It was never acted upon, as they remained close friends until Jessie (and actress Emily McLaughlin) died in 1991. While there was no overt tension, Jessie was disappointed as there had always been an air of sexual tension between her and Steve. Hardy, eventually marrying him three times. Phil Brewer was murdered.Īnother nurse, Lucille March ( Lucille Wall), brought her sister, flight attendant Audrey ( Rachel Ames) to town slowly but surely, she romanced Dr. The seemingly neverending cycle of separation and reconciliation between the two finally ended in 1974, when Dr. Over the years, Phil became renowned for his philandering, with Jessie constantly forgiving her errant husband for his affairs. Phil Brewer (most notably played by Roy Thinnes) was the center of many early storylines.
Jessie's turbulent marriage to the much younger Dr.
Steve was chief of Internal Medicine on the hospital's seventh floor and dedicated his life to healing and caring for the sick, ably assisted by Nurse Jessie. The first stories were mainly set at a general hospital in Port Charles, a fictional New York town, and revolved around manly doctor Steve Hardy ( John Beradino) and his nurse Jessie Brewer ( Emily McLaughlin). The General Hospital title card, seen between 19. The show is often credited for starting several trends in the soap opera genre in the 1980s, most notably that of the supercouple and fast paced action-adventure plotlines that were remarkably different from the more traditional domestic and social issues that had been the sole focus of most soap operas during the previous decades.
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The serial was created by soap writers Frank and Doris Hursley, a husband-and-wife team. The show originally aired for a half-hour until the network expanded it to 45 minutes in 1976, and then to an hour in 1978. The show debuted on April 1, 1963, the same day that rival network NBC launched its own medical soap opera, The Doctors. General Hospital is the longest-running daytime soap opera on the American ABC television network, and is also the longest-running soap opera produced in Hollywood (having been taped at the Prospect Avenue ABC Television Center West since its inception). For the ITV soap opera which ran from 1972 to 1979, see General Hospital (British television).
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