OLTL Weekly Updates
1988
Reprinted from the Boston Globe
Week of January 4, 1988
After breaking up with Cord, Kate accepted a job in the Galapagos Islands. Rob believes Melinda, who told him she witnessed a murder.
Week of January 11, 1988
Rolo split after stabbing Max, who was hospitalized. Steve and Gabrielle were married. Brent confessed he framed Mari Lynn on drug possession charges.
Week of January 18, 1988
Tina caught a glimpse of her son when Lita brought the ailing baby to the hospital. Mari Lynn learned that Donald arranged for her facial plastic surgery.
Week of January 25, 1988
Max pulled a gun on Rob, who had demanded that Tina pay a ransom to get her baby back. Rolo fumed that Lita split with Milagro, because she wants to keep the baby.
Week of February 1, 1988
Rolo was arrested but he laughed that Tina and Cord will never get their baby away from Lita. Rob doesn't think that Cassie and Jon belong together.
Week of February 8, 1988
George drugged Clint's horse in hopes that the animal would cause Clint to have a fatal riding accident. Tom fumed that Mari Lynn plans to marry Wade.
Week of February 15, 1988
Asa ordered a search for Clint, who disappeared after he fell off his horse. Clint, who hit his head, woke up in Buchanan City in the year 1888.
Week of February 22, 1988
Clint, who is still living in the year 1888, got into a shootout with a land baron, Buck. Bo Buchanan returned home to help search for a missing Clint.
Week of February 29, 1988
The sheriff found some skeletal remains that were presumed to be Clint's. Tina looked for Milagro, who was left at a convent in Venice before Lita's death.
Week of March 7, 1988
Clint met with an Indian named Clear Eyes who said Clint must teach Ginny about love before he can return to the present. Cord told Sarah that he needs her.
Week of March 14, 1988
Tina was relieved to be finally reunited with her son, Milagro. Clint had a run in with a con-man, Julius Ceaser Jones, who is keeping an eye on Clint.
Week of March 21, 1988
Melinda dreamed that Donald murdered her. Max freaked when Tina, who was saying her wedding vows, blurted out Cord's name instead of his. Sarah left town.
Week of March 28, 1988
Sarah returned from Greece after she learned that Clint left her enough money to open a school for the blind. After Max left her, Tina set her eyes on Cord.
Week of April 4, 1988
Clint is beginning to fall in love with Ginny. Mari Lynn accidentally shot and killed Lee as she was trying to fend off Donald, who admitted he murdered Alex.
Week of April 11, 1988
Viki, who was sitting in her car crying over Clint, passed out when the car fumes filled the closed garage. Mari Lynn flipped when Donald came to Lee's funeral.
Week of April 18, 1988
Mari Lynn must stand trial for killing Lee. Deal sold Ginny and Blaize to a white slave trader. Blaize, who had escaped, later fainted in the desert and woke up in 1988.
Week of April 25, 1988
Donald came unglued during Mari Lynn's murder trial when Alex Crown, the man Donald saw murdered and then buried, walked into the court. Asa and Renee eloped.
Week of May 2, 1988
Viki was stunned when Blaize told her that Clint is alive. Clint kissed Ginny after rescuing her from a slave trader. Donald was arrested for murdering Alex.
Week of May 9, 1988
Ginny and Clint are getting married. Kevin believed Blaize, who said that Clint is alive. George hit Steve over the head with a poker. Blaize returned to 1888.
Week of May 16, 1988
After meeting Clear Eyes in the desert, Viki was transported into the year 1888. Just as Clint was about to marry Ginny, Viki arrived at the scene.
Week of May 23, 1988
Viki, who was transported to 1888, helped Clint convince Ginny and Randolph to get married. Rob and Cassie made love. Cassie threw Melinda out of her penthouse.
Week of May 30, 1988
Viki concluded her 1888 adventure was a dream. Clint told everyone he fell off Oakie, had amnesia and spent the past couple of months at an Arizona farm.
Week of June 6, 1988
Lord Henry Leighton fumed when Rob nixed going through with plans to marry Henry's daughter Joanna. Joanna became upset when she saw Rob in bed with Cassie.
Week of June 13, 1988
Bo is plotting to get his hands on Viki and Clint's money in the near future. Mari Lynn and Wade were married, but she couldn't make love with him.
Week of June 20, 1988
Bo saved Viki's life by performing an emergency tracheotomy when she choked on some food. Mari Lynn was unable to make love with Wade during their honeymoon.
Week of June 27, 1988
In a castle dungeon, the real Bo Buchanan was reunited with Didi, who is also being held by Bo's captors. Mari Lynn had a conversation with Lee's ghost.
Week of July 4, 1988
Bo and Didi escaped from their captors, then met up with a constable who said he'll kill Delila if they don't surrender. Joanna and Rob said their wedding vows.
Week of July 11, 1988
Delila told Bo and Didi that their kidnappers also abducted her and brought her to the castle dungeon. Gabrielle attempted to smother a comatose Steve.
Week of July 18, 1988
Henry's right-hand man Garth is convinced that Joanna loves him, not Rob. The fake Bo is really Patrick London, the former fiancee of Kate Sanders.
Week of July 25, 1988
Max admitted to Cord that Gabrielle think's she's pregnant with Max's baby. The fake Bo revealed that Didi is alive, then forced her to pretend he's the real Bo.
Week of August 1, 1988
A shot was fired as Max wrestled a gun away from Gabrielle, who was faking a suicide attempt to gain Max's attention. Viki found a scarf that belongs to Delila.
Week of August 22, 1988
Cyndy was shocked when the fake Bo confessed that he's really her brother Patrick. Cyndy taped the fake Bo's confession. Joanna thinks Rob killed Henry.
Week of August 29, 1988
Tina learned that she's pregnant. Patrick (the fake Bo) took Didi prisoner after his identity was revealed. The police freed Delila and the real Bo.
Week of September 5, 1988
Steve told Gabrielle that he wants a divorce. The real Bo rescued Didi from Patrick (Bo) who was electrocuted after he tried to kill Didi and the real Bo.
Week of September 12, 1988
Patrick's former girlfriend, Ursula, threatened to kill Tina. Ursula's father Cornelius kept mum to Cord and Sarah that Ursula is holding Tina prisoner.
Week of September 19, 1988
Rafe found Tina, but Ursula threatened to kill Tina if Rafe tried to rescue her. Ursula raged when Cornelius said that Patrick isn't the father of Tina's baby.
Week of September 26, 1988
Clint is worried about Viki, who received a threatening phone call. Larry revived Viki, who fell and knocked herself unconscious during her high school reunion.
Week of October 3, 1988
Gilbert told Viki that she disappeared in 1963 but was found several months later using the name Niki Smith. Sarah and Megan met with their father, Roger.
Week of October 10, 1988
After a session with Lysander Clair, Viki remembered giving birth to a child 25 years ago. Wade and Christine foiled a couple of would-be robbers.
Week of October 17, 1988
Viki believes that a man named Johnny Lasek has the daughter that Viki had to give up at birth. Clint located a little girl, Victoria, who looks just like Viki.
Week of October 24, 1988
Viki suspects that Victor gave her daughter to Johnny Lasek, a man who once worked for Victor. Viki met Johnny's daughter Victoria, who looks like Viki.
Week of October 31, 1988
Michael had a henchman release a potentially lethal virus into the air ducts at the Holden Towers Hotel. Viki is still looking for her daughter.
Week of November 7, 1988
Michael fumed that finding Victor's time capsule didn't produce anything valuable. Neil is jealous of Wade because he's married to Mari Lynn. Drew likes Amy.
Week of November 14, 1988
Christine's father Leo seemed to recognize Viki. Bo and Clint later suspected that Leo knew Viki and that Christine might be Viki's daughter.
Week of November 21, 1988
Leo told Clint that he was Niki Smith's lover and that Christine is Viki's long-lost daughter. Viki and Leo haven't told Christine the truth yet.
Week of November 28, 1988
Viki and Christine learned that they are mother and daughter. Mental hospital escapee Ursula plotted to kill Tina. Cassie is thinking about moving to Mendorra.
Week of December 5, 1988
Viki told Kevin, Joey and Jessica that Christine is their half-sister. Steve threw himself in front of Brenda just as Ursula's home-made bomb went off.
Week of December 12, 1988
Leo got nervous when Roger said Christine doesn't look anything like Viki. Ursula's bomb killed Steve. Ursula later held Viki and Sarah at gunpoint.
Week of December 19, 1988
Christine learned that she's not really Viki's daughter. The police captured Ursula after she took Viki, Sarah and Bo hostage. Bo was wounded during the melee.
Week of December 26, 1988
Megan was upset that Max left town. Christine hasn't told Viki that they are not really mother and daughter. Michael received a call from his wife Alicia.