Thanks again, Carl. Please post any more Gerald Gordon GH articles you can find when you can. I understand GH signing him in 1976 away from TD, NBC and the East Coast was a HUGE coup for the show and ABC. Unfortunately for them, it doesn't seem like lightning struck twice and his GH character was nowhere near as popular as Dr. Nick Bellini had been.

Frisco was hot back then wasn't he? Frisco and Felicia were my GH gateway back when I was a little kid. My whole family watched ABC soaps, but the first time I wanted to watch for myself was when Felicia showed up.

Who could have guessed back then that Frisco and Felicia's portrayers would have an even stormier soap opera off-screen?

July 1989 Digest

I'm sorry, who is she again?

Frisco's former partner on the police force.

Don't think this pic has been posted before

I love that jacket Leslie is wearing!!

Yea, Lesley looks pretty hip and happening!

Yeah, she was IT back in the day. I miss her so much.

How had I never seen this before. The end is hilarious. No trip to Amsterdam for you dear.

Whoever directed that was an ass man (or woman)...

Seriously, you can see why the directing team of this era revolutionized soaps. That last shot is perfect - a quiet, simple-but-satisfied ending to all that yelling and hysteria.

80s GH was extremely well directed and far superior in that department to all the other soaps even to this day. That aftermath shot with first Tiffany and Emma, then pan to Rick and Leslie and finally what looks to be a crane shot over to Dan and Ruby is beyond anything seen on soaps before or since. If the shot called for tracking on a dolly or a crane, or overhead, they just did it.

This clip is not able to be embedded but I love it, the ending is so well done and it is one of my favorite GH scenes of all time:

https://youtu.be/NKjy_OrnhS0

The ending when it goes silent for a beat is perfect and then the crowd shot. There is no way any soap could stage this scene today. The money is just not there for quality production values.