I was 17 I’m 62 now! I remember GH came in at 3:00 we got out of school at 2:00 we all came to my parents home to watch it there 10 of us! I think it was one of the very best episodes in GH’s history. My nana started me watching GH when I was 10 years old ❤
Aside from the bittersweet memories of the wedding- the ads are a shock. We seemed so...innocent. A dollhouse ad with the family as the center, can't imagine that today. The 80's were the best!
I was a sophomore in high school (1981) when Luke & Laura got married. This couple was all the rage back in the early 1980s. The world was a different place back then. Good Times!!!!!
I remember in an interview Luke stated that even Princess Diana watched GH and their wedding she sent Luke & Laura a bottle of champaigne as a wedding gift. Luke said he drank it!
That's interesting to hear! I happened to watch both weddings around that time, which was a much different world at that time, if, sadly, not for the better.
Happy 40th Anniversary Luke & Laura!!! I know they're not together but this is a memorial of that special day in my life. I was 10 and Luke & Laura were my heroes.
Remembering this takes me back in time. What a time machine this is. Wow thinking that a lot of these people are not with us anymore but we are so lucky to see them again. Father Time keeps ticking away. Amazing !
Happy 41st L&L. GH was introduced to me in 1977, and once Gloria Monty took helm, it blew up to unbelievable heights. The exciting stories really helped me escape my childhood traumas during this era. I was easily drawn in by the characters and amazing stories. L&L and GH itself saved my life. It gave me the key to opening my imagination and using that tool to deal with my physical and sexual abuse at such a young age. So when I call L&L my heroes, I couldn't mean that any more than I do, from the bottom of my heart. I began writing and play acting my stories to develop that escape. It was a Godsend. ❤️❤️
Wow, thank you for sharing such a candid and inspiring story of your trauma & how you got through the terrible times and came out the other side much stronger a person!
@@jasminec.s.3977 Aww, thank you so much. It's such an amazing ability what the mind can achieve to cope with different aspects of life. I am a stronger, better person Jasmine. It has taken me years of soul searching and many hurdles but I am finally at a place of appreciation for my experiences. Many children and adults do not have such success stories and it's so very unfortunate. I may not have become the man I could've been but I am grateful for the man I grew up to be. Have a wonderful day my friend. Thank you again.
This literally made me cry. You sound so strong. Yes, it was such an escape and I'm glad it provided such a necessary one for you. I hope life is treating you better now. 🙏
I watch GH daily when when Luke and Laura got married I still love them, I don't remember all of this being seen on TV before the wedding I know this was a long time ago when I was young,may be because I got old.🤣😂💐🙌🏽❤
Oh, the memories. I was a freshman in college. My dorm RA got a cake and made punch. We had a reception while watching in the TV room. I can’t believe it has been over 40 years.
I remember people calling in sick to miss work so they could be home for the wedding. This really was one of the first Blockbuster TV events, that proved how big a rating a show could get.
I was 10 years old and hooked on L&L thanks to my late mother. She never missed an episode and I’d rush home from school to watch as much as I could with her.. ❤😢
I watched this when it first aired. I can actually remember some of the commercials. Notably the Sears Christmas commercial during the first break. Honestly thank you for putting the commercials in too!
This is amazing to see especially with the commercials, brings back a ton of memories. I was 8 years old at the time this came out. Thanks for uploading 🥰
I stayed home from school for two days because I was so worried that I would miss a second of this wedding. It was epic. I mean 30 million people watching, Elizabeth Taylor, Princess Diana sending a magnum of champagne, covers of countless magazines; you just had to be there in 1981.
I don't remember seeing all these preparations the food parts before Luke and Laura's wedding back in the day when I was young maybe because Im old now😂.I loved seeing them get married beautiful wedding ,I do remember that day like it was yesterday my eyes glued to the tv.💐💗
I love GH ever since I was a little kid! I'd watch it with my family. I was almost 2 years old when Luke and Laura got married. 😂 It's so great watching the most viewed episode of GH now as an adult. ❤
Love seeing Lila walking and socializing. Wow and Jason's birth mom. Who would have thought back then that the baby would still be front burner 37 years later
This aired when I was 7 months old so I doubt I knew it was happening but having seen it and having caught up on all of Luke and Laura’s struggles after they wed over the years I’m so sad that they didn’t have their happily ever after... I’m team L&L all the way! I love watching this episode it’s a classic I will continue to watch it as long it’s on RUclips thank you for uploading this. ❤️🌸
Oh how we all loved this! I can remember most all of my high school actually skipped class or got out early to go home and watch the wedding. I think the term “watch parties” was invented by us! Principals and school staff didn’t even bother trying to detain us. Great memories. ❤
This is great but it's so upsetting that Luke told Tracy years later he didn't really love Laura. Poor writing and an insult to the viewer's intelligence!
I wish I could've seen Luke and Laura get married when this originally aired but my parents did! I was literally in my mom's womb. 😊 I'm watching it now for the first time! ❤
That wasnt the mom from 90210. I do remember that commercial though. That was John Goodman (aka Dan Conner) in the Toll House cookie commercial though.
Did ya'll see Catalina Island and mountains in the Hart To Hart commercial? Same place General Hospital filmed the water scene when Laura , Luke and Robert swam across to the Cassidine island. at 32:4.1.
And I LOVE listening to all the extra's (the real onlookers!!) who yelled, screamed, whistled....being able to see their favorite celebrities for these scenes!!!
@S DAVIS - - one of the onlookers in a crowd scene after the wedding was Drake Hogestyn, “Roman Brady/John Black “ from “Days” . An extra . His character was once dating “ Diana Colville “ - when Genie Francis joined “ Days of Our Lives”
@@karaobey3085 According to an interview with GF & TG, they WERE extra's. I'm sure the crew was there, but they allowed extra's in to join. So, that's that.
Lol, cracks me up that the sausage king of Chicago was so into General Hospital that he recorded the wedding and then shared it on RUclips all these years later.
Like and Lauras wedding was magnificent…I loved Lauras dress and veil…the commercials were wonderful glad they were included…memories of days gone…glad I was part of all this…thank you for the upload!!
This is my first time seeing this! I was 9years old when this aired, where did the time go?!I remember hearing people rave about this and I have always wanted to see this. I am 52 years old And I love watching things from the 80's that was the best times of my life. I really love the commercials, they were so wholesome and they were so meaningful. God bless the 80's
I was obsessed with the Luke&Laura story, I thought he was so cute, I was 18 then, a friend of mine made me a poster board of him, few of her!!! Kills me how they wake up with full hair and makeup done 😂
I remember the first GH in April 1963. i was 11. i gave up in 1971 when i graduated and moved out of state. i had hots for BOBBIE. I am 71. I get flashbacks to April 1963. when i was 11
I was 19 and working as a checker at Kmart. I was low on the totem pole when it came to breaks. Occasionally I was lucky enough to watch GH in the employee break room. The wedding day I went to break early and caught the nuptials. I remember it made national news. Crazy.
LMAO!! YES!!! As a matter of fact, I believe it was from this commercial that he was remembered and allowed to audition for Roseanne. Btw....50:01 there's the famous couch blanket
Did anyone peep a young John Goodman from the Conner's in the beginning of the Nestle commercial towards the end of this video? Thanks for sharing this video great memories of running home from school to see their wedding with the rest of the world!!! It was a big deal back then.
There is nothing like homemade food! Great idea Mrs. Whittaker! You are truly a wonderful friend to Luke and Laura (Anthony and Genie) This wedding was seen by millions of people all around the world! Luke and Laura put Port Charles on the map. Never to have a love like theirs ever again on General Hospital. So sad, today’s shows are not nearly as good in 2022 . The show has gone to the crapper, sorry to say. Shame on you GH
Thank you for these uploads as I was never able to see them the first time around. These were dark times for my family as both of my grandpas were desperately sick and each was in the hospital. Unfortunately, neither pulled through and died on the 22nd and 24th of Nov. 1981. Hearing dogs, I assume this was the Quartermaine Estate? What a look back in time, thank you from the bottom of my heart.
I was out of school by then and I was working for my buddies. Dad who had a furniture store and we were on delivery in Miami and we stopped at a Golden triangle and watched the wedding. Wow that was a long time ago.
Omg…Luke and Laura….. im getting different years… i graduated hs 1978 but remember every bit of this! I would have been in college the next few years, especially during the day….hmmm,…i remember the commercials too…
This consumed my University at the time. I didn't watch General Hospital, I grew up watching ATWT with my mother and grandmother. Luke's Willy Wonka hair always made me laugh that he was a sex symbol, but women loved his bad boy persona. Walking through the quad when this was on everyone was packed into the media room watching the wedding. I remember it well.
Watched from my 4th floor dorm room, my freshman year. Four10 story dorms surrounded a courtyard and I remember the echo of the gasps heard at the end of the episode. But I can't remember what the shocker was! Lol
I was in college. Afternoon classes were canceled. We all crowded around a tv in the common room in the dorm. Somebody managed to. bring some champagne and cake. It was so fun!
It should have. I stopped watching decades ago....when I saw the writing on the wall. This is how I will always remember them. And with their children, Lucky and Lulu when they were little. I can't imagine either of them with anyone else.
Oh Lucas.........now that is TRUE HAPPINESS he expresses while yelling lol......ugh remember the Smith wedding day? This day he forever waited for.........
I was thirteen. The first time I watched this. Wow. It feels like I blinked, & now, I'm here. About to be 56 ( 53 in thumbnail ) I remember this like it was yesterday.
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My mom actually let me stay home from school to watch the wedding of Luke and Laura💗💗
I don't think many of us went to school that day
Same!
My dad recorded it for me. I still have that VHS tape. Lol
That's pretty cool! 👍🤟😎
I called in to work and was out two days.😊
I was 18 when this aired. I'm 61 now. How is that possible??😱
👩➡️👵lol.
So wonderful and nostalgic to watch....even the commercials!
Same.❤️
I was 17 I’m 62 now! I remember GH came in at 3:00 we got out of school at 2:00 we all came to my parents home to watch it there 10 of us! I think it was one of the very best episodes in GH’s history. My nana started me watching GH when I was 10 years old ❤
@@maureenmiller-delisle2505 I miss the 80’s! 19 years old and life was just beginning! ❤❤
Me, too!
Fabulous
Aside from the bittersweet memories of the wedding- the ads are a shock. We seemed so...innocent. A dollhouse ad with the family as the center, can't imagine that today. The 80's were the best!
You got that right! I love the 80's!
I was a sophomore in high school (1981) when Luke & Laura got married. This couple was all the rage back in the early 1980s. The world was a different place back then. Good Times!!!!!
So was I , I stayed home n watched!
Same! My friends and I skipped school to watch.
I couldnt admit it at the time, but I was also staying home from school watching the soaps, they were all so good back then.
@@PentagramDave IKR
Sure was
I’m LOVING these retro commercials, too😊😍
I remember in an interview Luke stated that even Princess Diana watched GH and their wedding she sent Luke & Laura a bottle of champaigne as a wedding gift. Luke said he drank it!
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That's interesting to hear! I happened to watch both weddings around that time, which was a much different world at that time, if, sadly, not for the better.
@@lonrgrrl59❤
Happy 40th Anniversary Luke & Laura!!! I know they're not together but this is a memorial of that special day in my life. I was 10 and Luke & Laura were my heroes.
Seeing Leslie, Lila, Robert and other OG actors brought back so many good memories thank you for posting this 💜💜
Bittersweet memories for me. I would want to go back to that time. But I can’t. And that makes me sad.
It was a good time then. A very good time.
Still holds up after 40 years actually I'm seeing this for the first time as the whole episode and not just highlights from the show.
Yes it does
I love that you included the commercials! So nostalgic. Ty!!
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Remembering this takes me back in time. What a time machine this is. Wow thinking that a lot of these people are not with us anymore but we are so lucky to see them again. Father Time keeps ticking away. Amazing !
Happy 41st L&L. GH was introduced to me in 1977, and once Gloria Monty took helm, it blew up to unbelievable heights. The exciting stories really helped me escape my childhood traumas during this era. I was easily drawn in by the characters and amazing stories. L&L and GH itself saved my life. It gave me the key to opening my imagination and using that tool to deal with my physical and sexual abuse at such a young age. So when I call L&L my heroes, I couldn't mean that any more than I do, from the bottom of my heart. I began writing and play acting my stories to develop that escape. It was a Godsend. ❤️❤️
Wow, thank you for sharing such a candid and inspiring story of your trauma & how you got through the terrible times and came out the other side much stronger a person!
@@jasminec.s.3977 Aww, thank you so much. It's such an amazing ability what the mind can achieve to cope with different aspects of life. I am a stronger, better person Jasmine. It has taken me years of soul searching and many hurdles but I am finally at a place of appreciation for my experiences. Many children and adults do not have such success stories and it's so very unfortunate. I may not have become the man I could've been but I am grateful for the man I grew up to be. Have a wonderful day my friend. Thank you again.
This literally made me cry. You sound so strong. Yes, it was such an escape and I'm glad it provided such a necessary one for you. I hope life is treating you better now. 🙏
I was only 15, but oh how I remember this day!!! It was like having our own American princess!! So beautiful still after all these years. ❤️❤️❤️
This wasn't just an episode. this was a television EVENT!
Absolutely!!
Still my favorite story. Watched general hospital since I was a teenager. Wonderful show. Fun that never ends.
Been watching lots of this during covid, really helped escape for a bit, way better back then
Yes it was!
I watch GH daily when when Luke and Laura got married I still love them, I don't remember all of this being seen on TV before the wedding I know this was a long time ago when I was young,may be because I got old.🤣😂💐🙌🏽❤
Oh, the memories. I was a freshman in college. My dorm RA got a cake and made punch. We had a reception while watching in the TV room. I can’t believe it has been over 40 years.
Best Daytime Couple ever!! Luke and Laura!! Anthony and Genie best actor and actress!!!!
Remember running home after school to see this !!!
Oh yeah we ran home!
My favorite general hospital episode of all time.
Mine 2
Growing up in NYC, I was 16 and used to rush like hell to get home by 3pm to watch GH. Love the added commercials!
Same!
I remember people calling in sick to miss work so they could be home for the wedding. This really was one of the first Blockbuster TV events, that proved how big a rating a show could get.
I was 10 years old and hooked on L&L thanks to my late mother. She never missed an episode and I’d rush home from school to watch as much as I could with her.. ❤😢
I watched this when it first aired. I can actually remember some of the commercials. Notably the Sears Christmas commercial during the first break.
Honestly thank you for putting the commercials in too!
This is amazing to see especially with the commercials, brings back a ton of memories. I was 8 years old at the time this came out. Thanks for uploading 🥰
I stayed home from school for two days because I was so worried that I would miss a second of this wedding. It was epic. I mean 30 million people watching, Elizabeth Taylor, Princess Diana sending a magnum of champagne, covers of countless magazines; you just had to be there in 1981.
I don't remember seeing all these preparations the food parts before Luke and Laura's wedding back in the day when I was young maybe because Im old now😂.I loved seeing them get married beautiful wedding ,I do remember that day like it was yesterday my eyes glued to the tv.💐💗
Too bad they couldn't eat the food. Jackie zezzeman SD there was a major bug problem that day.
It was the most beautiful wedding
Elizabeth Taylor as Helena was brilliant!
Said she had the most fun doing it too!
Thanks for the great memories of the good old days! Wow.. a time when children actually mattered.
I love GH ever since I was a little kid! I'd watch it with my family. I was almost 2 years old when Luke and Laura got married. 😂 It's so great watching the most viewed episode of GH now as an adult. ❤
Love seeing Lila walking and socializing.
Wow and Jason's birth mom. Who would have thought back then that the baby would still be front burner 37 years later
This aired when I was 7 months old so I doubt I knew it was happening but having seen it and having caught up on all of Luke and Laura’s struggles after they wed over the years I’m so sad that they didn’t have their happily ever after... I’m team L&L all the way! I love watching this episode it’s a classic I will continue to watch it as long it’s on RUclips thank you for uploading this. ❤️🌸
7 months old and you don't remember it?????? how could you [not]?????????
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You did start with 1979 thou right?
Oh how we all loved this! I can remember most all of my high school actually skipped class or got out early to go home and watch the wedding. I think the term “watch parties” was invented by us! Principals and school staff didn’t even bother trying to detain us. Great memories. ❤
This is great but it's so upsetting that Luke told Tracy years later he didn't really love Laura. Poor writing and an insult to the viewer's intelligence!
I never heard that
I wish I could've seen Luke and Laura get married when this originally aired but my parents did! I was literally in my mom's womb. 😊 I'm watching it now for the first time! ❤
Ran home from school to see the wedding!
@@lynnepaulocsak122 Lucky you! ☺️
I ditched Friday and then Monday from school to watch this Wedding. I got caught and was grounded for 2 weeks but it was worth it😊
I love that you uploaded this with the original commercials! I think I saw the mom from 90210 in the Kal Kan commercial! L&L Forever!
That wasnt the mom from 90210. I do remember that commercial though.
That was John Goodman (aka Dan Conner) in the Toll House cookie commercial though.
Did ya'll see Catalina Island and mountains in the Hart To Hart commercial? Same place General Hospital filmed the water scene when Laura , Luke and Robert swam across to the Cassidine island. at 32:4.1.
This brings back so many memories when this happened. My own wedding was just a few weeks later.
And I LOVE listening to all the extra's (the real onlookers!!) who yelled, screamed, whistled....being able to see their favorite celebrities for these scenes!!!
The so called onlookers were the crew and directors and producers of the show!
@S DAVIS - - one of the onlookers in a crowd scene after the wedding was Drake Hogestyn, “Roman Brady/John Black “ from “Days”
. An extra .
His character was once dating “ Diana Colville “ - when Genie Francis joined “ Days of Our Lives”
@@karaobey3085 According to an interview with GF & TG, they WERE extra's. I'm sure the crew was there, but they allowed extra's in to join. So, that's that.
@@mjj1434 As I told Kara above, many of them were extra's. That came straight from them 😉
They had so many good storylines going on in this era: Luke/Laura/Scotty, that whole thing with Heather and Steven Lars, Alan/Monica/Rick, etc.
Talk about a "General Hospi-tale"! 'Twas the title of a novelty song that year, if one can remember.
Luke ,wonderful actor and I love his character so much .... very sensitive..
And here we are in 2022.
Lol, cracks me up that the sausage king of Chicago was so into General Hospital that he recorded the wedding and then shared it on RUclips all these years later.
Oh man, you even left the commercials in! 😊
OMG I am so old....I remember that reach toothbrush commercial 🤣🤣
I can only think of my best friend Sue and I. She was so big into GH. God I miss her. She has been in heaven now for 2 years
Awe…I’m sorry
I was 6 years old...memories!! This was the highlight of the week!
Like and Lauras wedding was magnificent…I loved Lauras dress and veil…the commercials were wonderful glad they were included…memories of days gone…glad I was part of all this…thank you for the upload!!
So awesome. I was was at the mall when they got married and everyone at that moment was watching.
This is my first time seeing this! I was 9years old when this aired, where did the time go?!I remember hearing people rave about this and I have always wanted to see this. I am 52 years old And I love watching things from the 80's that was the best times of my life. I really love the commercials, they were so wholesome and they were so meaningful. God bless the 80's
Luke and Laura put Port Charles on the map. They are loved by all and missed by all the world 😢
They may have put port charles on the map but Commander Riker and counselor Troy from star trek next generation had much more exciting adventures
I was obsessed with the Luke&Laura story, I thought he was so cute, I was 18 then, a friend of mine made me a poster board of him, few of her!!! Kills me how they wake up with full hair and makeup done 😂
I remember the first GH in April 1963. i was 11. i gave up in 1971 when i graduated and moved out of state. i had hots for BOBBIE. I am 71. I get flashbacks to April 1963. when i was 11
I remember watching this one she had a beautiful wedding a beautiful bride 👰♀️ I watch it everdayfor a long time
I was 19 and working as a checker at Kmart. I was low on the totem pole when it came to breaks. Occasionally I was lucky enough to watch GH in the employee break room. The wedding day I went to break early and caught the nuptials. I remember it made national news. Crazy.
Holy hell that was John Goodman in the cookie commercial!!!
YES!!!! Watching the old commercials was great!! I took a second play on him; sure is!!! or was...
Luna Rose Happens. Hi. Yes. Good
LMAO!! YES!!!
As a matter of fact, I believe it was from this commercial that he was remembered and allowed to audition for Roseanne.
Btw....50:01 there's the famous couch blanket
Did anyone peep a young John Goodman from the Conner's in the beginning of the Nestle commercial towards the end of this video? Thanks for sharing this video great memories of running home from school to see their wedding with the rest of the world!!! It was a big deal back then.
This soap saved me when I was a kid.
I was very happily getting divorced when this aired. I was 25. And I happily remarried in 1996! I have been with this person for 36 years. I loved GH!
oh gosh...times were good back then! Fun to watch
Gotta love the commercial with John Goodman towards the end!
There is nothing like homemade food! Great idea Mrs. Whittaker! You are truly a wonderful friend to Luke and Laura (Anthony and Genie)
This wedding was seen by millions of people all around the world! Luke and Laura put Port Charles on the map. Never to have a love like theirs ever again on General Hospital. So sad, today’s shows are not nearly as good in 2022 . The show has gone to the crapper, sorry to say. Shame on you GH
Laura wakes up with perfect hair and full makeup…😂😂😂
Thank you for these uploads as I was never able to see them the first time around. These were dark times for my family as both of my grandpas were desperately sick and each was in the hospital. Unfortunately, neither pulled through and died on the 22nd and 24th of Nov. 1981.
Hearing dogs, I assume this was the Quartermaine Estate?
What a look back in time, thank you from the bottom of my heart.
I was out of school by then and I was working for my buddies. Dad who had a furniture store and we were on delivery in Miami and we stopped at a Golden triangle and watched the wedding. Wow that was a long time ago.
Yay yo Laura being excited about her wedding day!!.
Omg…Luke and Laura….. im getting different years… i graduated hs 1978 but remember every bit of this! I would have been in college the next few years, especially during the day….hmmm,…i remember the commercials too…
Lila was just such a classy broad💜💜
We all rushed home from school to watch this!
This consumed my University at the time. I didn't watch General Hospital, I grew up watching ATWT with my mother and grandmother. Luke's Willy Wonka hair always made me laugh that he was a sex symbol, but women loved his bad boy persona. Walking through the quad when this was on everyone was packed into the media room watching the wedding. I remember it well.
Me and my girlfriends just skip school, smoked a bunch of pot and loved every minute of it❤😂
I skip work to go home and watch it
Hold your head up high and don’t be afraid of the dark…what a beautiful song 🎶
I was running in the house at 3pm to watch this!
Watched from my 4th floor dorm room, my freshman year. Four10 story dorms surrounded a courtyard and I remember the echo of the gasps heard at the end of the episode. But I can't remember what the shocker was! Lol
These commercials are the BEST!!!!!
Omg it's Mrs Weber! Laura was so beautiful! Jeez I can't believe this wow lol the commercials are hil freaking larious
always love luke and laura bring them back...
I wasn’t even 3 months old... I was born in 1981 !! How fun!!
Well I was 1 years old when this episode came out.
It was a great GH day, my Mom and I shared it 😘
I was in college. Afternoon classes were canceled. We all crowded around a tv in the common room in the dorm. Somebody managed to. bring some champagne and cake. It was so fun!
I love the cars they are using
Luke and Laura, I thought it would've lasted forever.
It should have. I stopped watching decades ago....when I saw the writing on the wall. This is how I will always remember them. And with their children, Lucky and Lulu when they were little. I can't imagine either of them with anyone else.
Oh Lucas.........now that is TRUE HAPPINESS he expresses while yelling lol......ugh remember the Smith wedding day? This day he forever waited for.........
I was thirteen. The first time I watched this. Wow. It feels like I blinked, & now, I'm here. About to be 56 ( 53 in thumbnail ) I remember this like it was yesterday.
Lila was always such a classy lady.
John Goodman in the cookie commercial! That's awesome."Well, that's yer winner. That's yer winner right there."
I was working but we had a TV in our break room and watched the wedding. That was when I was 18
I watched when they got married it was so beautiful
I won't give away my age - but I remember this wedding very well.
Corny but fantastic1 So enjoyed! I loved the commercials also!
OMG, Amy Vinning and Aunt Ruby 💜💜😱
She was 19 and Anthony Geary was 34 in 81
The fact they butchered words and never stopped filming! 😮
OMG I HAD THAT DOLLHOUSE!!!
Edit: AND ALFIE!!
Jeez I miss being a kid in the 80s
Its sad some of the cast members have passed away.
I was a 17, a junior in high school. I was recovering from a surgery.
How could anyone not watch this???😂
I still have the people magazine for the wedding.
I skipped school that day to watch them get married