It just hit me that on Dark Shadows, Dr Woodard's first name was Dave. And of course during the same period, we had David Collins. So this is one of very few examples of a soap opera having two characters with the same first name during the same time. The only other examples of this of which I am aware were: Y&R in the early-1990s had both John Abbott and John Cena, and ATWT in the early-1990s had both John Dixon and John Eldridge. Can anyone think of any other examples of this?

You mean John Silva, not Cena. Maybe Cena was there too since U Can't See Him.

On GL, we had Ed Bauer and Prince Edmund in the 2000s. In the final years, there was Remy Bordreaux's girlfriend Christine on GL and Christina Thorpe who went by Blake.

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2 minutes ago, Spoon said:

You mean John Silva, not Cena. Maybe Cena was there too since U Can't See Him.

Now I wish John Cena's fine self WOULD make a guest appearance on Y&R (because, even I have my weak moments, lol).

2 hours ago, Tisy-Lish said:

It just hit me that on Dark Shadows, Dr Woodard's first name was Dave. And of course during the same period, we had David Collins. So this is one of very few examples of a soap opera having two characters with the same first name during the same time. The only other examples of this of which I am aware were: Y&R in the early-1990s had both John Abbott and John Cena, and ATWT in the early-1990s had both John Dixon and John Eldridge. Can anyone think of any other examples of this?

As Ellen Dolan or Scott Holmes once complained about (as it began to confuse them), in the early '90s ATWT had supporting characters with variations of Bill and Billy.

10 minutes ago, Spoon said:

You mean John Silva, not Cena. Maybe Cena was there too since U Can't See Him.

Duh, yes it was John Silva. Sorry...