FrenchFan

Thanks !!! I can’t wait to see them. I love episode counts 😍

That is terrific ! Would you be willing to share your numbers ?

Totally ! It was mostly a plot to put Lisa closer to Bob but Chuckie seems to have been forgotten so quickly...

Angela Cheyne played the role until September 1979. She was English and had a major role on the British soap "Emmerdale" before moving to the USA. It was rather unusual I think.

Oh she is awful. We had to suffer through her Patty on Y&R for years and now she destroyed Kristen on DAYS...

In a newspaper article, I found the info that Lillian Hayman was coming back to the show after a 2 year absence. I found another article from May 1971 which mentionned that Lillian Hayman played the role of Sadie until recently. She had apparently already left briefly as in September 1970 she is mentionned as being back. Esther Rolle played the role briefly at some time. It's not very clear. During the same month, last original cast member Doris Belack left and Anna was recast with Kathleen Maguire.

SEPTEMBER 1977 All My Children Written by: Agnes Nixon Produced by: Bud Kloss On a visit to San Francisco, Christina Karras learned that her former fiancé had run into his ex-wife, Edna Thornton at a free clining and he told her that Edna was working on Geary Street in a diner. Chris called David and told him that she followed his suggestion that she look up Hadley because she was certain that she had no lingering romantic feelings for him. She told David that she would return to Pine Valley as soon as she looked up another friend whose address she had just gotten that day. When Christina saw Edna, she learned that the man Edna left David to marry was then dead. Christina told Edna that David was working at Pine Valley Hospital and as she left, Edna walked over a little girl who asked whom the lady she spoke to was. Edna told the child it was “Santa Claus” and said they were going to find her daddy. When Christina got back to Pine Valley, she accepted David’s proposal of marriage. David gave Christina an engagement ring and told her that he had been invited to a symposium in Japan. He suggested that she go with him and they make it a honeymoon trip. Christina said that she wanted to resume her practice as a pediatrician and would like to be well re-established before they were married, but more than that she wanted an old fashioned wedding. David was very understanding and they planned the wedding for Thanksgiving. After David had left for Japan, Edna showed up at the hospital and Christina refused to tell her where David lived but learned sometime after that Jeff Martin had given Edna directions to David's cabin. Christina hurried out to the cabin to find Edna unpacking. When Chris said that she had no right to be there in David's absence, Edna claimed she was still married to David. Myrtle Lum had left town with Nigel Fargate who was winding up his tour and his career in show business with a promise to Linc that he and Myrtle would be married. Linc gave the couple his blessing and made arrangements for Ellen Shephard to take over the Boutique. Ellen had admitted to Mark Dalton that she was in love with him but because of the difference in their ages - Ellen was twelve years Mark's senior - and the resentment shown to her by her daughter Devon, insisted that they had to be circumspect privately and publicly. - Devon had told her mother of a letter from her father claiming that Ellen's lack of understanding drove him to his affair with a younger woman and his abandonment of Devon. After seeing her mother and Mark's affectionate kiss, Devon cancelled her arrangement to take piano lessons from Mark. - Mark was unable to tell Ellen that his sympathetic understanding of Devon's attitude was due to the parallel between Devon's and his own half-sister Erica's need for a scapegoat for their feelings of rejection. – Mark tried once more to get Erica to accept him as part of her family but Erica was moved to rage and then tore when Mark visited her at work. The Goalpost's owner, Tom Cudahy, walked in to find Mark comforting Erica and refused to credit Mark's and Erica's insistence that there was nothing between them. Erica learned from Mona Kane that Mark's wealthy step-father did not know of Mark's illegitimacy and threatened to see that he learned of it, no matter what the consequences, if Mark did not promise to keep his distance. Nick David was annoyed when he viewed a television program Erica had arranged for the opening day at The Goalpost during the course of which she not too subtly put down The Chateau. However, he was furious when he learned that his best bartender, Bruno, had been pirated away by Erica. Donna Beck and Chuck Tyler had been married and Chuck arranged for Brooke English to take little Philip over to their apartment to be there when they returned. Chuck learned that Tara had had a miscarriage and had not sent for Philip, feeling that his return would only make him miss out on a police training program and would not help. When Tara sent for Chuck, not knowing that he and Donna were already married, she begged him to promise to give little Philip back when she was well. She had a relapse and Chuck was told that she had Septicaemia. Phil was finally sent for and as Nick drove him back to Pine Valley, Phil learned that Tara lost the baby and that Chuck and Donna are married. When Phil got to the hospital, he realized that Tara was delirious and had been talking with Chuck as if she and Chuck were still married and Philip had been killed in Vietnam. During a shouting match in Dr. Tyler's office, Nick had to step in and separate Phil and Chuck. Phil went to Donna's apartment to look in on little Philip. - That day was the first scheduled day of school and when Donna learned about it from Dan Kennicott, she tried to take the boy to enroll but he refused to go. After telling Donna she would not allow the boy to have his own way, Chuck spoke to him but Donna overheard the boy say he wished Donna was gone and his mother was there with them. - Phil suspected that little Philip had been giving Donna a hard time but she denied it. Phil told her that Tara was hallucinating, believing she was married to Chuck and the boy was still nursery school age. He wrote himself up to threatening a custody suit. When Chuck returned to Pine Valley Hospital, it was to see Tara suffer a sharp pain in her chest, the first signal of a pulmonary embolism. Phil had been told that Tara had weathered the crisis when her fever broke and no one was able to locate him when it appeared that Tara is dying. Jeff Martin was with a very distraught Chuck when Tara spoke, insisting that her late mother was in the room with her and had come to comfort her and take her with her. Meanwhile Philip had come very close to telling Donna, at her apartment, that little Philip was his illegitimate son but remembered his promise, though he expressed surprise that Chuck had not told Donna about his threat to go to court to seek custody of the boy. He told Donna that he had nothing against her or her marriage but he meant to go through with his threat, naming Donna as unfit to raise the boy if that was the only way. After Phil left, Chuck phoned Donna, looking for him, and told her that Tara was dying. The medication which had been administered to disolve the blood clot finally began to work and Donna watched Chuck come alive the following morning as he realized that Tara would live. Tara woke to see Chuck and thanked him for being with her, saying she could never let Phil go to court because she couldn't bring herself to subject little Philip to that. She asked Chuck to try to persuade little Philip to come back to live with her, saying it would be what the boy wanted if Chuck could make him understand. Chuck said she was right all along, that she should never have been denied her own son and that he would bring the boy back. Benny Sago was visiting with Donna when she got a call from the school nurse who told her that little Philip was complaining of a stomach ache but she was convinced that he was merely trying to get out of school. Once Donna spoke with the boy, however, she gave him her word that she would pick him up. After she hung up, Benny told her that the kid was trying to pull a fast one as he had been allowed to do at Phoebe Tyler's and the best thing she could do was to call the school back and tell the nurse she would not be there. When she called, the nurse told her that little Philip was having an asthma attack and she left to get him. When Chuck came home, the boy was watching television and Chuck told Donna that the asthma was psychosomatic in origin. He also told her of his decision to return custody to Tara and Phil. Donna was upset, claiming that it was her fault for being a lousy mother and then Chuck was taking the boy away from her. Chuck finally convinced Donna that he married her because he loved her and they would plan to have a child of their own. David Thornton’s plane set down early from his return trip and Christina was out of her office when he called, so she had no opportunity to warn him of Edna's presence in his cabin. When Edna told him that the Mexican divorce she obtained was not worth the paper it was written on and he might as well relax and enjoy it, he told her to save it; that if that was true he would get a divorce that was legal. Just then little Dottie came in and Edna introduced her as his daughter. David refused to believe Edna and ordered her out of the cabin, but she persuaded him that they couldn’t leave so late at night and told him that the little girl was very ill. David said she did not appear sick to him but they could stay the night. He left to see Chris and together they went to Linc Tyler for his advice. Later that evening, David returned to the cabin to seek out a copy of the divorce decree which was sent to him while he was in Vietnam, and found that Edna had changed the lock on the door, claiming she had no extra key because it was too expensive. - Edna had been charging her food in the nearby store, claiming to be the doctor's wife. - She said it would be a cold day in Hell when she left as she had finally got what she was after. When Linc read over the document David brought back, he told him that it was not legal and that for the present he was still married to Edna. Mark and Ellen had quarrelled over Ellen's decision not to see him anymore. - Ellen at first tried to reason with her daughter Devon and refused to give in to what Mark characterized as blackmail – Devon's threat to move back to St. Louis with her father - but when Paul Martin brought the news that Ellen's divorce was final and Devon’s father, Adrian, intended to remarry immediately, Devon was convinced that she had been betrayed by Ellen's having kept from her that her father had intended to obtain a quickie divorce. - Mark said that he, himself, could have demanded plenty from his mother and that Devon was acting exactly like Erica Kane, a reference that completely escaped Ellen. However when he insisted he would talk to Devon himself, Ellen told him if he tried, she would never forgive him. When Paul entered to take Ellen to dinner and left for a moment to see to his car, Mark told Ellen angrily that she could go where she damn' well pleased and he hoped she would be as miserable as she deserved to be. The following day, Devon apologized to Paul Martin for her rudeness to him and said she was sure her father didn’t know what he was doing right at the moment. Happy that Ellen had told her that she would not he seeing Mark, Devon insisted that she was sure her father would come back then. When Ellen pointed out the illogic of what she was saying, she dropoped it saying that Mark was just too young for her mother. Ellen told Devon she was probably right about that and she guessed that they wouldn't have made a very permanent two-some. While Caroline Murray had been out of town caring for her mother who had a stroke, Frank had become very fond of a little patient, Roberta Jones, whose social caseworker turned out to be Nancy. Caroline was sensitive to their association in the child's case but Frank assured her it was just a coincidence. That evening Jeff brought Nancy to dinner at The Goalpost and Erica pretended to be very upset that the only table she had was one adjoining Frank and Caroline's. Nancy inquired about the state of Caroline's mother's health, saying her illness must have been sudden because Caroline didn't mention it the night she came to visit Nancy. When Frank went to Caroline's apartment after dinner, he insisted on knowing what Nancy's crack was all about and learned that Caroline had asked Nancy if she was still in love with Frank. Caroline said she tried to tell Frank she had visited Nancy but was unable to reach him at the time. - Caroline did not know that Frank returned to Nancy's apartment on that very evening and made love to his estranged wife. – When Tara called Donna and Chuck's apartment and asked to speak to her son, Donna lied to her, saying the boy had just left for school. Chuck heard the end of this conversation and learning the details, told Donna she had no business doing that. He had little Philip call Tara, saying it was a misunderstanding, but the boy made matters even worse by happily telling his mother that Donna had informed him he could live with her and Chuck if he wanted to. So Chuck hurried right over to the hospital to explain to Tara that he hadn't even had a chance to talk to the boy yet. After Chuck left, Donna called Estelle and begged her to meet with her. Estelle learned that Donna was determined to get pregnant immediately to try to save her marriage. Estelle tried to talk Donna into giving her marriage a chance on its own, but, to herself, Estelle wondered how she was ever going to be able to tell Donna "the truth." Linc went to the cabin and offered Edna on David's behalf, three years of alimony payments if she would consent to an immediate divorce, pointing out that no judge would find in her favor when she deserted her husband while he was in Vietnam; that she could lose everything. Edna reminded him of her little girl and maintained she could prove the child was David's, citing the fact that her daughter was an epileptic and elilepsy ran in David's family. Another World Written by: Harding Lemay Produced by: Paul Rauch Burt McGowan returned unexpectedly from his project in Ogden. He looked for Clarice Hobson, the woman he loved, to no avail. As he waited in the office, hoping she was at work, Willis Frame and Angie Perrini arrived, and Willis let it slip that Clarice gave an engagement party, in Burt's absence, to announce their forthcoming marriage. Burt was puzzled but happy. When he confirmed their engagement with Clarice, Burt asked that they be married soon. Clarice asked for time to prepare. Burt pointed out that they had all the necessary papers, and a few nights later he appeared at her door with a minister. Clarice finally refused to be married without all her friends around, so Burt relented. They were married shortly thereafter in Ada McGowan's living room. They honeymooned in the apartment. As he was little Cory's father, Burt asked Clarice to return the trust fund Mac Cory set up for the boy. Clarice was reluctant, saying the money was for Cory's education, but Burt insisted he would take care of his own family. Burt talked to Mac, who agreed to take back the fund. Molly Randolph was bored in her marriage to Mike Randolph, telling her uncle Willis Frame that she was beginning to think the whole thing was a mistake. She was tired of living in others' houses and scrimping so that Mike could pay his own way through college. Corinne, to Russ Matthews' surprise, was not ecstatic when his divorce from Sharlene became final. She'd been a loving companion while the divorce was in process, but then she was backing away. Corinne told Russ that she was not ready for marriage. To try to convince her otherwise, Russ took her away for a weekend with Molly and Mike that turned out to be a bust for all four. Corinne discussed the weekend with ex-lover Brian Bancroft. Reminding Corinne he'd divorced his wife to marry her, to no avail, Brian observed that Corinne avoided commitment to anything. Corinne began to avoid Russ, and finally quit her job, planning to leave town. Corinne encouraged Gwen to get close to Russ, aware Gwen's feelings already ran that way. Olive Gordon Randolph put husband John off about taking a day to visit the new house they were building, hoping she would finally hear from her lover, Evan Webster. Iris Carrington called, demanding to see John immediately. Olive begged to go along, to visit Countess Elena de Poulignac. Iris wanted John to retrieve Rachel Cory's copy of the agreement she signed renouncing all claims to estranged husband Mac Cory's estate. John was so astounded by this latest dirty work Iris had asked him to do that he told Olive he was going to drop Iris as a client. Olive panicked at the thought, aware Iris was one of John's biggest clients and his dropping her could interfere with Olive's plans — the house. John assured her their finances would improve if Greg Barnard – his secretary Joan’s brother - bought a partnership in the firm. Olive then suggested John give Iris to Greg. Appeased, John agreed. Greg did buy the partnership. When Greg tried to retrieve the copy of the agreement from Rachel and learned Iris led her to believe it was Mac's idea, Greg refused to have anything more to do with Iris. Rachel, then aware that Mac was not the instigator, took the agreement to him, forcing her way past Sven Petersen, the unscrupulous caretaker of Mac's estate. Mac was furious with Iris. He and Rachel tried to talk again about a reconciliation. Rachel told Mac she couldn’t come back until he dealt with his insecurities about his sterility and his lack of trust of her. Sven interrupted to announce dinner. Rachel refused to join Mac, but agreed to wait, but the memories were too painful and she left. Needing to talk to someone, Mac went to Pat Randolph's apartment. Pat tried to show Mac that Rachel loved him, but that his jealousy got in the way. They were interrupted by Pat's aunt, Liz Matthews, whose inclinations always led her to the wrong conclusions. Mac confronted John, who admitted he drew up the agreement for the money. They were interrupted by Iris. Mac told her of his knowledge of the agreement and demanded she stay away from Rachel and him. Later, Mac received great news from Dr. Fred Morley. Mac was no longer sterile. Mac felt everything would be all right with Rachel. Evan Webster demanded that Olive start divorce proceedings soon or he would walk out of her life. Olive tried to stall, but Evan was adamant. Olive asked what she could use for grounds. Evan and Olive began a plot in which they would make it look like John and Joan were having an affair. They stumbled onto the story about John's affair with Barbara Weaver, which was instrumental in the demise of his marriage to Pat. They were happy to have precedence on their side. Olive began to make scenes about John's spending so much time alone with Joan at the office. One morning she told John he called out "my darling Joan" in his sleep. Since they had to sully John's reputation in order to convince a judge, Evan and Olive visited an old confederate of Evan's, private investigator Kelly. Kelly was agreeable to hiring a girl to set John up, saying he did it all the time. When they revealed they had the girl, innocent Joan, Kelly backed out, saying "It's hard enough to set up one innocent person, let alone two." Olive and Evan were undaunted. Evan and Olive set John up with Joan. Olive sent John over to warn Joan about Evan, then called Evan, who went over and "caught" them together, making ugly insinuations about them, especially emphasizing John's previous involvement with Bar-bara Weaver. Evan followed John home and continued the accusations to Olive, almost blowing it. Olive covered. Olive was visited by Molly, who was unhappy with Mike. Olive suggested Molly make Mike's life miserable until she got what she wanted. Molly asked if that was how Olive got her new house. Olive said she had a happy marriage. Molly confided she saw Olive kissing someone while John was away. Olive told Molly to keep that to herself or she would tell Mike it was Molly who told her about Barbara Weaver. Smugly sure their latest tryst was successfully secret as usual, Evan and Olive's balloon was burst when Molly, at the lake for a diversion, spotted Olive and followed her to the cabin. Olive tried to lie her way out of the obvious but Molly found Evan in the bedroom. Rachel had learned the pernicious gossip about Quentin Ames and herself, but refused to shut him out of her life, as he had been very helpful in promoting and selling her sculpture. When she learned he had been fired, that Elena planned another gallery, in competition with Very Finley's museum, Rachel withdrew her promise to provide sculpture, gratis, to the museum. In fact, Rachel couldn’t afford to give her sculpture away. Rachel agreed to do pieces to be exhibited and sold in Elena and Quentin's gallery. Vera tried to persuade Iris to help get Rachel's sculpture for the museum, but Iris refused. And when she learned Mac had withdrawn as a trustee of the museum, Iris followed suit. In fact she went so far as to verbally endorse Elena's gallery featuring Rachel's work. After all, that would keep Rachel and Quentin in contact, lending credence to her lies about their having an affair, and once Rachel was self-supporting, Mac wouldn’t feel as obligated to her. Quentin found a store-front to rent, and when Gwen Parrish, then a friend of Rachel's, learned of their plans, she donated her architectural services. Rachel's inclination was to let Evan do it, since he wa's refurbishing the apartment to give her additional work space, but Gwen was so earnest, Rachel gave in. Evan was there one day when Gwen was showing Rachel some sketches and butted in. Although aware of a coolness bordering on hatred between the two architects, Rachel was persuaded to also let Evan be part of the gallery. Gwen refused to reveal the reason she hated Evan - he plagiarized a design for a sports arena, which Gwen discovered but was unable to prove - and agreed to work with him, although she castigated his first designs. Iris proposed to Brian. He was flattered, but he was not sure they were suited for marriage. Iris pleaded that she never loved another man. Devilishly, Brian asked if that included Mac. When Iris said she naturally loved her father, Brian observed that there would never be any room for any other man as long as she was attached to Mac. Iris promised to change. Brian suggested that the first step be to tell Mac she was wrong about Rachel and Quentin. Iris said she did it. Brian decided to check with Mac, causing Iris much consternation. Mac showed Brian the agreement Iris had Rachel sign. Brian told Iris it was a mistake to do it. Iris agreed. Brian told her there was only one way she could prove she was ready to split with Mac — sign a similar agreement renouncing all claims to Mac's estate. Iris refused, saying she was entitled to it. Brian observed such an agreement would be a symbol of her splitting from Mac, and without the agreement, there would be no marriage. Liz started spreading gossip about Pat and Mac. Jim Matthews went to see his daughter Pat, who assured him Liz was imagining things again. When Liz arrived, Pat demanded Liz stay out of her life. At Mac's instigation, Pat went to see Rachel, telling her Mac still loved her very much. Rachel observed that Mac couldn’t fight his jealousy because he wouldn’t deal with his insecurities about her. Rachel then made it clear that she didn’t quite trust Pat in this situation: "After all, it wouldn't be the first time two lonely people have gotten involved." Pat left. She later told Mac it was impossible for them to work at his home or in the office after hours. Mac was incredulous that anyone could mistake working for other things. To scare Rachel into a reconciliation, Mac persuaded John to draw up papers for a legal separation, making it clear it was only a scare tactic. Rachel was approached by Greg, since John found it too painful to handle himself. Rachel refused to give any response until she talked with Mac. She stormed into Mac's office to demand he explain what was going on. Mac admitted it was only a ploy to get her to come back to him. He then told her he was no longer sterile, so she could come back and they could have their baby. Rachel tried to show Mac that life couldn't be the way it was with them because she then had her own identity and couldn't live in his shadow. Rachel left, saying a legal separation might be a good idea that would give them both time to think. She asked Brian to draw it up. He refused, saying they both meant too much to him. Mac arrived. They argued over his being so close to Pat. Mac grabbed and kissed Rachel, who responded. They were on the brink of a reconciliation, but Mac used possessive terms that drove Rachel away again. Mac started drinking, cutting himself off further from his work and Rachel. Liz’s job as a switchboard operator was almost over, since the woman she replaced – Thelma - was due to return. She badgered Pat about asking Mac for another job at the complex, but when Pat didn’t move soon enough to suit her, Liz asked Mac herself. Mac promised her a job but was non-commital on specifics. Ultimately, Liz, once enamoured of Mac, decided that she might have a chance as Mac and Rachel were separated, an idea planted by Iris. Therefore, she asked Mac to make her Pat's assistant. Pat adamantly refused, leading Liz to make remarks about Pat's keeping Mac all to herself. Pat reported the situation to her father, who accused Liz of wanting the job to get Mac. Liz denied it, and Pat pointed out that Liz knew how it felt to be the object of malicious gossip, a point which Liz didn’t get. Rachel asked Greg to draw up papers for a legal separation from Mac. Greg didn’t like the idea, saying legal separation more often than not led to divorce. Rachel was haunted by this idea, but told Ada, her mother, that there was no marriage unless both partners were equal, no matter how much they loved each other, and Mac had always treated her as an immature little girl. Iris went to John's office to ask him to draw up the agreement in which she would renounce any claims to Mac's estate. After accidentally seeing Greg's notes on Rachel's legal separation action, Iris bounced out without seeing John. Mac destroyed the legal separation papers Rachel gave him. She told Greg and Brian she wanted the separation because it was the only way she could get a divorce in that state, and she wanted that option, if she needed it, instead of living in her present limbo. Sven continued to drug Mac. Brooks became concerned and went to Rachel. She promised to look into it. Meanwhile, Sven persuaded Iris to retire her chauffeur, Carl, and hire Brooks. Unfortunately, the night Rachel went to check on Mac, Pat Randolph was there to check out the situation, having been alerted by Liz. Pat agreed to keep Mac company in the evenings, confirming that he didn’t want anything more – sex - from her. Relieved, Pat hugged Mac. Rachel saw them through the terrace windows. Sven used bodily harm to Helga and the threat of it to keep Regina in line. Dennis and Jamie arranged to have Rocky accept a post at the Baldwinses', but when they called to check on him, they found Rocky never showed up. The boys were unaware that Sven overheard them talking about Rocky's going to the Baldwinses'. Mac's drinking put him in Sven's clutches. He slipped Mac a "mickey" one night. Regina put herself out on a limb by suggesting to Iris that Mac would do better to stay with her until his marital situation was resolved. Iris liked the idea, but Sven talked her out of it. Sven allowed Mac to think the lawyer Sven's announcing was Greg. Not aware it was actually Brian, Mac refused to see anyone. Sven let Regina continue reading poetry to Mac, pleased by Mac's amusement with it. Based on what she saw through the window, Rachel was then adamant about filing for the legal separation but was considering an out of state divorce as this state had a three-year separation requirement law. Vera Finley’s museum was to be built around a sculpture garden to display Rachel's works. As Rachel had withdrawn her work and Mac and Iris had withdrawn their financial support, Vera saw no reason to go on with the museum. And when no lawyer she contacted would sue Rachel for breach of contract for her, Vera stopped construction of the museum, putting Gordon Enterprises, formerly Frame Enterprises, in a precarious position. Willis Frame, variously accused of trying to take over the company his brother built and of trying to win his sister-in-law Alice in the bargain, wanted desperately to save the company. He and Gwen began to talk about contacting people to build up a backlog of business, when Alice and Ray returned from their honeymoon. Checking in at the company, Alice found Ray failed to act on prospective building contracts before they left. A visit from Vera hinting she might drop the museum was the last straw. Alice told Ray she was going to do her best to get Willis back with the firm. Ray opposed her, to no avail. Willis honestly pointed out missed opportunities, then agreed to come to the firm, provided his staff would move from the Cory Complex with him. Alice admitted to Willis that her marriage might have been a big mistake. Vera cancelled the museum, telling Ray to take up the matter of expenses incurred with her lawyer. Willis got permission from Mac to leave to run Alice's company. He met with his staff: Molly, Gwen, Chris Tanner. They refused to go with him as long as Ray had anything to do with the company. Thus, Willis had to tell Alice that he couldn’t help her. Ray, drinking too much these days, was delighted. However, the following day, he overheard Alice telling Pat, her sister, that she'd leave Ray, except he needed Sally, her adopted daughter, and her so much. Quietly, Ray went upstairs and packed. Alice found him and told him he didn’t have to leave. Disappointed at not hearing “I love you," or other words of endearment, Ray continued to pack. He promised to prove he could handle the business, to regain her trust. Alice admitted that would be a start towards rebuilding their marriage. She suggested he move into Steve's old apartment above the office. He agreed. Alice refused to spend the night with Ray. Sally guessed something was wrong, so Alice told her they had separated. She asked that Sally not pressure either of them at present. Vera paid them off. revealing she had sold the site and incomplete building to a department store chain. Willis and Gwen had decided to continue to look for projects for Gordon Enterprises on their own, deciding to let Gwen present them to Ray. Ray's confidence continued to wane. He seemed unable to avoid cutting references about Alice's running the business better than he. Willis had a daydream in which Alice was his wife and they ran the firm together. Iris had John draw up papers in which she relinquished all claims to Mac's estate, provided Brian married her. When Brian learned of the proviso, he ordered John to take it out, demanding to see all future drafts of the papers. As The World Turns Written by: Robert Soderberg & Edith Sommer Produced by: Joe Willmore Valerie Conway had decided to tell Dr. Bob Hughes that his ex-wife, Lisa Colman, was out to trap him. While Bob's mother Nancy was at her sister's, Lisa spent most of her time at the Hugheses' looking after Chris and Bob, claiming men never cooked well for themselves. She became moody when Bob joined his mother to consult with his aunt's doctor. Everyone thought that Lisa's dependence on Bob was due to the stress of the death of her youngest son, Chuck, and the serious injuries to their common son Tom. Lisa's mother, Alma, had cautioned her about falling in love with Bob while she was married to Grant. Tom was well enough to be discharged from the hospital and was recovering at the Colmans'. Bob considered Valerie's suggestion and decided to have a talk with Lisa. She turned things around before he could start, saying she didn't want to hurt his feelings by rejecting his concern. She confessed that she and Grant were having problems. Lisa suggested that she invite some of Tom's friends to dinner and he asked her to have his father and Valerie over for the evening. Bob was having dinner at Valerie's when she called with the invitation. Bob cited this as proof that Lisa and Grant's problems had nothing to do with him. The evening was a success, but when Grant commented that Lisa had better watch the way she looked when she talked to Bob if she didn’t want people to know, she asked him to leave their home. Lisa's biggest fear was that Tom would find out so Grant promised not to say anything to Tom if she would have a serious talk with him. Joyce Hughes was still staying at the Hugheses' because of the danger of miscarrying her baby while her husband Don was in Switzerland on business. She continued to worry Don by reporting that she felt unwell even though her doctor said she was doing fine. While Nancy was away, a neighbor was caring for Joyce and many people had come by to see her, but Joyce told Don that she was alone all the time. Don called Grant to take his place, but Grant suggested that he check on Joyce and report back. Don returned home anyway. He visieds Joyce's doctor and learned that in three weeks she would be able to get out and take care of herself. Don suggested that he go back to Switzerland and when he returned in a few weeks, they would look for a house. Joyce was pleased, but as soon as Don left, she began acting the martyr again. Alma visited Nancy to tell her that Lisa was pushing Grant away and she feared they would separate soon, but didn't say Bob was the reason. Nancy suggested that Lisa had always listened to Bob, but Alma vetoed his talking to her. Joyce realized there was a visitor in the house and resented Nancy asking her not to join them because a friend had come for a private talk. Joyce called to complain to Don but he had a meeting and put her off. When he phoned the following morning, she refused his call. She came downstairs, announcing she wouldn’t stay another day in this house. Nancy told Joyce that she could never forgive herself if Joyce left and promised to spend more time with her. Joyce relented and Bob took her to her room. Nancy realized that Joyce needed as much attention as a little child. Joyce surmised from Nancy's conversation with Lisa that the Colmans were having trouble. She listened to a call from Grant and arrived downstairs conveniently during Grant's visit. Valerie was informed that the tax returns she filed with Nick Conway were being investigated for fraud. She admitted to Grant that she signed the papers without question. She asked old friends Kevin Thompson and Ralph Mitchell to help her locate Nick as he had the papers. Through contacts, they learned he was in Europe. Grant told her that if he didn’t return, she could be held responsible for all the damage; a fine as well as a sentence. Dr. David Stewart had shouldered the responsibility of the research lab since Dr. Susan Stewart's dismissal. Ellen insisted that he take a vacation, but he returned exhausted. He told Bob Hughes that he suspected infectious mononeucleosis. Lab tests proved his hunch correct and he was given instructions to remain in bed several weeks without worrying about the lab. Beau Spencer had told his wealthy mother that he no longer wanted an allowance. He had told Annie that if she still agreed to marry him, she would have to put off going to medical school and continue working until he passed his bar exam. She agreed that they could make it. Jane Spencer asked Annie to help her with Beau. He was afraid that his mother would want to run their lives and she only wanted to remain in Oakdale because she had nowhere else to go. She hadn't told Beau that her husband left her because he already hated his father. Beau relented a little when he heard this. David asked Beau to visit him and after listening to Beau's new plans, he gave them his blessing. Ellen and Jane had decided to let Beau and Annie make their own wedding plans. Beau would not give in when Jane offered to buy an engagement ring. Jane was surprised that Annie supported his vow of poverty. They wanted a small church wedding in October so that David could attend. Natalie Hughes had agreed to let it be known that the baby she was carrying was Jay Stallings' and he and Carol would be adopting it. Jay had an overseas contract and had to leave town. Carol was so worried about Natalie and the baby that Natalie felt she couldn’t live a life of her own. She asked Chris Hughes to make sure Carol understood that this baby didn’t belong to her until it was born. Natalie had hired Ralph Mitchell to work in her real estate firm, but didn’t like his association with Mary Ellison, Jay's secretary. She put Mary down personally and to Ralph. Mary was in the room when Natalie informed her doctor that she wouldn’t be returning. Mary told Carol who asked Bob to talk to Natalie. Natalie agreed to see another doctor and told him she had Wilson's Disease, a heritary illness in which copper was not expelled from the body. When Jay returned and learned about this, he suggested that this was another of Natalie's tricks. Dr. Dan and Kim Stewart were looking for a larger house, but she felt everything was too expensive. Jim Strasfield asked Dan to be the new Surgery Chief, but he prefered to remain a practicing surgeon. Jim didn’t care for the man to be brought in, though he had a good record. Kim was shocked when Melinda Gray showed her a locket and said that Jennifer Ryan Hughes was her mother. She visited Rev. Booth and learned that he knew about the girl. Kim wasn’t sure how to tell Bob, but Jennifer had told him before their marriage that she had left her husband and intended to keep her baby until she learned of her husband's terminal illness and returned to nurse him. Melinda confessed that she had been depressed because the older man she loved had jilted her. Kim and Dan wanted her to be a part of the family, but Melinda didn’t want people to know who she was. They agreed that she had to find an apartment and would help her if she wanted to go to school. Kim said this was not pity; she was helping because she was Jennifer's daughter. Kevin Thompson had been seeing Sandy Garrison occasionally since Susan Stewart left town. They heard that Susan had been at a health farm and was in much better physical shape and sober as well. Sandy wondered what would happen when Susan returned. The first person Susan wanted to see was her daughter who was at her grandparents'. David came home with the news that he was confined to bed and Susan asked him to support her when she asked to take over the lab while he was ill. Dr. Jim Strasfield was unsure, but agreed to put it before the Board. Jim decided to support her and the Board approved. She dug in with a vengeance, trying to clear the way for a new series of skin graft tests. She visited Mark Lewis instead of the patient on her list by mistake and was told by Dr. Alexander Keith to stay away from his patients. The following day, he ordered head nurse Miriam Connelly to get him the best nurses even if she broke up another doctor's team because as the new Surgery Chief, he would only take the best. Susan visited Mark Lewis at his request even though Keith told her he could have no visitors, but explained that he couldn’t be a donor without his doctor's consent. She was upset when Dan told her he learned the boy had a rare disease of the blood forming tissues and Dr. Keith didn't explain this to her. Grant learned from Tom that it was Lisa's idea to have Bob and Tom to dinner and not Tom's as Lisa had claimed. Grant arrived as Bob and Tom were leaving to confront Lisa. The following day, Lisa warned Bob that Grant had this ridiculous idea that there was reason to be jealous of Bob and he was going to claim many untruths. Bob was surprised when Grant told him to stay out of this. Nancy was cancelling her plans to be with Joyce. Don called to say that he would be an extra week in Switzerland. When he called later, Nancy couldn’t find Joyce. After she looked at apartments, Joyce stopped by the bookstore and Sandy took her home. Although it was unjust, Nancy realized that Joyce felt left out if she wasn't told everything. Dr. Keith had staff resigning and those remaining at each other's throats. Susan was determined to be a friend to Mark Lewis over Keith's objections. She learned that Mark's parents were dead and he had no visitors. Late at night, Joyce packed a suitcase and planned on leaving the Hughes home. She bumped into furniture, hurting herself. Bob ordered an ambulance to take her to Memorial Hospital. Days Of Our Lives Written by: Ann Marcus Produced by: Betty Corday & H. Wesley Kenney Samantha Evans, twin sister of Dr. Marlena Evans, under the stress of trying to become a star in Hollywood, had succumbed to drugs. Sam was in Salem to try to rest, and she thought Marlena would be a ready source of the pills she was addicted to. Marlena, however, was not a believer in pills for every ache, physical or mental, and so Sam had resorted to forging Marlena's name on prescription forms and stealing drugs from Marlena's drug cabinet at the hospital. Marlena had faced the truth about her sister and was urging Sam to seek detoxification at Bayview Sanitarium. Meanwhile, Sam's presence was wreaking havoc with Marlena and Don Craig's relationship. Before Sam's arrival, they had been close to marriage, but Don felt Marlena was then too concerned about her sister, that Marlena should turn Sam's treatment over to someone else, like Laura Horton. Aware the jig was up, and knowing Don resented her presence, Sam asked him for the money to return to Hollywood, stating it was in their mutual interest. Don agreed, providing Sam got Marlena's approval to leave. That night the sisters quarreled over the necessity of Sam's treatment and Sam told Marlena that Don would give her the money. Realizing she might have made a mistake, Sam then denied it, saying she was just trying to hurt Marlena. To trick Marlena into complacency, Sam agreed to go to Bayview. Marlena was suspicious, aware Don would like Sam out of their hair and went to his office to check on Sam's story. Don arrived and mistook Marlena for Sam and told her he would write a check. Marlena identified herself and they had a horrendous argument, the crux of which was that Don didn’t trust her professional capabilities. Don called Sam when Marlena left, driving her into hysterics. Sam was then trapped into going to Bayview and agreed with Marlena that it was best. But the following day, while Marlena was dressing, Sam drugged Marlena's tea. Before she could decide what to do about getting out of Salem, she took two phone calls for Marlena, from Laura and Dr. Powell. When Sam managed to fool them both, making them think she was Marlena, Sam decided it might be nice to lead Marlena's life, to enjoy the prestige and the love afforded her sister. She was also intrigued by the acting possibilities. Sam committed Marlena to Bayview, as Samantha Evans. Sam advised Dr. Powell that her sister was in bad shape — manic depressive and schizophrenic — and suggested she be kept in isolation and drugged, until "Samantha" was more rational. Thus, Marlena woke up as a patient in Bayview Sanitarium! Losing her normal cool and collected attitude towards situations, Marlena panicked, thus labelling herself as a difficult patient. She forgot patients in isolation are denied all contact with the outside, except through their doctors. She futilely tried to reach Laura or Don. Marlena became so agitated when Sam arrived, posing as her, that she became violent and had to be drugged. Attempts at reasoning with her nurse or Dr. Powell proved futile. Meanwhile, Samantha managed to push off Marlena's patient load on Laura and the rest of the staff by pretending to be upset about her sister. She refused to see Don, who became angry enough one night to pay her a visit, unannounced. Luckily for Samantha, Chris Kosichek had car trouble and was with her when Don arrived, thus encouraging Don to think she had dropped him. Samantha tried to keep Marlena in isolation and told Dr. Powell that she was thinking of petitioning to have “Sam" committed permanently. Powell, after talking to Laura, had decided he would fight any such petition and further felt "Sam" should be moved off the locked ward so that she could begin detoxification treatment, that keeping her drugged as they had been was detrimental. Samantha had to agree. Marlena, meanwhile, had smuggled a letter out to Don, who was very confused because of the intimate details Marlena used to convince him she was for real. Don took the letter to Laura, who explained that often in the case of identical twins, where one – Marlena - was obviously healthy and the other – Sam - was obviously ill, there might be a situation called "symbiosis," in which the sick one might feed off the healthy one; that as Sam got better, Marlena might lose. The most terrifying thing Laura revealed was that there could also be cross-over, that both twins might live precariously close to the edge of insanity. The first night on the open ward, Marlena escaped. After rigging her bedclothes to look like a human form, Marlena used her know-ledge of Bayview to escape. Realizing she was not strong enough to get all the way to Salem on her own, she hitchhiked, accepting a ride from a man called Steve Johnson. Johnson, reneging on his promise to take Marlena to Salem, drove the opposite way and frightened Marlena with his insinuations that he was going to show her a good time. Finally, Marlena convinced him that she wouldn’t cooperate, and he let her out. She made her way to Pop's Cafe, which was open all night, and called Don. After the scene he witnessed between Sam and Chris - Don thought Sam was Marlena - at Marlena's house, Don wasn't anxious to talk to her, but the panic in her voice quieted him. She told her where she was, and he prepared to leave immediately to pick her up. Meanwhile, the nurses discovered Marlena was gone. Powell ordered a search, to no avail. When notified that her sister was missing, Sam figured out Don was the first person she'd call. She caught Don as he was about to leave. The conversation confused Don, so he began to wonder who he might really be talking to. He refused to reveal Marlena's whereabouts to Sam, saying he would take the responsibility. Powell notified the police. Pop became worried about Marlena's hanging around and asked the sheriff to stop by. Marlena was hauled away to Bayview just before Don arrived. Sam had Marlena put in restraints, restricts visitors, especially Laura and Don, and suggested Electric Shock Therapy. Powell argued that necessity, and Laura disagreed, too. Maggie Horton continued to be disturbed by the physical brutality of her neighbor Fred Barton towards his wife, Jean. Maggie confided her fears for Jean's well-being to Marlena – before Samantha impersonated her twin sister -, who suggested the family get professional help. Maggie knew Fred probably wouldn't accept such help, and also told Marlena that she thought might be financial difficulties. Marlena told Maggie about the new Family Crisis Center Laura had established at the David Martin Clinic. Maggie dropped by the clinic and picked up some brochures. Jean dropped down one afternoon and Maggie again urged her to get Fred to a counselor. She then gave Jean the brochures. Fred arrived, looking for Jean and, of course, saw the brochures. Maggie tried to cover by telling him she was just boasting about the new clinic her sister-in-law opened, but Fred didn’t buy it. He stormed out, Jean following fearful. Janice Horton reported to Mickey and Maggie that Billy Barton was getting into fights at school. The other children were beginning to avoid him. Billy arrived to play, but the session ended when Billy struck Janice, according to her. Billy claimed it was an accident. Fred came down to apologize and promised to "thrash" his son. Mickey argued the necessity of that, saying there was already too much violence in the world. Fred appeared to not understand, so Mickey told Fred he and Maggie knew Fred beat Jean because they could hear him. Fred left, very angry. Fred took his aggravations with Mickey out on Jean and Billy again with physical assault. Jean cried to herself she couldn’t and wouldn’t take this anymore. Michael Horton had decided to stick around Salem and wait for Trish and David Banning's marriage to break up. - Mike and Trish were very much in love, until Trish discovered she was pregnant with David's baby, the result of one night they spent together when Mike and Trish were having problems about not being able to make love. Mike tried to overcome his feelings about the baby, but Trish knew he could never accept the child as his, so she refused his marriage proposals. - Mike had quit his job as a mechanic at Eddie's Garage, but asked Eddie to take him hack. Eddie refused, saying that even though Mike was the best mechanic he had, he was too unstable. Mike took that in hand and went to Bob Anderson for a job. Bob, who knew the circumstances, agreed to hire Mike. Mike asked to work in maintenance, or any job that would keep him away from David, who' was a rising young executive at the plant. Meanwhile, David and Trish were making a good try at their marriage. David was sent to Washington, D.C. on business and looked up his old fiancee, Valerie Grant, who was studying medicine at Howard University. David told her of his marriage, about which Val already knew from her brother Danny. She then revealed that on the weekend David and Trish were married, she'd gone to Salem to reconcile with David. – They had broken up when Val found out through Brooke Hamilton, that Trish was carrying David's baby. - David was upset, but he then felt committed to Trish and his baby. Tommy Horton proposed to Linda Phillips. Linda told Tommy that she was not sure she loved him and asked him to give her time. Tommy took consolation in the fact that at least Linda didn't actually refuse him. Linda, however, had a bigger fish on the hook, Bob Anderson. Bob was definitely shocked when Linda told him that Tommy had proposed and she was seriously considering the proposal as she was tired of being lonely and would like some security for herself and her daughter Melissa. Besides, Tommy had a certain amount of prestige in the community. Bob urged Linda not to accept Tommy's proposal, although he was not able to offer her as much at present. Linda played both men against each other brilliantly. Tom Horton, recovering from a stroke, but still very sensitive to the vibes around him, knew something was on his beloved Alice's mind. Using old friend Mel Bailey as a foil, Tom learned that Alice was scheduled to undergo a radical hysterectomy at the hands of controversial Dr. Walter Griffin. Alice assured Tom there was nothing to worry about, but Tom asked Griffin for the courtesy of examining Alice's tiles for himself. Some of the tests were ambiguous, so Tom asked his son Bill, once a practicing surgeon, then a resident in anesthesiology, to look over the file. Bill, recently returned from a visit to an English surgeon he had hoped would restore full use of his right hand, injured when his brother Mickey shot him in the throes of a nervous breakdown, barged into Griffin's office while Griffin was away and looked at Alice's file. Bill felt there was no need for surgery. But he suggested they get a second opinion. When Griffin found out what Bill did, he released Alice as his patient, saying he wouldn’t be second-guessed. The second surgeon, Dr. Carlin, suggested a D&C first. The results showed that Alice was fine, that there was no need for surgery. Tom, however, castigated himself for not being able to determine the situation from the files, forgetting he had been away from the practice of medicine for some months and that Alice was too close for him to be objective. Bill and Griffin were in the midst of a feud. Bill felt Griffin was knife-happy, that he performed many needless surgeries. Griffin was threatened by Bill's presence in the OR, so he had had chief-of-staff Greg Peters assign Bill to the graveyard shift in anesthesiology, putting strain on Bill and Laura's marriage. At dinner one night, Griffin informed Greg that he had suggestions for changes and hoped to bring colleagues from Chicago to fill out the staff. Greg told Griffin that he was saving a place on the surgical staff for Bill. Griffin told Greg he would not accept Bill as part of his staff! Bill resented Laura's references to his age in regard to learning a new phase of medicine. Dr. Kate Winograd, Bill's chief, assuaged Greg's fears about Bill's being a trouble-maker by telling him that the interns and residents were learning from Bill, too. After Bill and Laura argued over her request, that he "play politics" by attending the hospital art show, he was saved by a call from Kate to report to work early. At the show, Laura agreed with Dr. Griffin's comment that Bill would be better off in an administration position. Phyllis Curtis, still rebounding from the knowledge that her husband, Neil, was having an affair with her daughter, Mary Anderson - by Bob Anderson -, almost committed suicide one night in her car. However, she came to her senses in time, and decided that Neil and Mary weren’t worth it. She decided to make them pay instead. She sent Neil a note on Mary's stationery inviting him to lunch, signing Mary's name, of course, then sat in the shadows and watched Neil consume his lunch in obvious perturbation. Next, she sent Mary a music box, anonymously, which Mary immediately assumed was from Neil. Mary and Neil had angry arguments over the incidents. Meanwhile, Phyl had refused all physical contact with Neil, driving him to practically beg Betty Worth, his office nurse, then Amanda Peters, for attention and ..., to no avail. Mary also continued to reject his advances. Phyl talked about taking a five-month cruise — alone. Phyl led Neil to believe she was having an affair with her tennis instructor, while she rejected Neil's advances. He was bewildered when she suggested they try a totally open marriage. Mary found herself at odds with Chris Kosichek, Bob's new engineer find. Chris was, as Bob said, "a little rough around the edges." Chris asked Mary to go to dinner with him at the VFW and enter a polka contest. Mary found the very idea ridiculous and refused. She then accepted a date for dinner, until she found it was to be hot dogs on the 50-yard line at a high school football game. When Bob again asked her if she was seeing Neil, Mary, to convince him she was not, invited Chris to dinner, then made it clear she only did it to help him with a forthcoming speech. Chris walked out, telling her she had appalling manners for someone who was supposed to be so sophisticated. When Bob told him he had great plans for him and approved of his friendship with Mary, who needed to get out more, Chris took Mary to dinner at Doug's Place, promising he could help her. At the studio later, Chris reminded Mary of an evening when Phyl barged in and hinted broadly that Mary needed a man, then repeated his conversation with Bob. Chris volunteered to be her coach. Mary was very insulted. Chris told her she knew how to reach him. Doug Williams was angry when he was asked to come to City Hall to clear up some discrepancies in his liquor license. It seemed that when his second wife, Addie, bought Doug's Place for him, along with the liquor license, she put the license in her name because she knew that Doug had been unfairly convicted of a felony some years back and might be denied a license. When Addie died, Mickey Horton wasn't around to handle the details, and his partner Jim Phillips overlooked transferring the license to Doug's name. Therefore, Doug had been operating with an illegal license, which had to be rescinded soon. Doug was asked to fill out a new application, and he neglected to report his conviction or that his real name was Brent Douglas. Therefore, his application was denied, the information having been discovered through his fingerprints. Doug went to Mickey, who agreed to appeal the case, but they couldn’t get on the calendar for six months. Doug's license would be lifted almost immediately. Doug asked what he had to do, since he felt he would definitely lose the business unless he could serve liquor. One solution was for Julie to use her father's inheritance to buy the club, but Doug would not be allowed on the premises, since he was a known convicted felon. Doug rejected the idea. Doug and Julie put up a brave front for each other, but both wondered if they would be able to survive turning Doug's Place into a coffee house. Larry Atwood, who had approached Doug earlier with a plan to put gambling – illegal - in the back rooms of Doug's Place, was the culprit behind Doug's difficulties. Atwood needed an established business to front the gambling so the city fathers would not be suspicious. He planned to lure them and their wives into gambling, then with IOU's and good pictures of them, blackmail them into letting him operate. Atwood assured his colleague Frank that he would have control of Doug's Place in a few months. Sister Marie Horton was offered a station in Salem as director of the Good Samaritan Center, a teenage counseling center, to mitigate the idealism and practicality of the other two directors. Marie liked the idea, but hoped her pride wouldn’t get in the way. The Doctors Written by: Douglas Marland Produced by: Jeff Young In Brazil, Jason Aldrich had served Ann Larimer Aldrich with annullment papers which she had promised to sign. However, after Jason left with Steve, Ann stalled, saying she wanted another lawyer to look over the papers before she signed them. - Ann had told Jason and Steve that she lost the baby she was carrying, but she was still pregnant. Ann and Steve's marriage collapsed after Steve found out that Ann had arranged the committment under a false name of Steve's ex-wife, Carolee, then in a catatonic state, then convinced Steve to marry her. Carolee's return revived Steve's love for her, and he had demanded the annullment, despite Ann's carrying his child. - Mona Croft, Steve and Jason's mother, was the most hurt when the truth about Ann was learned. Then, in order to regain her place in Steve's heart, Mona askes Jason what to do. Jason suggested she make a real effort with Carolee, as it was obvious Steve and she would remarry. Mona invited Carolee to dinner and apologized for her past injustices. Carolee found herself on the verge of having no place to live. The house she had planned to rent had been sold and her roommate and cousin MJ Match was about to be married, and Carolee promised to move out. Mona and Steve suggested she move in with them, as the house was quite large. Carolee had reservations: she'd be so close to Steve it would be hard to resist becoming lovers; the situation might confuse their children. When Steve was scheduled to go to a medical conference in San Francisco, Carolee agreed to move in on a temporary basis, to see if it could work. Eleanor Conrad had asked Jason Aldrich to become her attorney, saying her present attorney, Harold Kingston, refused to cooperate with her. Eleanor told Jason about her problems with Wendy and wanted Jason to write a new will in which Wendy wouldn’t be the sole heir. She wanted to leave a trust fund for Wendy and leave the balance to Luke Dancy. Jason urged her to wait a while and think it all out more clearly. Eleanor agreed. Luke arrived at Doreen Aldrich's suite. Doreen was very cold, telling Luke the last she saw he was in hot pursuit of Eleanor and that he has 24 hours to account for. - Luke was very ambitious. He saw an opportunity to buy controlling interest in Andre's, a local supper club. He courted Eleanor, hoping she would back him, and indeed, she wanted to, but Kingston held things up because of Luke's lack of experience in managing such a club. Meanwhile, Luke had also become involved with Doreen, who collected handsome young lovers. Realizing the club would tie Luke to her, Doreen gave Luke the money, retaining 51% majority interest and control. Doreen guarded her "investments" jealously. - Luke told Doreen he'd have done the same for any friend. Doreen retorted that she wouldn’t be used and the 'arrangement could be terminated. While Doreen ranted, Luke called her bluff by kissing her. After lovemaking, Doreen asked if Luke meant he'd do anything for her? He, of course, answered affirmatively. They were interrupted by a call from Andre's reporting business was down. Doreen suggested that business would pick up if the entertainment – Nola - were better. Doreen told Luke that he could prove he cared for her by giving Nola, his sister and her husband's present love interest, two weeks' notice. Luke followed orders. Nola told Luke she was sure that Doreen was his backer at Andre's and tried to point out this was Doreen's way of getting rid of her. Luke tried to deny it, and Nola told him he was nothing more than "a glorified errand boy." Nolte quit immediately, refusing the extra week's pay Luke offered. When Jason learned Nola had been fired, he, too, was suspicious and confronted Doreen, who admitted she backed Luke at Andre's. Nola asked Jason why she was such a threat to Doreen and why Doreen fought so hard to maintain a marriage that was obviously in name only. Jason said it was convenient that way because Doreen could do as she pleased. Nola asked why he didn’t divorce Doreen. Jason replied that “'til now it's just seemed like too much trouble.” Doreen, to keep her pet leashed, put him in touch with an agent in New York, who scheduled a hot new star into Andre's. Luke was ecstatic at pulling it off, unaware that it was Do-reen who was pulling the strings. But Luke was still worried about Nola. To console him, Doreen "promised" to try to get her a job in the lounge at the Madison Arms. Nola, meanwhile, told Jason she might have to leave town to get a job. Jason told her she needn't worry about money. Nola, however, wouldn’t be a kept woman. When Jason confided his fear of Nola's leaving to Mona, she thought their being apart might be good. Jason then admitted he couldn’t stand the idea of being away from Nola, and had to decide what to do about it. Because Doreen had demanded so much of his time, Luke had assuaged Eleanor by claiming to be very busy with his backers and to be spending his nights on his office couch. Eleanor angered him by reminding him she gave him $75,000 so he wouldn't be at the mercy of his backers. He stomped out, leaving Eleanor alone again. Meanwhile, Luke's mother, Virginia Dancy, was becoming uneasy about Luke's sudden success. She frankly told Luke that she hoped he wouldn’t make the mistake of letting some woman use money to get a hold on him, because success wouldn’t mean anything if he "sells his soul." Nola received a fabulous offer from an agent in New York named Earl Rogers. Rogers promises to get her a coach, choreographer, arranger, etc., and build her a brand new act that would open in New York. Jason was suspicious. How did she know Rogers was on the up and up? Jason put through some discreet inquiries and found Rogers was indeed legitimate. Nola was very excited at the prospects of a great new career, a dream she'd had in childhood but had put aside. Jason admitted he didn’t want her away from him. Nola pointed out that he'd have no compunctions about leaving her alone to take a case out of town. Nola's sister Sara asked what had happened to Nola's plans to marry Jason. Nola felt she had to take this chance on her career, as it might never come again. Jason wondered if Nola's talent was big enough to capture a New York audience. Still wondering where this offer came from, out of the blue, Jason called Rogers and tricked him into admitting that Doreen was behind it, promising to pay all expenses. Jason confronted Luke and Doreen on a big night at Andre's. Jason gave Luke all the facts. Doreen twisted it to appear sh wa's doing Nola a big favor. Luke was very confused. Eleanor was finding the long nights without Luke a burden. Wendy sent Ted Kingston to Eleanor to suggest that the involvement with Luke was proof that Eleanor needed psychological help. Eleanor told Ted that Wendy was using him to punish her because Wendy was jealous of Luke. Ted reported to Wendy that Eleanor appeared unstable, and that if Eleanor went back to the hospital, it would be simple to replace her as trustee of Wendy's trust fund from her late father. Wendy wanted it done. After Luke rejected her again, Eleanor was in bad shape and became drunk. In that state, she went to see Wendy, saying they needed to talk face to face. She demanded Wendy stop torturing her with her ugly insinulations about Luke. Eleanor, tearfully, admitted she had her own doubts to deal with and didn’t need help from her own daughter. Wendy melted a bit, putting her mother to bed. The following morning, Wendy started tracking Luke down, finally going to Doreen's suite. Wendy forced her way in, then spoke her mind to the open bedroom door: either break with Eleanor immediately or she would make trouble. Doreen demanded Luke break all ties with Eleanor. The night of the big opening at Andre's, Eleanor became drunk at the bar. Jason took her home. Tom Carroll, MJ Match's fiance, had told MJ his parents were dead, which was why he enjoyed her large family so much. On the eve of their wedding, Tom received a call from his mother! She and his father, who was supposed to have died of Huntingdon's Disease, were worried. Tom told his mother never to contact him again. Tom and MJ had asked Virginia Dancy to stand in for both their mothers. MJ was nervous, but took heart when Carolee told her Tom and she had love to begin with and marriage was an adventure of discovery. Tom and MJ were married. They planned to follow MJ’s sister Betsy and her husband Dick and son Ricky to their farm in Vermont to honeymoon. Just as MJ and Tom were ready to leave to meet the Mineros, they received a call from the highway patrol. The result of the accident was that Betsy and Dick died, and MJ and Tom were instant parents of young Ricky. Despite Tom’s pleas that he and MJ let someone else take care of Ricky for a while, until they were more settled, MJ insisted on making Ricky part of their family immediately upon his release from the hospital. While MJ was telling Ricky the awful news that both of his parents were dead, Tom had flashes in which Ricky resembled a Vietnamese child. Jason tried again to persuade Nola to stay in Madison. Nola told him she didn’t need his criticism, reminding him that he had nothing better to offer her. Nola reconciled with Virginia, who hoped Nola would find happiness in New York. Jason confided to Steve that he was very confused. Steve suggested that Nola wanted some kind of commitment from him. Jason went to Nola's apartment, while Steve told Carolee that Jason's first marriage had been such a disaster that he thought Jason was afraid of a real commitment. Dr. Jesse Rawlings finally got through to Dr. Mike Powers by telling him she thought it was a crime that he was wasting his education when there were many people who were denied what he had just because of lesser backgrounds. Mike began observing on the field unit, but refused to practice his profession. When Betsy and Dick had been brought into the hospital, the ER was overcrowded and Mike had to make his first medical decision. He was then committed. Jason, unable to convince Nola to remain in Madison, proposed marriage to her. Her answer was she would go ahead to New York and begin working while Jason asked Doreen for a divorce. Greta Powers accused Matt and Maggie of having time for everyone but her. The Edge Of Night Written by: Henry Slesar Produced by: Erwin Nicholson Anthony Saxon and Geraldine Whitney had a dinner date. Geraldine told Anthony that her "son" Kevin Jamison was reluctant to consider the proposed post to the Monticello Crime Commission, as Kevin found his job as a reporter gratifying. - Kevin was Geraldine's adopted son and she had transferred to him the same ambitions she had for her own late sons. Tony wanted Kevin on the Commission because of his inexperience. Saxon felt that he could control Kevin, if not directly, then through Geraldine. - Geraldine, however, felt that she could use Raven Alexander to convince Kevin to accept the post. When Kevin came in, Geraldine persuaded him to listen to Anthony, who made a great pitch about Kevin's contribution, needing younger blood in government, etc. Kevin tried to forestall it by pointing out that it was all pure conjecture. Anthony announced that Kevin's name had already been submitted. Kevin had proposed to Raven Alexander and was upset to learn she had a date. Logan Swift told Raven he didn’t think she should marry Kevin because she was not in love with him. Raven admitted she didn't want to marry anyone, that she enjoyed her independence. Geraldine told Kevin he sold himself short, that Raven loved him and would be a great help in his future. Kevin wondered if Raven was interested in him or his future. When the prospects of being an important politician's wife occurred to Raven, she decided to accept Kevin's proposal. Anthony also urged Kevin to give in to Geraldine's ambitions for him. Kevin had been content to take one day at a time since his wife Phoebe's death. Anthony assured him that one day a future would be important. Kevin then decided to marry Raven and give her the crime commission job as a dowry. Logan was devastated when Raven told him she was getting married, adding that Logan waited too long. As Geraldine’s housekeeper Trudy was congratulating Kevin on his forthcoming marriage to Raven, Kevin brought up "Mr. Scott," meaning Draper, to whom Raven was previously engaged. Trudy accidentally misunderstood and raised the spectre of Raven's involvement with Ansel Scott, Draper's father, Raven's stepfather. Kevin gently probed Geraldine about the situation and found that Raven introduced her mother to Ansel. Kevin was postponing assuming his duties on the Crime Commission until after the Mike Karr murder trial. Anthony admitted to his daughter Deborah that he was becoming romantically attached to Geraldine. When Steve Guthrie arrived at the New Moon and found Deborah Saxon, his date, left earlier with another man, he was frantic. However, Steve would be more upset to know she was with Raney at his apartment. Deborah became more and more uncomfortable as Raney hinted she was in for a "good time." Using his extensive record collection and wine stock as examples, Raney told Debbie he had connections — later revealing he was involved with crime on the docks. Trying for more intormation, in her capacity as an undercover for Steve, Debbie used a newspaper article about Inez Johnson's lie detector test to bring up the late Adam Drake. Raney confirmed that he knew Adam. But he clamed up as he was ready to move in on Debbie. They were interrupted by Packy, who arrived with a message: Col. Blood was on his way over. They got rid of Debbie. Some days later, Debbie confirmed there was a real Tom Blood with another of Raney's cronies, Otto. At a party where she was to meet him, Debbie told Otto she was to be Blood's date, but Blood then canceled. As Mike Karr’s trial for the murder of Beau Richardson was due to begin, Calvin, Steve and Deborah had a council of war to decide on tactics to have Raney and Packy lead them to Adam and Beau's murderer. When Calvin made a remark about Tony's knowing such men, Deborah stomped out and accepted a date with Raney without telling Steve. Raney, meanwhile, had learned that Deborah was Anthony Saxon's daughter. He gloated to Packy about dating the great Saxon's daughter. - When Raney confronted her about her real identity, Deborah covered by saying she was just looking for kicks, that she was tired of dating college types all the time. She further hinted that her father would have fits if he knew about Raney. - Otto and a girl joined Raney and Debbie. He brought up seeing her out with someone else, a blue-eyed blond. Deborah said she hads to play it daddy's way sometimes. Raney got rid of Otto and company and told Deborah about his childhood, one of beatings and some poverty. He ran away from home after knocking out his father. Deborah caught a glimpse of Col. Blood when Raney pointed him out in a phone booth. Raney kept Deborah on the string with constant promises of meeting Blood. Draper Scott had been seeing a lot of April Cavanaugh, sister of Nicole Drake's doctor. April and Nicole became friends at Claremont, where Nicole would be confined until the birth of her baby. April had a heart condition, mitral stenosis, caused by rheumatic fever. A pacemaker was suggested some years ago so that she could lead a normal life; however, April had refused. Since she found herself falling in love with Draper, and since she had met the vivacious and beautiful Raven, Draper's former fiancee, April wanted the operation, feeling she'd be more attractive if she were more vital. Dr. Ralph Burnham checked April over, then had to call Miles, her brother, with the bad news. It was too late for the pacemaker. She had to undergo open heart surgery and valve replacement. In conference with Miles and Ralph, April began to consider the operation, especially since the survival rate was high. However, they had to tell April that the reserves in her heart muscle necessary to restart it after surgery might not be great enough. April decided against surgery, saying the most important thing to her then was to live. Nicole was confused when Carol, her primary care nurse, was replaced by Denise Cavanaugh, Miles' wife. Nicole told Miles that Denise's attentiveness made her uneasy. Miles filled Nicole in about the background of his marriage: Denise supported him through medical school and they also depended on her father for money when things got really tight. Denise's father owned Claremont. Later, Denise told Carol that she intended to stay on Nicole's case. Carol let it drop to Miles, who ordered that Carol would stay on the case. Denise then told Nicole that Carol was sulking because she was reassigned and asked Nicole to put in a good word with Miles, so that she could prove to her husband that she was still a good nurse and could be a useful member of society. Denise then blackmailed Carol with the letter Carol wrote to her saying Miles was becoming interested in Nicole. Denise was assigned permanently as Nicole's nurse. Nicole asked Denise why all the fuss. Denise said it probably had something to do with Katherine Dane, but left it up in the air. Miles read Denise out when he caught her about to take Nicole's temperature with an unsterile thermometer, adding that she should also remove her rings. He suggested Denise needed a refresher course in nursing. Denise again mentioned Katherine Dane's name. Denise told Nicole that Katherine was rich and beautiful, that she was at Claremont to recover from a severe respiratory disease. According to Denise, Katherine went after Miles, and the two of them had an argument the night Katherine died. Denise was called away, and Carol finished the story. There was an argument that ended with Katherine asking to see Miles because she felt ill. According to Carol, Katherine had a severe coughing spell and rang for a nurse, who happened to be Denise. Denise ignored the ring. Katherine died. In Johnny’s absence, Danny Micelli was taking over the New Moon Cafe. After turnng their son JV over to Danny and his wife Tracy, Johnny's wife Laurie had moved home with her parents, Mike and Nancy Karr. Laurie was relieved that Johnny was gone because there was too much to do as a wife and mother. Tracy arrived for the key to their apartment, to get things for JV. Laurie told Tracey she was being ungrateful at trying to return the gift – JV - when she and Danny couldn’t have kids. Tracy was genuinely happy to be taking care of JV and reassured Nancy that JV had a home with Danny and her as long as necessary. Laurie occasionally regressed to her teenage years, wearing her old clothes, arguing with Mike about her lengths. Mike told Nancy to cheer up, they had been through worse situations. Nancy admitted the situations had been worse, but they hadn't affected as many people. Mike was relieved to learn his trial was to start, telling Draper that the best medicine for Laurie would be his acquittal. Chief Marceau dropped over to visit the Karrs and talked with Timmy, their ward, about his kidnapping and sojourn in San Francisco with his Aunt Josephine Harper. Eventually, Timmy described Ray Harper, Josephine's husband and known international criminal, as looking like Mike! Marceau took the lead to Luke Chandler. They knew Harper had a connection with Richardson, the dead man, or the "kidnapping" could never have occurred, but they had to prove it and also find Harper. - Beau used the phony kidnapping of Timmy to force Nancy to spy on Mike's activities for the crime commission and its probe into Tony Saxon. - They sent Steve to question Saxon about any connection between Beau and Harper. Saxon denied any knowledge of a connection, saying he left the whole thing up to Beau. Deborah ordered Steve from the house. Mike’s trial began. Logan and Draper made brilliant opening statements. Witnesses like Luke and Danny found it difficult to testify for the prosecutions. But the prosecution's case wasn't nearly as air-tight as everyone thought, due to Draper's expertise. The most potent evidence the prosecution had was Inez Johnson, the eyewitness, who unequivocally identified Mike as the man she saw emerge from Beau's office and toss the gun back into the room the night Beau was murdered. - Earlier, Inez revealed to Tracy that Mrs. Yost revealed the results of her lie detector test to the press. – Calvin and Steve arrested Packy when they found him with a shipment of sweaters that still had the shipping labels on them. Luke pressured Packy to tell him about Adam Drake. All Packy would say was that Adam was nosing around the docks, looking for an international crook. Packy called Raney to bail him out, interrupting what Raney thought would be an intimate evening with Debbie. Earlier, Raney had managed to meet Tony, accomplishing one of his goals in dating Debbie. Steve was protecting Deborah by staking out Raney's apartment. Deborah opened the door to admit Raney but found instead Col. Tom Blood on the threshold. Nicole was having pain. Miles continued the story of Katherine Dane. He told Nicole that the call signal malfunctioned at the nurse's station the night Katherine died. An electrician confirmed this fact the following day. Bill Marceau was expertly questioned by Draper to reveal that the police had a lead to a colleague of Beau Richardson's, who looked like Mike. General Hospital Written by: Irving & Tex Elman Produced by: Tom Donovan The long awaited wedding of Steve and Audrey was held in the hospital chapel and made more poignant when Diana Taylor made the effort to attend. A radiant Dr. Peter Taylor, rejoicing in his wife's apparent effort to put behind her the unhappiness at losing all hope for adopting little Mike Mallon, was saddened to hear Diana wish she was the woman Peter deserved. She told Peter it was a mistake to come back to Port Charles from her mother's house, that she did it to please him because she had hurt him. After the wedding she despondently returned to Barton's Falls. When her mother urged her not to withdraw from the world, telling her to go home - "I love you but I don't want you here" -, Diana said helplessly that she tried to reach inside herself for strength but all there was, was hopelessness. Diana had to rouse herself to answer her small daughter Martha's questions about Mike, telling her that he was going to live with someone very nice - a cousin -; that the judge decided it would be better for Mike to live with his relatives. When Peter called Diana to check on her during a rainstorm, he told her that the hospital had been put on alert for a hurricane that was brewing. Diana made plans to return to nursing duty at General Hospital in the emergency. After her arrival, Peter called the police department in Barton's Falls to learn that after checking, they found Diana's mother's house deserted and a window shattered. He was told that Mrs. Maynard had probably taken Martha to a shelter set up in the village, but he was aware that the site was miles along the road. Jeff Webber had had to accept what Lee Baldwin told him —that he had no legal rights regarding his illegitimate son, Stephen Lars. Jeff made one more effort to appeal to Heather not to take the infant with her to New York - Heather had accepted $500 from Jeff as "getaway money." -, but she left anyway. Heather went to New York posing as a young widow and her "benevolent" landlady Mrs. Hadley realizing the girl had little money steered her to a (porno) photo studio assuring her friend from the studio the plan would work again — give the girl credit and she was trapped. Dr. Rick Webber appealed to Mark Dante for help when he learned that a very close friend and former roommate, then a professional golfer, had been brought in to General Hospital when the foundations of his house were washed away, causing the building to collapse before his eyes. He was returning from a tour and did not know if his wife and two children were inside. When an emergency generator failed, Mark operated by headlights in the hospital garage. David Hamilton's life was saved, but he was paralyzed from the waist down and Rick learned from Lt. Sage that he had to tell David his wife and children were dead. Scott Baldwin had returned to Port Charles, telling his father Lee that Dr. Gail Adamson had been leaning on him to come and "give your decadant lifestyle a whirl." He had agreed to work with her in her drug rehabilitation program. Scotty and Dr. Lesley Faulkner's 16-year-old daughter, Laura, attended a rock concert and were forced to seek shelter in a shed during the hurricane. A phone call relieved Lee and Leslie's anxieties. Laura was uncomfortable with her own behavior but more so with Scotty's understand and it was she who was reluctant to leave when it was finally safe, realizing what a risk she had taken because of her fright. When Laura was home safe, she had no patience with her mother's half-joking inquiries as to whether Scott tried anything and became increasingly sensitive to any reference to her youth. At the height of the hurricane emergency activity in the hospital, a young woman was brought in comotose with a depressed skull fracture, broken ribs, and a rup-ured spleen. In Dr. Gary Lansing's opinion the odds were against the survival of the woman, who was pregnant, but he believed they might save the child. Dr. Adam Streeter determined that they should try to save the mother first and he operated with Gina assisting. All seemed to be going well as he left Gina to finish when he was called away to another emergency. Gina took over but after a few minutes the woman's blood pressure dropped, she began hemmorhaging and Gina lost the mother and baby. When it was evident that another young patient had drugged herself into a miscarriage and that she got the stuff at the hospital, a nurse reported that the girl said she had gotten amphetamines from Harvey Payson, a hospital orderly. He insisted it was a frame-up and when the young woman refused to agree to testify against the man, he laughed at Adam's threats not only to have him fired but file charges against him, saying it looked like their case wouldn't stand up and "that's all folks". One good thing to come with Hurricane Ava was nurse Doris – Dorrie - Fleming who walked into General Hospital to volunteer her services when Port Charles' weather spectacular interrupted her vacation from her native England. After the storm had spent itself, Mark Dante offered Dorrie a position on the staff and she accepted it, deciding to stay on in the States for a while. It was Dorrie who spotted the similarity in the story a young storm victim known only as Lisa, who claimed to have amnesia, told to a very gullible Dr. Jeff Webber, of the brooding widower who was in love with Lisa and his insane wife and the fire ... to the Bronte classic “Jane Eyre”. Lisa twinkled at Jeff that he did urge her to tell him all she remembered ... and she remembered that. Again, it was Dorrie who called out a young nurse to the corridor and pointed out that she should never have taken it for granted that because a patient was paralyzed from the waist down, he needn't be watched with the same vigilance as any other. - The patient was David Hamilton whose paralysis had no organic basis, as Mark's surgery was a complete success. But, as Dorrie pointed out: “why take the trouble to walk when you've nothing to live for?” - She told the girl that David had taken a bottle of pills from her cart and insisted that he turn them over to her. - Dorrie did not know that David had been secreting and hoarding his sedatives. – When Mr. Stuart Kennicott, the husband of the expectant mother who died, arrived some days later to ask about her death, he accepted Adam and Gina's explanations and sympathy until he was stopped by Payson who told them that the baby could have been saved and because of what he knew, he had been given his notice, but that doctors shouldn't be allowed to get away with that sort of thing. On the day Gina convinced Adam that she was serious in her proposal that they get married immediately - Adam was worried that Gina was rushing into marriage to block out her feelings for Gary Lansing -, Gary, Gina and Adam were summoned to a hearing in the District Attorney's office to determine if they should be prosecuted for criminal negligence in the Kennicott case. Dr. Mark Dante’s wife, Mary Ellen – Mellie -, had been committed to the State Mental Facility until such time as she could be determined to be able to stand trial. She was for a time in a catatonic state and though she had emerged from it, she couldn’t accept her surroundings. Mark was told that any visits from him would be counter-productive as her psychosis was rooted in her relationship with him. When Mark asked how many months it may might before he would be able to be in contact with Mellie, he was told it might be more like years. When Terri Arnett learned about Mellie's condition, she told Steve she had to go somewhere so that she and Mark didn’t have to face each other anymore. She confided to Steve that the offer to join a vocal group recording in Los Angeles was not really much but she needed to be with a group. Later, when the offer fell through, she told only Lesley but insisted that Mark and her brothers Rick and Jeff not know that. Shortly after Steve and Audrey returned from their honeymoon, cut short by reports of the hurricane, they had to attend the funeral of Diana and Peter's daughter, Martha, killed in a car crash in which Diana's mother, Mrs. Maynard was injured. Together, Diana and Peter told Mrs. Maynard in her hospital room that everything that could have been done by the doctors had been done, and tried to comfort her, but Audrey and Steve told Mark that Diana seemed to be still in shock. District Attorney Murdoch found that there was no basis for a criminal action against Adam and Gina but Kennicott advised them that he would see them again — next time with his attorneys. His lawyer informed Lee Baldwin that he was bringing suit for malpractice. Gina and Adam were about to leave on their elopement when they learned Judge Lowell, who practically raised her, had had a heart attack in Boston. Adam forced a confrontation feeling Gina's insistence on going to Boston was an excuse to postpone their marriage and since he felt she might want him out of her life, he might accept an offer to open a clinic in Bogota, and that would end it all. Learning his father might run for district attorney, Scotty feared his own arrest - no conviction for grass - might hurt his chances and decided to take off. Gail warned Scotty and Lee that they keep hurting each other to keep from hurting each other. Mellie’s psychiatrist warned Mark that Mellie was having a lucid period and that Mark had to be careful not to do anything that could lead her to believe their marriage was viable as it would be feeding her dementia. He recommended Mark see Mellie once to let her know the marriage was over. Mark told Steve about Dr. Field's recommendation but added he couldn’t accept it on the basis of one man's opinion. He would seek advice from Peter. Monica was assigned to work with a foundation representative, Alan Quartermaine, to research the needs of the hospital for a new cardiac wing. She was quite taken with Alan and Alan was unconfortable aware of her feelings! When she even went so far as to intimate to him that she certainly wouldn’t mind spending her evenings working with him, he told her she wouldn’t have to worry about working evenings, as his fiancée kept him very busy nights ! A bemused Alan later confided to Mark that he was not really engaged; but he often found it necessary to invent a fiancée to ward off the unwanted attentions of amorous females! Guiding Light Written by: Bridget & Jerome Dobson Produced by: Allen Potter Bert Bauer was so excited as she prepared to leave for her vacation in London that her son, Dr. Ed Bauer, found her running around in circles when he arrived to take her to lunch before delivering her to the airport. His departing gift to her was a book on English Tudor history to aid her in her museum travels with Dr. Steve Jackson. Holly Bauer couldn’t sleep for thinking of the fight between Roger Thorpe and Ed Bauer. She let Roger in because she felt sorry for him since Peggy had left him. Ed was furious when he walked in and found Roger holding little Christina. She could only blame herself because she knew that Ed didn't want Roger there. Holly told Roger that Ed didn’t want him visiting Christina again and she agreed. Ed thought of Christina as his own daughter. Roger blamed Ed for telling Peggy about him. He declared that he was going to see his daughter whenever he wanted to and no one could stop him. Holly pleaded that she didn’t want him to be a part of their lives anymore. Roger met Rita Stapleton at the hospital and asked her to tell Ed that she knew Roger was Christina's father. Rita wouldn’t so Roger said he would. Rita pleaded that it wasn’t good for her, he was only looking out for himself. Roger waited for hours in Ed's office determined to see him. Finally he threw at Ed that he told someone else that he was Christina's father a long time ago. He challenged that Rita didn't say she was with Roger to save herself at the trial because Ed wouldn't be able to handle it. That proved itself to be true because he dropped Rita when he found out. Rita was the one he told. As this was no longer a secret between the three of them, Ed couldn’t stop him from seeing his daughter. Ed confronted Rita with the fact that she had known for some time and never let him know. Dr. Justin Marler told Dr. Sara McIntyre that he enjoyed the dinner and the pleasant conversation. Sara enjoyed herself and promised that if her feelings changed, she wouldn’t fight them. Justin came for breakfast one morning and knowing that Sara was making pancakes, brought real maple syrup for TJ. He suggested that TJ go fishing with him sometime, but TJ explained that the last time he went fishing was with his father and he just couldn’t bring himself to go with anyone else. Justin said he understood. TJ asked his mother if she saw a lot of Dr. Marler while he was at camp. She explained that she had been seeing him but they had known each other since school. She agreed with TJ that no one could ever take Joe's place in their lives. Dr. Emmett Scott told Justin that rather than return to his clinic in Chicago, he wanted to stay at Cedars. Justin said he would submit his ex-father-in-law's name, but Emmett told him that Ed Bauer already had. Mike Bauer was to have a business lunch with Dr. Scott to discuss some legal affairs. When Emmett was detained at the hospital, his daughter, Jackie Marler showed up in his place, saying that her father hoped to be there soon. Adam Thorpe and Ed told Emmett that he had been officially accepted on the Cedars staff. The Board was thrilled to get someone as qualified as he at Cedars. Evie Stapleton’s friend, Hilary Kincaid, told her that she had decided to stay in Springfield to go to school. She called her mother in Canada and was surprised to learn that her mother didn’t want her to stay there. Her mother and step-father had told her to make up her own mind where she wanted to go to college. She continued to make plans for the fall. She would be volunteering at the boutique. Hilary asked Evie if she or Rita had ever been to Canada. Evie hadn't and didn’t think Rita had either. Rita had continued to receive news-paper clippings and strange phone calls about the trial. She had tried to forget everything connected with the trial and the Grangers. She was very upset when a mail-a-gram arrived from Raymond Schaffer telling her that she was needed in Texas to settle some property that Cyrus Granger left her. She took this to Mike Bauer, telling him that she didn’t want to go. She also told him about the clippings and calls. Mike felt that some crank had probably sent them and there was no reason for her to worry. After calling Schaffer, he told Rita that she really had to go and he would accompany her. She had a bad feeling about Schaffer and couldn’t bring herself to trust him. Ben McFarren unveiled the portrait of Jackie. Jackie and Emmett were both pleased with it. Jackie apologized for her behavior earlier. He asked if Evie could have an evening off to celebrate and Emmett suggested that he ask Evie rather than tell her. Evie said that he needn't feel obligated to take her when there were so many others he could ask. Ben said he wanted to take her to dinner. Rita offered her apartment and a bottle of wine for their evening. Ed came by to see Rita while she was waiting for Mike to pick her up. He said he had been thinking the situation over and had seen that she was willing to go to prison rather than hurt him. This made him feel very small. She tried to brush it off. Ben and Evie drank the wine, ate cheese and talked. Ben told her how much she meant to him. He told Evie that he loved her and wanted to marry her so they could spend the rest of their lives together. Evie accepeds. She would like to be married on Thanksgiving because her parents were and they were very happy. Ben was willing to do anything that made her happy. He suggested that since they would only have a couple of days then that they go away over Christmas. Evie wanted to leave the day after so that they could spend Christmas with her family. When her mother heard that Ben loved her and they were getting married, all her objections disappeared. Rita wanted to sell the property when the bid came in from the state rather than wait for a new appraisal. As the major owner she had the most influence. Mike said that the next bid could be lower. Georgene Granger was furious that Rita should have a share of the estate and even madder that she settled on the first offer because, as Malcolm Granger's widow, she was counting on more money. She told Raymond that Rita had been at the root of all the Granger's problems. She even took Malcolm from her. He corrected her, saying that she and Malcolm were having problems long before Rita became Cyrus' nurse. Jackie Marler had made several excuses to visit Mike in his office. She had begun to think more and more about the baby that she gave up. She thought about its birth and the doctor telling her she had to never let it be known that her baby was substituted at the hospital because her son's new mother couldn't stand the shock of knowing that her baby was born dead and she was raising another woman's child. Jackie was embarrassed when she broke down in Mike's office after reliving this. Evie had been having problems with blurry vision, but was not too worried because the doctors had told her there didn’t seem to be a problem. It was gradually getting worse. After she had her leg cast removed, Evie had a spell that lasted for several minutes. Dr. Feldman asked her to come in and took a blood sample. He called her at work and asked her to return for a spinal tap. He told her not to worry because this was routine. Rita asked Dr. Feldman what the problem was and was assured that it looked like a simple infection, but Dr. Bauer was being cautious by ruling out other possibilities. Evie and her mother were making plans for her wedding dress when Dr. Ed Bauer called. Her spinal tap had come back and they needed to do some more tests and get as much of her prior medical history as possible. He told her not to worry. As Rita was still having trouble with calls and clippings, Mike mentioned this to Raymond Schaffer who was concerned that Georgene might be behind it. Georgene said Rita deserved anything she got. Hillary Kincaid’s step-father came to Springfield to talk to her about going to school elsewhere. While she was at class, he found a folder of newspaper clippings about Rita's trial. Drs. Scott and Marler were found arguing about surgical facilities by Dr. Sara McIntyre, who suggested they discuss it with Adam Thorpe. Sara mentioned to Justin that she wisheed she could help straighten out whatever had caused the strain between him and Emmett. Love Of Life Written by: Gabrielle Upton Produced by: Darryl Hickman Mia Marriott had moved to an apartment of her own after Andrew decided they had to get a divorce because he was holding her back. After adjusting to living alone, Mia felt free and able to do as she pleased. She visited the community center where Ben Harper was in charge of sports activities for teenage boys while he was on probation for a parole violation, to do a photo story on the boys. Afterwards she offered to fix chili at her apartment for everyone. Mia told her friend Wendy Hayes that she was attracted to the boys' coach and was sure she would see him again. Mia told Ben that she would be glad to help him with his writing efforts because she was sure that it was good. Ben finally broke down and went to her apart-ment, but she was entertaining Andrew. When he didn’t return, she went to him again and offered to edit his book for a percentage when it sold. She admitted that she had never done it before, but was sure she was able. Cal Latimer had decided that she needed some time to think things over. She left a note for Rick and went to stay at the lake with her Aunt Van and her grandmother. Hank had decided to stay home with his father because Johnny Prentiss, who was staying with Van, was moody lately. - Rick had taken Meg Hart, Cal's mother, into his confidence, but until recently had tried to protect Cal from unpleasantness. Meg was trying to win Rick back as he was her lover first. – Rick had to report that his gun was missing from his desk at Beaver Ridge. Fortunately he saw the gun after Frankie Sills was shot and it was the wrong caliber anyway. Hank was beginning to worry about the police visiting his father so much, but Rick explained that he was trying to help them solve a case. Arlene Lovett finally brought herself to visit Dr. Tom Crawford at the hospital just in case he had heard from her mother. Tom asked if she was afraid of Ian, but Arlene couldn't let him know why she was so concerned because Tom would only get hurt. - Carrie Johnson Lovett was leaving when Frankie Sills arrived for his appointment with Ian. Afraid that she might connect this with Sills' death, Ian ordered Ray Slater to arrange an "accident" for her to prove his loyalty. Ray told Arlene and they plotted to get Carrie out of town. When Ian detained Arlene, she had to say cruel things to get her mother to leave town. Arlene resented what she had to do and was worried because she had had no word from her mother. - Carrie had written to Betsy that she was staying with a friend in the lap of luxury. Actually she had a job doing alternations and spent her time thinking of Arlene. Rick had told Lt. Hollenbeck that he was sure Ian Russell was responsible for Sills' death and should be questioned. Hollenbeck began to wonder why he hadn't seen Russell around. He questioned Henry Parker - AKA Stevens -, Russell's chauffeur, about where he might be. He took Russell back to Miss Lovett's to place an overseas call and they played gin rummy. Russell met with Slater and then showed up at Beaver Ridge. He said people had it in for Russell; Slater, Lovett and Latimer. Arlene told Lt. Hollenbeck that he didn’t discuss business matters with her and she had no idea where he had gone or when he would return. Lt. Hollenbeck suggested that it might be to Rick's benefit if Russell didn’t return to defend himself against his claim that Russell met with Sills and ordered him killed. Rick had to admit that he was not happy about the gambling casino Russell was building. He could do nothing because Russell owned fifty-one percent of Beaver Ridge and was supplying the money. Ray told Arlene that they had to stick together because the police would never take his word - small time hood - that Russell ordered Carrie killed. Everyone was questioned about Rick's gun. Ray told Rick that he knew where to get a gun without taking his. Rick admitted this, but said it could sure set him up. Cal called home and her mother answered the phone. Meg told Rick there were no messages. She suggested that there was something between Michael, their boarder, and Cal. Rick wrote to her saying he and Hank would be up for the weekend since there was no phone at the cottage. Cal called to explain that she wanted him to wait another week to give her time. The construction foreman was trying to tell Rick that the supplies were being delivered for the penthouse and he needed Rick to sign for them. Rick pushed him off on Ray so that he could talk to Cal. While the foreman went for the blueprints, Ray looked down the unfinished elevator shaft and saw Russell lying on top of the elevator. He rushed over to Arlene's to tell her of his find and she denied knowing anything, but thought Ray was accusing her. Arlene was in such an agitated state, Bambi gave her a bottle of tranquilizers. She became dependent on them and thought she was losing her mind. Tom was determined to help Arlene, but found himself questioned as to Russell's whereabouts when he went to the Inn to confront him. He suggested that he might be at Beaver Ridge. Cal told Van that she thought she made a mistake and was playing right into her mother's hands by leaving Rick alone. She couldn’t wait until he arrived for the weekend. Hank was looking forward to their trip to the lake when Meg arrived with the news that she would be going along. Rick said to contact Bruce for a ride. Meg suggested Michael go along, but he disappointed Hank by saying he had too much studying to do. The foreman’s lawyer had told him that the contract with Russell showed that he couldn’t be held for expenses, so the work on the penthouse continued. As Rick prepared to leave the Club, the foreman asked him to look at what they found. When they were shown Russell's body, the police were called and most of the evening was spent questioning everyone. The coroner said the body had been there three or four weeks. Cal waited for Rick and Hank and finally heard at ten o'clock that her mother told Lynn she was coming with Rick. She was furious! When they arrived at midnight, Hank explained what held them up. Back in town Meg told Cal she wanted to help Rick and Cal could start by putting on a smile. Johnny Prentiss was hurt when he heard his grandfather Charles Lamont was going to bring a baby into the house after he told Johnny that he was unable to care for him. Feeling betrayed, Johnny sulked and even refused to see his grandfather. Lynn Henderson escorted Johnny next door to be sure he made up. Charles was holding little Charlie when they arrived. He explained that this was Johnny's little brother and he would always be there to love. Johnny was awed at having a brother of his own. One day, while Charles was at therapy, Edouard Aleata came to see the baby. He was appalled that "his son" was named Charlie. Charles told Mrs. Grimes – Eddie’s nurse – never to let Aleata into the house again. Edouard visited a lawyer, Dory Patton, to see about getting his son from Lamont. He was sure that the facts would bear out that Charles, who was paralyzed from the waist down, was unable to father a child and was only keeping Felicia's son out of revenge, because Edouard fell in love with his wife. Aleata could name the time and place of conception. The facts and his emotions made Mrs. Patton believe that Aleata had a case. Ray Slater spent the night on Arlene's couch to make sure she rest after he broke the news that Ian was found. Tom decided he had to see Arlene because he was sure she needed help. Ray left them to talk. Arlene tried to tell Tom she didn’t need him so that he wouldn’t be questioned by the police. He took away her tranquilizers and ordered her some medication. Ray promised to stay with her. He told Tom that he was about to call because Tom was the one person Arlene needed. After Arlene told Lt. Hollenbeck that she and Ian took a cab to Beaver Ridge that morning and she took the bus home alone, he knew she was lying, but didn’t really think she could have killed Ian. He was killed in the struggle before he went down the elevator shaft. Charles Lamont sought out Eddie and told him that his lawyer said he could refuse to submit to a blood test when he found that it was too late to keep the baby's medical records private. Arlene finally told Ray that she had Rick's gun and it was under the water fountain in the penthouse. - Arlene had told the police that she had never been in the penthouse. - Ray knew that he had to retrieve the gun because it had Arlene's fingerprints on it, but he was stopped by a police guard. He made up a story about losing a credit card and was allowed to search for it. He finally saw it, but was interrupted by a detective before he could reach the gun. A search turned up Rick's gun. Mildred Russell, Ian’s widow, arrived in Rosehill and told Arlene that Ian made no provision in his will for her. She was willing to pay her for a, signed affidavit so that she could not be blackmailed. Mildred apologized when Arlene refused the money, but would sign anything. Meg suggested to Rick that she buy Ian's share of Beaver Ridge from Mildred, but due to Cal's objections he said he would sell out if she did. Meg called Cal an albatross around Rick's neck and told her that it was her desire for this house that Rick had to take Ian in as a partner. Cal didn’t want to hear anymore of the secrets that had been kept from her and ran to Michael's apartment over the garage. Michael found Cal crying and let her talk out her problem. She could see that Rick needed her mother's help, but couldn’t bear the thought. She took Michael's advice to stay out of it. One Life To Live Written by: Gordon Russell Produced by: Joseph Stuart Data from the second CAT Scan done on Joe Riley indicated a brain tumor and Joe was scheduled for surgery at Llanview Hospital. Joe's overriding fear was that he would survive surgery in a vegetable state and he told Viki that if that was the case, he was relying on her to see that they "pull the plug" on him, telling her just as they were to leave for the hospital, that he would delay long enough to bring in lawyers and draft a living will if she couldn’t promise. She told him she would do whatever he wanted. Throughout Joe’s surgery, she was fearful that she might be faced with keeping her word to her husband but Jim Craig told her after the long surgery that the tumor was encapsulated and benign. The following day Viki walked in to her husband's room to witness the symptoms which the nurse had some time before reported to Dr. Craig: Joe was having difficulty talking, his speech was thick, and he seemed to be reaching for words. Dorian Lord had been told by Viki, prior to Viki and Joe's trip to New York for the CAT Scan, that if Dorian had not been a witness to Joe's first seizure, he probably would have called Jim Craig at Llanview and she – Viki - would have been with him, as she should have been all along. She told Dorian in an even, firm tone that their personal life had to always be their own and they would "call on you if we need you." With no further excuse to see Joe, Dorian seemed to have accepted the futility of interfering in that marriage, only to begin taking an interest in that of Pat and Paul Kendall. She offered Paul a position with a publishing company owned by the Lord Enterprises which up to then specialized in technical manuals but which she planned to expand with him as managing editor. When Paul answered that he didn’t know if he would settle in Llanview, Dorian told him she would give him time to think the offer over and made a luncheon date to discuss it the following week, promis-ing to send a covering letter in the meanwhile, with the offer of a starting salary of $40,000 and stock options. Pat learned of the offer and warned him that Dorian Lord was a very manipulative person who might want to keep Paul around in order to embarass Tony and make life difficult for him. Paul's rejoinder was that was Tony's problem. - After Tony tried to convince Pat that they should be married right away, from his hospital room, Pat finally revealed that her husband had returned from an undercover assignment in which "the Agency," in its wisdom, had decreed that he be reported to have died in a shootout between police and the revolutionary group he had infiltrated two years before. Paul was, in fact, severely burned, and came to Llanview on his recovery. When Brian, Pat and Tony's natural son, discovered that the man he believed to be his father was alive as he had so often fantacized, the two resumed their relationship as Father and son. – Pat had been resentful of Paul's refusal to give her a divorce - he claimed he was not convinced that she knew her own true feelings -, and accused Paul of manipulating Brian. But the boy's increasingly surly behavior toward her, his resentment of Tony, and finally his determination to leave home to live with Paul, led to her decision to give in to her son's urging to let Paul move into their house, in the hope that a lessening of pressure would provide a breathing space for her troubled son. Pat finally got Tony to accept the situation, reminding him that she had done as much for Tony when his ex-wife Cathy's precarious mental and emotional state had required it. When Pat learned that Tony had been to see Paul despite his word not to do so, she started to phone him but was stopped when Paul asked if Tony was going to be a regular visitor. When Pat asked why not, Paul told her bitterly that Brian seemed to be the only one who didn't make plans after his reported death, saying that loyalty was a "rare commodity around here." Pat cried out that she had grieved for Paul and he retorted he appreciated that, but "what have you done for me, lately?" When Pat saw Tony that day, she suggested that he pick up Brian after school but Tony declined, saying that Brian would see that as a set-up, and they couldn’t force him to resume the friendship he and Tony had. He added he was sure it would come back with time. Pat said she agreed, if they didn’t wait too long. Samantha Vernon’s determination to spend the evening of her eighteenth birthday with both her brother Brad and her father seemed doomed to failure till she prevailed upon Jenny to get Brad to come to dinner with her and Will. After Brad kissed Jenny in front of Will and she moved away, he looked up to see that Sam had changed into a very revealing blouse - a gift from Lana - to go out and he couldn’t believe she intended to wear it, asking if she knew what their late mother would do if she saw Sam dressed like that. Brad apologized and they nervously began to light the cake, making party noises, when Brad screamed out "Where is my mother!" - Naomi Vernon had lost her life in a desperate effort to bring Will back to her after he had moved out of the house when Naomi learned that he was in love with Jenny Siegel, the girl she had hoped Brad would marry. - Brad left but came back once more. Will was concerned when he learned that Sam planned to go out with Marco Dane before the evening was over and was relieved when she said she wouldn't. - Marco had plans to make love to Sam in his motel room, as she was "of age." - When Marco arrived, bringing a gift of a silver frame - with his picture in it - and promised of champagne and seclusion, Sam told him she didn’t mean to go and added, in the face of his anger, that she never made up her mind, so she didn't "change it." The following day, she told her father that Marco was with her after the party but that she went to bed alone. Will said she did not have to tell him that but he was grateful. The following day he called Sam in to tell her that they had drifted apart further than he thought they could, as he had just had a letter saying that she had cancelled her enrollment at Baxter College. Sam told her father that Brad needed her at the Health Club, but he countered that Brad would never stand in the way of her education. When she asked her father if he was going to make her go, he replied she was eighteen and he wouldn’t insist. Sam told him she planned to enroll in a night program at Llanview State, work for Brad, and keep house for him – Will -. She later urged Jenny to keep seeing Brad. Richard Abbott had tried vainly to track down a young would-be performer who had bolted - even to walking out on a badly needed job serving drinks in a local Country-Western club - when she learned that he was a reporter and he introduced Ed Hall as a police-lieutenant friend of his. He resorted to a phony ad in the paper for a young, female Country-Western singer and a fellow worker at the paper obtained her name - Rebecca Lee Hunt - and address. When he called on her, he learned that she was being cared for by her landlady Mrs. Ina Hopkins, who was about to evict her when she fainted. After Dr. Larry Wolek, called in by the good lady, told her that Becky was close to starvation, she allowed her to stay, fed her as well as Becky's pride would permit, and rejoiced with her when it seemed she had gotten a golden opportunity for a singing job. Mrs. Hoskins had to ask Richard to leave, but urged Becky to accept a gift package of food Richard sent the following day. When Richard was again ordered out by Becky, he told her he had gotten her a job on the Banner as a messenger. - Richard's own job on the Banner was more secure since Dorian Lord had learned that he was Viki's cousin and the nephew of her late husband Victor Lord. – Joe Riley woke and though his speech was slow and he stammered, he knew Viki and implored her to tell him the truth, saying he thought the staff was lying. He asked her if he was going to die and asked her to forgive him. She reassured him but told Peter Janssen, outside the room, that she thought Joe had suffered some brain damage and she was so frightened. Jim endeavered to calm Viki, telling her that Joe was under heavy sedation and in shock and was only voicing the fears that were uppermost in his mind. When Marco tried to hustle Sam into spending the evening, she gave as an excuse that she wouldn't know how to explain it to her father. When Marco suggested that she was old enough to simply say she planned to spend the night with a special friend, Sam asked if he, in turn, intended to say the same to Dorian. Tony Lord was brought up short by Sam when she reminded him that he was speaking down to her about drinking and she told him that she was of age to drink if she wished. Tony apologized by saying he had been so wrapped up in his own troubles he missed the fact that a pretty little girl had turned into a very beautiful woman. As Marco came back in, he heard Tony say the next time Samantha came in the club he promised a bottle of champagne to celebrate. As Tony left, Dorian called to order Marco to pick her up. After Dorian had safely hung up, Marco told the dead line not to hassle him when he was at the club, working out. Sam's knowing smile as he left testified to the fact that she was not tooled. Marco told Dorian not to ever do that to him again and when Dorian did not take him very seriously, he added with some menace that she'd best not take any liberties where his dignity was concerned. Will was summoned to Llanfair by Dorian who thanked him for all he had done for her and told him she was beginning to understand some of the reasons behind her compulsive behavior. She told him she would like to go back into analysis with him; that she was motivated and weary of unrequited love. She also added that she would like Will to speak to Brad, because she couldn’t bring herself to do it after what he had been throughn but as a business man, Brad was not turning out as she had expected. He was careless and inefficient and just didn’t “give a damn.” When Sam heard what Dorian had said, she urged he her father to speak to Brad in the hope that Brad might realize that the fact that Will took the risk would show Brad that he cared tor him. Just then Lana called, looking for Brad, and thought Sam had just told Will that Brad was with Jenny, Sam lied to Lana to cover up. Will thought what Sam had said to him and left late to go to Brad. Lana let Will in, dressed in her robe, and left Brad and Will alone. Will warned Brad that Dorian might let him go down the drain. He told Brad that he came to try to get back in touch and help Brad in any way that he could, if Brad would let him. Brad told his father after 23 years it was a little late to start then. Will said he was sorry and Brad answered if he had said that to his mother, she might be alive today. Will pointed out that he and Brad were a lot alike; they were both thoughtless and inconsiderate. He admitted that he was cruel to Naomi and insensntive of her needs. Brad shouted that he was not cruel to his mother but Will asked what about the way Brad was behaving toward Jenny ? Will told Brad that he had heard through his attorney that Brad was trying to obtain a ring left to him by his mother as soon as possible and asked him if it was for Jenny. Brad said he thought of Jenny as his fiancee, adding that his being with Lana was irrelevant and if Will tried to tell Jenny and Sam, they would know what kind of a man Will himself was. After Will left in despair, Lana came back into the room and Brad asked if she heard any of what was said. When she said she didn't, Brad asked her to get out for a while and when she hesitated, he told her to get her clothes and get out. After Lana went, he told himself that Will wouldn’t go to see Jenny that night but sooner or later he would use it. Jim visited Cathy in her new home and was reminded that it was the second anniversary of the day Cathy's daughter Megan died. She told her father she had been offered a paying job at the Clinic where she had been a volunteer but had turned it down, though she had not been able to get any writing done. Jim suggested that Cathy take the job Larry Wolek offered and give herself time to fill up again before going back to her writing. Jim went home to find that he had a house guest, Sadie Gray, who had come to make a surprise visit to Ed and Carla Hall - Sadie's daughter - only to learn from Anna that Ed and Carla were in North Carolina planning their own surprise call. - Carla had been worried about what she was afraid was a note of despondancy in Sadie's last letter. - He learned that Sadie had accepted Anna's invitation to stay over and had told Anna that she planned to come back to Llanview for good. Jim learned that Sadie had met Sam and Jenny and learned of Naomi's death. - Sadie used to babysit Brad when Naomi was working. - Jim insisted that if Sadie would accept it, she could have back her old job as head housekeeper at Llanview Hospital, Saying the place hadn't been the same since she left. In Jenny's quarters Jim remarked that Sam seemed dependent on Will but it would be good for Will to have her around. Jenny gushed that Will would never give in to loneliness; that he was much too strong a man for that, leaving Jim to ask himself why Jenny wouldn’t acknowledge what had happened. He believed there was no question that Jenny had fallen in love with Will Vernon. Cathy answered her door late to find Lana on her doorstep because Brad had thrown her out. Cathy told Lana she had to feel free to call or come any time she was unhappy. - Cathy was aware that Brad had been using Lana and seeing Jenny, lying to Lana all the time, but had not said anything except to warn Lana some time before that she should be aware that she had been drinking a lot when she was unhappy about Brad's treatment of her. - Finally, Lana's unhappiness and bewilderment get to Cathy and she told Lana that Brad was a bully who picked on people who couldn’t or wouldn’t fight back and the sooner Lana dumped him, the better. In order to protect himself, Brad told Sam that her father would do everything he could to break him and Jenny up, saying he was certain Will was going to contact Jenny with lies about him and Lana. Brad went to Jenny and warned her of the same things. Jenny admitted that Will had already called her first thing in the morning to make an appointment to see her. Learning Jenny was going to attend a concert that evening, Sam asked Marco if he would escort her to the vicinity of the concert hall. She was relieved when Will told her he was having dinner with a group of directors but went through with her plans anyway. Upon walking into a cafe near the concert hall, Sam was shocked to see Jenny there with Will. Ryan’s Hope Written by: Claire Labine & Paul Avila Mayer Produced by: Claire Labine, Paul Avila Mayer & Robert Costello On the day that Mary and Jack's civil divorce papers came through, Jack encountered Mary and Tom Desmond after a meeting with Marshall Westheimer had been cancelled, and Jack made a number of nasty cracks about Mary, Girl Reporter, and her toy news station. Jack worked himself up to swinging at Tom who sidestepped and recovered with such speed it was apparent to both Mary and Jack that only Tom's own restraint had kept Jack from being demolished. Mary told her mother about it, recalling that Tom had said something once about having been a fighter. She also told Maeve that she came across a number of books with plates proclaiming the owner as Tom O'Neil. Tom's obscure explanation was that the books belonged to his best friend who had won the girl Tom loved and who died. Maeve told Mary she was thinking of writing to her sister in Ireland to try to get some information about Tom who professed to come from a district near Maeve's old village but whose answers to Maeve's attempts to pinpoint his origins only left her more doubtful and puzzled. Mary did not protest, admitting that she was very curious herself. - Tom had asked Mary to stay the night with him but realized that for the both of them it was too soon and promised Mary that it would always be up to her. – Mary was shaken when she came upon Delia talking to Mary's baby daughter, Ryan, as if she were the child Delia and Pat lost. When Pat accepted Faith's suggestion that they stay after work to confer with a psychiatrist who specialized in Pediatrics about Angel Nieves' lack of response to Faith's efforts to get him to accept the physical therapy he had to begin, Delia staged a scene for Faith which convinced her that Dee was not faking her emotional problems. Faith told Pat to take Dee home, promising to postpone the conference 'til the following morning. - Delia had arranged a dinner party the night before to which she invited Bob and Alicia and frightened everyone with her bizzare behavior, leaving Maeve with the impression that she was grieving for the baby she had lost. When Delia overheard Mary telling Faith about her mother's report and concern for Dee, and Faith's remark that if Delia were faking and she wasn't caught at it they might just have to put her away, Dee staged a special performance for Faith. The following morning in order to keep Pat from seeing Faith as he had planned, Delia went on to the next step in her campaign, pretending a sudden lack of sensation in her leg causing her to lose her balance. – When Roger Coleridge came upon a nurse asking Dr. Bucky Carter to sign a medical chart authorizing a change of medication for one of Pat's patients because Pat was late for duty, Roger read out both Bucky and Pat when Pat showed up, and warned Pat that he would make a formal report if his derelection happened again. Roger went to see Delia and warned her that if she ever again used her act to impinge on Pat's performance of the hospital, Roger would see that Pat was dismissed rather than risk his own position at Riverside. Seneca and Jillian had quarrelled over Seneca's presumption in buying Edmund a Golden Retriever and presenting it to Jillian for herself and Mrs. George to care for. Seneca insisted that Jillian couldn’t have anyone even say 'hello' to her lately without turning it into a power struggle. Jillian ordered him to leave with the dog and to think twice the next time he tried to impose his will on herself and their son. Seneca left saying there wouldn't be a next time. Jillian accepted a dinner invitation at Lem's with a Dr. Hoyle who had donated some land to Riverside Hospital. Afterwards, at Jillian's apartment, when he learned that Jillian was an unmarried mother with very strong ideas of independence, he tried to move in on her, refusing to take no for an answer and telling her that, after all, "an immaculate maiden, you're not." Jillian told him that gave him no rights whatsoever and threw him out. The following day, Primary Day in the Riverside District, Jillian shared a deli lunch with a former co-worker in Frank's campaign and they went to his apartment to listen to election returns, but again she was propositioned and told that she had no sense of humor into the bargain. When she got back to her own apartment, Seneca was there playing gin rummy with Miriam. She told Seneca she had just spent three hours with a man who made him look enlightened and reasonable by comparison. Seneca presented her with a large stuffed dog. On the evening of Primary Day, Frank read Jack Fenelli's column which was a tribute of admiration for Frank in lieu of the story on Pat. - Mary had appealed to Jack not to center his story of the house association's troubles with the hospital board on her brother Pat's treatment at their hands and Jack had agreed. - Frank was delighted with his landslide victory - though he was virtually unopposed - because it boded well for his future political plans. Later that evening, when Mary returned with Tom Desmond, she took a call from a woman who in a very preemptory manner asked to speak with Councilman Ryan. Frank rushed off to Riverside Hospital to answer the woman's request for help. Frank’s caller turned out to be Rae Woodard, wife of William Woodard, a powerful owner-publisher and king-maker in Albany, who had himself begun to seek out political office. There had been a helicopter crash in Riverside Park in which Woodard had been injured and his pilot killed. When Frank arrived at Riverside, it was soon evident that Rae herself had been injured far more than was apparent - four broken ribs and a torn vertebra -. However, Mrs. Woodard refused treatment until she could be certain that a list of demands would be carried out. These included a room adjoining Woodard's - though he was a patient in Neurology - with phones installed, a news blackout on her husband's condition on the part of the hospital and Frank's compliance with her plans to downgrade reports of the accident. Together, she and Frank succeed in directing on-the-scene reporters' attention to the family of the helicopter pilot, and after her appearance gave credence to her claim of having suffered nothing more than a few bruises, Mrs. Woodard agreed to rest if Frank could secure the room for her. Frank called Jillian at five o'clock in the morning in an effort to locate Seneca, infuriating Jillian with his presumption. As he hung up, Seneca walked in. Frank related Rae's explanation of an important publishing merger hanging fire and the need to keep Mr. Woodard's condition - which seemed bad enough, even in a tentative diagnosis - from becoming public knowledge. Frank hinted that the Woodard influence would be powerful either for good or ill where Riverside Hospital was concerned. Seneca agreed to the unusual arrangement but contacted Jillian later that day to clarify the hospital's legal position. When it became clear that Mrs. Woodard was pressing her husband for his signature and his participation in the decisions regarding his treatment, despite the fact that he was disoriented and had to have rest rather than the pain killers and drugs Mrs. Woodard was asking for in order to clear her mind, Seneca ordered her out of her husband's room. Mrs. Woodard accepted his insistence that she stay away from her husband "for the present" but made it clear she would not hesitate to remove him from Riverside. After conferring with Seneca, Clem and Roger, Rae Woodard learned that the safest treatment was to let her husband's vascular skull fracture heal naturally, a process which would take many months, but that there was a chance of correcting his condition surgically which, because of a history of heart trouble and her husband's age was, in their opinion, contra-indicated. Mrs. Woodard decided upon surgery rather than risk the end of Mr. Woodard's political hopes, five years in the making. She asked Roger if he would be willing to perform the surgery elsewhere, if necessary, and Roger agreed but asked her to hold off while he tried to use his "influence" with Seneca. Jack Fenelli had made it a practice to "run across" Miriam in the park on her outings with babies Ryan Fenelli and Edmund Coleridge. After learning that Ryan's favorite and practically lone toy was a stuffed rooster "Billy" - given together with a long family anecdote by Tom Desmond - Jack presented Ryan on his next visit with a small soft whale, naming it George. When Miriam related stories of Ryan's conquest to Maeve Ryan, Maeve told Miriam she just might know who the man was. A crack by Jack Fenelli had caused Johnny Ryan to restore the punching bag he had put away to its place in the kitchen of Ryan's bar and at the sight of it, Tom took a few practice jabs. Soon Mary and her father were staring open-mouthed as Tom worked up to a powerful, never-failing rhythm. The following day, at Tom's apartment, as he looked for some background information he had on William Woodard, Mary glanced through Tom's im-pressive collection of books on boxing, dropping a clipping as she opened one book. She saw it was a picture of Tom, much younger, in a boxing pose and the name in the headline was Tom O'Brien. When Mary asked if that wasn't his real name, Tom replied that it was ... not anymore. He asked Mary to sit down and told her he had done nothing she wouldn't understand or approve of if she knew the whole story but he couldn’t involve her by telling her. He asked her to promise she wouldn’t ever mention his real name or refer to the picture, saying if she most he would leave Riverside and disappear permanently. As she pressed him for more information, he told her she was asking him to endanger his life and possibly hers. Mary stared for a moment and then said, "Your name is Tom Desmond and that's all I'll ever tell anyone." Delia’s latest spectacular was to walk into Riverside Hospital, wearing a hooded winter coat on a September day in New York and carrying a suitcase. She asked Bucky if Pat was free and when she was told he was not, insisted that she wouldn't think of disturbing him and couldn’t wait. She wrote out a note for Bucky to give to Pat. Bucky tried to get her to wait but she stepped into an elevator and disappeared. When Pat came out, Bucky gave him the message and related that Dee was acting very strangely. When Pat read out the note to the effect that Delia had gone to visit her mother, Bucky was relieved until Pat told him that Delia's mother was dead. Roger Coleridge was not on the floor and Bucky persuaded Pat to call Bob Reid, Delia's brother, rather than set out to find her himself. Bob checked at Ryan's and hearing about Delia's recent behavior, finally on a hunch rushed out to the cemetary on Long Island where their mother was buried. Delia was there when he arrived - having put down her nail file after passing her waiting time on an impromptu manicure just in time - and he persuaded her to go home to her apartment with him to wait for Pat. The following day, Delia called Roger in a panic asking him to coach her, as Pat had been insistent that she had to see a psychiatrist. Alicia told Bob that everyone had hidden problems that they never mentioned, keeping in mind her knowledge that Delia lied about the circumstances of her miscarriage. Alicia told Bob she believed he was very right to be concerned about Delia's emotional problems. Jack contrived another meeting with his daughter in the park and afterward, when Miriam stopped in to see Maeve, Maeve told her that the man was Ryan's daddy. Search For Tomorrow Written by: Robert J. Shaw Produced by: Mary-Ellis Bunim Scott Phillips had been told by the judge that the court would not consider their petition to adopt Eric Heywood until they made every effort to contact Ralph Heywood for permission. This was an impossible task until Scott was given the idea to advertise in a horse ranch magazine, as this was Ralph's occupation. Ralph responded to the urgent plea for contact by calling Scott and then by coming to Henderson. When he heard that Scott and Kathy wanted to adopt Eric, and then that Eric wanted it also, because he needed to feel he was part of a family, Ralph refused to agree. - Scott had been his step-son's guardian since his mother's death. As he got older, Eric wanted to find out who his father was, but Scott had tried to protect him because Heywood had used Eric for blackmail. Eric learned who his father was, but not the details and asked to change his name and live with Ralph and his new wife. In hard times, Ralph had to sell the ranch, and Scott agreed to care for Eric while he looked fora job. After months of silence and search, Eric felt closer to the Phillipses. – Ralph said they had brainwashed Eric and he would be only too happy to battle it out in court because no judge would ever take a son from his natural father. After seeing his lawyer, Ralph was determined to get Eric back. Betty Heywood thought the Phillipses probably felt they had a good chance since they were both lawyers. The court subpoenaed Ralph and this angered him even more. He thought this was to keep him from seeing Eric. They explained the subpoena was to keep him in town. He could see Eric if he called first and promised not to tire him. They had cautioned him last time that Eric had not completely recovered from his recent illness and had to rest. Eric heard the argument and told Scott and Kathy that he still wanted them to adopt him. Scott explained that it might get rough. Kathy thought they should tell Eric that she was expecting a baby. He accepted this with no emotion. When Kathy asked him how he really felt, Eric suggested that they wouldn’t want to adopt him since they would have a baby of their own. Kathy explained that this would only be a brother or sister for him and it couldn’t replace the love they had for him. Eric was thrilled then. Scott was depressed when the date for the hearing was set. Ralph’s lawyer, Martin Sullivan never seemed to lose a case and this bothered Scott. Kathy told him that she was confident. They wanted Eric enough that they would use any means to win. They would have to bring up Ralph's past, and it hurt Scott to think that Eric would be sitting in court and listening to this. Dr. Greg Hartford finally told Jo Vincente about all his past, including his nurse wife who died on his operating table. - His wife received a shrapnel wound which was so painful that it altered her personality. Greg thought surgery too risky, but she begged him to perform it himself. Her death caused him to give up surgery and the desire for involvement with any woman. - After they discussed everything, Greg admitted that he did have deep feelings for Jo. He continued as a lecturer at the hospital because he couldn’t bring himself to do surgery. John Wyatt asked his sister-in-law to dinner and Jo explained that she and Greg had settled things and would be seeing each other. Stephanie Collins was gun-shy now as she had been hurt several times. She would like to see John, but was afraid of rejection. Kathy Phillips encouraged Stephanie. After returning from dinner, Jo and Greg discussed his daughter. Jo suggested that she would be eighteen soon and able to visit him without his ex-wife's permission. Tom Bergman stopped by to explain that he was working in the boiler room because the pool heater was acting up and he could only work on it at night. Hearing an explosion, Greg rushed to the boiler room and had to perform an emergency tracheotomy so that Tom could breathe. Tom was rushed to the hospital for immediate surgery, but his father, Stu, couldn’t be reached because he and Ellie had gone for a drive. John suggested they phone Janet Collins, Tom's sister. Dr. Bob Rogers explained that Greg was the only surgeon available and Greg didn’t hesitate. Janet knew that her father didn’t like Greg, but she gave permission. The surgery was a success and Tom was out of danger. Janet thanked Greg. When Stu reached the hospital he confessed to Greg that he wouldn't have given permission, but thanked him for saving Tom. - Stu still blamed Greg for not trying hard enough to save his sister from drowning. Stu thought he hesitated to keep from marrying a pregnant girl of whom his parents disapproved. – While Tom was recovering, nurse's aide Cindy French made it a point to befriend him. She pointed out all the things they had in common. She told him that she was living in a cheap apartment since she had moved from the Collinses' because Dr. Gary Walton, who promised to protect her, got the wrong idea and wanted to be more than friends. - Actually that was her wish. - She spent so much time in Tom's room that her supervisor became very irritated. Cindy had used Carolyn Hanley's professional ethics to run her out of Gary's life because she thought Carolyn would never repeat her story of her being pregnant by Gary. Carolyn told Gary just before she was going back to Chicago because she thought he would find out soon. Gary threw Cindy out of his mother's home and returned to ask Carolyn to stay in Henderson. Carolyn resumed her position as psychologist at the hospital, but insisted they get to know each other before marrying. Gary suggested she move into his apartment when she couldn’t find one of her own, but Carolyn was old-fashioned. - Learning of her husband's infidelity, Doris Ramsey left her money to charity, thrusting Dr. Allen Ramsey into extreme debt. Allen and nurse Fay Chandler plotted to kidnap his friend, Dr. Wade Collins for a ransom of $350,000. Wade removed his ropes and, in fighting with Allen, was shot by Fay, as was an intruder. As coroner, Allen decided to make it look like kidnapper and victim shot each other when the bodies were found. – Investigator David Sutton, reporter Bruce Carson and Gary Walton were positive Wade was kidnapped by someone who knew him. They turned up these facts: Allen mentioned a "jumper" as the reason for Wade’s going out that night but no one had been told about this; Allen owed a $100,000 to his stock broker and paid it right after the kidnapping; intern Amy Carson was on Allen's service and started the autopsies and found no powder burns on either man's hands, although Allen’s report showed there were. After Amy saw Allen and Fay embracing in the lab, Bruce asked questions of Fay's apartment manager. She said Fay was often visited by a man who answered Allen’s description. The apartment was very expensive and she was under the impression that this man might pay her rent. They saw Fay return to the apartment, followed a few minutes later by Allen, who used his own key on the lobby door and took the elevator to Fay's floor. When the police said the evidence was all circumstantial and they could do nothing, they decided to make Fay jealous and cause a strain between them. Janet agreed to continue letting Allen visit, only to prove they were wrong. Fay needed little encouragement. Gary set up a dinner and asked Allen, who told Fay that it was with a colleague. Being curious Fay called the Collins home and found Allen was expected. Then Allen missed an early rendezvous out of town because of a visit with Janet. Janet mentionned to Allen that she had to learn all about the Collins Corporation since she was the majority stock holder. Gary asked Allen to advise his mother if she should ask because he knew nothing about investments and Allen had done some investing himself. Janet’s money had become very attractive to Allen. Fay wanted to leave town since the police had given up, but Allen said it was too risky. He told Janet she needed to get out so that her children would live their own lives. He broke the news to Fay that he had been asked to take Janet to the Club and couldn’t get out of it. Liza Kaslo had learned to live with the scars around her eye and had been seeing Steve again. Janet suggested that since their second anniversary was close, Liza should go home to Steve. She appreciated the comfort Liza and Gary had been, but she wanted them to go on with their own lives. Steve was happy to have Liza back, but was concerned because his pay for the music reviews just barely covered their expenses. Liza explained that she was no longer self-conscious and would like to wait tables at Hartford House again so he could go back to writing music. A friend called with an offer to join the orchestra on a cruise ship, allowing Liza to accompany him at no cost. Liza suggested that Janet and Danny go along, too, but Janet refused and wished them well. The first day in court was so hard that Kathy told John she wanted to call it off. John said that if she really felt that Ralph would be a bad father she had to fight. Scott had the same doubts and Kathy told him what John said. Ralph told the judge that he and Betty could make Eric a good home. The judge asked to speak to Eric alone. Eric said that Scott and Kathy loved him because they were always there and they chose him. They told him it was his decision and didn't brainwash him. Kathy and Scott had been awarded custody of Eric and Ralph and Betty stopped by before returning to Texas to say goodbye and assured the Phillipses there were no hard feelings. The Young And The Restless Written by: William J. Bell Produced by: John Conboy Knowing that she had done the right thing didn't mean that Jody Conway, a six-teen year old unwed mother, didn’t hurt after deciding to give her baby daughter up for adoption. She told her parents of her decision and they asked her to come home. Jody said she couldn’t unless there was some kind of an understanding. After they all got their feelings into the open and shared the blame, Jody decided to return with them. Candice, the young overweight girl whom Joann Curtynski met at the Allegro was having trouble convincing her mother that she really wanted to lose weight. Because Joann was thin, Candice's mother was offended when Joann told her that if she really loved Candice, she would help her rather than feeding her in times of distress and depression. Joann assured her that she did understand and showed her the picture of herself that was taken before her weight loss of over fifty pounds. Candice said she really wanted to lose the weight before she returned to school. Kay Chancellor called Derek Thurston, asking him to come to the house again to set her hair. Derek reminded her that he suggested that she find another stylist since she was convinced that he was only interested in her money. He agreed to come if he could find the time. Jill Foster told her mother, Liz, that she had spent the night thinking things over and had come to the conclusion that she couldn’t stay at home because of her mother's attitude towards Derek. She would be moving in with Derek and taking her son. Liz, the Chancellor housekeeper, told Kay that she was concerned for her grandson's future and followed her suggestion to see Mr. Thurston herself. Liz suggested that Derek didn’t really understand Jill. She was in love with him and hoped never to move out after moving in. If he wasn’t ready for that kind of a committment, he'd better put a stop to it. Liz returned to tell Mrs. Chancellor that Derek Thurston promised he would take care of it. Derek found Jill packing and told her that he couldn’t allow her to move in, not because he was against it, but for her own sake. It would only cause more stress on the relationship with her mother. He handed her an envelope of money, telling her to take a vacation so that she could get away to think things over. When Kay heard how Derek solved the problem she called, asking him to the house. She explained that she had thought it all over and wanted to be a part of his dream to open a beauty salon that would do everything to make women feel beautiful as well as look it. She suggested that an existing building might be better and asked him to put things in motion. Derek returned with ideas, but was sure that Kay would not approve because the mansion he found had a selling price of well over $100,000 and would require another $100,000 to remodel. Kay was pleased and told him to go ahead Kay was surprised to find Joann Curtynski at her door after the harsh things she said to set her free after Brock, Kay's son, suggested that the love she had for Joann was keeping Joann from a normal relationship with men. Kay told her that she kept her promise not to drink when Joann commented on how well she looked. Joann showed Kay the diploma that she felt she helped her earn. They agreed they were friends. Ron Becker saw Chris Foster out shopping with his daughter, Karen, and took the opportunity to tell Karen that he hadn't forgotten her. - Ron's confession to his wife Nancy that he had raped Chris' sister drove Nancy into catatonia. Ron had tried every means to get his daughter back, but the court had made Chris and Snapper her guardians. - Ron had a visitor that he had trouble placing. He realized that she was his mother – Marion - when she explained that she had been looking for him and hoped that the personal problems they had in the past hadn't hurt him. Ron threw her out, blaming her for everything. - Ron hated women because he felt that his mother loved other men more than she loved him as a child. – When Lorie Prentiss heard about her sister Leslie's divorce from Brad Eliot, she understood why Lance spent time with Leslie without explaining to her, but she told him that Leslie was very vulnerable and he had to be careful of her feelings. Lance saw that Lorie was right and asked Brock if he could help Leslie through this rough time. Leslie told her father, Stuart Brooks, that the only conclusion she could come to was that she was not attractive to men. Brad had decided that she had to be a concert pianist and not a wife without asking her what she wanted. She was deter-mined to find out if she had any appeal at all to men. Brock suggested that she was not the kind of girl to bar-hop and pick up strange men. Lorie returned from shopping to find that her mother-in-law invited Leslie to the house and then slept through the visit, leaving Lance to entertain. Lorie gave Vanessa a dress she thought would please her and said she knew Vanessa was trying to undermine her marriage while she was buying her a gift. Jennifer Brooks had insisted that life go on since all her family knew that death might be eminent for her. Brock had given them a philosophy by which to live. "God grant me the serenity to accept that which I cannot change, the courage to change that which I am able and the wisdom to know the difference." Lorie asked her father to let her give a big party for the family and friends to celebrate her parents' thirtieth wedding an-niversary. He disapproved until Lorie said this was not a reminder of how little time there was, but a celebration of the life they had had together. Jennifer was pleased and looked forward to the party. That evening, Stuart gave Jennifer her anniversary gift before the party rather than after. It was a diamond heart pendant to symbolize the heart he gave her long ago — his own. Lance and Lorie gave them a trip to Paris as a gift. Stuart had wanted to take Jennifer away, but she wouldn't leave the girls with their problems. The party was such a success that Jennifer told Stuart that this had been the most wonderful night of her life. Jennifer slipped away in Stuart's arms that night, clutching her pendant. Stuart called Lorie who located all her sisters and asked them to meet at their parents'. He explained that their mother felt no pain and was happy as she passed peacefully away. Peggy felt she should have been home for her mother rather than visiting a friend, but Stuart said it was sudden. Lorie blamed herself for giving the party which was probably too much. Stuart told her how much that party meant to Jennifer. Brock came by to tell them that Jennifer had him draw up instructions for her burial and wanted only her family with her. He also had a letter for Stuart. She wrote him this love letter in case she didn't have the opportunity to tell him in person how much their life together had meant to her and this is why she wanted him to remarry. Snapper visited his mother after he learned of Jennifer's death. He felt he hadn't seen enough of her recently. After the funeral, Peggy told her sisters that she would not be going away to school. She was the only one left to care for their father because Chris and Lorie had husbands and Leslie had a career. Stuart insisted that Peggy finish packing and catch her plane to school as planned. Chris was worried about her father after Snapper told her to keep an eye on him because grieving husbands could become ill as they didn't remember to eat. She called to insist that she was coming over to fix his dinner and found that Liz was there. Liz asked him for an extra key so that she could do the laundry and cleaning to repay him for earlier kindnesses. Leslie told the Maestro that she refused to give her concert. He talked with Lance who asked Brock to help. She saw that her mother would expect her to continue and realized that Jennifer would live on through her daughter's music. On the flight to Chicago with Brock and the Maestro, Leslie talked to Cynthia Harris who said she was going to visit a friend. She told Leslie she was glad to see Leslie making a life of her own and wished Leslie a successful concert. Brad Eliot survived his surgery and when he became conscious several days later, Dr. Lionel told him the tumor was benign, but they wouldn’t know if the optic nerves had been damaged until the swelling went down. Dr. Lionel did offer hope. Cynthia told Brad that she had to return when she heard that the operation was successful. Brad was glad for the company. He asked if she knew how Leslie was or when her next concert was. Cynthia said she had heard nothing. Chis was worried that Karen might be coming down with something even though she begged to go to school. Ron picked her up at recess and took her to the bus station for their promised trip. Informed that Karen was missing, Chris called the police who told her they could do nothing since she suspected Karen was taken by her father. At the bus station Ron was urged by concerned strangers to take Karen to a doctor as she was obviously running a fever. They escorted him to a local doctor's office and the door was opened by Dr. Snapper Foster. Jill realized that the new man in Kay's life was Derek and that Kay had sent a picture of Philip Chancellor, the father of Jill's son, to the child to unnerve her. When confronted, Kay told Jill that she had more than beauty to offer Derek and if she mentioned their discussion to him, she would withdraw her financial support, blaming Jill.

My pleasure Took some time to add up the wonderful work you have done for the year !

January-September 2021 Episode Rankings A total of 186 episodes aired this year. 1. Peter Bergman (Jack Abbott) : 107 2. Eric Braeden (Victor Newman) : 106 3. Sharon Case (Sharon Rosales) : 101 4. Amelia Heinle (Victoria Newman) : 100 5. Joshua Morrow (Nicholas Newman) : 96 6. Bryton James (Devon Hamilton) : 93 *. Michelle Stafford (Phyllis Summers) : 93 8. Mark Grossman (Adam Newman) : 92 9. Michael Mealor (Kyle Abbott) : 91 10. Jason Thompson (Billy Abbott) : 90 11. Courtney Hope (Sally Spectra) : 85 12. Melody Thomas-Scott (Nikki Newman) : 83 13. Christel Khalil (Lily Winters) : 79 *. Jordi Vilasuso (Rey Rosales) : 79 15. Hunter King (Summer Newman) : 78 16. Melissa Ordway (Abby Newman Chancellor) : 72 17. Camryn Grimes (Mariah Copeland) : 65 18. Elizabeth Leiner (Tara Locke) : 63 19. Melissa Claire Egan (Chelsea Lawson) : 62 *. Mishael Morgan (Amanda Sinclair) : 62 21. Richard Burgi (Ashland Locke) : 60 22. Sean Dominic (Nate Hastings) : 59 23. Brytni Sarpi (Elena Dawson) : 49 24. Elizabeth Hendrickson (Chloe Fisher) : 40 25. Cait Fairbanks (Tessa Porter) : 36 26. Reylynn Caster (Faith Newman) : 35 *. Jacob Aaron Gaines (Moses Winters) : 35 28. Tracey Bregman (Lauren Fenmore Baldwin) : 31 29. Alyvia Alyn Lind (Faith Newman) : 25 30. Tricia Cast (Nina Webster) : 23 31. Leigh-Ann Rose (Imani Benedict) : 20 *. Ptosha Storey (Naya Benedict) : 20 32. Sasha Calle (Lola Rosales) : 19 33. Christian LeBlanc (Michael Baldwin) : 17 34. Kellan Enriquez (Harrison Locke) : 14 35. Sean Carrigan (Stitch Rayburn) : 13 36. Donny Boaz (Chance Chancellor) : 10 37. Eileen Davidson (Ashley Abbott) : 9 *. Jack Landron (Sutton Ames) : 9 *. Beth Maitland (Traci Abbott) : 9 40. Judah MacKey (Connor Newman) : 8 *. Greg Rikaart (Kevin Fisher) : 8 42. Karla Mosley (Amanda Sinclair) : 7 43. Lauralee Bell (Christine Williams) : 6 *. Judith Chapman (Gloria Fisher) : 6 *. Dana Sparks (Dr. Lena Cavett) : 6 46. Telma Hopkins (Denise Tolliver) : 5 47. Patrika Darbo (Shirley Spectra) : 4 48. Jamieson Jones (Jesse Gaines) : 3 *. John McCook (Eric Forrester) : 3 50. Darin Brooks (Wyatt Spencer) : 2 *. Tyler Johnson (Theo Vanderway) : 2 *. Cristina Serafini (Angelia Marcetti) : 2 *. Madison Thompson (Jordan) : 2 *. Jess Walton (Jill Foster Abbott) : 2 55. Marla Adams (Dina Mergeron) : 1 *. Katrina Bowden (Flo Fulton) : 1 *. Jason Canela (Arturo Rosales) : 1 *. Don Diamont (Bill Spencer) : 1 *. Kate Linder (Esther Valentine) : 1 *. Lauren Woodland (Brittany Hodges) : 1 CONTRACT ARRIVALS 3/01 – Elizabeth Leiner (Tara Locke) 4/12 – Reylynn Caster (Faith Newman) 6/14 – Richard Burgi (Ashland Locke) CONTRACT DEPARTURES 2/01 - Donny Boaz (Chance Chancellor) 5/14 – Sasha Calle (Lola Rosales) 6/28 – Hunter King (Summer Newman) 8/06 – Elizabeth Leiner (Tara Locke) 8/06 – Michael Mealor (Kyle Abbott)

January-September 2021 Episode Rankings A total of 185 episodes aired this year. 1. Thorsten Kaye (Ridge Forrester) : 121 2. Annika Noelle (Hope Logan Spencer) : 107 3. Scott Clifton (Liam Spencer) : 102 4. Jacqueline MacInness Wood (Steffy Forrester Finnegan) : 99 5. Katherine Kelly Lang (Brooke Logan Forrester) : 97 6. Lawrence Saint-Victor (Carter Walton) : 90 7. Tanner Novlan (John Finnegan) : 88 8. Rena Sofer (Quinn Forrester) : 86 9. Matthew Atkinson (Thomas Forrester) : 84 10. Diamond White (Paris Buckingham) : 75 11. John McCook (Eric Forrester) : 70 12. Kiara Barnes (Zoe Buckingham) : 60 13. Don Diamond (Bill Spencer) : 55 14. Darin Brooks (Wyatt Spencer) : 52 15. Delon DeMetz (Zende Forrester Dominguez) : 43 16. Heather Tom (Katie Logan) : 38 17. Katrina Bowden (Flo Fulton) : 33 18. Denise Richards (Shauna Fulton) : 32 19. Kimberlin Brown (Sheila Carter) : 23 20. Jennifer Gareis (Donna Logan) : 21 21. Aaron D. Spears (Justin Barber) : 20 22. Joe LoCicero (Vinny Walker) : 18 23. Ted King (Jack Finnegan) : 17 24. Dan Martin (DC Brad Baker) : 15 25. Naomi Matsuda (Li Finnegan) : 10 26. Henry Joseph Samiri (Douglas Forrester) : 3 *. Hunter King (Summer Newman) : 3 28. Ashley Jones (Bridget Forrester) : 2 *. Alley Mills (Pam Douglas) : 2 30. Dick Christie (Charlie Webber) : 1 *. Jeremy Ray Valdez (Det. Alex Sanchez) : 1 CONTRACT ARRIVALS 6/07 – Aaron D. Spears (Justin Barber) 8/06 – Kimberlin Brown (Sheila Carter) 10/07 – Sean Kanan (Deacon Sharpe) CONTRACT DEPARTURES 4/27 – Jennifer Gareis (Donna Logan) 7/06 – Kiara Barnes (Zoe Buckingham)

I haven’t watched in ages but are Ashland, Gloria, Denise and Naya on Contract ?

Oh didn't know that Pam was back.

AUGUST 1977 All My Children Written by: Agnes Nixon Produced by: Bud Kloss After getting Linc to promise not to permit her to be hooked up to a machine if she should lose consciousness and thanking him for being her husband, lover and very best friend, Kitty Tyler drifted off to sleep and to her death. In the last week of her life, Kitty had scolded Myrtle Lum for putting matters relating to the Boutique to one side in her anxiety to spend all the time she could with Kitty. Kitty went on to say that she was trying to make Myrtle into a real “shop lady” because she intended to give her the Boutique for being the mother she never had. Emboldened by the kindness Kitty had shown her, Myrtle took it on herself to tell Phoebe Tyler about Kitty's condition to spare Kitty and Linc what time was left to them without Phoebe's interference. Once again, Nick Davis had spent the night with Erica Brent despite his repeated vows to confine their relationship to business. The following morning, smoke from a kitchen fire attracted Mona Kane's attention when she dropped by and she set out to rouse Erica, finding her in bed with Nick. After Nick extinguished the fire, Mona threw down the dress she had altered and brought to Erica and told her daughter and her long time friend Nick that she will leave it to the two of them to clean up. Nick realizes that even if there had been no fire, Mona, whose visit was obviously expected by Erica, could hardly have missed the sight of Nick's jacket and tie draped so conspicuously over the back of the sofa downstairs. He accused Erica of setting him up and when Mona refused to talk with him on the phone, he went to see her at Charles' office. Mona told him she did not know if she could ever forgive him for using Erica, refusing to buy his story that it was a truly adult relationship. When Phoebe Tyler heard of Kitty's death, she called her brother's house only to learn that Brooke was not with her parents. She accused Benny Sago of conspiring to keep Brooke's whereabouts from her and finally Benny told her that her niece was with Dan Kennicott. Phoebe obtained a phone number from Dr. Joe Martin and telephoned, summoning Brooke back with the news of a death in the family. After Kitty's funeral, Phoebe attempted to get Brooke to toe the line and tried to forbid Dan Kennicott from entering her house but Brooke threatened to tell Dr. Charles Tyler that Phoebe had bought an expensive camera and recording equipment in order to enable Benny to gather evidence compromising to Charles' efforts to secure a divorce. After Phoebe backed down, Brooke bragged to Dan that she had her aunt eating out of her hand and though Dan might call it blackmail it was no worse than what Phoebe was attempting to do to Uncle Charles. Kitty’s death reminded Mona that life was too short to bear grudges and she and Nick resumed their friendship. Donna Beck, in her turn, allowed Chuck to convince her that they should take their happiness while they could and she agreed to marry Chuck, asking only that they waited until the fall so that she could get her High School Diploma. When Nick learned about Chuck's engagement to Donna, he went to see Tara and Phil, warning them that Donna seemed to be very possessive with regard to little Philip. He told them that they had failed to exercise their rights and responsibilities as parents and offered to pay for a housekeeper until Tara recovered it if would enable Tara and Phil to push to get little Philip back under their roof. He urged them to do something quickly unless they wanted to see their son "brought up by a hooker." Without telling Tara, Phil went to see Chuck. When Chuck refused to pressure little Philip into returning to the Brent home and reminded Phil that the custody arrangement whereby Tara and Phil were permitted to raise the boy was only a verbal agreement, Philip threatened a court fight with no holds barred, claiming that Donna was unfit by virtue of her past to bring up the boy. Phil refused to enter into a proposed alliance with Phoebe Tyler to prevent Chuck's marriage to Donna but when he heard that Phoebe had learned - from Erica Kane - that Donna had been visited by Estelle LaTour, an active, working prostitute, just off Locust Street in Center City, he thanked her saying she had given him just the information he was looking for. When Myrtle Lum thanked Frank Grant for a floral arrangement sent as a tribute to Kitty in the name of Dr. and Mrs. Grant, Frank angrily confronted Nancy and accused her of trying to pull a fast one. Nancy laughed at him and when he grabbed her, she slapped him. He kissed her and they wound up making love. Nancy told Frank she still loved him but Frank insisted nothing was changed, saying he was sorry that it happened. Nancy was insulted at his apology and cried hysterically when he left. The following day, Frank learned that action on his divorce had been postponed indefinitely as the judge who was to handle the case had suffered a stroke and there was no way to tell when the case could be rescheduled. He took his anger out on Caroline Murray, insisting that he should have been told that Paul Martin, his attorney, was trying to reach him. - Caroline was unable to locate Frank when Paul called, not knowing that he was with Nancy at the time. - Jeff Martin guessed from some remarks Frank had made that he made love to Nancy the night before and warned Frank that he had to consider the possibility that Nancy might be pregnant. Frank called Nancy and insisted on seeing her, leaving Nancy to fanticize that Frank wanted to return to her. When Nancy realized that Frank was afraid she could be pregnant, she taunted him saying he was worried that she might slap him with a paternity suit and ruin his little set up with Caroline. She told him she could take care of herself and ordered him to get out. After talking with Little Philip and learning that Phoebe had told the boy that Donna was a "real bad" person, and faced with Phil's threat to start court action, Chuck talked Donna into agreeing to marry him right away. He got her word that she would say nothing to anyone, even Caroline Murray, her roommate. The following day he told Donna that he had found an apartment that had to be seen immediately and after they arranged to take the place, he and Donna took off in Chuck's car to find a Justice of the Peace. Dr. Joe Martin had to tell Philip that he was unable to talk Chuck out of considering having Donna, as his wife, raise little Philip and went on to tell Phil that his talking with Chuck might even have made matters worse. Joe told Phil that all Chuck's resentment over the past few years of the sacrifices he had made had come to a head and Chuck felt that he had done enough and it was time he started thinking of himself for a change. Philip urged Joe not to tell Tara about Chuck's outburst as he and Joe hoped that Chuck would reconsider between then and October, the date they believed Donna and Chuck would be married. Philip had been about to cancel a trip to Kentucky for a police training program but changed his mind in the hope that there was no real urgency and if he did not push to get Paul Martin started on the court action. Chuck would get his resentment under control. Dan Kennicott had left town for a trip home to his family's farm. He made an unsucecessful attempt to talk Brooke into accompanying him on the trip but was only mildly disturbed by Brooke's statement that though she would miss him, she wasn't going to promise to stay at home and pine away in his absence. She did tell him that he had nothing to worry about where Benny Sago was concerned but when Benny invited her to accompany him to a Rock Concert she all but agreed to go when Phoebe called Benny to say she had to cancel his night off in order to have him help serve a dinner party in honor of Tom Cudahy and she expected Brooke to attend along with Chuck. Phoebe was unable to locate Chuck all through the day of the scheduled dinner, learning only that he had signed himself out for the day and had his relief cover for him at the hospital. While trying to trace Chuck, Phoebe went to Charles' office and refered to certain pictures she had in her possession as evidence of adultery on Mona and Charles' part. When Mona told her she would be laughed out of court, Phoebe mentioned Charles' pajamas and Mona realized that Phoebe was responsible for the theft. Mona said only that the pajamas were brought into her home for someone else, but Phoebe told her to "keep it for the judge." When Erica learned of Phoebe's threats and the name Mark Dalton - Erica's half-brother, who wore the pajamas when he stayed overnight with Mona after having injured his foot -, she went into a tailspin, begging her mother not to allow Phoebe to involve her in a court case whereby Erica, as her daughter, would be publically humiliated. Mona was shocked at her daughter's selfish attitude and told her she was not the only person in her life. Mona went on to tell Erica that if she was so concerned for her reputation, she suggested that Erica live her life a great deal more discretely than she had done in the past. Nick got a rise out of Tom Cudahy by going to see him at the Goal Post and accusing him of playing dirty pool by hiring his hostess Erica away from him without consulting him first. Tom told Nick it was a free country and Erica came to him saying she wanted to make a change and he saw nothing unethical in his conduct. Nick characterized Erica as a rash, impetuous young woman who would be better off staying at the Chateau, and asked Tom to think about what he had said before taking her on. Tom's answer was that Erica was a big girl and he had already taken her on but he would think about what Nick had said. Tom phoned Erica at the Chateau and asked to talk with her about what they had discussed - Erica's coming to work for him - but said that he couldn’t make it immediately as he was having dinner at Phoebe Tyler's that evening. Nick was present and notesd to his amusement that Erica was worried about her new job and what Tom might hear from Phoebe Tyler. At the Tyler mansion, Phoebe apologized to Tom for the lack of a foursome at dinner and Tom mentioned that he had seen Chuck earlier in the day at a Real Estate agent's with his fiancee. He said that the two were up on Cloud Nine and told him they had just that minute rented an apartment. Chuck calmed Donna’s last minute jitters and they went into the magistrate's office only to learn their marriage license required a twenty-four hour waiting period to be valid. So they returned to the apartment they had rented and Chuck left on Donna's insistence that he prepare little Philip for the new living arrangements which would begin the following day. After Chuck left, Phoebe arrived, having obtained the address from the realtor. A phone call from her husband making it clear that he wanted out of their marriage made Ellen Shepherd realize that she was being unrealistic in hoping to hang on to him after he had walked out on her and their daughter Devon to live with a younger woman and she sent for Paul Martin telling him she would give him her power of attorney to arrange a quickie divorce. Mark Dalton agreed to take Devon on as a music student but made it increasingly clear that he was attracted to Ellen. She insisted that they were both lonely and vulnerable and admitted that she was embarrassed to be seen with him as he was so much younger and she was afraid of making a fool of herself. Ellen Shepherd was looking for a job and Paul Martin had promised to speak to Myrtle Lum about a place at the Boutique. When Nigel Farnsworth called on Myrtle with some complimentary tickets for his play as he had promised, he learned of Kitty's death. When Myrtle told him she couldn’t bring herself to work at the Boutique Kitty left to her in her will and was thinking of leaving Pine Valley, Nigel asked her to "come away with him" — to Scranton. When Paul learned that Myrtle was thinking of selling the Boutique, he suggested to Ellen that she buy it with her father's backing. Another World Written by: Harding Lemay Produced by: Paul Rauch Iris Carrington was pleasantly surprised to discover she had a willing accomplice in her endless quest to terminate her father Mac Cory's marriage to Rachel. Mac's servant, Sven Peterson, snatched the money Iris gladly handed him for keeping her informed on the deterioration of Mac and Rachel's marriage. Sven's venality, however, was only a fragment of his pernicious personality. His motive was to get Mac free and available to Regine who was the Cory housekeeper, Helga's daughter. Since Sven was Regine's so-called -uncle," he would reap the benefits - $$ - of a Cory marriage. Iris’ housekeeper, Louise, was aware of Sven and Iris' conniving, but her threat to expose them to Mac couldn’t stop Iris. She had instigated trouble for Quentin Ames, the curator of the prestigious Finley Museum, then under construction in Bay City. To protect her interests from her lover/lawyer Brian Bancroft, Iris had hired attorney John Randolph for her underhanded legal affairs. She had told John Quentin had fallen in love with Rachel and she had to protect her "daddy" from any claims Rachel would make on his estate. Grateful for the help Rachel gave John during a low time in his career and life, John refused to get involved. Iris used the time during a cocktail party to get her dirty work done. She had already sold Vera Finley on the idea Quentin and Rachel were having an affair. She dangled the sweet taste of a "generous fee" in front of John until he couldn’t refuse her. In one sentence John introduced himself to Quentin, in the next he notified Quentin he had been fired! Iris' strategy would be effective. Mac wouldn't believe Iris' accusations but he couldn't dismiss the possibility of truth coming from Vera, enforced by her termination of Quentin's employment. Iris then sent Quentin in the direction of her houseguest, the Countess Elena de Poulignac, hoping he would distract Elena from competing with Iris for Brian's attentions. Elena was wise to Iris' schemes, and warned her it was going to backfire on her. No sooner said than done, when Rachel's mother Ada McGowen arrived, ready to stop Iris from going through with her plot. When Mac told Ada Rachel had drifted to Quentin, and their marriage was beyond repair, she was astounded at how gullible he was to Iris' lies. Mac had given up all hope because Rachel hadn't even cared enough to write him from Paris, where she was teaching. - Iris and Sven had made sure all Rachel's correspondence to Mac was intercepted and destroyed. - Ada declared to Mac he was using this "affair" as an excuse for his marriage failing because he was sterile. Rachel walked out because Mac shut her out of his life. Ada's conclusions were confirmed by Dr. Morley's comments to Mac that he was obsessed about being sterile. He concurred the psychological problem was more difficult to treat than the physiological one. When Iris coldly threatened to press assault charges against Ada who nearly threw Iris into her own pool, Ada was not shaken. Rather, she would have liked the opportunity to tell a judge what she thought of Iris. Elena stood by admiring Ada's courage to stand up to the almighty Iris. Brian also promised Mac he would get to the bottom of this with Iris. She claimed she had “nothing to do with it," but Brian knew the deceit Iris was capable of to save her own skin, He wanted nothing more to do with her. The only reason he did make love to her was because Gwen Parrish wouldn't see him and Iris was available. Although then he realized being alone would've been better than being with Iris. For several months, Brian had intrigued Iris with the private games they played with other people's lives. Brian, however, used Iris for his own amusement as well. He stirred her jealousy by conveniently arranging evening business meetings with Gwen, knowing Iris would be checking up on his whereabouts. Iris was constantly alienating Gwen with her vile accusations. She sent Elena to introduce herself to Gwen. Gwen was skeptical about Elena’s intentions for the visit. Elena had to confess Iris was behind it to do some checking on Brian and Gwen. Gwen was romantically involved with Dr. Dave Gilchrist and wanted only a platonic friendship with Brian. Dave and Gwen visited Iris just as she and Brian were on their way to the bedroom. Their adventure was cut short by Gwen's proclamation she knew Iris sent Elaina to spy on she and Brian —they had a good laugh at Iris' expense. Gwen’s answer to Iris' resurrection of the non-existent affair, was she was barking up the wrong tree. She said Iris was as naive as a rattlesnake which spurred Iris to go to Dave with her false information. Dave usually knew better than to believe Iris, but this time he swallowed the bait. Gwen was tired of defending her honor. She realized it was hopeless for Dave and herself, but not because of any imaginary love affair. She perceived that Dave was too committed to Rachel Cory to let himself get serious with anyone else. The truth in Gwen's statement lay in Dave's silence. Then Gwen was on the warpath. She asserted that going to Dave was a big mistake, and Iris had cleared the way for Gwen to really take Brian away from her. She didn’t care what happened to her reputation as she and Dave had broken up. Iris was temporarily pacified, since Gwen's denunciation and Brian's rejection, with Mac's company. She monopolized him for dinner, doting over his blues for Rachel. Mac had resigned as a member of the board of trustees for the Finley Museum because without Rachel, he had no cause. Quentin was hanging around until he could convince Mac there was no truth about his romance with Rachel. Vera had further confused him admitting Iris believed in the affair, when Iris claimed she was trying to rectify matters. When Mac's stepson, Jamie, asked Iris to inform Mac Rachel had just called from France and was on her way home, she promised to cheer him up with the message. Instead, she prefered to cling to her rare and precious moments alone with "daddy," concealing the phone call from him. Sven was not relying totally on Iris for the fate of his fortune. He surmised that someone had poisoned Jamie's mind about him and began preparations to ensure he wouldn’t get in the way. Iris notified Sven that Rocky Olsen had been hiding in Jamie's game room at the Cory mansion. - Rocky was maneuvered out of his job as the Cory stableman. He worked for Iris until he gained evidence of Sven's extortion from Cory accounts. Sven out-tricked Rocky by taping a confession of such and played it for Iris. Iris fired Rocky, but he had remained hidden in Bay City to help Jamie, Dennis Carrington and Louise to expose and end Sven's evildoings. - Sven went after Rocky with a rifle, thinking if he went when everyone was asleep, no one could contradict his story. Louise guessds what Iris did, so she and Dennis raced to the Corys’ to warn Rocky. Faced by all four, Sven backed off. Rocky moved his hide-out to Iris' greenhouse. A plan of attack was devised by the makeshift detectives. During Iris' cocktail party where Sven was tending bar, Louise lured him to the greenhouse. He saw Rocky pretending to be asleep on the floor and picked up a shovel before entering. Dennis accidentally knocked over a plant alarming Sven and he escaped. Rocky was badly shaken, realizing “that weasel tried to kill me!" Changing tactics, Dennis found the address of Sven and Helga's previous employer, Mrs. Baldwin. Louise called her for an interview disguised as Iris who wanted to hire Helga. Mrs. Baldwin relayed that her husband sensed a reason to dislike Sven and they let him go. He also maneuvered his way into their employ through Helga. He began to dominate the household and Helga. They thought he he was dishonest but had no concrete evidence against him. Louise and Rocky had their answers. Regine refused to cooperate with Sven in any way. He fought with Cliff Tanner who was dating Regine when he could. Sven saw Cliff as an obstacle in Regine's way to be the next Mrs. Cory. Regine continued to see Cliff, though Sven's threats to eliminate him kept her at a distance. Regine had warned Pat Randolph about Sven and when Pat told her boss Mac that Sven could be untrustworthy, Sven, as usual, was eavesdropping. Rachel returned from France but her homecoming was not very pleasant. After Ada told her about the Iris-Quentin gossip and the fact that Mac believed it, she tried several times to contact Mac. Sven stopped her each time. Regine was determined to notify Mac of Rachel's phonecall, but Sven manipulated her silence by threatening to hurt her mother if she talked. When she said she couldn’t be scared by him, he warned her her father said the same thing. - Regine didn’t know that Sven killed her father because he knew of Sven's swindles and this was why Helga would not defy Sven - Hearing of Rachel's return, Iris wasted not one minute in engaging John in the unpleasant duty of getting Rachel's signature on a document which would renounce all claims to Mac's assets. John opposed but since he had spent Iris' retainer and she would sue him for it, he had no choice but to bitterly agree. John was extremely humiliated by his having to obey Iris. Rachel was appalled that John could lower himself to do this — she was under the impression it was Mac who initiated this situation. Under Iris' specific instructions, John was not to clarify it otherwise. However, in her attempt to track down Mac at Iris', Rachel figured out it was Iris who instigated it. Rachel kept one copy of the document and walked out on Iris and John, confident she would have a use for it in the future. Unknown to Iris, her friends were still trying to help her because she couldn’t help herself. Elena planned to open an art gallery with Quentin's help, thereby busying Quentin so much he wouldn't have time for Rachel. Quentin agreed to cooperate heartily. She was determined to ruin this scheme of Iris' to protect her in the long run from being hurt. Brian admitted to Elena he wanted to help Iris also, and despite her faults he loved her but wouldn't consider marriage to her, as a husband for Iris would only be a social appendage. Dave Gilchrist had decided to leave Bay City, but before he did, he made one last futile grasp for Rachel. She again rejected him. Dave admitted his love for Rachel to Pat, and Mac happened to hear his confession over the intercom. Unfortunately, Mac was disgusted and turned it off before Dave continued "it was hopeless, Rachel only loved Mac." Iris agreed to tell Mac the truth about her Quentin gossip when Brian threatenED to drop her if she didn’t. However, Brian made an uncharacteristically foolish mistake when he left Iris alone to confess to Mac. She immediately told Mac her visit was to gain his permission for Sven to work for her in his spare time. Regine cautionned Rachel that Sven was succeeding in keeping Rachel and Mac apart although she didn’t know why he was doing this. When Rachel finally faced Mac, he detoured her attempts to defend herself about Quentin with more accusations about the men who had fallen in love with her since she and Mac were married. He accused her of having led them all into it and once again Rachel walked out, unable to deal with Mac's obsessive jealousy. Dennis and Jamie thought they havde Sven snowed by pumping him for the location of the logging camp he worked at - when he killed Helga's husband -. While Sven eavesdropped, they discussed with Louise about giving this information to Rocky, and mentioned he was working for the Baldwins. Avaricious Olive Randolph was experiencing more snags in her climb from rags to riches than she had anticipated. Her husband John wondered why she didn't tell him when she found his daughter-in-law Molly returning the blueprints of their new home. He demanded an explanation from his son Mike, also, and Mike was ready for the showdown. Mike declared his father was dealing with a shrewd operator. He suspected Olive was taking John to the cleaners and had Molly take the prints in order to get his suspicions confirmed. The estimates John showed Mike were quite different from what Willis Frame, an expert in building contracts, estimated. Olive was angered by Molly's trick to befriend her, she blurted her honest opinion "that brat conned me so she could steal the plans." To herself, she vowed she would make Molly pay for tricking her. Molly apologized to smother the hostility which would pave the way for future evidence of Olive's deceit for Mike. Olive had alerted her lover and architect of the new house, Evan Webster. John questioned Evan about the possibility of a faulty design but Evan was ready with a revised presentation, thanks to Olive. John was reassured. While Olive was finding it more repulsive to satisfy John's amorous needs, Evan was pursuing John's secretary, Joan Barnard. Olive's mean streak of jealousy emerged when she overheard Evan's cooing to Joan. She was adamant she wouldn’t share him with anyone! Evan explained he was dating Joan only as a cover from any suspicions about Olive and himself. They took advantage of the empty house while John was out of town. Molly came by and heard Olive with a man other than John. She reported her findings of Olive embracing this man to Mike, and he in turn told his mother Pat. Pat confronted Olive about her affair, and Olive naturally denied it. Pat cautioned Olive that even the most infatuated husband caught on eventually. Olive decided she and Evan should "cool it." Evan could care less, since Olive had been withholding the extra household cash she milked from John. He walked out on her telling Olive she could get in touch with him when she had been to the bank. Blind to Olive’s intentional drain of his financial resources, John had to consider taking on a law partner who would bring in badly needed capital. Joan suggested he hire her brother Greg. Evan continued to lead Joan on, although she had been forewarned by Angie that Evan couldn’t be trusted. She decided to date him and learn for herself about Evan. Ray Gordon was content to place first priority on redecorating the office of the newly-renamed Gordon Enterprises. He prefered to neglect the responsibilities of the Ogden Sports Arena, the only money-making project for the former Frame Enterprises, to tend to the petty details which emphasized his position as president. The Ogden Sports Arena contract was given to the then Frame Enterprises only with the assurance that Willis Frame would oversee the project. - Willis was the brother of Alice Gordon's deceased husband Steven. - Willis was appalled by Ray's irresponsibility. He warned Alice about Ray's attitude but when she confronted Ray about his negligence over their contract obligations, he raged about Willis' attempt to break up their marriage. Ray resented Willis' authority and allowed it to interfere with a multi-million dollar business proposition offered by Ogden's building official, George Salter. The Ogden officials were losing faith with Gordon Enterprises and Willis had to jump in to cover for Ray's incompetence. He vowed to his girlfriend Angie, he was doing it for the company "no matter what it's called." He believed Alice was so in love with Ray she couldn’t see the damage he was doing. Because Alice was having repeated dreams in which she called out Willis' name - in her dream the man she loved was Steve but he appeared as Willis -, she had to constantly reassure Ray that neither Steven's memory, nor Willis were a threat to him. Willis had implored Alice's father Jim Matthews and brother Dr. Russ Matthews to help him save the company by facing Alice with the problem of Ray. Skeptical about Willis' intentions, as he had a past of stealthy conduct, Angie had to confirm his complaints. She stated Ray was so obsessed by his resentfulness of Willis, he unconsciously did not want the sports arena to succeed. Jim agreed, advising Alice that Ray did not appreciate the seriousness of the situation — without the Arena, Gor-don Enterprises would go under. Ray was on the rampage then, calling Jim's information malicious gossip; accusing Angie of changing her loyalties to Willis and firing her; and going over Emmett Garvey's head pleading his case to Charles Travis. That was a bigger mistake, Travis was not impressed by Ray's inefficiency. Alice was forced to intervene, she demanded Ray rehire Angie and if he kept hiding things from her, she would return to the office making management decisions all by herself. Ray swallowed his pride and promised to cooperate. He practiced great control when he walked in on Alice giving Willis a hug of gratitude. Realizing the mess he had created, Ray had asked Mac Cory to use his influence with Emmett giving him his endorsement of Ray's credentials. Unfortunately, the damage was done, the board saw the problem as one of poor management and all blame landed on Ray's shoulders. Their deductions were accurate. Jim had to relay his financial findings to Alice, Ray had gone extremely overbudget on both projects. The long, awaited decision arrived, Emmet personally delivered the verdict to Willis, Ray and Alice. After a long and stormy meeting, the board voted to take the Ogden Sports Arena away from Gordon Enterprises immediately. Alice rallied to Ray's support. He vehemently rejected any help from Willis. She showed great optimism despite this shattering blow to the company, they would put the Arena behind them, they couldn’t give up because they lost one project. Ray couldn’t let the "bad blood" between himself and Willis rest, he badgered Willis about power plays and invading on Alice's emotions personally. Willis maintained he wouldn’t stay out of their lives, he was determined to stand by and ensure Ray wouldn’t ruin Alice's life as he did her company. Later, to Alice, Willis promised he would be there for her if she needed someone to talk to. As a temporary solution, Alice and Ray agreed that a belated honeymoon in St. Croix would be good for them both. Bert McGowen was thoroughly confused by the love of his life, Clarice Hobson. One minute she was loving and responsive and the next she was scared and discouraged him. She turned down his marriage proposals as fast as he made them because she was afraid of being hurt. Bert expressed his love for her, telling her to relax and let things happen. Frustrated, Bert left Clarice alone and ended up on Willis' doorstep. Willis advised Bert to go back to Clarice and talk it out. Clarice explained, again, that in the past she had only known love to turn to hurt and she had learned to not let herself get hurt anymore. Bert retorted she had to stop feeling sorry for herself — he knew what it was to be hurt - his wife deserted him and took his children to be raised by her lover. - He assured her she had nothing to worry about, he wanted her to be free to be herself. Clarice's close friend Ada recommended Clarice take happiness when she found it. Bert would be her strength and would help her get over the things she was afraid of. Heeding Ada's wise advice, Clarice was ready to accept Bert's proposal. Bert, however, was the unsure party this time. He gave Clarice a diamond ring but before she had time to accept, he left her holding the ring in her hand. She planned a celebration party where her friends listened to Clarice's announcement, she and Bert were engaged! As The World Turns Written by: Robert Soderberg & Edith Sommer Produced by: Joe Willmore Joyce Hughes was still at her in-laws' while their son, Donald, was attending to business for the law firm in Switzerland. She was getting very bored being confined because of the danger of miscarrying and was amusing herself by prying and picking at those who visited her. Sandy Garrison brought her books from the store, but couldn't tolerate her references to Kevin Thompson and his relationship to Susan Stewart. - Sandy cared deeply for Kevin, but could see that he also cared for Susan who often rejected him, but needed him desperately in her battle against alcoholism. - Joyce said Lisa Colman wouldn’t visit when she was downstairs because she was jealous. Then Joyce started on the Hughes family themselves. She complained that she was not allowed to do anything and was always in the way. Nancy was surprised at the telephone bill, but never complained although Joyce made reference to it frequently. Joyce finally called Don and said she couldn’t stand this any longer and wanted him to come home rather than finishing out his five months there. She also tried to pretend she was in very precarious health. After her check up, Dr. Meltzer told Bob Hughes that everything was fine with Joyce and he called Don, feeling that he could give him any medical reassurance he needed. When Bob mentioned this to Joyce she flew into a frenzy, saying he had no right. She said he thought she was only trying for sympathy. Lisa Colman had held up very well through her younger son's funeral and her older son Tom's surgery following the auto accident. She never missed a day at the hospital even though everyone had asked her to take it easy. One evening as she was clearing the table, she began shaking so violently that she dropped a stack of dishes and began crying. Grant put her to bed and called Bob at home. He gave Lisa a shot and told her to stay in bed the following day. She had to take care of herself and everything would get better. She begged Bob to stay until she fell asleep. Grant told Nancy that Lisa felt guilty and she confirmed that Lisa had been a good mother. Grandpa Hughes used to say "There comes a time when you must stand still and let it hurt." Maybe this was what Lisa was doing at the moment. Bob told Lisa that she and Grant should take a trip, but she refused to leave Tom. Bob was afraid that if she didn’t relax she could have a serious breakdown. Nancy got Lisa to agree to a trip, but then she backed out, saying she wouldn’t have Grant sacrificing his work for her. – It was slowly sinking through to her conscious mind that it was Bob, not Tom, that she couldn’t leave. - An executive business meeting came up for Grant that would take place at the beach house in Marblehead, Mass. near the area where he was raised. Lisa couldn’t very well refuse this trip because she wouldn't be taking him from his work, but she wanted to talk to Tom first. Tom thought it was a wonderful idea. At the last minute Lisa backed out. Nancy was delighted to hear that the following day Alma, Lisa's mother, had put Lisa on a plane to join Grant. Valerie Conway was sure that she really did have deep feelings for Bob Hughes, but she let things progress in their own way. Bob was a little afraid to commit himself since she threw him over for Dan Stewart before. He could see that she had changed considerably since then and was only troubled because she could be argumentative. Head nurse Marian Connelly was upset with Valerie for contacting a doctor over a patient instead of informing the nursing station. Valerie apologized when she realized that Miriam was still suffering over the death of her friend, Pat Holland Dixon, but they quickly disagreed again. Dr. Jim Strasfield asked Bob if there was anything serious with Valerie. Bob denies it and so Jim asked Valerie to dinner. Bob became jealous and visited Valerie at the farm, asking her to think about how his kiss affected her. Valerie declined Jim's second invitation, telling him she was taken. Lisa's dependence on Bob bothered Valerie since Bob didn't seem to recognize it, but she was very gracious when Lisa asked for Bob's undivided attention. She even told Bob to see Lisa when she returned early from Marblehead and needed to see him. Lisa told Bob she returned because she and Grant had a fight but when Grant called Bob to check on Lisa, he said she was so worried about Tom, he felt it was unfair to keep her in Marblehead. Valerie told Bob that Lisa was out to trap him and he promised to take care of it. Grant came home unexpectedly and Bob told Lisa he was going to consult on his Aunt's operation in Kansas. Dee Stewart was working at the law office for the summer and spent her evenings visiting Tom at the hospital. As he was recovering, she saw even more of him because she delivered briefs for him to review. Tom told her see should see boys her own age, but she protested that they seemed like babies. When she told him about her dreams he really became concerned. He voiced this to her sister Annie who tried to caution Dee against falling in love with someone who didn’t return that love. Susan Stewart was selling her car so that she could pay some of her bills. A car did her no good since her license was suspended for attempting to drive while under the influence of alcohol. She said it would probably be a long time before she found a job because everyone was against her. Grant tells her there are many people on her side, but all this is hardest on Kevin. He suggested she might be bad for Kevin. Susan accused Mary Ellison of trying to get Kevin by running her down. Mary denied this, but Susan was angry. - Kim Dixon told Kevin that Mary had an alcoholic father and might be able to help him with Susan. Mary had told Kevin to go to Al-Anon where they helped family and friends of alcoholics, but he insisted Susan was not an alcoholic. Mary said Kevin's kindness was killing Susan because he always believed her reasons for drinking. - Mary told Kevin that she couldn’t help him any more because Susan resented her. When she said Susan was an alcoholic and they all had the same problem, Kevin stomped out, accusing her of being against Susan. Kevin confessed to Susan that he had been yelling at everyone and didn’t like himself very much for that. Susan asked Jim Strasfield how his wife's alcoholism affected him and he described Kevin's symptoms. Susan told Kevin that she didn’t need him and tried to make him angry by taking a drink, but he only felt closer to her. The following night, Kevin asked her to dress up because they were going to celebrate. He asked Susan to marry him and told her not to answer unless it was "yes." Feeling under a magic spell, Susan agreed. In the cold gray light of morning, Susan told Kevin over the phone that she had made a mistake. He wanted to talk about it that afternoon. Susan asked David Stewart for enough money to get out of town because she couldn’t marry Kevin and she was not strong enough to tell him face to face. She hoped to have a job in a week. She told the girls good-bye and then left town. The building supervisor was told to let Kevin in when he arrived. He found the ring and a note saying she couldn’t marry him. She was leaving and when she returned, she didn’t want to see him. He continued to tell friends that he was engaged and Susan would be returning shortly. Ralph Mitchell had taken a liking to Mary Ellison, but she had refused to have dinner with him. - Mary was still recovering from being deceived by John Dixon. - Mary did agree to help Ralph study for his real estate test. He brought a picnic dinner which they shared with Mary's son on the living room floor. Mary agreed to have dinner with him if he passed his exam. Mary was excited about having dinner in Oakdale's finest restaurant, but was made uneasy when Natalie Hughes, Ralph's boss, dropped by and casually undermined Mary's confidence. Mary had the feeling she could never fit in with Ralph's friends. Natalie Hughes had signed the agreement saying she would go out of town to have Jay's baby and then let the Stallings' adopt it in exchange for a real estate office and living expenses. Natalie told Carol that she was considering taking Kim's apartment across the hall. Jay hit the ceiling and told Natalie that he would not finance the best apartment in town, but relented when Carol suggested that she could keep an eye on her health if she was close. Whey Jay complained about the cost of remodeling because people would begin to wonder where her money was coming from, Natalie commented that maybe she didn’t care who knew. When the Stallings visited Chris Hughes, he suggested Carol see Mrs. Stapleton, the social worker, for advice. Carol explained the situation and was surprised when she suggested that there be no secrecy because it would only hurt the child. This was a unique situation because only one of the parents would be adopting the child. Someday the child might resent Carol and turn to his natural mother. Chris reminded Carol that before she could change the contract, Natalie had to be consulted. Natalie refused to permit the change. Carol told Natalie that if it couldn’t be brought into the open, it would be better for strangers to adopt the child. Natalie would think it over. Natalie was disappointed when she found Ralph didn’t have enough influence with his wealthy friends to ask one of them to invest in their firm so that she could dump her original backer. Jay was sure that Natalie wanted more money and got Carol to agree they wouldn’t stand for it. Jay proved to be right when Natalie asked for ten thousand. He turned her down. She then asked Carol if she agreed to give up the baby for so little extra. Natalie looked for money elsewhere. For Carol's sake, however, Jay gave it to Natalie. Carol cried with joy when Jay told her this. Beau Spencer and Annie Stewart had a fight when he again made plans for them to go to the lake cottage alone. He called her old-fashioned, but her morals didn’t waiver. Beau tried dating other girls, but was happy when Annie broke down and called him. The solution was that they would marry immediately. David, Annie's father, was upset when he learned that Beau planned on supporting her on his allowance. Dick Martin had given Ellen the Spencers' phone number in London and she called to introduce herself. She was surprised to find Mrs. Spencer didn't even know they were serious. Beau claimed he just hadn't been able to reach her. He called immediately and told his mother that the Stewarts misunderstood. Jane Spencer called Dick Martin who said Ellen Stewart never deviated from the truth. Mrs. Spencer arrived in Oakdale. Jane Spencer really liked Annie and thought she could be the best thing that ever happened to Beau. Annie refused Beau's suggestion that they slip away and get married. He then told his mother to stay out of his life. Beau wanted to elope because he was sure his mother would interfere in their lives. Annie was upset when he suggested they call it all off if she wouldn’t elope this weekend. A young girl was looking for Jennifer Ryan at the hospital and was told that she married Dr. Bob Hughes, but was killed in an accident. She followed Kim and finally confronted her when she placed the flowers from Andrew's christening on Jennifer's grave. She said her name was Melinda Gray and she was adopted. Her mother died when she was eleven and her father recently. She was trying to find her natural mother, Jennifer Ryan. She had a locket with her picture. Kim found this hard to accept. Days Of Our Lives Written by: Ann Marcus Produced by: Betty Corday & H. Wesley Kenney Since the arrival of Samantha Evans in Salem, the serenity in her twin sister Dr. Marlena Evan's life had all but vanished. Marlena was concerned about Sam's emotional stability and asked her colleague Dr. Laura Horton to see Samantha. The man in Marlena's life, Don Craig, believed Marlena's time and concern given to Sam was an excuse to keep him at arm's length. The problem came to a head when Marlena accidentally found her own pre-scription pad in her sister's purse. Sam adroitly dodged Marlena's confrontation, passing the prescription pad off as paper she needed to make out miscellaneous lists. Still skeptical, Marlena pointed out that Sam's moods went from one extreme to the next. Sam again evaded the problem. As soon as Marlena was out of the house, Sam downed more pills. Marlena was shaken when Neil Curtis called her at work because Sam was ill, the truth was inevitable. While Sam was sleeping off a slight overdose of barbituates combined with alcohol, Marlena got her answers. Sam forged her own prescriptions! Marlena faced Sam with what she knew. After a few futile excuses such as flu, Sam could evade no longer. She swore she could quit, she was not an addict as Marlena claimed. Sam finally agreed she would go to Laura for help. Marlena was pleased with what she thought was Sam's improvement since she had been off the pills. Sam was putting on a good act for her sister, but when she found Marlena away from her office before their lunch date, she pretended to be Marlena and had a nurse open Marlena's medicine cabinet. She popped some of the pills from the numerous bottles she stole, and then calm and collected, awaited her sister. After lunch, Marlena noticed some bottles were missing from the medicine cabinet. Marlena was afraid to admit it, but once again Sam's guilt seemed unavoidable. Don, meanwhile, was losing patience with Marlena's preoccupation over her sister's welfare. He was bored with what was turning out to be a brother/sister relationship with Marlena. Sam was cramping his style. Marlena still couldn’t get Sam and the stolen pills off her mind. She agreed to loan Sam $5000 so she could pay off her debts, Sam claimed she had a job lined up and wanted to make a new start. Marlena asked about the pills and Sam blew up. She yelled at Marlena to go to hell, she didn’t need her, her money or her pills. Marlena immediately retracted apologetically. Concentrating on nothing else, the evidence was just too obvious for Marlena to ignore and she knew her sister was lying to her. Their personality roles reversed with Marlena upset and angry at Sam, too upset to even discuss the matter. Sam was calm and cheerful while in Marlena's presence. When Marlena escaped for a walk in the woods, Sam called Don asking that they meet for an important talk that evening. Sam made Don an offer he couldn’t refuse … she would leave town if he paid her way. She would even cover for him by telling Marlena the money was an advance on her salary. She got the money, but Marlena didn’t let her off the hook as easily. She had got her confirmation that Sam impersonated her to get into the pills, and was enraged with Sam because she wouldn’t let anyone help her. She yelled Sam was an addict, she needed a detoxification program, but Sam retorted she was not going to a loony bin! She was going back to the coast to star in a movie. Marlena’s resourcefulness had led her to stumble onto the truth about Samantha's triumphant return to Hollywood. Calling the agent, Sam claimed advanced her money for her new movie role to ask for a postponement for a few weeks, Marlena was staggered when he gave it to her straight — there was no movie, no money, no job. Sam had earned a reputation as a poor risk in the business and no one had or would hire her. Trish Clayton, in the hospital recovering from a fight to save her unborn child's life, told Dr. Laura Horton that Laura's son Mike had to get drunk to tell her how he felt. It was David Banning who helped her through her crucial time. - David was the father of Trish's baby, conceived from one night spent together after Mike had rejected Trish when unsuccessful at making love to her. Mike couldn’t seem to control his disturbing outbursts at Trish since she told him about the pregnancy. - Mike was removed from the hospital for being drunk and disorderly after he saw David consoling Trish in her hospital room. Despite the fact it was her friend Toni's acquaintance who roughed Trish up causing her near miscarriage, Trish had asked Toni to stay with her in her apartment. Toni happily agreed. David was upholding his responsibility to Trish, but his love belonged to Valerie Grant. This pregnancy was the reason Val broke her engagement to David. They loved each other deeply and both were suffering because of the breakup. A letter from David to Val stirred her hopes and she rushed back to Salem from Washington, excitedly anticipating another chance for them. Val no sooner gave her brother Danny the news when Toni arrived with different news. Completely unaware of Val and David's relationship, she informed them that David escorted Trish home from the hospital. Val's hopes vanished. At Trish's apartment where she and David were having dinner together, Toni mentioned Val's return to Salem. Trish pushed David out the door to follow Val. At the airport, David stopped Val seconds before she boarded the plane. He suspected she came back to reconcile, he wanted to make Val happy. She sadly replied he should've thought of that before he made love to Trish. She refused to reconsider, insisting Trish needed him more. On the plane, Val cried to herself "I wish it was me who was pregnant with your child David." During dinner, Mike phoned Trish and guessed David was with her. He made a smart remark, forcing Trish to hang up on him. Immediately Mike was regretful. Trish vowed Mike was not part of her life and never would be again. David believed that Val was completely out of his future and Mike was out of Trish's life. That left him, Trish and their baby. He decided they should give themselves an opportunity to get to know each other, in case they "make it legal." All he could think about was Trish and the baby, he wanted to get this settled, away from the pressures of friends and family - Julie, David's mother, had tried to convince David his responsibility is to Trish and his unborn child. - David, however, knew what it was like to grow up fatherless and had accepted his responsibility on his own. David suggested that they take a weekend in the country, then Trish could decide what to do. With David and Toni's persuasion, Trish agreed to go away with David. Mike was dissatisatied with his new acquaintance Wendy, and left her apartment - where he had been since he picked Wendy up in a bar -, to return to talk to Trish. Toni was pleased to report Trish and David were away for the weekend. During their weekend, David felt his baby move for the first time. He and Trish were enjoying their time alone. David assured Trish "it's working." He suggested they go to a town 40 miles away, out of state, where they could get married in one day. Trish resisted, but when David asserted he wanted to be more than a monthly support check to his child, he wiykd be there when he was needed, she gave in. He knew he had messed up everything else in his life, but won't let it happen to his child. He speculates that he and Trish could have a good life together, she agreed. The ceremony was delayed and Trish got cold feet. David gave her time to breath and think about it, and they returned to the chapel. They were married in a short ceremony complete with a wilted corsage. On the way home to Salem, Trish told David she was not sorry they were married. They both dreaded what was ahead in Salem when they told everyone their news. Jeri accepted Trish's marriage better than Trish expected, but when Trish admitted she and David did not love each other, Jeri was disappointed in her daughter. Trish was reluctant to tell Mike. Jeri asked if she was sorry she had to tell him or was she sorry she might have married the wrong man? Just then Mike called, and after procrastinating, Trish agreed to talk to him the following day. Mike was on Cloud Nine with false hopes there still might be a chance for him and Trish. Michael arrived at Trish's apartment bearing flowers and words of love. Trish couldn’t get a word in edgewise as Mike poured out his intention to marry her and raise her child, but her message got across to Mike when David walked in hidden behind an armload of clothes, asking Trish where he was to hang them. The tension mounted from both sides as the custody hearing for infant Dougie LeClair approached. His natural mother Rebecca feared that her ex-husband Robert, Dougie's adopted father, would receive the restraining order which would bar Rebecca from taking Dougie to Japan with her lover Johnny Collins. Rebecca pleaded with Johnny to stay away from the courtroom, knowing his easily ignited temper could lose the case for her. Robert's lawyer, Don Craig, concurred with Mickey Horton. Their theory was the judge would uphold the request for a split restraining order and grant Rebecca custody of the baby. During the testimonies of Alice Horton and Doug Williams, Johnny's irresponsibility and undesirable personality was emphasized. Robert's conduct as a father was commended highly by both. Johnny walked into the courtroom, a shock to all. Rebecca’s testimony : she didn't love Robert as a wife should love a husband. She tried. She was willing to live with a man she didn't love for the sake of her baby. Her baby came first. When Robert found out Dougie was not Johnny's child, he created a disturbing circumstance calling Rebecca promiscuous. - Desperate to replace the child she lost in an auto accident, Rebecca agreed to be artificially inseminated. The donor, known only to Dr. Neil Curtis, Don Craig and Rebecca, was Doug Williams, who at that time thought he wanted a sister or brother for his daughter Hope, Learning the details of the conception the night before their wedding, was too much for Johnny to cope with. He stood Rebecca up at the altar. Robert married her to give her child a father, hoping she would grow to love him as he did her. - She left Robert because she felt it would be less painful for all. She and Johnny could provide a good home for Dougie with his new job in Japan. Johnny treated Dougie as if he were his own. She tearfully closed her plea for her son's custody "Love him with all my heart. Johnny’s testimony: he left Rebecca because he was jealous and hurt. Rebecca was a good mother. He wanted to be a father to Dougie. He would marry Rebecca as soon as possible and give her and her baby everything he could. Don's consistent dartboard questions got Johnny agitated ... he drank a lot ... he got depressed ... he was known to be irresponsible ... the intensity of Johnny's protests bounce around the silent room. Rebecca was awarded full custody with no restraining order! Her tears of joy were matched by Robert's tears of sorrow. Before flight time, Rebecca brought Dougie to Robert for a final farewell before they departed for Japan. The atmosphere was strained. Rebecca's promise to visit them once a year offered little consol-tion to Robert, he drowned his defeat in his own tears. To escape his emotions, Robert prepared to take a Carribean Cruise. Doug and Julie gave him a small but heartfelt bon voyage party. Until Dr. Bill Horton had eliminated all possible sources available that would restore the use of his arm and enable him to resume surgery, he would not relinquish an ounce of hope. The disruption he had created at the hospital since his residency in anesthesiology would rest temporarily. Bill had arranged with Dr. Hugh Phibbs in London to attempt a surgery that would give Bill the full use of his arm. After reading an article, Dr. Phibbs had sent to Bill about nerve surgery, there was no stopping Bill, he had to try it. He explained to his wife Laura he wanted to be a surgeon first, if the surgery failed, he would return to his residency. Laura was at first reluctant, fearful Bill was reacting impulsively, but later conceded as Bill stirred up her excitement by suggesting she meet him in London. Bill's disappointment at Dr. Phibb's decision against surgery was somewhat lessened by his plans with Laura to continue their European vacation, with time on their side. Alice Horton had accepted Dr. Griffin's decision to perform a hysterectomy with mixed emotions. She knew that the precancerous condition in the lining of her uterus had to be treated, yet she knew how her family would react to Dr. Griffin's decision to operate. She asked Tommy and Marie to keep her news secret from their father Tom and brother Bill. Alice muffled her reaction when Bill loosely commented about Dr. Griffin's "knife-happy" attitude towards surgery. She jumped to Dr. Griffin's defense when Tom agreed with Bill, claiming Griffin was too radical in his techniques. Learning of Bill's possible surgery, she was even more determined to keep her upcoming surgery from him. She feared he'd postpone his own operation because of concern for her. A touch of resentment leaked out when Alice retorted to Marie's objections "I can take care of my own affairs." She immediately retracted and apologized, blaming her irritability on the pressures she was carrying. Laura discussed the surgery with Alice, sensing Alice's depression over it. Laura's reassurance that her emotional state was very normal helped Alice understand herself and cope with her feelings. Laura stated all women were programmed that feminity had to do with child bearing, it was natural to feel remorse when a hysterectomy was necessary. Alice insisted Laura take her "second honeymoon" with Bill in Europe, claiming she had Dr. Griffin's permission to postpone the surgery until their returned. - To the contrary, he recommended she not wait. – Marie visited Dr. Griffin to get her own answers about the necessity of her mother's surgery. His statement remained consistent, Dr. Bailey's opinion differed because he was not up to date on the latest diagnostic techniques. Alice was given the most advanced physical examination science had devised, there was no question as to the necessity of the operation, and the operation had to be done soon. Marie told Alice that she saw Dr. Griffin. Alice was furious with her for interfering. She went on how Marie had taken over her family, her home, her life, and treated Alice as if she were a useless old lady. Tom interrupted the argument. Marie realized she had acted like "an overzealous pompous do-gooder." Tom disagreed. He was grateful for all Marie had done for him, and was sure Alice was also. He sensed something had been bothering Alice, but didn’t know what. Marie wouldn’t tell him what it was she and Alice were keeping from him. Alice later apologized to Marie, they happily made amends, realizing they were both at fault. Alice explained it was a blow to find out she wasn't the indispensable woman she thought she was to her family. The marital battles of Jean and Fred Barton were becoming more intractable for their neighbor Maggie Horton. Jean cried on Maggie's shoulder about her unhappiness, yet condoned Fred's violent attacks on her. Maggie's heart ached for Jean and her son Billy, but she was afraid to get involved. Fred beat his wife because he was frustrated with the stress of starting his own business as a CPA. Further antagonizing him is his resentment at Jean's confiding in Maggie about their problems. He reprimanded her with physical assault. One evening when Mickey was visiting his parents, Maggie was forced to "get involved." Billy ran to her apartment crying because of the fight between his parents, his father was beating his mother worse than he ever had. This time Maggie phoned the police and reported the incident. The police officer told Jean she had a legal right to protection from her husband, suggesting she get it. Jean denied she needed it. Fred turned into "Mr. Nice Guy" for the police. The officers then reported their findings to Maggie and Mickey explaining the denials by Jean because of her humiliation and fear that the police were called in. Mickey thought Maggie had made things worse for Jean. He knew another beating would occur, when it did, Maggie had to stay out of it. She could help only by trying to persuade Jean to seek professional help. Mickey added Jean was afraid to get help theb, but there might be a day when she was afraid not to, if not for herself, but for Billy's safety. Jean thanked Maggie the following day for her understanding. Maggie said she apologized to Fred only to make it easier for Jean and she was playing into his hands just as Jean did. Fred came home bearing flowers and apologized but Jean was not as easily forgiving this time. She urged him to seek professional help because he claimed he didn’t know why he hit her. - During the fights, Fred ranted "his father did it to his mother. He lived with a martyr who was a rotten mother' - Fred rejected any need for help. He claimed he was not crazy, didn’t need a psychiatrist. He would change. It was not good for business, if his clients saw he was insecure enough to need a psychiatrist. Tommy Horton had become infatuated with Linda Phillips. He admitted to his sister he was acting like a teenager, yet he couldn’t help himself. He knew he couldn't compete with Bob Anderson's wealth, a fact Linda seemed to delight in cunningly flaunting at Tommy. She wore a diamond broach Bob gave her when out with Tom. She smiled at her private victory realizing Tommy noticed the pin and felt discouraged by it. During a date with Bob, Linda noticed Bob dropped from his pocket a locket that belonged to Brooke Hamilton. She wondered to herself what special relationship they really did have. She put Tommy in the driver's seat with Bob when she called Bob to thank him for sending her roses. The timing of her call ensured that she would have to cut the call short as Tommy arrived for their lunch date. Mary Anderson had stepped in as head of public relations for Anderson Mfg, since the death of Brooke Hamilton. - Unknown to Mary, Brooke was Bob Anderson's illegitimate daughter. - She mused to herself she wished she knew what kind of a hold Brooke had on her father, he still had strong feelings for her, despite the discovery Brooke was devoted to Bob's destruction. Mary honored her father's request to train a plant engineer in a course of public relations. She finally tracked him down, neither Mary nor her new assignment Chris Kostichek, made room for politeness. It was a meeting filled with verbal lacerations. They did agree to bury the hatchet long enough to get accomplished what Bob wanted done. Mary, however, ended up covered in mud from head to toe after she insisted she accompany Chris on a plant tour. Chris came to her lakeside apartment to explain his neglect in contacting her. Mary's stepfather, and former lover, Neil Curtis saw him leaving. He then showed up assuming Mary was dating Chris. He pulled her close and kissed her. Mary resisted and tried to get rid of him. He blamed Mary for driving him to drink. Neil's inebriation equaled his wife Phil's who was trying to cope with her discovery Neil was having an affair with another woman, whom she thought was the deceased Brooke Hamilton. Phyllis was repulsed when she accidentally overheard Mary and Neil's conversation about "making love and nearly getting caught”. She was numbed that it was Mary, not Brooke who was her husband's lover. After getting her bearings, she poured out the whole story to Bob and he was the sympathetic protector he had always been. He confronted Neil, giving him no opportunity to worm his way out of it, commanding "unless you stay away from Mary and make a full confession to Phyllis, see your career ruined, run you out of Salem and run you out of the whole damn state”: Bob's words hardly had time to cool off when Neil was holding Phyl in his arms - pretending she was Mary -, and Phyl pretended to reluctantly accept his confession about his affair, with Brooke, as his renouncement to infidelity forever. A man by the name of Larry Atwood had been to Doug's Place and approached Doug with a business matter. Doug agreed to talk to him, but finding out his "business" was a gambling casino he'd like to build into Doug's Place, guaranteeing Doug it would increase his profits, Doug gave him a stern "NO." He mused that Julie had a special intuition, she sensed this man was not to be trusted. Larry returned to Doug's Place only this time he saw Julie in their living quarters behind the club. Julie was passive about his discussion about a casino, until he speculated they'd have to move to make room for construction. Doug returned, again rejecting Mr. Atwood's persistent offers. Doug stated emphatically if he was saying he must have illegal gambling to fill his club, it was not worth a full house. Furthermore, he wouldn't want it if it were legal. The trust of his clientele was more important to Doug than an overabundance of the green money matter. The Doctors Written by: Douglas Marland Produced by: Jeff Young Tom Carroll arrived at MJ Match's for dinner, but was suffering from a migraine. He lay down while MJ finished in the kitchen, but was awakened by a terrible dream. He told her how nice it was to wake up and find her there. His proposal so confused MJ that she couldn’t answer. The following day, he suggested that they use their joint vacation to his sister's as a honeymoon. When she accepted, he produced a diamond, but then asked her to listen to him before they go on with their plans. He explained that his father had Huntington's Chorea, a fatal disease of the nervous system which was hereditary, but did not develop until you were in your thirties. His father took his own life rather than live through that illness. There was a 50-50 chance that he mught have the disease and pass it on to his children. This was too great a risk and so he would not father a child. MJ was sympathetic, but showed him that he didn’t have all the answers. There could be a cure developed in the next few years and they could always adopt children. MJ called her family to tell them the news and ask for help in making arrangements. They would use the first week of their vacation to plan the wedding and the second for their honeymoon. She planned to wear her grandmother's wedding gown. Dr. Matt Powers arrived home after his meetings with Kyle Wilson and told Maggie he realizes how lonely the nights must have been when she was teaching the seminar. He supposed that it was probably worse because they were having marital problems at the time. - During this time Maggie turned to Kyle who was sympathetic. Althea Davis advised her never to tell Matt about Kyle. – Mike Powers told his father that he was considering returning to medicine, but wasn’t sure he could commit himself to anything since Toni's death. He had been advised to try it, but didn’t want to take the job from someone who was dedicated. Matt suggested that he try the field service because this would be a good test and they were short of doctors. If Mike took the job Matt could be Mike's superior. Mike said there was no one he'd rather work under. After a talk with Jessie Rawlings about her reasons for working in the field unit, Mike had come to the conclusion he couldn’t go back into medicine to prove anything; it had to be for himself. Dr. Flanders told him to observe for a few days and then go to work. Matt received a letter from Dr. Althea Davis who has gone to Japan with Jerry Dancy to help mend Jerry and Penny's marriage. Jerry and Penny had straightened things out and Dave Davis had offered to pay his daughter's medical school expenses and had found Jerry a job. Matt figured he might be acting-chief of staff longer than he expected because Dave and Althea seemed to be mending fences as well. Dr. Steve Aldrich took his ex-wife Carolee and their children to the shore for dinner and suggested they take rooms and stay the night. The idea was delightful to Carolee, but she was afraid that it might give the children expectations for a normal life that it was not possible to give them yet. Carolee was considering renting their old house on Maple Street and hiring a housekeeper for the children. She couldn’t bear losing out on these precious years with her children. Steve was amenable. When Mona Croft asked her son Jason how to make up to Steve, he suggested she invite Carolee to dinner. She was surprised when this worked. Mona apologized for letting Ann deceive her and asked Carolee to move into her house so that she could be close to the children. Carolee explained that she was going to rent a house and didn’t want to confuse the children by living with Steve. Doreen Aldrich, Jason’s wife, was livid with Luke Dancy for hiring Jason as his lawyer. She said Jason was not stupid, even though Luke gave him a story about his backers. Wendy Conrad told Jason that Luke got his money from her mother, Eleanor, when she heard he bought Andre's - Eleanor was intending to finance Luke, but her lawyer was holding things up. When he promised to get new entertainment, Doreen offered to put up Luke's share, but had 51 percent interest. Andre's entertainment was Nola Dancy, Jason's lover. – Barney Dancy was sure that Luke got his money from Eleanor Conrad and was trying to blackmail Luke. Luke laughed in his face and told him the scheme wouldn’t work because Eleanor wasn't his backer. Wendy threatened to tell Eleanor's lawyer, Harold Kingston, about Luke's past. Eleanor considered Harold her friend and advisor and vowed to disinherit Wendy if she went to him. Wendy told Harold's son Ted she thought her mother was financing Luke who had a history of preying on older women and she was afraid her mother was on the verge of another breakdown. Ted bought the story and agreed to help convince his father. Harold Kingston told Wendy that the small amount - $500 - that Eleanor had been giving Mr. Dancy could not be considered large sums and her evidence did not show Eleanor to be incompetent. The doctors said Eleanor's mental illness was behind her. Nola had been putting together a new show and Jason promised to be there. Jason had reserved a table for Mike Powers, Sara Dancy, Nola and himself, but when he didn’t arrive at Nola's, they went on to Andre's without him. Nola was puzzled when she was told Andre had left and wouldn't be back. Just before her first show, the new owner was introduced. Nola and Sarah stood with their mouths open when Luke came forward. Barney visited Eleanor and convinced her that Luke really wanted her to be there for his first night at Andre's. Luke was confused and had to juggle both Doreen and Eleanor, especially when they both insisted he hurry home to their side. When Luke arrived at Doreen's, she had a list of things that needed improving: the menus. the waiters, the lighting and the entertainment. She became irritable upon hearing that Jason came in looking for Nola. Nola was sure that Jason had thrown her over and her mother was right all along when Jason knocked on her door. He told her that he had an emergency in New York. Sara told her mother that it appeared that Jason was finished with Nola and their quarrel was silly. Virginia Dancy went to Nola's apartment, but saw Jason's jacket on the couch and was furious with herself for giving in. Jason told Steve that Ann's car was found at a parking garage and he had flown to New York without phoning anyone. Stiles was still following up some clues. - Ann managed to have Carolee committed to a mental institution under a false identity, then married Steve when his divorce from Carolee, whom he believed deserted him, was final. Ann then intentionally became pregnant to further tie Steve to her. – Jason flew to New York again and then phoned Steve to bring their bags and passports because it looked like Ann had left the country. Stiles traced her to a Rio hotel, but she had already checked out. When they located her, Jason said he would go alone to have her sign the annulment papers and only if he failed would Steve see her. Ann had been having nightmares and was waiting for room service to arrive with her lunch when Jason walked in. Ann told Jason that she lost the baby when she arrived in Rio and couldn’t face Steve. She would sign the papers and mail them to him if he and Steve left immediately. After he left, she called her doctor to say she would be having her baby here in Rio and then told herself that no one could take it from her. Doreen tried to shake Nola's confidence by claiming that Jason always gave extravagant gifts, such as her ring, when he was tired of someone. When he was bored, he flew to Rio or New York for excitement. Steve was confused when Carolee wanted to continue with her plan to rent the old house. Emma explained that Steve had had a year to sort things out but it was like those mistakes were yesterday to Carolee. Her plans were unsettled again, however, when the house was suddenly sold. Virginia overheard Eleanor pleading with Luke to come home early when he brought the artwork for the brochure to Mona Croft's. Doreen caught this when Eleanor apologized to Virginia. Eleanor told Barney that she had thought they were only friends, but this conversation meant they were much more. Luke was talking about remodeling Andre's, but Doreen refused to give him any money until he fired Nola. She also "advised" him to cut his apron strings as far as Eleanor was concerned. Eleanor thought Luke was displeased with her because she couldn't get the money for him. She produced a check for $75,000 so that he wouldn’t have to ask his backers for money. Luke proved to be very affectionate for this sum of money. Ted told Wendy that his father had some trouble with Eleanor and was worried about her. Wendy saw this as her chance. Barney overheard Sara on the phone telling Luke that Eleanor confessed she gave him a large sum of money. Barney confronted Luke but Luke wasn’t afraid since he knew his mother and Eleanor would believe him. Luke would consider finding Barney a job, however. Wendy asked her mother to dinner at Andre's, then called Ted saying she was afraid something was going to happen. At Andre's, Wendy baited Eleanor about Luke and younger women until Eleanor left in tears. Wendy was then very contrite, explaining to all who saw the scene, that she just couldn't calm her mother. The Edge Of Night Written by: Henry Slesar Produced by: Erwin Nicholson Deborah Saxon might not know it yet, but she was working undercover to break open the murder case that all Monticello law officials were pointing guilty fingers in the direction of her father, Tony Saxon. They believed, but had not proven, the deaths of Beau Richardson and Adam Drake were Tony's reprisal against Mike Karr. - Mike had been indicted for Beau Richardson's murder and had a futile defense because of an eye witness report by prostitute Inez Johnson. Mike was the crime commissioner leader who had Tony indicted for political corruption. – Tony’s replacement for his right hand man Beau, was Danny Micelli. Danny was kicked out of his employer's home when he carried on in a drunk stupor. His inebriation was Danny's only escape after finding out his estranged wife Tracy was living at the home of a well known "madam." It took some sobering conversations with Lt. Luke Chandler and Bill Marceau to convince Danny that Tracy was not a hooker. They revealed to Danny that the purpose for Tracy's move to Mrs. Yost's was to befriend Inez Johnson, anticipating she would confide Tony's master plan to Tracy. Tracy was not returning to prostitution! Overwhelmed with joy, Danny quickly forgot Bill's warning that Tracy's job was "top secret." He no sooner told his sister-in-law Laurie of this when she called Tracy at Mrs. Yost's — in one sentence of gratitude by Laurie - overheard by Mrs. Yost - Tracy's cover was blown. Mrs. Yost turned villain on Tracy, refusing to let her leave. But fortunately Danny arrived, and Tracy ran to the safety of his embrace. Danny's marriage was back in order, but his mouth still remained unsealed. He returned to Tony's to give him notice that he was leaving, adding he was returning to the New Moon as co-manager and his wife was working for the police. Just as Tony was warned by Mrs. Yost herself, Inez, who clang to Tracy for companionship despite knowing Tracy's motives for the friendship, was revealing to Tracy was indeed Tony Saxon who made her tell the police Mike Karr shot Beau Richardson. Inez repeated her statement for the benefit of the police, Bill excitedly reported her attack of conscience to Mike. Steve Guthrie had been assigned the sticky task of getting a statement from Tony. In front of his girlfriend Deborah, Steve asked her father if he put Inez up to making a false statement. Despite Steve's warning Inez had already implicated him, Tony denied it. He even complained he was tired of being accused of nefarious deeds. Deborah asked her father if Mrs. "Y" who called him last night was the famous Mrs. Yost. Inez agreed to take a lie detector test to prove that Tony Saxon paid her $500 to inform on Mike Karr. The session was scheduled in Mike's defense attorney, Draper Scott's apartment. Prosecuting attorney for the DA's office Logan Swift just happened to arrive in time for the session. Before Mike arrived to join the eager law officials, Inez was answering questions with the polygraph verifying the truth of her words . "Did you meet Beau Richardson before April first?" "no." "Did you meet him professionally?" "Yes. I went to the ladies' room. I heard an alarming sound. There was more than one gunshot. I opened the door and saw a big man coming out of Beau's office with a gun in his hand." Just then Mike entered Draper's apartment and Logan asked Inez if the man with the gun was the man who just came through the door. She turned to look at Mike. Her reply was affirmative. And according to the polygraph expert, Inez was telling the truth!! Deborah was hot on the trail, working with the information Steve uncovered. The name "Packy" was written on a pack of matches by Adam Drake. Steve came to a dead end hunting for this person at the Riverhead Bar. Deborah was more successful. Dressed as a "bimbo," according to Steve, she had ingratiated herself into "Packy" Dietrich's company. She accepted his date to attend a party at his apartment. The party consisted of "Debbie Davis" – Saxon -, Packy and one other couple — Raney Cooper and his gabby girlfriend. Raney kept his guard up, glaring at Deborah cautiously. She began her probes, digging for names of lawyers they might know. Raney knew one. Adam Drake's murder was the topic of conversation, initiated by Deborah's questions. Raney prefered to pick a fight with Packy rather than answer Deborah's questions. She had touched the tip of the iceberg and wouldn’t quit while she was ahead. Deborah arranged to meet Raney late in the evening at the Riverhead bar. He was leery about her, suspicious she was "classier" than she looked. This whole episode in Mike Karr's life had taken a heavy toll on his daughter Laurie. She suggested to Johnny they give away their baby son JV to Tracy and Danny. Johnny had his doubts about Laurie's sanity, this was the confirmation. Nancy Karr persuaded Laurie to see a psychiatrist. However, Nancy had to admit she told Johnny about their upcoming visit. Laurie sank deeper into depression, refusing to go and proclaiming she needed help from no one. When Mike gave Laurie the good news about Inez' statement, she seemed to resurface to rationality again, although there was still a hint that there wa's an underlying problem. Laurie and Johnny planned a champagne celebration for the reunited Micellis and for the success of Tracy's participation with the police. Just when everyone thought Laurie had instantly regained her sanity, Mike acquainted her with the disappointing episode with Inez. As if a switch were turned off, Laurie's unstable characteristics appeared. She ran out of the Karr house with JV. Hours later, JV had been left outside Danny and Tracy's hotel room with no sign of Laurie around. To add to Mike and Nancy's disasterous chain of events, Logan Swift had leaked the Inez confession to the press and it was splashed over the front page of the "Monticello Star." Johnny rushed to the Micellis after a call from Danny. He really wasn't surprised by his wife's actions. He believed Laurie was right, they weren't cut out to be parents. He asked Danny and Tracy to take care of his son while he went away, getting things done that needed doing. Kevin Jamison was embarking on a different lifestyle than he was used to and it was controlled by two powerful women. Raven Alexander had tormented Kevin with her latest male escort, Logan Swift. Kevin wasn't amused with Raven's fickle antics, She told him the truth, this time, when out with Logan for dinner — he kissed her and she came home. Kevin was confused by Raven because she practically begged him to admit he loved her, yet he never knew where he stood with her. He couldn’t hold back any longer, Kevin expressed his love for Raven again, and asked her to marry him. Raven seemed to take the proposal as lightly as she did her dates with Logan. Logan, however, was falling hard and fast into his predecessor's tracks lured on by Raven's feminine wiles. Geraldine had observed her little games and cautioned Raven not to let Kevin slip through her fingers as she did Draper Scott. Geraldine had set her sights high for the career she had launched for Kevin. Kevin was like a son to Geraldine, and her sons were politicians. Kevin was content with his job as a crime reporter for the Monticello News, Geraldine's aspirations rose above this. She and Tony Saxon planned a dinner party at which they intended to announce the new appointment of the head of Monticello's Crime Commission — Kevin Jamison. Kevin's reaction to Tony's announcement was not quite what he and Geraldine had anticipated. Raven received a phone call during the proclamation which dampened Kevin's spirits considerably. But instead of displaying a fit of jealousy as Raven would've liked, Kevin calmly came in to usher Raven to dinner. Raven was furious — lacerating Kevin because he was not more like Logan Swift, who was her caller, ambitious and not afraid to fight for what he wanted! Raven had allowed Logan to score one point for his side, a surprise to all at breakfast at the Whitney Mansion, Raven hadn't been home all night. She and Logan were enjoying a cozy breakfast together at his apartment with Raven garbed in Logan's robe. Nicole had returned to the Clairmont Convalescent Home to ensure the baby she was carrying would have all possible chances to be born. Her doctor, Miles Cavanaugh, was concerned about Nicole's emotional state. Since her husband Adam Drake's murder, she had an unnatural control over herself. Miles surmised too much control was a sign of a deeper disturbance. Miles’ wife, Denise, couldn't resist the temptation to tell Nicole her unborn baby would be a boy. This was determined from amnioscentisis tests taken to determine the physical normality of her child. Nurse Carol Barclay reported Denise's slip of the tongue to Miles. Miles was stunned at his wife's gall, first to invade a patient's confidential file, then to report it to the patient. This particular patient had been Denise's personal vendetta on Miles, however, and she had been overly possessive towards him since Nicole's arrival. Nicole tried to get Miles to condone Denise's actions because Denise actually did her a favor. She was grateful to Denise for the news she would have a son because by telling her, the baby was more real to Nicole then. Denise had decided to really get involved and returned as a nurse on the Clairmont staff. Once again she had antagonized Miles. Draper Scott had been pleasantly sidetracked from the Mike Karr case by April Cavanaugh. Before Draper entered her life, April led a humdrum existence. She confided to her friend Nicole that she had never been happier than since meeting Draper. Nicole was pleased as she introduced them. Draper helped April find a new apartment in Monticello. They both enjoyed moving day until April fainted from a pain in her chest. Draper called her brother Miles and was surprised by Miles' circumspection. He rushed all the way from the Clairmont to tend to April. A brief explanation about April's heart problems and need for a pacemaker installation put Draper's questions to rest. April was then afraid that because Draper knew she was not a healthy woman, he would lose interest in her. General Hospital Written by: Eileen & Robert Mason Pollock Produced by: Tom Donovan Dr. Tom Baldwin had accused his sick son of faking, but Dr. Gary Lansing told Tom that Tommy might have strep-throat. When Tommy asked to see his mother, Tom had to admit for the first time that Tommy might not want to go to Salt Lake City with him. - Tom had refused to sign the divorce papers until Audrey agreed to let him take Tommy with him. - Tom said he might go to Salt Lake City alone and get settled. He suggested Steve and Audrey drop Tommy off in Utah after the three of them went on a honeymoon. When Tommy couldn’t move his arms, they took him to the hospital and called in Dr. Lansing who said the paralysis could be caused by a virus. He asked permission to do a lumbar puncture. Lee Baldwin told Dr. Steve Hardy that a new divorce action could turn out badly because Tom could claim Audrey drove him away because of her love for Steve. Gina Dante told Monica Webber that she couldn’t make a committment to Adam Streeter because she was not sure the wounds from Gary had healed. She didn’t tell Adam that Gary was in town. When Gary called Gina to Tommy's room, Adam followed and was upset that she didn't tell him about Gary. In rehashing the good times to Gina's stony silence, Gary remembered a child with the same symptoms as Tommy's. They went to his room and finding a wood tick, removed it. Tommy reviveds slightly and then lapsed back into unconsciousness. Steve and Jessie Brewer watched Tommy as they waited for the paralysis to subside. If they got the tick out in time, he should start showing signs of recovery in twelve hours. Tom admitted that Steve had been very loving to Tommy and about all he had contributed himself was confusion. He could no longer stand in the way of the divorce. Tommy woke and could move his arms, showing that he was on the road to recovery. When Tom told him that Steve and his mother were getting married and he could live with them and visit Salt Lake City when he liked, Tommy was thrilled. As Tom prepared to leave for Salt Lake City, he gave Audrey an early wedding present — her divorce papers. He let Gary Lansing take his apartment complete with furnishings. Steve and Audrey planned to marry in the hospital chapel with no fuss and then take Tommy with them on their honeymoon. Gary talked Gina into celebrating Tommy's recovery by having lunch. Gina took offense when he suggested she throw Streeter over. Gina saw Adam and apologized for being so standoffish. Gary tried to find out why Gina left the restaurant in such a huff and suggested it was because she couldn't trust herself if she stayed. Gary asked Monica to put in a good word for him with Gina. Monica pretended not to understand when Gary said they were alike. He said being a good doctor didn’t mean you couldn’t be ambitious. Gina was going with Adam to see Jill at camp and he was going to suggest Jill go away to school because he didn’t want to undo the good that had been done for her at camp. Gina had to stay behind when one of her expectant mothers went into labor. The following day, Adam said Jill was receptive to going away and wanted to know when he was going to marry Gina. Gary told Steve he had a young patient coming in with gynecological problems and wanted someone gentle to handle her. He suggested Gina and Steve volunteered her services. Adam asked Gary if he came to Port Charles because Gina was here. Gary said he was asked into this partnership by Keith Raymond and Gina's being here was only coincidence. Adam admitted that Keith Raymond had a good practice. Adam heard that Gary had asked Gena to help with a patient and made it sound as if Gina asked for this. She said there was no reason why she couldn’t work with him professionally because the last time they saved Tommy's life. Peter Taylor was very concerned about his wife Diana. She couldn’t sleep because she had nightmares about Mike never being accessible to them. She told Jessie that it was unfair that magazines wrote about all the trouble people got into, but never how they got out. When Kimberly Hughes came by to do a story on a patient, Diana told her about her idea. She felt that if Kimberly would publish a story on her innocence in the Brewer case it might make the adoption agency directors see that she was a good mother, but Kimberly wasn't interested. After Mrs. Endicott told Diana that there was little chance they would ever get Mike, she fell to pieces. Diana was apathetic about everything and even upset her daughter Martha. Peter asked for time off for Diana and Steve knew that it was important. Diana wanted to go home to her mother and the protection this afforded. Diana had emotionally retreated to her high school days when she felt safe. Peter and Diana's mother were worried when she began saying Peter would be better off without her. Gail Adamson had gone to New York for a seminar and had decided to see Lee's step-son, Scott, while she was there. Scott kept her waiting several hours. This seemed to be part of his lifestyle. He did what he wanted when he wanted and was sure Lee wouldn't approve. Scott refused to believe that Lee cared about or needed him because Lee had Caroline. Gail told him of Caroline's death. Scott saw Gail again and asked if she was going to tell Lee about their talk. She said she was not sure because she didn’t want to hurt him any more than he had already been. When Gail returned, she confessed her visit to Scott, but Tom had already told Lee that she intended to see him. Larry Joe Baker had an apparent heart attack and Monica Webber was his doctor. He wanted to get out of the hospital as soon as possible. Jeff Webber told Mrs. Grant, Heather's mother, that he was falling for Heather and considered her a breath of fresh air after all of Monica's lies. Larry Joe, Heather's ex-husband, promised Mrs. Grant that she had no reason to worry because of him. He then told Heather that she would spend the rest of her married life wondering when he would drop the bomb. Just before he left the hospital, he visited Heather and suggested that she was worth a lot of money as she was marrying a doctor and a gas station of his own wouldn't be a bad idea. As Heather protested, Larry Joe gasped, clutched his chest and fell to the floor. Monica examined him and found tenderness in his stomach. This time the x-rays showed a ping-pong gall stone that lodged itself in the systemic duct. Because it traveled, it gave cardiac-like symptoms that came and went. Rick said the attacks were brought on by stress. Monica questioned Heather as to any stress that Larry Joe might have been under while talking to her. Heather said Larry Joe was from her home town and a friend of her mother’s. Heather resented the fact that she had to go to Monica for permission to see her son. She thought this as well as her questioning about Larry Joe was just to make her look bad to Jeff. Monica told Jeff about Larry Joe being in Heather's room and asked if he would question her. She claimed he was a friend of her mother and her ex-husband. Heather visited Larry Joe after his surgery and he said he had decided against the gas station when she said she might be able to work that out. He had his sights set a little higher then. Heather stormed out of his room. Larry Joe asked Dr. Rick Webber if it was true he could have died if he had left the hospital and Rick confirmed this. He explained that if Larry Joe really wanted to repay Monica, he should tell her what stress brought on the attack because she was concerned that it might happen again if his problems weren't solved. Heather told her mother that she overheard Monica talking about their honeymoon and she was sure Monica was trying to get Jeff back. She asked Heather about the lies she told Jeff about Larry Joe. Heather didn’t want anyone to know that she was married to someone like Larry Joe. Mrs. Grant asked what she was going to do when she got her marriage license. Heather said they didn’t really check things like that. Larry Joe confessed his part in Jeff's finding Monica with Rick. He told Monica that he let Heather sucker him into it and how he had to get it off his chest. Monica couldn’t understand how she could get him to do this. Larry Joe explained he used to be married to her. When Monica and Heather both showed up at Steve and Audrey's pre-wedding party in identical dresses, they both figured the other did it on purpose. Heather drank too much champagne and accused Monica of trying to be a cheap imitation, but Monica startled her by letting her know that Larry Joe told her the truth. Mary-Ellen Dante continued to insist that Terri Arnett, her husband's mistress, deserved to die. Lee Baldwin and Peter Taylor concurred that Mellie's defense would be insanity. Mellie told DA Chase Murdock that she was only protecting her property. Besides she wouldn't have killed Terri — Terri would have killed herself when she went off the cliff. The DA asked Mellie if she knew the difference between right and wrong and when she did, he told Lee that he was going to prosecute. Mellie was furious when Lee pleaded insanity for her because she felt that it should have been "not guilty due to justifiable circumstances." She was placed in Mark's custody and he would take her to Lake Cliff where two court appointed psychiatrists would examine her. She told Mark that she would do everything in her power to single-handedly convince them she was sane. Peter Taylor was disturbed when he learned that Dr. Eric Bellemy, whose theories were just the opposite of his own, had been assigned to test Mellie. She explained to Bellemy that she was only practicing what she learned in Sunday School — an eye for an eye. Eric felt that if she were insane she couldn't maintain her composure all the time. Peter wasn’t sure his testimony would hold up in court if they found her sane. Gina agreed to testify that Mellie became hysterical at the idea of Terri's being found alive. Mellie's father was willing to testify because he wanted help for his daughter. Mark told Lee that he wouldn’t have Terri testify because the DA would question her ruthlessly. He admitted he fell in love with Terri, but there was never anything physical between them. Terri and Jessie both received summons from the D.A. who used them as well as Lenny Hawkins to prove Mary Ellen was sane enough to plot the recovery of her husband. Lee tried to show that Lenny suggested the second attempt on Terri and through careful questioning of Gina, Peter, Steve and Mark, that Mary Ellen was unwilling to face reality. The judge would review the psychiatric report and give a ruling on her sanity shortly. Adam found out that Gary claimed the lab made a mistake on his patient's test to keep Gina from a dinner date and he warned Gary not to pull that again. Guiding Light Written by: Bridget & Jerome Dobson Produced by: Allen Potter Evie Stapleton had regained consciousness after her fall at Jackie Marler's home. She was not in the best of spirits though, remembering that she saw Ben McFarren kissing Hope Bauer on Jackie's terrace just before she ran out in the rain where she fell and hit her head. Ben had kept a constant vigil outside Evie's room, but she wouldn’t let him visit her. - Ben and Hope were once engaged. Evie had always felt second string to Hope, despite Ben's repeated reassurances there was no future in his relationship with Hope. - Evie's nurse was her sister Rita. Rita sensed Evie's languorous mood and got her to confide her upset over Ben. Evie stated she let herself care too much and then it was over between them. Rita surmised Evie might be jumping to conclusions. She insisted Evie read the note Ben wrote her when she wouldn't see him. Against her better judgment, Evie read the note she had crumpled up to destroy. Ben arrived early the following morning to explain Evie's misunderstanding. He had figured out she saw him kiss Hope and realized she misinterpreted it. Hope had come by to say goodbye to Ben, she was going to Europe, then returning to school in Santa Barbara. This was their farewell kiss. Ben told Evie that having her understanding was important to him. As a token of his affection Ben brought Evie a single red rose. Mike Bauer had asked his secretary Ann Jeffers if he could accompany her to the movies. It was the same night that his daughter Hope left for France, and he was trying to avoid loneliness. Ann couldn’t believe her luck. Since Mike was her lawyer and hired her so she could pay his fees, she had become very fond of Mike. At her apartment she thanked him for helping her rebuild her self-confidence and getting her life in order. Mike disclosed that Ann was the most important person he knew. Ann spoke to Mike's mother Bert at the office. She apologized for all the sorrow she had brought to the Bauers - Ann's ex-husband accidentally killed Mike's wife Leslie when Mike was on Ann's case tracking down her son -. Bert advocated to Ann she couldn’t dwell on the past, and no one was to blame for circumstances over which they all had no control. Bert was wound up in preparations to leave for a vacation in London where she was meeting her close friend Dr. Steve Jackson. She planned to meet Hope in London where they could do some sightseeing together. Holly Bauer and Dr. Ed Bauer were becoming closer than they were when they were married to each other. Roger Thorpe had informed Holly that Rita Stapleton knew he, not Ed, was the father of her daughter Christina. Holly was disturbed by this as she and Ed agreed that he was and always would be Christina's legal father. - Rita was recently exonerated of a murder charge because Roger testified he was in a motel with her at the time the murder was supposedly committed. Ed had proposed to Rita before the trial. The impact of Roger's involvement with first Holly, while she was married to Ed, and then Rita was too much for Ed to bear. He broke off with Rita. - Holly feared that if Rita were to tell Ed about her knowledge of Christina's parentage, he would realize she risked imprisonment to protect Ed from humiliation and hurt. She had to care very deeply for him to do this. Holly had discouraged Roger from involvement in her and Christina's life. Since the trial, Roger's wife Peggy had filed for divorce and he had turned to Holly for compassion. Holly returned the heirloom broach Roger gave to Christina, cutting all ties from Roger as Christina's father. He took it back, wanting Christina to have it. Holly's mother, Barbara had allowed her aversion to Roger come between her and her husband Adam. She was more concerned about Holly and Ed remarrying than the limbo state her own marriage was in. When Holly informed her about Rita, she warned Holly not to let Roger spoil her life not then! Holly then faced Rita about Christina, protecting her own rekindled interests with Ed perhaps, by emphasizing it would hurt Ed greatly if anyone knew Christina was not his. Holly told Ed about the broach, emphasizing she would not let Christina keep it. He felt better knowing this. Roger was working on Rita then, trying to persuade her to tell Ed she knew the truth. Rita discussed it with Holly again, and reassured her she wouldn’t hurt Ed. Rita probed about Holly's true feelings, she admitted she cared very much for Ed, also. Roger was determined to regain the two years he had missed out on as Christina's father and complained to Barbara that he was tired of her contempt and insulted. It was her fault that Holly alienated Christina from him and he wouldn’t allow her to ruin his life any longer. He proclaimed Christina was all he had and he was not going to let Barbara take her away from him. Holly frantically tried to stop Roger from returning as she was getting ready to go out on a dinner date with Ed, but it was too late. He had arrived, under the influence of alcohol, and refused to leave before seeing Christina. From her window, Barbara sadly watched Ed arrive right behind Roger. She made a poor attempt to stall him, getting his distraction with small talk. Roger loitered at Holly's, causing her to panic. Ed was momentarily stunned when he finally did enter Holly's cottage and saw Roger there with Christina in his arms. Holly rushed Christina to her mother's, leaving the eternal enemies facing each other. Ed demanded Roger leave, Roger refused. Ed adamantly forbade Roger from coming to Holly's ever again. Roger wouldn’t obey. Ed was enraged, and he was ready to fight Roger for his rights as Christina's father. He grabbed Roger outside the house when Roger turned and threw Ed against the house. Rita Stapleton had been receiving mysterious phonecalls in the last few weeks. She was becoming disturbed as she answered her phone to find no one speaking at the other end. A young woman who claimed to want information about Cedars' nursing program frequents the hospital to get her answers from Rita, although Rita did not train at Cedars. The mystery woman had cut out Rita's picture from an Abilene, Texas newspaper - Abilene was the city where Rita worked for Cyrus Granger. She was later tried for his murder in Springfield. – A friend to Rita through her trial was Adam Thorpe. As things had returned to normal, Adam asked Rita to dinner. She refused and explained that she saw the look on his wife Barbara's face when she saw Rita talking to Adam in the hospital staff room. Adam understood, yet knew his marriage to Barbara had no future. Rita received the newspaper clipping of her picture at the hospital. Her response was confusion, and a sick feeling there was more trouble to come. She noted the postmark was Sweetwater, Texas. - Jackie Marler was married to Cedars head of research Dr. Justin Marler. She was going to surprise him while he was at a medical conference in New York during their marriage, but instead she was the surprised victim, finding Justin with another woman. Hurt and filled with hatred Jackie ran away to Europe. She told Justin she had the pregnancy she came to tell him about, terminated. - To herself, Jackie had vowed never to tell Justin it wasn't terminated. She recalled her discussion with a European doctor who cautioned her she had to keep the secret for the rest of her life, the decision could never be reversed. Jackie’s father, Dr. Emmett Scott was home and recovered from his by-pass surgery, the surgery that saved and improved his life. Before his near fatal attack, Jackie had told him the truth about Justin and herself. He became agitated and had the attack before Jackie could continue and reveal she had been pregnant. He had guessed and come to the realization, as Jackie did, that Justin's marriage to Jackie was all a way to better his career through Emmett. As Jackie had gotten Justin out of her system, she had set her sights on Mike Bauer. Emmett confronted Justin about his marriage to Jackie. Justin denied that he used his marriage to Jackie to get access into Emmett's clinic. He stated that he was just a kid and didn't know what love was. Emmett had decided to remain in Springfield to be closer to Jackie and approached Ed Bauer, Cedars' chief-of-staff, about a position on the staff. Ed was honored to accept him. Justin was still discontented over his situation with Jackie. He confided some of his feelings to Dr. Sara McIntyre. They were becoming closer since Justin arrived at Cedars and Sara lost her husband several months ago. Justin enjoyed recalling their medical school days when they were engaged, before he dropped Sara for Jackie. Sara remembered how long it took for the scars from Justin's jilting to heal. Justin pledged he would do his darndest to find the feelings Sara once had for him. He believed if they were there once, they still could be. He gently told Sara no one in his life meant as much to him as she did. Jackie had been posing for a portrait Ben was painting for her father. She was feeling guilty over the baby she gave up, the secret she was holding inside, her personality was irritable. She hated the portrait, then tearfully lashed out at Ben that it was not the painting, it was herself she hated, she didn’t like the person she had become. Emmett tried to apologize for Jackie's negative reactions explaining she was suffering in retrospect for something in her past. Alone, Jackie recalled her desperate plea to the German doctor that she be awake during the delivery of her baby so she could hold him just once before giving him away. Love Of Life Written by: Gabrielle Upton Produced by: Darryl Hickman Edouard Aleata told Van Sterling that he talked to Charles Lamont about Felicia's son, but Charles continued to be bitter and was seeking legal custody for revenge. The law recognized her son as Charles' because he was her husband even though Eddie was the natural father. "Little Charles" would be out of his incubator soon and Charles was looking forward to having him home. Charles hired a pediatric nurse to care for the baby when he brought him home. Johnny was upset because he felt his grandfather didn’t care for him any longer. Andrew Marriott encouraged Mia to find an apartment she really liked so that she could start making plans for her move. Mia was feeling pushed, but began her move. Wendy Hayes, Mia's friend and neighbor, said she would have Andrew to dinner so that he wouldn’t be lonely. Mia objected and was startled when Wendy said she was selfish because although she was moving out, she was not letting go. Ben Harper continued his writing in his spare time to release his pent up feelings. Mia showed up with the pages she retrieved from his wastebasket. She admitted that some of it was very good, but she edited it so that it flew better. She suggested that he throw nothing away because he might use it later. Ben was angry and ordered her to stay out of his wastebasket. Andrew asked Ben to have coffee with Mia and himself at the hospital. While he was called to the phone, Mia broke the news that she and Andrew were getting a divorce. Ben cautioned her against rushing into anything she might regret later. Carrie Johnson expressed her concern over Arlene's depression to Ian Russell. She suggested that young girls in her mental condition often commit suicide and he could ill afford the publicity. Russell asked that she not tell Arlene of this talk. As Carrie was leaving, Frankie Sills arrived for his meeting with Russell. Frankie felt that Russell owed him something for his twelve years in prison. Ian said that it was just one of those things that Frankie got sent up and he escaped. He says that Frankie turned up just when he needed him. Frankie asked if he wanted him to manage the casino and asked if it was in Atlantic City. Ian said he would pick him up at the hotel at six AM and the would stop for a big breakfast on the way. After Sills left, Ian placed a call giving Frankie's hotel and room number. He made a big point of the time when he arrived at the Key Club and kept Arlene there until very late. Rick Latimer tried reaching Sills in New York, but was told by his girl, Nita, that he was in Rosehill and she would call him. Rick told Cal that he was late because he had an unpleasant meeting with Russell. - Rick wouldn’t share his business problems with Cal and knew it would upset her if she found out he was with her mother who was still trying to win back her one-time lover – Rick -. Frankie Sills was found dead in his room by the maid and a search of his body turned up Rick's name and phone number. Rick rushed to the police station when he heard about Sills and told Lt. Hollenbeck that this proved he was right about Russell. Hallenbeck asked Rick about his visit with Sills the night before and he denied a meeting. The police felt Rick might be too eager to help and decide to question Cal who said he was home by nine. Later she told Rick that she knew he didn't kill anyone, but she also knew he wasn't with Russell or he would have told the police. A call to her aunt confirmed that her mother didn't go to the concert. Cal called Rick deceitful and said she would never trust him again. Ray Slater warned Rick that if Russell found out Rick saw Sills in New York. He wiukd know who told him and they would both be in trouble. Cal Latimer was taking classes at the college and ran into Michael Blake one evening. Some classmates of Michael's were going to have a swim party and asked Cal to urge Michael to join them because he spent too much time alone. He agreed to go if Cal would. She enjoyed herself until she noticed that she was becoming attracted to Michael. She left early, but he insisted on taking her home. Rick went to Van's looking for Cal when she was not home. Van told him how concerned Cal was over his tie to Meg. She explained that Cal wasn't as fragile as he thought and should share his problems because she was strong enough to shoulder them. Rick went home to confide in Cal and apologized for being a chauvinist in trying to protect his wife. She said it was too late because she didn’t feel the same. Rick told Lt. Hollenbeck that he was with Meg and was only trying to protect his wife, but she found out where he was. Hollenbeck became even more suspicious after he brought Nita to Rosehill and she said Frankie was only passing through. Ray was upset when he visited Carrie Johnson and learned that she was with Russell when a man arrived for a meeting. Russell told Slater that he had to prove he could be trusted and had to take care of an inconvenient visitor. He wanted Ray to make it appear that Carrie had an accident. Ray demanded that he be let out, given $10,000 and a ticket out of the country. Russell agreed. Ray hurried to Arlene's and explained that they had to get her mother away because her life was in danger. Arlene visited her mother and admitted she was wrong. She said she had to get out of town to make a fresh start and she wanted to go to Denver. Carrie was to pack and Ray would take her to the airport where she would wait for Arlene who was going home to pack. Before she did this, however, Ian arrived to take her to lunch. She tried to beg off, but Ian insisted. When Arlene didn’t arrive, Ray called Bambi and asked her to see if Arlene was at Beaver Ridge. Bambi took Arlene to the powder room and had her call Ray. He explained that they had to get her mother out of town, but she refused to go without Arlene. Hurting inside, Arlene told Carrie she found out about the talk and she was tired of messing in her affairs, so she hoped she left town for good. Carrie was hurt and determined to leave. Arlene was devastated over the things she was forced to say, but knew she had to save her life. Arlene was moody and told Ian that she was on the verge of a breakdown. He remembered Carrie's caution and advised Arlene to rest and forget about working that evening. He promised to come back later. After Ray put Carrie on the plane, he told Ian that he had staked out Mrs. Johnson's apartment, but she had already skipped out. Russell was going to check out Slater's claim that an informant said she took a plane to New York. Dr. Tom Crawford was concerned when Carrie didn’t show up for her check up. Finally Carrie called from New York to apologize and said she and Arlene had a blow up. Tom found this odd because he knew how much Arlene loved her mother. Arlene had nightmares about her mother being killed in a hit-and-run accident. She decided she had to stop Ian. She hated him for making her hurt her mother. She went to the Club and slipped a gun from the desk drawer into her purse and then left with the janitor who was starting his vacation. She went home to wait for Ian. She visualized him coming through the door and looking startled when she fired. She fell asleep and awoke to find that Ian never came home. She went to the Club and complained that she waited all night for him. He suggested that she then knew how she made him feel in the past. Russell told Slater that some checking showed that he hadn't told everything about Mrs. Johnson's disappearance. She bought a ticket for Denver in New York and her ticket to New York included one for Arlene. Ray suggested that Arlene was the only one who would know whether she had knowledge of it. Arlene called her Aunt Dorothy in Denver and asked her to get in touch if she should hear from her mother. Nita told Lt. Hollenbeck that she wanted to return to New York and he agreed to pay her way. Nita told Rick that Frankie called her and he had to have met Rick because how else would he knows where Rick lived. She remembered he said they were going into a deal and there was a meeting at 4 D Arbor Street. She refused to give this information to Lt. Hollenbeck because Frankie told her to keep her mouth shut. Lt. Hollenbeck heard Rick offer Nita money to talk to the police and considered that a bribe. She returned to New York without imparting any information. The police were unable to locate Russell in Rosehill. Cal had Michael drive her to Rick's office on the way home from classes because she was misplaced her housekey. She was very irritated when she found his door locked and Meg inside with him. Lt. Hollenbeck’s inquiry about Ian made Arlene recall the gun in her purse. She ran into Meg and Rick at the club and when Rick insisted upon writing her a check, he found his gun missing. One Life To Live Written by: Gordon Russell Produced by: Joseph Stuart Richard Abbott had traced the source of pollution in the river to the dumping of 100,000 gallons of industrial waste daily by the Dorax Plastics company, a holding of the Lord Foundation acquired just before Victor Lord's death. Dorian learned of it from her lawyer and also learned that it was legal due to a variance that the company had obtained and nothing had been done as it would be too expensive to alleviate the problem. When she insisted that Joe stop the story and even suggested that Abbott be fired, Joe told her that the young man had his facts straight and instead of a cover up, he suggested that the Dorax Company had a lot of cleaning up to do. Dorian backed down and told Joe to handle it any way he thought was best. He answered that he intended to, Joe told Abbott that if the pollution continued, he would go with the story. When Joe Riley had a seizure at Llanfair, Dorian tore her dress and upset some furniture, telling Joe when he regained consciousness that he had a seizure and by trying to fight it, became violent. She impressesd on him that he might have been holding Kevin or been with Viki and hurt her inadvertently. Joe accepted Dorian's recommendation to convince Viki, since the baby had a heat rash, to go back to the cabin at the lake to stay for a time with his promise that he would join them on weekends. Viki agreed to go but he was sure she was suspicious and hurt when he made excuses not to join her the first weekend and only went along in the hope that things would be all right. After Richard Abbott was struck by a security guard from the Dorax Company, Joe told Richard to get his picture taken by a staff photographer and write his story. - Richard had managed to retain a sample of the river water as evidence that the clean up was ignored in favor of beefed up security. -As Joe was reading over Richard's story, he went into convulsions. Abbott called for an ambulance and phoned Dr. Peter Janssen. When Joe regained consciousness, he tried to insist to Peter that he only fainted but in the face of Peter's complete disbelief and in order to get the call for the ambulance cancelled, Joe had to tell Dr. Janssen all that had happened. Peter asked pointedly about Dorian's story of Joe's "violent" episode and gave his word to Joe to keep his confidence, adding that he was not through and wanted to check with the doctors at Richmond Memorial. Peter insisted to Joe that the first step in making the situation healthier was to drive to the mountains and tell Viki as it was important that the two of them went through this together. Joe shook his head, saying he wouldn’t risk being violent again with Viki there. Dorian Lord sent for Richard Abbott and asked him never to mention to anyone the scene he witnessed in Joe Riley's office the day before. She assured him that Joe was not sick, just overworked, and reminded him that Joe had a very responsible position at the paper and had to be the image of energy and strength. She added that office politics could be responsible for his indisposition to be blown all out of proportion and insisted that what Richard saw was not a convulsion but an “involuntary muscle reaction.” Abbott asked if she called him all the way out to Llanview to tell him that, saying that he had enormous respect for Mr. Riley and would keep the incident confidential for him, not because Dorian told him to. After Abbott left, Marco applauded Richard's having the guts to tell Dorian he was his own man. He reminded Dorian that first rate tyrants always got rid of the best brains around them and she should be cultivating people like Abbott instead of driving him away, but that she had lost all perspective as far as Joe Riley was concerned. Joe had given Richard a by-line on his story and when he showed it to Dorian on his way out of Joe's office, he asked how come she didn't say anything to him about it when he saw her earlier. Joe asked Dorian when she appointed herself as his guardian and said taking it upon herself to speak to Abbott about being quiet was the very reason for her reputation as a meddler. Dorian apologized in tears for overstepping herself, saying she was only concerned for him and Viki. Richard Abbott went to Peter Janssen and told him about Dorian's call, asking what sort of a game Mrs. Lord was playing. Peter replied that question had gone right to the heart of the matter and left for Llanfair telling Richard if his hunch was right, he would be able to tell him the whole story but to cool it for the moment. Peter confronted Dorian, at first believing she did not realize what she was doing, but after she accused him of being in love with Viki and threatened his position at Llanview Hospital, saying she made him and she could unmake him, he realized that it had not been self-delusion and that she was proposing, in effect, that they divide and conquer, and out of the wreckage of the Riley marriage she would get Joe and he, Viki. He asked if she had considered where the child would go. Peter went to see Joe and told him if Joe did not call Viki right away, he would. He explained that he had consulted two neurologists who agreed that the episode of "so-called violence" was inconsistent and told Joe that Dorian was obsessively in love with him and was trying to take him away from Viki. "All that's required of you is that you do absolutely nothing." Joe promised to call Viki and asked if Peter wanted to wait around to make sure he did. Peter left the office telling Joe to give his love to Viki. Joe picked up the phone and dialed. After some hesitancy, Joe asked Viki to come home right away. When she arrived at his office, he told her about his condition that he had had a few minor strokes or he had a brain tumor. Viki couldn’t understand why Jim or Larry didn't let her know or why Joe went to Richmond Memorial. Joe explained Dorian arranged it as she was there when he had his first convulsion. Dorian Lord had come down on Brad asking him if he was running a business or not, as he had put off an appointment with a man from the bank who was arranging some group memberships and had held up an exercise class because he chose not to open up due to a hangover. Dorian took over, ordering Marco to open and Brad left. Brad managed to get Lana to let him stay with her again after she told him to get lost. When she told him she believed he wouldn't have made love to her this time if he were still in love with Jenny, he assured her he wouldn't hurt her that way. When Brad went to Karen's house drunk looking for Lana and accused Karen of bad-mouthing him to Lana, he grabbed her and Jenny walked in to find Karen screaming hysterically at Brad. Jenny calmed Brad with black coffee and sympathy. Later Karen told Jenny that she was not trying hard enough to keep a distance between herself and the Vernons and was giving out signals that belied what she saod to Brad and Will. Will Vernon learned from his lawyer that Naomi had left a brooch to Jenny and called at her house, ostensibly to see Cathy but after Brad walked out, he told Jenny about Naomi's gesture saying that it had given him a sense of peace and he hoped it would do the same for Jenny. He asked her to attend a symphony concert with him but Jenny begged off saying she had promised to do some baby-sitting that night. - Brad had just asked Jenny to go away on a vacation with him when Will walked in. – Will went to see Brad at the health club and saw him kissing Lana. When Lana left, Will told his son he had to stop what he was doing to Jenny: that it was obvious he was having an affair with Lana. When he accused Brad of a total lack of morality, Brad replied that he came by it honestly, "it's in the genes." Brad taunted his father saying if Will told Jenny, it would only be in order to make points with her himself. Karen told Larry that she resented Cathy's plans to take a house across the way from them saying that Cathy spent too much time seeing Larry, that she already had one analyst – Will - and that should be enough. When Larry went, Karen admitted a young plumber to the house while – barely - dressed in a very brief bikini despite Lana's advice, given before she left, that Karen put something on. When the young man made a violent pass at her, Karen got rid of him only by threatening to have him arrested. Later when Will and Larry left a dinner Karen had prepared to go to the emergency clinic, Jenny was not sympathetic to Karen's digs at Larry and Will, and Karen went to pieces saying she couldn’t stand up under all the criticism she was getting. Jenny was frightened and tried belatedly to offer sympathy. Pat had been allowed to see Tony but was upset when Tony sensed something wrong and jumped to the conclusion that something was wrong with Brian. She promised to bring Brian to see Tony but Paul insisted that she would put the boy in an impossible position if he had to pretend that nothing was different. - Jim had insisted that Tony was not well enough to be told about Paul's "return from the dead." - When she talked with Jim, he agreed that Brian should not see Tony and told Pat she might tell Tony that he – Jim - had decided not to bend the hospital rules against children of Brian's age visiting. - Brian was Pat and Tony's son conceived more than ten years ago just before their relationship ended. Paul Kendall then married Pat and Brian had been raised to believe Paul was his father. After Paul's reported death Pat told Tony he had a son but Brian still had not been told when Paul suddenly reappeared in their lives. He had been doing federal undercover work and the report of his death was necessary for his safety. – Samantha had told her father she didn’t want to go to college this year. Will emphatically replied she would go! Ryan’s Hope Written by: Claire Labine & Paul Avila Mayer Produced by: Claire Labine, Paul Avila Mayer & Robert Costello Thanks to extraordinary efforts by Dr. Faith Coleridge, a CAT scan was done on Angel Nieves in time for Pat Ryan's hearing before the Medical Board of Riverside Hospital. The results made it clear that there was every indication that with time Angel might fully recover from the paralysis he had suffered. The board decided to adjourn for a few days officially and asked to see Pat but Clem Moultrie was forced to tell them that Pat had not shown up for duty. - Pat had overslept and had to be roused personally by Clem who was unable to reach him, as Delia had turned off their alarm and took the phone off the hook as her way of helping Pat to get some much needed rest. - Ultimately the board decided not to dismiss Pat but to insert a letter of reprimand in his permanent record and ordered him to serve out the remainder of his residency under the personal supervision of Dr. Roger Coleridge. Delia was infuriated when she learned that Faith's efforts were responsible for Pat's being retained by the hospital board while her own were the cause of further trouble for her husband. When Maeve got her to promise to take up volunteer work to give herself something to do, Delia envisioned herself working for the House Association on behalf of Pat - and joining him for lunch and coffee breaks –. Clem sidestepped her offer, telling her she was needed in the Blood Bank but when Delia realized that she would be working in another building entirely, she got out of her commitment - at Roger's suggestion - by pretending to faint at the sight of blood. When Pat refused to speak to Clem on her behalf to get him to change his mind - Clem refused to let Delia work for the House Association or be anywhere near Neurology and added that if he had his way, she would not be allowed to work at the hospital at all -, Pat and Delia fought and Pat left the apartment that night to sleep in Bucky Carter's quarters at the hospital. Delia went to apologize to him and sees Pat saw Faith a grateful kiss. She rushed to Roger's apartment for sympathy but when Roger assured her that Faith was not after Pat, Delia replied: "maybe he's after her." Recalling hat Pat had given Faith her walking papers when she was in love with him, Delia insisted that Pat, the eternal "rescuer" became interested in Faith after she suffered an acute paranoid schizophrenic episode - Roger's words -, Delia exclaimed: "I should have a nervous breakdown." She left Roger's apartment with a book of case histories. Mary Ryan had been to Tom Desmond's apartment and was intrigued by Tom's telling her he brought many things with him from Ireland because he knew he'd "never see them again." She talked with Maeve who in turn tried to draw Tom out about himself, only to have him sidestep very adroitly. Mary’s marriage to Jack was over except for the final notification after a hearing at which she was represented by Frank but was not present. Jack had waived all rights to his daughter Ryan Maeve Fenelli. After the hearing, Frank told Jack that because of the baby they were not really dealing with a closed door, but Jack insisted they were as far as he was con-cerned. After the Medical Board hearing, Frank confronted Jill, asking how she could sit there and let them do that to Pat. Jillian conceded that though the board did not stop Pat from practicing medicine, it would be very difficult for him to get a good position with a first rate hospital after his residency. Frank warned Jill and Seneca that it was not the end, ignoring Jillian's plea not to make things worse. Jillian and Seneca went to the beach house with Edmund and Jill was tempted to consider accepting Seneca's offer of marriage but still held off. Seneca, for his part, framed the words to tell her that the baby was Frank's child but couldn’t bring himself to trust Jillian’s progress in getting free of Frank emotionally. Tom Desmond arranged for some reporters, including Mary - for Channel R -, and Jack Fenelli, to be on hand when the House Association, represented by Dr. Clem Moultrie and Dr. Epstein, presented a four part program for consideration by the board which included the demand for the removal of the letter of reprimand in Pat's file. Frank informed Jillian, when she asked, that he was there in his capacity of City Councilman to the Riverside area and as Legal Council to the House Association. Marshall Westheimer received the papers proffered by Clem and told him that the board would take their proposals under advisement. Jack inserted a surly personal note, askhg Tom Desmond out loud if it was hospital policy to treat all newspaper people in an equal manner or if he was just going to keep on playing favorites. - Jack had overheard Tom ask Mary to dinner at Lem's and her agreement to join him for "egg rolls and propaganda." - Tom promised equal time to all who needed it, though advising Jack that, "you and these other fellows are not my type." When everyone else left the office, Jack forstalled any talk by Frank by telling him he'd better not try to say anything or risk getting punched out. Frank suggested, tight lipped, that they get back to business. Delia Ryan phoned Roger to tell him she had typed herself as a "Hystrionic Personality" and was working on a list of symptoms to use on her way to going crackers. When Pat came home, Dee went into her act, telling Pat he did the right thing by walking out on her the night before and that she had been depressed all day and felt unable to do anything but be calm and quiet and not do anything bad. Johnny Ryan was taken aback when Maeve said, when learning that Mary was having dinner with Tom Desmond, that she was not so sure that Tom was as open and candid as he seemed to be. Johnny replied that Maeve still had a soft spot for Jack Fenelli who was indeed open and candid with them in showing everybody in the family his every last bad quality. Jack was at Riverside Park and saw his baby daughter along with Edmund in Miriam's charge. He conversed with Miriam without letting her know who he was and payed particular attention when Miriam remarked on how bright Ryan was, only to go on to say that the child was going to have to be strong and quick and learn to do for herself and help her Mama, adding "this baby's father walked out on her." Jack held Ryan while Miriam prepared to leave, playing a surreptitious game of peek-a-boo. As he watched Edmund and his daughter being wheeled away, he heard a mewing from a trash basket and found a small white kitten. He took it home with him, echoing Miriam's promise to Ryan of a bath and a good dinner. When Jumbo called the following day and heard about the incident, he told Jack, who had named the kitten "Fenelli," "Stick with the cat, but keep away from the little girl — she get to know you she’ll miss you. Don't do that to her." Seneca had given Jillian a square cut emerald ring surrounded with diamonds but Jillian shied away from accepting it, saying it meant too much. Seneca told her she couldn’t keep one foot in the past and go anywhere. Jillian replied that she needed to feel free of the past before she could accept an engagement ring. Seneca told her she could put it on any finger she wanted but asked her not to give it back to him. Jillian put out her right hand and accepted the ring but in a moment she was fantasizing that the ring was on her left hand, given to her by Frank. Search For Tomorrow Written by: Irving & Tex Elman / Robert J. Shaw Produced by: Mary-Ellis Bunim Before Carolyn Hanley left for Chicago, she asked Cindy French if she had told Gary Walton that she was pregnant with his child. Cindy promised to tell him soon. Late that night Cindy tried to sneak into Gary's bed, but he sent her back to her own room over her protests, careful not to wake others in the house. Gary felt he couldn’t let Carolyn go without one more try. He didn’t understand when she claimed the broken engagement was his fault. She realized that Cindy hadn't told him that she was pregnant. Feeling that he would know soon anyway, she broke her professional confidence and told him that she couldn’t marry him when he was responsible for Cindy's pregnancy. Gary said he didn't know if Cindy was pregnant or not, but there had never been anything physical between himself and Cindy. He realized that Cindy knew Carolyn wouldn't break a confidence of a client and she would just leave town without saying a word to Gary. In the morning Cindy apologized for coming to Gary's room, but he told her he knew the truth. He said she had a job then, so she could just pack up and leave. Gary asked Carolyn to stay in Henderson and see Dr. Rogers about returning to work at the hospital. Carolyn, who was ashamed of herself for having so little trust in Gary, agreed. Bob took her back on staff. Eric Heywood was on the road to recovery and would soon be allowed to go home to recuperate. Kathy Phillips had Gary give her a test and he came through with the news that she was pregnant. She visitsedDr. Brown who explained that her IUD coil had slipped. Scott was elated that Kathy was pregnant, but she had reason to fear it. She remembered the night she was with David Sutton. - Kathy was helping David study for his bar exam while Scott was trying to locate Eric's father in Mexico to obtain permission for adoption. He accused Kathy of sleeping with David and she was so hurt that she let David console her. This was the first and only time. - Kathy told Scott that she was not sure she was ready to have a baby yet. Her career was at its peak and Eric was going to require a lot of care. Scott agreed to let Kathy think this out and he would go along with whatever she decided. He said he loved her and things wouldn’t change. She decided to go ahead with the abortion saying she might resent a child she didn’t really want. Scott was furious that she made up her mind so quickly. She decided to explain the situation to Dr. Brown and see if he could do a test to be sure this was Scott's baby. He explained that after a child was born they could only test to see who was NOT the father. Kathy continued with her plans for the abortion. That morning Scott told Ellie Bergman where Kathy was and how he felt. She suggested that he had a say in whether Kathy had the abortion. Scott arrived in Kathy's room to find she had already gone to surgery. When she came down, she explained that she couldn't go through with it. Stephanie Collins mentioned to David at the hospital that Kathy would be taking time off from the office to have her baby. When he returned to the law office he explained how he heard about the baby and offered his congratulations. Before Janet Collins left the house with the $350,000 ransom in a shopping bag, she cautioned Liza not to call the police because the kidnapper said he would kill Wade if they did. She wouldn’t tell Liza where she was going. Janet drove to the appointed phone booth where she was instructed to drop the shopping bag in the litter can or on the opposite side of the road. After Janet drove away, Fay Chandler scrambled out of the ditch and recovered the money. Reporter Brucer Carlson told Steve Kaslo that Liza had called him, asking if a suicide attempt had been reported. - Allen Ramsey used a jumper to lure Wade, a psychiatrist, from his home. Liza was trying to confirm the kidnapping. - Steve knew that Liza had been despondent since she was told she would never be able to model again because scars from her latest eye surgery couldn’t be corrected. She had even rejected seeing him until recently. He went by the house to see if she was all right. Liza's brother, Gary, dropped by and she told him that Wade had been kidnapped and Janet had gone to deliver the money. Gary insisted on calling Lt. Frank who arrived before Janet returned. Janet refused to believe that they would hurt Wade since she followed all the instructions. Fay took the money to Allen at her apartment and he insisted that they release Wade. If Wade should be found in the farm house they would question the caretaker and learn that she was his nurse. Allen said that he would pay all his debts and they would still have a quarter of a million dollars left, but they would have to make sure the money was safe. Fay had a gun she took from her ex-husband's things. It was an unregistered one that he bought in Korea. Allen insisted that she leave it behind, but she slipped it into her coat pocket. Wade had managed to remove his ropes, blindfold and gag and waited by the door when he heard a car. He jumped Allen and when Fay heard the struggle she rushed in and shot Wade. A stranger had seen the commotion and had to be shot. Allen had an idea. He positioned the bodies, wiped the gun clean, and put it in Wade's hand. He figured it would be several weeks before the bodies were found and everyone would assume the stranger was the kidnapper. Allen stopped by the Collinses' and learned from Janet about the kidnapping and that the police were not called in until after the money had been delivered, so it was unmarked. Fay learned the following day at the hospital that the caretaker released himself and rushed to tell Allen. He was calm as usual as he explained that this was not really a problem. If the bodies were discovered early he would still do the autopsies as the coroner and show in his report that both men had powder burns on their hands. Lt. Frank suggested to Janet that if Wade were going to be returned, he would be home by then. They asked permission to put it in the paper and on television, hoping someone would have seen Wade. Janet agreed and Bruce cooperated with Lt. Frank. When the bodies were discovered, Allen was called out and he gave his theory. He believed the kidnapper shot Wade, who lived long enough to shoot the kidnapper. Allen was very busy the following morning and when he arrived at the lab, Amy Carson, who was assigned to his service, had already done the preliminary work up and found that neither man had powder burns on his hands. Ramsey told her never to do anything unless he ordered it. He assured her that when he redid the test he would find powder burns. Not only did his report indicate powder burns, but that the John Doe died instantly and Wade lived for a few minutes. David Sutton visited Allen to make sure he was satisfied with his wife's will and assured Allen that if he had expenses. something could be worked out. Allen said he had his salary and he and Doris were glad to contribute to heart research. - Learning of her husband's affair with Fay, Doris cut Allen completely out of her will just before her death. – Janet was holding up well, but she put of telling young Danny that his father was dead until the day before the funeral. Stu Bergman spent time with his daughter who kept remembering the few hours before Wade left home. John Wyatt suggested they ask David Sutton, who was an investigator, to work full time on the case. Bruce also devoted many hours of investigation. Cindy remembered that when she and Gary returned the night Wade left home, a large dark car was parked around the corner and attracted her attention because she thought it would get a ticket for parking on the street. When Gary left a half hour later, the street was empty. A man came forward who remembered a new dark Oldsmobile parked in front of his house and noticed only that the license plate was covered with mud. The John Doe was identified as small time criminal Harry Purcell. John Wyatt refused to believe that a petty thief could have been smart enough to handle a kidnapping like this. They asked Bruce to talk to Purcell's cell mate Moran. He said Harry hated violence and didn't know how to use a gun. His big crime was that he was a drunk and it wiped his mind out. Moran vetoed the idea of Harry having a partner because he was a loner. Bruce gave this information to John also telling him that Amy was sure that she had done the powder burn test correctly. David and Bruce questioned Alan, but he stuck to his story. They told him that neither the money nor the car had turned up. David said it was a long shot that anything would turn up on the dark Oldsmobile because kidnappers didn’t use their own cars. He checked stolen cars. Allen visited Janet and said that it might be better that the kidnaper was shot because she wouldn’t have to go through a long trial. He mentioned that Wade was called to help a "jumper." Gary and Janet were discussing the fact that the kidnapper probably had known Wade because it was too convenient for him to know Wade was going away, when Janet remembered that Allen had mentioned the "jumper" and Lt. Frank had told no one. David visited Doris Ramsey's investment counselor about the estate and learned Alan was a foolhardy investor and lost a great deal in the stockmarket. Recently he owed them one hundred thousand dollars but paid the entire amount two days ago, saying that he sold some securities from the estate. David replied that was impossible since the will was still in probate and the estate went entirely to charity. With this information, the fact that Allen knew about the jumper and Amy's assurance that she hadn't made a mistake in the lab, David seemed to piece things together. Allen Ramsey called Amy's attention to a lab test she had completed. He showed her that it was possible for interns to make mistakes because they were bored or emotionally involved as she was in the Collins' case. Later Amy walked by the lab and saw Fay in Allen's arms. Steve and Liza’s marriage was on the mend. She agreed to move back in with Steve but wanted to wait until Janet was not so shaky. The Young And The Restless Written by: William J. Bell Produced by: John Conboy Jennifer Brooks had faced the fact that she was dying and although she was resentful at first, she had decided to make each day count. She wrote a love letter to Stuart to be opened after her death. When both Leslie and Lorie took time out of their busy schedules to visit her, she could see in their faces that they knew she was ill. Jennifer told Stuart she wanted to talk to them alone. He said he kept silent because she seemed to draw so much peace of mind from the fact that no one knew. When Jennifer confronted the girls, they each expressed guilt that they hadn't spent enough time with her and only came to her with all their problems. Jennifer asked them to carry on their own lives as usual because her greatest hope was that they would be productive and active women. She also wanted to talk about the fact that she hoped their father would remarry and she wanted them to accept his wife. From this day on, she didn’t want them to discuss her illness or death. They objected to her request, but gave in when they saw this would give her peace of mind. Joann Curtynski was at the Allegro when she saw Candice, a young overweight girl, in obvious emotional pain, who was consoling herself with food. Joann told Candice that she reminded her of herself. Candice found it difficult to believe this slim woman could have been overweight. Joann said she could only lose weight when she made the decision to really try. Candice explained that when she felt bad, her mother always made her a favorite dish. Joann explained that her mother was killing her with kindness and she had to make it clear to her that if she really loved her, she would help her diet. Joann gave Candice her name and phone number in case she needed help coping with the diet or her mother. When the Prentisses returned from Paris, Lorie made an appointment with the best plastic surgeon for her mother-in-law, Vanessa. She was reluctant, but Lorie held over her the fact that Lance didn’t know his mother shot him, mistaking him for Lorie. Vanessa was sullen when they returned so Lorie explained to Lance that the specialist could help her, but it would require several surgeries and perhaps five years in all. Lance told Vanessa that she was still a young woman and to be beautiful would mean there would be men in her life again. He asked if five years wouldn't be worth the rest of her life. Vanessa imagined herself after surgery, dancing with Lance and decided to go ahead with the surgery. Jill Foster told her brother Snapper that she couldn't let her mother push her into a loveless marriage just to give her son a father, She couldn't bear the thought of living that way for years. Kay Chancellor remarked to Derek Thurston about the wrinkles around her eyes and he suggested that she consider plastic surgery. It didn’t take long for the swelling to go down. If she looked younger, she would begin to think younger. While celebrating her decision, he said her dream was to turn back the clock. She asked about his dream and he explained his idea of a beauty salon that beautiful women would look forward to visiting. He admitted that this was why he first came, but he became interested in her because she was such a complex woman. She looked at his sketch and said he might have a good idea. Kay decided to take Liz Foster's advice and give Derek what her young beautiful rival couldn't. Derek came back after seeing Mrs. Chancellor and told Jill that everything indicaated that she would finance the salon. Derek was taking Jill to dinner to celebrate, so Liz called Mrs. Chancellor and explained why she couldn’t work that evening. Kay became furious with herself when she realized she couldn’t do without Derek. She tracked him to the restaurant and asked him to see her immediately. Jill said she understood and he had to go for the sake of the salon. Derek returned to the Fosters' later. Kay learned of this from Liz and picked a fight with Derek. He had made an appointment with a surgeon for Kay, but since she felt she was being used, he retrieved his sketch. As Liz was telling Derek that he was responsible for confusing Jill and that she knew he had no honorable intentions, Jill came down the stairs. Derek offered Jill a place to stay if she was serious about leaving home. Unable to handle this, Liz called Snapper who warned Derek not to take advantage of Jill. Brad Eliot continued to live in his office at the clinic, refusing to return to his wife Leslie. He would not inflict his blindness on her when he was sure that she would immerse herself into her music then and show the world what a brilliant pianist she was. He told Lorie that he would only return to Leslie if she couldn’t make a go of it in music. As always, Brad phoned backstage and had them leave the phone off the hook so that he could listen to her concert in San Diego. She fulfilled her promise to play her best concert. Brad was sure that she had gotten over the loss of their baby because she could never have played so well if she had remembered that this was the day it was to be born. After the concert the Maestro noticed that Leslie was sad and she remarkeds that it was something that didn’t matter then. Brad called his lawyer to have him process the papers. Leslie returned home and was served divorce papers. Brad was in his office when he lost his balance and was stricken with a terrible headache. At first he wouldn’t admit his pain to Cynthia, his nurse, but she could see the pain in his eyes. He told her this might be the first sign of hope he had had in months. He explained that he was going to Chicago to Dr. Lionel, but he didn’t want her to tell anyone where he was gone. He dictated a note to Snapper. Leslie came to the clinic to confront Brad about the divorce and was shown the note by Snapper. She called Lance, asking him to meet her at the Allegro. When he arrived, he found Leslie celebrating with champagne. She was furious that Brad had decided he knew what was best for her. She would go ahead with the divorce. Lance took her home and waited until she awoke with a hangover. She was upset that Brad left town without telling her good-bye or about the divorce. When Lance returned many hours later to his wife who thought they were going to spend the evening together, Lorie was sullen. Leslie asked him not to mention the divorce because she didn’t want Lorie to discourage her. Lance couldn’t explain, but finally Lorie decided he probably had had a good reason. Brad’s suspicions that he had a brain tumor proved to be true. It was so small that it didn't show up in the tests before and the new pain he was experiencing was because it was growing again. Dr. Lionel wanted to map its growth, but Brad insisted that surgery be done immediately even though there was the risk he could lose his life. Cynthia was concerned and took a couple of days off to go to Chicago. She tried replacing Leslie in Brad's life. Leslie wondered about the wording of Brad's note. The fact that he said he might not be “able” to return confused her. She planned on talking to Cynthia who typed the note. Brad asked Cynthia to explain to Leslie that he did this for her if he didn’t survive the surgery. In Genoa City, Cynthia did nothing to relieve Leslie's confusion but suggested she forget Brad. Sixteen year old Jody Conway called her father who insisted she had to marry Tom Bennett because HIS daughter wouldn’t have an illegitimate baby. She told Brock that she had decided to keep her baby and he warned her of the pitfalls of raising a child alone. Jody became disturbed when she read the statistics that show teenagers had a greater risk of malformed babies and complication during childbirth. Chris Foster told her that she had the advantage of good medical care, but agreed to find her a female doctor with whom she would feel more comfortable. Mrs. Conway was going after Jody, but her father was against it. She pleaded that a lot of this was her fault for being too embarrassed to answer her questions. He relented and went to Genoa City, but once there he didn’t want to see her. She became more determined than ever when he told her she could come home after she gave the baby up. Jody had started into labor when Tom called before leaving for college. He arrived at the hospital, but Jody didn’t want to see him. She expressed her fears for her life and that of her baby. Her evident terror frightened Tom. He called the school to tell them he wouldn’t be arriving that day. He confessed to Jody that he felt guilty and wanted to stay. There was nowhere else he could be at the moment. Tom called the Conways to say Jody was in labor and needed them. Everyone figured he had done this to rid himself of the responsibility. Mr. Conway comforted Jody and told her not to think of Tom anymore, because he was on his way to college. He was surprised to see Tom waiting and ordered him out. Tom stood his ground and said he was going to ask Jody to marry him. Ruth Conway ignored her husband's wrath and sent Kim, her youngest daughter, in to see Jody who warned her of the dangers of giving in. After Jody accepted Tom's proposal, Brock helped Tom get the license, but the ceremony was interrupted when Jody went into the last stages of labor. Dr. Leonard ignored Mr. Conway's pleas that the ceremony continued. During the delivery, both Tom and Jody thought about all the problems of a teenaged marriage. After her daughter was born, Jody refused to look at her. Jody told Tom that for the baby's sake as well as their own, she had decided to put the baby up for adoption. She said they owed their daughter the best chance in life they could give her.

I am impressed ! Thanks for your research. It is a terrific work !

Will, how do you find the script informations ? I would love to dig them for other soaps if I might.

Is TV guide the name of the publication ? I couldn't find it when I tried.

Would you be willing to share and correct my mistakes when I post ? I tried to do some list years ago but ressources were not all available and I have some mistakes.

Thanks Will for the information and correction !

To illustrate what we were saying and inside the DNS thread about 1977, once the Ellmans took over from the Pollocks, they did their cleaning too. They immediately ended the Mark/Terri/Mellie triangle and Bobbi Jordan was fired. Here an article from September 1977 in the DNS.

Allison Argo played Cindy French in 1977 (Source: DNS, September 1977)

A interview with Larry Keith from "Daytime Serial Newsletter" (issue : Sept. 1977)

Byrna organized a fan poll in 1977. Here are the results.

I hope Ingo will be fired soon. He is unsufferable.

May I ask which book or magazine it is from ? I don’t remember having seen so much about these characters.

Marland had been HW for a while already when the MJ/Tom dynamics started. But I agree, I think lots of soaps were closing some big stories at the time : John/Dan/Kim on ATWT, Steve/Carolee/Ann on DOC, Terri/Mark/Mellie on GH and creating some new big spots for the future : Derek/Jill/Kay on YR for example.