I would love to watch 1978/79 episodes but there are so few on youtube😔

On 1/5/2017 at 2:49 PM, vetsoapfan said:

I loved GH in the 1960s, early and late '70s (the middle period of that decade was not this show's best), and into the early '80s under Pat Falken Smith. We'll never see a soap like this again, alas.

Falken Smith wrote my second favorite GH period, that mid 1980's run that introduced Anna and Robin and Duke.

 

How did you feel about her other runs?

11 minutes ago, titan1978 said:

Falken Smith wrote my second favorite GH period, that mid 1980's run that introduced Anna and Robin and Duke.

 

How did you feel about her other runs?

 

I thought PFS was great everywhere she went and at everything she wrote, except RYAN'S HOPE. The show was curiously stilted and unnatural at the time. Bad direction and many unworkable characters may have sunk the show, however. I think on RH, PFS was fighting an uphill battle that no one could win except Claire Labine.

 

Who's Who on General Hospital, TV Star Parade, June 1965:

 

Thanks. Never read that. I never knew John Larkin's daughter was on the show. 

Thank you for posting. Several characters mentioned that I was not aware of.Love uncovering this stuff!

 

Don't know if this 1992 behind the scenes clip has been posted here before, but I came across it today for the first time. I'd forgotten that ET used to do segments that lasted longer than a minute.

 

 

Edited February 4, 20178 yr by Dave_01

After reading that who's who on GH I was really sad for people that started watching after the deaths/ write outs of some of the important pre Monty era players on the show.

 

I loved Steve Hardy when I was a kid until he died.  Beradino always sold his material, and could show so much compassion as a doctor and friend in the show.  And he could be tough!  Just a great leading man and head of the hospital.

 

Audrey I was never very fond of, but she had a place and had value and now that the show lacks so much of that history I find I miss her.

 

Jessie was mostly just a talk to when I started viewing, but again she brought her history to the nurses station and I know enough about how important her character was on the show.

 

Lee Baldwin- like Steve, a fantastic leading man that I always felt commanded the stage when he was there, even in has later days.

 

Leslie Webber- She should be running the hospital.  Bringing her back with Guza writing was a loss because she and Alan and Monica could have spent years fighting for the control of the hospital.  Keeping the actual hospital vital and those characters vital.  Imagine if Leslie and Alan had become an item? 

 

On 2/4/2017 at 3:07 PM, titan1978 said:

After reading that who's who on GH I was really sad for people that started watching after the deaths/ write outs of some of the important pre Monty era players on the show.

 

I loved Steve Hardy when I was a kid until he died.  Beradino always sold his material, and could show so much compassion as a doctor and friend in the show.  And he could be tough!  Just a great leading man and head of the hospital.

 

Audrey I was never very fond of, but she had a place and had value and now that the show lacks so much of that history I find I miss her.

 

Jessie was mostly just a talk to when I started viewing, but again she brought her history to the nurses station and I know enough about how important her character was on the show.

 

Lee Baldwin- like Steve, a fantastic leading man that I always felt commanded the stage when he was there, even in has later days.

 

Leslie Webber- She should be running the hospital.  Bringing her back with Guza writing was a loss because she and Alan and Monica could have spent years fighting for the control of the hospital.  Keeping the actual hospital vital and those characters vital.  Imagine if Leslie and Alan had become an item? 

 

While Gloria Monty was a great producer, some boo-boos occurred under her watch.  I think killing off Peter and Diana Taylor was a big mistake, even though the great Valerie Starrett was no longer playing Diana by GM's arrival.

 

 

 

Craig Huebing and Valerie Starrett (Peter and Diana Taylor) When Tom Donovan became producer he clashed with Valerie and she left.