On 8/8/2025 at 12:00 AM, Franko said:

Another round of the 1987 mixtape episodes (h/t to @DRW50 for that turn of phrase) has been uploaded. These are from November.

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I'm just seeing this, thank you @Franko for the mention! 

Any idea which soap opera couple had the longest marriage?? I'm really asking about soap marriages on-camera during the show's duration.  In other words, taking into consideration broadcast time only. So, Chris/Nancy Hughes and Tom/Alice Horton won't likely make the cut. Again -- I'm asking about broadcast time only. So keep that in mind.  Also, divorces and remarriages don't count.  So that might rule out couples like Mac/Rachel and Doug/Julie.   I'll throw out a suggestion: Tom and Margo Hughes.  Their marriage lasted from around 1980 until 2010, with a few separations, but they never divorced. That's thirty years of an on-camera marriage. Have there been any longer marriages, uninterrupted by divorce in the history of daytime?

1 hour ago, Tisy-Lish said:

Any idea which soap opera couple had the longest marriage?? I'm really asking about soap marriages on-camera during the show's duration.  In other words, taking into consideration broadcast time only. So, Chris/Nancy Hughes and Tom/Alice Horton won't likely make the cut. Again -- I'm asking about broadcast time only. So keep that in mind.  Also, divorces and remarriages don't count.  So that might rule out couples like Mac/Rachel and Doug/Julie.   I'll throw out a suggestion: Tom and Margo Hughes.  Their marriage lasted from around 1980 until 2010, with a few separations, but they never divorced. That's thirty years of an on-camera marriage. Have there been any longer marriages, uninterrupted by divorce in the history of daytime?

Joe and Ruth Martin, All My Children. They were married in April 1972 and stayed on the show until January 2010, with returns after that. So just under 38 years, or more than 40 if we'll allow the Prospect Park version.

I think Tom and Margo married in 83, but yes they hold the record.

Kim and Bob married in 85 and were still together at the end.

Matt and Maggie on The Doctors married in 1965  and divorced in 1982?

Mike and Nancy on EON married in 1962 and were still together in 85.

30 minutes ago, Franko said:

Joe and Ruth Martin, All My Children. They were married in April 1972 and stayed on the show until January 2010, with returns after that. So just under 38 years, or more than 40 if we'll allow the Prospect Park version.

You may be correct. But didn't Joe and Ruth divorce in the mid-70s, when Ruth dated and was briefly engaged to David Thornton?  David died, so Ruth and Joe got remarried. Is my memory incorrect about Ruth and David Thornton?    

4 minutes ago, Tisy-Lish said:

You may be correct. But didn't Joe and Ruth divorce in the mid-70s, when Ruth dated and was briefly engaged to David Thornton?  David died, so Ruth and Joe got remarried. Is my memory incorrect about Ruth and David Thornton?    

Per the Pine Valley Bulletin page on Ruth:

1976 -- "At the hospital, Ruth befriended physician’s assistant, David Thornton. David openly flirted with Ruth. She smitten that a younger man had found interest in her. David revealed that he was in fact a surgeon. His tour in Vietnam had traumatized him to so much that he was afraid to continue in operate on anyone. Ruth helped him come to grips with his trauma. David told her that he could only be a doctor again if she was by his side. Ruth thought her marriage to Joe was over and decided to ask him for a divorce.

The night Ruth was going to break the news to Joe, he was admitted to the hospital with appendicitis. David was the only person on call who could perform the surgery. Thinking she almost lost Joe, Ruth realized that she truly loved him and not David. They reconciled and promised to make their marriage work."

 

Apparently Ruth came thisclose to breaking up her marriage to Joe, but she wasn't actually engaged to David. We'll have to see if more specific recaps reveal otherwise.

And it turns out I'm wrong on at least one item: Ruth did accept David's proposal at first.

Ruth's back against the wall experience. Oh, what I'd give to see it.

 

12 minutes ago, Franko said:

And it turns out I'm wrong on at least one item: Ruth did accept David's proposal at first.

Ruth's back against the wall experience. Oh, what I'd give to see it.

 

So Ruth accepted a proposal from David before she was divorced from Joe? How strange.

I thought Ruth and David were both divorced and sexually involved, when he proposed.  But fifty-years have passed, and all this is from memory.  I could easily be incorrect.   

On 8/17/2025 at 8:48 AM, Chris B said:

To celebrate it's 30th anniversary, Hollyoaks is doing a special crossover episode with it's long cancelled sister soap Brookside. Brookside ran from 1982-2003 and basically paved the way for Hollyoaks. I believe they've had crossovers in the past as well. 

They've been putting up Brookside on streaming, so I imagine this is also a way to promote and generate interest in that.

I'm trying to identify all the soap opera characters who went on trial for murder two different times.  So far, I have the following:

GH - Jesse Brewer: ____ Prentice and later, Phil Brewer

AW - Pat Randolph: Tom Baxter and later, Greg Barnard

EON - Martha Marceau: Unknown character and later, Taffy Simms

Is anyone aware of other characters in this unique situation?  

OLTL - Dorian - Mitch Lawrence and Victor Lord

46 minutes ago, j swift said:

OLTL - Dorian - Mitch Lawrence and Victor Lord

Thanks for the response.  Was Dorian actually on trial for both murders, or just accused?  

1 hour ago, Tisy-Lish said:

Thanks for the response.  Was Dorian actually on trial for both murders, or just accused?  

Dorian definitely went on trial for the "murder" of her future husband Mitch Lawrence (she thought that she was covering for Cassie), and she even went to prison for a while, the Victor Lord murder trial came after Viki's split where she locked Dorian up and made her confess to the murder, which lead to a trial that she somehow got out off due to David, but honestly don't remember.

I can't be sure, but I think Viki and Tina were also tried for murder more than once.  Viki for Marco Dane, because that was the context for the famous scene of Karen admitting to being a prostitute on the witness stand.  And I think Viki went to trial for Maria's murder, but that whole thing is vague.  

37 minutes ago, j swift said:

Dorian definitely went on trial for the "murder" of her future husband Mitch Lawrence (she thought that she was covering for Cassie), and she even went to prison for a while, the Victor Lord murder trial came after Viki's split where she locked Dorian up and made her confess to the murder, which lead to a trial that she somehow got out off due to David, but honestly don't remember.

I can't be sure, but I think Viki and Tina were also tried for murder more than once.  Viki for Marco Dane, because that was the context for the famous scene of Karen admitting to being a prostitute on the witness stand.  And I think Viki went to trial for Maria's murder, but that whole thing is vague.  

Interesting.  I'd love to know those exact details.  I do remember Vicki's first trial for murder with Karen's famous scene.   

AW's Pat Randolph was well known for her two murder trials.  But many AW fans have forgotten that Pat was also a suspect in the murder of Bernice Robinson around 1971-72.  Pat was not tried for the murder, because Mark Venable confessed to killing Bernice on Pat's patio after a sexual affair with Bernice had ended badly.   Thankfully poor Pat did not stand trial for murder THREE  times.  LOL.  Now, that would have been one for the record books!!  LOL.  

Edited September 14Sep 14 by Tisy-Lish

Josh Lewis--he was on trial for Will Jefferies' attempted murder (in '88-'89) and then Alan in the late '00s. (he was covering for Cassie).

Craig Montgomery--I think he went to jail for Steve's attempted murder, and then for Barbara's in '00.