Classic General Hospital
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008From approximately 1978 until 1996 I watched General Hospital. Really I watched all the ABC soaps. The line up was Ryan’s Hope, All My Children, One to Live, and General Hospital. But General was the king of them and the only one I could see everyday due to the fact my parents enforced ridiculous rules - like you have to go to school during the day.

(This is what I looked like in 1981 apparently unaware that my face was being attacked by my glasses. I was clearly in the grips of some sort of Ice Princess Hysteria when I picked them out.)
I really remember picking up with General when Bobbie was pretending she was pregnant with Scotty Baldwin’s baby. Luke was a side character who owned the Campus Disco. As well versed as I am in those old storylines I have no idea what’s happened on the show in over ten years. Life has gotten in the way of my General watching. Oh course what I’m really saying is I don’t know how to work my VCR/DVD. And for me watching soaps is like eating potato chips, I can’t watch just one.
Anyway I was a nut for those soaps for literally decades and haven’t seen them again since. Enter You Tube. The other day I was suppose to be taking down the Christmas tree and feeding people who live here. Instead I watched this and this. Apparently You Tube is teaming with clips from my classic soaps! In the what, two years, since began to visit You Tube to watch guys lip syncing in front of their computers or beauty contestants messing up the answer portion of the pageant - I never thought to look up my stories. What was I on? I was blind. This is brilliant. Watching these clips is like re-reading Flowers in the Attic. I’m in 1980s heaven.
This might become a problem. I’ve got stuff to do. But just one more, maybe I’ll look up the time Luke and Laura solved the code for the Ice Princess, or the time Scotty showed up at the wedding, or maybe when B.J. died, or when Anna and Duke did the tango. And yes that’s Nurse Jessie in the Richard Simmons teaches areobics in the hospital cafeteria clip!
Oh oh. Paging Dr. Gail Baldwin (the Psychiatrist). My parents may have to step in. It was the only thing that worked in 1981.
