Thank you for sharing these, I am just as hooked as I was 40 years ago. My son was a toddler when I was watching Luke and Laura on the run and he would wake up from his nap and come in to watch TV and say "Oh no, not General Hopspital!"
Yes completely stands the test of time... still as entertaining as it was then! Truly maybe more so because we didn't realize what we had back then. Compared to television now, particularly daytime drama, this is incredible!!
Thank-you so much for airing the stories of Luke and Laura,I used to watch them in Mich. on my lunch hr. that I took between 3 and 4 . Their has never been another couple as deeply followed and popular as they were . Princess Diana (May she rest in peace) even sent champaign to them on their wedding Day. The World watched as if it was the Wedding of the King and Queen. It brings back a lot of memories with the disco music and styles etc... I do wish the old Luke and Laura were back! Thank-you for airing these!
As I watch these I really appreciate the supporting roles of Brian and Claudia (I don't think they get as much credit). They're truly a grounding force for everyone and are sort of the glue that keeps the gang together. I'm not very familiar w/GH (but would've been around this time!), I'd like to know whatever happened to their tenure at GH. The actors that portrayed them did such a fine job of projecting the sort of decent, kind-hearted people that one would like to have as friends.
They were here till 1986 after that they were pretty much written out and not much has been said about them since by then they had other couples to focus on.
Bryan Phillips (Todd Davis) died in 2013 at the age of 61. Claudia Johnston (Bianca Ferguson) was married in real life to “Designing Women” actor, Meshach Taylor. He died in 2014.
May both Actors RIP. I ONLY HOPE all is well with Bianca Ferguson is doing wrll. I always loved Bryan & Claudia both when they left I was heartbroken. I just loved them as strong and loving true blue friends. I will never watch GH as I had once did! THANK SO MUCH SQ. YOU ARE ALSO AWSOME.JMVHO! PEACE & LOVE Rosie!
@@rosanncoleman1462 as I recall it felt different as they started fading into the bg and finally were written out. I watched mostly in the era they we were constantly in the scenes with Ken and GF.
They didn't replace them because they COULDN"T replace them... no way, shape or form would the audience ever accept anyone else playing these roles!!!!
Damn no way would anybody would want to see a certain actor or actress to be replaced with another one. No I think maybe it could depend on that actor. Or worse if that actor passs on then what do they do? Well am tell you acting is hard work. Well to me it is JMO. Thank you. Rosie
I've said it before and I'll say it again.......the writers today REALLY NEED TO WATCH THESE CLASSIC EPISODES OF GH TO GET AN IDEA ON HOW TO TRULY WRITE FOR THIS SOAP
THEY NEED TO HAVE SOME IDEA ON TO WRITE FOR A SOAP BY WATCHING THESE OLD CLIPS. IT WOULD BE NICE TO HAVE SOME NEW STORY IDEAS INSTEAD OF MOB STORY LINES. AND STOP BRINGING SOME WEIRD STUFF TO HAPPEN TO THE CHARACTERS.THEY RUINED LNL IN MY MIND.
you always hear about Luke & laura so im so happy that i finally am watching their story, its so legendary. Even if you weren't born or live during the 70's-80's, if your a soap fan you know about them so thanks for uploading. Wow its so different, the way they told stories vs the way they do now. I think people are just really impatient these days with soap opera storylines. They are over within a few months a lot of them times and on to the next thing or its just a rinse and repeat storyline.
RINSE AND REPEAT FOR SURE. THE WRITERS OF THE LAST TWENTY YEARS ARE FAMOUS FOR REPEATING A STORY LINE FROM THE 80S AND THROWING IT INTO A BLENDER AND SEE WHAT STORY COMES OUT. MAKING LUKE INTO A DRUNK AND CHEATING WAS JUST TO HORRIBLE. THE WRITERS CAN'T WRITE ANY ORIGINAL STORIES ANY MORE. SAD
@@cindyfarnsworth7509 Am so sorry for dying this ..BUT GH is just a big lie,fake,very forced and plastic. The storylines are all mix-up and very confusing and don’t make an sense ..not at all! JMVHO. Rosie out! Sorry. meant saying this it’s true but very sad. GH is gone. never to come back
Yeah I was wondering who's ass they had to kiss????? They had to maybe send money to a very big charity.. vote for some person who should not be voted into some secret society or what ever??Well damn whatever they had to do...they did. They got to he job to write on GH.. So there for they did not know diddly?????? They mess up GH in a most indifferent way ever!. No wonder many GH fans stopped watching... JMVHO! PEACE & LOVE Rosie!
@SillySeaWeed I totally agree.. and love your comment. Brian and Claudia were on for a while.. believe they did get married.. .someone said they had twins and moved away... but I am ont sure. I really loved Laura and Claudia and Bryan and Scott's friendships and I think it wa sa major reason for me starting to watch back in the day.
I agree. I really enjoy the friendship between the two couples. You rarely see that on soaps nowadays. On a soaps today, Claudia would probably be having an affair with Scotty behind Laura's back. I understand that cheating and backstabbing happens on soaps, but a balance would be nice.
I hope we get him back soon... think Laura is the key factor.. TG has always said she is Luke's humanity... we need some actual emotion from the character.. TG does emotion so well... Luke has just kind of become plastic. Hope it gets remedied REAL soon!!
Ha ha, I know what you mean. I used to record from 11:30 Ryan's Hope thru General Hospital and I never had time to watch them all. I had to fast forward a lot and use the same tape to record the next day. I also had a TV band radio and I would listen at work.
i think the thing with elizabeth's rape was really more of a way to bring it out in the open with the kids and have luke and laura address it and get closure once an for all. When Luke and Laura discuss it in 1998 is one of my all time favorite scenes, and no one could've done it as beautifully as tg and gf. I am so grateful they never tried to replace either of them in favor of keeping the character around like they have with some other characters. ::cough::carly::cough cough::
Watching this now, I didn't realize that Laura was in so much danger from Frank Smith's men all this time. I thought that she wasn't really in danger until they ran away. I didn't remember all this phone tapping and watching her house.
I really think she was just so naïve at this point... she wasn't thinking like a mobsters girl back then! I am sure her brain didn't even completely process this situation. It seems evident that this is the case for a while through this story...it takes her a while to really be able to see all the angles. She does learn fairly quickly though and by the time she is dealing with Alex Q and the Ice Princess she's always quick to assess the whole situation. Luke teaches her well.
LAURA, HAD TO LEARN FAST DURING THE SUMMER ON THE RUN TO KEEP UP WITH LUKE, AND THE MOB AFTER THEM. THIS TIME PERIOD AND LATER ON WHEN SHE HAD HER OWN APARTMENT WAS A HUGE GROWTH SPERT FOR HER.
Yeah... it wasn't like oh... he raped her and then she loved him.... PLEASE.,. it was much more complex, and interesting, and suspenseful... and where the line of protecting each other crosses over to loving each other... is not too clear to see. It's great, don't you think?!?!?
sussezq I had to get off Twitter today before I ended up in a keyboard war with someone, lol. They were bashing LnL, saying they were so sick of seeing the LnL wedding. That "she married her rapist, for God's sake!!" 😡😡😡😡😡 I am so fed up with people who don't know the history bashing it.
Well Genie herself, said in an interview that she was not consulted on the "rape revisit" story, because it was only told from Luke's side and that she thought that what Laura did was cry rape because she could not face the guilt of what she had just done. So there are still more layers to this story and make it all that more compelling and more like life really.
It is so great to watch. Someone would have to be threatening me at gunpoint to sit and watch the current GH for hours every night. I'd be getting better sleep though. I'd fall asleep at the computer from the boring monatany of it. LOL
Sorry... I understand there is a lot of tension around the whole L&L thing these days... part of the reason I decided to spend so much time uploading all of this... but I really would prefer that we not bash anyone, or post rumors that are slanderous. I so appreciate the years of work both Genie Francis and Anthony Geary have done to entertain us, and prefer this not be used as a forum to speak negatively about them.... characters are different. Thanks, Sus
You are so right Sussezq it's not about the real Actors and Actress's. It is a here life it doesn't s none of our business. I for one loved them all. Although ha ha some of the characters are just a bit much.... IMHO.... Some are just over the top with the characters they play. Wow. But truth be told people have not right to desrespect anyone's true Characters. Thank u. Love. Rosie.
Am sorry Susezq I hope to God I did no said anything bad respectful about anyone that is not my style. It’s not anybody business about the actors. The characters area different because it is just a part they are playing on TV so it is ok . If I were a actor I would appreciate input on my acting craft it could help in the long run.only because I can become a better actress which would be a even bigger help with getting a lot more different acting parts. Thank you Rosie
I would think that Laura would have been in on the secret that the party was to convince Scott that she needed to go back to work at the disco so that she could be around friends. Seems to me she wasn't aware of that.
Laura may have been smart to hang up the phone but she was dumb to make the call in the first place ,she should have known if Frank Smith had a man tailing her, they would probably have the phone bugged also. Dumb move Laura
I understand that Tony Geary got tired of playing Luke as we all loved him and needed a change. Instead of destroying the character of Luke, why didn't he just go on another soap opera and play an evil character. Genie went on many different soaps and played characters that were very different than Laura. She even did movies and other projects to keep her from being bored with playing one character. By the time Tony retired in 2015 I was so ready for Luke to go. He had become a character I couldn't stand. I also am glad that since he left, we have had the pleasure of having Genie Francis back as Laura. A strong, independent Laura who is the Mayor of Port Charles. I am even beginning to appreciate the Laura and Kevin relationship. Kevin treats Laura like the Queen she is.
LUKE: THE PRINCE IS GOING TO LET THE PRINCESS COME BACK TO WORK FOR THE TOAD. OH, LUKE, YOU ARE NOT A TOAD...MAYBE A FROG THAT NEEDS TO BE KISSED💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋 BY THE PRINCESS, SO YOU CAN TURN INTO THE HANDSOME LUKE THE DUKE.
Sorry have to vent I know Scotty was a jerk in the eighties but during the David Hamilton murder he did love her laura took it more like puppy love thats why teens should not get married.
The young lady at 6.0 was considered over weight in the 70s. That’s the standard we were faced with. See how slender everyone was before GMO and whatever else is in our food these days.
Amy I do love you...but you have a real problem when you choose or picking the wrong people to be friends with... Some of your choices suck...alot.. I still do love you though.. So hon just try to smarten up. Thank you PEACE & LOVE Rosie!
Thank you for sharing these, I am just as hooked as I was 40 years ago. My son was a toddler when I was watching Luke and Laura on the run and he would wake up from his nap and come in to watch TV and say "Oh no, not General Hopspital!"
Yes completely stands the test of time... still as entertaining as it was then! Truly maybe more so because we didn't realize what we had back then. Compared to television now, particularly daytime drama, this is incredible!!
Lol!! Funny story.
Thank-you so much for airing the stories of Luke and Laura,I used to watch them in Mich. on my lunch hr. that I took between 3 and 4 . Their has never been another couple as deeply followed and popular as they were . Princess Diana (May she rest in peace) even sent champaign to them on their wedding Day. The World watched as if it was the Wedding of the King and Queen. It brings back a lot of memories with the disco music and styles etc... I do wish the old Luke and Laura were back! Thank-you for airing these!
Me too!
Genie Francis never ages. 💕
As I watch these I really appreciate the supporting roles of Brian and Claudia (I don't think they get as much credit). They're truly a grounding force for everyone and are sort of the glue that keeps the gang together. I'm not very familiar w/GH (but would've been around this time!), I'd like to know whatever happened to their tenure at GH. The actors that portrayed them did such a fine job of projecting the sort of decent, kind-hearted people that one would like to have as friends.
They were here till 1986 after that they were pretty much written out and not much has been said about them since by then they had other couples to focus on.
Bryan Phillips (Todd Davis) died in 2013 at the age of 61. Claudia Johnston (Bianca Ferguson) was married in real life to “Designing Women” actor, Meshach Taylor. He died in 2014.
May both Actors RIP. I ONLY HOPE all is well with Bianca Ferguson is doing wrll. I always loved Bryan & Claudia both when they left I was heartbroken. I just loved them as strong and loving true blue friends. I will never watch GH as I had once did! THANK SO MUCH SQ. YOU ARE ALSO AWSOME.JMVHO! PEACE & LOVE Rosie!
@@rosanncoleman1462 as I recall it felt different as they started fading into the bg and finally were written out. I watched mostly in the era they we were constantly in the scenes with Ken and GF.
Claudia was such a Great Friend to Laura.
They didn't replace them because they COULDN"T replace them... no way, shape or form would the audience ever accept anyone else playing these roles!!!!
Damn no way would anybody would want to see a certain actor or actress to be replaced with another one. No I think maybe it could depend on that actor. Or worse if that actor passs on then what do they do? Well am tell you acting is hard work. Well to me it is JMO. Thank you. Rosie
I've said it before and I'll say it again.......the writers today REALLY NEED TO WATCH THESE CLASSIC EPISODES OF GH TO GET AN IDEA ON HOW TO TRULY WRITE FOR THIS SOAP
I agree!
THEY NEED TO HAVE SOME IDEA ON TO WRITE FOR A SOAP BY WATCHING THESE OLD CLIPS. IT WOULD BE NICE TO HAVE SOME NEW STORY IDEAS INSTEAD OF MOB STORY LINES. AND STOP BRINGING SOME WEIRD STUFF TO HAPPEN TO THE CHARACTERS.THEY RUINED LNL IN MY MIND.
Agreed 💯!
you always hear about Luke & laura so im so happy that i finally am watching their story, its so legendary. Even if you weren't born or live during the 70's-80's, if your a soap fan you know about them so thanks for uploading. Wow its so different, the way they told stories vs the way they do now. I think people are just really impatient these days with soap opera storylines. They are over within a few months a lot of them times and on to the next thing or its just a rinse and repeat storyline.
+sarah renshaw I am glad you are getting to see them too.
There was even a lipstick shade named for them at one time, ranked up there with Anthony and Cleopatra, Bogie and Bacall, and other famous couples
RINSE AND REPEAT FOR SURE. THE WRITERS OF THE LAST TWENTY YEARS ARE FAMOUS FOR REPEATING A STORY LINE FROM THE 80S AND THROWING IT INTO A BLENDER AND SEE WHAT STORY COMES OUT. MAKING LUKE INTO A DRUNK AND CHEATING WAS JUST TO HORRIBLE. THE WRITERS CAN'T WRITE ANY ORIGINAL STORIES ANY MORE. SAD
@@cindyfarnsworth7509 Am so sorry for dying this ..BUT GH is just a big lie,fake,very forced and plastic. The storylines are all mix-up and very confusing and don’t make an sense ..not at all! JMVHO. Rosie out! Sorry. meant saying this it’s true but very sad. GH is gone. never to come back
Yeah I was wondering who's ass they had to kiss????? They had to maybe send money to a very big charity.. vote for some person who should not be voted into some secret society or what ever??Well damn whatever they had to do...they did. They got to he job to write on GH.. So there for they did not know diddly?????? They mess up GH in a most indifferent way ever!. No wonder many GH fans stopped watching... JMVHO! PEACE & LOVE Rosie!
@SillySeaWeed I totally agree.. and love your comment. Brian and Claudia were on for a while.. believe they did get married.. .someone said they had twins and moved away... but I am ont sure. I really loved Laura and Claudia and Bryan and Scott's friendships and I think it wa sa major reason for me starting to watch back in the day.
I agree. I really enjoy the friendship between the two couples. You rarely see that on soaps nowadays. On a soaps today, Claudia would probably be having an affair with Scotty behind Laura's back. I understand that cheating and backstabbing happens on soaps, but a balance would be nice.
I love these scenes with everyone together ❤️
If I were Luke I would worry that frank smith has his office and disco bugged. A lot of interesting conversations go on there.
Bobbi looks pretty w her hair up like that.
I hope we get him back soon... think Laura is the key factor.. TG has always said she is Luke's humanity... we need some actual emotion from the character.. TG does emotion so well... Luke has just kind of become plastic. Hope it gets remedied REAL soon!!
Yeah.. I was 11 and 12 .... I appreciate it much more now too. Glad you are enjoying.
Got my first one, a Beta VCR in 1979. Gosh they were really expensive back then!!! But I couldn't have gone to work without being able to record GH!
Ha ha, I know what you mean. I used to record from 11:30 Ryan's Hope thru General Hospital and I never had time to watch them all. I had to fast forward a lot and use the same tape to record the next day. I also had a TV band radio and I would listen at work.
I had one too !!!!! Beta!!! 😂😂😂. Great memory
Had the same thing boy were we proud of that thing!!!!!
No Scotty, This party ain't what you think it is... it's the Spencers, when they show up you can never find the mark, 'cause you're it...
Luke, you are hardly a toad!!!
Karla Mazzola especially when he puts on that dazzling smile! *swoon*
He looks great in that black shirt and those pants, handsome
He is sexy
i think the thing with elizabeth's rape was really more of a way to bring it out in the open with the kids and have luke and laura address it and get closure once an for all.
When Luke and Laura discuss it in 1998 is one of my all time favorite scenes, and no one could've done it as beautifully as tg and gf.
I am so grateful they never tried to replace either of them in favor of keeping the character around like they have with some other characters. ::cough::carly::cough cough::
Watching this now, I didn't realize that Laura was in so much danger from Frank Smith's men all this time. I thought that she wasn't really in danger until they ran away. I didn't remember all this phone tapping and watching her house.
I wonder how all those peps will fit in that tiny apartment?? LOL!!
Luke, I like what you did so that Jennifer wouldn't feel left out or out of place
Laura looks gorgeous here!
And so does Bobbie, love her Gibson girl hairstyle. And I'm not even a Bobbie fan at all
I really think she was just so naïve at this point... she wasn't thinking like a mobsters girl back then! I am sure her brain didn't even completely process this situation. It seems evident that this is the case for a while through this story...it takes her a while to really be able to see all the angles. She does learn fairly quickly though and by the time she is dealing with Alex Q and the Ice Princess she's always quick to assess the whole situation. Luke teaches her well.
sussezq she was a pretty fast learner, lol.
LAURA, HAD TO LEARN FAST DURING THE SUMMER ON THE RUN TO KEEP UP WITH LUKE, AND THE MOB AFTER THEM. THIS TIME PERIOD AND LATER ON WHEN SHE HAD HER OWN APARTMENT WAS A HUGE GROWTH SPERT FOR HER.
Yeah... it wasn't like oh... he raped her and then she loved him.... PLEASE.,. it was much more complex, and interesting, and suspenseful... and where the line of protecting each other crosses over to loving each other... is not too clear to see. It's great, don't you think?!?!?
sussezq I had to get off Twitter today before I ended up in a keyboard war with someone, lol. They were bashing LnL, saying they were so sick of seeing the LnL wedding. That "she married her rapist, for God's sake!!" 😡😡😡😡😡 I am so fed up with people who don't know the history bashing it.
Well Genie herself, said in an interview that she was not consulted on the "rape revisit" story, because it was only told from Luke's side and that she thought that what Laura did was cry rape because she could not face the guilt of what she had just done. So there are still more layers to this story and make it all that more compelling and more like life really.
Yes I agree ty for this channel it brings back so many Wonderful memory’s
It is so great to watch. Someone would have to be threatening me at gunpoint to sit and watch the current GH for hours every night. I'd be getting better sleep though. I'd fall asleep at the computer from the boring monatany of it. LOL
Awww.... it's the 1980 VALENTINES DAY Episode!
Sorry... I understand there is a lot of tension around the whole L&L thing these days... part of the reason I decided to spend so much time uploading all of this... but I really would prefer that we not bash anyone, or post rumors that are slanderous. I so appreciate the years of work both Genie Francis and Anthony Geary have done to entertain us, and prefer this not be used as a forum to speak negatively about them.... characters are different. Thanks, Sus
Why was Like giving Bobbie the once over looking at her dress as though he didn't approve? She looks beautiful.
It is a little different from her usual attire, but I think she looks beautiful in it and her hair style is very becoming
You are so right Sussezq it's not about the real Actors and Actress's. It is a here life it doesn't s none of our business. I for one loved them all. Although ha ha some of the characters are just a bit much.... IMHO.... Some are just over the top with the characters they play. Wow. But truth be told people have not right to desrespect anyone's true Characters. Thank u. Love. Rosie.
Am sorry Susezq I hope to God I did no said anything bad respectful about anyone that is not my style. It’s not anybody business about the actors. The characters area different because it is just a part they are playing on TV so it is ok . If I were a actor I would appreciate input on my acting craft it could help in the long run.only because I can become a better actress which would be a even bigger help with getting a lot more different acting parts. Thank you Rosie
I hate the way it's Scotties decision about Laura working at all and about the disco
Watching again and just thought what happened to Joanne. Her and Laura were friends, but you never saw her again
She disappeared off the canvas. The actress became an award winning Hollywood insider .
@Jolie France Dawn Jeffory
Bought my first vcr in 1985, cost 800$ wish I would have saved my tapes!1
I would think that Laura would have been in on the secret that the party was to convince Scott that she needed to go back to work at the disco so that she could be around friends. Seems to me she wasn't aware of that.
Laura may have been smart to hang up the phone but she was dumb to make the call in the first place ,she should have known if Frank Smith had a man tailing her, they would probably have the phone bugged also. Dumb move Laura
Luke should have thought of it and warned her
But of course, she had to do it, because it brings she and Luke that much closer, and of course, that was the whole point.
I understand that Tony Geary got tired of playing Luke as we all loved him and needed a change. Instead of destroying the character of Luke, why didn't he just go on another soap opera and play an evil character. Genie went on many different soaps and played characters that were very different than Laura. She even did movies and other projects to keep her from being bored with playing one character. By the time Tony retired in 2015 I was so ready for Luke to go. He had become a character I couldn't stand. I also am glad that since he left, we have had the pleasure of having Genie Francis back as Laura. A strong, independent Laura who is the Mayor of Port Charles. I am even beginning to appreciate the Laura and Kevin relationship. Kevin treats Laura like the Queen she is.
LUKE: THE PRINCE IS GOING TO LET THE PRINCESS COME BACK TO WORK FOR THE TOAD.
OH, LUKE, YOU ARE NOT A TOAD...MAYBE A FROG THAT NEEDS TO BE KISSED💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋 BY THE PRINCESS, SO YOU CAN TURN INTO THE HANDSOME LUKE THE DUKE.
Omg Luke in a black unbuttoned shirt! I'm swooning all over again!
She almost dug herself a grave. Laura you was a smart girl to hang up. Now go about ya business and have fun at the party.
Good... that's the point.
Bobbie is so beautiful with her hair up and in this dress she looks like a cameo lady. She was a classic beauty but very different from Laura.
Luke may have been alot of things but NEVER a TOAD!
❤ everyone is together thank. You 3 10 24
Sorry have to vent I know Scotty was a jerk in the eighties but during the David Hamilton murder he did love her laura took it more like puppy love thats why teens should not get married.
@jasoncarly yes and highly underrated. She should have been doing more pinups.
Bianca Ferguson and Todd Davis
The young lady at 6.0 was considered over weight in the 70s. That’s the standard we were faced with. See how slender everyone was before GMO and whatever else is in our food these days.
Agree! Right down to otc pain pills, vitamins or anything. Plastic bottles and obeseogenes. I miss the 70s!
LOL!!
Amys wearing the coat again....
what were the actors/actresses names who portrayed Brian and Claudia?
Luke was kinda mean to Jennifer. Maybe caz of her father? It’s not her fault about her dad or that she’s not Laura or Rich.
Have any old GH ones lying around??
Amy I do love you...but you have a real problem when you choose or picking the wrong people to be friends with... Some of your choices suck...alot.. I still do love you though.. So hon just try to smarten up. Thank you PEACE & LOVE Rosie!
I hated hearing about the character of Brian I really liked him & his role
toad.... right?
LOL!!