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I wonder if anyone saved the "Classic ATWT storylines" posted on this old website : http://www.oocities.org/drjworld/ Apparently, the webmaster had the DNS issues from 1973 and 1974 I'm looking for desperately.

Thanks !! I had never seen Vanessa’s fall before !

Thanks !!!! I love it ! I know how difficult this is to find. I am working on it too. Someday we will get it all

I also have July 1974 in my archives. I think I also have December from this year. I will try to post it soon and then I will work on the end of 1975 as soon as I'm on holidays. JULY 1974 All My Children Written by : Agnes Nixon Produced by : Bud Kloss Jeff Martin and Mary Kennicott got married in a lovely ceremony in the Martins' backyard. While on honeymoon, she fainted after a tennis game but insisted it was the heat. Jeff asked his father Joe to examine her when they were back. Disturbed by the wedding, Erica Kane – Jeff’s ex-wife - pressed Phil Brent to take a weekend vacation with her. At the beach, Erica pressed too much and he packed and told her he was going home. Erica tried to explain everybody they went home because Phil had headaches. Phil told Erica that he understood her feelings but he couldn't pretend he loved her. When Tara Tyler lectured Phil about his relationship with Erica, he pointed out that everything was not Erica’s fault. As Tara chose to remain with her husband Chuck, she had to stay out of his life. Erica suggested to Phil that they stopped seeing each other but he refused. Erica felt nauseous but refused to see a doctor even when her mother Mona Kane told her she was probably pregnant. In Seattle, Linc Tyler told his sister Anne she owed her husband Paul Martin to free him so she asked her brother to represent her. When Dr. Charles Tyler – Linc and Anne’s father - suffered chest pains and was hospitalized, his wife Phoebe jumped upon this to call Anne and Linc saying Anne had to come back. Meanwhile, Paul told Margo Flax they should stop seeing each other for her sake but she daydreamed that in a year she and Paul would marry. At the Boutique, Margo informed Anne that Kitty Shea divorced from Nick Davis and that she, Margo was dating Paul. She did not feel guilty because everyone, Paul included, realized Anne was going to announce she was going back to Nick when she had the accident. Anne was shocked because it was not true. Nick walked unannounced and she told him he let everybody think they were together in New York but Nick replied Paul told him in the hospital that Anne said she loved Nick. Paul denied the words: he said Anne was in a coma and calling Nick’s name. Nick explained to Anne the misunderstanding and added he loved her. Anne decided to stay in Pine Valley. Margo, feeling a disadvantage with Anne, secretly arranged a facelift with Dr. Julian in New York. Paul told Margo he received Anne’s written consent for a divorce and would be going to Santa Domingo to obtain it. Another World Written by : Harding Lemay Produced by : Paul Rauch Alice Frame’s mental condition had deteriorated and her aunt, Liz Matthews, arranged for Iris Carrington’s friend, Dr. Gavin, a psychiatrist to see her. Dr. Russ Matthews, Alice’s brother, filled in Gavin on Alice’s history of running away from emotionally upsetting situation. Tim McGowen brought Alice papers to sign including a stock transfer order for Steve Frame’s – Alice’s husband who was in jail - personal stock and a power of attorney to him after he arranged for Alice to have Steve’s power of attorney. Lawyer John Randolph said his wife Pat – Alice’s sister - that Tim was maligning him to prospective client. Vic Lamont feared Tim’s power over Alice and Steve’s determination to control the business office. Tim hid Alice’s condition to make sure Steve did not revoke the power of attorney. Tim managed to have Steve’s personal stock transferred to his own name. Rachel Davis asked John to be her lawyer after her uncle Sam Lucas resigned. Pat convinced John to agree and Rachel told John she wanted Alice out of the house Steve built for Alice since Jamie – Steve and Rachel’s son - felt it was his home. Rachel asked Janice Frame, Steve’s sister, and Tim about Alice and they insisted she was fine, but John had told her the contrary. Rachel visited Alice who became hysterical. Liz called Dr. Gavin and he and Russ found Alice huddled on the stairs. Mary Matthews, Alice’s mother, accused Liz of alienating Alice from her while Alice agreed to go to Dr. Gavin’s hospital. Lenore Delaney and Gil McGowen told Steve of Alice’s breakdown and Tim’s manipulations. John and Pat’s marriage was in trouble and John began drinking again. Lenore tried to prove that Alice was mentally unfit to sign the power of attorney and Dr. Gavin agreed with her. Rachel asked the charges her father Gerald filed against Steve for the attack were dropped and the warden was convinced. When Tim visited, Steve was furious against him and thought Rachel was responsible for Alice’s breakdown. Rachel told Tim she knew he wanted Steve in maximum security to manipulate the company and money. Sam was covering for John and was shocked when Rachel told him she saw John drunk on a bar. Ada McGowen, Rachel’s mother, gave birth to a daughter, Nancy named after her husband Gil’s mother. Robert thought Lenore was spending too much time helping Steve instead of taking care of her son Wally. Meanwhile, Dennis Carrington seemed happy to see Russ and his mother Iris getting closer. As The World Turns Written by : Robert Soderberg & Edith Sommer Produced by : Joe Wilmore Susan Stewart tried to cut down her ex-husband, Dan’s visits to their daughter Emmy claiming she did not adjust well. She made sure Dan met Susan’s boyfriend, Mark Galloway but Mark sensed she tried to make Dan feel badly with Emmy. Dr. John Dixon implied Susan wanted Dan back she she denied it. Tom Hughes was involved with his first case: defending Natalie Bannon of grand larceny charges and his wife, Carol felt excluded. One night Tom got away early and was furious to find Carol at the Book Shop. After another dizzy spell, Jennifer Hughes realized she had an incurable condition. Bob, Jennifer’s husband, realized Jennifer knew and he encouraged her to live each day to its fullest. Kim Dixon, Jen’s sister, returned from vacation and Jen apologized for forcing Kim to go away with her husband, John. Grant Colman decided to file for divorce so he and Lisa Shea would not wait. His estranged wife, Joyce arrived in Oakdale claiming she wanted Grant back. She asked Lisa if she and Grant were lovers but Lisa did not answer. A night, Grant found Joyce very ill and rushed her to the hospital where appendictis was diagnosed. Lisa understood he wanted to be near Joyce. Dan Stewart performed the surgery and while Joyce survived, peritonitis infection was severe. For Joyce’s recovery, Grant said he still had feelings for her. Jay Stallings presented Lisa with an expensive pin and hoped she had feelings for him. She felt upset and told him he should move from the Book Shop apartment. Carol began to realize Lisa was the girl Jay was in love with. Days Of Our Lives Written by : William J. Bell Produced by : Betty Corday Doug Williams was devastated when the police told him that his wife, Addie was killed by a car. She died saving their baby Hope. Doug asked Alice Horton, Addie’s mother, to take Hope. Julie – Addie’s daughter from her first marriage - received a letter from a mother saying that despite all their problems, she loved her. Julie felt Doug blamed the baby for what happened to Addie. Jeri Clayton, a former singer agreed to sing at the club during Doug’s absence. But one night, her husband Jack accused her of having an affair with Doug. Dr. Neil Curtis begged Amanda Howard to assume their affair and she refused to see that he was witholding any real commitment from her. Neil had forbidden her to tell Dr. Laura Horton he was the man she had an affair with. Dr. Greg Peters took pity on Amanda when Neil canceled a date and took her to Doug’s. She was crushed to see Neil with another woman. She even picked up a bottle of pills but Greg arrived and she told him she only took two pills. Then she told Neil she saw him with the other woman and he tried to use passion to soften her. Phyllis Anderson admitted to Laura that the accidental shooting of her daughter Mary was indeed an attempt to kill Julie, who recently married her former husband, Bob Anderson. She admitted she needed help and realized her fear of growing old alone. She also realized the portrait she painted of Julie was actually of herself and her illness. Julie and Phyllis destroyed the portrait. Dr. Tom Horton was sure that the farmer in the newspaper could not be his son Mickey but after learning the farmer Marty Hansen was from Brookville, he travelled there. He confronted Maggie Hansen, Maryty’s wife, and when Marty arrived, Tom recognized his son. Maggie begged Tom to let Mickey alone after she admitted she knew he had a wife and a child. Tom talked to Mickey who said he did not care about the past. Tom couldn’t help but see how happy Mickey was. He left very unsure of what to do. Meanwhile, Michael – Mickey’s legal son - was getting used to the idea of his mother Laura marrying his uncle Bill – who was indeed his biological father -. Tom told Laura about Mickey’s new life and she said things had to remain like that but she felt she had to see him herself. Maggie was making initial application for adoption of a five-year-old boy when Laura arrived at the Hansen farm and Mickey told him how happy and contented he felt with Maggie as his wife. The Doctors Written by : Robert & Eileen Mason Pollock Produced by : Joseph Stuart Premature Michael Paul Powers struggled for his life and his mother, Toni Powers, slowly recovered from toxemia. Dr. Ann Larimer discovered a duct in the baby’s heart had not closed naturally and Dr. Matt Powers had to learn his daughter-in-law Toni the truth. Ann said the baby had to be operated. After standing hours by Toni’s bedise, Dr. Alan Stewart came home and realized his interest for Toni was more that a doctor-patient relationship. He suggested to his wife Margo a trip to Hawaii but she refused and Alan discovered she paid $5.000 for furniture. He understood she borrowed money from his mother Ellie while she said they did not have money. Alan repaid Ellie. Luke McAllister returned to represent Penny Davis because of his admiration for Dr. Althea Davis, Penny’s mother. Kitty Harris told Althea of Penny’s indictment and Althea fainted. Althea refused any help from Luke or Nick Bellini. Lt. Cadman agreed to get Nick a copy of the autopsy. Nick was reluctant to marry Ann while Penny was on the verge of her trial and canceled their Mexican marriage plans. So she decided to go to Africa to accept a Medal of Honor for her dead husband but Nick refused she faced memoires of her unfaithful former husband. Ann returned her engagement ring and Maggie Powers tried to make peace. Little Erich was found and Carolee assured him he was forever her son. In Berlin, Dr. Karen Werner had been suffering of amnesia since her plane crash and was renamed Erica Brandt. Dr. Lantz sent Erica to his daughter Ingrid who happened to be the secretary of Dr. Rolf Krilling, a former suitor of Karen’s. Erica decided to have a photo of herself to circulate among nursing staffs in hopes she would be recognized. The Edge Of Night Written by : Henry Slesar Produced by : Erwin Nicholson The tragic murder of Babs Micelli catapulted Johnny Dallas into the dangerous decision to work for the police as an undercover agent since the New Moon was partly owned by the mob and his contact to the co-owners, Floyd Porter was the prime suspect. As he was engaged to Laurie Ann Karr, nobody would wonder about his visit to Mike Karr. Danny Micelli was disgusted with Johnny’s sudden friendship with Porter ignoring the fact that Johnny was indeed investigating. Porter was questionned regarding the murder case. Lawyer Paul Fairchild met with Morlock and was told Porter had to be released and Fairchild was to “put the screws” on Chief Bill Marceau. Bill, fearing what the loss of the young Jennifer would make to his wife Martha, learned by Fairchild the money Martha gave Tammy, Jennifer’s mother. The Marceaus were trapped and Bill ordered Porter’s freedom. Laurie was overjoyed to learn her parents were giving her a engagement party meaning they had accepted Johnny. Adam Drake had launched his crusade to bring the killers of his wife Nicole to justice and had terminated his political career, throwing his support to Pete Quinn. He believed Nicole died because the Sprite was bombed to stop its owner Malcolm Dimes from testifying against the syndicate. With financial support by Tiffany Whitney, Adam went to New York to investigate Dimes’ associates. Geraldine, Tiffany’s mother-in-law, took this departure very badly. Adam persuaded ADA Ruben Gardener to give him the list of Dimes’ associates. Later, he was surprised to find Tiffany in his hotel room and told her he was not interested in becoming more than friends with her. Adam was then abducted by George Kelso, a man on the ADA’s list. Kelso told Adam he, and not Dimes was the intended victim. Released, Adam told Mike and Vic Lamont what he had been said. Morlock set up a meeting between Ben Travis, Nicole’s father, and the syndicate boss, Walter LePage. Ben insisted he realized Nicole’s death was an accident. Vic, drinking heavily, told Adam he was not happy and was afraid of his new father-in-law, Walter LePage. General Hospital Written by : Bridget & Jerome Dobson Produced by : James Young Dr. Peter Taylor, realizing how much his wife Diana and her daughter Martha meant for him, reconcilied with Diana. He was pleased to learn that Diana had stopped divorce proceedings but Diana received a package sent to Martha by Phil Brewer. Peter and Diana quarrelled when she received a phone call : critically ill Owen Stratton had to be prepared for risky open heart surgery. Peter returned to the hospital where Nurse Augusta McLeod sympathized with him about his feelings. She enticed him back to her apartment where they spend the night together. The following day, Dr. Lesley Williams became suspicious when she learned Peter was unaware that Diana spent the whole night at Owen’s bedside. Peter told Lesley he would go to a hotel and Diana told Lesley it was over between she and Peter. Lesley warned again Augusta not to interfere. Dr. Jim Hobart still hoped he could assist on Owen’s surgery. When Owen’s condition became critical, Joel, Owen’s brother, painfully deciced he had to perform the surgery and Jim had to assist. However, Jim was drinking in a bar and refused his wife Audrey’s pleas to help Joel. After an heated argument, he encouraged Joel and Owen pulled through surgery. The entire hospital was buzzing with the news of Jim’s successful return. Owen’s attachement to Diana troubled Lesley and Joel told Lesley that the kind of marriage Diana and Peter had was no marriage. Jane Dawson and her baby Joanne returned home after a short vacation and were met with hostility from Howie, Jane’s husband. Jane decided to take the baby and move away from Howie permanently. Dr. Steve Hardy was pleased with Kira Faulkner when he learned that it was she who gave refuge to Mai-Lin who wanted to stay in America. Kira scorned Steve’s warnings of possible danger to everyone connected with Mai-Lin’s defection from a fanatical group of spies who wishes to see her return to China. Steve appeared to be followed and Kira realized the danger. She warned Dr. Henry Pinkham to be cautious as he was falling in love with Mai-Lin. A night, a man with a tattooed hand broke in to Kira’s searching for the bible. Mai-Lin surprised him and was shot in the abdomen. She was saved and the tattoed man’s superior ordered him to try again at the hospital. Guiding Light Written by : Robert Cenedella Produced by : Lucy Ferri Rittenberg Holly Bauer was furious when Roger Thorpe implied she was still interested in him. She demanded her husband, Ed to take her on a vacation but he couldn’t because of his job. Unsatisfied, she packed and left, then calling saying she was in Banniff, Canada. She met Denise, a multi-divorcee who told Holly she was obviously carrying a torch for a former more exciting man. When Ed called, she replied she would not be back. With Denise’s advice, she finally came back to Springfield to surprise Ed but he remained very late at the hospital that night. Ken and Janet Norris found a new and larger apartment but their baby Emily became ill. Janet insisted on staying with the child at Cedars. The diagnosis was pylonephritis, a urinary problem. Janet realized the apartment had monumental importance to Ken. When Emily improved, he asked Janet to come see the finished apartment. She was quite pleased but resisted to Ken’s lovemaking and went back to the hospital to see Emily. When she arrived, she learned the girl had a relapse and felt she should have stayed. Ken burst into Ed’s office and said Janet prefered staying with Ed than with him. Janet felt humliated but Holly walked to the same conclusion as her brother Ken. She told her mother Barbara she caught Janet and Ed together. Ken apologized to Janet but she told him it was over and she was moving out. Drs. Joe and Sara Werner returned from Arizona and resumed hospital work. Sara loved the house Joe arranged to buy at first sight. Recently arrived in Springfield, orphan Pam Chandler was in town to raise money for school. Bert Bauer and her daughter-in-law, Leslie were concerned about Pam’s overworking herself and they found her unconscious in her boarding house room. Sara and Dr. Steve Jackson found her anemic. After having assertained that Betty Warner’s millionaire father would be in Texas, Roger Thorpe visited her. He managed to manouever long enough to interest her father in his drill venture. Mr. Warner decided to back Roger for $100.000. Roger told Betty he was returning to Springfield and she felt used. Indeed, Roger was pursuing Peggy Fletcher and he pressed her for dates upon his return. She rebuffed him. Realizing Peggy’s sensitivity to her problem of raising her son Billy alone since her husband Johnny left, he tried to solicit Billy’s friendship. In a chat with Leslie Bauer, Peggy insisted she was still a married woman and loved her husband. Wilson Frost’s high powered sister, Audrey Mills, arrived in town. Her husband Roy would be opening a plastics manufacturing in Springfield. How To Survive a Marriage Written by : Rick Edelstein Produced by : Jeff Young Monica Courtland, temporarily separated from her husband, Terry, who was doing research in Washington, felt lonely. She offered Alex Kronos the home and care he needed. It was arranged by Dr. Maynard and Julie Franklin. To celebrate, Monica took Alex to the newly renovated Noah’s Ark where he met Joshua T. Browne and recognized him as one of his father’s former associates. Sandra Henderson, working as a waitress, made an impression on Alex. Julie feared for Alex’s well-being as he was released in Monica’s care. Fran Bachman was devastated when her husband, David suddently died of a heart attack. She found that her financial state was in backruptcy and Peter Willis arranged to co-sign her second mortgage on her house to protect it from the creditors. Fran relied on her new neighbors, the McGhees, particulary Johnny, a carpenter, because they moved into Chris Kirby’s former home. Johnny’s mother, Patricia, disapproved of her daughter-in-law, Maria, who was an artist and Irish. Johnny was a former boxer who unfortunately killed his opponent in the ring and was living with this guilt. Johnny shared a pizza with Fran and Maria made it clear to Patricia that she trusted Johnny. Peter was critical of David’s lack of ruthless competitiveness before his death. He campaigned for city DA which would be supervised by Monica’s PR firm and won Joan’s – Peter’s wife - support. He agreed to support Joan’s desires for his complete participation in the natural childbirth procedure. Dr. Max Cooper, Joan’s gynecologist, had employed Chris as his receptionist. He represented himself as a married man but secretly removed his wedding ring before leaving his office. It appeared that he was in the throes of a painful divorce. Chris learned that her former husband, Larry might be returning to the home office soon and Julie told her that Tony DeAngelo was staying on the West Coast to set up a people’s clinic. Max took Chris to dinner and made a pass but she reminded him he was married. Chris was furious when Monica implied she was having an affair with Max and was therefore no better than Sandra. Love Of Life Written by : Claire Labine & Paul Avila Mayer Produced by : Jean Arley Realizing his wife Kate Phillips might not be dying, Dan took Kate’s X-rays to Dr. Flowers to New York. On his way back with their daughter Rebecca, he lost control of the car and drove off a bridge. Dr. Flowers told Ted Chandler that Kate had to have surgery while Kate’s mother Beatrice identified Rebecca’s body. Dan’s body remained missing. Vinnie Phillips, Dan’s mother told Kate that Dan and Rebecca were dead by her fault. Kate wanted Rebecca buried in the spot she picked but Vinnie asked Kate to allow Rebecca to be buried in Boston. Kate refused and Vinnie announced that Dan’s father, Lloyd offered to build a pediatric wing as a Memorial to Dan if Rebecca was buried in Boston. Ted and Kate realized Vinnie added the condition. Van and Bruce Sterling hosted a pary in honor of Diana and Charles Lamont hoping to save their marriage. Diana was upset since Cal Aleata learned she and Jamie Rollins were having an affair. She slipped into the kitchen where she discussed the situation with Jamie unaware that Betsy Crawford, who had a crush on Jamie, was just outside. Charles gave Diana a bracelet but Jamie asked Diana to marry him. She begged him not to make her choose because Charles’ grandson, Johnny needed her since his mother Tess disappeared. Jeff Hart told hitman Phil about Howells’ letter and instructed him to make sure no supporting evidence existed. Jeff was upset when Cal supported his son David’s desire to be a doctor. He realized Cal did not trust him whild David took a summer job as a broker’s assistant but would not give his father the satisfaction of liking the position. Jeff offered Jamie the DA’s spot on his ticket but seeing it for a bribe, Jamie refused. Jeff then instructed Phil to find some dirt on Jamie. Bruce Sterling ran Howells’ letter in the newspaper and hoped to find a witness. Meg, Bruce’s sister-in-law, was furious. Cal accidentally told Meg, her mother that Jamie was having an affair with Diana. Meg told Phil and he suggested she talked to Diana. When Meg did, Diana was paralyzed with fear. Jeff forgot a bribe in an envelope at a restaurant and insisted it was not his. He was furious when David saw Jeff who brought the envelope from the bar area and hustled his son out to the car. One Life To Live Written by : Gordon Russell Produced by : Doris Quinlan Viki Lord had returned to work on the Banner. Cathy Craig once more refused to marry Joe Riley and told Viki to marry him. She refused saying they had to wait until after Cathy’s baby was born. After cramps, Cathy was rushed to the hospital. She told Joe that she would leave town if he kept pressuring her. Dr. Jim Craig, Cathy’s father, told his daughter the problem was her body not adjusting to her liberated approach to unmarried parenthood. Critically ill, Rachel Wilson left her hospital room and was found in a second rate hotel. Dr. Larry Wolek told her if she went to Europe, she would just give up. He added he loved her as a friend and Rachel agreed to return. Her estranged husband, Ben, intended to take her out of Llanview but was furious to learn he couldn’t without her consent. Rachel accused Ben of being jealous of Larry. Her new X-rays showed the lymph tumors had reduced but she had a new tumor. Jim told Larry Rachel’s disease was often curable and Rachel was the exception. Ben learned a European specialist, Dr. Braden was in Llanview but not accredited in the U.S.. He arranged for Braden to see Rachel but Larry kept Rachel from taking pills given by Braden. They were indeed harmful. When Ben returned, Larry accused him of tyring to kill Rachel. Hospitalized, Melinda Cramer was regaining her memory. Her sister, Dorian visited her and Melinda went into a rage and attacked Dorian. Mark Toland feared the possibility of Melinda’s memory returning as discovering his affair with her sister led to her breakdown and if is came out, his wife Julie would be crushed. Mark rejected Julie’s suggestions on ways they could repair their marriage. Dorian’s ex, John Douglas told her he could see she found the young man he predicted she would six months before. Mark asked Julie for a separation but he feared she could try to kill herself and agreed to give their marriage another try. Dorian told Mark Julie was using him but Julie’s mother, Eileen told Mark Julie was again the way she was when Jack Lawson left her. Carla Hall told her husba,d Ed she would have like to go back to college. Even though they were short of the $10.000 nest egg Wanda Webb insisted they had before marrying, Vinnie Wolek tried to persuade her to marry him. Search For Tomorrow Written by : Gabrielle Upton Produced by : Mary-Ellis Bunim Paula Markham insisted the arrival of her former fiance, Mitch Farmer meant nothing and insisted she and Stu Bergman went on with their wedding plans. However, Stu forced her to admit she had feelings for Mitch. He cancelled the wedding and left Paula and Mitch plan their life together. Eunice Wyatt was upset that upon returning from their honeymoon, her husband John would rather attend a charity ball than rush to bring home her daughter Suzi who was having trouble adjusting to step-father, John. Len Whiting, after leaving Seattle to be with his wife Patti, began drinking heavily when he learned the doctor who replaced him was taking credit for his work. Jennifer Pace was furious to learn her mother suffered a heart attack and her father did not tell her. She asked Scott Phillips to accompany her home to Washington where her mother died. She sought comfort from Scott. Mr. Pace told Jennifer he liked Scott but opposed the fact Scott was married. In Washington, Scott saw his father, Doug Martin, and learned he was walking again. He explained his situation with his wife, Kathy. When Kathy called to tell Scott she had finished in California, Jennifer answered and Scott told Kathy that he and Jennifer were having an affair. Shocked, she asked Doug’s help and told him Scott had to be back to Henderson or she’d go to Europe. Doug took his car to find his son. Meanwhile, Len, drunk, drove into Doug’s car. He reported the accident anonymously and left without noticing Doug was the passenger. Dr. Tony Vincente operated on Doug but injuries raised the possibility he might not walk again. Len was upset to overhear a policeman saying the hit and run car would be tracked down by paint smears on Doug’s car. Scott felt great guilt. Jennifer supported him but Scott realized Kathy must have thought he would not want to save their marriage and had already left. Stephanie Wilkins confronted Tony on his feelings. He admitted being physically attracted to her but he loved his wife Jo. Upset, Stephanie took time off to visit her step-mother, Raney who cared for Stephanie’s nine year old daughter, Wendy. She decided to bring them to Henderson. Patti learned Stephanie had a child and Stephanie said she divorced Wendy’s father after two years of marriage. Somerset Written by : Robert J. Shaw Produced by : Lyle B. Hill Against Terri Martin’s wishes, Dr. Stan Kurtz visited Marion Parker trying to straighten out. Marion misconstrued the visit to her husband Warren implying Stan was making a pass and Warren confronted Stan. Teri explained Marion did this deliberately as a symptom of her paranoia. Kate Thornton offered Marion a job at the Somerset Register depite Julian Cannell’s warning. Marion made a big pass at Greg Mercer, scaring him. When she told Warren that Greg made a pass at her, he did not believe her. Marion told Kate and Terri that Warren was trying to destroy her. Kate tried to encourage Julian to break dates with Eve Lawrence. Indeed he was falling for Eve but she was afraid of commitment but also of seeing him near Kate. Eve finally told Ben and Ellen Grant that Mark Mercer was Heather’s father. They were supporting. Greg was staying in town but Heather’s attempts at rekindling their relationship were difficult for him. Eve told Julian that Heather was the heir to a Lawrence trust but if it became known that Ken Lawrence was not her father, there could be trouble. Delaney Brands and the Register agreed to finance a county fair as a PR move for both business. Tony and Ginger Cooper had a fight over Tony’s agreeing to go to Chicago overnight with Kate on fair preparations as he was Delaney Brands representative and he cancelled. Ginger had a talk with Becky Winkle who reminded her she had to trust Tony. When Kate asked Tony again, Ginger told him to go. Over Ben’s objections, Hilda Benson changed her will to incluce Martin Nell. Martin stole $50 from Hilda’s cash and put it in the pocket of a jacket returned to Tony from the cleaners. Ginger suggested he might have gotten drunk and took it unwittingly. He was furious. Martin implied Tony took the money too and he persuaded Hilda not to call the police. He hoped to use Tony as the scapegoat for his robbery scheme. Martin got hold of a will codicil form and filled it out exactly like the one Hilda signed but changed the date and increased the bequest to himself before forging Hilda’s signature. The Young And The Restless Written by : William J. Bell Produced by : William J. Bell & John Conboy Lorie Brooks ignored her sister Chris’ hopes that she would use an assumed name on her soon to be published novel and put their father Stuart off when he asked to see the draft. She was shocked to hear her sister Leslie had a nervous breakdown and tried to avoid Brad Elliot. Leslie blamed Lorie for her breakdown. Brad tried to talk to Leslie but she refused. Lorie’s publisher, Dave Larson, set up a centerfold magazine spread as promotion for her novel and she had to go to New York. She asked Brad to elope but he fit the pieces together and realized Leslie was waiting for him in Detroit. Lorie asked Leslie not to tell Brad the truth and Leslie replied she would let Lorie do it. Jennifer Brooks, Lorie and Leslie’s mother, ended up guessing Lorie must have taken Leslie’s call but refused to believe it. Brad asked Lorie if she took Leslie’s call. Kay Chancellor, very depressed, slept with Jeff, the stable boy over her companion Jill Foster’s objection. She told Jill she had become like a daughter to her since her son Brock had not contacted her in years. Phillip Chancellor, Kay’s husband, spent more time with Jill and gave her a string of pearls and surprised her with a kiss. When she asked Phillip what he expected, he assured his intentions were honorable. After a dance, he told her he loved her. Jill re-doubled her effort to keep Kay sober but could not help wondering what Phillip’s pledge of love could mean. Dr. Snapper Foster’s schedule as a full fledged doctor left him very little time off and his wife, Chris planned a special dinner for his first evening home. The mood was shattered when he learned she withdrew money from her parents to buy things she felt they needed. Sally McGuire went into labor, worried that her suicide attempt would affect the child. Snapper visited her to reassure her. Stuart and Jennifer Brooks felt Sally’s remaining after the baby’s birth was a threat to Chris’ happiness particularly since she was herself pregnant. But Snapper refused to mention it to Sally until they knew the baby was all right. Liz Foster, Snapper’s mother, stayed with Sally during her labor but felt guilty that she loved Sally as much as Chris. The baby boy was born but there were no news on its condition.

I am surprised about Lorie too.

APRIL 1974 All My Children Written by : Agnes Nixon Produced by : Bud Kloss Paul Martin told his brother Joe that he felt living with a ghost since Anne disappareared but he had been seeing Margo Flax a lot. Paul and Charles Tyler, Anne’s father, learned by a private investigator that Anne had been located in London. Margo admitted to Kitty Shea, whose marriage to Nick Davis - Anne’s former husband - recently crumbled, that she was in love with Paul but afraid of being hurt. Kate Martin, Paul and Joe’s mother, told Phoebe Tyler, Anne’s mother, that Paul was seing Margo but Paul told his mother that Margo was only a friend. Phoebe pressed Mona Kane to quit her job as Charles Tyler’s – Phoebe’s husband – secretary but she refused. She persuaded Mona’s daughter, Erica, to convince Mona because the Maxwell murder scandal reflected poorly on Charles. Mona was furious. Nick Davis offered Erica a loan to re-establish her modeling career in New York and to leave Nick’s son, Phil, alone. However, Erica managed to get a local television news-weather reporting job. Nick asked Tara Tyler to see more of Phil to distract him from Erica. Then, Chuck Tyler, Tara’s husband, took Tara out for an evening of dinner but the mood changed when Phil and Erica walked in celebrating their new jobs. Ruth Martin, Phil’s mother, and Tara were livid at Erica’s brass in barging into the Martin home to wait for Phil. Phil was annoyed when Chuck warned him about Erica. Dr. Jeff Martin and Mary Kennicott’s approaching wedding was marred by the admittance to the hospital of two year old Teddy, a beaten child. Dr. Frank Grant and his wife, Nancy, were horrified that they had to stand by helplessly as the boy would probably be returned to his parents. Another World Written by : Harding Lemay Produced by : Paul Rauch Lenore Moore and Robert Delaney were married at her home. Meanwhile, Rachel and Steve Frame were worried since their son, Jamie had run away. They kept blaming each other. Jamie enlisted Dennis Carrington’s help to hide in a shed on the grounds of his father’s house. Noticing that food was disappearing, Iris Carrington, Dennis’ mother, followed her son and found Jamie. Jamie explained that his mother Rachel, his grandmother Ada and her husband Gil that he did not want to see his father. Steve was furious. The Judge said that if Rachel and Steve could not work out their impasse he would appoint a guardian. Lawyer Sam Lucas, Ada’s brother, warned Rachel that Jamie could be put in a foster home. Steve told his former wife and present girlfriend Alice Matthews that he bought Gerald Davis, Rachel’s father, the restaurant in San Francisco in exchange of his testimony but he refused to go to the Judge. John Randolph explained his wife Pat Alice’s sister - that if he did not tell the Judge, he could be disbarred. Pat and John had a series of fights because she defended her sister’s boyfriend. John finally went to Judge Roberts and told him the whole situation. Pat was furious and Steve was studded when Gil McGowan arrested him for bribery. Tim – Gil’s son - rushed down and tried to convince his father to keep this out of the press. Steve hired Tim to represent him and Steve pleaded guilty. Liz Matthews told her nephew Russ that Iris Carrington was getting an uncontested divorce from her estranged husband Elliot. Liz had noticed that Iris really liked Russ. As The World Turns Written by : Robert Soderberg & Edith Sommer Produced by : Joe Wilmore Kim Dixon begged her husband John to let her go and insisted a marriage relationship with him would disgust her. John found Kim packed and ready to move but he dialed Jen’s number and Kim realized he would go through with his threat – John knew that Kim slept with Bob Hughes, her sister’s husband and bore his child whom she miscarried -. Kim backed down then saw a minister Rev. Booth explaining about the one night stand with Bob before her marriage. He said he would talk to John but John was furious. When a Mrs. Wilson called Rick Ryan at 1 a.m. he told her it was indigestion but at 3 a.m. John was called: it was a coronary. Mrs. Wilson’s sister, Marsha Davidson was an important social contact for John who took care of Mrs. Wilson. Kim was disgusted that John was concerned for Mrs. Wilson only because of her sister’s patronage. Jay Stallings was cleared of all involvment in the murder attempts on Lisa Shea and he tried to buy into the construction company. He was turned flat and bought up the owner Mr. Herschel’s big note. Grant Colman admitted he wanted a future with Lisa and went to San Francisco to free himself from his ex-wife. Then he asked Lisa if she had ever considered Jay might be in love with her. She laughed but Jay said to himself he would win her. Tom Hughes, Lisa’s son from her first marriage to Bob Hughes, felt he was penalized for working in Grant Colman’s department at the family law firm. His wife Carol was afraid that Tom would quit and felt part of Tom’s discontent was the fact she was unable to have a child. Lisa tried to convince Grant into giving Tom a raise but he refused. Dr. Susan Stewart was working with Dr. David Stewart on an antibody research project and tried to impress her ex-father-in-law. Mark was becoming annoyed at the way she was hiding their relationship but she explained she could not give Dan any ammunition to open the custody case. Days Of Our Lives Written by : William J. Bell Produced by : Betty Corday Maggie Hansen was having nightmares about her husband Marty being Mickey Horton. Dr. Strothers wrote saying surgery could help her walk again but she felt she could not risk going back to Salem. Later, she saw she was late by the calendar and Marty and see were sure she was pregnant. Marty ordered a law correspondance course and Maggie feared he might begin to remember he was a lawyer. Dr. Tom Horton, Mickey’s father, hired a detective to locate Mickey which upsets Bill, Mickey’s brother who was in love with Mickey’s wife, Laura. Elderly heart patient, Ivy Howell learned her sister was ill and penniless in Paris and asked Dr. Greg Peters to go with her to bring her home. This angered his wife Susan terribly. The night before leaving, Greg even spent the night with another one of Dr. Neil Curtis’ patients, Amanda Howard whose husband’s recent death caused her deep depression. He convinced her to see Dr. Laura Horton to discuss why she called herself Miss Howard. Neil Curtis had been telling Amanda she needed a psychiatrist because she felt guilty over the fact she was having an affair before her husband’s death. Meanwhile, Susan was resentful of Greg’s departure and her daughter, Annie, was burning up with fever. Annie had a rupture appendix and Bill was called to do the surgery. However, Annie had peritonitis and went into a coma. Julie Banning’s family was quite off balance by her sudden elopement with Bob Anderson. Her mother Addie Williams was shocked to learn that Julie did not believe she never knew Julie and Doug Williams – Addie’s husband but Julie’s former flame - were in love when she married him. When Bob learned his ex-wife Phyllis of his remarriage, she sarcastically told him she already knew. She refused his financial help. Julie was touched by Bob’s generosity. At Doug’s place, Phyllis confronted Julie. Mary, Bob and Phyllis’ daughter came home and was stunned to learn of Bob’s marriage. Mary and Julie accidently met and Mary accused Julie of long range plan to trap Bob and take him everything he got. The Doctors Written by : Robert & Eileen Mason Pollock Produced by : Joseph Stuart A reporter, Miss Harris, sneaked into Dr. Althea Davis’ room and spilled the fact about her daughter Penny’s arrestation. Nick Bellini managed to calm her and Penny was released on bail. Lawyer Luke McAllister tried to push Penny to remember the shooting but she insisted she could not. Nick explained to Luke how John Morrison – Althea’s husband who was shot to death - refused surgical consent when Althea was ill but it did not matter because Steve and Carolee Aldrich had heard Penny threatening John’s life. Police Lt. Cadman learned John was drunk and had phoned to find out when Nick was back. D.A. Otis replaced Cadman on the case because he did not want to rush for an indictment. Ann Larimer was unconfortable over Nick helping Althea. She had put $40.000 for Penny’s bail and Althea returned her money but not Nick’s. Carolee begged Ann to level with Nick about the death of her former husband. Margo Stewart found the perfect apartment for her husband, Alan and her but she neglegcted to mention the $5000 condition that they purchase the furniture. She called his mother Ellie in Hawaii to borrow the money. Dr. Toni Powers was ecstatic to receive a letter from Mike saying he hoped she had forgiven her. Toni had just discovered she was pregnant. Capt. Zeb Kirk arrived in town with the news Mike was killed in a fire. Toni refused to believe it and Steve told her she had to release her grief for the baby’s sake. Dr. Matt Powers, Mike’s father, suffered too and he distanced himself from wife and daughter, Maggie and Greta. Steve and Carolee were overjoyed when the courts approved her petition for adoption. Their son, Erich arrived home and said he had learned his friend John Robert was adopted and thought that was terrible. Heartbroken, Steve and Carolee had no idea what to do. The Edge Of Night Written by : Henry Slesar Produced by : Erwin Nicholson The police learned Mr. Roth had an offer to buy him out a few days before the accident that forced him to sell his laundromat but Johnny Dallas convinced himself there was nothing wrong with his new associates. Mike Karr asked Johnny to go undercover for the police but he refused. Adam Drake’s TV speech revived the word charisma and Geraldine Whitney reported Edward Hanley, the chairman of the national committee had dropped support of opponent Pete Quinn to support Adam. Ben Travis, Adam’s father-in-law, told his companion, Morlock that he could not succeed in getting Adam to drop the campaign. Morlock reminded Ben he owed him something since he was the one who got him out of prison. After Adam had enough signatures to enter the primary, he was stabbed. Geraldine was emotionally involved with Kevin Jamison and had him move into her mansion when he suffered from flu. She kept calling him Keith – one of her deceased sons - and discouraged his girlfriend Phoebe Smith from seeing him. Tiffany – who was Geraldine’s daughter-in law as she was married to Geraldine’s other deceased son, Colin - begged Geraldine not to try to recreate Keith in Kevin and Colin in Adam because she could end up falling in love with Adam. Vic Lamont decided he had to talk to his future ex-wife, Laurie before proposing to Kay Reynolds but Laurie was with Johnny and as Vic walked by, he saw them kissing. He therefore asked Kay to marry him. Kay made sure Johnny was forced to tell Laurie he and Kay were getting married. When the divorce was granted, Vic got drunk and Laurie finally told Johnny she loved him. Danny Micelli, Johnny’s bartender and Babs Werner, a young waitress who had a crush on Johnny were discovering how much they had in common and were falling in love. She said yes when he proposed to her. Martha Marceau told her husband Bill that the private adoption included $1.400 for reimbursement for expenses to Taffy Sims and borrowed money from Liz Fields. The baby, Jennifer, came home with the Marceaus and Bill was tickled pink by his daughter. Jim Fields learned from his wife Liz the truth about the money. Lawyer Fairchild assured Martha that Taffy left town but she showed up at Martha’s doorstep demanding more money. Bill insisted Fairchild set up a meeting with Taffy about blackmail. General Hospital Written by : Bridget & Jerome Dobson Produced by : James Young Jane Dawson finally told her husband Howie that she got nauseous when it came time to make love. He was furious but she added that he only thought of himself and that his secret vasectomy proved it. Dr. Peter Taylor comforted Jane. Jessie Brewer maneuvered Diana and Peter Taylor into comforting a patient, Mrs. Allison about to have a hysterectomy. Peter later visited Diana saying he couldn’t stop thinking about them. When Martha was brought into the conversation, it was obvious Peter only saw Martha as Phil’s child. Peter told Dr. Lesley Williams he was not able to accept Martha. Diana did not feel ready to date Dr. Joel Stratton. Joel brought Chinese food to her home and explained his brother Owen sacrified his education to pay for Joel’s medical school and resented it. Meanwhile, Lesley was annoyed at Nurse Augusta McLeod’s obvious play for Peter. Dr. Jim Hobart arranged to do the Farnsworth by-pass surgery. He told his wife Audrey the pain was less when he had a few drinks. When Dr. Steve Hardy learned of the pain Jim was having in the surgery, he called Joel to scrub and go in. Jim was furious and arrived home drunk. He considered quitting but Audrey talked him out of it. Considering Joel a threat to his professional future, Jim wrote a letter to the hospital board accusing him of endangering the patient’s life by forcing him to relinquish the surgery. Steve tried to stop the action and told Audrey that Joel was not the only one who thought he should take over. Steve could not attend the Chinese ballet he had received tickets for and gave them to Dr. Henry Pinkham who invited Augusta. One of the dancers slipped Henry a note saying: “Dr. Hardy, please help me” and collapsed at Henry’s feet. The Chinese ballet manager only allowed the dancer to go to the hospital with a body guard as she was the fiancee of a high government official. Steve and Jessie discovered the handwriting on the note matched the enveloped he had recieved. Steve recalled the coins received with the tickets were similar to those he played a game with while in China. He took the coins to the patient, Mai Ling who indicated she knew his parents. Reporter Kira Faulkner tried unsuccessfully to press Steve for information about Mai Ling. Kira’s mother accused her of placing too much value on money and power. Guiding Light Written by : Robert Cenedella Produced by : Lucy Ferri Rittenberg Victoria Jackson borrowed money from her ex-husband Steve and she thanked him for letting their daughter Leslie think she was his biological daughter. She hoped he had a little revived feeling for her and he admitted he did to some degree. In England, she saw Dr. Olds about the condition of Alex, her lover, being treated for severe depression. Victoria finally saw him and they reassured each other of their love. She admitted being in America for the money. She said nobody would know about his illness. Steve confessed to Leslie his feelings for Victoria were awakening again. Mike Bauer, Leslie’s husband, had to go to Paris on business and decided to take Leslie so that they could visit Victoria and her shop in London. Janet Norris was apprehensive about leaving the hospital. Dr. Sara Werner said no intimate relationship with her husband, Ken for at least a month and Janet realized she felt relieved. She tried to rebuild the relationship with Ken but she kept pulling back when he tried to kiss her. Holly Bauer, Ken’s sister, contined to believe her only worth to her husband Ed was physical. She felt left out and only. Roger Thorpe sent his father Adam an Easter card. Adam and his wife, Barbara – Ken and Holly’s mother - wondered if it was a feeler to his position with them. Joe Werner finally told Kit Vestid he was going south alone. Kit refused to accept it and insisted they loved each other. Kit refilled her sleeping pill prescription and planned to eliminated Sara the way she did Charlotte. Mike had Sara filed withdrawal action to stop her divorce since he had not complied with her request for a meeting. Kit succedded in drugging Sara and she told her she was killing her as she already killed Charlotte. Joe learned Kit kept from him the fact Sara wanted a meeting and he called Sara’s house. Barely conscious, she managed to knock the phone off the hook and said she was dying. Kit realized what happened and took a gun. Joe arrived and Sara told him what Kit did. In the struggle, Kit shot herself and Joe passed out. The ambulance took them to hospital. Ed was called but Holly did not tell him as it was his first night home. He was furious when he learned and peformed a chest surgery on Joe because Kit shot him before dying. Sara told Mike and Peggy Fletcher that Kit confessed murdering Charlotte. How To Survive a Marriage Written by : Anne Howard Bailey Produced by : Charles W. Fries & Peter H. Engel Peter Willis was furious after learning his wife, Joan lied about taking pills to conceive a baby. She said he forced her to lie. Rick Lewis started coming on too strongly and she replied they had to stop because it was going too far. Peter walked in and threatened to kill Rick assuming they were having an affair. Joan went out and got drunk. Tony DeAngelo and Chris Kirby badgered Peter to seeing him from Joan’s eyes, that she was a woman who was terrified of having a baby and was sure her husband only loved her to have a child. Peter and Joan began to talk with real understanding. Chris and Tony were spending more time together and Julie Franklin was terrified Tony was falling for Chris. She made it clear to Chris that she and Tony were lovers. Tony told Chris it was not her fault that Julie resented their friendship. Julie was upset when she received a message from Tony saying he left for San Francisco because his brother was ill. Chris was furious when her ex-husband Larry came to her apartement while her mother Monica was babysitting and took Lori with him. Sandra Henderson, Larry’s lover, did not like Larry’s obsession with his daughter and discussed his irrational behaviour with Peter. Lori did not adjust to the situation and ran away from school. Chris and Larry fought over this issue and Larry asked for a reconciliation. Chris told him to wait. Larry was hurt when he was told he was transferrered to Detroit and he told Sandra he did not want her to go with him. Peter offered to help her find another job. At Peter’s office, Chris met high powered exec Harry Forrester who was in town for two days. He invited her to dinner and took her home to the champagne he provided in advance. Dr. Loeb told Tony he was ordering a series of tests to verify that multiple schlerosis diagnosis for Alex Kornos. Alex accused his father of ordering the attack on Julie and when he admitted it, Alex ordered his father out. Sure he was dying, he was upset but Julie explained the disease could go into remission. Mr. Kronos cut off his financial support. Alex left a note saying it was best for everyone and left. He tried to get Stan, the henchman but ended up on the floor. Julie and Tony found him and took him back to the hospital. Love Of Life Written by : Claire Labine & Paul Avila Mayer Produced by : Jean Arley The professional hitman hired by Jeff Hart, Phil, locked Van Sterling and her niece Cal Aleata in his meat plan cold room. Van scremed she would not give him. Van was released and Meg – Van’s sister and Cal’s mother - demanded that Van gave it up for the family’s safety but Van refused. Howells went to television to appeal to whoever was threatening Van to stop and the appeal looked sincere. Phil stole Cal’s keys and the masked man gained entry but he did not realize Meg and Van were wearing identical clothes and he choked Meg. Van arrived and scared him off. Jeff was furious. Cal and Betsy Crawford discovered that Howells’ firm and meat companies had the same board of directors. Cal told this to David Hart, Jeff’s son, who told his father and Phil. Realizing Bruce Sterling – Van’s husband - was her source of strength, Jeff and Phil decided he would be the next target. Kate Phillips concealed her condition from her husband Dan as she was determined to make her second album before the surgery. She was rushed to the hospital following the recording session and the nodules were found malign. She was told x-ray treatment would be 75 % chance of cure, surgery 90%. Dan insisted she would choose surgery but she feared it would keep her from singing again. He pleaded for him and their daughter Rebecca. Diana Lamont was virtually beside herself in her probelm. She begged her husband, Charles to attend Dr. Chandler’s sex therapy. But he refused. He finally reluctantly agreed to tell his side and Chandler said he could not help them if Charles did not really cooperate. Diana suggested they backed off from sex for a while. Diana and lawyer Jamie Rollins turned to each other and found moments of happiness in their hours together. Betsy really liked Jamie but he only valued her as a friend. Betsy confided this to Cal who later saw Jamie with Diana and began to sense there was more between them than just friendship. One Life To Live Written by : Gordon Russell Produced by : Doris Quinlan Since Victor Lord has made Steve Burke boss at The Banner during his illness, Viki – Victor’s daughter - took a leave of asbence to ease the tension but Steve was too critic and she left. Her godfather, Laslow, arrived from Europe and she explained the situation. Laslow tried to convince Steve to let her go but Steve and John Douglas decided Joe Riley should work out of the Washington office for a few weeks. Victor was furious when Steve suggested Laslow might have been right. Julie Toland tried to convince Cathy Craig to tell Joe about the baby before aborting. She refused because she did not want Joe to feel he had duty. Anna Craig – Cathy’s step-mother - figured out what was wrong with Cathy and she admitted it but made her promise not to tell Jim, Cathy’s father and Anna’s husband. When Jim realized something was wrong, Cathy had disappeared. Vinnie Wolek gave Wanda Webb an engagement ring. Rachel Wilson’s lab tests were inconclusive and she collapsed at The Banner office. Steve rushed her back to the hospital where Dr. Larry Wolek discovered a lump under her arm and ordrered a biopsy which showed she had Hodgkins Disease. He started her immediately on radiation therapy. Melinda Cramer had a dream that deceased Meredith Wolek was crying over her loneliness for her son Danny. When she babysat Danny, Melinda told him she had a special place to show him. Larry realized she was acting weird and he called Dr. Polk who said she was retreating from reality. Larry found Melinda and Danny had been gone for hours. Dorian Cramer, Melinda’s sister, recalled Melinda speaking of the dream and she went to Llanfair with Larry and they found Melinda and Danny: she wanted Danny to be close to his mom. Melinda realized what she did was wrong and feared she had lost Larry’s friendship. Dorian assured Melinda that her relationship with Mark Toland was over but Melinda did not believe her. Dorian was supposed to meet Mark but Melinda followed them. Julie confided to Cathy that Mark was making excuses to be alone and feared there was another woman and she thought it could be Nurse Susan Barry. Search For Tomorrow Written by : Theodore Apstein Produced by : Bernie Sofronski Jo Vincente was appointed head of the personal department at the hospital over the chagrin of her assistant, Miss Royce who thought she earned the position due to pull with Dr. Bob Rogers. Miss Royce sensed nurse Stephanie Wilkins could be an ally. Len Whiting was upset to learn that his wife Patti – Jo’s daughter - who was under treatment for a potentially dangereous pregnancy, had suffered terrible headaches he had not be informed of. He tried to convince her to reconsider an abortion. Stephane made it clear to Patti that it was Len who wanted the abortion not her. Len was upset at Stephanie’s encouraging but did not know Stephanie only tried to remain at Henderson to be close on Dr. Tony Vincente and keep up the pressure about the affair they had ten years ago. For Tony it was only an unfortunate interlude during his miserable marriage with Marcy. Jennifer Pace was disappointed when Scott Phillips told her she couldn’t draw more money from her college fund without her mother’s approval. When Gary Walton talked about possibly giving up medicine, Jennifer insisted he had more determination than that. Bruce Carson told Gary that Jennifer would break up if he left medicine. The ordeal of Suzi Martin’s illness brought Eunice, her mother, closer to John Wyatt again but Eunice was growing aware of the gossip about John’s blond mistress. Eunice said her sister Jo she thought of marrying John to stop the gossip. She wanted to talk with her estranged husband Doug one more time but as Scott promised his father, he refused to let her do. Eunice told John that she realized Doug was out of their lives and she accepted to marry him. Scott was very afraid of the result the news would have on Doug. Liza Walton who cared for Eric during Kathy’s business trip to California, was upset about his suddenly relationship with Mr. Hayward. Scott felt there was nothing wrong but Liza told Bruce that Hayward made her uncomfortable. Scott decided to visit Kathy in L.A. since her merger was taking much longer. When a storm broke out in Hernderson, Hayward came over with flashlights and remained with Liza and Eric until the rain was over. Scott was losing clients but refused John’s offers of help. Janet Collins, Liza and Gary’s mother, was shocked at her father’s, Stu, new dating companion because Miss Markhyam was young and quite beautiful. Gary and Wade – Janet’s husband - were impressed but Ellie Harper was miserable. Somerset Written by : Roy Winsor / Robert J. Shaw Produced by : Lyle B. Hill When Eve Lawrence brought Julian Cannell a sample fashion column for the paper he showed it to Andrea Moore but did not tell Eve wrote it because Andrea’s friendship with Edith Mercer would prejudice her against it. Andrea liked the column but upon learning Eve wrote it, she insisted that she would never write for the paper. Julian and Andrea quarrelled and she hired Greg Mercer as a writer. Andrea was then furious to learn Julian sold Eve’s column to the nearby Fort Perry Argus. With Ben Grant’s advice, Andrea realized her mistake and apologized to Eve. Julian had begun to see Eve but told Andrea he was in love with her. Ellen Grant told her friend Gretchen something seemed to be wrong for her daughter Jill in Boston. Mitch Farmer, Jill’s husband, sat silently for hours and Jill would not talk about it. Gretchen shared her own worries about her son Bob’s marriage. Greg had been brought to Somerset for orthopedic surgery on a knee. Ironically, Eve’s daughter, Heather, met him and they hit it off. Eve was distressed to see how much Heather liked Greg and tried to discourage her from seeing him. Edith was beside herself at Greg’s interest in Heather and threatened to throw him out. Mark, Edith’s husband, asked Greg not to see Heather for Edith’s sake but did not explain why. When worker Martin Nell told Mrs. Hilda Benson he had to leave, she asked him to stay to manage her farm estate, Whispering Beeches. Ben Grant, as Mrs. Benson’s lawyer, told Martin he was authorized to offer him $7.500 a year. Ben realized Mrs. Benson was very leery of Martin and could not understand why Martin and her paid companion, Stephanie constantly fought. She did not realize this fighting was staged to prevent her from realizing they were working together to fleecer her out of her money. She cast Tony and Ginger Cooper’s astrological charts and loved Ginger’s. Martin told Stephanie his plan would do well if the Coopers moved in if they could keep Tony and Mrs. Benson at odds. Martin gave Tony a very negative picture of Mrs. Benson upsetting him to the point where he warned Ginger to keep baby Joe away from her. The agreement on the cottage was no rent for six months if the did all the repairs. They agreed. The Young And The Restless Written by : William J. Bell Produced by : William J. Bell & John Conboy Before leaving for Paris, Marianne Rouland, Pierre’s sister, told Stuart Brooks that Dr. Snapper Foster was the father of the child Sally – Pierre’s widow - was carrying. Stuart confronted Snapper who refused to either deny or admit. When Sally learned what Marianne did, she went to Stuart and his wife Jennifer explaining she got pregnant to trap Snapper but realizing how much he loved their daughter Chris, she married Pierre. She added she would be leaving Genoa City. However, Snapper learned of Sally’s suicide attempt by gas in her early months of pregnancy and he insisted she remained in town until the baby was born. Chris was angry at her father’s attitude about Snapper’s protectiveness of Sally but Stuart was furious to learn that Sally was staying in town. Lawyer Greg Foster continued to press Gwen Sherman for a date and she explained she distrusted men as after her mother died her father informed her he was never married and took off. She tried to discourage Greg to get closer. He was confused when a man arrived at Gwen’s apartment ignoring she was a call girl. Kay Chancellor told Jill about her strorybook first marriage to Gary Reynolds and her marriage after Gary’s death to Phillip Chancellor. Jill was impressed by Phillip and he was protective of her realizing she was innocent about men. Jill managed to keep Kay from drinking all day and when Phillip arrived home he was encouraged. But when he was preparing to make love to his wife, she took one drink and another and she passed out when Phillip returned from the shower. Lorie Brooks hid the love letter and concert ticket her sister Leslie sent to Brad Elliot and implied Leslie forgot. When Leslie called just before the concert to find out why Brad wasn’t in Detroit, Lorie answered and made it clear Brad was interested in her, Lorie. Leslie was in shock and so overcome that she had to be led off the stage. She went to New York and wandered through Central Park in confusion. Her handbag was stolen and she spent the night in the rain calling for help. A policeman found her but she was incoherent and taken to Manhattan’s Psychatric Hospital where she was diagnosed as a possible mani-depressive and put in an observation ward as Jane Doe as she had no ID. She was confused when a young orderly tried to make love to her. Meanwhile, Lorie was taking advantage of Leslie’s absence to get closer to Brad. She admitted she had finished her book and would probably be more successful than Leslie. She also said she thought she was pregnant.

The episode is terrific. Both storylines (Victor and his mother, Traci's suicide attempt) are really fascinating ! Characters involved are: Victor, Nikki, Kay, Cora, Danny, Cricket, Traci, Lauren, Gina, Amy, Tim.

Exactly ! I only remember the credits and the music !

Oh there was an Italian soap which used to do that. Incantesimo. It aired in France for a while.

Thanks ! I have the book. Will check

I enjoyed the 3 times a week. In general it allows people to follow more soaps when they are reduced on schedule.

Mitchell Sherman was first mentioned in July 1975, after Philip’s death. Gwen was back in early 1976 for a very short stint but I have found anything about them being related. Do you still have the cast photo ? I don’t think I have ever seen it.

I will post more of 1975 as soon as I can. To keep you waiting, some 1974 from my archives I already posted 10 years ago. MARCH 1974 All My Children Written by : Agnes Nixon Produced by : Bud Kloss Kitty Davis was hurt by her husband Nick’s insistence that their marriage was over. She ran away and collapsed in the snow. Phil Brent found Kitty, his step-mother and took her to Margo Flax’s when she accepted the end of her marriage. Anne Martin was horrifed when Paul, her husband, told her he was planning to divorce. She realized he had assumed she had chosen Nick. She sneaked out of the hospital and police realized she left intentionally because she withdrew money from her bank account. Secretary Mona Kane blurted out to Anne’s mother, Phoebe Tyler, that Nick gave Ann up so she could have a child. Phoebe refused to fire Mona as Charles asked and Mona was distraught by what she had unintentionally said. Paul rejected the possibility that Anne might not want a divorce. Mona reluctantly agreed to testify to her daugther Erica Kane Martin’s adultery with Jason. Erica drank too much and broke down. She begged Jeff Martin, her former husband, to reconsider reconciliation but he refused. The divorce was finalized and Jeff and Mary Kennicott jubilantly planned for their marriage. Tara Tyler sent Phil Brent a letter saying she did not meet him at the motel because she did not love him but because she did. She could not betray her husband Chuck. Phil rushed to California and Tara explained the baby was her first consideration. Despite her desire to tell Phil the truth, she remained faithful to her marriage. Phil returned him telling his mother Ruth Martin the baby could be his. Erica and Phil became closer in commiseration over their mutual unhappy lives. Erica went straight to Chuck telling him she hoped she would remain friends with Tara and him. An EPA job offer made Philip reconsider his decision to leave Pine Valley but Ruth was upset to see Erica near her son. Erica even told Tara she and Phillip were close. Another World Written by : Harding Lemay Produced by : Paul Rauch Janice Frame told Lenore Curtin that Robert Delaney still loved her and left town. Pat Randolph and her mother Liz Matthews maneuvered Robert and Lenore into being alone together. Lenore explained her dead husband, Walter did terrible things and Robert made her see it was not her fault. They began their wedding plans. Iris Carrington was recovering from a nervous breakdown. She agreed to see her estranged husband Elliot who asked her to save their marriage but she did not want. Elliot then moved to London to be a foreign correspondant and Iris stayed in Bay City with Dennis. Steve Frame assured lawyer John Randolph not to worry about travel expenses for Gerald Davis in his divorce hearing and avoided explaing how he convinced Gerald to testify against his own daughter Rachel. Rachel felt betrayed by her father’s testimony and accused him of lying that she used Jamie, the son she had with Steve, to get to see Steve when he was married to Alice. The judge dissolved Rachel and Steve’s mariage and custody of Jamie would be decided later. Rachel’s mother, Ada, thought Gerald was lying. Alice’s mother, Mary Matthews, did not want Steve to remarry Alice. Jamie told Dennis Carrington that Rachel was sad because of Alice and he began avoiding Steve. John asked Steve if he bribed Gerald and went to San Francisco where Gerald confessed. Then, John confronted Steve: he would tell the judge the truth if he did not do it himself. Very upset by the fighting, Jamie ran away. Tim McGowan used Steve’s problems to his own advantage. He implied John did not have Steve’s interests at heart and he siphonned off new clients before they could reach John. As The World Turns Written by : Robert Soderberg & Edith Sommer Produced by : Joe Wilmore Mrs. West asked Dr. Bob Hughes if she could return to him since Dr. John Dixon has foisted her on to Rick Ryan. John accused Bob of trying to challenge his position as head of medical services. Jennifer, Bob’s wife, was upset when her son, Rick defaulted on a loan Bob cosigned for him. John maligned Bob and Rick to Kim Dixon, his wife and Jennifer’s sister, and told her it was none of her business. However, he continued to force Kim to socialize and was very upset when she walked out on a dinner with a couple whose views on basic values disgusted her. She later said their marriage was a mistake and should be ended. John answered he knew who the father of the child she miscarried was. John made it clear that Jen would learn if she divorced. A very suspicious delivery man was found near the bookstore and when Lisa Shea described the man to Jay Stallings, he realized he was his stepfather, Gil Stallings. Nobody believed that Gil was the one who tried to kill Lisa twice. A night, Gil locked Lisa in a closet and told Jay he married her mother for the money but the money was left to Jay. He would kill Lisa and made it look as though Jay killed her and then killed himself. Grant Colman learned form Salt Lake City police Gil inherited Jay’s legacy and realized Jay and Lisa were in danger. He surprised Gil who had shot Jay. Jay was hospitalized and Gil was killed escaping. Ellen and David Stewart discussed their son Dan staying in England because of his ex-wife, Susan’s threats to take their daughter Emmy from him. Ironically, a mutual research project between hospital meant David might be working closely with Susan. Days Of Our Lives Written by : William J. Bell Produced by : Betty Corday Jim Phillips’ detective found his ex-wife Linda was living with a man in Boston but he was not Mickey. Bill Horton begged Mickey’s wife, Laura not to let her guilt feelings destroy their love. At “Marty” ’s urging – suffering from amnesia, Mickey Horton was living in a farm and called himself Marty Hansen -, Maggie Simmons visited Dr. Strothers in Salem to see if her paralysis could be cured. In Salem, she overheard Laura and Mickey’s father, Dr. Tom Horton, discussing Mickey’s disappearance and realized Mickey was Marty. She learned he had a wife and a child but accidently saw Bill, Mickey’s own brother, and Laura kissing. She came back to the farm horrified and feared Mickey might remember his life. Ironically, Dr. Strothers told Tom his patient left before he could tell her she could be helped. With her husband Dr. Greg Peters working evenings, Susan spent time with Greg’s brother, Eric for his book. She did not realize his writing is autobiographical. With her mother Addie’s remission, Julie Banning was shocked when she realized how much she wanted Doug – her mother’s husband - and her together again. She told Don Craig that she then wished to marry him but he refused. She ran into Bob Anderson and told him that if she wanted her, she would marry him. Ironically, Bob’s estranged wife, Phyllis came to Julie for advice about Bob’s divorce request. Largely on the basis of Julie’s advice, Phyllis decided to give Bob his divorce. Julie told Addie she would not destroy her future. Julie and Bob visited Doug’s place announcing they were eloping to Portofino. Unable to explain this to Phyllis, Julie mailed her a letter. Phyllis told Laura that she couldn’t take it if Bob remarried right away. In Portofino, Julie and Bob married but their wedding night was a disaster. Phyllis found the later and hysterically smashed up Bob’s studio. The Doctors Written by : Eileen & Robert Mason Pollock Produced by : Joseph Stuart Erich Aldrich persistently asked questions about his birth. Carolee and Steve Aldrich told him his biological mother, Karen Werner, died in a plane crash and Carolee began the steps to formally adopt him. Thrilled over Lauri James’ recovery, Dr. Hank Iverson decided to return to his chirurgical career. Mike Powers wrote from the Seychelles to his parents, Drs. Matt and Maggie Powers, that he was a ship doctor, off pills and on his way home. His wife, Toni was sure he had not forgiven her. Margo Stewart assured her husband Alan she understood his desire to wait before having a child until he was sure their marriage was strong enough. He did not realize she was actually trying to conceive. Ann Latimer admitted being jealous of Dr. Althea Davis. Althea and Dr. Nick Bellini replayed the tape they found on Penny’s – Althea’s daughter - tape recorder and this time found John Morrison’s confession that he had conspired with Cathy Ryker to keep Althea from divorcing and pressure Nick into marrying Cathy. John threatened Nick into giving him the tape but Nick played the tape to Matt Powers who fired John on the spot. John encouraged a former patient of Matt’s to get even with him and got drunk. He forced his way into Nick’s apartment and pulled his gun. He insisted Nick call Matt, saying the confession was forced. Nick struggled with John and was knocked inconscious. Penny arrived after saying a friend she was so furious that she could kill John. John rushed for her and a shot was fired. She was found by the building superintendant the gun in her hand. Nick pleaded to the police that Penny was in shock but she was arrested. Nick raised bail and Adam Reynolds’ new associate, lawyer Luke McAllister would reprensent Penny. Nick concealed all this from Althea. The Edge Of Night Written by : Henry Slesar Produced by : Erwin Nicholson Benjamin Travis was released from prison into the custody of his daughter Nicole and her husband Adam Drake, inasmuch as he was terminally ill. He hired a male companion, Morlock Sevingy and attempted to persuade Adam to give up political ambitions in vain. He tried to make Nicole feel she had to stay with him while Geraldine Whitney monopolized Adam in setting up his senatorial campaign. Kevin Jamison was assigned to Adam’s campaign but his girlfriend, Phoebe Smith resented Geraldine’s over involvement in Kevin’s life. She showed him pictures of her late son Keith because of the similarity between the two young men. Tiffany, Keith’s widow, was horrified when she realized Geraldine was trying to turn Kevin into Keith and Adam into Colin – Keith’s brother - to have her sons back. Because of Nicole’s loneliness, Adam thought of giving up the campaign and Geraldine was afraid to lose Colin again. Police Chief Bill Marceau felt terrible that his inadvertent remark to Ada Chandler about not wanting to adopt ended their chances to ever adopt. A private attorney, Mr. Fairchild, approached Bill’s wife, Martha about a private adoption. He had Martha meet Taffy Sims, an unwed mother with a young child she could not keep. Taffy made it clear that she expected lot of money. Martha fell in love with Taffy’s daughter, Jennifer and asked Liz Fields to loan her the money. Liz agreed. Vic Lamont was annoyed that his wife Laurie was again playing piano at the New Moon Café and told Laurie he was filing for a divorce. Kay Reynolds’ father, Walter LePage, learned of this and expected Vic to propose to Kay. Floyd Porter switched his tactics with Johnny Dallas and talked about the loan Vic cosigned for him. To pay off Vic, Johnny decided to sell the club to the syndicate. Mike Karr, Laurie’s father, realized Floyd was involved with the syndicate and the Karrs began worrying about Laurie. The owner of a laundromat, Mr. Roth refused to sell to the syndicate and under the orders of his boss, Morlock ; Floyd broke Mr. Roth’s back. General Hospital Written by : Bridget & Jerome Dobson Produced by : James Young Dr. Peter Taylor realized he was lonely and missed Diana but he kept thinking her baby was Phil Brewer’s child by rape. Diana had started dating Dr. Joel Stratton but she was confused about his adamance about never marrying and getting children. Peter arrived at Diana to celebrate her graduation from nursing school but he saw her kiss Joel goodnight and left. Jane Dawson admitted to her husband Howie that the vasectomy and his affairs interfered with their physical relationship. This did not appease his anger and he stormed out. Dr. Jim Hobart was furious when Joel brought his own assistant to a surgery. Joel refused to operate on critically ill Mrs. Danbury without his own assistant. Feeling he was losing control of his cardiac unic during his recovery, Jim began to drink even more. His wife, Audrey was frightened and confided into Lee Baldwin, himself a former alcoholic, who offered his help. Jim asked a doctor in Boston to check on Joel’s background. Devastated at learning her doctor was the woman her husband had an affair with years ago, Florence persuaded her father Wyatt Chamberlain to smuggle Dr. Lesley Williams out of the hospital. Wyatt fired Gordon and Lesley explained Florence that she broke with Gordon as soon as she learned he was married. Chamberlain demanded Lesley’s resignation. Gordon begged Florence to believe he was ready to come back to her. She went into shock and rushed into surgery. She survived and planned her future with Gordon. Lesley hid her feelings. Dr. Steve Hardy received an envelope containing Chinese coins and tickets to a Chinese ballet. Steve, who was born in China, was puzzled. Guiding Light Written by : James Gentile Produced by : Lucy Ferri Rittenberg Dr. Ed Bauer convinced Janet Norris to confide to him and she told him of her husband Ken’s jealous accusation that she’d prefer Ed. She agreed to have the surgery on her back and refused to see Ken before the surgery. After the surgery, Ken told her he loved her and wanted a second chance. Janet answered she wanted their marriage to work. She asked Ed for advice. Needing to get away from the pressure, Ed planned to take a fishing trip vacation with his son, Freddie. Holly, Ed’s wife and Ken’s sister, resented this. Victoria Jackson receieved work from Dr. Clayton Olds that her lover Alex was not progressing as well as hoped and that more money would be needed. She asked her former husband, Steve for another loan for the shop and he gave her more than she asked. Their daughter, Leslie asked her mother if she was lonely all these years and Bert Bauer overheard Victoria trying to call Dr. Olds in London and wondered why she lied about who she called. Dr. Joe Werner despaired of being forced into a marriage commitment by Kit Vestid and secretly made arrangements to leave. Dr. Sara McIntyre advised Mike Bauer to tell Joe’s attorney she would not allow the divorce without a meeting with Joe. Horrified, Kit called Joe’s attorney and said Joe would see Sara. She started talking about visiting Charlotte’s grave but Joe only expressed gratitude to her, not love. Kit decided the only way to keep Joe was to kill Sara too. Mike told Breuner, Joe’s attorney that a woman called him instead of Joe himself. How To Survive a Marriage Written by : Anne Howard Bailey Produced by : Charles W. Fries & Peter H. Engel Larry Kirby was grateful that Sandra Henderson had come back and agreed to try again but he was depressed when he had to give Peter Willis money for Chris and Lori’s – his ex wife and his daughter - living expenses. He went to Chris and made love to her. He said he wanted to come back but she refused. Lori was sure her daddy was coming home. Sandra was egged on by Neil who told her not to be sure she’d get Larry. She went to Chris then begged Larry for assurance that he was not with Chris. Ironically, Larry found himself lying to his mistress about his wife the way he used to lie to his wife about his mistress. Lori was upset by the situation and told Larry that Chris liked Dr. Tony. Chris went on a job interview but her status as a divorcee made her not a good job prospect. Fran and Dave Bachman invited Ralph to dinner hoping he could give Chris a job. Peter wanted Chris to clear things with Larry about Lori then Larry said he wanted custody. Dr. Julie Franklin and Dr. Tony DeAngelo realized their relationship was deepening. Tony said Mr. Kronos that his son, Alex most probably had multiple sclerosis. Kronos refused the diagnostic and tried to convince his son to leave the hospital. Meanwhile, Julie was helping Alex put his ambivalent feelings toward his father and women into perspective. Kronos’ henchman pushed Julie into her apartment and began to beat her. The phone rang and Julie managed to scream help. Tony rushed over and fought the thug off. Alex vowed to kill the man responsible. Monica Courtland, Chris’ mother, told Tony Kronos was involved in shady deals. Joan Willis asked her husband Peter if he was only making love to her to conceive a child. She met Rick Lewis, a piano tuner and began to sing for him. She finally admitted to Peter she was not taking the hormone pills he thought she was. He was furious. The Bachmans argued with their daughter, Rachel over whether she can attend a party with an older college boy, Chuck they had not met. They finally let her go. When she returned, her parents could sense that there was something wrong. Love Of Life Written by : Claire Labine & Paul Avila Mayer Produced by : Jean Arley Dan Phillips learned from Candy Lowe that his wife, Kate had a second neurosis attack druing singing. Kate reluctantly agreed to take a week off. Rick Latimer, manager of the Club Victoria, tried in vain to change her mind. Kate secretly saw Dr. Goodrich who told her she had nodules on her throat. She refused to have this done until after the album setting and she asked Candy to get another vial of anesthetic throat spray. Howard Howells forced his way into Van Sterling’s home with his daughter, Cal, and begged Van not to press charges for attempted murder as his daughter needed him. Jeff Hart told Howard he was to handle it and was frightened Howard mailed a letter to Van and Cal in the event of his death. Meg, Van’s sister, was frightened of Jeff and tried to have Van to trop the charges in vain. Howard was arrested and Jeff hired a pro to get the case dropped. A fire in Van’s garage did not persuade her but then she found paint ressembling blood all over her bed. Learning Betsy Crawford, was investigating the case, Jeff asked his son David to keep and eye on Cal and Betsy. Meanwhile, the hired killer lured Van to an empty house. Diana Lamont admitted she and her husband Charles were having a sexual problem. Charles told Dan he could never satisfy his first wife and Dan suggested sex therapy but Charles refused to consider it. He kept telling Diana it was her problem. Jamie Rollins was devastated over the news his daughter, Debbie was accidently drowned in Minnesota. He talked to Diana and they turned to each other in a kind of need. One Life To Live Written by : Gordon Russell Produced by : Doris Quinlan Critically ill, Victor Lord asked her daughter Viki to retun to Steve Burke. Steve wanted her back and said Viki’s first husband Joe Riley he’d never give Viki a divorce. Viki was badly shaken when Victor, after recovering, placed Steve in charge of the newspaper. She found a letter Steve wrote the day before they were married in which he said his love for her was so great that if she wanted to leave someday, he would let her go. She showed him the letter but he refused the divorce. Steve and Cathy Craig commiserated over how wrong Joe and Viki were for each other. Cathy confided to her friend Julie Toland that she was pregnant with Joe’s child. Carla Hall began to respond to her husband Ed’s desire to adopt Josh West who began enthusiastic about being part of their family. Wanda Webb and Vinnie Wolek began to realize that they grew closer. Under Joe’s urging, Vinnie finally said “I love you” and they made plans to be married. Meanwhile, Rachel Wilson’s dizzy spells were quite frequent but Dr. Larry Wolek had to strongarm her into an examination. Learning Julie would be out of town over night, Dr. Dorian Cramer called Julie’s husband, Mark Toland and told him she was in love with him. Mark felt guilty about the situation. When Julie tried to reach Mark one night, he made excuses. Julie wanted to try to work out their marriage but Mark did not. Dorian pressed Mark about a medical conference in Cleveland so they could have a whole weekend together. Melinda, Dorian’s sister, had become very close to Julie and in sessions with Dr. Polk, her remarks about death made Dr. Polk fear she might be suicidal. He observed Melinda was possibly capable of acting out her own fantasies. Search For Tomorrow Written by : Theodore Apstein Produced by : Mary-Ellis Bunim Stu Bergman was dating Miss Markham to the mortification of his son, Tom, because he was Miss Markham’s pupil. In love with Stu, Ellie was also disappointed. Patti Whiting was treated for a dangerous pregnancy at Dr. Osmond’s Oakport clinic. She realized she could not return home to Seattle to husband and son, Len and Chris, but was thrilled when Nurse Stephanie Wilkins suggested she could go to Henderson. Osmond realized he did not know anything about Stephanie’s personal life when she wished she could go to Henderson. When Stephanie arrived, Dr. Tony Vicente recognized her as “Steffie”. John Wyatt told Eunice Martin he wanted to marry her but could not wait any longer. She could not commit herself and he stormed out. Doug Martin called Wade Collins and Bob Rogers from Washington saying the move to Washington was the right for him. Eunice was furious that Doug requested she not know where he was particularly when their daughter Susan became ill. John spent all night at the hospital with Eunice. Kathy Phillips was offered a major responsibility for her law film: a trip to Los Angeles. Scott, her husband, agreed she could not turn down this case. Liza Walton would care for Eric during the days. The boy had been spending lot of time with new neighbour Mr. Ralph Hayward and Liza worried but Scott did not. Carolyn Hanley was hurt when Liza’s brother, Gary Walton, told her he did not want to be tied down to one girl and seemed to be going steady with Jennifer Pace. Gary regretted Carolyn’s decision to move to another university and was having doubt about his medical career. Bruce Carson told him Jennifer would not go for him if he was not to be a doctor. Wade assured Gary he would be behind him. Jennifer asked Scott if her college fund allowance could be increased because she worked in the dorm but wanted to work less. Somerset Written by : Roy Winsor Produced by : Lyle B. Hill Heather Lawrence ran away from her mother’s – Eve - home and Ellen Grant realized her interest in her son, David. Eve’s chances of working out her marriage plans with Brad Bishop, Ellen’s father, could be improved by Heather’s absence and Ellen suggested Heather stayed with her. Ben, Ellen’s husband, made it clear that no remarks about Brad or Eve would be allowed at the Grants’. Realizing Edith Mercer’s insinuations that her husband, Mark and Eve had been lovers hurt her relationship with Brad, Eve insisted Mark convince Brad this was not so. Brad insisted he did not suspect Eve and Mark and wanted to marry Eve as planned. When Edith invited Brad to tea, Eve furiously insisted if he went, the marriage was off. The judge accepted and told the guests the wedding was postponed. Eve confronted Edith whose proof was a letter written by Eve to Mark. Eve insisted she did not sleep with Mark. She was furious that Edith showed the letter to Brad. Edith realized she might have been wrong and she tried to rebuild her life with Mark. Eve and Brad agreed to end the relationship hurt beyond repair. Brad suffered an exhaustive collapse. Heather moved back home to help her mother and Eve was deeply touched. Dr. Stan Kurtz suggested his niece Ginger and her husband, Tony Cooper, consider leasing the cottage at Mrs. Benson’s farm. Stephanie, Mrs. Benson’s companion plotted to fleech Mrs. Benson. Dr. Terri Martin felt something was wrong. Andrea Moore helped Julian Cannell get over the murder of Crystal Ames. Zoe, Julian’s wife, had been certified insane and Ben assured Julian he could get a divorce. Andrea admitted to Ginger that she wanted Julian but Julian invited Eve for a drink. The Young And The Restless Written by : William J. Bell Produced by : William J. Bell & John Conboy Sally Rouland told her husband Pierre she agreed they should sell the restaurant and move to Paris. She added Snapper Foster did not know about the child. However, Sally and Pierre were robbed and Pierre struggled with the robber when he tried to take Sally hostage. Pierre was injured and at hospital, did not respond to the neurological tests Dr. Brad Eliot gave him. He suddenly died. Marianne Meulot, Pierre’s sister arrived from France and vowed over Pierre’s body that Sally would pay. She told Sally she had no right to the restaurant and tried to throw her out. Stuart Brooks was upset to see Snapper comforting Sally and told his wife Jennifer he did not trust Snapper. Marianne was furious when Pierre’s will indicated Sally was the sole heir of the restaurant and made an appointment to see Stuart. Jill Foster was ecstatic over her new job but realized her boss, Kay Chancellor had a drinking problem. When Kay’s husband, Phillip Chancellor begged Kay to stop drinking, she refused. Jill was discouraged at Kay’s lack of response to their efforts. Gwen Sherman, Greg Foster’s mystery client, told him all she wanted from her aunt’s estate was money. She turned down Greg’s date invitations because he did not know dating men was her profession. Lorie Brooks was using her book manuscript to take Brad away from her sister, Leslie. When Leslie triumphaly returned from her piano debut, Lorie had prearranged a date with Brad which hurt Leslie to the core. Lorie told Brad that Leslie felt a musician could not divide herself between a husband and a career. When Leslie confronter her sister, she said Brad was helping her with her writing. At Brad’s suggestion, Leslie got him a ticket for her Detroit concert but Lorie managed to detour the ticket. Against his wishes, Brad began thinking of the things his ex, Barbara, never told him that drove him out of Chicago and of the operating room.

There are two other daily soaps in France : « Demain nous appartient » (tomorrow belongs to us - 2017-present), And « un si grand soleil » (such a big sun - 2018-présent). There are many soaps in South Africa. i tried watching « generations » years ago.

That is what I thought about Tad too but he probably first appeared in fall 1972. As the DNS was first published in December 1972, we can’t go further back

Bernice Robinson was played by Janis Young from October 1969 to January 1973. She arrived in Bay City as con artist Wayne Addison's ex-wife and she wanted to get money he owed her. She encouraged him to marry Liz Matthews for money. Wayne and Bernice finally decided to ally and she became Steve Frame's secretary to spy on him while Wayne wanted to con him. Walter Curtin, Lenore's ended up killing Wayne Addison in fall 1970 and Lenore was tried for this. Walter got her acquitted but died in a car crash. Lenore learned Walter's involvement in Wayne's death before Walter's own death and carried the secret for years (she fled town in 1975 when Carol Lamonte nearly found out the truth). Bernice, during this time had befriended Lenore. She then had an affair with a married John Randolph whose marriage to Pat was rocky at the time. When she was murdered, Pat was the first suspect but it was Bernice's lover, Mark Venable who killed her accidentally.

Exactly ! That is why I have been trying for years to have those complete since late 72 to late 75 before SOD appeared. Thanks Will ! If you allow me, I will write them down for my own archives.

DECEMBER 1972 ABC CBS NBC 11 :30 – 12 :00 am Love Of Life 12 :00 – 12 :30 pm Where The Heart Is 12 :30 – 1 :00 pm Search For Tomorrow 1 :00 – 1 :30 pm All My Children 1 :30 – 2 :00 pm As The World Turns 2 :00 – 2 :30 pm The Guiding Light Days Of Our Lives 2 :30 – 3 :00 pm The Edge of Night The Doctors 3 :00 – 3 :30 pm General Hospital Love Is A Many Splendored Thing Another World 3 :30 – 4 :00 pm One Life To Live The Secret Storm Return To Peyton Place 4 :00 – 4 :30 pm Somerset All My Children Written by: Agnes Nixon Produced by: Bud Kloss Nick Davis refused to marry Kitty Shea, pregnant with his child, because he was still in love with Anne Tyler. Kitty tried to get Mona Kane to intercede but after learning all the facts behind Nick and Anne’s divorce, Mona agreed with Nick. Kitty threatened to embarrass Nick with her pregnancy if he continued to refuse. Anne’s mental state was evident to her husband, Paul Martin and his brother and sister-in law, Joe and Ruth Martin were concerned with her. Her emotion strain culminated when she fled from home in fear of medical check-up by Joe and was found by Nick wandering in the streets. Paul was furious that Nick found Anne as he suspected his involvement in Ann’s condition. Anne refused suggestion that she see a psychiatrist and Nick persuaded Anne to meet him once more: they made love. He wanted to tell Paul but she wouldn’t allow it. Paul discovered that Nick had visited Anne at home and confronted her. She finally told Paul her divorce from Nick was a mistake due to Nick’s mistaken idea that he could never give her a child and Paul walked out. Erica Kane’s love affair with Jason Maxwell was very important to her and she was possessive depite his affirmation that he didn’t want ties. Her roomate Margo Flax tried to convince her Jason wasn’t the marrying kind but Erica wouldn’t believe it. Erica didn’t know that Margo’s daughter was Jason’s child. In Pine Valley for Tara Martin Tyler’s baby shower, Erica saw her husband Jeff Martin and they discussed divorce. Erica refused to waste career time in Reno so they would have time to file for divorce in home state. She surmised correctly that Jeff’s rush was due to his involvement with Mary Kennicott. Mary and Jeff were deeply concerned about their young patient, Tad, abandonned by his parents and in need of surgery. He feared his younger sister had been abandoned somewhere too. Tara’s labor was long and difficult and she finally had a baby boy. In gratitude, Chuck agreed in naming the baby Phillip instead of Charles Tyler IV. Ruth Martin, Phil’s mother was convinced the baby was not Chuck’s but Phil’s, but she said nothing. An army buddy of Phil’s visited Ruth and returned a book Phil left behind in Vietnam. In it, Ruth found a letter starting with “My darling wife…” Another World Written by: Harding Lemay Produced by: Paul Rauch Using the name Alice Talbot, Alice Matthews Frame found a governess position in New York, caring for young Dennis Carrington who had a serious heart ailment. He was the son of prominent journalist correspondent, Eliot Carrington. Mrs. Louise Goddard, the housekeeper, resented the budgenoning friendship between Alice and her employer and Alice’s secrecy about her past. Alice finally called her parents, Jim and Mary Matthews, in Bay City and told them she was well but was trying to forget her husband Steve forever. Ted Clark wanted to take the Chicago restaurant job if it was offered to him and sell the Fireside Inn. Steve Frame warned him he would not allow his young son Jamie to leave Bay City. Ted’s wife, Rachel Clark still secretly hoped that Steve would turn to her and with Jamie. She spent considerable time with Steve to Ted’s chagrin. She realized however that Steve was far from forgetting Alice. Lenore Moore, realizing that it was Bernice Robinson who was having an affair with John Randolph, confronted her to no avail. Lenore then confronted John explaining how Bernice told Pat, John’s wife, that she, Lenore, was having an affair with John in order to protect herself. Lenore then told John of Bernice’s past involvement with Lenore’s late husband, Walter Curtin and con man Wayne Addison in an attempt to swindle Steve. John confronted Bernice and she admitted she was once married to Wayne but insisted she had changed. John left her in anger and disgust to confess the truth to Pat. Realizing the whole story was about to come out, Bernice dumped her boyfriend Mark Venable, telling she was just using him. Furious, Mark accepted a new job in Washington, D.C., in order to get away from John’s law office. Desperate to see Pat before John, Bernice arranged to meet her at the Randolph home. Pat sneaked out of the hospital and fell asleep while waiting for Bernice. Pat’s mother, Mary alerted to look for a missing Pat and found Bernice’s body on the Randolph patio. Lenore arrived and they called the police. Before she learned the truth from John, Pat implicated Lenore in Bernice’s death. Police Lt. Gil McGowan assumed Lenore and John were having an affair until a returning Mark set him straight. Contrite Pat was grateful for Lenore’s friendship but McGowan was still suspicious of Lenore. Despire John’s pleads, Pat couldn’t bring herself to forgive John for his infidelity. As The World Turns Written by: David Lesan & Irna Phillips Produced by: Fred Bartholomew When surgery patient Maria died of an embolism, her brother policeman Joe Fernandez, in shock, shot Dr. Dan Stewart he held responsible for his sister’s death. Dan recovered but he broke his arm when he fell and surgeons could not be sure if Dan would regain the use of his arm. Dan decided not to prosecute Joe. Kim Sullivan, recovering from the same operation, subtly made a play for Dr. Bob Hughes whenever Jennifer, Kim’s sister and Bob’s new wife, was not present. Susan Baxter tried to convince her new husband, Bruce Baxter, to let her bring her daughter Emmy to their home during her ex-husband, Dan’s hospitalization but he refused. Susan was convinced she could find a way to convince him and Dan ordered Tom Hughes to make a full investigation of Bruce’s background in preparation for the permanent custody hearing. David Steward told his son Dan of his brother Paul’s death from brain tumor. David and his wife Ellen agreed that Paul’s widow, Liz Talbot Stewart should be free to be with Dan to help him through this traumatic period. Ellen pressed Liz to tell Dan the truth about her daughter Betsy – Betsy was indeed Dan’s daughter and not Paul’s as Dan believed. In his will, Paul had left his money to his daughter Betsy and his niece Emmy. Tom Hughes and his wife, Carol argued about marriage roles. Tom felt Carol should not be involved in his career decisions while she was adamant that she was entitled to an opinion. Tom’s grandparents, Nancy and Chris Hughes were overjoyed to receive a Christmas cable from their daughter, Penny explaining she had gone to Switzerland to think out the problems she and her husband, Anton Cunningham, were having. Don Hughes aksed Lisa Shea to marry him. She realized she didn’t love him but would like to be a full member of the Hughes family again. He gave her a ring but she refused to wear it yet. She knew she was in love with Wally Matthews but he told her he couldn’t ask her to marry him. Unkown to Lisa, Wally carried the guilt of having placed his enfant son out for adoption when his wife died in childbirth twenty years ago. He had tried in vain to locate his son. Don also ordered an investigation on Wally. Meanwhile, Carol and Tom tried to help their friend Peter Burton to locate his biological parents. They introduced him to Wally but Peter couldn’t relate to Wally’s beliefs and disliked him depite all of Wally’s efforts to reach him. Days Of Our Lives Written by: William J. Bell Produced by: Betty Corday Susan Martin decided against giving her child out for adoption and brought her home intending to tell her fiancé Greg that his brother Eric was the rapist in the park and the father of her daughter. However, Eric’s new closeness with Greg made it impossible for her to tell him. Susan named the baby Ann after Greg’s mother. Eric became very ill and in Greg’s absence, Susan rushed him to the hospital where he developed double pneumonia and didn’t respond to the treatment. He told Susan he was sorry and begged to see the baby. He insisted his mother would read his manuscript if he died but Susan was planning to bring the baby however. On Doug Williams’ advice, Scott Banning was beginning to treat his wife, Julie with a heavy hand. The suggestion of firmness appeared to be correct but Julie still hoped that someday Doug would return to her. Doug and Scott encouraged Julie and her mother, Addie Williams, to mend their relationship if only for David – Julie’s son - ’s sake if not their own and they agreed to try. Julie realized how much she loved David and was grateful she didn’t leave. Scott gave her an expensive fur coat for Christmas and she calculatingly gave Addie and Doug the portrait of Doug she painted. She learned Addie gave Doug a new watch to replace the engraved one Julie had given him last year. Mickey Horton, seeing Mary Anderson’s obvious interest in his brother Bill, tried to encourage this relationship but Bill was unaware of Mary’s infatuation. Julie warned Mary that Bill was in love with Laura Horton, who was married to Mickey, but Mary still turned down the marriage proposal of her longtime steady Bert Atwater. Laura and Bill were satisfied that their being apart convinced Laura’s son, Michael that Bill was no longer a threat to his parents’ marriage and he had reestablished his relationship with his Uncle Bill. The Doctors Written by: Eileen & Robert Mason Pollock Produced by: Allen Potter When Cathy Ryker Bellini refused to give her husband Nick a divorce, he told her he would file for an annullment based on fraud inasmuch as she knew her expected child was dead when she married him. She tried to commit suicide but he found her in time and rushed her to the hospital where she recovered in the psychiatric ward. Dr. John Morrison assigned himself to her case in order to learn whether she had spilled the information that he had been able to walk since long. Cathy was wrongly convinced that Dr. Steve Aldrich killed her unborn child and decided to strike back at him through his daughter Stephanie. Cathy blackmailed John into convincing Dr. Matt Powers to let her come back to work in the hospital. She began by checking to learn when Stephanie will be in the hospital for her checkup. John felt sure that his wife, Dr. Althea Davis Morrison would not leave him because Nick wanted nothing to do with her but she had told Matt’s wife, Dr. Maggie Powers she was still planning to leave John as soon as his recovery was complete because she didn’t love him. Toni Ferra was still convinced that she would turn out to be a tramp. Mike and Maggie couldn’t convince her it was not true. Dr. Vito McCray, fired by Nick, left Madison for good. Emma Simpson, Carolee Aldrich’s mother, planned to marry her boss Andrew Winters and after a South America honeymoon cruise, would move to Wyndham Falls to run a flower nursery. Mona Aldrich, Steve’s mother, provoked continual disagreements with her daughter-in-law, Carolee and implied to Steve that the fault lied in Carolee’s unreasonableness. Mona disapproved of Carolee whom she felt was beneath Steve socially and Mona felt Steve should be in private practice. Steve tried to mediate but Carolee realized she got the blame in the end. Mona suddenly moved to the Parkview Hotel so Carolee appeared at fault again. To compound this impression, Mona sent Carolee a new car for Christmas, making it seem again that any misunderstanding had to be on Carolee’s part. During a hospital mobile unit trip, Dr. Hank Latimer saved Matt from a drug holdup by a junkie, but Hank was shot in the shoulder. His subsequent almost total arm paralysis made him despondent as he felt his surgical career was over. Nick Bellini tried to bolster his spirits and planned exploratory neurosurgery. The Edge Of Night Written by: Henry Slesar Produced by: Erwin Nicholson Kevin Jamison, depressed by his job seeking failures due to his prison record, attempted with his friend Paulie to rob Claybank, the Hillyer home. Elly Jo, Kevin’s sister, covered her brother’s involvement in the aborted scheme making it seem that Kevin scared off the burglar. Orin Hillyer was very grateful to Kevin. Joe Pollock gave Kevin a cub reporter’s job on the Monticello News. Kevin and young Phoebe Smith found their relationship deepening and Phoebe was forgetting her married boyfriend in Europe, Ashley Reynolds. Suddenly, Ashley arrived in Monticello and begged Phoebe to see him. Kevin was furious when Phoebe broke her New Year’s Eve date with Kevin to see Ashley. Orin surprised Elly Jo and Lennie, the chauffeur making love and suffered a heart attack. Elly Jo convinced Orin his entrance saved her from being attacked by the drunken Lennie and she continued trying to convince Orin she loved him in order to marry him. She resented Angela Morgan’s concern for Orin and told her Orin was her property. She was upset to learn that Orin’s daughter, Liz was planning to return to Claybank with her husband, Dr. Jim Fields to care for her father during his convalescence. Meanwhile, Simon Jessup, a con artist posing as a physic resarcher, learned that Orin’s new will named Elly Jo third in line after Liz and her expected child as heir to the Hillyer fortune. He told Elly Jo about the will and infered that all her dreams could come true. Me Jake Berman arranged for and accepted a law partnership in New York City and convinced Nicole Travis to come and work for him there. He realized she would never give up on Adam Drake and marry him if Adam was around as a reminder. She agreed Adam had made it clear he wouldn’t consider marriage. Vic Hastings, Mike and Nancy Karr convinced Adam he had been wrong and he decided to go to Nicole. Arriving late in New York on New Year’s Eve, Adam located Nicole at midnight. He proposed to her right in the middle of Jake’s proposal. She was overwhelmed and estatic. General Hospital Written by: Frank & Doris Hursley Produced by: James Young Tom Baldwin took his son Tommy and disappeared. Under assumed name David Smith, he went to Mexico. A heartbroken Audrey Hardy turned to her work for solace, placing her affections in young heart patient, Tony. Cardiologist Dr. Duncan Stewart tried to console her. He told her his wife divorced him taking their child away from him. Steve Hardy became aware of Dr. Stewart’s interest in Audrey. Teddy Holmes conned Nurse Jessie Brewer into loaning him $3.000 and he was palling on much more. He convinced her to plan a skiing vacation with him and her niece Carol and nephew Kent. Carol disapproved of Jessie’s closeness to Teddy so Jessie asked him to pay attention to Carol. He was pleased that he could flirt with Carol with Jessie’s approval. Steve Hardy was worried about Teddy’s influence in Jessie’s family. Diana Taylor was still refusing treatment for her Hodgekin’s Disease as she didn’t want Peter to know about it yet. Phil Brewer visited to bring Tracy a Christmas present. Telling Diana how hopeless his life was since he became impotent, he realized he was not and forced her to submit to him. Diana was terrified as she couldn’t bring herself to tell Peter what Phil did to her and was afraid she could become pregnant from this rape. Meanwhile, Phil’s personality had changed and everyone wondered why he was suddenly so friendly. Meg Baldwin, attempting to repress her jealousy of Nurse Mary Briggs, was trying at the same time to find a way to get Mary out of her family’s lives. She was overjoyed to learn Mary would be away at Christmas, visiting her sick father-in-law. Lee Baldwin, Meg’s husband, saw Mary before she left and reaffirmed his love for her. Meg was deeply upset to learn her son, Scotty gave identical Christmas gifts to her and to Mary. The Guiding Light Written by: Robert Soderberg & Edith Sommer Produced by: Lucy Ferri Rittenberg Ken Norris, believing his sister Holly’s story that Janet Mason and Roger Thorpe were having an affair, left Janet. Nobody could convince Holly she might have misunderstood what she thought she saw. Dr. Ed Bauer checked Holly’s story and told Holly he believed Janet was saying the truth. Holly became furious at him. She then tried to convince her mothen, Barbara to stop seeing Adam Thorpe as he is Roger’s father. Barbara refused. Barbara asked Ken to see Janet once more to listen to her side of the story. He refused even after Deborah Mehron insisted Janet had told her about Roger’s unwanted advances long before the Holly episode. John Fletcher was physically better but he secretly postponed his return to work. He felt everyone including his wife, Peggy was patronizing him and he felt he wasn’t free to be himself. Claudia Dillman, the grandmother of Peggy’son Billy, told Peggy that John had a bad influence on her grandson and threatened to get custody of Billy. Mike Bauer assured Peggy that Claudia had no legal grounds to do it. Charlotte Waring Bauer testified she was pregnant with her husband Mike’s child. She admitted she had no medical proof of her pregnancy but insisted she knew she was. She painted Leslie Jackson as a homewrecker. Mike’s testimony denied any opportunity for Charlotte to have become pregnant by him and led the court to grant the divorce. The court warned that if Charlotte had a child however, he could be named the father legally. The ensuing scandal caused Leslie and Mike great pain with crank calls, etc. Dr. Steve Jackson, Leslie’s father, blamed Mike for the whole situation. He insisted they postponed the wedding for at least a month but Mike refused. Love Is A Many Splendored Thing Written by: Ann Marcus Produced by: Chuck Weiss Mr. Travis was hospitalized for surgery and Betsy Chernak was assigned as the resident on his post-operative case. Shortly after she gave Travis his prescribed sedative, he was murdered by an injection of insulin. Joe Taylor, Betsy’s fiancé, was questioned by the police about the death of Travis’ wife seven years before, but a letter produced by Travis’ lawyer and written by Travis himself explaining the case against Joe was untrue and that he, Travis, killed his own wife. However, Betsy admitted her knowledge of Travis’ hold on Joe and that admission provided the police with a motive for her to have killed Travis. When police lab reports showed only Betsy’s fingerprints on the hypodermic needle, she was arrested and charged with first degree murder. Due to her good character and reputation, she was released on bail. Joe Taylor told Tom Donnelly about the blackmail tape he was forced to make and Mark Elliott and Iris Donnelly Garrison corroborated its existence and validity. Tom explained that without the tape the story was unproven. Mark pleaded that the information on the tape - the story of his drunken rape of Iris and the admission that Maggie was his child, not Spence’s, Iris’ husband - wouldn’t help Betsy but would destroy Laura – Mark’s wife and Iris’s sister - and Spence. Iris insisted that the tape should be used if it could possibly help Betsy. Joe, convinced that Travis’ henchman, Simon Ventnor, was the murderer, searched his apartment and found the tape. He gave it to Tom who questioned Ventnor and promised to accuse him of the murder in court. Ventnor insisted Travis was more valuable to him alive than dead. Tom learned from nurse Rita that Joe and Iris were both seen on Travis’ floor on the night he was murdered, as was a woman who argued with Travis. It was Joe’s mother but Rita didn’t know that. Spence Garrison was very concerned over Tom’s refusal of his offer to help with Betsy’s defense and he was upset over Iris’ agitation over the whole situation. He felt that Iris was drawing away from him. Love Of Life Written by: Loring Mandel Produced by: Bertram Berman Even though they still loved each other, Kate and Dan Phillips couldn’t reconcile because of his feelings about her daughter Rebecca and finally decided on a legal separation. Dan’s mother, Vinnie, and Rick Latimer joined forces to drive them apart permanently. Mrs. Phillips encouraged Dan to date Candy Lowe, his assistant and Rick helped Kate move into a new apartment, encouraging her to resume her singing career at his nightclub. While he was trying to impress her with his new maturity, Rick had not yet told her he knew Rebecca was his child. Tess Prentiss and Joe Corelli became engaged but any attempt to win Charles Lamont’s – the father of Tess’ late husband Bill - blessing was met with resentment. Charles would have liked Tess to choose Bobby MacKey. Seeing no chance to win over Charles, Joe insisted Tess marry him immediately without Charles’ approval. Tess and Charles had a showdown and she finally agreed to postpone the wedding until after the end of the year of mourning for her late Bill and Charles agreed to try to establish a better relationship with Joe. Joe unwillingly agreed to wait. Bobby had completely won over Charles with his similarities to Bill. This “soul mate” identification convinced Charles and Tess to let Bobby have Bill’s unfinished Rock Opera and other music. What they did not know was that Bobby’s knowledge was information he and his accomplice Walter Morgan learned from Bill when he was dying in North Carolina last year. They came to Rosehill to swindle Tess out of her insurance money. Bobby told he was there for his father but his father was already dead. Vanessa Dale and Bruce Sterling remarried in a beautiful ceremony at the Sterling home. They were sure their marriage would really last this time. One Life To Live Written by: Agnes Nixon & Gordon Russell Produced by: Doris Quinlan Viki Lord Burke realized she could not choose between her former husband, Joe Riley, who was back from the dead and her new husband Steve Burke if she was caught between them all day every day. The tensions ran high and they were jockeying for position with her. A slanted drug interest story by Joe which made policeman Ed Hall appear to be railroading an innocent kid, caused flaring tempers and even Joe’s apology and story retraction barely appeased Ed and Steve. Also contribuing to Viki’s difficulty was Steve’s admission that he was considering a job offer on a rival paper and might leave the Banner. Viki decided she had to go away to decide. Ironically, Wanda Webb’s love for Joe was as obvious to Joe as Cathy Craig’s designs on Steve were to him. Larry Wolek, deeply upset about his wife, Meredith’s reaction to Viki’s problems, felt her health would suffer unless she let up. Despite a good medical checkup, Meredith collapsed. Dr. Jim Craig explained only emotional strain caused the collapse, not the blood disease. Larry’s sister, Anna Wolek Craig cared for Larry and Merry’s son, Danny during Merry’s hospital stay much to Victor Lord’s – Meredith’s father - aggravation. Eileen Siegel, Joe’s sister, depressed over her husband, Dave’s death, was unaware that her daughter Julie was using her mother’s depression as an excuse to avoid being alone with her husband, Dr. Mark Toland, and having to face the fact that their mariage was suffering from her inability to have a satisfactory physical relationship with him. He protested but she insisted they put her mother’s needs first. However, she did love Mark but she couldn’t bring herself to face the problem. Ed Hall told Carla Gray he loved her and offered her time to think out the situation. Meanwhile, Vinnie Woley, Larry and Anna’s brother, graduated from Police Academy and Anna held a large graduation party for him. Not knowing Victor had already assigned his daughter Viki to cover the Greenfield avalanche disaster for the Banner, Steve allowed Joe to cover the story. Joe found Viki’s name on the hotel register when he arrived. Return To Peyton Place Written by: Robert Cenedella Produced by: George Paris Betty Harrington’s emotional state over reconciling with her husband, Rodney while she was carrying Steven Cord’s child brought her close to physical and emotional breakdown. Complicating her mental state was Martin Harrington’s insistence that she convince Rod to leave fishing business and assume head of Peyton Company, Hannah Cord and Steven’s insistence that she admit she loved Steve and left Rod, and Dr. Michael Rossi and Selena Cross telling her she had to admit pregnancy or suffer complete collapse. Finally she told Rod she was in the earliest stages of pregnancy. Elated, he planned to move from the houseboat to a real home by the time the baby was born. They announced her pregnancy at Christmas Dinner. Rita Harrington, Rodney’s sister-in-law, was uneasy and felt that Betty never wanted to have a baby. Steven realized there was a chance the baby may be his but said nothing. Gino Panzini, realizing his part in Allison MacKenzie’s kidnapping by Benny Tate, tried to find them in New York but cracked up his car. Allison, unable to find Benny even after letting him think he had readdicted her on pills, convinced him to take her home to get warm clothes. Once there, she tried to hold him off with her father, Elliot Carson’s gun but he overpowered her and dragged her back to the lake cabin. He drugged her and, in hallucinogenic state, she found the gun again and shot at him. When Gino arrived, the cabin was in flames. Allison was brought into hospital by a passing motorist. In deep shock, she responded to no one. Doctors allowed her to go home, hoping time would bring her out of shock. No one realized that Benny was actually his brother Jason, who was sent by Benny to Allison with a note shortly after they were married telling her the marriage was a mistake. He did this to protect her from suffering through his fatal illness. When she mistook Jason for her husband, he decided to assume Benny’s identity. Search For Tomorrow Written by: Ralph Ellis & Eugenie Hunt Produced by: Bernard Sofronski Wade Collins and Janet Walton realized they were in love and wanted to get married, forsee serious problems with Janet’s daughter, Liza. They learned Liza was dating fast and wild Randy Price to pay her mother back for becoming involved with Wade whom she saw as a threat to her dead father’s memory. Janet and Wade decided they would not see each other any more but were both miserable and lonely. Realizing she was still in love with her ex-husband, Scott Phillips, Lauri Leshenski decided to leave Henderson. Lauri’s son, Eric was unhappy at leaving Scott who was the only father he had ever known. Kathy Phillips, pleased with Lauri’s decision, felt her marriage to Scott had a much better chance with Lauri gone. Kathy felt repressed in her career in Doug Martin’s – Scott’s father - law firm and inordinately admired the working arrangements in John Wyatt’s offices. At Andrea Whiting’s insistence, her son Len hired John Wyatt. The action drived another wedge between him and his wife, Patti. John convinced Len to file for temporary custody of their son Chris, calling Patti an unfit mother, due to instability. In Patti’s absence, Emily Rogers subtly gave the social worker on the case the impression that Patti was instable and irresponsible. Patti later broke down under the pressure of the interview. Len’s interview with the social worker was very favorable. The court ordered a psychic examination for Patti. Forced into it, Patti begged the doctor to help her keep her son. The judge asked Len’s attorney to consider dropping the temporary custody case in an attempt at reconciliation. John refused but Doug Martin, Patti’s lawyer, was encouraged by this. Jo Tate, Patti’s mother was convinced that some outside factor was breaking up Len and Patti’s marriage. She assumed it was Andrea, not knowing that Emily’s hand was behind the entire situation. The Secret Storm Written by: Gerry Day & Bethel Leslie Produced by: Joseph D. Manetta Dr. Brian Neeves, convinced by Amy Kincaid that her husband Kevin’s only reason for recovering from his injuries is their expected child, artificially inseminated Amy without Kevin’s knowledge. Only Valerie Northcote, Amy’s step-mother, knew the truth. Kevin told his father Dan that if he was still paralyzed when the baby was born, he would leave Amy for her sake and her future happiness. Belle Kincaid, resentful since her husband, Dan’s imprisonment on drug involvement charge, was determined to make everyone pay for imagined slights to her. She complained to Dan about her difficulties and blamed his situation for her losing her reporter’s job. Attracted to Brian, she contrived to see him socially and is infuriated when he rebuffed her advances, saying he never plays around with married women. Kevin warned Brian that he is protecting his father’s interests while Dan is in prison. Joanna Morrison, living with Robert Landers, was put off by him every time she tired to learn anything personal about him. She did notice his interest in the Kincaid family however. He told her he only started a relationship with her to get close to Belle. He got a job as a lab technician sololy on the basis of his knowledge. Joanna took a waitressing job at the hospital to be near him. She decided to visit Dan and give him a chance to explain the drug involvement situation. Aware of Laurie Stevens’ growing interest for Father Mark Reddin, Amy and Valerie tried to get her interested in Brian Neeves but Laurie was not interested. Mark and Laurie were both aware of the growing feelings between them, but where Laurie welcomed her feelings, Mark prayed for guidance to overcome them. He tried to avoid Laurie but Clay, Laurie’s son was very hurt by Father Reddin’s coolness as he saw him as a replacement for the father, Ken Stevens, he had just lost. When Laurie and Mark togehter pulled one of his parishioners through his suicide attempt and subsequently had car trouble, they both realized the electricity of the feelings between them. He told her he could not be alone with her again. She decided to take Clay to California to visit her mother but when Mark called her to say goodbye, the tone in which he admitted he would miss her convinced her not to go. When she brought his Christmas gifts, she found Mark praying and realized the problems she represented for him. When he thanked her for the scarf she made him, they kissed for the first time but badly shaken, he left. He apologized and promised they would have a chance to talk. Meanwhile, Laurie and Amy realized that Riley, the lonely carpenter who helped Amy refurnish the old barn, got very uptight whenever anyone asked him about knowing Father Reddin before he became a priest. Somerset Written by: Henry Slesar Produced by: Lyle B. Hill Andrea Moore, learning her illness was fatal, shut everyone out of her life, especially David Grant whom she refused to burden with her condition. Her stepbrother Carter Matson encouraged this action and tried to promote himself as Andrea’s eyes as he had secret debts to an eastern underworld syndicate and Andrea was about to inherit a huge fortune. Aware that Andrea’s condition improved in the hospital, Dr. Stan Kurtz rehospitalized her in the hope she might be suffering a physical reaction to something in her surroundings. Carter’s chance remarks that she might be being poisoned led Stan to call in a toxicologist who found that Andrea was being poisoned with a form of arsenic. Carter implied that the logical suspect is Andrea’s brother and heir, Dana. Upon learning that her illness might be reversible, Andrea reconcilied with David. Keeping the arsenic discovery a secret from all but David, his father Ben Grant, her mother Emily and Stan allowed Andrea to return home with Emily keeping an eagle’s eye on everything she ate. Rex Cooper was found seriously injured in an appartment accident in the Delaney Brands warehouse after learning about plant manager Virgil Parris’ police records. His wife, Laura was convinced that Virgil tried to murder her husband but she had no proof. She was also sure that Leo Kurtz, Stan’s brother, was implicated and this belief caused great tension as Ginger, Leo’s daughter, and Tony, Laura’s son, were staying with Laura during Rex’s hospitalization. Stan finally told them Rex was paralyzed from the waist down. Lahoma Lucas was also convinced that Parris was to blame but her husband, Sam would not fire Parris or use his record against him. The strain of Delaney Brands problems was seriously hurting the Lucases’ marriage. Parris visited Laura and threatened her if she continued to implicate him in Rex’s “accident”. Parris bragged to Leo how he killed Harry Johnson and tried to kill Rex. Leo was afraid too much violence was being used, the syndicate they both worked for wanted the takeover of Delaney Brands to be smooth and unobtrusive. Needing more influence over Sam, Parris terrorized Sam’s secretary into leaving town and Leo lined up Crystal Ames, also a syndicate regular, to replace her. Where The Heart Is Written by: Claire Labine & Paul Avila Mayer Produced by: Tom Donovan Not covered in the Daytime Serial Newsletter JANUARY 1973 All My Children Written by: Agnes Nixon Produced by: Bud Kloss Ruth Martin read the unmailed letter from her son Phil Brent to the woman he loved and Ruth’s step-daughter, Tara Martin and learned of their unofficial wedding ceremony before the left for Vietnam. She was sure that Tara’s son, Little Phillip, was her grandson. Chuck Tyler, Tara’s husband, and Tara asked Ruth to be baby Philip’s godmother and she planned to give the child her Phil’s silver baby cup. The Martins learned that Dr. Jeff Martin was planning a divorce from his wife, Erica Kane Martin. He and Mary Kennicott anticipated his divorce. Jeff planned to move from his apartment. Erica and Jason Maxwell spent a skiing weekend together and she was sure she can get him to marry her. He had told Erica’s roommate, Margo Flax, of his affair with Erica but maintained he wouldn’t marry anyone. Trudy Ritter, editor of Tempo Magazine, wanted to feature Erica in a cover story about a top model who was also a small town housewife. Erica planned to conceal her breakup with Jeff and told Jason she could work things out with her husband. Jason doubted it would work. Meanwhile, Jeff and Mary were upset to learn Tad’s – their ward - leg was badly infected. Anne Tyler Martin was horrified to learn that her husband Paul Martin actually knew nothing of her relationship with her ex-husband, Nick Davis when she blurted out the truth to him. Paul moved into the city and told Anne he would give her a divorce. His only request was secrecy until divorce granted. Nick convinced Anne a quick divorce was best and arranged her flight to Santo Domingo. Paul wanted her back but agreed to arrange a lawyer there for her. Anne was upset at hurting Paul. Kitty Shea saw Dr. Mercer, obstetrician, and learned she had a misshapen uterus which gave her a fifty percent chance of miscarrying. She refused to believe this and when she inadvertently found the reservation to Santo Domingo, she assumed Nick was leaving the country. He told her the trip was for her after her abortion. She again insisted no abortion. He told her he wouldn’t marry her and wouldn’t take her to Dayton. She visited Anne and told her she was pregnant with Nick’s child and asked Anne to convince Nick to marry her and not abandon this baby as he did his son Phil years ago. Anne was disconsolate. Another World Written by: Harding Lemay Produced by: Paul Rauch Pat Randolph was arrested for Bernice Robinson’s murder as she was the only suspect without an alibi. Pat’s husband, John attempted to confess to save her but Lt. Gil McGowan didn’t believe him. Bernice’s former boyfriend, Mark Venable came forward and confessed he hit Bernice in a fit of rage when she taunted him and called him a child and a fool just like his father. He said he left without knowing she was dead. Mark refused John’s offer to defend him. Giving in to John’s pleas, Pat agreed to move back with their twins, Marianne and Michael, to their home but told him the marriage would be in name only. He agreed to her terms. Alice Frame – calling herself Alice Talbot -, dating Eliot Carrington, told him her husband never really cared about her. He told her his estranged wife’s father gave him his start and she still felt she owned him. Iris Carrington, the estranged wife, was indeed paying the housekeeper, Mrs. Louise Goddard, to spy on the householf and she obtained Alice’s parents’ phone number from the telephone bill. When Iris’ visits to her son Dennis became disturbing to the child, Eliot forbade them entirely. When Eliot pointed out to Alice that leaving her personal belongings in her husband Steven Frame’s house indicated she planned to return, she called her parents and asked them to send them to her in care of a parcel express office in New York City. Steve was driven to dispair by this action and started drinking heavily. Ted Clark accepted a new job in Chicago and his wife, Rachel Davis Clark, convinced him to settle there first, she and her son, Jamie Frame, would follow but she secretly planned to stay in Bay City. When her father, Gerald Davis, found Steve drinking heavily at the Inn, he called Rachel who took Steve to his apartment above his office. He told her he never should have married Alice and was going to forget her. Rachel promised not to take Jamie to Chicago. Steve asked Rachel to spend the night with him and she agreed when he promised she wouldn’t be hurt this time that they could forget their mistakes together. In the morning, he told her he was glad she stayed. He told his friend he accepted Alice was gone. Ada Downs, Rachel’s mother, covered Rachel’s overnight absence from Ted who called long distance twice but she guessed Rachel was with Steve. When Ted returned, he frantically searched for Rachel but she was again with Steve who told her he and Alice were from different sides of the tracks and their marriage couldn’t work while he and Rachel were alike and she was making him happy. Fearing great danger for Zach Richards, Ray Scott reluctantly agreed to cooperate in Jake Barnes’ big “deal”. Linda Metcalf, Zach’s girlfriend, was upset to learn Ray was involved as he told her he considered Jake a dangerous person to associate with. As The World Turns Written by: David Lesan & Irna Phillips Produced by: Fred Bartholomew Lisa Shea hadn’t answered Don Hughes’ proposal of marriage. She hoped Wally Matthews would ask her to marry him. Wally felt guilty about his past and wasn’t sure he wanted to commit himself to marriage and to Lisa. Dr. Winslow visited Wally and told him Peter Burton was the son he gave up for adoption twenty years ago and asked Wally to try to be Peter’s father without Peter knowing the truth. Peter told Wally he and his adoptive mother had a much closer relationship. Encouraged by her parents-in-law, David and Ellen Stewart, Liz Stewart went to her brother-in-law, Dan and told him she had always loved him and didn’t want to wait any longer. Dan realized she was more important to him even than his career and asked her to marry him. They married a few days later at Dan’s home. Wally performed the ceremony. When Dr. John Dixon learned they were married, he was sure his theory that Liz was the woman in Dan’s past was correct. Susan Baxter, sure that her former husband, Dan’s next wife would be Emmy’s baby nurse, Peggy Regan, resented Peggy’s place in Emmy’s life. Bruce, Susan’s husband was trying to convince her they should accept positions offered them by a New York medical center. She visited Liz and told her she would soon have Emmy out of Dan’s house after learning she and Dan were married. After seeing her daughter, Susan left the baby gate on Emmy’s door open and when Liz saw Emmy at the top of the stairs, she ran to her and fell. She was rushed to the hospital with interal injuries where Dr. Fred Burke, Susan’s father, performed surgery on her ruptured liver. Liz finally regained consciousness and told Dan that Susan left the gate open. She then told him that Betsy was was child, unaware that he had known this for some time. Susan later learned the overlooked gate was the cause of Liz’ injury but said nothing. Dan’s cast was removed and his X-rays indicated further surgery necessary on his arm. He refused to consider it, however, until Liz was definitely out of danger. Bob and Jennifer Hughes argued over Rick Ryan’s – Jennifer’s son from her first marriage - refusal to visit her at their home. Jennifer’s sister, Kim Sullivan continued to take advantage of Jen’s long work hours to subtly flirt with Bob at home. Fully recovered, she was still staying with them. Tom Hughes reported to his uncle Don that the investigation of Susan’s husband, Bruce, showed nothing out of the ordinary. He and Don fought when he admitted he didn’t investigate Wally’s past and would not do so. Carol Hughes, Tom’s wife, was very upset when Tom wouldn’t tell her why he was refusing to work for Don any more. Tom’s mother, Lisa was puzzled too. Days Of Our Lives Written by: William J. Bell Produced by: Betty Corday Mary Anderson and Bill Horton dated occasionally but Bill still felt Mary would eventually marry Bert Atwater and he was still unaware of Mary’s feelings for him. Bill’s sister-in-law, Laura Horton was concerned sensing that her husband Mickey wanted to resume marital relations which they stopped the previous year when she learned of his affair with Linda Pattinson. Mickey had been overworking and had chest pain. Bill warned that tension could cause his brother another attack. Susan Martin took her baby Ann to visit her husband’s brother, Eric in the hospital. His fever broke shortly after her visit and he recovered rapidly. He thanked Susan for all she did for him. He planned to return to his parents’ home instead of his apartment. Susan’s husband and Eric’s brother, Greg was upset to inadvertently learn that Eric had concealed the fact he had had a young man, Jeff Michaels, sharing his apartment for the last six months. Eric hastened to assure Greg the relationship is financial only. When he learned Greg and Susan plan to marry on Valentine’s Day, Eric visited her and admitted that he was the man in the park but insisted he wasn’t the agressor, she was. Susan vigorously denied this and told Dr. Laura Horton the whole story branding Eric a sick liar. Then, Eric visited Laura’s office and told an equally convincing story of meeting distraught Susan in the park, comforting her, bringing her to his apartment, talking, dancing and eventually making love, after which she ran from the apartement. Laura told Susan she couldn’t tell whose story was the truth, if either was, and Susan insisted on examination under sodium pentahol to vindicate herself. Under the drug, she unwillingly confirmed Eric’s story saying she ran from him when her mind visualized him as her former husband she murdered, David Martin. Out of the drugged state, she refused to believe she said this until she heard the tape recording Laura had made. Laura explained it was traumatic amnesia induced by the David Martin image. Sure her future with Greg was shattered, Susan ran from Laura’s office. Julie Banning, unhappy and unfulfilled, began to accept the fact that Doug Williams was happy with her mother, Addie and would not come back to her. After baby sitting for Susan, she considered and then rejected the idea of having the child Scott longed for as she felt she didn’t love Scott. Having realized how wonderful the Andersons’ marriage was, Julie wanted this kind of love and happiness herself and asked her attorney Don Craig to file for a divorce. She planned to tell Scott the evening but he was seriously injured at the Anderson construction site when a steel beam fell and hit him. Dr. Bill Horton performed surgery, repairing internal injuries, but told Julie that Scott was very critical. Julie, blaming herself for what she had put Scott throught, insisted she wouldn’t let him die. Her reactions upset her grandfather, Dr. Tom Horton who called Laura to be with Julie. Meanwhile, Addie told her mother Alice that she thought she was pregnant and feared Doug’s reaction. The Doctors Written by: Eileen & Robert Mason Pollock Produced by: Allen Potter Dr. Althea Morrison’s first husband, Dave Davis, summoned her to California where she learned that her daughter, Penny, might be losing her sight due to a fall from her horse several months before. Althea insisted on more consultation and Penny agreed to return home with her. Althea’s new husband, John, who felt there was hope of saving his marriage to Althea due to their recent professional closeness and personal friendship, was shocked when she called to say that this was a good time for him to make plans to move out as Penny would need the second bedroom. He searched for a plan to avert this action. Dr. Nick Bellini’s second surgery on Hank Iverson, assisted by unwilling Dr. Hendricks, was successful and Hank should regain use of his arm. He feared his surgical career was over, however. Toni Ferra and Mike Powers located a Lauri James record in New York for Hank and then found Lauri herself. Hearing about Hank’s situation, she told them she couldn’t visit him as he thought she was successful and probably happily married and she wanted him to go on thinking this. He was pleased with the record but wanted to see Lauri very much. Lauri was torn between the desire to see him and the fear of his learning truth. Cathy Ryker Bellini set up her plan to kidnap Stephanie Aldrich to replace the child she miscarried. She apologized to everyone in the hospital to reassure them she was mentally recovered and used the time to glean information on baby care and Stephanie’s needs and habits. Cathy, in dark wig, rent a kitchenette apartment in a local hotel and announced her young “son” would be living with her. By sending Stephanie’s mother, Carolee Aldrich, on a wild goods chase on the day of Stephanie’s check-up, Cathy managed to leave the hospital – disguised - with the child. Carolee was hysterical when she learned what Cathy had done. Nick Bellini and Sgt. Cadman televised an appeal to Cathy, but no results. Steve Aldrich, Carolee’s husband, hoped to convince Carolee that the police felt Cathy took Stephanie for spite and would return her but Billy, Stephanie’s brother, inadvertently told Carolee that the police felt Cathy took the baby to keep and was miles away. Dr. Ann Larimer, who was married to Steve Aldrich, for two days when they were teenagers, visited Steve’s mother, Mona. Ann was a widow pediatrician. Her late husband was an obstetrician who died tragically a few months before. She met Carolee and Nick and all liked her. Mona suggested she consider working here. The Edge Of Night Written by: Henry Slesar Produced by: Erwin Nicholson Me Jake Berman was robbed at gunpoint near the park. The masked robber was Johnny Dallas. Vic Hastings was upset at being unable to help Johnny find a job. Vic Hastings felt he was responsible for Johnny as Johnny saved his life while they were both in jail, but Johnny tried to assure him he was not, and told him to butt out of his life. Vic accidentally found the gun and Jake’s wallet in Johnny’s room. Phoebe Smith and Kevin Jamison made up. Ashley Reynolds, Phoebe’s married lover, accepted a job in Monticello and wore down her resistance each time she tried to break off with him. When Kevin saw them together, Ashley realised he had competition and promised Phoebe he would tell his wife about her. Nicole Travis joyously accepted Adam Drake’s proposal and they returned to Monticello. Jake backed out of his New York partnership and returned also. His mind wouldn’t acccept Nicole’s decision and he was convinced he could get her back. In his disoriented state, he imagined he was discussing his problems with his dead wife, Edith. He asked her adivce as she understood what Nicole meant to him, after all, he murdered Edith in order to make sure she wouldn’t tell Nicole about his mental instability. Jake told Adam he would never marry Nicole and then told Nicole she made a mistake in judgement in choosing Adam and that he would kill himself if she married Adam. She suggested he see Dr. Jim Fields but Jake found the suggestion amusing. Nicole and Adam planned to discuss Jake’s behavior with Jim themselves. Nancy Karr took over Nicole’s job in Jake’s office over Mike and Adam’s doubts. Joel Gantry, the private detective from California, was investigating Edith’s death. His unidentified client felt Jake was involved in her death. Chief of Police, Bill Marceau showed Gantry the suicide note and all investigate findings saying it was a close case. Gantry tried to question Nicole and Adam but they wouldn’t answer questions without knowing the reasons behind them. He finally saw Mike Karr and told him his client’s suspicions but Mike pointed out that Jake had no motive. Meanwhile, Jim wondered about Mrs. Wilson, the patient with a homicidal husband, who never returned. He didn’t know that she was really Mrs. Jake Berman. Liz Fields was jealous of Elly Jo Jamison’s new closeness with her father, Orin Hillyer and returned with her husband Jim to Claybank to care for her father during his convalescence. Her abruptness and hardness toward Elly Jo was apparent to everyone and Elly Jo became very restenful. Simon Jessup mentionned to Elly Jo how advantageous a fatal accident to pregnant Liz would be and how loose the stair railing was. She was indignant at this, but when Liz found her kissing Orin and told her she’d better start looking for a new position, Elly Jo inspected the stair railing and, shortly after, a serious accident occurred but it was John, the butler, who fell, not Liz who was standing beside him. Elly Jo was very afraid of God’s retribution for evil. Jessup sought her out and told her she bungled it, that he could hypnotize Liz into a fatal car accident with no way for Elly Jo or himself to be implicated. At first, she reacted negatively but when he pointed out that Liz was an ingrate and Elly Jo might find herself out in the cold, she agreed. His “fee” would be one-third of whatever she inherited from Orin’s estate to be endowed to his foundation for psychic research. General Hospital Written by: Frank & Doris Hursley Produced by: James Young Howie Dawson’s boss, Burt Marshall, resented Howie’s friendship with Brooke Clinton and treated him unfairly at work. Howie’s wife, Jane told him she would understand it if he quit, but he told her he couldn’t quit until he had another job. Jessie Brewer’s divorce from her husband Phil was granted and Teddy Holmed told her he wanted to marry her. He argued that the difference in their ages was meaningless and asked for time to convince her. She wanted to believe him. Jessie’s niece, Carol Murray was jealous of Teddy’s attention to Jessie and again planned to run away. Diana Taylor, still upset, confided in Jane Dawson that Phil Brewer forced himself on her. Diana’s husband, Peter accidentally discovered her diary and learned of her having Hodgekin’s Disease. He took her to Dr. Steve Hardy immediately and another biopsy was done which proved the previous tests were incorrect, she didn’t have the disease. Phil visited her constantly, insisting he loved her, needed her and would do anything to get her and their son, Tracy. He refused to accept the fact that she and Peter were happily married. Meg Baldwin was fighting her feelings of jealousy and suspicion of her husband Lee and Nurse Mary Briggs. Meg agreed to take her son Scotty to visit his grandparents in Arizona after Lee reaffirmed his love for her. Lee and Mary tried to avoid seeing each other. He felt guilty at contributing to Meg’s jealousy. Mary’s father-in-law died and left his estate - about two million dollars - to Mary and her husband, Wade, only if they were married and living together. If their marriage broke up, the money would go to charity. Mary told Lee she couldn’t go back to Wade even for a fortune, she just didn’t love him. Steve Hardy asked Audrey March Baldwin to marry him. She refused, saying that if she divorced Tom, he’d never let her see her child again. She was dating Dr. Duncan Stewart and told him all about her past. He told her they had the basis of a good relationship as neither of them wanted to get married. She told him she was not interested in a relationship only in getting her child back. He said he’d keep trying. Lee finally heard from Tom that Audrey’s son, Tommy was fine. Unfortunately, the letter was untraceable. Sharon Pinkham was pregnant. Her husband, Henry was pleased but concerned with overpopulation. The Guiding Light Written by: Robert Soderberg & Edith Sommer Produced by: Lucy Ferri Rittenberg Charlotte Waring Bauer announced she had discovered she wasn’t pregnant after all but told Dr. Steve Jackson she was telling the truth about having been with her recent ex-husband Mike. He believed her. When Dr. Sara Werner refused to consider her for a hospital volunteer job, Charlotte waited until Sara was out of town to convince Joe, Sara’s husband, to give her the job. Learning that Kit Vested was in love with Joe, Charlotte encouraged her to go after him. Peggy Fletcher found a note from her husband John telling her he was leaving and never coming back, that the only way he could get well was to be alone and on his own. Mike hired a private detective to look for him. John’s psychiatrist told Peggy she was not to blame, that John couldn’t stay in a situation he couldn’t control. Ken and Holly Norris were furious that their mother Barbara wanted to marry Adam Thorpe. She told Adam they had to wait until tension lessened. Ken finally bowed to pressure and saw Janet Mason but told her he couldn’t even look at her without thinking of her with Roger and feeling sick. Barbara told Janet she believed she didn’t have an affair with Roger but could do nothing with Ken. Janet’s mother, Ellen Mason, arrived from San Diego and tried to convince Ken his jealousy was causing his accusations and was blindind him from seeing Janet’s love for him. He refused to consider it. Dr. Ed Bauer was seeing Janet often to console her. He realized that he once again had strong feelings for Janet but wanted her happiness above all and if that was a reconciliation with Ken, he’d encourage it. Bert, Ed’s mother, was very concerned about Ed seeing Janet and feared he’d be hurt by it. Mike forced a confronation with Steve Jackson over Steve’s interference in Mike and Leslie’s – Steve’s daughter - wedding plans. Steve told Mike he believed Charlotte’s story and also felt it was wrong for Leslie to marry her ex-husband’s brother. Mike told him they would marry with or without his approval. In the midst of this argument, Steve suffered a heart attack and Mike got him to the hospital. Sara treated him and told Leslie her father would be in the cardiac unit and critical for the next five days. Leslie was upset that Mike confronted her father without first discussing it with her. Steve insisted she promise to give up Mike, and seeing the results this agitation had on his condition, she agreed. Mike was understanding when she told him she would have to keep this promise. Love Is A Many Splendored Thing Written by: Ann Marcus Produced by: Chuck Weiss Betsy Chernak, convinced that nothing could prevent her conviction for Mr. Travis’ murder and fearing the consequences to Laura and Spence Garrison’s marriage if the tape was played in court, ran away and tried to lose herself in a small upstate town. She was recognized from a news magazine picture and was brought back to San Francisco. Her bail was revoked. In her unbalanced state, thinking Mark Ellliot involved in Travis’ murder, Celia Winters saw his wife, Laura and told her about the tape and that Mark was the father of Iris’ – Laura’s sister - baby, Maggie. Tom Donnelly, Laura and Iris’ brother, learned that Celia was in love with Al Preston, that she felt Travis was to blame for Al’s death and that she fought with Travis in his hospital room. With the police, Tom found a hypodermic needle, rubber gloves, a white lab coat and a Demerol bottle concealed in Celia’s desk in the hospital admissions office. Armed with these missing pieces of evidence, they confronted Celia who, very disoriented, remembered a lady in the admission office -herself - who killed Travis. Celia was found legally insane and would get treatment. Betsy was released from jail. Betsy told her fiancé Joe she was moving back to her parents’ house, she needed time to think, but she still loved him. Betsy was finally reinstated at the hospital. Joe told her he was decided to accept the job at Spence’s administrative assistant. Betsy feared he was only doing his because he thought it’s what she wanted, that she was holding him back. Laura confronted Mark with Celia’s story. He confirmed it but explained he was so drunk he thought Iris was her sister, Laura. Laura believed him and told him she could accept it and forget it if Iris never learned that she knew the truth. Mark saw, however, that Laura was becoming obsessed with Maggie when she told him that Maggie was as much hers and his as she was Iris’ and Spence’s child. Angel Chernak was having stomach pains and saw Dr. Jim Abbott, gynolocigst, returning to San Francisco after four years in New York, who told her she needed a D&C to be sure of her condition. Dr. Will Donnelly was upset at Jim’s return as, years ago, he and Iris were in love and when he walked away from her, she almost killed herself. Iris wasn’t too upset to learn Jim had returned, but Spence was very concerned about it. Jim saw Will and apologized for his behavior with Iris. He told Will about his new girlfriend, Holly McAllister, who would join him soon. Jim told her about a possible job in Spence’s office - Angel was quitting - but told her not to mention knowing him. Love Of Life Written by: Loring Mandel Produced by: Bertram Berman Kate Phillips resumed her singing career at the Club Victoria and was a great success. Rick Latimer was very protective of her and, out of her sight, manhandled a drunk customer whom he felt got fresh with Kate. When Kate’s daughter, Rebecca suddenly became ill again, Rick rushed them to the hospital. Dr Lederer said the staph infection might have reoccured. Dan Phillips, Rebecca’s estranged husband, and Joe Corelli feared it might be meningitis - Dan’s father’s speciality -. Dan agreed to consult on Rebecca’s case as long as Kate didn’t know. Candy Lowe was upset that he was getting involved with the child as his preoccupation with Kate was standing in the way of her establishing a relationship with Dan. Dan’s mother told Candy she wanted to help her take Dan away from Kate once and for all. Rick told Kate he loved her and wanted to marry her and that he knew Rebecca wasis his child and he loved her too. At first, Kate tried to deny this but later admitted it was true. He would wait for her answer. Tess Prentiss and Joe Corelli continued to argue about Charles Lamont’s overprotectiveness towards her and the constant references to her late husband Bill and his music. When Tess and Bill’s son, Johnny voluntarily referred to Joe as Dad, Bobby MacKey secretly enlarged the possibilites in the child’s mind until Johnny told Charles he was going to be adopted by Joe and be Johnny Corelli, not Johnny Prentiss. Charles blew up at Joe who denied the accusations of trying to replace Bill in Johnny’s life. Tess was upset at this confrontation and the episode dangerously strained the relationship between Joe and her. Bobby announced that his father had died. He told Tess when he worked on Bill’s music, he almost felt he was being guided by an unseen hand. When he hinted at leaving Rosehill, Sally Rollins, Bobby’s soucisn, and Tess convinced him to stay and work on Bill’s music. He suggested a theme for the Rock Opera – a paraplegic who fantasized a whole physical life beyond the limits of his body. Actually the theme was Bill’s own idea worked out after he left Rosehill before his death. Bobby had notes in Bill’s own handwriting which Tess had never seen. Bobby and his accomplice Morgan were further encouraged by learning that Johnny had a large trust fund from the Randolph estate as well. Morgan put a down payment on a piece of local property to present a legitimate front. Jamie Rollins and his wife Sally fought over her cousin Bobby. Jamie didn’t trust Bobby and felt Joe was being treated unfairly. Jamie was doing an article for Bruce Sterling’s newspaper on the treatment of terminally ill patients inspired by Bobby’s account of his father. Meanwhile, Van, Bruce’s wife, was upset at Stacy Corby’s – Van’s former deceased husband’s daughter - involvement with ESP under Bobby’s direction, particularly when she learned that Stacy planned to try to contact her dead mother. One Life To Live Written by: Agnes Nixon & Gordon Russell Produced by: Doris Quinlan Julie Toland wanted to see a gynecologist about her marital relations problem but her husband, Dr. Mark Toland insisted it was not a physical problem and they could work it out together. When she accidentally ran into Jack Lawson, she neglected to mention it to Mark. When he inadvertently learnt about it, he confronted her and told her she wasn’t honest about it. She became overly defensive and they fought until he walked out to go to the hospital. They both realized they were wrong and both apologized. Vinnie Wolek was assigned to undercover work for the FBI driving a truck on a hijacking investigation. He got the assignment because of his truckdriving background. Meanwhile, Meredith Lord Wolek, Vinnie’s sister-in-law, recovered and was released from the hospital. She was concerned, howver, about the dreams she had in which she died in the hospital. Carla Gray told Ed Hall she needed more time, she had to learn to give. Meanwhile, Cathy Craig sought out Steve Burke during Viki Lord Burke’s – Steve’s wife - absence and cheered him up. When he accidentally injured his wrist, she cooked for him and drived him to work. He was very grateful to her and unaware of the depth of her feelings for him. Joe Riley – Viki’s first husband recently returned from the dead - decided to leave the hotel without seeing Viki but they accidentally met in the hallway and she decided that, since their meeting was coincidental, they should cover the disaster story together. They worked as will together as they did in the past and celebrate over dinner when the assignment was finished. Carried away, they made love and spent the night together. In the morning, Joe was crushed when Viki told him she had already decided to go back to Steve. She told him last night was her fault and a mistake, that her decision was based knowing he could survive without her but Steve couldn’t. They argued and she ran out, driving off too fast and she skided her car into a tree. Joe called Victor Lord, Viki’s father, and he and Dr. Jim Craig flew to Mt. Jefferson hospital. Viki had a hairline fracture of the skull but suddenly lapsed into a coma before Steve arrived. Joe refused to tell anyone what happened before the accident. Steve was furious that he hadn’t been told that Viki and Joe were together covering the story. Dr. Cardwell, neurosurgeon, and Jim felt there was no physiological cause for Viki’s coma and considered the possibility of psychologically induced-hysterical-coma. Steve gave consent for Viki to be moved back to Llanview. Joe’s quick-tempered outbursts, triggered by his feelings of guilt, upset all his friends and they wondered about the cause. Dr. Larry Wolek and Victor wondered about Joe’s possible involvement in Viki’s accident. Return To Peyton Place Written by: Robert Cenedella Produced by: George Paris Upset at her lack of security with her husband Rodney Harrington, Betty demanded that Martin, Rodney’s grandfather, establish a trust fund for her unborn child. He would consider it. He asked her to name the child Peyton Harrington. Meanwhile, Allison McKenzie came out of her emotional shock and told her mother Connie and Rodney she killed Benny Tate. They refused to believe her but a body was found in the burnt cabin and was identified by fingerprints as Jason B. Tate. Steven Cord and the police assumed this was Benny’s real name. Allison’s fingerprints were found on the murder gun and she was booked on suspicion of homicide. Hannah Cord, Steven’s adoptive mother, and Senator Winfield convinced Steven not to disqualify himself as special prosecutor. Rodney and the Carsons felt Steven was prosecuting only to further his political ambitions, but he insisted it was in Allison’s interests that he prosecuted as his only concern was learning the truth. She was bound over for trial. Rod, convinced of her innocence, visited her often and was supportive of her. The trial was brief – Steven’s case was strong – the gun with her fingerprints, Gino Panzini’s testimony on Benny’s overpossessiveness and his desire to readdict Allison to drugs, and, crucially, Allison’s own testimony, her admission that she shot Benny. She agreed that he was threatening her life but said even that didn’t give her the right to take a life. At this point, Elliot Carson, Allison’s father, wanted to confess himself, feeling Allison had convicted herself, but Dr. Michael Rossi and Connie restrained him saying no one would believe him. The jury found Allison guilty of murder in the second degree. Elliot blamed Connie for this. He tried frantically to raise bail for Allison pending appeal but was unsuccessful. On his father’s – Leslie - suggestion, Rodney accepted his inheritance and used this money as security for Allison’s bail. Leslie was elated, he felt he was on easy street. Allison arrived home and Elliot returned to see her but he still wouldn’t forgive Connie. Rod promised Allison he would find proof of her innocence and he began by planning a complete investigation of Benny’s background. Hannah told Martin that Steven was growing suspicious of her increased activity in the Peyton Trust. Martin was eager for Rod to accept his inheritance so he and Hannah could return to peace and quiet in the Bahamas inasmuch as everyone thought he’s dead. Hannah tried to get Steven to admit that Betty Harrington’s – Rodney’s wife - child could be his, but he wouldn’t admit it. Martin told Hannah no child of Steven’s could be his legitimate heir. After the trial, Betty was hospitalized with contractions. Dr. Michael Rossi prevented a miscarriage but warned Betty she had to be careful throughout her pregnancy. Rod told her he had accepted his inheritance, was deeply aware of his responsibilities and nothing was too good for her and his child. Her happiness at this news was dampened when she learned he actually accepted the inheritance for Allison rather than for her. She convinced him that rather than buy a house in haste, they should move into the Peyton house as he already owned it. Hannah was stunned to learn about this. Search For Tomorrow Written by: Ralph Ellis & Eugenie Hunt Produced by: Bernard Sofronski Wade Collins visited Janet Walton and told her it was unfair to allow her daughter, Liza to tyranize them. Learning her mother had seen Wade, Liza arranged to date Randy Price again and at her suggestion, they and their friends broke into Wade’s parents’ unoccupied home to have a party. They vandalized the house and finally the police arrived and they were arrested. Wade refused to press charges and later took Liza to see Karen, his fiancee of several years ago who had been hospitalized for the last five years suffering from a drug breakdown. Liza finally realized that one can love two people differently and told her mother she could accept her marrying Wade. Emily Rogers subtly inferred to Patti Whiting that none of the encouraging things Doug Martin told her about the custody hearing was fact, that it was all to reassure her because she could still lost custody of her son, Chris. Then Emily mentioned the idea of running away and waited for Patti to grab on to it. Emily helped Patti arrange an escape to New York, but, just in time, called Andrea Whiting, Patti’s mother-in-law, and Patti was stopped at the airport by Doug and her mother, Jo. In light of Patti’s attempted flight, the judge gave Patti’s husband, Len temporary custody of Chris and ordered a complete psychiatric examination of Patti before the final hearing. After Len took Chris, Patty ran away leaving a note saying everything was over. Jo, sure that Patti and Len’s marriage had been broken up from outside, found no way to tie Andrea into it but suddenly realized Emily was always there when trouble occurred. Learning Emily felt her own marriage to Nick Hunter was destroyed by his love for his previous girlfriend, Jo went to Chicago to see him. She was amazed to find Patti there. Having nowhere to go, Patti went to Nick as a friend. She refused at first to believe Jo’s theory but Nick admitted Emily knew he loved Patti and to do this to Patti would seem to be justice to Emily. Patti was still afraid to return to fight for Chris as she realized there was no proof of Emily’s involvement in her problems. Andrea suddenly realized what Emily had done and Emily gloatingly confessed her step-by-step destruction of Patti’s marriage and her plans to marry Len herself. She warned Andrea that if she said anything about this, she would appear implicated herself and Len would hate her. Andrea was upset at Emily’s sudden influence over Len. Kathy Phillips’ dissatisfaction in her work in Doug’s office grew daily and she had frequent run-ins with Doug. Scott Phillips, her husband and Doug’s son, felt she was being unreasonable. The Secret Storm Written by: Gerry Day & Bethel Leslie Produced by: Joseph D. Manetta Kevin and Amy Kincaid saw Dr. Simon, New York specialist, who was optimistic about never regeneration in Kevin’s case. There was hope he might eventually walk again. Joanna Morrison visited Dan Kincaid in prison and their father-daughter-like relationship seemed to be intact. She told him she could no longer trust Belle’s – Dan’s wife - love, though. Doug Winthrop accidentally met Joanna in the cafeteria where she worked. He was contrite and told her he still loved her, but she told him that he was part of her past, that she loved Robert Landers. Knowing Joanna wouldn’t seek out Belle, blaming her for only thinking of herself, not of Dan or Joanna when Dan’s troubles had begun, Robert called Belle and told her where Joanna worked. When this first meeting with Joanna worked out badly, Robert told Belle where he and Joanna lived. A second confrontation ended with a fight and Belle felt hurt and angry. Belle, furious with Joanna, told Dan if he saw Joanna at all, she would not come to visit him, he had to choose between them. Joanna was upset that Robert had told Belle how to find her, but he reminded her that he had told her he would use her to get to Belle. He insisted Belle meant only money to him, so there was no need to be jealous. Robert, using all he had learned about Belle, from Joanna, catered to Belle’s vanity and pride to carry her favor. He told her they shouldn’t hurt Joanna so she immediately saw Robert as a way to get back at Joanna, falling right into his plans for her. Isaac, Robert’s friend and co-racing enthusiast, was afraid that Robert’s involvement with Joanna would interfere with Robert’s Grand Prix car racing ambitions. Also, he was not convinced that Robert’s plans to get money from Belle would work. Father Mark Reddin told Laurie Stevens the church was his life and she would find someone else. Realizing her very closeness was tearing him apart, he arranged a transfer to a parish in Kansas City. Mark met Chester Smith, formerly Father Leo, who left the priesthood to marry. Smith told Mark there were no simple answers but that he was happy. Mark visualized marriage to Laurie but couldn’t bring himself to decide to leave the church. Laurie accidentally met Blanche Smith, Chester’s wife. Blanche inferred that Chester felt trapped by his new life and their expected child since Blanche had guided his decision to leave the priesthood. Laurie decided she would never trap Mark, that he had to make his decision for himself. Laurie’s son, Clay was miserable about Mark’s planned departure and talked about running away. Laurie was aware of her son’s unhappiness but, in her own misery, didn’t fully realize the depths of his grief. The mysterious carpenter Riley didn’t believe Mark’s assurance that he had never discussed Riley’s past with anyone in Woodbridge. Convinced the whole town was watching every move he made, Riley put his house up for sale and planned to leave town. He checked air fares to Brazil but couldn’t afford this. The Northcotes, puzzled at Riley’s vehement feelings about mental institutions, noticed his recent strange behavior. Ian Northcote questioned Mark as to whether Riley had been a mental patient. Mark confirmed that he was and that he still had fears of being institutionalized. Ian told Mark that Riley needed help. Riley had learned that Clay was the heir to two fortunes - Hollister and Clayborn - and, hearing Clay say he wanted to run away, he instilled the idea of camping in the woods in the child’s mind. He then bought camping equipment and, telling Clay his mother approved a camping trip, took the child off with him. An hour later, Laurie discovered her child was missing and became frantic. Somerset Written by: A.J. Russell Produced by: Lyle B. Hill Crystal Ames’ secretarial credentials were as impeccable as her looks and Sam Lucas hired her over his wife, Lahoma’s objections. Leo Kurtz was pleased as he planned for Crystal to diminish Lahoma’s influence over Sam. Sam and Lahoma fought constantly over Delaney Brands, his working late, Virgil Parris, Rex Cooper’s accident and Crystal. Lahoma was very much afraid her marriage was in serious trouble. Sam told her she was unreasonable and jealous and all would be fine with them if she would learn to trust him. Virgil Parris ordered Carter Mason to have his step-mother, Emily, sell her Delaney Brands stock immediately or the syndicate would call in his debts. Zoe Cannell noticed her brother, Carter’s, fear of Virgil. Rex Cooper was home from the hospital, paralyzed and in a wheel chair but planned to return to work soon. Leo warned Virgil the syndicate wanted Rex in charge of production. Laura, Rex’s wife, still blamed Virgil and Ginger’s father Leo for Rex’s accident making Ginger’s life miserable until she and Tony, the Coopers’ son, could finally move into their own apartment. Leo told Tony several plant employees quit suddenly and Virgil replaced them from out of town. Meanwhile, Phil at the Hayloft told Sam he’d heard Delaney Brands were in money trouble since all these local men had to be laid off. Puzzled, Sam denied trouble. Julian and Zoe Cannell fought constantly, she taunted him and he virtually ignored her and moved into a separate bedroom. Julian secretly visited Andrea Moore’s room and told her he married Zoe only for her family and her world, that he loved her, Andrea. She stopped him and told him never to mention this again. Dana, Andrea’s brother, wrote a book “Jingles the Clown” for Andrea. She was thrilled with it and took it herself to her stepfather Philip’s publishing house where she accidentally found Philip on his office couch in the arms of his secretary. Andrea ran out and later told Philip she wouldn’t say anything to her mother Emily for her sake, not for his. She told him she understood more about his frequent business trips with his faithful secretary, Millie. Philip would publish Dana’s book. After Andrea’s collapse at her twenty-first birthday party, she made David Grant promise that he would find a way for them to be alone together so she could love him completely before she died. He insisted she wouldn’t die but promised to do what she asked. With Andrea’s illness reoccurring, Dr. Stan Kurtz feared poison was not the answer considering Emily’s care in supervising her daughter’s food and drink intake, but David learned that Andrea had been accepting unsupervised medication from Jingles the Clown whom she assumed was her brother, Dana, in disguise. When Andrea was told that Jingles was suspected, she refused to believe it until it was pointed out that anyone could be wearing the Jingles costume. A trap was planned whereby Andrea would signal her mother if Jingles came to her room. Where The Heart Is Written by: Claire Labine & Paul Avila Mayer Produced by: Tom Donovan Not covered in the Daytime Serial Newsletter FEBRUARY 1973 All My Children Written by : Agnes Nixon Produced by : Bud Kloss Anne Tyler Martin confronted her ex-husband Nick Davis with the fact that Kitty Shea was carrying his child. She told him they were through and that he had to marry Kitty for the child’s sake. Anne told her estranged husband, Paul Martin, about her ending relationship with Nick and that she planned to reopen the Boutique. He told her he would move back home for appearance’s sake but he admitted to his brother Joe that the marriage was over. A desperate Nick asked Kitty to marry him. She was overjoyed and managed to convince herself he did it for love even if she knew it was only for the baby. She began to have strong contractions. When the pain finally went away, she told herself everything was fine. Kitty and Nick went across the state line to get married. Jeff Martin angrily refused to cooperate with his estranged wife, Erica Kane Martin in the planned magazine article about her and swapped their apartment with a married fellow doctor. She tried to enlist his family and Mary Kennicott, Jeff’s new lover to help her convince him but they all agreed to pretend that she and Jeff were a happily married couple was dishonest. Erica pressured her mother, Mona Kane, into allowing the article to be photographed in her home. Little Philip Tyler was christened. When Chuck Tyler heard his wife, Tara Martin Tyler telling the baby about his wonderful father, Philip Brent, he cautioned her that infants absored things and that this kind of thing put a barrier between him and the child he wanted to feel was his. She agreed to put the past away but when she learned that Phil’s Vietnam buddy, Eddie, was nearby, she was drawn to find him. Phil’s mother, Ruth Martin, was the baby’s godmother and gave him Philip’s baby cup. She still felt she had to never let Chuck and Tara know she had learned this baby was her grandson. Margo Flax told Jason Maxwell that their daughter Claudette was pinned to the son of a wealthy society family, the Montgomerys. No one knew that Jason was Claudette’s father. Anne ran into Jason, an old friend, in New York and had lunch with him. Another World Written by : Harding Lemay Produced by : Paul Rauch Mrs. Louise Goddard, the Carringtons’ housekeeper, resentful of Alice Frame’s presence in the household, secretly went to Bay City with a picture of Alice – whom she knew as Alice Talbot - to learn who she really was. Under the alias Dorothy Shaw from Seattle, she learned Alice was Mrs. Steve Frame. She was assured of Alice’s good character but found her husband Steve Frame had no interest in learning his wife’s whereabouts. She decided Alice was a threat to Iris, Elliot’s estranged wife. Eliot encouraged Alice to settle things with Steve once and for all. Having promised Peggy Harris he would watch out for her half-sister Linda Metcalf before Peggy left Bay City, Ray Scott found himself reinvolved with gangster Jake Barnes who was trying to involve Linda’s boyfriend, Zach Edwards in a robbery. The confrontation led to gunfire and Ray was killed trying to shield Zach. Zach, wounded, told Linda he had learned from Ray’s death and was going to try to change to be more like Ray was. Mark Venable was cleared of charges in his girlfriend Bernice Robinson’s death and left Bay City. Meanwhile, Pat Randolph reluctantly agreed to a vacation at Steve’s house in St. Croix with her husband John – they were at odds since John’s affair with the late Bernice. - She wasn’t sure she could forget John’s infidelity with Bernice but would try for their children’s sake. She was planning to get a job in order to build up her personal respect and self esteem. Lenore Moore and Robert Delaney had come to realize how very much they meant to each other. Janice Frame, Steve’s sister, refused to date Dr. Russ Matthews, when she realized his mother Mary resented Steve. Actually, Janice was also attracted to Robert and resented Lenore. Janice went out of her way at work to arrange time alone with Robert and she practised writing “Mrs.” in front of his name. Ted Clark refused to give his wife Rachel a divorce. He realized their marriage was over but wouldn’t do anything to make it easier for her. He had followed Rachel to Steve’s apartment when he heard her, in Steve’s arms, saying she only married Ted as she was sure she could never have Steve. Ada Downs, Rachel’s mother, threatened to brand Rachel an unfit mother and take her son Jamie from her unless she ended her affair with Steve. Steve told Rachel he fought his feelings for her for years. Rachel still had doubts despite Steve’s assurances of his feelings for her and Jamie. She woundered if he would put her aside as he did before if Alice decided to return. As The World Turns Written by : Irna Phillips & David Lesan Produced by : Fred Bartholomew Nancy Hughes received another letter from her daughter Penny explaining her marital problems involved a child. Meanwhile, Kim Sullivan moved back to her suite at the Greymere but she continued her flirtation with her sister’s husband, Bob Hughes, whenever she could. Kim was amazed that her sister Jen chose to visit her daughter Barbara in New York rathen than be with Bob in Florida. Dr. John Dixon, who was deeply attracted to Kim, warned her she could be hurt if her objective was Bob. Jen, growing aware of Kim’s interest in Bob, asked Kim if she still resented the fact that she, Jen, married Chuck Ryan even though he had been dating Kim when Jen met him. Kim told her that was ancient history. Jennifer’s son, Rick Ryan told John about this old rivalry. Dan Stewart had additional surgery on his arm but the probability of his resuming his surgical career was doubtful. His new wife, Liz had an internal hermmorhage and even additional surgery did not save her. Dan was desolate at the news of her death and remembered her last words to him: that Betsy was really his child and that his ex-wife, Susan Baxter, left their daughter Emmy’s gate open, causing the accident resulting in Liz’s death. He returned home, drank heavily and sank into depression. Susan realized she carelessly caused Liz’s accident but told no one. She saw Dr. Flynn again and he told her it might be her husband’s fault she was not pregnant. Since Bruce didn’t know she was trying to conceive, she couldn’t ask him to see a urologist so she told him she thought she was pregnant to get a reaction. He told her he had a vasectomy years ago after learning he might be carrying the hereditary blood disease his brother in Boston was so ill with. He realized she had planned to have a child to make him accept Emmy into his home and they fought. She asked him to leave and planned to file for an annulment. Susan told her mother, Julia Burke, she realized Dan loved Liz but that was over and she hoped someday she, Dan and Emmy could be a family again. When he learned Susan was getting a divorce and that she might be able to take Emmy from him, Dan was shocked. Peggy Regan, Emmy’s nurse, was convinced someone was in the house with Liz on the day of the accident. Ronnie Talbot, Liz’s brother, wanted to take Betsy to England for a while but Dan insisted Betsy would stay with him. Wally Matthews tried to make Dan see he had to live for Emmy’s sake. Dan told Wally the whole truth about Liz and himself and Betsy being their child, not his brother, Paul’s. He feared Liz’s death was retribution. Wally assured him this wasn’t true and told him of his own wife’s death and of giving his son up for adoption. Peter Bunton discussed the possibilty of a medical career with Wally and valued his opinions highly. Mrs. Bunton thanked Wally for helping Peter. Only Wally knew Peter was the son he gave away twenty years ago. Meanwhile, neither Tom Hughes nor his uncle Don would explain why Tom left the family law firm. Tom had refused to check up on Wally’s background for Don’s personal reasons. Don had given Lisa Shea one more week to accept of refuse his marriage proposal. Lisa hoped Wally would propose, but it seemed unlikely. Days of our Lives Written by : William J. Bell Produced by : Betty Corday Susan Martin was horrified to learn that she, not her fiancé’s brother, Eric Peters, was the agressor the night Ann was conceived. She went away and her note to her fiancé, Greg told him she loved him but couldn’t marry him until she found out who and what she really was. Eric felt Susan and Greg had to marry and didn’t want Greg to learn he, Eric, was Ann’s father. He tried to get chapter 14 of his autobiographical manuscript deleted by the published because it was about Susan and that night in the park. Laura Horton and the whole Horton family were concerned that her husband, Mickey was overworking himself into a second heart attack. He was adamant about being his own man and reminded her that this meant being a husband to her in every way. With her husband Scott Banning badly injured, Julie Banning suddenly realized how good a husband and father he was. Despite all efforts, Scott died and Julie had to break the news to her son, David. She gently but lovingly helped him through the agonizing pain he felt and helped him to accept that his father was gone. Bob Anderson arranged an educational trust fund for David but Julie refused his offer of money for her despite the financial problems she realized she would have due to the inadequacy of Scott’s estate. Julie realized that David was trying to fill Scott’s place. The Horton men and Doug Williams tried to fill the void for him but Julie decided she needed a father for David and a husband for herself as quickly as possible. She methodically made a list: Don Craig, Bert Atwater, Greg Peters, Doug Williams. Ironically, Don, Bert and Greg all called to take her to lunch while Doug sent a gift for David. Addie Williams learned she was pregnant. She was afraid to tell her husband Doug who had told her he didn’t want a child because he was sure she could not longer have one. Addie realized Doug was emotionally involved with her daughter, Julie and her problems and she wouldn’t try to hold him with a child. Laura made Addie promise she wouldn’t have an abortion without discussing it with Doug first. The Doctors Written by : Robert & Eileen Mason Pollock Produced by : Allen Potter The Manager of the hotel in which Cathy Ryker Bellini was hiding dropped in often to her dismay. He felt sympathy for this young widow, Mrs. Norman, and her child. He noted the resemblance between her child and the kidnapped Aldrich baby but only when he accidentally learned her “son” was a girl did he call the police. They arrived to find Cathy and Stephanie on the window ledge fourteen stories up. Steve Aldrich, Stephanie’s father, Matt Powers and Nick Bellini all tried to bring her in. Finally John Morrison was called and succeeded in getting Stephanie from her by promising to help her get away. She believed him as he reminded her she helped him conceal the fact he could walk long before he wanted it known in an attempt to win Althea back. When he returned to get Cathy, she panicked and screamed: “You’ve been lying all along!” and pulling away from her, she lost her footing and fell to her death. Everyone considered John a hero for saving Stephanie and was even more impressed by his humility but Nick, who heard Cathy’s final outcry, had put the pieces together and confronted John accusing him of knowing Cathy was carrying a dead fetus when she tricked Nick into marrying her to clear the way for John to get his wife, Althea back. Althea overheard this and was furious with Nick, refusing to even consider the possibility it might be true. John tried to convince Althea that they had to try to reconcile for the sake of Althea’s daughter, Penny because she needed the stability of a normal family and that he, as a psychiatrist, could help Penny through the adjustment. Althea realized she didn’t love John but was torn by the need to do what was best for Penny. Lauri James visited Hank Iverson in the hospital but planned to return to New York immediately. Mike Powers tried to persuade her to stay longer but when he learned she didn’t quit her singing career from boredom but that she lost her voice, he decided she was a poor example for Hank. Hank, back at the lab work, was sure his arm would never let him perform surgery again. Carolee Aldrich was convinced she misjudged her mother-in-law, Mona in the past and was grateful for her help during Stephanie’s kidnapping. Realizing Steve disliked working for the new head of obstetrics, Mona set about convincing Ann to set up a pediatrics practice in partnership with old friend Cliff DeSales, obstetrician, in the professional suites beneath Mona’s new house. Mona planned to later convince Steve to leave his hospial practice and join his friends in private practice. Meanwhile, Nick and Ann found they were good company for each other as they understood each other’s problems and loss. Ann was afraid her memories of her late obstetrician husband would interfere if she tried to resume the practice of medicine. The Edge of Life Written by : Henry Slesar Produced by : Erwin Nicholson Ashley Reynolds agreed to his lover Phoebe Smith’s condition that he told his wife, Kay, about her before she would agree to go away for the weekend with him. When Kay avoided the confrontatation with sleeping pills, he lied and told Phoebe that Kay knew. Vic Hastings returned Jake Berman’s wallet after making Johnny Dallas promise never to pull a holdup again. Vic arranged a restuarant manager’s job for Johnny. Jake accidentally met Johnny with Vic and later realized Johnny was the hold up man. When confronted by Jake, Johnny vehemently denied it and walked away from him. Joel Gantry, investigating Edith Berman’s death, was stunned to learn Edith actually did attempt suicide last year as Jake claimed. Joel’s mystery client felt Edith was definitely not a suicidal type and suspected foul play. Jake followed his suicide threat with a drunken shooting in his apartment. Only his promise to see Dr. Jim Fields professionally prevented his being brought up on charges of careless use of firearms and attempted suicide. Jim made a housecall on Jake and after the session, realized Jake had many conflicts. He felt betrayed by Edith and she had two children by a previous marriage and he confused this betrayal with his unrequited love for Nicole Travis who was engaged to marry Adam Drake. Jim was surprised to learn from a photograph at Jake’s apartment that Edith was Jim’s patient, Mrs. Wilson, who consulted him about her husband whom she felt was trying to kill her. Meanwhile, Adam and Nicole set a March 21st wedding date. Elly Jo Jamison agreed to give Simon Jessup one third of whatever she inherited in exchange for his arranging the death of pregnant Liz Fields. On his orders, she slipped Liz “wake up” pills and when Liz’s doctor couldn’t help her, Elly Jo planted the idea of Jessup’s hypnotherapy treatments in Orin Hillyer’s – Liz’s father - mind. Orin mentioned it to Liz and desperate for sleep, Liz called Jessup. He easily put her to sleep for the night. Knowing Jim’s objections to Jessup and his methods, Liz kept this from her husband. Jessup showed Elly Jo the projector slide of a sharp, cliff-top turn near Liz’s home and explained that this slide would be the instrument of Liz’s death. Adam and Nicole saw Jessup and Elly Jo breakfasting together and the unlikenss of this twosome bothered Adam. General Hospital Written by : Frank & Doris Hursley Produced by : James Young Howie Dawson took Brooke Clinton to diner for her birthday and bought her a four leaf clover charm. He bought an identical charm for his wife, Jane but told her he was working late. Brooke arrived home late for her date with Howie’s boss Burt Marshall and angry and jealous, he demanded to know who she was with. He hit her and she fell, hitting her head on a table. Realizing she was dead, Marshall wiped her fingerprints from the room and sneaked out. Detective Fred Martin learned Howie and Brooke dated during Howie’s separation from Jane and questioned him. Howie maintained he worked late that night. Marshall told Martin he worked late that night too, dated Brooke only occasionally and tried hard to throw suspicions on Howie. Martin learned Howie bought two charms - one was found on Brooke - and took her to dinner earlier on the night of her death. The police realized Marshall seemed to hate Howie intensely. Teddy Holmes tried to convince Jessie Brewer to marry despite her being older that he was. Carol, Jessie’s niece, who had a crush on Teddy, ridiculed Jessie’s involvement. Steve Hardy and Phil Brewer, her ex-husband, tried to make her see Teddy was a sponger who was only interested in her money. She defended him and considered his proposal. When Diana Taylor learned she was nine to ten weeks pregnant, she was horrified as she and her husband, Peter only began to try for conception four weeks ago. She was sure this child was Phil’s due to his forcing himself on her. Her doctor, assuming this child was Peter’s, told her there was no problem of the rare blood disease her first child had at birth. Diana told Phil never to visit her home again. Duncan Stewart continued to encourage Audrey Baldwin into a relationship and asked her to go away for the weekend with him. She maintained her only interest is the safe return of her son Tommy. Steve Hardy blamed himself for encouraging her to marry Tom Baldwin in the first place. In Mexico, Tom, very ill, died. Tommy’s baby nurse told him she’d never give him up. Wade Briggs, infuriated that his wife Mary wouldn’t come back to him as his wife, threatened to sue Lee Baldwin for alienation of affection as Wade’s father’s will left him a million dollars only if he and Mary were together. He nastily implied that Lee and Mary had an affair while she cared for his ill son during Meg’s – Lee’s wife - hospitalization. Knowing Meg’s illness was emotional, Wade threatened to take his nasty theories to Meg herself. Mary and Lee feared for Meg but Mary could not bring herself to return to Wade and Lee agreed she didn’t have to. The Guiding Light Written by : Robert Soderberg & Edith Sommer Produced by : Lucy Ferri Rittenberg Michael Bauer and Leslie Jackson agreed to call off their wedding plans as a critically ill Steve Jackson, Leslie’s father, had demanded they did. They planned to resume their plans when he was well again. Learning Leslie and Michael had parted, Steve’s agitation subsided and he began to recover rapidly from his heart attack. Hope, Mike’s daughter from a previous relationship, was afraid Mike and Leslie would never marry. Charlotte Waring was very angry at Dr. Sara Werner’s coldness to her and she encouraged Kit Vested to try to take Dr. Joe Werner away from his wife, Sara. Charlotte had noticed how Sara’s medical practice had put a strain on the Werner marriage and hoped to capitalize on it. Meanwhile, Peggy Fletcher returned to work at the hospital as the cost of the private detectives she had looking for her missing husband Johnny was considerable. Barbara Norris had agreed to marry Adam Thorpe. Holly, Barbara’s daughter believed Adam knew of his son Roger’s duplicity and resented him. She disapproved the marriage. Holly was becoming very interested in Dr. Ed Bauer and resented the fact that he was Janet Mason’s friend. She considered pretending to believe Janet’s story about Roger in an attempt to get closer to Ed. Ed was all the more attractive to her as Holly felt if he became interested in her, Janet would be hurt. Ed’s friendship with Janet and his efforts to help her through her separation from Ken were upsetting Bert, Ed’s mother. Janet’s mother, Ellen Mason, also resented Ed’s reentry into Janet’s life. Ed finally admitted he was crazy about Janet again. Janet saw her doctor and learned she was two to three months pregnant. Ken tried to put Janet out of his mind and under pressure from his mother, he began to have doubts that maybe Janet didn’t have an affair with Roger after all. When Barbara pointed out his jealousy was unreasonable and destructive, he began to put everything into perspective. He saw Janet and told her he believed her. He reaffirmed his love for her and begged her to let him come back. She told him she couldn’t but he told her he wouldn’t take that as final. Papa Bauer passed peacefully away in his sleep. The profound loss felt by his family and many friends was somewhat assuaged at the memorial service by Ed’s words portraying Papa as the standard of good and right in the family with the assurance that Papa would live through memories and ideals through the future generation of the Bauer family. Michael sang Papa’s favorite song “To Walk With God.” Love is a Many Splendored Thing Written by : Ann Marcus Produced by : Chuck Weiss Angel Chernak had her D&C and her husband, Peter did the lab analysis himself. He was crushed to learn she had an advanced case of an exceptionally virulent malignacy. He insisted Angel not be told and told her the cobalt treatments she had begun were preventive, to avoid a reoccurance of a minor condition. She did become suspicious and started asking questions. When she found the home of her dreams, Peter took it and they moved in. He couldn’t bring himself to deny her anything. Betsy Chernak realized her fiancé Joe wasn’t happy in his establishment job. He needed to be free and loose. Lily, Betsy and Peter’s mother, confided that Betsy’s father was like that and while there were lonley times, there were good times wth the bad. Betsy was up for a surgical residency with prominent Dr. Charles Warner. He recognized Joe’s feelings about Betsy’s work and warned her that a six year surgical residency left no time for personal conflicts. Spence Garrison was very pleased with his new secretary Holly McAllister despite her relationship with Dr. Jim Abbott and recent meetings with Jim had cooled Spence’s old hostily towards him. Jim insisted on explaining to Iris that he ran out on her years ago as he had abnormal fears about losing her as he lost his wife who died. She told him she was happy and none of this past mattered. However, Jim realized he still loved Iris and hounded her with declarations of love and manufactured excuses to see her. She was very angry and told him they couldn’t even be friends. Holly sensed that Jim seemed to be drawing away from her and she told Iris he was acting as though he were in love with someone else. Laura Elliot saw Jim professionally and he reconfirmed her inability to conceive a child. She reminded him that adoption was out due to her past emotional instability. Laura spent all her spare time at her sister’s hovering over Maggie – who was indeed the daugher her sister Iris had with Laura’s husband, Mark. - Iris was unaware that Laura knew Mark was Maggie’s father, but she was uneasy and annoyed at Laura’s constant preoccupation with Maggie. Mark asked Laura and Iris’s brother, Tom to investigate private adoption for them. Laura finally told Mark that Iris had always had everything and she had nothing. He was hurt that she considered their marriage nothing. Mark was frightened every time she said Maggie was half their child and indicated she’d do something about it. Love of Life Written by : Loring Mandel Produced by : Bertram Berman Rick Latimer’s divorce became final and he asked Kate Swanson to marry him. He was very supportive of her during their daughter, Rebecca’s illness. Dan Phillips, Kate’s former husband, was consulting on the case but insisted Kate not know he was involved. Kate resented his apparent lack of concern. When donors were needed for Rebecca’s blood wash, Rick donated blood and was stunned to learn he was not Rebecca’s father. He and Vinnie Phillis, Dan’s mother, anxious that Kate and Dan not learn that Dan was actually Rebecca’s father after all, pressured Candy Lowe into stealing the incriminating records. Candy hoped for a future with Dan, herself. Rick changed his blood type on the cards and wanted her to return them. When meningitis was diagnosed, Dan’s father, a specialist, was called in from Boston. Surgery was required and Rebecca came through it well, to Kate’s great relief. But Dan was intensely afraid Rebecca might be paralyzed or retarded if her persistent staph infection wasn’t stopped. Dr. Ledered and Dr. Joe Corelli were hesitant to agree with Dan’s insistence on intensive drug therapy because of the dangerous possible side effects. Tess Prentiss found the rock opera plot notes in her late husband, Bill’s handwriting right where Bobby MacKey hid them and was overhelmed by the similarity between them and Bobby’s plot ideas. He then set her up for a shock by wearing a replica of Bill’s favorite shirt and singing one of Bill’s songs in a darkened room. She thought for a moment he was Bill. As Bobby had planned, these incidents increased the tension between Tess and Joe as Joe felt she had to let go of the past but she had been convinced she owed it to Bill’s memory to have Bobby finish Bill’s music. Tess and Joe finally agreed not to mention Bill or the music at all. Seeing Tess and Bill’s son, Johnny’s emotional tension, Bobby tried to set Johnny against Joe but Joe reassured the child he liked him for himself not just because he planned to marry his mother. Johnny disliked Bobby especially since Tess gave him Bill’s sweater. Jamie Rollins sensed there was something very wrong about the whole Bobby situation. To Van and Bruce Sterling’s displeasure, their ward, Stacy Corby, had become deeply involved with ESP. Bobby used this fascination with ESP to further the impression he had some kind of contact with Bill. He led Stacy into thinking of a production of the rock opera and she entusiastically pushed the idea to Tess. Charles Lamont, Bill’s father, liked the idea, too. Meanwhile, Bruce’s newspaper was planning an article on Walter Morgan’s new business in Rosehill, but Morgan, MacKey’s accomplice, demured claiming his competitors would benefit from it. He realized that a check of his background would show he wasn’t the successful businessman he claimed to be and this would ruin Bobby’s and his plan to swindle the local residents. One Life To Live Written by : Agnes Nixon & Gordon Russell Produced by : Doris Quinlan Viki Lord Burke came out of her psychologically induced coma but was suffering from selective amnesia. She was unable to remember the last eighteen months. She didn’t remember declaring Joe Riley dead, marrying Steve Burke, her sister Meredith’s baby or Dave Siegel’s death, even Joe’s return. Everyone was careful to go along with her amnesia as Dr. Polk felt that suddenly learning the truth could cause Viki to retreat even further into the past. Joe told Dr. Larry Wolek about spending the night before the accident with Viki and their fight when she told him in the morning she was going back to Steve. Joe was furious that Viki wasn’t being told he was alive so he could see her. Viki dreamt about Joe and about Wanda Webb whom she didn’t remember knowing. Also, the music from the carousel Joe bought for her that night kept running through her head but she didn’t know where she heard that tune. Realizing Viki was growing more and more suspicious, Dr. Polk finally told her about her amnesia and that she was married to Steve. He refused to tell her more as it was very important that she tried to remember for herself. She did suddenly recall Mark and Julie Toland’s wedding and that was a start. Mark Toland was very upset that his wife Julie used her mother, Eileen’s and her uncle, Joe’s problems to put off initimacies between them. He tried to explain that they were as much a family as she and her mother were. He then told her if she didn’t want to make love, she needed only say so and she didn’t have to manufacture excuses. Carla Gray felt she still needed more time to decide about her future with Ed Hall but she was becoming more protective of him and close to him. Meanwhile, Cathy Craig was upset when she finally admitted her feelings about Steve Bruke to herself. She reminded herself that he was married to Viki and loved his wife deeply and tried to push these feelings from her mind by accepting a date with Jack Lawson. Steve confronted Joe and pushed him until he admitted he and Viki fought just before her accident. Angrily, Joe admitted Steve was right, Viki was coming back to him, but Joe insisted Viki was only doing this because she felt Steve needed her more, that she loved Joe and he loved her. Steve couldn’t help but feel that Joe’s words carried the conviction of truth and he was convinced that more happened that Joe had told him. Return To Peyton Place Written by : Robert Cenedella Produced by : George Paris Steven Cord pressed Betty Harrington until she finally admitted the child she was carrying was his, not Rodney’s. Despite their love for each other, she convinced Steven that if she divorced Rod and married him, the scandal would ruin his political career. He agreed, on the understanding that they would secretly meet often. Hannah Cord, Steven’s adoptive mother, was sure even without his admitting it that Betty’s child was Steven’s. Hannah and Betty were subtly jockeying for position as lady of the Peyton house. Betty was insistent on an irrevocable trust frund from Rodney’s inheritance to protect the future of her child, no matter what. In accordance with his inheritance, Rod assumed the presidency of the Peyton Company. Rod’s father, Leslie maneuvred himself into an advisory position with the company and tried to turn Rod against Greg who had been a trusted and competent executive in the company for years. Leslie was horrified when Rod offered the key position of head security officer to policeman Ed Rikker, a black. Rod, convinced Allison MacKenzie, was innocent of murder depsite her conviction, had spent considerable time searching for new evidence. Betty resented his preoccupation with Allison’s problems as Rodney was hardly ever home. Elliot Carson still blamed his wife Connie for not letting him make a false confession to try to save Allison and had ignored her since the trial. He arranged a large, secrety loan from Rod and tried unsuccessfully to convince Allison to leave the country. She also saw through the false confession he coached Gino Panzini to make. Allison realized her memory of the night Benny died had substantial gaps and persuaded Dr. Michael Rossi to make arrangements for a truth serum to help her remember. She was upset that when she tried to remember the motors who drove her to the hospital that night, all she could visualize was Benny’s face. In West Virginia, Benny’s mother was trying to conceal the newspaper stories of the death of her son, Jason B. Tate, in Peyton Place. She was heartsick that Allison, the wife of her fatally ill son, Benny, was living with Jason, calling him her husband. She felt his death was God’s vengeance and Allison deserved to go to prison. She did not know that Jason had convinced Allison that he was Benny when Benny left Allison right after their wedding when he learned of his illness. Search For Tomorrow Written by : Ralph Ellis & Eugenie Hunt Produced by : Bernard Sofronski Patti Whiting, finally convinced that Emily Rogers was the cause of her breakup with her husband Len, returned to Henderson just in time for the final custody hearing. Realizing she had no concrete proof against Emily, she requested Len’s mother, Andrea take the stand. Hoping Andrea knew the truth, Patti accused her of engineering the break up. Caught by surprise, Andrea hastened to vindicate herself by exposing Emily plan to destroy Patti’s marriage and take Patti’s place with Len and Chris. Len and Patti then dropped the divorce action. Andrea, sure Len and Patti would never forgive her for concealing the truth, rushed to Len’s new house where Emily was caring for Chris. Learning what happened; Emily decided to take Chris and ran away. Andrea tried to stop her and in the struggle, a candelabrum was knocked over and soon the dining room was afire. When Patti and Len arrived, the house was in flames, Chris was missing and Emily was in shock and totally disoriented. In panic and confusion, Emily accidentally fell from a window and was killed. Andrea saw her grandson, Chris, through the flames and rushed throught the fire to rescue him. Chris was fine but Andrea was hospitalized. She later recovered from smoke inhilation and Patti told her she was grateful to her but forgiveness would have to wait. Patti lied Bob Rogers that his daughter Emily died trying to save Chris. Everyone agreed that Bob should never learn the truth. Wade Collins and Janet Walton prepared for their wedding and honeymoon trip to Paris. His parents arrived to meet Janet and her family and they gave them the enormous and elegant Collins house in Henderson for a wedding present. Janet assumed her father, Stu Bergman and her brother, Tom would live with them but Stu told Ellie Harper his house was still his house. Janet and Wade were married in a beautiful ceremony at the Collins home. Matt Weldon, a young intern at the hospital in Henderson, visited to tell Janet and her children that he knew Dan and how much he liked him and respected him. Liza, Janet’s daughter, was fascinated by Matt and persuaded her mother to invite him to dinner and then to the wedding. Eunice Martin asked her husband, Doug to let his daughter-in-law, Kathy Phillips work on her civic project, the Bryant Park Committee. Doug flatly refused, saying Kathy wasn’t ready for a law case of her own and refused to discuss it. Realizing her ideas on her career advancement and Doug’s are irreconciliable, Kathy resigned from the firm. Scott, Kathy’s husband, was upset that she didn’t discuss this with him, but she made it clear her career decisions were not marital decisions. Doug blamed Eunice’s interference for Kathy’s resignation but he was sure Kathy would realize she was immature and impulsive and come back. However, Kathy accepted the Park case and got a job in the offices of John Wyatt who represented Len Whiting in the divorce case. When John learned the contractor in the Park case was involved in a prior case of Doug’s, he saw Doug and they found collusion, and the city denied approval for the building on the park site. When Doug proudly told Eunice this, she pointed out that if he had listened to anything she had told him over the past several months, he would have realized this long ago. He admitted he had not paid her the attention she deserved and promised not to tune her out again. She still felt put down. The Secret Storm Written by : Gerry Day & Bethel Leslie Produced by : Joseph D. Manetta Riley sent Laurie Stevens a ransom note but when he heard a radio news bulletin naming him as the suspected kidnapper of Laurie’s son, Clay, he panicked and didn’t pick up the money. As another day went by, Laurie became frantic. The emotional torment in Riley forced him to confession and, by chance, Father Mark Reddin heard this confssion. Riley confessed the kidnapping and asked for a blessing. Mark told him this was impossible unless he made restitution by returning the child. Mark promised Riley help but Riley ran away. Mark learned of the kidnapping as he was about to leave for St. Louis but told Msgr. Quinn he had to be with Laurie through this. He comforted Laurie and assured her God wasn’t vengefully punishing her for being in love with a priest. He insisted he knew Riley wasn’t homicidal. When she learned Riley was seen at the confessional, she was horrified that Mark didn’t mention it and still wouldn’t. She later understood his vows of silence had to be kept and went to church to apologize to him. Finding him at prayer, she knelt to pray too. While they were praying, Riley entered the church with Clay. Dr. Ian Northcote arranged psychiatric car for Riley. Mark returned later to Laurie’s home and told her he loved her and had to go away to think. He obtained a leave of absence and went to his mother Jessie’s ranch in Texas to work it out. Jessie was horrified at the idea of his leaving the priesthood. Mark’s hot tempered brother, Stacey, on parole now, resented Mark and refused to let Mark help him or even be close to him. His rudeness to Mark filled the Reddin home with great tension. Robert Landers was playing Belle Kincaid like a fish on a hook, keeping her off balance and fascinated. He encouraged her interest in racing cars, his chosen career and flattered her and catered to her ego, telling her they were alike in needing to win and show the world. In addition to her need for male companionship and attention, Belle realized Robert could be another way to get back to Joanna Morrison for hurting her. With subtility, Robert maneuvred Belle into insisting he accepted money from her for new automobile equipment. Robert had told Joanna all along that he would use Belle to get money but assured Joanna that Belle herself meant nothing to him. He cautioned himself not to fall in love with Joanna, with whom he was living, as romance didn’t figure in his racing plans timetable. Dan Kincaid wrote Joanna that his wife Belle wouldn’t visit him in prison if Joanna did. Joanna understood Dan’s need and love for Belle, but hated her even more. Joanna tried to help her friend Charlotte attract Doug Winthrop, Joanna’s old boyfriend, by showing Doug how happy she was with Robert, but the dinner plans backfried when Robert didn’t show up. He told her it was business but it was the races with Belle. Brian Neeves was upset at the indavertent closeness he had developed with Amy and Kevin Kincaid. He had secretly artificially inseminted Amy so she could give Kevin the child they thought she was carrying when he was injured and paralyzed. Brian, however, had not told Amy that he was the donor. Somerset Written by : Henry Slesar Produced by : Lyle B. Hill Lahoma Lucas, feeling threatened and inadequate by self comparison with Crystal Ames, arranged for Crystal to meet her husband, Sam Lucas and was gratified when they hit it off well together. Lahoma insitinctively distrusted Crystal without knowing she was brought to Somerset to diminish Lahoma’s influence over Sam. Sam seemed unconcerned by Dr. Stan Kurtz’s report that almost all the new plant employees had bullet and knife wound scars. Rex Cooper, paralyzed since his accident, returned to work at Delaney Brands. He was furious when he realized that Virgil Parris had cut production costs by cutting the quality of the whole canned food line. Leo Kurtz promised Rex he would correct this. Laura, Rex’s wife, saw the strain and pressured of Rex’s work were exhausting him to the point of collapse. She was further upset by Rex’s frustration at being a husband in name only since he was hurt. Leo visited Laura to ask for better relations between them for the sake of their children Tony and Ginger. Leo comforted Laura when she broke down in tears over Rex’s situation. Meanwhile, Virgil ordered Carter Mason to have his step-mother, Emily sell all her Delaney Brands stock as the syndicate wanted full control. However, on the basis of Sam’s glowing report on the company, she refused to sell. The plan to unsmak Jingles worked and it was Andrea’s senile Aunt, Rowena, who had been bringing Andrea her medicine dressed in the clown suit. Rowena insisted she only wanted to help Andrea to get well and, when weed killed was found in the medicine bottle, Rowena was confused and incoherent and was unable to remember that Zoe Cannell gave her the costume and the medicine and instructed her to dose Andrea with it. Rowena would be placed in a sanitarium. Zoe hated Andrea as she felt she was the reason her husband Julian no longer loved her or would sleep with her. When confronted by Zoe, Andrea maintained she loved only David Grant. Zoe didn’t belive this as she had overheard Julian’s declarations of love to Andrea with Andrea had politely but firmly rebuffed. Carter confessed to Zoe that he was a failure in the investment business and owed the syndicate a million dollars. His failure to get Emily to sell her stock as ordered meant he might be killed by Virgil. Zoe visited Virgil and bought Carter two weeks more for $5,000. She then told Virgil she knew he was a hired killer, would he consider doing a job for her. He seemed to be willing and she later made another appointment to discuss this. She was horrified to run into Andrea and David in the lobby of Dover House, Virgil’s apartment house. Learning Phillip Mason was planning to take his secretary Millie on another business trip, Andrea, his step-daughter, implied Millie’s presence was not for business reasons based on the scene she witnessed at Phillip’s office. He angrily denied her implications but later told his wife Emily that Millie might not go. He was hurt that Emily never felt jealousy and considered passion and heated emotion for the young, they were too old. Where The Heart Is Written by : Claire Labine & Paul Avila Mayer Produced by : Tom Donovan Not covered in the Daytime Serial Newsletter

As I am a bit overwhelmed with work until early July, I don't think I will post the rest of 1975 before. Would you be interested in my posting Dec. 72 - Feb. 73 I have on my archives. I posted it I think but more than 10 years ago so maybe some of you would want to see it again.

He was Dr. Bruce Henderson, Jennifer Brooks' lover.

He must be the oldest soap actor ever ! Frances Reid was 93 I think when she last appeared.

Ponzini left on January 1st, 1976 (according to a newspaper article). He was replaced by Jordan Charney. Doris Belack was still there until fall 1977. I am stunned how Carla is nowhere to be found. She was mentioned in January or February 1975 synopses in a very very minor role and nothing since. Yes. The DNS from March 1976 mentionned the Pollocks being new HW.

SEPTEMBER 1975 All My Children Written by : Agnes Nixon Produced by : Bud Kloss At the urging of his psychiatrist, Dr. Jeff Martin, whose alarming disappearance turned out to be only an all night drunk occasioned by his inability to cope with the death of his lovely young wife Mary and their unborn child, had agreed to leave Pine Valley where memories of their life together had, in his mind, merged with hallucinations of her presence. He had accepted a position in Clear Lake, Wisconsin of several months durations to enable a physical friend of Dr. Charles Tyler Sr. to have orthopedic surgery. Before leaving Pine Valley, Jeff had a conversation with his sister, Tara Tyler who confided to him that despite her husband Chuck’s imminent departure from the hospital his recovery was not progressing at they hoped for rate. Chuck would would be an out-patient on dialysis and there was a possibility of his never recovering normal kidney function. Jeff was shocked when she told him she was thinking of leaving Chuck to marry her first love, Phil Brent, the father of her small son. Hearing Tara say she and Phil had renewed the vows they made to each other before he was reported killed in Vietnam, Jeff reminded her of her marriage vows to Chuck who gave her son his name. He went on to say Phil had no right to marry Erica Kane Brent merely to have a family, and then steal Chuck’s family away. Erica Brent had hinted to Tara that she might be pregnant. When Tara asked Phil about the possibility, he conceded, saying he was “obligated” to her just as Tara would be to Chuck. After the talk with Jeff, Tara told Phil of her decision to stay with Chuck who was the only father her son had ever know. At a subsequent meeting with her employer Mr. Sheldon, Erica was offered a contract as the Lacy Girl. The position entailed promotion via magazine articles and public appearances but she would be free to do her radio shows independently. There was a stipulation: she had to promise she wouldn’t get pregnant until after the promotion was over – at least one year. She assured him that she wanted the contract. Erica extract a promise from her mother Mona not to tell Phil of the agreed pregnancy clause saying they would wait 6 months anyway and that the money could be used to pay off Phil’s death. However, in bed with Phil, she pretended to want to start a family immediately and Phil, bitter over Tara’s rejection of him, agreed. At a patio party at Mona’s attended by Charles Tuler and his son Linc and Linc’s new bride, Kitty; Phoebe Tyler, Charles’ estranged wife, reeled in, drunk and abusive, and humiliated Mona causing her to resign as Charles’ secretary. Mona, feeling Phoebe would always use whatever weapons she had to hurt Charles and keep them apart, insisted that he not communicate with her Back from New York, Anne Tyler was filling in as her father’s secretary. When Phoebe loudly recounted the story of Margo Martin’s facelift to Anne, she was overheard by Margo’s husband Paul. He began to speculate on the possibility that Margo might not be pregnant, his only reason for staying with her – Paul and Anne were formerly married and were planning to reunite until Margo, in desperation, announced a nonexistent pregnancy. – When Paul confronted Margo, she insisted she was telling the truth. Paul told Anne he was sure Margo was not pregnant but Anne only begged him not to tear them apart again with false hopes. Margo’s daughter, Claudette Montgomery told Nick Davis about her mother’s pregnancy and suggested it would be a good time for Nick to make a play for Anne. He said that being in love with Anne was a way of life with him, but he didn’t intend to take advantage of her breakup with Paul. Claudette propositioned Nick. Nick replied by singing Cole Porter’s “It’s All Right With Me.” Claudette had replaced the driver’s license she stole from Kitty Shea Tyler but when Linc Tyler renewed his wife Kitty’s license in her married name. Kitty found the old one. As she and Linc were looking for an address book in the apartment she formerly lived in and rented to Claudette, Linc found the empty setting of his mother’s missing diamond and sapphire earring – Claudette stole the gems using Kitty’s license as identification. – After he and Kitty told Phoebe about his discovery and she relazied the mate to her earrings was also missing, Linc returned to Claudette’s apartment, found and removed the pawn ticket. Linc told Kitty if he could prove without a doubt that Claudette stole the earrings, he could have her indicted. Hal Short, under threat of exposure of his past, had been forced to use Kitty’s boutique as a “drop” in an illicit drug operation. Under the pretense that he required a special hypoallergenic soap, he prevailed upon Kitty to put in a special order for a particular new addition to the Spartan line, “personalized” with his initials. Another World Written by: Harding Lemay Produced by: Paul Rauch Marianne Randolph had a visit from her mother, Pat, very upset and concerned about her daughter’s relationship with Chris Pearson who was also dating Pam Sloan. He got angry when Marianne confronted him. Michael, Marianne’s brother, had been doing some checking on Chris and he found out about all of Chris’s underhanded ways with girls. With Pam, Chris told her he couldn’t care less for Marianne. Marianne found out she was not pregnant and was much relieved. Chris told her that he would have married her had she been pregnant. John Randolph attacked Chris when he learned Marianne had a pregnancy scare. Fed up with the Randolph family pressure, Chris turned totally his attention to Pam. Intrigued by the search for Beatrice’s daughter, Willis was doing some snooping on his own and found out that Beatrice hadn’t head from her daughter in 11 years. Rachel found Willis’ interest curious. Gil promised to pursue the investigation carefully. Feeling lonely, Liz Matthews finally patched up her differences with her brother-in-law, Jim and accepted the idea that he was casually dating Helen Moore. Carol Lamonte fumed that Alice had finally decided to give the library project to Robert. Neal worked almost every night, an arrangement his roommate Clarice Hobson found hard to cope with. Robert tried to rekindle his romance with Barbara Weaver. Barbara said she couldn’t handle a serious emotional attachement. He accused her of leading him on, but what more could he expect from a woman! Robert observed to Barbara that she only became involved with safe men, those who were committed to someone else. She replied she refused to answer his needs at his the risk of her own. Barbara began dating Russ Matthews. Barbara told Jim Matthews that she would like a life like Pat Randolph, but was unable to commit to a man since she found out the man she loved and was to marry had a wife. Clarice asked Robert to take some of Neal’s workload so she could see more of Neal. Robert explained Willis wouldn’t let him and began to take Clarice out to dinner, without Neal’s knowing. Neil was very upset when he found out, beginning to wonder if he hadn’t misplaced his loyalty. Robert told Helen he wanted only casual relationships. Clarice moved into Robert’s apartment. Carol found out about them, and tried to use it to alienate Neal from Robert. Neal told Carol he had known for a long time and if she brought it up again, he would tell everyone how she broke up Robert’s marriage. Angie, returned from a trip to get her thoughts regarding Willis straight, sensed Neal’s pain. Angie was thinking of quitting her job and Mac Cory offered her a job at the Cory complex. Scott Bradley, interested in Angie, was also taking offices at the complex. Willis was angry to find out Angie and Scott dated while he was away. They continued to date. Willis persuaded Rachel with Emma’s help to allow Jamie to go to Chadwell and visit Steve’s family. Louise Goddard, Iris Carrington’s housekeeper, found out Mac Cory was disinheriting his daughter, Iris. Louise, frightened Iris might try suicide again if she found out, went to Mac begging him not to, almost revealing Iris’ previous attempt in the process. Iris, meanwhile, was sure Mac would attend the party she was giving for Loretta Simpson, because Rachel would have to persuade him and she and her father would reconcile. Meanwhile, Rachel was trying to persuade Mac to go so Iris wouldn’t blame her for coming between them. Finally, Mac went to Iris to explain Rachel wasn’t responsible for their alienation and they would never reconcile, offering his disinheritance of her as proof. Iris blurted out, “Dave Gilchrist should have let me die.” Mac didn’t believe she tried suicide so Iris suggested he ask Rachel, shocking him. Rachel explained she did not tell him about Iris because she was told in confidence by Louise and had promised not to. Mac was afraid that Iris would use the suicide attempt as a weapon. Rachel urged reconciliation because Dennis was being hurt by being caught in the middle and she was afraid Iris would blame her and any future child for the alienation. Mac finally agreed to talk to Iris, warning Iris the duration of their reconciliation was dependent on her not interfering ever again in his marriage. He invited Iris and Dave to dinner to celebrate. Rachel, meanwhile, was anxiously awaint results of her pregnancy test from Dave. He arrived for dinner with champagne. Mac and Rachel were ecstatic that Rachel was pregnant. When Iris arrived a few minutes later and received the news, she conveniently developed a headache. Mac and Rachel told Gil and Ada, who were delighted too. Iris was upset because the baby was one more person to come between her and Mac. Dave said it was time she stopped her obsession with Mac and reached out for her own happiness. He grabbed her and kissed her. Later, Dave told Iris she would have to congratulate Mac and Rachel soon or she would lose Mac. Iris made snide remarks about the father of the baby and Dave warned her to stop talking or thinking like that. He dragged her out to buy a present and then to the Cory house, Russ Matthews, a friend of both Mac and Rachel, left at Iris’s arrival? Iris proposed a toast, “To the Cory family … I hope it will not only be a bigger family, but a better one.” Jamie, when he returned from Chadwell, was very pleased to learn Rachel was pregnant. Loretta Simpson returned from New York with society friend, Tic DeCosgrove in tow. Alice Frame’s sister-in-law, Sharlene Frame Watts, who had led a checkered life since her husband Floyd was killed in Vietnam was persuade to join Alice as one way to escape her past. Sharlene was immediately impressed with Russ. Alice gave Sally a big birthday party whom she had finally adopted. Jamie forgot his present so he called home and Beatrice offered to bring it over. Sally saw Beatrice as she was leaving and asked Alice who she was. Alice explained then asked why Sally wanted to know. Sally replied Beatrice was the woman in the picture her mother always kept on her dresser. Alice was speechless. As The World Turns Written by: Robert Soderberg & Edith Sommer Produced by: Joe Wilmore Sandy Garrison was troubled that her husband, of whom she was afraid, was coming to Oakdale and asked Chris Hughes to get a restraining order so that she wouldn’t have to see him. Nancy Hughes felt sorry for her even though they didn’t get along when Sandy was her daughter-in-law and asked her to stay with them. When Norman arrived, Chris set up a meeting and Norman said that if Sandy really wanted to leave him, there were some business matters they had to settle. Chris was surprised that Norman was rational and personable after the way Sandy described him. Nancy was impressed when he said that he didn’t know why Sandy was afraid of him, but he only wanted to help Sandy. Chris couldn’t figure out why Norman wanted to dissolve the beauty firm rather than sell it even though Norman said it had been doing poorly for the past year. Norman said he loved Sandy, but lost sight of the important things because there was so much business pressure. Sandy said this a different side of him she had never seen. Norman called his apparent lover “Tina” to tell her he loved her, but not to come to Oakdale, because everything was falling together even though it was taking longer than expected. Then he visited Bob Hughes, Sandy’s ex-husband, telling Bob that he loved Sandy, but she trusted Bob more than anymore. Norman called a meeting to tell Chris and Sandy that he had decided to sell rather than liquidate the business. When Tom Hughes told Natalie Bannon that they should get married this week, he joked about the questions on previous marriages saying that if you didn’t tell the truth the marriage could be annulled. Tom got a special delivery letter from Natalie saying she had left town, because she loved him but she was “bad news” for him. His mother Lisa could offer no explanation. Tom’s ex-wife, Carol helped Lisa at the bookstore against her new husband Jay’s wishes, but Jay had much to say about Natalie. He always felt she was a phony and was playing Tom for a fool especially since she had been so upset with people who insisted that she was Mrs. Ralph Porter from Kimborne, Pennsylvania. Carol finally decided to tell Lisa about the couple in the bookstore and the phone calls that visibly upset Natalie. Lisa asked Bob, Tom’s father, if she should tell Tom, but then went against his advice and told Tom anyway, hoping to ease his pain, but when you love someone, nothing helps. Jay Stallings received te bid for the children’s addition at the hospital and wanted to take Carol to New York to celebrate, but Carol remembered that she promised Lisa she would work at the bookstore for the following week. When Tom stopped in at Jay’s office with some legal papers, Jay told Tom to stay away from the office and Carol. The hospital board voted to reinstate Dr. Susan Stewart, Dan’s ex-wife to her position in research. On Labor Day, Joyce Colman twice phoned her ex-husband, Grant, but Lisa, his new wife, said he refused the calls. Joyce called at the law office when only Tom was there and refused to believe that Grant was in court. She said to tell Grant that this was the third time she had called and she wouldn’t bother gim again. When told, Grant confronted Lisa who said she was only protecting him since he had never been very good as that as far as Joyce was concerned. Grant exploded and said he would take care of his own business. Joyce called Grant asking him for $2.000, but he refused to agree until she told him if she was telling the truth when she said he had a son. Joyce then hung up. Chris told Grant that Joyce called Nancy, asking her for $2.000 and Nancy felt Joyce needed help. Grant pointed out this might be a carefully laid out plot by Joyce to break up his marriage. He added Lisa was showing the strain of too much hard work and too little attention from him. Dr. John Dixon was still keeping everyone close to his wife, Kim, away from her to the extent of bringing in doctors from another hospital. Since Kim could remember nothing of the past he tried to endear himself to her by telling her they were married, omitting the fact that she was going to divorce him and was in love with Dr. Dan Stewart. John went so far as to let her think that the uneasy feeling she got when Dan visited was because she didn’t like Dan. Bob and Dan conceded that medically he was doing everything right and when Dan asked Grant about the legal aspects of John treating his own wife, he was told that legally John could speak for and treat Kim; it was only ethically wrong. Dr. Devan, a psychiatrist, was brought in and told Dan he had to deal with things the way they were, not the way they should be. John vowed he would do everything he could to keep Kim from going back to Dan because he loved her and wanted a second chance. Dr. Devan told Kim the facts he had been given about Dan, but Kim said the knowledge didn’t bring back the feelings. John made plans to take Kim home. When Dr. Devan asked Kim where she wanted to recuperate, she suggested her memory might return faster in her own apartment. John discouraged Jen from visiting the first day. Kim found that she was moody and short-tempered, but was assured that this was due to the concussion. Dr. Devan said that hypnosis might help her recover her memory, so Kim agreed to try it. John told Kim that although they were getting a divorce, he loved her very much, that he came across as cold and indifferent because he couldn’t show his feelings. As Kim was waiting for her first appointment with Dr. Devan, Dan told her that he was sure she would remember her feelings for him. Days Of Our Lives Written by: Pat Falken Smith Produced by: Betty Corday Maggie Hansen was increasingly disturbed that her husband Marty hadn’t told her that Melissa Phillips was really his daughter – Maggie overheard Linda Phillips told Marty this. Marty and Maggie, however, were unaware that Linda knew Marty had been sterile since young adulthood, a secret everyone had kept from Marty to protect him and his legal son, Mike. Marty knew he was sterile but assumed it occurred after Mike’s birth. Suffering amnesia following heart bypass surgery, Marty remembered almost nothing of his life as Mickey Horton. – Maggie worked hard on her therapy, and finally was able to take a few steps without holding onto the parallel bars. She decided not to tell anyone of her success. Fearing the increasing closeness between Marty and Linda as Jim Phillips laid in the hospital barely alive after brain surgery following a car accident, Maggie began to think Linda might have lied about Marty being Melissa’s father. Bill Horton couldn’t understand why Jim was still alive because of the extent of the brain damage. Linda, torn between her desire to re-win Marty and her need to assuage her guilt about Jim, begged an unconscious Jim not to die, because if he did, she would hurt Maggie, not able to help herself. When Jim woke up and spoke her name, Linda began arrangements to remarry Jim in the hospital. Marty asked his son Mike if Mike could understand his taking responsibility for Linda and Melissa’s future. Mike asked if that wouldn’t bring the past closer and Marty confessed his missed his law practice and the farm wasn’t enough anymone, but he couldn’t hurt Maggie by telling her. Tom, Bill and Mike apologized to Linda for past doubts about her. Jim made another attempt to communicate, mutely asking for paper and pen. He wrote, “Linda lether…” then died, sure he had communicated the truth about Linda. Maggie wondered if “lether” could be “letter”. Despite her doubts about Linda’s intentions, Maggie said Linda and Melissa would stay with them because without Linda’s help, she would be further behind in her therapy. Maggie wondered, “Is my friend my enemy?” Melissa had been asking about Jim. They had told her Jim had been on a business trip. Tom Horton explained that Jim’s car broke down – at the gates of heaven. Melissa knew about heaven from Sunday school. She accepted Tom’s explanation without really understanding. After the funeral, Maggie went through the mail and found a letter from Jim to Marty. Feeling her whole future was at stake, Maggie opened the letter. Jim wrote that Linda never planned to remarry him: he was just a means to an end – Marty. He said Linda might even be so desperate to win Marthy that she would lie, say Melissa was Marty’s child. Jim went on, “Melissa I no more Marty’s daughter than Mike is his won, and there is proof of that.” Maggie knew she couldn’t show the letter to Marty. Maggie questioned Linda about both Jim and Marty. Linda wondered if Maggie, the kitten, was growing claws. In a nightmare, Linda dreamt that “lether” was “letter” and later asked Maggie if there was a letter. Maggie replied, “I’d have seen any letter,” puzzling Linda. Linda accidentally found the envelope from Jim’s letter. She felt Marty out about it and found he knew nothing about a letter. Maggie wondered why she was keeping the letter, then hid it. Linda later searched for the letter in Maggie and Marty’s room. Marty caught her, and she pretended to be ill and searching for aspirin. Maggie found them there and realized Linda found the envelope. Eric Peters didn’t want to press his sister-in-law Susan to divorce Greg and marry him, even though Susan admitted Greg wouldn’t return to her because Greg loved Amanda Howard. Greg cuttingly told Susan he wasn’t taking advantage of Amanda’s split with Neil Curtis, as some people might, referring to Eric’s present pursuit of Susan. When Greg expressed disapproval of what he saw as Susan’s neglect of her daughter Anne by sending hher off to his mother’s occasionally, Susan reminded him he used to urge her to do just that. She said she, too, needed time and freedom without pressure to make a decision regarding divorce and admitted she was attracted to Eric, possibly because Eric was Anne’s natural father. Eric adked Greg if he expected Susan to wait in the wings while Greg waited to see whether there was a future for Amanda and him. Eric and Greg’s mother asked Eric to consider the impact on Anne if he and Susan married and the question of Anne’s conception arose – One night years ago, in a moment of despair, Susan turned to “a stranger in the park” for comfort. Her mind then rejected what she had done and she believed she had been raped. Later, Dr. Laura Horton reached the truth, through hypnosis. Ironically the “stranger” turned out to be her fiancé Greg’s brother Eric. Susan had to have a hysterectomy after Anne’s birth due to a medical problem.- Greg told his mother he might not have been a good father to Anne because of constant reminders he was not her father. He also admitted to Susan he’d like children of his own, and Susan was aware Amanda could give him children. An impasse on a divorce continued. A newly self-confident Susan returned to work at the clinic telling Greg there was no reason they couldn’t be friends. Greg observed to Amanda that Amanda wasn’t over Neil and added, he, Greg, had many friends but no love. Eric made it clear to Susan he wanted no commitment from her until she was sure she loved him for himself, not just because he was Anne’s father. Doug Williams, unable to say no to daughter Hope’s request for a baby brother or sister, contacted adoption agencies. Mrs. Chalmers, an adoption case-worker, checked out the home situation and when Hope got away from Rebecca North, Doug’s housekeeper, and ran into the bar to witness a drunk making a fool oh himself. Mrs. Chalmers observed and denied adoption because she felt the home is inappropriate. Rebecca encouraged Doug’s artificial insemination idea. Neil Curtis, Doug’s doctor, agreed to find a host mother. Johnny Collins, Rebecca’s fiancé, accepted an art scholarship to Paris, although he had to raise his own living expenses. When Neil mentioned to Rebecca that Doug would pay $5.000, plus living and medical expenses, Rebecca volunteered. She said she would tell everyone the baby she was carrying was Johnny’s. Rebecca then told Johnny she would soon receive a small inheritance, which she wanted him to use to live in Paris. Neil observed that widow Rebecca would never get over the deaths of her husband and baby. Doug asked Rebecca if she would be able to handle two children. She said yes, as long as they had a serious commitment and she was not displaced by a wife. Doug reassured her. Neil Curtis, plagued by the premarital agreement Phyllis Anderson, his fiancée, had been persuaded he should sign, made a bet with Phyllis on their way to the races. If she won less than $5.000 he would sign it; if he won more, she would tear it up. Neil won $10.000. His father Nathan appeared for money, and charmed Phyllis, trying to get her to invest in the electronic pest control scheme. Neil, to convince Phyllis that money meant nothing to him, gave Nathan the $10.000. Amanda Howard, still concerned about Neil’s gambling, refused to believe J.R. when he said Neil was still gambling until Neil called to reserve a chair in the poker game. Neil flaunted the race track deal at Bob, who made it clear that he didn’t trust Neil or Phyllis, who was on an emotional rebound. Neil responded that Bob was a double loser – Phyllis and Julie. Amanda was shocked to learn from Neil’s sponsor in Gamblers Anonymous, Smitty, that Neil was nowhere near giving up gambling. Smitty was distressed to learn Neil planned to marry an older, rich woman. Smitty asked Neil to go to GA meeting with him because Neil’s presence would help him tell the truth to the group. Smitty had been saying he had not gambled in 6 months but had been gambling investment clients’ money on speculative stocks. Neil also found Smitty in a poker game one night when he tried to stay away from J.R.’s, but succumbed when he could not reach Smitty. Smitty refused money from Neil, saying he would only gamble it away. Neil, sensing Smitty’s utter desperation, went to the meeting where Smitty made his confession, but Neil disappeared afterward. Smitty later admitted that his confession was a ploy to get Neil to the meeting, but Amanda appeared and blew his lie. Amanda had the manager let her into Neil’s apartment, so she could congratulate him on going to the meeting. He returned from a poker game and told her GA was a dead end for him because he could bever confess. Meanwhile, Phyllis dined with socialite Jane McAllister, who make catty remarks regarding Neil, calling him a gigolo. Phyllis left, then returned to find Jane drinking with Bob. Phyllis told Bob she wouldn’t ask Neil to sign the quit claim and she wished him well with Julie. Phyllis arrived at Neil’s as Amanda was leaving. Phyllis told Neil she had no hold on him until they were married. He pushed her for an early wedding. The following day, Amanda apologized to Phyllis for being in Neil’s apartment. Phyllis refused to listen to Amanda’s warning about Neil’s gambling, telling Amanda that she had learned from experience that they way to keep a man was to keep him on a loose lead. Phyllis asked Neil about the possibility of Mary’s living with them. He said it might make things uncomfortable, because Mary could neve accept their lifestyle. Phyllis accepted that. Brooke Hamilton returned to Salem, certain that Julie had revealed her lies about being rich. Brooke was puzzled when she learned she had misjudged Julie, who had said nothing. David admitted he still had feelings for Brooke. Julie told Don Craig she could never live with a man she didn’t love for the baby’s sake, meaning Bob. She also said whether she reached out for Doug depended on how David shaped up and Julie admitted Bob was an important factor in David’s recovery from drinking. Julie vowed that, because of what she felt had been selfishness in the past, she was going to live for her children’s sake. Julie told Brooke that the conversation she overheard between Doug and her, the conversation Brooke used to start the rumors that Julie’s baby was Doug’s, was Doug’s way of returning the promise Julie had made to Addie, her mother, to watch over Doug and Hope. Doug was offering to care for Julie’s baby the same way. Brooke asked why Julie didn’t grab Doug and happiness. Without resentment, Julie replied that she was stopped by her uncertainty of the effect on David or the effect Brooke’s gossip might have on the unborn child. Bob asked Julie to come home, saying she could have a bedroom to herself, because David and he needed her. Bob wanted Julie to have their baby with his full support and love and he also wanted the chance to be a father to his baby. He told Brooke she could stay at the lake house, but warned her not to make any trouble for anyone. Happy with his reconciliation with his mother, David told Brooke his amazement at how people changed, using them as an example. He had come for his inheritance from Addie and found his mother’s love. David found an apartment for Julie and him, which ironically was Doug’s old bachelor pad converted to a family apartment. Flooded by old memoried, Julie went to Doug to ask in help in finding an excuse not to take the apartment. They went to look at it. Overwhelmed himself, Doug took Julie in his arms and asked her to marry him and damn the consequences. David heard them and saw them kiss. He was devastated, rushing to Doug’s Place for a drink, which Robert LeClair denied him, so David got it himself. Unable to handle David, Robert called Don Craig. David vilified Julie, calling her a tramp for having an affair with Doug while married to his adoptive father Scott Banning. David even went so far as to speculate Julie and Doug were carrying on while Doug was married to his grandmother Addie. David refused to believe Julie married Scott to get him, David, back and stayed with Scott because she couldn’t bear to lose David again. David didn’t want to believe Julie and Doug stayed away from each other while Doug and Addie were married, refusing to believe Doug ever loved Addie, thinking Doug married Addie only for her money. Don could barely restrain himself from clobbering David, who rushed out, saying he hoped he never had to see his mother again. David also refused to listen to Brooke, who was horried to realize her lies had come true in David’s mind. Julie asked Brooke why children couldn’t accept their parents as human being who make mistakes too. Despite efforts by Doug, Brooke, Bob and Julie to disabuse David of his misconceptions about Julie and Doug, David refused to see Julie’s life as one of self-sacrifice. He saw her only as a tramp who never loved him because she gave him away and had an affair while married to Scott. To David, mothers had to be virtuous. Julie was torn, meanwhile, between Bob’s pleas to stay with him and try to help David, and Doug’s pleas that they finally reached out for love and happiness. Julie decided however to stay with Bob. Later, Bob found Brooke was missing – she had gone to the Horton home – and a note threatening to do something drastic if David didn’t reconcile with Julie. Julie confronted David with the note and his seeming lack of caring. He retorted she had taught him well. Because David was drunk, Julie forbade him to leave the house. He taunted her about finally behaving like a mother until she slapped him. His reply was, “That’s the Julie Olson Banning Anderson I know.” Julie, her decision finally made, said she was going to live with the man she loved and David could go to Hell. David roared off in Bob’s jeep and Julie called Doug who came for her immediately. She was very happy to be with him at last. During the night, Julie had a dream that David was drowning and reaching out for her. Ironically, about that time, a policeman knocked on Bob’s door to report his jeep had gone off a bridge into the lake. Divers searched for David’s body. Julie was devastated. When Brooke was told by Don Craig, she worried that her note threatening something drastic gave David the idea of suicide. Don and Bob warned Brooke not to bring any such idea up in front of Julie, since they feared she could lose the baby. Despite the warning, Brooke told Julie that David just have up and Julie could live with that the rest of her life. Julie told Don that if David was live, he would never forgive her, and if he was dead, she would never forgive herself. Phyllis Anderson was genuinely upset to find out about David and sincerely wished Julie well. Rebecca kept the news from Alice until Tom, called home from Brookville, arrived. During questioning by the police, Julie kept remembering the last quarrel she had with David, and became hysterical when the detective brought up suicide. After being sedated, Julie had a nightmare. The baby was born, and David appeared, at first fentle and loving about the baby, then calling his little brother illegitimate. David told Julie he was returning where he came from, even though it was cold and damp. At least there he wouldn’t have to look at Julie. She woke up screaming. Doug, meanwhile, was so guilt-ridden that he left his beloved Julie’s side, convinced they could never be happy together. Learning of Doug’s guilt from Julie, Neil went to see Doug and told him it was not right for Julie to lose both David and Doug. Doug went to the lake house where Bill told him Julie needed him. Doug was afraid he would only remind Julie he was to blame for losing her son. Bill said he didn’t know Julie at all. Julie asked to see Doug. Brooke managed time alone with each person she had alienated, regaining each person’s esteem by manipulating the truth to be what each person needed to hear about the night of the accident. However, she failed with Phyllis Anderson. Alice and Susan Peters bolsters Julie’s faith David was still alive, despite the recovery of David’s jacket and shoe from the lake. A diver told Bill and Mike there were deep places in the lake where a body could be caught and never surface. The Doctors Written by: Robert Cenedella Produced by: Jeff Young Doctors Matt and Maggie Powers waited with Alan Stewart in Matt’s office for Toni Powers Stewart to arrive to discuss Toni’s plans to terminate her pregnancy – Toni had agreed to return to Mike, her first husband, the father of her little, who was reported killed in an explosion at sea. She married Alan, Mike’s cousin and was pregnant with Alan’s child. – Mike Powers arrived before Toni. Toni, already distraught, walked in on another battle royal at Matt, unable to reason with thme, was trying to telephone Toni to spare her this one more humiliating scene. Toni screamed for them to shut up. She said she had had it with all of them. Alan and Mike were like football players fighting over the prom queen; Mike came back from the dead and tried to take her baby from her; Alan called her names and split. Everyone, she went on, was giving her advice and she had listened to others until she couldn’t hear herself. She told them she would not live with either one. Mike asked his father Matt if he could return to work at Hope Memorial where Toni was a nurse. Matt told him he would be assigned to the new trauma unit with Alan. If there was trouble, he made it clear he would not reassign but dismiss the one who caused it. As Toni was talking with Althea about her resolve to work out her life on her own with her small son and her determination to have Dr. Steve Aldrich proceed with the scheduled abortion, she began to abord spontaneously. When they learned of Toni’s miscarriage, Alan and Mike decided to go in to see her together and temporarily buried the hatchet between them. Mike gave Alan some time alone with Toni. However, when Toni was at home from the hospital, depressed and physically tired, Mike’s visit made it clear to her he had not been listening. He told her he planned to turn down an assignment to Bogota, Colombia, for the Police Department and work at Hope Memorial. When she convinced him her decision was not temporary, he picked up the phone, accepted the South American assignment and arranged to leave immediately. When Hank Iverson asked Rev. Joe Turned and Andy Anderson for help with a social medicine aspect of the mobile trauma unit, Rev. Joe explained he would be leaving for Johnson County, a poor parish assigned to him by the Church Council. Andy Anderson told Hank and then Rico that he too, was transferring to another town. Tom Barrett had been experiencing pain in his left arm and had made life difficult for his staff. When he brought a bouquet to Toni’s room he again gave evidence of pain as Althea entered the room. When she asked him what was wrong he replied he was going to leave Hope Memorial. She asked him if he had had an attack of the “middle aged blues.” Steve and Carolee Aldrich had made up their differences over Ann Latimer but, though they had talked out their various problems, they found that they could talk themselves into making love. Erich’s difficulties coping with two mothers and Karen’s inconsistencies, ranging from the gift of a 5 speed bike and two movies in one day to Karen’s overtly strict discipline and fits of temper the next, were becoming apparent in his crying and getting angry over nothing. Steve had insisted that he and Carolee could only give Karen enough rope. Prompted by Billy’s concern and Erich’s third unautorized trip to the Aldrich house – the last because he was hungry, having been sent to his room without supper – Steve tried to contact Judge Bowman. But the judge was on vacation and to try to acquaint a new judge with the facts in the case would take too long. They had to wait. The Aldriches’ young friend, Stacy Wells, had told Rico Bellini she was not ready for a sexual relationship when they made love and things hadn’t changed. She said she couldn’t get over feelings of possessiveness just by wanting to, but she was working on it. When Alan came to see Toni to reassure her he knew she had to find herself, Toni said she knew she hadn’t been fair to him. She agreed to have dinner with Alan at the Fireside Inn making the point that good, strong feelings were all she could give him right now. The Edge Of Night Written by: Henry Slesar Produced by: Erwin Nicholson Mike Karr was upset that his daughter Laurie and son-in-law, Johnny Dallas had separated again. Determined to hear both sides of the story, he went to the New Moon Café. He arrived in time to learn that John had run away because of a violent argument with Gerald Kincaid, which resulted in Kincaid’s severe but not fatal head wound. No one could understand exactly why John would run off and go into hiding over a trivial quarrel, but Police Chief Bill Marceau and Mike suspected that John feared he had killed Kincaid, known to them as the new key syndicate man in Monticello since Walter LePage – who had secretly become a police informer – was relieved of his duties as the underworld leader. John had become aware of a connection between Kincaid and the dark-haired Josie who had finally succeeded, John believed in destroying his marriage to Laurie. This, coupled with renewed demands from Kincaid to spy on Mike and discover the name of the mob’s police informant, led an enraged John to smash Kincaid’s head with the butt of the gun Kincaid had been using to threaten John. John, an ex-con, aware of how the mob reacted to such defiance and fearint retaliation against his family or himself, fled. Kincaid, believed that John was the guilty informant and resentful over his injuries, hired a hit man – Ewell – whose boastful claim was that he had never reneged on a contract. Ewell, armed with a pistol, tracked John to a hotel, and pretending to be room service, gained admittance. Josie, who claimed to be Serena Faraday’s half-sister, but was in reality Serena’s dual personality, found her life threatened by Kincaid who demanded she cooperate in trapping John. Nancy Karr, desperate to help her devastated daughter Laurie who was already in precarious health because of another possible miscarriage, went to Serena’s hotel room to inquire about Josie and discovered the very person she had been trying to see. Nancy was suspicious of this brass and aggressive woman and questioned Josie about her obvious dark wig, which Nandy discovered in Serena’s drawer, and her knowledge of John’s whereabouts. Josie, hostile and noncommunicative, sent Nancy away. When Nancy and Mike learned from a police investigation that Kincaid had been paying the rent on Josie’s apartment, the connecting links began to fall into place. Little Timmy Faraday, Serena’s son, was dismissed from the Delafield’s Boarding School for being in a near autistic state because of his anxieties over his divorced parents and was sent home to live with her mother. Timmy was frightened and further confused by Josie who kept appearing unexpectedly to care for him despite Serena’s reassurance that she would never leave him and that he didn’t have an “Aunt Josie.” Nancy, who had agreed to babysit Timmy while Serena went apartment hunting, was stunned to discover Josie was there with Timmy instead of Serena, and that the terrified boy had locked himself in the bathroom. In a scuffle to try and unlock the bedroom door, Nancy impulsively tugged Josie’s wig off and exposed her as Serena! Josie desperately insisting she was an identical twin to Serena finally threatened Nancy’s life with her nail file if she told anyone about her. Nancy barely managed to escape the demented woman when Josie was momentarily distracted by the phone ringing. Dr. Quentin Henderson, already alerted by Nancy that Serena might need his care, rushed to Serena’s apartment when she called to explain she had just recovered from another “blackout” which had occurred while she was caring for Timmy. Quentin found the boy badly shaken, but unharmed, and gave Serena a sedative to calme her. When Adam learned of Nancy’s terrifying experience with the opposing dual-personality of Serena-Josie, he confronted Serena with the dark wig surreptitiously kept in her apartment. To the amazement of both men, Serena, racked by sudden cranial pain, became Josie before their incredulous eyes. Mrs. Geraldine Whitney, arriving home from her hospitalization because of her recent “heart attack,” was confronted by Kevin Jamison about her deceptive use of some pills the housekeeper Trudy gave her which could induce heart palpitations. Kevin and Geraldine quarrelled bitterly and he denounced allegiance to her because of her vilanious schemes to wreck his intended marriage to Phoebe Smith to insure her plans for his political future. Noel Douglas, Tiffany’s unfaithful husband, was privately jubilant over Kevin’s decision to move out of the Whitney mansion. Trudy, torn between her loyalties to Geraldine and Kevin, begged Kevin to reconsider his decision to leave, especially when Mrs. Whitney was so ill. While Trudy was out of sight-seeing to Kevin’s packing, she overheard Geraldine vow to strip Kevin of everything by cutting him out of her will as her hair. Geraldine carried through her threat by contacting lawyer Adam Drake and informed him of her desire to change her will just as soon as they returned from Washington D.C. Geraldine, the Douglases and the servants were going to Washington D.C. to attend a memorial dedication at the White House for Senator Colin Whitney, Geraldine’s late son and Tiffany’s former husband. Kevin, believing he had probably lost Phoebe for good, allowed his temper to flare and he lost his self-control while sparring in his karate class, injuring his classmate and forcing his karate master to dismiss him from further lessons. Geraldine, despondent over losing Kevin whom she felt was like her son, decided to leave immediately for D.C. Tiffany accompanie her to the airport, but Noel, feigning pressing business matters, planned to follow later. Trudy, who feared flying, left by train with her husband. Tracy Dallas, desperate because her brother John’s disappearance had caused the New Moon to close temporarily, endind even that pittance to help maintain her luxury apartment, considered returning to her former life as a call girl in Chicago. Tracy called Noel who made plans to have her come to the deserted mansion later for an illicit tryst after he had dined out. Kevin, who was packing to leave, answered the phone and was disgusted by Noel’s apparent renewed unfaithfulness. While waiting for the departure of their flight, Geraldine, unexpectantly overcome by weariness, insisted that Tiffany go on without her and that she would return home alone. Noel, preparing for Tracy’s arrival, laid and kindled a fire and set out drinks. Just as he and Tracy renewed their old relationship in what they believed was a deserted house – Geraldine appeared! She denounced Noel, threatened Tracy with exposure of her lurid past and dismissed both of them from her home. Adam, who had resumed his close relationship with Brandy Henderson – they met Noel briefly at dinner – invited her to visit his newly acquired farm which he was renovating. Adam told Brandy of Geraldine’s wish to change her will. Unaware of all the circumstances, he attempted to call Geraldine at home but was unable to reach her. Kevin, returning to finish his packing, rushed to answer the phone, but just missing it turned to discover, to his horror – Geraldine lying crumpled like a broken doll at the foot of the curvilinear stairway! He immediately called Dr. Lacey who rushed the unconscious woman to the hospital where they discovered her spine had been broken. Although it appeared that she had a heart attack at the top of the stairs causing the disastrous fall, Bill puzzled over the smoldering embers in the fireplace. Why would Geralding build a fire if she were alone and in a too weakened condition to life heavy logs? Dr. Lacey informed the family that Geraldine’s injuries were so severe, involving serious brain damage, that she wasn’t expected to ever regain consciousness; that it was likely she might become a living vegetable. Bill learned of the divisive argument which Adam explained would have disinherited Kevin, and of a suspicious bruise on Geraldine’s neck. General Hospital Written by: Richard & Suzanne Holland Produced by: Tom Donovan Cam and Lesley Faulkner returned from their idyllic but brief honeymoon in Switzerland and Lesley resumed her medical practice at General Hospital as Dr. Faulkner. Lesley loved and admired the strong-willed worldwide business tycoon Cam, whom despite his jetset life was willing to live the simpler but no less demanding life as a practising doctor’s husband. They both agreed that while having children was uppermost in both of their minds, they intended to have a solid base in their marriage first no matter how divergent their lives formerly were. Beyond the cognizance of the Faulkner vows, in another city, at the Queen of Angels Catholic Hopsital, Miss Doris Roach, a former nurse, realized she had almost run out of time in her fight with cancer. Learning of the dedication of the Mary Sullivan Free Clinic and of Lesley, she confessed to a priest a terrible sin she committed against Lesley years ago. She persuaded the doctors to release her so that she might travel to see Lesley in person and begged her absolution for her long hidden sin. Unfortunately, as a weakened Miss Roach arrived on the 7th Floor, Lesley and Cam had just departed for another brief trip to Europe. Miss Roach collapsed and was immediately hospitalized. Miss Roach hung on to her slender thread of life until she finally faced Lesley and told of her dark deed 12 years ago. Lesley, romantically deceived by her college professor, bore a child out of wedlock whom she believed died at birth. Miss Roach told of Lesley’s forceful step-father whose plans for his brilliant young daughter didn’t include raising an illegitimate baby, girl named Laura. He bribed the attending nurse, Miss Roach, to substitute another newborn child who died as Lesley’s own baby and arranged for the funeral. Shortly afterwards, Miss Roach died, unable to the the last to recall the name of the young woman who received Lesley’s baby as her own. She did remember that the baby had an identifying birthmark. Lesley, fearful that Cam might disapprove of her having a living illegitimate daughter somewhere, hesitated before telling him. However, Cam was completely sympathetic to the tormet his wife felt and reassured her that it made no difference to him. Dr. Joel Stratton, fortified by the knowledge that the only woman he had ever loved deeply – Lesley – was happily married, told Dr. Peter Taylor, who was professionally bound to keep Joel’s secret, about Joel’s fatal inherited heart problem. Joel prepared to leave for Boston to head a children’s heart clinic. Dr. Jim Hobart, dismissed because of his drinking problem from the highly responsibly position that Joel took over as Head of the Cardiac Unit, began to envision himself as Joel’s replacement. Jim loudly proclaimed himself kree of his drinking problem and refused to attend AA meetings. However, Jim secretly resumed drinking and was keeping bottles of liquor hidden in his and Audrey’s apartment. When Jim confronted Dr. Steve Hardy about reclaiming his old job along with the additional responsibilities that the newly established free clinic would bring, Steve reminded Jim of their agreement that Jim had to remain on the wagon for at least 6 months before he could be allowed to return to the staff. Jim became resentful and hostile towards Audrey when he realized she had tried to obtain his old position for him behind his back. Lee Baldwin, a reformed alcoholic, concerned at Jim’s reluctance to seek some sort of professional help, accused Jim of secretly drinking and warned that if he allowed his drinking to become uncontrollable he would lose his last chance at reinstatement at the hospital, his marriage, and ultimately his wife. Jim, trying to overcome his problem, decided to consult Peter. Young Bobby Chandler was attracted to the lovely nurse Samantha Livingstone with whom he worked closely at the free clinic. Despite his mother Caroline’s concern for his future as a struggling med-student, Bobby, always in a hurry to consume life, proposed marriage to Sammi. Both Sammi and Caroline became concerned when moving day at the clinic became too strenuous and Bobby fell asleep at his typewriter. Sammi reassured Caroline that it would be foolish for her and Bobby to seriously consider marriage when they were both so young and Bobby had his tough medical studies ahead of him. Augusta McLeod, on the eve of her parole from prison for the murder of Dr. Phil Brewer, was visited by Diana Taylor. Diana told Augusta that although she was bitter about the brief affair between Peter and Agusta – The affair disastrusouly resulted in Augusta’s pregnancy and eventually forced her to relinquish her baby boy for adoption -, Diana was grateful that Augusta never used her pregnancy as a weapon to destroy her marriage to Peter whom she loved deeply. Augusta, free at last, had to somehow learn to put everything behind her and faced starting a new life. The Guiding Light Written by: Bridget & Jerome Dobson Produced by: Lucy Ferri Rittenberg Holly Bauer, learning of Roger Thorpe and nurse Peggy Fletcher’s engagement, prepared a little surprise advance wedding gift for Peggy – Roger , unknown to everyone was the natural father of Christina who was recently born to Dr. Ed Bauer and Holly. – Holly sometime ago while attending a carnical badgered Roger into purchasing a matching heartshaped necklace and bracelet and had it engraved “Love, Roger.” Deceiving herself that Roger still cared for her, Holly attempted to mail the necklance to Peggy, but Andy Norris, Holly’s brother, intercepted the package and, suspecting trouble, opened it and returned it to Holly. She threw him out claiming she could no longer trust him. Holly, confronting Roger, threatened to expose everything about Christina to Peggy unless Roger began openly expressing his affection for Christina. Roger begged Holly yo be reasonable and to realize what this would mean to Ed and her marriage. Holly mailed her “gift” to Peggy who, believing the necklace was from Roger, was thrilled with her first wedding gift. She reassured Roger that she forgave his past transgressions which resulted in endangering her son, Billy, and her life over his loan shark dealings. While Peggy and Roger began making plans for their wedding on October 10 to be held at Bert Bauer’s home, Roger secretly feared that his past relationship with Holly might disrupt his future happiness. When little Christina developed a high fever and chest complications, Ed hospitalized the baby and Holly maintained an around-the-clock vigil. Pediatricia Ramirez diagnosed staphylococcal pneumonia and attempted to control the dangerous disease with antibiotics. Not responding to medication, Christina’s tiny body was depleted by the unchecked fever. Dr. Ramirez recommended a blood transfusion to combat her anemia. He called for a thorough blood analysis from Ed as a probable donor. Holly was disqualified because of childhood hepatitis. Holly overwrought, distortedly believed she contributed to Christina’s illness by her obsession to win Roger back, and regretted sending the necklance to Peggy. College student Hope Bauer arrived home to her anxious father Mike and concerned step-mother Leslie. Both parents sensed something was troubling Hope and learning she had been involved with an older man, Mike was incesed. While attending a university in California, Hope confused and lonely in her new surroundings, was flattered by her professor Alex MacDaniels. He was twice her age, married and claimed he was separating from his wife. He had been pressuring Hope to make their relationship an intimate one. Mike alienated Hope with all his questions, but Leslie’s understanding influence over the volatile situation helped to cool matters. Mike, called out to California on legal business, secretly visited MacDaniels’ office and observed that Alex and his wire were on less than acrimonious terms. Mike privately threatened to expose Alex for moral turpitude and forced Alex to agree to go to Springfield and as gently as possible end his relationship with Hope. Returning home, Mike confided in Leslie about his confrontation with Alex, but Leslie was hurt and alarmed that Mike would go behind her back. She warned that Hope was in a highly vunerable state and feared what might happen should Hope learn the truth about Mike’s interference. Dr. Joe Werner, concerned about his new patient Ann Jeffers’ mental attitude was complicating her recovery had Dr. Randy Hillyard examine her. Randy told Joe that Ann had a traumatic experience in her past which she felt guilty about and which caused her to act hostile and bitter towards everyone. Peggy, exuberant over her forthcoming marriage, told Ann of her plans and learned that Ann, who was once married, had an old photo of her then 3-year old son whom Peggy assumed had to be dead. Peggy, seeing photos of Joe and Sara’s foster child’s first real celebration of his birthday, remarked to Joe that Ann’s little boy and T.J. both had curly hair and freckles. Joe and Sara discussed plans to adopt T.J. as their own son. Joe, curious over Peggy’s similar description of T.J. and Ann’s son, tried unsuccessfully to see Ann’s treasured picture. He was equally as unsuccessful in trying to get T.J. to explain what his initailes stood for or anything about his mother. Love Of Life Written by: Margaret DePriest Produced by: Darryl Hickman When Johnny Prentiss asked Sarah Caldwell to explain why his grandfather, Charles Lamont, and his bride, Felicia, didn’t share the same bedroom, Sarah told Charles that Johnny was puzzled over Charles’ relationship with Felicia. Charles lectured Johnny on the necessity of keeping your personal life at home. Felicia asked Charles why he had been avoiding her when they were supposed to try to work things out, but Charles explained how frustrated he got when he was close to her. Felicia overheared Charles calling Dr. Bryson, her psychiatrist, for an appointment and made a play for Charles telling him how much she loved him and really wanted him. She let Charles kiss her, but when he coaxed her to the bed, she ran hysterically from the house. Sarah picked Johnny up at school when he developed a stomach ache and Felicia couldn’t be reached. After talking to Johnny, Sarah called Charles that his illness seemed to be brought on by teasing about “old Miss Flemming, the school teacher” being his new mother. When Charles told Felicia about Johnny’s emotional problems, she phones for an immediate appointment with Dr. Bryson telling Charles she would call as soon as she had worked things out. Diane Lamont was anxiously waiting the results of her amniotic fluid test taken on her doctor’s advice because of her age – 40 – and she went shopping to take her mind off the chance that her baby was less than perfect. Her anxiety was further agitated when Dr. Albertson had two emergencies before she could tell her she was carrying a healthy blue-eyed boy. Eddie Aleata had decided to stay in Rosehill and market his wines asking Rick Latimer to stock them at Beaver Ridge on credit. Meg was upset when she found that he had arranged with Vanessa Sterling, her sister, for her injured daughter Cal to stay with the Sterlings. Dr. Turino found that Cal would do her exercices for Rick and advised anything that got her to cooperate was worth the effort. When Cal read in the paper that Rick was in a financial bind because of the burning of the Club Victoria, she offered him money, but he refused it. Rick asked Bruce for money because he refused to take any more from Meg. Ben Harper was waiting for Rick to return to the Club so that he could retrieve from the Club safe the pearls he stole from Arlene Lovett, his secret and legal wife, before Arlene told Betsy, his second wife, that she was not legally married to Ben. Ben got the pearls to Arlene with a little selight of hand and a lot of genius. After observing his monther Meg with Rick and putting pieces of conversations together, Ben suggested to Rick that there was more to his relationship with Meg than business and asked to be manager of the Piano Bar at Beaver Ridge so that he could keep an eye on Arlene. Meg was furious when she heard that Ben wasn’t satisfied that she supplied all his needs, but eventually Meg and Rick gave Ben two pieces of information; he would be manager of the Piano Bar and Arlene wouldn’t be around much longer. David Hart had decided he was well thanks to Arlene and when Betsy suggested that maybe he was getting involved too soon after his breakup with Cal, David made up his mind to care for Arlene. Arlene said this was pretty fast, but agreed to an engagement. Betsy visited Jamie Rollins, David’s lawyer, asking if David shouldn’t tell Call personally. Betsh took him to the hospital where Cal wished him the best of luck and said that although she loved him and tried to help, sometimes love wasn’t enough. Cal was informed that David looked pretty miserable too, as she cried silently. Lt. Garfield told Rick that since Arlene Lovett and David Hart had alibis for the night of the fire and he didn’t – Rick wouldn’t tell them he was with Meg – that there was a possibility that he could have started the fire for the insurance money. Rick was sure that Arlene had something to do with the fire and suggested to her that the Grand Jury wouldn’t be so easy on her. Meg hired a private detective to check on Arlene and suggested that if Arlene actually called Denver from his office the night of the fire the phone company would have a record of it. Rick told Ben that there was no record of Arlene’s call. Ben visited Arlene with this information and a ticket to New York City where she was to hide out until he got his inheritance of $500.000 from his mother because he thought she either started the fire or had David start it. She admitted she called him in New York on his wedding night, but hung up when Betsy answered. Rick suddenly arrived with a tape recording he made on a concealed recorder. The voice was Arlene’s telling David to keep his cool because she would take care of the only thing that connected her to the fire. Rick refused to leave until he found it. Ben tried to dissuade Rick saying he could get his $200.000 from David Hart because David had probably something to do with the fire. But Rick refused to blackmail David. As Rick found Arlene’s soot-covered dress, Lt. Garfield arrived at the apartment taking Arlene and the evidence into custody. Ben asked Rick to give him a few hours to get David to confess before the whole story came out about his marriage to Arlene. Ben played the tape for David, telling him that the police had Arlene in custody and she would probably confess to save him, knowing that David felt protective of her. Arlene, afraid of a prison sentence, admitted that she was in the Club drunk when David set the fire just as Jamie arrived with David. Jamie was surprised to find that it was David he had to protect rather than Arlene. David became hysterical at the mention of taking him to the hospital, afraid he would lose Arlene as he lost Cal. Just as Arlene and Jamie thought they had calmed him, he leapt onto the window ledge! Betsy and Carrie Johnson, Arlene’s mother, and Meg’s new cook/housekeeper, hit it off very well with Carrie agreeing to leave Ben and Betsy(s room to Betsy’s care. When Carrie described the household to Arlene, she figured out whose house she was talking about. Neither Meg nor Betsy knew Carrie was Arlene’s mother. One Life To Live Written by: Gordon Russell Produced by: Doris Quinlan Susan Barry, R.N., beffuddled by too much liquor and deluded by her obsession that Dr. Larry Wolek was carrying on an affair with Viki Lord Riley at the Llanview Motel, rushed off to confront them, closely followed by Larry’s concerned sister, Anna Craig. Refusing to believe Anna’s pleas of Larry and Viki’s innocence, Susan pounded on a motel door and was greeted by a startled Tony Harris. Susan, faced by the familiar motel surroundings, relived the true scene leading up to Dr. Mark Toland’s death which she had blocked out because of her acute alcoholism all these months. She told of an argument with the fugitive Toland over exposing his hiding place to the police and of the fatal struggle in which Toland’s gun accidentally discharged, killing him instantly. Realizing her complicity in Toland’s death, Susan blindly rushed out to tell the police, but was stuck down by a motorcycle before the horrified eyes of Anna and Tony. Just before Susan died, Police Lt. Ed Hall was called to the scene by Anna, and learned the whole story. Tim Siegel, admitting his innocence freely as he was sure his sister Julie was no longer under suspicion for the death oh her husband, was released from prison. Ed, demanding Viki and Larry be honest about Toland’s attempted blackmail scheme against Viki, was finally persuaded not to force them to reveal the reason behing the blackmail because it wasn’t relevant to the murder. They assured Ed there was nothing to Susan’s delusions about an affair. To Viki’s relief,Ed closed the case without discovering Joe Riley’s natural daughter, Megan was likely to die by early adolescence of an inherited heart problem unknowingly transmitted by Joe, which precluded his having any further children. Larry told Dr. Jim Craig about the blackmail plot and postulated whether or not Dr. Dorian Cramer might have somehow been responsible for Toland’s discovery of the closely guarded secret. Viki, less occupied by the threatening circumstances of the past months, turned her attention to her father, wealthy and powerful Victor Lord. Realizing the control Dorian had exerted over Victor while attending to his convalescence after his serious heart attack, Viki worried about the motives of this unprincipled woman who mistakenly bore a grudge against Viki because she believed Viki was solely responsible for her dismissial from the hospital staff after the Wilson murder trial. Learning that Dorian planned a trip to New York with Victor, Viki countered with a proposal of just a family outing to their mountain cabin retreat. Prevented from joining, the thwarted Dorian found fare had helped to nearly separate father and daughter when Franklin Carter, Victor’s legal counsellor from San Francisco on special assignment, insisted upon meeting with Victor in person, forcing Viki to return her father to Llanfair. Carter warned Victor that expanding his search for his illegitimate son to other cities might only encourage cranks and fortune hunters. Tony Harris, who was actually, unknown to everyone, Victor’s illegitimate son, continued to write his accounts of the closing days of the war in Vietnam. Tony was haunted by a reoccurring childhood dream about a mother he loved deeply and a father, believed dead, of whom he hadn’t even a photo by which to remember, Tony, fascinated by Joe and Cathy Craig’s mature agreement over the sharing of parental duties to Megan, was attracted to the authoress Cathy. Anna remarked on how much alike in background and interest Tony and Cathy appeared, but that actually when they were together sparked fly and their acquaintance appeared to be off to a volatile start. Cathy, finding she had two symphony tickets and no one to escort her, reluctantly agreed to go with Tony. Cathy left Megan with Joe and Viki. When an important oil millionaire unexpectedly arrived in town, the newspaper contacted Joe, who left to get a prized interview. Viki competently cared for Megan, but was suddenly horrified by what appeared to be a resumption of the baby’s serious heart/respiratory failure. Unable to reach Jim by phone, Viki bundled the baby up to protect her from an unexpected thunder storm and began speeding in her car through the rainy night to the hospital. Suddenly out of nowhere a car appeared and collided with Viki’s car! Tim, freed from his self-inflicted imprisonment, turned his romantic interests toward novitiate Jenny Wolek and began pressuring her to choose between a life with him and her commitment to her devotion as a nun. Eileen, Tim’s mother, learning of his upsetting involvement with the devout girl’s plans, interfered in her son’s plans. Vinnie Wolek discovered the situation and, having a rather conservative viewpoint about the place of nuns in society, threatened Tim and demanded he stop seeing Jenny, to his wife Wanda’s chagrin. Ryan’s Hope Written by: Claire Labine & Paul Avila Mayer Produced by: Claire Labine & Paul Avila Mayer Delia Ryan, the wife of Frank Ryan, reform candidate for City Council in the Riverside District of New York City, had confessed to her parish priest that she pushed her husband down the back stairs of Riverside Hospital, admitting she married Frank because she wanted to be a Ryan and to get back at his brother Pat when their relationship was leading nowhere. When Frank began seeing Jill Coleridge, Delia had their baby to end the affair but discovered it had started up again. She promised to find a positive penance in every moment with Frank and their child. When she told Frank of her contrition, he said they were past the point where her turning over a new lead would make a difference. For the sake of Delia and his son, and to keep alive his chances of continuing his campaign, he pretended to have no recollection of the time immediately preceeding his fall. Frank told investigative reporter Jack Fenelli he was in the hospital – on the back stairs – looking for his brother Pat, an intern, to invite him to a party – he was in fact there to give Jillian’s brother, Roger Coleridge $6.500 to enable Roger, who knew of his affair with Jillian, to pay off a gambling debut to Nick Szabo, who was threatening Roger’s life -. Frank also told Jack that he had been to see Szabo earlier only because Szabo was hospitalized and an old friend of his father’s. He insisted Nick called him about a campaign contribution which he turned down. Asked about the missing $6.500, Frank said it was part of his $10.000 police pension and he had it with him in cash because he intended to use it for a mailing in his campaign. Fenelli was unconvinced. Frank’s sister, Mary, and his campaign manager Bob Reid, were somewhat disturbed over the questions still unanswered but were certain that as Frank made his recovery, his memory might improve and the facts surrounding the disappearance of the money would emerge. In an effort to display her responsibility, Delia asked Jill Coleridge to submit a claim to the hospital for the missing money. When Jill prepared the claim and told Frank about it, he told her to withdraw it and not to say anything about it. He also told Delia to forget the claim for a time and not to speak of it to anyone. Delia, puzzled, promised. Later, Frank told Roger that if he made a claim when he knew Roger had taken the money they would be guilty of fraud. He made it clear that he expected Roger to pay it back. Roger, unknown to Frank, had begun building up another gamblind debt to Nick Szabo. Jack Fenelli, after filling his story, took Mary Ryan to meet Sister Mary Joel, his beloved mentor, who prevailed upon him to help arrange a job for the troublesome brother of one of her charges. When Jack made a phone call, Sister Mary told that Jack short-circuited efforts at communication but assured her that Jack was worth the effort. Upon her arrival back at Ryan’s Place, Mary read with shock and then contempt the story Jack had written on her brother. Nick Szabo had cause to be disturbed by some implications in Fenelli’s story and when he injured his back further, he insisted on calling Roger to his room. He got Roger to admit he knew something embarrassing to Frank but when Roger insisted the matter was minor and of a personal nature, Szabo didn’t press him – yet! Having forgotten to return the key to the drug cabinet after administering a shot of pain killer to Szabo, Bucky had to return to the hospital, leaving Pat Ryan and Faith Coleridge on his houseboat. In his absence, Pat succeeded in teaching ultra-uptight Faith to relax and enjoy dancing. The following day when the three arranged a lunch time picnic in the park and Bucky went on ahead, Faith and Pat were called into Nick’s room by Johnny Ryan who had stopped to tell his friend that Frank had managed to move his toe, a sign that the spinal pathway was clear. Johnny witnessed Nick go into convulsions and Faith and Pat coped with the emergency brought on by a nurse who had read the wrong chart and administered insulin to Szabo. Bucky’s Aunt Nell Beaulac was enraged to learn that her husband Seneca had forced his way into the position of Chief of Neurosurgery replacing Ed Coleridge, Acting Chief, whom she had been seeing after she left Seneca to start a new life in New York. She threatened to resign but Ed talked her out of it. When Seneca insisted Nell’s behavior had been irrational, Nell maintained she wouldn’t waste time or energy in defending her right to live her life as she chose. As a result of the implications raised by Jack Fenelli’s story and the uncertain state of Frank Ryan’s health, the party’s district leader Charley Ferris told Bob and Mary the party “may have to look for a new candidate.” Mary insisted the story was only “Cheap-Shot Fenelli at his worst.” She asked for 10 days time for Frank to show significant physical improvement and draft an answer to Fenelli’s column. Charley agreed, and later promised to recommend that the party stay with Frank. When Jack came in, Mary told him she never wanted to see him again. At 3 a.m. outside her window, Jack woke the family. When Mary went down to talk to him, he said he was sorry he hurt her. As she showed him out, he reminded her that she had quoted her father to him once saying, “Only those you love can really hurt you.” At the same hour – 3 a.m.), Bucky told Faith she had to come to some decision about marrying him. Faith told him she couldn’t give in to pressure. Having said that the best thing they could was keep as much distance as they could between them, Bucky later admitted to Pat that he handled everything wrong. Ed Coleridge came upon Faith and Nell quarrelling the following day. Having learned from Nell that she had been living with the knowledge that she could die at any moment – she had shown him x-rays of two aneurisms of the brain, one inoperable and ultimately terminal -, he took Faith aside and told her she was not to upset Nell, “a very sick lady.” Search For Tomorrow Written by: Peggy O’Shea Produced by: Mary-Ellis Bunim Sam Hunter, Henderson’s D.A., who had been placed in office by the Organization, called his organization contact, McCready, saying he was all wrong about Kathy Phillips, that she knew nothing. McCready believing that Sam couldn’t control Kathy because he loved her, said it was out of his hands. McCready ordered his strong arm to hit Kathy tonight. John Wyatt, Kathy’s law partner, wanted her to go to the Board of Supervisors with what she had learned from Sam but Kathy assured him she was in no danger and wanted to get more information first. Late that night, Kathy was disturbed by a noise outside the house but didn’t answer the ringing phone. She was frightened when there was persistent knocking on the door, but it turned out to be Sam. He told her to pack and get out of town because McCready knew about her. John was worried about Kathy and went to her home where Sam answered her door with a gun in his hand. John wrestled with Sam retrieving the weapon. John didn’t trust Sam but finally agreed to let Sam drive to the police station in his car while he, John, and Kathy following in John’s car. To their horror, Sam’s car exploded as he started it and he was killed instantly. John and Kathy were afraid to truth the police, but Zolar, whom many people felt should have been D.A. instead of Hunter, was honest; Kathy was taken into police protective custody by Sgt. Dorene Matthews and found herself bored in a remote cabin. McCready was furious at the hit man who wired Kathy’s and Sam’s cars, but told his boss, Mr. Billings, he had a contact who would let him know where Kathy was and she could be taken care of before she testified. Scott, Kathy’s ex-husband, who was temporarily on the wagon, but far from cured of alcoholism, read about Kathy in the Chicago paper and rushed to Henderson. Sgt. Burns felt sorry for Scott and told him that he would tell Kathy Scott cared when he took the supplies out. Realizing this was his opportunity, Scott followed, but Burns stopped, taking Scott’s keys because he was too drunk to drive, saying he would pick him up on the way back. Scott insisted on going with Sgt. Burns. Kathy’s guard, Sgt. Matthews, called McCready, letting him know where they were, then offered drugged coffee to Kathy and one of the guards. Joey Kimble, dressed as a policeman, told Kathy that he was the guy she had been looking for. He tied Matthews up so it would look good and then taunted Kathy until she begged him to just shoot her. Scott impulsively broke in. Burns the shot Joey, but was angry because Scott could have got himself or Kathy killed. Kathy protested when they started to untie Dorene Matthews, explaining she was in on it too. Scott realized that he put Kathy in danger and asked her to come home with because he knew he was an alcoholic. She refused when he insisted that he could cure himself rather than treat it like a disease. When Kathy was rested she called Ellie to pick up Eric, Scott’s step-son, but found Scott already had. She insisted that until Scott got help, Eric was better off with her. When Eric went off to school, Scott found a bottle of liquor and took a drink to steady his nerves praying that he wouldn’t take any more. Eric found him passed out on the couch and lied to Kathy when she called to check on them. Scott tried to tell Eric he had only been sleeping, but Eric, on the verge of tears, knew the truth. Liza and Steve Kaslo were home from their honeymoon and the administration office had not sent his acceptance to law school. Janet, Liza’s mother, offered to have John Wyatt put in a good word, but Steve wanted to do it on his own. Finally it came and they had cause to celebrate. Steve was having trouble with his back and when Liza noticed that he had no appetite she suggested that she quit school and get a job, but Steve wouldn’t even listen. Tom and Stu Bergman, vacationing, were in Los Angeles. When Stu was a contestant on “Your Lucky Day” he won the grand prize of a sports car and then was invited for a home-cooked meal by his widowed opponent, Constance Schultz, to whom he gave the car. Dr. Wade Collins told his wife Janet, she made him feel so guilty that he told Karen he was already married and she was in the severely disturbed ward, but he would not give up her case. At a Collins Corp. board meeting where after 4 hours they could come to no compromise because Clay didn’t “run the company like his father did.” Clay Collins was informed that his open affair with Stephanie Wilkins had set many board members against him. When Stephanie complained about Dave, her ex, bothering her, Clay suggested matter-of-factly that they married the following days, thinking this would solve both problems. Stephanie’s daughter, Wendy, was so upset that she called her father who explained that some things weren’t meant to be and you couldn’t always have what you wanted – Stephanie and David getting back together. – On their wedding night, Stephanie admitted she was jealous because she though Clay was trying to break up Wade and Janet’s marriage. Wade and Janet had an argument when Janet suggested that Wade gave up his interest in the company after Wade remarked the only reason Clay was marrying Stephanie was to gain control of the company. She said some serious changed had to be made in their marriage or they were in trouble because he felt a duty to everything else. When she claimed that Karen was not an obligation, but an obsession with him, Wade retorted that she, Janet, had too much free time as her children were growing up – Karen was Wade’s ex-fiancée who took an experimental drug causing schizophrenia thinking she was helping Wade’s research. – He decided to go to a psychiatric convention to get away from home. Janet exploded when he would rather visit Karen at the sanitarium than have her take him to the airport. That night, Janet heard a noice downstairs and found Karen looking for champagne to take to Wade. When Janet called the sanitarium, Karen overheard Janet announce herself as Mrs. Wade Collins and, becoming hysterical, ran out the door and into the path of an oncoming car. Clay waited at the hospital with Janet while Wade flew in from his convention in Columbus. Dr. Rogers told them all that they removed her spleen and repaired a damaged kindey, but she would be fine. Wade was furious to learn Janet allowed Karen to hear the truth of her identity and rushed to Karen’s side while Clay consoled Janet assuring her that she was not at fault. Dr. Newman suggested again that Wade remove himself from the case, but he refused. After another fight with Wade, Janet went to the hospital to talk to him but found him in Karen’s arms. Janet went to Clay for comfort and Stephanie walked in to find Janet in Clay’s arms. Somerset Written by: Don Appell Produced by: Lyle B. Hill Ginger and Tony Cooper continued at odds over Tony’s drive for success that had him working long hours. Ginger was lonely, as their son, Joe, was in school, but refused Ned’s offer of a job as a teen fashion counsellor, saying she already had a job as a housekeeper, wife and mother. Ned sensed the Coopers’ relationship was deteriorating, as he confided to Eve, so he sent Tony home early, delighting Joe when Tony played ball with him. Joe asked if they could do it every day. Tony said they could. Tony was rebuffed by Ginger, who claimed she was too tired. Tony then hurt Joe by telling him he couldn’t play anymore. With Ned’s encouragement, Tony began getting home early often. Tom Conway told Kate Cannell that Vicky Paisley saw them leaving for New York, and he wouldn’t put it past Vicky to guess the miscarriage was an abortion and might even decide the baby was his, not Julian’s. When Kate learned Eve and Ned were engaged, she began spreading the word of her “miscarriage.” Julian explained how he had been trying to help Eve at the time putting Kate under such emotional stress she miscarried. Stan replied, “Nonsense,” explaining emotional miscarriages weren’t only rare, they were almost impossible for someone in Kate’s excellent physical condition. Julian was stunned. Kate told Vicky that Tom was just seeing her off on a business trip, and Vicky agreed to make peace. Kate’s insecurity returned when she learned Julian went to see Stan about her. Kate calculatedly asked Teri Kurts to tell Julian that she, Kate, had an emotional miscarriage, which Teri refused to do since it would be a lie because Kate wasn’t her patient. Kate tried to again place the guilt on Julian, asking if he blamed her because the baby aborted. He jumped on the word “abort” until Kate assured him that any preterm delivery could be called an abortion. Under the strain of her new insecurity, Kate began to drink during office hours, a fact which Eve observed one day. Eve offered help, but Kate still felt Eve was after Julian. When Julian came in, seeing Kate with a drink, Eve covered, saying it was for her. Kate later thanked her. Julian thought Eve was drinkiong again, and offered help. She reassured him and as the who sat to chat, Ned entered and was upset. Heather Lawrence Kane increasingly insecure in her marriage to prominent young heart surgeon Jerry Kane, decided a baby would prove his love for her and cement their marriage, despite warning from Teri Kurtz and her mother Eve. Heather was deeply hurt when Jerry said this wasn’t the time. Jerry confided his puzzlement to Julian, saying he felt Heather was too immature to have a child. Julian reminded Jerry that Heather was mature enough to get him out of a depression and back to surgery. Julian warned Jerry he himself might be making Heather dependent and advised Jerry to let Heather do her own think and make her own mistakes. Eve Lawrence and Ned Paisley were ecstatic about their engagement. Ned told Eve he wanted to marry her as soon as possible. He also told her she could continue to work, if she wanted. Vicky, Ned’s sister, decided to set her sights for Julian, after sensing all was not well with the Cannells. Ned was upset at the prospect of a free Julian, feeling he was still a threat to him, still insecure in Eve’s love. Ned, finding Julian and Eve chatting in her office, refused to believe Eve was trying to save the Cannells’ marriage. Ned told Eve she hadn’t changed at all and her helping Julian was proof that if Julian were free, she would go to him in a minute. Eve, deeply hurt, left, telling Ned she was going as far away from him as possible. Meanwhile, Kate, very defensive since the word “abortion” came up, jumped on Julian, screaming at him he was the guilty one, not she. He walked out. Jill Grant Farmer lunched with Lena Andrews, Jon Wheeler’s mother-in-law. Jon was there and he and Jill enjoyed playing at meeting for the first time. Lena finally persuaded Jon to tell his daughter the truth about his late wife, Frances. With great emotional suffering, Jon told Carrie how on the noight of the accident that crippled her, Frances was abandoning them to run away with Peter Goodman. John followed them, campe upon the accident and took Goodman’s place behing the wheel. Goodman subsequently ran away with another woman. To Jon’s utter devastation, Carrie refused to believe him. When Greg Mercer got the story from Carrie, he left for Wilkesbarre, to prove or disprove Jon’s story. Jill was hurt to see Jon wasn’t wearing his half of the gold coin they shared. Jon finally told Lena about Jill. Lena was thrilled he had found someone to love, but was puzzled as to why he had kept it a secret. He said it was because of Carrie. Carrie, meanwhile, all but admitted to Lena she was in love with Greg. Carrie also told Julian she worshipped her father until she learned at age 10 he was keeping a mistress. Jill was increasingly disturbed at Jon’s obsession with regaining Carrie’s love. Greg called from Chicago, having found a man resembling Goodman. Jon encouraged Carrie to go to Chicago to meet the man. Carrie was reluctant, thinking Jon wouldn’t be above hiring someone to pose as Goodman. She told Jon to stay away from Chicago, but Jill told him to go because Carrie had things her own way too long. At the airport, Jon ran into Carrie, who said only one of them went to Chicago. Jill wasn’t sympathetic, and when Jon told her Carrie was the most important person in his life, Jill left. The Young And The Restless Written by: William J. Bell Produced by: John Conboy After her concert debut in New York, Leslie Elliot was remembering when she was there the previous time. She had a nervous breakdown and was a patient at the state mental institution. She decided that she had to visit the sanitarium to make sure she had left it all behind. Brad rescued her from the ordeal telling her that only caring families could help the patients. Brad met with Bronson, a promotor, who wanted to set up a one-woman show so that Leslie could realize her full potential. Brad agreed to talk to Leslie. Since the publisher had agreed to publish Lorie’s brook as is, after she had changed her mind because it could be traumatic for her sister, Leslie, Lorie asked her managed, Jed Andrew, for advice. He suggested she tell them they could be sued for invasion of privacy. When Parks offered to publish it under her own name – he refused this at first due to sensationalist publicity, - Lorie agreed after consideration. Lorie broke the news to Brad and Leslie that she wouldn’t be taking the job as publicist for the orchestra – Lorie’s novel was the story of a concert pianist’s nervous breakdown. In Chicago, Jennifer Brooks found a lump in her breast and her lover, Dr. Bruce Henderson had scheduled her for a biopsy in the morning. Lorie, Jen’s most sympathetic daughter, could see that something was wrong and got Jen to confide in her. Lorie told Leslie and they convinced their mother that she would be better off in Genoa City with her own doctor and family. Leslie, Chris and Lorie tried to cheer their mother by telling her that 8 out of 10 women who underwent biopsies didn’t have cnacer. Jennifer informed them that she wouldn’t sign the papers but would take her chances on being one of those 8 because she could be with a man afterwards. Brad got her to okay a biopsy, but not a radical if necessary even though he lectured her on the value of life. The biopsy proved the lump to be malignant. Stuart Brooks had decided to file for divorce from Jennifer, start dating and sent his youngest daughter and constant companion, Peggy, back to college. The process server couldn’t find Jennifer in Chicago and felt Dr. Henderson knew something. Irritated, Stuart called Bruce, his former best friend, and learned Jennifer was in Genoa City undergoing a biopsy. When Chris stopped by to tell his father, she was upset that he knew and didn’t visit the hospital, but suggested that they tell Peggy even though she was estranged from her mother because of the divorce. Stuart tried to talk about Jen. Peggy wanted to cut him off but finally let him tell her that her mother had cancer. Lorie tried to get Jen to sign the surgery consent forms after she was told that she had cancer and they wanted to operate the following day. She refused saying that she didn’t want her body mutilated, but would live out her life a whole woman. Peggy walked in as she made this declaration and told her mother she needed to have the operation because she didn’t want her to die. Jennifer signed the consent. Although Jennifer refused to see Stuart or Bruce before the surgery, Bruce told her that he had loved her for 30 years and would continue to love her. Jen was concerned that she wouldn’t make it through the surgery and wented someone to tell Peggy that she loved her, but Peggy was there to hear it for herself. Peggy and Stuart later talked about Peggy’s confused feelings for her mother when a process server arrived with divorce papers from Jennifer. Snapper told the family that the lymph nodes were not involved and the surgeons were sure they got all the cancer. Jennifer cried hysterically as she awoke and remembered that she had had a radical mastectomy. Kay Chancellor moved back into her house, asking her former housekeeper, Ruth, to stay. Ruth said she needed the job, but Mrs. Chancellor needed her more. The entire Foster clan set out to look for jobs. Greg decided to go into private law practice, Snapper to give up his residency for private practice, and Chris to get modelling jobs. Liz asked Kay Chancellor to help her get her job back at the plant when she could find nothing else. Kay said she never interfered with the business, but since her cook Emma quit, she did need a new one. When Liz found out about Snapper she asked Dr. Atwater not to accept his resignation and Snapper, suspecting that she was behind this, gave her a week to find a job. She called Kay and accepted the job as a cook. She found Kay a hard task master. Bill told Snapper the best thing he could do was leave unless Snapper consented to his looking for work. Snapper agreed because he was he would never be hired. When Chris reminded him her father offered him a job, Snapper asked Stuart to turn Bill down, but he got a lecture on man’s dignity instead. Brock Reynold offered Jill some money, but she said they all had jobs. She told him she was pregnant and that Kay, Brock’s mother, would pay for the legal action which would deny her baby Phillip’s name – Kay had her own divorce annulled and Jill’s marriage to Phillip declared invalid. - Brock suggested she tell Greg that she was carrying Phillip’s child to see if the baby was Phillip’s heir. Greg said after the baby was born they would go to court. Liz told Snapper that Sam Powers had asked her to marry him and to go to Kansas with him. Snapper said she deserved a little of the good life and it would be good for Jill to get a new start. Liz was worried about Bill who only had a short time to live but Snapper said he and Greg would worry about that. Liz told Jill about Sam’s proposal and asked her to go with them, but Jill said there were many reasons why she couldn’t. Brock thought that Jill should tell her parents she was expecting Phillip’s baby, but she didn’t want to hinder her mother’s happiness. Liz went to Greg’s office to arrange a divorce, but Bill had decided that he could help most by getting the divorce himself. Greg refused to be involved, but when he saw they were adamant he conceded.

I think this was indeed Jake and Margo’s exit storyline.

She was not kept long indeed as Jeff will leave in September.