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They (Anthony Geary/Genie Francis) had to be at the very least great friends for the entirely of Tony's time on General Hospital! Tony just hugs her with to much caring and sweetness for them not to be!

It’s interesting to finally see these. I started watching GH in 2008, falling in love with JaSam, I’d go back to watch JaSam on CZcams since 2004. So I definitely understand being part of a fictional romance fandom. But when I told my mom I was watching GH, she told me she used to watch (before I was born) but this storyline actually made her stop watching. Even at the time she could not understand how the writers and fandom could root for a Luke and Laura romance after the rape. Maybe she understood things ahead of her time. But I’m glad my mom is the way she is and raised me the way she did. It’s crazy how many things that I grew up with that NEVER sat right with me (especially when it comes to rape - like putting rape into comedy or romance) that nowadays people are FINALLY admitting “it didn’t age well.” I understand the history and acceptance of it. I’m just so glad we’ve moved to a better understanding of this terrible act.

Their break up was so honest and so real. It was heart breaking because they had grown apart but the love and mutual admiration was still there and always would be they're Luke and Laura 💔😢

Love Laura here gorgeous 7 13 24

They still have an opportunity to tie it up but TG won't return. I get it and I am so glad he's happy but I sure wish these two would write a few episodes and wrap it up.

I miss Jessie she was such a Nice person&great nurse👍 Poor Laura I felt so bad for her:( first David Hamilton now This

Genie Francisco’s such a Special Lady I Love❤️ Her there’s just Something About Her. There Always was 💯she was so cute when she was 17 and first came in the show. And her abs A/G have the Best Chemistry 💯

Oh he helped her up and she side hugged him and arm is around her.

So Perfect!🥰LnL

Happy Birthday Ms Francis 2024❤

First it was rape, then later on Laura tells Luke it was making love, then years late Luke says it was rape (when telling his kids) just which is it? However, Laura did yell out no Luke no. No means no so in my opinion she was not a willing participant even though she claims later it was making love. Just exactly what was it Laura? Besides, she lies for him too lies about where it happened, how, & who did it.

Usual roadblocks for the usual suspects!

No Laura felt safe with Scotty that’s why she married him so young she really never was in love with him he was her safe base against the Hamilton affair but when everything settle down being married was. A bore she grew very very restless

I.never knee the story I remember seeing them on the island, all of the uploads are.so interesting. I like that they wesr normal clothing and aren't dressed up all the time.

I love that Genie Francis brought her daughter Eliza with her to the Emmy s. She is a beautiful lady inside and out.

Luke is gorgeous.

There has never been a couple like this.

Hey fans!! GH is 61 years old today. Happy anniversary. Luke and Laura you have not been forgotten. You set the bar very high. Much love forever a Luke and Laura fan ❤😢

I am still salty that they broke them up. LnL Forever ♥️

Miss them❤

Why why why did the writers tear the family apart 😢😢😢😢😢

I use to think that it was Scotty who had the Problem. And he was Controlling. But it was Laura who had the Issues&Problem!!! It Started with David Hamilton. And then Luke!!! Scotty tried everything he could to Actually Help Laura! He agreed to go to counseling and was patient. Tried to talk to her. She was Able to talk to her Rapists about all her problems!!! Of Course Scotty didn’t want her to work @the Disco After everything that happened there. And I thought he was coming between her&luke. But in fact it was Luke who caused all the trouble. I actually feel bad for Scotty now!!! He was a good husband. I felt bad for laura too. I never understood why she would continue to hang out with Luke and work for him after everything he did too her? It was Confusing till this day too say the least.

Jessie was Great💯

That Idiot Nurese! No you don’t no how it feels or can’t imagine Inre to being Raped

I Always Felt Bad For Laura

I vaguely remember watching this episode when it first aired. The year was 1979. Genie was 17 years old when she did this storyline. What I do remember was the way Jessie helped Laura. That was something that stuck with me through the years. I was a young teenager at the time. I think this is the reason that I didn’t realize what an incredible job Genie did for this particular episode. Watching it now, close to being 59 years old, it’s like seeing it for the first time. I am so impressed by her acting, especially for this storyline, for being only 17 years old. Then I remembered something about the first (and only) time Miss Francis won an Emmy - 2007. So I had to research the history of the Emmy’s and Genie Francis. I am so disappointed about her being, pretty much, ignored for TOO MANY YEARS. She didn’t win an Emmy until 2007 - the only time she’s won. She’s only been nominated 5 times, in all the years she played Laura!!! However the thing that makes me wonder - if the “Powers That Be” actually watched the show at all - is that Genie wasn’t even nominated for this storyline 😠 (Her first nomination wasn’t until 1997). It took 10 more years until she actually won the award. This is disgusting. She was still a young/new/actress when she played this storyline - and as I said, only 17 years old. I’ve watched Genie play Laura since 1978 (on & off). I cannot believe that the Emmy people ignored her for so many years. It must have been heartbreaking for her to not even be nominated for so long, and watch Tony Geary win and win and win - EVERY TIME HE DESERVED IT. Not only should she have been nominated for her acting skills in this story, she should have won!!

I know over sentimental but Imagine in the first scene and the attic scene tony saying just look into my eyes..❤ sigh.😊

So many enjoyable hours watching those two. There will never be another Love story like theirs on any show. Miss them very much. Sometimes I watch the video over and over of their Wedding. She was the most beautiful bride I ever saw

This was beautiful. ❤

We are all only here for a time. True love does not come to us all. Luke and Laura was that for many of us and should have also been our happy ever after. But alas it wasn’t so. May we at least dream that it was and and they will be together in the sky when Laura joins Luke who has gone before her. 😔🙏

There will never ever be another Luke and Laura. Absolutely amazing together. I watched from the first time they ever met. It has truly been an amazing adventure in soap opera history. Their love for each other is once in a lifetime.

The way Leslie, Rick, and Scott were constantly telling Laura how/what she needed to feel by sheltering and hovering. That should have been a clue. Laura was too young for marriage!

Best couple that has ever been in daytime tv. There will never be another couple like Luke and Laura. 30 million viewers proved that.

Luke was very family orientated. The videos prove it. Laura and his kids were everything to him. I hate they changed him.

They should have kept them together forever. General Hospital messed up bad.

They should have kept them together forever. General Hospital messed up bad.

I am a black guy and back in the day I was a teenager watching Luke and Laura and I remember my home boys giving me a hard time calling me soft because I watched I didn't give a shit but when we got on the basketball court I showed them who was soft

I rewatch this when I'm sad, and it makes me happy. Love Luke's little grin! Thank you Tony and Genie!

The Luke and Laura team are as good as any team that has ever been ..then, now, or ever ..solid magic between them ..they sure knew how to stir the emotion and bring the hot 🔥..thank you Tony and Genie for the years of great entertainment ...❤

They should never have broke them up. The only couple to have 30 million viewers.

No other couple could compare to Luke and Laura.

No other couple but Luke and Laura. Forever together

GF has always said, "Laura has an off switch"

She covers for him and goes into denial because she really does have feelings for Luke and what happened is causing too much dissonance. They DO have a bond here forward. Like she was bitten by a vampire. There's no escaping it. This is deep, archetypal stuff. It was like putting a garden hose into the vein of every red blooded female on earth. We were as hooked as she was. What genius. Incredible performances!

I am posting the following on several of these episodes. We have younger people watching who simply do not understand the context of this entire story and how it ended like it did (and some older folk, even now). The following is my opinion, but 30 million people might have agreed in 1981... 1) Females evolved being attacked, raped, taken hostage, etc., by males since time immemorial. Falling in love with your rapist - if he forced you to stay with him - is a gift. It meant survival. And we absolutely can do it. We have names like Stockholm Syndrome to identify it in modern terms, but it's in our DNA. Think Elizabeth Smart if you need help with it. This in no way means it's ok. It's not. Today we are citizens with rights. It was always wrong, but today it means a long prison sentence when you get caught (and you will, DNA tests are cheap and easy) so I don't recommend anyone try it thinking they want to play caveman. 2) In the 1970's "bodice-ripper" historical romances were all the rage, just like this show became. 3) WE didn't see the attack and so we are forced to imagine what happened. Luke did not beat her. It was not violent beyond him forcing himself on her. It would later be called what we know today to be date rape. On this issue, this show was ahead of its time. 4) This is fiction. It's important to remember that. But the issue is real. 5) Luke blacked out. He believed himself dead and was drunk as a skunk. These are not excuses, they are explanations for how he could lose his mind temporarily. Today experts know about temporary psychosis, that is what happened to him. 6) As a male organism, Luke, believing he was about to die, would ABSOLUTELY be moved to try to reproduce. This is a quintessential evolutionary drive. Soldiers before going off to war almost always leave pregnant wives back home for the same reason. 7) I don't know if Gloria Monty considered this at this level, but it's what happens in these scenarios. Her bravery in taking a scenario out of best-selling novels and putting it on daytime television cannot be overstated. It was shocking. But we American girls and women were ALREADY accepting of these types of "love stories" through our paperback choices. We instinctively understood the dynamics involved. Particularly since it was FICTION. 8) Luke was about to be killed and so was Geary and the show in its entirety. But the viewers - we American women - LOVED THEM together so much that WE forced Monty and her staff to rewrite the story and KEEP THEM TOGETHER. If you want someone to blame, blame US. Their chemistry, and Tony's incredible charisma, saved the show and broke records. 9) You can be mad at it, but evolution is not political. It gives not one shit about what's PC and what isn't. It's violent. It's ugly. And it's all about reproduction. There was no "dating" with wine and roses in the Paleolithic savannah. And we are absolutely from that. It's why men so easily kill each other to this day. Deal with it. Then be grateful men evolved to allow us rights, because they can take them away at any time. 10) Luke Spencer is an incredibly complex and enigmatic character as played by Anthony Geary. He is irresistible! If anyone has not watched the slow burn of their relationship from beginning to end, do not comment. Watch it all first. Then comment. I dare you not to fall in love with him too, along with 30 million other viewers. 11) and lastly; This is an archetypal story. It's the same one as Phantom of the Opera, Disney's Beauty and the Beast, and countless others out there. It is THAT POWERFUL. And if you're not mad at those fictional stories, why be mad at this? I wish you all peace and great love in your lives! May you find a love like the one Luke had for Laura! L&L forever!

"We're all very glad that you're alive. It's a very good thing to be alive. You just hang onto that." She says that because so often raped women are murdered. At least then. Today with DNA testing it's a whole other thing. Still happens, though. The things women tolerate at the hands of men, SMH, since like, forever. Disgusting. This was at the hands of a trusted friend...that they were about to kill off. Watch his reactions to this in the coming weeks. It's what makes American women demand he stay on as a partner for Laura. It's some of the best acting in history.

I want to know why Luke looked directly into the camera before he kisser her. ha ha

I have never seen a man love his woman like Luke does.

Luke hair is really long. You don't notice it with the curls.

Thank you. I’m a huge fan but my Mom wouldn’t let me watch these episodes. Then when I was older, they didn’t exist. It’s good to finally see them!