One Life to Live Tribute Thread

[janea4old]

I watched almost all of this, in real time, with no recording devices and nobody in real life to discuss it with.  I didn't have soap magazines, so I had no way to fill in any episodes I missed.  But most of this is very familiar to me. Hard to believe it's been 49 years! 
I remember all of this except for Matt McAllister.  But I do remember seeing a clip of Matt McAllister in this thread a few months ago. 
I remember Jenny being a nun but I don't remember anything about her having been a missionary in another country.

It would be an exaggeration to say I remember it vividly -- it's tiny bits of memories from decades ago, so it's now quite fuzzy in my mind.  But when I was watching, I felt it vividly -- I guess I can say I remember my own vivid emotions that I felt while watching.

Edited Wednesday at 04:21 PM by janea4old

[Paul Raven]

OLTL 1976 Pt 2

Dorian throws an elegant party at Llanfair, the Lord mansion, and unveils in the library a portrait of herself painted by the same artist whose painting of the late Eugenia Lord, Viki’s mother, had always hung in this spot. The next day Victor brings her mother’s picture to Viki’s home, saying that Dorian thought she would want to have it. When Viki demurs, explaining that the portrait seems to belong at Llanfair, Victor  points out that it should be wherever Eugenia’s memory is revered.

When Tony questions Pat about the party at his father’s house, she notes that he’s quite interested for someone who insists he doesn’t care at all. Pat then accuses Tony of hatching his scheme to open a topless singles’ bar within view of Llanfair, just to embarrass Victor. When he asks why she’s interested, Pat replies that she cares what happens to him.

Joe’s reaction to her pregnancy is so incredibly joyous that Viki can’t bring herself to spoil it by telling him the bad news. This upsets Larry, who warns her that if Joe learns the truth from another source, he’ll never forgive her. Viki defensively insists that the baby’s heart will be perfect and Joe won’t have reason to blame her for keeping silent. But Viki has nightmares about the birth of the baby, and tells a concerned Joe of a dream having to do with Dorian being the doctor. When he tells her he’d like to name the baby for her father if it’s a boy, Viki tells herself ‘she can’t destroy it for him; she has to risk keeping silent. She then informs Larry that she will tell Joe but plans to wait until she’s past the point of considering an abortion.

When Larry tries to shake her conviction that she knows the baby will be perfect, she admits that it may not be, but adds that it’s enough that she has to carry the fears and worry. If the baby’s affected, there will be enough time for Joe to suffer afterward. 

Vince, who has had to deal with the realization that his days with the police department are over because of a lack of funding for city services, fears he’ll spend the rest of his life at his present security-guard job, which he hates. He is stunned to find Jenny wearing Tim’s engagement ring, and warns Tim that God will punish them for this.

Tony is bitter when his liquor-license request is turned down, and Victor quickly admits that he arranged it to protect the Lord name and reputation from embarrassment. Tony threatens to use Victor’s highhanded tactics to cut him out of the Chronicle job in retaliation, but Victor decides to let Tony go ahead with his club. Pleased that his chances for success now seem assured, Tony asks Cathy to marry him, but she asks that they just let things go on as they have. Cathy is stunned to learn of Viki’s pregnancy—everything always works out for Viki.

Pat’s husband, Paul, is killed in a police shootout  in a burning building, and Pat, having brought her son Brian to Llanview, where she’ s rented the house next door to the Craigs’, is horrified when the school children taunt him by calling him the son of a criminal. When Tony tells Pat he’s been turned down for a development loan, she suggests that he offer Victor the chance to back him as a business proposition. Tony refuses, saying all that Victor has given him is the conviction that he would never abandon a child of his own. As he muses over his life and his lack of family, Pat tells herself she can’t tell Tony the truth that Brian is his son.

Dorian, having extended her power base by persuading Victor to name her to the Banner’s board of directors, uses lip service to encourage Tony to reconcile with his father, but privately tells Victor that Tony is adamant about having no improvement in their relationship. Dorian loudly broadcasts her desire not to be informed of the changes Victor makes in his will, but manages to overhear much of the conversation with his attorney. She learns that his lawyer’s main concern is assuring that the reappearance of his son and his recent marriage to Dorian don’t affect existing trust and direct bequest provisions, that the will be as airtight as possible. Victor explains to the attorney that if he had the time, he could have trained Dorian to take over the complex Lord Enterprises at his death, but now it’s too late and he has decided that the corporation should remain under the direction of the Lord Foundation  trustees, with Viki to be executor of the will.

When Victor tells Dorian this, she asks if Viki actually wants this responsibility. Victor replies that she can handle it with Joe to help her. Viki accepts the appointment, pleasing Victor, who notes to Dorian, “Accidents do happen, my dear.”