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Days Of Our Lives Rewind: Doug and Julie’s Love Story In Photos

By Janet Di Lauro
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Susan Seaforth Hayes and the late Bill Hayes’s final scenes as Doug and Julie Williams air on Thursday, July 11, 2024, marking the end of their five-decade run as one of Days of our Lives’s most enchanting supercouples. Here’s a look back at their unforgettable past in Salem. (To read more about their incredible real-life love story, click here.)

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    When ex-con Brent Douglas (he later changed his name to Doug Williams) was released from prison in 1970, Susan paid him to romance Julie. Although Julie was married to Scott Banning, she and Doug fell in love.

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    After Julie secured divorce from Bob Anderson, Doug and Julie finally wed in 1976 (two years after their portrayers did). It would turn out to be their first of three marriages.

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    In 1978, Julie was raped by Larry Atwood, but kept it a secret. The traumatic event made her push Doug away.

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    Doug and Julie divorced, then married for a second time in 1981. After the ceremony, the couple took off for a honeymoon in Japan. During their years away from Salem, the pair divorced, but eventually found their way back to one another and rewed off-camera.

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    In 2004, Julie was devastated when Doug was “murdered” by the Salem Stalker. Fortunately, it turned out to be a cruel hoax, and he soon turned up alive on Melaswen island.

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    When Julie’s beloved grandmother, Alice, died in 2010, she and Doug supported each other through the huge loss to their family.

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    Doug and Julie returned to Salem in 2015 to attend Hope and Aiden’s wedding, and to cheer the town's bicentennial celebration alongside John (Drake Hogestyn) and Marlena (Deidre Hall).

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    Doug supported Julie as she mourned the loss of her son, David, in 2017. However, her heartache turned to happiness, when she later met Eli, the grandson she never knew existed.

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    The couple got back into the restaurant business in 2017, when they reopened Doug’s Place.

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    Doug was by Julie’s side, when she suffered a heart attack and was near death in 2019. Luckily, she received a life-saving transplant and within months made a full recovery.

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    Among the pair’s fiercest obstacles was the devil himself. In 2021, Satan took over Doug’s body, and he collapsed in Marlena’s office while Julie watched in horror.

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    A devastating fire ravished the Horton home in 2024. Fortunately, Doug and Julie made it out safely out of the blaze.

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    Doug and Julie shared a romantic moment in their final scene together, filmed in December 2023, which is poised to air on July 11, 2024. How fitting that one of Susan Seaforth Hayes’s final lines to her on- and off-screen husband was, “Did I ever tell you how much I love you?”
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