Links to other GH episode recaps:

Soapzone.com recaps begin on July 22, 1994 and is a good resource into maybe 2002. The recaps are more erractic from 2003 onward, so a better source for the recaps in the last few years is soapcentral listed below. But Soapzone is a great source for the mid to late 1990's recaps, into early 2000's.

Soapcentral.com is a great source, their recaps begin Nov 4, 1996 - current time.

Suzanne's Megasite has recaps begin July 7, 1997 - current time.

TV Guide Online has brief daily recaps since May 3, 1999 - current time.

abc.com and SoapNet have daily episode recaps from January 1, 2001 - current time.

General Hospital Happenings Two's recap archive begins Dec 6th, 2001 - current time.

For additional classic GH epsiode information check out the Scorpio Files Episode Guide section to find write ups for 1985-1991.

General Hospital Episodes from 1979 thru the 1980s

• 1978-1979 GH Episodes - Laura & Scotty & Bobbie, Luke arrives, Alan & Monica & Tracy, Rick & Leslie, Jeff & Anne.  Click here to read the full edit description.
• GH Episodes - 1979
• GH Episodes - 1980 - I have organized all of my 1980 episodes, combining episodes that re-aired on Soapnet, and on the classic Daytime To Remember show from 1996 that reaired a few classic GH episodes. I also had a few additional good quality episodes and put them in chronological order, with no commercials. The quality on these should be pretty good as they are all original epsiodes, the best quality on the newer soapnet episodes.
• 1980-1981 GH Episodes & Semi-Edits (Have Cari's originals) - Luke & Laura, Robert & Tiffany, Alan & Monica, Heather & Joe, Scotty, Anne and Jeff.  Click here to read the full edit description.
• GH Episodes - 1981
• GH Episodes - 1982
• 1983 GH Episodes - There was a lot of action during 1983, great avalanche location scenes that buries Luke during his snow camping trip. This sends Tony Geary off for a few weeks/months as he does another project. Luke is presumed dead as his ID is found on another man who had stolen his wallet. Luke wakes up unconscious in a hospital, paralyzed with no ID and fakes amnesia as he doesn't want to be a burder to his friends and family. His loved ones in PC learn of his death and have a memorial with flashbacks to grieve over their loss. Holly learns she is pregnant with Luke's child and Robert marries her to keep her from being deported. She later loses the baby, they begin falling in love and just as they make love, Luke returns from the dead! Lila Quartermaine is at risk for being a bigamist when her former husband Crane Toliver shows up and attempts to blackmail them. Susan Moore is murdered and all of the Q's are suspected. A new doctor, Grant Putnam arrives in town and then Jimmy Lee arrives as Edward's illegitimate son and he falls hard for Celia Quartermaine who arrives for the big Q party that is thrown to welcome him to town. The same night Crane Toliver is stabbed and later dies. Edward and Lila remarry. Bobbie becomes pregnant with Brock's baby and then miscarries. Connie Townsend comes to town and asks for Robert's help protecting Dr. Jerrold's top secret work on the Promethus Disk. It is soon revealed that Natalie and Grant are both DVX agents. Ceila and Grant marry and when she is considered an interference, several attempts are made on her life. Grant steals the disk and has it on him during Luke's casino opening. When all of the patrons are searched, he tries to hide it amoungst the chips. Luke notices, creates a distraction and retrieves and hides the disk for several months as he tries to figure out what is going on. Celia and Holly are kidnapped and held in one of the pavillions during the internationl Expo. Soon after they are rescued Luke is elected as mayor, Laura returns to town and Luke & Laura are reunited. Stavros follows her, and won't accept that she wants to be with Luke. He attempts to rape her while making Luke watch. Luke hits him over the head with the bedpost and Stavros winds up falling down the stairs to his death. Luke and Laura quickly grow weary of the demands of public office and Luke decides to abdicate to Lee Baldwin who seems better suited for the position, and Luke & Laura leave town on a grand adventure.  Click here to read the full edit description.
• GH Hostage Crisis June 13-20, 1983 - Five Complete Episodes and 1 partial episode, no commercials.  This 4 hr dvd covers the original Hostage Crisis at General Hospital. A patient dies during an operation and her crazed husband takes Bobbie, Monica, and Brian hostage. Brian is released after he is shot, and Robert enters with coffee and becomes a hostage. Luke saves the day and the two former friends work together again albeit briefly (they are on the outs as Luke has just returned from the dead to find his best friend married to his girl). The first five episodes are complete, the sixth episode was edited a bit so I could add a few addiitional scenes, there are no commercials. Quality is overall pretty good as most of these epis are originals that I transfered to dvd. I have also edited all of the Hostage Crisis on the Luke & Robert & Holly 1983 #23A dvd.  Click here to read the full edit description.
       During the last episode, they go back to the Dr. Jerrold and the Promethus Disk storyline. For anyone who is interested in seeing more of the disk storyline and/or Luke's return from the dead, check out the Luke & Robert & Holly 1983 #23-27 on the Early Robert page at http://www.angelfire.com/tv/curlyqgrl/gh/scorpio/scorpiomenu.html or on the Luke page at http://www.angelfire.com/tv/curlyqgrl/gh/landl/lukelauramenu.html
• GH Episodes - 1984
• 1984 Aztec Storyline:  Luke & Laura Return, Luke & Robert & Holly Mexico Adventure, Laura & Frisco & Felicia in Texas, Laura is Pregnant.  Click here to read the full edit description.
• 1985 GH Episodes - This was a great year, Ginny murders Brock but Bobbie is arrested for it until Robert & Holly work to clear her name, Ginny on trial, Tony & Tania marry, Tony is shot by Slater, Anna Devane arrives as fence in April, flashbacks of her relationship with Robert play heavily in June, Jimmy Lee & Celia marry on the wedding train, Robert finds the treasure, Robert & Sean fight on the tram, Holly leaves the show in September, Robin arrives and the Asian Quarter storyline begins, Robin is kidnapped in November, Asian Quarter wraps up in December and Robert leaves the show to join Holly in Australia, Anna becomes police commission just as Neil Johnson is found murdered in the Brownstone which kicks off the Laurelton murder storyline. Teri & Kevin get engaged.  Click here to read the full edit description.
• GH Episodes - 1986
• GH Episodes - 1987
• GH Episodes - 1988
• GH Episodes - 1989

General Hospital Episodes from the 1990s to the present

• GH Episodes - 1990
• GH Episodes - 1991
• GH Episodes - 1992
• GH Episodes - 1993
• GH Episodes - 1994
• GH Episodes - 1995
• New Year's Eve Episode List, 1993-2004 - I have compiled a GH New Year's Eve edit. This edit contains 11 episodes from 1993-2004. I began this edit with an episode from 1993, fun to see the cast from that time. This one is not an original episode but a good copy. There were not any New Year's themed episodes in 1994, 1995, or 2000 so I skipped those years. I've listed the dates of the 11 episodes below, and expanded descriptions of each episode below that.  Click here to read the full edit description.
• Valentine's Edit, 1996-2003 - This edit compiles Valentine's Day episode from 1995-2003. These are complete 9 episodes without commercials and a few additional scenes as some of the valentine's storylines carried over into the next episode (Jax & Brenda's failed wedding went into a second episode, and Liz and Lucky's valentine vows went into two additional episodes). I also added the Unforgettable Love Stories Special and a few additional clips.    Click here to read the full edit description.
• Thanksgiving Edit, 1996-2002 - I have compiled the Thanksgiving episodes from the last 7 years, there are 6 episodes alltogether from 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 all with no commercials.  No Thanksgiving episode of GH aired for the 1998 or 2003, 2004, or 2005.  Click here to read the full edit description.
• Christmas Edit, 1996-2005 - The GH  Christmas edit contains 11 GH Christmas episodes from 1996-2005 and is about 7 hours 45 mins. There are two episodes included from 1993, the main Christmas episode at the hospital and Luke's Scrooge dream on Christmas Eve. These are edited with no commercials. This is my orignial edit from my original episodes.  Click here to read the full edit description.
• GH Episodes - 1996
• GH Episodes - 1997
• GH Episodes - 1998
• GH Episodes - 1999
• GH Episodes - 2000
• GH Episodes - 2001
• GH Episodes - 2002
• Kristina's Death  July 31 - August 8, 2002 - The following 7 episodes, with no commercials, cover from Kristina discovering that Sonny is the father of Alexis' baby, through her efforts to find and tell Sonny, which leads her to the coffee warehouse and is caught in the explosion. This also has the episodes of the aftermath of the explosion, rescuing Kristina from the wreckage, rushing her to GH, emergency surgery and her death. It contains the aftermath of her death as Alexis grieves and makes funeral arrangements and concludes with Kristina's funeral when Alexis reams pretty much everyone there.  Click here to read the full edit description.
• 10,000th Episode, April 17, 2002 - Take a walk down memory lane... The hospital staff and friends celebrate Audrey's 10,000th day of work (also the 10,000th episode of GH). They give her a lovely heart pendant. She is touched by the warm reception she receives and spends time reminiscing about her first years on the job with Steve.  Click here to read the full edit description.
• GH Episodes - 2003
• GH Episodes - 2004
• GH Fire Storyline, February 2-23, 2004 - I have done an edit of the Port Charles Hotel Fire storyline with all the complete episodes, no commercials from all of the fire episodes. In addition, I edited scenes from Feb 2-5th to start the tape and included Zander escaping from GH, hiding out in the basement, taking Maxie hostage, Edward finding out about the faulty wiring. I included pretty much all of the hotel action from 2/5 including the auction, the treasure stealing, and the confrontation between Nik & Zander. From the 2/6-2/19 episodes I included the entire episodes (minus commercials), in the aftermath of the fire, I added Nik returning from the presumed dead and reuniting with Emily, Ric and Luke watching Scott's farewell tape, and finally Ric announces Zander is dead and then arrests Nik for his murder.  Click here to read the full edit description.
• GH Murder Mystery, August 20 - September 9, 2004 - I began this edit with scenes from the August 20th episode. I included the action at the Q's, the teens getting ready for the séance, and Nik and Em and Mary. I then included complete episodes (without commercials) for the 8/23, 8/24, 8/25, 8/26, 8/27, 8/30 episodes. Then I began editing again more to the aftermath of the murder storyline from the August 31-Sept 9th time frame, including Mary's death, Lois telling Alcazar about Sage's death and the teens part in it, and Lorenzo giving Dillon the letter from Sage, and Brook putting it to music. This edit contains the complete murder mystery storyline involving Georgie, Dillon, Brook, Sage, Trent, Nik, Emily, Mary in first Sage’s death, then Trent’s, then Mary’s.  Click here to read the full edit description.
• GH Episodes - 2005
• Train Wreck, November 1-16, 2005 - I have done an edit of the train wreck episodes. This edit contains 11 complete episodes, no commercials. I also included additional scenes from three other episodes to complete the storyline.  Click here to read the full edit description.
• GH Episodes - 2006
• Virus Storyline, January 25 - March 2, 2006 - I began the Virus edit with Lulu receiving the shrunken skull from Luke, postmarked Markham Islands. I included Luke's scenes on the island, Robert's return to the show and all of Luke and all of Robert's scenes during this time frame up through Robert leaving in early March. The first six episodes from Jan 25-Feb 2 are edited to the set up of the virus storyline, then I included the complete episodes from Feb 3-27, then edited again from Feb 28-March 2nd to wrap up the storyline. I also included Tony's and Courtney's memorial as the conclusion to wrap up this storyline. This edit is contained on two vhs tapes or four dvds. Virus Tape #1 is about 7 hrs 45 minutes. Virus Tape #2 a bit over 5 1/2 hours.  Click here to read the full edit description.
• GH Episodes - 2007
• Metro Court Hostages, January 3 - March 6, 2007 - Click here to read the full edit description.
• The Black and White Ball - This edit contains all of the complete episodes (no commercials) for the Black & White Ball. I also included some - Edited -  scenes prior to the start of the ball of Nik planning the ball, his irrational behavior, ball invitations go out and the town talks about going to the ball. I included the 11 ball episodes, then the few action packed episodes after Nik has found Emily dead. I continued through the action at GH, Dillon's return to PC, the aftermath of Em's death, the two episodes on the day of Emily's funeral including her memorial. Since there was room remaining on the dvd #4, I decided to include some of the Emily ghost visitation scenes into early January. I also included Georgie's murder and Spinelli and Mac finding her. I included a few more post-Ball scenes into 2008 showing the text message killer then attacking Sam and Alexis, the DNA showing Coop is the killer and then Maxie finding him dead. The 2008 scenes are very highly - Edited -  to just touch on a few highlights of the storyline to finish off the last dvd and is not a complete edit for the post-ball text message killer storyline.  Click here to read the full edit description.
• GH Episodes - 2008
• GH Episodes - 2009