June 1979

All My Children

Just as Chuck is about to tell Donna the baby is dead, she goes into labor. Langley’s charms work on Phoebe. Edna is upset when she turns down a date with Benny only to have Langley break date with her. Aware that Frank knows the truth about Carl Jr. being his son, Nancy rejects his marriage proposal because she’s used to being her own woman. Knowing that his relationship with Brooke is over, Dan accepts an architectural post in Florida. Devon and Wally are having bedroom problems.

Freaked out on pills, Kelly goes to Eddie but returns home when Myrtle comes for her. Chuck tells Donna their perfectly-formed baby son was stillborn. Blaming herself, Donna fears it is the end of her marriage. When Tara begins to feel under the weather, Ruth goes to Washington to look after Charlie. When Tom’s Adonis commercial conflicts with the marriage encounter group, Erica tries to get him to abandon the encounter session. When Edna realizes she’s been set up by Langley, she turns to Benny who feels rejected by Estelle. Benny admits to Brooke he wouldn’t mind marrying Edna because he wants children and because he loves her young daughter Dottie.

Donna and Chuck’s stillborn son is buried next to Chuck’s parents. At a dinner party, Phoebe holds for new resident Palmer Cortland and his daughter Nina, Nina is felled by a appendicitis attack. Cliff Warner, the surgical resident, is forced to perform surgery on the diabetic Nina who has taken an immediate liking to the young doctor. Father Tierney comes to Erica’s rescue when he tells tom the marriage encounter can be conducted any weekend, but the commercial for Adonis cologne must be shot on a certain day. Mark prepares for a weekend in Long Island and Brooke intends to show up without an invitation.

Tom’s knee goes out the day he and Erica are to do the cologne ad but she manages to help get him through the photo session. He fumes that Erica plots to turn his commercial into a sexy come on featuring her. Nurse Sybil Thorne and Palmer try to end Nina and Cliff’s budding romance. She lies to Nina about Cliff being a Romeo. Brooke and Mark’s Long Island idyll is interrupted when she learns her mother is seriously ill. At Erica’s insistence, Tom agrees to give the Goal Post royal decoration. Linc’s old flame, Cynthia Ewing, comes to Pine Valley. When Nancy tells Frank no to marriage or parental rights where Carl is concerned, he refuses to take no for an answer. Russ feels he has lost Nancy. Erica admits to Mona she still cares for Nick. Myrtle insists she won’t stop stop helping Kelly fight the pill habit and taunts Kelly saying Linc is tempted by Cynthia. Phoebe consents to help Donna become sophisticated after Chuck threatens to leave town.


One Life to Live

A doctor advises Jenny she may lose her life if she doesn’t have an abortion, but Jenny insists on carrying the baby to term. Greg, who had just landed a job as a Banner copy boy, is about to give up pills when he runs into Katrina who recalls his father’s villainous past. Adam and Dorian want to overthrow the San Carlos government in order to develop its natural oil resources. Adam proposes to Pat, but she isn’t sure she can marry him. Tony tells Sam she will make a terrific wife for someone, but not for him, and he ponders leaving Llanview. Mario is forced to operate on Jenny. Pat decides to accept Adam’s marriage proposal, but just as she is about to give him her answer, she learns he is going to Washington with Dorian.

Paul goes to San Carlos for a news story. Will tells Mario he suspects he is Marco. Credited with saving Jenny’s life when she has a bad reaction to medication, Mario is named to Llanview staff. Joe, unaware that Greg tried to attack Tina, thinks she is hiding the secret about advances made by Mario. Karen, having trouble finding a job, fights back the impulse to return to prostitution. Jack insists if he cannot walk, his medical career is finished. Dick Grant is to be examined by a psychiatric board to see if he is competent to stand trial for the kidnapping of Pat and Sam.

Sadie is depressed over Carla and Ed’s divorce. Herb Callison tells Ed, who is running as his lieutenant governor in the gubernatorial race, that it is important for Jack and Carla to wed before the campaign is underway. Jack is able to walk. Katrina moves into Ina’s boarding house and Ina warns Karen that Katrina better not try to use her house for prostitution. Paul and Pat say goodbye. Adam assures Dorian he has no romantic interest in her. Brad makes a pass at Gretel.

Adam makes sure Paul is detained in San Carlos. Peter and Dorian feel they must go to South America to find out what has happened to Paul who was nabbed by the San Carlos police. In need of money, Brad takes Jenny’s jewelry and then stages an apartment robbery. Jenny wanted to use the pearls to help Samantha finance the purchase of Marco’s health club. A pregnant Katrina and Greg share a park bench as they wait for drug connection. Mario warns Tina that she is trying too quickly to grow up but they date on the sly. Ivan forces Faith to do a striptease for him. Gretel considers telling all about Adam’s involvement in San Carlos. Dorian rages that Adam is supplying the banana republic with guns. She and Peter depart to check on Paul. Adam hires Brad as Gretel’s replacement and Brad catches on quickly that Adam is intentionally responsible for Paul’s detention.

General Hospital

On the road to recovery, Laura hopes to marry Scotty as soon as possible. Lee and Gail wed. Heather, still making Diana think someone is after P.J., is stunned when Peter hires a private investigator to uncover who the man is. Lila Quartermaine reveals to Monica that her husband Edward had a mistress years ago who gave birth to a son now living in England. Apologizing to Rick for ever thinking he and Monica had renewed their love affair, Alan returns cardiac report and promises to help Rick get an appointment to Hardwick Commission. Monica and Rick realize their love is not meant to be. When confronted by Larry Joe that P.J. is actually her son Stephen Lars, Heather enlists his help by saying once she gets her son back, she will leave Jeff and marry him. Larry Joe goes along, unaware that Heather gave the child up for adoption.

Bobbie admits to Laura’s probation officer that she created many of Laura’s problems. Believing Laura did not have the emotional control of the car when she had the accident, the judge denies Scotty’s request that they be allowed to marry. Cal Jamison contacts Bobbie and asks for $1.000 or he will show Audrey pictures of Bobbie when she was a hooker in Florida. Luke is shot in the shoulder while doing a job for the syndicate. Heather and a hoodwinked Larry Joe continue to bedevil Diana, who asks Peter to put her in a sanitarium if she becomes too hard to handle.

Jeff discovers Cal Jamison’s voice on a tape machine and questions Heather who explains her way out of the situation. When Susan lets Heather know she is on to something, Heather decides to pin everything on Susan. Roy confides to Luke he wants to marry Bobbie. Luke advises Bobbie unless she pays $1.000 to Jamison, her prostitute past will come to light. A scared and reluctant Bobbie borrows the money from Dan. Laura warns her parents without permission to marry Scotty, she will resume premarital relationship with him. Gina and Gary realize their marriage is over because they have different goals in life. Gary goes to New York to pursue his writing career while Gina is off to Wyoming and a medical research grant. Dr. Lyndon, a young surgeon from London, is about to arrive in Port Charles and Dorrie is concerned.

Dan is named hospital administrator. Luke believes the disco is backed by mob money. Fearing that Kelly is onto him, Heather goes to Canada to talk to Cal. A patient learns that Rick had to give Monica the scalpel because he couldn’t finish the surgery. Larry Joe loans Heather money to get goods out of a pawn shop. Colleen Middleton and her boyfriend Ben move to Florida. With Spence Andrews injured while helping investigate Laura’s car crash, his sons move in with Rick and Lesley. Scotty passes a law exam and Bobbie graduates at head of her nursing class. Tracy spreads gossip that Rick is surgically negligent while operating on a patient. All charges are dropped for Laura who is free to marry Scotty. Larry Joe suspects he was being conned by Heather and learns that Cal has been at his Canadian sister’s house. He courts Anne who is suspicious of Heather’s motives for wanting to adopt Jeremy.

Edge of Night

Margo suggests to her old friend Owen Madison that Draper handle his daughter Paige’s robbery defense. Owen discusses his young son who left home years ago. Winter comes out of shadows and tries to kill Nicole. Draper wonders where he and April will get money to furnish the house, but Margo has the answer and the cash.

Trapped in the newsroom by Winter, Nicole pleads for her life. On her first night back from the honeymoon, Raven insists on doing the town with Logan. Miles tells Margo he disapproves of April hiding the fact from Draper that Margo made downpayment on their home. Geraldine is upset when Raven and Logan decide to move into their own apartment.

After confessing she killed Wade and caused Tank’s demise, Winter dies because she fell off the catwalk trying to kill Nicole. While cahsing a robber, Steve is confronted by a gun-totting Joey. Feeling his life is in danger, Steve shoots him and then realizes the weapon Joey was carrying was really a toy pistol. Following Joey’s death, Steve decides to quit police force. Paige is dirtubed when her half-brother Brian arrives in town. Margo is fed up with being ignored by Elliot, who continues to sleep with Sara on the sly and daydreams about Raven who is fascinated by Elliot’s come-ons.

April goes to work for Margo at the television station. Having left the police department, Steve gets a job as cab driver. Raven’s roving eye wanders toward Elliot. The Madisons’ are stunned when mother Nola arrives unexpectedly after checking herself out of a “drying out” spa. Paige agrees to turn state’s evidence against her revolutionary pals if brother Brian would stay in Monticello. Brian fears that Paige’s testimony would put her life in danger.