60 all-time greatest soap moments-TV Guide

[FrenchFan]

I agree about Ridge being Massimo's son but I just loved David's forehead. As a child, I remember I was afraid !

[DRW50]

If anyone can find it, please try to get Soap Opera Weekly's 1997 issue that has in-depth writeups on their favorite 110+ soap moments. It has some stuff that isn't endlessly coughed up (like that overrated Luke and Laura wedding where poor Lesley was dressed like a madam), and it doesn't heavily involve Michael Logan.

[Eric83]

My memory was a little foggy around that time. What was even the point of making Ridge Massimo's son? So he could get with Bridget? (Even though Ridge once thought that was his daughter *puke*)

[DRW50]

That was one of the main points, I believe. The other was to try to hardwire the Marones as a new core family (which never worked, IMO). The only part of it I liked was making Stephanie and Eric enemies and that didn't last for very long.

[DRW50]

I just saw Caroline's death on there. That saved me a rant. Caroline

[P.J.]

ehhh...Ridge's paternity is a huge WTF? I'd have picked ANY of Taylor's resurrections, anything Sheila/Lauren or heck even Brooke/Ollie's mistaken banging over that.

And I'd so pick Jack stepping over Victor's "dead" body over Katherine's facelift. I get that the merging of "real" and "reel" was groundbreaking, but in the end it was a stunt.

Don't even get me started on Nuke's kiss.....ugh.

[quartermainefan]

I am happy they remembered Lucy Coe. The scene isn't relevant to today's GH but anyone who watched it then remembers it. It is all the more remarkable because it was a very long scene without a word of dialogue. I would have taken out the Luke and Laura rape and instead gone for Luke sees Laura at City Hall (when Laura returned in 1883)

[Y&RWorldTurner]

You were around for that?

[LindaTNo1]

Nothing about Angie and Jesse, Daytime televisions Number 1 AA SuperCouple, Jesse's death, Angie and Jesse at the train station reunion, court fight to gain back custody of baby Frankie.

[NothinButAttitude]

Oh hell no! Felicia's intervention is below PC's vampire garbage?! That story was the best alcoholism story to be told and acted on daytime. This list lost all credibility off that alone. Plus, Roger & Holly rape story should be #2. That story alone was insightful and changed views on martial rape. I'm sorry but anything supernatural on soaps minus Dark Shadows needs to be at the bottom of this list. Lisa's arrival to Oakdale needs to be top ten too because without Lisa, there'd be no soap vixen. Lord have mercy. . .

[quartermainefan]

without offering an opinion on any of those scenes myself, are you saying they should have said "Angie and Jesse are black, someone find a great moment for them so we can have them on this list" ?

I thought Jesse's death scene was great and could have been included, but not because they are black.

[RavenWhitney]

With headwriters associated with the event of the ones I know and can identify

1.Luke & Laura's wedding-GH 1981 (Laiman/Racina)

2. BJ's heart-GH 1994 (Labine)

3. Marlena's possession-DOOL 1995 (Reilly)

4. Bert's diagnosis-GL 1962 (Nixon)

5. Karen's testimony-OLTL 1979 (Sam Hall/Gordon Russell)

6. Katherine's facelift-Y&R 1984 (Bell)

7. Erica's abortion-AMC 1973 (Nixon)

8. Jeff's death in car crash-ATWT 1962 (Philips)

9. Viki's out-of-body experience-OLTL 1987 (Schnessel/Carlson)

10. Reva's dip in the fountain-GL 1985 (Pam Long)

11. Lisa hitsOakdale-ATWT 1960 (Philips)

12. Roger rapes Holly-GL 1979 (Dobsons)

13. Carla is black-OLTL 1969 (Nixon)

14. Tracy withhold's Edward's heart meds-GH 1980 (Marland)

15. Bianca comes out to Erica-AMC-2000 (Nixon)

16. The Salem strangler "kills" Marlena-DOOL 1982 (DePriest)

17. Robin is diagnosed with HIV-GH 1995 (Labine)

18. Nola's movie fantasies-GL 1981 (Marland)

19. Margo euthanizess Casey-ATWT 1990 (Marland)

20. Marlena is a serial killer-DOOL 2004 (Reilly)

21. The Susan-Kristen craziness-DOOL 1997 (Reilly)

22. David Kimble's KILLER forehead-Y&R 1991 (Bell)

23. Lucy Coe isc a secret ho-GH 1986 (Ann Marcus?)

24. Maureen dies-GL 1993 (Curlee/Demorest)

25. Maeve sings "Danny Boy" RH 1989 (Labine)

26. Mona's funeral-AMC 1994 (Nixon)

27. Marty is gang raped-OLTL 1993 (Malone)

28. Barnabas Collins is a vampire-DS 1967 (Art Wallace/Dan Curtis)

29. Caleb Morley is a vampire-PC 2001 (Brown/Estensen)

30. Felicia's intervention-AW 1992 (Peggy Sloane)

31. Andrea's trial-SFT 1968 (??)

32. Rachel kills Janice-AW 1981 (Tom King)

33. Doug elopes with Addie-DOOL 1972 (Bell/Faulken Smith)

34. Cliff & Nina's wedding-AMC 1980 (Nixon)

35. Stephanie succumbs to cancer-B&B 2012 (Bell)

36. Sloane faces the firing squad-Capitol 1987 (Lipton) Stupid!!!!

37. Jenny dies by jet ski-AMC 1984 (Nixon)

38. Ridge is not a Forrester-B&B 2001 (Bell)

39. Nancy & Mike break up-EON 1976 (Slesar) Best Episode...awesome

40. Adam is murdered-EON 1977 (Slesar) another great one

41. Cindy loses her battle with AIDS-AMC 1989 (Nixon/Broderick)

42. Tina's wedding screw-up-OLTL 1988 (??)

43. Caroline's death-B&B 1990 (Bell)

44. Bo & Hope go on the run-DOOL 1984 (DePriest/Anderson/Racina)

45. Timmy the doll becomes a real boy-PSNS 2002 (Reilly)

46. Reva is cloned-GL 1998 (Wendy Fishman wrote this story. not Brown/Estensen)

47. Tad the Cad beds Marian-AMC 1983 (Nixon)

48. Mary is murdered by the Mob-RH 1979 (Labine)

49. The AIDS quilt visits Llanview-OLTL 1992 (Malone)

50. Doug stalks Kim-ATWT 1986 (Marland)

51. JR fires gun during Pine Valley Party-AMC 2011 (Nixon/Broderick/Walsh)

52. Janet pushes Natalie down a well-AMC 1991 (Nixon)

53. Ryan & Vicky reunite in heaven-AW 1997 (Malone?)

54. Joan Crawford fills in as joan Kane-TSS 1968 (?)

55. Vincent gets pregnant by his own father-PSNS 2007 (Reilly)

56. Luke & Noah kiss-ATWT 2007 (Jean Passanante)

57. Bob trysts with Susan-ATWT 1990 (Marland)

58. Mary is killed by the big C-SB 1986 (Anne Howard Bailey?)

59. Luke rapes Laura-GH 1979 (Marland)

60. Jo has soaps' first pregnancy-SFT 1956 (Winsor)

[RomeAt50]

That's nowhere near the best episode of AMC since 2000. It wasn't even the best episode its last week on the air.

[DRW50]

I think it's more about a big moment, and that was a fairly big moment to end a soap on (although I'm happy that we got a resolution that that, as it's not my favorite way to end a soap).

[EricMontreal22]

"And I'd so pick Jack stepping over Victor's "dead" body over Katherine's facelift. I get that the merging of "real" and "reel" was groundbreaking, but in the end it was a stunt.''

ANd while it in no way had as much impact in the long run what with the character gone, AMC had already done it. This list is kinda typical in that the choices are made for such vastly different reasons, its hard to compare them (as others have said some were truly great, others WTF and others very meh.)