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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.

He was writing AW in 1970 and even wrote Somerset at the same time when the show premiered.

It was on Search For Tomorrow. Jennifer was played by Morgan Fairchild and it happened in July 1975.

Thanks a lot for your memories ! If only we could see the episodes we would know.

From what I saw by going through quickly my issues, Mark was our in January 1976, Lance arrived during fall 1975. I was also surprised to see that Jennifer Leak came back as Gwen in the early months of 1976 before she was signed to play Olive on AW.

AUGUST 1975 All My Children Written by : Agnes Nixon Produced by : Bud Kloss On his way home from a convention in New York, Chuck Tyler had the presence of mind to pull off the road when he experienced dizziness, fever and headache. When the highway patrol discovered him, he was unconscious. Their call to his wife Tara, and the subsequent diagnosis of kidney failure complicated by pneumonia, caused Tara and Phil Brent to postpone their plans to marry and make a home for their son, little Philip – Little Philip was legally Chuck and Tara’s son, conceived after Phil and Tara had exchanged vows privately, the night before Phil left for Vietnam. Phil was subsequently reported killed. Joe Martin reminded Tara that little Philip was Chuck’s legal son. He told his wife Ruth that while her son Phil was phoning her for sympathy, he, Joe, was trying to save his son-in-law, Chuck’s life. When Ruth’s Aunt Sara asked her to be with her for a minor operation in Iowa, Joe insisted she go,”if that’s what it takes to stop your interfering.” Nick Davis, who had been covering fro Phil at the Chateau so that he might be with Tara without Phil’s wife Erica finding out, asked for and was granted permission to see his grandson little Philip, promising not to mention anything about his relationship to the boy. Erica, at the hospital for a visit, told Tara she understood her concern for Chuck, that if anything ever happened to Phil, she would kill herself. She took great pains to make herself appealing to Phil – who, that day, tried to persuade Tara to be with him at the motel and was rejected “until Chuck is well” – Erica found Phil’s reaction of sex without love brutal and felt degraded but she was determined to get pregnant. Erica had just recently been released from a sanitarium after suffering a nervous breakdown following her miscarriage of Phil’s body. Jeff Martin, unable to adjust to his wife Mary’s death, had begun speaking to her apparition. He told her he wanted to join her and their unborn son. Joe Martin was troubled upon overhearing Jeff speaking aloud in an apparently empty doctor’s lounge and when Jeff ordered an insulin injection for a patient with psoriasis, Joe asked Dr. Charles Tyler to give Jeff an extended leave. Charles thought Joe was over-reacting and decided to compromise by keeping a close eye on Jeff and reducing his work load. Joe replied that he hoped they didn’t live to regret the decision. When a new hospital aide, David Thornton, questioned Jeff’s conflicting orders, Jeff went to pieces and Joe had to sedate him. On Ruth’s return from her trip, she and Joe Martin reconcilied and Ruth arranged dinner with Tara and Jeff. When Tara, worried over Jeff’s despondency, rang the bell of Jeff’s apartment, she got no answer. Chuck, on the road to recovery, was beginning to question Phil’s close relationship with Tara and little Philip. Margo Martin, sensing that Paul, her husband, was about to ask her for a divorce, told him as she found him packing to move to his mother’s house temporarily, that she was pregnant. She desperately hoped to get pregnant in the next few weeks. Margo asked Erica to help in the shop while she and Paul went on a vacation, but Paul insisted she cancel the reservations she had made. He agreed to stay with Margo, but told her his feelings hadn’t changed. When Anne Tyler told her brother Linc about her promise to remarry Paul until she learned from him of Margo’s pregnancy. Linc suggested Margo might be lying. Phoebe Tyler called on her daughter and told Anne that Claudette Montgomery, Margo’s daughter and Phoebe’s paid companion, told her Margo had a facelift in New York. She suggested that such a deception would be the cause of Paul’s leaving Margo, goading Anne to scream at her that Paul would never leave Margo. At home at the Tyler mansion, Phoebe, drunk, passed out. Claudette stole the mate to an earring she had previously stolen from Phoebe and pawned it usting a driver’s license she had fliched from Kitty as an I.D. The license bore Kitty’s maiden name, Kitty Shea. Claudette planned to use the money to retain Linc Tyler’s – Kitty’s present husband – services in an attempt to secure alimony from Spencer Montgomery. Hal Short, who had been with Claudette when she was using drugs – although he refused to make a connection for her or use them himself – received a phone call ordering him to meet the caller alone. The man, claiming he represented “someone big,” referred to him as Hal Shea and threatened the loss of his radio station job. Hal was told they had need of his speciality – drugs – and he would be given his instructions. Paul told Anne he planned to ask Margo to have an abortion. He asked Joe Martin about the possibility of Margo having an abnormal child. Dr. Martin agreed the chances were greated at her age but that Margo appeared to be in excellent health. Anne told Paul, “the child you destroy will always be standing in our way.” Anne arranged a trip to New York. Another World Written by: Harding Lemay Produced by: Paul Rauch Pat Randolph accidentally found birth control pills in her daughter Marianne’s purse. Pat was devastated, but covered, confiscating the pills. Pat, finally having to talk with someone, told her father Jim Matthews about the pills. Jim suggested Pat talk with Marianne and Dr. Dave Gilchrist, warning Pat not to make an enemy of Marianne. Pat knew he was right, but was afraid Marianne wouldn’t tell the truth. Pat was haunted by memories of her own disastrous sexual involvement with a boy when she was Marianne’s age. Finally, Pat confronted Marianne who said she got the pills “just in case,” and insisted she had done nothing wrong. Pat decided to keep the pills so Marianne wouldn’t find herself in the wrong situationand promised she wouldn’t tell John until both of them agreed to tell him. Pat found Dave thought Marianne had permission for the pills. Marianne insisted Chris did not prompt her to get them – which Chris confirmed -, and didn’t know she had them because she didn’t want him to get the wrong idea. Marianne became more desperate for the pills as Chris started working late with Pam Sloan on projects assigned them by Willis. Marianne asked Dave for another prescription, saying all her friends had pills. He asked if she sknew that for sure of if they were just showing off. Marianne told her Uncle Russ her problem and he convinced her they were concerned because they loved her. Marianne let it rest until she ran into Chris’ old girlfriend Glenda, whom Chris had just told it was over forever between them. Glenda told Marianne that Chris was seeing other girls, playing on Marianne’s sense of insecurity at being younger and less experienced. When Pat again refused to return the pills, Marianne went to another doctor and got a prescription. Meanwhile, Russ told Pat that to prove she trusted her daughter, and considering the pills can be got elsewhere because Marianne was of age, Pat should return the pills. She agreed, but Marianne had disappeared. Chris meanwhile was getting tired of Pat’s requests he talk to Marianne. Marianne appeared at Willis’ apartment where Chris and Pam were working late and asked about Glenda and his other present dates. He assured her she was the only one he was seeing. Learning Willis wouldn’t return for hours, Marianne began kissing Chris passionately and they made love. Marianne later accidentally confided this to Angie, who asked how long Marianne had been on the pill. When Marianne said she started the day Chris and she made love, Angie suggested Marianne talk to Dave immediately. Marianne was shocked to learn she might not have been protected and could be pregnant. After setting things up to to tell Chris, Marianne backed off. Liz Matthew incurred brother-in-law Jim Matthews’ anger by discussing Marianne and him with other family members. Liz felt shut out and tried too hard to help, then became bitter when people told her they didn’t want her felp. Jim found Helen Moore, Liz’s apartment mate and friend, pleasant company and began to date her regularly, occasionally sending her flowers. Liz, jealous and left out again, tried to convince his children Jim was being a foolish old man. Pat told Liz she’d rather see Jim looing to the future than living in his memories and asks Liz if Richard Gavin was being foolish when he dated Liz. Liz insisted that was different. When Jim found out that Liz had been talking about him to others, he told Liz she had always been a meddler and he and his late wife, Mary, only put up with it because they felt sorry for her. Liz left the room telling Jim she would never forgive him. Gil McGowan, following up the investigation of Cory housekeeper, Beatrice Gordon’s missing daughter, followed one lead to a dead-end. Gil reassured the wavering Beatrice that Jenny might want to be found because she kept in touch with friends and her brothers. Another lead, a man named Peter Sprague, looked more fruitful. Beatrice was heart-broken to learn, however, that Sprague, who disappeared the same week as Jenny, was a married conman. Sprague’s wife later divorced him for desertion. Iris Carrington continues in a depression following her suicide attempt, prompted by her being rejected by her father, Mac Cory, for her part in almost breaking up his marriage to Rachel. Rachel learned that Iris tried to do from Louise, Iris’s housekeeper. Dennis, Iris’ son, was staying with the Corys until Iris’ condition improved. Rachel took Dennis to visit and found a moment alone with Iris. She told Iris that Dennis could be a big comfort to her explaining she knew of Iris’ suicide attempt and hoped Mac never found out because he was finally free of Iris. Iris cheered a bit, knowing Rachel was keeping a secret from Mac again, and decided to bring Dennis home. Mac and Rachel decided to have a baby, especially when they found they were healthy. Jamie, Rachel’s son by Steven Frame, was enthusiastic. Dave Gilchrist, Iris and Rachel’s doctor, was in constant attendance on Iris. Loretta Simpson, an old New York friend of Iris’s, returned, prompting Iris to take in interest in Dave through Loretta’s overt plays for his attention. Mac and Rachel gave their first big party, for those who helped them reconcilie. Iris and Loretta found out about the party from Dave and Iris arrived, while Rachel was in the garden, and begged Mac to let her stay so people wouldn’t think they were having problems. Mac sent her away. Later, Loretta arrived, drunk, and told Rachel about Mac’s former life, flitting from romance to romance. Dave took Loretta home. Iris, aware she had lost Mac, decided to change her life. Rachel later told Dave she hoped Iris and Mac would reconcile, but had given up. Dave counselled that Rachel shouldn’t do anything regarding Iris until she felt she could trust Iris. Rachel was glad Iris had a friend in Dave. Mac arranged with lawyer Scott Bradley to disinherit Iris. Rachel guessed Mac’s intentions and asked him not to, saying it wasn’t fair. He explained he wanted their children to inherit everything. Iris told Loretta she was not going to openly oppose Mac’s marriage anymore, and perhaps when he saw she was no threat, he would take her back. Mac assured Rachel he wouldn’t mind the change in lifestyle a baby would bring and a child would cause the anxieties about the past to disappear. To thank Russ for his part in their reconciliation, Mac invited him for drinks and Rachel asked him to stay for dinner, both able to overcome past animosities. Carol Lamonte, snooping, found out Mac was disinheriting Iris, and went to tell her. Loretta dragged it from Carol, and immediately began plans to reconcile Mac and Iris starting with a party. Dennis was increasingly upset at being caught in the middle between Mac and Iris. Rachel promised him she would try to heal the rift, but her first try with Iris failed because Iris refused to believe Rachel’s sincerity, feeling Rachel was behind Mac’s hostility. Rachel tried to persuade Mac to forgive Iris but he refused. Iris asked them to a party for Loretta. Rachel made no commitment but suggested to Mac they attend for a short while. At Carol Lamonte’s instigation, Willis Frame hired Scott Bradley as his lawyer. The latest presentation Robert Delaney had made on the Pendleton Museum was a disaster. His sketches were a mess and he confided to Barbara Weaver that he worked hard on them. Robert suggested he might turn the project over to Neal Johnson, his assistant, but Barbara reminded him that was not what Pendleton was paying for. Robert said the incident had an echo of Carol in it. Carol asked Scott to tell Pendleton of Robert’s failure, asking him to make sure Pendleton talked to Willis, not Vic. Willis asked Vic Hastings when he was going to stop carrying a drunk like Robert. Robert worked hard on new sketches and Helen told him they were as good as the Cory complex. Carol showed up for a supplies list she made for Robert and while Helen’s back was turned, Carol took her keys. Carol returned late that night and stole the sketches. Finding them missing in the morning, Robert startes drinking again. Helen, Neil and Barbara later figured out what happened, but had no proof. Carol and Willis badgered John about Robert’s incompetence, with Carol taking credit for the Cory complex. Angie reminded Willis that wasn’t true at least Robert, unlike Carol, had proved himelf. Willis told Neal he was replacing Robert and offered him the project. Neal said he wouldn’t seek success at the expense of others. Helen, with Barbara’s permission, tried matchmaking with Barbara and Robert, but the party was spoiled when Lenore inadvertently called and hung up when Robert grabbed the phone. Robert decided to search for Lenore by checking school enrollments for Wally’s name, saying his work would never be any good until he knew for sure from Lenore that there was nothing left. He left, turning the museum project over to Neal. Willis was furious at Robert’s leaving. Angie and Willis had constant arguments about his lack of cooperation with Vic and his badgering of Robert. Scott Bradley, at Carol’s urging, told Willis of a possible project in Washington, and suggested Willis send Vic there, to divide and conquer. Neal’s sketches for the museum were good and he maintained they were based on Robert’s ideas. Willis refused to listen to that, disgusting Neal. Neal and Clarice discovered their friendship had developed into something deeper. Angie refused to attend the Cory party with Willis because she couldn’t stand to watch him fawning over contacts. Angie called Willis’ sister, Emma, who told her to stick to her guns. Angie warned Willis he was going to destroy himself and the firm. Alice Frame was in Oklahoma looking for a site to build a library in Steven’s name. Jim Matthews told Willis that Frame Enterprises couldn’t take on a new project because all their capital was tied up in the museum and the shopping mall. He asked if Willis was aware that Carol was way over budget on the mall. Willis explained Carol promised to make up her losses, disturbin Jim, who said it was most irregular and Willis should get it in writing. Scott, meanwhile, told Carol he would get along fine with Willis as long as Willis thought he was making the decisions. Carol wanted the museum project and asked for Scott’s help in getting it from Neil as revenge. Willis told her, though, that she would not get another project until the mall was done. Unable to back the Frame Library himself, Willis asked Carol and Scott to help him make contacts with foundations and obtain greats. They approached Mac Cory, who lent his name and offered a significant contribution. Carol sold him on an even bigger commitment with an idea for the Jamie Frame Traveling Library. Mac asked who the architect would be. Carol made a big hint that she would do the library, but Willis made it clear that the decision hadn’t been made yet. Angie told Willis he frightened her because he walked over people to get what he wanted and she was afraid he would trample her if she got in his way. She walked out and went to Clarice to talk. Clarice suggested Angie tried to shake Willis up and discover if he was serious about her because Angie’d better find out how mich she meant to Willis before it was too late. When Alice returned, her Aunt Liz visited her, insulting Emma by saying Alice should start depending on her own family. Willis painted Robert as unreliable, saying he tried to warn Alice. Alice told Willis that she would let him make the decisions. Carol pushed Scott at Angin, then Carol made a play for Willis, who told her he was not interested. When Carol made an overt attempt to get the library assignment by saying she would waive the architect’s fee, Willis still put her off. As The World Turns Written by: Robert Soderberg & Edith Sommer Produced by: Joe Wilmore Carol Stallings, who had been wondering about her husband about her husband Jay’s relationship with Susan Stewart, saw Susan leave with Jay from his office. When she gave him an opening, Jay still wouldn’t tell her about it and whe she brought it up he claimed she was over-reacting. Carol told her former mother-in-law Lisa Shea Colman of her suspicions. Lisa said to give Jay the benefit of the doubt. Bob Hughes visited Natalie Bannon, his future daughter-in-law, to get her father’s address because he would like to write him, but Natalie claimed he had moved and whe she heard from him she would mail Bob’s letter along with her own. Natalie received phone calls at homme and the bookstore from a man who insisted he wanted to talk to Mrs. Porter. Helping at the bookstore one afternoon, Carol noticed how upset Naalie got when a called insisted Mrs. Porter worked there. Jen Hughes finally told Dan Stewart that her sister, Kim Dixon, had gone to Centerville to think things through. When Dan got there, Kim had already decided that she would be good for Dan, Betsy and Emmy, that she shouldn’t feel guilty about Dan’s ex-wife, Susan because Susan and Dan were divorced long before Kim met Dan and she would go on to Nevada to get her divorce from John Dixon. Before Kim could leave, a tornado hit Centerville destroying the cottage she was staying in. Jen couldn’t locate Kim in Oakdale and couldn’t phone through to Centerville because only emergency lines were open. John learned from David Stewart that Kim was in Centerville and hadn’t been heard from since the tornado. He rushed out, forgetting his cane – John had an accident several months ago and hadn’t been able to walk on his own since. – Tom Hughes took Frannie, Jen’s daughter, to his ex-wife Carol to babysit, because her grandmother wasn’t home, just as Jay walked in. Tom took Jen to Centerville where they ran into John at the high school as they found Kim in a coma. Dr. Lambert had put a letter from Kim’s pocket addressed to Dan in the desk drawer where John found it while looking for paper. John told Dr. Lambert he was taking over Kim’s case and was taking her back to Oakdale in an ambulance, over objections from both Dr. Lambert and Jen. David Stewart had the highway patrol looking for Dan, who was on his way to Canada with his daughters. So Jen had to stand alone against John. John finally let Jen see Kim for 5 minutes during which Kim woke, but didn’t recognize Jen. When John realized that Kim didn’t know what happened, he moved her without telling anyone. David Stewart tried to break the news gently to Dan, who flew in from Canada when the police found him. Dan threatened to take the hospital the hospital apart to find Kim, so John took him to Kim who was asleep, but when she wole he found she not only didn’t remember that she was on her way to get a divorce, but didn’t know Dan or even who she was. Grant Colman had looked through all the birth records in Laramie and could find none that would indicate that his ex-wife Joyce had given birth to a baby boy 3 years ago, as she claimed. A nurse at the hospital said she remembered a beautiful dark-haired girl giving birth to a boy 3 years ago, but Dr. Polk’s records were destroyed and he died in prison. Lisa suggested showing the picture to the pediatricians and finally a doctor recognized the boy, but the mother, Mrs. Cullen at first claimed the boy was not adopted, then finally admitted he is her younger sister’s son. Over dinner Grant and Lisa wondered how Joyce had a picture that the mother had never seen. Joyce entered the restaurant and retreated when she saw Grant and Lisa. Lisa told Grant that she was pregnant but could lose the baby. She calmed Grant’s fears about the trip by explaining that she was really resting instead of sightseeing as she claimed. Days Of Our Lives Written by: Pat Falken Smith Produced by: Betty Corday Julie Anderson, fighting hard not to lose the baby she was carrying, was gratified when her son David and she reconciled, finally able to admit their feelings to each other. David was puzzled that Julie had not told Bob, her husband, of her crisis. Julie told David that Bob’s denial that the baby was his denied him any rights. David, recalling how much he missed a father’s guidance, wondered if Julie wasn’t making a mistake, then offered to find an apartment for the two of them and the baby, promising to quit drinking to care for them. But Julie was unable to make the commitment. Alice, who was planning for Julie to stay with her when she was released, asked Julie if she would be able to cope with a new baby and David’s problem, surprising Julie, who didn’t know, along with other, that Alice was aware of David’s drinking. Bob had been searching for Julie, to no avail. Doug told Bob that it might be too late to save his marriage because Julie needed the confidence that Bob believed the baby was his. Bob was hurt when he found Julie was in the hospital through a phone call regarding insurance papers, and when he found he was barred from her room, he told David, later, that he understood and wished David were his son. Phyllis, learning of Julie’s situation, went to Bob, telling him she took full responsibility, but Bob refused her apology, saying it did not help because he should have trusted Julie. Phyllis explained that her rumor-mongering was a reflection of her deep hatred for Julie, then shocked Bob with the details of how she, Phyllis, was trying to kill Julie the night she accidentally shot their daughter Mary at the lake house. Phyllis left, telling Bob he was free of her. Julie continued to hemorrhage, so against Julie’s wishes, Tom sent Bob in, warning Bob beforehand hat he had to convince Julie he knew the baby was his and he wanted it. Bob succeeded, but Julie warned she could make no promised about a reconciliation. Julie was grateful to Tom for knowing she needed to see her husband. Julie thanked Don Craig for never letting her down and told him she loved him in a very special way, to which he replied that he loved her in all ways. Finally, Julie stopped bleeding and went to the Hortons’ to recuperate. Out of love for Julie and prompted by his little daughter Hope’s desire for a brother or sister, Doug offered to marry Julie and make the baby his. Julie was overwhelmed by his offer, finding herself unable to answer immediately. She confided her confusion to Don, saying she wanted to be fair, but she couldn’t accept any offer that would cast doubt on her baby’s parentage. Don urged her not to punish Bob further, pointing out while she married Bob for security, Bob married her for her love and Don felt Bob had been shortchanged. Don accused Doug of taking unfair advantage of Julie and said the men in Julie’s life had to back off until the baby was born. Don also asked Doug to consider what would happen to Julie’s relationship with David if she married Doug, implying David would doubt the baby’s parentage and question Doug’s real feelings for his late wife, Addie. David, meanwhile, asked Julie to keep an open mind about Bob, to which she replied her decision would be based on what was best for her and the baby. Doug confided to Robert that he felt he could be a better father to David than Bob and if he didn’t marry Julie, he wouldn’t marry anyone. Meanwhile, Neil Curtis discovered Hope’s desire for a brother or sister and Doug’s reluctance to remarry, he suggested Doug try artificial insemination with a host mother. Doug laughed it off. Julie told Doug she couldn’t accept his offer. She explained the baby itself was the important thing and their love had endured until then and always would. Doug graciously replied that Bob ought to have the opportunity to be a father to his own child, if that was what she thought was fair. Julie later told Amanda and this baby was her second chance. Alice observed to Doug that Julie had always had to compromise, and deserved some happiness. Julie told Doug she could not marry him before the baby was born and wouldn’t ever do anything to cast doubt on its parentage. Although Bob Anderson was devastated by his ex-wife Phyllis’ confession of trying to kill his wife Julie, Bob’s daughter Mary was too shocked to fully accept it, until it was confirmed by Doug, Bill Horton and Neil Curtis. Bob invited Mary to join his and Julie’s family, if things worked out. He said they had to accept the truth of Phyllis’ action and her state of mind at the time was no excuse to wipe out her guilt. Neil Curtis appeared at Amanda Howard’s apartment, claiming to have been with patients; however, she saw him coming out of the poker club. Amanda told him he was sick and he was already made the big kill – himself. Greg Peters, Neil’s associate, told Tom Horton he couldn’t press the negligence charges against Neil, but would leave the practice instead. Tom urged Greg to treat Neil as a patient and not to expect miracles. He accused Greg of letting his love for Amanda cloud his judgement. Greg agreed to Tom’s suggestion then apologized to Amanda for being so self-righteous. Amanda, unable to explain the hold Neil had on her, would like a healthy relationship with a man, which she knew she could have with Greg, but continued to stand by Neil. Neil agreed to attend a meeting of Gamblers Anonymous, with Amanda and Greg as moral support. At dinner, Greg and Amanda saw Greg’s estranged wife Susan dancing and flirting with his brother Eric, unaware that Eric was coaching Susan to try to make Greg jealous. Greg, however, loved Amanda and was unaffected. At the GA meeting, Neil told the leader, Sam, he was there for a friend. Amanda told Neil how glad she was he was there. After the meeting, however, Neil denied he had anything in common with “those people,” dragging Amanda away from an informal bull session, afraid she would reveal he was the one with the problem. Amanda had learned, however, that recovery was a slow process with much backsliding. When Susan told Greg there were no strings on him and her bitterness was gone, he told her he was in love with Amanda and Eric was in love with her. Susan went to Eric and asked if Greg was right. Eric admitted he was loved Susan for several years and asked Susan not to let that come between them. When Greg visited his legal daughter Annie, his mother accused him of shortchanging Annie by holding back and of being unfair to Susan by saddling her with all the responsibilities of a home while he found himself. Angry, Greg reminded his mother that Annie was really Eric’s daughter, not his. Eric later told Susan that if she divorced Greg, he would marry her. Susan was intrigued by the idea of Eric, Annie and her being a real family. Neil, one night, unable to reach Smitty, his sponsor from GA, or to convince Amanda to see him, got into another game at J.R.’s, and was surpriend to find Smitty in the same game. The following day, Neil told Greg he played poker to prove he could walk away, but he got drunk and continued, winning a big stake. Neil continued to deny he had a problem. He did admit his responsibility in Amanda’s suicide attempt months ago and also believed he set himself up so Amanda would leave him on their wedding eve so he could continue gambling. When Neil told Amanda he gambled again, she walked out, later looking for motives from his past that drove him to gamble. Neil’s father, an alcoholic, was a speculator who appeared to “gamble” only on losing schemes. Indeed, Nathan Curtis arrived in town wanting money for yet another risky proposition, which Neil refused, so Nathan tried to interest Tom Horton, upsetting Neil. Tom told Neil that he was afraid to really see Nathan because his father was a projection of what Neil was afraid he would be. Phyllis Anderson, meanwhile, unable to face Mary as Mary knew the truth about the lake house shooting, went to see Neil, asking for a place to stay. Amanda rrived to apologize for walking out and, finding Phyllis there in a robe, told Neil it was over for good. Neil and Phyllis drank to themselves, “two losers,” and found each other appealing. Neil proposed. Phyllis gave him a chance to back out, but he insisted and she accepted. Phyllis taunted Mary with her engagement, at the same time Neil checked out Phyllis’ financial statement. Bob was livid when Mary told him, and went to Phyllis to warn her he wouldn’t be around to pick up the pieces. Phyllis jibes that they then wouldn’t cling to each other anymore. As a protection for Phyllis and Bob, Don Craig suggested Bob persuade Phyllis to have Neil sign a pre-marital agreement denying him access to her assets. Phyllis agreed, telling Neil nobody could then claim he was marrying her for her money. Neil turned it around, and Phyllis told Bob she wouldn’t insult Neil by asking him and told Bob he could have his stock back. Mary told Doug it had come full circle – both parents marrying younger people. Amanda, devastated by the news, went to Bob to alert him to Neil’s gambling problem. Phyllis refused to believe Neil couldn’t handle it, until Don suggested she talk to Tom Horton, won confirmed Neil’s problem. Neil told J.R. he would be a regular customer. Neil repaid Amanda all the money he borrowed. She told him she had spent her last emotional dollar on him and wished him godspeed. Neil told Greg to take care of Amanda, explaining, in tears, he loved Amanda more than Greg did because he was getting out of her life for good. When Tom asked Phyllis what she would say if he told her she was making the worst mistake of her life, she replied it would only strengthen her determination to marry Neil; however, she did decide to ask Neil to sign the pre-marital agreement. Neil, on a lucky streak, made a “bet” with Phyllis – if he wond less than $5000 at a the race track, he would sign. She said if he won more, she would tear up the papers. Rebecca North, Doug’s housekeeper, was embarrassed when her boyfriend, Johnny Collins, appeared at the club determined to meet Doug. The introduction went smoothly, but Rebecca was afraid of losing her job because she was supposed to be working. Doug reassured her and in the process learned Rebecca was a widow who was very emotional about children. When Robert LeClair asked if she planned to marry Johnny, she replied she took one day at a time. Although Rebecca had been living with Johnny for the past 2 years, she refused to discuss her past with him, saying it was too painful. Johnny, meanwhile, was having trouble findind a commercial art job, having given up trying to be a full-time artist because he couldn’t stand Rebecca’s paying all the bills. He even considered not competing for an art scholarship to Paris because it didn’t provide living expenses for the first year and he wouldn’t let Rebecca help. Inspired by her to try though, he said he would earn the money himself. In a visit to Neil, her doctor, Rebecca revealed the pain she continued to feel since losing her husband and daughter in a car accident while she was driving. Brooke Hamilton, alienated from David since he discovered her part in the rumors about Julie’s baby, returned to her mother in Chicago with glowing tales of life in the jet set, enjoying it immensely until her mother revealed Julie had visited her and that she had spent the money Julie gave her to come to the defunct wedding on cheap wine. Brooke lashed out saying she wouldn’t stop lying any more that her mother could stop drinking, and, since she was 5, she had been constructing fantasies to live in to escape her shame of her mother and the reality of their poverty. Brooks asked why her mother never demanded alimony or child support from her father. Mrs. Hamilton revealed she was never married and the man never knew about Brooke. Brooke decided to find her father, then called David, trying to make amends but David was unforgiving. Maggie Hansen returned to the farm after a fall during a therapy session hospitalized her with a mild concussion. Aware Marty Hansen didn’t want her around as a symbol of his pre-amnesia past, Linda Patterson Phillips prepared to leave when Maggie was up and around. Jim Phillips brought their daughter Melissa to visit unti Linda returned to remarry him. Melissa brought joy to everyone with her enthusiasm for the farm. Maggie, seeing Marty’s response to Melissa, speculated that she might not wait until she could walk to adopt a child. Marty invited Mike to visit and he accepted. Marty urged Linda to leave because Melissa was a reminder that he and Maggie couldn’t have children and because Mike was coming. Linda promised to leave, then called Jim, telling him Dr. Lubick wanted her to stay 2 more weeks. Jim called Lubick and learned Maggie was fine. He spoke to Linda, asking if all the talk about remarrying was a pack of lies. He told her he would be out the following day to get Melissa and her, and would tell the Hansens the type of friend she really was. Pushed, Linda told Marty he was Melissa’s father – Marty knew he was sterile, but speculated the sterility was induced by the same operation that caused his amnesia. Linda knew Marty had been sterile all his adult life, and his son Mike was really his brother Bill’s son -. Marty said he had to tell Magige, but she had overhead the conversation and didn’t want to hear it from Marty, avoiding him at first when he tried to tell her, but wondering later why he didn’t . Linda told Marty she expected nothing from him, that she and Melidda would make it on their own. As they were ready to leave, Linda was called to Brookeville Hospital. Jim had an accident and was in critical condition with a compound cranial fracture that affected his speech. He refused to respond to Linda, afraid again all her caring words were lies. When Marty came in, Jim made a desperate attempt to communicate, to no avail. Marty asked Bill and Tom to come and Linda gave Bill permission to operate. Linda went to the chapel to pray, but found herself thinking that Jim’s death would protect her lies and improve her chances to rewin Marty. The operation over, Bill told Linda the brain damage was severe, but couldn’t tell her its extent yet. Linda pledged to care for Jim, then was torn by how much he would be able to reveal to Marty. Marty told Tom he wanted to see to Melissa’s schooling, and surprised Tom by calling him Dad and saying Tom might call him Mickey if he would feel more comfortable. Linda had a nightmare in which she smothered Jim as the only way to make sure Jim wouldn’t expose her lies. Jim woke from his coma, and tried in vain to communicate with Marty, frightening Linda. The Doctors Written by: Eileen & Robert Mason Pollock / Robert Cenedella Produced by: Joseph Stuart / Jeff Young Carolee Aldrich’s unhappiness and mistrust of the 3 months temporary custody agreement, whereby her son Erich was living with his natural mother Karen Werner, was further complicated by the scenes she continually witnessed between her husband Steve and Ann Larimer. However, despite Althea’s advice, she did not confront Steve at the time when she had apparently good reason to but brooded over what she had seen. At Steve’s office, she overheard Ann telling him he didn’t deserve a wife treating him the way Carolee had, and waking one night, Carolee witnessed Steve with his arms around Ann, who had been staying with them as the apartment she previously shared with Steve’s mother Mona had been sublet. Steve accused Carolee of letting her jealousy get out of hand as she did with Cathy Ryker, and as hard as that was to deal with it was easier than her jealousy over a 7 year old boy. He warned her if it continued she wouldn’t be the one to walk out, he would. When she told him what was upsetting her, Steve explained that Ann was having a nightmare – Ann had dreamed that her late husband Chris appeared saying, “You buried me in Africa. Every damn minute with me was faked. Nick sensed you were stalling, not a real woman. Nick knows, Steve Aldrich knows.” In reaction Ann screamed and was genuinely upset when Steve went to her. – Steve told Carolee he loved her more than anyone he ever loved before and asked her to trust him. He asked Anne to wait a week before moving out so that Carolee would not think the move was made because he felt guilty. Mona arranged for Ann to move back to the apartment. When Mona and Steve later visited Erich, Mona warned Karen that if she attempted to create dissention between Carolee and Steve, Karen would have to deal with her, Mona. Mike Powers was elated that Toni had agreed to return to him, her confusion over loving both him and Alan resolved, though it had caused scenes with Alan – Believing Mike, her husband, dead in an explosion at sea, Toni married his cousin Alan. – Alan’s angry behavior had caused Matt Powers to suspend him from practicing surgery, and resenting his status as a “glorified intern,” he demanded his vacation and left by car telling no one where he would be for the time. Toni and Mike planned to return with Michael Paul to Cape Cod, the place where their son was conceived. But when Toni returned to the hospital to prepare to leave and nearly fainted, Althea insisted upon examining her and pronounced her pregnant. After a night of trying to find Alan and not daring to return to Mike,she finally went home. Mike was frantic that she had been unaccounted for and persuaded her to tell him what was troubling her. When she did, he assured her that nothing could come between them, the baby would be theirs. Alan had had an accident on the road. In a motel room waiting for parts for the car, he got drunk and called Toni. Before she could tell him about the baby, he hung up on her. Toni was determined to have an abortion. Matt and Maggie argued over Toni’s decision. Maggie felt that Alan had a right to know, that Toni had been opposed to abortion and that the child was wanted when it was conceived. Ernie Cadman’s office located Alan’s motel and called Matt’s house to report. Maggie, using the phone number Ernie had supplied, called Alan. Martha and Cadman went on a date and slowly got closer to one another. The relationship between Althea Davis and Tom Bennett, however, seemed to unravel as Tom was being angry all the time, not happy with Toni or Martha’s behavior. Meanwhile, Hank Latimer got promoted at the hospital. M.J. Match and Penny Davis were living together and Penny bonded with Rico Bellini. M.J. felt left out and began getting friendlier to Stacy Wells . Rico took care of helping with the furniture for M.J. and Penny’s apartment. Rico and Stacy’s affair was put to an end when Rico told Stacy his life needed to be the hospital. However, they seemed to still like one another. One night, Penny, Stacy, Rico and M.J. attended a peformance by Andy. Stacy felt left out as Andy ignored her for M.J. and Penny and Rico danced together. After a good talk, the tension between Ann Latimer and Carolee Aldrich seemed to end. When Steve Aldrich walked in, he wrongly thought they were fighting. Steve also told Carolee he understood why she was afraid and jealous of Karen and Erich’s relationship. The Edge Of Night Written by: Henry Slesar Produced by: Erwin Nicholson Mike Karr learned from mob leader, Walter LePage about his son-in-law Johnny Dallas' working for Kincaid in order to get Crime Commission information. Johnny, drunk and depressed over the separation in his marriage due to Laurie's preoccupation with the unborn child, almost succumbed to seductress Josie’s charms – Josie was in reality Senera Faraday’s split personality. However, he was suddenly stunned by what appeared to be bizarre behavior. Serena emerged into a shocking and bewildering situation and screamed at Johnny to leave. Terrified by her frequent blackouts, Serena turned to Nancy Karr for support and was advised to see Quentin Henderson professionally. Nancy discovered a dark wig in Serena's bureau and mentioned it to Mike and his associate Adam Drake along with her suspicions that Serena might be afraid to learn the real truth causing these emotional upsets. Mark Faraday, Serena’s ex-husband, again threatened a custody suit because he said he had evidence to prove Serena an unfit mother. Johnny and Laurie reconciled, but Nancy was still worried because Laurie felt that the unborn baby was an intruder the same way Josie intruded on their marriage. On a visit to Laurie, Josie was frightened off by the appearance of Nancy, who sensed the similarities between Serena and Josie. Nancy asked Serena about this coincidental likeliness but unknowingly confronted Josie - who was pretending to be Serena -. Serena/Josie shocked Nancy with the story that she had a secret, hidden disreputable "half-sister," who followed her around and caused trouble. After an unsuccessful attempt to prove Johnny was connected with mob activities, Lt. Luke Chandler and Mike's fears about Dallas might be verified. LePage's information about Assistant D.A. Brandy Henderson's secretary, Lila, being the mob's inside informant proved correct. Weary from his confrontation at Police Headquarters, Johnny returned home and received a call from Josie, who taunted him about leaving a lighter at her apartment. Laurie overheard this on the extension phone and threw Johnny out for his apparent deception and unfaithfulness. Laurie called Nancy, who rushed to her daughter to comfort her, as Mike left for the restaurant to find Johnny. Josie showed up at the New Moon, and a despondent Johnny, disgusted by her taunting, forcibly moved her toward the door as Kincaid walked in and quietly instructed Josie to leave. While Kincaid ordered Johnny to pump Mike about the new informer, Johnny put two and two together and asked Kincaid if Josie was on his payroll. Kincaid tried double talk, but Johnny realized that he had been had and without emotion refused to cooperate after Kincaid drew a gun on him. However, when Kincaid verbally threatened Laurie, Johnny wrested the gun from him and clobbered Kincaid with the butt of the weapon. Only Mike's arrival prevented Johnny from killing Kincaid. After facing Geraldine Whitney about his suspicions of her fake heart attack, Kevin Jamison prepared to leave for good. Just as he informed Phoebe Smith, he was summoned back by the news of a second more severe seizure which resulted in Geraldine's hospitalization. Geraldine’s former daughter in law, Tiffany and her new husband Noel Douglas were upset to learn that Geraldine had used some pills of Trudy, the maid, which were known to produce heart palpitations. The Douglases' suspicious that the recent heart seizure might have been self induced, agreed not to tell Kevin about their doubts. Later Noel arrived home with a lipstick stained handkerchief monogrammed "Tracy" and was discovered by Kevin. As repayment for Kevin's silence to protect Tiffany, Noel told Kevin about Geraldine's use of Trudy's pills to produce her well-timed heart attack. General Hospital Written by: Richard & Suzanne Holland Produced by: Tom Donovan Felix Buchanan, enraged by what he believed were the corrupting influences of “evil playboy” Cameron Faulkner on the only kind person he had ever know in his life, justified his demented actions to “protect” Dr. Lesley Williams from marrying Cam by shooting him, then collapsing from a perforated ulcer. Cameron was rushed to General Hospital where Dr. Joel Stratton performed an intensive 5 hour operation to repair the near fatal chest wound. Ironically, Joel, almost dismissed from General Hospital over alleged malpractice suits, saved the life of Cameron who might have benefited most from Joel’s dismissal because of Joel’s undesired propinquity with Lesley. Lesley, already deeply attracted to Cameron, realized how much Cam meant to her when she almost narrowly lost her fiancé. She aged to marry him in the hospital chapel just as sson as he could be permitted to leave his hospital bed. In a simple, lovely wedding ceremony in front of gathered close friends, Cam and Lesley pledged their lives and love to each other. Cameron, in a gesture of gratitude to Joel for saving his life, generously underwrote the complete reestablishment of the Southwood free Clinic at General Hospital, where both staff and facilitied would be so improved that Joel envisioned helping thousands of needy patients. Joel, secretly saddened over his loss of Lesley – Joel forced a break in their close relationship when he discovered he might have a fatal heart condition – told Cameron he admired him and was pleased that Cam had made Lesley so happy. Joel later told Lesley of his plans to return to Boston to head a children’s cardiac unit. Everything ironically Joel ever really cared about would be left behind, Lesley, and his new free clinic. Later, upon his release from the hospital, Cameron arranged for a weekend jet honeymoon in Switzerland. Lesley was delighted but confessed to Cam, as they prepared to leave, that she had doubts about her ability to adjust to his sophisticated world. Cameron gently assured her that his real friends would easily accept and like her and reminded her he was integrated into her world. Dr. Jim Hobart, who had been drinking heavily since an injury to his hand prevented him from performing cardiac surgery, finally agreed to seek help for his drinking problem. Audrey, his wife, who had been helped by AL-AMON, was cautiously hopeful that Jim’s attendance at the AA meetings would show him that his whole life and that of his family’s was at stake if he failed to stop drinking. Dr. Steve Hardy, hopeful that Jim could make it, had given him a 6 month trial period to show sincerity before reconsidering Jim for a possible jov on the staff. Jim was hopeful that he could one day reclaim Joel’s administrative job and perhaps run the new free clinic. Augusta McLeod’s decision to release her baby was handled by lawyer Lee Baldwin and with Caroline Chandler’s assistance, a highly suitable family was found. Rudy and Sheila Fischer lovingly claimed their new son, naming him Jonathan Chandler (for Caroline) Fischer. Augusta returned to prison to wait for her possible parole, knowing the baby’s newly adopted family deeply adored their son. Dr. Peter Taylor confessed to his wife Diana that he became the father of Augusta’s child when he had been separated from Diana, assuring her it had been only a momentary episode and he deeply cared for Diana. He begged for her forgiveness. Diana was shocked by Peter’s revelation, eventually joining Peter in Vienna at a medical conference but found it difficult to forgive him the pain he had caused her. Caroline Chandler’s young son, Bobby, was a demon for work and constantly worried his widowed mother over his need to rush through his pre-med studies to become a surgeon. When Bobby arranged to be a paramedic at the new free clinic, he was introduced to the young and highly roommate of Beth Maynard – Diana Taylor’s sister -, Samantha (Sami) Livingstone. Sami, who had no transportation to the rough neighboorhood where the clinic was located, had to relunctantly agree to have Bobby, whom she found overbearing and conceited, act as her chauffeur and guardian to and from the hospital. Jane Dawson, poignantly trying to piece her life together after the tragic death of her little 3-year-old-daughter Joanne, left General Hospital to go to Mercy Hospital and began nursing on the pediatric ward. The Guiding Light Written by: Bridget & Jerome Dobson Produced by: Lucy Ferri Rittenberg Everyone celebrated the arrival of Dr. Ed Bauer and Holly’s infant daughter, Christina. Despite what should be the happiest period in Holly’s life, the family noticed her moodiness and strained behavior, but dismissed it as postpartum depression – Andy Norris, Holly’s Brother, was the only person who knew the true reason involved Roger Thorpe, Christina’s natural father, who had begun seeing Peggy Fletcher again. – Holly’s spirits, however, altered for the better when the baby successfully began nursing. Ed, who had returned to his administrative duties at Cedars Hospital, was unable to resume his real calling in neurosurgery because of his paralyzed hand which resulted from his brother-in-law, Ken Norris’ shooting him in a peak of insane jealousy. Ed, frustrated by his desk job, lavished attention on the fiery young doctor, Tim Ryan, recently demoted and placed on probation after changing from his chief residency job in OB to assistant resident in neurosurgery. When Ed bypassed hospital procedure and elevated Tim over residents with seniority for special surgery experience, Dr. Steve Jackson rescinded the order and Tim and steve clashed. Ed, realizing his emotional state had threatened his objectivity both at home and on the job, renewed his demands for Steve to to the highly risky nerve root surgery he desperately sought to restore the use of his hand. Steve refused outright because of a 50 percent risk of failyre which could mean complete paralysis of Ed’s arm for life. Steve, appealing to Holly to rason with Ed so that she and Christina would fill the voic created in Ed’s life, was upset that Holly refused and supported Ed’s demands for the dangerous surgery. Holly, after speaking briefly with Peggy, misinterpreted Peggy’s demure reluctance to rush into a committed relationship with Roger – he recently endangered Peggy and her son Billy with his loan shark dealings. – Coupled with Roger’s natural curiosity about Christina, Holly told Andy she believed what was possible might be possible, and made plans to risk everything to woo Roger back! Roger, who had proposed marriage to Peggy, proved to her just how mature he had become when he turned down a profitable, but highly risky job offer to start another bistro in partnership with an attractive divorcee, because he didn’t want to take chances again providing for their more solid future. And indeed when Roger impulsively woke Peggy after work at 1 a.m. with strawberries and champagne, she overwhelmed him by suddenly saying she wanted to accept his proposal. Andy, resentful that his European adventure stories had been rejected by a publisher, began working on a more promising manuscript about Holly and Roger, entitled, “Valerie’s Story.” Leslie Bauer found herself disagreeing with her husband Michael’s tactics when he forced his 18-year-old daughter, Hope, to come home for a visit from college. Leslie and her father, Steve, were disturbed over young singer Chad Richards’ latest symptoms involving his temporary “conscious” bklackouts when he imagined he and Leslie were going steady again in high school and made romantic advances. Doctors suspected an undetected brain tumor or possible psychological problems as the cause. Pam Chandler, having returned to work after the birth of Samantha, whom she was raising as a single parent while living in Bert Bauer’s home, decided to turn over a new leaf and actively seek a suitable candidate for fatherhood and marriage. Pam’s sincere attempts to caution Tim about his residency being jeopardized by his temper, met with sullen abuse from the highly intelligent and capable young doctor who felt singled out for criticism. Tim later,tried to make amends for his rudness at Pam’s concern by asking her out for dinner. Drs. Sara and Joe Werner prepared a successful surprise birthday party for their beloved foster son T.J. and were deeply affected by his return gift of two handmade paper weights bearing “Mom” and “Dad” on them. Joe performed emergency surgery on a badly beaten woman, Ann Jeffers, who desperately clung to her only valuable possession, a small snapshot. Joe was concerned as Ann countered his medical advise with hostility and abuse. Ann’s desolate life had consisted of one brutal man after another and she showed no will to recover. Love Of Life Written by: Margaret DePriest Produced by: Darryl Hickman When Dr. Torino refused to let Meg Hart see her daughter, Cal, in the hospital after the accident, Meg, through her lawyer, Jamie Rollins, tried unsuccessfully, to get Cal’s consent for a medically inadvisable transfer to another hospital. Dr. Torino told Cal she shouldn’t harbor this resentment for her mother because it would only delay her recovery. Cal’s mood got worse and finally Rick Latimer, owner of Beaver Ridge and the burnt out Club Victoria, and Meg’s lover, was the only one who could get Cal to eat. Cal refused to cooperate to get ready for her physical therapy until Rick stepped in and the Dr. Torino asked if he would help by being there a couple hours everyday to reassure her. Cal told Rick about her nightmare in which, as her car fell in the fog, Meg told Cal that she had arranged it for her own good. Cal said she had realized one thing lying in bed: her mother was dangerous to her. Mayor Bruce Sterling asked Diana Lamont to give up her appointment as Director of Family Services because Jamie, the father of her unborn child, insisted that her health was in danger, but Diana said it would be admitting she was wrong all along. Bruce fired her for what he felt was her own good. Di was mad at Jamie for ending her 20 year career without consulting her. Jamie suggested that she could be trying to punish herself with all the stress because she felt guilty about all those she had hurt by being in the public eye. Jamie got his hearing for a divorce from his missing wife scheduled, but it was on the docket for January 20 and the baby was due in the middle of January. Diana asked him to get a divorce in Haiti so the baby wouldn’t be illegitimate, but Jamie insisted on doing it the safe, sure way. Diana and her doctor both felt that because of her age – 40 – it was necessary for her to have an amniotic fluid test. Bruce later promised Jamie that he would make sure the judge considered carefully Jamie’s petition to have the hearing moved up. Charles Lamont and Felicia Flemming were married in Bruce’s office and started out for their honeymoon in a resort of restored colonial cabins set in the woods. Felicia drank a lot of campagne, and when Charles finally placed her on the bed she broke down, admitting that she was a virgin and had lied about all the men in her life. Charles was relieved, until she told him that the whole idea of sex made her ill and she was not sure she could get over this feeling. After a long walk in the woods alone, Charles agreed to live with Felicia to give her a chance, as long as they had separate bedrooms and there were no more lies for appearance’s sake. But, the first time Felicia ran into Di, she gave a glowing description of her marriage and honeymoon. Johnny, Charles’ grandson, went to see Di, his step-grandmother, but refused to believe she could have a baby because “everybody knows you have to be married.” When Johnny told Felicia that adults didn’t stay married anyway, Felicia told Di that for Johnny’s own good she didn’t think Johnny should see her anymore. When Meg refused to let her son, Ben, and his new wife, Betsy move to a place of their own, Betsy appealed to Rick, Ben’s former boss, to give him a job so they could moved out, but the police commission had found it was a case of arson that gutted the Club Victoria and until Rick was cleared he could get no insurance money. Arlene’s mother found the soot covered dress Arlene had been wearing the night of the wife, but Arlene, Ben’s secret wife, asked her not to mention the dress to anyone. Arlene rehearsed David Hart, who set the fire, in the story they were going to tell. Arlene became very fond of David and was touched by the gift of a string of expensive pearls. But when he said he loved her, she asked him to slow down a little. Ben found out that David was fond of Arlene and was jealous at first, but then asked Arlene to seduce David into giving her money, since he was wealthy, so they could get out of town. After charming her, Ben asked for the pearls, but Arlene refused. Betsy had upset Meg’s household by using the kitchen, causin the housekeeper/cook to quit and then telling Sarah, Meg’s mother, about the problems they were having. Ben had to soothe Betsy, then Meg and then went to Arlene where he stole the pearls. Arlene didn’t know it but her mother, calling herself Carrie Johnson, interviewed for the job as housekeeper/cook and, although she wasn’t as polished as Meg would like, “Carrie” convinced Meg to hire her. Arlene and her mother found the apartment a shambles and the pearls missing, but Arlene refused to call the police. Ben finally admitted taking the pearls when Arlene started to make good her threat to phone Betsy. One Life To Live Written by: Gordon Russell Produced by: Doris Quinlan Despite Tim Siegel’s stunning confession to the murder of Dr. Mark Toland at the Llanview Motel, Police Lt. Ed Hall still pursued the case. Everyone desperately tried to convince Tim to plead self-defense ot at least somehow explain his actions and justify his alleged shooting of Mark, but Tim constantly rebuffed their attempts to help. Tim’s uncle, Joe Riley, engaged Vince Wolek, an out of work policeman, as a private investigator to unearth some new evidence to clear his nephew for the sake of Tim’s mother, Eileen, and his sister Julie, who was once Toland’s wife. Ed, convinced that he could find out the real reason for the fugitive Toland’s risky return to town, unearthed facts about Toland’s life in Central America and gained a sworn statement from a woman who told of Mark’s plans to “sell” something worth $50.000 to finance his dream to return to the practice of medicine in a foreign country after the loss of his livelihood following the Wilson murder trial. The Grand Jury’s predicted indictment of Tim for second degree murder provoked new attempts by family and friends to force Tim to save himself but they were met by his stubborn refusal to admit anything and an announcement to waive a jury trial for the formality of sentencing. Novitiate Jenny Wolek, desperately torn by her devotion to her chosen career and her growing love for Tim, struggled unsuccessfully to convince Tim he had to put up a fight since she believed he couldn’t be a murder and that he might be protecting someone, like his vulnerable sister Julie. Susan Barry’s drinking problem became more aggravated by her mistaken obsession over Larry and Viki’s supposed clandestine affair. Anna Craig, Larry’s sister, concerned over Susan’s heavy drinking and her frequent blackouts, went to her apartment and was puzzled when she discovered a piece of notepaper with Tim’s name written on it. Having lied to Larry about attending an AA meeting, Susan, drinking heavily, began packing to leave town. When she tried to reach Larry, Anna told her Larry was with Viki. Susan, enraged, drunkenly told Anna that Larry and Viki were no doubt at “that motel” again. Over a double martini, Susan later told Sheila Rafferty she had proof Viki and Larry were having an affair. She followed Larry to the Llanview Motel one night and saw him come out of the room with Viki. Refusing Sheila’s offer to escort her safely home, Susan left to “confront them.” Anna meanwhile had gone to Susan’s room and, frightened by its general disorder and the discovery of blood-stained cloths, alerted Ed. Learning of Susan’s condition from Sheila, Anna went to the motel where she found Susan waiting in the car. Susan, refusing ti believe Anna’s assurances that Larry and Viki weren’t there, pounded furiously at a motel room door which was opened from the inside by Tony Harris! But Susan, staring at him, saw Mark’s face and gasped, “Oh my god, Mark Toland!” Ed’s revelation to Joe and Viki of his discovery about a possible blackmail scheme trigged waves of guilt and fear for Viki that Joe might somehow learn what Viki and Larry had been secretly hiding for months – that Joe shouldn’t have any more children because of his genetic transmission of a fatal heart disease which would ultimately claim the life of his illegitimate daughter Megan. – Ed, reevaluating all of Toland’s personal effects, realized there could be someone else who knew what Toland was blackmailing someone with. Viki noticed how close Dr. Dorian Cramer was becoming to her father, Victor Lord, recuperating from a heart attack. Dorian suggested Victor a trip in New York and Victor seemed very interested at the idea. Ryan’s Hope Written by: Claire Labine & Paul Avila Mayer Produced by: Claire Labine & Paul Avila Mayer Hope for Frank Ryan, young reform candidate for councilman in the Riverside area of New York City, waited upon the possibly of finding an effective antibiotic to combat the resistant strains of bacteria in his hospital-developed pneumonia. Frank’s sister, Mary, slapped his wife Delia after Dee wondered aloud if he would ever talk again and be himself and perhard he’d be better off if he didn’t recover. Mary insisted Frank would get well because “that’s what Frank Ryan does.” When Mary apologized because when they quarrelled their attention went from Frank, Delia commented on how alike Mary and Frank were. “It’s like John and Maeve had the same child twice, once a girl and once a boy.” Delia had asked her brother-in-law Pät to find out what Frank’s campaign manager, Bob Reid, Frank’s best friend and Dee’s rbother, thought about the two words Frank had uttered – “Delia” and “pushed.” She reminded Pat of her relationship to him before her marriage to Frank, saying she married Frank because he asked her and Pat didn’t. She asked him to hold her but he was afraid to talk. When a nurse came out of Frank’s room to say he was going to make it, Dee was visibly shaken. Bob Reid stopped Nick Zabo – a known loan shark, in the hospital with a slipped disk who was visited by Frank on the day of Frank’s fall – from speaking to Johnny, Frank’s father, in the corridor. Nick said he only wanted to offer sympathy. He said he couldn’t explain the $6500 found on Frank. Nick maintained his campaign contribution offer, which was turned down, was in gratitude to Maeve for her intercession with the Sisters to take his daughter Serena into the boarding school which Maeve and Johnny’s daughter, Siobhan, also attended; He promised Bob to see what he could find out. Intern Bucky Carter’s pursuit of Faith Coleridge had hit a snag when, unable to awaken her after a full day and a half of work at the hospital for them both, and sun, swimming, smorgasbord and Aquavit on his houseboat, he called her brother Roger to determine if she had a medical history which would explain it. Upon waking, Faith was furious and she stormed home to a puzzled sister Jillian, who was visiting, and a knowing and amused brother Roger. Ed Coleridge, who had been at odds with Nell Beaulac over her demeanor with the hospital staff, was touched when Nell told Johnny that they believed Frank was dying and the family had best prepare in the time left. Once conceding that Nell had shown a lot of compassion, he apologized for his “limited expectations” and offered her a belated welcome to Riverside Hospital. After not having left the hospital for 36 hours in his concern for Frank, he invited Nell to his house for dinner. Ed kissed her but though, she told him, her life with her husband Seneca was a thing of the past, she came back to town with only her work in mind. But, she added, the could start slowly. After spending the day on Nell’s nephew, Bucky Carter’s houseboat, Faith emphasized their relationship was not a committed one. She agreed, however, to lie down beside him. When Bucky told her he loved her, she insisted on leaving the Marina. Jack Fenelli, an investigative report and Jillian’s former lover, had been accused by Mary of not letting his feelings get involved. He took her to meet someone he loved who could hurt him. The man who raised him, Francesco Moreno, a man convicted of murder, also known as “Chickie the Beef” and “Jumbo.” They shared expresso and pastry and Jumbo speculated that Jack seemed to be serious. Mary let Jack know she was interested in courtship. Maeve at Frank’s bedside sang a song she had sung to him through his childhood. As Johnny anxiously joined in – Frank finally awoke. Relieved at Frnak’s recovery, Nell and Ed celebrated with a picnic at Nell’s all but empty apartment. Seneca Beaulac, who had obtained a commitment for a position at Riverside, obtained Nell’s address and entered the room as she and Ed embraced. Jillian, at Frank’s bedside, recalled Frank’s promise once the elections were over to spend the rest of his life with her. He had promised to work out the details and try to make things as easy as possibly for Dee and little John. While Frank was still unable to talk because of the “tranch” trube in his throat, Roger told him he had taken the $6.500 and paid off Nick Zabo because Zabo was threatening his life. If Frank did not put in a claim for the money, the hospital would not pursue the issue. Mary and Bob, realizing Frank would talk after the tube had been removed, told Maeve and Johnny that Frank had said the word “pushed.” Delia surreptitiously left the Ryans’ place to be first at Frank’s bedside when he was able to speak. Search For Tomorrow Written by: Peggy O’Shea Produced by: Mary-Ellis Bunim Jennifer Pace Phillips, who had had corrective plastic surgery on her face, agreed to be Liza Collins’ matron of honor only after learning her estranged husband Scott Phillips had left town. Steve Kaslo’s brother would be the best man, and he, his wife Sarah, and they children, Marianne and Mattew, arrived the day before the wedding. Steve admitted he was afraid he wouldn’t live up to Liza’s expectations of success and Liza was afraid that Steve would feel pushed. They were married in a beautiful garden ceremony, reciting their own vows. Liza passed up a honeymoon in New York of Paris, paid for by her parents, to go backpacking alone with Steve, who insisted his dizzy spell was due to the champagne. Neither Dave Wilkins nor Wendy, his daughter were enthusiastic about the new apartment that Clay Collins had rented for Stephanie and Wendy. Stephanie told Dave, a construction foreman for the Collins Corp., there was not a chance she would come back to him because she planned to marry Clay, although Clay didn’t know it yet. Janet Collins was concerned because her husband, Wade, with a full medical practice, was the major stockholder in the Collins Corp., and had to spend many hours at the sanitarium visiting his former fiancee, Karen, who became schizophrenic after taking experimental drugs. When Janet told Clay that Wade was more uptight as Karen was getting well, Clay suggested that Wade didn’t want Karen to get well because he was responsible for Karen taking the drugs. Wade admitted that this theory of Clay’s was what had caused the hard feelings between them for years. One night, Karen appeared on the tennis court at the Collinses’ and Janet discovered that Karen still lived in the past, at a time when she was engaged to Wade. A couple of days later, when he knew Wade was working, Clay had Karen call Janet to say she would be back to visit and be sure to tell Wade she loved him. Wade was almost late for Liza’s wedding because he was convincing Karen that he was very busy and she had to go on hunger strikes because he hadn’t been to seen her. When Wade told Karen they weren’t engagement, she became so hysterical that Dr. Newman, Karen’s staff doctor, suggested that Wade not visit Karen. Wade threatened to take Karen out of the sanitarium saying they were partial to Clay since he built the new wing, but apologized when he realized he was overwrought. Kathy Phillips told D.A. Sam Hunter that she promised Robin Kennemer that she could go home and he said it was all right because he knew all about the nickel and dime operation Robin was involved with. Sam then told McCready that Robin was leaving and Joey Kimble, McCready’s man, was on the same bus Robin was taking home to Chicago. Scott Phillips was also on this bus to get away from those he felt he only hurt. At a diner in Maysport, Scott stepped in to help Robin when Joey manhandled her, but since Joey had a knife in her back she insisted everythiw was okay. Scott went to Chicago, rented a sleazy room, got a job as an accountant, but lost it because of his drinking and ended up washing dishes. When Bruce Carson, John Wyatt, Kathy and Jo Vincente, who had befriended Robin, learned she had been found dead of a drug overdose in a Maysport motel, they were sure it was unintentional as she was so happy about going home. Kathy asked Sam to investigate this. McCready instructed him to investigate but not to find anything. Hunter assigned a 30 year veteran detective, who was retiring in one month, convincing Sgt. Burns before he left that he wouldn’t find anything. Much to Sam’s dismay, Burns came back with evidence things were being covered up in Maysport, so Sam took him off the case. McCready told Hunter he’d better consider Kathy Phillips and his job before he moved on this again. John Wyatt accused Sam of a cover-up and Kathy defended Sam againt John until she learned the police reports on Robin’s friends were missing. Kathy went to Maysport herself where she got a description of a man who went off with Robin. Robin’s friend, Angie,’s description of Joey Kimble, strong arm for the syndicate, fit the man described to Kathy in Maysport. Kathy listened on the extension when McCready called Sam and he caught her. She admitted that McCready confirmed her suspicions and insisted Sam go to the Grand Jury after resigning. Convincing Kathy to give him a few days to pull the syndicate down, Sam told McCready about Kathy and asked him to take care of it, as he couldn’t bring himself to do it. Scott Phillips, arrested for intoxication, ended up in the same jail cell as Joey who beat Scott into unconsciousness after Scott mentioned having seen him somewhere. Gary Walton, Janet’s son, accepted Dr. Rogers’ offer to finish his internship in Henderson, but upon returning to Chicago General found Scott as a patient. Gary was going to help Scott through his liquor withdrawal when Scott promised to try. Somerset Written by: Don Appell Produced by: Lyle B. Hill Kane Cannell, recuperating from an abortion in New York City, called her husband Julian telling him with feigned tears she had a miscarriage, letting him believe the emotional stress over his continued friendship with Eve Lawrence caused it. Julian cried, blaming himself for the loss of the baby. Tom Conway, who arranged the abortion and accompanie Kate, returned to Somerset on a different plane. Again and again through the next few days, Julian told a secretly delighted Kate he was totally responsible. Kane panicked when he insisted she see Dr. Porter, her OB in Somerset. Kate put him off then finally told him she had seen the doctor. Julian was shocked when Dr. Porter called asking why Kate hadn’t kept any of her appointments, stressing the importance of pre-natal care in the fourth month. Unable to avoid it, Kate saw the doctor who guessed she had had an abortion. Kate gained reassurance that it was against Dr. Porter’s ethics to reveal what she knew to anyone. Kate was puzzled to learn Ned Paisley knew she was pregnant and asked Julia, who explained he had to tell Eve to convince her it was over between them. Kate was ecstatic: her Eve worried were over. Julian was relieved to learn from Dr. Porter that Kate could have another baby in 6 months. Kate, smug, said as he knew she didn’t lie and he could trust her, Kate refused to reveal the “miscarriage” for awhile, saying she didn’t want pity. During an appointment with Tom Conway, Vicky Paisley, Ned’s sister, let him knew she observed Kate and Tom leaving on a plane together. Tom said she was mistaken. Vicky warned Ellen not to let Jill get involved with Tom. She then arranged a dinner party with Tom, Kate and Julian. Vicky asked where they were going to announce Kate’s pregnancy, enjoying watching everyone squirm, especially Tom. Later she asked Tom what he was protecting Kate from. Ned told Eve Lawrence, with whom he had just reconcilied, that marriage was the next logical step for them. As Ned and Eve planned an extended vacation at Ned’s family home at Charlevoix, Eve was distressed at Heather’s panic. Heather told Jerry Kane, her husband, that it was nice to have a mother around to depend on. He replied, as her husband, she would depend on him only. Heather told Eve she was disturbed that Jerry might outgrow her as he said he outgrew his deranged ex-wife Dorothy. Eve counselled Heather to concentrate on the future, not the past. Kate appeared at Eve’s apartment as Eve was waiting to leave with Ned, demanding to know how many people Eve had told of her pregnancy. Eve denied Kate’s accusation that she was still in love with Julian. Ned listened outside the door, lighting up when he head Eve declare her love for him and said she would scream it from the roof tops if she were carrying Ned’s child. He entered, giving Kate her exit cue. Ned later got his mother’s engagement ring from Vicky. Heather continued to be upset. She befriended Vic Kirby by returning his key to their cabin. Heather couldn’t suppress a jealous twinge when she saw Jerry have coffee with Carrie Wheeler because she felt inferior to the better educated Carrie. Heather confided her insecurity to Terri Kurtz, who advised Heather not to create problems. Heather received an ego-boosting promotion to Ellen Grant’s assistant as patient relations counsellor. Carrie moved in with Greg Mercer after her grandmother Lena Andrews’ warning that Carrie’s father, Jack, wouldn’t like it. Afraid Carrie was unable to feel real love for any man because of her bitterness towards Jack, Lena warned Jack he had to tell Carrie the truth about his late wife, Frances: Frances, unable to copte with loneliness while Jack was building his law practice, turned to other men. The night of the accident that paralyzed her, Frances was abandoning Jack and Carrie to run away with another man. Jack came upon the accident and took the man’s place behind the wheel to protect Carrie from scandal. When Jack arrived at the apartment to tell Carrie, he was sho shocked at seeing Carrie in a robe and Greg in his shorts, that he walked away, speechless. Jack had to return to Wilkesbarre and wished Jill Farmer could accompany him. To his delight, she agreed. They discovered their love for each other. Jill, discovering “Jack” was a nickname for Jonathan decided she would call him Jon. Jon and Jill made love to confirm their feelings as Jon gave Jill half a gold coin as a necklace, keeping the other half himself. Carrie, meanwhile, spurned Greg’s offer of marriage, saying everything was perfect as it was, a statement Greg didn’t fully concur with. When Carrie flaunted their affair at a party for Lena, Lena called Jon, telling him he had to return and tell Carrie the truth, spoiling Jill’s idyllic holiday. Julian, meanwhile, expressed his disapproval to Greg, guessing Greg was more committed than Carrie, and fearing Greg’s work would suffer if Carrie and Greg every splited. Jon was stung when an acquaintance mistook Jill for his daughter. Ellen guessed Jill was in love. Tony and Ginger Cooper’s marital problems, caused by Tony’s seeming devotion to his work and consequent neglect of his family, came to a head when Ginger got drunk at another impromptu dinner at Ned’s and told Ned he was dictatorial and rude. Tony and Ginger talked it out and Tony assured a doubtful Ned that he could be successful with both job and family. But after Ned left town with Eve, Tony again forgot a family commitment because of his work. Ginger confided her unhappiness to Vicky Paisley who urged Ned to involve Ginger in a teen counselling program at the store, warning Ned things would get worse before they were better between the Coopers. Tony told Ginger he needed her and his work because both made him feel successful, and success at work demanded long hours and some neglect of his family. He asked her to be patient. The Young And The Restless Written by: William J. Bell Produced by: John Conboy Lorie Brooks had a plan to help Mark Henderson, who admitted that he couldn’t be intimate with any woman because his young bride died in his arms on their wedding night. Since then he had dated only very young girls so that he wouldn’t have to face his problem. Lorie used sensitivity therapy: drawing articles of different texture across his bare back to make him more aware of his sense of touch. Jed Andrews, Lorie’s agent, told her that her published was financing a small vacation to New York to meet her. Jed offered Chris Foster, Lorie’s sister, a one time modelling job, posing as a mother for a baby food ad and Chris was amazed to make $150 for a morning’s work even though the photographer said it was a rough business and she should stay out of it. Leslie Brooks Elliot stopped in Chicago to see her mother on the way to her concert in Boston. She couldn’t remember seeing Jen so happy. Leslie didn’t realize that her arrival could cause so much attention, but reporters from all media were waiting for her. The beginning of her concert tour got very good reviews. She suggested her husband, Brad, asked her sister Lorie to come to her New York debut and talked to the Maestro about the job as publicist with the orchestra because they were grateful that she gave up writing the book that very much paralleled their lives – a concert pianist, who had been in a mental institution, with a writer sister and they both vied for the handsome doctor who had given up his profession. Lorie decided to accompany Brad who was going to the concert, since Jed backed out as her escort, telling Brad she had an appointment their anyway. Jed arrived to take her to the airport, but Lorie said she was going with Brad and he should go home to his pregnant wife. Jed let it drop that Betty lost the baby 4 months ago, and 2 months later they were divorced, after telling her that since Leslie, not Brad, was responsible for the offer of concert publicist, she should drop all thought of having the book published. In New York, Lorie visited Mr. Park, her published, who read the final chapters she brought with her and then said they had to be changed because the ending wasn’t consistent with the character development. He insisted that it wasn’t the writer who got the man, but the concert pianist. Lorie explained how she meant all this and refused to change it since it was her story based on fictional characters. Mr. Park said they would tear up the contract and she could return the $5.000 advance. Since Lorie was beginning to feel badly, she had decided this might be for the best. She visited the Maestro and liked, but had committed herself to, the job, yet. Stuart, Leslie’s father, called Brad to say that since Jennifer, his estranged wife, wasn’t coming, he and Leslie’s youngest sister, Peggy, would arrive for the concert and meet them in the hotel suite, just as Jennifer called Leslie to say she and Bruce – Jen’s lover and Stuart’s one-time best friend – would come for the debut and were invited to the suite. Snapper Foster suggested that Chris use her modeling money to go to New York for the debut. Jen, Bruce, Stuart and Peggy arrived early and were shouting at each other as Lorie arrived. She told them to be quiet because this was Leslie’s debut and nothing had to spoilt it. Accidentally, Lorie slammed the door on Leslie’s fingers. Nothing seemed to be broken, but she couldn’t play the piano. Brad wrapped and packed them in ice because Leslie refused to give up the concert. Lorie blamed herself and was sure that Leslie did also, but Leslie said it was only an accident. The swelling went down and Leslie’s concert was beautiful. At the party afterward, Leslie sang and theatrical agent Eric Bronson asked her to get in touch with him. Bronson later called, wanting to speak to Leslie about her career, but she asked Lorie to see him and find out what he wanted. Jed flied in to convince Lorie that if she didn’t rewrite the last chapters or refund the $5.000, Park Bros. would sue her. Lorie received a commitment from Brad for the money, but during the interview with Bronson, who refused to talk business with Lorie, Mr. Park called to inform Lorie that his superiors had decided to publish the book as it was. Before the hearing to determine who actually was Mrs. Phillip Chancellor, Ruth, the housekeeper who was with Kay Chancellor the night she signed the divorce papers, told everyone that Mrs. Chancellor was not intoxicated. So Greg Foster, Jill Foster Chancellor’s brother and lawyer, was sure that the case would be dismissed. Van Richmond, Kay’s attorney, finally cornered Brock, Kay’s son, who didn’t want to testify and would commit himself to no opinion before the hearing. Richmond told Greg that there was no chance the suit would be dropped, so Jill had to come to the hearing. Kay testified that she was drunk because she found an empty vodka bottle beside her and didn’t know that Phillip, her then husband, had been there. Greg suggested that if she was drunk, then Phillip was a scoundrel and tricked her, but Kay protested. Brock fenced with Richmond while being questioned and said his mother could have been asleep when he came. Ruth was called and said she was there when Mrs. Chancellor signed the papers and finally admitted that Mrs. Chancellor had been drinking a lot and she told Brock that his mother had passed out, but Greg brought out that the bottle was empty and Mrs. Chancellor passed out when Brock arrived 3 or 4 hours after she had signed the papers. The judge said he would consider all the facts and give them a decision. Both sided knew that it could go either way. Bill Foster, Jill’s seriously ill father, heard about the lawsuit and visited Mrs. Chancellor in her hotel room telling her how much Phillip really loved Jill and that if she would drop the lawsuit so that Jill could remain Phillip’s widow, she could have the estate and the inheritance to which Kay finally agreed, but Jill refused this, since she could never visit Phillip’s grave on the estate. Kay called to say she had changed her mind and would not drop the suit. Brock refused to see his mother, so Kay went to him promising to give up living in the past including the suit if Brock would help her. Richmond called to say the verdict would be in at 10:00 in the morning, but Brock told Kay she was to tell the judge that she was dropping the suit first. In court, Kay sat silently when Brock said she wanted to address the judge. After reciting all the evidence, the judge found that Kay, not having had a drink for some time, was therefore susceptible. The divorce and marriage were invalid. After threatening Kay, Jill was informed that she had 10 days to move off her property. Bill Foster told the family that Mrs. Chancellor promised to let Jill visit the grave, so they should all move out. Chris, against Snapper’s wishes, was going to do some modelling to help the family. Bill was touched when Snapper called him “Dad.” Jill was having Phillip’s grave moved to a small cemetery when Kay arrived with a court order to stop Jill. Kay would have Jill put in jail if she set foot on the property.

I know this was for Adam and Nicole in EON but who were the characters involved in Passions ?