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    Bobbie tried for a very long time to adopt a child through legal means. 
    Because of her background and her little trip to Florida to rescue
    Mellisa the adoption agencies turned her down.  After Jake and her were
    divorced, she decided to adopt again.  I can't remember who she was
    discussing this with in some bar, but she was overheard by Clayton the
    crooked lawyer.  He called Dr. Perry who had worked with him in finding
    babies for adoption for a big fee.  Cheryl, who was on her way to
    Florida, when she went into early labor in Delaware and happened to be
    rushed to Dr. Perry's clinic.  It looked like she was going to die
    because of her kidney problem so Perry told Clayton he could get a
    baby.  Clayton contacted Bobbie and gave her a story about being into
    private adoption becasue he and his wife had a similar problem adopting
    through agencies and wanted to help others.  He told her he thought he
    could find a baby for her but it would cost $25,000.  She didn't have
    the money and told Tony her predicament.  Tony told her he would give
    her the money if Clayton checked out.  Robert had a cursory check done
    on Clayton and everything came back as okay.  Clayton had been very
    careful up to that point to appear legitimate.  When Perry realized
    Cheryl would pull through he tried to discontinue the deal but Clayton
    threatened him with past "not so legal" activities.  Perry solved the
    situation by telling Cheryl her baby died.  Bobbie paid Clayton for the
    baby and adopted hem.  She really didn't do anything illegal, there are
    a lot of private adoptions taking place throughout the country.  She
    did not know the baby was Cheryl's.  She got that idea after Cheryl
    came back to PC and was told by Tiffany that Cheryl had a baby in
    Delaware that died.  Cheryl had innocently asked Bobbie what she would
    do if Lucas' real mother showed up and that set Bobbie to worrying as
    she had no idea what she would or could do.  When Tiff told her the
    story, Bobbie started thinking the baby might be Cheryl's and that
    Cheryl knew and that is why she came back.  Bobbie's illegal doings
    started when Broxton came to town and she found out he knew about
    Lucas.  IMHO she is guilty of conspiracy, accessory after the
    fact (in the Willow Shores case), she also destroyed evidence (all
    Cheryl's records) but I don't know if what the charge for that would
    be.  Of course we then have the moral issues of knowingly keeping a
    child from its mother, numerous lies, roping her brother-in-law into
    helping her, thereby making him an accessory after the fact, etc.
    
    When you come right down to it, it real life she would be in deep sh*t,
    but this is a soap and she will probably get away with it all, just
    have Robert mad at her for awhile.

    When Robert and Anna were in the WSB together, they were assigned to a
    case by Sean.  They arrived at this French Chateau hotel as newlyweds
    and spent sometime together, on the case (I forget the plot).  During
    the time they spent there, they fell in love, when they escaped they
    ended up in Italy and were found on the shore of the mediterranian by
    Filomena (sp?).  She brought them into town, got them clothing (they
    were in their underwear) and treated them very well.  The bishop was
    coming to town and everyone was really excited, seems he came once a
    year and all the people in town who wished to be married would wait
    until the day he came to perform the marriage ceremony.  Filomena,
    realized Robert and Anna were in love, even though they didn't and
    arranged for them to be included in the marriage ceremony.  Once they
    realized what she had done, they went along with it.  After their
    marriage, they decided to leave the WSB and start a new live as normal
    people.  As we know now, Sean didn't want them married or leaving the
    WSB.  We found out at the time of the flashbacks to their coutship and
    marriage that Anna was a double agent, also working for the DVX.  She
    tried to quit the DVX but was told if she didn't do one more job, they
    would kill Robert.  She agreed to do the job to protect Robert.  In the
    meantime, Robert was told that they had a double-agent in the WSB and
    he was assigned to find out who it was.  He went on a stack out and
    discovered the double agent was Anna.  While Anna and another agent
    were sneaking about, there was an explosion and the other agent was
    "killed" (we found out during the Faison story that he really wasn't
    but was living in Washing DC under a new identity.  Anyway, Anna was
    injured in the explosion and while she was in the hospital, Robert came
    in telling her he knew all about her double dealing and was discussed,
    he told her he would protect her as if anyone else found out she would
    be sentenced to death for teason.  The double agent's identity was
    given out as the fellow who "died" in the explosion and Robert had the
    marriage annuled or was divorced (I can't remember).  Six years later,
    Robert and Holly when to NYC where Robert was being honored as
    Policeman of the YEar (or some such thing).  Our first glimce of Anna
    was in a suite being waited on by a french maid.  She was reading the
    newpaper and came across the article and a picture  about Robert.  The
    evening of the function, she slipped into the hall and watched as he
    accepted the award.  At the time she was beautiful, long flowing hair,
    gorgeous clothes, etc.  but she had a large scar on her right cheek. 
    She called it her badge from the explosion.  It turned out to be a
    rubber one she wore to punish herself for all the bad things she had
    done in the past.  She was still no on the right side of the law, she
    was a "fence" for stolen goods, and was quite well off because of it.
    One day Robert came home and there was a very little girl sitting on
    his doorstep.  He tried questioning her as to who she was and where she
    came from.  She told him of her grandmother and of Love, her friend. 
    The little girl turned out to be Robin and Love was Anna.  Because of
    Anna's life style she didn't let anyone know she had a daughter,
    including Robin.  She wanted to protect her.  As it turned out one of
    the things Anna was going to fence was the set of black pearls that
    meant control of the asian community.  Robin had found them one day
    while playing at Love's house and stuck them into the eye sockets of
    her blue eyed doll so that the doll who had long dark hair would look
    more like Love.  She had been at Summer Camp in the country and had
    been picked up by Mr. Woo's henchmen and brought to Robert's as a way
    of letting Anna know that they knew her real relationship to Robin.  It
    was after Anna found out where Robin was and also into the Asian Story
    plot that Anna finally told Robert that Robin was his daughter as well
    as hers.  They finally told Robin the truth about her parentage and she
    was one happy little girl--she had always pretended that Love was her
    mother, so this was a dream come true.  The story that Anna told Robert
    was that shortly after they broke up, she discovered she was pregnant,
    so she went back to Italy to Filomena's loving arms and stayed with her
    through the pregnancy, once the baby was born they passed Filomena off
    as her housekeeper and Robin of as the old lady's grandaughter. 
    Filomena was killed by Grant Putnam when he tried to kidnap Robin and
    ended up kidnapping Anna.

    Is there anyone out there who could give us the history of the
    Quartermaine clan and their arrival in Port Charles?  
    
    I started watching about the time Robert Scorpio came to town, so
    haven't a clue as to the early years of GH.
    
    I know that Monica was once married to Jeff Webber and had an affair
    with Rick Webber while married to Alan.  I also know Alan had an affair
    with Susan Moore (?) who was murdered after giving birth to Jason,
    Alan's son ands that after awhile Monica agreed to raise him.
    
    I have gathered from what is said on the show and flashbacks that Tracy
    was a real stinker when younger--still is for that matter, and was just
    about disowned by her Father when she withheld his heart medicine.  She
    has also been married twice, were either of her marriages part of the
    show's plot?
    
    Have they ever delved into the courtship and marriage of Edward and
    Lila?  I know Jimmie Lee was his son by another woman, was this during
    his marriage to Lila or before?  I also gather Lila was married before
    and that she wasn't divorced when she and Edward married, hence the
    blackmail by Jimmie Lee.
    
    As you can tell I very interested in the Quartermaines, I think they
    are about the most interesting family on any show, day or evening.
    
    Any history would be appreciated.  Thanks

    
    Thel,
    
    I don't know too much about the Quartermaine Family History, but I 
    thought I'd add a little from what I remember about Monica and Alan
    when Alan Jr. was born. Monica was having an affair with Rick Webber,
    and Rick always wanted to have a child, but his wife couldn't have any
    or something. So, when she had Alan Jr. she told Rick he was his, not
    Alans. The first Quartermaine baby was suppose to inherrit a lot of
    money from the family (something like that) and I think it was Tracy
    taht was trying to expose the fact that Alan Jr. wasn't a Quartermaine.
    But if that is the case, it doesn't make since because of Ned's age, he
    would have already been born. But he is an Ashton so that might be why.
    Well Alan Jr. had the Quartermaine birth mark and Monica didn't tell
    Rick, she let him believe he was his baby so he would leave his wife
    for her. That is what broke them up. Monica was not too nice back then. 
    That was the time when Alan was planning on killing both Monica and
    Rick. 
    
    Later on Monica decided that a good way to get Alan away from her was
    to set  him up with another women so he would fall in love and leave
    her. She is the one that got him and Susan Moore together. Her plan
    worked and  Alan really seemed to love her, but then Monica changed her
    mind and got Alan back. Susan Moore was pregnant at the time, and she
    was very heart broken. She then became an alcoholic because of it and
    died in a car accident due to driving drunk. Alan and Monica really
    drove her into this condition, so when she dies Monica and Alan took
    her son in. So, when Monica mentioned that she did something great by
    taking Alan son into her home and accepting him as her son, she really
    wasn't an innocent victim to the whole mess. I hope that helps a little
    bit.
    
     

    Wasn't Susan and Heather cousins?
    
    Remember when Dianna was murdered and Heather escaped from the
    sanitarium?
    
    Boy, what memories,
    
    /red
    

    Thanks for the Details around Alan and Monica's sons.  I didn't think
    Susan died in a car crash, I thought she was killed by Heather's Mother
    (her Aunt).  I vaguely remember some woman being killed in the house
    that Bobbie and Brock bought when they got married, I thought it was
    Susan.  There was something about a man passing himself off as a
    relative of the Quartermaines (?) who everyone thought had murdered
    her.  He was an older man who wanted to work with her to get lots of
    money from them.
    
    I do remember a mention of the first Grandson getting a big trust fund
    and Tracy trying to proof Ned was entitled to it not Alan and Monica's
    son.  I thought it very weird when they brought Ned back into the show
    as older than Alan, Jr. because of that older plot.
    
    As I said before, my Sons got me hooked on GH but I only saw it if I
    got home early (since we have had flex-time) and they happened to be
    watching, I never thought to turn it on myself at that time.  I
    remember a few scenes Susan was in.  One was at the Bar of a night
    club, I think she owned it.  Another was with Alan, and then there were
    a couple with Heather's mom and the older man.
    
    I also remember watching one day when a woman was dead in her kitchen
    (diane?) and a name was wrtten in blood on the floor.  As I remember
    it, Heather was in a sanatorium (sp?) at the time, but had escaped and
    framed some nurse (the one who plays Barbara on AMC) for the murder.  I
    can't remember if Heather was the actual killer of not.  I wonder what
    ever happened to Heather, didn't she and Scottie leave town together?

    
    Yes, I think it was Heather's mother that killed Dianna. But it was an
    accident I think. Heather was planning on killing her anyway, so if her
    mother didn't do it, Heather probably would have. Heather was great on
    the show. Too bad Gloria Monty didn't get Heather to come back. She was
    really bad. She would be quite a match for Lucy.

	ARCHER::WELCH ==> Yes, I think Heather & Scottie did leave town
	together.  Then Scott came back alone.  It would be great to 
	bring Heather back.  Imagine the possibilities of both Heather 
	and Lucy wanting the same man.  It would be funny!

    	Bobbie and Brock didn't buy a house they lived in the penthouse
    that Sean and Tiff live in now. If I was Bobbie I don't think I could
    walk in that place without thinking of Brock dead on the floor. 
    	Didn't Heather want to kill Anne Logan?? Or maybe it was Diane did
    Diane have Heathers baby by Jeff? And she would've wanted to get Anne
    because Anne was supposed to marry Jeff, shen Heater still wanted him
    for herself. This was the time I just started watching the show so the 
    memories are a bit choppy. I didn't get to see Richard Dean Anderson 
    (Jeff) he was gone when I started watching the show.
    
    BArbara 

>>>    Thanks for the Details around Alan and Monica's sons.  I didn't think
>>>    Susan died in a car crash, I thought she was killed by Heather's Mother
>>>    (her Aunt).  I vaguely remember some woman being killed in the house
>>>    that Bobbie and Brock bought when they got married, I thought it was
>>>    Susan.  There was something about a man passing himself off as a
>>>    relative of the Quartermaines (?) who everyone thought had murdered
>>>    her.  He was an older man who wanted to work with her to get lots of
>>>    money from them.
   
    I'm a little (okay alot) fuzzy on this.  But I don't think Susan died
    in a car accident.  I know Leslie Webber did, and it was one of the
    saddest days on GH.  But as far as Susan goes, for some strange reason
    I picture her in (can you believe this) the bathroom.
    
    I think the older man and Susan were blackmailing the Quatermaines
    after Alan dumped Susan.  Didn't Susan become a lush too?  Who is the
    offical GH historian????? 
   
    
    
>>>    I also remember watching one day when a woman was dead in her kitchen
>>>    (diane?) and a name was wrtten in blood on the floor.  As I remember
>>>    it, Heather was in a sanatorium (sp?) at the time, but had escaped and
>>>    framed some nurse (the one who plays Barbara on AMC) for the murder.  I
>>>    can't remember if Heather was the actual killer of not.  I wonder what
>>>    ever happened to Heather, didn't she and Scottie leave town together?
    
    It was Dianna Taylor dead on the kitchen floor.  Heather had broken out
    of the sanitarium with the intentions of getting her some PJ back from
    Dianna and getting Jeff (McGyver) away from Annie Logan (Barbara, AMC)
    and living happily ever after.  When she got to Dianna's she found
    Dianna dead on the kitchen floor and saw what she thought the perfect
    opportunity to get rid of Ann.  She took dead Dianna's finger and wrote
    the name Ann in Dianna blood.  Heather's fatal mistake was using
    Dianna's right hand to write with.  Dianna was left handed.
    
    /red 

-->    her some PJ back from
-->    Dianna and getting Jeff (McGyver) away from Annie Logan (Barbara, AMC)
-->    and living happily ever after.      
   
    That should read  "her SON PJ....."
    
     /red 

	I'm a little fuzzy on Susan Moore's death as well, but I'll
	give it a shot.  Maybe it will stir up somebody's memory.

	I think that after Alan dumped her she got together with some 
	guy (Oliver Tuttle or something like that).  This guy was Lila's 
	first husband.  It's seems that Lila's father wanted Lila and 
	Edward married badly so he fudged some of the divorce and it 
	wasn't really legal.  Lila didn't know.  Oliver (I'll use this name 
	unless somebody can confirm if it is correct or not) had proof that 
	Lila & Edwards marriage wasn't legit making all of thier children 
	(there were 3 :Alan & Tracy & Alexandra, I think, she was killed 
	off in the Ice Princess storyline) illegitimate.  Oliver wanted to 
	blackmail the Quartermaines for money, but Susan wanted to ruin them.
	Susan had demanded Alan and Monica meet up with her at her Cottage,
	at the same time she made arrangements for a reporter Jackie 
	Templeton (played by Demi Moore), and her sleazy editor come by to 
	give them the scoop.  Oliver found out that she was going to expose
	the Quartermaines instead of getting thier money and actually 
	killed her in the bathroom.  Heather had snuck into Susan's, and 
	heard the shot & hid, but didn't see the killer.

	There were a number of people who were suspect.  
	The Quartermaines: for possible blackmailing.
	Scott: He was married to Susan at the time and forge her signature
	        to get at Jason's trust fund money.  Susan found out and
		I think was going to press charges
	Heather: Because she wanted Scott and because she also wanted
		to get at Jason's trust fund.


	Does this spark anyone's memory or am I just confusing storylines?


								-Lisa

    Thanks Lisa....Your great memory has brought it all back to me.  As I
    remember the same papers that Susan had gotten from Oliver (?) ended up
    in Jimmie Lee's hands and that's how he got the goods on Edward and
    Lila.  The only thing I'm not sure about is Oliver killing Susan and
    how that was resolved....did he die of a heart attack?
    
    Also, Bobbie and Brock did live in the same house as Susan, Brock also
    had a penthouse which he moved into when they separated.  Ginny was
    being blackmailed by him (forget the reason) and she killed him, Bobbie
    showed up and Ginny got the idea to frame her as they had had some
    pretty public arguments. 
    
    The penthouse was in the same building that Jimmie Lee later owned, I
    think.  The one that collapsed due to faulty construction.  Jimmie Lee
    lost his shirt on that (all the money Edward had paid him off with).
    If I remember correctly Bobbie also was sued and lost the house, she
    was Brock's heir.

    
    I am still about 99% sure that Susan died in a car accident. She ran
    into a brick wall. She was driving drunk at the time. I had forgot
    about Scott marrying her and forging her name. I don't remember much
    about that. The only thing I can remember is that she was very bitter
    towards the Quartermains (for good reason too). 
    
    Lesley Webber also died in a car crash, but that one wasn't her fault I
    think it was a snow storm. It was sad that she died, but she was always
    kind of boring on the show anyway. I don't miss the Webbers much.

    Well, I don't remember Susan dying in a car crash, I think that Lila's
    first husband was the one who killed her.
    
    When Tracy came on the show, she was single, and chasing this guy Mitch
    who she later ended up marrying.  He was running for some office (can't
    remember what office) and they ended up getting married.  However, I
    cannot remember them ever mentioning she had a child.  When was she
    married to Ashton?? Was it after Mitch?  If so, they really messed up
    because Jason & Alan Jr. would be older than Ned.
    
    Thel, the Quartermaines have not always been a part of the show, I
    think they came in sometime in the early 70's.
    
    Robyn
    

    Also, I think Alexandra, who died in the ice princess story, was a
    Quartermaine cousin, not a sibling of Alan and Tracy.... 

    All this talk about History reminds me of the single that I have
    called General Hospitale.  The date on the single is 1981.(ugh,
    10 years ago, I am not that old, am I?)  I did not get all the 
    general rap.  I think I got most of the history stuff.
    
    Hope you enjoy... my husband got REAL sick of this song after the 
    10th time  :-)
    
    Amy
    
    ...
    rap about General Hospitale
    It started out in Port Charles town
    Frank Smith's mob used to hang around
    Noone could prove that he was a crook
    'Till Luke stole his little black book
    
    It had names and numbers all in code
    So Luke and Laura had to hit the road
    They had to find the left handed boy
    Watch there step they had to be coy
    
    The golden ball was worth so much
    Others wanted it like Sally and Hutch
    There is on thing I must confess
    Sally was a man who wore a dress
    
    Luke kept his cool he aint no fool
    He set them both up cold
    While Sally died Hutch survived and noone got the gold
    
    Paging Noah Drake to ICU to treat a case of heart break
    
    ...[ rap stuff]
    I just can't copy without my soap
    ...
    General Hospitale...
    ...
    You are my worst affliction
    You are my favorite addiction
    ...
    Monica likes to have a fun
    Thats why she had a son
    She told Rick that he was the dad
    He soon found out that he'd been had
    
    "There is one thing that you can give me that Leslie can't and that is 
     passion"
    
    Alan was the father of course
    and he wont give Monica a divorse
    Rick wants to get Leslie back
    Heather is having an insaine attack...
    
    "I'll get Diana Taylor"
    
    She aint crazy uh uh no never
    She just wants to get Dr. Jeff Webber
    Jeff wants Anne for his wife
    But he might have to wait all his life
    'cause good girls don't
    and Anne wont,
    and you all know what I mean
    
    ...
    
    Amy Vining likes to blab
    Richard simmons helps my flab
    Susan's having Alan's baby
    Noah want Bobby for his laby
    
    Well Luke got another job
    the Quartermains are the brand new mob
    Laura is the receptionist 
    What is missing now is the ice princess
    
    "Yes, Luke Spencer please"  (a casidine I think)
    
    Diamonds no....this time ?????????????
    Scorpio and the house of Cassidine
    
    on and on and on it goes
    how it ends nobody knows
    
    cause they keep me waiting
    I don't mind waiting
    Don't call me crazy
    No I'm not lazy
    
    My day wont go right
    I can't sleep all night
    If I can't find out
    It blows my mind out
    
    I just can't just cope
    without my soap
    
    
    ...General Hospitale....
    tell me whats going on... did you see it today?
    ...General Hospitale....
    Tell me whats going on.....
    ...

    I remember that song!!!!
    
    Alexandria was a Edward's niece.
    
    I'm still confused about Susan.  Doesn't anyone out there own any soap
    trivia cards?????   I'm going to Annie's Book Swap this week, I'll see
    if they still have any trivia books.
    
    /red

    Lyla's first husband's name was Crane Tolliver.  I can't remember if
    he killed Susan Moore or not.
    
    Carol

    Well I guess Iwas close on Lila's 1st hubby's name Oliver....Tolliver.
    Thanks all of you for the interesting information.  A special THANK to
    Green for the GH song lirics.

    I couldn't find the trivia book, but I will look again...
    
    I checked with my sister and she remembers Susan as being shot in her
    bathroom.

    Funny how things pop into your mind.......it seems to me I read
    somewhere that Luke first arrived in PC at the request of his sister
    Bobbie, who wanted him to get Laura away from Scott because she wanted
    Scott for herself.  Is this in fact true? I also understand that Bobbie
    was a real B*tch early on, that she was the Lucy of then.  Is this
    true? Maybe that is way the Boob has always disliked Juicy so much,
    reminds her too much of herself, like looking in a mirror.  Although,
    come to think of it, Monica once told Tony that Lucy was just like her
    when she first arrived in PC.....was MOnica a money hungrey, social
    climber too?

    Blackie's girlfriend that he accidentally killed was named "Lou".

    
    Thelma --> Bobbie was a real bitch in her early days!  She was so
    evil that she even switched Laura Webber's urine sample, which would
    have indicated that she was pregnant --> causing her untold misery 
    and heartache.....  Bobbie did this to get Scotty to marry her!!!!!!!
    
    Bobbie was so terrible to Laura that Leslie had to finally intervene
    to rescue Laura from the police, because when she had those blackout
    spells. Laura was in danger of admitting that she was the real 
    murderess!  Leslie, of course was covering for her --> when snoopy
    Bobbie found out about all of this, using confidential hospital 
    information, of course, she used this information to drive Scotty and
    Laura further apart.  I can't believe Scotty has ever forgiven this
    little hateful social climber!!!!!!!!
    
    Bobbie and the entire Spencer clan are nothing but a bunch of nosy,
    snooping, boring, tattle-tailing, wretched, nouveau social climbers!
    Send them all to the land-fill!  Better yet, fire their butts! (^%
    
    BTW, Steve Hardy almost did fire Bobbie --> but as usual, she cried 
    her way out of it and claimed ignorance, poverty and lousy social 
    position as the reasons for her nasty behaviour!  She always got her
    way when she cried --> if the truth be known, she always had a large
    bermuda onion stashed in her now, more than ample, bosom! (^%
    
    Amy could tell you lots of stories about what Bobbie did to her poor
    sister Laura as well as herself...  
    
    --dc

    
    On yesterday's show, Anna said Robin was 14 years old. When did she
    turn 14. I thought she just had a birthday and turned 13. They mad such
    a big deal about her being 13, and now she is 14? Did anyone else catch
    this. I thought it was strange. Maybe Anna made a mistake.
    
    Stephanie

I noticed the same thing Steph, and was wondering when she turned 14.  I though
her birthday was in Sept/Oct or something like that.  I remember Kate being
disappointed when Robert went out with Anna and Robin, and she didn't get to
go with them.

Oh well, maybe Gloria needs Robin another year older for storyline purposes.
I'm sure she'll age quickly in the next few years so that they can bring in
the Alan & Jason Quartermaine and Robin all at the same age for future stories.


								-Lisa

    
    
    Was'nt Robin's 13th birthday around Hollween?

    Yes, her birthday was shortly before Halloween as I remember.  Bob
    reminded me yesterday that your birthday is really the first day of
    your next year and that once that day is over, some people refer to you
    as being a year older than what you consider yourself.  (i.e in your
    20th year instead of 19).  I told him I thought that was reaching.

This is twice recently that they mentioned something about Luke's past and about
him running around with the Mob.  I must not have been watching at this point
or just not remembering the storyline.  If somebody does remember, can you 
post alittle synopsis of what happened?

Thanks!

								-Lisa

    Felicia first appeared on GH sneaking into Frisco's room late at night. 
    He had just purchased a ring at a charity affair and she disguised as a
    boy stole in to steal it from him.  He woke up and caught her, in their
    tussle her hat fell off and this gorgeous long hair came tumbling down. 
    This was the beginning of the Aztec treasure storyline that introduced
    Sean to the series also.  Felicia was also the cause of Tony's first
    injury on the show, she was hiding in an old railroad car and had a
    broken leg.  Tony had come to check on her and was shot be an assassin
    (aiming for Felicia).  He was at death's door for a few weeks.  The
    incident almost killed the budding attraction Frisco felt for Felicia.
    BTW: She was engaged at the time to a childhood freind, it turned out
    he was the person who shot Tony, he worked for Sean but had done this
    without Sean's knowledge.
    
    I wasn't watching the show when Tiff was first introduced, I think it
    was sometime during the Ice Princess tale.  She later left the show,
    coming back a few years later.  Edward hired her to seduce Sean,
    actually Edward was the one who bought the TV station from Barrington
    for her.  This was her excuse for returning to PC.  At the time Monica
    and Sean were hot and heavy and Sean had all but taken over ELQ. 
    Little did Edward realize his matchmaking was to be permanent...Tiff
    fell for Sean and ended up telling he Edward's plot.
    
    Anna wasn't really mean at the beginning of the show, she was dishonest
    though.  She ran a huge Fencing operation (buying and selling stolen
    goods) in New York City.  Robert and Holly went to the big city because
    Robert was being awarded a policeman of the year award, this right
    after the Aztec Treasure caper (Sean was in Jail).  Anna saw his
    picture in the newspaper and slipped into the banquet watching his
    speech.  Upon their return to PC, this little girl was at their house. 
    She turned out to be Robin and had been brought there from summer camp
    by a stranger.  Anna at her end was investigating the disappearance of
    her daughter (no one but Filamena knew this) and finally traced her to
    Robert.  Thus started the Asian quarter tale that introduced Robert's
    first wife (Anna), the daughter he didn't know he had, gave Sean a
    pardon for his previous criminal life, and started Frisco down the road
    of undercover cop, WSB agent, etc.  Oh it also introduced Olin to the
    show.  It was at the very beginning of this show that Holly and her
    former nanny left for Australia, Robert joined them after the Asians,
    Robin, Sean, etc were all safe.  The nanny had also been Anna's as a
    child.  Seems her family started out rich then lost everything and had
    to let the nanny go---Anna adored her and decided then and there that
    she would someday have money again, she didn't care how.  As an adult,
    she became a double agent as a way of getting the money she desired. 
    That all changed when she met and married Robert, then she wanted out.
    He story has unfolded greadually since the first time we saw her
    reading the paper containing Robert's picture.

    I believe you are right about Tiff being introduced during the Ice
    Princess story.  From what I remember she was an actress and had some
    association with that family ? I think the name was Cassadine?  or
    something like that.
    
    Marie
    

From what I can remember, Tiff was having an affair with one of the 
Cassadines (sp?) during the ice princess story.  Somehow she managed to 
meet up with Robert, Luke, and Laura and decided to help them.  Afterwards,
Robert and Tiff had a romance for awhile.  I'm still alittle foggy on some
of the details but I think that was the general idea.

    re -Lisa (questions way back when...)
    
    About Luke and the Mob, I don't remember it, but in Episodes there's a
    picture of Luke and Frank Smith, who was Port Charles first Mob Boss.
    So, maybe if the name is given, it'll jog someone's memory of that time
    frame.
    
    Lisa

    Sean was in charge of a WSB operation to rescue a person who wanted to
    defect from an unfriendly country.  This person and a group of his
    countrymen were attending a meeting at a resort in the south of France.
    
    Robert and Anna were assigned to the case, they were to pretend to be
    newly weds on their honeymoon at the same place.  O'Reilly (I think
    that was her name, she was one of the WSB agents and was featured for
    awhile during the ICe Princess caper, she died protecting Robert) was
    also working this case and one other person besides Sean was involved
    (can't remember his name).  
    
    Anyway, The "newlyweds" arrived at the resort and got the "lay of the
    land".  They discovered a video camera in their room and realized they
    were being monitored.  They started out acting for the camera, never
    "going all the way".  They bickered way back then also, it was fun to
    watch them.  Gradually they began to fall in love, they tried to fight
    their feelings, but finally admitted them.  The flashback from
    yesterday's show was the night they admitted their feelings and
    consumated their relationship (no, they weren't married yet).  The
    throwing of the nightgown was to keep the people monitoring them from
    actually seeing them make love.  Prior to that evening everything was
    fake so they didn't care what these people thought they saw in the
    dark.
    
    The following day the plan to take the defecting person out of there
    took place.  Sean and O'Reilly were successful, but Robert and Anna
    weere delayed so got left behind.  Then followed a few days of running
    from the bad guys--camping in the forest with Anna doing a seductive
    dance around a campfire.  The were finally at the Shoreline of the
    French Rivera when the bad guys almost caught up with them.  They
    managed to escape by diving from a cliff into the blue water.  A short
    way out they were picked up by a fisherman and deposited some 500 feet
    from the Italian shoreline.  The swam ashore and lay there exausted. 
    This is where Filimena found them (both were in their underwear --
    easier for swimming). She took them to town where they were outfitted
    with a set of clothes each and a few days later brought them to the
    churcxh grounds where the annual community marriages were to take
    place.  They really had no plan to wed at that time, but once involved
    in the ceremony they both realized it was what they wanted.
    
    When they made it back to Paris and rejoined Sean and the rest of their
    team, they started making their arrangements to quit the WSB and become
    "normal people".  
    
    I believe most people know the rest of the story so won't continue from
    this point.  If anyone needs a refresher on the "rest of the story",
    let us know via this note.

    Oh I forgot to tell you that neither Robert or Anna had ever worked
    with a partner before this caper and neither of them was happy to have
    to work with one now, especially pretending to be husband and wife. 
    The first few falshbacks we saw were mostly filled with their bickering
    and the love story was slowly in unfolding between bickering and
    spying.  The originally tale of these two was very well told and by the
    time it reached its end, the viewer had gone from hating Anna and her
    percived going between Holly and Robert to like her and feeling sorry
    for this woman who loved him so much.  BTW these flashbacks all took
    place just prior to and at the beginning of the Black Pearl saga that
    introduced Robin. 

    Ok, I just read the History file for the first time, but I have 3 main
    storylines I still don't know about.
    
    Grant Putnam
    
    Ice Princess
    
    Holly and Robert
    
    How many times also has Scott been married?
    
    So far I think Susan, Laura, and he was going with Heather?
    Is that right?
    
    Also didn't Leslie and Rick find out Amy was their daughter, but not 
    until later on? I thought I remembered Laura finding out she had a 
    little sister.
    
    Any help would be much appreciated!
      
    
    Charlene 

    	Thel,
    
    About how long ago was the whole story of Robert and Anna? I must
    have missed a few years, by the sounds of it. I remember seeing
    parts of the Holly story. There is talk of my building being moved,
    which will be farther from home, so no more G.H. watching at
    lunch.  Oh well!!  This file is a great replacement.
    
    
    Thanks,
    
    Hoff 

    Bummer, if you can't watch GH at lunch, we'll never know if the show
    that day is good, bad or indifferent!
    
    The Robert and Anna story started about 7 or 8 years ago.  Robin was 6
    years old and she is either 13 or 14 years old now--depending on what
    episode of GH you are watching.
    
    Now of the questions in .36 of this note.....sorry but I can't tell you
    much about the Ice Princess tale, I started watching the show toward
    the very end of that tale, I never cared for Luke and Laura (okay, okay
    so hit me with DC's rubber chicken! (<:  I can tell you the plot
    revolved around a machine (or formula?) that could control the earth's
    temparture and was being used (?) by someone from the Cassidine family
    (I think they were international bad guys).  The plot introduced Robert
    as the WSB investigative office.
    
    Following the culmination of the Ice Princess tale, Luke opened a
    restaurant/casino on a yacht (I think this was the spoils of beating
    the Cassidines.  He and Laura married (the most watch daytime show in
    the history of daytime TV).  I didn't have a VRC then, so the rest of
    this is supposition.  Laura had to go out of town for some reason and
    she totally disappeared, no trace of her was found.  Luke was crazy
    with grief but kept working on the Yacht.  Robert and he were very good
    friends as was Tiffany.  Another plot developed.  Something about gold
    in them there hills.  
    
    The gold was a scam cooked up by Holly and her Father (Uncle?).  They
    were both con artists but Luke got involved with them and started
    falling for Holly.  She totally fell for him and somewhere along the
    way she got pregnant with his child.  Somehow, Luke was seriously
    injured and was found by a backwoods doctor (?).  Everyone thought he
    was dead, including Robert and Holly.  The law caught up with her and
    her relative and she was about to be deported.  Robert knew she was
    pregnant and told her he would marry her "in name only" so she could
    stay in the USA to have Luke's child.  She excepted and they were
    married.  Robert was appointed Police Commissioner and they moved into
    this great house.  It had a secret room full of all kinds of computers,
    etc.  The lived a friends, separate rooms and all.  However, Holly's
    pregnancy was difficult and she lost the baby.  I remember Robert was
    so kind to her during this time and seemed to be almost as broken up
    over the loss as she was.  They had been falling in love with each
    other all this time and the loss of the baby brought them even closer
    together.  Finally they admitted their feelings for each other and it
    became a real marriage.  Shortly after Luke returned but Holly's
    feelings for him had changed to friendship, she was totally in love
    with Robert.  Theirs was a strong, happy marriage and they were a very
    good team.  Holly always tended to involve herself in Robert's cases
    and he would get frustrated but underneath appeared to love every
    minute of her interferance.  Both actors decided to leave the show at
    the same time, she to go to Dynasty and he for "a change in pace".  Her
    contract was up 3 months before his, so they sent her of the Australia
    while he helped Anna in the Asian plot.  He left and the last day they
    showed him arriving in Australia and finding Holly (we just saw her
    back) waiting for him in the bath tub.  When Tristen Rogers came back
    to the show peramnently they writers wrote the background for him being
    alone by saying Holly had died in a plane crash.
    
    I always thought Scott was only married once (to Laura), I didn't even
    know he was involved with Susan.  He was in cahoots with Heather and
    they were had a relationship.  In fact, they left the show together. 
    HE was to star in the short-lived soap Texas and she (after a period)
    to become Gina in SB.  
    
    I guess we need the input of a really long-time viewer to fill us in on
    the Ice Princess, Amy's history and Scott's love life.
    
    As far as Grant Putnam, I can add that a little later today.

Yes, I remember Scott marrying Susan.  She was in some sort of accident
(a car accident, I think), and was in intensive care because of a neck/back
injury.  Scott was trying to use her to get to the money in the trust fund
Alan had set up for Jason.  While in the hospital, Susan asked Scott to 
marry her because she liked the feeling her gave her of being taken care of.
They had a very short and simple ceromoney right there in intensive care.
Scott planned on using the marriage to gain power of attorney over the trust
fund and get at the money.  

After Susan got out of the hospital, she met up with Oliver Tuddle (or whatever
we determined his name to be) and that storyline started where she got murdered.
During Susan and Scott's marriage, Scott was still sleeping with Heather.


I also came in toward the end of the Ice princess storyline so I can't give too
many details on that.  Thel summed it up about as best as I probably could.


							-Lisa

    It seems way back when Celcia Quartermaine was a teenager she was
    friends with the Putnam twins.  Grant was one of them but I can't
    remember the other twin's name.  Anyway, Celia and the unnamed twin
    fell in love and Grant, who had mental problems no one knew about
    killed his twin....everyone thought it was an accident (boating, I
    think).  Grant had this thing for Celica, wanted her for himself.  They
    had a brief romance and he left for med school in England after her
    promising to wait for him.
    
    In the intervening years, a foreign, unfriendly nation wanted to
    infiltrate US mainstream.  They had a village in their country that was
    a copy of anytown USA and all the people there were raised to act
    totally like Americians.  One of the residents was also trained as a
    doctor and resembled Grant greatly.  The real Grant was captured and
    installed in a mental institution and with a little plastic surgery the
    fake Grant was able to replace him.  He came to the US, specifically PC
    as Grant Putnam and accepted a position at GH.  He knew the total
    history of Grant and Celia's relationship and was aprepared to make her
    is wife for the short tern, until his assignment (I forget what this
    was) could be completed.  
    
    Anyway, Celcia was very attracted to Edward illigitimate son Jimmy Lee
    and was fighting the attraction internally (Jimmy Lee was poor and she
    was a spoiled little rich girl) when Grant reappeared in her life.  He
    wooed and won her and they were finally married, although the original
    wedding was postponed because Jimmy Lee kidnapped her, wedding dress
    and all as she was about to enter the church.
    
    The fake Grant fell totally in love with Celia and ended up helping
    Robert capture the rest of the spies.  He claimed political assylm and
    stayed on at GH with the name Grant Andrews.  The real Grant appeared
    just before this all happened.  Celia at the time adored the fake Grant
    and the real Grant again started plotting her separation from her love. 
    This time he decided that Celia should die, that way she could never
    belong to anyone but him.  
    
    To make a long story short, the real Grant was captured and placed in a
    mental institution....for life.  Celia and Grant Andrews last awhile
    but he was now a struggling Doctor and Jimmie Lee got all that money
    from Edward so fickle Celia broke it off with Grant and got involved
    with Jimmy Lee.  Grant Andrews and Alan started a medical supply ship
    business and it was rather successful but needed a fulltime partner
    involved.  Grant left GH and flew to Italy to solve some problems they
    were having and was never heard from again.  Celia and Jimmy Lee never
    made it, he lost all his money when the building he and Brock (Bobbie's
    first husband) collapsed killing a number of people....Brock used
    shoddy materials and was already dead so Jimmy Lee was the one sued. 
    Celcia decided PC wasn't lucky for her love life and went off to join
    Daddy and his new wife in the jet set life.
    
    A few years later, Grant was released from the institution pronouced
    cured...........yeah sure!  He was, as are many criminally insane
    people, very clever and was able to convince the doctors of his sanity.
    He proceeded back to PC for revenge on Robert who he saw and the reason
    he had lost everything (Celcia).  He bought a guard dog and broke into
    Anna's house intent on kidnapping Robin, who was Robert's child and the
    light of his life.  In the process he killed Filomina and Robin got
    knocked out.  Anna surprised him by coming home unexpectly and he
    kidnapped her instead.  This was when she and Duke were almost engaged
    and Robert had just recently returned to town.
    
    He held Anna captive for weeks while Robin lay catatonic in the
    hospital.  Eventually he took Anna up into the mountains to the cabin 
    his family owned and where he had killed his brother and tried to kill
    Celia.  Both Duke and Robert were hot on his trail.  Duke ended up
    rescuing Anna and Robert captured Grant.  He was returned to the
    institution.

    Maybe I'm wrong, but I could have sworn that when Holly left the
    show, she and Robert were breaking up because of Robert's current
    involvment with Anna.   I thought Holly was jealous, so she left.
    She eventually wrote Robert a letter telling him she couldn't live
    without him, and that's how he ended up leaving.
    
    But, as I said, I could be wrong.  Does this scenario sound right???
    
    
          

    Holly was upset about Robert's not telling her he was married before. 
    They did have some problems over this during the Aztec Treasure story. 
    Sean had her kidnapped and Robert thought she had left him.  Finally
    they were reunited and She realized he loved only her.  They were
    planning to go to Australia to live, Robert had had enough of police
    work.  However as they were planning their trip, Robin showed up and
    they found out she was Robert's daughter.  She was kidnapped just as
    They were prepared to leave.  Holly told Robert to remain behind and
    join her when the case was solved.  All the time they were separated,
    she kept sending him Holly from the florist.  BTW:  She and her "Nanny"
    were suppose to be staying with his relatives in Australia while
    waiting for him.  Now he doesn't have any family except
    Mac?????!!!!!?????

    
    Boy!  they really knew how to write em back then!  what a memory
    to Thel!  as I was readin I could rememer everythng!
    
    Thanks
    
    Lou

    I'll try to fill in the Brock storyline.....I probably won't remember
    everything, but here's my try......
    
    Brock owned a construction company, he was very nice at the beginning
    and was very much in love with Bobbie.  She dated him and found herself
    becoming involved.  There was some sort of hostage situation at the
    hospital (it wouldn't be GH if it weren't for at least one hostage
    situation a year!), Brock and another man (I can't remember who)
    succeeded in rescuing everyone and Bobbie, who was one of the people
    being held, realized she loved him.  They were married and moved into
    Susan Martin's house (after she was killed).  For a while they were
    happy, Bobbie got pregnant and they were thrilled---Brock wanted a son.
    
    Because of Bobbie's past (I think Brock knew about it) she wasn't able
    to carry the baby (too many abortions weakened her uterus).  When she
    lost the child they had to perform a full hysterectemy so no more
    children for the Peters (I think that was his last name).  At first
    Brock was sympathetic, but Bobbie was crushed and she started
    withdrawing from him.
    
    Shortly after this all happened his daughter Terry showed up at their
    door.  She was a spoiled, obnoxious brat who had been raise by her
    maternal grandmother.  Grandma had drawn the line and cut her off after
    she was kicked out of the 3 private school.  Bobbie tried to befriend
    her but nothing would turn this brat around, she was lazy, spoiled and
    expected to be waited on hand and foot.  Brock and Bobbie started
    arguing over this kid and draw even further apart.
    
    Brock finally moved out and into a condo in one of the buildings he
    built and owned.  Tracy stayed at the house with Bobbie, she would have
    liked to go with Daddy (someone she didn't even know, he had left town
    when she was 5) but then she wouldn't have a "built in servant"
    (Bobbie).  Once alone, Bobbie gradually turned her around and she
    became the caring Terry we knew and loved (?)
    
    Meanwhile Ginny came to town to claim her son, adopted by Rick and
    Leslie.  She was a well-known journalist and was ready to accept the
    news-anchor job at Tiffany's TV station.  Leslie had died and by
    scheming she convinced Rick the best thing for the boy was for them to
    marry in name only.  They did, but Ginny found herself fallen head over
    heel for RIck.  
    
    During her investigative reporting, she found out the Brock was using
    sub-standard material in a low income apartment complex.  The was going
    to expose it, but Brock beat her to the punch treatening to expose her
    past, her illegitimate son, etc.  At the same time Brock and Bobbie
    were preparing for a very messy divorce.  Terry was siding with Bobbie
    as she came to realize her father was a real no good cad.
    
    Bobbie and Brock had had some public screaming matches with threats
    being tossed around by each of them.  One evening Brock asked Bobbie to
    come to see him, he still loved her and wanted to see if they could
    reconcile.  When she arrived at the condo, Brock was dead and the gun
    lay by his side.  Naturally, the Boob, picked it up and was standing
    over the body when the police arrived.
    
    Bobbie was arrested for the murder, Jake was her defense attorney. 
    Everything looked like she had done it.  Actually Ginny had killed him
    accidently.  He was the one with the gun and there was a struggle, a
    shot rang out and Brock was dead.  Ginny panicked...it was winter and
    she was wearing her coat and gloves still so no finger prints were
    around.  She ran out just before Bobbie arrived.  
    
    When Jenny found out Bobbie was arrested she kept quiet, even planted
    some evidence to aid the police in proving Bobbie did it.  Rick was
    so upset over Bobbie's arrest, they were good friends.  He and Jenny
    were still living "in name only" but both were feeling the strong
    attraction for each other,  Eventually Ginny told the truth and the
    case against Bobbie was cancelled.  I think she was already on trial
    when Ginny told the truth and I think Jake was the one who got her to
    confess.
    
    Because it was self-defense, Ginny wasn't charged but Bobbie never
    forgave her for not coming forward sooner.
    
    Just before Brock died, Jimmy Lee had come into all that money Edward
    bought him off with.  Jimmy Lee bought into Brock's business and after
    his death took over conplete control, with Bobbie being a silent
    partner.  Neither of them knew about the shoddy materials.  One day the
    apartment complex collapsed and lots of people were hurt (I think some
    even died).  The law suits wiped out Jimmy Lee's fortune and Bobbie's
    inheritance, she lost the house and condo.
    
    Jake and her had become an item by then and they decided to buy the
    Brownstone together.  She would have the 1st floor apartment, he would
    have the garden apartment and an office, and they would rent the rest
    of the appartments.
    
    IMO - Brock wasn't really a bad guy.  Actually until almost the last
    month before  his "death" he was a very nice caring man.  He background
    and attitude changed completely that last month (is contract must have
    been coming up and not have been renewed).  The turn around in his
    nature was almost as fast as Edge's.

	Greate memory. Thel.  Now it is starting to come back to me.
	I do remember that Brock was his last name.  Not his first, 
	because Bobbie was Bobbie Brock for awhile before she became
	Bobbie Meyers.  I can't remember what his first name was.

	I do remember Brock helping Luke with his campaign for mayor
	and when Luke won, he appointed somebody else as building 
	commissioner (Brock wanted that position) and Brock got mad 
	which in turn cause more fights for him and Bobbie.

    D.L. Brock?  Was that it??
    
    
    Lisa

	Yes, thats it!  Thank you, it was starting to bug me not being able
	to remember.  Anybody know what the D.L. stood for?

    Right, I remember now---Peters didn't sound right even to me.  D.L.
    Brock sounds like the correct name.  I'm at least sure that Brock was
    the last name now I remember Bobbie Brock and Terry Brock.  Funny how
    one remark triggers someone else's memory....great going all!
    

    Thel, You're GREAT!! thank you soooo much for clearing that up for
    me!!!  It seems like towards the end of Brock's storyline he started
    abusing Bobbie.  (I could be wrong but it seems like he gave her a
    black eye or something, not enough to put her in the hospital.)  Maybe
    it was just the screaming matches and threat of violence I remember.
    
    Thanks to everyone for filling in the blanks!!!!!
    
    Robyn

    I remember Brock beating up on Bobbie too.  I think it was after the
    lose of the baby.  He blamed her and kept throwing her past up in her
    face.
    
    /red

    
    
    The `Meyers' guy name was Jake Meyers.
    
    
    

    Remember when?  I don't because I wasn't watching back then, however it
    is nice to read old plots now and again..........
    
    
    Jeff was thrilled to learn that PJ was realy his mising son, Steven
    Lars.  But little PJ was in danger.  Diana had been murdered and PJ's
    babysitter hadn't shown up---she was home with a cold.  Alice was
    alerted by the ailing sitter and showed up at Diana's to watch PJ. 
    When no one answered the door she let herself in.  She found Diana's
    bloody body with Anne's name scrawled in blood on the floor.  A
    neighbor reported seeing a young nurse fitting Anne Logan's description
    outside Dian'a apartment the previous night.
    
    Anna wasn't the only suspect.  Anne overheard Jeff uelling that he
    could kill Diana for what she'd done regarding Steven Lars, and Sharah
    remebered Heather had a gun stashed in a doll's head.  Sarah knew
    Heather had been missing from her bed (at Pine Circle) the night before
    and didn't believe Heather's story that she'd been in the bathroom. 
    There was good news, and there was bad news.  The good news:  Under
    the terms of Diana's will Jeff was PJ's guardian.  The bad news:  So
    was Heather.
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    Scientist James Duvall informed Alex Quartermaine that he wanted out of
    the Ice Preincess caper.  He was anxious to return the Ice Princess to
    the Cassadines, from whom he's stolen it, to save his skin.  That posed
    a problem for the Quartermaines, who no longer had the Ice Princess. 
    They wanted to retrieve it, and start manufacturing diamonds.

                   The Romance of GH's Robert and Anna
    
    Robert and Anna are rekindling the passionate love they once shared. 
    But what was it like the first time around, and what broke up the pair? 
    Here's how they got to where they are today:
    
    When first seen, Anna Devane was operating her illegal business from a
    posh New York apartment.  She was a high-class fence who specialized in
    stolen jewels and works of art.  When she learned Robert Scorpio would
    be attending an awards dinner in Manhattan, she left an anonymous
    message for him to meet an old frined in the hotel bar.
    
    Upon Robert's arrival, the bartender led him to an empty table, where
    two exotic drinks waited.  His memory jolted by the the strange
    concoction, Robert was shocked when a stunning brunette clad in a
    leather suit slithered up, took a seat and offered a toast to old
    times.  All Robert could manage to whisper was one word:  "Anna".
    
    Ms. Devane pleaded for him to give her a second chance.  Perhaps he
    should have let her die when he discovered the kind of person she
    really was, Robert bitterly retorted.  Anna's protestations of love
    fell on deaf ears.  Stay out of his life, he warned.  Later Anna
    cornered him again and tried to exhume their romantic past, but he
    refused to play her game.
    
    The rejection spurred Anna to obtain a dossier on Robert's wife Holly. 
    Soon after, Holly received a telegram, ostensibly from her old nanny,
    saying she'd sent Anna to visit.  When Anna arrived an unsuspecting
    Mrs. Scorpio invited her to be a houseguest.  As soon as Robert
    returned home, Anna fainted on cue, thereby revealing a hidous facial
    scar.  When she "came to" Anna lied that she knew Robert when she was
    woprking as a secretary for the WSB and he was a secret agent.  Now she
    was down on her luck and needed a job.
    
    Reobert was trapped.  To accuse Anna of lying meant revealing his true
    relationship with her to Holly.  He fumed, but kept quiet.  Anna teamed
    up with ex-WSB chief Sean Donely to procure the Aztec treasure.  In her
    spare time, she arranged for two valuable stolen jade Buddhas to be
    planted on Holly, so she would be arrested.  The scandal speread
    through the newspapers.  Robert knew who was responsible but he
    couldn't prove it.  Mrs. Scorpio was exonerated but Anna wasn't going
    away.
    
    She aroused distrubing feelings in Scorpio with her remembrances of how
    they fell in love.  Douring a WSB mission, the partners found
    themselves swimming for their lives and wahed ashore neat a quaint
    Italian village.  An old woman Filomena Soltini, came to their aid and
    arranged for them to be married in a group wedding.
    
    Robert couldn't forget how it ended.  While on their last assingment he
    learned that she was a double agent.  Scorio didn't turn her in, but
    they divorced.  He felt guilty, believing an innocent agent was
    executed for Anna's crimes.  Anna revealed she was forced to carry out
    that final traitorous mission or the DVX would have executed him.
    
    Holly knew something was up.  The revelation of Robert and Anna's past
    caused her great pain  -- especially when she learned Anna was wearing
    a fake scar as penance for her sins.  Eventually Ms. Devane became one
    of the good guys; she helped Robert retrieve the Aztec treasure.  When
    the Scorpios decided to move to Australia, Anna and Holly came to an
    understanding "None of us are losers.  You and Robert have each other
    and I have expiated the sims of my past" Anna noted.
    
    Robert delayed his departure when a 6 yr old girl named Robin was
    desposited on his doorstep.  Not only was she Anna's daughter she was
    his daughter.  Ms. Devane had kept another secret.  To protect her
    child, she'd kept the truth from Robin, who thought she was a friend
    named Luv.  Robert sayed arund long enough to save Robin from the evil
    crinimal Mr Wu (it's a long story).  She learned the truth of her
    parentage and Robert left for Australia.
    
    When Robin phoned him Down Under to report that her mom was in trouble,
    Scorpio rushed back to PC.  Robert and Anna soon experienced tragic
    losses.  He moved back to PC after Holly died in a plane crash.
    
    Anna was in love with Duke Lavery who found it tough to ditch his
    ex-employer, the Mob.  (I won't go into the rest of the story, unless
    someone requests it, the history is so recent.  The article does end
    with .....
    
    Which brings us to the presnet, Anna and Robert--single and available.
    After several insultig fights, Anna decided to prove her sexiness by
    playing a Valentine's Day trick on him.  Dressed - and then undressed -
    to kill, she sktaged a steamy evening of seduction that had Robert
    begging for more.  But after tying him up, Anna revealed her true
    purposes.  She wanted him to look at her - really look at her - for the
    woman she was.  Her measures were drastic, but Anna believed that she
    had to get his attention.
    
    One might have thought that spending the evening tied to a pillar would
    have hardened Robert's heart but it didn't.  The experience brought
    them to realize there were still deep fellings, is love better the
    second time around?  We''ll find out......

    I have a few questions.  This hit me last night as I lay awake in 
    the middle of the night (it is too hot to sleep here in Atlanta!!)
    
    We know that GH is filmed in california, but Port Charles is located
    somewhere in the northeast, around New York.  Okay. The Portland
    that the Icky-erts came from, is that in Maine or Oregon?
    
    The Quartermaines got their equipment with the PCB's from Korea,
    so the ship would have to have left from that side of the world.
    Did it go to Portland, Oregon, pick up all these new people, then
    travel around the US, thru the Panama Canal to Port Charles.
    
    OR, did it travel from Korea, thru the Canal, go all the way NORTH
    to Portland, Maine, get the Icky-erts, then come BACK to Port Charles?
    
    Are you totally confused???  I am!!!  Or, is this a case of writer's
    license.  Also, how long did the Q's know about the ship prior to it
    arriving.  If it made the trip around the canal, it would have taken
    at least a couple of months!!!!   We used to order things from Europe,
    (to the east coast) and from the time it left the docks in Europe, it
    took 3 months at least!!!!
    
    Oh well.
    
    Angie

    Angie,
    
    Maybe they flew it to Portland, ME, and then from there shipped it
    by boat.  I got the impression from the notes file at the beginning
    of this storyline that they were talking about Portland ME, but
    later on it appeared to be Portland, OR. So you aren't the only
    one that is getting confused about it. I think the writers are
    getting confused too.
    
    Sheila
    

    Sheila,
    
    I think flying equipment like that may be too cost prohibitive.  That
    stuff has got to be heavy.  I doubt it would have even gone by air.
    And remember, the Q's are in financial problems.  Shipping is the
    cheapest!!  But it was a good thought.  Maybe Thel knows the answers
    here.
    
    THEL---------------------WHERE ARE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    
    Angie

    Relax, I'm here......no wonder everyone is confused, here's whgat I
    remember......
    
    First mention of the new equipment for the cannery and packing plants
    was mentioned by Ned in a conversation with Tracy just after the first
    of the year.  At that time he said they were "bringing the machinery
    down the coast from the factory in Portland."  Assumption: the Q's
    owned a factory in Portland Maine that made machinery.  Since Port
    Charles is suppose to be located in New York somewhere near Buffalo,
    bringing machinery down the coast from Portland would mean Maine I
    would assume.
    
    The next time the Tracy's trip was mentioned in detail was when it sank
    prior to that it was mentioned in passing a couple of times, once in a
    conversation related to insurance.
    
    When the PCB/Greenbelt demonstrations began it was the first time the
    machinery being manufactured in Korea was mentioned and when the ship
    sank, bringing Joey and Bill to PC was the first time Portland Oregon
    was mentioned.  
    
    BTW:  Even in the interview with GM in Episodes she said she modeled PC
    after Portland Maine.............so if we want to know how ORegon can
    to be as far as this show I guess we'll have to ask GM herself, because
    I bet know one else knows.

    I'm probably wrong, but I thought that the only tie to Portland, Oregon
    was Mac Scorpio.  I thought everything else was tied to Portland,
    Maine.
    
    

    Renee....no problem answering questions on past storylines.
    
    The alien came to earth to recover the crystal left by his world's
    explorers thousands of years earlier.  They realized man had progressed
    far enough that if they found the crystal (from a spaceship's crash)
    they could destroy the world.
    
    His natural being was quite different from man's so upon arriving and
    finding a picture of the real Roger Casey (nickname Shep) in a case file 
    folder in Anna's garage, he "took on" that appearance for his stay on 
    earth so people wouldn't be frightened.  Coincidentally about the same 
    time the alien Casey was leaving, Tiffancy hire the real Shep on as an
    investigative reporter.  BTW:  The file folder had the name written
    last name first, first name last. [casey, roger] The Alien didn't know
    that so called himself Casey Rogers.
    
    Hope this resolves you confusion.  Feel free to ask any other questions
    you might have.

    Well, I searched this file and not mention of Ginny, except that she
    had killed D.L. Brock (Bobbie's first husband) so here goes.....
    
    There was an old lady who lived in once of the apartments at Kelly's.
    She had a young Grandson whom she was raising.  I forget her name, but
    she was friendly with Leslie and Rick Webber.  The woman died and on
    her death bed she asked Rick to take care of the boy.  He went to live
    with those tow and they were crazy about little Mike.....they had
    always wanted a Son.  Anyway, this woman showed up in town, a
    heavy-weight NYC TV reporter.  Turned out she was Mike's mother and the
    daughter of the woman who had died.  She wanted her son, but Rick and
    Leslie talked her out of it saying it would be too tramatic.  The
    reporter was Ginny, the lady of the beautiful very big, expressive
    eyes.  Ginny decided to stay in PC and went to work in the TV station
    that now belongs to Tiffany, actually it did back then too.  
    
    Leslie was killed in a car crash and Ginny proposed that she and Rick
    marry "in name only" for Mike's sake.  He agreed.  D.L. was scamming
    the town with his track housing and Ginny foiund out about it.  D.L.
    did some checking up on her and found her past was very unsavory, that
    if the things she did in the past came to light her career would be
    ruined.  This mess resulted in Ginny killing D.L., although in
    self-defense, she panicked and ended up framing Bobbie.  
    
    When the truth came out, Ginny finally fessed up.  Rick stood by her
    and they realized they were in love.  First one, then the other, but
    niether would tell the other person.  Suddenly, Tiffany decided to sell
    the TV station to Amanda Barrington's nephew (I forget his name), and
    Ginny went into a state of shock.  This was the fellow she fell for in
    High School the one who conned her into having sex saying he loved her,
    etc.  The result of that affair was Mike.  She left town and became a
    prostitute before getting her act together and becoming successful. 
    The new owner started making another play for Ginny, she was very
    confused and at one point had sex with him.  During the same time, Rick
    decided to tell her his feeling and the consumed their marriage.  
    
    Naturally, Ginny was pregnant again....whose child was it anyway.  To
    make a long story short.  The baby turned out to be Rick's.  Mike was
    wooed and won by his natural Father and left PC with him and his new
    wife Lorna (?) Jimmy Lee's old flame the one who owned the local spa at
    the time.  Soon Rick got an offer from a big NYC hospital and Ginny got
    another offer from the network.  They decided to head for the big city
    with their Son (still a baby).  
    
    They decided that they would rent their house to Tony and Tanya, who
    needed more room now that they had their little baby BJ.  The young
    couple was thrilled to move into such a beautiful house.
    
    BIG QUESTION.....as far as I know the house still belongs to Rick and
    Ginny, no one has ever mentioned Tony's buying it, for that matter, it
    is like Rick and Ginny never existed.  The only time any mention of
    Rick was make was when Monica reminded Alan of the time he attempted to
    kill them during the affair.
    
    Last I heard Rick and Ginny were alive and well and living on SB
    (different names of course).  They may not be on that show anymore as
    this was a couple of years ago.

    
    What a memory!!

         When Lucy came to Port Charles she was a writer of some sort if
    memory serves me right.  She wasn't very nice either.  Still isn't
    nice.				
         Thats the answer to the contest question that I come up with.
    			A writer.		Peggy

The only thing that I know about the way Lucy came to town was that she was
conspiring with Kevin (?) to kill Terry.  Does anyone remember the that 
storyline and the way they introduced Lucy.  I'm real fuzzy on it.


BTW, Peggy --> Good Girl for using this note for History stuff.


							Lisa-Marie

    From what I remember Lucy was a librarian  and after the scandle
    with kevin and terry she further defiled their name and was able
    to make more money for herself by writing a book.  boy, did everyone
    hate her for that.
    
    what ever happened to terry? 
    
    that's the story line that got me hooked on gh!!!
    
    renee

    Correct...Lucy was a librarian.
    
    I think Terry went back to that little town she was from.  Can't really
    remember.
    
    Marie
    

    Oops I goofed should have put Lucy's first job in here.....maybe DC
    will be so kind as to move it for me.  BUT, (chuckle, chuckle) he also
    goofed....if the contest is about GH trivia, he should have announced
    it here not in 16 (<: (<: (<: (<:
    
    Terry left PC after selling Duke's to Katherine, she had received a
    record contract from some company in Nashville.
    
    I aslo enjoyed the Terry/Kevin mystery greatly......remember how it
    started?  Bobbie walked into the Brownstone Livingroom in the middle of
    the night (the room was dark) and saw a shape sitting in a chair, She
    turned on the light when her "who's there?" wasn't answered just in
    time to see a body fall from the chair to the floor.

    If you meant his explanation for leaving Robert after the plane crash,
    he had gone to get help.  When he returned Robert was gone and he was
    never able to find him.

    i just saw Wings yesterday for the first time and i remember thinking
    distictly that "Helen" sounded just like Terry!!!!  Then i come into
    work this morning and i read that she's her sister!!!  Wicked, huh?!
    When stuff like this happens to me it always blows my mind!!!!!
    
    Renee

    So *that's* why I've always been reminded of Terry when I've
    watched that show.  They definately are a lot alike.
    
    - K
    

    
    Right Thelma --> I did goof! (^% I posted that note about the radio
    contest in GH and I meant to post it in the GH history file!  (^%
    I didn't realize the mistake until there were too many notes after
    it, to correct it --> then that would have messed up the numbering 
    sequence of the notes, so I decided to let it fly!!!!!!  (^%  (^% (^% 
    
    The radio contest will be on all next week in LA.  I will try to get 
    their FAX number so we can enter the GH Trivia contest and maybe even 
    win a tour of the GH Studios!  (^%
    
    Since I am in GH History --> could anyone refresh my memory about
    that pretty blonde woman who worked at the coffee shop at the
    waterfront who was in love with a tall, dark-haired attorney who 
    lived upstairs?  What were their names and what happened to them?
    Was her name Rose?????  Thanks!
    
    --dc

    dc:
    
    I'll start, but I can't remember it all. Rose Kelly ran and owned
    Kelly's.  She had been a high school sweetheart of Joe Kelly, but ended
    up marrying his father, Paddy.  Paddy died and Rose was left a very
    young widow.  Joe back came into town with a very big chip on his
    shoulder, and was still very angry about his father's marriage to Rose. 
    They eventually made up and were very good friends.  Rose did go out
    with Jake Meyer (Bobbie's eventual husband) for a while, but their
    religious differences broke up the relationship.  She was Irish
    Catholic and deeply religious.  He was Jewish.
    
    Rose ended up leaving town and asked Ruby if she would run Kelly's in
    her absence.  Ruby ended up later buying Kelly's from a now "gone from
    the show" Rose.  Did she leave with Joe?  I know they did have a
    romance after Jake, but I seem to remember them breaking up too.  How
    close am I???
    
    Cheryl

    Terry was from Laurelton.
    Didn't Rose go to run Joe's house in upperstate New York? He had become
    a congressman or something and needed a woman to act as hostess for
    him.
BArbara

    Joe was totally out of the picture, long gone from P.C. when Rose and
    Jake fell in love......what started out as an "Abbie's Irish Rose" type
    story quickly changed course when she decided not to re-new her
    contract with GH.  Oh they continued the basic story, but instead of
    love conquering all, they couple decided their faiths were more
    important.  (Shortly thereafter Jake married Bobbie, also not Jewish,
    but the mixed faith marriage was never mentioned again.).  I don't
    believe Rose went away to take care of Joe's house.  As I remember it,
    he Brother was elected Governor of the state and she left to become his
    hostess as he was a widower.

         How did Robert and Holly come on to the show?  What was their
    storyline?  I remember Holly being on but don't know how they got
    to P.C., or I should say, what brought them to P.C.  
         Also, how is that Sean ended up in P.C.  These 2 storylines I
    don't know how they came into being.
    				Peggy

    
    I don't remember HOW Robert came onto the show, but if I remember
    correctly it was during the Ice Princess story line.  That same
    storyline brought Tiffany on, in fact at the end of the story, she
    left the Cassadine she had been with to be with Robert (because
    she always "wanted a winner").
    
    Holly was involved in an oil scam with her father (uncle?).  She
    was met first by Luke, who started to fall for her, was taken in 
    by her scam and got really hurt.  I don't remember all the details,
    but Luke disappeared, she and Robert got married (so she could stay
    in the country?) and then fell in love.  Then (of course) Luke came
    back (and I think he stayed with them for a while) and had trouble
    dealing with it all, I think he went a little nuts at that point.
    
    

         I forgot to add, how did Anna come on the show.  I've only been
    watching the show for the last couple of years but not really into it
    until the last year.  Oh, one more person comes to mind, Sean, how did
    he come into the show?		Peggy

Peggy --> Read notes 17.53 & 17.30

         Thank you Lisa.  I'll do that.  That'll be a big help to me.
    				Peggy

    
    This has been a very busy day (^% --> I finally got the FAX number for
    the radio station in Burbank, Californ I A (Power 106).  It is -->
    
    			(818) 846-4106
    
    Answer this question and possible be one of the ten people, per 
    day that they pick to tour the GH Studios at ABC/Hollywood --> here 
    it is -->
    
    WHERE IS ANNA AND ROBERT'S WEDDING SCHEDULED TO BE HELD?
    
    In your FAX include your name, phone number and home address as
    well as the answer!!!!!!  (^%
    
    I know this is too late for most East Coasters --> but it's only
    2:10 (or so PDT)!!!!!!!  I'll try to get tomorrow's question
    posted earlier for everyone! (^%  Good Luck!  Who knows one of you
    guys might even win!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  (^%  
    
    --dc

    Okay, now that Faison is coming back, who is/was he, how did he
    come on the show, and what is his connection to Anna.  I wasn't
    watching during this time frame.  I looked thru past history notes,
    but didn't see anything on him.  If it is already there, please
    let me know.
    
    Thanks,
    
    Angie

Let's start more in chroniclogical order...


13 years ago.  Robert and Anna got married.  This was a no-marriage rule
in the WSB (where they both worked at the time).  Anna was also a double agent
for the DVX (Faison was her DVX boss).  Sean, who was head of the WSB at the 
time.  Found out about A & R marriage, and about Anna being a double agent.  So 
he wanted to break up R & A by exposing Anna. ( This would get him back his best 
agents).  So he had Robert on a stakout to catch the double agent.

I'm alittle fuzzy here, but there was an explosion and Anna was injured.
Robert realized that Anna was a double agent and divorced her.  He never
knew that she was pregant with his child, Robin, at the time.  Faison was
presumed dead (actually, Sean promised to help him out of the DVX and into
hiding if he cooperated in this scheme).

13 years later.  Robin found part of a crystal that Faison wanted.  He thought
that if he had the whole crystal, he would be very powerful.  So Faison came to
PC (the crystal actually was part of of the alien storyline).  Once here, he
found Anna.  He alway had a thing for Anna and in his 13 years of hiding, he
used a pen name (Sinclar) and wrote books with a character based around Anna.
He let Casey (the alien) go with the crystal to show Anna that he had changed
in 13 years.  However, I think he used exposing Anna's past to get her to see
him. 

Also, at one point, Faison was responsible for a massacre on some island. And
the king of the island wanted revenge.  This had something to do with the Roman
Gold (4 coins).  Robert found this king and convinced him to come to PC to get
Faison. 

Anna, Robert, Sean, and Frisco helped set up Faison.  They managed to get all
4 gold coins.  Romando (sp?) Ramone (I forget which was his name) was there too.
They gave Faison a few minutes head start before Romando went after him.
Later, the 4 gold coins were mailed back to Robert signalling that Faison was
dead.  Of course, we never saw any body or anything.

That's about it.  It is sketchy and I'm sure others could elaborate or correct
me if I'm made some wrong assumptions trying to squeeze it all in.

    
    Lisa ---> GREAT memory you have!!  Fantastic history report, thanks!
    
    --Steph

    Thanks Lisa!!
    
    Beccy

    You guys are going to kill me!  I still don't get it!
    Here's what I'm getting:
    
    Robert and Anna worked for Sean at the WSB.  Anna also worked for
    Faison at the DVX.  Anna was a double agent, which means to me
    that she was giving info about the WSB to DVX.  Sean convinced
    Faison to help him catch the double agent (why would faison want
    to help capture his own person?).  Sean put Robert on the case
    and he caught Anna.  This destroyed their marriage.
    
    I guess I'm really fuzzy on why would Faison help catch Anna.
    And why does this make Faison so important?  Did Anna ever actually
    have feelings for Faison?  It seems to me, if his coming back is
    going to freak Anna out then she must have loved him too, in which
    case why did she ever marry Robert?!!  
    
    Guess I'm hopeless,
    
    Renee

    RENEE-- there you are!
    
    I thought you were the person that saw "CORD" in person, if you are,
    PLEASE, PLEASE go to the directory and post it under Close Encounters.
    
    Thanks....
    
    Beccy

    Well forget the "why did she marry Robert",  I just found it here
    in the History file, cute story!
    
    I still didn't figure out why Faison is so important to anna.
    
    Not quite as hopeless,
    
    Renee

Why Faison would help Sean:

Faison wanted out of the DVX, and the only way out was to die.  Sean wanted to
break up Robert and Anna's marriage so that he wouldn't lose his 2 best agents.
So he only really wanted Robert to find out that Anna was a double agent.  
Faison agreed to help Sean if Sean would help fake his (Faison's) death.
Sean agreed.  No, Anna never loved Faison.  Faison was deeply obsessed with 
Anna though.



Why Anna and Robert got married the first time:

Anna and Robert were on an assignment together.  They were supposed to pretend
that they were married/lovers.  During this assignment, they really fell in 
love, and secretly got married.  Sean found out and set them up.  During the
setup there was an explosion and Anna got hurt.  Robert found out that she
was a double agent and divorced her.  He didn't know she was pregnant with
Robin at the time.



The first time Faison was in PC:

Anna didn't want Faison spilling the beans on her past, so she pretended to
like Faison, and go along with him when he wanted to marry her.  They got 
engaged.  That's when they set up Romando to kill Faison.

I hope this helps some more.

    Yes, it helps alot!  Thanks for clearing up some of the details
    that were confusing me!!!
    
    Renee

         I don't know if this should go here or not, but I'll give it
    a try.
         My letter to Tristan Rogers GH is on its way.
    				Peggy

    This is the answer to the question in GH "who is Tangeneva?" 
    
    He's Robert's Aborigine (sp?) friend from Australia.  He was introduced
    when someone (Jimmy O'Hurlihy (sp?)) was trying to kill Robert.
    
    Marie
    

    OK ---- I caught one really "Juice-ey" line. She was standing with Bill
    and showing him all these different places to chose from (he wants to
    find a "cool" place to live) and she's going through explaining each
    one and comes to an old fire station, she's going on and on about the
    great floors, windows etc. and says...."That would be a perfect place
    to live, you know, I've always wanted to slide down a fire pole"
    (without blinking an eye) TOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!! What would we do
    without that little trollop!!
    
    RE: AJ He is an ugly, squirming WORM (we must find a name for him) He
    is talking to Alan first and explaining what happened with plagiarising
    the term papers,LIE,LIE,LIE!!! He sure can schmooze. Then he has the
    nerve to tell Monica the reason he was speeding and got the ticket was
    because he was trying to kill himself!!! Give me a break!!! Of course
    Monica is horrified and believes him they hug and the close up goes to
    his WORM face with a smirk like HA "my moms so stupid to believe me" Oh
    boy are we in for a treat with this guy!!!!
    I'm leaving early so that's all for now!!
    
    Beccy

Tanganeva is Robert's abboridginie (sp?) friend.  He first showed up during
the counterfiting storyline.  Robert was involved with Katherine Delafield,
and friend of hers, Jimmy O'herlehy (again sp?) was one of the counterfiters.
Tanganeve foresaw Robert's death and came to warn him.  He stayed in PC for 
awhile.  

As it turns out, Jimmy had a thing for Kate, who was engaged to Robert at the
time, so he put this poision in robert's aftershave (it worked through the skin,
not orally, made it look like a natural death, and was extremely hard to detect,
except that I think it left an oder on the skin that eventually gave it away)
Robert almost died from it but Monica was able to save him.  However, they
faked Roberts death to catch the counterfitters as well as who tried to kill
Robert.

         I don't know if I'm putting this in the right spot or not so here
    it goes.
    
         I think your going to find that Tanganeva is really an Aborignie
    from Australia.  		Peggy

    Yes, Peggy, we have always known Tanganeva is an Australian Aborigine,
    he was introduced to us in the outback (term for uninhabited area in
    Australia).  The first time we ever saw him he was at his campfire
    having visions of danger for Robert; he immediately flew to the USA and
    found Robert to warn him.  Robert was living at Kate's cottage at the
    time (whatever happened to that cottage and to Friday...haven't seen
    him since Anna tied Robbie boy up on Valentine's Day) and Tanganeva
    camped in the backyard.  Oh, I forgot to say his original warning to
    Robert was that his life was in danger from a blond creature....we had
    quite a discussion as to who that person would turn out to be.

         As all ways, thank you Thel.  Getting kinda dumb this time of
    the day.
    					Peggy

	Can somebody relate the Aztec Princess Story.... isn't this where
	Felicia enters the picture?  If not, I would still like to know
	the story, and maybe somebody can tell me where Felicia came from
	too.  I remember her way back when with extremely long hair but
	beyond that I don't remember.

	Karen

    I'm leaving in a few minutes and won't be back until next Tuesday,
    I've made a note to find time to add the Aztec Princess Story to the
    history file next week, if some other kind soul doesn't do it before.
    
    I just went through the whole file looking for it but it isn't
    here...although we have about five notes on how R & A fell in love and
    married the first time.  I know it was there, must have been the old
    file (soaps).....wish we had thought to transferred some of that stuff
    to this file

    
    Ok, I have a question...
    
    I got my newest EPISODES last week.  On the last page there are several
    wedding pictures.  There's a picture of Luke in a suit, standing with a
    woman in a wedding dress.
    
    WHO WAS THIS WOMAN???
    
    Was he married before he married Laura?  I can't really remember.
    
    ADthanksVANCE!
    --Steph

    I haven't gotten my Episodes yet, but my guess is that this woman is
    Jennifer Smith, the daughter of mob boss Frank Smith.  Luke worked for
    him and agreed to marry his daughter.  That's when he and Laura ran
    away.  Luke was thrown overboard, swam down the docks and was met by
    Laura.  They both then went on the run.
    
    Cheryl

    Cheryl,  You are right, that was the woman's name.  I had no idea who
    she was so thanks for the info.  Even though I didn't ask the question,
    I really appreciate the answer.

    
    Yes, thanks Cheryl!  I never would have guessed her in a million years,
    since I had forgotten all about that (and I was pretty young at the
    time it was happening).
    
    Thanks again!
    --Steph

     Does anyone know the name of the boy who plays Sly?  
    
     Thanks!

    
    	re -.1
    
    		its Glenn (something) Harris
    
    	BTW: that's the same name as my cousin and his son. his son is 	
    	     a bit older than Sly, so unfortunatly, its not him.
    
    	Ann 

    
    I still miss The Webers --> especially Leslie.  Can someone remind
    me about how she died and left the show?  Thanks!
    
    --dc

Leslie and DL Brock got into a bad argument (I don't remember what it was 
about) at the hospital just before Leslie left to go home, also there was a 
very bad snow storm occuring in PC at the time.  While driving home in the 
storm (and being very upset over the argument at the same time), she lost 
control of the car.  It overturned and she died.  We never saw the accident, 
but somebody went to Rick's house to tell him the bad news.

BTW, Bobby and Brock got into an argument about him causing Leslie to be 
emotionally upset while driving and contributing to the accident.

I don't remember the Tracy/Mitch storyline at all. Can somebody out there
please refresh my memory?

Thanks in advance.


						Lisa-Marie

    Now that I started writing this, I'm drawing a blank.  Can someone help
    out!!!
    
    Mitch Williams was running for State Senator and I believe was crooked.
    I think he did favors for Frank Smith, the mob boss. Tracy took him
    under her wing and ran his campaign. (She did have the long hair at the
    time, down to her waist and always wore it in a braid.)  Anyway, Mitch
    was much younger than Tracy but I don't remember it causing a lot of
    problems.  She eventually did marry him but as I said, I'm drawing a
    blank.  Help!!
    
    Cheryl

    
    Wasn't Mitch also involved with or married to Susan somebody who also
    ended up screwing around with Alan Quartermain and was killed by that
    guy that used to be Lila's husband...this was all around the same time
    that Heather was committed and stalking Diana (?) and the baby? 
    Heather and Susan were sisters or cousins I believe.
    
    I dont know if that helps, but i believe these were about the best
    Episodes of GH...I don't watch it now (unless I'm home) but I do
    occassionaly read the notes to keep posted...
    
    Donna

    Donna - You are right, Heather and Susan Moore were cousins.  Susan was
    seeing Mitch (I think it was when he was married to Tracey).  She also
    was messing around with Alan and that is where Jason came from.  After
    Susan was killed, Alan took in the boy and eventually Monica excepted
    him and forgave Alan.  Lila was married to another man before she
    married Edward (don't remember the guys name), but divorced him as soon
    as she found out about it.  I remember one of the scenes from when
    Edward found out he wasn't legally married to Lila...Alan was all upset
    about what a "scandel" it would cause the family name and Edward turned to
    him and said, "I guess my boy, this means you are illegitimate."  The
    look on Alans face was funny and Edward started laughing.
    
    I don't remember though what happened to Mitch in the end.  I know
    Tracy was more or less banished when she saw her dad having a
    heartattack and just stood there watching him die. (Which by the way
    Edward was faking to see her reaction)  He disowned her and sent her
    away.
    
    There sure was alot going on back then.
    
    Kathy

    
    Kathy --> I vividly remember that scene where Tracy refused to give 
    the heart-attack faking, Edward his heart medicine.   He was actually
    laying on the floor trying to crawl to his bottle of pills and she
    just stood there, listening to him <<<BEG>>> her for the medicine!
    
    When she was sure he wasn't going to make it --> she went splitsville!
    She was totally honked-off to find out that he was indeed still very 
    much alive!!! (^%  It was even better when he wrote her out of the
    family wealth.......  Didn't she leave town shortly after this little
    patricide attempt?
    
    If I not mistaken --> this scene was practically lifted out of some
    Bette David movie called "The Little Foxes"!!!!!  Where Bette let her
    husband actually die, as he begged and pleaded helplessly --> for his 
    heart medicine!!!!!  Thelma, do you remember this movie????????????  
    
    --dc

    Indeed I remember it, also remember the scene between Tracy and Edawrd
    but only because they showed a flashback of the entire piece when she
    first returned to the show.  I thought to myself...boy, she is an evil
    one.

    Was Mitch played by Roscoe Brown??? He has been in a lot of soaps. He
    is in one now on either nbc or cbs.
    
    
    Cathy
    

All this talk about Amy getting a man made me think back to when Amy was dating
this boxer.  The boxer was ordered by the mob to fake a knockout at a fight, 
but he refused so they kept threatening Amy's life.

Does anyone remember the storyline more clearly?  What was the boxer's name?
And how did they end up breaking up?   (Probably something soapishly dumb like 
he went off to have a boxing career and left her behind).

Also, I don't remember Amy dating Patrick.  Like I've blocked it out for some
reason.  Can anyone refresh that storyline as well?


								-Lisa

    Amy and Patrick started dating as "just friends", he was still in love
    with Terry, but Amy was willing to overlook that minor fact.  They
    dated awhile then had a couple of hot scenes in her room over Kelly's. 
    Amy thought he was over Terry, but at a party thrown by the
    Quartermaines, she realized he cared more for Terry that he admitted so
    she broke off their relationship.  It didn't last very long and it was
    shortly after that SOD did a small article on her in which she stated
    that she had convinced the writers that she didn't want her character
    to have a big story or a love affair, she was very happy working
    part-time as she had been doing.  Seems a full-time career on GH or on
    any other show is not within her desires, she is happy working
    part-time and spending the extra time with her husband.

   re: Note 17.112

>    Was Mitch played by Roscoe Brown??? He has been in a lot of soaps. He
>    is in one now on either nbc or cbs.

   No, I think you're thinking of Mitch Laurence, who was played by Roscoe
   Borne.  Mitch Laurence was a really bad guy on One Life to Live.

   - Diane    

    
    Amy and Laura were sort of sisters when they lived with the Webers.
    Were Rick and Leslie, Amy's parents too --> maybe Amy was a cousin?
    Also, didn't Leslie almost go to jail for Laura --> Laura killed 
    someone and Leslie took the rap to save Laura...  Didn't Laura
    have these blackout spells --> howcome?  Thanks!
    
    --dc

    dc:
    
    Laura was adopted by the Vining family so she and Amy were raised as
    sisters.  Leslie found out her daughter (Laura) was alive by an old
    lover of hers and tracked down the Vining family.  Leslie used to visit
    with Laura and eventually told her that she was her biological mother. 
    Laura went to live with the Rick and Leslie.  Then Amy came to live
    with them too when she was older.
    
    Laura killed David Hamilton, who was a friend of Rick's.  David was "in
    love" with Laura and made passes at her when she was about 16 years
    old.  In fending him off, she hit him over the head with a statue, then
    he fell back onto the fireplace bricks and was killed.  Leslie entered
    the room and found a traumatized Laura.  Then Laura snapped out of it
    when she got home but didn't remember the incident.  That's when Leslie
    took the blame.  Laura finally remembered after the trial but Leslie
    convinced Laura not to say anything.  Leslie did go to jail for a time,
    but then Laura finally spoke up and Leslie was released.
    
    Cheryl

    On Tuesday's show, that I watched last night, Alan asked Monica if it
    was "OK" for him to let Jason stay home with them and go to school in
    PC.  Monica replied that of course it's OK, Jason is "your" son.  Now,
    my question is, didn't Monica raise Jason as her son, even though his
    bioligical mother was Susan Moore.  I remember AJ (then called Alan Jr)
    and Jason as kids and thought that Jason called Monica Mom.  It sounded
    on Tuesday that Monica didn't raise Jason as her son.  It looks as if
    they are bringing in Jason's character and I wonder if they will have
    him know the circumstances of his birth???  Are GH writers re-writing
    history again?????
    
    Cheryl

Cheryl  ->  Yes, Monica did raise Jason as her son.  Susan was killed when he
	was an infant.  Alice Grant (is that her name) wanted to adopted him
	but she died as well.  So Alan finally convinced Monica that they 
	should raise him.  

	I did think that Jason and AJ were close in age (only a year or maybe
	two younger but no more than that).  I wonder how old they are going to 
	make Jason when they bring him back.

	I don't know what the writers made Monica say that to Alan, but either
	they want us the think that she's still got some resentment toward
	that particular affair of Alan's or maybe she was just supposed to 
	let Alan know what he can make decisions reguarding the kids without
	her permission.  I dunno.   It's anyone's guess.

    Thanks Lisa.  I thought that was a very strange conversation and also
    thought it was put to rest long ago.  But I do seem to remember Jason
    coming home at about age 12 or so (within the last couple of years) and
    Monica taking him out to dinner.  It was just the two of them and was
    around the time she had had the fling with "Ward" who turned out to be
    Ned.  Could be that since he hasn't been home full time, Monica hasn't
    had a chance to deal with her resentment and it will come out when he
    does come home for good.   
    
    This just brought to mind how Alan used to look through that telescope
    in his living room at the mansion, at the cottage he bought for Susan
    Moore.  They used to tryst at that cottage and he used to obsess about
    looking at the cottage from his house.  One day, Monica, getting
    suspicious about the affair, decided to look through the telescope when
    it dawned on her that she could see Susan's cottage.  It dawned on her
    that Alan was always looking at the cottage through it.
    
    Cheryl

    Great question about Jason.....and super answers.  I have chuckled at
    the way the current writers have loused up history as far as the kids
    are concerned ever since AJ came into the show.
    
    Three years ago when the character of Ned was introduced, AJ had
    decided he hated Boarding School and had returned home to finish his
    Senior year of High School....he had a serious crush on Melissa and Ned
    was giving him advise on attracting her.  At Christmas time that same
    year, Jason came home and met Monica at Kelly's, he went to the same
    Boarding School and loved it.  He called her Mom and she was thrilled
    to see him, hugging him close and calling him Son and my Boy.  At that
    time he looked to be about 12 years old, making the age difference
    between the 2 boys between 4 and 5 years.
    
    In prior appearances, the boys were always about the same age.  The use
    to appear every Christmas Season (home for the holidays), play with the
    electric trains around the Christmas tree and go ice skating with Alan
    and Monica.
    
    I always thought, given AJ's role 3 years ago, that is was so dumb of
    GM and her writers to bring him back as just graduating from High
    School, College would have been more realistic and acceptable....seems
    to me Tracy or Alan mentioned at some point 3 years ago that they were
    close in age.
    
    Hey Paul, you've watched this show from day one....do you remember when
    AJ and Ned were born?  Are they close in age?

   
  �  Hey Paul, you've watched this show from day one....do you remember when
  �  AJ and Ned were born?  Are they close in age?
  
   	I'm not paul, but i think i can help.  ned wasn't "born" on the
    show.  when tracy was introduced she already had ned and i believe he
    was around 10-11 years old.  after aj was born, tracy was constantly
    "looking out" for ned's inheritence from edward.  the first appearence
    of ned (if i'm remembering right) was when the "ward/monica" story
    happened.
    
    	so, i guess then that ned and aj should be about 10 years apart in
    age.
    
    	ann

    Thanks for the info.  I thought there should be an age difference but
    wasn't sure.  If Ned never appeared on the show before he was the adult
    "Ward", where was he when AJ was born....the good old standby Boarding
    School?

    Dawn one - Light brown hair, short, came up to Ned's chest and he
               wasn't a giant.  I can't remember her name, but she left
               the show to star in a soap opera on cable....again I can't
               remember the name.  If this actress had stayed with GH,
               Dawn would still be part of the show and be a major
               character, at least I think so.  She was attractive and a
               very good actress.
    
    Dawn two - Sharon Case, was very good in the role but the change in
               producers from Wes Kennedey to Joe Hardy brought "a change
               in the character's direction".  Dawn was re-written to be
               a strong, sophisicated character (woman of the 90's) and
               Sharon's own sweet personality did not fit the new idea of
               Dawn.  If they had kept Sharon on, Dawn would probably still
               be part of the show, I think.  Although, GM might have 
               decided to write the character out anyway.
    
    Dawn Three - This dweeb lasted about 3 weeks, she had no talent what so
               ever, walked like a gorilla and wasn't even attractive.  She
               must have been someone's girlfriend!  But, thankfully we
               didn't have to put up with her very long she was gone almost
               before we had a chance to complain about her.
    
    Dawn four - Jennifer Guthrie, Although she couldn't act her way out of
               a paper bag, she was Dawn until GM decided the kill her off.
               It goes to show how poor casting can totally ruin a
               character and that character's storyline, not to mention the
               people who have to continually perform with her.  When she
               and Decker were on the run, we were suppose to falll in love
               with them as a romantic super couple, contrary we became 
               totally bored.  Decker by himself was great, but force him
               into involvement with Dawn and it was yawnsville.  The best
               thing to come out of the Dawn/Decker/Ned tale was the
               too-short appearance of the nasty Wendy and the short-term
               June Havoc (the lady at the theater) role.
    
    On the whole, I think GM was right in removing this character from GH,
    I would have preferred her moving away....could have led to future
    storylines.

    >> where was he when AJ was born....the good old standby Boarding
    >>School?
    
      Actually, the stroy was that ned and tracy were living in europe
    before she came on the show.  ned was in europe (probably that 1
    boarding school in europe - that everyone goes to!)
    
    i seem to remember vaguely that ned was called neil when he was first
    mentioned on the show (mega years ago). anyone else remember this?
    
    ann

    OK, I've been meaning to ask this stuff for a while, but always forget.
    
    Why do Tif & Boob hate each other & are they becoming closer since Tif
    got sick & Tony is working on a cure for her "disease"??? I know that
    Lucas was really Cheryl's kid & Cher is Tif's sister, but it seems that
    their hate goes deeper than just the cheryl thing.
    
    Also...What did they say happened to Frisco? Is he missing, or did he 
    just up & leave Max & Felicia?
    
    Thanks a bunch!
    
    Bonnie

    Bonnie,
    
    I think the Boob and Tiff's dislike of each other goes way back on the
    show, to possibly the Ice Princess plot or just after (I didn't watch
    at that time, so can't be sure).  Anyway, they seemed to have gotten
    over whatever it was and were friendly until Tiff found out what Bobbie
    did to conceal Lucas' background.  Once Cheryl left town and time went
    on, the anger seemed to abate and when Tiff got sick, Bobbie swallowed
    her pride and asked Tiff to forgive her and the awful things she had
    done.  Tiff agreed.
    
    As for Frisco, suddenly he was receiving mysterious phone called, we
    never knew who was calling and only heard his side of the conversations
    where were limited to "I understand", "I'll be ready", etc.  After one
    such call, he asked Felicia to meet him at the docks and told her he
    had to go away to protect her and Max and that he loved them both very
    much or he wouldn't be leaving.  He said there was plenty of money in
    the bank accounts to take care of them while he was gone and that
    someday he would be back.  With that speech he turned and walked off
    into the fog, never to be seen again.  It was all very stupid...IMO.

Hi Bonnie,

As far back as I can remember Tiff and Bobbie never really got along.

When Tiff first came on the show and she broke up with Robert, she started 
dating Dr. Noah Drake (played by Rick Springfield).  She and Noah were getting
pretty serious.  Just then, Bobbie came back in town.  (Noah and Bobbie used
to be lovers but Noah just didn't love Bobbie enough to marry her so she left
town for awhile).   Bobbie and Noah started to rekindle thier relationship, so 
Noah called Tiff and told her they had to talk.  Tiff thought for sure that Noah
was going to propose (she had a bottle of champagne and a romantic setting when
Noah showed up), except that when he got there, Noah broke up with Tiff and told
her about Bobbie.   Needlesstosay, Tiff was crushed.  

Eventually, Noah dumped Bobbie again and split town, but I don't think Bobbie
and Tiff every really got along after that.   Maybe somebody else has some more
info.


							Lisa-Marie

    
    A little more to the Frisco thing...
    
    When he met Felicia on the docks and told her that he was leaving, she
    told him that she could never forgive him if he left her.  He didn't 
    say anything in response - just turned and walked away.  With this, 
    Felicia cried out his name and off he went "into the fog" (as Thel put
    it).  
    
    Felicia stood there crying for a minute... and that was the end of it.
    
    The whole scene was extremely emotional and well played (tho I agree
    with Thel that the premice was STUPID!).
    
    --Steph
    

    Thanks for all of the great answers, Thel, Lisa, and Steph!! I'm really
    getting into GH these days. I've been taping every day & watching in
    the AM before work. It's getting better than it was a few months back.
    
    I forgot the whole Noah Drake/Bobbie/Tifany story line! That was back
    in the days that I watched. When I was a pre-teen, I thought that Rick
    Springfield was THE MOST WONDERFUL man on the planet! Geeze, how
    embarraskin! ;*) Now I'll take Harrison Ford, or Mel Gibson, thank
    you very much!
    
    Thanks again for the info!
    Bonnie

Hi Bonnie,

Yes, I remember those pre-teen Rick Springfield-crazed days too.  What a 
horrible thought now!    Well, you can have Mel Gibson, but you're just going
to have to fight for Harrison Ford!!!   :-)  :-)

    
    Not to get off the subj!  BUT...I have [[TOTAL]] dibs on Harrison!
    I've have loved him ever since "42nd Hanover Street" and "The
    bridge over Navorron"  --> Pre Star wars days!!!!!
    
    He has a son Willard and Ben..named after the thriller "Willard" the
    killer rat!!! He lives in Montanna on over 800 acres!!! He is in his
    2nd marriage.
    
    I think he was best in Mosquite Cove!
    
    Sorry for getting off the subj!  It wont happen agin...
    
    Lou 

    Off the subject....HEY!!! When it comes to Harrison Ford, it's OK! ;*)
    
    Thanks for the Stats on Harrison, Lou!!! I LOVED Mosquito Coast, too!
    I think Star Wars was the first time I really noticed him, tho. *AND*
    the only reason he's still in his second marriage is because he hasn't
    met *ME*!!! ;*D :*) :*D Oh, ha ha ha ha! I kill me! ;*)
    
    BTW, Lisa....Thanks for letting me have Mel! If I have to fight for
    harrison, I'll just take Mel & be happy!  :*)
    
    Bonnie

    GH Trivia QUIZ
    
    Questions:
    
    1.  Who performed Jimmy Lee Holt's and Celia Quartermaines wedding
    ceremony?
    
    2.  Who represented Laura Baldwin in her divorce from Scotty Baldwin?
    
    3.  Why was Susan Moore and unfit mother to Jason?
    
    4.  When Sean Donnely first came to PC, who was the first women he
    became attracted to?
    
    5.  Who was Celia's Quartermaines father?
    
    6.  Name the street on which Bobbie's brownstone is located?
    
    Good luck!

    Tivia Quiz Answers:
    
    Answers:
    
    1.	Mayor Lee Baldwin
    
    2.  Attorney Lee Baldwin
    
    3.  She became an alcoholic
    
    4.  Felicia Cummings
    
    5.  Quentin Quartermaine
    
    6. Elm Street
    
    
    How did you do?
    
    Kathy

    Kathy, Great trivia.......I didn't do well at all, most of the
    questions involved things that happened before I started watching the
    show.  I don't agree with the answer to number 4 though, Sean met
    Felicia long before he came to Port Charles in Mexico.  He ended up
    thinking of her as a daughter, although, at the very first he did seem
    to be attracted to her in other that a fatherly way.  When he first
    arrived in PC, he was immediately attracted to Monica.

    Thel,  I have questions about that one myself.  I thought the same as
    you.  I do think Felicia was the first women he met though, maybe that
    is how they are basing the question.  If I find anymore of the quizes I
    will enter them in here.
    
    Kathy
    
    

    1.  Name Monica Quartermaine's predecessor as Chief of Cardiology?
    
    2.  Why did Robert Scorpio marry Holly Sutton?
    
    3.  What was the name of the band Frisco Jones and Blackie Parrish
        worked with?
    
    4.  Whose love did Robert spurn when he married Holly?
    
    5.  Why can't Terri O'Conner hold her liquor?
    
    6.  What was professor Jerrold's first name?

    1.  Rick Webber
    
    2.  She was pregnant and the father was presumed dead.
    
    3.  Riff Raff
    
    4.  Jackie Templeton
    
    5.  She has hypoglycemia
    
    6.  Hector

    1.  Where did Luke and Laura settle after they moved from Port Charles?
    
    2.  At what point in his career did Bert Ramsey turn to a life of
        crime?
    
    3.  Who harbored a teenage crush on Tiffany Hill?
    
    4.  What was the name of the Durban's bogus oil Company?
    
    5.  Who was Carmellia's natural father?
    
    6.  Who was Basil Durban's father?

    1.  First to Australia and then to Texas.
    
    2.  He couldn't reconcile himself to share his position of Police
        Commissioner with a woman - Anna DeVane.
    
    3.  Blackie Parrish
    
    4.  Rainbow Oil
    
    5.  Baron De Varonny
    
    6.  Percy

    Wasn't the baby Holly was carrying Lukes?  I vaguely remember Luke
    being lost in the woods somewhere and he and Holly being an item.
    
    Linda

    Actually Robert married Holly so she could stay in the US, she was
    about to be deported back to England.  She was carrying Luke's child at
    the time (but mis-carried).  They both thought Luke was dead and Robert
    wanted to protect the child of his best friend.

    The AMC people are working on a list of "who's slept with who", and
    I thought it would be fun to do the same for GH.

    Here's a start, I'm sure I've forgotten some!  And I only included
    people who are currently on the show and have BEEN on the show since
    before Gloria Monty's return.

    It was pretty amazing -- all I had to do is start with Robert Scorpio
    and list who he'd been with, and from there on everyone was linked
    together!  Scary thought, eh???


Robert Scorpio  -->  Tiffany Hill
		     Holly
		     Cheryl Stansbury
		     Katherine Delafield
		     Anna Devane

Tiffany Hill	-->  Robert Scorpio
		     Sean Donnely

Anna Devane	-->  Robert Scorpio
		     Duke Lavery

Sean Donnely	-->  Monica Quartermaine
		     Tiffany Hill
		     the mystery woman in Mexico?

Monica Quartermaine --> Rick Webber
		        Alan Quartermaine
			Sean Donnely
			Ned Ashton
			
Alan Quartermaine -->   Monica Quartermaine
			Susan Moore
			Leslie Webber?
			Lucy Jones
			that woman who lived in the country, that Jimmy Lee
			    Holt eventually married

Ned Ashton	-->  Monica Quartermaine
		     Dawn Winthrop
		     Wendy Masters

Lucy Jones	-->  Jake Myers
		     Kevin
		     Tony Jones
		     Alan Quartermaine
		     Scott Baldwin
		     Tom Hardy

Tony Jones	-->  Tanya Jones
		     Lucy Jones
		     Bobbie Spencer
		     his father's nurse

Scott Baldwin	-->  Laura Vining?
		     Bobbie Spencer
		     Lucy Jones
		     Tracy Quartermaine

Bobbie Spencer  -->  Scott Baldwin
		     Jake Myers
		     D.L. Brock
		     lots of "clients", back in her early days

Tracy Quartermaine --> Larry Ashton
		       Scott Baldwin
		       Paul Hornsby

Tom Hardy	-->  Simone Hardy
		     Lucy Jones

Simone Hardy	-->  Tom Hardy
		     Harrison Davis

    Here's some stuff for the list for the list:
    
    Both Tiffany Hill and Bobbie Spenser slept with Noah Drake.
    
    Kevin's last name was Oconner
    
    Ned didn't slept with Dawn.  He kept putting her off till after
    the wedding and it never happened b/c she ran away with Decker
    
    

    You need to add Tony to Bobbie's list.  Also Tracy slept with Mitch ?
    (don't remember his last name) who she was married to before she left
    the show many years ago.
    
    That is right, Ned never did sleep with Dawn.  
    
    Actually, for the amount of years these characters have been on the
    show, they really haven't slept around all that much. (Not nearly as
    much as most other soaps.)
    
    I have a question:  Whatever happened to Sam?  She just kind of
    disappeared and then Remi surfaced. 
    
    Kathy

    Whatever happened to Sam?
    
    The actress, I forget her name stars in a popular show in England.  I
    don't remember the name of it, but I think it is about a policewoman or
    female private detective.  
    
    The last time she appeared on the show after a long absence, she was on
    hiatus from her English show.
    
    Funny isn't it.....she's an American star in England and Finola Hughes
    is the English star of an American show.

    Yesterday, I was going through all of my tapes and labeling them.  I
    stumbled on a really old one.  It had on it an episode from 1988. The
    show opened with Olivia trying to find Duke.  Her father coming by and
    telling her Duke's a married man to leave him alone.  It alos showed
    Anna on a plane going to New York to surprise Duke and Alan was
    planning a surprise party for Monica and he was on the phone inviting
    Cheryl who in turn invited Robert.
    
    /red

    Was that when Duke was working in NY trying to get info on the mob?
    
    I kinda remember that.
    
    Kathy

    For those of you unfamiliar with the storyline that removed Holly from
    the characters in GH........
    
    When Emma Samms and Tristen Rogers both decided not to renew their
    contracts with GH, they were written out as moving to Australia.  He
    came back once (temporarily), then returned permanently.  
    
    When he returned permanently, he was evasive about Holly, saying she
    had been killed in a plane crash.  It turned out he thought she had left 
    him when she flew out on a plane that crashed in the outback.  They had 
    been arguing about his returning to the USA to work for the WSB is 
    determining who was trying to kill off the WSB agents.  
    
    Finally he received a letter from Holly, he read it a couple of times
    on the show (or rather Emma Samms did a voice-over) saying she was
    flying out to join him, she loved him very deeply and would support
    anything he wanted to do, she said she was sorry that she had appeared
    to not understand his need to work in law enforcement and that she
    would prove to him that she supported his every more.  This letter took
    forever to reach him, it had been lost in the mails for months and
    months.  After receiving the letter, Robert was able to get on with his
    life realizing that his beloved Holly loved him and didn't left him
    angry.
    
    After that, he met Katherine and later married Anna.  During his
    engagement to Kate, he hardly ever mentioned Holly, it was almost as if
    she never existed.  Once he and Anna got together, he talked more
    openly of Holly but insisted that Anna had been the love of his life.
    He intimated that Duke and Holly were just "fillers" until he and Anna
    "found each other" again.
    
    As you might all remember, most of us have commented on and off that we
    didn't like the way the writers seemed to conveniently forget the love
    they had for each other (at least in the scripts).

    I thought that it had been mentioned that Holly wasn't alone when she
    left Robert and that was why he never talked about her anymore...she
    broke his heart.
    
    
    /red

    What happened to Dawn:

    I'm hazy on the details, but Decker and Edge took over Colton's health
    spa when Colton left.  Dawn taught aerobics classes there.  She didn't
    know that the spa was a front for an illegal video-tape black market
    ring.  Decker and Edge had a bunch of equipment in one room, to copy
    videos.  Edge was in way over his head with some German guys who were
    overseeing this operation.

    Eventually I think Dawn either found out, or Decker decided to go straight,
    or something.  But a fire got started in the spa, and then either Edge
    or one of the Germans knocked Dawn over the head with a lead pipe.  She
    died without ever regaining consciousness.

    Decker was accused (primarily by Ned) of murdering Dawn, because he was
    found unconscious with the pipe in his hand.  But later Frisco found a
    video tape recorder that had been running that night and had taped the
    whole thing.  Also, Edge's body was found later in a trash can on the
    docks, the Germans had killed him.

    

    Ahhhh! Thank Diane!   
    
    I remember when Edge was involved with the Germans in the illegal video
    sham..  I also remember seeing them get into a scuffle which must have
    been the day Dawn died but I guess I missed that part.
    
    Thanks a bunch :)
    
    Noreen

    As I remember Nanny MacTavish, she was originally Anna's Nanny, when
    Anna was very little.  Quite suddenly Anna's family lost all their
    money (it was never explained how) and Nanny had to find another job. 
    Anna was at a very impressionable age and vowed never to be poor when
    she grew up.  This vow was the reason she was a double agent, the DVX
    paid her very well indeed.
    
    At the same time Nanny went looking for a new job, Holly's family was
    looking for a Nanny to care for her.  You guessed it, MacTavish was
    hired.  She stayed with Holly for years, and I think retired rather
    than hire out for another child.
    
    I can't really remember the story around her coming to Port Charles to
    accompany Holly to Australia, but I think Robert surprised Holly with
    this companion to stay with her until he arrived.

    For those of you not familiar with Amanda Barrington, she is suppose to
    be a very, very wealthy society matron in PC.  Anne Jefferies has
    played the part since day one.  No contract, just a phone call from GH
    asking her to come in.  She always wears her own clothes on the show,
    just asks them what the scene is about and makes her costume selection
    from her own ver vast closet.  The character made her first appearance
    when the spa was a major part of the show.....I can't remember the
    character who ran it (she ended up marrying Amanda's nephew but was in
    love with Jimmy Lee earlier).  Amanda sits an the hspital board as use
    to sit in ELQ's board.  She was very fond of Lucy until she found out
    Lucy was using her, in fact Lucy stayed at her mansion when she and
    Tony separated.
    
    In real life, Anne Jefferies is one of Hollywood's major society
    people and is on the boards of many charities in LA.  She and her
    husband Robert Sterling starred in the TV series Topper, playing
    ghosts.  In her early years she was a Broadway Musical Star and had a
    beautiful light-opera type voice.  
    
    I've always like her and am so happy she is back on GH! (can't you
    tell)
    
    One more thought, strange she seemed to appear from time to time on the
    show right up until the day GM took over then disappeared, now that GM
    is gone, she has returned......makes you wonder if these 2 ladies don't
    like each other.  :-)

    Something has been bothering me regarding this whole Monica/David
    Langton storyline, prehaps some kind soul can straighten it out for me.
    
    Way back when Dawn was first introduced to the show as Moncia's
    long-lost illegitimate daughter, Gail asked what she would say if Dawn
    asked about her father.  Monica told her she already did and that she
    made up a story about her father dying in Vietnam.  This was about the
    same time Monica was called to Washington and (we believe) questioned
    about a very powerful man and her link to him.  We assumed this man was
    Dawn's dad and that the government was doing a background on him
    because of some important job he was in line for.  We also were full of
    guesses as to who Dawn's father was.....an important doctor in the
    hospital where Monica was interning, one of her med school instructors,
    etc.  None of us guessed the tale she wove for Dawn was fact, we all
    assumed it was a cover.  Now we are told the Vietnam tale was the
    truth, we have also seen flashbacks of Monica writing to David about
    there little daughter Dawn, even though when Dawn was alive it was made
    clear to us that her adoptive parents named her.  In fact, if memory
    serves me right, they took Dawn shortly after birth. 
    
    I know with all the changes in producers and writers over the past few
    years stories are bound to change some and I accept that.....it is just
    "I get so confused!!!!!!"   :-)
    
    Is there anyone out there that remembers clearer and less confused?

    Thel,
    
    Everything you typed in your note was correct.  The new writers
    evidently forgot a few facts from before or figured the viewers might
    (HA!).  Monica did tell Gail that she "made up" a story about Dawn's 
    father being killed in Vietnam.  Then when he came to Port Chuck, Monica 
    was shocked to see him because supposedly he died in Vietnam and this was 
    the first she knew of him being alive.
    
    Marie

    Thanks Marie,  I guess I'm not going crazy after all.....or maybe
    you're on the same road  :-)

    Could someone fill in the blanks for me about Gail, Lee and Scottie.
    I know Lee is Scott's real father, but I believe Gail is his
    step-mother.  Who was his real (biological) mother?  What happened to
    her?  How did Lee meet Gail?  When were they married?  How did Scott
    react to Gail when she got involved with his Father?

    Sadly Thel, I've been on that road for years ;-).
    
    Yikes!  You sure do know how to ask some "history" questions.  From
    what I remember, Scotts mother was Audrey's sister and I can't for the
    life of me remember her name.  As for the other questions, I can't
    remember exactly.  Maybe someone else can remember.
    
    Marie

    ok - here's the history - as much as my feeble mind can remember -
    
    	scott	real father is unknown
    		real mother is meg something. she was a nurse at GH. lee
    		adopted scott as his own.
    
    		i belive meg had a breakdown and left the show.
    
    	tom	real father is tom baldwin (one time husband of audrey and
    		 brother of lee baldwin (that's how scott and tom are
    		 cousins).  
    		real mother is audrey hardy. i think tom raped/attacked
    		 audrey and she became preggo.  i remember her going off
    		 to mexico (?) and having the baby and daddy tom following
    		 her and kidnapping (or trying to) baby tom.
    
    this should jog some memories
    		ann

    Ann, You are wonderful!  Thanks so much for the Badwin history.  I
    didn't watch the show back then.  I never realized Scott wasn't Lee's
    biological son and am very surprised.  It does explain a lot,
    especially Scott's insecurity about being all he thinks Lee wants him
    to be.

    I would like to add a few things about Lee/Meg/Scott/Gail.  Meg who is
    Scotts mother didn't just leave the show.  She had a history of
    nervous breakdowns.  She became out of control and overdosed on sleeping 
    pills.  I think Scott was around 9-10 (but not real sure) at the time. 
    
    All of this heartbreak made Lee turn to the bottle and he
    basically gave up on life.  Scott suffered because of it, Lee wasn't 
    there for him when he needed help to get over the loss of his mother.
    
    Lee almost lost his practice and everything else in his life.  He
    finally realized he had a drinking problem and went to AA and got his
    life back together.  
    
    Lee met Gail when he was Chief Council at GH and she was on staff. 
    They got married and eventually moved to Phoenix.  As far as I can
    remember, Scott has always liked Gail, I don't remember their being any
    conflict about it. 
    
    I remember that Meg was a real thin women with blonde hair.  I think I
    was about 7-8 when that storyline came on.  I can't believe how much I
    can still remember about it.
    
    Steve and Audrey were married to each other first.  Then they got
    divorced.  Audrey was then married to Doogie Howsers dad at one point. 
    He was a surgeon on GH also. He was an alocholic and got abusive so she 
    kicked him out.
    
    Somewhere in there she met Tom Baldwin and got pregnant by him.  Not
    sure if they ever married.  Awhile later Audrey and Steve remarried.
    
    WOW, I think I have strained my memory enough for today. ;.)  I guess I
    have watched this show since I was old enough to understand what was
    going on.  That was the days when the only divorces I knew about where
    the ones on TV.
    
    BTW:  Audrey's sister's name was Lucy who was about 10+ years older
    then Audrey.  I remember when this show was 15 minutes long and most of
    it took place in the medicine room.  Lucy and Jessy Brewer were good
    friends and roomates at one point.  Lucy moved out and moved away and
    that was when Bobbie came to town and moved in with Jessy.
    
    I'll have to ask my mom this weekend if she can remember any more about
    that timeframe.
    
    Kathy

    Kathy.... WOW!! WHAT A MEMORY!!!!
    
    While reading your note I remembered everything but I wouldn't have
    remembered enough to write most of what you did.
    
    Marie

    Kathy:
    
    Great memory.  I seem to remember that Audrey was married to Steve,
    they divorced and she married Tom Baldwin.  She became pregnant by Tom
    and eventually had the baby, whom she named Steven.  For some reason,
    the name was changed to Tommy (today, Tom Hardy).  So, I think that Tom
    is not Steve's natural son.  I also seem to think that Audrey was
    unstable at this time too,  flushing drugs down the toilet.  Then, she
    and Steve eventually got back together and married.
    
    I also remember when she was married to Jim Hobart (Doogie Hower's
    father), the surgeon who flipped out because of the accident with his
    hand.  
    
    Remember that little room all the scenes took place in in the hospital. 
    It was right off the nurses station, to the left if you were facing it. 
    More private talks and fights used to take place there.
    
    I also remember the first Diana Taylor (the one before Brooke Bundy)
    with brown hair.  
    
    Lee was also mayor of Port Charles, before Luke was.
    
    What memories, huh???
    
    Cheryl

    Kathy, you're wonderful....but then, we've known that for ages :-)
    Thankyou so much for the full Scott/Lee history.  I seem to remember
    someone on the show aluding to Lee's years ago drinking problem when I
    first started watching.  No wonder poor Scottie has had problems.

    Cheryl--> The room you are referring to is the medicine room.  With all
    the personal problems that were discussed in there, it is a wonder they
    didn't have patients dieing from neglect. ;.)
    
    Do you remeber Jessy's husband, Phil.  He was killed in the hospital
    when he was hit over the head with a geo rock he had sitting on his
    desk. (he was a doctor)  I always thought he was a scum bag. 
    
    Glad y'all enjoyed the memories.  The more I wrote, the more I
    remembered.
    
    Kathy

    Typing the Evil Mom's note in #16 got me curious about Heather and Jeff
    Webber.  Since that plot took place before my GH entry, I have no idea
    waht their story was.  Were they married?  Why did Heather give the
    baby up....for money? (it was the black market).
    
    I did see Diane dead on her kitchen floor and remember Heather had
    snuck out of the sanitorium that same time.  Diane had written
    Heather's name in her own blood, or so everyone thought, but if memory
    serves me right it was someone's mother (Susan Moore's?) who did it.
    Was Susan Mother Heather's Aunt?  Why did the lady who killed Diane do
    it?

    Wow, 3 of us thinking Dom was vastly improved yesterday!  I really
    couldn't believe how different she acted and how composed she was. 
    Started me wondering if the problem was John J. and not her?  Or maybe
    because we didn't like the pairing to begin with, are feelings about
    the actress were colored.  No, she is just improving in acting ability
    much as Paul is........maybe GM had them so up-tight they weren't
    performing well.  Now that Wendy Riche as arrived everyone on the show
    seems much more relaxed, or is it my imagination?
    
    Oh, I forgot to mention that in the Lynn Herring on DOOL article one of
    the things she talked about was how much easier the DOOL schedule is
    than GH's.  Seems GH starts work around 11 AM and they work into the
    night each day.....sometimes 12 hours at a time.  DOOL has a more
    normal schedule starting between 7 and 8 and ending their day between 4
    and 5.  The only time they work at night is if there is an exterior
    night scene and she hasn't had one of them yet.  While I was reading I
    remembered "Dawn" complaint about Gloria working them all night.  I
    wonder if the schedule has change to a more normal on since she left,
    maybe she was a night person and expected every else to conform to her
    ideal schedule.
    
    Anyway, I'm assuming Steph is at DECWORLD again this Friday since she
    hasn't been boppin' in here.  She'll probably "flame" at us over Dom.
    Could be FUN!

    When Jeff Weber was first introduced on the show he was married to
    Monica.  They were having problems steming from her having an afair
    with Jeff's brother Rick.  Their marriage ended and jeff feel for
    Heather.  Kind of on the rebound from what I can remember.  They got
    married and she had him fooled from day one.  Everyone else know
    exactly what she was like, but he didn't listen.  
    
    The Taylors did adopt the baby and Diana was killed, although I think
    Heathers mother did it.
    
    Susan Moore is Jasons mother and had an affair with Allen.  Heathers
    mother was Susan's aunt.
    
    Jeff and Heather finally were devorced, Jeff got his son back and moved
    to Arizona to start a new life.  
    
    Kathy 

    Kathy
    I remember when Monica was married to Jeff Webber.  It makes me laugh
    to think about the two together.... Monica and McGiver.
    
    Marie

    Heather did sneak out of the nut house several times and did want to
    kill Diane.  It was ANNE's name (then played by the woman who later
    went on to play Barbara Montgomery Cudahy Montgomery on AMC) that
    Heather wrote with Diane's blood (too bad she used the wrong hand).  It
    was Heather's mother Mrs. Grant that killed Diane.
    
    /red

    OH, the reason, Heather wrote Anne's name was because Anne and Jeff
    were in love and Heather wanted to break them up.
    
    /red

    Thanks for the info on Heather and Jeff.  You all have great memories!

    We first learned that Monica has an "out-of-wedlock" child when Dawn
    arrived in town, to find her natural mother.  Seems this young lady
    knew she was adopted and when her parents died, she found her birth
    certificate and decided to "check out" her real Mom.
    
    As the story progressed, Monica took a liking to this young student
    nurse.  Soon she discovered the girl was her daughter, the result of a
    love affair while she was in Med School.  She and Dawn re-united and
    Monica told her that she and her father were very much in love but he
    was sent to Vietnam where he was presumed died.  Monica discovered she
    was pregnant after he left and couldn't afford to keep the baby so put
    it up for adoption, our of love, not out of not wanting the child.
    
    Before Dawn arrived on the scene, Monica, feeling out of sorts, had gon
    to a "fat farm" to rejuvinate herself.  While there she met the tennis
    pro and was attracted to this much younger, very handsome fellow.  Wade
    (the pro) was also attracted to her and they, of course, had a
    one-night stand before Monica decided 'this has to stop' and went home.
    
    Imagine her surprise when out of the blue Tracy's son Ned arrived at
    the family mansion and he turned out to be Wade.  Ned had been
    travelling around the country doing various odd jobs to support
    himself.  Because of his 'famous family name' (Ashton was royalty in
    England), he uses aliases.  Monica had never met him before so had no
    way of knowing.
    
    Naturally, Ned and Dawn eventually fell in love and were to be married. 
    Monica and Ned decided to keep their fling a secret because it would
    crush the fragile Dawn.  Meanwhile a new guy came to town, Decker with
    the wild hairdo was Colton Shore's half-brother.  He was a strange yet
    facinating fellow and Dawn was torn between him and Ned.  She finally
    decided better to be safe than sorry and agreed to marry Ned.
    
    At the same time this young woman, Wendy arrive in town, she had found
    out that the Wade she had a brief fling with while she was the
    receptionist at the Spa was relly the rich heir to the Quartermaine
    forrtune as well as being the son of royality in England.  Since she
    knew there was something going on between Monica and Ned at the spa,
    she decided it would be a great way to earn easy money to blackmail the
    2 of them or.....she would tell Dawn.
    
    Ned, to keep her quite, pretended he was really in love with her and
    was just marrying Dawn for the money.  Decker and him became wary
    partners in protecting Dawn as Wendy was a "fruitcake".
    
    Wendy turned up dead on the merry-go-round at a fair PC was having. 
    Decker became the prime suspect and went on the run.
    
    At this same time, Dawn and Ned were married, but just after the
    ceremony, Dawn overheard Monica and Ned talking about not having to
    worry about her finding out they had an affair now that Wendy was dead.
    Dawn took off, joined up with Decker and we put up with a summer of
    these two on the run.
    
    Sadly, this could have been a very good storyline, except for the poor
    acting on the part of the girl playing Dawn (Jennifer Guthrie).
    
    To make a long story short, it turned out that Decker's friend from the
    carnival had killed Wendyh and was trying to kill Decker.  He wa a
    madman who was jealous of Decker's relationship with his wife (purely
    maternal) who supposedly died in a trapeze accident.  She didn't and
    finally he was caught and the young people went back home.  
    
    Ned and Dawn's marriage was going to be annulled but she was killed by
    Edge, when she found out he had gotten Decker involved in recording
    pirating.  Decker left town and for a short time it looked like Ned
    would end up with a drinking problem (he didn't).
    
    The David story is to finish the Dawn story and add some other
    information to Monica's past life.

    Prior to Edward's ghost, and now David's, did GH ever have a ghost on
    the show?  I don't recall any in the years since I started watching,
    but maybe before?
    
    You know, come to think of it, the alien and ghost characters are
    rather unique (oh I know AMC has had ghost's before, but always people
    who died violently)  I don't remember any of the shows have the comical
    type like Edward was with martini's flowing, etc.  An Casey the Alien,
    now that was totally unique......I want him back, either as the alien
    or as Shep the reporter, I don't care which!

    Hi -
    
    I also can't think of GH having ghost before but I can think of at
    least one instant where everyone thought they were seeing a ghost.
    
    After Laura left they had that girl come on, Jackie Templeton's sister,
    and Luke kept thinking that he was seeing a ghost of Laura.  If I'm
    correct, this imitation Laura was actually parading as a ghost for some
    reason.  Then when Genie Francis/Laura did return to the show Luke
    thought he was seeing a ghost.
    
    G.H. may not have had that many ghost because they have too much going
    on with science fiction than to deal with "reality?".  Remember with
    the ice princess story the entire city of Port Chuck almost froze to
    death in the middle of the summer.  Of course, they didn't thanks to
    the escapdes of Luke/Holly/Scorpio/Tiffany.
    
    Just reminiscing about the good old days when I could watch G.H. every
    day and not rely on the wonder updates and comments that are the oxygen
    that keeps me breathing another day.
    
    Karen

    Karen, Nice of you to comment.  I chuckled when I read the Emily
    (Jessie) diary, especially the comments on science fiction rather than
    people and real life plots.  Emily made it sound like all those plots
    happened after Gloria Monty left the first time, however, she was the
    one who started it with the Ice Princess tale.  Others just copied her,
    not only GH producers but other soaps as well.  I think when she
    mentioned the science fiction she was alluding to the Alien storyline,
    one which I thoroughly enjoyed.....I wouldn't mind seeing Casey return
    to Port Charles to help out its citizens.
    
    Hey I just thought of something....he could have rescued Robert and
    Anna and is keeping them on his planet until all is safe at hoem on
    Earth.   :-)

    Help.....can anyone explain Sean and Connors relationship.  I know they
    are father and son but I'm not sure when this was found out.
    
    Karen

    lets see.....
    
    shortly after connor arrived in port charles we learned that he was
    hiding from u.s. immigration services.  he had a student visa that had
    expired.  he was born in mexico, his mother was mexican - but his
    father was an american.
    
    he was raised by his mother and her husband as their child.  somehow he
    found out that the husband was not his father and connor went off in
    search of his biological father.
    
    many years ago, sean met the mother and she and sean fell madly in
    love, had a one night stand (which resulted in connor).  sean was
    involved in smuggling guns to various fractions in mexico.  the people
    in this village (where the mother lived) only knew sean as "el patron".
    
    connor traced "el patron" to the port charles area.  i forget a bunch
    here.
    
    as connor was about to be deported, sean announced that he was connors
    natural father.  they had blood tests to confirm it.
    
    i'm sure there is more, but i'm having a brain cramp at the moment.
    
    	ann		: )

    Karen,  Sean just recently found out he had a Son.  Connor was an
    "illegal alien" from Mexico....although he doesn't speak Spanish!
    
    Seems years ago, before Sean became a WSB agent, he was a gun runner in
    Mexico.  There was a bad guy who ran a small town with an iron glove
    and the people asked Sean, whom they called only by "El Patron" to help
    rid their community of him.  While trying to do just this, he met a
    lovely masked woman at a fiesta.  They fell madly in love and had a
    brief affair.  She was married to a very rich person.  Sean freed the
    town, and was offered the job with the WSB and accepted it.  He and the
    woman lost contact so he never knew she delivered his son.  When he
    returned years later to find her, he was told she died, which she did.
    
    The husband realized as the baby grew that it wasn't his so wouldn't
    have anything to do with it.  The mother always spoke only English to
    her son and named him Connor "because he had the map of Ireland written
    all over his face".  He was sent to private school in the USA and when
    he graduated the foster father didn't want him around so he bummed
    around the USA looking for his real father.  The INS kept tracking him
    down so he kept moving on.
    
    When he arrived in PC, he thought he had traced his real father there,
    he became friendly with Mac who found him living in the rundown place
    that now is the Outback.  Connor never knew his father's name, he did
    have a description of him that his mother gave him.  He zeroed in on
    Sean as the description fit but Sean played dumb, thinking one of his
    many enemies had sent Connor to track him down.  Sean started
    investigating and just as Connor was about to be deported as an
    illegal, came forward with the news that Connor was his son.
    
    By this time, Connor was totally fed up with Sean, especially when he
    found out Sean knew about their relationship for a time before facing
    it in public.  Sean's excuse was that he had to be sure that Connor
    wasn't some hit man out to get him for some old enemy.  BTW:  Tiff was
    totally thrilled and whatever relationship Connor and Sean have now is
    because of her pushing them both to try to accept each other.
    
    They still have a very tenuous relationship.  Sean is having trouble
    accepting a fully grown son, he never knows quite what to say to him
    and Connor resents any suggestion of fatherly advise by Sean.  They are
    both trying though.

    Ann-----Were you hurt in that collision?  I hope not.
    

    Ann, Thel -
    
    Thanks for the info on Sean and Connor.  Now, I'm not so lost.
    
    Thanks again,
    
    Karen

    I guess this question is for one of the "old-time" GH viewers,(Marie?).
    
    What was the history concerning Scott and Laura?  From what I gather,
    they were married before Luke came along and divorced once Laura became
    involved with him.  How old were they?  Was Scott in law school or were
    they in high school?  It is very confusing for those of us who didn't
    watch the show back them.  I was under the impression that Scott and
    Laura were high school sweethearts and married young.  Someone told me 
    when the Laura character first appeared on the show she was suppose to
    be sixteen and was about 18 when the affair with Luke started.  is this
    true or was she older?

    I'm still here.  Friday is my last day....waaaaaaaa....I'll miss you
    all terribly!!!!
    Scott, I believe was a law student when he and Laura got married.  From
    what I can remember, they weren't married long at all when Luke came
    into the picture.  Laura seemed to be interested in Luke but ignored it
    because she was married to Scott.  Then Luke raped Laura in a night
    club (no one else was there).  After that it was all Laura could think
    about and eventually she left Scott for Luke.  Scott was very bitter
    and that's when his character became a "bad boy".
    
    Marie

    Thanks Marie.  I don't know what we will do without you to fill us in
    on the past.  I just can't believe you are leaving after 19 years with
    DEC.  We will stay in touch though!

    Based on the information Marie gave, I'm wondering if history will
    re-write itself and we will find out that Rhonda and Scott were dating
    and fooling around in High School.....she said she was sixteen when she
    quite school and shortly afterward had Karen.  Later, when Scott and
    Laura were on the verge of breaking up, Scott met up with Rhonda and
    they spent a night together.....Rhonda mentioned it was a kick to sleep
    with the important lawyer.  If this is so, she would have already had
    Karen and would have decided to keep her a secret from Scott.  Either
    that or the re-write of already stated Rhonda's age when Karen was born
    will change to be the result of that one-night stand with Scott.  Let's
    see, the age 16 seems more in line with Karen's age now.  Any other
    suggestions for re-writing the past?

    Luke was running the club where he raped Laura.  For some reason I
    think that Brock (Bobbie's husband at the time) owned the club.  Laura
    was working there as a waitress while Scott was in school.  She was
    attracted to Luke, but because she was married, she didn't do anything
    about it.  After she was raped, she couldn't stop thinking about him. 
    Finally, she left Scott.
    
    Kathy

        You mean she enjoyed being raped??  I can't believe that they
	would take a relationship that began with rape and turn it into
	one of the biggest daytime soap romances!  

	Karen

    Blows your mind, doesn't it Karen!  Guess those were the days when
    rapist turns good guy plots were all the rage.  Now viewer won't
    tolerate it..........DOOL has lost lots of viewers because they tend to
    keep this plot as part of their storylines.  Jack, then Lawrence...ugh!

    I may be wrong, but I think "Mr. Smith" owned the club.  I don't think
    Brock was on the show yet, at that time.  Mr. Smith was the father of
    the woman Luke was engaged to, I can't remember her first name.  Mr.
    Smith was an organized crime boss, I think.  Luke was going to marry
    his daughter so that he could "join the family", but I can't remember
    if he was trying to infiltrate & bust them, or if he was just in it
    for the money.

    Then he fell for Laura, & ended up running away with her instead of
    marrying Mr. Smith's daughter.

    - Diane

    Wasn't Luke a small-time hood when he first appeared on the show and
    the "love of a good woman" (Laura) turned him around?

    -diane, is right, Mr. Smith owned the club and Richard Simmons used to
    give exercise lessons.  Bobbie was engaged to HUTCH (one of the best
    looking guys to grace daytime television)who was Luke's best friend and
    also in the mob who was shoot and died and Bobbie's arms.
    
    I saw recently in a magazine interview with Genie Francis that when
    people ask about Luke and Laura and the rape scene, the spokepeople for
    the show say it wasn't rape but a seduction scene.  She replied that
    when she played the part, she played rape, cause that's how it was
    written, it was only a fluke that the chemistry between them was so
    strong, as a matter a fact Anthony Gerry was supposed to be on the show
    for a short time, but the audience loved him and the rest is history....
    
    /red

    /red, I thought Bobbie's boyfriend was Roy.  I have to agree that he
    was a hunk. 
    
    And, it was Mr. Smith who owned the club.  He was using it as a front
    for laundrying money.  His daughter was Jennifer Smith, who Luke was
    set to marry but, well, you know the rest.
    
    The "seduction" scene was done to Herb Alpert's "Rise".
    
    Cheryl

    Cheryl,  you are right!!!  Roy's last name was DeLucca and he was
    gorgeous.  Hutch joined up with Luke and Laura when they were on the
    run searching for the "left handed boy".
    
    Does anyone remember Billy?  She was on when Robert first came on.  She
    was with the WSB and was a hot ticket.  she ended up getting shot in a
    phone booth.  I think on the waterfront.
    
    /red
    

    I remember Billy, she was an older woman and for awhile I thought she
    was Robert's mother as well as "on his team".  It was so sad when she 
    died, he did a great job of acting that day, had me in tears.  I think 
    that is really when Robert became my favorite GH character.

    
    It was in the summer of 1978, when Scott and Laura's story started.
    Then Bobbie Spencer began behaving viciously toward Laura because Laura
    was her rival for the affection of Scott. Jackie Zeman played the part
    so well, she began getting hate mail and death threats. The TV
    production office turned the bags full of hate mail over to the FBI,
    who began buzzing around the production offices. The only answer to
    the problem was to introduce another character to take some of the heat
    off Jackie Zeman. So Tony Geary was hired as Boobie's brother. At first
    they had talked to him about playing the part of Mitch Williams, but
    didn't think he was right for the part.
    In the beginning Tony was just to play a real lowlife working for the
    Mafia and doing Bobbie's dirty work at hurting Laura.
    After Laura killed David Hamilton the Scott and Laura story had many
    obstacles thrown in their paths to prevent them from getting married,
    like Bobbie saying she was pregnant with Scott's baby and schemes of
    Luke's. Finally in mid 1979 teenagers Scott and Laura were married,
    soon Laura realized she had made a mistake. She was attracted to Luke.
    She took a job at the campus disco which was managed by Luke for the
    mob. Luke was elected by the mob to kill Tracey's husband Mitch
    Williams who was a corrupt assistant DA. Luke knew if he didn't kill
    Mitch the mob would kill him. He turned to Laura confessed his love for
    her, started kissing and pulling her cloths off until she resisted,
    then on the floor of the disco he raped her.

    Thanks so much for the history of Scott and Laura, also Bobbie and 
    Luke.  I, for one, really appreciate it since I dind't watch the show
    then.  
    
    Interesting tidbit about the hate mail and the FBI involvement.  If
    Jackie played the part so well back then, no wonder they brought her
    back after she left the show.  Wonder what happened to that acting
    ability?  Although I have to say, she seems improved lately....guess
    someone told her to cool the weird facial expressions.  :-)

    
    Long long time ago, (1978-79), what was the name of the plague that
    was killing everyone and caused Monica and Rick to stay in the hospital
    together (because of the quarantine) and that drove Alan wild.
    
	Also, what was the name of the boy who turned out to have 
    brought the disease to Port Charles?  I think he lived with his
    grandmother.

    Lasa Fever? 
    
    
    Jeremy? 
    
    

    jeremy - that sounds right.  didn't ann logan adopt him?
    he brought it cause he was loving in th jungles of south america.
    
    ann

    Whatever happened to the blond that owned/worked at the spa way back
    when?  She was in love with Jimmy Lee but he wanted Celia Q.  All the
    previous history notes only mention her once as Lorna - but I'm not
    sure that was her name, although I know there was an 'L' in it.....
    
    Thanks - if anyone remembers!
    
    K.

    She married Amanda Barrington's nephew and when they got custody of
    Mike the 3 of them left town.....he had owned the TV station Tiff now
    owns.

From SOD 10 years ago.
	After months of platonic marriage, Robert and Holly consumated their
relationship. When Luke returned to reunite with Holly, he was devastated to 
discover that she was now Mrs. Scorpio.
	"Luke is alive!" and incredulous Holly informed Robert later. Luke 
asked Holly why she had married his best pal. "I was alone about to be deported,
and I was pregnant with your child!" she explained. And she thought he was dead.
Caught between two lovers, Holly couldn't decide which man she loved more but
she had to make a choice.