1 hour ago, AdelaideCate007 said:

That guy was such a dud too and I feel like I remember him being on all the time for like a year and then was just gone. Who was responsible for this? This couldn't have been during the Labine//Riche years.

Monty. This sequence lives in my subconscious at all times.

20 hours ago, janea4old said:

At the Outback, I can see Steve and Audrey, Tom and Simone,  Robin, Monica and Alan, Bobbie and Tony!

The youtube description says there's an old AJ. If that's true, then I guess it might be Gerald Hopkins?   If so, who is the young woman with him?

This is from the opening of the Outback. This is the start of the Monday, July 22, 1991 episode.

This would be very early Gerald Hopkins as A.J. His date is Nurse Sheila Contillion (Stacey Cortez). Sheila appeared in February 1991 and was initially a potential love interest for James Morrison's Joey Moscini. Joey was the Eckerts' cousin on the mother's side. Joey can be briefly seen in that sequence sitting at the same table as his cousin Jenny. Sheila and A.J. are the younger set for the second half of Monty's 1991 run with Brandon Hooper added as Dr. Eric Simpson. Riche keeps the younger set and adds Nikki Langton (who appeared in the final Monty episodes). 

Sheila's biggest moment is in the transition from Monty to Riche (January-Febraruy 1992) when Linda Grover (briefly one of the headwriters with Norma Monty) introduced a story involving Sheila's abusive stepfather, Pete Kaufmann. Sheila and Eric are a D-story for throughout the headwriterless period and into Maralyn Thoma / Bill Levinson's run. Sheila and Eric fade out in the later part of the fall of 1992 when Nikki ditches A.J. at the altar and A.J. ends up in rehab for his alcoholism.  

It's also why they slot Sean Kanan's A.J. into the Brenda / Jason / Jagger / Karen group because there was not much of an early 20 set left. 

20 hours ago, janea4old said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZKrkpRa4EA

The youtube description mentions that Tracy and one of her earlier husbands is there, too.

Tracy is there with Paul Hornsby, who she would later marry.

17 hours ago, AdelaideCate007 said:

That guy was such a dud too and I feel like I remember him being on all the time for like a year and then was just gone. Who was responsible for this? This couldn't have been during the Labine//Riche years.

Michael Lynch played Connor Olivera, who I think they tested with a bunch of different ladies on the show (Dominique, Felicia, and I think some others). When Connor is set to be deported, he is revealed to be Sean Donnelly's son. Monty's second run is dominated by a very basic attempt to emulate "EastEnders" by having characters of different ethnicities present. Connor identified as Mexican; he was being deported back to Mexico before it was revealed his father was an American. 

Conner is around until October, 1992, but he is mostly doing stuff at the Outback and pining for Dominique. He appears to sing at Scott and Dominque's wedding in February, 1993 once Dominique learns she has the tumor and doesn't have long to live. I don't believe he is at her memorial later in the year. 

A new episode from 1967 is in EBAY ( Episode 6 January 1967) in which Meg is with a very young Scotty (there is a picture).We hope to see the episode soon in Youtube!! We hope the higher bidder gives us this pleasure!!!

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On 8/16/2025 at 7:19 PM, AdelaideCate007 said:

Jesus Christ I'd managed to forget about this until now lol. Finola's face! of their faces! Along with when Felicia and Luke performed at the Nurse's Ball that time, this has to be the cringiest and funniest moment on GH that we were supposed to be taking seriously. 

I didn’t forget, I had some kind of soap opera amnesia about this. As a matter of fact, seeing it now might trigger my own Nikki Smith situation.

It’s so wild to see so much of the cast suffering through this musical performance. When people talk about how much money there used to be in soaps, show this clip. All those top of the pay scale veteran actors, extras, a “song” being performed. And you know that was a long day, back when Monty routinely kept going late to get what she wanted. Everything in that clip was expensive, in all the wrong ways.

I am a huge admirer of what Gloria Monty accomplished. This is another example of why her instincts were so off for the show at that time.

Thanks @MissPalmer I looked at a few of the January 1967 episodes on Youtube and didn't see one with Scott. Would be great if that's new for us.

Yes!!! It is new!! One of our soap opera fan friends has bought it for 405 bucks!!! Fortunately, the seller must have a dvd copy of the episode!! It is really funny to watch a younger Scott

Edited September 1Sep 1 by MissPalmer

I'd forgotten this scene existed. I didn't know if Jason had ever said this to her since the accident. I certainly don't remember him ever calling her 'Mom' before the other day.

Starting at 6:10, a longer version of the clip shown the other day where Monica takes care of baby Jason at the gatehouse:

 

I saw this posted to another board, and I wanted to give a chef's kiss to whichever writer penned this dialogue for Monica:

"I bet you're an excellent lock pick. You have the hands for it. I remember Alan and I used to argue for hours what kind of surgeon you should be. Of course, it didn't really matter then, you were only in high school. But he wanted neurosurgery and, of course, I wanted cardiology. And here you turn out to be a skilled henchman for the mob. It's funny how life turns out!"

 

This is Monica and Tracy's final scene in 1993 before Tracy's exile from the Q Mansion and Port Charles. I really appreciate how Monica and Tracy could find a common ground at times during this period. It probably helps the Tracy is purposefully evasive about the reasons behind Edward declaration. Monica suggesting that the entire Q clan can be self-destructive is more poignant and reflective than hostile and aggressive as it might have been penned by the 2000s. 

 

 

That is a great scene. I can't remember the next time I saw them like that.

2 hours ago, dc11786 said:

This is Monica and Tracy's final scene in 1993 before Tracy's exile from the Q Mansion and Port Charles. I really appreciate how Monica and Tracy could find a common ground at times during this period. It probably helps the Tracy is purposefully evasive about the reasons behind Edward declaration. Monica suggesting that the entire Q clan can be self-destructive is more poignant and reflective than hostile and aggressive as it might have been penned by the 2000s. 

 

 

Jane is just so good. This is the type of character defining dialogue we got all the time in the Riche era, especially the earlier years when she was figuring things out. I know this was Levinson, but the Labine team also wrote these long, detailed scenes that really let each character have a voice and a point of view.

When I watch Tracy in this time period, what strikes me the most is that if Edward had believed in her when it came to business and ELQ, or even loved her without conditions, she wouldn’t have been so destructive. Jane played a lot of this period with Tracy as kind of a walking wound, and that pain was used to lash out at everyone. I actually liked Jenny Eckert, and even I wasn’t upset she ran her down.

I think soap writing ultimately has two lanes- writers and producers that look at how much they have to produce and they either think how lucky to have all this time with episodes every day to really explore each character. Or the other side is how in the hell are we going to fill up all this time? The second lane uses things like excessive flashbacks, gimmicks, and purely plot driven story dragged out without any character development around it.

6 hours ago, BoldRestless said:

Starting at 6:10, a longer version of the clip shown the other day where Monica takes care of baby Jason at the gatehouse:

 

This is great. 

They don’t cut flashbacks in like this anymore*, but I’d just put most of this scene as an opening teaser with no preamble during one of the Monica memorial eps. Just a cozy flashback to Alan and Monica in their prime being who they were to each other, and showing how things really got going with her and Jason. No, no one was there to see it so it's not technically a flashback but just put it in at the beginning.

*(to their credit, they did let some longer flashbacks run during Bobbie's memorial eps and I expect they will this week)

Edited September 21Sep 21 by Vee

Is this the oldest scene preserved on video with Leslie Charleson as Dr Monica Quartermaine?

 

 

That was such a great Monica and Tracy scene. The Quartermaines were so nasty and basically used for comic relief and Jason worship by the time she got back in 2003 so that was probably one of the last real moments we got between them for decades. I think the next time we got a few good scenes was around the time Tracy was sick and when she left for a bit around 2017.

Side note, skimming that episode is reminded me of that Jessica Holmes stuff with Sean and Tiffany. I loved them as a kid (and hate that their health problems kept them from being more involved during the Frank years with the other vets) and I remember enjoying some of that story at the time. Watching it now, I really have no idea what they were going for, especially since they randomly had I think Ryan kill her and then they were back together like a month later. Plus even in that episode, it just made Tiffany seem so pathetic and idk sad and desperate in a way that I don't think worked for that character.

Really cute Mac, Felicia, and Maxie scene too.