April 1979

All My Children

Wally and a healthy baby Bonnie return home; Devon decides to keep and rear her baby. With their father remarried, Dan’s sister, Betsy, comes to Pine Valley. With Billy Clyde in jail, Estelle feels guilty for having been the cause of his terrorizing everyone. Claudette’s mother, Margo, in a car accident in Costa Rica, is forcing Claudette to leave the Chateau in Eddie’s care. Learning an important critic is in the audience, Kelly takes uppers one more time. Joe is upset by Jeff’s decision to remain in San Francisco, but realizes it’s the only way he can save his marriage to Christina.

Having broken off her engagement to Mark, Ellen asks Paul for a shoulder to lean on, and he obliges. With a lot of shoving from Brooke, Mark finds himself in bed with her. Feeling she may have caused Ellen’s break with Mark, Devon reconsiders her decision to raise Bonnie alone. Letty Jean is Kelly’s latest pill connection. At the altar with Benny, Estelle is warned by Linc that Billy Clyde is going to charger her with bigamy if she weds. Nancy is mugged while out on a social service assignment. A distinguished-looking con, Langley Wallingford, artist arrives in town posing as a professor.

After making love with Brooke, a hung-over Mark throws her out of his apartment, but she plans to keep trying. Linc interrupts Estelle and Benny’s wedding, insisting she is running risk of bigamy action. Devastated, Estelle tells Benny she never wants to see him again and goes to stay with Donna and Chuck. Nancy faces risky surgery for the skull fracture she suffered in the mugging and she asks Frank to raise Carl if she should die. Feeling responsible for her mother’s break-up with Mark, Devon tells Wally she wants to marry him.

Tara, Philip and Charlie enjoy vacation until a mysterious government official offers Phil a highly confidential assignment. Edna is learning to forget Benny with the help of Langley Wallingford, who is only interested in her money. Ellen is aghast at Devon’s decision to wed Wally. Despite attempts by Wally’s parents to stop the wedding, Devon and Wally are married. With Nancy out of danger, Caroline writes a good-bye note to Frank and tells him baby Carl is his son. Charles warns Phoebe he will have her arrested for theft unless she returns prints and negatives of his trip to Rome. When she does, Mona comes back to work. Kelly’s dependency on amphetamines comes to light for everyone.


One Life to Live

Still angry at Karen, Annie realizes Larry is not blameless and softens a bit. Mario works at becoming Karen's friend. Desperate for money to repay his gambling debt, Brad sells the key to the hospital medicine cabinet to his creditor. When Edwina suggests she and Karen write a book, "From Housewife to Hooker," Karen has Mario throw her out. Finding a photo of Adam, Dick tacks it on the wall and uses it for target practice. Overhearing Dorian plotting to get Larry out as chief of staff, a shaken Paul tells her he is through with her. Unable to comprehend Pauls's motives, Dorian feels he is trying to get back with Pat. Gretel admits to Adam she has fallen for Paul. Samantha and Tony are making wedding plans. Jack tells Adam he wants to marry Carla but she can't make up her mind between him and her husband Ed. Dick calls Karen pretending to be the dead Brian Kendall. With Richard suffering from mononucleosis, Gwen goes off to Europe to nurse him.

His business nearly destroyed, Adam is preparing takeover of an Alaskan oil company. Jack is shot when he surprises men using the key supplied by Brad to steal drugs from a hospital cabinet. Ed asks Carla for a divorce; upset by Jack's injury, Carla admits she loves him. Brad swears never to gamble again. Karen testifies in Talbot's murder trial. Depressed, Greg warns Tina not to be friends with Mario. Edwina writes a scandal story about Karen's life as a hooker and housewife. Peter's dream of a life with Jenny is shattered when she announces she is pregnant by her husband Brad.

Upset by Ivan's brash manner and ill treatment of his interns, Jack refuses to let Ivan perform surgery on him. Dorian's attempt to oust Larry as chief of staff is aborted when the Colonel votes against restructuring of the hospital. Jenny is not certain she's happy about being pregnant. Tina feels Greg is pushing her away. Ivan's fragile wife Faith comes to Llanview and befriends Danny. Dick substitutes aspirin for Adam's medication. Discovering that the date she is to wed Tony is the same as the one he married Cathy on, Samantha postpones the wedding. Surgery leaves Jack paralyzed — it may be temporary or permanent. Ivan nixes Faith's desire to have children.

In need of money to save his company, Adam asks Dorian to be his partner. She wants to say yes and make it more than a business partnership. Jenny is upset over her negative feelings about being pregnant. When Tina volunteers at the free clinic, Joe is upset because it will bring her into relationship with Mario. Karen's attempt to make up with Larry fails. On the eve of their wedding, Tony and Samantha decide to consummate their love, but just as he is drifting off to sleep he calls out Pat's name. Adam suffers an attack; he takes medication but gets no relief.


General Hospital

Jeff tells Heather he is Steve's son; instead of feeling sympathy for his confusion, she is elated. Steve puts Jeff on report for leaving the hospital without permission. Lee is to become Jeremy's legal guardian. Gail and Lee plan to marry. Alan warns Tracy to quit pushing Mitch's political career down everyone's throat, else he'll run for office himself. The judge decides not to send Laura to reform school. Gina informs Jeff that Heather can never risk having a baby.

Rick is stunned when Jeff tells him Steve Hardy — not Lars Weber — is Jeff's father. Overhearing Luke and Bobbie, Jessie realized the trick they played on Laura. Dan persuades Jessie to give Bobbie one more chance. Anne wants to adopt Jeremy. Tracy warns Monica she's going to try to catch her with Rick and then tell Alan. Heather realizes Susan told Jeff about taking birth control pills and vows to get even. During an argument with Tracy about her inheritance, her father suffers an angina attack. Rick vetoes Scotty and Laura's June wedding plans.

Jeff and Steve try to work at being loving father and son. Rick, still stunned by revelation of Jeffs paternity, admits to Monica he wants to find solace in her arms. Discovering his father had an angina attack while Tracy and Mitch were talking to him, Alan plans to get to the bottom of it. Tracy gets her father to lie about the subject of converstation when he had the attack. Audrey returns from her sister Lucille's; Steve forgives her for telling Jeff the truth. Still trying to drive Diana mad, Heather has Larry Joe call Diana and ask about P.J., mixes up the medication to make it look as if Diana has made a mistake, and warns Diana that Maggie is an unfit nursemaid for P.J.

Tracy overhears Scotty and Laura discuss the night Rick and Monica spent together; she urges Mitch to check the time each left the hospital after the quarantine was lifted. Mitch takes Susan to bed. Heather wants to adopt Jeremy so she can gain control of his custody trust fund. Bobbie is still hoping to get Laura in trouble but her brother Luke warns her to lay off. Rick is unable to accept the fact of Jeff’s illegitimacy. Gary keeps making snide remarks about Howard's feelings for Gina.


Edge of Night

Elliot prepares to wed Margo but continues his fling with Sara, the maid. Winter's trial begins. Logan decides to take active part in Winter's prosecution. Deborah warns Steve she's still fearful of becoming too close to him. With Nicole away, Margo has been handling the news anchor spot.

Having married Elliot, Margo prepares to buy him a restaurant. Returning from their honeymoon, Miles and Nicole offer Winter their support. Draper and April are still squabbling over her establishing a relationship with Margo. Tank bursts into Winter's apartment and attacks a visiting Logan. In court, Logan admits Wade blackmailed him into bending the law so Wade could operate an X-rated movie house.

Thinking Margo killed Wade, Elliot stages a robbery in his apartment, lifts Margo's gun and sends it anonymously to Draper. A witness claims Raven, not Winter, was the girl visiting Wade's apartment the night he was killed. Logan takes the stand and explains that Raven went to visit Wade on Logan's behalf; his testimony makes it certain she couldn't have killed him. Sara, Margo’s maid, warns Elliot he'll never be anything more than Margo's puppet. Mr. Antoine is hired to help Elliot run his nightclub.

Another tape turns up in Winter's trial which shows her in a room with a dead body. Returning to work, Nicole gets the feeling Margo secretly wishes she were still anchoring the news spot. Elliot is angered by Sara's refusal to go along with his version of the penthouse break-in. Tests reveal the gun Draper received in the mail was not the one used to kill Wade.