Port Charles was the soap opera which aired on ABC from June 1, 1997 to October 3, 2003. a indicate airy 1633 episodes, which involved a 2-hour pilot which inaugurate the series, aired around primetime.

the indicate was a spin-byproduct of the popular General Hospital. It number 1 featured heptad houseman within the competitory medical school program. In the number 1 episode, tenured nurse Audrey Healthy (played number one in General Hospital by Rachel Ames, who reprised the role on the freshly serial) was hurt & an houseman experienced to operate her using a power drill to save her life. In the number 1 pack years, Port Charles had the reputation for focusing virtually all of its energies on the medical school program, setting supplementary of its independent action within Port Charles General Hospital than was seen on the parent indicate, General Hospital.

Across a years, Port Charles became the a measure of laundry detergent opera by owning complex immature characters & ended higher focusing in stories all about taboo love, lamia, & resurrection to life when dying. A a measure of laundry detergent opera switched from either a regular writing format, instead creating 13-week story arcs which are then supplementary unremarkably utilized in Spanish telenovelas. This allowed a cast, crew, & writing staff to just operate half a dozen months away from a month.

A indicate was canceled in the summertime of 2003; some fans speculated that it was due to a fact that the indicate was nominative for Right Daytime Drama & wasted at a Daytime Emmy Awards to As the World Turns. Actually, a indicate, which was owned by ABC, was losing money by using every week & was non aired inside numerous area of the united states. This, successively, brought down ratings & halted revenue.

Since a indicate lone taped for captain hicks months away from a month, a odd episodes were aired sustaining a cast non allowed to link to to tape results to plot line. In point of fact, the final episode was a cliffhanger; heroine Alison (Erin Hershey Presley) didn't know world health organization a father of her little one was.

Fallowing a indicate was cancelled, numbers of previous cast members went in to star in an additional soaps. Presently in different soaps come Kin Shriner (As the World Turns as Keith Morrissey), Julie Pinson (Days of our Lives as Billie Reed), Kelly Monaco (General Hospital as Samantha McCall), Thorsten Kaye (All My Children as Zach Slater), Michael Easton (One Life to Live as John McBain), Ian Buchanan (All The Tikes when Dr. Greg Madden) & Marie Wilson (As the World Turns when Meg Snyder).

Cast of characters
Lynn Herring as Lucy Coe Jon Robert Lindstrom as Kevin Collins Kin Shriner as Scott Baldwin (1997-2000, 2001) Jay Pickett as Frank Scanlon Nolan North as Chris Ramsey Julie Pinson as Eve Lambert (1997-2002) Lisa Ann Hadley as Julie Devlin (1997-2000, 2001) Mitch Longley as Matt Harmon (1997-2000) Jennifer Hammon (1997-1999) and Marie Wilson (1999-2003) as Karen Wexler Rib Hillis as Jake Marshak (1997-1998) Michael Dietz (1997-1999), David Gail (1999-2000) and Alex Mendoza (2000-2001, 2002) as Joe Scanlon Debbi Morgan (1997-1998) and Marie-Alise Recasner (1998-1999) as Ellen Burgess Renee Griffin as Danielle Ashley (1997-1998) Carly Schroeder as Serena Baldwin (1997-2001) Sarah Aldrich as Courtney Kanelos (1998-2000) Kelly Monaco as Olivia "Livvie" Locke (1999-2003) Kimberlin Brown as Rachel Locke (1999-2000, 2001) Kiko Ellsworth as Jamal Woods (2000-2003) Erin Hershey Presley as Alison Barrington (2000-2003) Thorsten Kaye as Ian Thornhart (2000-2003) Ion Overman as Gabriela Garza (2000-2002) Brian Presley as Jack Ramsey (2000-2003) Michael Easton as Caleb Morley (2001, 2002-2003) Brian Gaskill as Rafe Kovich (2001-2003) Eddie Matos as Ricky Garza (2001-2003) Joy Bisco as Casey Leong (2002, 2003)/Marissa Leong (2002-2003) Rebecca Staab as Elizabeth Barrington (2002-2003) Ian Buchanan as Joshua Temple (2002-2003)