Five Things That Happened On November 10 In Soap History

In 1981, Elizabeth Taylor (pictured with Anthony Geary as Luke ) made her General Hospital debut as Helena Cassadine. Tristan Rogers (Robert), who also worked with the legendary movie star during her Port Charles stint, recalled to Soap Opera Digest in 2020, "She had one of the production offices which had been converted into a dressing room for her and I went in there and she slammed the door shut behind me and she said, 'I know all about you.' I went, 'My God, my reputation has preceded me already and I haven’t even shaken your hand?' She said, 'You are a notorious ad-libber.' "After meeting Taylor's request that he help her tweak her lines, "We stayed good friends all the way through and she invited the entire cast and crew to The Little Foxes, which she was doing [on stage] at the time. That was a great night. We went out a few times together. She was just a fun person to be with."

In 1989, Barbara Montgomery (Susan Pratt) and Tom Cudahy (Richard Shoberg) wed on All My Children. At the time, the bride was mega-pregnant — by her ex-husband, Travis Montgomery, who she had slept with while he was estranged from his new wife, Erica Kane. Travis had no clue that the baby was his, and Tom gallantly offered to raise the child as his own. After the couple tied the knot, Barbara went into labor at the reception! Little Molly Cudahy arrived shortly thereafter.

In 1995, General Hospital’s Robin Scorpio (Kimberly McCullough), whose lover, Michael "Stone" Cates (Michael Sutton), was dying from AIDS, learned that she was HIV-positive. Dr. Alan Quartermaine had the unenviable task of informing Robin of her test results. In the days ahead, she wrestled not only with her own uncertain future but with whether or not to tell Stone before he died. Ultimately, she made the choice to be honest with him so that there would be no secrets between them in his final days.

In 2005, Maggie Horton fell victim to the Salem Stalker on Days of Our Lives. Maggie was the third victim of the serial killer. Ultimately, she was revealed to be alive, but her potrayer, Suzanne Rogers, didn't know that at the time. She recalled to Soap Opera Digest in 2018, "I didn’t know that we were coming back. It was shocking. I remember John Clarke [ex-Mickey] was so upset. He said to me, ‘I want to leave. Why don’t they kill me off instead of you? You want to stay!’ It was very traumatic for me. I had a house to pay for and I was thinking, ‘What happens? How long can you live in the house?’ The obvious things that a normal person would think about. You go through all of those emotions. There’s the idea that you’re not going to be seeing these people — it’s like a death! It’s like your death. You’ve worked with these people for X amount of years, and then all of a sudden it’s like, ‘Bam, you’re gone!’ Needless to say, I was on cloud nine when I found out we were coming back.”

In 2005, little Molly was born on General Hospital. Ric (Rick Hearst) and Alexis's (Nancy Lee Grahn) beloved little girl made her entrance in dramatic fashion when Robin was forced to perform an emergency C-section on Alexis in a train tunnel after a colossal train wreck caused by Manny Ruiz. Happily, mom and baby made it through and Molly was able to go home, where she was doted on by her parents and big sister Kristina.