#ALL GENERAL HOSPITAL EPISODES SERIES#
The series is also available for streaming on ABC.com and Hulu.Laura learned of Ruby's death from Luke. Check your local listings for the exact time in your area. It won't be such a big celebration, but I think every year it’s an accomplishment to stay on the air and to be relevant and to be something that people talk about and care about.” This is one of the reasons that executive producer Frank Valentini believes that General Hospital has outlasting so many of the now defunct daytime series, as he says, “In a very competitive television market, where we're competing with streaming and everything else, the fact that we're still going strong, and able to tell stories that no one else can tell in a three-dimensional, attenuated way where we can tell everyone's point of view, is a testament to not only to, but the people who are back in the studio shooting a very tough episode today as well. We're always consuming news and doing our best to keep our finger on the pulse so that the cast have the opportunity to portray stories that meet the audience where they live.” Within those storylines fellow co-head writer, Chris Van Etten, stresses that, “We strive to remain relevant. I think the love for the show is what gets us through and keeps us going.” I still have to pinch myself sometimes when I'm writing certain characters. Writing those 250 episodes is a challenge, says O’Connor, “but I think what helps the process is that our entire team of women and men absolutely love the show. But I love that we get in and get out, and we do 250 episodes, I think, a year. While the actors are no longer doing it live, they are still working very fast, to which Rebecca Herbst, who has played Elizabeth Webber since 1997, says, “I love the pace of the show. There was no such thing as making a mistake.” I remember having trick clothes so that you could exit one set and rip them off as you ran to the next one. “We did it as though it were live it was terrifying. Not only have the characters evolved but so has the production of the show, says Francis. I loved my Laura then too, but this is where it needed to go,” she explains. She was such a victim as a young woman, and to see it flip around and have her be this powerful woman who is the mayor of the town. Having expressed this, Francis says that having continued to play the character all these years, she feels ‘very fortunate to have this new reinvented Laura.’ I think, when a woman says ‘No,’ that she should be listened to, and if you replay that scene, you don't have Laura just saying ‘No, ‘You have her screaming ‘No.’” I think that the story was inappropriate, and I don't condone it, and it's been a burden that I've had to carry to try to justify that story, and so I'm not doing that anymore. She continues with, “At 60, I don't feel the need to defend that anymore. But, at 17, you follow the rules, and you do as you are told, and you aim to please.” You know, as a young kid at 17, I was told to play rape, and I played it. I had a feeling I was going to be asked about that.
While the actual wedding was filled with both happiness and traditional soap opera drama, there’s still discussion about the controversial beginnings of the super couple, which involved sexual assault.įrancis addresses this, saying, “The date-rape issue.
(Photo by Gregg DeGuire/WireImage) WireImage But, before that, it was a very tough day of shooting.”īURBANK, CA - APRIL 26: Actress Genie Francis arrives at the 42nd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards at. After the ceremony, and we started to dance, then I actually started to have fun. And everybody was super tense because it was such a big deal. I that headdress on, which is pretty, but it was wired, and it was sticking in my head, and I was not allowed to sit down because you couldn't wrinkle that dress. At the time, I knew it was popular, but I never dreamed that we would be celebrating the 60th and still talking about that moment.”įrancis was just 19 years old when she shot the elaborate wedding sequence.Īs for her memories of that day, she says, “I think of what an uncomfortable day that was to shoot, in super-spiked high heels, sinking in the mud. It's still sinking in to me how big a deal it was. She says about the experience, “It's hard to put that in just one sentence. Longtime cast member Genie Francis, who joined the show in 1977, is responsible for one of the biggest storylines on the series, the romance and wedding of Luke and Laura.
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