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Sci-Fi TV and The Soaps?

© Tanya M. Blakeley

"Robin meets Casey, a mysterious man who is searching for the pieces of a crystal that will take him back home..." huh? What in the world is going on?

Those were my first thoughts way back in 1990, as I was watching the storyline unfold on my favourite "Soap" ABC's "General Hospital." The story began simply. After Anna's (played by Finola Hughes) husband Duke/Jonathon Paget (played by Greg Beecroft) is shot and killed by Julian Jerome (played by Jason Culp) Anna and Robert (played by Tristan Rogers) traveled to Scotland to put him to scatter his ashes.

Fast forward to Paris, France, Frisco's (played by Jack Wagner) wife, Felicia (played by Kristina Wagner), goes missing (she's been kidnapped by the allegedly deceased Cesar Faison (played by Anders Hove) and held at his chalet). Together Frisco and Sean (played by John Reilly) find and rescue Felicia.

Meanwhile back home in Port Charles, Anna and Robert's daughter Robin (played by Kimberly McCullough) is awakened by the alarm system going off. She encounters a mysterious man by the name of 'Casey Rogers' (played by Bradley Lockerman), who is mistaken for the repairman and then a homeless person by Robin.

Robin shows her new friend the crystal that she found at Spoon Island and when Casey touches the crystal it glows eerily. He then explains to her that he is really an alien from the planet "Lumina" and is searching for all of the pieces of crystal like the one she found.

Later we find out that the crystal if in Casey's capable hands can give life, but if used by anyone else it could cause the 'annihilation of Earth." According to the story Casey told Anna and Frisco, a spacecraft from "Lumina" crashed to earth years before and the crystals were left behind. Casey needed the crystals to return home to his own planet, which is dying.

At the end of the "Crystalline Conspiracy" storyline Casey gets to go home. But, Anna, Robert, Sean and Frisco are left with a bigger problem than saving the world... What to do with their arch-enemy Cesar Faison.

However, the "Crystalline Conspiracy" from "General Hospital" isn't the only Sci-Fi style storyline that has appeared on a Daytime Drama, or more commonly known as Soap Operas. In June of 1997, ABC began the "General Hospital" spin-off entitled simply "Port Charles." And it in turn began a storyline that featured a character named Caleb Morley (played by former "Days of Our Lives star Michael Easton).

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