Luke Spencer

Also can't do that with Holly.

They did it for her when Luke died.

Robert and Holly were bigger than Luke and Holly.

Interesting.

Holly was essential to Robert's character.

Sally Struthers, Elizabeth Taylor, like all of these primetime heavyweights were so in love with him and he kept being booked on primetime shows.

And that is most certainly because of how big Luke Spencer was.

So, To all of you primetime TV nerds who are like, oh, soaps aren't real, television, blah, blah, blah.

No, they honored him because he was Luke Spencer and because of the effect that that character in turn had on television.

Point blank, period.

Amen.

And so they were writing Cameron and Trina and people got mad about the switch up.

Well, the switch up happened because Cameron and Jocelyn happened right as they were bringing Spencer back.

they could have easily put Jocelyn and Spencer together.

Instead, they were like, we are doing this story for Trina.

We are building world around Trina.

After what y'all did to Robin, Anna can have smoke with you for the rest of your life and I wouldn't be mad.

It's like how Tracy Quartermain is going to have smoke with Sunny forever.

And maybe every once in a while we can come together on some Luke Spencer shit.

We only have four episodes.

Monday was Labor Day, and so they showed, uh, they showed the episode where Luke Spencer, where everybody decides they miss Luke Spencer that one day.

Everybody keeps finding poker chips and stuff, and And then Sunny ends up going out with the gals, day drinking, because that's what Luke would have wanted.

That was the Labor Day episode.

Long, long term

... there's, there will never be another Luke Spencer.

That, there you go.

You know what I mean? That kind of thing.

For decades, it was run by Frank Smiths.

that's the original Luke and Laura story.

Like, the reason they had to go on the run is because they double-crossed Frank Smith, and they had to leave.

But Frank Smith has always run the mob in Port Charles.

There were times where he fell off for a second, and you had, like, the Duke Lavery things happening, the Jerome family popped up, but Frank Smith has always been sort of, like, underlying, like, he's the big mobster bad guy.

And so, in, like, 1992, I think...

Tony Geary comes back to the show, but he doesn't play Luke.

He plays Bill Eckert, who's, like, Luke's lookalike cousin.

Also, coming up the week of September 7th through the 11th, we've got Drew going to the cops.

nina framed and a rerun for labor day let's get right into it monday september 7th on gh it is labor day and they are airing a encore episode this originally aired february 20th of 2026 and this is the episode honoring the late tony geary and his character luke spencer then tuesday september 8th on general hospital we kick off season 64 with episode number one Trina is enraged.

So on Friday, she overheard Chase confront Brooklyn about being the other driver in Jordan and Curtis's crash.

And after the Labor Day rerun, we're going to resume a new episode on Tuesday and we're going to pick right back up with Trina repeating the accusation she made on Friday.

What was it? Uh...

General Hospital decided to use Rise as the musical backdrop for the rape of Laura Weber by Luke Spencer.

Yeah.

Yeah, tell me these guys didn't just completely steal this.

But there's an entire generation of fans who, to this day, hear the song Baseline Strut and are instantly taken back to the critical scene on the soap opera General Hospital, a rape scene.

Yeah.

On October 20th, 1979, Rise went to number one on the U.S. charts after it was used in a scene featuring Luke Spencer and Laura Weber, General Hospital, Luke and Laura lovebirds whose immense popularity would explode beyond their own soap and the daytime dramas in general to become a cultural flashpoint.

But the iconic characters played by Jeannie Francis and Anthony Geary weren't even a couple when Geary reportedly suggested rise to the show's music director for his pivotal scene with Francis.

You're, there's no redeeming a rapist.

I mean, even today in General Hospital centers, we love Luke Spencer, but he also started off as a rapist, and his Laura Spencer ended up falling for her rapist, and Luke and Laura happened.

But like, eh.

Um, yeah, I still didn't like Aegon.

Um, so Lucky and Liz agree to donate Jake's organs, and the transplant saves Josslyn's life.

After a police investigation, it's revealed that Luke Spencer was the one who hit Jake.

Most people agree that it was a horrible accident, but Lucky blames his father's drinking for the accident.

Luke, stricken with grief over killing his grandson, spins out of control.