General Hospital’s Jon Lindstrom Urges ‘Healing Thoughts’ for John J. York
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November 7 was, as John J. York put it, “game time.” The General Hospital vet, who disclosed in September that he needed a blood-stem-cell transplant to treat myelodysplastic syndrome and multiple smoldering myeloma, shared that same month that a match had been found. Today, it would seem, is the day of the transplant.
“I hope you’ll all take just a minute today to send some healing thoughts to my friend John J. York,” tweeted castmate Jon Lindstrom (Kevin). “It’s a big week, and we would all appreciate your help.”
In response, York sent his thanks to his co-star “and to everyone for your positive thoughts and prayers.”
York has been playing Mac on General Hospital since 1991. At the time he announced that he’d have to be taking at least a short leave from the show, he was right on the verge of a major storyline, one in which his character learned that he and late love Dominique had had a son, Cody.
Certainly, our fingers are crossed and double-crossed for the fan favorite. And the General Hospital cast and crew could sure use some good news in this devastating year that has taken from them producer N’Neka Garland, Jacklyn Zeman (Bobbie), Billy Miller (ex-Drew) and Tyler Christopher (ex-Nikolas).
On your way to the comments to wish York well, stop off at the photo gallery below. It’s a walk down Memory Lane and some of the most memorable moments in General Hospital history.
General Hospital Through the Years: Your Rx for Excitement [PHOTOS]
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Checking In?
Just have a seat and fill out these forms, the doctors will be right with you. Also the mobsters, strumpets, cult leaders, martyrs and madmen.
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Flesh Wound
General Hospital’s first patient was Angie Costello (Jana Taylor), a young woman who wound up worse for wear after a joyless ride with boyfriend Eddie Weeks (Craig Curtis).
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The Doctor Is In… Demand
Angie was treated by Dr. Steve Hardy (John Beradino) — that is, when he wasn’t being distracted by the likes of Nurse Jessie Brewster (Emily McLaughin), fiancée Peggy Mercer (K.T. Stevens), Priscilla Longsworth (Allison Hayes of Attack of the 50 Foot Woman fame) and… Angie?!? What the heck are you doing in there?
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Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Game
We can only assume that this is a photo of Steve and buddy Lee Baldwin (Peter Hansen) looking at that last picture and going, “Dude! You had it goin’ on!”
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‘Take Two Aspirin and Don’t Call Me Ever’
Of course, Steve was destined to fall in love with flight attendant-turned-nurse Audrey March (Rachel Ames), who first had to brush off infatuated patient Randy Washburn (Mark Miller).
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Sister Act
Giving Audrey advice every step of the way — on everything from gentlemen callers to how to open an envelope — was her no-nonsense sister, fellow nurse Lucille (Lucille Wall, who joined the cast in episode No. 14).
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‘Lord, Give Me Patients’
Throughout the 1960s and beyond, Steve’s right-hand woman was Jessie, who had her hands full with philandering husband Phil Brewer (Roy Thinnes). In hindsight, his wandering eye would’ve been easier to spot if they hadn’t all been looking in the same dang direction.
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Doctor, Heel, Thyself
Jessie knew better than to buy into Phil’s BS. But then he’d look at her like this, and the words “Take a hike, bub!” would get stuck in her throat.
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‘You’re Hired’
After what doesn’t look at all like it was the world’s awkwardest job interview — hello, HR! — Steve added to the hospital’s staff Dr. Lesley Williams (Denise Alexander), who’d end up providing as much drama as she did medical care.
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Don’t Mind If ‘I Do’
Did we mention that Steve and Audrey got married? Because they did — three times, as a matter of fact. Apparently, the on-again/off-again Hardys were advised that the third time really was the charm.
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The Perfect Couple
Once the Hardys got it right, buildings were tested against their solidity. If Steve and Audrey couldn’t withstand it, then neither, inspectors wagered, could skyscrapers.
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For Keeps
The Hardys epitomized #relationshipgoals right up until his death in 1996. Though Audrey still had a lotta life left in her, she never remarried.
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A Show of ‘Force’
In the early 1970s, future Luke Skywalker Mark Hamill was a General Hospital regular as Kent Murray, who moved in with aunt Jessie along with sister Carol (Anne Wyndham).
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Hail, Hail, the Gang’s All Here
Occupying the front burner in 1978 were Craig Huebing as shrink Peter Taylor, Alexander as Lesley, Michael Gregory as her love interest Dr. Rick Webber, newcomer Genie Francis as her long-lost daughter Laura and, naturally, Beradino as Steve.
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Young Love
General Hospital was in danger of cancellation when it struck pay dirt in 1978 with the pairing of Francis’ Laura and Kin Shriner’s Scotty Baldwin. After that, the show was only at risk of being… well, too popular!
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Spoiler Alert
Is a supercouple really super if it doesn’t have a spoiler? Probably not, right? So Laura and Scotty’s title was secured — and then ripped away — by a jealous Bobbie Spencer (Jacklyn Zeman), who sought to break them up with the help of big brother Luke (Anthony Geary, pre-perm).
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The Honeymooners
That umbrella might’ve shielded newlyweds Laura and Scotty from the sun, but nothing could protect them from the runaway train that was the bride’s forbidden attraction to Mob flunky Luke.
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An Inauspicious Beginning
Luke’s rape of Laura should have put the kibosh on any chance that they might have had as a couple. Somehow, it did not. All it did was ruin Herb Alpert’s “Rise” for the rest of us.
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Heart Over Mind
Laura thought long and hard about her feelings for Luke. And then she cast aside all of those sensible thoughts to go with her gut.
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Over and Over
No matter the obstacles that life put between her and Luke, Laura surmounted them. Yep, even an understandably vengeful Scotty.
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When Push Comes to Shove
Mind you, Luke didn’t make it easy for Laura to choose him. He was as determined to have her as she was at first unsure that it was a good idea to be, well, had.
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Making a Scene
Executive producer Gloria Monty took a hands-on approach with Francis as she studied her lines.
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‘Who, Me?’
Yup. Francis made Laura the hottest thing since sliced bread. And who doesn’t love sliced bread?
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Nice Duds
While all of that was going on, Rick (by then Chris Robinson) showed an interest in auditioning for Deliverance. Cue the banjos!
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Jungle Fever
When not sucking face, Laura and Luke sought to thwart the villainous Cassadines’ attempt to turn the world into a popsicle with a formula for carbonic snow hidden in the base of a supremely ugly statuette called the Ice Princess.
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‘Danger Is Our Business’
The daring endeavor called for the couple to hurl themselves into one scenario after another that had to have been lifted from a James Bond movie.
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Ice, Ice, Baby
In the end, Laura and Luke were so successful in their endeavor to stop climate change before anyone even knew that climate change was a thing that Port Charles insisted they have the biggest, best wedding ever.
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Hot Shot
During this period, the sweethearts were so beloved that their portrayers took part in photo shoots that we’d never even seen before putting together this gallery — and we’d have sworn that we’d eyeballed every picture of them that had ever been taken!
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RSVP Much?
An unexpected — and unwanted — guest at Luke and Laura’s wedding was Helena Cassadine (Elizabeth Taylor), who blamed the bride and groom for the demise of her husband, Mikkos.
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Diamonds Are Forever
At least Luke’s pal, Robert (Tristan Rogers), appeared to be able to hold Helena’s interest as much as the notion of retribution.
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‘I’ll Drink to That’
Then again, the she-devil might have just been plotting to poison him. She’s always been like that, you know.
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Dressed to Overkill
How was Laura — or any bride — supposed to compete with a diva in an outfit like this? The curse that Helena placed on the Spencers was almost superfluous!
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Much ‘I Do’ About Something
Aaanyway… Laura and Luke’s nuptials wound up being a simple affair… attended by some 30 million viewers, making it the most-watched episode of a soap opera in TV history.
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‘Till Death Do Us Part’
The newlyweds saw a bright future ahead of them. They just didn’t realize how short it would be, at least at first.
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In Your Face, Victor and Nikki
To this day, the Spencers’ lavish wedding remains the standard against which all other soap ceremonies are measured.
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When Yin Met Yang
In other plots — and yes, there were some — once Monica Webber (Leslie Charleson) had for the most part stopped ping-ponging between Rick and his brother, Jeff, she focused her attentions on… well, as you can see, General Hospital’s newest doctor, filthy-rich Alan Quartermaine (Stuart Damon).
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Generation Vexed
Alan’s parents, Edward (David Lewis) and Lila (Anna Lee), knew better than to involve themselves in his squabbles with Monica. This, of course, did nothing to stop them from involving themselves in the Bickersons’ quarrels.
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Business as Usual
Here, Edward sits idly by waiting to see if Monica is going to remind his son of the time he almost dropped a roof on her and loverboy Rick. (Hey, we only said that she was done ping-ponging between the Webber boys, not that she was done ping-ponging.)
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Red Alert
Mind you, Alan was not without his own peccadilloes. In addition to his fling with Susan Moore, he up and married gold digger Lucy Coe (Lynn Herring), a move that could’ve put his family in the same color as her plus-sized hat and gown.
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Nothing Up Their… Hey, Where *Are* Their Sleeves?!?
At least Alan’s affair with Susan brought into the fold golden boy Jason (Steve Burton), the saintly antithesis of his ne’er-do-well older half sibling, A.J. (Sean Kanan).
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Young and Restless
Jason and A.J.’s early-1990s peers included scheming Brenda Barrett (Vanessa Marcil), muscle-bound Jagger Cates (Antonio Sabato Jr.), secret stripper Karen Wexler (Cari Shayne) and Robin Scorpio (Kimberly McCullough), the daughter of superspies Robert and Anna. More on them in a bit…
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‘This? Again?’
Neither Monica nor brother-in-law Paul Hornsby (Paul Satterfield) were really interested in hearing how justified Alan had been in contemplating dropping a roof on her and Rick. Let it go, buddy. Let. It. Go.
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No Shirt, No… Um… Sorry, We Got Distracted
A car wreck with a drunk A.J. transformed Jason from a promising future doctor into a Mob flunky who, if he was going to wear any shirt at all, was going to wear a tight black T. No exceptions.
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Not So Fast…
But we’re getting way ahead of ourselves. Let’s rewind to the 1980s once more, shall we?
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Putting the ‘Special’ in ‘Special Guest Star’
In its Golden Age, General Hospital attracted a Who’s Who of famous folks, among them Sammy Davis Jr., who passed through Port Charles as Eddie Phillips for a fraught family reunion with estranged son Bryan (Todd Davis) and daughter-in-law Claudia (Bianca Ferguson).
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‘That’s *Uncle* Miltie to You’
Legendary funnyman Milton Berle briefly played Mickey Miller, the talent agent responsible for the career of B-movie starlet Tiffany Hill (Sharon Wyatt).
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Now You See Her, Now You Don’t
Mickey was also the mover and shaker that turned Luke’s bride into a supermodel who vanished in the fog on Port Charles’ docks. That is, Mickey made Laura Miss Star Eyes; as far as we know, he had nothing to do with the weather that fateful night.
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You Don’t Know Jackie
After Laura’s disappearance, Luke teamed up with reporter Jackie Templeton (then Demi Moore) in hopes of finding not only his wife but her sister.
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Close But No Cigar
Jackie’s younger sibling, Laura (Janine Turner), did turn up. But Luke’s Laura? No such luck.
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Hit and Ms.
Viewers didn’t buy Laura 2.0 as a new love interest for Luke. And they soon discovered that they preferred Jackie with Luke’s BFF Robert than with Luke.
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Too Close for Comfort
In the 1980s, it was tough for Robert to go anywhere without running into someone with whom he’d been involved. Tiffany? Check. Jackie? Check. Yeah, his little black book really wasn’t little at all.
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Who’s Behind Those Foster Grants?
“Widower” Luke’s romance with impish con artist Holly Sutton (Emma Samms) was just heating up when he was “fatally” snowed in by an avalanche. (On General Hospital, matters of life and death have pretty much always belonged in air quotes.)
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The Next Best Man
To save Holly from deportation in 1983, Robert (Tristan Rogers) stepped up and made his “late” buddy’s pregnant girlfriend his wife. As you can see, she wasn’t the least bit nervous.
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A Marriage of Convenience
Really, it was convenient for the Scorpios to be hitched once they realized that they’d fallen for one another. Naturally, that was when Luke thawed out enough to return to Port Charles alive and well… ticked.
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My Best Friend’s Girl
Losing Holly to Robert turned out to be a blessing in disguise for Luke, who’d have had a lot of explaining to do once Laura emerged from the fog with a wild story about having been held prisoner for years by Stavros Cassadine.
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Doc-Blocked
Monica’s ex, Jeff (future MacGyver star Richard Dean Anderson), tried in vain to get virginal Nurse Anne Logan (Susan Pratt) to play doctor with him.
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Dr. Feel-Good
Noah Drake (Rick Springfield) also attempted to get Anne to sample his bedside manner. And Noah scored with, like, everybody! But Audrey’s niece managed to leave Port Charles with her virginity intact.
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Rock-’n’-‘Role’
We don’t have to tell you that while Springfield was making the rounds as Noah, his music career was taking off, do we? Yeah, he wouldn’t be a “working-class dog” for long.
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All in the Family
Edward’s illegitimate son, Jimmy Lee Holt (Steve Bond), and Celia Quartermaine (Sherilyn Wolter) became kissing cousins… once removed, at least.
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Three for the Road
Among Jimmy Lee’s Port Charles pals were Lou Swenson (Danielle Von Zerneck) and her boyfriend, Blackie Parrish (the John Stamos), a baby-faced hooligan-turned-baby-faced pop star taken in by Rick and Lesley.
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Kid Stuff
Even stylish Tiffany had to admit that Blackie cleaned up pretty nicely. If he was a street kid, that street must’ve been Fifth Avenue.
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Solid Gold
By 1983, Blackie and his band, the Riff Raff, were on the fast track to fame and fortune, thanks to manager Steffi Brand (Elissa Leeds). But the drummer cracked under the pressure to produce a hit.
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Yours, Mine and Ours
Blackie wound up stealing a song from bellhop Josh Clayton (Jimmy “Brother of Kristy” McNichol), a crime that indirectly led to Lou’s death and a new gig… headlining at the state penitentiary!
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‘Wait… So, Like, I Die?’
Sorry, Lou. We did not want you to have to find out this way.
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All’s Stare in Love and War
Once Frisco Jones (Jack Wagner) saw through the boy drag donned by Felicia Cummings (Wagner’s future wife, Kristina Malandro), he only had eyes for the lady of his heart.
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Adventure Time
If something exciting went down in Port Charles in the 1980s, Felicia and Frisco were guaranteed to turn up.
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‘With These Handcuffs, I Thee Wed’
By the time the couple tied the knot, Frisco had already given up on becoming the next Michael Damian to begin a career in law enforcement.
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Social Distancing
After a while, it was hardly even awkward anymore that Frisco’s doctor brother, Tony (Brad Maule), married his sibling’s ex-girlfriend, Tania Roskov (Hillary Edson). As long as Frisco didn’t hum “All I Need,” anyway.
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Friends and Lovers
After Tania’s untimely demise, Tony wound up slipping a ring on the finger of his confidante, Bobbie.
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Marry-Go-’Round
Tony was definitely the one of Bobbie’s four husbands with whom she made the best match. And their marriage outlasted all the rest, including her union with lawyer Jake Meyer (Sam Behrens).
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Double Trouble
Having lost his moral compass when he had Laura, Scotty hooked up with scheme queen Heather Webber (Robin Mattson), with whom we’d find out decades later he had a son: Franco.
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Birds of a Feather
Scotty found a kindred spirit in fellow conniver Lucy, who arrived on the scene in the least convincing disguise since Felicia passed herself off as a guy. Lucy Coe a mousy librarian? Don’t make us LOL.
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Meanwhile, Across Town…
Lucy and Scotty were so popular that they — along with Kevin Collins, the third leg of a long-running love triangle — were spun off into their own soap, Port Charles. They eventually took a back seat to angels and vampires and so on, but that’s another story for another day.
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Gossip Girl
If you wanted to know who was doing what to or with whom in Port Charles, Laura’s sister, Nurse Amy Vining (Shell Kepler), was your go-to. She couldn’t have kept herself from spilling the tea if it had come in a sippy cup.
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That’s It, Amy…
… pretend you’re not paying any attention whatsoever to what Jessie and Bobbie are saying. There’s no high quite like eavesdropping in plain sight.
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Young Doctors in Love
Simone Ravelle (Laura Carrington — yes, the blind sculptress in Lionel Richie’s “Hello” music video) was torn between Harrison Davis (Kevin Best) and… wait for it…
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… Her Husband
By the time Stephanie Williams started playing Simone, she was married to Steve’s son, fellow doctor Tom Hardy (David Wallace).
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If at First You Don’t Succeed…
Later, Tom (by then Matthew Ashford, better known as Jack on Days of Our Lives) had a short-lived relationship with Felicia and a thing for colorful African jewelry.
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Live Fast, Die Young
That might as well have been the motto of Monica’s illegitimate daughter, Dawn Winthrop (Jennifer Guthrie). After being torn for a couple of years between Mom’s onetime boy toy — nephew Ned Ashton — and Decker Moss (Michael Watson), she met her maker decades before their scheduled appointment.
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Just Duet Already
More than the ivories got tinkled when Robert made it his mission to protect from harm pianist Katherine Delafield (Edie Lehmann).
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Whodunit
It turned out that it was Katherine’s cousin/fiancé from whom she needed protecting; he’d arranged for “accidents” to befall her entire family, and she was next on his hit list.
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The Spy Who Loved Me
The reunion of once-married secret agents Anna Devane (Finola Hughes) and Robert shed light on a lot of unfinished business between them — and revealed that she’d given birth to his daughter, Robin. Surprises all around, then!
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Carrying a Torch
Following Holly’s “death,” Robert and Anna gravitated toward one another anew. And, according to this picture, they did so by candlelight.
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Moving On
Robert and Anna not only dealt with that pesky business about her once having been a double agent, they burned this hat. Or so we can hope!
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Brothers at Odds
In the early 1990s, Robert was also reunited with estranged sibling Mac Scorpio (John J. York). As you know, they ultimately made peace. But at first, things were so tense between them that Robert accused Mac of trying to have him rubbed out!
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Once More, With Feeling
Though Robert and Anna remarried, her heart was earmarked for another man, one she’d yet to meet…
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It’s Kill or Be Kilt
So many sparks flew between Anna and Scottish mobster Duke Lavery (Ian Buchanan) that they were regarded around town as a fire hazard.
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Two to Tango
Duke didn’t so much sweep Anna off her feet as he pointed her toes in the direction of the dance floor.
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Suitable for Framing
So handsome a fellow was Duke, who cheated both death and, at one point, on Anna, we barely noticed the elaborate painting behind him. That’s handsome.
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I Love View
Brainwashing victim Dusty Walker (grownup teen idol Shaun Cassidy) was no better at forging a lasting relationship with Terry Brock (Robyn Bernard) than he was at sightseeing. Again, Mount Rushmore is behind you, kids. Behind you.
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Better ‘Late’ Than Never
Though Edward was “killed” in a 1989 plane crash and Lila spoke with his ghost, by 1991, the Quartermaines’ patriarch (now played by David Lewis) was available again to appear in family portraits. “That’s just the way it goes in Port Charles,” said Monica’s unfazed expression.
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House Party
Whenever her in-laws became too much, Monica reminded them who owned the roof over their heads and threatened to put out the unwelcome mat.
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The Face Is Familiar, But…
In 1991, Geary returned to General Hospital — but not as Luke, as his lookalike cousin, Bill Eckert.
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Bride and Prejudice
For some reason, it was a big deal that Bill’s sister, Jenny (Cheryl Richardson), wasn’t a virgin when she married man-ho Ned. Double standard, anyone?
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At Last
Jenny eventually blackmailed Tracy Quartermaine into freeing husband Paul (Paul Satterfield) to be with her. This was, of course, decades before Dillon’s dad became a serial killer. That probably would’ve been a deal-breaker for Cheryl.
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Seems Like Old Times
Like his cousin, Bill found it hard — make that impossible — to resist Holly’s charms.
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Black-Tying One On
Bill also romanced Brenda’s older sister, Julia (Crystal Carson). Obviously, neither of these relationships was quite as successful as, say, Luke and Laura’s.
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‘We’re Baaack’
In 1993, General Hospital killed off Bill and returned Geary to his original role and his original leading lady.
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Don’t Leave Us Hanging
The actors’ comebacks were a resounding success. Geary added seven (!) more Daytime Emmys to his trophy case, and in 2007, Francis finally won her long-overdue first.
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Today’s Special
While away from Port Charles, the Spencers had been running a diner with son Lucky (Jonathan Jackson). What? Everybody needs a break from high-stakes adventures once in a while.
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Bedtime Stories
If the Spencers thought that their return to Port Charles was going to be smooth sailing, they were in for a rude awakening. But first… about that nap…
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Lucky Strikes
An insta-hit with the soap’s viewers, Jackson went on to score five Emmys and, recasts notwithstanding, basically own the role of Luke and Laura’s firstborn.
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Smells Like Teen Spirit
It was while helping Elizabeth Webber (Rebecca Herbst) recover from a sexual assault that Lucky realized that he was in love with Audrey’s granddaughter.
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Parental Guidance Rejected
Lucky was understandably horrified to learn that back in the day, Dad had forced himself on Mom — and still, they’d forged a life together.
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Take Two
During Jackson’s breaks from General Hospital, Lucky was recast with two other Emmy winners — Jacob Young (best known as Rick Forrester on The Bold and the Beautiful) and Greg Vaughan (later Eric Brady on Days of Our Lives). If we have to tell you which of them is pictured here, um, this is your first time visiting Soaps.com, yes?
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Just Your Average, Ordinary Family
Ha. As if. But if there was one normal thing that could be pulled off by the Spencers — with Julie Marie Berman as Lulu and Vaughan here as Lucky — it was taking a gorgeous portrait.
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It’s a Girl!
Monica and Alan couldn’t have guessed when they adopted her ill-fated fellow cancer patient’s daughter, Emily Bowen (Amber Tamblyn), just how well the youngster would fit in with her new relatives: The kid was a born trouble magnet!
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And Justus for All
Another branch was added to the Quartermaines’ family tree by Edward’s grandson, Justus Ward (played first by Cosby Show alum Joseph C. Phillips).
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Smooth Operator
That twinkle in the eye of Robert’s old WSB boss, Sean Donely (John Reilly), suggested that wherever he went, mischief was sure to follow. Side note: Mischief did, in fact, always follow.
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For the Love of Elsie Mae Crumholz
Sean met his match in Tiffany, who became kinda the Lesley Stahl of Port Charles.
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If Looks Could Kill…
… Sean would’ve been in big trouble. But smoke coming out of Tiffany’s ears was tantamount to foreplay for the Donelys.
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