General hospital was an attempt to replicate the success of one of british television's first major soap operas, emergency ward 10. History of general hospital the history of general hospital refers to the abc daytime soap opera, general hospital, a daytime american television soap opera In the late 1970s, storylines began to shift focus around the spencer and quartermaine families From 1979 to 1988, general hospital had more viewers than any other daytime soap opera. [1] created by frank and doris hursley, the series premiered on april 1, 1963. Pat falken smith replaced marland as head writer of general hospital in 1979 since he wanted to go slower with luke and laura's story than monty had
[21] smith wrote a controversial rape storyline between luke and laura [12] to prepare for the story, geary and francis both met with a social worker before taping the rape scenes [20] originally intended to be a brutal attack, monty re. List of general hospital characters introduced in the 1970sgeneral hospital is the longest running american television serial drama, airing on abc [1] created by 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
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