"Port Charles" (1997)TV series 1997-2003

Creators:

Carolyn Culliton
Richard Culliton
Wendy Riche

Seasons:

1 | 3 | unknown

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

Port Charles: Fate: It was meant to be.

Plot:

Spin-off of "General Hospital" focusing on the professional and personal lives of the first year interns at Port Charles' General Hospital...

Plot Keywords:

Revenge | Lost Love | Psychic | Nurse | New York

Awards:

6 wins & 53 nominations

Cast

Lisa Lord	...	Grace Sullivan / ... (116 episodes, 1997-1999)
Jay Pickett	...	Frank Scanlon (113 episodes, 1997-2003)

Also Known As:

GH2 (USA) (working title)
Port Charles: Desire (USA) (twelfth season title)
Port Charles: Fate (USA) (second season title)
Port Charles: Miracles Happen (USA) (sixth season title)
Port Charles: Naked Eyes (USA) (tenth season title)
Port Charles: Secrets (USA) (seventh season title)
Port Charles: Superstitions (USA) (eighth season title)
Port Charles: Surrender (USA) (eleventh season title)
Port Charles: Tainted Love (USA) (fourth season title)
Port Charles: Tempted (USA) (fifth season title)
Port Charles: The Gift (USA) (last season title)
Port Charles: Time in a Bottle (USA) (third season title)
Port Charles: Torn (USA) (ninth season title)

Runtime:

30 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

USA:TV-14

Filming Locations:

ABC Television Center - 4151 Prospect Avenue, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

American Broadcasting Company (ABC)

Trivia:

This was one of two proposed General Hospital spin-offs. After the cancellation of "The City", ABC reviewed two concepts for a GH sister show. "PC" was created by Wendy Riche, longtime executive producer of GH who won many Emmys for the show. However, Claire Labine, a former GH head-writer, also submitted a treatment to the network called "Heart and Soul." This spin-off centered around Ned and Lois Ashton, and took place in Brooklyn. The show would follow the lives of Lois' family and a black family also living in New York. However, Riche's treatment was ultimately chosen and first aired with a 2-hour Sunday night movie.

Quotes:

Rafe: Loving someone with your whole heart is never wrong.

Movie Connections:

Featured in The 15th Annual Soap Opera Digest Awards (1999) (TV)

Comment on Port Charles

I highly recommend the Port Charles TV Series that was released as "books." This series is for anyone that wants to experience an unrealistic but wonderfully imaginative, somewhat exotic, unorthodox, dark adventurous romp to another world. If you go into this series with the right frame of mind, you will come out with insight into what drives us all - our emotions - love, trust, compassion, anger, jealousy, and revenge.

You get the best of both the good (angels) and the bad (vampires and dark creatures). All along seeing the internal emotional struggle that each side contends with and the compromises that must take place. I think anyone that has an open mind and takes the time to connect with these characters, gains insight into what drives them and how their emotions help to rule their own lives - for the good and for the bad!

Acting is good and one can fall in love with, be charmed by, be annoyed by, be enraged by, and amused by the characters. But you have to be a free-spirit, adventuresome, creatively minded, and not so serious/dull person. You have to "think outside the box" and let yourself go, to become part of this world.

We are faced with reality and its harshness everyday why not escape to a weird, dark world where ultimately love rules and motivates almost everything! I personally love it and highly recommend!!