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Over the years, Port Charles became a soap opera with complex younger characters and ended up focusing on stories about forbidden love, vampires, and resurrection to life after death. The soap opera switched from the regular writing format, instead creating thirteen-week story arcs which are more commonly used on Spanish ''[[telenovelas]]''. This allowed the cast, crew, and writing staff to only work six months out of the year. |
Over the years, Port Charles became a soap opera with complex younger characters and ended up focusing on stories about forbidden love, vampires, and resurrection to life after death. The soap opera switched from the regular writing format, instead creating thirteen-week story arcs which are more commonly used on Spanish ''[[telenovelas]]''. This allowed the cast, crew, and writing staff to only work six months out of the year. |
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The show was canceled in the summer of [[2003]]; some fans speculated that it was due to the fact that the show was nominated for ''Best Daytime Drama'' and lost at the [[Daytime Emmy Awards]]. In reality, the show, which was owned by ABC, was losing money with each week and was not aired in many parts of the country. This, in turn, brought down ratings and halted revenue. |
The show was canceled in the summer of [[2003]]; some fans speculated that it was due to the fact that the show was nominated for ''Best Daytime Drama'' and lost at the [[Daytime Emmy Awards]] for ''[[As the World Turns]]''. In reality, the show, which was owned by ABC, was losing money with each week and was not aired in many parts of the country. This, in turn, brought down ratings and halted revenue. |
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Since the show only taped for six months out of the year, the remaining episodes were aired with the cast not allowed to return to tape resolutions to storylines. In fact, the final episode was a cliffhanger; heroine Alison didn't know who the father of her baby was. |
Since the show only taped for six months out of the year, the remaining episodes were aired with the cast not allowed to return to tape resolutions to storylines. In fact, the final episode was a cliffhanger; heroine Alison ([[Erin Hershey Presley]]) didn't know who the father of her baby was. |
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==Cast and characters== |
==Cast and characters== |
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Revision as of 19:42, 31 December 2004
Port Charles was a soap opera which aired on ABC from June 1, 1997 to October 3, 2003.
The show was a spin-off of the popular General Hospital. It first featured seven interns in a competitive medical school program. In the first episode, tenured nurse Audrey Hardy (played first on General Hospital by Rachel Ames, who reprised the role on the new serial) was injured and an intern had to operate on her with a power drill to save her life.
Over the years, Port Charles became a soap opera with complex younger characters and ended up focusing on stories about forbidden love, vampires, and resurrection to life after death. The soap opera switched from the regular writing format, instead creating thirteen-week story arcs which are more commonly used on Spanish telenovelas. This allowed the cast, crew, and writing staff to only work six months out of the year.
The show was canceled in the summer of 2003; some fans speculated that it was due to the fact that the show was nominated for Best Daytime Drama and lost at the Daytime Emmy Awards for As the World Turns. In reality, the show, which was owned by ABC, was losing money with each week and was not aired in many parts of the country. This, in turn, brought down ratings and halted revenue.
Since the show only taped for six months out of the year, the remaining episodes were aired with the cast not allowed to return to tape resolutions to storylines. In fact, the final episode was a cliffhanger; heroine Alison (Erin Hershey Presley) didn't know who the father of her baby was.
Cast and characters
- Lynn Herring as Lucy Coe Collins
- Jon Robert Lindstrom as Kevin Collins
- Kin Shriner as Scott Baldwin (1997-2000)
- Jennifer Hammon as Dr. Karen Wexler #1 (1997-1999)
- Nolan North as Dr. Chris Ramsey
- Jay Pickett as Dr. Frank Scanlon
- Michael Dietz as Dr. Joe Scanlon #1 (1997-1999)
- Julie Pinson as Dr. Eve Lambert Thornhart (1997-2002)
- Lisa Ann Hadley as Dr. Julie Devlin Ramsey (1997-2000)
- Mitch Longley as Dr. Matt Harmon (1997-2000)
- Rib Hillis as Dr. Jake Marshak (1997-1998)
- Debbi Morgan as Dr. Ellen Burgess #1 (1997-1998)
- Renee Griffin as Danielle Ashley (1997-1998)
- Carly Schroeder as Serena Baldwin (1997-2001)
- Sarah Aldrich as Courtney Kanelos Scanlon (1998-2000)
- Marie-Alice Recasner as Dr. Ellen Burgess #2 (1998-1999)
- Marie Wilson as Dr. Karen Wexler #2 (1999-2003)
- David Gail as Dr. Joe Scanlon #2 (1999-2000)
- Kelly Monaco as Olivia "Livvie" Locke Morley (1999-2003)
- Kimberlin Brown as Rachel Locke (1999-2000)
- Alex Mendoza as Dr. Joe Scanlon #3 (2000-2001)
- Kiko Ellsworth as Jamal Woods (2000-2003)
- Erin Hershey Presley as Alison Barrington Kovich (2000-2003)
- Thorsten Kaye as Dr. Ian Thornhart (2000-2003)
- Ion Overman as Dr. Gabriela Garza (2000-2002)
- Brian Presley as Jack Ramsey (2000-2003)
- Michael Easton as Caleb Morley (2001, 2002-2003)
- Brian Gaskill as Rafe Kovich (2001-2003)
- Eddie Matos as Ricky Garza (2001-2003)
- Joy Bisco as Casey Leong (2002, 2003)/Marissa Leong (2002-2003)
- Rebecca Staab as Elizabeth Barrington (2002-2003)
- Ian Buchanan as Joshua Temple (2002-2003)