Jenny he was going. He told her he had a belated bachelor party and wound up at a place called The Libertine. Sam told Brad that she knew where Lana's ring was ... that she saw it on Cathy Lord's finger, and that Cathy had an appointment to see their father that day. Brad showed up at the hospital cafeteria and, after obtaining a check from Will to cover his and Jenny's honeymoon expenses, told Will he needed to speak to him and asked him to cancel his next appointment. Just then Cathy Lord walked in to tell Will that she had to research an article in New York and had to leave right away. As she fumbled in her purse, she took off her glove, and Samantha realized from across the room that any moment then Will would see and recognize the ring, which had belonged to his wife, Naomi. Brad spilled coffee over the table and on Will, and, with the crisis forestalled, later told Samantha he wondered what would happen if Cathy's ring should "disappear?"

Becky Hunt met Melinda Cramer in the employees' lounge at the paper and assuming Melinda was looking for work, invited her to share coffee and lunch. She gave her directions to the personnel office and recommended Mrs. Hopkins' rooming house as being reasonably priced and clean. Melinda, after hesitating, rent a room there.

At Brian’s funeral services, Pat and Paul were together, as the boy's parents, and Tony went to the cemetary with Viki and Joe, then back to his room as Pat returned with Paul to the Riley home. Samantha admitted to Tony she had fallen in love with a man but she didn’t tell him he was the one.

Vinnie Wolek was proud that his wife Wanda had been a beer commercial spokesperson and she was offered other assignments.

Ryan’s Hope

Written by: Claire Labine & Paul Avila Mayer

Produced by: Claire Labine, Paul Avila Mayer & Robert Costello

Bill Woodard, confined to bed at Riverside Hospital due to heart trouble, had engaged wife Rae's secretary Royal to ascertain whether Rae was having an affair with Roger Coleridge. Royal had arranged for Roger's apartment to be bugged and gave the tapes to Bill. When Bill confronted her with his evidence, Rae started to cover, but Bill played the tape for her. Rae tried to convince Bill that it all meant nothing, that she really loved him. In his agitation, Bill got out of bed, then collapseed as he started to her. He suffered a serious heart attack, during which his heart stopped. Life-saving efforts by the staff were to no avail. Rae begged his forgiveness, but the only sign of it was a smile as he died.

Rae fired Royal as her secretary, but arranged for a job in the organization in Arizona for him. But she demanded he pay off the private investigator he hired and that she be given the originals and all copies of the tapes, as well as any other documents. Rae then broke with Roger.

Rae moved to a hotel, telling Frank she was not ready to move back to the Woodard apartment. She encouraged Frank's assistance with funeral arrangements. But even with Frank's support, she refused to cry, saying she was not ready. After a preliminary visit to the funeral home, Frank took Rae to Ryan's, aware his mother Maeve would be good for her. When they arrived, Jill was there, pick-ing up her son Edmund, whom her house-keeper had left with Maeve for a few hours. In her surprise at seeing Frank with Rae in these circumstances, Jill announced that she and Seneca Beaulac were living together.

The night of the funeral, Rae and Frank went out to dinner. At the restaurant Rae told Frank there would be no tears that night, that the evening was to be a celebration of Bill. But their celebration was interrupted by the arrival of Jill and Seneca. Both Frank and Jill insisted on not being disturbed by the other's presence, but it was difficult.

That night, in the restaurant Seneca again proposed to Jill. She again stated that she wasn't ready for marriage, for "promising away her whole life." Seneca then pointed out that their living together with love and respect was having a healthy, steady influence on Edmund, that children bloomed in the security provided by the presence of two parents. Jill accepted his proposal, stunning, then delighting Seneca.

Royal gave Rae the tapes and transcripts on the day of the funeral. However, when Rae made it clear Royal wasn't to be guaranteed success in his new job, he surreptitiously took a tape.

Pat Ryan, strung out on amphetimines, determined he had to kick it, or lose everything. Thus, when Delia, his wife, began demanding things again, Pat ran from the apartment. He went to friend Bucky Carter at the hospital. Bucky let him rest in his room. After checking out every other place Pat might be, including Faith Coleridge's apartment, Dee found Pat at the elevator as he was searching for Bucky to get some help. Feeling smothered by Dee, Pat decided to take the stairs. She continued to cling to him, and to keep from going under, he pushed her aside. She fell down the stairs. Pat immediately got help from Clem and Bucky. After many anxious hours, they determined Dee would be all right, but she had suffered a concussion. Roger, who still loved Dee, was puzzled by Dee's semi-conscious mumblings about Pat, the miscarriage, and Alicia. Recalling that Alicia had upset Dee once by calling her "Mrs. Brown," Roger asked Alicia what her connection was with Dee and the miscarriage. Alicia refused to discuss it. Roger then found out that Alicia worked in OB-Gyn before coming to neurology. Using his most charming manner, Roger went to records to confirm a growing suspicion: that Dee miscarried before she and Pat were married. The secretary in records let him see a file on a "Sheila Brown" who miscarried March 30. The description fit Dee, and also showed Dee disappeared without being discharged. Roger then knew that Dee waited until Pat had a 72 hour shift at the hospital after they were married, a time of her normal period, and faked a miscarriage.

Meanwhile, Roger had been uncharacteristically helpful to Pat. Roger made out the accident report on Dee, making it clear her fall was accidental, not purposeful. He then started to work to help Pat come off the drugs. As soon as Dee began to feel better, she started again demanding things of Pat —more of his time, a trip to Ireland, that he never leave her. Roger asked Pat to take a long close look at his marriage.

As Roger had the goods on Dee, he didn’t know what to do with it. He told the whole story to his sister Faith, once - and secretly still - in love with Pat. Faith was furious that Roger had told her, telling him she had spent many months of her life trying to push her feelings for Pat aside, that he had done her no favor by raising her hopes again. The consensus was that Pat would not have married 20 Dee if he'd known she wasn't pregnant.

Rae Woodard offered Alicia the job as her secretary, offering to double Alicia's salary. Bob Reid didn’t like the idea, telling Alicia he didn’t want her getting mixed up with people like Rae. Alicia pointed out that with that kind of money she could drop her suit against Pat and provide better for her brother Angel.

Mary and Frank Fenelli returned from Ireland, followed closely by Liam, who was searching for Tom Desmond, although Liam called him Tom O'Brien. Tom was upset to learn from Mary that she and Frank were in a pub in Limerick and saw his picture there. Liam, after unsuccessfully trying to find Tom O'Brien through Frank and Johnny, went to Ryan's and, using Tom's description, learned he was looking for Tom Desmond. Tom was spending time with Faith Coleridge, both being careful as they had recently been burned.

After Jill accepted his proposal, Seneca and she returned home. They made love and played with Edmund. After putting the baby to bed, Seneca told Jill that he had information about her that she was then ready to hear, as it was really over with Frank. Seneca told Jill that blood tests proved Edmund was Frank's son. Jill was horrified that Seneca, who had known this since last April, could withhold this information and thus manipulate her life. She pointed out that not knowing the truth affected important decisions in her life and in Frank's life. Seneca saw what he did as protecting Jill from a man he felt was wrong for her. Jill asked Seneca to leave, pointing out that he had no right to this family situation he had manipulated them into. Jill went to Frank's office to tell him the following day, but found him comforting Rae Woodard and left. Seneca pointed out that the opportune moment to tell her the truth never came up, either. Jill said she was not waiting for an opportune moment, only a time when Frank was alone. Meanwhile, Rae had told Frank that she and Bill had discussed running him for senator, rather than congressman. She said she had an organization all ready for when he said yes. – she had also reorganized the Woodard empire with herself as its head. - After a dinner at Gracey Mansion, Frank found himself drawn to Rae, but put aside her broad hints that she'd like the comfort of him in bed, and went to his office, where Jill was waiting.

After conning Tom’s address from the hospital operator, Liam bought a gun from a "man who can put his hands on things," and waited outside Tom's apartment building.

Search For Tomorrow

Written by: Robert J. Shaw

Produced by: Mary-Ellis Bunim

Meredith Hartford asked Stephanie Collins to the house-warming party, knowing she and Jo Vincente were enemies. That evening, Greg Hartford announced that he and Jo would be married April 14th and presented her with the family pearls. At midnight, while everyone was celebrating, Meredith was crying in the kitchen, feeling that all was lost. She was comforted by Evelyn Reedy, who had been hired to serve at the party.

Jo and Meredith interviewed for a house-keeper, but could find no one suitable. Evelyn was cleaning up after the party and Meredith suggested they ask her if she would like the position. Meredith was surprised when she refused. In private she questioned Evelyn who explained that since Mrs. Vincente would be moving in after her marriage to Dr. Hartford, she couldn’t work there. When Mrs. Vincente was in charge of personnel at the hospital, she fired Evelyn's daughter for stealing without giving her a chance to defend herself. Meredith assured her that Mrs. Vincente would never move into the house and enlisted Mrs. Reedy's help in seeing that this was true. The first step in their plan was to set up a dinner date for Jo, her father and herself. She told Jo they would all meet at the restaurant and she would use Evelyn's car. When Meredith didn’t show up, Greg called and was told that she had asked Jo to have him pick her up because Evelyn's car was not running. Jo denied this. Greg wonders what to believe when Evelyn confirmed Meredith's story. Meredith disabled Evelyn's car so that when her father checked it, he found that she was indeed unable to use it.

Jo was confused when Meredith fluctuated between being very friendly and telling what Jo knew to be out-and-out lies. She was very careful not to call Meredith a liar to her father. Jo was surprised when Meredith showed up with the satin-lined box in which her grandmother kept the pearls and insisted Jo put them in it immediately. Meredith returned at night, taking the pearls from their box and purposely leaving a red scarf bearing her name as though dropped by the desk.

Bruce Carson was becoming very bitter because Amy's residency kept her at the hospital most of the time. On New Year's Eve he met his new neighbor, Donna Davis, who became a large part of his social life. He spent many evenings in her apartment, having dinner and talking. Because Bruce rarely drank, Donna was controlling her drinking problem.

A newly-published book reminded Bruce of the past. Gail Caldwell published the book that they were collaborating on about international politics. Bruce gave her his notes when he decided to stay with Amy and his daughter, rather than leave with Gail and continue their affair. When Bruce expressed regret, Amy thought it was over his affair with Gail. Jo suggested he and Amy needed a quiet eyeing evening alone, but again Amy had an emergency. Bruce took Donna out and she could see that he was trying to prove he could have a good time even without Amy. Bruce explained to Donna the publication of this book made him feel he is a failure; Gail was a successful writer, Amy was going to be a successful doctor, and he was a reporter on a small town newspaper. Donna had a drink to prove she could stop after one.

David Sutton ran into Scott Phillips outside psychologist Carolyn Hanley's office and was ordered to stay out of Kathy's life. David explained that Kathy was not guilty of anything Scott accused her of until afterwards. David suggested that Scott take some of the responsibility for driving Kathy to infidelity. Scott had finally gotten over his anger and had decided he could accept this baby, whether it was his or David's, because he loved Kathy.

In the sanitarium, Kathy had received the rest from stress she needed to bring her blood pressure down. She was learning to cope with the stress she felt. She agreed to see Scott if Carolyn would stay with her.

David was upset after his confrontation with Scott, and he was thinking about Kathy as he drove through the blinding snow. A small boy darted out between the cars and ran in front of David's car. Witnesses told the police that there was no way David could have prevented the accident. David was even more concerned when he learned that Jamie Lawrence was an orphan who was running away. Jamie was slowly recovering from surgery, but refused to talk. David broke the barrier, explaining that he was an orphan and lived in an orphanage like the one Jamie was running from. Jamie confided that he ran away because another orphan, Kevin, was being adopted. The family had wanted Jamie until they decided on Kevin because he was younger. David tried to find out more about Jamie's mother.

John Wyatt was planning a vacation in the Bahamas with Suzi, but Stephanie Collins’ gentle persuasion got him to agree to a ski vacation in Vermont. She arranged for a suite with three bedrooms; one for John, one for Stephanie, and one for the girls.

Ellie Bergman helped Jo search thoroughly when she found the pearls missing. Discovering the scarf, Jo thought she had to tell Greg.

Evelyn told Meredith that she was wrong to take the pearls, and Meredith agreed to put them back that evening. Evelyn continued to lie for Meredith when assured that her grandson's medical bills would be taken care of in return.

Greg told Jo not to confront Meredith with this until they had more proof. Shown her scarf, Meredith said she left it at Jo's when they had lunch. Jo told Greg that she would have seen the scarf if it had been there that many days. Jo explained that this wouldn't be the first time Meredith had lied. She had not asked Meredith to find an apartment after they were married and it was not a misunderstanding.

Scott told Kathy that he loved her and wanted her to come home. He wanted to raise this child and was not concerned about whether it was his. He left reassured.

Kathy told Carolyn that she knew that Scott "wanted" to accept this baby, but eventually he could grow to hate her because the child would be a living reminder of her infidelity. She asked Carolyn to promise that a bloodtest would be taken as soon as the baby was born. She knew that there was only a slim chance that the test would prove who is not the father.

When Kathy went into labor, Carolyn contacted David and explained Kathy's request. David said he would have asked her to marry him if she had been free. Carolyn told him that Kathy intended to go home to Scott.

David learned that Jamie's mother was a farm worker and came to Henderson from California. Jamie remembered little of his life with his mother, but did tell David that he had no father. He was upset when his mother didn't return as she promised. David explained that she was too ill to keep her promise.

On the first evening Bruce and Amy had alone, Donna called to invite Bruce to dinner. He explained to Amy that he and Donna had kept each other company while she worked evenings and nights. Amy was dismayed that Bruce had not mentioned this to her before.

The Young and The Restless

Written by: William J. Bell

Produced by: John Conboy

Brad Elliot and Brock Reynolds had more competition as Lucas Prentiss stepped into the game. Leslie Brooks Elliot found him brash and he thought she was a snob. Lucas thought his brother Lance was too interested in Leslie for a married man.

Lorie Brooks Prentiss thought a mistake had been made when she received a $38,000 royalty check for a book she had refused to promote. When Lorie and Vanessa stopped by the Allegro after the doctor said Vanessa's face was healing so well that he would be able to finish her series of plastic surgery much sooner than anticipated, they found Brock with a copy of Lorie's book. Lorie assured Brock that Leslie would not be interested in this book. She called the publisher and learned that the book she published under another name had suddenly become popular. Brad saw the copy that Stuart Brooks was going to review for the newspaper and read it to assure himself that it was the book he destroyed several years ago. He confronted Lorie, who felt Leslie shouldn't be told because it could wreck her career as a concert pianist. Brad explained the situation to Stuart and said, as a psychiatrist, he thought Leslie should be told before she found out on her own. Lorie explained to her father that she had changed since she wrote the book, the story of a concert pianist who spent time in a mental hospital, and only published it because she needed the money. Lorie refused to agree to tell Leslie and was accused of only being concerned about what Lance would think of her. Brad again assured Stuart that it would cause more harm if Leslie was on tour somewhere by herself when she read the book and easily identified herself.

Lucas knew both sides of the dilemma. He had advised his mother, who started this chain of events out of spite when she thought Lorie wasn't good enough for Lance, to remain silent and hope the whole thing blew over. He had advised Lorie to do the same, not telling her that Vanessa was responsible.

Stuart broke the news about the book as gently as possible. When Leslie learned the contents, she expressed concern that this would bring up bad memories for Lorie. Stuart had to continue and tell her that Lorie regrets it then, but she was the author. Leslie was frantic when she learned that Lorie had written about her mental breakdown. As she calmed down, she said as far as she was concerned there had been another death in the family.

Kay Chancellor managed secret blood tests and then had Derek Thurston sign a marriage license along with papers for the beauty salon they were opening soon.

The jeweler called to ask if Derek was still interested in the diamond ring because he had another customer for it. Jill Foster took the message and assumed that Derek was then ready for marriage. This call forced Derek into a decision he wasn't ready to make.

That evening, after serving Derek much champagne, Kay told Derek that she thought they should enter this new business as man and wife. She was willing to give him the child he wanted. Women in love couldn't afford to have pride. If he didn’t accept her proposal, she would be forced to withdraw her support of the salon. She gave him more cham-pagne and then called the judge, a friend and his wife, to perform a marriage in her home. She explained that the bridegroom had been celebrating.

Derek was remorseful when he found himself in Kay's bed in the morning. She said he shouldn't be sorry for anything that happened, but couldn’t bring herself to tell him that they were married when she realized that he remembered nothing from the night before.

Jill was concerned when Derek didn’t show up for their date and she couldn’t locate him at home or in a hospital. When he got to the beauty shop, he admitted that he had too much to drink and spent the night with a woman. Jill's hopes for a marriage proposal were smashed.

Greg Foster had decided not to return to New York to practice law. He asked Snapper to visit Thurston with him to straighten the guy out. For the first time Derek admitted to the Foster brothers and himself that he loved Jill. Greg relayed this information to Jill and said he might not ask her to marry him immediately so she wouldn't think he was trying to make up. Liz was concerned about her daughter and confronted Derek with her opinion. Derek said there was one way to prove how serious he was and asked permission to propose to Jill. That evening Derek gave Jill the engagement ring.

Nancy Becker was determined to get her daughter back from the Fosters. She got a job so that she could afford the best custody lawyer, rather than going to legal aid. After hearing all the facts, Mr. Kincaid said that he didn’t want to handle the case. Ron suggested he duck out of the picture to make things easier for Nancy. This showed Kincaid how serious they were, and he accepted the case. Ron refused to accuse Snapper and Chris of being unfit to raise Karen. Kincaid said they would have to prove Ron had rehabilitated himself and Nancy was mentally well enough to care for Karen.

Chris Foster was determined that the Beckers would not be given custody of Karen. She didn’t believe that a man who admitted he was a rapist, who terrorized his own wife and daughter, could be a totally different person with no professional help. She knew that Nancy loved her daughter, but it had been so long that Karen didn’t recognize or remember her. Chris asked Sharon Ralston, who was a victim of Ron's years ago, to testify to what Ron was capable of. Sharon was to have surgery, but would come to dictate an affidavit.

Kincaid said that Sharon's testimony had nothing to do with this case since she hadn't seen him for many years. Sharon retorted that Kincaid had only seen the charming side of Ron. This was the man she met and invited to her home, but once there Ron became vicious. As she left the office, Ron arrived to see his lawyer. He expressed his sorrow over what he did to her. He explained that if it were only him, he would allow the Fosters to keep Karen, but his wife had done nothing to deserve this and he wanted her to be happy.

Snapper had doubts about what they were doing because he felt Nancy was well. Chris said that Ron and Nancy would both be raising Karen and she wouldn’t let Ron near her.

Lorie tried to tell Leslie that she was desperate when she wrote the book and they should not let this affect the closeness they had. Leslie charged that Lorie wrote the book to get recognition because she was jealous. She warned Laurie that she was sitting on a time bomb because Lance would learn of this.

Lorie decided to tell Lance before someone else had the chance. She explained everything, including that she wrote about tricking Brad into an engagement. Lance said that it took courage for her to write that. He was sure no one could be upset and insisted on reading the book.

After learning that Derek was the man who had changed his mother's life, Brock explained to Thurston that she expected a man-woman love from their relationship.

Lance comforted Leslie and promised to help her when she confessed her fear of not being able to play the piano again.

On 5/18/2022 at 8:18 AM, Paul Raven said:

A good summary of happenings around late 1969/early1970

During the past few weeks the suspense has been unbearable I keep gnawing my nails and wondering if Stephanie Martin is actually going to murder Nicole Travis. I really don’t think so, for somehow there is the impression that Nicole is going to win Adam Drake away from Susan Forbes and sureiy she won’t be killed before that happens. I can't be sure though.

Anything can happen in Monticcello and usually does. Nicole, Stephanie. Susan and Adam all live there and are a part of probably the most dramatic and involved program on television -  it’s a soap opera called "The Edge of Night" and it originates from CBS each weekday between 3:30 and 4 pm. The show has been running for a few years now and there Is always a crisis or two in various stages of development at any given time.

Right now the plot centres around the threat to Nicole’s life. Nicole is the daughter of Ben Travis, a kingpin in a nation-wide loan shark operation who is presently in prison. Nicole was unaware of her father's criminal activities. She has settled in Monticello and opened a ladies' wear boutique in partnership with Susan Forbes and Adam Drake is messing around with both of them. During the past few months a mysterious stranger has been telephoning Nicole quoting Shakespeare and threatening her. More recently attempts on her life have been made, and it was during one such attempt that Nancy Karr was shot.

Nancy is the wife of Mike Karr a law partner with Adam Drake. Anyhow it was recently revealed that the person menacing Nicole is none other than Stephanie Martin, who works of all places in the boutique owned by Nicole and Susan, Stephanie is a young widow who lost her husband, son and one twin daughter in a car crash awhile back, Apparently the crash somewhat deranged Stephanie so that she not only wants to kill Nicole but in the meantime had unbalanced the surviving daughter Debbie who is a patient at the Haywood Institute fur emotionally handicapped children.

The plot thickens. So does the cast.Enter Liz Hillyer. a poor little rich girl who is working at the institute and who has taken a persona! interest in Debbie. The institute director Dr Jim Field doesn't realize it but he is in love with Liz. So is Vic Lamont, a lawyer and a junior member of the law firm of Karr and Drake.He has a manslaughter charge in his past but that's not important to this plot. Liz is the daughter of Orin Hillyer who is presently off somewhere on holidays with his second wife Julie Jamieson. Julie had been freed from a charge of murder just prior to the trip and Orin's first wife was killed a few seasons ago as the result of another scandal. Orin needs a holiday!

Monticello police under the direction of Chief Bill Marceau have been keeping a haphazard eye on Nicole. Bill and his wife Martha are close personal friends of the Karrs. Martha works for Bill at police headquarters. Assisting Martha with the office duties is Cookie Christopher, a sister of Nancy Karr and wife of Ron. Ron used to be connected with the loan shark business but eventually helped to expose it. He also saved Lori Ann Karr, Mike’s daughter when she was kidnap[ed but that was the second last crisis.

Ron is now in a new business in partnership with Duane Stewart who just happens to have once been married to Nicole but divorced Nicole to marry Pamela. He has has since found out that he is still in love with Nicole. Susan Forbes is happy about this. Ron Christopher has some connection with Stephanie Martin and it is becoming apparent that Stephanie’s husband has been killed by the loan sharks and that Ron might know something about it.

While all this has been going on in the background recuperating has been Phil Capice who was brutally beaten and in a coma for months for trying to help Mike Karr break the loan shark operation.This caused all sorts of trouble between the Karrs and the Capices but it was resolved when Phil gained consciousness. Phil’s nurse Mrs Lydia Holliday really wasn’t a nurse and kept him in a weakened condition so she’d have a steady job. And then Calvin the houseboy goes and elopes with Sarah. Phil’s daughter. Anyhow within a few days or so we should know if Stephanie will fell Nicole with a bullet or with poisoned wine.... And who says television is not relevant?

Love it ! What is the source ?

I wish this era were available.

How terrible ! Michael Tylo, Lisa Brown, Jerry Ver Dorn … my heart is aching for these GL legends gone way too soon.

18 minutes ago, AbcNbc247 said:

The writeups for Days from that time period are available on Jason47's site.

Yes ! And for EON on the Edge of Night homepage. That’s why @will81and I have good faith we will find the missing issues for the other soaps.

40 minutes ago, will81 said:

Sweet. Happy when gaps are filled for people. May - Aug 1973 is still missing, though the writers strike was on during most of that period so possibly nothing of note happened anyway.

On GH, Meg Baldwin was killed off. I wonder if the Hursleys went on strike. The Dobsons took over around that time : maybe after the strike. I hope we will find the missing issues. If I was better with computers, I would create a site to post all of them in a chronological way.

APRIL 1973

All My Children

Written by : Agnes Nixon

Produced by : Bud Kloss

Despite the overwhelming evidence that Philip Brent was dead, Ruth Martin, his mother, Tara Tyler, who loved him, and Eddie Chamberlaine, his army buddy, all secretly couldn’t shake the feeling that Phil was somehow still alive.

Warned by his father that Erica could make a nasty scandal involving Mary Kennecott if he fought her too hard, Dr. Jeff Martin agreed to compromise with Erica in order to get her consent to the divorce. He signed a release allowing Tempo Magazine to use old photos of him in a feature article about Erica in exchange for her signature on the divorce agreement. He planned to marry Mary as soon as he was free. The article finished, Erica returned to New York and told Jason Maxwell she would soon be free and they could begin to make wonderful plans for the future. She refused to realize she was just another girl to him and he had no intention of ever marrying her.

Anne and Paul Martin maintained the appearance of a happy marriage but Margo Flax, as an unexpected houseguest, realized Paul slept on the sofa. He made excuses about the flu but she seemed unconvinced. Anne had vowed never to go back to Nick although she realized she still loved him.

In severe traumatic emotional upset following her miscarriage, Kitty Davis was convinced her husband Nick and indeed everyone was conspiring against her. She was sure Nick was lying about losing the job in Dayton, that he just wanted to stay in town with Anne. She was also convinced that Dr. Clater told her she would never be able to have a child only as part of the plot against her and so didn’t believe him. Sure that Anne and Nick were seeing each other again, Kitty stole morphine from the hospital drug cabinet and covered her tracks by giving the police the description of a mysterious woman she pretended to have seen lurking about. Mary had inadvertently told Kitty how dangerous the drug was, putting the idea in Kitty's tortured mind. Kitty asked Nick once more if they could leave Pine Valley and when he refused, she felt Nick and Anne were planning happiness at her expense and, morphine on hand, decided to get Anne over to her apartment as soon as possible.

Little Tad was still upset about his little sister's whereabouts and he feared leaving the hospital as he had no family to go home to.

Another World

Written by : Harding Lemay

Produced by : Paul Rauch

Lenore Curtin couldn’t help but be aware of Janice Frame's feelings about Robert Delaney as Janice brought him homemade goodies, invited him without Lenore to dinner and dropped in uninvited at his apartment on various pretexts. Robert saw Lenore's discomfort over this and tried to reassure her but whenever he discussed making a future with her, she froze. She confided to Pat Randolph that as much as she loved Robert, she wouldn't marry him or anyone as she could never trust or depend on a man after what her late husband Walter did. Robert asked Janet not to drop by at night for appearances' sake at least.

Zack Richards' then job with the police department youth project was working out tremendously well. He encouraged the boys to volunteer for Dr. Russ Matthews' heart research project to get medical care for themselves as well as to do something worthwhile.

At the Surf Club in St. Croix, Alice Frame was stunned to see her estranged husband Steven there with her long tine rival Rachel Clark and she refused even to speak to his. She soon asked her employer and friend journalist Elliot Carrington to take her home. Rachel implied to Steve that Alice and Elliot were living together. In agony Alice turned to Elliot for kindness and solace. Iris, Elliot's estranged wife, seeing Alice with Elliot, was more convinced that Alice was a threat to the reconciliation she wanted so such.

Without Steve's knowledge, Rachel visited Alice to sound her out on giving Steve a divorce at least for Jamie's sake. - Jamie was Rachel and Steve's son born before his marriage to Alice and while Rachel was married to Alice's brother Russ. - Alice accused Rachel of seeing Steve secretly while she, Alice, was still living with him as his wife and wouldn’t believe Rachel's assurances that this wasn't true. Alice flatly stated she would never turn Steven over to someone as destructive as Rachel even if she didn’t love him any longer. Leaving Alice, Rachel pushed Steve to leave for home immediately.

Elliot spoke to Alice of the growing closeness between them and told her if his son Dennis's heart condition could be cured, he would divorce Iris even though her father owned exclusive rights to his newspaper column and refused to release him from it. He asked Alice, a nurse, to compile a list of heart specialists including her brother Russ.

Iris, meanwhile, had arranged to have Russ examine Dennis in New York when she had learned both Elliot and Alice would be unavailable. Russ was unaware that Dennis was the child Alice was caring for but had noted the coincidence of the same last name. Iris hoped she could insist Dennis be treated in Bay City as she was sure Alice would resign rather than return to the place her husband and Rachel were.

On Steve's insistence, Rachel and Jamie moved out of her mother, Ada Downs', house into new, expensive apartment that Steve was paying for. He arranges for John Randolph to handle her divorce from Ted Clark. While Ted was unwilling to make anything easy for Rachel, Gil McGowen persuaded Ted to consent for Jamie's sake. This done, her divorce would be final in a few weeks. Janice, at Rachel's subtle hint, pressured Steve to divorce Alice. He finally asked John to see Alice in New York about her consent. Alice reluctantly agreed to see John the following week but asked that her sister Pat, John's wife, come too. Ironically this was the appointment that would give Iris the chance to have Russ see Dennis. Steve told Rachel of his plans but admitted that if Alice wouldn’t consent to the divorce, he didn't think he could bring himself to divorce her for desertion.

As The World Turns

Written by : Irna Phillips & David Lesan

Produced by : Fred Bartholomew

Ellen Stewart returned from London to report that Dan and his family were doing fine. Ellen was very upset at her sixteen year old Carolann's older boyfriend and refused to allow her the dating freedom she was loudly insisting on. Carolann had started lying about where she was going and had to make excuses to cover up motorcycle fall injuries.

Donald Hughes was eager to marry Lisa Shea as soon as possible but was hurt and angry at her continued closeness to Wally Matthews. Lisa was shaken by Dr. David Stewart's warning that her son, Charles, had to be carefully watched because of his rheumatic condition. Wally Matthews, returning after twenty years to the practice of medicine, learned he could avoid internship by passing the state medical boards.

Carol Hughes was destroyed at Dr. Flynn's opinion that she couldn’t have children but regained hope when Wally suggested she seek fertility treatment. Her husband Tom reminded her he married her because he loved her and nothing could change that.

Nancy and Chris Hughes returned home from Europe with Penny's adopted teenaged daughter, Amy, whose mother was American and her father from Thailand. Any wouldn’t talk about her mother's family but secretly wondered if she had the courage to go to San Francisco to try to find out about them. She had begun dating young Peter Burton regularly.

Jennifer Hughes, furious at her husband, Dr. Bob Hughes, for putting her son Dr. Rick Ryan. on probation for giving an opinion to a patient causing near fatal results, moved out of their apartment refusing to consider returning until he reversed the action. Bob explained she had no right to compromise his integrity as a doctor by making their marriage a bargaining issue. Jen's sister Kim, who was deeply attracted to Bob, tried very hard to make Jen reconsider and not destroy her marriage but Jen was adamant and wouldn’t even discuss it. Unhappy and hurt, Bob saw Kim for dinner occasionally to discuss his problems and was warmed and comforted by her understanding. Kim prevailed on Rick to stop destroying his mother's marriage with no results. Rick was too busy trying to find a way to override Bob's actions with the hospital board behind his back.

Knowing Bob was in Florida to see a patient, Kim went to Palm Beach and ran into Bob at the Palm Colony Hotel. She explained she visited there annually as she used to with her late husband, Jason Reynolds. They had dinner in her suite and she was charming, witty and gracious and easily wound up locked in Bob's arms.

When Bob returned home, he was amazed to find Jen waiting for him in their apartment. She happily told him she was pregnant and was going to stop nursing and stay home and be a wife and mother. Bob uneasily wondered if the only reason she returned was the baby.

Days of our Lives

Written by : William J. Bell

Produced by : Betty Corday

Michael Horton was spending a great deal of time with his “uncle Bill” doing chemistry experiments and watching Bill perform surgery. Neither Michael nor his father, Mickey, knew that Michael was really Bill's son.

Knowing Mickey's EKG was normal, Laura Horton was tremendously relieved at managing to avoid resuming a physical relationship with him before leaving for her medical conference. Using this time away to think, she realized how deeply she still loved Bill. Upon her return, they decided to once more try to arrange a life together but once more Michael found them together in an embrace. Accusing her of lying to him and betraying him and his father, Michael ran away from them. At home, believing his father to be a perfect and loving husband, Michael was shocked to overhear Mickey telling his sister Addie how Laura still couldn’t forget his affair with Linda Patterson and how she reasonably turned to Bill, who had always loved her, for comfort and strength. Michael was totally confused and miserable.

At her grandfather's urging since Addie's pregnancy might be difficult, Julie Banning made peace with her mother, Addie Williams, assuring her she had given up Doug - Addie's husband - once and for all. Julie was dating Don Craig but was unnerved and unready for the sudden depth to which his feelings for her had developed. Greg Peters visited her often at the Anderson's lakeside home where she was visiting but as a friend only. They were helping each other through this difficult period - her recent widowhood and his anxiety over Susan Martin's disappearance. Julie was shocked and deeply hurt when Doug visited to tell her not to take Greg away from Susan as she took Scott - Julie's late husband -. Julie angrily told him that a man couldn’t be taken unless he wanted to be, as he, himself, was proof, and told him to stay out of her life and her affairs.

When Greg accidentally learned about the chapter in Eric's book concerning the girl in the park, he assumed it was Eric who raped Susan and violently attacked Eric nearly killing him. Ironically, Susan returned at this time and visited Eric in the hospital to apologize. He asked her to let Greg think it was rape but she couldn’t do this and told Greg she was the agressor and had blacked out the whole episode - traumatic amnesia -. Greg, stunned and horrified, couldn’t stand to even be near her. Eric pleaded with him to forget the episode, marry Susan and raise her child as though it were his own, not his brother's. Greg's mother, Ann, wanted him to forget Susan whom she felt was only trouble for her family and she'd like him to fall in love with Julie. Julie asked Greg to think it out very carefully before passing judgement on Susan and reminded him of the strength it took for Susan to tell him the truth. Susan, however, was sure Julie was trying to take Greg from her despite Julie's assurances that they were only friends.

Julie found comfort in confiding her thoughts to Bob Anderson. She explained to him that the loss of her father was still more painful that the more recent loss of her husband, Scott. Bob told her of the recent feeling of emptiness, a void in his life and that perhaps they could help each other.

The Doctors

Written by : Robert & Eileen Mason Pollock

Produced by : Allen Potter

While Althea and John Morrison were frantically searching for her runaway daughter, Penny, in San Francisco, Penny showed up at the Powers' house. Althea returned overjoyed but still couldn’t seem to reach overemotional Penny who had an injury to her optic nerve and feared she was going blind. Althea was disturbed by John's permissiveness to keep Penny happy as she felt Penny must have order and discipline in her life despite her injury. Penny was deeply hurt to find Mike Powers was married as she still had a crush on him. She was also very angry at Althea and John's desire that she not spend time with Dr. Nick Bellini - Althea's previous husband - and was furious when John refered to Nick as a liar. John hoped Penny would then see Nick as he wished her to but actually Penny then felt she had seen John for what he really was.

Despite his wife Carolee's pleas and efforts, Dr. Steve Aldrich, fed up with OB Head Dr. Larrabee's new systems, resigned from his staff position at the hospital to enter private practice. Carolee realized that his mother Mona actually bought and set up the medical suite to lure Steve away from the hospital, not to push Dr. Ann Larrimer back into medicine as she claimed, and that she had succeeded without Steve realizing it. Mona subtly insisted that Carolee accept the « family » pearls to commemorate the agreement, forcing her to take them or appear to be rejecting the family itself. Steve assumed that any differences between Mona and Carolee on this entire topic were Carolee's fault for being unreasonable and any strain in their marriage he was attributing to the Larrabee situation. Recognizing it as a fait accompli, Carolee had no choice but to be resigned to Steve's decision.

Nick Bellini remained cold to widowed Dr. Ann Larimer interpreting her reluctance to enter a relationship she saw fraught with sexual overtones as a reflection on his slum background compared to her society upbringing.

Dr. Matt Powers, chief of staff at Hope Memorial, gave former singing star Lauri James the chance to resume her nursing career since she had lost her voice. On her first day back, however, she made a careless mistake and Dr. Mike Powers chewed her out. Dr. Hank Iverson, who loved her deeply, bitterly fought with Mike, his best friend, over this. Mike's wife, Toni, asked Mike to give Lauri support instead of hostility. Hank was beginning to regain feeling in his entire arm following Nick's corrective surgery.

When Mike was unable to reach Dr. Carl Hendrix, head of neurosurgery, for an emergency, he called Nick in on the case. Learning of this, Hendrix had Matt called in to the hospital on Sunday to insist Nick be removed and he replaced on the case. Matt complied as this was Carl's prerogative but Nick pointed out that Hendrix consistently went out or his way to upset or discredit Matt whenever he could. Nick insisted Matt try to find out why so Matt checked with Hendrix's previous post in Minneapolis and found Hendrix was totally agreeable and friendly there. Matt was reluctant to press the inquiry further as Hendrix's earlier references were from Australia.

Nobody at Hope knew that Dr. Carl Hendrix's real name was Dr. Charles Harrison and he and his wife Vivian had to move to Australia and set up new identities with forged credentials to enable him to practice medicine again. Vivian, vindictive and bitter, drank constantly and lived for the day Carl would destroy Matt Powers for what Matt did to his causing him to lose his career and his identity. She mercilessly pushed Carl to do this reminding him Matt couldn’t guess as he never saw Carl before he came to Hope.

The Edge of Life

Written by : Henry Slesar

Produced by : Erwin Nicholson

Kay Reynolds invited Phoebe to lunch and told her that she was willing to divorce Ashley but doubted he wanted one, as he had had other affairs. Phoebe was convinced that Ashley told Kay that he wanted to marry her, but she didn't know that it was Joel Gantry who gave Kay the facts. When Kay confronted Ashley he frantically insisted he wanted only her. Kay, however, retained Jake Berman to handle her divorce, warning him that Ashley would fight tooth and nail. Kay's father, Walter LePage was chairman of the board at the company Ashley worked for. Joel had approached Kevin Jamison about helping him check out the possibility of Edith Berman's suicide really being a murder. Edith's daughter was Joel's girlfriend and felt it was quite possible. Kevin checked the newspaper files and interviewed the attending physician at Edith's first suicide attempt but learned nothing concrete. He was aware, though, that there were most likely two suicide notes, the first probably destroyed by Jake – Joel was actually correct, Jake did kill Edith. –

Laurie Lamont, growing bored as her husband Vic devoted all his time to his law career, considered finding a job, possibly doing menus at Johnny Dallas' New Moon Café.

Certain that there was a connection between Simon Jessup, Elly Jo Jamison, and Liz Fields’ hallucinations, Adam Drake insisted that Liz shouldn't be allowed to drive home until she had been examined by a physician. Adam visited Jessup and found him with Elly Jo. Jessup explained his method of insomnia therapy: using slide shows of pastoral scenery. Adam secretly stole one of the projector slides that Jessup had hidden. This turned out to be a picture of the road sign to Claybank, where Liz hallucinated her father, Orin's image. Sure of Jessup's guilt, Adam presented his evidence to Jim and Liz. Jim hypnotized his wife and removed Jessup's post-hypnotic suggestion. Unsure of Elly Jo's involvement, they decided to keep Jim's therapy a secret. While this was not sufficient proof, Lt. Chandler alertly recognized Jessup as a wanted con man from Detroit and arrested him.

Orin Hillyer and Angela Morgan, Adam's secretary, realized they had fallen in love. Meanwhile, Nicole Travis was afraid that Adam's injuries in his recent accident were causing headaches and some blurring of his memory.

At Adam's insistence, Orin changed his will, removing Elly Jo as a succeeding heir, but he doubled her bequest to $20,000. This removed Liz as a potential victim, but Adam realized it could make Orin the target. Needing money to hold on to Lenny Small, Elly Jo poisoned Orin's cognac before moving out of Claybank. Liz followed Adam's plan to test Elly Jo's involvement with Jessup's plot by tricking her into driving to Monticello. Liz lied that she had forgotten something and turned the car back toward the house. Approaching the cliff-side turn, Liz pretended to be under Jessup's hypnotic trance once again and accelerated the car toward the cliff. Hysterical, Elly Jo screamed, "You'll kill us!", then she leapt out of the speeding car.

General Hospital

Written by : Frank & Doris Hursley

Produced by : James Young

When Burt Marshall fled the country, the police realized it was he, not Howie Dawson, who killed Brooke Clinton but the whole story broke in the newspaper and Jane learned Howie spent that evening with Brooke. Crushed by Howie's lies, Jane explained she couldn’t trust his love and insisted he move out of their bedroom. Realizing he had to win her trust all over again, Howie courted Jane but his impatience didn't help the cause.

Audrey Baldwin made a TV talk show appeal to her husband Tom and Mrs. Andrews, the nurse, to return with little Tommy, warning that if Tom wasn't with her, Mrs. Andrews was guilty of kidnapping. Mrs. Andrews and Tommy saw the show and Tommy cried for his mother. Tom actually died in Mexico and, in Chicago, Mrs. Andrews, under the name Mrs. Smith, was shaken but resolved to keep Tommy. Audrey had been dating Dr. James Hobart of Mercy Hospital whose quiet concern and charm had a calming influence on her. Mrs. Andrews found Tommy unconscious and rushed him to Dr. Carter who diagnosed congenital pulmonary stenosis. He told Mrs. Smith he would locate the leading expert in the field, Dr. James Hobart, wherever he was, and arranged to rush her and Tommy to him.

Dr. Steve Hardy, suffering from complete exhaustion, took a month's leave to rest in Mexico. Audrey blamed this on herself, for leaning on him too much.

Dr. Lesley Williams was treating Meg Baldwin for high blood pressure and found Meg's pressure was emotionally triggered. Seeing it rose sharply when Meg's husband Lee and her son Scotty came home early and found her with Meg, she realized Meg's problem was a deep seated neurosis. She suggested a male doctor but Lee felt Meg had to learn to live with her neurotic jealousies. Indeed Meg was convinced Dr. Williams was after Lee and was sure the prescribed medication was to make her unable to see this clearly.

Dr. Williams kept remembering and hearing a voice telling her that crib deaths were completely unpredictable and it wasn't her fault.

Diana Taylor was on the verge of hysteria over the fear that her husband Peter would discover the baby was due in September instead of November and that Dr. Phil Brewer would learn she was pregnant and associate this with his forcing himself on her months ago.

Teddy Holmes brought Jessie Brewer's runaway niece Carol home and Jessie, filled with gratitude and trusting in his declaration of love, agreed to marry him on May 4^th. Sure Jessie was wealthy, Teddy askd her for $50,000 to invest in a new business and was shocked to learn that she only had $25,000, that she gave the estate of her wealthy late husand, Dr. John Prentice, to his sister. He was further stunned to learn that Carol and Kent would each inherit half a million dollars from their father's estate at age eighteen, in a few months, that Jessie was only their guardian. Getting Jessie to cosign a $25,000 note he got the cash and told Carol he couldn't marry Jessie loving her, Carol, as he did, and asked her to run away and marry him. Having a crush on him, she eagerly agreed. Kent was horrified to find Carol and Teddy in the midst of leaving on Friday before the wedding without a word to Jessie. Watching them go Kent was sure this would kill Jessie.

The Guiding Light

Written by : Robert Soderberg & Edith Sommer

Produced by : Lucy Ferri Rittenberg

Janet Norris, realizing the depth of Ken's feelings for their expected child, reconsidered her feelings for him and finally decided to give their marriage another chance. Ed Bauer was crushed by this news and became deeply depressed. Realizing Ed's vulnerability at the moment, Ken's sister Holly made herself available as a diversion and they began dating regularly. Both Janet and Ed's mother, Bert Bauer, felt Holly was too young and immature for Ed, but her mother Barbara Thorpe seemed in favor as it made Holly happy. Ed told Holly he was not ready for a serious relationship but she was determined to win him. She even apologized to Janet for the ugly stories she told about her in order to carry Ed's favor and approval.

Steve Jackson, recovered from his heart attack, returned to work and Dr. Sara Werner told his daughter Leslie she could then tell him she was still planning to marry Michael Bauer despite Steve's objections. Realizing Leslie's intention, Steve avoided being alone with her and used his recent attack as a weapon to silence her. When she finally forced the issue, he insisted the subject was closed and dramatically clutched his chest.

Dr. Joe Werner, painfully aware of Kit Vestid's crush on him, finally discussed it with her. Insisting it was not as serious as he thought it was, she convinced him there was no problem and meanwhile convinced herself that he was asking her to have patience, to wait for him. Charlotte Bauer, realizing Kit couldn’t take Joe away from Sara, was suddenly aware of the electricity between Joe and herself and realized she might be the one who could. Charlotte felt Sara had treated her badly and wanted to pay her back for it. Realizing Sara's career and frequent out of town conferences left little time for Joe, Charlotte managed to make Joe very aware of her as a woman without his realizing she was doing this intentionally. Knowing Sara was away, Charlotte conveniently misplaced her car keys during a rainstorm and had to let Joe drive her home. At her slight move toward him Joe responded spontaneously and wound up in bed with her. Joe's guilt was enormous, he couldn’t face Sara and, even worse, couldn’t respond to her. Charlotte told Joe this whole thing had thrown her and he had Sara but she had no one, if she couldn't talk to him about it, she would have to talk to her friend Kit. So, on Sara's clinic night, Joe visited Charlotte and told her it was a moment of insanity, that they had nothing between them but she told him that was not why he came and they wound up in bed again. She assured him she wanted no comittment, only to be there for him. He said it wouldn't happen again.

Love of Life

Written by : Loring Mandel

Produced by : Bertram Berman / Jean Arley

Dr. Dan Phillips was trying valiantly to get his estranged wife Kate reconsider and take him back. She refused to be moved by words or gestures and refused to believe his proof that his mother Vinnie was working with Rick Latimer to keep them permanently apart. Dan's nurse, Candy, tried to distract him from Kate but he indicated it wouldn’t work. Dan's father, Dr. Lloyd Phillips finally told Vinnie either she returned home to Boston with him or he would Start divorce proceedings against her. Rick threatened Dan with scandal over Candy and a negligence suit over Rebecca's hearing problem but Dan wasn’t impresed. However, when Kate pleaded she could only find peace and happiness if he would give her the divorce, he gave up and signed the consent. - While Dan and Kate both believed Rebecca was Rick's child as a result of rape just before their marriage, Rick and Vinnie both knew from blood tests that the child was actually Dan’s. They concealed this. –

Dr. Joe Correlli took the late Bill Prentiss's rock opera to a friend in New York who worked for famed producer John Merrill. When he told Tess Prentiss, Bill's widow and Joe's estranged fiancee, that Merrill actually wanted to produce the opera, she felt honor bound to let Bobby Mackey decide as he finished the work. Bobby naturally chose to stick with Walter Norgan's production plans ostensibly to be sure it was done the way Bill would have wanted it, but actually because he and Morgan were con artists who had been setting up the production as a swindle from the start. Joe was very upset by Tess's decision and decided to thoroughly check Bobby out. He learned that the Albany hospital where Bobby's father supposedly died the previous fall had no record of him at all. Bobby's cousin and staunch supporter, Sally Rollins, refused to believe this so Joe convinced her to go up to Albany with him to prove it one way or the other.

Sara Caldwell was about to invest in the production but her daughter Van Sterling's doubts prompted her to ask Morgan definite questions about the production and she was disquieted by his lack of direct answers. Morgan decided to forgoe Sara's investment. Charles Lamont, Bill's father, however, handed Morgan $5,000 borrowed against his book store and invested over his wife Diana's objections.

Bruce Sterling, Jamie Rollins and Joe then began to check out Walter Morgan, the big financier, and learned his background didn’t check at all. However, Bobby and Morgan had already started the final step of their con game. They were accompanying Tess to New York where she planned to give Morgan Bill's insurance money and her son, Johnny's retire trust fund from the Randolph estate to invest. Only Sally, Stacy Corby - Van's ward - and Johnny knew this and they had promised to tell no one. The plan was to disappear right after cashing Tess's check.

One Life To Live

Written by : Agnes Nixon & Gordon Russell

Produced by : Doris Quinlan

Merry and Larry Wolek, disappointed at the probability of being unable to adopt a little girl, saw a television program about Vietnamese/American orphans in Saigon and definitely decided to try to adopt the child, Sara, shown on the program or, if not her, then another child from this orphanage.

Vinnie Wolek, removed from his undercover hijacking assignment due to a leak in security, returned to street patrol duty. Victor Lord hired Vinnie to keep an eye on his estate, Llanfair, while he was on vacation.

Carla Gray agreed to marry Police Lt. Ed Hall. Dr. James Craig would give the bride away and they would be married in the Craigs’ garden. Ed was very upset at being unable to get through to young, belligerant Josh West. Every friendly overture Ed made was set by resistence and distrust with the reminder that Ed was “the man”, the fuzz. Ed was even more disturbed and angry when he found evidence that Josh was sniffing glue.

The new doctor on staff was Dorian Cramer. Efficient and competent, she was looking for a house in town as she had a sister whom she looked after.

Her amnesia cured, Viki Burke told Joe Riley she wanted his friendship but was staying with her husband Steve. Joe was thunderstruck and insisted she was doing this for the wrong reasons but he couldn’t change her mind. Viki told Steve she loved him and wanted to spend her life with him. Steve was thrilled but was afraid Vicki didn't choose him for love. He felt this was why she was not eager to rush off on a second honeymoon.

Joe, bitter and empty, wrote goodbye letters to everyone and packed to leave town. Wanda Webb accidentally learned of this and as Joe got in his car to leave, he found her there, packed and ready to go with him. Incredulous, he pressed her for her reasons and finally she admitted it was because she loved him. She explained that loving someone was wanting them to be happy so she prayed Viki would choose him so he'd be happy. But then he was lonely and miserable and she wanted to make him happy because she loved him and the fact that he didn't love her didn’t matter at all. Despite Joe's assertion that he would always love Viki and that he was selfish and didn’t deserve her concern and love, Wanda insisted that if he went, she went, and that was that.

Eileen Siegel, Joe's sister, was hysterical at this news and violently accused Viki of driving Joe to do this. Her daughter Julie insisted on staying with her recently widowed mother and told her husband Dr. Mark Toland she couldn’t start her new youth project job until her mother was over this shock. Mark angrily accused her of not really meaning to take the job at all. When Julie finally admitted this to her mother, Eileen insisted she start her job at once which pleased Mark enormously.

Vinnie was upset about Joe and Wanda's sudden departure and his sister, Anna Craig, felt he was more upset about Wanda's absence than Joe's.

In New York, Wanda and Joe took apartments in the same building and he looked for a reporting job insisting she take it easy for a while. Upset that he hadn’t let his sister, Eileen, know he was all right, Wanda started a letter to her.

Return To Peyton Place

Written by : Robert Cenedella

Produced by : George Parris

On Norman's insistence, Rita Harrington hired vivacious, ambitious Monica Bell, a college student with unbelievable energy and determination, to help her run Ada's Tavern. Monica's enthusiasm spurred Rita's expansion plans for the tavern and Norman was delighted that Rita once again had the time and energy to be a wife and a mother.

When Dr. Mike Rossi pressed Selena for an answer to his marriage proposal, she told him she couldn't accept because despite his denials she was sure he was still in love with Connie.

The marital problem between Connie and Elliot Carson had become very evident to their children Allison and little Matthew. Aware that her father wouldn't touch or even talk to her mother prompted Allison to beg him to seek professional help but he adamently refused. As her first feature article for Elliot's newspaper, Allison deliberately did a piece on a local carriage counciling clinic and while Elliot agreed with the praise the article drew, he still refused to let it apply to him. Meanwhile, Connie, miserable, was becoming desperate as she didn't even know why Elliot was treating her this way.

After finally finding a suitable position for his father, Leslie, at the Peyton Company, Rod was amazed when Leslie resigned to accept a more challenging position in Florida.

Betty Harrington told Steven Cord she then had everything she wants, Rod, the Peyton company president, the Peyton House, social position and money, and she would not give it up even though the child she was carrying was his, Steven's. She pushed Rod to set up an irrevocable trust for the baby, however, to protect its future no matter what. Betty was horrified to learn her baby would probably be premature as even at term she would have to pretend it was early. Mike Rossi refused to give her delaying hormones when her water broke months before her advertised due date and she went into labor only a few days later. She attempted to find Rod to take her to the hospital and was furious to find he was off somewhere with Allison. Steven wound up taking her to the hospital as he had intended to do in the first place. - Rod was helping Allison find the person who was the subject of her new article. Allison and Rod shared a special kind of friendship. –

Steven realized he could only get Betty if he could offer everything Rod could, so he was determined to discredit Rod as president of the Company by himself solving the crucial diversification problem. Unknown to Rod, Steven had located a huge international company dealing in oil and, in negotiations so secret he didn’t even know the company's name, he had started arrangements for congressional enabling acts and rezoning for harbors and access roads. If he could put it all together, the board of Peyton Company would lose confidence in Rod in favor of Steven. Ironically, Betty, furious at Steven's criticism of Rod's performance as president, felt Steven might be trying to do exactly this.

Search For Tomorrow

Written by : Ralph Ellis & Eugenie Hunt

Produced by : Bernie Sofronski

While recuperating from an appendectomy in the hospital, Terri Benjamin's brother, James Foster, astounded the hospital staff with his immediate, correct treatment and diagnosis, saving the life of his roommate, Mr. McLaughlin, in heart failure after an electric shock. Dr. Tony Vincente learned James had had very extensive, personalized training as a medic in Vietnam and was determined to have James in the new physician's assistant program.

Stu Bergman was determined to stay in his own home even though he and his son Tom couldn’t manage the work involved and Tom was then embarrassed to bring anyone home. Ellie, lonely since Lauri left town, wished she could find a way to help Stu and TOM.

Eunice Martin, upset at first to learn that John Wyatt owned Henderson Magazine, was finally convinced she got her freelance job on merit alone. As they were thrown together more often, she began to lose her hostility towards him and told her husband, Doug, she thought she might have misjudged John at first.

Karl Devlin, the magazine's publisher, was deeply afraid that his editor, Frank Ross, might be cutting him out of the magazine with John's approval. He desperately grabbed every bit of authority he could and pressed John's secretary, Marion, for bits of information.

Andrea Whiting, afraid of failing in the magazine job John gave her - music, art and food critic - leaned heavily on him for encouragement and support. In her lonliness she mistook his friendship and compassion for a deepening relationship and made advances which forced him to back away from her. Suddenly realizing why he was avoiding her, she told him she hoped he understood, she wanted only his friendship, nothing more. This saved her embarrassment and salvaged the friendship for both of then.

Doug Martin finally gave his attorney son Scott Phillips his first case. While it wasn’t as glamorous as the work Scott's wife, Kathy, was doing as a lawyer in John Wyatt's firm, it relieved the pressure of her advancement over her husband. However, both Scott and Kathy realized their work was giving them little time together.

Doug felt Scott should put his foot down and make his wife be a wife first, but Scott maintained he was a lawyer first, then a husband, and his wife should have the same right and he had promised her that.

Louise Halliday, a girlfriend John recently dumped, had decided that Kathy was the reason and was accusing John of having an affair with Kathy. Her constant harping on this, in light of several business trips on which Kathy had accompanied John, had Andrea and Marion wondering and Eunice furious. When Scott received an anonymous letter with these same accusations, he disregarded it, but Doug's reaction was volatile.

Melissa Hayley, the girl injured by Randy and Liza, was found to have been deaf before the accident. Once Matt Weldon and Jo Vincente convinced her they were friends, she recovered rapidly and agreed to live at the Vincentes’ until she was fully well. She wrote to Liza that she would tell no one that Randy, not Liza, was driving the car that hit her and Liza was deeply grateful. However, Matt, whose mother was deaf, was spending most of his free time with Melissa to the chagrin of Liza who had a crush on him. Melissa adamantly refused to give anyone any information about her family or where she was from.

The Secret Storm

Written by : Gabrielle Upton

Produced by : Joseph D. Manetta

While trying to separate her sons Mark and Stace whoweare fighting over Stace's advances to Laurie, Jessie Reddin fell on a pitchfork and soon died of her injuries. Mark administered the last rites. Stace was in agony over his guilt and sorrow and Mark, feeling more alone than he ever had, decided to marry Laurie immediately. After the wedding as they left for Woodbridge, Mark assured Stace that Jessie loved him best of all. At home, Msgr. Quinn told Mark he might, when his leitization was granted, either marry Laurie in the church or decide his marriage was a mistake. He reminded Mark he was forbidden to frequent the parrish until then. Mark found a position as a parole officer. Mrs. Post came to accept Mark as a lay person and he assured her he would tell no one that her husband, Malcolm, was not dead, that she just didn't give him a divorce. Mark was stunned to learn that Stace had broken his parole and had been traced as far away as Dallas.

As Kevin Kincaid had cut off her freewheeling checking account on his father, Dan's instructions, Belle Kincaid was afraid she would lose Robert Landers and the glamo-ous racing dreams he had inspired if she couldn’t finance his car. Learning Kevin didn’t know his wife Amy was carrying an artificially inseminated baby - he thought it was conceived before he was paralyzed - Belle blackmailed Amy into giving her first $1,200 then $5,000. to finance the race car. Belle referred to this as friends doing each other favors. Robert, uneasy at Joanna Morrison's sudden enigmatic and mysterious attitude, realized he had fallen in love with her against his intention not to and promised her his relationship with Belle would be business only from now then. - He and Joanna lived together. He told Joanna that his father walked out on his mother before he was born, not marrying her and thus ruining her life. He had vowed to show his father that he was better than his father ever was. Robert had told no one that his father was Dan Kincaid. –

Dan, sure his marriage to Belle would be perfect again as soon as he was released from jail, was thrilled when Kevin got him his parole. Since Belle hadn't bothered to visit him for days she didn't know this and invited Robert for an intimate dinner on the night of Dan's release. Robert had learned of Dan's parole and planned an interesting scene for Dan to arrive home to.

Somerset

Written by : Henry Slesar

Produced by : Lyle B. Hill

Emily Moore, needing to know the truth about her husband, Philip Matson, flew to New York and found he was indeed sharing his room with his secretary under the names Mr. and Mrs. Matson. Shattered, she returned home prepared for the end of her marriage. Sure this proved again her theory that wealthy women had to marry only wealthy men, she offered her heiress daughter's fiance, David Grant, $100,000. “to establish his law career” if he would agree to postpone the wedding and encourage Andrea to tour Europe with her. He politely refused her offer. When Philip returned, he explained to Emily that her cold, businesslike and passionless approach to their marriage led him to seek tenderness and romance elsewhere. Emily explained that her fear of expressing emotion evolved from her first husband's constant infidelity and when Philip told her he married her because he loved her, she asked if they could try again, if she could try to be Mrs. Matson this time, not Mrs. Moore. Their reconciliation prompted her to accept and approve David as her daughter's future husband.

Andrea bought the hopeless Somerset newspaper as an investment and her brother-in-law Julian Cannell would run it for her taking the plunge into his new career, journalism.

Attorney Ben Grant, realizing Herb Geller and his friends could be right about gangsters owning Delaney Brands, went to New York to try to confirm or disprove this theory. Learning where Ben was, Leo Kurtz pressed Ellen, Ben's wife, to find out why he wouldn’t. Ellen maintained it was a prospective client trip. Ben learned the ownership was a holding company with complex corporate shells designed to conceal the identities of the owners. The complexity of secrecy led him to assume the suspicions were true. He offered his home for the next meeting of the concerned group then led by Mr. Young since Herb's hit and run “accident” which made Ellen fear for Ben's safety. The police investigation of Herb's case turned up only Virgil Parris's impeccable alibi.

Virgil planned a three day plant management seminar in Chicago for Tony Cooper and himself but mysteriously canceled out at the last minute not allowing enough tine for Tony's wife, Ginger, - Leo's daughter - to arrange to go with Tony. Virgil was becoming even sore pushy and loathsome towards Ginger who made no effort to hide her revulsion of him.

Under orders from the syndicate through Leo, Sam Lucas's secretary, Crystal Anes proceeded in the plan to become involved with Sam in order to diminish the influence of his wife Lahoma. When the pressures of working late - Sam was president of Delaney Brands - and close association with Crystal put strain on his marriage, Crystal made herself available for sympathy and affection. Finally, after another fight with Lahoma and an evening of drinking, Sam found himself in bad with Crystal. His guilt further strained him and he eagerly picked up Lahoma's suggestion for a European vacation. Afraid this would reinforce Lahoma's influence on Sam, Leo anonymously called Lahoma saying Sam spent a night with Crystal. Sam's dogged denial and reassurances weathered Lahoma's invective and hysteria and he pacified her if not convincing her. However, Leo had Crystal call Sam to say she was leaving town tonight and Sam, on a business emergency pretext, went to her apartment. They compromised, she wouldn't leave town if he wouldn't take a vacation. But as he opened the door to leave, there stood Lahoma !

The Young and The Restless

Written by : William J. Bell

Produced by : William J. Bell & John Conboy

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