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Nictuku

(4,358 posts) Sun Sep 7, 2025, 02:18 PM Sep 7

Any old fogies like me who were fans of General Hospital?

I stumbled across a General Hospital play list from 43 years ago! (1983) on Youtube. It was like seeing old friends! (believe it or not, I actually still watch GH in its current version.)

These episodes were before cellphones, before the Internet, and I think even before DVRs. I was early in my career working, and I think I might even have missed these episodes because until I got a DVR, I was at work.

What floored me is seeing all these people from 40 years ago:

Steve, Jesse Brewer, Edward, Lila, Monica and Alan Quartermain, Robert Scorpio, Tiffany, Holly, Bobbie, Rose, Ruby, Amy, Stavros Casidine, (no Helena so far, which was last played by Liz Taylor!), and of course Luke and Laura. I'm probably forgetting some, but talk about memory lane.

I don't actually think there will be much interest in this, but just in case, below is a link to a play list which starts in 1983 when Laura returns from (2 years) being held by the Casidines. The reunions were sweet. Everyone is so darn young. Many of the actors are gone now, and some of them have passed, others left and came back to the current show. I have lots of time in my retirement for these kinds of trips down memory lane. I would love to hear if anyone else enjoyed this as I have.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAUyhd4IECsY6oBYb1AC8Y2cEN1JaM8j4&si=ys5C5l9nETjZp6s-

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Any old fogies like me who were fans of General Hospital? (Original Post) Nictuku Sep 7 OP

I used to watch it summers when I taught school Ritabert Sep 7 #1

I remember during the Luke and Laura era, everybody would be clustered around the TV in catbyte Sep 7 #2

I used to be embarrassed by my fandom Nictuku Sep 7 #3

Yeah, I was obsessed with "Days of our Lives" and embarrassed, too. Like you, now I don't care. mucifer Sep 7 #4

Been a fan since nice I was 16 maptap22 Sep 7 #5

AMC was my favorite too. Ritabert Sep 7 #7

Oh yes. One of my early memories is FemDemERA Sep 7 #6

My high school friend and I would rush home after school, poli-junkie Sep 7 #8

My co-worker and I would go to Taco Bell, grab lunch, then go to her house nearby and watch Nictuku Sep 7 #9

I was working at Sears then. A bunch of us would time Phoenix61 Sep 7 #10

I used to watch it for Dr. Noah Drake (Rick Springfield) Mad_Dem_X Sep 7 #11

I used to watch it with my grandma in Luciferous Sep 7 #12

I watched Young and the Restless and Bold and the Beautiful when my kids were little. LeftInTX Sep 8 #13

This message was self-deleted by its author LogDog75 Sep 8 #14

Ritabert

(1,650 posts)

1. I used to watch it summers when I taught school

Reply to Nictuku (Original post)

Sun Sep 7, 2025, 02:34 PM

Sep 7

That was the days of the Quartermaines, Scorpio, Holly, Anna, etc. Loved it.

catbyte

(37,786 posts)

2. I remember during the Luke and Laura era, everybody would be clustered around the TV in

Reply to Nictuku (Original post)

Sun Sep 7, 2025, 02:35 PM

Sep 7

the lounge in my university's Student Center watching GH.

Nictuku

(4,358 posts)

3. I used to be embarrassed by my fandom

Reply to Nictuku (Original post)

Sun Sep 7, 2025, 02:39 PM

Sep 7

... but no longer. Not much of anything embarrasses me these days.

mucifer

(25,319 posts)

4. Yeah, I was obsessed with "Days of our Lives" and embarrassed, too. Like you, now I don't care.

Reply to Nictuku (Reply #3)

Sun Sep 7, 2025, 03:14 PM

Sep 7

maptap22

(226 posts)

5. Been a fan since nice I was 16

Reply to Nictuku (Original post)

Sun Sep 7, 2025, 03:33 PM

Sep 7

I’m 63 now. First started with Ryan’s Hope then All My Children. AMC was my favorite. I miss it.
Not embarrassed. It’s a fictional story so what? At least it is not stupid reality tv. I blame reality tv for a lot of our present hateful behavior. It gave people permission to be nasty to each other other.

Ritabert

(1,650 posts)

7. AMC was my favorite too.

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Sun Sep 7, 2025, 04:18 PM

Sep 7

FemDemERA

(583 posts)

6. Oh yes. One of my early memories is

Reply to Nictuku (Original post)

Sun Sep 7, 2025, 04:02 PM

Sep 7

Of watching with my grandmother. Watched Off and on thru the years then I started up again in earnest about the time of Luke and Laura, and also watched the other ABC ones. Taping and watching in the evenings.

Somewhere in the 2000s, after the demise of One life and All My Children, I started drifting off, no longer recording GH but would occasionally tune when home, sick in bed. Never long enough to get hooked into storylines. Last fall I caught a couple of episodes of GH and it was nice seeing a few familiar faces, but made me nostalgic for the 80s, Luke, Laura, Scorpio, Holly, etc.

Soaps were such fun and am not embarrassed to admit I loved them. Also Loved the Soapnet network for the time we had it. Wish we had something like it now, only as a “classic Soap rerun” channel. I would subscribe to that. Would love to rewatch Ryan’s Hope, AMC, One Life, old GH, The Doctors, Days, Y&R etc.

And thank you so much for the link!!!!