User:Donna L. Bridges

Not a sister soap, not a spin-off ...

I am of the opinion, an opinion that is shared by many soap fans & soap scholars, that THE YOUNG MARRIEDS is not related to GENERAL HOSPITAL, is not a sister soap to it & is not a spin-off of it. The only things they have in common are (1) ABC soaps, (2) the same original producing company, (3) TYM came on at 3:30 immediately after GH did at 3. Apparently at some point someone created a link between neighborhoods on TYM & on GH. However, that would have been a writer in the contemporary period. So, it was a write back. Because when TYM was on GH existed in a nameless town. "Port Charles" was not identified as the town name until 1977 by the Pollocks, husband and wife HW team. (Besides naming the town Port Charles they created the Webber family.) This is documented in the 1987 Christopher Schemering SOAP OPERA ENCYCLOPEDIA. Cite: Schemering, C. (1987). The Soap Opera Encyclopedia (Expanded ed.). Ballantine Books. P. 116-117.