![]() ![]() ![]() Rather than simply kill her nemesis, Vivian Alamain opted to instead fake Carly Manning’s death and then bury the heroine alive. Image Credit: NBC screenshot Days of Our Lives: Buried Alive! ( Watch an amusing Casey/Frisco sequence.) What better way for the Devane family to bounce back from the second “death” of Anna’s “late” husband, Duke Lavery, than to lighten things up with the arrival of a hunky space alien from a star called Lumina? On the hunt for crystals that would allow him to return home, “Casey” first befriended young Robin, but was eventually accepted by Anna, Frisco and other gr’ups. ![]() Image Credit: Courtesy of ABC General Hospital: Casey the Alien, Phone Home Viki eventually found her own way to 1888 to rescue Clint, only to catch her husband about to exchange vows with Ginny! Viki and Clint made sure that Ginny wound up with Randolph Lord (lest Viki never be born!), then with the help of a Native American named Clear Eyes returned to the present day. When a blind Clint Buchanan got thrown from his horse during a 100-mile race through the deserts of Arizona, he woke up 100 years in the past, where he encountered Old West counterparts of his dad Asa, his son Cord and his wife Viki (in the form of mousy school marm Ginny). Image Credit: Courtesy of ABC One Life to Live: We Must Go Back to the Future! Jonathan himself, though, was “resurrected” to entrap and torment his twin, seeing as he was the Devil incarnate… or at least a facsimile, due to ABC being skittish about offending viewers’ religious sensibilities. But due to O’Hurley’s popularity with fans, he was brought back as Keith Lane, Jonathan’s much kinder twin. John O’Hurley originally joined the ABC sudser as Jonathan Matalaine, a lady killer who wound up, well, killed - pitched off of the Golden Gate Bridge. Image Credit: Courtesy of ABC Loving: Dance With the Devil soaps-wildest-storylines-loving-Jonathan-Matalaine.But I’d do that again,” late head writer Claire Labine said. “Everyone always cites Prince Albert the ape story as a mistake. Image Credit: Scan of advertisement Ryan’s Hope: Gorilla Warfareįour years after the 1976 blockbuster King Kong scaled the box office, the ABC soap aped the premise of a gorilla with a crush by having Prince Albert (played by a man in a costume) kidnap Delia Coleridge. Making the acquaintance of WSB superspy Robert Scorpio along the way, Luke and Laura came to realize that the Ice Princess also housed the formula for carbonic snow, a key part in the Cassadine family’s plan to rule the world using a weather machine! Luke saved the world, but not before Port Charles endured a summertime blizzard. Image Credit: Courtesy of ABC General Hospital: The Ice Princess DiariesĪt the height of Luke-and-Laura fever, the supercouple got wrapped up in the hunt for the Ice Princess, the world’s largest uncut diamond which had been spray-painted black and mounted as a statue. wildest-soap-storylines-gh-ice-princess-2.In response to the fangdemonium, the suddenly supernatural sudser went on to introduce werewolves, zombies, ghosts, witches and the only severed hand to ever get more screen time than The Addams Family’s Thing. Image Credit: AP Photo/Bob Wands Dark Shadows: Soaps’ First Bite of CrazyĪfter an anemic start in the ratings, ABC’s gothic soap opera became a monster smash by releasing from his coffin vampire Barnabas Collins, played by Jonathan Frid. ![]()
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