General Hospital

General Hospital

General Hospital (commonly abbreviated GH) is an American daytime television medical drama. It is listed in Guinness World Records as the longest-running American soap opera in production and the second longest-running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light. Concurrently, it is the world's third longest-running scripted drama series in production after British serials The Archers and Coronation Street, as well as the world's second-longest-running televised soap opera still in production. General Hospital premiered on the ABC television network on April 1, 1963. Same-day broadcasts as well as classic episodes were aired on SOAPnet from January 20, 2000, to December 31, 2013, following Disney-ABC's decision to discontinue the network. General Hospital is the longest-running serial produced in Hollywood, and the longest-running entertainment program in ABC television history. It holds the record for most Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Drama Series, with 13 wins. The show was created by husband-and-wife soap writers Frank and Doris Hursley, who originally set it in a general hospital (hence the title), in an unnamed fictional city. In the 1970s, the city was named Port Charles, New York. From its beginning, General Hospital starred John Beradino and Emily McLaughlin, and both actors stayed with the show until their deaths in 1996 and 1991 respectively. They were joined a year later by Rachel Ames who remains to date the longest serving actress on an ABC soap opera, having been continuously on the show from 1964 to 2007. General Hospital was the second soap to air on ABC (after the short-lived Road to Reality, which aired for several months during the 1960–61 season). In 1964, a sister soap was created for General Hospital, The Young Marrieds; it ran for two years, and was canceled because of low ratings. General Hospital also spawned a primetime spinoff with the same name in the United Kingdom from 1972 to 1979, as well as the daytime series Port Charles (1997–2003) and the primetime spin-off General Hospital: Night Shift (2007–2008) in the United States. Taped at The Prospect Studios, General Hospital aired for a half-hour until July 23, 1976. The series was expanded from 30 minutes to 45 minutes on July 26, 1976, and then to a full hour on January 16, 1978. Ever since the late 1970s, most of the storylines have revolved around the Quartermaines and the Spencers. From 1979 to 1988, General Hospital had more viewers than any other daytime soap opera. It rose to the top of the ratings in the early 1980s in part thanks to the monumentally popular "supercouple" Luke and Laura, whose 1981 wedding brought in 30 million viewers and remains the highest-rated hour in American soap opera history. The soap opera is also known for its high-profile celebrity guest stars who have included, among others, Roseanne Barr, James Franco and Elizabeth Taylor. In 2007, the program was listed as one of Time magazine's "100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME." On April 23, 2009, General Hospital began broadcasting in high definition, making it the first ABC soap opera to make such a transition. The serial aired its 14,000th episode on February 23, 2018. General Hospital became the oldest American soap opera on September 17, 2010, following the final broadcast of CBS' As the World Turns. On April 14, 2011, ABC announced the cancellation of both All My Children and One Life to Live, leaving General Hospital as the last remaining soap opera airing on the network after January 13, 2012. The show celebrated its 50th anniversary on April 1, 2013.

Year:
1963
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Samantha McCall:
What's with the injured-wife routine? You betrayed your husband with another man, his worst enemy, if I've got my facts straight. Sonny's done with you, he's free. So am I. There is nothing left to say.

Carly Corinthos:
OK, well, I wouldn't get all comfy and cozy with Sonny, if I were you. Has be bothered to mention Brenda yet? Because the two of you look enough alike to be sisters. Same height, same build, same dark hair. Although Brenda's was more stylish, but I'm sure that Sonny did not notice that difference in the dark.

Samantha McCall:
Wow, you are some nasty little b*tch.

Carly Corinthos:
No, actually, I'm being pretty nice and I imagine that the resemblance to Brenda was also the hook for Jax.

Samantha McCall:
OK, now you're stretching.

Carly Corinthos:
You'll probably have more time with Sonny than you did Jax because Sonny is a practical man. Brenda's gone. So am I. You'll do for now, but don't think that you're in it for the long haul, because you will lose Sonny just the same way you lost out on Jax.

Samantha McCall:
Oh, yeah? Why is that?

Carly Corinthos:
Because you're not Brenda. No one is. Brenda the illusive ghost she is. She's incandescent. Oh, she unattainable and unforgettable and Sonny and Jax, they have her so high up on a pedestal, you cannot see her until she comes back down and is in your face. And let me tell you something else - she always comes back. Always. So, you may be sharing Sonny's bed right now, but just do yourself a favor and never forget that you are a substitute, and you always will be.

Sonny Corinthos:
My relationship with Sam is none of your business, Carly. Stay away from her.

Carly Corinthos:
You're not having a relationship. You're sleeping with Sam because she's a dead ringer for Brenda.

Sonny Corinthos:
Is that what you told her?

Carly Corinthos:
I felt she had a right to know.

Sonny Corinthos:
Really?

Carly Corinthos:
Mm-hmm.

Sonny Corinthos:
Well, you're wrong, as usual, because when I see Sam, I don't see Brenda. I see a beautiful, passionate woman who doesn't lie about who she is or what she wants. Nice change of pace, isn't it?

Carly Corinthos:
Hmm. Well, if she has any sense she will be gone by the time you get upstairs, and if she is dumb enough to stay, then she deserves the heart-stomping that she will eventually get with you. She's not good enough, Sonny. She's not going to be enough for you, because no one ever is. That hole inside of you is so deep and it is so embedded, no woman could ever hope to fill it up. She isn't going to be good enough. She's not going to be loyal enough, and she certainly will not be strong enough to ease your pain or to fix you in all the ways that you are broken. You are wrecked inside, Sonny, and eventually you wreck everyone around you. But not my children, Sonny. You will not do that to my boys.

Sonny Corinthos:
Forget about them. As of now, you have no children.

Carly Corinthos:
Don't you even try it. Michael and Morgan are mine. I carried them, I gave birth to them, and I love them more than anything in this world. And you...

Sonny Corinthos:
You don't love anybody but yourself and Alcazar.

Carly Corinthos:
Oh, you are so full of it.

Sonny Corinthos:
Kids are just something you can...

Carly Corinthos:
You...

Lorenzo Alcazar:
Hey, hey, hey, hey!

Sonny Corinthos:
Do me a favor, Al? Keep your slut away from me.

Carly Corinthos:
Oh, you sick - you sick bastard! let me go! You're sick!

Sonny Corinthos:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, take hold of her.

Carly Corinthos:
Shut up! Pig! Let me go! Let go!

Edward Quartermaine:
Dillon?

Dillon Quartermaine:
Why am I here?

Edward Quartermaine:
So that I can apologize to you.

Dillon Quartermaine:
For what?

Edward Quartermaine:
For not spending enough time with you during your mother's recent absence.

Dillon Quartermaine:
My Mom's been back for six months.

Edward Quartermaine:
Dillon, what you need to understand, son, is that Lila and I practically raised Ned, and I thought that with your mother as your only role model that you were going to turn out to be a viper, like she is, but I - I was mistaken, you have potential.

Dillon Quartermaine:
OK, now you're freaking me out.

Edward Quartermaine:
No, no.

Dillon Quartermaine:
Yeah.

Edward Quartermaine:
You stand for what you believe. You're young. You got a lot to learn. But you do. You stand for what you believe and you have a strength of convictions, and you have that in spades.

Dillon Quartermaine:
Yeah, and I thought you had no use for me.

Edward Quartermaine:
Well, you thought wrong you give me a few years, and you could be C. E. O. of E. L. Q. huh?

Dillon Quartermaine:
E. L. Q. ?

Edward Quartermaine:
Well, sure. It's your legacy. Providing you keep your mother away form the helm. You see, I can revise my will so that you could get the lion's share of my estate, hmm?

Dillon Quartermaine:
I don't know what to say.

Edward Quartermaine:
Well, you might try yes or thank you.

Dillon Quartermaine:
Listen - no, thanks.

Edward Quartermaine:
What?

Dillon Quartermaine:
I'm going to be an independent filmmaker.

Edward Quartermaine:
An independent what?

Dillon Quartermaine:
Yeah, so, you can go back to calling me names, like derelict and good-for-nothing now, OK?

Tracy Quartermaine:
Sweetheart, have you been sniffing that hair product?

Dillon Quartermaine:
Later, Mom.

Edward Quartermaine:
Well, congratulations, Tracy. Another splendid product of your parenting expertise. Peterpan with a movie camera.

Skye Quartermaine Jacks:
Have you forgotten one very important detail? Faith is a homicidal maniac.

Luke Spencer:
True, but she's also a savvy investor.

Faith Rosco:
Oh, thank you. It's nice to be appreciated.

Luke Spencer:
Her participation guarantees notoriety. Plus we all benefit from the percentage of laundering her money, which I explained to you already.

Skye Quartermaine Jacks:
Yeah, but, you see, that was before you disappeared and left me alone with this bleach-blond barracuda, before I had to stop her from murdering Justus Ward, before she tried to kick us out of our own club.

Faith Rosco:
Is this a private rant, or can anyone chime in?

Luke Spencer:
Chime.

Faith Rosco:
Good. See, now that you're back and someone competent is in control. I promise to be on my very, very best behavior. See, I'd rather have you on my side than standing against me, so to speak.

Luke Spencer:
I'm glad we understand each other. I look forward to doing more business with you.

Faith Rosco:
I'm breathless with anticipation. Don't disappoint me.

Skye Quartermaine Jacks:
Do you want to get the knife out of my back because it's a little hard to reach.

Luke Spencer:
Oh, come on, Blaze, calm down.

Skye Quartermaine Jacks:
Oh, no, don't Blaze me! You just sided against me with a psychopath.

Luke Spencer:
Well, I think she's more of a sociopath, actually, but she's not so bad. Believe me, I've danced with worse.

Skye Quartermaine Jacks:
Oh, my God. I can't believe I didn't see this before. You actually enjoy having that woman around, don't you? You like the treachery with a little murder thrown in. You're really having fun here, aren't you?

Luke Spencer:
That's somewhat true.

Alexis Davis Cassadine:
Most district attorneys would opt to prevent a murder, instead of waiting for the murder to occur so they could arrest the perpetrator.

Ric Lansing:
Really? And you would have handled it differently.

Alexis Davis Cassadine:
I would have had the police on board the yacht before it docked.

Ric Lansing:
Of course.

Alexis Davis Cassadine:
Jax told you Faith shot him. You had plenty of evidence to arrest her.

Ric Lansing:
Well, maybe that's why I had officers on the scene - to make sure that she wouldn't be harmed.

Alexis Davis Cassadine:
What if there had been another ship in the vicinity? Innocent people could have - could have been killed when that yacht exploded.

Ric Lansing:
There is no way that I could have known that Faith was going to sabotage the yacht.

Alexis Davis Cassadine:
You knew she was psychotic. You took an unacceptable risk.

Ric Lansing:
All right, you know what? Here we are, right on schedule. For five minutes, you actually might have felt something for me. And that is just intolerable isn't it, Alexis, huh? Time to rebuild those walls.convince yourself that you don't want me to get close. That way, you can assure yourself that you were right all along. Right? I'm a repugnant, intolerable - what - what is the last one that you like to use? Complete waste of skin.

Alexis Davis Cassadine:
You put innocent people at risk when you bend the law to suit your own purposes. How many people who get close to you run the risk of being used in your campaign against your brother?

Felicia Scorpio Jones:
For Lila's sake, I did everything I could to keep an open mind to give you a fair chance to get that inheritance.

Tracy Quartermaine:
You were against me form the start.

Edward Quartermaine #3:
Can you blame her? She's supposedly searching for the most virtuous Quartermaine. She knew in advance it wouldn't be you.

Felicia Scorpio Jones:
Unfortunately, you've done nothing except prove that you were completely conniving and dishonest. As everyone says that you are.

Tracy Quartermaine:
What have I done specifically?

Felicia Scorpio Jones:
You spied on your father. You tried to blackmail him by taking photographs of him and Heather.

Tracy Quartermaine:
We're Quartermaines blackmail is how we all relate.

Felicia Scorpio Jones:
You're greedy, untrustworthy, dishonest. I tried to give you the benefit of the doubt.

Tracy Quartermaine:
You did not try very hard.

Felicia Scorpio Jones:
I bent over backwards so that I wouldn't be accused of bias.

Tracy Quartermaine:
Of course you're biased. You've hated me ever since I tried to protect my son from your daughter.

Dr. Monica Quartermaine:
Here we go.

Felicia Scorpio Jones:
You were completely unfair to my daughter.

Tracy Quartermaine:
Then maybe she should have taken the hint and stayed away, hmm?

Felicia Scorpio Jones:
Your son loves my daughter.

Tracy Quartermaine:
My son is teenager. He thinks with his hormones. I was just trying to get him to not make a terrible mistake.

Dr. Alan Quartermaine:
Why couldn't she have had a meltdown like this before we were eliminated?

Tracy Quartermaine:
You can't disqualify me for opposing a teen romance.

Felicia Scorpio Jones:
"Opposing"? You put naked pictures of my daughter on the hospital computer! Did you think that I would forget about that?

Tracy Quartermaine:
I'm going to call a lawyer as soon as the lights go back on. I'm going to have that will declared invalid, and while I'm at it, I'm going to sue you for fraud!

Felicia Scorpio Jones:
Are you threatening me?

Tracy Quartermaine:
No! I'm making you are promise, and I always keep my word.

Dr. Alan Quartermaine:
Since when?

Dr. Monica Quartermaine:
Since when?


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