The first death you saw on a soap

[Melroser]

The first one I remember that left an impression was Renee DiMera (well actually Marshall at the time) in '83! I was 10 and remember being p*ssed! I LOVED Renee. Hated Anna!

But I have a memory of someone on AW blowing up in a parking lot, either in/or next to a car and the bomb was meant for someone else. Was this John Randolph on the first 90 minute ep? I remember people watching from a steel stairway (almost fire escape style) and seeing the explosion. I was young and remember my mom being so upset. lol

[DRW50]

John Randolph died in a house fire.

I think you may mean Tracy DeWitt.

http://www.igs.net/~awhp/1tracy.html

[R Sinclair]

Awww, poor Tracy DeWitt. She was killed on my father's 37th birthday. Poor thang.

[DRW50]

Random AMC trivia note - the man who was obsessively in love with her played Eddie Dorrance on AMC.

[Goldensoaps]

Joe Perkins (MARK ARNOLD) in Santa Barbara on February 1985!!! It was very sad and very unexpected for me!!!

[Melroser]

Thanks! That may have been it. My memory is fuzzy tho. :-(

[DRW50]

People were dying left and right on AW in those years so no wonder it's a blur.

[applcin]

I think mine was probably the murder of Eddie Dorrance on AMC.

[dsvd79]

Maybe not "dead", but one of my earliest Y&R memories is Lauren being buried alive!

[edgeofnik]

The was the most memorable for me because the NBC affiliate pre-empted the reveal episode (!), which was on Labor Day for Jerry Lewis Telethon! On Tuesday, I called my Mom and she was so upset because she (we) loved Renee. It was a great storyline that really revived DAYS, but it was unfortunate to lose that character. A close second, was Nora Fulton on EON - Catherine Bruno had done such a great job of turning what was a short-term part, into one that just wreak havoc in Monticello. That single episode was so brilliantly done and the conclusion with Nora's shocking demise was so well done.

[P.J.]

I was going to say Melinda Gray's on ATWT...but then I remembered Kay and Phillip on Y&R arguing in the car just before his death, so I'm going with that.

[ReddFoxx]

AMC was one of the soaps of choice of my mother and grandmother, so my first memory would be of Janet knocking Will Cooney upside the head with a crowbar.

[Quent]

How about Janet Ciccone drowning in a giant vat of pasta sauce five minutes after she arrived at ATWT....oops, sorry, that was just wishful thinking.

[P.J.]

^^^ *snorting as pop burns nosehairs* Don't I wish?

[MichaelGL]

My earliest memories include some of the worst deaths and most distasteful ones in the soap genre.

The deaths of Det. Cutter and Nadine Cooper on GL, and then Frankie Frame on AW. I'm too lazy to look up the exact dates, but those deaths occurred within a short time frame of each other I think.

I wish I could remember Maureen's death on GL, but my earliest memory of GL is of the blackout and nothing much until 94.