The J Cline Memorial Celebrity Obituaries

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Gil Gerard - Actor
Played Buck Rogers the Lead in Buck Rogers in the 25th century on NBC. Passed away after a short battle with cancer.

Anthony Geary of General Hospital fame - Played Luke of Luke and Laura fame on GH. If you were at App during that time and you were a dude chasing girls around, you probably sat through one or two episodes. It was pretty big in those days

I read where 30 million people tuned into the General Hospital episode when Luke and Laura got married. 30 million in 1981 is insane for a daytime television show. My older sister loved that soap and I confess that we were amongst those numbers to watch.

I may have told this story here before...my freshman year we did not have tv in each room. Each floor had their own tv in the common area. But in the tv room in the student union, there were 3 big screens, with carpeted partitions shielding some noise from the others. I had a buddy that was really into General Hospital and we'd meet at the union after class to watch. You know (or don't) how soaps build up the inevitable big cliffhanger for the Friday episode and the place was PACKED with girls for the meeting between Laura, who had gone missing, or maybe it was Luke, but anyway at the very end, they finally saw each other and the show ended. There was a huge scream from all the girls, more like a squeal.

There was another segment who watched All My children or whatever other soap was on at the same time, and it was very popular as well. They were all watching over the partitions to see what was going on.

It was a big deal.

Lot of man cards being handed in back then

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Gil Gerard - Actor
Played Buck Rogers the Lead in Buck Rogers in the 25th century on NBC. Passed away after a short battle with cancer.

Anthony Geary of General Hospital fame - Played Luke of Luke and Laura fame on GH. If you were at App during that time and you were a dude chasing girls around, you probably sat through one or two episodes. It was pretty big in those days

I read where 30 million people tuned into the General Hospital episode when Luke and Laura got married. 30 million in 1981 is insane for a daytime television show. My older sister loved that soap and I confess that we were amongst those numbers to watch.

I may have told this story here before...my freshman year we did not have tv in each room. Each floor had their own tv in the common area. But in the tv room in the student union, there were 3 big screens, with carpeted partitions shielding some noise from the others. I had a buddy that was really into General Hospital and we'd meet at the union after class to watch. You know (or don't) how soaps build up the inevitable big cliffhanger for the Friday episode and the place was PACKED with girls for the meeting between Laura, who had gone missing, or maybe it was Luke, but anyway at the very end, they finally saw each other and the show ended. There was a huge scream from all the girls, more like a squeal.

There was another segment who watched All My children or whatever other soap was on at the same time, and it was very popular as well. They were all watching over the partitions to see what was going on.

It was a big deal.

Lot of man cards being handed in back then

I'm joking. I got hooked on Days of Our Lives who the girl I was dating watched religiously. Yep, I married her.