FrenchFan

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 !

Beginning with the issue covering November 77, the format of the newsletter was more compact. Apparently, it was due to economical issues. So some synposes are shorter than usual. I used some part of SOD summaries to fill in a few blanks.

Quite some time 😄 But I love doing so.

Is Rory Gibson on contract ?

I would like to bring the end of 1977 before having a little break. But I'm looking forward to doing them too ahah.

I so much agree... Please send Wyatt and Flo happy into the sunset and let's move on.

NOVEMBER 1977 New schedule beginning on Monday, November 7th 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 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 Dr. Joe Martin and his wife Ruth havde quarreled over the fact that he returned to Pine Valley after breaking off contact with Ray Gardner without obtaining a release from Gardner that would enable the Martins to legally adopt their foster child, Tad. When the boy guessed the reason for Joe's trip, Ruth allowed him to accompany her to the airport to meet Dr. Martin's plane and Tad had to be told then and there that his sister was living with another couple across the country and his mother had since died. Dr. Martin refused to consider paying Gardner $10,000 but Ruth finally convinced her husband to allow her to phone Gardner while Tad was at school to offer $5,000. In her anxiety, Ruth had inadvertently revealed that Tad was living in Pine Valley. At Erica Kane’s insistance, Phil Brent checked on the circumstances of Claudette Montgomery's parole and learned that she had violated her probation agreement by leaving for Costa Rica upon her release from prison after serving time for drug pushing. He told Erica that Claudette was subject to immediate revocation of the present agreement if she was found to be in possession of even less than an ounce of grass. Erica arranged a "buy" but Brooke English alerted Nick Davis who saw Erica take possession of a small amount of marijuana at the Chateau, and finding the packet was in Claudette's purse after Erica had planted it there, slipped it into Erica's own handbag. Nick learned later that Phil had had to stop Claudette and check her out after an anonymous phone call to police headquarters. When Nick stormed into Erica's house, she told him hysterically that she was arrested for speeding and possession - a misdemeanor first offense for Erica -, when she had seconds thoughts and was trying to drive back to the Chateau before Claudette was arrested. Erica broke down and told Nick that she did it out of jealousy and insisted that she was in love with him. Dr. David Thornton had been considering "kidnapping" his daughter Dottie when he realized he couldn’t go on being virtually blackmailed into living with his wife, Edna, in order to ensure that she would not leave town, taking Dottie, an epileptic child who had been dangerously neglected by her mother. His former fiancee, Dr. Christina Karras had been trying to keep David from making such a move, which would mean they would have to take the little girl out of the country and jeopardize both Chris' and David's medical careers. Christina had agreed to go with David to Bermuda for a "honeymoon." - Christina and Thornton had planned to marry around Thanksgiving before Edna turned up in Pine Valley with the news that her divorce was invalid. – Dr. Jeff Martin was aware of their plans for the trip and that Edna believed David would be in Bermuda for a convention of surgeons. In love with Christina himself, Jeff was hopeful that Nancy Grant's conviction that Chris was merely grateful to David to his kindness to her and was mesmerized by him and concerned for his troubled daughter, was the truth. Nancy - Chris' roommate - had urged Jeff not to give up on Christina. Edna tricked David into inviting her for a cocktail at the Chateau. When David saw Jeff and Christina dining together, David’s jealousy hit a roof. In her own desperation at having to serve her week-end sentence for reckless driving without the liquid "comforts" of home, Phoebe Tyler set up a scheme to have her chauffeur Benny Sago bring liquor to her under the guise of "medication." When a soon to be retired police matron got wise, Phoebe attempted to bribe her, first with money and then with an offer of a cushy place in the Tyler household staff. The woman answered that she was a professional police woman, "I don't do windows." When Mark Dalton’s mother ran into Mark and Ellen Shephard on their week-end in New York and arranged a private talk with Ellen, she suggested that Ellen break off their affair saying Mark had a brilliant social and professional career she would prefer not to see hampered by an aging wife. Ellen attributed Mrs. Teller's rudeness to vanity rather than concern for her son and told Mark she was ready to stand up for her love for him, but back at Mark's apartment in Pine Valley, Ellen encountered one of Mark's moon-struck young students and she left Mark to return home, telling her father all the circumstances of her relationship with Mark when her deception toward him and her daughter Devon was about to become apparent. Devon and Dan Kennicott attended a college dance after her help with a term paper enabled him to restore his shaky scholarship, but the following day Brooke managed to get Dan to skip work at the Zodiac bookstore for an expensive dinner - paid for by Brooke - at the Chateau and an overnight stay at the Tyler's while Phoebe was safely locked up. Linc visited Phoebe and told Charles that she was begging to have him attend her, adding that it was obvious that Phoebe was exhibiting withdrawal symptoms and had refused to see the prison doctor. Charles urged Phoebe to make use of the time she was forced to be without liquor to conquer its hold on her, making it clear that a marital reconciliation was out of the question but pledging all his personal support if she would try to get her life in order. Erica talked Nick into attending her court appearance with her, and claimed it had all been worthwile if it had brought them back together. At Charles' office Nick told Mona he loved Erica in his own way, after Mona remarked it was obvious to her that Nick missed Erica for the time they were apart. Nick admitted he cared for Erica beyond the label of "chemistry" he had always put on their relationship and also conceded his fear of marriage. For her part, Erica turned down a date with Tom Cudahy, whom she had always kept in reserve, saying she was engaged, unofficially, but it was only a matter of time before it was on her terms. Tara Brent had kept her son's teacher's report of his disruptive behavior from her husband Phil after Chuck and she attended a Parent's Night at school with the boy. The following day, Phil had to go in search of little Philip who had left school after recess to play truant for the remainder of the day, when he learned he was to be kept after school. Phil located the boy, who had been playing pin-ball machines with the money Chuck had given him and refused to bring him back to Tara when he called her, returning him instead to school to face the music. Once again Phil and Tara quarreled when she pointed out that Phil's working hours kept him from attending Parent's Night and learning about little Phil's behavior at first hand. Ruth had reported to Joe that she spoke with Gardner, assuring him that she was careful to give nothing away. Later in the day, Kate Martin found Ruth to report that Tad had had a phone call at the Martin home, from a woman with a southern accent and when the boy took the phone, a man inquired for him by name and then hung up. She said she was able to convince Tad that the call was a mistake but it was obvious to both she and Ruth that Gardner had located the boy. - Gardner called area codes systematically, through long distance information. – Caroline Murray was trying on a gown for her wedding to Frank Grant when Nancy walked in to the Boutique – Frank and Nancy were officially divorced -. Nancy gave Caroline her best wishes but was overcome emotionally after leaving the Boutique. She also became dizzy as she stood up abruptly when she ran into Lincoln Tyler at lunch time. - Frank had not told Caroline about the evening he made love to his then-ex-wife Nancy and his concern that she might have become pregnant after their many months of estrangement. When Nancy assured him she could take care of herself, Frank took his customary easy way out, agreeing with Jeff Martin that Nancy, though claiming to still love him, was not vindictive. – Billy Clyde was determined to make Donna Beck Tyler’s life miserable. Her former pimp, Ty, had told Billy that Donna had her tubes tied. He tried to reach Phoebe Tyler. Donna was showing Edna Thornton her apartment when Chuck returned from obtaining Dr. Clader's report of a second set of lab tests which were again negative. After Edna left, Chuck told Donna, once more telling her that he believed as she did that she was pregnant, but urged her for the baby's sake to allow Dr. Clader to examine her again in person. When she finally gave in, Donna was told that though she had the subjective symptoms of pregnancy, he could detect no objective signs. Clader recommended a wait-and-see attitude but Donna grasped the pre-natal instruction booklets he offered, saying that in six months time her baby would be the sign. Phoebe made an arrangement to meet with Billy Clyde to find out what information he wanted to sell her at a high price. Benny found out about their plans to meet and warned Chuck who in turn made plans to waylay the two. Ruth had Joe phone Gardner and their suspicions were confirmed. Gardner insisted on speaking with Ruth and gave her a hard luck story about needing an operation for his new "wife" and insisted she send $5,000 by certified check and he would sign the papers later. Ruth told Joe she thought Gardner was crude but he seemed honest. When Joe absolutely refused to send the money without consulting Paul, Ruth said she would take the money out of her own savings. Another World Written by: Harding Lemay Produced by: Paul Rauch Raymond Gordon, estranged from wife Alice, dropped by her house to have her sign leases for heavy equipment. In conversation, Alice let Ray know her first husband Steve's brother, Willis Frame, had told her about the prospects of their getting the construction contract for the Scanlan department store. Ray, running the firm Alice's late husband founded, told Alice he wouldn’t take the Scanlan project because of Willis. Alice accused Ray, whose ineptitude at running the business was becoming clear to everyone, of deliberately courting failure. Alice further stated that she would take back management of the firm if Ray didn’t start putting it above his feelings about Willis. Back at the office, Ray canceled the Scanlan deal. Angie Perrini begged him to reinstate the deal, pointing out it was the only one they had. Ray refused. Willis and Alice finally confessed their feelings for each other. Alice felt her marriage to Ray was a mistake from the very beginning. They admitted they felt secure only with each other. Willis felt he was someplace he belonged, for the first time in his life. Jim Matthews visited Alice to ask if she had seen the firm's books lately. Ray was late getting them to Jim for their quarterly report. Alice and Jim went to see Ray together and found that he would have to dip into reserves to meet the month's payroll. Alice decided to dissolve the company, rather than have it slip into bankruptcy. Willis was confused and thus confusing about the women in his life. He told Burt McGowan he was in love with Alice. Burt asked his feelings for Angie. Willis admitted to Burt, and later to Angie, that he loved both women. Angie said she would fight for him because she thought he only wanted Alice because she was Steve's wife, and Willis had always wanted everything Steve had. Ray swore to use Angie to get back at Willis for stealing Alice. Ray refused to give Alice a divorce. Jamie Frame, Steve's son, was upset to learn his father's firm was being dissolved. Rachel told him Steve would have been proud of him, no matter what, and if a firm like Steve's was what he wanted, he would have it. Evan Webster and Olive Randolph were busily plotting the dissolution of Olive's marriage to John. However, their ideas on procedure differed. Olive planned to divorce John by using Molly, her step-daughter-in-law, to falsely testify that John had been unfaithful with his secretary, Joan Barnard. To entrap Molly, Olive had been letting her use a cabin at the lake to conduct an affair with Cliff Tanner. Evan, meanwhile, had been in contact with his old friend Claude Kelly, who had found a hit-man who would kill John in a hit and run accident. Evan had chosen this method because then Olive would collect double indemnity on John's insurance, an amount bound to be more than John would give her in a divorce settlement. John was still having financial troubles due to Olive's extravagance about the new house Evan was building for them. The question arose about what to do with the present Randolph house. Pat, John's ex-wife, gave him permission to sell it, if neither of their children wanted it. Mike refused to move into it, aware John needed the proceeds from the sale. Marianne was working in Europe. When Pat verified that John was strapped for cash, she gave him her half of the sale proceeds as a loan, to be paid back at his convenience, since she had been promoted to acting editor-in-chief. Kelly suspected Evan wasn't levelling with him when Evan said Olive knew all about their plans. Evan finally admitted it, and Kelly refused to go any further until Olive knew as much as they, so she couldn’t blow the whistle on them. Evan had given Kelly $5,000 from Olive's settlement from Ray and had to get another $5,000 from her. He did so under the pretext that it was to pay the girl who would set John up in a compromising situation. When Olive learned the truth about Evan and Kelly's plan, she backed out, demanding they call the whole thing off. Evan agreed, then gave Kelly the go-ahead, promising to pay $50,000 when he and Olive collected. Gallery 285 opened. Rachel's work was a great success with the critics, and she sold two pieces, giving her enough money to get through the next few months. Iris Carrington Bancroft asked husband Brian's permission to go to Europe to search for Mac Cory, her father. When he said no, she vowed to go anyway, until he asked if she'd desert her husband for her father. That stopped her. But she begged Brian to contact Mac and have him straighten out things at his house, meaning Sven's take-over. After Brian left for work, Iris went to Mac's house. She offered to set up Regine, Helga and Sven elsewhere. Regine was amenable, but Sven intervened, having bigger plans. Iris swore she would tell Mac of her own collusion with Sven to break up Mac and Rachel's marriage. Sven said it was too late, that the trap was already sprung. He threatened Iris with bodily harm or worse. Iris next asked Ada McGowan, Rachel's mother, to speak to Rachel, saying Mac's being set up by Sven. Ada sent Rachel to Iris, but Rachel took lawyer Greg Barnard along, afraid of being alone with Iris. Thus, Iris refused to talk to her. Mac returned. Brian warned Mac that Rachel was proceeding with her suit for a legal separation and could subpoena Regine. - Sven drugged Regine and Mac, then arranged things to look like they'd spent the night together, especially for Rachel's benefit. Since Mac couldn’t remember that night, he couldn’t refute Sven. - Mac had decided he wanted Rachel back, no matter what, and that she could have a career, be her own person. Mac called Rachel, but hung up when Greg answered. - Greg and Joan were dining with Rachel and Jamie. - Learning Mac was home the following day, Rachel took Greg with her to see Mac about the separation. Mac was at Iris'. Rachel promised to call later. Sven told Regine they had to move fast. Alone, Helga suggested Regine have an abortion. Regine refused, saying the baby was all she had left of Cliff. Sven said they had to soon tell Mac about the baby. Regine didn’t want to go along with Sven's plans, but as usual, he threatened to harm Helga. Rachel called and Mac assured her he had changed. Rachel asked why he didn't wait for her, instead of turning to Regine. She hung up and Mac started out to confront her and straighten things out. Sven stopped him. Twisting Regine's arm to ensure her cooperation, he told Mac that Regine was pregnant with his baby. Mac was incredulous. The following morning, Mac confided it all to Brian, who asked if Mac was sure, suggesting he could still be sterile. Mac assured Brian that Fred Morley cured him. Rachel and Greg asked Mac to sign the separation papers. Rachel was aghast when he did, without protest. Cliff, worried about Regine, barged into the Cory house. Sven told him Regine was pregnant, delighting Cliff, until Regine, again unwillingly, told him the baby was Mac's. Sven next drugged Regine to make it look like a suicide attempt, making a production of blaming Mac, saying Regina couldn’t stand the thought that her baby wouldn’t have its father's name. Unable to bear Regine's death on his conscience, Mac instructed Brian to suggest Rachel get an immediate divorce. Russ Matthews was enjoying the simultaneous attentions of Elena de Polignac and Gwen Parrish. The two women had discussed their mutual interest in Russ. Gwen found it hard to accept Elena's friendly competitors attitude. Charley Hobson, Clarice McGowan's father, appeared in Bay City. Clarice had unhappy memories of life with a travelling-salesman father, and found it hard to get close to her father, even though she and Burt gave him a home with them. Charley eventually pointed out that it was hard for him, too, to leave his children, but he had no other means of making a living. Ada had given Charley permission to use Gil's workshop to make toys for Clarice's son, Cory. Ada still wasn’t over the loss of her husband Gil. Jim Matthews wasn't sure he liked having Charley around. Amy and Austin Cushing, newlyweds, arrived in town to visit Rachel. Amy and Rachel used to model together. Austin was an aspiring artist. Rachel liked his work. Alice was appointed head nurse at the hospital, with Sally's approval. Angie accepted a part-time job with Jim Matthews. Angie told Alice that she thought Alice and Willis were making a big mistake: Willis only thought he loved Alice because she was Steve's wife, and Willis had always wanted everything Steve had; Alice was looking for Steve in Willis. Ray presented a prospectus to Mac, who agreed to finance an insurance office for him. Jim pointed out that Ray still owed Alice the money for the divorce settlement he gave Olive. Ray promised to pay it back someday. Angie suggested Charley Hobson ask Ray for a job. Olive couldn’t face moving into her new house with John, so she set up a series of squabbles, then persuaded John to let her move in alone, as a trial separation. Jamie tried to persuade Mac to reconcile with Rachel, to no avail. Rachel refused to go out of state for a divorce, telling Brian she would get her divorce when she was ready. She was very hurt. Iris accidentally learned from Brian that Mac wanted to divorce Rachel to marry Regine because Regine was carrying his child. She tried to convince Mac to handle the situation some other way. He refused to have Regine's possible suicide on his conscience. Regine told Helga she would marry Mac, but get away from Mac and Sven after the baby was born by telling Mac the truth then. As The World Turns Written by: Robert Soderberg & Edith Sommer Produced by: Joe Willmore Beau and Annie Spencer had returned from their honeymoon and were living temporarily in Beau's mother's house. Beau was surprised that Jane Spencer didn’t spend most of her time trying to run their lives. She did suggest that there was no hurry for them to find an apartment of their own. Beau and Annie were disappointed that they couldn’t find anything that they could afford; even a studio apartment was out of their reach. Dick Martin chastized Jane for trying to keep them dependent and was amazed when she suggested they look into buying a mobile home. Jane visited the law office and offered to give Beau the loan he needed to get into the apartment and left it up to him whether or not he would tell Annie. Then she suggested to Judge Lowell that Beau be given a raise. Beau told Annie he got the loan at the office, but unable to stand the secrecy, he told her the truth. They fixed up their new apartment with help from Dee and Ellen Stewart. Jane tried to appear pleased, but continued her campaign to get Beau a raise. Finally Judge Lowell explained that they had to go by the rules. Mary and Teddy Ellison were staying at Valerie Conway's farm while their apartment was being renovated after the fire. Grant Colman visited Teddy regularly and saw Valerie while he was there. Grant also saw Valerie at the office while trying to help her deal with the internal revenue service. - Nick Conway filed a fraudulent return during their marriage and was staying put in Europe. Since Valerie signed it she could be held responsible for the money plus a fine.- Grant arranged a loan so that Valerie didn’t have to sell the farm. Valerie had tried to warn Dr. Bob Hughes that his ex-wife, Lisa Colman, was in love with him, but he had refused to listen, causing a strain in their relationship. Valerie had come to have some feelings for Grant. Lisa had a jolt when Bob told her that he did not love her. She began to look at things differently and decided life was pretty good with Grant. Sandy Garrison and Kevin Thompson were married at the Conway farm. Sandy decided to ask Lisa and Grant and hoped that they would both come. Since Lisa had decided she wanted Grant back, she spoke to Mary Ellison, feeling that was natural for Grant to turn to the mother of his adopted son. Mary was confused and asked Grant if he felt anything other than friendship toward her. Grant respected her as a friend. Lisa told Tom her son, that she and Grant were reconciling and he passed the word. Lisa told Grant how she felt, but he had become attracted to Valerie and wasn’t willing to jump back into marriage with Lisa. Lisa had let it be known that she was trying everything to get Grant back. She planned a family Thanksgiving, but Grant said he couldn’t pretend to be a family when things weren’t settled. Jay Stalling was having problems with his construction firm. His new project was costing much more than projected and he thought his foreman, Pete Larson, was stealing from the construction sites. He and Carol went over the books and could find no evidence. Pete lived cheaply, but went to Chicago on weekends. Jay heard that Pete was taking a week off and Jay planned on following him to Chicago. Carol and his lawyer Tom Hughes tried talking him out of it, but he insisted on going himself. Melinda Grey had made friends with Jay's secretary, Laurie Keaton, and questioned her about Jay and his relationship with Carol. She volunteered to work in his office and found him much easier going than Laurie described. Natalie Hughes was under a lot of pressure. Her real estate office was doing so well that other firms had tried to keep business away from her. She owed everyone and couldn’t even pay Ralph Mitchell the commission he had earned. She asked Jay for more money, but he told her that he was strapped himself. Her ex-husband Tom tried to get her exclusive listings on estate settlements but wasn’t successful. Carol couldn’t resist buying a few things for the baby. - She and Jay were adopting Natalie and Jay's baby. - Carol didn’t mean to hurt her, but Natalie walked into the apartment and saw the basinet. Carol knew that Natalie was upset by this. Dr. John Dixon was still in critical condition from the burns and injuries he received rescuing people from an apartment house fire. Mary Ellison continued to visit John because she felt he saved her life. During a crisis, Dr. Alexander Keith asked Kim Dixon Stewart to see John and made Dr. Dan Stewart even madder. Keith had accused Dan of talking against him to the surgical staff when in fact Dan had asked people to stay with Keith. John almost died from an embolism and Kim saw him again because John told Dan he wished he had died. Kim was hurt by all that John had done in the past, but he was her son's father. Dr. Keith and his young patient, Mark Lewis, both noticed that Kim Stewart looked like Mark's late mother. Keith, who was Mark's friend as well as his doctor, tried to pretend that he hadn't noticed the resemblence. Mark Lewis had decided to help fight for his life because of a frank talk with research doctor Susan Stewart. Dr. Keith told Mark that Susan was an alcoholic, bringing Mark's wrath on himself. He asked Susan to straighten this out. Reluctantly she did. Mark confessed to Susan that he loved her. Alexander Keith said that if it was to his patient's best interest he wanted her to go along with this. It was Susan's avoidance of personal relationships that had kept her from drinking these past months. Dr. David Stewart relied on her help in the lab and hoped that her involvement with Mark wouldn’t hurt her. When Grant visited Valerie at the farm to discuss business, she asked him to Thanksgiving dinner after hearing he was spending the day alone. Grant didn’t feel it would be right to accept her invitation when he refused Lisa's. Valerie said this showed he iwa a very honorable man. Jay Stallings made the mistake of telling Natalie that he had a reserve, but wouldn’t touch it to pay the commission he owed her early. Because she was over a month late on her rent, the management gave her notice. The day Jay's bill came due, Natalie rushed to the office to find that Jay had left town without leaving her a check. Laurie refused to make out a check in Jay's absence. Carol walked in then and agreed to listen. Natalie explained that Jay owed her this money and the stress of worrying over her debts was hard on her and the baby. As a partner Carol wrote the check and callsed the bank to clear it immediately. Natalie returned to the office and told Ralph that she had his check, but he wouldn’t be able to deposit until Friday because she just couldn't ask Carol to call the bank. She went off to the bank where she asked for one thousand dollars in cash, the rest in travelers checks and the balance of her personal account. Joyce Colman was making plans of her own rather than be concerned with helping Nancy with the Thanksgiving dinner. She spent the morning discussing the redecorating of her new house. She planned to measure the rooms after she picked up the key from Natalie at the real estate office. Ralph had an appointment and left Joyce alone in the office to wait for Natalie. When the phone rang Joyce answered it because Natalie had let her secretary go. The airline was confirming Natalie's reservation to New York. She asked if the return flight had been confirmed and learned that there was none. Joyce found Natalie at home and reminded her that she was to receive the house key today. She gave her the message from the airline and questioned her about her trip. Natalie explained that she was taking a short vacation and would appreciate it if Joyce would not tell anyone. As she went out the door, she said she didn’t think Natalie would be returning. As Natalie was preparing to leave town, Tom stopped by to offer her a loan to get her ailing business on its feet. To get rid of him, she agreed to think about it, but said it was too late then. Natalie sent Carol on a wild goose chase to keep her from the apartment build-in. Donald Hughes had settled into the family law firm and no longer resented the fact that Grant Colman, his wife's ex-husband, was in charge of the criminal cases, Don's specialty. Recently Don had handled several large divorce cases which had brought him a lot of money. It was on the strength of these that Donald bought Joyce the expensive house she wanted. Joyce hoped that Donald continued to do well because she had many plans that required money and a position in the community. She outdid herself one day when she tried to wangle an invitation to meet Annie Stewart's new mother-in-law, Jane Spencer, of the Spencer Hotel. Ellen was about to ask her to lunch to meet Jane, but Joyce had invented a luncheon date. Chris Hughes, Donald’s father and senior member of the law firm, was concerned that Donald was taking on too many divorce cases and would give the firm a bad reputation. He mentioned to Donald that he would like him to think over the possibility of limiting this kind of case. When Don mentioned this to Joyce, she suggested that Grant was the one instigating this because he was still jealous. - Joyce had done her best to cause a rift between Donald and Grant, using any means at her finger tips. - Chris made it clear that he was the one who brought this up and he was only suggesting that Donald not take cases that, would get a lot of publicity. Beau had started a program of study so he could keep on top of the knowledge needed to take the bar exam in the spring. He planned to study Monday through Thursday of every week. Jane was irritated when he refused to give up a night of study to have dinner with her. Jane was sure it was Annie's doing. Days Of Our Lives Written by: Ann Marcus Produced by: Betty Corday & H. Wesley Kenney Linda Phillips had been using a proposal of marriage from Tommy Horton to try to make wealthy Bob Anderson jealous enough to propose to her. However, Bob's offer was a job as his executive assistant. Linda feared accepting the job would interfere with her chances of becoming Bob's wife. Bob's daughter, Mary, head of public relations for his firm, had accidentally learned of the offer to Linda and was furious, feeling Linda wanted to take over more than the firm. After talking the matter over with Maggie Horton, Linda invited Tommy to dinner and told him she was accepting Bob's offer to give herself and daughter Melissa more security. Tommy pointed out that he was more than able to take care of them. Linda tried to prod Tommy into quitting his job at the hospital and go into private practice. It didn’t work, and Linda, saying she still needed time before accepting his proposal, accepted Bob's job offer. Meanwhile, Mary took Bob to task for hiring Linda, saying she might have been a good legal secretary for Horton and Craig, but wondered if Linda could handle the duties of an executive assistant. Bob took it as a put-down of his business acuity. Mary brought up his mistake with the late Brooke Hamilton, reminding Bob that they couldn’t afford another mistake like Brooke, who almost plunged the company into ruin through embezzlement and selling company secrets. After Mary left, Bob wondered if Mary knew Brooke was his illegitimate daughter. Linda began her work by touring the company and finding out the fuction of each department, ascertaining Mary's hostility. Dr. Marlena Evans, having been recently rescued from Bayview Sanitarium, where she had been put by her twin sister, Samantha – Sam -, was keeping a tight rein on her feelings, fearful she would lose herself if she let go. Both Laura Horton and Paul Whitman, psychiatrists, told Marlena she had to deal with her emotions before she could lead a full life again. Don Craig, Marlena's lover, was threatened by Paul's presence, as Marlena was once in love with Paul – Paul left his invalid wife to help Marlena -. In sessions with Paul, Marlena revealed that she blamed herself for her sister's actions, that she didn't act soon enough to help Sam, even knowing how ill she was. Meanwhile, in California, where she was an actress, Sam was having trouble on the set — forgetting her lines, blaming others for her mistakes. The director and her agent warned that if she blew this picture, she was through. Sam was haunted by what she did to Marlena. Paul told Laura that he felt Marlena was still in trouble, comparing her experience in the hospital to that of a hijacking hostage —feelings of humiliation and powerlessness—and pointing out that Marlena had to deal with those feelings as soon as possible if she was to recover. Don had presented evidence to the district attorney in Salem that Sam was guilty of impersonating a physician, practicing medicine without a license, committing assault and battery, forging checks, etc. Sam was arrested and extradicted to Salem. Shown to her cell, Sam began to come apart, deprived of cigarettes and the uppers and downers she was addicted to. The public defender arrived. At first Sam wouldn’t talk to him, then fed him the story that she switched places with Marlena to protect her because Marlena was having a breakdown after breaking up with Don. Noting her nervousness, the PD suggested they plead not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity. Sam freaked at the word "insanity," driving the PD away. Paul and Don leveled with each other, and Paul gave Don a clear path to Marlena. The two men agreed that the best way to help Marlena was to have her testify against Sam. Marlena called her parents, who arrived in Salem. After hearing the whole story from Marlena, they decided they had to stand behind Sam. At her arraignment, they took charge of her. Mrs. Evans was shocked to learn how sick Sam was when she found her searching her purse for pills, then begged her to get pills for her. At the preliminary hearing, for which Marlena wouldn’t promise either Paul or Don she would appear, Sam kept insisting that she be allowed to testify in her own behalf. Finally, against the advice of the judge and her lawyer, Sam took the stand, just as Marlena arrived. Sam's testimony deteriorated into incoherent ramblings between the past and present, between fantasy and reality. The judge called a recess and pointed out the lack or need to go to trial. Marlena went to Sam. Kate Winograd, head of anesthesiology, pleaded with chief of staff Greg Peters to put Bill Horton on the day shift, because his personal life with Laura was suffering. Kate persuaded Greg, who told Bill that if he screwed up or irritated Walter Griffin, it would be Kate's neck, too. - Bill felt Griffin was knife-happy, and as a former surgeon, had passed judgment on Griffin several times. Bill was studying anesthesiology to stay near the OR until his injured right hand had recovered enough to resume surgery. - Bill took the good news, along with plans for a romantic evening, to Laura, who had to forego the evening to stay with Marlena. Kate ran into Bill, who thanked her for her consideration, then told her Laura had other commitments. She realized she was falling for Bill. Walther Griffin was having problems of his own with his teenage daughter Patti. Griffin was very strict with her. Both Griffins, however, had found a sympathetic ear in Sister Marie Horton, who counseled Griffin to cool it a bit, and was able to show Patti her father's side of things. Walter Griffin admitted to Marie that his wife died because a surgery wasn’t performed on due time which could explain his tendancy to promote surgery as a solution. Patti dropped by the Center for Family Living Marie ran to talk with Marie. Mike Horton dropped in and Patti left, finding an excuse to return later. Patti didn’t fool Marie, who ascertained Patti returned to get a better look at Mike. With Marie's support, Patti was able to defend her father to Ron Garvey, a boy she had been dating, of whom Griffin disapproved. However, Griffin allowed Patti to go to a dance with Ron, setting down rules, which the kids obeyed. But Griffin was at the hospital when they returned and was supposed to be there for hours. Ron talked Patti into going out again. Griffin returned and was furious when Patti and Ron weren’t there. Jean Barton was blooming after leaving her husband Fred. Fred had a pattern of venting his anger by beating Jean. Maggie persuaded husband Mickey Horton to give Jean a job in his law offices. Jean did very well, but was only too willing to dwell on her mistakes. Fred, meanwhile, surprised the Hortons by apologizing for his conduct with Jean and promising to get help. But in his own apartment, Fred promised Jean would pay for humiliating him. He found Jean at work and later called her, asking that they take a weekend to talk things out. Jean agreed. She was jumpy with Fred. He asked her to come back. Jean pointed out that even if she did, she would continue working. Fred's sense of masculinity was threatened by this. Finally, as Fred talked, Jean realized he had no intention of getting help. She left the apartment. In following her, Fred tripped over her suitcase and fell down the stairs. Jean blamed herself. Bill and Laura were with Mickey and Maggie and attended to Fred. At the hospital, Bill begged Griffin to look at Fred, fearing internal brain hemorrhage. Griffin was too wrapped up in not being able to contact Patti and with other patients to listen. Griffin went home. As Bill feared, Fred began to hemorrhage. The chief resident in neurosurgery was busy and the only other available man, Rick Stevens, was only a 2nd year resident. Kate and Bill decided they had tp operate immediately, hoping Bill could talk Stevens through it. Stevens ran out of the OR and Bill, with Kate assisting, performed the surgery, realizing only afterwards that his hand was well. Stevens, to cover, called Griffin and told him Bill took over and ordered him out. Griffin had Stevens call Greg. Griffin castigated Patti, who returned with Ron, then rushed to the hospital. Greg suspended Bill, and when Kate defended him, Greg also suspended her, for not stopping Bill. The surgery was successful. Amanda and Greg quarelled because she didn’t approve his decision. Fred claimed to have no feeling in his legs. When tests were inconclusive as to whether the paralysis was permanent, Fred prepared to sue the hospital. Rick Stevens, his career on the line and his wife pregnant, refused to tell the truth to the hospital board of inquiry. Doug and Julie Williams returned from a short vacation to find Julie had been granted a temporary liquor license. During Doug's last evening performing at the club, a tough time for them both, Larry Atwood offered Doug a job singing at his club, the Pines, since Doug wouldn’t be allowed on the premises of Doug's Place. Doug refused, then was upset to learn Atwood had also signed Jeri Clayton to an exclusive contract. Meanwhile, Larry was planning to force Julie out of business. Toni Johnson’s premature daughter Naobi was rushed to the hospital with Hyalene Membrane disease. Trish comforted Toni. The doctors pulled her through and Marie gave Toni a job at the Center. The job included a place to stay and day care for Naobi. Toni accepted. Trish and David opened up to each other about their former loves, Mike and Valerie, and thus moved closer together. Phyllis Anderson Curtis, bored with her game of trying to emasculate husband Neil, finally left on a world tour, unable to stand being around Neil, knowing he had an affair with her daughter Mary. Neil began drinking heavily. Chris Kositchek found Mary in a vulnerable moment and learned she was quite a woman. Mary was still determined not to let herself get hurt, as she was with Neil. Tom Horton felt he was ready to resume his practice and post as head of internal medicine at the hospital. Greg wanted him back, but reminded Tom the Board had a mandatory retirement age that Tom had to get around. For Thanksgiving, Mike introduced Margo, the girl he was dating to his parents. The Doctors Written by: Douglas Marland / Mel & Ethel Brez Produced by: Jeff Young / Chuck Weiss Shortly after Tom Carroll and MJ Match were married, MJ’s sister Betsy and husband were killed in an auto accident, leaving MJ the responsibility for their young son, Ricky. Tom pleaded with MJ to let another relative care for Ricky, at least until they had settled into married life. Because she'd made a deathbed promise to Betsy to care for Ricky, MJ refused. Tom was haunted by an experience in Vietnam. While stationed at an orphanage, Tom badly beat an orphan there, a boy he'd considered adopting. The memory of the incident haunted Tom, so much so that he had given up teaching for other work. Tom lost his most recent job in a bank because he lost his temper with the child of a prospective customer. While Tom was on the phone trying to get a job interview, Ricky kept tugging at his sleeve and interrupting. Unsuccessful, Tom hung up and yelled at Ricky. When Ricky didn’t respond as Tom expected, he pushed the boy, knocking him down. Tom was immediately contrite, making a deal with Ricky not to tell MJ, who was at work. However, while changing Ricky's shirt, MJ discovered a nasty bruise, and the truth came out. Tom was angry with Ricky, and the following day, while the we're alone, frightened Ricky with his questions about why Ricky tattled. Ricky ran into his room and locked the door. Tom broke the door down and beat Ricky. Again they concocted a story, but MJ was very leery, confiding to cousin Carolee Aldrich that she couldn’t trust Tom. Carolee pointed out that MJ had to trust and help Tom, that Ricky might unconsciously be trying to come between them, to have MJ to himself. Tom, meanwhile confided his story to Steve Aldrich, who urged Tom to talk to MJ. Tom couldn’t. That night MJ admitted her over-protective attitude towards Ricky. She suggested they start being honest with each other and promised to understand if he hit Ricky. Tom admitted to the previous day's beating, and promised never to do it again. Tom tried other tactics for punishment, but found Ricky's presence in their life a real hassle, finally demanding MJ choose between them. After losing his temper with Ricky and almost hurting him again, Tom moved out. Steve learned Tom had abused at least one other child and, fearful of having kids of his own, Tom convinced his first wife to have an abortion. Tom refused to go to Parents Anonymous. Upset at Luke Dancy's rejection of her and her daughter Wendy's attempts to drive her back to the sanitarium, Eleanor Conrad attempted suicide. She was rescued in time and, thanks to Dr. Mike Powers, was making great progress, understanding that her over-dosing on pills and alcohol was a result only of something inside herself, not the fault of Luke or Wendy. Mike refused to let Wendy see Eleanor, despite Wendy's threats of legal action against him and the hospital. Mike told Matt that there were two dangers to Eleanor's well-being at that time: Luke and Wendy. When the conflict couldn’t be resolved by Mike and Matt, Maggie Powers suggested they let Eleanor decide. Eleanor agreed to see Wendy, who immediately suggested Eleanor admit herself to a psychiatric hospital. Eleanor told Wendy she was the one who needed help. Wendy brought up Luke and pills and upset Eleanor so that Mike had to intervene. Realizing that Wendy's hostility was due to her money, Eleanor made Wendy a present of her inheritence, demanding they never see each other again. Eleanor resigned from the board of the child-care center, contributing a sum sufficient to get work started. Luke Dancy, with whom Eleanor was having an affair, found Eleanor unconscious from her overdose, and thinking her dead, fled Madison. He called home. His sister Sara asked if he knew about Eleanor, causing Luke to hang up before they could tell him Eleanor was fine. Putting their heads together, the Dancys figured out where Luke might be. Sara took time off from work and went to New York, where she found Luke. She brought him back. His first act was to reconcile with his parents, promising to do things on his own, not use other people, especially women, to make his way. He then went to Doreen Aldrich, with whom he was having an affair simultaneously with Eleanor, and asked her for $25,000 to pay back Eleanor. Doreen refused, so Luke sold her his interest in Andre's Restaurant, which Doreen had backed him in. Luke returned Eleanor's money. She refused at first, until she realized it was important to Luke. She admitted they had something beautiful, if destructive between them. They loved for the wrong reasons. They parted friends. When Luke went to get his things from Doreen's suite, she tried to keep him tied to her, promising a free rein at Andre's, but Luke refused. Eleanor then left town. Nola Dancy had accepted Jason Aldrich's proposal of marriage, even though Jason was still married to Doreen. Doreen had promised to sign divorce papers, but Nola was leery. She went to her parents' apartment to plan her wedding, wanting the biggest wedding Madison had ever seen. She blithely told her mother that Jason would pay for it, which hurt Virginia deeply. Meanwhile, Doreen signed the divorce papers for Jason. Jason promised to break the news to her father. Virginia promised Nola that she had a lot of money saved that she'd like to spend on her wedding. Nola agreed to let her parents handle it for her. However, Virginia had only $875. She planned to rent a hall and have a friend do Nola's gown, for the cost of the materials, and do all the cooking herself. When Nola found out, she was furious, telling Jason she'd rather elope, if her wedding couldn’t be right. Jason was unable to persuade Virginia to let him pay for an elaborate wedding. Virginia felt it wasn't good for Nola to get everything she wanted. Erich Aldrich’s behavior deteriorated as Steve and Carolee's wedding day approached. He even went so far as to pour paint on his clothes so he wouldn't have to attend the wedding. Steve and Carolee conjectured that the reason for Erich's aberrant behavior was his fear, substantiated by recent events, that women who married his father abandonned him. Steve and Carolee were married. At the small gathering at Mona's house afterwards, Erich stole one of Mona's earrings, for which Mona blamed Nola. After Erich's teacher caught him trying to steal from her purse, Steve and Carolee agreed Erich needed professional help. Kyle Wilson, the architect with whom Maggie Powers spent one night during an estrangement from Matt during the time he was accused of murdering Joan Dancy, was invited to dinner by Matt. While Matt's changing, Kyle and Maggie were left alone. Kyle reiterated his strong feelings for Maggie, asking to continue their relationship. Maggie refused. However, Greta, Maggie's daughter, overheard Kyle's pleas. Greta later confided to Billy Aldrich that she could no longer trust Maggie, that she was sure the affair was still going on. Matt and Maggie were both puzzled by Greta's sudden open hostility towards Maggie and her almost overwhelming attentions to Matt. Mona was distressed to learn that Steve and Carolee were house-hunting and that Jason and Nola were apartment-hunting. She wanted her family with her. She gave Jason her husband's mother's engagement ring to give to Nola, who was very pleased. The Edge Of Night Written by: Henry Slesar Produced by: Erwin Nicholson The Beau Richardson murder case had been solved, but only Laurie Dallas, and her father Mike Karr knew it. Mike's lawyer, Draper Scott, believed if they could prove the suspected criminal, Ray Harper, was in Monticello on Beau's fatal night, the case would be solved. He was baffled as to why a smart guy like Mike was not listening to common sense. Instead, Mike remained resolute, he had copped a plea, admitted to guilt, and no one would convince him to change what he did. If so, he'd be breaking his promise of silence to Laurie. Monticello's suspended police chief, Bill Marceau, brought new business to the Karrs’ home. The new suspect was an attractive girl. Mike evaded the subject and Bill left, frustrated he couldn’t penetrate Mike's protective barrier. Finally Bill and Draper confronted Mike with the cold facts. Adam Drake's - Mike's deceased law partner - movements were known. He tracked down Harper in San Francisco and had Laurie described to him as the person Harper saw shoot Beau. When he returned to his office, maybe it wasn't a report Adam was typing but a letter to Mike, ended by his own brutal murder. To keep Nancy from guessing, Mike warned her Bill had a "cockeyed" idea about Laurie, but his psychology backfired as Nancy put the pieces together. It was because of Laurie that Mike was being sentenced the following day, and Bill was telling the truth. The day of the sentence arrived and Laurie had to be left alone. The news report on the radio of a possible five year jail sentence for Mike scared her. - Since the beginning, when Beau forced Nancy to leave Mike, Laurie's sanity was shattered. She had diminished from a responsible wife and mother to a child once again, protected by her father's custody. - Mike and Nancy arrived home relieved but not elated with the judge's pronunciation of a suspended sentence. When they heard water running, they rushed to Laurie's room, finding her unconscious with a slit wrist. It was only a minor slash, which Laurie claimed was accidental. Mike and Nancy knew it was a poor attempt by Laurie by take her own life. Nancy tearfully realized that Mike sacrificed to protect his very sick daughter. Laurie came close to telling her sister-in-law Tracy what she did, but quit in time. Her thinking was becoming rational again, and she informed Mike and Nancy she needed to see a doctor who could cure her illness. With Bill’s suspension lifted, he had picked up the Adam Drake murder case. Deborah Saxon might have landed in hot soup with her amateur undercover work for her boyfriend, Officer Steve Guthrie. With all the information she had pulled out of Raney Cooper, under the guise of dating him, she had been detoured from another date to meet him elsewhere by his hood friend Otto, who, like Raney, was involved with Harper. Alone, in his apartment, Otto made moves to rape Deborah, as she was not a willing subject. She saw flashes of the rape that actually was forced on her by Beau. Raney came to the rescue and kicked Otto out. He escorted a shaken Deborah home and explained what happened to Tony. As a reward - Raney turned down a check for $500 from Tony -, Raney recommended himself for a job that would be suited as Tony's right-hand man. Just when Mike was suggesting to Draper he might have to find a new law firm, pessimistic about his future, Laurie intruded and confessed all to Draper. Draper and April Cavanaugh were in love. April refused to undergo the open heart surgery that could prolong and improve her life. Draper's love was the best thing that had happened to her, and she feared she would lose what happiness she had if the surgery were unsuccessful. She refused to take the risk despite her brother, Dr. Miles Cavanaugh's, consistent persuasion. A former love of Draper's, Raven Alexander, couldn’t stay away from April. She visited her unexpectedly and frequently, always managing to remind April that Draper once adored her also. April had been suffering from pain and gulped her pills to help conceal the real damage her heart was suffering. She had Draper believing medicine was the best way to her complete recovery. She couldn’t hide it any longer when she collapsed in front of her friend Nicole Drake and Draper. She claimed it was the vapors, but Miles laid the facts on the line, April's mitrostenosis was not going to improve, her "vapors" would reoccur and frequently. April wouldn’t let him tell Draper the truth, fearing he'd leave her if he knew how sick she was. If she lost Draper, she said she'd want to die. Raven didn’t take her engagement to Kevin Jamison as seriously as Kevin would like. She canceled her appointment for a blood test and was seldom at the Whitney mansion where they both resided. Instead of being home to make wedding plans, Raven was still continuing her affair with Logan Swift. Logan was in love with the ravenous Raven, but the life as a prospective politician's wife appealed to Raven's tastes more than what Logan could offer as a struggling lawyer. During a lunch of the Raven Alexander Fan Club, Draper proud to be a past member, Logan and Kevin managed to talk business, and not Raven's. Later, Draper informed Logan of Raven's affair with his father when he was engaged to Raven's mother. The afterthoughts of this had brought Raven down a notch in Logan's estimation. Raven couldn’t resist including him on the wedding invitation list. After Kevin bodily dragged Raven to get her blood test, he remained with Dr. Lacey to hear the results of the recent fertility test he took. It's conclusive, Kevin was sterile. Raven was getting cold feet about the wedding, so Geraldine proddes her along, assuring her that the attraction she had for Kevin would grow into love. Kevin's news to Geraldine astounded her, she loudly forbade Kevin to tell Raven about his sterility, looking further to her aspirations to make Kevin a successful politician having launched his career by supporting his appointment to the Monticello Crime Commission. At the Claremont Convalescent Home where Nicole was residing until her baby was born, Denise Cavanaugh was still guarding her husband's every move as Nicole's physician. She had read the riot act to nurse Carol Barclay, once in pursuit of Miles, and felt secure Carol was no longer a threat to her marriage. Denise had Raven pegged when Raven delivered April's luggage to the Claremont, claiming she knew a predatory female when she saw one. In spite of Miles' pressures to hire four new doctors for the Claremont staff, Denise persuaded him to go away for Thanksgiving. The clincher was her suggestion they invite April and Draper along, giving Miles extra time to change April's negative decision about surgery. What Denise neglected to tell Miles – intentionally - was that her father and a co-supporter of the Claremont would also be attending the festivities. - Miles prefered his medical obligations to the administrative duties at the hospital, but Denise and her father constantly pushed him into pussyfooting potential $$ contributors. – There was another budding romance in Monticello, that of wealthy Geraldine Whitney and the famous Tony Saxon. Tony asserted to Geraldine he was a new man and if there was an improvement in him it was because of her. He pondered that all men could change but not all were fortunate to have the right motivation, as he had found in Geraldine. General Hospital Written by: Richard & Suzanne Holland Produced by: Tom Donovan Mrs. Edna Hadley found Heather Grant packing and berated her as ungrateful and selfish, vowing she would never do anything to help another human being again. When lawyer Frank Wallace arrived to announce that he had had a telegram from the Taylors saying they were not interested in adopting a child, Heather said it was the best news she ever had. Alone with Mrs. Hadley, Wallace advised her to make things up with Heather because she was so changeable they would soon bring her around again to accept the idea of giving up her baby and there were other couples who would pay well to adopt a child. After Mrs. Hadley resumed her bogus supportive role and providesd Heather with a list of day-care centers - which Wallace had gotten together - Heather checked them out only to report that conditions in these places were appalling. When another wire arrived from the Taylors - Peter sent it on his own after seeing Diana's brave stand against risking another disappointment begin to crumble -, Heather, who had been advised by a clergyman that whatever she decided, Stephen Lars’ welfare had to come first, agreed to let Wallace arrange for the adoption. Lee Baldwin accompanied Peter and Diana to New York where Wallace presented forged certification of the death of the infant's parents along with a release from the child's aging and indigent grandmother - to be played in Florida by Mrs. Hadley -. Wallace secured a private agreement of abandonment from Heather for his and Mrs. Hadley's future protection and "Grandma" Hadley turned over the child to Peter and Diana in Florida, telling them that by coincidence the baby's name happened to be Peter. Dr. Lesley Faulkner Webber had learned from the Taylors that her daughter Laura was the prime mover behind their offer of their cabin to Rick and Les for a honeymoon spot and Lesley realized that Laura lied to her and probably spent the time that she and Rick were away at home with Scotty Baldwin. For his part, Scotty was upset over Laura's manipulation of Lesley, which she made no secret of when they were together, but he accepted her "committment" to him after she appeared to consider dating a football player, George Allison, who was a patient at General Hospital, and he closed his eyes to Laura's resentment of her mother. Laura realized she cared about Scotty but she didn’t love him. Lesley had been trying to cover up her own resentment of David Hamilton's presence in her house during his recuperation by over-elaborate arrangements to make him feel welcome. When Laura told her mother she signed her own report card after Lesley had it on her desk for a week without noticing - she hid it under a pile of papers - Les apologized for her neglect and assumed one more burden of guilt. She hoped to resolve things by hiring a housekeeper who would look after David, wincing when he refered to her as his personal, private nurse in the family. Rick felt he owed his whole medical career to David – David lent him the money for medical school – and he was then repaying his large debt. Lana had taken an apartment across from General Hospital and angered Dr. Jeff Webber when she pretended to be having an attack, only to recover when he rushed over and propose that they share some cocktails she had prepared. Some days later he got a phone call from Lisa - supposedly Lana's twin sister but really another personality of the same girl -, who told him she was well but couldn’t tell him where she was. She told him that she loved him. After hanging up, Lisa lost consciousness. Jeff remarked to Lana that she didn’t seem concerned over her sister's telephone call in view of the fact that Lisa had said disjointedly, "I'm afraid of her — afraid of what she might do." Lana replied that Lisa always was melodramatic and cited her Jane Eyre story to Dorrie as being symptomatic. Lana insisted that Lisa had always been a strange person and finding out how sick she was had pushed her over the edge. - Lana had made one slip which Jeff hadn't picked upon. Trying to keep Jeff from seeing the scar of her shoulder injury, she asked for an injection in her right arm, claiming to be left-handed. Jeff only assumed that they were not identical twins. – Since Gina’s breakup with Adam, she had gotten reinvolved with Gary Lansing. He had asked Gina to marry him but, in a reversal of their usual roles, Gina was insisting that they keep their relationship as was for the time. She told Gary about lunching with her brother Mark and Katie Corbin, the wife of Mark's rich, dangerously ill patient, saying she was a great gal and Gary ought to try to meet her sometime. Gary’s eyes lit up as he answered he was sure she was—if Gina said so. Adam returned and confessed he still loved Gina. Alan Quartermaine had decided to turn down the proposal for the hospital's new Cardiac wing but proposed that Monica continue working with him on funding for a project to set up a helicopter transport service. When Monica was delighted with a test ride, Alan offered to pay for helicopter flying lessons. Monica did not give him a final yes on the project, but did talk him into buying an extra pair of tickets for Scotty and Laura to attend a big football game with Alan and herself. Laura had been turning to Monica as a substitue mother. She could talk to Monica in a way she knew she could never talk to Lesley. Monica was around the same age as Lesley but Monica saw Laura as an adult whereas her own mother still refused to accept the fact that she had grown up. She was still continuing to treat her as a child. Laura’s budding friendship with Monica had not gone unobserved by her mother and that was causing Lesley much anger. She confronted Monica. Monica didn’t want any tension between her and Lesley but she couldn’t convince Laura to see Lesley as a very fair and just person. Heather had been feeling ill and shivering, apparently not over her bout with the flu. Mrs. Hadley told her about her trip to Florida, though Heather claimed not to want to know. She emphasized the expenses which Mr. Wallace would have to recover for the forged documents, transportation, hotel accommodations. She said that Heather would receive a full accounting but she would probably be in for a shock — there was no telling how much was left. Heather said that didn’t matter, it was done and resignedly let Mrs. Hadley dose her with her home remedy. Heather’s agent sent her on two auditions and she lost both of them. Steve offered Jeff more money to locate Heather. The private investigator finally located her. Jeff made plans to go to New York. Before was to leave, he had to admit Lana to the hospital after finding her collapsed in a heap on her living room floor. Rick took over the case and diagnosed a pneumonia. He told Dorrie it was a very dangerous time for Lana. The Corbin case was tough to handle for Mark. Both Katie and Lamont wanted Mark to operate but he couldn’t do that in good conscience. He had consulted with specialist upon specialist and each one had confirmed his original diagnosis – Lamon’s chances of surviving the operation were very, very slim. He told Katie and Lamont this, but they both wanted the operation anyway. Mark was surprised when Katie rewarded him with a kiss after he condulted one more specialist. Lamont had suffered a dramatic drop in his blood pressure, a symptom of his disease. Katie told Mark, when he objected to Corbin's conducting further business over the phone, that Corbin had sent for copies of his will and she was afraid that it was a sign of resignation to death on her husband's part. Mark agreed to grant Corbin more freedom, acknowledging her belief that once Corbin gave up hope, there was nothing left for him. Guiding Light Written by: Bridget & Jerome Dobson Produced by: Allen Potter The show expanded to an hour on Monday, November 7th, airing from 2:30 to 3:30 - Rita Stapleton was acquitted for the murder of Malcolm Granger. Malcolm's father disinherited his son for mistreating Rita, his nurse. Malcolm tracked Rita to Springfield for revenge where he died of a stroke. Dr. Ed Bauer withdrew his marriage proposal to Rita after trial evidence revealed she had an affair with Roger Thorpe, the man who caused Ed to divorce Holly months be-fore, as Roger—not Ed —was the natural father of Christina Bauer. – Rita’s lawyer, Mike Bauer, had contacted the Granger lawyer in Texas, Raymond Schaefer, notifying him that Malcolm's widow Georgene was in Springfield. Schaefer disagreed with Mike that Georgene's choice of cities was not coincidental. Georgene continued to haunt Rita maliciously. To ensure close proximity to Rita's life, Georgene had taken a job at Cedars Hospital. Georgene's philosophy was that her – obsessive - revenge was nature's way to balance things out, and she had her own territory – Rita - to take care of. Georgene deluded Mike when he asked that she hold no grudges against Rita because she, not Georgene, inherited the majority of Granger's estate. Georgene uses an oppor-tunity of Rita using the hospital stairs to injure her. Lost among the crowd, Georgene pushed Rita and she fell down the flight of stairs. Rita's injuries were minor, yet Ed had ordered extensive tests when he rushed to her side, hearing that she "lost her footing" accidentally. Georgene disappeared unnoticed in the confusion during the fall. Eve Stapleton’s physician, Ed, had conferred with a specialist, Dr. Lathrop. Dr. Lathrop reported his diagnosis to Ed, Eve had the Blake Carne Syndrome. A difficult task for Ed was reporting the findings first to Rita. She broke down in tears and Ed offered her the comfort of his embrace for consolation. Together they gave Eve the results. The syndrome was a fungus infection related to the kind that could cause meningitis. It was located in the occipital lobe of the brain, the section that had to do with vision. It was a progressive disease, but there was a possibility it could be treated by medication. Eve knew her blurred visions were serious, but not until this moment had she spoken the word BLIND. Ed sadly confirmed it. The chances were 80% Eve would lose her sight. As the shock set in, Eve ran out of Ed's office into the streets. Her running was aimless until she saw it was a blind woman who was knocked down. Eve helped her up, and gave her direction again. The woman went on her way, grateful for Eve's kindness. Evie cried with the reality of her own situation. She hadn't told her fiance, Ben McFarren, and both he and Viola, her mother, sensed there was an unusual problem that Evie was holding back from them. Eve was determined she wouldn’t go blind and wouldn’t tell Ben, fearing he would pity her. She asked Ben to postpone the wedding. Ben accepted Eve’s request, reassured her feelings for him had not changed. He asked Ed and Rita for answers. Rita's reply, reflecting her own experience with Ed, "it's hard to keep something from someone you love" settled Ben. He returned to Eve promising her his understanding and undying love. Eve confided to Rita, if she went blind, she would not marry Ben. Ed had informed Eve what to expect if blindness was inevitable. If she saw greyish and couldn’t adjust to light, the medication was failing. Ben told Eve he could only be the best as a man, an artist, because of her. They toasted "to the wedding that's going to happen." William Moray had reluctantly returned to Springfield to visit his stepdaughter Hillary Kincaid. She had just had an apendectomy and as she was new to Springfield, William felt she needed him there. His greatest fear was being recognized at the hospital where his son Ed was chief-of-staff and Bert Bauer, his former wife, volunteered. - The Bauers believed Bill died over 10 years ago in a plane crash. - He avoided any conversation with Hillary's doctor, Dr. Sara McIntyre, longtime friend of the Bauers. Hillary informed him that Mike Bauer was going to be presented with a "Man of the Year" award. Alone in his hotel room, Bill took out a treasured picture of his young family. He still shared Bert's pride in their sons. So much so, he postponed his trip home, risking being recognized to see Mike get his award. He told himself he had no right to be proud of his son anymore, as he gave up that right years ago. At the banquet, Rita saw Bill standing in the corridor, shedding a tear when Mike credited his interest in the community to his own father. Bill dropped his picture before leaving. Rita picked it up, and later returned it to Bill's hotel. Bill had panicked once he realized it was lost. He called Rita and they agreed to talk. Rita was stunned when he confirmed that his real name was Bill Bauer. He was even more shocked that he didn't have to tell Rita, as she wasn't clear about the connection. He explained that he was not aboard the plane that crashed as everyone thought. She urged him to tell his family; he wouldn’t upset their lives and hurt them so deeply. He begged her, if she had any feelings left for Ed, to keep the secret. She retorted she cared and loved Ed too much to ever lie to him again as she did during the trial. Bill sadly left after pleading unsuccessfully for Rita's silence. The banquet presented by the Chamber of Commerce in Mike's honor had spun Bert into a whirlwind of excitement. It was her responsibility to get Mike to the banquet, and keep it a surprise. Mike didn’t make it easy for her, cancelling for a business meeting. His secretary Ann Jeffers saved the day for Bert, leaving Mike free. Mike again tried to renege, claiming he should work instead. Dr. Steve Jackson intercepted and ingeniously lured Mike to go. Bert pondered, ironically, how Bill would've been the proudest of all. Afterward, there was a champagne party held by Jackie Marler in Mike's honor. Jackie and Ann shot dagger stares at each other when the other was in Mike's company. Mike, however, was intrigued by Jackie's houseguest, Elizabeth Spalding. Ann had decided to halt Jackie's pursuit of Mike by playing a tape to her that contained Jackie and Justin's conversation about the bet they made Jackie couldn't hook Mike. She lost her nerve when Jackie talked of wanting a son, reminding Ann of her own son. Holly Bauer felt she had to reassure Ed that she had no feelings for Roger. Ed sensed she felt pity for him. - Ed chose to raise Christina as his own. Since the trial, Roger's wife had divorced him. This coupled with the knowledge Christina was the only child Roger would have, had pressured Roger to combat his loneliness by fighting with Ed for Christina's love. - Since their own divorce, Christina had been a mutual bond to Ed and Holly. Ed demanded Holly make a choice. Adam Thorpe received a letter from Roger and reported his son's more positive attitude about reentering Christina's life to Holly. Adam asserted that Roger's behavior had made it impossible for Holly to keep his secret. Ed was adamant, if Holly and Roger persisted in this myth, why should he raise Christina? Holly then blurted out the whole story. Suddenly Ed's attitude changed. Ed stated to Holly, he had no right to decide that Roger couldn’t see Christina. Holly felt Ed was slipping through her fingers. Ed asked her if she really wanted Christina's natural father to be out of her life? Holly kept grasping for Ed's involvement, it was their decision to make. Ed disagreed, she was her mother and the fact that she was the only child Roger would have made the difference in who Christina should have as her father. Holly was discouraged as her lawyer advised her only a court restraining order could keep Roger from seeing Christina. She prefered keeping this matter out of the courts. Peggy Thorpe had returned to Springfield temporarily. She had adjusted to her life in Boise but coming home had revived old memories. Peggy and Ed talked. Ed expressed his confused feelings for Rita. Peggy stated Rita kept secrets to protect Ed and her love for him. Holly and Peggy had a strained visit, Holly retracted her plea for Peggy to talk to Roger, asserting she would fight her own battles, but she knew Ed had changed. Peggy told Ed no one had heard from Roger and Adam was worried. - Discovering her husband Justin was unfaithful, Jackie Marler led him to believe she aborted her pregnancy and divorced him to punish him. Only Jackie knew she gave up her son for adoption. - Jetsetter, Alan Spalding had come to Springfield for medical consultation. He and his wife Elizabeth were having marital problems, which caused Jackie to smile. She was elated to get a call from Elizabeth and had insisted she and her eight year old son Phillip stay with her, using this time to monopolize Phillip, the son she gave up to the Spaldings. She couldn’t resist the opportunity to introduce Phillip to Justin at Mike's party. It was a tender momemt when Jackie saw Justin warm up to his own son. Elizabeth was uneasy with Alan’s presence after their separation. Sara admitted to Justin that he was special to her. She was letting herself become involved with Justin because there was a difference in him, from the man he was when they were engaged in medical school. - Justin jilted Sara to marry Jackie, for the sake of his career. - Justin credited that to the effect Sara had made on him. Justin knew he could never replace Sara's late husband, Joe, in her life or TJ's. He wanted his own special place. Justin declared his love for Sara, he had always been in love with her, totally, completely and without reservation. The following day, Sara was glowing at the hospital which led Bert to comment how natural "Sara and Justin" was beginning to sound. Justin proposed to Sara. Georgene told Ed she was cast aside by the Grangers after Rita worked her magic. Love Of Life Written by: Gabrielle Upton Produced by: Darryl Hickman Arlene Lovett was concerned that her conversation with Ian Russell would be bad for Dr. Tom Crawford's career. She visited Tom to tell him that she couldn’t marry him. When she returned to her mother, she found Lt. Hollenbeck waiting to question her. He tricked her into admitting that she was with Russell in the penthouse the night of his death by implying that he was going to arrest Dr. Crawford. At headquarters, Arlene refused to say any more and said she couldn’t afford a lawyer. Carrie told Tom of Arlene's predicament and his roommate's date was a paralegal aide for a lawyer Dory Patton. Mrs. Patton agreed to see Arlene. She told Arlene that she had another reason for seeing her, legal reasons. Ian Russell had left his share - 51% - of Beaver Ridge to her. The estate hadn't been settled yet, but when it was, she would be able to pay her own legal fees. Tom was hurt when Arlene refused to see him. When she finally let him visit, he assured her that he loved her and would be with her through this. Ray Slater told Dory that he had advised Arlene not to mention this because it could be used against her, but then felt that her lawyer should know. He explained that Russell was connected with the mob and had Frankie Sills killed. Arlene's mother saw Frankie at Russell's and her life was in danger. He knew because Russell ordered him to arrange an accident for Carrie Johnson. Arlene’s past came into play when her lawyer asked for reasonable bail. She had been on parole for fraud and bail was denied. - Arlene conspired with Ben Harper to get money from his mother by his bigamously marrying Betsy Crawford. – Ray told Arlene that he was wrong to advise her not to tell the truth and she had to talk to her lawyer to save herself. The newspaper implied that Tom Crawford was the third side of a love triangle. Arlene used the only thing she knew to send Tom away —she told him she killed Ian. Tom refused to consider that Arlene could be guilty, even after she lied to save him. He continued to tell her how things would be once she was acquitted and they could be married. Arlene explained to Ray that she couldn’t stand not knowing what the future held because Tom didn’t have to on hoping they would be together if she was eventually going to jail. Ray mentioned that she could demand an immediate trial. Arlene requested this of her lawyer. Dory told Arlene that she had asked her to be honest with her and since Arlene wouldn’t confide in her and wanted an immediate trial without a hearing, she felt it was in Arlene's best interest if she give up the case. Arlene knew this would delay things even more and agreed to help Dory. Dory suggested that Arlene not testify in her own behalf because her story wasn’t believable. Dr. Joe Cusack had convinced Mayor Bruce Sterling that it was important for him to have a checkup before his trip to New York. Bruce's plans changed and he was unable to keep that promise. Problems during his trip caused Bruce to seek medical advice. Tests were taken and Bruce insisted the results be sent to his office rather than his doctor. The New York doctor called Bruce saying that it was important that his doctor be notified. Bruce agreed to return to New York instead. This whole situation put Bruce on edge. A talk with his ward, Lynn Henderson, showed him how important he was to others. He knew he should tell his wife, Van, because they had never kept secrets, but he couldn’t bring himself to confess his fears. Bruce went to New York where he was told he had aplastic anemia. It had developed over a period of time. If it was toxic; caused by a substance, the removal of it from the system would show remarkable improvement, but his was idiomatic; cause unknown. They would treat it with blood transfusions, but the prognosis was not good. Rick and Cal Latimer were waiting to hear who their new partner in Beaver Ridge was. Cal had told their boarder, Michael Blake, that they would put the house up for sale so they could buy out the new partner. When they learned that Russell left it to Arlene, they agreed to sit tight until Arlene's current problems were over. Meg Hart, Cal's mother, thought this was the time to take advantage of the situation. Rick said if Arlene wanted to sell, he would make her a fair offer. Arlene appointsed him administrator for the time being. Meg implanted in Rick's mind that he should be jealous of Michael in order to cause trouble between him and Cal. Mia Marriott showed Ben Harper a news item that said New York publisher Jay Edminston was coming to speak at the college. She planned to show the first few chapters of Ben's book to him. Ben mentioned that Arlene Lovett asked him what it was like in prison and Mia suggested that Ben might put his feeling about prison in the book. He became indignant, saying the character E. Newman had not been in prison and this book was not about himself. Mia met Edminston at the airport and implied that their friend Graham Bennett told her he was in town so that she could have him read the first part of this book with publishing it in mind. Jay went back to New York with it in his briefcase. - Mia had not seen Bennett since she arrived in Rosehill several years ago and married Andrew. Bennett was the man Mia tried to commit suicide over. - In a moment of frivolity Ben agreed to take Mia to dinner to celebrate. Mia talked to Jay Edminston in New York and asked if he had read Ben Harper's book. Jay asked if this was the book Graham Bennett is pushing. Mia had to confess that Bennett knew nothing of this book and asked what he said about her. Jay said that he had not checked with Bennett, but had an idea that he had nothing to do with this. Depressed about her relationship with Ben, Mia asked Andrew to Thanksgiving dinner. - Felicia Fleming Lamont married Charles Lamont, but because of problems in her early life she was unable to be a wife. Charles became an invalid and at the same time jealous. His treatment of her forced her into the arms of Edouard Aleata. Another accident brought Felicia back home to later find out she was carrying Eddie's child. She told Charles and he threw her out, only to regret it later. Charles agreed to a divorce when Felicia went into labor. Felicia died in childbirth and so began the custody fight over her son. – Aleata had retained Dory Patton and a hearing date had been set. Charles had refused to take a blood test. It wouldn't prove who was the father, but it might prove who wasn’t. Just before the hearing, Charles became worried because his housekeeper, Mrs. Fine and his live-in nurse, Mrs. Grimes, had another set-to which resulted in Mrs. Grimes giving notice. Charles asked Joe Cusack for help in locating another nurse. Both men testified at the hearing and were disappointed when it was continued and no decision was given. Charles' lawyer said this was in their favor because the longer the baby remained with him, the more reluctant they would be to take him away. Mrs. Grimes told Charles that Mary Owens, the nurse Doctor Joe Cusack recommended, was so young she wouldn’t be responsible. A conflict caused Charles not to take Mrs. Grimes up on her offer to stay, but later wondered if she wasn't right about Mary. One Life To Live Written by: Gordon Russell Produced by: Joseph Stuart Jenny Siegel had accepted Brad Vernon's proposal. To forget about the situation, Will had a one-night-stand with his secretary, Robin, but it couldn’t wipe out his love for Jenny. With a little more than a week before the wedding, Lana had told Brad that she was carrying his baby. At first he tried to deny paternity and then offered to drive Lana to a clinic for an abortion. After telling Brad to get lost, Lana started drinking at the same Country-Western bar where Becky Lee Hunt sang. Clint Buckley, a client and Becky Lee’s admirer, tried to pick her up. He followed Lana to a place down the road and then took her to his apartment where she managed to escape an attempted rape. Lana stumbled in at Cathy’s door and told her but refused to report it, ashamed that she wasn’t even sure who the man was. Jenny had asked her sister Karen to be her matron of honor. Karen told Larry she would try to obtain a copy of a dress she had seen in a magazine for under the $150 he could afford but headed for the most exclusive shop in town to try on the original even after she learned the price was above $500. - A few days before Karen accepted a lovely statuette she knew had been stolen, passing off the "gift" from Gus, the plumber, as a wedding present. - When she noticed a distinguished looking older man, Talbot Huddleston, eying her, Karen began to preen and listened as he expounded on his theory that one should be good to oneself. Karen accepted the dress and the inevitable "accommodation" with Huddleston which followed that afternoon. Brad went to Tony’s Place to make a last ditch appeal to Lana to go to Los Angeles and have an abortion. Lana said no, and screamed at Brad to get away from her. Marco came to Lana’s aid and told Brad to leave the lady alone. She was with him that night. Not wanting to draw any more attention to himself, Brad did as Marco asked. But when alone, he silently vowed he would see Lana at her apartment. He still had the key she gave him. Lana was quite shocked to see Brad enter her living room, but she didn’t run away in fright. She continued to stand up to him. She might be quite drunk but she was no longer weak. He tried to bribe her with his mother’s ring but she took it and threw it on the floor. She ten baited him? She told Brad she had a very special wedding present for Jenny. Brad told Lana to give it to him and ransacked her apartment. He found a letter. He read it then tore it up. In the letter, Lana told all. If Jenny would have received this gift, she never would have married Brad. But Brad was sure that by the following day, he and Jenny would be man and wife. Lana would never have the guts to tell Jenny in person – and she was certainly too drunk to write a letter that night. Brad’s thoughts were interrupted by Lana’s mumbling. She said three incoherent words then dropped off. Brad assumed she passed out. He touched her cheek in good-bye and shivered. Lana’s cheek was ice-cold. He then felt for a pulse. There wasn’t one! Lana was dead! Brad panicked. No one should know he was with Lana that night. Marco pounded on the door – he said Lana he would visit her later that night – but Brad kept mum. He quickly wiped off his fingerprints from all the objects he touched and left the apartment. In his haste he forgot one important item – his mother’s ring. It was still on the floor where Lana threw it. The following morning at Larry's house, Brad realized he has left the ring on Lana's finger, mumbled about having forgotten something and left as Cathy came to the Wolek house to ask Larry to check on Lana with her as she had been unable to reach her all night. Brad told his sister Samantha about finding Lana dead, omitting the facts about Lana's pregnancy, and they set out to retrieve Brad's ring after Sam planted a letter at home inviting Will to Brad's wedding to account for Brad's time. As Brad and Sam approached Lana's street, they saw the police cars and realized Larry and Cathy probably had found Lana. Sam convinced Brad that no one but she and her father knew that the ring was Brad's and the police would probably take it for Lana's personal property. Larry and Cathy broke break the news to Karen who fell apart. Larry told Karen that he had to tell Jenny that a half empty bottle of sleeping pills was found and there would be an inquest in which Brad was bound to be questioned. Cathy stayed on to comfort Karen and Karen learned from her that Lana was pregnant and Brad had tried to talk her into an abortion. Jenny postponed the wedding because she was unable to celebrate in the midst of such sorrow but Brad never told her about Lana's condition, though by this time Anna and Jim knew. After Cathy left, Karen called Marco - who had been needling her the night before at Tony's Place over Huddleston's obvious interest in her - and spitefully told him Lana was dead and he was in trouble — the police knew Lana was expecting him back. Marco rushed over to Karen's and told her that if they checked into his background, they would learn about her part in a credit card fraud with him and so would Larry. He insisted she give him an alibi, saying he went for a drive with her after leaving Tony's Place. Will was puzzled by Sam's nervous behavior before the news of Lana's death, especially when she said she knew nothing about Brad's planning to give Jenny his mother's garnet ring. At Pat Kendall’s place, Tony and Paul quarreled and Tony threatened to tell Brian that he was his father. Paul told him to go ahead — that when Brian learned it had been kept from him all these years it would finally drive him away from both Tony and Pat, and Paul would then leave Llanview with Brian. Pat left after a celebration with Brian and Paul on Paul's birthday for a late meeting with Tony Lord, Brian, unknown to Paul, followed to see his mother and Tony kissing in Tony's apartment over Tony's Place. It was clear to the young boy that his mother would soon leave Paul for Tony. Brian would not tel Pat the reason for his sudden hatred and Pat was finding it very hard to cope. The following day, Brian’s distress had caused him to suffer migrain headaches but he refused to let Pat touch him, screaming that he hated her. Finally, Dr. Peter Janssen was called in and admitted Brian to Llanview Children's Pavillion for observation. Tony tried to talk to Brian but the boy had another migraine at the first sign of a confrontation and Peter insisted that Tony promise not to go into the boy’s room again. Becky Lee Hunt fell prey to the smooth talking ways of Clint Buckley, and wound up in a quite a fix. Believing him to be the talent agent he represented himself as, Becky was easily lured to his apartment. He said he wanted to take some publicity photos – but what he really wanted was her. He got a maniacla glint in his eye when he he told Becky he wanted the photos done in the nude. When she only partially obliged by just removing her outergarments, Clint got rough. He said it was time to show her who was the boss. Becky ran screaming from him and locked herself in his bathroom. She heard a loud pounding on Clint’s front door. It was Richard. He had come to her rescue. He screamed at Clint to let him in. He had Ed Hall do a check on his background and what the lieutenant found wasn’t very pretty – Clint wasn’t a talent agent, he was a rapist. Clint opened the door and Richard dashed in and grabbed Becky from the bathroom. He brought the trembling young woman home. Becky looked at Richard with new eyes. She realized she cared about him very much. Richard sensed the change in Becky and gently placed a soft, tender kiss upon her lips. Meanwhile, Buckley claimed Becky freaked out. Ed told him he knew about his record of attempted rape and warned him he would be watching his every move when Becky sadly admitted she wasn't strong enough to press charges. Edwina Lewis still loved Richard and was determined to win him back. She didn’t consider Becky much competition. Richard would soon tire of her. He needed an intelligent aggressive woman, not a country bumpkin. She confided in her new friend, Dorian Lord, how confident she was. Lt. Ed. Hall had received the autopsy report and there was no question in his mind that Lana’s death, caused by the fatal combination of liquor and pills, was not suicide but murder ! She was not alone when she died. There were no fingerprints in the apartment and that meant whoever murdered her wiped the place clean. Lana’s fingerprints should have been on some objects. A convalescent Joe Riley insisted to his wife Viki he was ready to go back to work. Ryan’s Hope Written by: Claire Labine & Paul Avila Mayer Produced by: Claire Labine, Paul Avila Mayer & Robert Costello Maeve Ryan, Tom Desmond and Faith Coleridge had put talk behind them and with Frank's help they put their scheme for a marathon confrontation between Mary and Jack Fenelli into action. Maeve packed a week's provisions and secreted them in Ryan's soundproof storeroom — a former speakeasy. Similar but separate ruses were worked on Jack and Mary and the bolt was thrown. When Jack, enraged, pounded on some water pipes, Johnny Ryan had to be told and bowed to Maeve's entreaties not to interfere short of unlikely bloodshed when he snoopped at the outer door to hear Mary getting some of her own back verbally. After the first name calling session subsided into resignation, Mary felt she had to tell Jack that she and Tom were never lovers and Jack told her in turn that after his one-night-stand with Martha McKee, she advised him to go back to Mary, where he obviously belonged. The real turning point came when Mary learned that Jack was genuinely concerned for their daughter Ryan and had come to love and want both her and Mary. The following morning, they agreed that the place to resume their life together as a family was Jack's apartment on Weehauken Street and Jack promised to accept Mary's love for her family as part of her life, hoping to enter into it and share it with her. As need to leave was motivated by joy, a small fire was easily started and when Johnny rushed in at the head of a startled troupe of Ryans, Mary proclaimed it the same method as announcing the election of the Pope! After Jack and Mary spent some time upstairs making up time with their daughter, Johnny had his say to Jack. Mary told him that everything she had ever wanted had happened and she was not going to let anything or anyone that spelled trouble get in her way. Pleading for Ryan and herself, she said a girl needed her family, especially her father. Johnny offered his hand to Jack. In desperation, Delia told Dr. Pagano that she had been faking - with help — though she did not mention Roger - and convinced him to the extent that he recommended her release in the face of the impending strike at Riverside and the cutback in patient care it would necessitate. Alicia was disturbed enough to try to explain her change of attitude toward Delia to her young brother Angel, and Roger walked in, asking if she was referring to their mutual friend "Mrs. Brown." Roger was intrigued by the secret Alicia and Delia shared. Roger began his own intrigue when he offered his apartment and his couch as a refuge to Rae Woodard after she was dismissed from taking part in the political talk she loved between her husband and Frank Ryan out of jealousy on the part of Bill. Roger's curiosity made him overstep when he asked if Rae had had any similar encounters during her marriage and Rae put him in his place nicely but stayed on. To celebrate her first night of freedom, Delia staged a jealous scene with Faith early and got Pat to take her to a late movie. She saw to it that Pat got little rest and tried to get him to delay leaving the following morning for picket duty. Though Pat showed up at the strike headquarters, he was in no shape to carry on and meet with reporters and left at Clem and Faith's insistance to wash up and have coffee. Roger walked into a hospital storeroom to see Pat who had helped himself to some medication left behind by a patient — a victim of Narcolepsy. Roger did not witness the drug-taking but his entrance prevented Pat from putting the bottle back in place. When Jack learned that Miriam George was in on Maeve's original plot to bring out in the open Jack's concern for Ryan's welfare, he told both Miriam and Maeve he was not angry that they set him up, only relieved. Jack and Mary saw Father McShane to arrange to be remarried. They became husband and wife again. After Pat had taken stimulants, he reported to strike headquarters. Delia showed up with coffee and doughnuts for the strikers and was panicked when she saw Pat looking so unexpectedly vigorous and chatting with Faith. When Frank announced that he had managed a negotiating session with the Board for that evening, Delia invented a dinner party and quickly invited her in-laws, including Jack and Mary, to make it look good. When Pat came home to change clothes for the meeting, she worked on him so that he canceled both his promise to attend the session with Frank and the dinner party. Delia had seen Alicia and Alica had told Dee that her way of manipulating people was abhorrent. Dee insisted that Pat liked to worry about her and needed to take care of her. Alicia was torn between her promise not to expose Dee and all the hurt Dee was causing as a result of a lie Alicia had agreed to uphold. At Ryan’s, Jack asked to stay around after the party plans were cancelled and ordered Irish Whiskey in an effort to woo Johnny Ryan. The nicer Jack tried to be, the more Johnny needled him, especially when Tom Desmond dropped by. Maeve had to call Jack into the kitchen to give him a few moments away from Johnny Ryan's barely veiled belligerance and Jack told her he expected her to supply Ryan with tales of Irish lore, saying he would like someday to visit the town in Sicily where his parents came from. Jack remarked that Mary wanted very much to visit Ireland, and when Maeve told him there were very many relatives there who were anxious to get a look at her, Jack decided to make it a honeymoon trip. Johnny saw how ecstatic Mary was and while Kevin was giving Mary a long list of "must see's" in Dublin, Tom drew Maeve to the kitchen doorway to watch as John Ryan took apart the notorious punching bag. Mary and Jack left for Ireland, having a warm, sensuous, loving wonderful honeymoon. On their first night there, a meal was definitely in order and what a meal it was. The telling glances and provocative overtures during the meal made no room for supposition as to what happened after the meal. Their time together was a beautiful reawakening for Mary and Jack. They visited old farmhouses and taverns, old castles and beautiful gardens. Bill Woodard had asked Frank Ryan to make a speech in Albany in his stead, the first step in his plans to back Frank politically. Rae was to accompany him for a previously scheduled trip of her own. Unknown to Frank, Rae had instructed her secretary, Royal, to prepare a press advance suggesting that Frank was primarily responsible for putting together a popular piece of legislation - the Adano-Lyons Bill -, a piece of fiction geared to insure Ryan a good party reception in Albany. She was sure that the originators would go along after the fact, recognizing Woodard's political clout, but told her agent he could claim a mix-up if there was a fuss made and that her husband's papers would print a small retraction, if necessary. Jill was jealous of Rae’s interest in Frank. She didn’t know Rae had admitted to Roger that her marriage had been sexually unfulfilled. She then satisfied her urges with Roger. Meanwhile, Bill apologized to Rae for a jealous tantrum and suggested they groom Frank for a senatorship. Search For Tomorrow Written by: Robert J. Shaw Produced by: Mary-Ellis Bunim Cindy French told Tom Bergman that they shouldn't see each other when he wanted an intimate relationship. She thought this would bring him closer to the idea of marriage, but began to regret this move when she didn’t hear from him. Suddenly Tom appeared again and this time he had his fraternity pin which he asked Cindy to wear. She asked if it was like being engaged and he explained that it was more like going steady. He invited her to a fraternity party on campus. Cindy bought a new dress to impress everyone. The others were wearing school clothes and she told Tom that they were laughing behind her back and it was all his fault. Tom went for drinks and Cindy disappeared. He waited for her at her apartment and apologized when she returned. Cindy finally got Tom to propose and wanted to elope, but he wanted to tell his father. She continued to bait him about having "to get permission" when Stu was out of town. Dr. Greg Hartford returned to Henderson with his daughter Meredith after his ex-wife, Diane, agreed to give him custody. Diane had never really enjoyed custody, but only wanted to punish Greg by not letting him see Meredith. Meredith's suicide attempt over a teacher who jilted her made it impossible for her to stay at the convent school. She asked her father not to put her in school just yet. He agreed to let her get settled first. Jo Vincente wanted to make friends with her before Meredith was told that she and Greg planned to be married. Jo suggested shopping for school clothes, but Meredith was content to remain in her suite, spending as much time as possible with her father. Greg realized she was dwelling on past memories and insisted that she start school because it would only become harder each day. She confessed that she was afraid of going to school with boys after being in convents since her parents divorced when she was seven. Scott Phillips was concerned about his wife, Kathy, especially when he learned from John Wyatt that she had a memory loss during a trial. John was forced to give the case to David Sutton which caused Kathy to be even more ambivalent. Scott felt Dr. Brown should know this. The nurse called home to change his appointment and reached Kathy. She stormed to the hospital and, after refusing to let Scott see the doctor, she chastized the doctor for telling Scott that she feared the baby wasn't his. Dr. Brown said he hadn't discussed anything with Scott. He again urged her to seek psychiatric help. Scott and Eric, their adopted son, secretly shopped for the baby's room and took a day off to paint it. Eric was sure this would surprise Kathy and was totally unprepared for the fury with which it was received. She went to bed early as Scott had been urging her to do for weeks. In the night Kathy had a nightmare and protested out loud that this was not David's baby. Scott woke her and asked what she meant. Did she sleep with David? The one thing Kathy had feared all along had happened. During a moment of rejection and vulnerability she had turned to David. She shouted that she didn’t know whose baby it was. Scott probably hated her, she hated the baby and he forced her to have the baby. Scott told Eric to call Dr. Brown who gave her a shot to calm her hysteria and bring down her blood pressure. Ellie Bergman stayed with Eric through the night. Dr. Brown couldn’t keep Kathy on medication because it would be dangerous to her and the baby. Scott walked in the rain to sort things out. He felt so sorry for himself that he stopped in a bar and ordered a double bourbon. He was about to drink it when a young woman called him a hypocrite. Scott, an alcoholic, had been a speaker at an AA meeting which she attended because of pressure from her boss. Donna Davis was a cocktail waitress who liked to drink. Because she couldn’t control her drinking, she was fired. They walked and finally ended up drinking coffee early in the morning. Scott told her that he almost took that drink after he found out that the baby his wife was carrying might not be his. She said, but it might. She slipped out when he called the hospital. Scott told Carolyn Hanley why Kathy was upset and she felt he should not see her until he got his feelings straight. Kathy felt everyone knew and hated her. She was stopped from leaving the hospital, but became hysterical when Scott tried to comfort her. She agreed to go to a sanitarium to rest until the baby came. Liza Kaslo returned to Henderson to be with her mother who was recovering from an attempt on her life. Dr. Hartford noticed that Liza was very self conscious of the scar over her eye and suggested to the surgeon that they call her in for a series of X-rays to see if there was a possibility of performing plastic surgery. They told her that it was a routine checkup so that she wouldn’t get her hopes up and have to adjust all over again. Surgery was possible and Liza wanted it even though Steve and Janet felt the emotional stress would be too much. She said she would spend the rest of her life wondering if it had been possible. Dr. Hartford told Liza that in his opinion the surgery was successful, but they could only tell how much so after the swelling and discoloration left the area. She should be able to leave the hospital in a few days. Liza was concerned about her mother and asked Steve if they could stay with her for a while. Steve told Janet that she had to learn to depend on others more than she had. Janet said that although she was frightened at the responsibility of her young son and the house since Wade's death, she would eventually have to learn to do for herself, so she'd better start then. Another reason she thought Liza should return to their apartment was that Steve and Liza were just beginning to work out their own marriage and needed to be alone. John Wyatt told Janet that she really needed a lawyer of her own since he was the corporation lawyer. Steve explained the papers to Janet and advised her. When he and Liza were first married, he was taking business courses while working at the Collins Corporation. Janet said Liza and Gary had tried to get her to go away for a while, but it was the business that was keeping her in Henderson. Since she trusted him completely, she asksed him to take care of it temporarily. Meredith Hartford wasn’t adjusting very well, even after she was put in school. She refused to wear the clothes Jo helped her select so that she would feel comfortable among her peers. Greg explained to his daughter that Jo helped him through a very lonely time when he first came to Henderson and that Jo would like to be her friend, too. Meredith was disturbed because she had planned to have her father's attentions to herself. Greg felt guilty about the time he wasn't allowed to be a father to her and so was doing everything she asked. Scott had a business lunch in the restaurant where Donna Davis was a cocktail waitress. When lunch was over, Donna had disappeared after being fired for drinking on the job. The owner had given her several chances before to straighten out, but she couldn't control the problem. Scott gave the owner his card and asked him to have her call if she should return for her wages. She helped him and he would like to return the favor. Stu suggested that Cindy would not be willing to live in the style Tom could provide. She said she could if they could be married immediately and talked him into a trip to Las Vegas. Dr. Carolyn Hanley and Gary Walton discussed getting married soon. The Young And The Restless Written by: William J. Bell Produced by: John Conboy Stuart Brooks was very grateful for all the time and comfort Liz Foster had given him since Jennifer's death. When he wanted to buy her a gift, Chris suggested he get her a coat. Liz loved the coat, but felt it was too good to wear. Chris told Snapper that she thought there was a deep friendship developing between his mother and her father. Snapper visited his mother and suggested he drop off the dinner Liz had prepared for Stuart, but she insisted on taking it over herself. Snapper told her to start wearing the coat because it would keep her warm. Stuart asked Chris if Liz really liked the coat because he hadn't seen her wear it. Chris mentioned that Liz' birthday was coming up. Stuart arrived home to find that Liz had tripped and sprained her ankle. He insisted she share dinner and then asked her to let him take over out for dinner on her birthday. Chris Foster was close to hysteria thinking that Ron Becker could kidnap his daughter at any time. Snapper went to Becker's apartment to order him out of town and learned that Ron was planning on going to Alaska with his mother. He had thought it over and decided that his love for Karen was selfish. He felt that Karen would be better off if the Fosters would legally adopt her. Ron went back to their apartment to explain to Karen that he loved her, but that Snapper and Chris would be her mommy and daddy. Karen took to the arrangement eagerly. Several days later Snapper told Chris that he had been contacted to help fight cholera in Ethiopia by the Health Department. He didn’t want to leave Chris if she was still upset, but Chris felt better and understood how Snapper felt about this assignment. He would be gone for several weeks. Ron told his mother to go home to Alaska and he would follow after he visited his wife at the mental institution. Ron told a catatonic Nancy that he was wrong to say such horrible things to her and would be going away and so would never bother her again. He said she was a good wife and mother. Nancy’s nurse noticed a difference in her and reported this to Dr. Hamlin. The doctor asked Ron to see Nancy again. Nancy wanted to know if it was true that she was a good wife and mother. She asked him to stay in town another day. When he visited her again she had washed her hair and told him that she was being discharged. Ron talked about going to Alaska to start a new life where people didn’t know the terrible things he had done. She had no plans yet. They decided to start over in Alaska. Dr. Hamlin questioned Nancy because it was her love for Ron that caused her mental problems. She explained that Ron had changed and they were starting over. She never wanted to go back to the life they lived before and didn’t want to leave Genoa City before seeing her daughter. Dr. Lionel asked Cynthia Harris to tell Leslie Brooks Eliot that Brad was in Chicago recovering from removal of a brain tumor. Cynthia had been using Brad's silence to draw him close to her, hoping to edge Leslie out of his life. She arrived in Genoa City the night Leslie was leaving for a concert tour in South America. Leslie told her that the divorce would be final while she was on tour. Cynthia didn’t tell her about Brad, but returned to Chicago where she told Brad that Leslie had gotten a divorce and she would have broken his confidence if the divorce hadn't become final. She told him that it was too late because Leslie seemed to be involved with Brock Reynolds. Brad said he would return to Genoa City and fight for his wife. Brock wanted to go to South America with Leslie, but she knew she would be very vulnerable following her divorce and having someone with her whom she cared for could lead to more emotional problems. Lance Prentiss questioned Brock about his interest in Leslie, suggesting he was trying to catch her on the rebound. Brock said that Lance seemed to be more concerned than acceptable for a married man. He had asked Leslie to marry him and was willing to wait as long as necessary. Stuart found Brad in Leslie's apartment and explained that she had decided to stay on a few days in Rio. Brad told him that his eyesight returned and he had come home to explain to Leslie why he went to Chicago. Stuart had Leslie's final divorce decree which he was delivering. In the confusion Brad had forgotten that he had started divorce preceedings until it was too late. Stuart suggested that it might not be a good idea for Brad to wait since she might not be returning alone. Leslie considered staying on in Rio until she realized how attracted she was to Brock. He saw her to her apartment and as he was leaving, Leslie told him that she might be falling in love with him. It was something she felt inside. After hearing Brad's explanation Leslie said she had forgiven him, but couldn’t forget and needed time to think. A man who had saved many people in a hotel fire in Hong Kong attracted Lorie Brooks Prentiss' attention. She confessed to her father that she thought this man was Lucas Prentiss, Lance's missing brother. Lucas left 12 years ago and Lance had never forgiven him. There was a fire which he felt Lucas was guilty of setting which burned their mother's face, disfiguring her. Lance and Vanessa spent many years trying to trace him, but Lance had then decided that he was probably dead, and if not, should return on his own. Recently Lorie blackmailed Vanessa into seeing a plastic surgeon who said he could help her after Lorie learned that she never had the heart condition she claimed kept her from having surgery. Vanessa had said she wouldn’t have the surgery unless it would be to relieve Lucas' guilt. Lorie felt that Vanessa used her disfigurement and isolation to hold Lance to her. Lance lent Lorie his private jet even though he had no idea where she was going on her personal business. Vanessa was sure that it was to meet another man. Vanessa set her own plan into effect. She had Mr. Campbell, her private detective, find out how to make a book a best seller. He said that books had to be ordered in small quantities all over the country and it would help if a well known critic could give it a good review. She planned to expose Lorie as the author of her book about Leslie through publicity. Lorie’s plans were foiled when the man registered as John Doe had the arm bandaged that would prove he was Lucas. Lance had told her about the tatoo bearing his name. He realized she was not a nurse and she confessed who she was and why she was there. John Doe finally got tripped up and had to admit that he was Lucas. She explained that he was the only one who could get Vanessa to have surgery. She said she was leaving in Lance's private jet and he was to be at the airport. Skip, the pilot, told Lorie that Lance would be furious when he found out what she had done and besides, he doubted that Lucas would show up. They waited as long as possible and finally Lucas appeared just as they prepared to take off. He told Lorie that he didn’t sleep well because he could always hear screams of pain. He showed his jealousy of Lance and all he had; his good looks, money and wife. Lucas’ homecoming was tempestuous for all concerned. Vanessa challenged Lucas. She would agree to the surgery and free him from his guilt on the condition that he stay until she could remove her veil. It was Lorie’s taunt that kept him there when he said he was a little too late, "You're not too late, just too little." Vanessa had finally realized Lorie was not a scheming little tramp – but it was late. She couldn’t stop her vengeful plan. Leslie was very confused. She had seen Brad, learned of his returned vision, heard his words of apology, listened to his renowing of his love but she didn’t know how she felt for her ex-husband. She spoke to Brock of her torment and he offered these words to soothe her anguish: “Leslie, I want you to do whatever makes you happy. I will not pressure you in any way.” Jill Foster tried to open Derek Thurston’s eyes concerning Kay – but all it served was to make Derek very angry with her. He would not believe Jill’s words that Kay was trying to buy him; that she was using her great wealth to sink her claws into him – claws, which once sunk, were not easily dug out. Rather heartedly, Derek told Jill that Kay was not made from that type of scheming cloth. She was doing what she was doing because she cared, because his dream was her dream also. He asked Jill to try and make amends with Kay, but all he could see so far was that Kay was the only one who was trying. Derek’s feelings did not go unobserved by Kay. Kay told Jill she – Kay – might have the edge. There was a very good possibility Jill would not win Derek. Jill was not as smart as she thought she was.  

Same for me. Bobbie must have appeared in very late December or early January. By the way guys, I finally bought my own flat and moving in during November. I packed all the Newsletter carefully but I won't be able to post more before some time.

From what I see, she is right. Marland joined in January 1978 at the time the show was expanded to an hour. Bobbie started appearing at the same time (Jacklyn left OLTL in November 1977 when Lana was killed off). Maybe she was introduced just before Marland but he was ghostwriting the last leg of the Hollands' short run.

OCTOBER 1977 All My Children Written by: Agnes Nixon Produced by: Bud Kloss Estelle LaTour had been unable to bring herself to tell either her friend Donna or Donna's new husband Dr. Chuck Tyler that she knew that Donna would never be able to bear a child. - Ty, Donna's former pimp, had seen to it that Donna would not run the risk of pregnancy when she became part of his Locust Street "stable" at the age of 14. The sterilization was performed by a shady doctor on Ty's payroll when Donna required surgery for Appendicitis. - Estelle was barely able to forestall Ty's successor, Billy Clyde, from telling Donna by claiming that the owner of a bar had some money for him. – He was led up to it by saying that Ty had been convinced that Donna would never marry because of the lousy home life she'd had. - When Billy Clyde returned, Estelle had gotten rid of Donna, begging her not to come to visit her on Locust Street again. Estelle forgot herself so far as to tell him he was not to dare say a word to Donna and he reacted by asking who she thought was going to stop him. Benny Sago was present in Phoebe Tyler's attorney's office when he told her that her co-called evidence was tainted and that she could be subject, together with Benny, for prosecution for abetting Benny's break-in to Mona Kane's apartment and wiretapping. Upon her return home, Phoebe continued to insist that Benny perjure himself and when he refused, she fired him, ordering him to leave the premises immediately and retrieve his possessions later. Benny left on an evening of drinking, visited Estelle, and learned about Donna's condition. Undaunted, Phoebe told Mona Kane at Charles' office that as the divorce hearing was scheduled for the following day, she was determined, if her husband did not contact her by seven o'clock that evening to say that he had withdrawn, to go to the very conservative head of the Pine Valley Hospital board of directors personally with the pictures she had Benny take and demand that Dr. Tyler be dismissed to avoid scandal. Phoebe spent the interim drinking heavily and when the time came, asked her son Linc to drive her to keep her appointment. Knowing that Phoebe's license had been revoked, and refusing to drive her himself, Linc wrestled Phoebe's car keys from her and left, advising her to sleep it off. After he left, Phoebe fished in her purse for a set of keys to Brooke's sports car and set off, only to be stopped by Phil Brent and his new partner when she was speeding and ran a red light. At police headquarters, Phoebe's refusal to submit to a sobriety test - the roadside one Phil's partner administered was definitely not in her favor - and her obvious condition resulted in her being booked and ordered held for a hearing. Faced with the prospect of a night in jail, Phoebe called Charles to beg him to rally round ... to the extent of $500 bail. With understandable relish Charles refused to lift a finger but as Linc happened to be with him, Phoebe's luck held and he took the phone, telling his mother that he would be down immediately. While Linc was arranging bail, Phoebe capped the evening's performance by telling Barbara Barrett, an alert roving reported representing the local TV news station, that the entire mess, could be laid “at the feet of my roving husband, Dr. Charles Tyler." The quote was repeated along with a graphic still picture on the Evening News. Benny heard about the debacle from Brooke and was on hand, when Phoebe woke the following morning, with a tray and sympathy. Phoebe was maneuvered into taking Benny back, with a raise, and set out for court to defend herself. When her posturing, accusations of spite on the part of the arresting officer, and claim that she suffered from Labyrinthitis and was attempting to procure medication for symptoms of vertigo, accounting for her unsteadyness, failed to impress the judge, she toppled into Benny's arms in a theatrical faint. The judge waited her out and insisted that she choose whether she would serve her sentence of seven days in jail at one time or on three consecutive weekends, to begin the following weekend. Forced to the wall, Phoebe gave her answer as the weekends but insisted that she would fight the actual incarceration up to the Supreme Court, if necessary. Unknown to her daughter Devon, Ellen Shepard and Mark Dalton were again seeing one another, although circumspectly. When Mark voiced his opinion that their lives would be easier if Devon herself should fall in love, Ellen told him that she was afraid that was what had happened, but unfortunately Devon's choice seemed to be Dan Kennicott. - Devon had told her mother that she discovered that Brooke had been two-timing Dan with Benny Sago. She was more than tempted to tell Dan after Brooke called her a sneaky little eavesdropper, and insisted that Dan would believe her, rather than Devon, and ordered her to keep her hands off "her property." – Devon watched as Dan, after telling her that he has gotten a D on a very important exam and was in danger of losing his scholarship if he didn’t work extra hard to make it up, left to celebrate with Brooke the fact that "at least he didn't flunk." When Benny Sago was bar-hopping and trying to set up a job for himself after having been fired by Phoebe, he had asked Erica at the Goalpost if the place could use some help. When Tom Cudahy heard that Erica had told Benny there wasn't a chance, he became annoyed and reminded her that it was his place to decide who would work for him. Benny had also brought news from the Chateau about Nick and a stunning blonde, evidently an old friend and Erica realized it was Claudette Montgomery just as she and Nick walked in together. Tom had to remind Erica that there were patrons to be seated when she sat with Nick and Claudette. The following day, Nick told Erica that he was considering hiring Claudette as his hostess unless Erica herself decided to return to work at the Chateau. - Claudette Montgomery was an old rival of Erica's who was jailed for drug pushing, for a time involving the Chateau in some very nasty publicity. – Dr. Frank Grant considered out loud to Jeff Martin whether he should "bite the bullet" and tell Caroline Murray himself that he made love to his estranged wife, Nancy, before she did. Jeff advised against it, saying that Nancy was not vindictive and just wanted to see Frank sweat a little because of his treatment of her. Frank let the matter drop and finally convinced Caroline that her jealousy and insecurity were akin to Donna's feelings toward Tara; that she should learn from her own advice to Donna not to make herself miserable over a relationship that didn’t exist anymore. When Edna Thornton was reminded by her small daughter that she hadn't gotten her medication for the day and she heard that the child was feeling ill, she told Dottie not to take her medicine; that they would hitch a ride into town and her daddy would take care of her. - Edna set David up to turn her down when she called him to come out to see Dottie so that the seizure, when it came, would play better. - Edna mentioned to a local farmer who gave them a ride that she was David Thornton's wife and was told that David was the man's personal physician and a fine doctor. She had also nailed down a job as a manicurist at the "Beauty Spot," whose clientele numbers a good many doctor's wives, by dropping David's name and mentioning that though she was married to him she wanted to work to keep herself busy. When Dottie had a Grand Mal seizure followed by a repeat of the episode a short time later, David admitted, when pressed by Christina, that he believed Dottie was his daughter. After Chris made it clear that she would welcome the child, he tried to get Edna to agree to a divorce, giving him custody, only to have Edna insist that it was a package deal and threaten to leave town with the little girl, sick as she was. David learned that Edna deliberately risked the little girl's life and, after talking with Christina, he finally agreed to move in with Edna and resume the appearance of a marriage in the hope that eventually a marriage in name only would pall and she would give up Dottie. Donna had refused to accept even the lab test findings that she was not pregnant and had been shopping for baby clothes after having insisted stridently, in the presence of Tara and Dr. Frank Grant, that Chuck wouldn’t admit that Dr. Clater was wrong, remarking how doctors stuck together. Mark Dalton and Ellen Shepard were planning to be together in New York as Ellen had to make a buying trip for the Boutique. Devon learned that the following day was a holiday at the college - Founder's Day - and asked her mother if she could go along on the weekend trip, causing Ellen to cancel her plans with Mark. When Brooke and Dan quarreled because he had to prepare a project in order to make up his low mark on his Structure's exam, conflicting with Brooke's plans for a football weekend, Devon stepped in, offering to type for Dan and insisting she had no plans for the weekend. After Devon told her mother she had changed her mind, Ellen called Mark back and she started packing again. Acting on information supplied by Nancy Grant, Joe Martin had flown to Texarkana to confront the man he spoke with a day earlier on the phone who had denied that he could tell him anything about Tad, the child Ruth and Joe had grown to love after he was abandoned by his parents. The man's name was Ray and he was an intinerant worker from Tennessee. Ruth had insisted that he pursue the matter and make it clear in person that they only wanted his permission to adopt the boy. Another World Written by: Harding Lemay Produced by: Paul Rauch Sven Peterson, the uneducated, unscrupulous, rapacious servant to international business magnate, Mac Cory, had his employer dancing like a puppet while Sven controled all the strings. Sven's master plan was to get to Mac's fortune through Regine Lindeman. He arranged for her arrival from Sweden to be with her mother, Helga, Mac's housekeeper, and Sven's so-called "cousin." After maneuvering the departure of Mac's entire household staff, Sven forced Regine on Mac, using Mac's loneliness to the greatest advantage since Mac's wife, Rachel, left him. Regine was not as willing as Sven would like, so he used the threat of physical assault on Helga to keep Regine's cooperation. Not all of Mac's associates were as blind to Sven's control as Mac was. His secretary Pat suspected "something" when Mac wanted Regine to stay home and take care of Helga, rather than continue her job at the Cory complex. Somehow Mac couldn’t grasp the point Pat was trying to make about Sven. Rachel was then sculpting full time in her own apartment. She had countered Mac's "threat" to a legal separation by preparing one against him through her lawyer, Greg Barnard. When Rachel mistook a hug between Mac and Pat for something more meaningful than it was, she launched her separation with more determination than ever. She had instructed Greg she was willing to go out of state if necessary to obtain a divorce. Greg's suggestion that Rachel misinterpreted the evidence of an affair did not deter her. Her only retraction was if Mac wanted to save this marriage, he was going to have to fight for it. Rachel did listen when Pat and her mother Ada warned her about Sven. She got a confirmation when Sven threatened to keep her out of her own house by changing the locks. Knowing Rachel's weakness, just as she was communicating with Mac, Sven conveniently reminded Mac Regine was waiting to continue reading poetry to him. Rachel exited and Sven scored. Regine was involved with Cliff Tanner against Sven's violent objections. She was pregnant with his child but wouldn’t tell Cliff for fear of trapping him into marriage. Sven learned this and combined Regine's pregnancy with Mac's vulnerability in a devious deceit. Mac acted on Ada's request to have Regine move out to avoid gossip. After agreeing to her move, and sharing a brandy in his bedroom, which was drugged by Sven, both Regine and Mac passed out. Sven quickly rearranged them so when they awoke, Regine and Mac found out they had spent the night together in bed and neither of them remembered how they got there or what, if anything, had happened. Sven called Iris over, timing her intrusion so she caught Regine fumbling from Mac's room in her slip. Mac couldn’t offer any explantion. He, Pat and Brian Bancroft, his lawyer, decided the immediate solution was to get out of town. As Mac packed, Rachel confronted Mac. She wanted to see if they could make some sense out of their relationship, since Ada had convinced Rachel Mac had not been unfaithful. Mac was obviously shaken by the mess he thought he created for himself. Sven barged in, dragging Regine, to apologize for her "waywardness." With Regine's earring, which Sven planted, in Rachel's fist, she concluded they spent the night together, by choice, and Mac again was speechless to his own defense. Regine feared for her mother's safety, so she wouldn’t contradict Sven. Rachel stormed out, ordering Greg to start the separation legalities immediately. Iris had just been trying to break her clutch on Mac by legally relinquishing all rights to his estate. Her only purpose in this was to gain Brian's confidence that she could release Mac entirely, in which case Brian would then marry her. She was so distraught by the scene she had witnessed that she couldn’t control her desire to help Mac. As she was explaining how Regine was taking advantage of "poor daddy" to Pat, it dawned on Iris, Sven was behind it and it was he who maneuvered his way to be Mac's sole servant. More annoying to Iris was the fact that he took her in when she thought she was using Sven to keep Mac and Rachel apart. Iris' houseguest Countess Elena de Poulignac proved to be Iris' sincere friend, offering to help her in this situation. She made Iris tell Brian of her part in cooperating with Sven and his efforts to keep Mac and Rachel apart. Brian accepted this better than Iris anticipated and promised he would protect Mac if and only if this is the LAST TIME Iris intervened in Mac's life. She sobbingly promised, NEVER, to get involved again if he could help "daddy" this time. Brian even went so far as to suggest he and Iris get married immediately. Iris was confused but offered no objections. The wedding ceremony was performed in the elegance of Iris' home. Iris no sooner repeated her wedding vows when she was at the phone, ready to call Mac with the news. Brian vetoed the call, telling Iris to leave her daddy alone and concentrate on her husband. She discontently obeyed. At the wedding reception Elena caught Iris asking John to talk to Greg about Rachel's separation papers. Iris' reply to Elena's question "whatever happened to your promise to Brian not to interfere in Mac's life" was simply she realized worse things could happen to Mac than being married to Rachel, she wanted the separation stopped. Pat stood up to Sven, insisting to talk to Regine. To stop Pat, he threatened to spread malicious gossip of an affair between Pat and Mac along with the lies Regine had been sleeping with Mac for weeks. Pat was appalled. She later admitted to Ada, perhaps there really was something going on, but only Rachel knew how Mac reacted after being hurt by her. On Ada’s suggestion, Clarice McGowen talked to Rachel. She managed to get her to postpone the separation, knowing Rachel still loved Mac and they belonged together in marriage. Rachel collected her thoughts and went to Pat to apologize for accusing her of wanting an involvement with Mac. Pat accepted, then convinced Rachel Regine was not the guilty party; Rachel drove Mac to infidelity. Rachel however, would not accept this, retorting Mac should have more will power. She took her lawyer's advice and gave Regine a chance to explain. At her house, Rachel walked in on Sven who was gluttoning on Mac's brandy. Rachel let him know he manipulated this "affair," and when Regine herself told Rachel not to believe anything Sven said, Rachel, disgusted, walked out, refusing to believe any of them. Olive Randolph’s love affair with Evan Webster was rapidly losing its romance. Caught in the act by Molly Randolph, Evan had ordered Olive to "buy" Molly's silence. Before she got to Molly, Mike, Molly's husband, had requested to talk to his father John. Olive was panicky that Molly had already tattled and managed to keep John away from Mike temporarily. Mike’s reason for talking to John was to complain about his inability to keep Molly happy. She wanted material things and he couldn’t afford to buy them. John offered Mike a job clerking in his law office. Mike gratefully accepted. Molly didn’t share his satisfaction. She wanted to know when Mike was going to quit sponging off his relatives. Molly's desires were wandering with each argument she and Mike had. She had becoming attracted to Cliff. They shared their grievances about their love lives to each other and Molly confided this to Olive who jumped at the chance to win Molly over. She promoted Molly's complainted about money, then bought her an expensive necklace to win her friendship and trust. Olive was pleased to offer Molly and Cliff the cabin she and Evan used for their rendezvous. Mike, on the other hand, admitted to John he might have made a rash decision in marrying Molly, he was not even sure he still loved her. After Cliff thought Regine bitterly jilted him because she didn’t love him, Molly's hint that Olive had offered her the keys to her private cabin is a temptation he couldn’t refuse to share with Molly. Suspicions were mounting in Mike's mind as Molly continued to be absent from work during the day. She was quite happy with her new arrangement, making love to Cliff at the cabin. Evan was still working hard to get Olive and John's money. He was offered his investigator friend $10,000 cash to catch John in the act of infidelity with his secretary Joan Barnard. Investigator Kelly recommended Evan guarantee John had insurance before he set up John in a near impossible situation, as far as Kelly was concerned. Evan put Olive to work on it immediately. She told John she checked his life insurance policies to ensure he had coverage in case the house they were building was too expensive. - To the contrary, Olive was spending to the hilt on the house and could care less if John could afford it or not. - Evan had taken the policies and informed Olive she was not a beneficiary. She quickly asked John to change the policies to include her as a beneficiary. John obeyed promptly. Mike and Joan were both suspicious of Evan and Olive but couldn’t gather any concrete proof. They agreed Joan would stay friendly with Evan which could get them results. Evan was pretending to care for Joan, sounding jealous innuendoes about her and John. Olive and Evan were celebrating in the comfort and privacy of the new house, drinking wine and becoming giddy and amorous, when Greg Barnard used John's key to enter the house to make an inspection for the updated insurance policy. While working there unseen, he saw Olive, clad only in a black slip, run in to get more wine and return to the bedroom where a man's voice was responding. He was stunned but managed to slip out unnoticed. Back at the office, Greg relayed to Joan he then knows Mike had Olive's number but wouldn’t explain why. Alice and Ray Gordon had irreconcilable differences because Ray couldn’t cope with competing with Steve Frame, Alice's deceased husband. He was founder and successful business head of the company Ray was then causing to go bankrupt. Alice saw no alternative but to close down the business before it did go under. Ray asked Alice to give him the chance to run the company on his own so he could prove to her he was capable of retrieving it. She sincerely wanted him to succeed, and felt she owed him that much. First, though, she discussed it with Willis Frame, Steve's brother, because her confidence in Willis' abilities did not waver. Alice returned to her former career as a nurse but, before she left the business in Ray's complete authority, she asked Willis to stand by in case she needed his help. Ray seemed to be making a good effort until he learned it was Willis who sent a potential customer in his direction. With that, Ray cancelled any future business with this client in a desperate attempt to cut all ties with Willis. Willis' girlfriend Angie, who had stood up in Willis' defense on several occasions, accused Willis of enjoying making Ray suffer. He couldn’t seem to stay out of Ray's way. Willis claimed he was there to help Alice save the company, not to antagonize Ray. Alice wouldn’t give Ray the time of day so, in his sad and lonely state, Angie asked him to her friend Clarice's for dinner. He agreed and what a surprise for Willis, who crashed the party, to see Ray there as Angie's chosen guest. He turned around and went to Alice's for comfort, staying there for dinner. Alice told Willis he was too possessive and she, obviously, was not as much so as he was. When her aunt Liz jumped in with recommendations on how Alice should handle her life, as she was doing such a poor job, Alice set her straight. She wouldn’t tolerate Liz' interference anymore, because what Alice did was none of her business. If she couldn’t stay out of it, she could leave Alice's home and never come back. While Liz walked outside to calm down, Willis looked at Alice admiringly. He liked what he saw, a side of Alice he never knew. Alice was determined she wouldn’t let people walk all over her again. With that, Willis reached over and gently touched her cheek. Alice was quick to walk away. She did accept another date with Willis, which included Sally, after she denied anything more than friendship with Willis to her brother Russ. Willis had persuaded Scanlan Bros. to give their large project to Ray Gordon. Ray was under the impression he landed the contract for the department store on his own. Alice promised not to tell him it was Willis' recommendation, and was noticeably pleased. Dr. Russ Matthews had accepted his divorce from Sharlene and the subsequent departure of his girlfriend Corinne Setton because of Russ' new freedom. His aunt Liz, an eternal matchmaker, had pushed Iris' friend Elena right into Russ' lap. Impressed by her title of "countess," Liz forced Russ and Elena to socialize, in her company, of course. Elena would like to become friendlier with Russ, but was discouraged because of his friendship with Gwen Parish. Elena took her friend Quentin Ames' advice and continued her pursuit of Russ. Intruding on a dinner party between Russ and Gwen, Elena somehow managed to monopolize Russ' company. Gwen claimed she was neutral about Elena's presence, but if looks could kill ...! As The World Turns Written by: Robert Soderberg & Edith Sommer Produced by: Joe Willmore Kevin Thompson had decided to respect Susan Stewart's wishes not to resume their relationship upon her return to Oakdale. She faced up to a drinking problem and the damage she was doing to Kevin. After spending several weeks at a health farm, she was taking Dr. David Stewart's place in the hospital research lab while he was at home with infectious mononeucleosis. Kevin saw Sandy Garrison as often as possible and asked her to marry him several times. Sandy wouldn’t until she was sure he had gotten Susan out of his system. Kevin became angry when she turned him down again and Sandy drove out to the Conway farm to talk to Valerie. Sandy loved Kevin and she was afraid he wouldn’t ask her again. On the way to his mountain cabin, a deer ran out of the dark, causing Kevin to run off the road. The police called Sandy who rushed to the hospital. Fortunately Kevin was only bruised and cut, but his car was totaled. Susan would like to see Kevin, but wouldn’t intrude on the tender scene she saw. At the cabin, in front of a warm fire, Sandy requested that Kevin ask her once more to marry him and she accepted his proposal. Susan had become friends with an eighteen year old orphaned patient. The chief of surgery was very adamant that he would tell the boy of his fatal blood disease when he felt it was necessary. Susan thought Dr. Keith was wrong because Mark Lewis was wondering why he couldn’t have visitors when he had only had minor surgery. When Dr. Keith finally told Mark, and asked him to help fight the disease by eating well and being determined, the boy seemed to withdraw. The gruff doctor then ordered Susan to see Mark, when a few days ago he had told her to stay out of his room. Susan read Mark quite a lecture and Dr. Keith was amazed when Mark showed a sudden interest in reading uppn his disease. Dee Stewart, Susan's young ex-sister-in-law, was asked to visit Mark to provide him with some young companionship. Susan told Dee that Mark was seriously ill and after taking a few hours to adjust to the news, Dee again became a cheery visitor. Kevin came to the hospital to break the news of his engagement to Susan himself. Susan had been working very long tiring days to keep the research on schedule and this news was the straw that broke the camel's back. Dr. Keith found her crying in Dr. Dan Stewart's office and reprimanded her for breaking her promise to see Mark that afternoon. He couldn’t eat or sleep because he was waiting to see Susan. Annie Stewart and Beau Spencer were working hard while waiting for the time to pass before they were married. They had de-cided on a very simple life style because Annie would have to forego medical school uuntil he could make enough as a junior lawyer to support them. Jane Spencer, Beau's wealthy mother, thought she was making things easier by giving Annie expensive gifts. Beau was very confident his first day of the bar exam, but the second day he had grave doubts. When the telegram arrived informing him that he had failed, he wanted to break the news to Annie first so that she could reconsider their marriage. She wanted to go ahead with their plans and he could take the exam again in the spring. The Stewarts gave him the excuse of the strain they put him under by putting off the approval of their marriage, but Beau accepted full responsibility for his failure. Everyone assured him that many good lawyers failed the bar exam the first time. Jane asked Dick Martin if it was possible to buy off the people who graded the exams and then claimed she was only kidding. Chris Hughes told Beau that he could keep his job as a law clerk while he restudied to take his exam. Beau learned that he could no longer live in his student apartment since he had graduated. His mother said this was typical of the way he handled things and offered what she considered a good solution. They could have her house and she would ask Annie so she wouldn’t feel obligated to say yes. Annie thanked her, but said the big house wouldn’t fit in with their life style. But, unable to find an apartment before the wedding, Beau and Annie had to accept her offer. Joyce Coleman Hughes had been a trying house guest in the Hughes' home while their son Donald was in Switzerland on business. She was confined due to a difficult pregnancy, but her doctor thought she was coming along very well. She had constantly worried Don with her stories of being neglected and in very poor health, but Dr. Bob Hughes had tried to put his brother at ease. After another scene Joyce tried to leave the house late at night and banged into some furniture. Bob called an ambulance and rushed her to the hospital where she miscarried, but the doctors said this was inevitable. Donald flew home and was taken in by Joyce's story that the family caused too much stress until he talked to the doctor. He had a hard time forgiving Bob for telling him Joyce was fine. Joyce enjoyed all the attention she got while in the hospital and didn’t want to return to the Hugheses'. Don started looking for a house, but took Joyce to his parents for the time being. Nancy realized that Joyce was playing her against Don and tried even harder to be agreeable. Joyce sounded Don out about returning to California, but he wanted to stay in the family firm. She told Nancy that Don had hinted about going to California, but didn’t want the family to know yet. Natalie Hughes had been having several parties in her new apartment. Carol Stallings was concerned that Natalie was not taking care of herself and the baby. Natalie had told Carol repeatedly to leave her alone. - Natalie was pregnant with Jay Stallings' baby and was giving the Stallings custody in exchange for financial support in setting up a real estate office. Since Carol could have no children of her own, she wanted Natalie and the baby to have the best of care. - The biggest problem Natalie had at the time was that the larger firms in town were trying to squeeze her out. Lisa Coleman had given up and told Grant that she loved her ex-husband, Bob Hughes. She tried to keep up appearances until her son, Tom, found out and then she asked Grant to move out. Grant remained silent as long as possible and then he told Bob he was jealous and said he wanted him to stay away from Lisa. Bob figured this was a good time to go away for a while. At odds, Lisa told Tom that she asked Grant to move out because she was in love with his father again and hoped they could get back together. She was surprised that Tom was not happy about the prospect. He asked if she had given any thought to Valerie Conway, the new love in Bob's life. Lisa felt this had nothing to do with Valerie. Laurie Keaton told Mary Ellison that Dr. John Dixon had returned and was in the storage room. Mary was getting ready to call the police when John showed up at her door. Mary hesitated about calling after he left, but when her son asked if people didn’t have to be punished for wrong things, Mary knew that she had to call. - John kidnapped his own son, but Dan Stewart retrieved him. John accidently shot himself and accused Dan. The DA's office had been looking for John who had been in the Chicago area. - Tom Hughes arrived just after the police and explained that John had called him the night before and made plans to surrender to the assistant DA, Dick Martin, at ten o'clock. Mary told Kim Dixon Stewart that John was back and had pleaded guilty. John assured Dan that he had no intention of seeing Kim or Andy, but Dan made sure he understood what could happen if he bothered Kim. A big storm hit Oakdale and Melinda Grey spent the evening with Mary. Jay stopped by to pick up a contract that Mary took home to type and walked out with Melinda. He lit a cigarette and tossed the match into the corridor ashtray. John Dixon woke up to the smell of smoke and found the hall in front of Mary's apartment in flames. He broke down the door and sent them out the back. John returned to the building repeatedly to get everyone to safety. The only casualty of the fire was John, himself. Dr. Keith called Dan to perform the surgery because he had done this procedure several times. John agreed to let Dan operate. Tom got the hearing postponed since John was in critical condition. John asked Tom to have Kim see him and she felt she had to grant him this since Dan was not sure John would recover. He wanted Kim to persuade Mary to see him. John told her how sorry he was. When Grant heard about the fire, he rushed to be sure Mary and Teddy were safe. - Grant did not know that Mary's adopted son was his child until his ex-wife, Joyce, tried to regain custody. - Grant asked Valerie if they could stay at the farm until the apartment was restored. Lisa asked Grant why he didn't bring them to her house and received the answer that he never thought of it. Jay Stallings asked Melinda what she knew about the fire. They both suspected that his match might have set papers on fire and caused the blaze. Jay finally confessed his fear to Carol who suggested he consult Chris. The fire department ruled that even though Jay feared he might have started it, it was an accident. Alexander Keith told Kim Stewart that she reminded him of someone he loved. When Mark Lewis saw her, he was surprised to see that Mrs. Stewart looked like his mother. Keith told Susan Stewart that Mark thought he loved her and, therefore, she had a responsibility to him. Dr. Keith had caused hard feelings everywhere in the hospital. He accused Dr. Dan Stewart of suggesting that people be subordinate to him. Kim was unwilling to intercede with Dan on Keith's behalf. Grant Coleman agreed to give Lisa a divorce. She told Bob that she thought Grant might be interested in Mary Ellison. Lisa assumed that Bob was talking about her when he said he hoped the woman he loved had missed him and stormed out when she understood that he meant Valerie. Days Of Our Lives Written by: Ann Marcus Produced by: Betty Corday & H. Wesley Kenney Samantha Evans, posing as her psychiatrist sister Marlena, after having had Marlena committed to Bayview Sanitarium as herself - the girls were twins -, was keeping Marlena under heavy sedation following Marlena's attempt to escape. Dr. Powell, the head of Bayview, questioned the continued use of stellazine, as its side effects included loss of identity and muscle co-ordination, along with psychotic symptoms. Sam suggested shock treatment, but Powell felt that would be too radical. He also reminded Sam that her sister would have to sign the consent form. Sam knew that. Powell also pointed out that a heavily tranquillized patient could be talked into almost anything. Sam invited Powell along while she asked Marlena to sign the form. Drugged as she was, Marlena refused ECT - electro-convulsive therapy, commonly called shock treatment -, Sam was furious when Powell reminded Marlena that since "she" signed "herself" in, she was free to sign herself out, but it took seven days to process the request. A call from Don Craig about what was happening, since Marlena called him to rescue her the night she escaped, interrupted the conversation. Sam's abrupt manner with him spurred him to drive out to Bayview, where she managed to sneak past him. Powell refused to let him see "Sam" because he'd only reinforce "Sam's" impression that she was Marlena. Aware that one of the side effects of ECT was loss of memory, and finding her "role" as Marlena gratifying, Sam demanded Marlena sign the consent. When Marlena continued to refuse, Sam forged her signature. Sam was almost caught when Laura Horton, Marlena's boss and friend, demanded to see her, and informed her she was on her way to the gate house. Sam was "saved" when David and Trish appeared at her door, needing help. Sam left with them, leaving a note for Laura. Don went to see Laura, very confused about the entire situation. Laura admitted mystification, too. She showed Don "Marlena's" note. Don said the handwriting was not Marlena's, which further confused them. Treatment had played havoc with Marlena's memory, leaving her unable to remember how she got to Bayview. - Sam drugged her and sent her in an ambulance. Marlena had previously made arrangements for Sam's voluntary commitment for drug rehabilitation. - Marlena asked to see Dr. Paul Whitman, her training analyst. Mrs. Abbott promised to call him. Meanwhile, Sam had received a call from her agent, who had a part for her. Chris Kostichek arrived while she was waiting for the agent to call with more infor-mation. When Artie called, Sam covered by saying she was making arrangements for a lecture tour. She had also made application to a hospital in New Orleans. When Laura heard of these plans, she was furious. Sam had, naturally, dumped Marlena's patient load on Laura and other staff members. Laura had tried to talk to "Marlena" repeatedly, to no avail. Greg Peters, chief of staff, had ordered Laura to fire Marlena unless she could get her back to work. Having accepted the proposed part in Hollywood, Sam made immediate plans to leave Salem. She went to Marlena and told her she committed her to Bayview because she was having a nervous breakdown. She took her place to cover for her until she was well enough to return. - Sam took Marlena's place to have money and pills. - Sam also reminded Marlena she could sign herself out. Sam then agreed to an appointment with Laura, but was on her way to the airport at the agreed on time. Don was with Laura when Laura decided she had been stood up. They drove out to the gate house to confront "Marlena," but found her gone. Don found a pad with a flight number and time on it. He raced to the airport. When he finally figured out which airline, the announcements were for final boarding. Don forced his way on to the plane and found Sam! She gave him the story about Marlena's nervous breakdown. He didn’t buy it, but left her to race to Bayview. Don finally convinced Dr. Powell his story was true, that Marlena, not Sam, was there. When they got to her room, Marlena was gone, and was not on the grounds. – Having been granted some privileges and aware she might leave the hospital after signing papers, Marlena had put on her coat and left her room for the first time since being placed on the open ward. Aside from a general confusion, Marlena had also demanded that her door be left open at all times. – After much soul-searching, Trish Clayton Banning agreed to let mother-in-law Julie Williams give a baby shower for her. - David Banning and Trish had only recently been married, following an episode in which Trish almost lost his baby. The baby was conceived the one night they spent together during a time when both were separated from the people they loved: David from Valerie Grant; Trish from Mike Horton. Mike had proposed to Trish, but she'd refused, aware he couldn't forget the baby was David's, not his. - Trish was delighted when her friend Toni from the Sherman Home had also been invited to the shower. Both girls were gratified when the shower was for them both. They had a lovely time, until Trish opened her last present, a musical teddybear from Mike. Trish admitted to Toni that she still loved Mike. Aware Trish had been feeling cooped-up, David persuaded her to take a picnic to the lake. There, Trish started into labor. With "Marlena's" help, they got to the hospital. David and Trish worked as a team and delivered a son, Timothy, through natural childbirth. David was very proud, as was Trish. However, Trish was upset by an unexpected visit from Mike. She sent him away, telling him to stay away from her because for the first time, she had a family of her own. Trish's mother Jeri and David were disturbed when Trish seemed to demand that Timmy be her sole responsibility, refusing to let David help without a fight and jumping at Timmy's every cry. Jean Barton, with Maggie Horton's help, began to attend consciousness-raising sessions at the David Martin Clinic Family Crisis Center. - Jean's husband Fred beat her. - After attending two sessions, Jean realized that it wasn't her fault that Fred beat her, that it was something in him. The counsellor pointed out that if she could raise her self-esteem, Fred might also be able to look at her differently. Fred found a check stub for $50 that had no explanation. He demanded to know how Jean spent the money. After pointing out that she saved it out of other household accounts, Jean said she spent it on a self-improvement course. Fred demanded she drop the course, saying it would only give her expensive ideas, and that she needed to improve her housekeeping - in a spotless apartment - and ironing. Jean went to the next session anyway, but was nearly found out by Fred. He'd been calling her all afternoon. - Among other things Jean revealed in the group were the facts that her father beat her mother, thus her passivity, and that she lost a baby after one beating. – Neil Curtis was furious when his wife Phyl accompanied her tennis pro to a tournament out of town. Before leaving, Phyl intimated to Neil that she intended to play more than tennis. Meanwhile, Chris Kostichek, Bob Anderson's protege at the plant, received a check from Phyl for $1000. Phyl wrote that she wanted Chris to use the money to court her daughter Mary, promising more money as time went on. - Phyl almost killed herself when she found her husband and daughter — by Bob — were having an affair. Realizing there was a better way to punish the transgressors, Phyl had put another plan into operation. - Neil, meanwhile, hurt at Mary's constant rebuffs of his continued advances, was jealous of the sexy Chris. When Chris tried to call Phyl to refuse the money, Neil answered and warned Chris to stay away from his wife and step-daughter. Neil then tried to call Phyl and was beside himself when the tennis pro answered the phone in her room at the tournament. Neil went to Mary saying that since Phyl was indulging in extra-marital flings, it was a good reason to resume their affair. Mary refused, saying it might all be a ploy and Phyl might even have bugged the studio. Phyl returned and laid it on thick. When Phyl refused lovemaking, Neil got drunk and paid a call on his nurse, Betty Worth. Betty refused his advances, and was saved when her fiance returned from the store. Neil next went to see "Marlena," but didn’t make a pass. Betty quit. Neil started drinking. Phyl became romantic only when he was too drunk or hung-over to reciprocate. Phyl visited Mary at her office. While Mary's out, Phyl posed as Mary's secretary and called Chris, in Mary's name, demanding to see him immediately. Chris left a touchy job at the site to rush to Mary's office. He was angry when she denied calling him, reminding him she didn’t have a secretary. Chris' anger grew when he received word that one of his men had been hurt in his absence. Mary, meanwhile, was very hurt when her father gave a party for some Pentagon brass and asked Linda Phillips to be his hostess, not her. Bob even let Chris invite and escort her, instead of inviting her himself. Bob explained he did so in order that she wouldn't accuse him of trying to throw Chris and her together. Linda Phillips had been using Tommy Horton's proposal of marriage to try to coerce Bob Anderson into also proposing, as Bob was the man she wanted. Bob had asked Linda not to accept Tommy, but had stopped short of proposing himself. As a thank you for being his hostess, Bob gave Linda a diamond necklace. She loved it, but couldn’t accept it because of Tommy's proposal. Again, Bob stopped short of proposing. Linda had lunch with Tommy, selecting an elegant restaurant Bob frequented, hoping he would see them. Tommy pressed for an answer to his proposal, but Linda put him off, saying she was not ready yet. Tommy suspected her reticence had something to do with Bob. Bill Horton received a call from a former patient who begged him to come to the hospital to discuss impending surgery. Bill tried to beg off, but the man's agitated condition forced Bill to agree to visit. The man had heard that Walter Griffin and Bill were feuding and that Griffin was wrong in Alice Horton's case. - Griffin had decided Alice needed a complete hysterectomy. Bill felt the evidence was inconclusive and urged a second opinion. After a D&C, all the tests showed negative for cancer, thus vindicating Bill and indicting Griffin as knife happy. - Bill assured the man that the surgery proposed for him appeared necessary, and he, himself, had indicated years ago that he might need this operation. As Bill quieted the patient, Griffin came in and accused Bill of interfering, refusing to listen to Bill's side of it. Some time later, Bill was the anesthesiologist on an emergency case with Griffin. Keeping his mouth shut in the operating room, Bill nonetheless told Dr. Kate Winograd, when she asked, that some of the surgery done was unnecessary, in his opinion. Griffin got the same answer when he consulted Bill, and ran to Greg. Bill's position became very precarious, Greg telling his wife Amanda that he might have to fire Bill if he continued to rub Griffin the wrong way. Griffin, himself, was having problems at home with his 15-year-old daughter, Patti. Patti had been seeing a boy Griffin didn’t like, and when he arrived home after midnight and found the boy alone with Patti, necking, he threw the boy out and grounded Patti. Patti felt his rules - no dates on school nights, curfews - were unfair and unnecessary. She felt her father was trying to hamper her from making friends and resented having been uprooted from Chicago. Griffin asked Sister Marie Horton for the name of a good parochial school, feeling Patti needed more discipline and to meet a better group of kids. Patti refused to attend the school, saying she was just making friends at her present school. Griffin, unable to deal with the problem, invited Marie to dinner to talk with Patti. Greg and Amanda were fighting. Greg had been working long hours and came home and did more work. Their social life was thus non-existent, and Amanda found his neglect painful. The conersion of Doug's Place into Doug's Coffee House was successful only on the opening night, when the place was full of friends and family. Doug would like to close up, but since the hearing on his liquor license was months away and the outcome was uncertain, he didn’t want to have to fire his employees. Thus, Julie consulted with Mickey about using her inheritence from her father to buy the place. Mickey pointed out that she would have to pay the fair market value for the place and also pay large sums in taxes to the government for the transfer. She wasn’t worried about the money, saying Doug's peace of mind was more important. She asked only that after she got Doug to agree to selling her the place, Mickey avoided mentioning the taxes. After several dismal nights at the club, Doug agreed to let Julie buy it, even though he wouldn’t be allowed on the premises. Julie was confident that she and Robert would be able to run the place until Doug got his license and could take over again. While the transfer was taking place, Doug and Julie were going on a vacation, driving through New England to look at the leaves. Marlena returned to her room, wondering why she didn't run away as before, but feeling she had "unfinished business" there. Don found her. Marlena, however, was reticent to trust him, or anyone. Powell apologized profusely and sincerely for the dreadful mistake that had been made. Laura admitted Marlena to University Hospital to allow her to recover from the heavy drug treatment and to rebuild her strength. Marlena was still confused about how she got to Bayview. Don planned to extradite Sam and prosecute her: impersonating a doctor, practicing medicine without a license, assault. Paul Whitman, contacted by Powell, promised to come to Salem and help Marlena. - Aside from being Marlena's training analyst, Paul was Marlena's lover before she came to Salem. – Toni gave birth to a little girl who had to be contined in an incubator. Jean Barton finally found the courage to tell Fred about her group sessions. When she refused to give them up, he beat her again, driving her to leave him. Marie assured her the shelter where she could live for a while would be kept secret from Fred. Marie told her there would be medical and legal help, job counselling, psychiatric counselling, etc., available to her at the shelter, Fred verbally took his anger out on Maggie, blaming her for destroying his marriage. Tommy took Linda to dinner with Tom and Alice. The evening was strained. Tommy gave Linda an engagement ring, telling her she might keep it whether she accepted his proposal or not. Bob called Linda, saying he had something important to ask her. When he asked her to be his executive assistant, she was flabbergasted, then furious. The Doctors Written by: Douglas Marland Produced by: Jeff Young Steve Aldrich returned from San Francisco to find good news waiting for him. Ann Larimer had signed the annullment papers. Included with them, however, was a quit-claim, which Steve was to sign. The document said that Steve relinquished all claim to present and future holdings he and Ann shared. Unaware Ann was pregnant, and he was signing away his child, Steve agreed. He then proposed to Carolee, who said yes. After Eleanor Conrad had to leave Andre's because she was drunk, Luke Dancy went to see her, to try to help. Eleanor told Luke she felt he found her unattractive these days. He said he couldn’t pretend to love her when she was so out of control. He promised things would be as they were between them it she would give up the pills and alcohol. After Luke left, Eleanor was disconcerted by her appearance and her daughter Wendy's taunts about Luke's only wanting her money. Eleanor took another pill. She was terribly disorganized when Wendy dropped by to go to lunch. Wendy helped her pull herself together. At a meeting about the child-care center, for which she was in charge of finances, Eleanor was barely coherent, upsetting everyone. At Doreen’s urging, Luke gave Eleanor back $50,000 of the money she gave him and broke off. Unable to live with her doubts about Luke, Eleanor went to see Doreen Aldrich, who had Luke on a string since lending him the money to buy the controlling interest in Andre's. Eleanor begged Doreen to let Luke go, to let her have him, as she loved him. Discornfitted by this display of emotion, Doreen denied she and Luke were having an affair, but Luke entered the suite with his own key. Eleanor stumbled out. She called Luke's father, Barney, asking him to come over. She asked if Doreen and Luke were having an affair. Barney denied it and reassured Eleanor of Luke's love. He then warned Luke Eleanor was in bad shape and asked Luke to give Eleanor more time. Luke refused. Wendy later begged Eleanor to see Matt Powers for a check-up. Eleanor refused, denying Wendy's allegations that she was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Eleanor looked for her pills and found Wendy had gotten rid of them. Without pills, Eleanor went to see Matt, ostensibly to set up an appointment for a check-up. On her way out, she asked Matt for sleeping pills to get her through to the check-up. Matt refused. Eleanor ran out. Concerned, Matt sent his son Mike to her apartment, to talk Eleanor into returning to the hospital. Home, Eleanor tore the apartment apart and found the pills in the wastebasket. Saying she was sorry, she took them with alcohol. Scared when the pills started to work, Eleanor tried for the phone, but passed out before she could summon help. Luke arrived at the apartment, spurred by his father's concern. Finding Eleanor unconscious and not breathing, Luke called the hospital and reported Eleanor was dead. Mike arrived alter Luke left the apartment. Eleanor was alive, but in bad shape. Luke went to Doreen and told her Eleanor was dead. Doreen absolved him of blame, but Luke felt he was too hard on Eleanor. He blamed himself; and in his panic, packed his bags. Mike saved Eleanor's life. Wendy barged into Eleanor's room, and when Mike saw how upset Eleanor was at the sight of Wendy, he threw her out, telling her she might not see her mother until Eleanor was ready. Wendy raised the roof with Matt. Mike explained Wendy's deliterious effect on Eleanor and was hacked by Matt. Wendy promised court action. Both men stood firm. Eleanor told Mike she had nothing to live tor. He said she could live for him, so that all his hard work wasn’t wasted. He pointed out many ways she could be of service and urged her to remember that without the pain in life, we couldn’t recognize the joys. Eleanor took his advice to heart. When Maggie Powers learned architect Kyle Wilson, the man with whom she had a one-night stand while Matt's and her marriage was foundering, wanted to see her, along with Matt, on his next visit to Madison, she tried to beg off. Jason Aldrich confessed to his brother Steve that he didn’t understand Nola, the woman he had been dating seriously. Nola was ready to fly off to New York in search of a career, instead of staying in Madison, near him. Jason had tried to no avail to talk Nola out of going. Steve suggested that Nola might need more than confessions of love from Jason. Jason went to Doreen and told her he wanted a divorce. Doreen refused. Jason intended to file anyway. Jason proposed to Nola, who stated her intentions to go to New York anyway, saying Jason wasn't free to make such a proposal since he was still married to Doreen. Jason told her he had asked Doreen for a divorce. Doreen couldn’t believe he was serious, wanting to divorce her to marry a nobody like Nola. Doreen cast aspersions on Nola's intentions, suggesting that Nola was only interested in his money. When Jason remained adamant about the divorce, Doreen promised a nasty court fight, naming Nola as co-respondent. When Nola told her family of Jason's proposal, both Luke and Sara urged her to accept. Her mother said to do what was in her heart. Nola still planned to go to New York until Jason had the divorce. Jason then told Nola that her going to New York would put an end to their marriage plans, but he intended to divorce Doreen, no matter what. Doreen went to Nola's apartment, where Nola and Sara were discussing whether Nola should accept the proposal or go to New York. Unaware Sara was there, Doreen gave Nola a check for $50,000 to leave Jason alone. Nola took the check with the intention of showing Jason the lengths to which Doreen would go to keep him. Doreen then flaunted the acceptance of the check in front of Mona Croft, Jason's mother, Virginia, and Steve, who sought Jason out to tell him what Doreen said, hoping to persuade Jason to hear Nola's side of the story before jumping to conclusions. Nola arrived at the office with a gift and a "yes" answer and heard Steve and Jason arguing. Nola entered Jason's inner office to a flood of abuse about being a money-grubbing person. Jason told her she was foolish for accepting Doreen's check when she could've had three times that amount in a divorce settlement. Refusing to listen to him any more, Nola stormed out and started packing for New York. Sara intervened, explaining to Jason the reason Nola took the check. Jason went to Nola's apartment and pounded on the door until she let him in. He apologized profusely, but Nola was too angry to listen at first. She tore up Doreen's check. Finally, their mutual love pierced the curtain of misunderstanding, and Nola accepted Jason's marriage proposal. When Virginia learned about Eleanor Conrad, she was devastated, especially when she learned Luke had disappeared. Virginia blamed herself, saying she always held values and expected her children to hold them too, without trying to understand them. She admitted to judging them because they couldn't or wouldn't live up to her standards, instead of letting her love hold sway. She promised to stop judging and start loving them more. Tom Carroll was finding it next to impossible to get close to Ricky Minero. – Ricky's parents were killed in an auto accident. MJ, Tom's bride of only a short time, promised her sister Betsy that she and Tom would take care of Ricky. For some reason, apparently having to do with a Vietnamese child Tom might have known while overseas, Tom wanted nothing to do with children, having given up a teaching job to work in a hank, and having lied to MJ about his father's having died of Huntington's disease, making her promise they'd never have children. - MJ took the first opportunity after the funeral to consult Jason about adopting Ricky. Jason urged caution. MJ wanted the boy to feel secure after his total loss. Jason pointed out that all Ricky had left of his parents was his name. MJ agreed to give it more time. In her concern for Ricky's emotional stability, MJ let Ricky displace Tom in their bed. Tom subsequently overreacted when the child of a bank customer accidentally dropped ice cream on his desk. Tom’s rudeness to a prospective customer at the bank led to his being fired. He told MJ it was to make room for a family member of the bank president. Tom found it difficult to babysit with Ricky and demanded that MJ find someone else to pick him up at school and take care of him. MJ felt that was unneces-sary. Tom's bad dream about striking out at the Vietnamese child ended with the child in a hospital bed with a patch over one eye. MJ was puzzled by Tom's resistance to Ricky until Carolee visited and explained that Tom might feel neglected, that Ricky had become an obstacle to their marital adjustment. MJ told Tom she would try to be more understanding of him. That night, as they started to make love, Ricky called to MJ, who rushed to him. Tom was furious, throwing a pillow across the room. When MJ came home and saw a bruise on Ricky, the kid told her that Tom became very angry and pushed him. Barney told Virginia about Luke's simultaneous involvement with Eleanor and Doreen. Virginia was astounded. She went to see Eleanor, revealing Luke's disappearance. Eleanor had come to understand that her feelings for Luke were deeper than his for her. She was concerned that Luke might think her dead. Eleanor assured Virginia that Luke wasn't to blame for her suicide attempt, that the person she had to become reconciled with is herself. She explained that Luke tried to be gentle in breaking their relationship, even attempting to return her money. Virginia was relieved. Sara and Mike Powers were becoming closer and closer these days. Meanwhile, Mike’s little half-sister, Greta, was having trouble comunicating with Matt and Maggie. She felt she was being treated like a child, while her parents feel that as a child, she needed guidance and some restrictions. The toll of Carolee and Steve’s unusual marital difficulties was taking its effect on little Erich. He was afraid that his mother would leave him again if he was a bad boy. Carolee tried to convince Erich that her leaving had nothing to do with him but somehow he was unable to believe that. He still maintained that his misbehavior was what caused his mother to leave him and he prayed all his heart that she would never go away again. Mona remarked to Sara that Nola didn’t have a wedding band yet. Luke called from New York, but hung up the minute Sara mentioned Eleanor’s name. Luke still believed Eleanor was dead and that it was his fault. Virginia was almost eating herself alive with worry. Eleanor blamed herself, saying she tried to buy Luke’s love. Weny wanted her mother put away for a good long time. Sara decided that she had to go to New York in search of her brother. Tom was annoyed with Ricky for having told MJ that he was pushed. At first, he tried to be friendly with Ricky, in an effort to convince him that everything was really all right and that he was not pushed. However, little Ricky stood, his ground and Tom became more and more angry. Ricky finally shouted that he hated Tom and ran into the room, locking the door behing him. Tom broke the door down and began to brutally beat the little child. By the time MJ returned, Tom had convinced Ricky not to tell MJ what really happened, promising never to hit the little boy again. Ricky maintained his silence. Jason badgered Doreen into telling him the truth about Luke’s sudden departure. Doreen admitted that Luke was the one who found Eleanor and made the anonymous call to the hospital. Doreen confirmed the fact that Luke believed Eleanor was dead. Jason and Doreen then had a vicious fight. The Edge Of Night Written by: Henry Slesar Produced by: Erwin Nicholson Deborah, daughter of Monticello's famous politician Tony Saxon, was performing her amateur job as an undercover cop with great success. So far, she had led her boyfriend, officer Steve Guthrie, right to the man many legal officials suspect was the murderer of Beau Richardson. Monticello's highly re-spected attorney, Mike Karr, had been on trial for the murder of Beau. Assistant D.A. Logan Swift discussed his beliefs with Mike's defense attorney, Draper Scott. "Swifty" asserted Mike committed the murder as a crime of passion. - Beau had conned Mike's wife Nancy into smuggling legal data from Mike regarding his indictment on Tony Saxon. Beau enjoyed leading Mike to believe Nancy's involvement with him was of a romantic nature. – Nancy bravely took the stand in her husband's defense. She clarified the reasons for her separation from Mike. In order to deceive Beau, she had to deceive Mike also. By leaving him, she could not get access to the information Beau wanted. She did what she thought she had to do. She found out about the hoax Beau devised from Mike. Beau had told Nancy her future adopted son Tim was kidnapped and would be tortured if she did not cooperate. She relayed to the court the cruelest thing Beau did was to make Mike think she lied to him. She last saw him on April 1st. Mike went there later to test the truth in Nancy's story. Beau was dead. In closing, Nancy's statement "as long as I've known Mike, he's always believed in the law, he'd never make a deal with the devil" was in complete contrast to Swift's cross-examination, that Mike's motive was "rage, anger, jealousy and a desire to get revenge!" Meanwhile, the Monticello police force were putting pieces together. They questioned the possibility that Col. Tom Blood, could be connected with Tony Saxon. Their query came from the fact both Tony and Col. Blood were involved in dealings in international affairs. After Steve questioned Tony about knowing Col. Blood, which Tony immediately denied, he met the Col. face to face at the Riverhead Bar. He asked him point blank, was he Ray Harper? Trapped by Steve's ingenious observation of Col. Blood's car illegally parked in a loading zone, Blood had to be taken to headquarters for lack of proper I.D., a driver's license. Col. Blood admitted he was indeed Ray Harper, the man who had Timmy's custody. He also bore an amazing resemblance to Mike. So much so that, when Inez Johnson was brought in to headquarters, to identify the man she testified she saw leaving Beau's office, she identified from a rear pose, not Mike but Ray Harper. Inez' confusion in a front view gave Mike an ounce of hope. It was up to the police to prove Harper was in Monticello on Beau's fatal night of April 1st. Chief Chandler requested Deborah get this information from Raney Cooper. Raney had been dating Deborah, slowly leaking out his association with Harper. Mike’s testimony: the whole story— he knocked Beau down after Beau flung insulted at Mike about Nancy. Realizing Beau mentioned San Francisco - where Tim was in Harper's custody - gave Mike his answer, Nancy had been deceived because Mike hadn't mentioned San Francisco to Beau. He returned to requestion Beau. The door was ajar. The club was dark. He thought he was alone. His only thought was to confront Beau about discrepancies in his story. Beau was dead. Three shots; shoulder, chest, over the heart. He took his pulse. None. He noticed no apparent struggle. The weapon was on the floor. He called the police. He did not kill Beau Richardson." Swifty cross-examined: You hate someone, angered by his insults, given a great provocation, isn't violence a natural response?” Mike had suddenly become disillusioned with the way the trial was going. Nancy found him sitting in the dark in deep thought, and was worried when on his way out to see Draper at his apartment, Mike commented he was going to face reality. Draper firmly forbade Mike to cop a plea, not then, when he knew Mike was innocent. Astonished by Mike’s actions, Bill Marceau tried to change his mind. He exposed the underground work going on with Deborah. He pleaded that Mike give him just one more week, but to no avail. Mike would not waver. Bill left, warning Mike he was letting the real killer get away. Tony Saxon had been subpoenaed to testify at the trial. He was ruffled for a short time only, as Geraldine Whitney reported Mike's plea bargain to him and suddenly the world was a shining star to Tony. He even acted friendly to Steve, normally a constant irritant to Tony. Steve's cover had just been blown, however, as a waitress revealed to Raney's associate Otto, Steve was "officer" Guthrie. Unfortunately, for Deborah, Raney got his verification from Tony about Deborah and Steve being a two-some. While Mike tried to cope with his fears about his future, he had to face the effects it had had on his adult daughter Laurie. The trauma of Mike's possible sentence had thrust Laurie into a childhood existence where her life was protected and her mind wasn’t capable of apprehending. Laurie's infant son was being taken care of by her sister-in-law Tracy and her husband Danny Micelli. Johnny, Laurie's husband, had left her and Monticello. The burden of Laurie's illness was then on the shoulders of Mike and Nancy. Laurie often woke up screaming from nightmares and had to be comforted as a child would be. She grasped for Mike's attention and the protection it offered. He discussed psychiatric help when Laurie talked of being sick. She wouldn’t be locked up, she feared that more than death. During an afternoon of "child play" with Laurie, Tracy listened to her talk of the trial. When Tracy reported this to Nancy, she was filled with new hope Laurie might be coming out of her mental block. Tracy believed when the trial was over, so would Laurie's mental disturbance be over. Thanks to Deborah’s supersleuthing the police were hard on Harper's trail and confronted him. He admitted Mike didn't kill Beau Richardson — because an attractive young woman did! Just moments after her father's plea of voluntary manslaughter, recorded in court, Laurie had another nightmare— of the shots she poured into Beau's body. Nicole Drake was in her sixth month of a very high risk pregnancy and had had severe pains lately. Due to recent stories at the Claremont Convalescent Home about a patient dying because of intentional neglect on the part of Dr. Miles Cavanaugh's wife, RN Denise Cavanaugh, Nicole panicked when she experienced the pain during Denise's shift. Denise reacted quickly and when the pain subsided, Nicole was grateful Denise was her nurse. Nicole’s obstetrician confered with Dr. Cavanaugh. They deduced Nicole was having premature labor. Together they relayed their findings to Nicole, honestly answering her fear, the labor might be an indication something was wrong with the pregnancy. Nicole began to instruct Dr. Voohries, if it came down to a choice of saving her life or her baby's, her son had to live. Miles interjected strongly there would be no decision between Nicole and her baby's life! Denise had stood by and had seen how devoted Miles was to Nicole's case. She figured the way he was scurrying around Nicole, he was in love with her. Miles was enraged, retorting Denise returned to nursing as a phony excuse to shield him. Later, Denise apologized. She asserted her possessiveness was because she was in love and married to a wonderful man. If she lost him, she'd die. Nicole was rushed to OR and prepped for delivery. She cried "Dear God, don't take my son from me too," as measures were being taken to stop the contractions. - Nicole's husband Adam was killed while trying to track down the real killer of Beau Richardson. - Miles called Nancy Karr, Nicole's closest friend, knowing she'd want to be with Nicole. He informed her they were planning to administer alcohol intravenously to depress and hopefully stop the contractions. Nicole's baby would not live if born then. The alcohol had worked, contractions had stopped and Nicole was in a drunken stupor after receiving the straight alcohol. Denise no sooner completed a conversation with her father about her desire to get Nicole out of her life, not really caring if she lost the baby or not, when she viewed through the OR window, Nicole reaching up and kissing Miles. She was giddy, drunk, and offering him a kiss of gratitude for being "a very wonderful man." The morning after, while Nicole was nursing a hangover, she was surprised at Denise's report about her amorous behavior with Miles the night before. Miles, of course, could say no wrong about Nicole; he considered her a lady. Later Denise sarcastically belittled nurse Carol Barclay by repeating Miles' comments, "in the intimacy of their bed," that Carol was laughable and desperate for a man. Carol could take no more and slapped the mouth that had insulted her. She quickly apologized, which Denise quickly accepted, but, to herself, promised she would forgive her in a hundred years. - Carol once tried to seduce Miles, but he flatly rejected her. When Nicole checked in to the Claremont, Carol wrote a letter to Denise, knowing Denise would hurry home from a vacation to split up any growing bond between doctor and patient. – Miles’ sister, April, had refused the open heart surgery that would cure the heart condition which was taxing her life. She had fallen in love with Draper and refused to risk her life in surgery, choosing to hang onto false hopes of a miracle drug that would cure her. Neither Miles nor Nicole's persuasion would convince April to approve the operation. She wouldn’t tell Draper the truth, he was under the impression the medication was doing the job. Nadine Scott had returned to Monticello from England to participate in her daughter Raven's wedding to Kevin Jamison. Kevin was wealthy Geraldine Whitney's chosen heir. Geraldine had collaborated with her social companion Tony Saxon and together they had launched Kevin's political career. Kevin, quite satisfied as crime reporter for the Monticello News, reluctantly accepted the appointment of him as a new Crime Commission member. Raven, impressed with the aspirations of being a politician's wife, latched onto Kevin's proposal for marriage. Nadine knew very well her daughter was of a fickle nature, yet described Raven as a harmless flirt to Kevin. He was doubting Raven's fidelity and the wedding march hadn't even begun to play yet. - Raven was having an affair with her stepfather and Nadine knew it. In the end, he chose to be with Nadine, only after Raven rejected him on his wedding day to Nadine, and Kevin suspected a relationship there, but couldn’t get any answers from Nadine. - Raven was enjoying the best of both worlds, as she continued to be the lover of Logan Swift and finacee of Kevin. While Nadine warned Raven her flightiness might hurt her, Geraldine was advising Kevin to be firm with Raven, like a child, she craved discipline. General Hospital Written by: Irving & Tex Elman / Richard & Suzanne Holland Produced by: Tom Donovan Heather’s benevolent landlady steered her to a – porno - photo studio, telling her the young man who ran it was a friend of hers and could let her work out the cost of the portfolio she would need to present to be considered for work as a model. Professing shock at Heather's tale on her return, Mrs. Hadley insisted that she couldn't be so heartless as to press Heather for her room and board or permit her to settle for less than the career she had faith that Heather would eventually win. She checked out her feeling that Heather had not much money behind her by using an elderly friend who claimed to be an investment councellor and offered to advise the young widow - Heather's story - on how to protect her settlement - the imaginary husband's insurance -. Then sure of her ground, Mrs. Hadley met with her friend from the studio and told him not to give up on Heather too soon, she would come around. The plan was to give Heather credit and then some more credit before putting pressure on her. When she claimed it always worked, the young man agreed, saying he had seen her do it before. Heather, still looking, did get a legitimate offer of a hostess job with a cruise line but couldn’t leave the baby for the tours. She called Audrey at General Hospital in trying to contact Diana, but when she heard that Martha has been killed in the hurricane, she decided that Diana was troubled enough. Mrs. Hadley began to pressure Heather for her money, saying she, too, had expenses. Heather, having had no luck finding a job, asked her mother for $500. Coincidentally, Jeff had been talking to Steve and Lt. Sage – the detective who was dating RN Jessie Brwer - about hiring a private detective to find Heather in New York. Steve had come up with $500, which would pay the detective for 5 days. - Unbeknownst to Jeff, Steve was his natural father, the result of an affair between Steve and his mother years ago. Steve had to leave for Korea before Helene's divorce from Lars Webber was final. When Steve was reported missing/dead, Helene resumed her marriage with Lars. Thus, Steve would be helping to find his grandchild. - Mrs. Grant arrived with Heather's request. Jeff gave her the money, saying that even if he found her, there'd be no way to force Heather to return with his son. This way, he knew she had some money to care for the child. A man from a cruise ship made Heather a definite offer, which she'd like to accept. But, as Mrs. Hadley so "kindly" pointed out, there'd be nobody to care for Stephen for the time she was gone. Boarding nurseries were out — too costly. Heather next found a temporary waitress job, which paid her only enough to pay Mrs. Hadley for babysitting for one day. What looked like a break came when Heather was chosen for a crowd scene for a movie shooting in N.Y. The assistant director took an interest in Heather, getting her a slightly bigger part the next day. He then invited her to Hollywood, telling her he was sure she could make it in movies. Heather figured out expenses for the move —a minimum of $3000. Mrs. Hadley brought in her photographer friend, who promised Heather could make big money posing for him. Heather turned him down flat, saying she'd be ashamed for herself and her son to pose nude. Heather had a dinner date with the assistant director, but had to cancel because of a bad cold. In her misery, Heather confessed her true background to Mrs. Hadley, who ordersed her from the house, saying she couldn’t stand liars. Audrey Hardy took David Hamilton to task for all his malingering, pointing out that Diana, his harried nurse, had just lost her only child, the only child she would ever have, but was not crying about it. - David's family was killed in the accident that injured him. - David appeared to straighten up, letting the curtains be opened, getting into a wheel-chair. But one night Diana caught him with a whole bottle of sleeping pills. As she and David were struggling over them, Mark Dante arrived. He took the pills away. Mark then told David he could have ruined Diana's career because she was responsible for him. Mark continued to tell David the surgery was successful and that the only reason he couldn’t walk was that he didn’t want to, that if he wanted to die, to do it somewhere else. Rick Webber, hearing of the incident, paid his old friend a visit. Feeling that all David needed was someone to care about him, Rick invited David to recuperate at the Webber house upon his release. Lesley was angry at the invitation, reminding Rick they were about to be married and would be on their honeymoon during the time David was there. Finally, Les capitulated, and even goes so far as to second Rick's invitation, although she still had misgivings. Peter Taylor was concerned about Diana's emotional condition since the loss of Martha. He was relieved when one night Diana told him that she had come to grips with her grief and assured Peter that they could have a full and happy life with just the two of them. Peter arranged to get time off, as did Diana. She wanted to go to New York, at first saying it had been a long time since she had seen a show. But the real reason, she later confessed, was to look for Heather and Stephen Lars. Peter was uneasy, and continued so, especially when Diana made remarks about eating at the hospital so she could be away from memories of Martha. Jeff Webber continued to be baffled about his patient, Lisa. Her amnesia was hampering his investigation of her ailment because he couldn’t get a complete medical history. He asked about a pendant she wore with the Gemini sign. Without thinking, Lisa said it was for love, but couldn’t remember any more. When new x-rays showed a shadow on the adrenal gland, Steve's memory was jogged and he showed Jeff a paper on Breechman's disease, a terminal illness, Steve located Dr. Breechman, and Jeff paid him a visit. The only hoped Breechman hold for Lisa was her youth, but she had to be under constant medical supervision. Until he could learn more, all Jeff told Lisa was that her condition was serious. Following a conversation in which Jeff told Lisa that finding Heather was the most important thing in his life at the time, Lisa disappeared from the hospital. Lt. Sage traced her to a bus to Montreal, which made nine stops on the way. Jeff alerted the Montreal hospitals, then received the Gemini pendant in the mail, postmarked Utica. - Gina and Adam were packed for their plan to get into a car and drive over the weekend, getting married on the way, when Mark told Gina that his father-in-law, Judge Lowell, the man who practically raised her, had suffered a heart attack in Boston. When Adam learned that she intended to go, he asked if it was an excuse to postpone their wedding plans but Gina insisted that they couldn’t have much of a honeymoon if she was worried sick. Adam replied angrily that they would both have extra time to do some extra thinking. Convinced that he had to push to learn if Gina loved him, Adam finally told Gina that he had been asked to go to Bogota for the opening of a new O.B. Clinic and he believed that Gina wished he'd just go away and get out of her life. He told Gina the trip was for a few weeks but if he went to Bogota alone — that was it! - Gina told Adam she thought it was best if she went to Boston. After Mr. Kennicott dropped his lawsuit, Adam wrote to Gina, stating he hoped they could start again where they left off, promising not to push her. Gary poked fun at the "reverse Dear John letter," then asked that he and Gina become friends again. She agreed. Later, she was astounded when he confessed he loves her. - Monica had been assigned by Rick in his capacity as Chief of Cardiac Surgery to work with Alan Quartermaine, blue blooded administrator of a famous trust fund which Steve was hoping would present General Hospital with a grant for a new cardiac wing if Quartermaine could be made to see the need. - Monica quickly learned that Alan will find the justification for the grant, if he did, only through facts and figures and could not be reached by appealing to his emotions. Mark Dante warned Monica she wouldn’t win any points with Quartermaine by flirting or "coming on," as the man was all business. Monica returned to work, continuing her flirtatiousness: Quartermaine kissed her and made a proposition which insulted Monica. After rebuffing his rough and tumble advances, Monica realized she was jealous Alan was dating RN Dorrie Flemming. Laura and Scott’s relationship was veering away from the platonic. He was beginning to see her in a more romantic light. She no longer looked like such a kid to him. Scotty expressed his change of heart by kissing Laura long, hard and passionately. Laura responded in kind. It looked like a new romance is beginning to blossom in Port Charles. Scotty’s father-in-law, Lee Baldwin, finally nixed the district attorney job and invited Scotty and Laura on a weekend trip to Washington. Lesley was upset about her daughter’s involvement with Scotty and David Hamilton’s presence in her house. She decided to postpone her wedding to Rick. Laura cajoled Monica into giving her a prescription for birth control pills – just in case. She couldn’t ask Lesley – her mother still thought of her as a little girl. Monica didn’t want to get involved in such a sneaky deed – the wounds between her and Lesley were hardly healed – but she had no other choice. Laura told her if Monica didn’t do as she asked, she would make it with Scotty without the benefit of protection. She would just have to take her chances. Gail advised Scotty to keep it slow with Laura but they consumated their love. Rick reassured Lesley and they set a new wedding date. Mark Dante decided to divorce Mary Ellen when he received some bad news. While escaping from the state mental institution in a stolen car, Mellie ran the automobile into a brick wall and was killed instantly. Mark had no time to grieve as he had a new patient – wealthy businessman Lamont Corbin. Mark gasped in surprise when he saw Lamont’s wife. It was his childhoof friend, Katie O’Reilly. She did all right for a scrapper from Boston’s poverty strewn North End. Katie told Mark she wanted to keep their relationship strictly professional. At the nurse station, Jeff heard “Do you know where I can find Dr. Jeff Webber?”. He turned around, his eyes open wide with shock. The woman was Lisa ! Or was it? She said not. She was Lisa’s twin sister: Lana Holbrook. She was her to see her sister and was told Dr. Webber was her physician. Jeff said that he was Dr. Webber but seeing Lisa was not possible. He sister skipped out of the hospital a week ago – and they didn’t know where she was. Jeff then told Lana the sad news. Learning her sister was terminally ill caused Lana to nearly faint – but she quickly recovered. Jeff noticed Lana was wearing a Gemini pendant. Lana said she and her sister both had one. Lana quickly pointed out that while she and Lisa might be identical in appearance, they were in no way alike in personality. Lisa was quiet – a shrinking violet – and very sweet; traits which far from won Lana’s stramp of approval. The disdain was very evident in Lana’s voice as she told Jeff it was no wonder she and Lana never got along. While meeting with Jeff and Lt. Sage, Lana suffered a strange tingling sensation in her hand and then fainted dead away in Jeff’s arms. Jeff brought her to General Hospital. He ran the necessary tests and diagnosed Lana as also suffering from Breechman’s disease. The problem got more perplexing by the day. Breechman’s disease wasn’t known to be genetic. Jeff worried that Lisa might be getting worse. Heather told Mrs. Hadley she would have to let the Taylors have Steven Lars for the $10.000 they promised her. Mrs. Hadley told Heather she knew just the lawyer who could help her and called her friend, Mr. Wallace. In addition to his concern for Lana and Lisa, Jeff was also worried about his son. He learned from Mrs. Grant that Heather was planning to go to Hollywood and he hit the roof – Heather was not going to run around the country with his son. He was going to track her down and fight for custody of the boy. Heather realized she could no longer dally in her decision. Mr. Wallace said an entirely legal adoption would take months. Seeing that Heather was still hesitant, Mr. Wallace – very anxious to get his grubby hands on part of her money – did something to cement her decision. He told Heather he had taken the first step and sent Diana and Peter a telegram. Mark told Katie the outlook for her husband wasn’t very good. The operation was very risky and there was a very good possibility that Lamont would die on the operating table. Mark wanted Lamont to know the truth about his condition, but Katie disagreed. She said such news would cause her husband to retreat into a shell. He would no longer be interested in his work – and that’s what was keeping him alive. Guiding Light Written by: Bridget & Jerome Dobson Produced by: Allen Potter Evie Stapleton was getting married. She and her fiance Ben McFarren were planning to marry Thanksgiving, the day Eve's parents were married. Evie's happiness had been clouded by recurring blurred vision. It was getting worse since she fell and suffered a concussion months ago. Dr. Ed Bauer performed a CU examination testing for a brain tumor. After hours of anxiety, Ed reported a negative result, no tumor. Although relieved, they couldn’t rest assured yet, there was still a problem and more tests were required. One day Evie tried to pour a glass of milk, her hand began to shake uncontrollably and she lost her vision momentarily. She was scared but concealed her feelings well from Ben and her mother and sister, Rita. Ed had informed a specialist in the field, Dr. Lathrop. He had studied Evie's records sent to him by Ed, they planned to meet in Springfield soon, so Dr. Lathrop could examine Evie himself. They hadn't confirmed it, but both Ed and Dr. Lathrop feared the diagnosis of Evie's problem was serious. The wedding plans were beginning. Evie had asked Rita to be her maid of honor, and Ben had asked his younger brother Jerry to be his best man. To go along with Evie's traditional plans, Ben gave her a "traditional" diamond engagement ring. He shared a close moment with Eve, looking into her bright big brown eyes, a part of Eve Ben loved so much. They looked forward to sharing every day of the rest of their lives together. The women’s auxiliary of Cedars Hospital was holdings its First Annual Benefit Ball and there was an air of excitement at the hospital as the gala event approached. Cedars chief-of-staff, Dr. Ed Bauer had invited his ex-wife Holly to accompany him. Holly was on cloud nine choosing her gown for her date with Ed. Her mother, Barbara Thorpe assured Holly this was Ed's public statement of how he felt about her. Holly was not as confident about Ed's reasons, she thought he was dating her because of her daughter Christina. - While married to Ed, Holly and Roger Thorpe had an affair. Christina was Roger's child, and because of it, Ed divorced Holly although he chose to raise Christina as his own child. Since the divorce, Ed's love for Christina was the link that has brought him closer to Holly. Roger was putting on pressure to be Christina's father legally, but Ed wouldn’t allow it. He was adamant, if Christina was to be raised a Bauer, Roger had to have nothing to do with her. – Holly received a letter from Roger in which he insisted he still wanted to he a part of Christina's life. Desperate not to alienate Ed, Holly made a plea to Roger's father, Adam. She needed Adam, to reason with Roger, explaining the collision course he and Ed were on over Christina. Adam was appalled that Roger and Ed had actually physically fought over this matter, but he couldn’t agree with Holly, knowing the need Roger had for his daughter. Since Ed was romantically involved with Rita Stapleton recently, a new doctor on Cedars staff, Peter Chapman, cleared it with Ed before asking Rita to the Ball. Ed didn’t hesitate with his approval, but then lingered in thought about Rita. In the hospital corridors, Rita eyed Ed in conversation with Holly, and Ed returned her glances when she was talking to Dr. Chapman. - Rita was acquitted from a murder charge recently only when Roger Thorpe testified he was with her in a motel at the time the murder was committed. Already hurt by Roger and Holly, Ed could not bear this pain. He broke off with Rita. - At the ball, Rita and Ed ended up at the punchbowl together. The conversation was strained, filled with smalltalk. During the evening, Rita couldn’t keep her eyes off Ed, and he seemed to be viewing her also, which Holly silently observed. Rita didn’t know it yet, but her involvement with the Grangers was not finished. The daughter-in-law of the man whose death Rita was tried for causing was in Springfield and was taking steps to fulfill her obsession about getting revenge on Rita. Rita inherited a large portion of the Granger estate. She had anonomously donated the entire inheritance to Cedars Pediatrics ward. Georgene Granger had settled in Springfield and had applied for a job at Cedars as Georgene Belmont. She was planning to slowly seep into Rita's life, beginning with an appearance at the Ball. She was absolutely smug about Rita's shocked reaction at the sight of her. There was a mystery about the new girl in town, Hillary Kincaid, and her stepfather, William Moray, who paid a short visit to Springfield opposed to Hillary's decision to attend Cedars nursing school. In a phone conversation with his wife he said that no one would recognize him, it's been ten years, and a lot of memories; he hadn't seen Bert, Papa, Ed or Mike. Hillary had found newspaper clippings her stepfather collected of Rita's trial. While at Hillary's apartment Rita and Evie came by, as Hillary had befriended Evie. William was quite startled to hear Ed was then chief-of-staff. He was very ill at ease, worrying Hillary about his noticeable depression. After her father departed from Springfield, Hillary's stomach ache became progressively worse. In desperation, she called Eve, who had Rita see her. Rita had Hillary go to Cedars' emergency where Dr. Sara McIntyre was called in to examine and diagnose her. They performed an emergency appendectomy. Complications occured due to a ruptured appendix and Rita notified Mr. Moray that Hillary had peritonitis. He was on the next plane back to Springfield. Jackie Marler was quite preoccupied with the Spalding family and their son Phillip, who were staying in Springfield. Her father, Dr. Emmett Scott, was concerned as to why Jackie was so overzealously interested in this high society family. - Discovering her husband Justin was unfaithful, Jackie led him to believe she aborted her pregnancy and divorced Justin to punish him. Only Jackie knew she went to Germany instead and gave up her son for adoption. – Mike Bauer had asked Jackie to be his date for the ball. For once she didn’t appear irritated when at the dance, they saw Justin and his date, Dr. Sara McIntyre. Home from the ball, Jackie and Mike enjoyed the romantic view from her terrace. Mike complimented Jackie, admiring her spirit —she was independent and strong. Jackie didn’t share his confidence in her. Mike stated she didn’t appreciate herself as she should; maybe he could be there to help. Unknown to Jackie, she had a rival in Mike's secretary Ann Jeffers. Ann was pleased Mike couldn’t accept a date with Jackie because he was having dinner with her instead. Rita was unnerved by Georgene's presence, suspicious of her motives. She left the dance abruptly with no explanation to anyone. Georgene was just beginning to haunt Rita, accepting a position in the record department at Cedars: Mike put in a call to Georgene's lawyer in Texas, inquiring, for his client, why Georgene was in Springfield. Holly was disappointed by the end of a perfect evening when the babysitter reported Roger had called and wanted to talk to Christina. If Ed had any intentions of showing affection for Holly, the news of that phone call dampened them. Sara was dating Justin frequently, having overcome her mourning for her recently deceased husband Joe. Her adopted son TJ couldn’t accept Justin as the new man in his mother's life. Justin had tried to be a buddy to TJ but to no avail. Love Of Life Written by: Gabrielle Upton Produced by: Darryl Hickman Mildred Russell placed a call to London and informed her lawyer that Arlene didn't want the money; rather she felt that Arlene had had a crush on Ian. Her lawyer told her that there was a codacil to Ian's will, leaving Beaver Ridge to Arlene. Cal Latimer told Rick that she had thought it over and he should accept her mother's offer to help buy Ian Russell's share of Beaver Ridge from Mildred Russell. Rick said he could never work with Meg, so she suggested he accept the money from her trust fund. He refused this offer also. Her last suggestion was that they sell the mill house because even though she loved it, he would soon be able to buy them another house that they would love just as much. Rick arrived from his appointment with Mrs. Russell and found Meg already there. Rick made his offer, but she told him Beaver Ridge was not part of the estate mentioned in the will because it had been left to someone else and she was not free to say to whom until the estate was probated. Rick told Cal the news and they agreed to make the same offer to whomever the new partner was. Lt. Hollenbeck wanted to question Arlene Lovett about her fingerprints on Rick Latimer's missing gun, found in the fountain of Russell's unfinished penthouse. Ray Slater had told her of this possibility and she had taken the phone off the hook. Dr. Tom Crawford found Arlene in very bad shape and insisted that she go to his apartment. He finally got her to sleep and fell into a deep slumber on the sofa. Arlene was awakened by a hallucination of Ian Russell biding her to follow. She slipped into her coat and, unable to waken Tom, followed the vision to her apartment. The closet, filled with Ian's suits, was open and she saw Ian emerge. Arlene passed out. In New York, Carrie Johnson read about the death of her daughter's lover and tried to call Arlene. But Tom had taken Arlene to the hospital after finding her in shock. He had Dr. Lockridge, a psychiatrist, examine her and they agreed she needed rest and treatment. Tom blamed himself for not seeing that she wanted him to rescue her from the life she was living with Russell long ago. He felt it was his own pride that got in the way. When Carrie arrived, Ray Slater said he knew Arlene loved her and only sent her away for her own good. He could say no more and wanted her to accept his word for this. - Carrie saw Russell meet Frankie Sills, whom he killed later that night. Afraid that Carrie would link him to the murder, Russell ordered Slater to arrange an accident for Carrie to prove his loyalty. Slater told Arlene and together they arranged to slip Carrie out of town. – Arlene was afraid to believe that her mother was really there because she had been told that she couldn’t have seen Russell because he was dead. Finding that she hadn't been fooled, she told her mother about Ian trying to have her killed. She talked about how angry she was that lan had made her say such terrible things to get her mother out of town. She explained how easy it was to take the gun out of Rick's desk. She waited for lan to return and shot him. Carrie explained that this was ridiculous since Ian wasn't shot; he fell down the elevator shaft. - While Arlene waited for lan that night, she was so upset that she THOUGHT he came through the door and THOUGHT she shot him. - Arlene agreed and talked about taking a taxi ride. She mumbled about pointing the gun and then all her thoughts were jumbled. Carrie thought this was all part of Arlene's confusion and was sure Arlene could never shoot a gun. The truth of the missing gun was a shock to Carrie. Even though Arlene was not his patient - he was a cardiac specialist -, Tom had prevented Lt. Hollenbeck from questioning Arlene. Hollenbeck began to speculate on Tom's protectiveness and the fact that Tom was asking to see Russell when the police were trying to locate him. Lt. Hollenbeck finally saw Arlene, but she refused to answer his questions, becoming very hysterical in the process. She said no one could MAKE her say anything. Dr. Lockridge said that Arlene's hysteria might be due to guilt, not her extreme mental condition. When Ray Slater heard that Arlene had been released, he told Tom that they had to protect her, implying that she might be guilty. Mayor Bruce Sterling had promised his wife that he would take a vacation the following year. Bruce had been seeing Dr. Joe Cusack without his wife's knowledge so as not to worry her. He noticed that he tired very easily and couldn’t wait for the day to end. Joe called to remind Bruce that he was due for a checkup and he promised to come in after he attended a conference in New York City. Bruce began to wonder if he should make it a point to see Joe before going to New York. He told Van that when he returned, he was going to start campaigning for his next term. She explained that she would have been surprised to hear that he wasn't going to run again. Rick Latimer had remembered his first anniversary, but let Cal think it had slipped his mind completely. She had asked him to pick her up downtown after she finished. Rick explained to their border, Michael Blake, that he had planned a surprise party at the house and would like Michael to pick Cal up and take her for coffee to detain her. Michael tried to beg off, but Rick was persistent. Cal was feeling so low that she would rather have a drink than coffee. Michael ordered champagne to celebrate, which reminded Cal that she and Rick drank a lot of champagne on their honeymoon. When Cal and Michael were a half hour late, Cal's mother began to make wisecracks about Cal and Michael being together. - Meg Hart was trying to use Michael to break up her daughter's marriage. Meg and Rick were lovers before he married Cal and she would like him back. - Cal was tipsy when she got home and very surprised to see all her family there. Mia Marriott had continued to make suggestions that she felt would improve Ben Harper's manuscript. He finally wrote in another woman because Mia said the readers couldn’t be sure the hero had given up on other women unless there was one to tempt him. He made her a young, giving girl and Mia was furious that the character didn’t resemble herself. Dr. Andrew Marriott arrived at his estranged wife's to find Ben there. He was further confused when Lynn Henderson said Ben had been seeing a woman that he called "difficult." Lynn was still in love with Ben and Van explained that he had to be careful not to hurt her. He not only considered her much too young, he was still in love with Betsy. Ben was thinking of showing his sister, Cal, his manuscript when he saw a letter she received from Betsy, his ex-wife, who had taken his daughter to England to be with her parents. Upset that Betsy was seeing an American, he went to Mia for help with his writing. Ben explained that he missed his daughter and would like to go to England. Feeling rejected, Mia told Andrew that she should return to New York because nobody in Rosehill would miss her. The next time Ben called, she told him that he was a "stupid, promiscuous shopper" and hung up because it had been reported that he was out with someone else. Mia's best friend, Wendy Hayes, said Mia's life had begun to revolve around her typewriter and her writer friend. Left alone with little Charles, Charles Lamont phoned the Sterlings to ask for help when he was unable to quiet the crying baby. Eddie Aleata accompanied Bruce and soothed the colicky child. Charles was so happy that he forgot for a moment that he and Eddie were having a custody battle over the baby. When he recovered, he threw Eddie out of the house. Aleata told his lawyer, Dory Patton, that he almost picked up the child and ran away to Europe. She was glad that he restrained himself, since they had been given a court date for their hearing. Dory's assistant, Wendy Hayes, suggested that her boss might find Mr. Aleata very attractive, but was told that she lost the only man she could ever love. Tom Crawford told Joe Cusack that he planned to ask Arlene to marry him while having dinner with her. Joe said this could be bad for Tom and the hospital if Arlene was implicated in Russell's death. Arlene broke down when he asked her to be his wife as soon as possible. She asked for time. She explained to her mother and Slater that she couldn’t marry Tom as long as she could cast a shadow on him. Lt. Hollenbeck’s superior was pushing for a fast arrest that would stick to further his political career. Hollenbeck was sure that Arlene was guilty and had a plan to make her confess of her own accord. Bruce Sterling decided to take his doctor's advice and have his check up before he left town. Joe was glad to hear that the mayor wasn’t going to put this off, but things changed when Bruce was forced to take an earlier flight and had too much city business to see to first. Lynn told Van that she wanted to quit school and work full-time. Van suggested that Lynn wait until Bruce retumed from New York so that they could discuss it. One Life To Live Written by: Gordon Russell Produced by: Joseph Stuart At the restaurant where Jenny had agreed to meet with Will Vernon, he told her that his son Brad's love for her was only a need for mothering, to win her as a prize, even to get back at him. When Jenny asked why Will was telling her all this tonight, he replied he had a sense of urgency. Brad seemed to be taking so much for granted and had referred to Jenny as his fiancee and was planning to give her a ring belonging to Naomi. Jenny insisted that Will was probably mistaken as Brad knew how guilty Jenny felt over Naomi's death and would never be so insensitive as to give her such a ring. At Jenny's apartment Will told her he could give her happiness and that they were in love. Jenny told him not to say those words to her ever again. After Will left, Jenny told Dr. Jim Craig that Will said all the wrong things; that she felt she had to run from both Brad and Will because she was in the middle and each was saying how messed up the other was. When Samantha saw her father and Jenny together, she rushed out and asked Marco to take her home. Marco couldn’t imagine what was so upsetting for Sam to see Will and Jenny sharing a cup of espresso in a public restaurant and told her she had quite an imagination. At Sam's house he told her she was hung up on her father and the thought of Daddy with another woman was getting to her. Sam told him to go home and Marco blew up, telling her to do him a favor and the next time she needed someone, didn’t call on him because she counted on him a lot but wouldn’t even treat him as a person. Sam called Brad and asked to see him, telling him he was right about Will and Jenny; that they didn't see her but she saw enough to realize it was no chit-chat over coffee. Sam said her father had better be able to explain, insisting he doesn’t lie and it was the only hope she had. - Brad called Jenny and she told him she just had a cup of coffee after the concert and came home. When Jenny told Jim that it was kind of deceitful, putting it that way, Jim insisted that Jenny just didn't want to add fuel to the fire between Brad and Will. – Will got home and told Samantha when she came in that he wondered where she was. When she said she wondered the same about him, he said he was with a friend. Sam asked if that was what he called her and told him to admit he was with Jenny. Will said he was, for a hit, and Sam told him it was good that he didn't lie. She asked if he was in love with jenny and he told her that when she was older, she would realize that there were some things people had no control over. Samantha insisted he answer and he said yes, and he would marry Jenny the following day if she would have him. Sam told him all this time he had insisted he loved Brad and wanted to make up their quarrel, all the while he was after Jenny. She said she didn’t know him and didn’t want to and was sorry he was her father. Sam rushed to Marco's motel only to realize he had a woman there - Dorian Lord -. She went to Tony's Place and Tony talked her into going home. The following day, Jenny came to visit Sam who told her she had a nerve in coming. She said she knew from the way Jenny looked at her father that she was in love with him and had been all along. Jenny said she asked for a transfer when Will told her he loved her but Sam insisted that Jenny knew that would make him want her more and called her a tease. She insisted that her father had no right telling Jenny he loved her; he could have kept it to himself. Sam reminded Jenny that her parents always told her "you have to control your own emotions.” She added that the trouble was Will didn’t practice what he preached. Jenny told Will what Sam said to her and said she was just getting over her guilt about Naomi and was then the cause of another estrangement in the Vernon family. Jenny was shocked to hear Will say that at least they were in this crisis together. She asked because Sam hated the both of them ... that brought them together? Then she told him not to talk to her or touch her. Will told her as she left that he was trapped in a loveless, disasterous marriage and the same thing could happen to her if she got in any deeper with Brad. Sadie Gray asked Will if he would consider giving her old job as housekeeper back to her. Will said that Brad did not live at home and Sam's plans were so indefinite but Sadie interrupted and told him she knew enough to see that there were problems and she would like to see what she could do about making the Vernon house into a home again. When Will agreed gladly, he soon learned that Carla did not approve. Carla told her mother that when she was a child growing up, Sadie was never there for her. She was always making life comfortable and loving for other people's children and was too tired at the end of a long day to give much of herself to her daughter. Sadie told her that she had to realize that she had to work to raise Carla alone and she did it all for her. She asked if Carla had forgiven her and Carla told her mother that she understood it intellectually, from an adult point of view, but the lonely little girl in her still might not, emotionally. When Marco asked her to dinner, Sam told him to ask the woman in the motel. He told her he was sorry about the fact that he wasn't there for her when she needed him. Sam and Marco went to Tony's Place and Will walked in. Marco asked him to sit and took a walk. Will asked Sam to come home with him. She told Will she would work out how she felt about Marco for herself. When Will said it was easy to be self-destructive, she advised him to save his analysis for people who didn’t know him, adding that all his psychological garbage hadn't helped him or his children to be happy. In one last try, Will told Sam if she could look him in the eye and say she honestly loved Marco, he would get up and leave. He said he would expect her home later that night and told her to do anything she wanted as long as she was sure, then he went. Marco came back, after seeing Will leave, with congratulations for Sam that she had apparently grown up. When he dramatically offered her "the key to my motel room and the key to my heart" she told him to keep it, saying she didn’t want to hide in his bathroom when some other woman came knocking at his door. Tony hired Sam, decided to move on with her life. Lana got pretty smashed and "staked her claim" to Brad in front of Jenny. After Jenny went, Brad told Lana to get the hell out. Lana couldn't believe Brad meant it and told him he had no right to start up with her again. When she insisted he tell her if he had been deliberately lying to her, he said he loved Jenny and always had. She screamed at him that he was a monster, mouthing the words he felt necessary to get rid of her and feeling nothing. For her part, Jenny was convinced that the jealousy she felt was proof that she loved Brad and told Anna that it was not as though it came as a big surprise to her that Brad was capable of lying. When she saw Brad the next time, she was wearing a new dress and a sexy hair-do. Dorian had been impressed by Miss Edwina Lewis, late of Princeton, a young woman seeking a job at the Banner – Miss Lewis was also a former flame of Richard Abbott -. She recommended that Pat Kendall consider hiring Edwina as the assistant she needed. Pat interviewed the young woman but told Dorian she had decided not to hire her for the position because of a feeling she couldn’t explain and reminded Dorian that she assured her the decision was entirely up to her. Edwina decided to pursue her association with Dorian by volunteering at Llanview Hospital when she learned that Dorian was a power on the Board. Peter Janssen invited Edwina to Tony's Place and sat back as Brad and Edwina mutually turn on the charm, discussing Brad's days on the tennis circuit. The three left together when Edwina accepted Brad's offer of returning Peter's hospitality with a visit to a disco, though Peter had a full day at the hospital ahead in the morning. After they left, Lana, who had been commenting to her co-workers about how Brad was coming on to Edwina when he was supposed to be engaged to Jenny, got dizzy and fell. At Cathy's urging, Lana went to the Free Clinic for an examination. When Jenny arrived to take over from Cathy, Lana left a note for Cathy and later, at Cathy's home, told her that she had learned she was pregnant with Brad's child. Marco dropped by on Karen Wolek and when Gus McDonald – plumber - came by, Marco picked up on Karen's panic stricken attempt to get rid of him and realized, after Gus took off, that Karen had been sleeping with him while her husband Larry was away. – Bored by the housewife style, Karen had spiced up her life by sleeping around -. He laughingly told Karen the poor slob probably thought he – Marco - was her husband and left, telling Karen he could see how much married life had changed her. Karen was on the phone, screaming at Gus not to ever come ringing her doorbell again or she would have him thrown in jail and he had better take it very, very seriously, when Larry walked in. She told him she lost her temper with Lana. Richard Abbott had gotten Becky a job on the Banner, even to helping her get a social security number. They had been picknicking in the park on their lunch hour and had both been chewed out by Dorian for cutting up - Richard, not Becky - on company time. Richard was delighted when he learned that Becky had heard from the manager of a Country-Western Club that she would be given a chance to audition live and, as it was payday, Mrs. Hopkins invited him to be her guest for dinner there that night. When he stared at Becky, arrayed in a red dress and a platinum wig as she sang "I'm so Lonesome I could Cry," Mrs. Hopkins had to warn him to be careful. Richard didn’t approve the sexy look and he told Becky. Becky’s temper erupted in ferocious flames and she told Richard whe he could do with his comments. She was determined she would never be in a relationship with Richard. Dorian knew Tony would like nothing better than for Paul Kendall to leave town, so she made sure Paul would be around for a long time by offering Paul a job at The Banner. It was a three year contract for the job of manager of the Lord Press. Dorian smiled to herself as she heard Paul tell her he would accept her offer. Thanks to Dorian, Edwina began working as Paul’s assistant. Paul was immediately impressed with the young woman. Dorian gave Paul a pretty meaty assignment for his first task : to come up with a new idea for a magazine. She was assigning Pat, Edwina and Richard to help him with this project. Paul called a meeting and Richard went into a shock when he entered the office and saw Edwina sitting in the chair right next to Pat’s. Edwina coolly rose from her seat and sweetly told all gathered that she and Richard knew each other at Princeton. In fact, at one time, they were both up for the same journalistic prize, which Richard ultimately won. Edwina’s voice hinted that she wasn’t exactly happy that her “old friend” scored this win. Pat became more and more confused and torn. After spending a night with Tony, she knew her loyalties lay with him. When Paul offered Pat an anniversary gift, she couldn’t deny she still felt something very strong for him. Brad was the happiest man alive as Jenny had agreed to marry him. The following day, Brad got a visit from Lana who told him she was pregnant. Brad told Lana he would take her to New York and she could have an abortion. Lana exploded and told Brad she was keeping the baby and she didn’t care that by doing so she would be destroying his “perfect little world.” She was not going to hide the fact he was the father. Lana left the health club half-hating Cathy for persuading her to tell Brad. Ryan’s Hope Written by: Claire Labine & Paul Avila Mayer Produced by: Claire Labine, Paul Avila Mayer & Robert Costello Rae Woodard threatened to have her husband removed from Riverside Hospital if Seneca did not permit Roger Coleridge to go forward with surgery, insisting that Woodard's entire life was based on taking risks. In effect Seneca was forced to choose between permitting a dangerous operation or stand by and watch an equally dangerous transfer which entailed the risk of further infection to Woodard. Seneca ordered the surgery scheduled and Jillian prepared a form stating that Mrs. Woodard was going forward against medical advice. - William Price Woodard was 61 years of age and suffered a serious coronary some years before. – After surgery was performed, Rae learned that the procedure was successfully completed but Woodard went into cardiac arrest and, though he was revived, has suffered some brain damage which would probably be permanent. At first Rae was extremely agitated, saying Bill would rather be dead; that she would rather have him dead, and she believed he would beg to die. She had confided to Frank that it could be said she used Bill as a ladder, coming up as she did through the typing pool to become his confidential secretary and, after the death of his first wife, the second Mrs. Woodard. She also said that though Bill wanted to be a Senator, she craved it. After a time she was resigned to the fact that her husband could live out the rest of his life, given proper care, but his political life was over. She told her husband herself and then scheduled a news conference, granting a private interview to Jack Fenelli, in appreciation of Jack's having held back, at Frank's request, from seeking a story before. With Jack she enlarged on her prepared statement to the press saying that both publishing and politics were then beyond her husband's strength. His business interests would be looked after by a staff of emminent journalists and trusted friends but the latest acquisition would revert to Mrs. Ginette to be run by her family interests. - It was concern for this last merger to proceed which began Rae's campaign to keep the press and Mrs. Ginette from finding out the extent of her husband's and her own injuries. – Rae thanked Roger Coleridge for a fine piece of surgery and agreed to dine with him at Lem's after she acknowledged that she, herself, was in danger of slipping into depression. Dr. Pagano, the psychiatrist who had seen Delia at Pat's request, told him that he would advise taking Delia's self destructive impulses seriously and though it was no substitute for the course of treatment which Delia was resisting, Pat's reassurance and support as a stop-gap measure might keep her from deteriorating further. He remarked that Delia's symptoms were almost textbook examples. - Roger Coleridge had advised Dee to maintain when she saw the Rorshack cards that she perceived only ink blots, which the doctor would take to be a "blocking" on her part. – Delia put in another spooky appearance at Riverside and Bucky offered to cover for Pat so he could leave early as he had only a half-hour of duty and his work had been taken care of. When Bucky left the floor, Faith walked in and signed a routine acknowledgement of some normal, expected lab tests related to one of Pat's patients. As her pen was poised over the paper, she thought to herself that if Pat himself didn’t sign, it would be like his advertising that he left early. With Roger riding Pat after a similar episode, she decided to tell the nurse that she would take care of it for Dr. Ryan and forged Pat's signature, believing that would keep him out of trouble for a while, and left the floor. Roger, who had just come from surgery on Bill Woodard, inquired of Bucky where Pat was and blew up. When he checked, he found the forged signature and accused Bucky. Bucky's denials only infuriated him further so he made up a report calling for a formal investigation by the Board and insisted that Seneca see that it was hand-carried to Marshall Westheimer's office. Eventually Faith told her brother that she signed the form and Roger tried, unsuccessfully, to break into Westheimer's locked office to retrieve his complaint. As a result of Roger's complaint and without a formal hearing, the board of Riverside Hospital ordered a letter of reprimand entered into both Faith's and Pat's files, making the second for Pat and virtually putting an end to Pat's hope to further his career in medicine and possibly even retain it. While Faith and Pat were waiting to hear from the board they talked for a while in the doctors' lounge and Pat tried to joke, saying he was preparing himself for a life of genteel poverty; perhaps Delia would take in laundry and he would write poetry. He laughingly remarked that Dee thought he would make a terrific veterinarian adding, "meanwhile, at home, my wife is acting a little strange." As Faith added "Next week, East Lynne," Delia, who had been standing in the doorway, rushed in and accused them of laughing at her behind her back. Delia continued the scene at Ryan's before Maeve, Johnny and Bob, asking if Pat wanted Angel Nieves to get sick so he could share him with Faith and saying that she saw Pat and Faith kissing. When it became clear that she was referring to some time before, she began singing snatches of "As Time Goes By" ... a kiss was still a kiss ... interspersed with claims that people who were little died and saying she felt so small. Faith advised Pat and Bob to take Delia across the street and get her admitted and Dee begged to be taken home. When she realized that Dr. Pagano had arranged a room for her, she accused Pat of lying to her and putting her in a cage. Pat talked her into accepting a sedative and she asked if it would make her quiet and happy —like a princess. Pat murmered "that's right" and Delia looked at him and asks, "in a cage?" The following day, when Pat came to see her, she told him that she was not sick, only lonesome and jealous. She insisted that her miscarriage was over and done with and did not matter, but Pat said he believed it did. Roger dropped by to say he told her so and she told him that she was afraid of being drugged. He replied that was her fault; she got herself in and would have to get herself out. Dee begged him to stay with her because he was the only person she could talk to — she had to lie to everyone else. Roger warned her that the more she tried to get out right away, the more people would be convinced of her breakdown and told her to sit it out. When she insisted that she wanted to go home to Paddy right away, Roger told her he pitied Pat when she did. Mary had reluctantly turned down Tom Desmond's invitation to accompany him to Williamsburg, Virginia for a weekend but saw Jack as she was waiting to cover the Woodard press conference and things change. After only a few moments, Jack remarked that Mary had handed over her kid to hired help to raise, and, outraged, Mary asked if he believed mothers should stay home with their children as opposed to fathers who abandonned them. - Maeve Ryan, Mary's mother and Miriam the hired help had staged a scene for Jack's benefit to give Jack the impression that Miriam was not fit to have care of Ryan, in the hope that Jack would try to talk to Mary about it and she would learn that he had been seeing the baby. Instead Jack appealed to Sr. Mary Joel who told him that it was not her place to speak to Mary, that she was sure Jack had to be mistaken but, in any case, he should talk to her himself. – Mary refused to talk to Jack any further, saying she was going away for the weekend ... with a friend. Jack caught Mary and Tom exchanging glances and said he saw. When Tom told Mary that she could take back what she said to Jack if she chose, Mary told him it had been on her mind and she would like to go — just as friends. She told him to make reservations while she saw if Maeve would care for Ryan. Sister Mary Joel, out of concern for Ryan, went to see Maeve and leared of the game she and the nurse were playing and became a co-conspirator. She left just as Mary came in. Maeve consented to care for Ryan but tried to warn Mary, saying she trusted her daughter's intentions but Mary did things too quickly. That night, very late, Maeve got a call from Jack. When he learned that Mary had gone to Williamsburg with Tom, he tried to get Maeve to give him the phone number she had, threatening to have the police track her down. - Jack was plastered in a subway phone booth. - At that point Johnny took the phone in exasperation at Maeve's allowing Jack to go on so long. Just the sound of his voice was enough to make Jack hang up. After he did, he admitted to himself he knew it was none of his business. After a day and into part of the night at Williamsburg, Mary seemed to be looking for circumstances to make her decision about Tom for her. Tom told her that he loved her but she was not the kind of a person who made love to a friend. He believed that she had decided she didn’t want to love Jack any more but she was not really ready. He told her, as he left to go to his own room, that it was easier for him to walk out at the time than to find out later that Mary had made a mistake in loving him too soon. Mary and Tom lay in separate rooms, remembering what each had said to the other in the last few hours and Mary got up, put on her robe and knocked at Tom's door. But, after telling Tom she wanted to love him, Mary found she couldn’t do it. Both Pat and Faith had agreed to letting their reprimands be used as an issue in Clem's call for a strike vote and, with Frank Ryan and Bucky, they appeared in Westheimer's office as Clem informed Marshall that he had been given authority to strike. If the membership of the House Association was not given a positive response to their demands of a shorter work week, para-professional help, and the revision of the present disciplinary system, within twenty-hour hours they would walk. Back from her weekend trip, Mary Ryan confided to Maeve that it was a mistake. She told her mother that she was the one who wanted to make love to Tom and couldn't because of her feelings for Jack. When Tom came by to return a scarf Mary left in the car, he assured Maeve that nothing happened between himself and Mary and told her that Mary seemed bound to Jack as if the marriage would never end. At Tom's insistence that Jack treated Mary very badly, Maeve said that she knew that Jack loved her daughter and wanted her back. Tom replied that if it was true that there was still hope for Mary and Jack, he was glad for Mary's sake. Maeve said, in exasperation, that she was thinking of locking the two of them in a room together. When Tom repeated Maeve's remark to Faith, she recalled an old storeroom in Ryan's and when Tom asked, said she thought it was soundproof, Tom and Faith actually made a date to look the room over later in the day. Search For Tomorrow Written by: Robert J. Shaw Produced by: Mary-Ellis Bunim Even though the custody fight over Eric was finished and they won, Kathy Phillips was very tense. David Sutton thought that she might be upset by his presence at the law office after the one night they spent together. He offered to leave the firm without telling John Wyatt the reason. Kathy assured him that she was not bothered. The strain of not knowing whether the baby she was carrying was David's or her husband Scott's was causing her blood pressure to rise. The doctor was concerned and offered to listen to her problem. He cautioned her that she had to relax and take care of herself. Scott could see that she was depressed and went on a shopping spree for the baby, hoping to cheer her up. Kathy tried to keep her rising blood pressure from Scott and when he voiced his concern, because this was his baby also, Kathy's mind wandered and she saw David standing in front of her, claiming the baby was his. Scott calmed her and told John that he was worried about Kathy. John suggested that she turn her upcoming case over to David because the case would probably go into appeals. Kathy refused to believe that John was thinking of her. A lapse of memory caused complications at the trial and John took the case away from Kathy. The doctor said her blood pressure was still rising and this could be dangerous to her and the baby if she was not able to control it. She admitted she couldn’t sleep and would like some sleeping pills. He wouldn’t prescribe medication at this stage in her pregnancy. He asked her to see psychologist Carolyn Hanley for professional help in handling her fears. She refused because the only thing that could relieve her fear was someone telling her this was Scott's baby. He suggested she think about it. Nurse Stephanie Collins commented on the frequency of Kathy's visits and promised not to say anything to Scott. The doctor asked Stephanie if she was a friend of Mrs. Phillips and suggested she try to get Kathy to talk because it could affect her health. Kathy was very evasive, saying that one mistake could ruin your life. John Wyatt had agreed to be the lawyer for both Janet Collins and Stephanie Collins, who were the major stockholders in the Collins corporation. After he was asked to be the lawyer for the firm, he asked them to retain others to represent their interests. Stephanie was glad to hear that John was willing to see her socially. She had made every effort to help him with his daughter Suzi as an excuse to see him. Stu Bergman was concerned that his son Tom was being taken in by Cindy French. Warned that Tom might resent interference, Stu took the risk of telling him that Cindy was not young and innocent. Tom reacted angrily. Cindy had told Tom that Dr. Gary Walton said he was going to help her and then wanted to have an affair. When she refused to sleep with him at his mother's house, she claimed he threw her out of the house. Gary warned Tom that he was taken in by Cindy who was several years older and had had more experience. Refusing to believe that Cindy would lie to him, Tom could only think Gary was trying to save himself. Cindy told her fellow nurses' aide that she didn’t plan on being stuck in a one room apartment and working all her life because she had her eye on someone. She was sure that someday Tom would inherit the Hartford Inn and she planned on being a part of his life. Cindy put Tom in the position of having to take her to the Inn for dinner because she complained that his family didn’t like her. She managed to keep him from spending time at her apartment, telling herself that she was not "cheap" as Gary termed her, but "very expensive." Tom continued to improve since the surgery Dr. Greg Hartford performed following the boiler explosion. He could start his college classes if he agreed to be careful. Tom was not seeing any of the girls he went to school with, in fact he had turned down several opportunities. The romance between Jo Vincente and Dr. Greg Hartford had progressed to the point of a marriage in the near future when he received a cable from his first wife. Diane's one sentence message was "Your daughter is in trouble again." She knew this would make Greg anxious. He left for Switzerland after he was unable to reach Diane to find out the reason for the cable. Meredeth would soon be eighteen and Diane would no longer have sole custody of her. Danny Collins had been having nightmares since his father's death and refused to let his mother out of his sight, for fear he would never see her again. Carolyn told Janet that she did the right thing by telling Danny the truth because children could imagine terrible things. Janet said he was so naive before, and then he knew there were bad people in the world. Carolyn suggested that Janet leave Danny for a few minutes and show him that she would come back when she promised. She could gradually work the time up until she could go out for the evening. Dr. Gary Walton, reporter Bruce Carson and lawyer David Sutton were sure that Dr. Allen Ramsey was involved in the kidnapping and murder of Dr. Wade Collins, but did not have enough evidence for the police to pursue it. They decided that the only way they could prove their theory was to make Ramsey and his accomplice, nurse Fay Chandler, give themselves away. Janet Collins had agreed to encourage Allen’s friendship only to prove that they were wrong. Gary's suggestion that Janet might need help managing all the money left her by Wade was very tempting to Allen. Gary made sure that Fay caught Allen in all his lies about seeing Janet. Janet had begun to depend on Allen and asked him to help her with a fund raising project she had been asked to take on. When Gary didn’t object, she thought he had changed his mind about Allen. Amy Carson told Fay that Janet and Alan had been sweethearts long ago and it was nice that they were seeing each other as they both lost their spouses. Allen still refused to leave town even if the police had stopped the investigation because he claimed people would be suspicious. He discovered that Fay had bought a gun and had no fear of using it since she had already killed two men. Knowing Fay was listening, Gary told Stephanie that he overheard Allen and his mother talking about motel reservations and was almost sure that they were going to elope. The plan worked. Fay rushed to the lab to confront Allen. David was hiding in the storeroom, hoping he would hear something that would help them find some concrete evidence. Allen was confused when Fay said she knew he and Janet were going away. She asked him to go away with her, taking the money that was still in the apartment. Allen felt this was the time to bring up the new plan. The $250,000 would not last forever, but if he married Janet, he could manage her money and Fay could have everything she wanted. Fay said she waited for two years while Doris was alive and would not wait around as his mistress while he married Janet. She threatened that he would beg her to marry him. When they took this information to the police, a search warrant for Fay's apartment was issued. The money was found in Allen’s golf bag. The signal was heard that someone was coming. Allen entered, calling Fay. He saw the golf bag out and rushed over to see if the money was gone. Allen broke down easily, convinced that Fay had turned him in. He confessed, but denids shooting Wade. He told them that Fay shot both men with the gun she took from her ex-husband. Meanwhile Fay had gone from the hospital to see Janet. She kept referring to Janet's leaving which confused Janet. Fay talked about how much she loved Allen and that they were planning to marry and leave town. Janet took time to put Danny back to bed when he woke up from a nightmare. During her absence Fay secretly drugged Janet's coffee. When Janet became drowsy, Fay confessed everything. She had Janet write a suicide note and told her not to fight it because the poison would act quickly. Gary called to warn his mother to lock the house and admit no one. Fay held a gun on her while Janet told Gary he had the wrong number. They rushed to the Collins home where Janet told them she had been poisoned. Amy analyzed the liquid and identified the potentially fatal drug. Gary blamed himself for being sure that his mother wasn't in danger. Everyone was relieved when Janet began to respond. In a few days she could go home. Allen and Fay had pleaded guilty so Janet wouldn’t have to go through a trial. When Greg Hartford arrived in Zurich, he and Diane were told by the director at Meredith's school that they would no longer be able to keep Meredith there. She was fine then, but had attempted suicide. The sister felt Meredith should explain. She had been lonely and become involved with one of her male instructors. He had talked about their love and the future, but when he tired of her, he told her that she wasn't the first school girl with whom he'd had an affair. Diane was furious that she had been dragged away from her own pleasures for this. Greg asked and received custody, since Diane didn’t want to be bothered, Meredith was worried about living in something other than her school environment. Kathy accidentally found out out that Scott was going to see Dr. Brown. She intercepted Scott and berated him for going behind her back. Dr. Brown assured her that he would not have discussed her secret and insisted that she take it easy. She said she couldn’t quit working because she would have too much time to think. She told Scott how sorry she was and that things would be better. The Young And The Restless Written by: William J. Bell Produced by: John Conboy Lance Prentiss was not overjoyed by his wife and mother's desire to find his long-lost brother Lucas. In fact, he assumed Lucas was dead. Lorie thought Vanessa was feeling kinder towards her, but found Vanessa had opened the letter from her publisher urging Lorie to promote her book. Lorie told her she had no desire to hurt her sister Leslie by letting her learn the book was a novel about their lives. The local newspaper carried the story of the terrible fire in Hong Kong where a sailor called Luke was seriously injured trying to save people. Vanessa broke the news that she had reconsidered the decision to have plastic surgery to remove the scars suffered in a fire years ago. Lance told her that she was making a mistake. She said she would only have surgery if Lucas returned to ease his guilt. Lorie remembered that Luke – the sailor in the newspaper - had a tatoo on his arm when she studied the photo of the sailor. She thought he resembled an old picture of Lucas. She asked her father, the newspaper publisher, to obtain the original photo so that it could be studied closely. She didn’t want to say anything to Lance and Vanessa until she was sure. When Vanessa overheard Lorie tell her father she had to see the man, Vanessa thought she was being unfaithful to Lance. Since his wife’s death, Stuart Brooks had thrown himself into his work at the newspaper. Lance told Stuart that he couldn’t go on this way and wanted to take him off for a men only weekend of tennis in Florida. He tried to beg off, but Lance insisted. Stuart was beginning to relax when they were invited to play doubles with two women who had been stranded by working husbands. Stuart pleaded exhaustion, but after remembering that Jennifer wanted him to go on with his life, he agreed to a game. Stuart was thankful for the time Liz Foster spent doing odd chores and fixing meals. He hated to be alone in the house. He was also enjoying doing things for her. He was so surprised when his first attempt at plumbing was a success that he suggested he try his hand at painting her kitchen. Lorie told her sisters that it was time their father started seeing someone. No one could take their mother's place, but he could enjoy being with someone he already knew. She suggested that they make it possible for him to see Fran Whitiker during the holidays. Chris said their mother asked that they not object if he became involved with someone, but she never said to play matchmaker. Leslie thought Lorie was right. Chris broached the subject to her father and was told he couldn’t bear being with someone so like Jennifer. Leslie Brooks Eliot was using her maiden name professionally and had removed her wedding ring. She still felt that Brad had been very unfair by leaving her with no explanation and filing for divorce after she had told him before that he shouldn't make her decisions for her. She had been very glad of Brock Reynolds' attentions while she was recovering from the death of her mother and the feeling that she was unattractive to men. Brad Eliot was still in Chicago following surgery for the removal of a brain tumor which was pressing on his optic nerves causing blindness. Doctor Lionel had given him hope, but had refused to remove the bandages until all the swelling had gone down. Because there was a chance that he might not survive the surgery, he had not told Leslie where he was or why. He hoped that his sight would be restored and he could return to Leslie. Nurse Cynthia Harris was the only person who knew where Brad was and hoped that her constant attention would endear her to him. She was glad to see Leslie was dating Brock. Leslie’s divorce was almost final when Brock returned her wedding ring. He told her that he knew she had had many emotional upsets recently and didn’t want to take advantage of her, but he did love her. She felt he returned the ring to test her. Ron Becker had planned for many weeks to take his daughter Karen from her school. He promised that Chris Foster, whom Karen then calls "mommy," was going to meet them. As they waited in the bus station Karen became ill. A concerned couple told Ron they knew a doctor in the neighborhood and offered to take them there. When Snapper Foster opened the door, an amazed Ron took off. Snapper learned from the couple what happened. Fortunately Karen only had a bad case of flu. Chris was relieved to have Karen back, but was furious that the police could not help while she was missing because Ron was her father. Brock said they could serve Ron with a subpoena for contempt of court because the Fosters had custody of Karen. He explained that it could take years to settle this and Ron could take Karen at any time. Ron had his mother call the Fosters, pretending to be a teacher, to find out how Karen was. This was the first time Marian Reeves learned she had a granddaughter. Ron told her that his wife was in a mental institution and the Fosters had custody of his daughter. She decided to see the Fosters and ask them to let Ron have his daughter. Chris assumed Mrs. Reeves was a social worker when she said she had come to see her about Karen on Ron's behalf. She said that there was no way she would let Karen go back to Ron after what he had done. She told her that Ron raped her sister but was after her instead. Marian turned white and when Chris found out who she was, she agreed to explain everything that had happened since Chris met the Beckers. Mrs. Reeves felt responsible since she stood by while Ron's stepfather beat him because she was afraid he would leave her. She went back to Ron and apologized. He had hated her for years and wanted to continue hating her, but ended up crying in her arms. Marian tried to get through to Nancy Becker at the institution, but Nancy remained catatonic. Receiving his subpoena, Ron called his lawyer. Mr. Johnson saw that Ron was in contempt of court for taking Karen and told him that he didn’t think Ron had a chance of getting Karen back then. Marian returned to find Ron on the floor next to an empty medicine bottle. Knowing only Doctor Foster, Marian called him to save her son. Snapper rushed to the address and only discovered who his patient was when he knelt on the floor beside the unconscious man. Snapper told Mrs. Reeves to call the hospital because he refused to help that piece of trash. She finally reached him when she asked him to do it for Karen's sake. Swearing, Snapper used those things available to help Ron the best he could. When he went home, Karen was awake and asking for her father. Snapper explained to Chris that it was this that made him help Ron, but Chris couldn’t feel the same. Ron finally woke and his mother explained that it was her ignorance that made her act the way she did, and she professed her love for him. She and Ron prayed together. Jill Foster had returned from her vacation with a photo she took of Derek's son in Los Angeles. Derek Thurston showed his pleasure and Jill told her mother she thought he was falling in love with her. Kay Chancellor stepped up her campaign to tie Derek Thurston to her through his dream. She asked Derek to come by every day to keep her up to date on the restoring of the mansion they were turning into an elegant beauty saloon. She was paying extra to have the men work overtime to get it done. Jill had confronted Mrs. Chancellor, but couldn’t tell Derek because Kay had threatened to withdraw her financial support, blaming Jill. Circumstances arose so that Jill told her mother that Mrs. Chancellor's new man was Derek. Liz stormed over to accuse Mrs. Chancellor of using her to get information about Jill and Derek's relationship. Derek told Kay that Jill was responsible for putting him in touch with her and he knew that they held the past against each other, but would like them to forgive and forget since Jill would be a big part of the new salon. Kay agreed to try, but told herself that Jill would never work in the salon. She felt that all the doubts she had about Derek were gone if he was willing to talk openly about Jill. Derek felt things would be better if they could all talk things out. He invited both women to dinner and asked Jill to meet him there. Both women were startled, but made the best of it. Jill told her mother about the evening and said Derek had done this for her. He was trying to soften Mrs. Chancellor to make things easier when the salon opened. Jill was still hoping that Derek would speak of marriage. Chris Foster had been having nightmares about Ron Becker breaking into the apartment to take Karen again. Snapper became furious at what Ron had done to his wife's mental condition and vowed to take care of the problem. Snapper told Ron that he wanted him out of town that day and would see that he left because Chris was a nervous wreck. Ron explained that it wasn’t necessary because he had made a decision on his own to ask the Fosters to adopt Karen for her own good. They had taken care of her and his own love for Karen was twisted. Lorie told Lance that she had to make a trip alone to settle something and would explain it later. Lance was understanding and offered the company jet. Vanessa could only wonder what Laurie was up to and asked her private investigator how to make a book into a bestseller. Kay Chancellor offered to set Joann Curtynski up with a weight-reduction salon where the beauty salon could send customers since Joanne's own weight loss could be an inspiration. Kay had promised Liz Foster that she would never mention her love to Derek Thurston, but when she told him of her offer to Joann, Derek asked why she was willing to invest so much money. He asked her directly if she was in love with him.