GL: Updated Timeline! (long)
Marni Centor
GUIDING LIGHT TIMELINE - LAST UPDATED: 1/6/96
The following timeline attempts to cover the major events in GL's entire
history, but it is sketchy in many places.
Most of the information for 1937-1985 was taken from Craig Schemering's
50-year anniversary book about GL. I have tried to include important
milestones, such as arrivals, marriages, births, divorces & deaths.
The rest is based on my memory & files and the memories & files & old
magazines of lots of other GL fans on RATS/RATSC and the GL discussion
list (especially Wendy, Dave D., Sheila, Shelby, Ella, Joan, Diane W.,
Dale & Anja).
If you see anything out of order, or you know a more exact date than the
one given in the timeline, please let me know. Also, if you know the date
of a significant event not included in this timeline, please let me know
so I can add it. Please state your source (e.g., old updates, old tapes,
magazine article, "it happened at the same time as/right before/right
after ___"). I'll update the timeline accordingly & post a new version
after I've incorporated all the replies.
Also, if you know when any of the following characters or actors were
introduced, please let me know:
- Trish Lewis
- Josh Lewis
- Billy Lewis (was it before or at same time as Mindy?)
- HB Lewis
- Jennifer & Morgan Richards
- Kelly Nelson
- Reardon family (Bea, Nola, Tony)
- Maureen Reardon (Ellen Dolan)
- Ellen Dolan replaced by Ellen Parker
- Vanessa & Henry Chamberlain
- Lillian Raines (was it same time as Beth or before?)
- Sherry Stringfield replaced by Liz Keifer
Please send replies by personal e-mail, as I do not always get to read
the newsgroup and I would rather not flood the discussion list. Thanks!
1930s
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The Guiding Light premieres on radio (1/25/37)
Ned and Mary are engaged (1937)
Abe Kransky dies from influenza (1937)
Fredrika shoots and kills Paul Holden (1938)
Rose Kransky has child out of wedlock (1939)
1940-1944
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Ned and Mary get married (6/41)
Johnny Kransky dies in an automobile accident (1941)
Ellis Smith and Torchy Reynolds Holden marry (1942)
Norma Greenman dies of a heart attack (1943)
1945-1949
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Dr. Richard Gaylord becomes minister in Five Points (1945)
Reverend Ruthledge dies (1946)
Tim Lawrence dies in a plane crash (7/46)
Dr. Jonathan MacNeill marries Claire Lawrence (10/46)
Theo Goetz originates role of Papa Bauer (1947)
Ray and Charlotte marry (1947)
Dr. Charles Matthews opens the Church of the Good Samaritan (1947)
Roger Collins marries Susan McClain (1948)
GL production moves to New York from Hollywood; GL story moves from Five
Points, USA to Selby Flats, CA (1949)
Bert and Bill Bauer are married (12/9/49)
Mama Bauer dies (12/49)
1950-1954
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Charita Bauer joins cast as Bert Bauer (1950)
Meta Bauer and Ted White marry (2/6/50)
Chuckie dies (9/20/50)
Meta shoots and kills Ted (9/22/50)
Meta is vindicated in the Ted White case (4/51)
Meta marries Joe Roberts (9/7/51)
Trudy Bauer marries Clyde Palmer (1951)
Bert gives birth to Mike Bauer (3/52)
GL begins airing on TV (6/30/52)
Kathy marries Bob Lang (1952)
Bob Lang is killed in an automobile accident (1952)
Kathy marries Dick Grant (1952)
Ellen Demming takes over role of Meta Bauer (Bill's sister) (1/53)
Kathy gives birth to Robin (5/53)
Bert gives birth to Ed (1/1/54)
Joey Roberts marries Lois (1954)
1955-1959
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Joe Roberts dies (12/24/55)
Radio version of GL discontinued (1956)
Mike Bauer runs away from home (1956)
Dr. Jim Kelly and Lila Taylor are wed (1956)
Kathy marries Mark Holden (2/57)
Papa Bauer celebrates his 65th birthday (3/14/57)
Dick Grant and Marie Wallace are wed (5/31/57)
Kathy Roberts Holden dies in auto accident (1958)
Mark Holden marries Ruth Jannings (1958)
Ed Bryce takes over role of Bill Bauer (1959)
Dr. Paul Fletcher and Anne Benedict are wed (1959)
Mark Holden marries Ruth Jannings (1959)
1960-1964
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Meta Roberts and Dr. Bruce Banning are wed (2/60)
Mike Bauer secretly marries Robin Lang Holden (marriage later annulled
because they are underage)... Karl Jannings is killed in a struggle with
Mike (7/60)
Dick & Marie Grant adopt Phil Collins (6/61)
Robin marries Alex Bowden (8/61)
Bert has surgery for uterine cancer (1/62)
Anne Fletcher killed in accidental shooting (10/62)
Mike marries Julie Conrad in a shotgun wedding (5/63)
Julie gives birth to Hope Bauer (9/63)
Robin secretly marries Paul Fletcher (4/64)
Nurse Jane Fletcher (Chase Crosley) comes to Springfield (1964)
1965-1969
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Gillian Spencer takes over role of Robin (1965)
Mike graduates law school; Ed begins studying surgery (1965)
Bill Bauer & Maggie Scott have an affair (1965)
Jane Fletcher marries George Hayes (7/65)
Julie Bauer dies in an insane asylum; Mike & Hope move to Bay City, MI &
become characters on Another World (2/66)
Bill Bauer falls off the wagon, eventually joins AA (1966)
Jane Hayes gives birth to Amy (6/66)
Johnny Fletcher marries Peggy Scott (4/67)
Ben Scott dies of a heart attack (5/67)
Ed Bauer marries Leslie Jackson (9/67)
Robin dies in a car accident (10/67)
Maggie Scott dies after unsuccessful surgery (3/68)
Mike Bauer (Don Stewart) returns to Springfield & falls in love with
Leslie Bauer (4/68)
Johnny Fletcher & Tracy Delmar (aka Charlotte Waring) get engaged (5/68)
Bill Bauer has a successful heart transplant (9/68)
Peggy Scott marries Marty Dillman; Johnny Fletcher marries Tracy
Delmar/Charlotte Waring (10/68)
Marty Dillman is murdered (12/68)
Mart Hulswit takes over role of Ed Bauer (1969)
Peggy gives birth to Billy (3/69)
Ed is arrested for drunken driving & is dismissed from hospital staff
(4/69)
Johnny Fletcher marries Peggy; Sarah McIntyre & Lee Gantry marry (12/69)
1970-74
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Mike marries Charlotte Waring (4/70)
Leslie gives birth to Frederick (Freddy, Rick) Bauer (8/70)
Lee Gantry falls through an attic window & dies (12/70)
Sarah McIntyre marries Joe Werner (12/31/70)
Holly Norris & Roger Thorpe (Michael Zaslow) go on their first date...
Leslie Bauer & Stanley Norris are involved (4/71)
Ed & Leslie divorce (1971)
Leslie Bauer marries Stanley Norris (7/2/71)
Stanley Norris is murdered (9/71)
Janet Mason marries Ken Norris (3/72)
Flip Malone kidnaps Charlotte (4/72)
Johnny Fletcher has a nervous breakdown (8/72)
Mike & Charlotte divorce (1973)
Papa Bauer dies in his sleep (2/73)
Ed Bauer marries Holly Norris (5/73)
Mike Bauer marries Leslie (6/73)
Kit Vested murders Charlotte Bauer (8/73)
1975-1976
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Ken Norris shoots Ed Bauer in the hand (4/75)
Holly gives birth to Christina (Chrissy, Blake) (7/75)
Maureen Garrett takes over the role of Holly (1976)
Roger marries Peggy Fletcher (2/76)
Leslie Bauer is hit by a car & dies (6/76)
Ed & Holly divorce (7/76)
Malcolm Granger dies under suspicious circumstances (10/76)
Joe Werner dies (11/76)
1977
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Rita Stapleton is acquitted in the Granger murder trial (4/77)
Roger & Peggy divorce (1977)
Hillary Bauer arrives in Springfield (1977)
Bill Bauer returns from the dead (9/77)
Guiding Light expands to 1-hour format (11/7/77)
Alan (Chris Bernau), Elizabeth & Phillip Spaulding arrive in Springfield
(11/77)
1978
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Alan & Elizabeth divorce (1978)
Sarah McIntyre marries Dean Blackford... Ben McFarren marries Eve
Stapleton (5/78)
Amanda Wexler (Kathleen Cullen) joins GL (1978)
Amanda Wexler & Gordon Middleton marry (9/78)
Roger rapes Rita (10/78)
Ed Bauer marries Rita (11/78)
1979
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Roger & Holly marry (1/79)
Dean Blackford dies in an accident (1/79)
Alan marries Jackie Marler (2/79)
Roger rapes Holly... Ross Marler (Jerry verDorn) arrives in Springfield
(3/79)
Roger's trial ends... Holly shoots Roger (he is presumed dead) (6/79)
Alan & Hope are stranded on an island (Summer 1979)
Brandon Spaulding dies [or so it would appear] (9/79)
Justin Marler & Elizabeth Spaulding marry (10/79)
Eve divorces Ben because of his affair with Diane Ballard (1979?)
1980
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Roger kidnaps Chrissy & Holly in Dominican Republic (3/80)
Roger falls off a cliff to his presumed death (4/1/80)
Ben & Amanda marry (4/80)
Alan & Hope marry (5/80)
Lucille Wexler is killed in a struggle with Jennifer Richards (10/80)
Jackie & Justin Marler remarry (1980)
Holly departs Springfield for Switzerland (1980)
1981
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Amanda learns she is Alan's daughter by Jennifer Richards (1/81)
Ed & Rita divorce because of Rita's affair w/Alan (1981)
Adam Thorpe & Sarah McIntyre marry (3/81)
Kelly Nelson & Morgan Richards marry (8/81)
Hope gives birth to Alan-Michael Spaulding (9/81)
Diane Ballard & Joe Bradley are murdered (10/81)
1982
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Jackie gives birth to Samantha Marler (1/82)
Nola Reardon gives birth to Kelly Louise, later renamed Anastasia (1/82)
Ross Marler & Carrie Todd (Jane Elliott) get married (3/82)
Jennifer Richards & Mark Evans elope (6/82)
Jackie Marler presumed dead in plane crash (7/82)
1983
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Ed Bauer marries Maureen Reardon (2/83)
Cradle Will Fall airs [TV movie featuring members of GL cast, including
Ross, Ed, Bert, Hope, Leslie-Ann] (5/83)
Mindy Lewis (Krista Tesreau) comes to Springfield (5/83)
Beth Raines (Judi Evans) is introduced (5/83)
Mona Enright shoots & kills Mark Evans, then leaps to her death (5/83)
Phillip meets Beth (6/83)
Nola Reardon & Quinton Chamberlain marry (6/83)
Rick, Mindy, Phillip & Beth graduate high school (6/83)
Eli Simms murders Bill Bauer in Chicago (8/83)
HB Lewis shoots & kills Eli Simms (11/83)
Beth & Phillip run off to NYC (12/83)
Reva Shayne (Kim Zimmer) hits town (12/83)
Mindy & Rick go to NYC (Xmas 1983)
1984
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Vanessa Chamberlain & Billy Lewis marry (2/84)
Bradley Raines goes to jail... Beth & Phillip get engaged (2/84)
Mindy announces she is pregnant... Mindy & Phillip marry... Beth & Lujack
get involved... Mindy miscarries (3/84)
Lesley Ann Munroe & Warren Andrews marry (3/84)
Mindy & Phillip divorce (5/84)
Tony Reardon & Annabelle Simms marry (5/84)
Lesley Ann dies of the Dreaming Death (5/84)
Nola gives birth to Anthony James (5/84)
Reva & HB marry (5/84)
India Von Halkein (Mary Kay Adams) is introduced (8/84)
Fletcher gets involved with Claire Ramsey (Summer/Fall 1984)
Hillary Bauer dies in an explosion [part of Brandon Spaulding is alive
with a mistress & daughter in Barbados plot] (9/84)
Beth is blinded in an explosion at Lujack's club (10/84)
Mike Bauer leaves Springfield for Washington, DC (10/84)
Annabelle, Tony, Jim, Fletcher and Claire find Brandon Spaulding with his
wife Sharina and his daughter on Barbados [end of the Susan Piper story]
(10-11/84)
Susan Piper dies (11/84)
Beth Raines and Lujack get engaged
Reva learns she is pregnant... HB Lewis has a heart attack (11/84)
Rick & Mindy split up (11/84)
Annabelle & Jim leave for Barbados (11/84)
India blackmails Phillip into marriage... Beth regains her sight (12/84)
Bert/Charita Bauer loses a leg to cancer (1984)
1985
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Charita Bauer dies (early 1985)
Reva loses HB's baby (2/85)
Ed & Claire make love, mistakenly believing Maureen & Fletcher have been
killed in Beirut. They conceive Michelle (2/85)
Floyd Parker shoots & kills Andy Ferris (2/14/85)
Kurt Corday & Roxie Shayne get married (4/85)
Claire Ramsey gives birth to Michelle Bauer (10/85)
Mindy marries Kurt Corday (11/85)
Vanessa gives birth to Harlan Billy Lewis III [Little Billy, Bill]
(12/85)
Lujack dies in an explosion (12/85)
Maeve Stoddard marries Kyle Sampson (12/85)
1986
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Phillip & India divorce (2/86)
Bert Bauer dies (3/86)
Kyle Sampson shoots & kills Cain Harris (5/86)
Maeve Stoddard gives birth to Ben (later adopted by Fletcher Reade)
(5/86)
Ross gets involved with Calla Matthews (Lillians sister)
Rick and Roxie Shayne get involved (spring/summer 86?)
Fletcher gets involved with Maeve Stoddard (spring/summer 1986)
Dinah Marler is introduced (Summer 1986)
Jessie Matthews gets involved with Simon Luvonocek
Beth Raines disappears, presumed dead after Alan produces a body (July
1986)
Claire Ramsey has a brain operation and leaves Springfield with the
doctor (autumn 1986)
Bea Reardon comes back to Springfield (autumn 1986)
Kurt goes to Venezuela & is killed there (late 1986)
Reva leaves Kyle Sampson at the altar... Josh (Robert Newman) comes back
to Springfield (winter 1986)
Dinah learns she is Vanessa's & Ross's daughter (Xmas 1986)
India von Halkein adopts Dorrie (winter 1986)
Chelsea Reardon (Kassie Wesley) comes to Springfield (12/86)
Christine Valere comes to Springfield (12/86)
Lillian Raines (Tina Sloan) & Hawk Shayne (Gil Rogers) get engaged (late
1986/early 1987)
Rusty Shayne comes to Springfield (late 1986/early 1987)
Alan's art forgery scam (winter 1986/87)
Winter 1987
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Billy leaves Springfield to work in Venezuela (1/87)
Calla Mathews leaves Springfield (1/87)
Jessie Mathews and Simon leave Springfield (1/87)
Rick leaves Springfield to work in Chicago (1/87)
Sarah Shayne (Audrey Peters) comes to Springfield (1/87)
Phillip gets involved with Chelsea (1/87)
Vanessa and Billy get divorced (1/87)
Henry Chamberlain has a heart attack; Vanessa takes his place at
Spaulding Enterprises (2/87)
Spring 1987
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Roxie Shayne and Johnny Bauer get involved (spring 1987)
Paul Valere is murdered (Spring 1987)
HB gets involved with Alexandra Spaulding (spring 1987)
Mindy Lewis and Rusty Shayne get involved (spring 1987)
India von Halkein leaves Springfield with Dorrie to live with the Baron
in Europe (spring 1987)
Ross & Vanessa get involved (spring 1987)
Will Jeffries comes to Springfield (spring 1987)
Reva gives birth to Marah (6/87)
Alan Spaulding is arrested for the murder of Paul Valere (6/87)
Rusty Shayne is shot by Paul Valere's partner and almost dies (6/87)
Chelsea and Jackson Freemont find out that Warren Andrews murdered Paul
Valere (6/87)
Christine Valere leaves Springfield (6/87)
Summer 1987
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Alan-Michael Spaulding (Carl Tye Evans) returns to Springfield (7/4/87)
Rick Bauer (Michael O'Leary) returns to Springfield (7/87)
Meredith Reade is introduced (7/87)
Reva & Josh get test results showing that Kyle Sampson is Marah's father
(summer 1987)
Phillip moves into the lighthouse (summer 1987)
Reva learns about Josh's marriage to Sonni (summer 1987)
Alan-Michael, Dinah Marler and Cameron Stewart start college (9/87)
Alan Spaulding falls in love with Reva (9/87)
Vanessa & Ross split up (9/87)
Johnny Bauer & Roxie Shayne get engaged; Johnny is diagnosed with cancer
(9/87)
Fall 1987
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Dinah falls in love with Alan-Michael (autumn 1987)
Sonni/Solita (Michelle Forbes) returns from the dead... Josh & Reva
separate (10/87)
Chelsea moves into the lighthouse with Phillip (10/87)
Alan finds out that Josh is really Marah's father (only he and Alexandra
know) (10/87)
Frank (Frank Dicopoulos) & Pops Cooper introduced (10/87)
Phillip and Reva start working for Spaulding (10/87)
Alan and Vanessa get engaged (10/87)
Sonni and Josh (re)marry ... Alexandra prevents Miss Sally from telling
HB that Josh is Marah's father... Miss Sally dies of a heart attack
(10/87)
Meredith Reade falls in love with Rick Bauer (10/87)
Harley Davidson Cooper (Beth Ehlers) introduced; gives birth to Daisy
(10/31/87)
Winter 1987-1988
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Reva attempts suicide (late 1987)
Alexandra and HB get engaged (late 1987)
Rose, a drug addict, is introduced; Rusty and Mindy help her (late 1987)
Maeve and Fletcher separate (12/87)
Vanessa breaks her engagement with Alan; flies to Venezuela to be with
Billy Lewis, who has fallen off the wagon (12/31/87)
Reva is involved with Alan Spaulding (late 1987/early 1988)
Johnny's cancer miraculously cured (3/88)
Alan marries Reva while she is comatose (3/88)
Marah's paternity is in question (3/88)
Dinah is kissed/assaulted by Cameron's drunken father, George (3/88)
Spring 1988
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Alan-Michael & Dinah are involved; Harley interferes (4/88)
Rusty falls in love with Rose (4/88)
Rusty & Rose make love (5/88)
Sonni has a miscarriage (5/88)
Phillip wrests Spaulding from Alan... Blake Lindsey (nee Chrissy Thorpe,
played by Elizabeth Dennehy) is introduced (5/88)
Phillip & Chelsea break up (5/88)
Rusty breaks up with Mindy (6/88)
Phillip & Blake get involved (6/88)
Planned Lewis/Spaulding merger falls through... HB breaks off engagement
to Alex (6/88)
Summer 1988
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Maeve & Fletcher get married... Phillip & Meredith sleep together,
conceive a baby (7/4/88)
Roxie has a nervous breakdown & is committed to a sanitarium in
Switzerland (7/88)
Johnny & Chelsea get involved (Summer or Fall 1988)
Harley & Alan-Michael get involved (July/August 1988)
Rusty shoots & kills Nicky (8/88)
Hawk & Lillian break off engagement (8/88)
Mindy & Frank get involved (8/88)
Reva finds Alan in Mexico & they make love (8/88)
Cameron & Dinah make love (8/88)
Rick proposes to Meredith (9/88)
Maeve dies in helicopter crash (9/88)
Phillip tries to buy Harley off to keep her away from Alan-Michael (9/88)
Will turns up alive... Sonni confesses to Alex about their affair (9/88)
Fall 1988
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Josh & Reva make love (autumn 1988)
Rick & Meredith get married (11/88)
Phillip & Blake make love (11/88)
Mindy marries Will Jeffries... Krista Tesreau leaves role of Mindy
(12/88)
Winter 1988-1989
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Fletcher & Alex crash on a deserted island (1/89)
Roger returns, disguised as Adam Malek (1/89)
Samantha Marler (Suzy Cote) returns as a teen-ager (early 2/89)
Harley & Alan-Michael get married... Nadine Cooper (Jean Carol) is
introduced (2/14/89)
Ed & Maureen separate (3/89)
Spring 1989
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Sonni goes to sanitarium to resolve her multiple-personality disorder...
Holly returns from Switzerland (4/89)
Reva learns Josh is Marah's father (4/89)
Sonni is cured of multiple personality disorder... Sonni & Josh get
divorced (late 4/89)
Will Jeffries kidnaps Marah Shayne (5/89)
Dylan (Morgan Englund) is released from jail & comes to Springfield
(5/89)
Meredith loses Phillip's baby (5/89)
Rusty & Rose get married (5/89)
Holly starts running WSPR, Johnny & Chelsea get their own TV show (5/89)
Alan calls off engagement to Nadine (5/89)
Roger/Adam is unmasked when Blake & Phillip first attempt marriage (5/89)
Will kills Rose Shayne (6/89)
Summer 1989
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Phillip & Blake (Sherry Stringfield) get married... Beth reappears...
Alan goes to prison (7/89)
Mindy (Kimberly Simms) returns to Springfield (Summer 1989)
Reva & Josh get married (8/89)
Nadine & Ros break up (8/89)
Dana masquerades as Beth (9/89)
Dylan befriends his daughter, Daisy Lemay (9/89)
Mindy pretends to reconcile with Will, then gaslights him (9/89)
Reva learns she is pregnant (9/89)
Alan-Michael & Harley move into garage apartment (9/89)
Sonni & Roger sleep together (9/89)
Johnny & Chelsea get engaged (9/89)
Gilly & Hamp start dating (9/89)
Gary Swanson arrives (9/89)
Neil Everest & Beth come to Springfield (9/89)
Fall 1989
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Harley moves out on Alan-Michael (10/89)
Ed fires Sonni; she moves out on Roger (10/89)
Dylan & Harley sleep together; Sam catches them in bed (10/89)
Alan-Michael kidnaps Daisy (10/89)
Will Jeffries falls to his death from a balcony at the Cliff Hotel
(11/89)
Dylan learns he is Reva & Billy's son (11/89)
Blake commits Phillip to a mental institution (11/89)
Maureen & Ed renew their vows (Thanksgiving 1989)
Phillip sees Beth (12/4/89)
Sonni leaves town for San Francisco (12/89)
Rae Rooney arrives in Springfield (12/89)
Winter 1989-1990
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Roger & Alex make love (1/90)
Roger fleeces Henry at poker, winning Henry's Spaulding stock (1/90)
Looney Rae Rooney stalks Chelsea (Winter-Spring 1990)
Frank & Dana get engaged (2/90)
Phillip proposes to Beth (2/14/90)
Reva gives birth to Shayne Lewis (2/90)
Dana breaks her engagement with Frank (late 2/90)
Fifth Street fire... Pops Cooper dies... Blake & Alan-Michael sleep
together (2/90)
Alexandra & Roger marry (3/12/90)
Beth tells Phillip she's pregnant by Neil (3/19/90)
Rae kills Dana (3/90)
Spring 1990
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Blake fakes a pregnancy test ... Harley gets it on video (late 4/90)
Beth learns her baby is Phillip's (4/23/90)
Reva runs off to India ... Harley becomes Lewis nanny (early 5/90)
Justin Marler & Daniel St. John come to Springfield... Johnny leaves
Chelsea to be with Roxie (5/14/90)
Rog loses Towers to Billy ... Mindy & Rog get involved ... Towers
explosion ... Neil killed; Phillip suspect ... Billy asks Van to run the
Towers (6/90)
Blake & Phillip divorce; Harley & Alan-Michael divorce (6/90)
Blake & Alan-Michael marry (6/90)
Blake & Alan-Michael honeymoon ... Alan-Michael kidnapped by Gary ...
Holly & Rog help Blake ... Rog saves Alan-Michael (now played by Rick
Hearst) (6/90)
Summer 1990
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Ross & Holly get engaged (before 7/4/90)
Reva drives her car off a bridge in the Florida keys (her body is never
found)... Samantha paralyzed (7/23/90)
Billy hits the bottle, leaves Van at altar ... Philip fakes his death ...
Blake "miscarries" (late 8/90)
A.C. Mallet (Mark Derwin) comes to Springfield to investigate Philip's
"death"; involved w/Asst. DA Lisa Dravecky (8/90)
Philip hides on a Mediterranean island & runs into India (8/27/90)
Mindy moves into Roger's apartment
Marah starts kindergarten (9/90)
Rick & Beth get married to throw the cops off Philip's scent.. India
comes to Springfield... Samantha's 18th birthday party @ diner; Josh
attends w/Harley & has some fun (9/17/90)
Fall 1990
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Phillip returns from island (10/4/90)
Holly tries to seduce Rog in Mexico ... Ross & Holly break up (late
10/90)
Harley burns Reva's clothes ... Harley & Josh get involved... Beth has
her baby (Thanksgiving 1990)
Blake accidentally shoots Alan-Michael... Gary kidnaps Blake (11/26/90)
Mindy hires Harley to work in her design firm... Rick is barred from
practicing medicine (early 12/90)
Philip exonerated ... Gary reveals truth about Blake's faked pregnancy
(12/10/90)
Winter 1990-91
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Harley goes to NY ... Matt Weiss steals dress design ... Hamp proposes to
Gilly (Xmas 1990)
Harley & Josh get engaged (New Year's Eve 1991)
India leaves Springfield (1/91)
GL changes opening sequence & theme music (1/91)
Blake & Alan-Michael divorce (late 1/91)
Billy spots Reva in travelogue ... Josh goes to Italy ... Vanessa named
president of Lewis Oil ... Rick leaves town... Chelsea leaves for England
(late 1/91)
Billy marries Nadine while drunk in Las Vegas (late 1/91)
Mindy & Roger go to Chicago ... Harley & Lillian pitch in to finish
Beth's wedding dress ... Beth & Philip marry, leave town ... Samantha has
operation (2/91)
Blake moves in with Holly (2/91)
Suzanne Devereaux arrives in Springfield (3/5/91)
Kat Speakes (Nia Long) runs away to Springfield (3/11/91)
Francesca (Nadia Capone) is introduced (3/14/91)
Spring 1991
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Mindy learns she is pregnant (3/26/91)
Hart Jessup (Jeff Phillips) joins GL... Holly & David St. John become
friendly (4/2/91)
Josh breaks off with Harley, sends for Marah & Shayne (4/91)
Harley moves in with Mindy (4/91)
Grandpa Jessup dies (4/16/91)
Stavros & Eleni arrive in Springfield (4/91)
Mindy miscarries ... Rog learns Hart is his son ... Fashion show @
Nadine's ... Alex learns about Mindy & Rog (5/7/91)
Mindy moves to lighthouse ... Harley moves to boardinghouse
Sam finds out about Jean Wetherill (5/91)
Bridget Reardon (Melissa Hayden) arrives in Springfield (5/21/91)
Francesca & Mallet have secret meetings at Lighthouse (5/91)
Summer 1991
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Eleni dates Dylan (May - July 1991)
Francesca's dad beats up Mallet (early July 1991?)
Billy & Van have a one-nighter @ Cross Creek ... Nadine catches them in
bed (early 7/91)
Alex dumps Roger in front of crowd at country club... they quickly
divorce (7/4/91)
Mindy & Mallet go to NYC to stop Francesca's wedding (7/15/91)
Alan-Michael and Vanessa vie for Spaulding presidency (7/91)
Billy & Nadine renew vows (late 7/91)
Mindy meets Nick in NYC ... Julie Camaletti (Jocelyn Seagrave) comes to
Springfield (late 7/91)
Julie & Hart start dating (late July/early August 1991)
Roger is having an affair with Suzanne Devereaux (8/91)
Harley gets arrested for prostitution (8/91)
Hamp and Gilly get engaged (8/91)
Eleni & Dylan break up (8/91)
Ed helps Daniel help Holly buy Ross' half of WSPR (Ross gave it up
because he was taking over as DA) (8/91)
Nick & Mindy get involved (8/91)
Fall 1991
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Harley joins police academy... Mallet joins the police force (9/91)
Alan-Michael becomes smitten with Eleni (9/91)
Bridget has the hots for Dylan; she helps Hart & Julie get together
behind Mallet's back (9/91)
Kat tries to break up Hamp & Gilly by telling about Gilly's arrest for
prostitution (9/91)
Vanessa wins Man of the Year Award (9/91)
Dylan is almost killed in an explosion caused by Elvis (10/91)
Daniel named head of neurology at Cedars (10/91)
Frank secretly buys house for Eleni (11/91)
Maureen takes job as Vanessa's assistant (11/91)
Daniel kills Jean Wetherill (late 11/91)
Winter 1991-92
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Lillian gets breast cancer (late 12/91)
Daniel St. John proposes to Holly (12/91)
Frank goes to Paris ... Alex learns she had twins & Eric gave one away
... Eleni goes to France w/Alan-Michael & finds Musette in Frank's bed
(12/91)
Van almost raped; saved by Fletcher (2/3/92)
Blake calls immigration on Eleni ... Alan-Michael & Eleni marry in
airport to avoid deportation ... Frank trashes his house (2/92)
Daniel locks Harley in root cellar; Mallet rescues her ... Daniel killed
(2/14/92)
Nick & Mindy get engaged (2?/92)
Eve Guthrie comes to town as part of Rog & Alex's plot to break up Nick &
Mindy (2?/92)
Spring 1992
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Harley & Mallet get involved (Cross Creek) ... Mo finds out about Lil's
cancer (4/92)
Sam disappears (4/92)
Springfield goes to "the Capital": Ross looks into possible Senate bid
... Harley & Mallet spot Jenna-the-jewel-thief (Fiona Hutchison)... Nick
receives a posthumous journalism award for his dad (4/92)
Harley secretly graduates from police academy (4/15/92)
Harley & Mallet investigate Jenna
Gilly & Hamp get married ... David Grant's first appearance (4/30/92)
Julie turns 18 ... Hart & Bridget make Peter ... Hart learns of Roger's
treachery & leaves town (5/92)
David gets job at diner, steals Ed's credit card
Van & Fletch get involved
Billy finds out that Nadine leaked Van's name to a tabloid, dumps Nadine
& moves into lighthouse w/Mindy
Summer 1992
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Nick & Eve go to Cambrai to rescue Paul (6/92)
Mindy leaves Nick @ altar & disappears ... Jenna steals Spaulding jewels,
hides them in Michelle's hair @ Mindy's wedding ... Ross & Blake get
together ... Blackout (6/26/92)
Roger & Jenna get involved
Alex leaves Springfield ... Van is named president of Spaulding
Dylan deflowers Julie
Alan-Michael switches Eleni's pills (Summer 92)
Eleni finds out about Musette & dumps Alan-Michael; sleeps with Frank on
the floor of his house
Musette & Mallet blown up (early 9/92)
Eleni goes to Greece because mom is sick; Alan-Michael follows her & she
(maybe) sleeps with him under the influence of sleeping pills; sleeps
with Frank later on another Greek island
Eleni gets pregnant (9/92)
Bridget, Kat & Julie start college (9/92)
Mallet & Harley move into firehouse ... Julie moves to boardinghouse &
starts working @ Company (9?/92)
Bridget learns she is pregnant, takes "job" at WSPR, moves in with Nadine
... Nadine fakes pregnancy ... Billy moves back in with Nadine, but in
separate bedroom (9?/92)
Fall 1992
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Van leaves Fletch at altar (9/21/92)
Lillian is all better ... Ed sleeps with Lillian (Sept/Oct 1992)
Harley gets a dog for Mallet (at Eve's suggestion) (10/92)
Eleni learns she is pregnant, goes back to Alan-Michael (Oct/Nov 1992?)
Mallet regains hearing (Nov 1992)
Ross wins Senate seat, but gives it up for the love of Blake (Nov. 1992)
Harley taken hostage by Pierre ... Pierre killed, Alan-Michael takes a
bullet for Harley ... Nick agrees to keep quiet about Alan-Michael's
involvement with Pierre (between 11/92 & late 12/92)
Winter 1992-93
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Bridget goes to "Appalachia" (aka Nadine's attic) to hide her pregnancy
(12/92)
Nick & Eve get involved (12/92)
Jenna learns she's not a Chamberlain (Xmas 1992)
Mallet regains use of legs ... Harley & Mallet get engaged (Xmas 1992)
Maureen dies following car crash (1/8/93)
Blake sleeps with Alan-Michael; discovered by Eleni (1/93)
Harley & Mallet go to Washington (1/93)
Harley starts looking for her dad (1/93)
Dylan & Julie go to NYC ... Mindy returns & gets job as Towers hostess
(1/93)
Buzz (Justin Deas) is introduced (2/5/93)
Blake is flooded out of garage apt & moves in with Ross (2/93)
Frank & Fletch search for Alex in Malaysia ... Eleni learns Frank is her
baby's father, goes to Malaysia ... (2/8/93)
Buzz arrives in Springfield; takes the alias Rex Mancini (2/11/93)
Buzz learns Nadine's faking her pregnancy (2/15/93)
Alan-Michael loses document (2/93)
Kat & David move into the boardinghouse
Bridget gives birth w/David's help ... Kat thinks David stood her up
(2/15/93)
Kat & David have sex (2/22/93)
Roger & Jenna steal Spaulding (2/25/93)
Jenna moves into Spaulding mansion...Alan-Michael & Nick take over the
Springfield Journal...Van returns to work for Lewis Oil (3/1/93)
Spring 1993
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Nick & Eve go to New Orleans; Eve buys a "Mindy" wig
Nick breaks up with Eve
Buzz gets the dirt on HB; Gilly exposes HB
Eve attacks Mindy; Eve is institutionalized (5/93)
Hart returns (Spring 1993)
Mallet learns that Rex is Buzz Cooper (Spring 1993)
Alan-Michael & Eleni divorce
Frank & Eleni marry ... Eleni gives birth ... Vanessa makes Nadine tell
Billy the truth about Peter ... Harley learns that Rex is Buzz Cooper,
her father (5/12/93)
Buzz reveals his true identity to his son, Frank
Billy divorces Nadine
Summer 1993
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Bridget gives Peter to Billy & Van (6/93)
Billy & Van remarry (6/93)
Rog & Ed save Holly & Rog sleeps with her (7/4/93)
David kills Vinny Morrison & goes on the lam (7/12/93)
Macauley West (Joe Lando) does a 6-week stint in Springfield; his
boathouse survives as a new place for displaced Springfield residents to
live (summer 1993)
Eve is released from the psychiatric hospital (7/93)
Rog & Jenna get married (8/10?/93)
Josh returns ... Hart sleeps w/ Julie ... Bridget breaks up Julie &
Dylan's wedding ... Dylan burns down house (9/93)
Dylan buys Hart's farm ... Hart leaves town (9/93)
Ed & Eve get involved (9/93)
Fall 1993
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Harley & Mallet get married; leave town ... Lucy Cooper (Sonia Satra)
arrives in Springfield ... Julie moves in with Frank & Eleni (late 9/93)
Eleni meets Bess Lowell at the Willows (10/8/93)
Buzz tells Nadine about Lucy's mom; Buzz & Nadine sleep together (10/93)
Marina has surgery to restore her hearing (10/22/93)
Detective Patrick Cutter (Scott Hoxby) arrives in Springfield ... Eleni
is kidnapped by George (early 11/93)
Tangie Hill (Marcy Walker) arrives in Springfield (11/93)
Bridget gives final custody of Peter to Lewises (Thanksgiving 1993)
Winter 1993-94
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Nick & Mindy's engagement party ... Roger is shot (12/93)
Spaulding returned to Spauldings (12/93)
Marah, Shayne & Sarah return to Springfield (Xmas 1993)
Blake & Ross get engaged (post-Xmas 1993)
Billy hits the bottle again ... Roger learns Peter is his grandson ...
Lighthouse fire (New Year's Eve 1994)
Bridget moves to boardinghouse & begins running it & Company; Nick &
Mindy move to Spaulding mansion (1/94)
Roger is apprehended by the police & names Billy as the shooter (1/26/94)
Billy confesses to shooting Roger (2/94)
Holly & Roger decide to give it another shot (2/94)
Bridget decides to pursue custody of Peter with Ed's support (3/94)
Spring 1994
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Mindy & Nick get married (4/94)
Eleni & Frank separate (5/94)
Pauly Hardman returns to jail; Buzz released into Nadine's custody (6/94)
Bridget & Van agree to joint custody of Peter (6/6/94)
Blake & Ross marry (6/13/94)
Summer 1994
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Bridget & Dylan do it for the first time (7/1/94)
Kat goes to Europe (7/11/94)
First appearance of Matt Reardon (Kurt McKinney); First appearance of Ron
Raines as Alan Spaulding; Nadine & Buzz's first appearance on SoulMates
(7/15/94)
Alan-Michael learns that Alan has been released from prison (7/19/94)
Bridget turns 20 & takes title to the boardinghouse (7/27-29/94)
Vanessa & Matt have an affair to remember; Alan-Michael gets blown up
(8/5/94)
Frank & Eleni renew their vows; Dylan's truck is hijacked (8/12/94)
David receives letter from Kat stating she's staying in Europe; Gabriella
(Veronica Cruz) makes her first appearance (8/19/94)
Eve moves in with Ed (late summer 1994)
Michelle & Bill share their first kiss (9/2/94)
Buzz & Nadine get remarried in Las Vegas (9/16/94)
Fall 1994
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Ed & Eve announce their engagement... Vanessa & Matt come face-to-face
(9/23/94)
GL airs 12,000th TV episode (10/2/94)
Alan & Alan-Michael finally see each other; Tangie shoots Alan by
accident (10/3/94)
Ed & Eve's engagement party; Ed takes his first drink in 13 years
(10/22/94)
Dylan is blinded in a hit-&-run car accident (10/31/94)
"Howie" doubles for Ross in a scheme cooked up by Alan. (11/94)
Carlos is arrested for blinding Dylan & numerous other infractions.
Motive never explained. (12/7/95)
Alex turns Alan's assets over to him... Josh meets Nurse Annie Dutton
(Cynthia Watros) (12/9/94)
Jenna leaves Springfield (12/12/94)
Mindy takes some time off from her marriage (12/14/94)
David marries Gabriella Lopez to prevent her deportation (12/16/94)
Holly thinks Rog slept with Alex; Holly & Fletch share "5 extraordinary
minutes" on her desk (12/19/94)
Winter 1994-1995
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Jenna announces the birth of Henry Cooper Bradshaw (Xmas 94)
Dylan goes to Duluth to attend a program for the blind [exit Morgan
Englund]... Tangie & Alan-Michael almost do it, but Alan interferes
(12/31/94)
Fifth Street Fire #2... Josh saves Lucy & Marina... Buzz saves the
diner... Frank & Eleni lose their house... Matt & Vanessa go public
(1/1/95)
Tangie accepts post as Asst. Managing Editor of the Journal... Sid is
arrested for arson (1/13/95)
Gabriella disappears (1/17/95)
Alan-Michael accepts presidency of Spaulding (1/19/95)
Holly & Roger reconcile (1/20/95)
Eleni goes to Crete to settle a dispute with Christos, her former
betrothed (2/1/95)
Mindy goes back to Nick in hopes of adopting a baby (2/10/95)
Dinah Marler (Wendy Moniz) returns to Springfield (2/20/95)
Mindy & Nick split up again (2/23/95)
Holly breaks up with Roger (3/1/95)
Jennifer Roszell replaces Melina Kanakaredes as Eleni (3/7/95)
Spring 1995
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Blake has a birthday; Ed & Eve abort their wedding; Rick Bauer (Michael
O'Leary) returns to Springfield (3/31/95)
Brent Lawrence (Frank Beaty) rapes Lucy (4/7/95)
Fifth Street Ball... Fletch declares his love for Holly... Dinah steals
proceeds & sleeps with Roger... Matt & Vanessa get engaged (4/14-20/95)
Reva's "spirit" appears to Josh (4/25/95)
Sean Reardon visits Springfield (5/19/95)
Eve Guthrie dies (5/25/95)
Viktor "kidnaps" Dinah (6/7/95)
Summer 1995
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Alan-Michael shoots Brent (6/23/95)
Viktor releases Dinah (6/29/95)
Holly & Fletch get married (7/10/95)
Dinah & Rog show up together at the Towers (7/27/95)
Reva regains consciousness in Goshen (7/??/95)
Buzz meets Reva/Rebecca (7/??/95)
Gilly breaks off her engagement with Sid (8/4/95)
Hawk Shayne returns to Springfield... Nola Reardon returns to Springfield
(8/8/95)
Marcus Williams arrives in Springfield (8/11/95)
Alan gets run down by Reva/Rebecca in Goshen... Susan (HIV-positive)
Bates (Nancy Bell) gets a job at Spaulding... Brent returns from the
dead as Marian Crane (8/14/95)
Reva is declared legally dead... Holly learns she is pregnant (8/18/95)
Tangie leaves Springfield (8/21/95)
Rog & Dinah get engaged (8/30/95)
Rog & Dinah get married (9/95)
Fall 1995
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Vanessa & Matt get married; Marian/Brent claims first victim at docks
(10/4/95)
Amanda Spaulding (Toby Poser) returns to Springfield (10/9/95)
Brent/Marian kills Nadine (10/20/95)
Rick & Annie get divorced in Mexico; Josh & Annie get re-engaged
(10/24/95)
Hart Jessup (Marshall Hilliard) returns to Springfield (11/4/95)
Brent/Marian kills Patrick Cutter; Marcus is prime suspect (11/13/95)
Griffin Williams comes to Springfield; Susan & Nick have safe sex
(11/28/95)
William Roerick (actor who portrayed Henry Chamberlain) dies (11/30/95)
Michelle Bauer returns from Europe, now played by __ Budig (11/30/95)
Hart learns that Peter is his son (12/1/95)
Holly & Fletcher learn that their baby will have Down Syndrome (12/6/95)
Brent/Marian attacks Susan, sending her into a coma; Josh & Annie get
married; Reva is discovered to be alive (12/11/95)
Winter 1995-1996
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Susan awakes from her coma (12/31/95)
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Marni (ma...@panix.com)