MARCH 1978

All My Children

Phoebe leads Chuck to believe the police think that Donna is dead. Donna turns up at Maggie’s apartment. Learning that Ray Gardner will recover from the knife wounds inflicted by Billy Clyde, Phil urges Ruth to prosecute for rape. Brooke tells Phoebe she is out to take Dan away from Devon. Livid because Mark lets Paul know he and Ellen have a thing going, Ellen refuses to see Mark. Having hinted to Linc he would kill Edna to gain full custody of Dottie, David considers poisoning her. The judge agrees to suspend Phoebe’s weekend sentence and she plans to use fake paralysis to re-snag Charles.

Accepting an out-of-town job, Nick tells Erica the wedding is off. Caroline is relieved when Nancy assures her she will marry Carl Blair and move to Chicago. David continues to plot Edna’s demise. Linc has second thoughts about letting Claudette redecorate his apartment. Mark fears Ellen is becoming too interested in Paul Martin. Dan helps plans Devon’s surprise birthday party, but dates Brooke. Billy Clyde discovers Donna at Maggie’s. Brooke learns Phoebe can walk.

Learning Donna is in Center City, Phoebe pays Billy Clyde not to tell Chuck. Edna is confusing ill effects from pills David is slipping her for morning sickness. Joe is furious when Ray Gardner calls to talk with Ruth. Brooke plots to spoil Devon’s surprise party. Erica refuses to accept the fact that Nick does not intend to marry her. Flying in from Chicago to marry Nancy, Carl’s plane crashed!

Marrying Nancy at his hospital bedside to give her unborn baby his name, Carl dies as result of the injuries he suffered in the plane crash. Learning Donna is in Center City, Chuck goes to her and she agrees to return with him to Pine Valley. Claudette is the new manager of the Chateau and Eddie does not liker her bossy methods. Learning Edna is not pregnant, David puts aside his plan to poison her – for the time being. Ruth decides to press rape charges against Ray Gardner. Phil catches Chuck and Tara in an innocent embrace. Caroline learns Nancy’s unborn child is Frank’s, not Carl’s.

Erica is humiliated when Nick leaves town after taking her to bed. Benny suggests to Donna that she and Chuck move out of Pine Valley. Phoebe talks Charles into being her physician. Getting a letter from Ray Gardner claiming to have information that can affect Tad’s future, Ruth visits him in jail. Phil fears Tara is wishing she were still married to Chuck. Benny has a thing for Estelle. Donna plans to have surgery to reverse tubal ligation.


One Life To Live

Karen finally succeeds in seducing Larry and hopes it will lead to pregnancy. Cathy decides to continue working at the clinic. Will is irritated when he catches Samantha on a date with Talbot Huddelston. Becky accepts Richard’s marriage proposal, but realizes her past will prevent marriage.

Larry succumbs to Karen’s bedroom charms. Marco learns that Becky Lee Hunt is merely a name she found on a guitar case. Marco’s police record comes to light. Paul is disturbed by Pat’s turning the house into a shrine for Brian. Aware that Dorian is interested in Peter, Melinda draws away from him. Dorian insists Melinda needs more psychiatric treatment. Brad plans to have a vasectomy without telling Jenny. Cathy admits she loves Larry but knows it is futile. Samantha is angry at Tony for treating her like a little sister. Carla decides to go back to school. Brad is impotent with Jenny but not with hookers.

Believing Dorian’s claims that she and Peter are lovers, Melinda starts seeing Marco. Melinda doesn’t want Dorian to buy her a  music school. Richard’s mother is coming for the wedding but Becky must call the whole thing off. Pat continues to crawl into the shell created when Brian died. Although sleeping with Karen, Larry loves Cathy. When Karen agrees to sleep with a stranger if he buys her a bracelet, Danny tells Cathy Karen is doing something wrong. Peter, enraged by Dorian’s lies to Melinda, says he is done with her. Jenny feels her marriage to Brad is coming apart.

Jenny gives Brad $2,500 but it is stolen by Aldo while he is in the bedroom with Rita. Brad turns in a false police report that the money was stolen from the health club even though Samantha refuses to corroborate the story. Becky’s prior marriage comes to light. Marco blackmails Karen over her seductive lifestyle. Top-notch cardiac surgeon Jack Scott is coming to Llanview. Dorian tells Peter Melinda lied when she said Dorian had intimated to her that she (Dorian) and Peter were having an affair.


Backed into a corner by the presence of Peter, Dorian tries to convince Melinda she never told her they had been lovers. Fearing she is losing her mind, Melinda agrees to see Will. Marco talks Ina Hopkins into letting him stay on as a boarder by becoming her theatrical agent. Ed’s old friend, Dr. Jack Scott joins Llanview hospital staff. Karen convinces Larry that the gifts she got in exchange for favors to various men friends were presents from Dorian. Brad roughs Rita up trying to get back the money Aldo stole. Karen turns to prostitution to pay off Marco's blackmail money. Before joining a tennis tournament, Brad hires Aldo to steal Lana’s ring from Cathy.


General Hospital

Barbara Vining, Laura’s adoptive mother, phones Lesley to come and get Laura. Realizing she opened old wounds for Barbara by returning, Laura apologizes and goes back to Port Charles. Bobbies makes Scotty believe Laura doesn’t love him anymore. Lesley tells Rick that David is like a member of the family. Shattered to learn Monica and her husband Greg had a long-standing affair, and unable to believe Monica when she says the relationship was forced on her, Gail spews out her hate for Monica. Against Lee’s advice, Gail decides to give royalties from Greg’s book to Maria. Mark tells Katie he loves her. Lamont suspects something is going on between them. Heather is unhappy about the arrival of her cousin, Susan Moore.

Fearing Lesley will tell Rick he made a pass at her, David figures to get even by getting Laura to pose for him. Laura is dating a young man called Darren. Lee notices Gail has built a wall between their relationship. Rick is in New York with Monica and Alan to get a cardiac grant. Heather gets a job in the hospital library. Heather’s mother becomes Lesley’s housekeeper. Lamont wants Katie at his hospital bedside around the clock. Gary’s brother, Howard arrives in Port Charles, and instantly charms Gina. Lamont plans to build a wing in Mark’s name. Jessie is having dizzy spells.

Rick tells Lesley he feels sorry for Monica because she is lost without Gail’s support. After her mother realizes P.J. is Steven Lars, Heather leaves Port Charles but Jeff finds her. Mark tells Katie they have to wait before letting Lamont know they love each other. Bobbie hopes an ailing Jessie will invite her to move into her home.

Gina and Gary wed. Heather’s mother feels she should stop seeing Jeff. Given two weeks notice by her landlady, Bobbie plans on moving in with Jessie. Katie warns Mark that Lamont is being extravagant to make them feel guilty about their love for each other. Rick feels sorry for Monica since her estrangement from Gail. Laura is falling for David.

Katie’s upset when Mark reveals to Lamont that he and Katie are in love. Lamont warns Katie that if she seeks divorce, Mark will be exposed as a seducer of patients’ wives. Bobbie helps Mr. Rooney spy on  Katie and Mark, and Lamont gives her an expensive watch. Laura is displeased when Lesley and Rick will allow her to attend an out-of-state baskeball game with Darren only if they come along. Scotty still desires Laura. David is trying to turn Laura’s modeling session into a bedroom session. Rick’s puzzled by the information leaked about land needed for the cardiac site. Alan thinks Monica has blabbed to David about the land deal. The Taylors are receiving P.J.’s final adoption papers.


The Edge Of Night

April realizes she could break up Miles and Denise’s marriage by informing him there was nothing wrong with the wiring at the Claremont Clinic the night Catherine Damon died. Unable to tell him, April then is shocked by the news that electrician Charlie died from drug overdose. Deborah wants to become policewoman despite father Tony’s objections. Mrs. Jackson assures Logan that Tony Saxon was responsible for her husband’s death.

Wishing to have a lasting relationship with Nicole, Miles asks Denise for divorce. Denise leads Nicole to believe that Winter  is the woman from Miles’s past. Kevin broods about his sterility. Logan and Raven continue their affair. Nicole does her first television broadcast.

Denise fixes a deadly cocktail and Nicole drinks it. Nicole learns that Winter is a woman whose father died as result of the medical incompetence of Miles’s father, and that Miles has supported her through they years. Deborah is becoming more involved with Raney.

Deborah joins the police academy. Thinking Raney was responsible for Morris Jackson’s death, Steve sets out to prove it. Chip talks his old girlfriend Winter into working for Tony and Raney.

Chip stalks Logan in Winter’s hallway. Denise has Miles and Nicole tailed. Kevin fears he is being pressured to do less than ethical jobs on the crime commission. Kevin broods over his sterility which puts damper on his marriage to Raven. April is released from the hospital.