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How terrible ! Michael Tylo, Lisa Brown, Jerry Ver Dorn … my heart is aching for these GL legends gone way too soon.

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.

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 4th. 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 Not covered in the newsletter

Thanks Paul ! I couldn’t find it in the thread.

In an April 1973 synonpsis, there is a mention of a character named James who is a patient of Tony Vincente's. He saved his hospital roomate after a heart failure revealing he had a medical trainee. I had never heard of this character. From my research, I think this must be Dr. James Foster, played by Joe Morton. Does anyone have any information on his character and storyline ?

We will track this four missing months from 1973. They do exist somewhere !

I can't thank you enough @will81 ! I will type it down.

I typed @will81's summaries because it might be easier to read. I added info for WTHI (from another source) and YR, which were not covered in the newsletter. MARCH 1973 All My Children Written by : Agnes Nixon Produced by : Bud Kloss Angered by Jeff Martin's refusal to cooperate by pretending their marriage was happy for a Tempo Magazine article about her, Erica Martin told Mary Kennicott Jeff was using her and would never marry her. Jeff reassured Mary about their future together. Mona Kane, Erica's mother, was deeply upset about Erica's affair with Jason Maxwell and warned Erica that Jason wouldn't marry her or anyone. Erica refused to believe this but was shaken by the knowledge that Jason saw other women. He maintained their relationship has no ties. Erica's roomate, Margo Flax, accepted a job in Ann Martin's boutique. Paul Martin was convinced that his marriage to Ann was over but upon her return they decided to delay their breakup as it would be very hard to announce it to their families. When Tara Tyler secretly met Eddie Chamberlain to hear more about the late Philip Brent, her husband Chuck found out and confronted her with the deception. She explained that she couldn't forget the past as she had promised and he realized she would never be completely over Philip. He understandingly suggested they be more honest with each other and not try so hard. - Tara and Philip married each other in an unofficiated ceremony and after his death in Vietnam she found herself pregnant. Chuch married her letting everyone believe her child Philip was his. - Tara and Ruth Brent Martin, Philip's mother, both secretly believed Philip was alive and was an unnamed POW. Nick Davis, having married Kitty Shea only to give their expected child a father, tried to keep her physically at a distance. Kitty was still having pains and tried to keep her condition from Nick. A severe attack required hospitalization and she panicked, sure everyone was conspiring to force her into an abortion. Dr. Joe Martin learned from Dr. Mercer that Kitty refused to believe his warning of a probable miscarriage. Kitty finally miscarried and an emergency D&E was performed. She was hysterically inconsolable. Ann assured Paul that Kitty's miscarriage changed nothing, she wasn't considering going back with Nick. She explained that she knew happiness couldn’t grow from deceit. Jeff and Mary wished they were able to provide a home for little Tad, the abandoned child they cared for at the hospital. Jeff regretted still being married to Erica. Another World Written by : Harding Lemay Produced by : Paul Rauch Lenore Curtin encouraged Robert Delaney to move from his hotel room to an apartment. She felt he couldn’t start a new life until he dispelled the shadows of his past. Janice Frame resented Lenore strongly for her defense of Alice and the whole Matthews family, her dislike of Rachel whom Janice liked very much, and for her growing romantic relationship with Robert. Janice accepted the job of showing the new development houses only when she learned Robert, the project architect, would spend much tine there. John and Pat Randolph returned from St. Croix happily reconciled and in love once more. Ada Downs was afraid her grandson Janie would be hurt if he learned his mother, Rachel Clark, was having an affair with Steve Frame. Jamie didn’t know Steve was his father. The Fireside Inn was sold and having recovered his investment, Rachel's father, Gerald Davis was leaving Bay City. Rachel was crushed that he was walking out of her life once more. She was stunned when he explained he was responsible for Alice's leaving Steve months ago, that he arranged for Alice to find Steve alone with Rachel. Rachel was afraid that if Steve found this out, he'd think she, not Gerald, arranged it. Steve wanted Rachel and Jamie to move from Ada's house to an apartment and he wanted to provide for them. Rachel was reluctant to take money from him, she told him it was humiliating and suggested getting a job. Steve persuaded her to do it his way. In New York, Iris Carrington was increasingly concerned over the threat that Alice posed to her marriage. Alice was nurse/governess to Iris's ill son Dennis who was in the custody of her estranged husband, noted journalist Elliot Carrington. When she learned Elliot was taking Dennis and Alice to St. Croix for a vacation, Iris, using the information her informer, Mrs. Goddard, Elliot's housekeeper, gathered for her, visited Steve in Bay City. She told him her husband, Elliot, was interested in Alice but Steve assured her he was not interested, he was all over Alice. Meeting Rachel in Steve's house and surmizing the situation, Iris privately told Rachel that Elliot and Alice were in St. Croix. Rachel then persuaded Steve to immediately take her on vacation to St. Croix. - Steve and Alice spent their honeymoon at his house in St. Croix. - Once there, Rachel craftily learned Elliot and Alice would have dinner at the Surf Club and suggested dinner there to Steve. Alice, meanwhile, was fighting memories of being in St. Croix with Steve. She had checked with her sister, Pat, to make sure Steve was in Bay City and so she was stunned to come face to face with him at the Surf Club. She was then crushed to find Rachel with him. Steve, of course, was stunned to see her, too. Zack Richards recovered from his gunshot wounds and Police Lt. Gil McGowen offered him a job working on a police project with street gangs. His girlfriend, Linda Metcalf, and her family were convinced he wouldn’t stray outside the law again. As The World Turns Written by : Irna Phillips & David Lesan Produced by : Fred Bartholomew Puzzled by their daughter Penny's letters saying her problems concern a young girl named Amy, Nancy and Chris Hughes decided to go to Switzerland to learn wha was going on. When Wally Matthews made it clear to Lisa Shea that all he could offer her was friendship, she accepted Donald Hughes' proposal of marriage. Her son Charles was very pleased at the idea of Donald being his father. Dr. David Stewart assured Wally that a one year brushup internship was all he would need to resume the practice of medicine. Jennifer and Bob Hughes' marriage was better than ever especially since Jen's son Rick and Bob had reached an understanding. Bob was considering offering Rick a junior partnership. However, Bob and Rick differed on patient-doctor relations and bedside manner and Rick's optimism as contrasted to Bob's conservatism led Mrs. Parsons, a patient, to feel she was better than she really was and she got out of bed and collapsed. Kim Reynolds, discouraged by observing how good her sister Jen's marriage to Bob appeared to be, continued to subtly flirt with him. Dr. John Dixon pressed Kim to take his feelings for her seriously but she put him off. Kim took a job at the Child Care Center and admitted to Jen she always wanted children but it never happened. Kim talked Bob into giving her her B12 shots at her apartment after work. Lisa - Bob's first wife - found this very interesting. Kim had carefully cultivated a friendship with Lisa. Dan Stewart, in despair over the death of his bride, Elizabeth, drank heavily and retained in seclusion. He blamed Dr. Burke - ironically the father of his first wife, Susan - for delaying surgery too long and thus causing Liz's death. He accidentally overdosed with sleeping pills and alcohol but was saved by his father, David. The episode was publically called a case of food poisoning. Finally, it was Liz's own diary, brought to Dan by her brother, Ronnie, which showed him that he hadn't lost her, she would always be a part of him both in memories and in their daughter, Betsy. - Betsy believed Dan's late brother Paul, Liz's first husband, was her father but she was really Dan's daughter. - Knowing his custody of his daughter Emily was only temporary and that he would be in contempt of court, Dan took his two daughters secretly to London to be with Liz's family. Dan was then facing the future squarely. He hoped his arm would recover enough for surgery but would stay in medicine anyway. Susan, her marriage to Bruce Baxter annulled, had retaken the name Susan Stewart and had decided she wanted Dan and Emily back. She planned to use the end of his temporary custody to persuade him. When she visited Dan's house to put her plan into effect, she found the place deserted and all the furniture covered. Frightened and confused, she plaintively asked, “Where are they? Who told them I was coming?” Days of our Lives Written by : William J. Bell Produced by : Betty Corday Laura Horton was relieved when she learned her husband Mickey's cardiogram showed he was not yet well enough for physical relations. Her memory of Mickey's affair with Linda Patterson and her own love for Mickey's brother Bill made her feel she couldn’t respond to Mickey but she feared hurting him. Mickey was beginning to realize he couldn’t demand Laura submit to him, he had to win her love again. Linda unexpectedly wrote Mickey that she was divorcing her husband as she still loved Mickey. She asked him to answer if his reconciliation with Laura hadn't been satisfactory. Laura inadvertently found the letter, read it, then told Mickey. He assured her he felt nothing for Linda and vowed to make her forget Linda ever existed. Eric Peters asked Mickey to use the advance royalty from his book to hire detectives to find Susan Martin, his brother Greg's fiancee. Ann Peters, Eric and Greg’s mother, hoped Susan never returned. Addie Williams, convinced her husband, Doug, wouldn’t want the child she was carrying and sure she had lost him to her daughter, Julie Banning, swallowed a handful of sleeping pills. Realizing what she had done, she called her father, Dr. Tom Horton, who rushed her to the hospital. She was treated and requested Doug not be told. Tom did tell Doug who assured Tom he told Addie he didn't want children only because he thought she could no longer have any. When Addie told Doug she was pregnant he assured her he was overwhelmed and happy. He hosted a gala at his club, Doug's Place, to celebrate his impending fatherhood. Before learning about Addie's pregnancy, Doug had become very close to David, Julie's son, and was helping him through this painful period following the death of his father, Scott. Julie told Doug she would marry again as soon as she could find a man who would love her and David. She reminded Doug of the deep and passionate love they shared before the misunderstanding that led to his marrying Addie. She told him she and David were his for the asking and asked that he think on it. Julie was stunned to learn of Addie's pregnancy and was crushed when Doug told her Addie needed him and he would never abandon his child the way he was abandoned by his own parents. In agony over losing Doug for good and after a hysterical scene with David when, finding her sorting Scott's clothes for charity, he accused her of not loving his father, she agreed to spend time at Bob and Phyllis Anderson's Lake Geneva home while David stayed with his grandparents. Julie invited Don Craig, her attorney, and Greg Peters to visit her there. Both men had shown more than a little interest in seeing Julie. Julie told Phyllis she could get over Scott's death but would never be over the loss of her father. Julie's unhappy childhood had much to do with her present insecurity and she vowed to find a man who would give her and David safety and security. She was overwhelmed when Bob Anderson giave her his private hideaway retreat as a place to get away by herself when she needed to. Bob told Bill he had been depressed for month, not just since Scott's death. He felt he was missing something but couldn’t think of anything he didn't already have. Mary Anderson told Bill she was no longer seeing Bert Atwater. Bill was beginning to realize Mary was not a youngster after all. The Doctors Written by : Robert & Eileen Mason Pollock Produced by : Allen Potter Learning that Lauri James ended her singing career because she lost her voice, not due to boredom as she claimed, Dr. Hank Iverson followed her back to New York and convinced her to resume her nursing career. Dr. Matt Powers, chief of staff at Hope Mem-orial Hospital would give her a chance. Hank started to have feeling in his paralyzed hand. Based on Tennessee Eddie Hawkins' rehabilitation, the hospital board extended the funds for the hospital mobile unit but Dr. Hendrix’ contention that the unit cost Hank his surgical career caused further unrest. Matt realized Carl Hendrix was looking for ways to attack him personally but couldn’t get Hendrix to admit why. Dr. Steve Aldrich, irritated by working conditions under the new head of obstetrics Dr. Larrabee, spent most of his spare time helping his mother, Mona, outfit the medical suite in her new house. When his wife, Carolee, was upset at his continued absence from their home and children and sensed the implications in Mona's monopoly of Steve, he resented her implied criticism of Mona's intentions and called Carolee's concern interference in his career. Steve, fed up with Larrabee, admitted to Carolee he was considering going into private practice after all. She was upset that he saw her objections to this only as a conflict with Mona, not as a change in the comittment to hospital medicine they both shared. Matt also tried to dissuade Steve. Dr. Ann Larrimer and Dr. Nick Bellini stopped seeing each other when they couldn’t cone to an agreement on their relationship. Ann felt Nick was determined to use sex as a shock treatment to bring her out of her mourning for her late husband while Nick felt Ann was using any excuse to exist in the past. To prove him wrong, Ann decided to resume her pediatrics practice in one of Mona's medical suites. Dr. Althea Davis, deeply upset over the possibility of her daughter Penny going blind due to a riding accident, considered her husband Dr. John Morrison's proposal that instead of divorcing as planned, they should reconcile for Penny's sake to provide her with a normal home life. Seeing her ex-husband Nick apparently so happy with Ann upset her greatly and she agreed to John's suggestion. However, Penny's father, Dave Davis, called from California to tell Althea Penny had run away after a fight over skipping school. Terrified, Althea flew to San Francisco, where Penny was traced, and tried to find her herself in the coffee house circuit. Althea sensed one coffee house manager, Jester, recognized Penny's picture and when John arrived, he threatened Jester with a police investigation. Jester admitted he had been letting Penny stay in the back room but she was then gone. Jester neglected to mention that he tried to force himself on Penny which was why she ran away from the coffee house. The Edge of Life Written by : Henry Slesar Produced by : Erwin Nicholson Ashley Reynolds convinced Phoebe that his wife Kay knew about her, so Phoebe went away with him for the weekend. However, Ashley's tone on the phone when Kay unexpectedly called indicateed Kay didn’t know, and Phoebe walked out on him. Ashley later convinced her that Kay called intentionally just to upset her, and she agreed to another weekend. Kay accidentally learned about her husband's affair but concealed her knowledge. Kevin made a last attempt to renew his relationship with Phoebe then realized that she was too involved with Ashley. Certain that Ashley was a liar, Martha Marceau, Phoebe’s foster mother, hired Joel Gantry to investigate him, and Joel bugged Ashley's phone. Simon Jessup planted a post hypnotic suggestion in Liz's mind that she would see Orin standing in the road at the dangerous cliff-side turn near Claybank. She later saw the image, but Jim was driving, so no accident occurred. Jessup reinforced the image, and the next time she saw it while driving with Adam, Liz veered her car toward the cliff. Adam grabbed the wheel and managed to save their lives by steering the car off the road. Liz was unhurt in the crash, but Adam had a concussion, causing his wedding to Nicole to be postponed. Jim tried to convince Liz the hallucinations were due to nerves and medication. Liz was then reluctant to drive, upsetting the plans of Elly Jo and Jessup. Jessup went to Liz's home to cure her insomnia, and hypnotized her to have an impulse to drive in to the city for lunch and then home alone. Upset that her lover Lenny Small was planning to move in with a rich widow, Elly Jo promised him two thousand dollars to change his mind. Not having that much money, Elly Jo stole Liz's necklace but was caught in the act. Liz promised not to tell any one if she moved out by the following week. Elly Jo begged Jessup to accelerate their plot. Orin, recovering from his heart attack, was attracted to Angela Morgan, Adam's secretary. He assured her that his interest in Elly Jo was purely fatherly and friendly. He confided in her that Liz was seeing Simon Jessup for hypnotherapy without Jim's knowledge. Bothered by this, Angela told Adam. Ironically Adam had been suspicious of Jessup and his involvement with Orin and Elly Jo and had been on his way to see Jessup when he impulsively decided to drive out with Liz to Claybank. Jake Berman told his psychiatrist Jim Fields that Nicole really loved him and that Adam hated him for it. Furthermore, Jake claimed that Adam had threatened to kill him. Jim checked this out and found that it was actually Jake who has threatened Adam. Upon receiving Adam and Nicole's wedding invitation, Jake visited ex-con Johnny Dallas, then managing a restaurant. Jake begged Johnny to kill him, as Jake didn’t have the will-power to commit suicide. Johnny was reticent, but Jake threatened to have him arrested for the robbery he committed in January. However, after learning that Adam had been injured and the wedding to Nicole postponed, Jake quickly decided that he wanted to live. He entered Adam's hospital room, intent on murdering him, but in his demented state, saw his dead wife who warned him that he'd be caught and have to go to prison. When Adam suddenly awoke, Jake claimed to be visiting. General Hospital Written by : Frank & Doris Hursley Produced by : James Young Dr. Steve Hardy hired a woman internist, Dr. Lesley Williams, to replace Dr. Tom Baldwin on staff. Audrey Baldwin saw this as giving up hope that her husband, Tom, would ever return with her son Tommy. Reporter Lou Larkin interviewed Audrey about Tommy and offered to help her make a direct appeal on a TV Talk Show. Meanwhile, Tommy's baby nurse, using the name Mrs. Sally Smith, had taken Tommy from Mexico to Chicago following Tom's death and was passing the child off as her own grandson. Unable to accept the probability of her aunt Jessie Brewer marrying Teddy Holmes, Carol ran away to her old home town, Auburn, N.Y. Distraught Jessie gratefully financed Teddy's attempt to find her. Carol only agreed to return home when Teddy promised her his marrying Jessie wouldn’t make any difference to the two of them. Diana Taylor's fears that Dr. Phil Brewer would discover she was pregnant caused her great anxiety. She was sure the child she was carrying was his child as a result of his forcing himself upon her. She was terrified that if her husband, Dr. Peter Taylor, learned what happened, their happy marriage would be in danger. Her obstetrician refused to lie about the due date to Peter although he sympathized with her situation. When Mary Briggs realized that her estranged husband, Wade Collins was determined to tell Meg Baldwin ugly lies about her having an affair with Meg's husband, Lee, during Meg’s hospitalization, she agreed to go back to him to save Lee's marriage. Wade agreed to her terms - no physical relationship - inasmuch as her appearing to be his wife was necessary for his inheriting his father's estate. Lee was stunned and upset to learn Mary had gone back to Wade. Meg decided Mary's return to Wade had something to do with Wade's wanting to see her. She assumed his topic was Lee and Mary. Dr. Williams treated Meg for headache and Meg discussed her mastectomy and her nervous breakdown with her. Dr. Williams saw that Meg was nervous about Lee's attractiveness to other women. The police decided to play Burt Marshall and Howie Dawson against each other in their investigation of Brooke Clinton's murder. Howie admitted he took Brooke to an early dinner that evening but took her home early as she had a late date. Burt was terrified to learn that Howie admitted this and feared Howie knew he was Brooke's date. Howie was reluctant to tell the police about Burt as he was trying to keep Jane from finding out he saw Brooke. Burt asked Howie to cooperate on mutual alibis, but Howie refused. When Burt learned that his wife Mamie told the police she tried to reach his at his office on the night of the murder and he wasn't there, he panicked, robbed the office safe and made a plane reservation in a false name for Canada. The Guiding Light Written by : Robert Soderberg & Edith Sommer Produced by : Lucy Ferri Rittenberg Charlotte Bauer, determined to break up Dr. Sara Mclntyre's marriage to Joe Werner for spite, convinced Kit Vested that Sara was the wrong wife for Joe and that Joe was ripe for a fall. Knowing Kit was in love with Joe, she convinced Kit she could and should take Joe away from Sara. Kit saw Sara's long work hours conflict with Joe's and she managed to be wherever Joe was and Sara wasn't. Dr. Steve Jackson, home recovering from his heart attack, was still dead set against his daughter Leslie marrying Michael Bauer. Leslie and Michael, not seeing each other as she promised Steve, still planned on marrying when Steve's recovery was complete. Michael gently urged Peggy Fletcher to go on with her life without Johnny. She refused to believe he was never returning despite the finality of his goodbye letter. Barbara Norris and Adam Thorpe planned their wedding. Ken seemed pleased that his mother was happy but his sister, Holly, felt she could never accept Roger's father as her mother's husband. Holly tried hard to encourage a relationship with Dr. Ed Bauer but finally realizes he was only concerned with Janet, Ken's wife, and saw her, Holly, as only an equidistance. Holly, still unable to believe Janet, wondered if Janet's baby could be Roger's, not Ken's. Barbara's other son, Andrew, overseas, had not answered her letter about her forthcoming marriage. When Janet told Ed Bauer she was pregnant, he told her this didn’t change his feelings for her. Both her mother and his mother, Bert Bauer, asked Ed to back off and give Janet and Ken a chance for reconciliation. He refused to do this. Janet finally told her husband, Ken, that she was pregnant, but she added that she couldn’t reconcile with him. She insisted she had thought it all out and whatever they once had was gone and couldn’t be regained. Ken was very happy about being a father and begged Janet to give him another chance. Both her mother and Barbara begged Janet to reconsider for the baby's sake but she maintained her relationship with Ken was dead. Janet attended Barbara's wedding and, standing beside Ken, was reminded of the vows they exchanged. After the Thorpes left for Jamaica, Janet and Ken discussed the baby. She was very aware of his delight and sense of involvement in their expected child. Love is a Many Splendored Thing Written by : Ann Marcus Produced by : Linda Wendell When Dr. Jim Abbott realized from Iris Garrison's medical records that her daughter Maggie was not her husband Spence's child, he tried to inlist Iris's sister Laura Elliot in a plot to break up Iris's marriage. He held Maggie out as bait to childless Laura. In desperation, Laura insisted her husband Mark publicly acknowledge Maggie as his child and try to take custody of her. Laura almost told Spence the truth but realized in time the hurt this could cause. She told Iris that Jim knew the truth. Iris visited Jim's office and told him that his idea that he could destroy her and her marriage because he loved her and wanted her was garbage. She told him she would always love Spence and felt only pity for him, Jim. Meanwhile, Tom Donnelly was able to arrange a private adoption for Mark and Laura and they welcomed their new son, Philip Scott Elliott into their home. Laura was overjoyed. Holly McAllister, realizing Jim was love with Iris, quit her job and arranged to return to New York. Jim visited her and told her he then fully accepted that Iris didn’t care at all for him and pleaded with Holly to stay and give him a chance to find his way back to her again. Because she loved him, she agreed to try. Angel Chernak slowly sensed there was more to her illness than she had been told and tricked Dr. Keith into admitting that she was dying. Her husband, Dr. Pete Chernak, told her he was going to take her and their daughter Nikki on a trip around the world, but she refused preferring to spend whatever time she had left in her own little world, her new apartment with her family and friends nearby. She beautifully reminded him that they had had so much love, so much happiness even though for only a short tine and that he would always have her love with him. She admitted she was afraid, as did he, but they could face the future, the inevitable, secure in the great love they shared. Understanding what Angel meant when she warned her not to squander the precious love she and Joe shared, Betsy Chernak decided to give up the idea of a surgical residency to go away with Joe. Joe told her they couldn’t run away, they had to grow up then. He insisted she had to achieve her fullest potential as a doctor and he had to try to attain his fullest potential as a person. He then asked her to marry him. Dr. Warner assured her that marriage wouldn't interfere with her chance to win the residency. Betsy and Joe were married at the home of her mother, Lily Chernak Donnelly. Betsy wore the dress her mother wore when she married Dr. Will Donnelly. The minister read Kahlil Gibran on marriage - on being two people with independent identities who would be strengthened by their love for each other. Betsy spoke verses by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Joe quoted Walt Whitman's “The Song of the Open Road” after which they promised the traditional wedding vows. The Donnelly, Elliott, Garrison, Chernak and Warner families were present along with many friends. At the end of the wedding, Judson Laire (Dr. Will Donnelly) thanked the viewing audience for allowing the company to come into their homes for the last five and one half years and expressed his regret that the story was ending. The show last aired on Friday, March 23rd. Love of Life Written by : Loring Mandel Produced by : Bertram Berman When normal treatment for Rebecca's staph infection had no affect, Dr. Dan Phillips ordered massive drug therapy. This unorthodox treatment worked and Rebecca was soon well enough for Kate to take home. Kate was still unaware that Dan, her estranged husband, had been on Rebecca's case at all. After exhaustive tests, Dr. Lederer, Rebecca's pediatrician, had learned that Rebecca had been deaf since birth. Kate tried not to believe this. Finally, after putting him off so many times, Kate told Rick Latimer she would marry him. She still believed he was Rebecca's father as did Dan. Rick had concealed the blood test evidence which would prove the child was actually Dan's. Dan's mother, Vinnie Phillips, encouraged Dan's nurse, Candy, to go after Dan to insure his eventual divorce from Kate. Candy didn’t realize Vinnie was only using her as a diversion. Candy was very hurt when Dan came out and told her he still loved Kate. Dan, upset at the news of Kate's plans to marry Rick, told her he still loved her and loved Rebecca, and wanted to come back to her. Kate was astounded. Walter Morgan, Bobby Mackey's accomplice in the swindle scheme, announced his intention to invest in the late Bill Prentiss's rock opera. Charles Lamont, Bill's father, insisted plans for this began immediately. Dr. Joe Correlli told Tess, Bill’s widow, this whole thing was destructive to them to her son Johnny. She thought not. Knowing Tess and Joe promised Charles they'd wait for a year after Bill's death to marry, Bobby pushed for a memorial service for Bill to bring back the old memories. At the service, Morgan and Bobby pushed for the production and the tone of the service became one of almost worship for Bill. Finally Joe tried to explain that Bill wouldn't like this, he would expect life to go on, that he was a man, not a god. Charles, furious, stormed out of the room and Tess then ran out in tears. When Joe told Tess she had to set a date for their wedding, she told him she was not ready, she needed more time. He answered that it was all over, then, and said goodbye. He later accused Charles of resurrecting Bill because Charles still felt Joe didn't try hard enough as a doctor to save Bill. Joe asked if Tess was supposed to crawl back into the grave with Bill when the production was over. Morgan was upset to learn Jamie Rollins was going to work in the county attorney's office as he had passed the bar. Van Sterling was then becoming suspicious of Morgan. One Life To Live Written by : Agnes Nixon & Gordon Russell Produced by : Doris Quinlan Carla Gray was uncertain and afraid of committing herself to a future with policeman Ed Hall due to her memories and fears from her childhood. However, observing the compassion and patience Ed showed with defiant young Josh, an underpriviledged kid he was trying to save from delinquency and crime, she realized he was as compassionate and patient with her, and told him she loved him and thought she could begin to be all the things he wanted her to be for him. When Josh's arm was injured, Ed surmised the injury was strongarming by a local street gang and took Josh home to Carla for dinner. Julie Toland still couldn’t respond to Mark the way she felt a normal woman should and used any available excuse to avoid intimacy with him. Mark, feeling Julie's over-concern with her mother Eileen Siegel's problems was hurting both their marriage and Eileen's adjustment to widowhood, discussed their problems with Larry, confidentially. Larry sympathetically suggested Julie should see Dr. Polk. When Mark discussed Julie's over-concern with Eileen, she agreed, but Julie resented his intrusion on her relationship with her mother. Mark was further upset that Julie refused to tell him what her frightening nightmare was about. - Julie dreamed that Mark left her after finding her with Jack Lawson in their apartment. - Eileen cautioned Julie not to let seeing Jack or hearing his name mentioned prey on her mind as it could hurt her marriage. Meredith Wolek suggested to her husband, Larry, that they adopt a little girl. Viki, physically recovered from her accident, was sent home to Llanfair, her father's estate. Impatient to recover her memory of the last eighteen months and confused about why she wasn't brought to her husband, Steve Burke's apartment, she looked through the old newspaper files at the Banner and thus recalled Marcy Wade's death and Steve's trial. Still unaware that her first husband, Joe Riley, was alive, she moved from Llanfair to Steve's apartment. Joe, learning that Viki remembered the music from the carousel music box he gave her the night before the accident, gave the box to Dr. Polk who showed it to Viki. She suddenly remembered that Joe was alive and that she was to decide between Joe and Steve. She also painfully remembered spending the night before the accident with Joe in Mt. Jefferson. She asked to see both Steve and Joe. Cathy Craig, trying to block out the strong feelings she had for Steve Burke began to date Jack Lawson. Steve, her boss on the newspaper, refused her request for an out-of-town reporting assignment telling her she was needed in the office. Return To Peyton Place Written by : James Lipton / Robert Cenedella Produced by : Don Wallace / George Parris Betty Harrington was terrified her baby might really be premature as even at term her husband Rodney had to think the baby came early if he was to believe it was his child. Steven Cord, the baby's father, encouraged Betty to allow Rod freedom to help Allison in order to provide time for him to be with Betty. Betty realized she had to pretend this child was Rod's as Martin Peyton would not allow a child of Steven's (Martin's illegitimate grandson) to be the Peyton heir. Rod was very upset to learn the baby was almost ready to be born as the due date was well over two months away. Betty was then frantic. Convinced that Allison Carson Tate was innocent of Benny Tate's murder despite her conviction for the crime, Rod attempted to find new evidence to clear her. He went to West Virginia to question Benny's mother and his fatally ill brother. Rod uncovered the truth, that it was actually Benny who was alive and the body in the cabin was his twin, Jason. Barely clinging to life, Benny arrived in Peyton Place at the time of Allison's sentencing. He explained that he sent Jason to his bride, Allison, with a note saying their marriage was a mistake. He did this to save her from the agony of watching him slowly die. When Allison mistook Jason for Benny, Jason took on his brother's identity. Discovering this by accident, Benny tracked Jason down and when Jason disarmed Allison, knocking her unconscious at the cabin, Benny and Jason struggled over the gun and Jason was shot. Benny then drove Allison to the hospital but she was in shock and blocked this out. Benny further explained that he didn't come forward as his mother told him Jason died in a fire and he assumed that was all there was to it. A new trial was ordered. That afternoon, sensing the strong bond between Allison and Rod, not knowing that Rod was already married, Benny made Rod promise to care for Allison forever. This done, Benny died. Hannah Cord persuaded Rod's father, Leslie, to vote dowm expansion plans for Peyton Industries in Rod's absence. She was trying to discredit Rod as president of the company in hopes that Martin Peyton would eventually allow Steven to take control. Rod returned from West Virginia in time to reverse the decision and avert the crisis. Ed Rikker told Leslie he was turning down Rod's offer of the position of security chief at the company, but when he saw how prejudiced Leslie was - Rikker was black -, he reconsidered and accepted the job. Hannah was amazed that Martin approved this appointment. Martin Peyton, his objectives achieved, returned to the Bahamas unseen. Betty told Selena Cross that if she wanted Dr. Mike Rossi, she would have to take the initiative. So she told him she loved him and asked him to spend the night with her. He later told her this made him feel committed. When he later asked her to marry him, she asked if that was what he wanted to do or what he felt honor bound to do. Steven Cord offered Allison's attorney, Bob Whitmore, a full law partnership. Norman Harrington, upset that his wife Rita was assuming her mother Ada Jacks' duties in running the tavern during her absence, resented the upheaval in their lives and the way Rita ordered him around - tend the bar, clean the tables, etc. When he suggested closing until Ada's return, she reminded him Ada's money saved his fishing business. Search For Tomorrow Written by : Ralph Ellis & Eugenie Hunt Produced by : Bernie Sofronski Patti and Len Whiting announced they were moving to Seattle to build a new life on their own, Andrea Whiting, Len's mother, seemed to take the news very well but after her farewell party for them, she took an overdose of sleeping pills. Attorney John Wyatt accidentally found her in time. She told John that losing Len and her grandson Chris meant her life was over. When he convinced her she was being foolish and selfish, she assured Len and Patti the overdose was accidental so they could leave as planned. Joanna Vincent noticed books were mysteriously disappearing then reappearing in the hospital library. She later discovered the secret borrower was the cleaning lady. Kathy Phillips' clash with her father-in-law, Doug Martin, came to a head when Kathy, representing friends Jay and Teri, planned to sue the Henderson Savings and Loan for discrimination against wives' salaries in mortgage applications. Doug, the bank's attorney, was sure Kathy is wrong, that her ambition was causing her to sue prematurely as the bank president had assured hin the bank officer made a mistake and Jay and Teri would get their mortgage. With her boss John Wyatt's permission, Kathy took the issue to the newspapers. The bank wanted Doug to sue her but admitted privately they did discount women's salaries. Doug then refused to represent the bank in this case and suggested they changed their policy. He and Kathy then came to an understanding. Doug reassured his son Scott, Kathy's husband, that he would progress the “right” way in his, Doug's office but Scott couldn’t help but envy Kathy's more active law career in Wyatt's office including her recent trip to Washington on a case. Doug approved his wife Eunice's new part time job as a freelance reporter for a local magazine but told her Scott and Kathy's marriage was in trouble as a woman's career had to come second to her marriage. Eunice was disquieted by the way John Wyatt could sense she was afraid to disagree with Doug on anything. She disliked Wyatt as he perceptively saw more than she found comfortable. She was unaware that he was responsible for the reporting job being offered to her. Janet and Wade Collins returned home from their honeymoon to find her father, Stu Bergman, still living in his old house. She finally accepted the fact he wouldn’t move. Liza, Janet's daughter, was deeply infatuated with intern Matt Weldon and when he invited her to dinner for her sixteenth birthday she was in heaven. Wade loaned Liza his car to pick up her mother. Her ex-boyfriend troublemaker Randy spotted her and forced her to let him drive the car. He ran a red light and hit a pedestrian, then smashed the car into a pole. He convinced Liza they would be in real trouble if the police learned he was driving as his licence had been taken away. He ran away. Liza's injuries weren’t serious but the girl they hit was badly hurt. She had no identification and only when Jo visited Liza and recognized her as the library cleaning lady did they know who she was. Liza, scared by Randy's warning, told the police she was driving. Wyatt, Tony Vincente and Wade found the girl did not hear. They ordered tests to determine whether she actually couldn’t hear, traumatically believed she couldn’t hear, or was faking. Matt was upset by this as his mother was totally deaf. The Secret Storm Written by : Gabrielle Upton Produced by : Joseph D. Manetta Father Mark Reddin, at his mother's home in Texas, found he still couldn’t establish a relationship with his brother Stace due to Stace's resentment and antagonism. Mark finally decided he would marry Laurie Stevens and asked her to come to Texas. He applied to Rome for release from his vows as a priest. His mother Jessie was crushed by Mark's decision and was very cold to Laurie. However, Laurie’s gentleness and her desire to help Mark reach emotionally insecure Stace softened Jessie somewhat. As Rome's permission would take six months, Laurie would bring her son Clay to Texas to wait. Meanwhile, Stace decided Laurie was too much woman for Mark but not for himself and he was determined to have her. Jessie was very afraid that Laurie’s presence would cause real trouble between her sons. Laurie didn't mention Stace's first pass at her but he trapped her in the barn and while she struggled to get away from him, Mark walked in. Mrs. Post, a paritioner of Mark’s, was horrified to learn he was leaving the priesthood as she had told his things in the confessional she was deeply afraid of having known. Dr. Brian Neeves was becoming very protective of Any Kincaid and fought with himself to stop thinking of the child she was carrying as his child. He had convinced Amy that there was no way for her husband, Kevin, to ever learn that this child was not conceived before the accident which paralysed him, but by artificial insemination (AI). Amy didn’t know that Dr. Neeves himself was the AI donor. However, accidentally, in the hospital lab, Robert Landers learned that Amy was an AI pregnancy case. Belle Kincaid convinced her husband Dan - in prison - and Joanna Morrison that she was investing in Joanna's boyfriend Robert Landers' racing car only for Joanna's sake. Actually, Belle was trying to take Robert away from Joanna for spite and from boredom and she had become intrigued by the glamour of racing. Dan allowed her heavy expenditures and investments as he couldn’t bring himself to deny her anything. He even concealed from her the fact that Kincaid Enterprises was in financial trouble. Since she was financing everything, Robert started making love to Belle. When he admitted this to Joanna, with whom he was living, she considered walking out, then decided to fight on Belle's terms. She told Dan about Robert and Belle. In agony and anguish he gave his power of attorney to Kevin telling him to put Belle on an allowance to cover all the essentials but allowing no extras. He didn’t want her to know he knew about Robert but realized that Robert wouldn’t stick around if there was no money. When Belle visited Dan, he told her the new money policy was for business reasons. When Kevin told her how much - how little – he was alloting to her each month, Belle was furious. She was stunned when Robert happened to casually mention that Amy was an AI pregnancy case. Somerset Written by : Henry Slesar Produced by : Lyle B. Hill When Virgil Paris refuses to kill Andrea Moore for her stepsister, Zoe Canell, Zoe decided to do the job herself. She invited Andrea and David Grant to her hunting lodge and, after sending David to buy food, helf a rifle on Andrea. She told Andrea she was responsible for the arsenic poisoning attempt on Andrea and would finish the job so her husband, Julian, could no longer love Andrea and would love her again. As she was about to kill Andrea, Zoe's brother, Carter Matson, suddenly arrived, having learned of Zoe's intentions from Virgil. While trying to get the gun from her, Carter was shot. David returned to find Carter dead and Zoe in shock. Zoe was found to be criminally insane and would be confined to a mental institution. Aunt Rowena, exonerated of the poisoning attempt chose to remain at the sanitarium — she liked it there. Ironically, during Zoe's absence, Julian finally decided to divorce her and upon making the decision found he could once more play the piano. However, he decided to give up his concert career and attempt the journalism career he always wanted. Andrea and David become engaged. Andrea refused her mother, Emily Matson's request that she go abroad with the family for a year. Emily felt David was unsuitable as a husband for her heiress daughter and intended to find a way to break them up. Dana, Andrea's brother, determined to stop his mother, told her good breeding hadn't stopped Emily's husband, Philip Matson, from having an affair with his secretary, Millie. Emily, stunned, told Philip she would like to accompany him - and Millie - on his upcoming business trip but he gently discouraged her. She still didn’t actually believe it until finding Philip left his briefcase behind, she looked for his itinerary and found instead a hotel reservation for Mr. and Mrs. Philip Matson - one room. Leo Kurtz, sure lawyer Ben Grant was behind any suspicions Sam Lucas – president of Delaney Brands - had, ordered Crystal Ames - Sam's secretary, planted on the job by Leo - to tape all conversations between Sam and Ben. From one of these tapes, Leo and Virgil learned that Ben attended a secret meeting called by Herb Geller, DR Sales manager, where he learned suppliers were being terrified into cutting prices, employees were being threatened and customers forced to accept inferior quality canned goods. These men all felt that gangsters then own Delaney Brands. Sam refused to believe this but promised Ben, his best friend, to tell no one. When Herb Geller was terribly injured in a peculiar hit and run accident, Ben and Sam fought as Ben felt it wasn't an accident and Sam felt accused. His doubts and anger led Sam to drink too much and he and his wife, Lahoma, fought over this. Crystal made herself available for sympathy and affection which was what Leo hired her to do. The syndicate wanted Sam kept unaware of the real ownership and new organization of the company. Ginger Kurtz Cooper told her father, Leo, she was still upset by Virgil's pushiness with her. Leo wanted to promote her husband, Tony, to plant foreman. Tony felt this could cause more friction in the plant - nepotism - and would rather not but Leo insisted. Virgil, piqued by Ginger's coldness towards him suggested to Leo that Tony be sent out of town for a two day seminar course. Where The Heart Is Written by : Claire Labine & Paul Avila Mayer Produced by : Chuck Weiss Kate Prescott was relieved to learn she was in fine physical condition despire recent blackouts and erratic behavior. When her release from the hospital was delayed, Kate lost control again and Betty – her sarcastic and bitter persona – emerged. Dr. Feldman held a session with her and tried to make her speak of her childhood and if she ever felt neglected but Kate refused and said her law studies couldn’t allow her to see him regularly. Chris Cameron told John Rainey about her confrontation with his wife, Adrienne, at the sanitarium. Since Adrienne got Katina back to Christine, she felt she owed her something and Chris agreed to Adrienne’s requet that she establish an emotion distance between herself and John. Julian Hathaway noticed his daughter-in-law Liz – Adrienne’s daughter – flirting with Bert, a fellow student. When Loretta Jardin took over the class as Julian felt unwell, Liz tried to cut Loretta down inferring her background was insufficient for a college teaching, but Loretta embarrased Liz who was unprepared for the class. Furious, Liz instigated rumors of Loretta’s interest in Julian. Julian admitted to his wife, Mary, that he was suffering from stomach pains. Dr. Prescott confirmed the symptoms were classic ulcer symptoms. Liz encouraged Mary to believe the ulcer was the cause of Julian keeping something from her. Julian learned from his secretary that rumors on campus were progressing to the point where he, Mary and Loretta, were being called « menage a trois ». When Julian confronted Liz and told her he would tell Mary the whole truth, Liz answered that the baby she was carrying was not Michael’s, but his. To put an end to Liz’ threat, Julian revealed to Mary he had an affair with Liz the previous summer and she was carrying his child. When Liz laughed at Mary, she slapped her across the face. Mary left Julian and went to Kate’s in order to have time to think. Ed Lucas was worried about his daughter, Vicky’s apparent retreat to her millhouse. She had decided to lead a simple life. John began putting the puzle together when Michael told him that he and Liz had decided to marry before John married Adrienne but Liz asked him to keep it quiet until after the wedding as her mother preferred it that way. John told Chris to avoid Adrienne as she was not her friend. Julian told Liz he would reveal the truth to Michael. Liz asked her father for his help but John dismissed her lies and told her he knew she was a deceitful liar. John told Adrienne he realized her duplicity in tricking him into marriage. Adrienne claimed she was motivated by love and John packed bags and walked out. He went to Chris, explained how he was tricked by Adrienne and Chris moved into his arms, assuring him of her love. Kate was happy for Chris and John and she agreed to begin regular sessions because she realized her psychological problems came from the repressive moral code imposed by her late father, Judge Hathaway. Steve decided he was taking her off to the Caribbean for relaxation before she began this work. Chris and John’s efforts brought Allison and Hugh back to the family and they all decided to share custody of Katina. Julian told Michael the truth about his affair with Liz. Michael realized all the lies Liz lied to him and he walked out on her. Michael went to Vicky’s for consolation. Julian went to see Mary who realized Julian really regretted his mistake with Liz. They reconciled. Adrienne and Liz tearfully consoled each other over the loss of the men in their life. Mother and daughter decided to remain in Northcross until the baby was born at least. Julian came to see Michael at Back To Nature and took full blame for their estrangement. Michael assured he didn’t want to lose his father and both men embraced. The show last aired on Friday, March 23rd. The Young and The Restless Written by : William J. Bell Produced by : William J. Bell & John Conboy The show first aired on Monday, March 26th. In a truck, a passenger man was fleeing his past life. When he passed through Genoa City, Wisconsin, he decided to stop. He was hungry and stopped at a restaurant called “Pierre’s”, run by Frenchman Pierre Roulland. When he wanted to pay, the mystery man explained Pierre he didn’t have any money as all his papers and wallet had been robbed on his way to Genoa City. Pierre’s main waitress, Sally McGuire, was having an affair with medical student, Snapper Foster who was also dating rich girl, Chris Brooks. Snapper had a meeting with Stuart Brooks, owner of the town newspaper and Chris’ father, at Pierre’s. Stuart wanted to know Snapper’s intentions towards his daughter who was madly in love with her and insisted on how Snapper couldn’t be involved in a too serious relationship with his time-consuming medical studies. As he noticed the mystery man couldn’t pay for his meal, Stuart said Pierre he was paying. He was very intrigued by the man who only gave him his name – Brad Elliot – but no background. Stuart offered him a job to run copies and the newspaper. Given with no alternative, Brad accepted. Meanwhile, in Chicago, the town Brad had fled, his girlfriend Barbara was asked to identify his belongings. His car crashed and the body was not recognizable – the man who stole his wallet and his car -. Brad Elliot was officially pronounced dead. Stuart and his wife Jennifer Brooks, worried about Chris’ involvement with Snapper. They had three other daughters : Leslie, who played perfectly the piano, youngster Peggy and Lorie, who had been living in Paris for four years and should come back home after graduating this summer. Snapper’s family, the Fosters, were living quite modestly since Snapper’s father abandoned the family years ago. Liz Foster, the mother, was exhausting herself working in a factory to pay for Snapper’s medical studies and other son, Greg’s law school. The youngest child, Jill, was working as a beautician but was not happy of her condition and hoped she would own her salon someday.

You are the best !! I am still tracking the missing issues too.

20 years ? Wow. Congratulations @Toups! I remember joining this forum in December 2005, so this was 3 years after the website was launched. So many vivid memories of soap history moments shared. Thanks to my favorite posters @will81, @dc11786, @saynotoursoap for bringing so much to the forum.

Thank you !!!

Does anyone know when Reylynn Caster was downgraded to recurring ?

Oh these are gems ! Damn the 2nd episode stops before Linda drives Mike to bed. Iconic storyline !

Thanks !!

I noticed Joan Copeland, who recently died, was on Love of Life in the early 1960s’. Apparently, she played two characters : Maggie Porter and Kay Logan. Does anyone have information on thèse characters ?

Jeanne Cooper was such a force to reckon with when given the good material to play.

DECEMBER 1977 New schedule beginning on Monday, December 6th. 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 2 :30 – 3 :00 pm One Life To Live The Guiding Light The Doctors 3 :00 – 3 :30 pm Another World General Hospital 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 On the morning of the day that Dr. Jeff Martin was to be best man at Frank Grant's wedding to Caroline Murray, he learned that Frank's ex-wife Nancy Grant's suspicions that she might be pregnant with Frank's child had been officially confirmed by Dr. Calder. Nancy refused to accept Jeff's insistence that Frank had a right to know, maintaining that the child was hers alone; that she was determined to have and keep her baby. Jeff sadly observed that when Frank did learn eventually about Nancy's condition, he was likely to believe that the baby's father was Carl Blair, the man Frank believed to be Nancy's lover, despite her denials in the past. Nancy rather bitterly conceded the logic of what Jeff was saying, but moments later confided to Jeff that she felt sure that when Frank saw the child, he would know it for his own. Ruth Martin had accepted Paul's proposal that he visit Ray Gardner personally, in Texarkana, with the $5,000 Ruth had promised to send, to represent Joe and Ruth as their attorney and make sure that Gardner signed papers which would clear the way for the legal adoption of Tad, the son Gardner had previously abandoned. In the meantime, Gardner had become impatient when he failed to receive the money in the mail and he borrowed plane fare from the woman he was living with, intending to abandon her once he had gotten his hands on the promised sum, and more. Kate Martin was shocked to find Gardner on her doorstep and she and Ruth tried to stall for time in Joe's absence, in the face of Gardner's insistance that he see his son one last time and his story of being broke, without shelter, and unsuitably dressed for the Eastern climate. Kate was tempted to allow Gardner to stay for the night until Paul returned by the first available plane, but Joe returned from the hospital and refused to hear of it or to provide funds for Gardner's lodging elsewhere, Kate believed that the decision about Tad's seeing Gardner should be up to the boy. When Tad was asked, he reacted with terror, and Ruth and Kate promised him they would not allow Gardner near him. Gardner showed up at the Thornton cabin, having struck up an acquaintance with Edna at a local diner, and when she agreed to allow him to get some rest for a few hours, she woke the following morning to find that he had stayed overnight on her couch. Just then David phoned and Edna had to hang up when she feared that Dottie would mention "cousin" Ray's presence to David. Ruth and Joe Martin were called to the phone at the Grants’ wedding reception to learn from Dan Kennicott that Tad had returned from a stay at a friend's house to find Gardner waiting for him at the Martin home. They rushed back to find that the boy had not been hurt, other than being cuffed around, but that Gardner hds attempted to intimidate him into urging that Ruth and Joe did as he wanted. When Ruth recognized the number Gardner had left where he could be reached as the telephone at David's cabin, she went there. Edna insisted that she was alone and told Ruth that Dottie was very ill, but at first rejected Ruth's offer to look in on the little girl, saying that after she was unable to reach Christina Karras, she finally got another doctor to see Dottie. - Edna's efforts to reach Christina resulted in suspicion about Chris' whereabouts which were confirmed when she called David and recognized Chris' voice on the phone from his hotel room in the Carribean. Overriding her bitterness was Edna's genuine concern for Dottie, and with David's promise to return home, she followed his advice to have a Dr. Quinn see Dottie in the interim. – Gardner immediately stepped into the room as Ruth and Edna came from seeing to Dottie and though Ruth was unconvinced about their story of old friendship, she promised to get together the money Gardner demanded by cashing in an insurance policy. - Ray had upped the ante, tearing up Joe's check and insisting only $10,000 would compensate him for not seeing his son again and his treatment at Joe's hands. - Gardner told Ruth he would get in touch with her when he had found a room somewhere so as not to burden "this lovely lady" – Edna - any longer. He mentioned that he had found work so that Ruth would know that he intended to stay around for awhile. - Unknown to Ruth, Nick Davis had bought Gardner's sob story of being a widower whose son was being cared for temporarily by a very reliable local family; true, if somewhat distorted. He had hired Gardner on as a kitchen helper at the Chateau with Gardner's promise that he intended to settle down in Pine Valley for a good long time. – When Ruth told Joe that she felt she had to give Gardner the money in the face of his threat to stay on in order to get rid of him, Joe told her that some of the things she had been doing were absolutely irrational. Benny Sago had been instrumental in putting an end to Phoebe Tyler's scheme to buy information from Billy Clyde which he had guaranteed would mean the end of Chuck and Donna's so far happy marriage. Acting on a warning from Benny, Chuck, Linc and Phil Brent walked into the roadhouse where Phoebe and Billy Clude had met and sent Phoebe packing. Chuck then warned Billy Clyde that if he ever tried to cause trouble for Donna again, he would see that he was prosecuted for the episode in Center City when he drugged Donna. After Chuck and Linc left, Billy Clude told Phil about the operation which Ty told him he had performed on Donna by his "house physician" during surgery for appendicitis, and that even Donna herself was not aware that she was sterile. When Phil told his wife Tara about Billy Clyde's claim, Tara insisted that Phil tell Chuck despite his doubts of the truth of the story. She was frightened that if Donna couldn’t be pregnant, she was showing symptoms of something else, and to allow those symptoms to continue to mask Donna's true condition might be endangering her health and even her life. Phoebe Tyler had called her son, Linc, to urge him to appeal to the judge who sentenced her to three weekends in jail for reckless driving. She claimed that after having spent one weekend locked up, the palpitations she had been experiencing should be taken for proof that she was too ill to serve out the remainder of her sentence. When Linc told her that the judge insisted that upon her recovery she would be expected to continue her sentence, Phoebe lurched out of the room and fell down a flight of stairs. Phil reluctantly set up a meeting with Chuck, which was cancelled when Chuck had to attend his grandmother, Phoebe, when she suffered her fall while drunk. When Phil finally told Chuck, he was told that Chuck was convinced that Billy Clyde was a liar, just out to cause trouble for Donna, and that he himself was sure that Donna was pregnant. Chuck insisted that Phil promise not to mention it to Donna, and Phil, feeling that he had done all he could, agreed. Charles had told Mona Kane, his secretary, that he believed that Phoebe was malingering but he and the staff were giving her the benefit of the doubt for the present. After Charles left the office, Phoebe called to ask Mona to come to her room at the hospital and begged Mona as an act of "Christian charity" and by way of a Christmas present, to forgive her all the unjust things Phoebe had done to her. She told Mona she was convinced that she has only a few short months to live and wanted Mona and Charles to be happy, with her blessing, if Mona would "give Charles back to me" for the few brief moments that remained. As Mona protested that she couldn’t "give" Charles, Phoebe overrode her words, going on to say that Charles could help an Mona’s daughter, Erica, had confided to her that Nick Davis had asked Erica to move in with him, asking Mona in the name of her friendship with Nick, to appeal to him to put aside his wariness at marrying again. Mona saw Nick, but came away with the conviction that whatever his reason, ultimately Nick was right that marriage between himself and Erica would be a mistake. Erica was furious with her mother and pushed her out of her house bodily, but after she let Nick know how disappointed she was that the beautiful pearl necklace which was his Christmas gift to her was not an engagement ring, she said she was still in love with him and wouldn't dream of breaking off their relationship. Dan Kennicott had finally broken off with Brooke English after she had once more lied to him about dating someone else. Though they had left it that each would date other people but would continue to see one another, the cooling process had set in and Dan had begun to see more and more of Devon Shephard. Devon's mother, Ellen, had continued to see Mark Dalton, telling Devon at one point that she was dating Paul Martin. As Paul was out of town, intending to see Ray Gardner at the time, Kate Martin was warned by Devon's grandfather and became part of the conspiracy to permit Ellen and Mark to see one another without Devon knowing. The need for deceiving Devon gave way in the face of a letter Devon received from her father, announcing that he had married the young woman he left Ellen for. After the first shock, Devon apologized to her mother for the months she had been bitterly maintaining that the blame for the split-up was Ellen's and she could mend the marriage anytime she chose. After reviewing her conduct and attitude toward her mother, she told Ellen that she had no right to dictate to her and wished her all the happiness she was capable of finding with whomever she chose. After talking with Tara and letting slip her relationship with Nick and its duration - going back to before Erica's divorce from Phil Brent, Nick's son -, Erica staged a slightly hysterical scene for Tom Cudahy and got the day off. She phoned Nick and arranged to cook an intimate dinner for him, insisting he be at her place early. After she hung up, she finished packing a suitcase. Another World Written by: Harding Lemay Produced by: Paul Rauch Iris Carrington Bancroft, having learned from husband Brian that her father Mac Cory, wanted to divorce Rachel, his wife, because he believed he was the father of the child his housemaid Regine was carrying, arranged to see Mac at his office and tried to talk him out of it. Mac felt he had to do the honorable thing by Regine. Iris then realized that in her attempts to drive Mac and Rachel apart, she might have trapped her father in a worse fate — marriage to Regine, who was under the power of the evil Sven. Sven had previously refused to be paid off, so then Iris, with the help of the Countess Elena de Polignac, managed to be alone with Regine and offered to pay all Regina's expenses, plus provide an allowance for the baby, if Regine would leave town. Regine was tempted, but refused because she was afraid Uncle Sven would harm Helga, her mother. Desperate to save her father, despite Brian's imprecations that she stay out of the whole mess, Iris went to see Rachel. Iris told Rachel that Mac loved her, that he only wanted Rachel to get a divorce so he could give Regine's baby its father's name. Rachel, who had lost one baby by Mac, and had been thwarted in bearing him another child by his then-cured sterility and their identity problems, was devastated to learn another woman was bearing the child she wanted so much. Iris begged Rachel not to divorce Mac. Lawyer Greg Barnard arrived after Iris left and found Rachel in shock. Greg's interest in Rachel went beyond that of a lawyer for a client. He asked if Rachel would get an out-of-state divorce. Rachel asked, "Why should Mac have everything he wants?" Mac dropped by to try to explain his position, i.e., as soon as he could, he would resume his relationship with Rachel. Rachel told him she knew why he wanted her to get a divorce. Denying they could ever have a life together again, Rachel told Mac, "I can never think of you as my husband again." Mac left. Greg put his arms around Rachel, but she wanted nobody at this time. He left. Meanwhile, a business crisis had developed in France, demanding Brian's immediate presence. After trying unsuccessfully to reach Iris, Brian left, sans luggage, telling Mac's assistant, Liz Matthews, that he would get whatever he needed in Paris. When Iris learned Brian had gone without telling her, she assumed Rachel had talked with him, that he had left her for good because she got involved in Mac's life again. Rachel, to gain time to think, went to visit Amy and Austin Cushing in Point Claire. Greg went to see Mac, asking what Mac's intentions were regarding Rachel. Mac wanted Rachel to get a divorce. He would then marry Regine, give the baby his name, then divorce Regine and resume his life with Rachel. Greg was astounded, but realized there was great love between Mac and Rachel, even though they couldn’t seem to overcome their differences. Mac couldn't find Rachel to talk out his ideas, finally learning her whereabouts from Greg, who, revealing his feelings about Rachel, had to get them together to talk, if he had ever to have a chance with Rachel. Mac went to Point Clair. After talking with Mac in Point Claire, Rachel decided not to get an immediate divorce. Iris, unable to stop Mac any other way, finally told him the truth about her collusion with Sven to keep Mac and Rachel separated. Iris warned Mac about Sven. Mac was devastated, telling Iris he didn’t know if he could ever forgive her. Mac fired Sven, but Sven continued to hang around to make certain neither Helga nor Regine told Mac that Regine was really carrying Cliff Tanner's baby. Russ finally examined Regine, who acceded only to please Mac and Helga. She was four months pregnant. Jim Matthews didn’t like Charley Hobson hanging around Ada McGowan, so he arranged a dinner to introduce Charley to Liz, hoping to kill two birds with one dinner; give Charley an interest other than Ada; give Liz an interest other than him and the family. Charley and Liz hit it off well. But Ray Gordon had to close his burgeoning insurance office to fly to California to make arrangements for his sons when his mother was taken to the hospital. Charley began to think about opening a small repair shop instead of selling insurance. Jim was upset to learn Ada had offered her garage. Liz was upset to learn Charley would consider such "demeaning" work. Jim finally expressed his feelings to Ada, who stopped him, saying she was happy with their present relationship. Pat Randolph returned from Paris, where she, too, was on company business. Brian returned shortly thereafter. Iris told him all that had happened. Brian reassured her of his love, hoping she had learned a lesson. Wilis Frame and Gwen Parrish had guessed the reason Molly Randolph had missed a lot of work lately was because she was having an affair with Cliff Tanner. Molly knew Cliff only turned to her because of his recent rejection by Regine. Molly's step-mother-in-law, Olive Randolph, also knew aboutMolly's affair, having given Molly a key to a cabin at the lake to meet Cliff. When Molly refused again to be any part of Olive's scheme to divorce John, Olive went to Molly's husband Mike and told him Molly was having an affair, offering as proof a key to the cabin that would be in Molly's purse. Mike found the proof, and he and Molly broke up. Molly moved in with Willis. Deciding hers shouldn't be the only marriage to suffer, Molly warned Olive she was going to tell John Olive was having an affair with architect Evan Webster. Olive gave Molly $10,000 to leave town and start a new life. Molly took the money and left, but changed her mind. Molly returned town and told Mike all about Olive and Evan. They started to search for John to tell him, but Olive learned of their plans, and managed to keep John with her, at the same time satisfying Evan's demand that John be allowed to share the new house, so things would look normal when he and Claude Kelly set John up. Olive thought they were planning to set John up with a girl in a compromising situation so she could divorce John on adultery.In reality, Claude and Evan were planning to kill John so Olive could collect his insurance money. Evan was to have John at the side of the road, then push him in front of a hit-run driver hired by Kelly. As insurance of John's cooperation, Kelly gave Evan a gun. Evan got Olive out of the house. At the appointed time, John was reluctant to go outside, so Evan pulled the gun. The two men struggled and the gun went off, killing Evan. Meanwhile, Olive became very concerned when Kelly found her at the old house, asking for Evan. She went to the new house and found John in a confused state. couldn’t figure out what happened. When Olive discovered Evan's body, she lashed out at John, accusing him of murdering the only man she ever loved. John went into an almost catatonic state of shock. Mike arrived, looking for John. He called the police, then John's partner, Greg Barnard, who arrived almost simultaneously. Olive kept screaming that John murdered Evan, while Mike insisted it must have been an accident. The police took John in for questioning, but only Mike could get him to even move. Marianne Randolph arrived that evening from Amsterdam to spend Christmas with her family. She was distraught to learn what had happened with her father but Pat assured her she was not to blame. Quentin Ames, aware of friend Gwen Parrish's love for Russ Matthews, arranged for Elena to take a more active role at the Gallery he had opened with her backing, thus giving her less free time to spend with Russ. Quentin then was asked to become a full partner in a New York gallery, so he asked Elena to take over their Gallery 285 full time. John was taken to the hospital, finally, for psychiatric evaluation. He was unable to talk about what happened, hampering Greg's defense. Greg had to then start to work with bits and pieces others provided him about John, Evan, and Olive. Pat admitted to Mike that she still loved John. When Alice learned from Ray that Liz was encouraging him to think there could be a reconciliation, she demanded Liz stay away from her and out of her life. Ray had to go to California indefinitely to see his boys, and asked Angie to accompany him, to no avail. Angie insisted that Willis would come back to his senses and come back to her. But Willis seemed content in planning his future with Alice, hoping against hope that she would someday be free to remarry. As The World Turns Written by: Robert Soderberg & Edith Sommer Produced by: Joe Willmore Lisa Colman was so depressed when Grant turned down her invitation to Thanksgiving dinner that she refused to go out of the house. She finally decided she was only hurting herself and returned to work at the bookstore. She asked Bob Hughes to help her by telling Grant that Tom's injuries had brought them close together last summer and he had given her reason to think they could get together again. Bob said it would be a lie and he wanted nothing to do with it, so Lisa told Grant the story herself. Grant knew that he had an attraction to Valerie Conway at this time and felt that his indecision wasn't fair to any of them. He told Lisa that it was all over. He thought he couldn't bear another failing marriage, but there was no love left in their marriage. Bob asked Valerie about her feelings and was assured that she had done nothing to break up Lisa and Grant's marriage. Lisa was again depressed and her mother advised her to tell Grant the truth. Alma said that if she told him that Bob rejected her and she needed him, Grant would feel sorry for her. Lisa tried this and it worked. Grant told Valerie that he had to talk to Lisa again. She knew that Lisa would say anything to please Grant, just as she had done. After a long talk Grant told Lisa that he thought if they worked at it, they might have a good chance to save their marriage. Dr. Alexander Keith fluctuated between praising Dr. Susan Stewart and criticizing her for her emotional handling of Mark Lewis. She felt it was best to let Mark know that her feelings weren’t the same as his. She wanted him for a friend, but couldn’t be involved beyond that. Susan and Alexander's first meeting outside the hospital was unsuccessful, but dinner the second time was more enjoyable. When Keith heard that Mark was planning on having Christmas dinner outside the hospital, he did not wait for Susan to explain that he came up with the idea on his own and she tried to reason with him without coming right out and telling him that he was not getting well. Dr. Keith’s other antagonist was Dr. Dan Stewart who was offered the position of Chief of Surgery before Keith was brought in. Keith resented Dan's popularity and found many things to rub him the wrong way. Dan resented the fact that Keith tried to pull his wife, Kim, between them. The last straw came when Keith took away Dan's teaching assignment and gave them to himself without asking. Dan thought this is to pay him back for being right earlier on a case. Although Kim and David, Dan's father, both suggested against it, Dan went over Keith's head to Dr. Endicott. They felt Dan should give on small things to make things more peaceful. Dan won and was given his classes, but Keith defended himself by saying he was lightening Dan's load before it became too much. Mark Lewis became so depressed that they felt he was losing the will to live. Just as he was about to give up, the lab discovered that he was improving. Keith had the tests run again to make sure. He rushed first to tell Susan and then to break the news to Mark. With his spirits lifted Mark felt raring to go. Susan had Christmas dinner with him and gave him a nice pen and pencil set. Mark had Dee Stewart pick out a pendant for Susan. A pain in his chest led him to believe that he might have overdone. Marian Connelly noticed his cough and told Dr. Keith that she suspected pneumonia. Dr. John Dixon was recovering physically from his injuries received in the fire, but his mental condition was keeping him from improving. In straightening John's apartment for the painters, Mary Ellison discovered that John never sent his manuscript to the publishers. She asked Dr. Keith to read it. John and Alexander had heard of each others' reputations and John took his word for it when Alexander said this was the textbook surgeons had been waiting for. John wanted to revise a few things and asked Mary to take notes and do the typing for him. She agreed because she felt obligated. Kim Stewart and Marian Connelly felt Mary was too naive to deal with a person such as John. Kim suggested to Dan that they waited a while before speaking to Mary. Annie and Beau Spencer were enjoying married life in their studio apartment but spent much time refusing help from Beau's wealthy mother. They did accept a country club membership for Christmas, but turned down a trip to Aspen because they wouldn’t take time off from work. Jane saw Annie as a woman with determination and Dick Martin said Jane should know. Joyce Hughes had no time to help her mother-in-law prepare for Christmas because she was having their new house completely redecorated. Since Natalie Hughes had left town, Joyce renegotiated some of the items in their contract with Ralph Mitchell. She was still trying to rind a sponsor ior their membership to the country club and promoting a friendship with Jane Spencer. She finagled an invitation to Jane's party and wanted Don to tell his client they wouldn’t be attending his party because Joyce was ill, Don asked her to be considerate of him and go to the Mannings' with him. Joyce announced she was going to Jane's. Natalie Hughes’ departure from Oakdale had caused problems for many people. Ralph Mitchell had been offered a job by the Gar Kramer Real Estaze Agency, but Kramer's gloating over Natalie's misfortune sent Ralph to his friend Kevin Thompson. Ralph would like to take over Natalie's office but needed some money to back him. He was not surprised that Kevin wanted to think it over, considering the reputation he had when he was running with the jet-set. Sandy was surprised that Kevin considered this business when Ralph was such an old friend. Ralph was about to accept Kramer's offer when Kevin and Sandy asked him to dinner and told him they were investing in friendship. Kevin and Sandy liked Natalie's apartment, but wanted to make sure that their renting it wouldn't upset Carol Stallings. Carol was reconciled that Natalie was not coming back and was glad that friends were moving in. Jay Stallings blamed Carol for giving Natalie a check for her commission plus the money he still owed on the property and suggested that her concern over Natalie's health drove her from town. Carol felt it was Jay's refusal over Natalie's financial prob-lems that made her leave. Carol decided to take Nancy Hughes' advice to talk the problem out, but Jay was too busy trying to figure out how Pete Larson managed to steal from him and they fought again. Melinda Gray asked Jay to stop by her apartment for dinner, knowing he and Carol were having problems. Jay said he would be working late to catch Pete. After a fight earlier in the week when the police had to be called, Jay finally had taken his lawyer's advice to fire Pete. Jay saw what they had been overlooking all this time. He pounded on Larson's door and was let in. Instead of going home after his visit to Pete he had dinner at Melinda's and then heard on the car radio that Larson had been found dead. He called subcontractor Fred McGill and asked for an alibi for the evening. Jay told Carol he thought better of seeing Pete when he was so mad and spent the evening with widower McGill. This was the story he told the police detectives. A break in the case came when a neighbor said Larson had a visitor at six o'clock when she retrieved her paper. At six-thirty the neighbors heard fighting. She identified Jay. He told Tom that he saw Larson and told him he knew how he was stealing. Pete admitted he had trouble in Chicago and asked for a few days to get the money. Pete was alive when he left. He didn’t mention Melinda to save her reputation and his marriage. Dee Stewart hoped that Tom Hughes would ask her to go along to Jane's party since they were both invited. She considered not going, but realized that Annie was counting on her being there. Annie and Beau were the guests of honor at Jane's party, but Annie was unsure of meeting Jane's friends. The small party had turned into an extravagant event. Tom had asked Melinda Gray to Jane's party, but told his father that it was far from serious. He still remembered what he missed out on because he and Carol were too young to make a marriage work. Joyce and Don compromised by agreeing to attend both parties. Joyce asked to attend Jane's first with the intention of never leaving. She dogged Jane, complimenting her on everything and introducing herself to Jane's friends. She was unhappy when Don dragged her away to the Mannings'. That night Joyce put down the Mannings' taste and talked about the class Jane had. She told Don that she wanted more out of a social life than the Mannings could give. Jane watched Beau and Annie, commenting to Dick that they were very different people. Beau was very animated and dealt well with people while Annie seemed to be on the fringe. At home Annie said she really enjoyed herself. She had gone to the party with some reservations and found that some people were boring, but there were others she liked. A mystery woman entered Bob’s life by giving Frannie a gift at a department store. She had left a strong impression in Bob’s mind and he was very intrigued. Days Of Our Lives Written by: Ann Marcus Produced by: Betty Corday & H. Wesley Kenney Dr. Marlena Evans, watching her twin sister Samantha come apart in the court room during her arraignment on charges ranging from practicing medicine without a license to assault and battery, was once again confronted by the depth of her sister's illness. - Sam, an actress, dependent on uppers and downers, substituted Marlena for herself at Bayview Sanitarium and took over Marlena's identity. Found out after several months by Marlena's lover, Don Craig, Sam went back to Hollywood, but Don brought charges and Sam was extradicted. Deprived of her pills, cigarettes, and alcohol, Sam came apart on the stand. - The judge ordered psychiatric committment until Sam was able to stand trial. Their parents took Sam to a sanitarium near their home in Colorado, following a tearful farewell between the sisters. Marlena was delighted to finally feel well enough to resume her practice and bid goodbye to her own therapist and former lover Paul Whitman. She and Don then slowly resumed their former relationship, culminating with Don's moving in with Marlena. Their paradise was threatened, however, when Don received a call from Jim Bradley, the state chairman of the independent party. Jim and the powers-that-be wanted Don to run for State Senator! Don was flattered. After a dinner with Jim, in which Marlena was displayed as the candidate's woman, Marlena told Don she didn't like being on display or being taken for granted. - Don had told Jim he and Marlena would be married soon, to Jim's relief. - Marlena wasn't ready for marriage. In working through the problem, Don admitted he'd like the post, but didn’t like the idea of campaigning or anything that would take him away from her for long periods. Bill Horton and Kate Winograd were fired by the hospital after the Board of Inquiry. - Fred Barton fell down the stairs in his apartment house. Bill, dining with brother Mickey and sister-in-law Maggie, at their apartment in the same building, had Fred rushed to the hospital. Chief of Surgery Walter Griffin was too wrapped up in his own problems at the time and ignored Bill's pleas that Griffin keep close tabs on Fred, as Bill suspected a subdural hematoma. When Bill's fears became reality, Griffin was at home and assigned a second year resident to perform surgery. Rick Stevens had never done such delicate brain surgery, so he froze at the table, then left the operating room, despite Bill and Kate's pleas to return. Bill performed the surgery, although listed on the staff as a resident in anesthesiology. Bill was a surgeon until he lost the use of his right hand, which he had been subjecting to physical therapy regularly. The surgery was successful, but Stevens claimed Bill ordered him out and Fred claimed to be paralyzed from the waist down. Thus, the Board's ruling. - Fred used his "paralysis," thought to be hysterical by Laura Horton and Marlena, and the firing to file a malpractice suit against the hospital, Bill and Kate. Mickey, a lawyer, pointed out to Greg Peters, chief of staff, that the full story wasn't heard, that nurses in the OR weren't called to testify, that it seemed fishy that Stevens had moved to another hospital. Greg decided to reopen the case, but ended up offering his resignation to the head of the board of trustees, when Bruce Jamison insisted the judgment had to stand in order to protect the hospital in the malpractice suit. After talking with Tom Horton, Greg decided to withdraw his resignation, and stay and fight for Bill and Kate. Tensions between Bill and Laura mounted as the severity of the malpractice suit set in. Fred wanted $2,000,000 from Bill, of which the hospital's insurance would satisfy $1,000,000. Laura pointed out that her working - head of psychiatric services -, severely bruised Bill's ego. He also rankled that she could function as a doctor and he couldn’t. Bill and Kate spent a lot of time together. Griffin invited Kate over, and Bill suggested she take anything he offered to get herself out of the mess. Griffin offered to go to bat for Kate if she would just tell the Board the "truth" — that Bill ordered Stevens out. Kate angrily pointed out that it was Stevens who lied. Greg Peters was eloquent on Tom Horton's behalf, and the Board of Trustees waived the mandatory retirement age in Tom's case, allowing Tom to resume his post at the hospital as head of internal medicine. Patti Griffin offered her services as Mike Horton's assistant in shop classes he had set up at the teen center at the David Martin Clinic. When boyfriend Ron Garvey pressured Patti to "go all the way," Patti found Mike was the only one she could think of to ask advice. - Patti had a crush on Mike. - Mike answered that he felt it could be right or wrong, depending on committment between the two people. Trish Clayton Banning began singing at Doug's Place on weekends, a move not enthusiastically endorsed by husband David, who didn't like the idea of men coming on to his wife. However, he knew how much singing meant to Trish, so he went along with it. Mike, meanwhile, took Margo Anderman to Trish's opening, which was also attended by David. - Mike and Trish were in love until she found herself pregnant with David's baby, the result of one lonely night when each had had a fight with his respective love. David talked Trish into marrying him, and they had been making a go of the marriage, their love for each other growing. - Trish and David fought that night, but when each remembered what they had already shared, a son, they made up. Trish was able to overcome her feelings of insecurities when Danny told her and David that Valerie was returning for the holidays. Trish suggested that Danny and Toni – along with Valerie – get together wher her and David ! Danny and Toni seemed to be building a loving, steady relationship. Toni loved her work at the Shelter, had a darling daughter, and seemed ready for a man in her life. Julie Williams, since buying Doug's Place and reopening it, had been having arguments with Robert LeClair, Doug's maitre d'. - Doug was refused a renewal of his liquor license when he purposefully forgot to mention a felony conviction on the application. After unsuccessfully trying to turn the supper club into a coffee house, Julie bought the club. However, Doug was forbidden to set foot in the door. - Unbeknownst to Robert and Julie, the new busboy, Arlo, was being paid by Larry Atwood to keep him informed of ways to disrupt business to force Julie or Doug into near bankruptcy so that Atwood could force them to put gambling in the club. Doug couldn’t stand being around idle, so he accepted an out-of-town singing engagement. The night he opened, the kitchen help, followed by other union members, called a wild-cat strike. Unable to think of anyone else to call for help, and not wanting to disturb Doug, Julie called Atwood, who straightened it all out. Atwood then tried to convince Julie to change vendors, people with whom Doug had done business for years, on the pretext she was being overcharged which resulted in a fight with Robert. Robert pointed out that Julie was coming up with ideas for the club that were very expensive, while trying to cut the quality of their food and service. Meanwhile, an agent in Detroit convinced Doug to return to cut a demo which was unsuccessful. Atwood arranged for Doug's hearing before the liquor control board to be delayed. Julie realized that Jeri was interested in Atwood. He then refused to let Jeri Clayton sing at Doug's Place, pointing out he had her under an exclusive contract and his backers wouldn’t permit her singing anywhere else. Mary Anderson was falling in love with diamond-in-the-rough Chris Kostichek. Seeing Mary and Chris together bugged Mary's step-father, Neil Curtis, with whom Mary had an affair. One night, Chris asked Mary to make love. She refused, saying she was badly hurt in an affair recently and wasn't ready yet to accept sex as part of their relationship. Chris was very understanding until Neil asked to see him and let Chris know Mary's affair was with him. Chris was furious! He broke with Mary, not telling her why. Neil did the honors, constantly insisting he couldn't let Mary continue with Chris because he knew Mary loved him, Neil, something Mary vehemently denied. After a time of sulking, Chris realized that he had been acting foolishly, and decided to apologize to Mary, as he really loved her. But, when he went to her home, he couldn’t find her, and, concerned, dropped in on Marlena, who only lived down the road, to see if perhaps Marlena had seen Mary. Marlena was in a towel, straight from the shower when Chris knocked, and she only changed to a bathrobe to let him in, and that didn’t look too good to Don when he stopped in for a visit! Finally, Chris went over to the Pines, Larry’s club, to mull his situation over with a drink. He called Mary again, but she refused to accept Chris’ apology and hung up on him. Finally, depressed and at wit’s end, Chris talked to Jeri, who told Chris that if he really loved Mary, he should go right to her home and told her. Chris decided to relent and give Mary a chance to explain, he found Neil at Mary's and jumped to all the wrong conclusions. Mary fought Neil off, then managed to send him away. Mary’s troubles weren’t all personal. Linda Phillips, her father Bob Anderson's executive assistant, had been by-passing Mary's PR department on promotional things. Linda was deliberately setting out to make herself indispensible at work and after saying she would not mix up business and pleasure, Linda ended up in Bob's bed, hoping to snare Bob into marriage. Linda hoped Bob would pop up the question before Mary would stop her. At work, Chris stood up for Mary. When Linda came around when Mary called in sick and tried to usurp Mary’s position, Chris put the conniving Linda in her place and she backed down. When Mary returned to work, having lost the love of Chris, she also seemed to have lost the ambition in the business and told Linda she could finish her project. Since being released from the hospital, Fred Barton had been even more abusive to to wife Jean, whom he used to beat. Feeling guilty because Fred fell down the stairs while chasing her, Jean had become even more a slave to Fred. Unable to abuse her physically, Fred had turned to verbal abuse, constantly telling Jean she was worthless. Although Laura, Marlena, and Griffin all felt Fred needed psychiatric help, he refused. Maggie could no longer get throught to Jean and neither could Ruth, Jean’s mother, who had come to stay awhile to help while Fred was incapacitated. When Bill worked at the Clinic over Christmas, it added tension between Laura and him, especially when it turned out Kate worked the same weekend. Bill missed the annual Horton tree-trimming party, and Laura pointed out he always seemed to have time for Kate, but not for her. Bill had taken up drinking. - He swore off liquor after the night he raped Laura and conceived Michael. – Bill went to visit Kate and gave her a locket as a Christmas gift and kissed her. He immediately apolozied but the feelings that made him want to kiss Kate in the first place, were still there. Patti Griffin decieved Walter into thinking she was spending the weekend with a girlfriend to spend it with Ron. However, realizing Ron might only be using her, she avoided all his overtures and demanded to be taken home. Ron had been drinking and they had an accident on the way. After being checked out at the clinic, they were taken to the police station. Kate intervened with Griffin, who finally was able to level with Patti and she with him. Mike and Margo Anderman seemed to be happily humming along. The silly-but-sweet Margo seemed to have ingratiated herself with the entire Horton clan! Jeri confided in Trish about her feelings for Larry. Trish tried to talk some sense into her, but to no avail. Jeri continued to let Larry wine and dine and they made love. Meanwhile, Valerie was back in town and she saw David at the hospital when he was there with Trish and Timmy bhe she stopped by at the apartment when David was home – alone. Feeling uncomfortable, she left. Julie was unhappy that Doug was at a the ski lodge for Christmas but Doug assured Julie that she and Hope would visit him. He finally canceled the gig to be with the women of his life. Although Doug stayed home for the holidays, he left soon after Christmas for a New Year’s singing engagement in Wisconsin. When Atwood found out that Doug was singing at Twin Falls, Wisconsin, he put in a call to an old crony there, and asked him to do him a favor concerning Doug. Mickey had told Doug that his hearing before the Alcohol Control Board had been reset for January 13th. On the last night of his singing engagement, Doug called from his dressing room. While he was on the phone, a pretty girl from the chorus line came in. Although Doug and the girl were just acquaintances, Julie was a little suspicious about the girl. The showgirl was part of the “favor” Larry was on the phone about concerning Doug. When Doug went on stage, the girl planted cocaine in his dressing room, then tipped off the authorities who found the drug, and took Doug in for questioning ! When Doug realized he wasn’t going to make it back to Salem as planned, he rang up Julie and made some excuse about having to work longer since he cancelled out on Christmas to be with her and Hope. Julie sensed something was wrong. Don launched his campaign while Marlena was in Colorado with Sam. The sisters worked out their difficulties and it was clear to Marlena that Sam was on her way to good health. The Doctors Written by: Mel & Ethel Brez Produced by: Chuck Weiss Tom Carroll, following an incident in which he almost threw a pot of boiling water at ward Ricky Miner, left the apartment he shared with Ricky and new bride, MJ Match Carroll. Tom was aware he was a child abuser, but didn’t know how to control his impulses. MJ sent Steve Aldrich to talk with Tom at his old apartment. Steve pointed out that MJ and Tom loved each other and had to deal with this problem to give their marriage a chance. Tom was too upset to consider contacting Parents Anonymous. Realizing Tom had to come first in her life, MJ went to him, and persuaded him to give them another chance. She convinced him to go to PA by volunteering to go with him. Their first meeting was an eyeopener for Tom. He gradually learned the patterns in his life that had led him to this crisis. His father used to beat him unmercifully; thus Tom learned the way to deal with frustration induced by children was to strike out at them. MJ found she was also partly to blame for not confronting Tom when she suspected, for keeping quiet. When Tom felt well enough to return home, Ricky rejected his overtures of friendship, but Tom was not angry. Steve and Carolee Aldrich bought a house. Their troubles with son Erich seemed to be waning until one night when Erich deliberately set fire to papers in a wastebasket in Mona's livingroom. Steve caught it in time. He and Carolee talked with Erich and found that his rotten behavior recently was a test. Remembering Carolee's long absence, and blaming himself, he was fearful she would leave again. So, rather than live with the anxiety as to whem she would leave again, Erich was attempting to drive her away with his behavior. Carolee reassured Erich by pointing out she only left before because she was very ill, that she didn’t ever intend to leave again. Maggie Powers’ problems with daughter Greta weren't so easily solvable. At 16, Greta was becoming increasingly aware of her sexuality. Much of her conversation with girlfriends and will Billy Aldrich was about who was using which method of birth control and where to get it. Billy had noticed Greta's increased hostility to Maggie, and Greta finally told him that she thought Maggie was having an affair with architect Kyle Wilson. - Last year, while Matt Powers was under indictment for the murder of Joan Dancy, charges which were subsequently dropped, he became so depressed and angry that he couldn't accept love from anyone and turned away from Maggie, even leaving their bedroom. After months of this rejection, Maggie spent one night with Kyle, who made her feel like a woman. Since then, Maggie had rejected all overtures from Kyle. However, Greta overheard one such conversation and had jumped to the wrong conclusion. - Unable to figure a way to help Greta by himself, Billy asked Steve for advice. Steve suggested Greta had to confront Maggie. Greta refused. Finally, when Maggie was at wit's end from the strain and hostility, Carolee told Maggie what Greta believed. Meanwhile, Matt returned from the hospital early one day and found Greta and Billy involved on the living-room floor. He forbade Greta to see Billy for awhile. Maggie finally confronted Greta with her knowledge of the source of Greta's hostility and explained her side, insisting, truthfully, that it was over with Kyle, that it never really began. Maggie promised to tell Matt as soon as possible. However, after Matt found Greta parked outside with Billy, when she was supposed to be at the library, the whole situation exploded and Matt heard Greta's distorted story first. Maggie tried to explain her feelings, the circumstances surrounding that one night, but Matt's pride was too hurt to enable him to listen. When he said he was moving out of the bedroom again, Maggie begged for his forgiveness. Matt stood resolute. Maggie told him she couldn’t stand it again and gave him 'til morning to change his mind, promising to move out if he didn’t. Matt felt their marriage was built on trust, and with that gone, so was the marriage. In the morning, Matt allowed Maggie to leave. Before leaving, Maggie assured Greta she didn’t blame her. Mike Powers tried to persuade Matt to bring Maggie back so they could work through the problem, but Matt stood unmoving on his wounded pride. Barney Dancy, realizing the $875 wife Virginia had to spend on daughter Nola's wedding to wealthy lawyer Jason Aldrich wouldn’t provide the kind of wedding Nola wanted, began dipping into the funds to bet on the horses, hoping to raise the ante. He lost constantly. Finally, Nola opened her heart to Virginia, who would let Jason pay for the wedding. That day, a long-shot paid off for Barney, and he and Virginia had a sum that would get them started in a small business of their own. Barney said the money came from a friend who bet money Barney loaned him years ago. Virginia found it interesting that one could win $5000 by betting on the horses. One of the conditions Doreen Aldrich gave in signing the divorce papers for Jason was that Jason contact her father, Evan Fleming, and take the entire blame for the foundering of their marriage. Jason had been unable to reach Evan. Doreen was flabbergasted when Evan appeared at Andre's after reading an item in the Dallas paper. Doreen painted Nola as a tramp. Evan went to see Jason, who took the blame for the divorce and defended Nola, to no avail. Evan and Nola met at Mona's, where Nola and Mona were to go through the house, Mona hoping Nola and Jason would live there with her. When Evan called her a tramp, Nola defended herself, pointing out the deception Doreen had lived all these years. - Doreen and Jason had had a very open marriage, each pursuing whoever and whatever had taken his fancy, by mutual agreement. However, neither had let word of his escapades reached Evan. - Mona backed Nola's story. Evan disowned Doreen, devastating her. In revenge, Doreen told Nola that Jason knew, even collaborated with her, to have agent Earl Rogers offer her a big chance in New York. Doreen further implied that Jason never thought Nola had talent, that he had always felt sorry for her. When Nola responded that she didn’t want anyone's pity, Doreen waltzed out the door, commenting that Nola shouldn't knock it, as it was one way to get a man. Angry and humiliated, Nola confronted Jason with Doreen's statements, but didn’t believe Jason didn't tell her about Rogers to protect her. Nola felt Jason and Doreen conspired behind her back, laughing. Consequently, Nola called off the wedding. Both then believed the other didn't love him. Jason planned to give up his practice in Madison and move somewhere; Nola planned to go to California. Unable to see her son in such pain, Mona went to see Nola. Finding Nola loved Jason, Mona told Nola that Jason also loved her, but he wouldn’t come to her because he thought that Nola didn’t love him. Nola arrived at Jason's office to reconcile, but almost left when Sara reported Doreen was with him. Sara flung open the door, telling Jason that Nola was there and to come out immediately if he wanted to marry her. Nola and Jason reconciled and finally eloped in Mexico. Greta and Billy made love while he was trying to convince her she was not to blame for Maggie's leaving. Maggie told Carolee she wanted to go back to the house, as there was no chance of working things out while separated from Matt. Matt wasn't enthusiastic, crushing Maggie. Billy was scared when he learned Greta wasn’t on the pill and he convinced her to see a gynecologist. Kyle had gone to Mike to try to explain but Matt would hear none of it. Matt contended that his wife had an affair, gave her body to another man and Matt wanted nothing more to do with the situation. Mike was falling more and more in love with Sara Dancy. He seemed ready to pop the question but Sara didn’t seem to be in the marrying mood. Since she quit working for Jason and was at the hospital, Sara only hoped that someday her dream man would come along but he held little resemblance to Mike. Steve and Carolee were worried about Erich’s condition. Matt diagnosed an irregular heartbeat and Erich felt weak and dizzy. The Edge Of Night Written by: Henry Slesar Produced by: Erwin Nicholson Since Mike Karr admitted in court to the murder only he knew his daughter Laurie committed, Laurie's sanity was settling. Mike had received a suspended sentence and Laurie was willing to see a psychiatrist and stay at Silver Hills Hospital. - When an evil Beau Richardson forced Nancy to separate from Mike, Laurie could not cope with the insecurity of this. She put an end to the strife Beau caused by shooting him, then traded her husband and son for the fantasy world of a child once again under her father's wing. - Mike was willing to sacrifice his law career for the one-year suspension in order to protect Laurie. He weighed the future she'd have if he let her confess ... there was no alternative. Monticello's reinstated police chief Bill Marceau visited Mike. Laurie intruded and blurted out to Mike, "how much do I tell at the hospi-tal, about Beau? Do I tell them I shot him?" Bill then had his suspicions confirmed. Mike's attempts to cover for Laurie were fruitless, he asked in defeat for Bill to forget what he heard. Nancy stopped Bill's headstrong goals by revealing Laurie's attempt to commit suicide because of her inner guilt, enforcing her need for protection. Steve Guthrie, restless about breaking the Drake case wide open, went to Silver Hills to hear Laurie's story for himself. Mike and Draper barged in disgusted at Steve's nerve but Steve stopped them cold with his break-through after listening to Laurie's confession. She told Steve Beau was on the floor when she ran out after shooting him once. The police - and Mike - had found Beau in his chair with three gunshot wounds; therefore, when Laurie had run out, Beau was still alive. With this new evidence, Bill and Luke Chandler confronted Ray Harper about the murder details. - Ray was an uncanny look alike to Mike Karr and was a known associate of Beau's. - Harper laughed in their faces, confident no one would believe the words of a mental patient. Bill had the last laugh as he reported to Harper that there were carpet remnants found on Beau's body, therefore, he was on the floor before he was found dead. Bill was happy to give Mike and Nancy an early Christmas present, both Mike and Laurie had been cleared of the Richardson/Drake murders. Ray Harper confessed. In commemoration for a deed well done, Steve had been promoted to "Detective Guthrie," a position well earned according to Bill Marceau. All Steve needed to know was where did he stand with his girl, Deborah. The wedding day of Kevin Jamison and Raven Alexander had arrived. Raven had not been a model fiancee, though she was a beautiful bride. Just the night before she was to tie the knot with Monticello's new appointee to the Crime Commission, Raven was on Logan Swift's doorstep, eager to greet the sunrise with Logan. Logan, giving in to a sudden attack of moral conscience, quickly refused to allow it. Geraldine Whitney was all jitters before the ceremony and only Kevin knew why. He had told her he was sterile and disagreed with Geraldine that Raven had to not be told before they married. As is the custom, Geraldine had commanded and Kevin obeyed. As was the tradition, the bride threw the bouquet and Geraldine won again. To ensure the fate of the bouquet did not affect Geraldine, Danny Micelli insisted he pay back a favor he owed Geraldine. Since he heard of a romance brewing between Geraldine and his former employer, Tony Saxon, Danny wanted to set her straight about the "backroom politician." He cautioned her to check Tony out and see how legitimate he was, he liked Geraldine too much to see her get hurt. Geraldine heeded his advice, then dug for a repeat on Danny's last compliment to her. His reply, "you'll always be the classiest broad I know" left Geraldine beaming from head to toe. Before the bridal bouquet had had time to wilt, Tony proposed to Geraldine. After a long line of negatives, Tony only wanted a marriage with love, she returned his feelings for love by accepting. Tne newlyweds’ marital bliss ended when Kevin tried to set new groundrules, demanding to know Raven's whereabouts at all times. She argued so much that Kevin pushed her out the door just to get her off his back. She went directly to Logan. Logan advised Raven to give Kevin a chance to be a husband to a grown up woman instead of a spoiled brat. There was no more holding back, Nicole Drake was seven months pregnant and in labor. Since the day she was admitted to the Claremont Hospital early in her high risk pregnancy, the Claremont's chief of staff, Dr. Miles Cavanaugh had watched over Nicole. He saw her through the tests to determine her baby's health, through the murder of her husband Adam, and through her fight to stop early labor. Miles' jealous and possessive wive Denise saw Miles through all this also, never passing an opportunity to throw accusations in Miles' direction. The birth of Nicole's son had been received with mixed emotions at the Claremont. Denise saw it as a relief, to get the beautiful widow out of her husband's life. Miles was saddened by the task of signing Nicole's release forms. Miles prefered his medical responsibilities to those of hospital administrator. However, Denise and her father continually nagged Miles about the need to pussyfoot potential supporters - $$ -. In such a case, Miles had to suffer in the company of his father-in-law's cronies. Instead of following the rules, Miles told this moneybagger to take his millions and put them into his friend Dr. Dave Roper's ghetto clinic — where the money was really needed. To make peace with Denise, Miles agreed to a dinner party where he would apologize to Mr. Crimmons for his verbal assault. Poor timing had interfered and, breaking his promise to be there "no matter what" to Denise, Miles ran out to be with Nicole during her difficult labor. Denise was fuming in an empty house, Miles was in Nicole's room. While she slept, he sat on her bedside and told her he loved her. Denise read Miles the riot act for misbehaving. They screamed insults at each other, Miles ending it with blasts that her daddy could take his office back and with that, Denise hit the nail on the head, Miles was broken hearted he was going to lose Nicole. Denise couldn’t conceal her disappointment when Nicole chose to stay at the Claremont until her baby boy, Adam Junior, was able to go home also. Perhaps a subconscious act of defiance, Denise broke the toy rattle that was Nicole's first baby gift — from Miles. Thanks to her friend Geraldine's efficiency, Nicole took her son home to an apartment complete with a nursery and baby nurse. April Cavanaugh was so happy to be in love with Draper Scott, she chose to ignore her heart problems, living only for the present. She wouldn’t allow Miles to reveal to Draper that she needed surgery if she was to have a normal heart again. April believed if Draper knew, he'd drop her. She feared if the surgery were unsuccessful, she'd lose out on a life with Draper. During their tree trimming funtime, April had yet another fainting spell. She was not rallying as she should, so while she slept, Draper called Miles. Raven had made another timely call on April, this time catching her still woozy from her fainting spell. Raven had figured out April's heart condition was serious and couldn’t rush over to Draper fast enough to "warn" him April was "dying." Draper told Miles he knew of April's illness and Miles explained April's fears. He informed him that April's heart condition, mitrostenosis, was getting progressively worse and without the surgery, her life span was limited to a few years. April guessed that Draper knew everything and was furious. Tony Saxon’s new right-hand man, Raney Cooper was then a frequent visitor at the Saxons'. On one occasion he asked Deborah, Tony's daughter, if it was her boyfriend, officer Steve Guthrie, who sent her after him, probing for his connection with the Richardson/Drake murders. She assured him she had stopped playing detective. He warned her not to play games, he was a real bad sport. Having access to Tony's bookkeeping records, Raney found a name that rang a bell. As a "concerned citizen" he wrote an anonymous letter to the Monticello Trust regarding a bank account in the name of James Armstead, which he wrote, would give them "the goods" about Tony. For Richer, For Poorer Written by: Tom King Produced by: Paul Rauch The revamped version of “Lovers And Friends” premiered on Monday, December 6th on NBC airing from 3:00 to 3:30 The Cushing and Saxton households were in states of high excitement as Megan Cushing and Bill Saxton were to be married the following day. Also, Lester Saxton, an alcoholic, had an interview for a job, the last chance. Lester stroke out with a management position because he had to be laid off his last job for drinking. Mr. Noland offered to put him on the list for semi-skilled work, which Lester refused. He began to drink and appeared at the rehearsal dinner drunk. He embarrassed everyone but Megan with an eloquent toast. The family hustled him out. The most embarrassed person was his daughter Eleanor Kimball, wife of lawyer George Kimball, who had gone out of her way to provide an elegant dinner on her climb to social prestige. Lester left the house very early the following morning. All the guests were present, when Lester finally arrived at the Cushing house to act as son Bill's best man. However, the first person he met was Ellie, who drove him away by saying his drunkenness only embarrassed everyone. An uninvited guest also arrived — Connie Ferguson, Bill's ex-fiance, who had vowed to her father that the wedding wouldn't occur. Making her way to Megan's room, Connie asked Amy Cushing, Megan's sister-in-law to leave. Connie then told Megan she was carrying Bill's child. Megan threatened to confront Bill immediately, but was forestalled when Connie asked to be the one to tell him. Connie had waited this long, thinking about an abortion, but couldn't go through with it. Megan called off the wedding, making no explanations, although she assured Bill of her continuing love. Amy told Austin, Megan’s brother about Connie’s visit before the wedding but she didn’t know what Connie could have said to push Megan to cancel the wedding. After resisting a bit, Megan admitted the truth to Austin. After time had passed, and Connie hadn't told Bill, Megan told him, as he was on his way to see Connie, who had finally decided he had to know. Bill admitted to Megan that it was possible he was the father, but that there was no chance for Connie and him then. Bill told Connie that he would support her and the baby for the rest of their lives, because a baby needed a father. Connie replied that the only way for Bill to be a father was to marry her. Bill refused. Since Richard Cushing’s death last summer, the Cushing stock brokerage firm had been run by Roger Hamilton, an interim appointment until Austin Cushing took his rightful place as the firm's head. Austin, however, had refused his inheritance and the firm, preferring to be an artist, with wife Amy's full support. Austin had already sold two paintings in Bay City. Edith Cushing confided in her close friend, Viola Brewter that she feared, Jason Saxton, a recent member of the firm, would destroy Cushing and Sons. He had already commandeered Richard's clients and was moving in on clients of other brokers in the firm, causing Roger and Edith, Richard's widow, concern that he was trying to build an elite clientele that he would then take from the firm. Roger told Edith he planned on leaving Cushing and Sons very soon. As executor of her late husband’s estate, he gladly took over the reigns of his business, by the was beginning to feel his own investment banking firm was starting to suffer. He was finding it more and more difficult to divide his time between two thriving business and was in the porcess of soing an executive search to find a new president for Cushing and Sons. Edith rushed over to Austin’s apartment to plead with her son to return. Austin wanted to be an artist but he agreed to return part-time. His wife, Amy, was distressed. She feared this was the beginning of the end of his artistic career as Edith would never let Austin leave again. Desmond Hamilton, Roger’s son, had recently married Laurie Brewster, whose mother Viola had to go to great lengths to keep up her appearance of wealth since her late husband had gambled away their holdings. Viola had demanded Laurie make sure the stock Desmond promised her as a wedding present was in her own name. Jason, Laurie's ex-boyfriend, had asked Laurie to let him handle her stocks, as Roger was both too conservative and too busy to have the funds grow. Jason promised almost instant wealth. Viola encouraged Laurie to go with Jason; Desmond approved the transfer when Laurie said Roger was too busy. Jason's interest in Laurie had not waned. Connie visited Jason with a tip. She offered him Megan, telling Jason that Megan and Bill were through and Megan was very vulnerable at the moment. She explained she would take Bill out of the picture because of her pregnancy. When Jason seemed uninterested, Connie pointed out that it would be a good business move, since Megan's family owned the firm. Lester had disappeared before the cancellation of the wedding. Josie Saxton sent her son Bentley and son-in-law George to find Lester, to no avail. Josie finally received a call from a bartender, revealing Lester's where-abouts. But Lester had overheard the call, and was gone when Bentley and George arrived. Lester couldn't be found, then appeared one morning at George and Ellie's apartment, dirty and disheveled. He'd been arrested for loitering and public drunkenness, waking in the drunk-tank, without knowing where he was or how he got there. The judge had released him because it was his first offense. Lester felt nobody wanteds him, but George pointed out that Bill needed him desperately since the wedding had been cancelled. After showering and borrowing a shirt, Lester returned home. Recalling George had told her pressuring him might be one reason Lester drank, Ellie went upstairs to see him and apologized for her behavior. Lester refused an offer of money, saying he wouldn’t take any more from her. - George and Ellie loaned the Saxtons the down payment for their house. - Josie got a job as a clerk. Bentley told his sister Tessa he might have to quit college for lack of tuition money. Lester began searching for any job he could get, but was fearful his recent arrest might hurt his chances. Megan had decided to give up on Bill, feeling he should marry Connie. Edith and Viola were both vying for Roger's attentions. General Hospital Written by: Richard & Suzanne Holland Produced by: Tom Donovan Out of the $10,000 which changed hands at the time of the adoption of her baby Stephen Lars by Peter and Diana Taylor, Heather Grant had received a check for $800. Mrs. Hadley's warning about how "expenses" - including forged documents - would eat into the settlement lawyer Wallace had arranged was well founded. After the first shock Heather was resigned, not questioning the fleecing she had received in the face of her belief that Steven Lars couldn't have a better home. She announced that she had decided to try her luck in Hollywood, saying she could be a waitress there just as easily as she could in New York. She argued that she knew Jerry Sherman - a director - and would at least be giving herself a chance at a career in films. Shortly after this, in Port Charles, Jeff Webber told Dr. Steve Hardy that the money Steve had advanced to Jeff for the services of a private detective had paid off. Heather Grant had been located, living under the name of Heather Richmond. Jeff told Steve that he called right away but the landlady told him she wasn't in. Steve wondered if the call wasn't a mistake and urged Jeff to take time off from the Hospital and show up on Heather's doorstep in New York before he lost touch with Heather and his son, Stephen Lars again. - Steve Hardy was Jeff Webber's father and the grandfather of Steven Lars, though he had never been able to bring himself to tell Jeff and only Audrey, Steve's wife, knew the truth. – Jeff’s call sent Heather into a panic and Mrs. Hadley arranged for Heather to spend some time with a friend, a good looking, youngish woman, who apparently had room at her place to provide temporary shelter for unknown acquaintances of Mrs. Had-ley, provided they were not in any trouble with the law. Heather, grateful, left to go back to pack up her things and Mrs. Hadley's call to her "friend" reminded her she would expect her usual percentage of "what she gets." Before Mrs. Hadley’s visions of a supplement to her income were realized and before Heather got back, Jeff appeared at the apartment door. Mrs. Hadley told him Heather had left, and despite Heather's previous objections that she could never do that to him, added that the baby was dead, a victim of pneumonia. She said that she cared for the baby while Heather was very ill with the flu, but a sudden turn took the baby's life before the doctor they'd called in could do anything. Jeff called Steve and the number he located him at was the Taylor's where, ironically, Peter and Diana were having a Christening party after the baby they had been told was named Peter had been baptized Peter, Jr. At Steve's suggestion, Jeff returned to see Heather to get some details of the baby's death, but Heather was so broken up, he didn’t have the heart to persist. He offered Heather the apartment in Port Charles which he had asked Audrey to prepare in the hope that he could bring Heather and Stephen Lars back, but she refused and said it was best that he forget her. When one more attempt to get work results in a pass at an audition, Heather left town with a note to Mrs. Hadley that she would send any further money owing when she got where she was going. - Heather was extremely upset when Diana called her and she heard Stephen Lars crying in the background. – Lana had been hospitalized once more and was overcome with jealousy when Jeff left her to his brother's care to go to New York in search of Heather. Her abrupt changes puzzled Dr. Peter Taylor, particularly her references under hypnosis to a Simon. She successfully fought off revealing any more at the time and Peter told Jeff she treated the whole thing as a joke. Peter, Dorrie and Jessie had remarked that Lana herself was like two different people. Lisa's personality had fought unsuccessfully to emerge when she was convinced that Jeff was in danger from Lana. - At one point, in delirium, Lana said that if Jeff walked away from her, he would have to pay for it as Simon did. - Lana told Jeff that Lisa had broken her and Simon up and she came looking for Lisa after the hurricane in the hope that Lisa was dead and would leave her in peace. When Lana learned that Heather had returned to Port Charles and was staying temporarily with her mother, she resolved to distract Jeff by staging Lisa's death. She had a telegram sent to Jeff, charged to her number in Canton, New York, purporting to be from her aunt Carrie Shephard, saying that Lisa had died while visiting with her and asked that he be notified. At her apartment Jeff was shocked when she revealed a callous attitude at the news of Lisa's death and she quickly broke down in tears, pretending that her remarks were a cover-up for her real grief. When Jeff told her he intended to get in touch with Carrie in order to obtain some medical details which might be helpful in Lana's case, Lana insisted that her aunt was an eccentric and asked for a few days so that she herself might contact her, promising to get the information he sought. Pushed by Laura so they might have a place to be alone, Scotty Baldwin had taken an apartment, but until Laura could obtain a renewed prescription for the pill, she managed to hold Scotty off by picking fights with him. She had reached a superficial understanding with her mother Lesley and did not care to rock the boat, but more important, she had become attracted to David Hamilton, whose attentions she found flattering. Scotty was incensed when he ran into the two of them in a restaurant after she had lied to him that she couldn't meet him because she and Lesley were growing closer, and she had promised to help Les with her Christmas shopping. Lesley had told Monica that she resented the fact that Laura spent the Thanksgiving holiday with her and when Rick spoke to Monica, she told him she would withdraw from her close friendship with Laura and cattily refered to Lesley’s lack of self-confidence. She added, cryptically, that Lesley might create problems she didn't anticipate. When Laura again appealed to Monica, she was told Monica would give her a different prescription for the bill which might help alleviate Laura's headaches on the understanding that she agree to see a gynacologist and have a full examination. Laura consented to see a Dr. Lloyd at Mercy hospital and obtained her prescription. After speaking with Gina and being told that any chance of their taking up a serious relationship again was hopeless, Adam arranged for a permanent transfer to the staff of Mercy Hospital in order to avoid being a witness to the resumption of Gina's affair with Gary Lansing. Gina nixed moving in with Gary but he got a job near her. Lesley had had to speak to Laura about the fact that she had been alone with David Hamilton in his bedroom while Rick and Lesley were out. The second time it happened, when Laura was helping David wrap a present of a sketch he had made of Lesley for a Christmas gift, Les walked out angrily. She finally confronted Laura with the fact that she had found a pill compact in Laura's purse when she was checking to see if Laura could use a new wallet as one of her Christmas gifts. Surprised because she used a late date with Scotty as a means of avoiding a confrontation with Lesley and was not expecting Les to wait up and certainly not expecting this, Laura tried again to turn the tables by accusing Lesley of spying on her. Lesley appealed to her, saying that she was a doctor and could help her when the time was right. Laura replied that she had seen a doctor and knew all there was to know about the Pill. She shouted at Lesley that only frustrated people got their kicks from spying. When Lesley protested, Laura told her she couldn’t expect her to believe anything Lesley said anymore and stormed out. After much delay and consultation with other doctors, Mark Dante told Katy that he had decided against operating on her husband, Lamont Corbin, a decision which Katy and Lamont saw as amounting to a death sentence for Lamont. After some bitter exchanges between the two of them, Katy finally convinced Mark that she and Lamont were resigned to his decision and grateful for the help he had given so far. With Lamont's blessing - and covert encouragement - Katy began to see more of Mark, supposedly as a means of releaving the tediousness of the period of Lamont's hospital stay for her and to get through the interim before the Corbins had to make plans for the remainder of time Lamont had left to him after he left General Hospital. Katy had been instrumental in softening Mark's attitude toward his sister's relationship with Gary Lansing, for Gina's sake if nothing else, but Gary's boorishness came through when Katy reveals that at Lamont's insistence she was going to travel to be with her sister who was expecting her sixth child soon. Gary remarked that he himself intended to make his mark as something other than Father of the Year. Monica had learned that Lee Baldwin was involved in negotiations for an industrial-related housing project which would accomodate 2,000 families, and saw it as a means of reviving consideration of a new Cardiac Wing. After she came near to quitting as Alan Quartermaine's assistant, she quickly mended her fences, unaware that he knew she had managed to acquire the information and was motivated by that as well as having her eye on Alan and the Quartermaine wealth, personally. He nevertheless invited her, at the last moment, to share his Christmas holiday at the family estate on Long Island. Guiding Light Written by: Bridget & Jerome Dobson Produced by: Allen Potter Dr. Ed Bauer, in an attempt to help RN Rita Stapleton, quizzed Georgene Granger about her reasons for working at Cedars Hospital, as her presence was obviously uncomfortable and unsettling for Rita. Georgene politely admitted she had been in a rest home but assured Ed she held no grudges over her husband's death against Rita. - To the contrary, Georgene was obsessed with a desire for revenge and had begun to ravage Rita's life. She stole Rita's purse and had her keys duplicated. Then she ransacked Rita's apartment. This was her second malicious act, first she pushed Rita down stairs and escaped unnoticed. - The police discovered amongst the debris, a broken glass with dried blood on it. Rita had called her lawyer, Mike Bauer and they both agreed about their suspicions that Georgene was the culprit. Rita saw Georgene had a cut on her hand the following day at the hospital. Bill Bauer, alias Bill Moray, had not escaped Springfield incognito. Rita accidentally stumbled upon his true identity. She was then battling her conscience against Bill's pleas for silence. Bill's stepdaughter, Hillary Kincaid, was a student residing in Springfield. Her apartment warming party brought Mike Bauer into contact with a picture Hillary had of himself and Bill. Mike was amazed by the resemblance to his own father. Rita tried to distract Mike from studying the photo, but failed. Mike launched his own investigation in his search for the father he believed was killed in an airline crash ten years ago. Dr. Sara McIntyre informed him of Bill's reclusive mannerisms when Hillary was a patient at Cedars. He reviewed the photo again, pumpking Hillary for answers about her stepfather's past. She said her mother had met her stepfather in Switzerland ten years ago. Pieces fit, and Mike continued his probe. Using Rita's vandalism attack as an introduction, Mike asked her sister Eve about Hillary's stepfather. He was intrigued by Eve's comments that Bill had asked a lot of questions about Mike and Ed. He learned from his mother Bert about his father's extended trips to Switzerland and nothing else would settle with Mike until he flew to Vancouver to meet "this man." Bill Bauer opened his front door and was faced by Mike who could only utter "My God, Dad." All he could ask was "why, why, why?" Forced by Mike's insistence on the truth, Bill told Mike why he did this to his family, alleging the truth was not always the best solution. Mike would be deeply hurt. Bill told Mike that he when he decided not to get back on the plane after refueling, he went to be with a woman named Simone Kincaid. It seemed that they had had an affair many years earlier, and since then, had only kept in touch with a card and letter. He was with her when he heard news that his plane had crashed. Simone’s own marriage had deteriorated through the years, and she had divorced. Ultimately Bill told Mike he married Simone and then Simone and his stepchildren Hilary and Paul, were his family! Just then Rita called to alert Bill of Mike's arrival, he explained how she discovered his identity. With Hillary on her way home for Christmas, Bill was frantic for Mike to leave. Mike was appalled at how he could brush this off. He agreed only after receiving Bill's promise to return to Springfield after the New Year to talk to Bert and Ed. He didn’t understand his father's reasons for procrastinating but Mike assented to his father's wishes, just grateful that he was alive. Sharing his grief with Rita, Mike pondered how even if HE could accept his dad's reasons for disappearing, how could Ed and Bert? With the knowledge she had Blake Carne syndrome, Eve Stapleton had to learn to cope with the inevitable — she was going to be blind. She experienced blurred vision when out with her fiance Ben McFarren, but chose to conceal it. He and her mother Viola sensed something was wrong but Eve wouldn’t burden them with the truth. Just when she thought the time was right to inform Ben, he had good news. He had been offered a one-man show of his art and was ecstatic about his break-through for his career. Evie withheld her tidings, protecting Ben's happiness. She found it difficult to get involved as Ben wanted, setting up his displayed for the show. Eve visited the Springfield Institute for the Blind. She talked to a blind counsellor who advocated if she really loved Ben, she wouldn't let herself be a burden to him, which was her greatest fear. Upon reading of a new experimental drug for blindness, Eve's hopes skyrocketted. Her doctor, Ed, had to tame her excitement by relaying the drug did not work with her particular disease. He recommended she stay and talk to the psychologist, Dr. Harman, whom he and Rita were planning to confer with. Eve refused. Dr. Harman advised Ed and Rita above all, not to pity Eve. She would go through a depression, and education would help her the most. She would need to find a new self-image, then the change had to come from within Eve. Ed and Rita agreed, she would win, she had the spirit. When Eve couldn’t read a letter Viola saved from her late father, Viola guessed and Rita confirmed it. The night of Ben's show Eve did tell Viola, relieved she knew. She seemed to gain some strength in talking with Viola of her own father's spirit. Viola told Eve how proud she was of her after she observed Evie light up in support of Ben and his show. At the opening, Eve's eyesight worsened, Rita and Viola guided her, acting as her eyes. When the tender moment arrived and Ben presents his portrait of Eve to her in the presence of the crowd, to Eve "his source of inspiration," she had to sadly tell him she couldn’t see it. He held her tightly promising they would find a way. Ed, Viola, and Rita ushered Eve out, and alone, Ben sobbed helplessly. Later, Eve told Ben she couldn’t marry him. He wouldn’t accept her decision. He emotionally defined there was nothing in this life for himself without Eve, she was his life. He would prove that to her and there was no way they were not going to be together. Eve accepted Ben's help, for the time being. Seeing how Eve was shutting out those who loved her, Ed found it necessary to be firm, emphasizing Eve should face it and fight it. Ben tried again to convince Eve they had to still be married, but she refused to burden him. She returned his engagement ring, but Rita saw it left on a table, letting Eve know Ben hadn't given up. Jackie Marler yearned for the family ties like those belonging to her houseguest, Elizabeth Spaulding. Elizabeth, however, dealing with the ambivalent feeling of her marriage to jetsetter Alan Spaulding, envied Jackie's freedom and independence. She confided to Jackie, Alan always wanted her available for him yet didn’t have time for her. They planned to reside in Springfield where Alan had business. He also needed close proximity to his physician, Dr. Emmett Scott. Emmet had cautioned Alan to slow down or his heart wouldn’t keep up his pace. Elizabeth looked forward to returning to her photography although she knew Alan didn't approve. Her response to his finding a new home without consulting her was not what Alan expected from an obedient wife. Mike and Alan had a run-in due to conflicting interests about the land use for Alan's future industrial site. Mike wanted the land preserved for environmental protection. Because Alan intended to follow through on his construction plans, Mike withdrew as his lawyer. Meanwhile, Elizabeth's plans to use part of Alan's office space for a dark room seemed to rally more support from Mike than her own husband. Alan convinced Adam and Mike to reconsider being his general manager and legal advisor, respectively. Since the day Mike met Jackie, his secretary, Ann Jeffers, had resented her association with him. Ann decided it was her job to protect Mike from the likes of Jackie. To stop Jackie's pursuit of Mike, Ann played a tape to Jackie. On it was a conversation Jackie and her ex-husband Justin had in Mike's office, where they discussed their bet that Jackie would hook Mike. Furious, Jackie snapped Ann was only an "office wife" to Mike; if she played the tape, he'd really know what kind of person she was. She then threw the whole story at Ann that because of Ann's ex-husband, Mike lost his wife. How could Mike forget that, ever? Ann was shaken by the thoughts Jackie was right. She wanted to quit her job, but Sara consoled her and she began to gain some self-confidence. She confronted Jackie again, determined she wouldn't let Jackie push her around. She announced she had destroyed the tape, much to Jackie's relief, further asserting Jackie was the type of person who'd do or say anything to get what she wanted. Sara had just heard the whole story from Justin about his past with Jackie. She was sombred by it, but glad Justin had confided. - Jackie divorced Justin when she was pregnant and found him unfaithful. She led him to believe she had an abortion. Only Jackie knew the Spauldings' adopted son, Phillip, was Justin and Jackie's son. - Ironically, the same night Justin told Sara of his one and only act of infidelity with journalist, Brandy Shelloe, she was waiting for Justin in his apartment lobby. She had just been refused an interview by Alan Spaulding and then Justin put her off. He was adamant, he wanted nothing to do with the lady or a continuation of their affair. Justin had repeated his marriage proposal to Sara, claiming all he wanted for Christmas was for he and Sara to be married. Sara was fighting her feelings, wanting Justin yet not ready for a committment. She was grateful for his patience, he replied she was a lady worth waiting for. Brandy Shelloe decided to move in the same building as Justin. Adam Thorpe’s concern for his son Roger was lessened when he heard Roger would be in Lake Tahoe on business. Also relieved was Holly Bauer. Roger iwass the natural father of Christina Bauer, conceived when Holly and Ed were married. Since his wife Peggy had divorced him and he was sterile, Roger had added pressure to be a part of Christina's life. Holly, however, prefered Ed to be the dominant male in Christina's life, and hers also. Since Ed had learned why Roger wanted closeness to Christina, he had eased his antagonism for Roger. Holly, in desperation, pulled at Ed's emotions for Christina, stating life wouldn't be the same for Christina without Ed as her father. He was drifting, and Holly feared it was towards Rita and nothing she could say or do would hold him. Holly's mother Barbara intruded on Ed, testing him about Roger. Ed wouldn't allow her interference, declaring they all had their own lives to live and should be left alone to do so. With Ed and Rita rediscovering each other, Holly and Dr. Peter Champan seemed to be fining each other’s company quite attractive, hurting RN Katie Parker, whom Peter had caught they eye. The two met several time, then Peter had invited Holly to Christmas dinner. Barbara asked Adam to visit her, explaining she felt there was a strain between them despite their amicable separation. He agreed. They both toasted to a new friendship, Barbara promising to be a better person. Peter’s father, editor Max Chapman, seemed to be interested in Barbara. Bert, meanwhile, told Steve she didn’t think she could plan on going to the Caribbean, as she was very worried about Mike! She commented that Mike had been acting very strange lately. Love Of Life Written by: Gabrielle Upton Produced by: Darryl Hickman Bruce Sterling was trying to face the reality of his disease, aplastic anemia, which in his case was almost surely fatal. He had come to realize how much his friends and family meant to him. He spent time lovingly looking at old photos to relive all the moments he had cherished over the years. Bruce took Van to lunch to tell her, but before he could begin, Van's sister, Meg Hart, interrupted him. Dr. Joe Cusack told Bruce that Van was a strong woman who could deal with this without falling apart and had the right to know. Bruce said he knew that Van was strong, but even he had to ask, "Why me?" Cal and Rick Latimer had tried to be open in their relationship, but things seemed to get in the way. Cal was still jealous of the attention her mother gave and took from Rick. Meg did her best to slip a wedge between Cal and Rick by making Rick aware that their boarder, Michael Blake, was much closer to Cal's age. Cal was taking classes in solar architecture with a career in mind and this was causing Rick to be jealous. Michael was infatuated with Cal, but couldn't show her how he felt. He respected and felt protective of her. Michael was still very close-mouthed about his past, but his dislike of promiscuous women was apparent. While studying with Cal under the Christmas tree, he was beset by memories of himself as a young boy and he seemed to be watching a woman, a prostitute – his mother! Mia Marriott and Ben Harper had a relationship which was stormy and confusing to them both. Mia tried to tell herself and her friend Wendy Hayes that she was only editing Ben's book and was not hung up on him. Ben was so wrapped up in his feelings for his daughter and his ex-wife that he couldn’t see Mia as she really was. Mia's ex-husband, Andrew, was more objective and told Ben that Mia loved a challenge and it was the missing excitement that broke up their marriage. Mia had a lot of love to give and it would be too bad if she got mixed up with someone who didn't love her back. This woke Ben up a little. He wanted to find out what happened the night Mia spent with him from the one person who knew — Mia. Mia invited her former husband Andrew for Christmas. Mia thought she had given Ben the perfect Christmas present when she arrived with a puppy in a basket. He refused it, saying he couldn’t keep it in his hotel room. Little Susie Ryker gave Ben a gift and Mia gave her the puppy from Ben. Later he thanked her by arriving with a ballerina music box with a card to Natasha. - Mia had told him she had often made believe she was a lost Russian princess. – Charles Lamont felt sorry for his new baby nurse, Mary Owens, because she spent all her spare time in her room. Van had Lynn Henderson visit, but Mary, who was twenty-four, seemed to have nothing in common with a high school senior. Mary gave no reason for leaving Twin Rivers, Michigan to work in Rosehill, New York where she was a stranger. The mystery of Mary’s background deppened when she blurted to Charles and Van that beautiful women like Arlene weren’t always acquitted. Arlene Lovett had insisted on an immediate trial so that her future and Tom Crawford's could be settled. Tom was planning to marry her as soon as she was acquitted of the murder of Ian Russell, Arlene's former lover and provider. Arlene finally confided in her lawyer, Dory Patton, after Ray Slater told her he was wrong to suggest she not tell anyone that Ian had ordered him to run down Arlene's mother because she had seen Ian with Frankie Sills shortly before Sills was found shot to death. Tom was sure that once the jury heard Arlene they would see that she was not capable of killing anyone. He talked with Dory and learned that she didn't intend to put Arlene on the stand because Dory feared that her story was not believable. Tom was not sure Mrs. Patton was the lawyer for Arlene if she didn't have any more faith in her than that. Arlene asked to see a doctor because she was not feeling well. She explained then that she expected that she was several months pregnant and wanted him to confirm it immediately. His schedule was full and he couldn’t have her brought to his office until the morning her trial began. Arlene became very anxious when she was taken to court without first being taken for an examination. She had trouble concentrating because she felt her whole life depended on the outcome of this examination. When the doctor confirmed her fears, Arlene felt that it made no difference if she went to prison since she knew she was carrying Ian's child. District Attorney Merrick used department store charge statements to show that Ian was paying for Arlene's extravagant tastes. Henry Parker, Ian's chauffer, testified that he used to take Miss Lovett shopping frequently. When shown a heavy cut crystal cigarette box, Henry explained that Mr. Russell asked him to get an estimate on getting it repaired, telling him that it had been cracked when Miss Lovett threw it at him in a rage, narrowly missing his head. A taxi driver testified that he had taken Mr. Russell and Miss Lovett to her apartment, but she had begged him to take her to see the unfinished penthouse. He drove them there. Merrick got Carrie Johnson on the stand and asked her if she didn't move out because she found out Russell was keeping Arlene. He implied that Arlene was not living up to the morals that Carrie had believed in. He painted Arlene as a loose immoral woman who lived with Ian for his money. Carrie protested that Arlene worked and always offered to help her. Arlene couldn’t stand to see her mother ridiculed and stood up offering to tell everything she knew. When the judge let Arlene take the stand to tell her story, she started by explaining that she found out Ian had ordered someone to run down her mother. She told them how upset she was and after getting a gun she did coerce him into taking her to the penthouse with the intention of killing him. Ian thought she was sorry for embarrassing him, but she pulled the gun and explained that she knew about his orders to kill her mother. She couldn't do it and dropped the gun, sobbing. Ian tripped and fell down. It was an accident, but she was afraid no one would believe her. She could give no details or why Russell tripped. Merrick painted her as a lying immoral woman, trying to save herself, and Russell as the respectable businessman who was a credit to Rosehill society. Mrs. Patton reviewed the facts and used Merrick's own suppositions in her brilliant summation to show that Merrick's case was based on Arlene's life-style rather than facts. Tom Crawford berated Mrs. Patton for not cross-examining Arlene on the stand. She explained that she went over and over her story, but Arlene could not fill in many gaps and this could be dangerous in Merrick's hands. Tom apologized but when alone Dory cried, asking for help from her late husband who was also a lawyer. Praise from others didn't really help her confidence. Word was received that the verdict was in. Carrie and Ray Slater were there and decided not to notify Tom who was in surgery. Merrick was very satisfied when the foreman announced that they had found Arlene guilty. Mrs. Patton held up Arlene's return to jail while Ray rushed to the hospital to retrieve Tom. Dory set into motion the appeal, but felt she had failed. Tom brought Arlene a teddy bear and suggested that if she cared for it, their baby could use it. Arlene said that the plans they made were only for if she were acquitted. Arlene finally confessed her pregnancy to her mother. Andrew told Bruce that Meg invited him for the New Year party but he was not interested in starting a relationship with her. Van tended to play the matchmake but Andrew couldn’t seem able to forget about Mia. Eddie was refused visitation rights to his son until Charles’ paternity can be disproved. Dory was present for Eddie as he was present to her during Arlene’s trial. She helped Eddie bury the hatched with Charles for the holidays. One Life To Live Written by: Gordon Russell Produced by: Joseph Stuart Once again, Karen Wolek had allowed herself to be picked up by a well-heeled "gentleman" but after waking in tears in his room, she cried out that the presents weren't worth it. As she prepared to leave she gathered them up, telling him they were not presents anymore, "I paid for them now." - This last episode occurred after Larry walked in on Karen's session with Lt. Ed Hall and heard that Karen had been to Tony's place when she told Larry she had been to bed early on the night Lana died which was true - And, furthermore she provided Marco Dane with the alibi that he had been with her, talking about Lana, at the time of Lana's death - Not true -. Lana’s mom, offered Cathy the ring found in Lana’s room, thinking it was her daughter’s ring. – The ring belonged indeed to Naomi Vernon, Brad’s recently deceased mother. Brad had visited Cathy Lord in an attempt to get her to believe that Lana's stories of resuming their affair were fantasies and produced a pitifully incoherant letter Lana had sent him as proof of her state of mind. At first Cathy was set back but recognized Brad's usual manipulating and countered that Lana was probably drunk when she wrote it. When Ed Hall called at her house, Brad heard Cathy say that Lana had told her that she was going to take two sleeping pills but then promised not to when she spoke with Cathy on the phone. Cathy added that even if Lana had taken them, she couldn't believe two sleeping pills could have killed her. Cathy failed to see the stricken look on Brad's face as she went on talking. Brad admitted that he had treated Lana very badly but insisted that he had changed and recommended a memorial service for Lana. When Cathy asked if he would have the nerve to attend, Brad insisted that he had nothing to hide; that the truth was on his side and the sooner Cathy accepted that, the better off she would be, emotionally. After Brad left, Cathy told Ed that Brad wanted her to believe she and Lana were both crazy. At home, Sam urged Brad to stop lying and call Ed Hall, saying he didn't commit a crime, he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Brad, distracted, told Sam she was making sense but there was something still bothering him. He asked her to leave him alone for a few minutes. When Sam went out, Brad recalled urging a second glass of hot milk on Lana, insisting she drink the one he prepared for her "before it gets cold again." Sam came back and urged Brad to at least tell Jenny. Brad Vernon sensed that Ed Hall does not believe him. - Off the record, Ed had told Richard Abbott that he tended to believe Marco's alibi, though he was sure Marco was lying a little bit, but he wondered why Brad went back to Sam's and took her out at that hour to a diner, unless he wanted to be seen. – Brad knew that Marco came to Lana's apartment but never got in, and wondered why he lied to the police. He speculated on the possibility that there might be some way he could led Ed Hall know Marco lied, but dismissed it as tempting, but too dangerous. Later Brad asked a member of his Health Club, who was a private detective, how much it would cost to look into someone's background; but when he learned how expensive it was, he realized it was out of the question to spend that much under the pretense he had given of checking out a prospective employee. Marco came in as the man left and caught on right away. He offered to neglect to mention something he had forgotten; that he spotted Brad's distinctive sports-car, a half block away from Lana's apartment on the night she died, if Brad would stop making trouble for him, and they could both walk away from this. Brad reacted by asking if Marco was so clean, why did he have to go around making deals? He smirked and asked if he went to the police, what would they find? After Karen had given her perjured evidence, Marco took the stand and admitted that he lied to the police, but that here, under oath, he intended to set the record straight. He told the inquest that he went to Lana's and got no answer. He covered for Karen, saying he did go to her house but she wasn't aware that he had already been to Lana's. He added that he remembered about Brad's sports-car when he overheard Brad telling Mrs. Wolek – Karen - he knew she was lying and realized Brad could only have known of his visit if he, himself, were there. When Ed Hall testified that fingerprints had been wiped clean in Lana's apartment the night, coming after Marco's testimony, Jenny realized how bad things look for Brad. After the court adjourned for the day, Brad swore that he never did anything, directly or indirectly to harm Lana, and Jenny, believing him, was determined to be with Brad and to show her faith in him. At her suggestion, she and Brad were married that evening with two friends of hers, nuns, as witnesses. Larry and Karen quarrelled that night when he refused to believe her new story of Marco's alibi. Karen admitted that she went out on a limb for Marco and Larry couldn’t accept that she would jeopardize their marriage out of compassion for a relative stranger. Larry admitted he might not have been the ideal husband lately but insisted he had always been honest with Karen. She called him on his self-righteous attitude. Larry insisted she married him for his image, adding she picked the wrong doctor. When Anna came in, Karen insisted that she would be the one to go and told Anna not to bother to talk Larry out of his anger. She asked for some money, since she had only a few dollars, and Larry threw his wallet at her, telling her to take it all. She told Anna, bitterly, that when her brother wanted to get rid of his wife, money was no object. Karen went to Jenny and arrived to learn that she and Brad were on their way to be married. She asked if Jenny was out of her mind, and cried out that Jenny's blind faith was ridiculous. She insisted that what Jenny was doing was stupid, and she was not a stupid girl. Jenny left to get her coat and Karen, in tears, told Brad she couldn't believe he was really going to do this to Jenny. Karen picked up her suitcase and left, winding up in a motel bar. When a man who had tried to pick her up but had been rebuffed picked up her check after she had been drinking some time longer and asked if there was any reason why they shouldn't go to her room for a nightcap she replied "not any more." Brian had told Will Vernon the reason for his resentment of Tony Lord and his mother Pat - he had seen Pat and Tony embracing at Tony's apartment when he followed them one night - and his belief that he was protecting his father Paul by not mentioning it. - Brian was not aware that Tony Lord, and not Paul Kendall was his natural father. - Will told the boy that his secrecy and conflict were a contributing factor in his migrane headaches but promised to respect the boy's confidence. At first Paul and Pat were furious to learn that Will knew the reason behind Brian's attitude but would not disclose it, but eventually they had to accept Will's refusal to betray the boy's trust. When Brian physically stroke out at Tony, Pat and Paul were united in telling the boy that such conduct, no matter what the reason, was not acceptable and Brian finally drafted an apology to Tony when they remained adament. In the meantime, Pat's plans for a week in the Carribean with Tony were changed to meeting him in New York while she was on assignment for the paper and then abandoned altogether. Sam tried to make an impression on Tony. The following day, Brad took the stand and was followed by Sam, who repeated the story she and Brad had rehearsed. - Will Vernon, listening, was increasingly disturbed when he recalled that he saw Lana in her robe at the Health Club with Brad, long after they had supposedly broken up. Brad's insistance that Lana staged the incident still troubled him. - The final witness was Jenny who testified that Brad had come to see her a few minutes before twelve on the eve of their first wedding date - the time of Lana's death —Jenny was not aware that her belief was based on what Brad told her was the hour -. Before she left the stand, she revealed that she was Mrs. Bradley Vernon. Dorian Lord had berated Marco for linking his name with hers as a general handyman at Llanfair in a Chronicle feature after his change in testimony. She reminded him that his title was chauffeur. Then she relented and asked Marco to stay on for the night, saying she hated to be alone, but Marco left, telling her that was one punishment that definately fit her crime. Dorian phoned Edwina to learn that she had plans for the evening with Richard Abbott and Peter Janssen and finally phoned Will Vernon, asking to see him and pleading an emergency. She told Will that she intended to see her sister, Melinda who had been institutionalized for the past three years, and wanted Will to fly up with her to see the girl. Will reminded her that he had the problem of the inquest involving his son to contend with and refused, telling her if the girl's own doctors permitted, she could bring her home. Richard Abbott asked Becky Lee Hunt to move in with him. She was hesitant but Richard wouldn’t give her much thinking space, so she let her heart instead of her mind decide and she said yes. She realized later it was the wrong answer to give. Sitting alone in Richard’s apartment the night before she was set to move in, Becky rememberd a frightening episode from her past. Echoing loudly through her brain, she heard a man yelling: “Rebecca Lee Hunt, you’ll never get away with his. Wherever you go I’ll find you. There’s nowhere you can hide!”. Becky Lee had fled the apartment she had agreed to share with Richard Abbott to turn up at Mrs. Hopkins’ and began to pack. At first Ina Hoskins was convinced that Becky had had second thoughts as Ina had urged her to reconsider living with Richard, but she soon realized that it is not that simple. She and her new beau, Ethan Bottomly – who worked in the newspaper morgue -, convinced Becky it would be a mistake and a betrayal of trust to leave her job and the opportunity she had at the Blue Ridge Club without notice. Ina pressed her point, reminding Becky that the fact that she made it on her own was largely due to Richard Abbott's help and asked her to think before going on to another town and living from hand to mouth. Becky had a disturbing memory of being set upon by a grown-up "step-son" out of her hill-country past and rushed out of the room as Richard came in. Edwina realized she had a chance with Richard. Karen arrived at court sporting a new dress - this time the shopping trip with Oscar, Karen's latest "Daddy" was after the fact -. She hissed at Marco that his change in testimony, though not placing her in legal jeopardy, had "cost me my marriage." The jury announced it had returned a verdict of accidental death due to a combination of drugs and liquor as Marco grimaced and mouthed the words "no guts." Wanda and Vinnie returned to Llanview from a trip abroad. Vinnie was suspicious of Karen’s relationship with Marco while Wanda attended women’s consciousness raising sessions. Ryan’s Hope Written by: Claire Labine & Paul Avila Mayer Produced by: Claire Labine, Paul Avila Mayer & Robert Costello Jillian Coleridge was in Ryan's when Frank brought Rae Woodard in to meet Maeve. Rae told Maeve she was impressed with the way the House Association of Riverside Hospital had put its future in Frank's hands and stresseed that she and her husband were very excited about Frank's political future. Rae turned to Jill, telling her she understood that Jillian was a great help to Frank in the past and asked if "we" could count on Jillian's continued support. She made a point of the importance of the "motivated amateur" and added that she relied on old friends coming forward to do their share. To Bob Reid, Jillian confided that Rae Woodard rubbed her the wrong way. Jillian pointed out an editorial in the Woodard chain of papers which endorsed the "Ryan Plan" approved by the House Association, calling it practical and sensible and pointing out that the Hospital Administration hadn't seen fit yet to even look at it. The editorial claimed that the administration had locked itself into an inflexible position and there had been as yet no intelligent alternative. It ended by asking what was being covered up. Jillian told Seneca that there was a time when Frank detested women like Rae. Seneca replied that Frank wanted power and she would give it to him. As Rae Woodard’s assignations with Roger Coleridge had progressed to a full-fledged affair, her husband became aware that she had lied to him about her whereabouts and his suspicions center on Frank. He instructed his wife's secretary, Royal, to begin a discrete inquiry into where Rae went when she left the hospital. As Rae headed for Roger's apartment, she came across Faith and Tom Desmond on the stoop and, acknowledging Faith's greeting, walked on. Later she called Roger and arranged to meet him at Clem's, pretending on seeing him there that the meeting was accidental. The first report seemed innocuous enough, but when Rae lied again after having been with Roger at his apartment for over three hours and Frank had been in to see Woodard in the hospital in the meanwhile, Woodard was aware that he had the wrong man. Eventually he learned that Rae was with Dr. Coleridge. Woodard, disturbed, confided to Frank that he had learned that one of his must trusted people had been lying to him seriously. Frank assumed that Woodard was referring to someone in his organization, and told Woodard that he believed if Woodard was unable to forgive and forget, then he would have to get rid of "him." A follow-up full front page editorial about the Ryan family with reference to Pat Ryan caused Marshall Westheimer to refer to it as a classic case of political opportunism which was harmful to the delicate negotiations. Seneca reiterated his belief that Frank Ryan put nothing ahead of politics. When Jillian warned Rae that such publicity was likely to in-flame the conservative members of the Hospital Administration and make them more stubborn, she added a plea to Rae not to exploit Riverside Hospital to create publicity for Frank. After Pat came home from a wet day on the hospital picket-line to find Delia wallpapering the apartment, he resorted again to the drug he had stolen from a Narcoleptic patient, and under its influence, proposed a trip in the late night rain to Coney Island. Delia was delighted with his spur-of-the-moment sense of fun until she found that he had collapsed on the wet sand and she couldn’t wake him. With help and incentive from a suspicious policeman on his rounds, she got Pat home in a cab but was frightened the following morning when he couldn’t remember the incident and snapped at her. She went to Maeve and got only platitudes about Pat's needing a good pot roast dinner and a night's sleep and had to listen as Maeve read a letter of Mary's from Ireland as an example of a marriage where persistance had paid off. Delia, in desperation, told Roger of some of Pat's strange reactions but they got off the track when Dee found Rae's diamond and emerald earring and reacted with dog-in-the-manger jealousy. Eventually the strik was settled on the lines of the Ryan Plan, but Westheimer pointed out that a long-range and ultimately more satisfactory plan being worked out had to be scrapped in the atmosphere the Woodard papers' editorials had created. The final battle was fought when Clem Moultrie insisted that the removal of the letters of reprimand against Pat and Faith, and the hospital administration eventually capitulated. Jillian retired to her apartment at Seneca's insistance to nurse a cold. As Seneca was caring for her he asked her once again to marry him but she replied that she was not ready to promise away her whole life. Then Seneca proposed that she and Edmund live with him as a family, without marriage, and Jillian, delighted, said yes. After the strike was settled, Pat returned to work with Delia's complaints that she wanted him to take off work as soon as possible for a trip to Ireland on their own ringing in his ears. He went to a drug room with glassed panels and when he panicked in the belief that he was locked in with the medicine on him, he punched his fist through the glass. When the staff came running he said he fell but Roger stayed on and told him that he saw him punch out the glass. Pat told Roger he had a temporary attack of Claustrophobia. Roger told him he had been worried about him for days; that Pat had been giving out warning signals. Pat attributed his shaking hands to too much caffein in the coffee he had been drinking to keep going in the past weeks. Roger asked pointedly, "just caffein?" and went on to tell him that though he had no more extraordinary responsibility for him since Pat's reprimand had been lifted, he wanted him to start taking care of himself if he expected to finish out his residency. At one point during the strike, Tom Desmond was present at strike headquarters when a reporter took a picture. Tom demanded and took the film with a warning that he didn't want to hurt the man. Tom explained to a startled Faith that he couldn’t have his picture shown as Pat and Bucky went after the reporter, who was looking for a cop. Later on Tom told Faith that any reference to his past could cost him his life and Faith – who had developed an interest in Tom - agreed, as Mary had, not to mention it. Meanwhile, in Ireland, Mary's reaction to a picture of Tom in a Limerick pub sent one of the patrons off to visit a man named Liam, with the report of an American who recognized Tom O'Brien and the speculation that he could be located in New York where Mary had told him her father had a bar. When the man produced the Fenellis' address he had gotten from the guest-book, together with John Ryan's business card, Liam proceeded to book passage on a flight to New York. Faith arrived home after the strike to find a man dressed in the work clothes of the firm of exterminators who regularly serviced the lovely, but aged building that housed her own and her brother's apartments. Roger came in later to find the man in his apartment and learned that Faith had given him the keys. He remarked that the apartment had been gone over by the firm just a few weeks before but accepted the man's explanation of the usual holiday-week mix ups in scheduling. Later when Rae arrived announcing three hours of bliss at their disposal, due to Bill's scheduled physical therapy and his announced intention of napping afterward, they were unaware of the planted bug, or the presence in a basement room of the "exterminator" presiding as a tape reel unwinds. Search For Tomorrow Written by: Robert J. Shaw Produced by: Mary-Ellis Bunim Cindy French had convinced Tom Bergman that she would only be intimate with the man she married. Tom told his father that he loved Cindy and they were going to be married. Stu tried to be fair. He didn't tell Tom not to marry her, only to make sure Cindy was willing to live the kind of life he could provide. Stu would not pay for them to live in the Inn as she wanted. She agreed to anything to get Tom to marry her immediately. When he agreed to elope she talked him into going to Las Vegas. Tom was feeling hesitant when he picked her up. Stu worried when Tom disappeared. Cindy wasn't home either. He called Stephanie Collins who said she would get to the bottom of this because Cindy called in sick. Cindy's friend told Stephanie they eloped to Las Vegas. Stu felt he had to try to talk to Tom once more. He flew to Vegas and started calling the wedding chapels. As the vows were being read Tom decided that he couldn’t go through with it this way. Cindy was furious with him for standing her up. She accused him of being a daddy's boy and afraid of women. Stu walked in and offered Cindy fare back to Henderson. She said she was not planning on spending her life working. Tom realized that she was after money and never really loved him. Stephanie Collins had asked her daughter Wendy to befriend Suzi Wyatt. This gave her an excuse to see John Wyatt. After the death of his wife Eunice he was attracted to her sister Jo Vincente, but it was too late. By the time he realized it, Jo was already in love with Greg Hartford. Stephanie and the girls girls arranged a surprise birthday party for John. When they returned to the Inn, John gave Suzi medicine for her upset stomach, figuring she ate too much cake and ice cream. Later she woke him with more pain and a fever. He called Stephanie who told him to get Greg because it could be an appendicitis. Greg had her taken to the hospital for surgery. John blamed himself because giving her the medicine was the worst thing to do. The rupture of her appendix caused an infection which put her life in danger. John was relieved when Suzi began recovery and was grateful that Stephanie was there for them both. John told Jo how much Stephanie had meant to him and Suzie. Jo said she simply couldn’t trust Stephanie because of her past. Stephanie overheard and asked Jo why she put her down to John. Jo accused her of playing on John's sympathy. Liza Kaslo’s surgery had successfully removed the scar from her eye. Her rock musician husband had decided that although there weren’t many opportunities for him in Henderson, he and Liza needed a settled life. He would write music and find a job in town. Janet Collins took her grown children's advice and planned a trip to Hawaii for herself and her young son on the condition that Steve would look out for her interests in the Collins Corporation. Steve had taken some business courses in college and took to the idea. The corporation had done well under its new president, Howard Horton, the past few years. Steve became interested in some of the projects the company was involved in and worked up some ideas of his own. Horton asked Steve to do a cost research and report back to him. Office executive Bill Mendel tried to get him to expose his ideas, but was unsuccessful. Horton praised Steve and said he might be the new blood the company needed. Steve accepted a permanent job once he was sure that he was asked because of his own ability. He turned down a board position. Kathy Phillips had gone to a sanitarium to wait out the birth of her baby. She still refused to see Scott because she thought he hated her and the baby that could be David Sutton's. Scott was ready to take a drink until he was brought to his senses by Donna Davis, another alcoholic. He felt very indebted to her for keeping him from that drink. He wanted to pay her back by helping her with her problems. After Donna got fired for drinking on her job as a waitress, Scott got her hired as the receptionist in his law office. The pressure was too much and Donna had to go out for a drink. She didn’t arrive on time for work and an empty liquor bottle was found in her desk. They had no choice but to fire her. Depressed, Donna drank enough to cause a scene and got arrested. Scott bailed her out and found her an apartment and a job in duplicating at the Collins Corporation. Bruce Carson was finding his wife's hospital schedule hard to live with. He had assured Amy that he could take the odd intern hours, but Amy could see that he was very cool when their evening was cancelled again. It got worse when she was given a residency. Gary Walton and Carolyn Hanley had decided that they could wait no longer and made plans to be married. Gary gave Carolyn an engagement ring for Christmas and asked her to become his bride on Valentine's Day. Carolyn was concerned because her mother assumed the wedding would be in Colorado Springs, but she wanted it in Henderson. Dr. Greg Hartford didn’t want to break the news to his daughter that he and Jo Vincente planned to marry until Meredith was settled in Henderson. The vice-principal told Greg that Meredith was having difficulty fitting in. Meredith told her father that she had never had a home of her own and she would like for them to buy a house. They found an old house on the lake that she loved. He asked the real estate agent to show the house to Jo because she would be living there. The agent called Meredith that Mrs. Vincente liked the house and fell in love with the front bedroom with the fireplace and the baywindow. Meredith vowed that Jo would never move in. Greg gave in when Meredith asked for the front bedroom. The second time Greg and Jo had dinner at the country club, Meredith again claimed to be ill. This time Greg had already left on an emergency, so Gary Walton was called. She claimed to have a headache, fever and an upset stomach, but refused to let Gary examine her. He told Jo that he didn’t think she was ill and she related this to Greg. Meredith said she didn't want "a doctor"; she wanted "her father." The truth about Greg and Jo's relationship was out in the open. Meredith said she wishes they had told her. Jo was suspicious to find Meredith calling her "Jo" and asking help with furnishing the house. After several decorating decisions had been made, Meredith changed the order. Jo was afraid to criticize her and Greg was trying very hard to make up for all the years she spent in convent schools. Meredith mentioned the idea of a New Year's party in the new house and then goes ahead with the plans for a blacktie event. Jo thought Meredith had taken on more than she could handle, especially since she had refused all help. Ellie Bergman suggested that Jo ask Tom to befriend Meredith and get her into a crowd of her peers. Greg told Jo that they had waited long enough and he wanted to marry her. Jo agreed that by mid-April Meredith should have adjusted to the situation well enough to deal with their marriage. The Young And The Restless Written by: William J. Bell Produced by: John Conboy Nancy Becker had been released from the mental hospital as cured and planned on starting a new life with Ron in Alaska. Ron had to tell her that he gave the Fosters permission to adopt their daughter because Nancy was catatonic and he felt it was best for Karen. Nancy visited Chris Foster and asked to see Karen. She was hurt when Karen didn’t remember her and called Chris "mommy." Finding Snapper out of town, Nancy asked Stuart Brooks to talk to his daughter. He couldn’t discuss it with her when he found Chris and Karen preparing for Snapper's return from fighting a cholera epidemic. Chris was really looking forward to the holidays since Ron had given them permission to adopt Karen. Stuart told Snapper of Nancy's visit and he went to see Ron, feeling that he had put Nancy up to this. After he talked to Ron and Nancy he told Stuart that he was really torn because Nancy seemed to be stable and Ron had turned his life around, but he wanted to keep all this from Chris at least for the holidays. Stuart Brooks and Maestro Frauch had both taken an interest in Liz Foster's musical education. Stuart sent her a record player and the Maestro showed up with a strudle just like his mother used to make. When Stuart stopped by, he was surprised to find that Liz knew the Maestro. She explained that they met at the Brooks' house. Liz was uncomfortable with the obvious competition between the two men. Derek and Jill suggested that she give herself a more youthful look by dyeing her hair. They gave her a wig to acquaint herself with the new image, but she felt ridiculous. Kay Chancellor had a tailor fit Derek with a new wardrobe in keeping with the image of the new salon. Jill made the mistake of voicing the opinion that Kay was trying to buy him. This infuriated Derek. She also refused to see Kay when she called. Derek said Mrs. Chancellor was trying and Jill was so bitter she was making no effort. Jill tried, but when a girl answered Derek's phone early one morning, she lashed out. Derek explained that he was a man and her morals made her hate herself after the one time they were together. Mrs. Chancellor asked Derek to show her the progress at the new salon. When he returned, he found Jill in a very different mood. She was bright, cheerful and assured him that she knew Mrs. Chancellor would like the salon. Kay’s lawyer told her that Derek was married and had a son he hadn't seen for years. He suggested she get everything in writing because she had spent a lot of money setting up this salon. She said she would later. He saw she was hoping for a permanent relationship. Kay asked Derek about his son and learned that Derek was fond of children. She made an appointment with her doctor and asked if he thought she could still have children. He said it was possible, but not advisable. Derek was becoming very attached to Jill's son, Phillip, and Liz was beginning to see Derek as a possible father for her grandson. He agreed to spend Christmas with the Fosters. The jeweler delivered a present to Kay Chancellor from Derek with the admonition not to open it until Christmas. Unable to resist the temptation Kay found her dream had come true. The box contained a diamond ring. She asked Derek to come by and ordered her present to him to be delivered after he arrived. Derek called and explained that the jeweler mixed up the packages. When the correct package arrived it was a cameo locket with "For My Beautiful Lady" inscribed in French. She remained depressed until Derek arrived and explained that the other package wasn't something he had decided to buy yet. Kay showed him the beautiful car she had bought him for Christmas to keep up his image. Mrs. Chancellor decided to take an active part in making her dream come true. She asked her lawyer what had to take place before marriage. He promised to ask the court clerk to come to the house to fill out the papers for the license, but he was very doubtful. She told Derek she had a friend who needed blood donated and asked him to help. The clerk would come to the house but Mr. Mitchell didn't believe Kay could pull this off without Thurston knowing. After learning that the operation on his brain tumor had successfully restored his sight, Brad Eliot returned to Genoa City to win back his wife Leslie. The only one glad to see him and who thought he should win Leslie back was the Maestro. He helped arrange a string quartet to play as he did on their honeymoon. Leslie felt she had been tricked. Brock Reynolds loved Leslie and refused to step aside just because her ex-husband had returned. He felt it was unfair of Brad to reject Leslie and exclude her from his problem even though he thought he was protecting her. Brad told Brock that Lorie thought they were pressuring Leslie and this could be too much for her. They each asked the other to back off, but when their discussion ended they agreed to think about it. Leslie was practicing when Brad showed up with a bouquet of roses and a new dress. He was only there a short time when Brock showed up. Brad had "made" plans for dinner and Brock "asked" her to have dinner. She turned them both down and suggested they have dinner together while she practiced. They chastised each other for moving so quickly when they were to think over giving Leslie some space. They thouht that Lorie might have been wrong because Leslie seemed to be enjoying all the attention. She felt like a very attractive special woman. They would back off only if Leslie requested it. Lucas Prentiss didn’t think he could last out the five years it might take to complete his mother's plastic surgery. She had agreed to have the surgery only if he stayed to see her through and relieve the guilt he felt over the fire which caused her facial disfigurement. Lorie's taunt was what kept him in Genoa City. Vanessa's first operation was a success. Vanessa tried to call off her campaign to make Lorie's book a best seller to expose her to Lance. She saw then that Lorie really was a loving girl and only wanted happiness for those she loved. Mr. Campbell told her that the books had been bought and it was impossible to stop it. Lucas had moved into the boathouse. One evening when they were alone, Lucas could resist the temptation no longer and kissed Lorie. She reminded him that she loved his brother and warned him to back off. Lucas said he wanted to be friends because he planned on stepping in if anything happened to Lance. Lance warned Lucas to keep his distance because he could see Lorie was the kind of woman Lucas wanted. Lorie’s publisher asked Vanessa to give Lorie a message that the public had taken a sudden interest in her book and they would like to know how she felt about this. When Lorie didn't return his call, he phoned again and reached Lucas who realized that Vanessa didn't relay the message. Vanessa pleaded with him not to tell Lorie because it could hurt people. Without explaining the subject of the book she told him that Lance might not be able to forgive Lorie. Lucas said the guilt on her face showed that she could be hurt also. Vanessa admitted that she thought Lorie had gone off to meet her man when she was retrieving Lucas and tried to expose Lorie through her book. She had considered going to Lance or Lorie, but Lucas suggested that she keep her own council and let it all blow over. Long-absent Greg Foster called from New York and considered returning home. He returned at Christmas after months away. Jill admitted to Greg she had fallen in love with Derek while Kay Chancellor learned she was still able to conceive.

Thanks for the information. May I ask how much you worked on episode counts ? Are you going to post some ? I absolutely love these data.

Thanks so much ! I really wonder when it started.

Thanks ! I will compare with the more famous Daytime Serial Newsletter I have been working on for years.

Oh yes thanks ! Maybe Search as we are in the thread. Which month is the issue you have ?

Oh would you by chance agree to scan a few pages for us ?

I clearly won't miss Jamie but I liked the twist.

That's it. I have issues covering until November 1978 but the synopses seem to be shorter. I will try to provide them to you with additional notes from SOD. And of course, I hope you @will81and I will finally track the 1973/1974 missing issues !