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
GENERAL HOSPITAL: Carly Fears Escalating Tensions Between Sonny and Josslyn: ‘I’ve Already Lost One Kid Because of That Man. I Won’t Lose Another’
On the Thursday, November 12 episode of General Hospital, as battles line are drawn by Carly’s (Laura Wright) ex-husband, Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard) and her daughter, Josslyn Jacks (Eden McCoy), she realizes things are about to get a whole lot worse, and she expressed her fears to Valentin Cassadine (James Patrick Stuart).
After Sonny came to see Carly to get her daughter to back off of him; especially when Josslyn lit into him in front of nuAvery (Ayla Bullington), Carly is terrified that Sonny could retaliate against Josslyn. Realizing, Josslyn is in danger, Carly won’t sit by and let anything happen to her. She tells Valentin, “I’ve already lost one kid because of that man. I won’t lose another.”
Viewers won’t soon forget the devastation Carly felt when Morgan (Bryan Craig) died in a car bomb explosion back in 2016 because of Sonny’s dealings in the mob in a complex story involving Julian (William deVry) and Olivia Jerome (Tonja Walker).
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SONNY IS READY FOR WAR
Meanwhile in the aftermath of his visit with Carly, Sonny told his brother Ric what went down when Josslyn disrespected him in front of his own daughter and hurt Avery. Since Josslyn already make it known that she no longer considers herself part of Sonny’s family, he’s decided to treat her accordingly.
Sonnys first step in payback is to take away her support system at JJE by approaching Hudson Parker (Troy Lennon Appel) again, but this time in a much less-friendly way.
Ric points out that this would go against every move Sonny made as a legitimate businessman in Port Charles and would mean he’s back in the mob? Sonny doubles down, saying Josslyn changed the game when she involved Avery. While he showed concern of how bad Carly would feel over all this year, he said he is ready to finish what Josslyn started.
At the Metro Court, Ava (Maura West) is listening to Avery explain what happened between Sonny and Josslyn and how much she hates Josslyn right now, which Ava seems to be OK with.
WILL JOSSLYN’S WORLD BLOW UP ON HER?
Speaking of Josslyn, she is on the pier still after her talk with Hudson and still crying over her confrontation with Sonny and Avery overhearing it, and what she told her sister. Lucas comes across her at the pier while out for his run.
Explaining how badly she feels for what she said about Sonny to Avery, Lucas says that eventually Avery will discover the truth about Sonny. He explains to Josslyn that even though Avery hates her now, she will come to realize that what she said about her father was the truth, and that Josslyn was not lying to her at all.
So, what do you think about Sonny ready to play dirty to take down Josslyn? How will Carly ensure her daughter does not wind up dead? Who do you think is in the right here? Is Josslyn’s vendetta against Sonny justified, at the cost of the relationships with her family? Let us know your thoughts in the comment section.
General Hospital
‘General Hospital’s’ Cynthia Watros Honors Former ‘Titus’ Co-Star Stacy Keach Following His Passing
General Hospital star Cynthia Watros, who can currently be seen in on the ABC soap opera in the role of Nina Reeves, has had a enduring career in television. That included her time on the 2000-2002 Fox sitcom, Titus.
In Titus, Watros starred along with Stacy Keach as Erin Fitzpatrick and Ken Titus, respectively. After the November 10th news that Keach had passed away at 85 while living in Poland, Cynthia took to her Instagram on Thursday, November 12 to pay tribute to the great actor.
Watros expressed, “My first prime time show was along side Stacy. I loved him instantly. What an amazing talent and man.❤️”
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In Titus, Stacy played stand up comedian Christopher Titus’ heavy-drinking, chain-smoking, five-times-divorced father who frequently pulled cruel pranks and tried to toughen his kids up. Cynthia played by Christopher’s level-headed, big-hearted girlfriend trying to build a normal life with him. In fact, Cynthia’s role on the sitcom was first series regular role after her Daytime Emmy run of Annie Dutton on Guiding Light which ran from 1994-1998.
STACY KEACH’S WIFE ON HIS PASSING
Keach’s wife, Malgosia shared the news of the actor’s death publicly in a statement with PEOPLE. Malgosia expressed, that Stacy had, “a long and difficult battle with a serious heart condition and heart failure.”
She added, “Stacy peacefully departed this world. He fought for so long, with extraordinary courage, determination and strength. He was a true warrior, facing his illness with the same remarkable spirit and resilience that defined his life.”
Małgosia continued, “Stacy was not only a legendary actor, admired and loved by audiences the world over, but also my beloved husband, my companion and the heart of our family. His passing leaves an immeasurable emptiness in our lives. But his extraordinary spirit, his unforgettable voice and the love he gave so generously will remain with us forever.”
Now, let us know do you remember when Cynthia made her sitcom debut in Titus? Share your thoughts via the comment section on Cynthia’s many TV roles and the passing of Stacy Keach in the comment section. But first, check out the very first episode of Titus with Cynthia Watros below!
The latest ratings are out for the week of October 26-30, 2026 and the big takeaways include: that CBS daytime’s Beyond the Gates was separated by only 23,000 viewers behind third place (of the soaps) General Hospital! For the last several weeks, Beyond the Gates has been closing the gap on this year’s winner for Outstanding Daytime Drama Series, and continuing to best GH in the key demos.
According to the latest Nielsen ratings breakdown from Soap Opera Network, the final week of October brought Beyond the Gates 1.790 million on average tuning-in and the show set a season high in total viewers. Meanwhile, General Hospital hit a new season low! The long-running ABC soap had 1.813 million for the week, and once again the series did not go over the 2 million mark.
Meanwhile, in the key Women 18-49 demo, Beyond the Gates was firmly ahead of GH with a rating share of 0.21, while General Hospital had 0.17 rating share.Then, in the key Women 25-54 demo, Beyond the Gates was once again ahead of the ABC soap with a ratings share for that demo at 0.30 while GH came in with 0.26.
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MORE BY THE NUMBERS
In addition and comparatively, Beyond the Gates +22,000 viewers week-to-week, and had the largest gains in viewership year-to-year in daytime TV with +267,000 from this in 2025.. However, General Hospital seems to be going in reverse. The show was down -56,000 viewers week-over-week and down -22,000 year-over-year .
BEYOND THE GATES
Let’s take a look at some of the storylines that had people tuning-in to Beyond the Gates during the ratings week:
Hayley (Marquita Goings) attempted a massive shocker regarding her pregnancy and tried to use it to extract money from Bill Hamilton (Timon Kyle Durrett). Although, Bill saw right through her game, he demanded a paternity test, and made it clear he has no intention of raising the child—planning instead to pay her off to take the baby and leave. Meanwhile, Hayley confided her plan to her cousin Randy (Maurice P. Kerry).
Jacob Hawthorne (Jibre Hordges) and Naomi Hamilton (Arielle Prepetit) clashed over Jacob’s ongoing investigation into The Impaler, causing significant strain in their marriage. At the same time, Smitty (Mike Manning) considered taking matters into his own hands—including potentially heading to Mexico for evidence—while Martin Richardson (Brandon Claybon) worried about what comes next.
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GENERAL HOSPITAL
Over at General Hospital for the ratings period, the story served up included:
Carly (Laura Wright) and Valentin (James Patrick Stuart) teamed up to investigate what really happened to Jack Brennan (Chris McKenna). Later, Danny (Asher Antonyzyn) leads them to Jack’s dead body.
Jude (Wil Traval) dropped a bombshell claim to Alexis (Nancy Lee Grahn); that he is Phoebe’s father, while Brook Lynn (Amanda Setton) and Chase (Josh Swickard) signed their divorce papers.
Then, Danny caught Rocco (Finn Carr) and Scout (Kayden Brenna Tokarski) sharing a kiss, plus the shocking return of Heather Webber (Alley Mills) capped the week.
Now the questions become; without having much promotional synergy in the ABC day-part to draw more eyeballs it is not helping but hurting General Hospital. It seems Beyond the Gates is also a benefactor of a one-two-three punch of CBS soaps (Y&R, B&B and BTG) and promotion.
However, that still doesn’t take away the fact that Beyond the Gates is close to besting GH in all ratings category as they go head-to-head in some markets across the country.
So, are you excited to see Beyond the Gates climb in the ratings? Are you concerned for General Hospital? Do you think they can stave off Beyond the Gates in total viewers or will the upstart soap overtake them in the next ratings report? Share your thoughts in the comment section.
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