General Hospital
GENERAL HOSPITAL: Anthony Geary Tribute: An Homage to Luke Spencer, What Did You Think of the Episode?
On the Friday, February 20 episode of General Hospital, Luke Spencer was on the minds of many of his loved ones as the ABC daytime drama series paid tribute to the late great Anthony Geary complete with several clips through the years, remembrances and more.
As the story began, Lulu (Alexa Havins) finds a photo of her dad under her book shelf, which makes her realize she never had the chance to mourn his death, for when he passed away in 2022, she was still in her coma. Lulu hightails it over to her “Stepmonster’s’ house and she and Tracy (Jane Elliot) decide they will honor her father and Tracy’s ex-husband.
After first sitting in church, Lulu and Tracy admit this isn’t the way Luke would want to be remembered. Tracy blows out a candle on her way out telling Luke she knows he wouldn’t want this, and she heard him. Next, they head to the Brown Dog Bar. The owner told them the place isn’t open for several hours and to come back later.
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However, Tracy pays him off in cash to let them have the place for awhile, As he exits m it is revealed that his zip-up jacket says his name is “Luke.” Now trying to figure out which drink to have, since Luke loved booze, the two women drink some scotch and rum.
Meanwhile at Carly’s (Laura Wright), Sonny (Maurice Benard) stops by for Donna’s lunchbox and sees a poker chip reminding him of Luke. Sonny had a flashback to the first time he met Luke. Sonny tells Carly that his relationship with Luke got off to a very rocky start, but Luke ended up being more a brother to him. Carly recalls how good Luke was to her mother, Bobbie and recalled scenes where Luke calls Carly out on her stuff, and we used to love how he called her “Caroline.”
THANK YOU FOR THE LOVE OF A LIFETIME
Later, Elizabeth (Rebecca Herbst) visits Laura (Genie Francis) and tells her Aiden passed his driving test and that he has an interest in cars, which reminds Laura of Luke. Next, Laura heads to the chapel and becomes emotional as she flashes back to some classic scenes from the Luke and Laura heyday.
Laura says that what they had was never really over for her, because their hearts were bonded together beyond time and loss and this lifetime, and how nothing could change that. Perhaps one of the more heart-tugging moments of the tribute was Laura in remembrance of Luke saying, “Thank you for the dance. Thank you for the adventure. And thank you for the love of a lifetime.”
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Sonny ends up finding Tracy and Lulu inside the Brown Dog Bar and they invite him to stroll down memory lane with them about Luke. When talked turned to Tracy and Luke, Sonny piped up, “A couple so wrong, it turned out so right.” One of the best clips was that of Luke tying the knot with Tracy in Vegas when she got too drunk to remember it, or when Luke was in the hospital after 3 heart attacks and Tracy wanted him to take care of himself.
VISIONS OF LUKE
Next. Elizabeth gets a text, and Carly, and they meet up with Sonny, Lulu, Laura and Tracy at the Brown Dog Bar. Sonny had an idea and they all have lanterns that are lit that they put into the waters of the pier in honor of the Luke Spencer and the iconic Anthony Geary.
When Lulu turned her attention back to the water, she saw visions of Luke walking through the fog, with a duffel bag slung over his shoulder from Tony Geary’s farewell episode. Lulu says, “See you later, Dad.”
Once alone on the pier, Sonny remembers the last time he saw Luke alive, when before Luke left Port Charles, he gifted Sonny with his gun. Carly went back to Bobbie’s and had flashback of an argument with Luke.
Meanwhile, Tracy, now back at the Quartermaine mansion looks at a photo of her mother, Lila, and then remembers the time that Luke proposed to her for real in a touching moment. Back in the present, Tracy sobs, “I’d do it all again.”
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The episode comes to a conclusion with Lulu, remembering her dad, and then finding a poker chip in her pocket, the same ones found by Sonny and Carly earlier in the episode. She says, “Thank you for giving me your luck. And your love, Dad,’ as she props up his photo in the picture frame on the mantel. We fade to black.
So, what did you think of the standalone episode in tribute to Anthony Geary? Did the writers and producers hit all the right notes? Did it make you reach for the hankies? Were there some key moments you felt were left out of the flashbacks or the story? Weigh-in via the comment section below.
That was such a wonderfully moving episode. Everyone did a great job. I was especially touched by Laura sitting alone in the chapel and reminiscing about “the love of a lifetime.” That brought on the waterworks for me as did Tracy’s “I’d do it all again.” Bravo the everyone on a job extremely well done.
Here, here! And if the words and flashbacks during Laura’s remembrance weren’t enough, I started bawling when I realized the background music for Laura’s entire chapel scene was a slow, low-key piano version of the Dave Koz 90’s “Faces of Heart” GH theme, which I very much associate with Luke and Laura’s return to the show in 1993.
Luke raped Laurie. After they got back together I quit watching this show. It was disgusting.
Stockholm syndrome.
She fell in love with her rapist
It’s been 45 years. It’s fiction. Jesus
Close to perfection. I loved the scenes with Laura/Luke and Tracy/Luke were my favorites. What an amazing legend!
I wish it would have had a few flashbacks of Bobbie, Ruby, Robert and Holly, but know that can get expensive to show old clips.
I’m looking forward to seeing the way GH honors Robert Scorpio. I hope it has a great arc like Monica’s funeral. Hopefully, Sasha will come back to stay.
ABC owns the show and the actors playing Luke, Bobbie, Ruby, and Robert are dead so there are no residuals to pay. So how is showing old clips expensive? Most of the characters you mention were on the show a long time. They probably had an abundance of old clips and had to make tough choices about what could fit in an hour tribute.
That’s not how residuals work. Residuals continue after performers pass away, considered part of their estates in perpetuity. That is precisely why we don’t see more flashbacks in general and specifically in this case.
Are you sure? I’ve seen so many celebrities talk about how little they make on the reruns of massive hits they started in on nighttime tv. I can’t imagine daytime soaps which are treated like the stepchild of the entertainment industry paying out a lot of money on flashbacks or not having clauses in the contract their performers sign that are not very favorable to the employer producers. But it might explain why Proctor and Gamble has not tried to monetize it’s extensive soap opera catalog on streaming sites.
What BossTime said is accurate. The performer in a flashback gets their contracted rate when they were on the show. If recurring, their going rate at the time of the original broadcast.
None of this applies if the performer appears in the current episode as they are paid their current rate.
It’s was the most beautiful tribute to Tony/Luke GH writers had wrote to a legend
It was lovely
Glad it was told by way of giving Lulu a chance to grieve, but I did find it a bit of an unnecessary inset of an episode. Would have much rather had a sit-down style with the cast discussing Anthony Geary.
I agree. I think the sit down style with actors who actually worked with the subject a more fitting tribute even if it means pulling in a person or persons who is no longer on the show. So many people no longer on the show but who worked with Tony Geary made beautiful comments about him on social media. Next time when a great one leaves maybe we can incorporate some of the se comments and anecdotes in the tribute.
I’m sorry but Alexa’s (Lulu) dialogue didn’t move me. Now if it was Julie or even Emme cause they worked with Luke it would have more meaning.. The rest were very moving had me in tears, especially Laura & Tracy. The lanterns were a great send off as well
They aired one of my favorite scenes: Laura interrupting Luke during his shift at Kelly’s during their first break-up. Too bad they couldn’t show more of that clip because it’s award-worthy. Miss Havens did a wonderful job in this episode despite her having no working history with Tony. And I’m assuming Genie’s and Jane’s solo crying scenes included real tears. A bitter sweet episode I’ll remember for a while. Good job GH.
I am almost an entirely lapsed GH viewer at this point but absolutely had to come “home” for this episode. I therefore haven’t seen much of Havens’ Lulu, but I was indeed blown away by her performance. I can’t vouch for any other episodes, but here she absolutely channeled a grown-up version of Julie Berman’s Lulu, which is about the highest praise I can give her. She won me over at the early “step monster” reference and never let me down from there.
Given the time constraints and the recent Lulu recast, I thought they pulled it off very well. Jane and Genie put their hearts into their performances which clearly was not acting but the two women showing real grief for the loss of a good friend. I also thought the ending was edited beautifully with Geary dissolving into the fog. A little too much Carly for my taste but other than that biased quibble, it was well done.
Oh my! What a tearbreaker! Such a wonderful tribute to our Luke! I hope they do the same for Tristan Rogers/Scorpio!! If this episode doesn’t take an award for all the soap opera categories, something is very wrong!
Yeah, I hope they do a nice tribute for Tristan also. And I can’t remember if they said they’d be doing a tribute for Denise Alexander. I really hope they do.
Thought it was done very well. I’m not a daily watcher but as luck would have it saw the tribute, well done!!
I was pleasantly surprised. We may quibble about who wasn’t there or who should or shouldn’t have been there, but the characters that were there did a great job! All of them! I am haunted and impressed by a line uttered by Sonny: “In some cultures, people believe that you die twice: one, when you take your last breath; and then when your name is mentioned for the last time.”
The tribute was very well done. It was a very powerful episode. Kudos to the cast and writers of GH!!
Totally rang hollow with Alexa Havens who never acted with him. They split the screen at the end using a scene he was in with Emme not her. Awful. This wouldve rang true had there been a flasback with Bobby and Emme as Lulu or original Lulu. Having the focus in NuLulu, felt fake. Then again Havens has done nothing good since she came except bust uo peoples lives. Bring Emme back who had chemistry with Dante please si i dont have to kerp fast forwarding lulu scenes!
Well, you might want to hold on to something when the Emmy nominations come out, there’s a good chance Alexa gets a well-deserved nomination in the supporting actress category.
YES! It hit ALL of the Emotions while watching this episode. It brought me back to watching the episodes the clips were used from. I’m Sorry to Anthony’s husband, the Veteran characters and performers, Fans of GH’S Loss of Both the Actor & Character Lucas Lorenzo Spencer/William Eckert. THANK YOU ANTHONY for your Decades performing as these 2 characters, I Will Miss You, & I Will LOVE YOU.
Mark L.D. Brown
The Tribute to Anthony Geary was Phenomenal! I cried through the whole show, taped it ,watched again the next day and cried again.
I really miss anthony Geary he was a great actor.
General Hospital
Kelly Sullivan Gives High Praise to ‘General Hospital’s’ Maura West Recalling When Ava Shot Connie (Exclusive)
It was just over 13 years ago on General Hospital when Ava Jerome (Maura West) shot and killed Kate Howard/Connie Falconeri (Kelly Sullivan) in an effort to keep her quiet from revealing that Derek Wells was actually Ava’s back-from-the-dead brother, Julian Jerome (William deVry). It’s a crime that somehow Ava never has quite paid for either.
The episode back aired on August 13, 2013 and viewers had to say goodbye to Kelly Sullivan who played Kate and her alter, Connie. In the story, just before she died, Kate/Connie scrawled the letters AJ in her own blood, initially making the PCPD and Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard) think that it was AJ Quatermaine (Sean Kanan) who did the deed.
Now, Sullivan recalled sharing scenes with the three-time Daytime Emmy-winning West, during a live conversation on You Tube’s Michael Fairman Channel. Kelly was the special guest talking about her recent return to the soaps in her new role as The Bold and the Beautiful’s Darcy Dylan.
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FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF MAURA WEST
Speaking of her final GH scenes and working with Maura West, Sullivan gave her then GH co-star major props. “If you’re going to be shot by somebody (on the soaps), you want to be shot by Maura West, c’mon!”
Maura West debuted back in May 2013 as Ava, and Sullivan remembered when the As the World Turns favorite began on GH. “I remember when Maura West first arrived at GH. She walked in with this cute little bob (hairdo) and she’s just delicious,” shared Sullivan.
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Kelly revealed more about Maura, adding “I think she’s amazing! I remember right before I left the show, someone suggested, and I would still love to do this with her, if she ever want to, but someone suggested that they wanted to direct the stage play A Streetcar Named Desire with Maura and I, where I would play Stella and she would play Blanche! Wouldn’t that be great?”
Speaking of the Ava/Connie showdown scenes, Sullivan expressed, “On television and on General Hospital specifically, Maura West is able to play a character who does the most horrendous things and you still care about her and that’s the mark of a really great actor. In other words, you’re able to be liked in the midst of the most horrendous things, and as a performer not shying away from that, and to just have the courage to do what’s on the page (in the script).”
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KELLY SULLIVAN PARTING THOUGHTS AS SHE LEFT GENERAL HOSPITAL
Kelly also shared her sentiments when she walked off the set of General Hospital after her run back in August of 2013. “I really was honored. Every day I would go to work and I would say a little prayer, which is I want to do justice for my character, explained Kelly. “It’s between me and my character. I get to walk this path with her and to leave the show on that note, which is, I left every out there. I just gave it my all and again what an honor it was to play Kate/Connie.”
You can catch the full conversation with Kelly where she talks about her time on General Hospital, The Young and the Restless where she played Sage Warner and now The Bold and the Beautiful below.
So, do you remember the Ava and Connie scenes where Ava shot and killed her? What did you think of Kelly Sullivan’s sentiments about Maura West? Share your thoughts via the comment section. But first, watch the reveal where Ava recalls murdering Connie below!
The question of will Steve Burton (Jason Morgan) stay awhile at General Hospital after his recent extended hiatus from the show earlier this year, has reportedly been answered.
TMZ via court documents obtained in Burton’s ongoing legal battle with his ex-wife Sheree Gustin, shared that Steve actually inked a new three year deal with the ABC soap opera back in June.
That is significant because it was June when Burton returned back to work as Jason. In addition, the court filing confirmed that Burton had already moved back to California from Tennessee.
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STEVE’S HIATUS AND HIS RETURN TO PORT CHARLES
GH fans will recall, it was back in February of 2026, that Burton announced via his Instagram that he was stepping away from his role of Jason Morgan for short break and pointed to wanting to spend quality time with his new wife, Michelle Lundstrom Burton with whom he tied the knot back on May 17, 2025.
Steve expressed at that time, “I’m newly married and looking forward to spending some quality time with my family.” It was back on March 25 that viewers saw Jason carted away by the WSB after taking the fall for Rocco Falconeri (Finn Carr) who shot then WSB Director Ross Cullum (Andrew Hawkes).
Burton returned to work on June 1, and due to General Hospital taping roughly six weeks ahead of air, made his on-screen comeback on the July 13 episode.
GOING FOR GOLD AT THE UPCOMING DAYTIME EMMYS
Then, Steve and his enduring fans got an extra special treat on the same day, when it was revealed on Extra that he was nominated for the upcoming 53rd annual Daytime Emmy Awards in the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Daytime Drama Series category.
Steve previously won in the Supporting Actor category for his work as General Hospital’s Jason in 1998 and as The Young and the Restless’ Dylan McAvoy in 2018.
Now with Jason and Britt’s (Kelly Thiebaud) relationship seemingly hitting the skids, plus Jason’s commitment to staying out of mob life to focus on being present for his son Danny Morgan (Asher Antonyzyn), what does the future hold for the fan favorite character? Stay tuned.
So, happy to hear that Steve Burton signed a new three year deal with General Hospital? Knowing that, what storyline would you like to see Jason get involved and with who? Share your thoughts and theories via the comment section.
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GENERAL HOSPITAL: Jason and Britt Reach an Impasse; Is This the End of Their Relationship?
On the Friday, September 11 episode of General Hospital, Jason (Steve Burton) and Britt’s (Kelly Thiebaud) relationship becomes strained to potentially the point of no return.
Things take a turn when an unglued Britt having been traumatized by almost being killed by Anna Devane (Finola Hughes) asks Jason to back her up with the PCPD when she reports Anna for attempted murder.
However, Jason told Britt, he can’t. Jason shares that he does not believe Anna would have gone through with shooting her. Therefore, Britt was not in any real imminent danger. Britt is flabbergasted and hurt that Jason is refusing to tell the police what he actually witnessed for himself on Mount Emerson.
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BRITT WANTS BACK UP FROM JASON
Jason counters that he can’t believe that Britt would want Anna punished. or sent to prison, or a mental facility after the trauma she endured while being locked up and mentally tortured while at Wyndemere.
He asks Britt, “How could you even say that you want her locked up or prosecuted for what she did when you knew she was being held prisoner and you did nothing to save her?” Britt is stunned by Jason’s response.
Coming up, official General Hospital spoilers share that on the upcoming Monday, September 14 episode, Jason confides in Carly (Laura Wright), while Britt is stung. In the video preview that aired at the end of the Friday, September 11 episode for this coming Monday, Britt says to Jason, “You don’t believe me. Do you?”
General Hospital head scribes, Chris Van Etten and Elizabeth Korte previously teased in their fall preview of the soap, “Britt and Jason have come a long way and fought a lot of enemies to be together. But the most stubborn obstacle to their happiness isn’t without, it’s within. Decisions Britt made to stay alive while under Cullum’s thumb will come back to haunt her and may prove too difficult for this unlikely couple to survive.”
So, what do you think will happen? Will Jason and Britt break-up over Britt’s lies and Jason’s unwillingness to report Anna’s crime against her? Do you want Jason and Britt to go their separate ways? If they do, will Britt become romantically involved with Dr. Tristan Roberts (Dean Geyer) ? If so, who do you pair Jason with? Anyone? Weigh-in via the comment section.
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