OLTL - In 1968 for 5 months viewers of the new soap watched Sadie often speak of the daughter “lost” to her, Clara as they also watched a troubled white woman named Carla fall in love with her doctor. Only to have the two plots intersect when Sadie and Carla bumped into each other, revealing that Carla and Clara were on and the same.

Y&R - Michael was a villain on a long redemption to good, who really talked about his past or personal life. Kevin was a grown man who groomed the underage girl, Lily Winters. Their stories wouldn’t converge until to the surprise of the audience a desperate Kevin came knocking on Michael’s door, revealing the two as brothers. 

DOOL - Prominent Salemites were being killed off left and right, methodically and very personally by a masked figure for months. Viewers were kept in the dark as who the culprit was until, in a shocking twist, the killer was revealed as upstanding citizen Dr. Marlena Evans.

GH - In a montage the clinking of champagne glasses between newlyweds Brenda and Jax was perfectly timed with the car bomb that ended the life of Sonny’s wife Lily and their unborn child, introduced a whole new wrinkle to the biggest love triangle of the 90s.

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