Timmy The Doll Debuted On Passions And Other Events From July 9 In Soap History

In 1999, Josh Ryan Evans made his Passions debut as Timmy. The character was a talking doll, the creation of and sidekick to witch Tabitha Lenox (Juliet Mills). Timmy longed to be a real boy and his kind nature made him reluctant to participate in Tabitha's evil schemes. Evans tragically passed away at the age of 20 from a congenital heart condition in 2002.

In 2002, Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald-Crane (Lindsay Hartley) begged for her life on Passions as she was set to be executed for the murder of Julian Crane, her then-husband. Theresa was executed, but came back from the dead — and, as it turned out, Julian was very much alive, as well.

In 2007, Alison Sweeney and James Scott began playing Colleen Brady and Santo DiMera in addition to their regular characters, Sami Brady and EJ Dimera, in flashback scenes on Days of Our Lives. Colleen was the sister of Shawn Brady, Sami's grandfather, and Santo was Stefano's father, EJ's grandfather. The pair had a love affair despite the fact that Colleen was poised to become a nun. She was so filled with shame when she learned she was pregnant that she faked her own death, and gave up the baby she birthed for adoption. This backstory was created to explain the root of Stefano's long-standing vendetta against the Brady family.

In 2008, Paul Ryan (Roger Howarth) and Meg Snyder (Marie Wilson) wed in the gardens at Fairwind on As The World Turns. Marie Wilson gushed to Soap Opera Weekly, "After everything they’ve been through, and all the hesitation and the setbacks, it’s what Meg has been looking forward to for a very long time. She can finally admit that she’s in love with Paul, and that he’s the only guy that she wants to spend her life with." The actress noted of Meg's nontraditional choice of wedding dress, "It’s beautiful. It’s something you would wear to a fancy evening out. It’s very ethereal and flowing, and stunning. I don’t want to say it was tie-dyed, but it blended from one color into another and looked like a painting. I want to borrow it!"

On July 9, 2024, Cody Bell (Josh Kelly, r.) finally revealed to Mac Scorpio (John J. York) that he is Mac's son by the late Dominique Stanton. After committing to the lie that he was sired by Leopold Taub, a story he stuck to in order to get his paws on the Ice Princess, Cody wasn't quite sure how to undo the web of deception he had spun, especially after growing closer to Mac, Mac's wife (Felicia) and Mac's stepdaughter (Maxie). As Josh Kelly explained it to Soap Opera Digest, "he’s really ashamed of what he did, and now he feels like more of a liar, you know? He lied about the paternity test and sometimes it feels like it’s easier to live in a lie [than to ’fess up to it]. He’s got a good thing going, everyone’s getting along right now, and he knows that if he tells the truth, it’s gonna cause chaos and it might cause irreparable damage.” While Mac was initially rather upset, in time, he and Cody were able to forge a father/son bond.