July 1979

All My Children

Langley fears Myrtle will recognize him from her days as a carnival girl. Charlie comes to Pine Valley for a visit. Palmer makes Nina think because she is diabetic, she will never have a normal relationship with a man. Phoebe’s birthday dinner at the Chateau turns into a less than joyous occasion when she spots Ellen and Paul dancing. In the powder room of the Chateau, Phoebe tells Ellen to stay away from Paul. Furious when she discovers that Frank told Russ she was planning to remarry him, Nancy tells Frank to get lost. Langley romances Phoebe and convinces her to spring for a house redecorating job from which he’ll get kickbacks. Tad reacts badly to Ruth’s pregnany. Benny goes to Edna’s bed, then runs to Estelle.

Eddie saves Kelly from drowning in a bathtub after another pill incident. Kelly refuses Linc’s pleas that she leave Eddie. Tom agrees to do the commercials in Pine Valley after Erica offered to drop the whole project in order to save their marriage, but agent Richmond is after Erica’s body. Nancy gets fed up with Frank’s demands on her and Carl’s time. Tad feigns illness out of fear that Joe and Ruth won’t want him now that they’re expecting a child of their own. Brooke moves into Mark’s pad. Donna returns home. Benny considers marrying Edna after Estelle told him it’s over between them. Sybil ignores Betsy Kennicott’s warning that Cliff and Nina are falling in love.

Paul and Ellen agree to be friends only for Ann’s sake. Linc convinces Kelly that they can be happy together. Langley brings his cohort Anthony Evans to remodel Phoebe’s mansion and to take her for a financial ride. Brooke jumps on Nina’s bandwagon to match up with Cliff. Palmer makes cruise plans for Nina and himself while their mysterious housekeeper Myra listens at keyholes. Ruth assures Tad she’ll still love him when her own child is born. Benny and Edna become engaged. Paul advises Frank that he doesn’t have a legal leg to stand on regarding Carl.

Linc gives Kelly a diamond pendant but she decides to return the gift. Coming back to Pine Valley, Claudette discovers Eddie has taken her job as the Chateau manager. In an attempt to forestall her rendezvous with Stu Richmond, the Adonis advertising agent, Erica feigns a broken ankle but Stu arrives at the apartment. With Stu almost mauling Erica on the bed, Tom walks in. Erica decides to choose Tom over her modeling career. Donna tries to bring Estelle and Benny together after he becomes engaged to Edna, but the plan fails when Billy Clyde arrives on the scene. Palmer tries to convince Nina that Cliff is a fortune hunter. Frank plans to let Carl know he is his father, regardless of Nancy’s wishes.


One Life to Live

Able to walk, Jack is discharged from the hospital. In San Carlos, Peter discovers Paul is seriously wounded and that his face has been virtually shot off. Anna warns Larry it may not be a good idea to allow Faith and Danny to see so much of one another because her husband Ivan is a very jealous man. Gretel decides not to divulge Adam’s involvement in the sale of arms to San Carlos nor that Brad almost raped her. Frances Gordon introduces her son Mick to Samantha. Tina says good riddance when Greg leaves Llanview, but she continues seeing Mario despite Joe and Viki’s objections and Mario’s warning that they can only be pals. Mario’s Colorado fiancée, Miss Snow, arrives. Peter protects Dorian from getting involved in the San Carlos revolution, while Jenny frets that Brad’s job with Adam is helping the corrupt regime.

Adam railroads Pat into marriage only moments before Peter and Dorian return with the dirt about Adam’s involvement with the San Carlos fiasco. Paul is left to rot in a San Carlos hospital but insists he will one day get even with Dorian for her financial backing of the regime, which she denies knowing about. Carla nixes sleeping with Jack unless they’re married. Tina is upset about Ellen Snow’s arrival, but Mario claims he broke off with Ellen before he came to Llanview. Brad lies to Jenny about being aware of Adam’s sinister dealings. Katrina gets fed up with the “straight” world after she is fired for not necking with her lecherous boss.

Viki learns she’s pregnant. Tina hangs out with a guy named Judd and a bad crowd. Ivan tells Faith to hush up when she starts talking about having babies and complaining about his rough bedroom techniques. Fran, Mick's mom, makes it known she doesn’t like girls hanging around Mick. Pat fends off Adam’s wedding night demands and goes to San Carlos to find Paul. Jenny breaks up a fight between Brad and Peter--who admits loving Jenny. Brad moves his roving eye from Katrina to Karen.

Viki tells Mario she knows he’s covering for Tina’s rendezvous with her scruffy friends. Joining Karen in therapy Larry is learning what went wrong with his marriage but isn’t sure the damage can be repaired. A lonely Ed seeks company and discovers it’s hard to find. Brad blackmails Adam into telling Jenny about Brad’s involvement in San Carlos. Carla refuses to have sex with Jack unless they are married, while Jack calls her stand Victorian and impossible. Larry wants to reconcile with Karen but she turns him down to save his chief-of-staff position.


General Hospital 

Laura and Scotty finalize their wedding plans which include marriage in a public park. Roy tells Bobbie he loves her and wants to care for her, while Luke warns her if she doesn’t care for him to let him off the hook. Jeff arrives in Canada to face Cal unaware that Heather is hiding with him in the basement. She gets Cal away before Jeff and Joe can find him. But Heather’s world crumbles when Susan catches her and Larry Joe embracing and threatens to tell Jeff. Edward tells Tracy that he won’t finance Mitch’s campaign until Mitch put an engagement ring on Tracy’s finger. Mitch refuses to wed for money. Joe gets wise that Heather is involved with Cal. Peter wants Diana to leave town until the mystery man is uncovered.

Laura and Scotty honeymoon in Hollywood after a tacky Levis and open-shirt garden wedding. The vows almost didn’t take place because Scotty thought Laura had gone behind his back and bought a wicker couch which was actually a gift from Monica. Monica is displaying pregnancy symptoms. Social worker, Miss Washburn, visits Jeff and Heather, and Anne to check their backgrounds in her investigation of Jeremy’s adoption. Heather spies Diana showing Joe P.J.’s adoption papers which she keeps hidden.

Joe and Anne pool resources to prove that Heather is responsible for driving Diana crazy. Anne stops Heather from giving Spence a medication overdose which would be blamed on Diana. Audrey, however, blames Diana, who quits the hospital until she gains control of herself. Tracy arranges to move into Alan and Monica’s former penthouse with Mitch.

With the tape-recorded evidence in hand, Joe and Anne convince Peter that Heather was behind Diana’s problems. Finding P.J.’s missing birth certificate and a threatening letter in her dresser, Jeff is also onto Heather. In a final attempt to drive Diana mad, Heather laces iced tea with LSD procured by Larry Joe. When P.J. innocently switches glasses, Heather gets the hallucinogenic and begins an endless trip. Monica learns she is pregnant and wonders if she should tell Rick or Alan. Dan continues to pressure Jessie about marriage. Turning to a new position of honesty, Bobbie tells Roy she’s not sure of her feelings for him. Larry Joe leaves town. Hearing a taped conversation between Heather and Larry Joe, Anne incorrectly believes Heather was planning to leave Jeff for him. Although she believes Rick is the father, Monica tells Alan they’re having a baby.


Edge of Night

Posing as district attorney Cliff Nelson’s assitant, Paige’s former anarchist chum goes to Paige and tries to murder her. Brian steps in and saves Paige’s life. Steve gets in fight with a customer who calls him a child killer for the shooting of Joey and he is fired from his cabby job. Steve is hired as Paige’s bodyguard. Margo hires April as her assistant. April is shocked when she pays a surprise visit to Margo’s apartment and finds Sara in Elliot’s bed. Elliot fires Sarah and convinces April to keep mum to Margo. Brian and Paige learn that Nola and Owen aren’t sleeping together. Raven agrees to meet Elliot on the sly.

Draper is annoyed that April cottons to the idea of babysitting for Jamie while Raven cavorts. Paige refuses Steve as her bodyguard. Another bullet almost gets her, and she runs off to meet her gang buddy Jed who assures her that her ex Toby hasn’t ordered her assassination but Toby later tells Jed Paige must go. Nola asks Owen to fire the housekeeper Edith, after Edith caught Nola guzzling booze. Raven and Elliot plot a hotel weekend with their mates during which they can see each other.

Paige makes a new statement about her gang connections after Calvin saves her from another assassination attempt. Paige agrees to have Steve as her bodyguard. Mike turns down a New York job which is then offered to Draper. Elliot and bartender Mickey Dials talk about getting rid of Antoine. Owen realizes that Nola’s hitting the bottle again. Miles and Nicole will join Raven and Logan at  Palace Park where Raven hopes to see Elliot on the sly.

Calvin is shot when Paige’s “friends” show up at a restaurant where Steve claimed to be taking her. Calvin survives the bullet wound but is crippled. Brian considers a job with Foreign Service. His stepfather Owen is pleased at the position that would take Brian out of the country. Steve suspects Brian may be in love with his stepsister Paige. Paige faces danger from her “friends” and at home. While vacationing, Raven makes it with Elliot.