A STUNNING BRIDE marries her love, hops in a limo and is blown to smithereens. Joy, scandal, tragedy-and returning from the dead, of course-have kept General Hospital fans tuned in since its 1963 debut.
Today, ABC's GH is one of four soaps still standing with CBS's The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful, and Days of Our Lives on Peacock and remains a perfect shot of afternoon intrigue. It even grabbed a record 15th Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series in 2022. "General Hospital always explored stories not told in primetime," executive producer Frank Valentini says.
What's the secret serum that's made GH a winner? We visited with show VIPs to find out.
LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY During the 1976-77 season, GH ranked a lowly No. 10 out of 15 daytime dramas. (CBS's As the World Turns dominated for nearly two decades.) That changed when exec producer Gloria Monty threw worldly Luke Spencer (Anthony Geary) and ingenue Laura Webber (Genie Francis) together. They fell hard for each other. Viewers went crazy, and the term super couple was born. By the 1979-80 season, GH was No. 1, a spot it would hold for nearly a decade.
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NCIS: Origins
A HEARTBROKEN LEROY Jethro Gibbs faces his first Christmas without his murdered wife and daughter in the NCIS prequel's emotional midseason finale.
Elsbeth
MARRIED ACTORS CARRIE Preston and Michael Emerson (above) have happily guest starred on each other's shows before (Lost, Claws).
SOUTHERN CHARMERS
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THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS
Eight years after his Daytime Emmy-winning run as lan Ward on The Young and the Restless, Ray Wise is back for a new reign of terror in Genoa City.
Spies Seeing Double
\"MY CHOSEN CAREER is a psychological tightrope walk over a pit of fire,\" says a CIA spook code-named Martian (played with steely intensity by Michael Fassbender) in the solemn spy drama The Agency.
BLITZ FRIDAY, NOV. 22
It is clearly \"the worst of times\" in this stirring Dickensian nail-biter of a movie, set during WWII's early days, when the German Luftwaffe bombed London nightly for months.
INTERIOR CHINATOWN TUESDAY, NOV. 19
Willis Wu (Silicon Valley's Jimmy O. Yang) is stuck.
BEATLES '64 FRIDAY, NOV. 29
In February 1964, the Beatles made their first flight to an America still reeling from the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
MUSIC BY JOHN WILLIAMS
\"There's no one else like John Williams,\" says Laurent Bouzereau, director of this documentary.
