I'll stick to just those I saw live. There are any number of others I saw of course, but these are some I still remember offhand.
DAYS 1994-95: Gina/Hope, Bo/Billie, Aremid and the Possession.
GH 1993: Luke and Laura's grand return and the introduction of Lucky.
GH 1994: Bobbie traps Damian Smith in the tunnels/sewers/whatever they were.
OLTL 1994: The hospital rapist storyline with Powell Lord. Still very creepy. (I came in just after the Spring Fling rape of Marty in '93, so I didn't see much of the trial.)
OLTL 1995: The abuse reveal, with Viki splitting into her alters, calling Dorian a "stupid, ugly bitch" and hurling her down the stairs. I've talked about this a lot. I was home watching live as a young teenager, had no idea Viki had ever been mentally ill and was terrified.
LOV 1995: The Loving Murders. 'Nuff said.
GH 1995: Coming home from school to watch Alan Quartermaine tell Robin Scorpio she's HIV positive. She was maybe 2-3 years older than me.
Christmas 2000, AMC: Bianca strips down and tells her mother she's gay. I sobbed and sobbed.
OLTL 2002: Live Week. A wonderful achievement and the greatest performance in Kassie DePaiva's career, even though she was admittedly terrified BTS the whole time.
OLTL 2002: The other shoe finally drops in the long baby switch storyline when Viki confronts Allison Perkins in a padded cell and she answers her questions with "Ask Mitch." The look in Barbara Garrick's eyes says it all as to why they kept bringing her back right to the very end in 2013. I suspected Mitch had to be alive and sure enough, at the end of the episode there he was.
OLTL 2007: Asa's death. Bob Woods gave one of his very best performances, maybe the best of his career, as a drunken Bo became unhinged in the Buchanan stables over his dysfunctional relationship with his father. Woods rarely was a showy actor and was often deceptively understated, so to watch him come unglued was jarring and very, very powerful.
OLTL 2008: Dorian seizes Buchanan Enterprises and exposes Jared and Natalie, leading to Nash Brennan's violent death while the family looks on at the hospital.
AMC 2008: Angie chases the train and reunites with Jesse. Debbi Morgan's screams still rip my heart out.
OLTL 2009: Kyle and Oliver have sex, the first gay love scene I can recall on American daytime and not a chaste one.
GH 2011: Sonny finds out about Brenda and Dante's relationship at the altar, but chooses to marry her anyway and gives a wonderful speech about how her father lied to her about being worthless. One of Sonny's last great moments as well as some of the last great works from the longtime dialogue team, and oddly enough one of the first times I was legitimately able to appreciate Sonny and Brenda (I had not been a huge Brenda fan as a kid and preferred Robin/Carly) and began to revisit their past.
GH 2012: The water crisis. Hokey and silly in many places but genuinely exciting and affecting, and it probably saved the show from cancellation.
GH 2013: Robin returns and crashes Patrick and Sabrina's wedding. Again, drawn out and hokey for weeks and months prior, but Ron Carlivati had very deliberately set up to imitate the structure of Laura's clandestine weeks-long return in 1983 as well as of Anna and Robin's Asian Quarter reunion in the '80s (echoed with Robin and Emma in the church), and he delivered on both in those key scenes.
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