General Hospital 1967. ABC Network.

[@angordydon]

Hard to imagine that in less than a decade from this episode Jessie would be used so little by the show. She really was one of the great soap heroines.

[@pinedelgado4743]

I agree! I liked her! I may have been a kid (born eight-and-a-half months after THIS eppie was telecast) as my late mom would watch the exploits of the characters of GH. But, every now and again I'd catch a glimpse or two of what went on, and I really must say that, from what I remember of her, Jessie Brewer, as played by the late Emily McLaughlin, was awesome. Yet, my mom would grow tired of GH and then, years later, I'd read that the Jessie Brewer character had been phased out without announcement or warning. She just disappeared and only received one brief mention many years after she left. So "Jess" was definitely underrated--but, I still think she was COOL!!! :) :) :) :) :) :)

[@pianoman551000]

She was the best soap actress in her day!! I had no idea that she was married to Jeffrey Hunter who starred as Jesus of Nazareth in the movie 1962 epic "King of KIngs." She was married to Hunter for only 3 months prior to his untimely death.

[@JRAMSEY000]

@@pianoman551000that’s so sad.

[@joanneogley4874]

She was there with Steve hardy from day one, I remember it clearly

[@gailreese4102]

She was my dad's favorite character & the only reason he continued watching from GH's very beginnings.

[@jtinaman]

I remember the pre-Monty years of General Hospital only as a kid but watching this makes me appreciate what a wonderful actress Emily McLaughlin was. I really feel Jessie is a real person and not just some actress playing a part. For some reason I remember this soap more than others my grandmother watched and the veterans Steve, Jessie, Lee, Audrey, Meg, and Lucille stand out. I would like to see the entire series from 1963 to 1977.

[@kathleenking47]

Pre luke & Laura😄 & GENERAL HOSPITAL song

[@rhsharp]

@Bourg Productions Lucille Wall left GH in 1976 around the time the show expanded to 45 minutes. She came back for a one-day appearance in 1982. Was she fired in '76 or did she quit? The show definitely wasn't the same without her.

[@brookehanley3659]

Agree with you entirely!

[@brookehanley3659]

@Times Past TelevisionVery sad they were destroyed. Tragic

[@BBQFanNo1]

This was the real General Hospital I first remember when my Mom watched it everyday before Gloria Monty took over in 1978 beginning to destroy what General Hospital was all about writing in a sick rape then marriage script. The serial never needed fixing or improving. Then that witch Monty treated Genie Francis like trash and replaced her with Anthony Geary as the main cast star just like Happy Days did to Ron Howard replacing him what Happy Days was all about with the Fonz instead as the center character in the series. Then 12 years later my Sister watched it and my Mom already stopped watching it years earlier. I would have never known who Luke and Laura were along with Heather and Jeff Webber the future MacGyver is if my Sister never watched it everyday 1979 to 1982.

[@nadinecolbath5584]

My mom started watching GH since the very first day!!! And my sisters and I kept that tradition going since!!! Love seeing these old episodes!!! Thank you for sharing!!!

[@Inguiasu]

Proof April Fools are real. Now, clean the kitchen & change that stinking baby’s diapers.

[@michaelgonzalez1042]

R.I.P. Martin West (Dr. Phil Brewer; 1967-75), please spread some love and heartfelt condolences to his family. Moving to Westport, CT, in 1993, West became a member of the Theater Artists Workshop of Westport, acting and directing numerous productions and produced the documentaries A Gathering of Glory and Years in the Making about the history of arts in Westport and the artists who created it.

[@johnodonnell5474]

So glad we found another 1960s episode of General Hospital with the veterans. Steve Jessie Meg Lee

[@brookehanley3659]

Before Audrey?

[@johnodonnell5474]

Audrey came in the winter of 1964 @@brookehanley3659

[@wayneincognito]

@@brookehanley3659 Audrey was in General Hospital since 1964.

[@brookehanley3659]

@@wayneincognito Good to know.. With no mention of her I was not sure she was a veteran. It went on the air in April 1963…

[@tnate6004]

I remember watching GH with my mom in the 60s and early 70s (she stopped long before Luke & Laura). Always loved Steve, Jessie, Lucille, Audrey and the old nurse's station with the big window in the back.

[@bethmessner4453]

Emily McLaughlin (Jessie Brewer) had such a beautiful calmness to her voice.

[@happyrn6177]

I just don't recall Jessie ever laughing.

[@ROKgem]

I agree @,Draper Scott and is your name connected to the edge of night? I think I've got the right soap.

[@brookehanley3659]

Loved her voice.

[@laurascorpio]

Oh my gosh! Vintage GH is so hard to come by. Thank you SO much. General Hospital fans have begged ABC to put old episodes up for years and to find the episodes here… Amazing. Thanks again!

[@sunnyskies4628]

How nice…memories of my childhood are flooding back. Including those adorable commercials. I wish someone would upload all the old GH shows. I mean from the 60’s. I enjoy the storyline.

[@timtebowfan628]

I loved Jessie and Dr. Hardy. I remember rushing home in 4th grade to watch General Hospital and Dark Shadows.

[@IVant2BAlone]

Yes!

[@chrisfinch8637]

I'd take the old episodes of General Hospital, like these in the 60s, any day, over what's run today. Back then, soap operas like G.H., were run with class, their actors wearing formal attire, mainly organ and piano music, and not so much drama.

[@Laura-zy5jp]

General Hospital was so different at this time. My mom and my aunts ( my moms 3 older sisters were all into this soap big time. I didn’t start watching until I was abut 11 or 12 years by then Genie Francis was playing Teen Laura and Lesley was married to Rick but he was screwing around with Monica . The show was in color by then . This is really going back!!

[@marymonroe7042]

This was the only Soap my mom would pay attention to. I was 4 in 1967. And I do remember her having it on. GH. She loved Jessie! This episode was so well acted! To be able to jump in the middle and enjoy it! Well done!

[@stellarocquie7957]

My Mom never saw a soap opera in her life. I was 6 in 1967, and my Mom worked full time, as a Nurse, no less, lol. I guess she got all the drama she needed, at work. . .

[@willie5179]

My mon n grandma watched this show every day from ‘63 til my grandma died in ‘72.I watched it once to see John Bernadino ,caused he played for the ‘48 Indians World Series Champs.

[@Avatar610]

This is was from the final year of B/W episodes- the show went to color in the autumn of 1967, about a month after “Dark Shadows” did.

[@sixtieskid062]

John Beradino as Dr. Steve Hardy. Thanks for thr memory.

[@rhsharp]

What’s this? No mobsters ? No weather machines? No bimbos nor himbos? Just absorbing drama. That’s the real General Hospital.

[@quincycooper79]

That's what I'm saying

[@HelloooThere]

Sounds pretty boring to me

[@MrCraigblaze]

@@HelloooThere 😂😂

[@MrCraigblaze]

No snobby Tracy Quartermaine ?? XD..

[@antonliir8189]

Ok, boomer

[@jamesthomas7405]

The General Hospital that I remember as a young kid. Steve Hardy, Jessie, Audrey, Dr. Phil Brewer, Lucille Weeks, Lee Baldwin.

[@cuppycakesmommy567]

I wish I could go back and watch them from the beginning!

[@donnaemerson3313]

I remember my mother (who was an actual RN) ironing her nurse's uniform and starching her cap while watching General Hospital.

[@olly8]

Donna--we are probably about the same age. My mom was an RN too. The starched white nursing cap -to me, was like a crown on her head. White dress. White hose, hard white shoes...she was a vision of what all nurses should look like as a professional. Mom loved Jessie Brewer !! AND I LOVED WATCHING GH with her from its beginning. I've watched off+on from the start. God BLESS ALL NURSES! Especially the ones who wore white from head to toe. My mom was PROUD of her work and I was/am STILL PROUD of her too. I'm sure you can relate! 🏨😷👩‍⚕️🩺💊⌚💉🩹🌡📝⚕⭐❤

[@mikezylstra7514]

In med school we'd flood the lounge at 1:30 (nurses, interns, residents, students). God forbid if anyone coded - they'd just have to wait, at least for a commercial. Same thing at my (RN) girlfriend's hospital.

[@edgefan4437]

This is awesome. I saw a lot of the episodes from the mid 70's to the early 80's when they originally aired so it's great to see these characters and actors doing the show way before that time. Thank you.

[@rhsharp]

I must say that as kinescopes go, this is one of the best I’ve seen. It’s almost as good as the original videotape.

[@yevettebamber4273]

I love that they kept Steve & Jessie. I hate that soaps are always changing out actors to play the same part.

[@miles2378]

After the turn of the century sometimes they would keep the actor and creat a new charector.

[@bjmajor]

This really takes me back to truly happy times spent at my Grandparent's home in North Philadelphia during the summer. My grandmother was already hooked on GH and even got my retired grandfather interested in it, too! We would take a break in the middle of the day and sit down to watch it. I was pretty into it myself even though I was only 12 when this particular episode aired. Thanks for the memories!

[@kathleenking47]

My moms mom was into GH the only character i remember was steve Not jessie I forgot, most TVs then was B&W

[@returnofthebrotha]

I saw the Luke and Laura times as a child, which I was forced to watch as this was what my older sister watched. Maybe 20 years later, did I know that the show went back to the 60's and in B&W with essentially the same cast. I can't imagine having seen it from the start and into the 90's. The 60's looked so different.

[@jad8123]

I was 3 in 1967. I have no memory of me accidentally watching the soaps then. My Mom didn’t watch soaps. I didn’t start watching GH until about 1978 when my older sisters did. Steve Hardy was still (slightly) active on the show. Jessie unfortunately was stuck behind the nurses station with her blue sweater with little to do. Good memories.

[@ml-gr4mh]

Wow. Jesse never aged. She looked like this later in the 80s.

[@brookehanley3659]

She was a beautiful woman and a great actress!

[@brookehanley3659]

Okay 👌 I recognized Patricia Breslins voice as Meg. I always heard about Meg but never saw her. She was Scotty’s mother I believe

[@kristajones8077]

I watched General Hospital since mid-late 1960's. But i 👍 General Hospital from 1968 to 1969 episode s. I wish i 👍 to watched those episodes. - Krista Venise Jones

[@steplumpkin5432]

MUCH, BETTER THAN, THAT TRIPE, TODAY !!!!!!!!!!

[@brookehanley3659]

These shows made the nursing profession seem like such an easy job and it never was.

[@stellarocquie7957]

Lol, TV made EVERY profession look easy!

[@tharold8639]

So good to see these old episodes when GH was really great. Always loved Jessie, Meg, Lucille and all the 7th floor gang. The show now is unfortunately ridiculous.

[@miles2378]

I wish I could watch episodes with Richard Dean Anderson/Dr Jeff Webber.

[@LorenIpsum75]

Ahhh...the pre-MacGuyver days. Wotta hottie!

[@debbie9929]

Jessie seems so natural. Good actress

[@JozarS.-ol4fj]

When General Hospital premiered in 1963 in the USA, it started with the medical drama featuring only the doctors and the nurses. But when the 70s have passed, the soap opera has got the Quartermaines, then Scotty and Lucy tandem before the 70s ended. And then upon the start of the 80s, there was Luke and Laura and their adventurous love story and the action-adventure genre started to be here. Then, 90s was the beginning of the romance of Sonny and Carly, plus the beginning of the story of Jason Morgan, and the arrival of the Corinthos and the other mobsters who had come to Port Charles. Then in 2000s, there came Sam McCall whom Jason romanced. Plus, Skye Chandler from Pine Valley (fictional setting from General Hospital's sister soap, All My Children) and her biological mother from Llanview (General Hospital's another sister soap, One Life to Live's fictional setting) also came to Port Charles. Then in 2010s, more action adventures and mobsters came their ways in Port Charles until now, especially upon the arrival of Esme. Plus, the arrival of new residents to Port Charles from Pine Valley and Llanview. That has caused the demise of the true medical drama of General Hopsital. That's the same way for the primetime medical drama, Grey's Anatomy which started with medical thing in 2005 until romance, sex, seduction, and temptation came until now.

[@gladasya1068]

A very competitive half-hour indeed--"General Hospital" against "To Tell the Truth" and "Another World".

[@pawt1963]

That's Barry Atwater as Dr. John Prentice. He later appeared on the original Star Trek as the Vulcan philosopher Surak and in the TV movie The Night Stalker as the vampire Janos Skorzeny.

[@kengeorgejones6855]

Thank you so much for sharing this gift with us.

[@MoviecraftInc]

It's my pleasure

[@holmes12001]

Steve Hardy .. omg these was from the year BEFORE I was born ..

[@carol159]

These are great! I wish you could find more from 1970's. I know of the issue where they used the videotape over and over again to save. 🙃

[@MoviecraftInc]

I wish I could find more too! Always looking!!

[@davidbrunson8407]

@@MoviecraftInc preferrably before Luke(I was NOT a fan)

[@joshuaparsons1377]

"Stay tuned for Dark Shadows next, in color, over most of these ABC stations"

[@kathleenking47]

Dark shadows was better B&W

[@robynheavner4689]

I remember😊❤👍

[@itznotme58]

Notice the commercials are relatively quiet v. today's with a lot of music and louder speech etc. AND the ads use somewhat older actors than when the "youth culture" took over.

[@judyjones5089]

I was in ninth grade when this aired, and my best friend and I loved watching this show.

[@parthetis74]

Well, the music and sets sure got better! Lol. And to think, the charcter of Laura was intriduced just 3 years after this in 1977..

[@adriannegrillo8394]

Not only GH but this is when soaps were worth watching

[@dominickdirienzo8266]

This is what General Hospital should’ve stuck to. Dedicated doctors and nurses, not the mobsters who corrupt Port Charles.

[@yevettebamber4273]

Well if they had done that GH would have gone off the air in late 1980. This is Fact not opinion. The ratings were so bad they decided to cancel it. BUT, they did not want it to go out in disgrace. So they brought Gloria Monty in to try and get ratings up just enough to save face. Within 6 weeks she doubled ratings, and in less then a year it was the #1 rated soap. She sucked us in with Scotty & Laura, and blew our minds with Luke & Laura, then add ALL the other amazing actors and story lines. It was a win, win situation for all involved. Even the other soap operas owe a debt of graditude to Gloria. She got ppl watching the soaps, and this in turn got a lot of good actors the paychecks they deserved.

[@kochayeo]

@@yevettebamber4273 Wow! That's an interesting history lesson. Is there a documentary on Gloria Monty somwhere? I never had any idea that General Hospital was this close to being cancelled. It sounds like Gloria Monty was a force to be reckoned with!

[@donnabaardsen5372]

I agree. Soaps are just trash now. I remember these episodes well, including the commercials.

[@KansaiTeacher]

That should be late 70s not 80s.

[@lisaannelloredux]

Agreed. Great summation. People forget that GH was about to be cancelled when Monty came on board. I’m 70 and watched GH from the beginning and it was a culture shock when they they flipped the format but nobody can dispute she changed the game for soaps. Like everybody else I called in sick to watch Luke and Laura’s wedding. I rode with GH all the way up to Sonny but nothing lasts forever. I enjoyed the run.

[@RandyOnTheRadio]

I watched this because my mom was a dead-ringer for Emily McLaughlin. (I used to tell her that, and my mom died pretty young too, age 57). I watched this whole episode, and thanks to whomever pointed out that Beverley McKinsey was in that Anacin commercial. I had to go back and take a second look. Well, I'll be. She was the best Alexandra Spaulding. I used to love her tiffs with Alan... and of course, India too. That's when Guiding Light was a red-hot soap. I worked nights forever, so my daytime TV viewing was either game shows or soaps.

[@brookehanley3659]

Jesse was very attractive!!

[@RandyOnTheRadio]

@@brookehanley3659 She was so Irish looking, and so was my mom. Thanks! (You put a smile on my face).

[@brookehanley3659]

@@RandyOnTheRadio She really was and had such a natural beauty about her!

[@RandyOnTheRadio]

@@brookehanley3659 Did Jesse and Steve ever get together on the show? I always thought the should have, if they didn't.

[@brookehanley3659]

@@RandyOnTheRadio Not sure. Thought they might have very early on. I just remembered her and Phil Brewer

[@GLBizzie]

I really think people are too hard on GH before Monty and LnL + Cassadines! I really find myself enjoying the older shows and episodes of GH! Wish Phil Brewers return from the dead would be available or when he got murdered later

[@ScottMorrisIV]

Before the Cassadines, Quatermaines, Luke & Laura, and the many others time.

[@districtline]

The sick doctor is the great Barry Atwater, who scared the h*ll out of me in the Outer Limits episode "Corpus Earthling" and the pilot of "Night Stalker" 😮

[@devinpowell4784]

Awesome Thank you for this

[@johnodonnell5474]

This WAS General Hospital

[@stellarocquie7957]

WOW, Jessie was beautiful! Reminds me of Sofia Loren!

[@debbie9929]

Oddly, there is a resemblance. In the right clothes and makeup she would look really good

[@sonyab1974]

WOW! This is great. Thank you! :)

[@MoviecraftInc]

Glad you liked it!

[@sonyab1974]

@@MoviecraftInc I do I do!!! :)

[@70soapfan]

And look at the soap opera legend in the last Anacin commercial !

[@suzanneselby988]

These scenes are really sloooow. Amazing.

[@johnodonnell5474]

Unless they re write history, todays viewers probably don't know that Meg Bentley is actually Scotty Baldwins natural mother

[@marcale72]

They didn't rewrite it, she is still Scott Baldwin mom

[@johnodonnell5474]

@@marcale72 ok glad to hear it

[@nancyn679]

Also, Johnny Whitaker (who played Jody on Family Affair) was cast as the original Scotty Baldwin in 1965.

[@allenjones3130]

The actress who played Meg was a dead ringer for Judy Carne.

[@sandrasanders706]

That is Judy Carne..before Laugh In.

[@ricardodixon9166]

Yes she was looked just like her 😂😂😂😂😂😊

[@debbie9929]

Meg is talking about how happy she us while sounding soooooo sad and forlorn.Wierd

[@rogertemple7193]

These early days of GH clash with the current day GH as the storylines were more realistic and that none of the cast members here are no longer around, no Carly, Sonny, Nina, and all of these characters were even born.

[@DNBursky]

It's interesting to see Scott Baldwin's mother, but odd to have no music between parts of a scene or scenes.

[@heddalee]

54 years later, Meg's grandson was murdered.

[@vickieboswell631]

@@heddalee Who was Meg's grandson?

[@heddalee]

@@vickieboswell631 Franco.

[@marcale72]

​@Vickie Boswell, two of her Grandsons were murdered Franco and Logan.

[@AlansNewMutant]

And interesting to hear that Lee is Scotty's STEP father! That he married Meg after she already had Scotty!

[@Marcel_Audubon]

Lee was a hottie back then! ... did Jessie just call him "basic"?!? I remember watching old episodes as a child, but Jessie, Lucille and Steve are about the only ones who I remember vividly

[@crosstatt7441]

I wonder if “General Hospital” was an inspiration for other hospital shows. 📺 🏥

[@gailreese4102]

Have never before seen "Lee Baldwin's" younger self. So handsome! (His older self wasn't bad either!)

[@jameselsasser6050]

He was spokesman for Chrysler ads in the late 50s

[@gailreese4102]

Before my time! @@jameselsasser6050

[@maryrenner9734]

I agree!! Much better than the terrible writing we get today.

[@jameselsasser6050]

I believe Patricia Breslin was married to Art Modell owner of the Cleveland Browns

[@Inguiasu]

Many people don’t know. General Hospital began as an Aprils fool joke. Jello, Oscar Meyers, & Role Aids said: OUR CUSTOMERS are FOOLS! So they made it a serial. Smart move

[@wayneincognito]

Such a shame, the old episodes are gone. I would definitve buy a DvDs or Blue Rays of the first years (if they were complete and in a watchable quality).

[@remomazzetti8757]

John dies and Jesse is arrested for his murder but it turns out that his daughter Polly (Jennifer Bilingsley) accidentally killed him.

[@davidwolfe4240]

Jennifer Billingsley, the same actress I remember her in the movie "White Lightning", she starred with the late Burt Reynolds, and the late Bo Hopkins! She played Polly Prentice on GH! WOW! At the time I was about 5yrs.old when this episode was on.

[@angordydon]

Where is Phil Brewer at this point? Wasn’t he presumed dead and eventually returned and made life hell for Diana Maynard and, of course, Jessie again? Thanks!

[@hydeparkrep8107]

Beverlee McKinsey in the Anacin commercial near the end of the episode.

[@tomservo56954]

My...she looks older here than a couple of years later, when she guest starred on an episode of HAWAII FIVE-O.

[@leonabarad6972]

Thanks for that. I would have passed it by if you hadn't posted this.

[@hunnibunni4181]

Wow! I watched this video twice and did not realize that woman was Beverley McKinsey☺️!! Thank you for the notification.

[@markwaltz3307]

Her last acting role, on GH, in 1994.

[@johnodonnell5474]

God Bless Jessie Brewer

[@kevinpyne5808]

I wanna watch Dark Shadows right after GH.

[@donnabaardsen5372]

The sound goes off and on.

[@lisahardy9707]

Mmmmm sweet forbidden onion juice

[@charleneewald]

Jessie had a way, something about her

[@maxinemccartney5284]

Always thought Jessie and Dr. Hardy had chemistry ans waa disappointed when Audrey came into the picture.

[@lindaschulman1789]

Were they still broadcasting in black and white in 1967?

[@BognaZone]

Yes.

[@Americanmikey_]

YES!

[@TrudyRobinson-ny2lx]

i love the nurse uniform when gh was real

[@mikezylstra7514]

I remember (mid-1980's) when they forbid nurses to wear those hats - claiming it was an infectious disease spreading risk (LOL). A few nurses had the gumption to ignore that edict. It was a means of forced egalitarianism - is what it really was.

[@JJJBRICE]

GH was always taped in LA , but at this early stage it had the grim realism of NYC . General Hospital is a Selmur Production with that big old Selmur snake making sure of that point !

[@charleneewald]

The Anicen ad is like an Ativan back then

[@BBQFanNo1]

The 1980's and Gloria Monty ruined soaps. Gloria Monty made General Hospital number one, but ruined the genre also. Soaps dropped characters and story for more action. Action is not what a soap is about. The best soaps have great characters and wonderful stories. Soaps are getting canceled because the writers and producers forgot what makes a good soap. When I watch the old clips I just can't believe how good the shows were back then before people like Monty took over in 1978.

[@vistatiger7493]

Yes it seemed like the P&G soaps got pressure too from the networks CBS and NBC to be more plot driven and faster paced like GH. Days of our Lives became a clone of GH in the 80's.

[@renealexander2703]

No. Gloria Monty saved soaps.

[@ricardodixon9166]

I don't believe she ruined the soaps back then she saved some of the soaps times had changed 😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤

[@carolynstewart8465]

Peter Hansen was on the Lone Ranger .

[@diamondtiara84]

I love the old commercials! So much better than the annoying ones today, which are mostly medications that "work wonders", then they mention a thousand side effects that you may have to contend with, while a bunch of "average" people perform athletic feats with no trouble at all, no matter what their age. (Shows how dumb they think people are!)

[@travisjames3517]

The show is wretched now.

[@douglasbrown3942]

The pace needs to be picked up! O like the story, but it feels like its dragging.

[@flopez4747]

Thank you for the episode!!! I love it. Could you join a picture of the 16mm Kinescope, please? I always wonder how these kinescope were... I guess these ones were used for ABC to broadcast General Hospital

[@MoviecraftInc]

A Kinescope look's just like a normal 16mm film. The difference is how it is recorded. A Kinescope is filmed from a television screen, so the sides look curved and it is a bit soft focus when you watch it. A "normal" TV show is filmed with 16mm or 35mm film cameras., so there is no distortion in the picture.

[@flopez4747]

@@MoviecraftInc Thank you!! Interesting!

[@anthonyaustin3370]

Kinescopes weren’t made for network broadcast. GH was videotaped from its beginning. Kinescopes were primarily made by the network for local affiliates that wanted to time-shift a program outside of its network pattern or for foreign sales. UCLA has virtually every episode of GH from 1963-69 recorded on reel to reel tape. If they had any sense they’d digitize them before it’s too late.

[@abunchahooey]

@@anthonyaustin3370 You seem to have a lot of knowledge about this! Very interesting UCLA has those episodes, and I do hope they preserve them somehow.

[@charleneewald]

The best I shall live my life in this world

[@douglasbrown3942]

Emily McLaughlin always looked like the world was crashing down on her.

[@angordydon]

Forgive my ignorance...where is Phil Brewer at this point? Has Diana arrived in Port Charles yet? Thanks!

[@michaelk9350]

Diana, whom I loved when Valerie Starrett played her, came a bit after this. I remember watching this as a child with my mom, and that was the very late 60's and early 70's.

[@jamesj7518]

So glad you asked about Diana! As @michaelk9350 states, she came later, in 1969 actually, and she was my favorite GH character ever, as played by the original actress Valerie Starrett. She stayed on until 1977 when she was fired by the new producer who wanted to take the role in a different direction, and the role was recast. The scenes of Valerie Starrett as Diana and Craig Huebing as Peter Taylor were stellar!

[@brookehanley3659]

Oscar Mayer still makes great bacon and Weiner's.

[@bradyanderson6311]

Disney+, here it comes.

[@yevettebamber4273]

Who is playing Meg here?

[@Avatar610]

Patricia Breslin, who left in 1969 and was replaced by Elizabeth MacRae.

[@maestroclassico5801]

Boy Lee Baldwin was on that show a long time!!! And then on PORT CHARLES....

[@TheDarkDresser]

The acting is pretty good and much better than the soap operas in the late '80s and beyond. Up until the 1980s, I used to be hooked on All My Children, until one day I realized how silly and over-melodramatic and predictable it was; like a parody of itself. I quit watching that same day. To me, the best Soap was "The Edge of Night."

[@sonyab1974]

How long did you watch AMC until you quit watching it?

[@TheDarkDresser]

@@sonyab1974 I would say a little over 10 years. After many decades, the soap operas ran out of good storylines, consequently the plot and dialogue became predictable/overused to the point of becoming clichés and parodies of themselves.

[@davidbrunson8407]

@@TheDarkDresser agreed with each and every one of them...soaps are WAY too predictable...why watch? It saves time not to

[@brookehanley3659]

It's awful now

[@maestroclassico5801]

Was this still televised live?

[@Creating2413]

So what happened with Lee and Jessie? Why did Meg think she was a 2nd choice? I missed that part of the story.

[@angordydon]

Meg had a daughter as well as her son, Scotty, correct?

[@karlsmith4168]

She had a step daughter, Brooke Bentley. Brooke stole Noel Clinton away from Meg, before Meg started dating Lee.

[@michaelclyburn5858]

Luke Spencer!!!!😃

[@johnodonnell5474]

Not even a memorial service when she died