[The segment opens with the old title screen and theme song from General Hospital.]

Oprah: When you hear that old General Hospital theme, what two names come to mind? Of course. [Audience responds with "Luke and Laura".] Luke and Laura, of course, right. Ok. The love affair between Luke and Laura is part of soap opera history. Of course, they, uh, once despised each other but we all know how that kinda changed. Mmmm-hmmm.

[Scene from General Hospital (1980):]
Luke: "I won't touch you. Unless you want me to. But Laura, you have to say the words. "I love you. I love you." And then I'll hold you...in my arms. [She moves closer and they kiss.]
Laura: "Yes. Yes. I want you to make love to me."
[audience cheers]

Oprah: And who could forget one of the highest rated weddings in TV history. Take a look.

[Scene of Luke and Laura coming down the aisle at the end of the wedding and kissing (1981).]
[audience cheers]

Oprah: Sixteen years later, they're at it again. Who here has a Luke and Laura memory? Anybody? Yes?
Audience Member: Um, the day that the wedding was going to be on I called off work to stay home and watch it. 'Cause back then they didn't have VCRs; you couldn't tape it. So I lied and said I was sick.
Oprah: Tell me you didn't dress up for it. [audience laughs]
AM: No, I didn't dress up for it.

[Audience screams as Tony enters, accompanied by the GH theme song and an audience member blowing him a kiss.]
Oprah: He was declared the most popular character in soap opera history. I mean, how many times have you seen that wedding? I feel like I've been there. Really.
Tony Geary: [laughs] Ya, I've seen...everywhere I go somebody plays it for me.
O: Everywhere.
TG: Even if I go to somebody's house for dinner...
O: They have it.
TG: "Would you like to see what we were watching last night?"
O: Absolutely.
TG: Ya, I've seen it a thousand times.
O: You couldn't believe, even, yourself the, the kind of attention that storyline got.
TG: No. No, I, uh, never anticipated it. You know, I took a job in 1978 and I'm still there, and it...it's utterly amazing to me.
O: It's what they were saying. It's a, it's a job that never ends.
TG: Right.
O: It's what Michael was saying, ya. Ya.
TG: Ya. You can return from the dead, you can play your brother. You...I've played my cousin, I've died in my own arms. [audience and Oprah laugh and applaud] It's wonderful.
O: When Tony was on AM Chicago in 1984, I'd only been working. When this show first started it was called AM Chicago, I was hired...and I'd been working like four days, and Tony Geary. You, do you remember...
TG: I do remember.
O: Tony came to town and we have our own story behind this show. Just take a look. There...no telling what I looked like at that time.

[Scenes from AM Chicago, 1984:]
O: We are, needless to say, thrilled...thrilled...to have once again on AM Chicago, ladies and gentlemen, Tony Geary. [squeals]
Audience member: ...true when you do the bedroom scenes you were really naked? [giggles] I read that somewhere. [audience claps and cheers]
O: You daring woman!
TG: I always said I would never tell, but, uh, but, a lot of the ladies that I did bedroom scenes with haven't been very shy about telling. I like to do them that way, you know.

[audience cheers, Tony laughs]
O: Thank God for evolution and growth.
TG: Oh.
O: Ya.
TG: Thank you.
O: Do you remember what had happened the night before?
TG: Yes.
O: Ya.
TG: Yes, yes I do remember.
O: We had gone to Greek Town. Tony and the staff and myself, we'd gone to Greek Town. And you know that I have not been back to Greek Town since that.
TG: Really?
O: Ya.
TG: I...I have not touched ouzo since then.
O: That's right. We had so many ouzos that night.
TG: Well you...I, as I recall you were very good. You left early.
O: I was on cam...
TG: I was dancing on the tables until they closed.
O: [laughs] Wait a minute. I remember, like, now I can smell an ouzo, and like, I can smell the licorice in the...
TG: And you think of me.
O: And I think of you, every time. [he laughs] And as they bring out the ouzos and they're flaming and they go "Ooop-ah," and you drink some more, and...
TG: Oh ya. Ya. Ya.
O: That's right. It was fun, though.
TG: It was...I was pretty, uh...
O: Green.
TG: ...green that...that afternoon. [audience laughs]
O: That's it. Is coming back, does it hold for you what the expectation is for coming back? Has it held?
TG: Well, for me, it's a...it's such a different experience. I was pretty wild in those days, and I had Luke Spencer and my own life so confused that I was livin' to close to the edge.
O: Really.
TG: So I, um...ya, I'm gonna be fifty at the end of May [he stands and models and the audience cheers], thank you very much. And I'm very...uh, I, and I really feel that uh, I came close to not makin' it.
O: Really.
TG: Ya, the show was overwhelming to me, and I...my lifestyle was pretty...pretty wild. So now...
O: Really. It all went to your...what happened, it went to your head?
TG: Well, it, it, it...there was no way for it not to.
O: Ya.
TG: Because, because...
O: You're on the cover of Newsweek, it's everywhere you go...you...
TG: Ya. Everywhere you go. An...I had an aunt of mine introduce me to her friends as "my nephew Luke Spencer." And, uh... [audience laughs]
O: Really.
TG: ...that was when I thought I'd better leave this show.
O: Really.
TG: Ya.
O: It had gotten to be too much.
TG: Ya.
O: Up next, classic moments from One Life to Live and a reunion of a favorite couple from Llanview. Thank you.

[Segment closes with the GH theme song.]