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Amazing to think we've got at least 3 episodes now from around this period. Finding '60s GH is spotty but much better represented than most other soaps.

This episode has a flashback to when Steve tells Audrey they lost their baby. I don't think that was in the other episodes we've seen (if it was, my apologies).

Reading up on Polly's history I see that a year after this she dies in a car crash, pregnant, while Phil is driving. Odd seeing this in an episode focusing on the aftermath of the same happening with Steve and Audrey (very different circumstances, I know). Was that the same headwriters? I wonder if viewers ever found these stories repetitive (and this one also had another round of Jessie/Phil) or if they just loved the characters enough to not mind. 

Thank you so much for sharing the clip!  I am sure even viewers in 1968 were saying how over the top it was for a defendant for murder and the main witness testifying against them living in the same house and (sort of) interacting daily.

Martin West's Phil was the only Phil I knew.  He did a great job portraying a love-to-hate character.  He has the dubious honor of reciting some of the most embarrassing lines in soap history.  His character supposedly suffered from impotence, but, during a tense scene with Diana, he suddenly discovered that his plumbing was actually working and exclaimed, "I'm a man!" while the camera cut away for him to rape Diana behind a couch.  Good thing I was not watching with my mother that day.

The scene that I remember most of Phil was when everyone thought Phil was dead.  Jessie had married Dr. Peter Taylor, and she and Peter were all lovey dovey, decorating a Christmas tree, and for whatever reason, the setup was perfect for Phil to witness the whole thing through a window!

 

 

 

 

 

 

5 minutes ago, victorlord75 said:

Martin West's Phil was the only Phil I knew.  He did a great job portraying a love-to-hate character.  He has the dubious honor of reciting some of the most embarrassing lines in soap history.  His character supposedly suffered from impotence, but, during a tense scene with Diana, he suddenly discovered that his plumbing was actually working and exclaimed, "I'm a man!" while the camera cut away for him to rape Diana behind a couch.  Good thing I was not watching with my mother that day.

The scene that I remember most of Phil was when everyone thought Phil was dead.  Jessie had married Dr. Peter Taylor, and she and Peter were all lovey dovey, decorating a Christmas tree, and for whatever reason, the setup was perfect for Phil to witness the whole thing through a window!

I did wonder at first if Jessie and Polly were meant to be living together. I wonder whatever happens to that house. 

Geez. That part with Diana sounds awful. Frankly, it sounds like a porn setup.

The moment with Jessie and Peter sounds like something I wish I could see.

I wish they could have let Jessie have some happiness. I know in the early '80s she sort of dated that guy who worked at the hospital but that's all.

At least she wasn't murdered, like Jessie 2.0 (Diana).

Edited February 9Feb 9 by DRW50

3 hours ago, DRW50 said:

Amazing to think we've got at least 3 episodes now from around this period. Finding '60s GH is spotty but much better represented than most other soaps.

This episode has a flashback to when Steve tells Audrey they lost their baby. I don't think that was in the other episodes we've seen (if it was, my apologies).

Reading up on Polly's history I see that a year after this she dies in a car crash, pregnant, while Phil is driving. Odd seeing this in an episode focusing on the aftermath of the same happening with Steve and Audrey (very different circumstances, I know). Was that the same headwriters? I wonder if viewers ever found these stories repetitive (and this one also had another round of Jessie/Phil) or if they just loved the characters enough to not mind. 

wow. What a beauty to find. Thanks so much for the tag; the quality is brilliant. The writing is simple yet so incredible.

WOW!!!! Great!!! This is the 4th episode from 1968 that I see in youtube!!!

1 minute ago, MissPalmer said:

WOW!!!! Great!!! This is the 4th episode from 1968 that I see in youtube!!!

Sorry for not tagging you - there were so many I know I forgot a few people.

4 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

Sorry for not tagging you - there were so many I know I forgot a few people.

Don't worry!! Thank you any way!!! Glad to have a new episode from 1968

I was alerted to this one’s premiere on YouTube and it didn’t disappoint! I was confused by the episode description stating that Shelby Hiatt (Jane Harland Dawson) was in the episode, but otherwise, what a treat! Thanks for the tag.

5 minutes ago, depboy said:

I was alerted to this one’s premiere on YouTube and it didn’t disappoint! I was confused by the episode description stating that Shelby Hiatt (Jane Harland Dawson) was in the episode, but otherwise, what a treat! Thanks for the tag.

They seemed to think she was the one who had Audrey's scenes. 

Thanks for the tag @DRW50

8 hours ago, DRW50 said:

Reading up on Polly's history I see that a year after this she dies in a car crash, pregnant, while Phil is driving.

Not only pregnant but actually in the middle of a self-induced abortion gone wrong - Phil was rushing her to General Hospital. I (and others here) only found that particular part of the story due to Depboy's summaries.

2 minutes ago, Dion said:

Not only pregnant but actually in the middle of a self-induced abortion gone wrong - Phil was rushing her to General Hospital. I (and others here) only found that particular part of the story due to Depboy's summaries.

Thanks. I didn't know that. I should read the summaries.

(apologies for not tagging you either)

I still laugh whenever I hear or see the name "Polly Prentice," lol.

18 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

Thanks. I didn't know that. I should read the summaries.

Yes, they were really interesting to read. A fair amount more short term patient storylines than I expected.

Spoiler

And then there was finding out the reason Audrey had gotten herself artificially inseminated was because of her lingering feelings for her unconsummated emotional affair with Phil!

I'd known about Phil and Audrey being attracted to each other ever since a late 1966 episode was posted on WOST over 20 years ago and I had also known about the insemination/pregnancy storyline which ended with the car crash and Audrey losing the baby but had no idea the former directly led in to the latter.

 

18 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

(apologies for not tagging you either)

No worries, I often check this thread anyway.

Edited February 9Feb 9 by Dion

3 minutes ago, Dion said:

Yes, they were really interesting to read. A fair amount more short term patient storylines than I expected.

It's a shame the show moved so far away from that (PC tried briefly around 1999 or 2000), but then when you have a cast of 500 you aren't going to focus on patients. 

I didn't even know about any history with Phil and Audrey as I'm not as vested in old GH as I should be. Thanks for letting me know. I'll have to check out what's available in the episodes.