Classic Soap Tropes - Back From The Dead

In 1985, CAPITOL “widow” Clarissa (Constance Towers) was in for a shock: the newcomer calling himself Jarrett was actually her long-presumed-dead husband, Baxter (Ron Harper).

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AS THE WORLD TURNS’s James Stenbeck (Anthony Herrera) bounced back from “death” many times, perhaps most memorably in 1986.

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Arguably prime-time soaps’ most memorable death defier, DALLAS’s Bobby (Patrick Ewing), turned up alive in the shower in 1986 — turns out, his season-long death had all been wife Pam’s dream.

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Who is that masked man? Why, it’s GUIDING LIGHT’s Roger (Michael Zaslow), who returned to Springfield in 1989, nine years after he plunged from a cliff to his seeming demise.

ALL MY CHILDREN - Cady McClain (Dixie) in a scene that airs the week of July 25, 2011 on ABC Daytime's "All My Children." "All My Children" airs Monday-Friday (1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. (ABC/Rick Rowell) CADY MCCLAIN ABC

ALL MY CHILDREN’s Dixie (Cady McClain) cheated apparent death more than once; her final comeback, in 2011, took place four years after her seeming demise by poisoned pancakes.

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