EPISODE COUNT: April and Year-to-Date

[ghfan96]

Hello all! Below are the counts for April and year-to-date as GH began the month celebrating its 56th Anniversary. As always, these counts are for number of episode appearances, not length of screentime.

This month saw the recast of Paulina Bugembe as Valerie Spencer, a guest appearance by Hillary B. Smith as Nora Buchanan, and the first appearance of Drew Cheetwood as Milo since July 2018.

Please let me know if you have any questions. Enjoy!

Number of Episodes in April 2019: 21

Maurice Benard (Sonny Corinthos) – 15

Coby Ryan McLaughlin (Shiloh Archer) – 13
Kelly Monaco (Sam McCall) – 13

Steve Burton (Jason Morgan) – 12
Genie Francis (Laura Webber) – 12
Jon Lindstrom (Dr. Kevin Collins) – 12

Chad Duell (Michael Corinthos) – 11
Maura West (Ava Jerome) – 11

Nancy Lee Grahn (Alexis Davis) – 10
Josh Swickard (Harrison Chase) – 10
Laura Wright (Carly Corinthos) – 10

Michael Easton (Dr. Hamilton Finn) – 9
Joe Flanigan (Dr. Neil Byrne) – 9
Katelyn MacMullen (Willow Tait) – 9
Donnell Turner (Curtis Ashford) – 9

Lexi Ainsworth (Kristina Davis) – 8
William deVry (Julian Jerome) – 8
Briana Nicole Henry (Jordan Ashford) – 8
Rebecca Herbst (Elizabeth Baldwin) – 8
Roger Howarth (Franco Baldwin) – 8
Kirsten Storms (Maxie Jones) – 8

Inga Cadranel (Harmony) – 7
Finola Hughes (Anna Devane) – 7
Wes Ramsey (Peter August) – 7
Michelle Stafford (Nina Reeves) – 7

Eden McCoy (Josslyn Jacks) – 6
Billy Miller (Drew Cain) – 6
Emme Rylan (Lulu Falconeri) – 6
Garren Lake Stitt (Oscar Nero Quartermaine) – 6
Kristina Wagner (Felicia Scorpio) – 6

Tamara Braun (Dr. Kim Nero) – 5
Elizabeth Hendrickson (Margaux Dawson) – 5
Sofia Mattsson (Sasha Gilmore) – 5
James Patrick Stuart (Valentin Cassadine) – 5

Paulina Bugembe (Valerie Spencer) – 4
Lynn Herring (Lucy Coe) – 4
William Lipton (Cameron Webber) – 4
Tristan Rogers (Robert Scorpio) – 4
John J. York (Mac Scorpio) – 4

Tajh Bellow (T.J. Ashford) – 3
Leslie Charleson (Dr. Monica Quartermaine) – 3
Sonya Eddy (Epiphany Johnson) – 3
Haley Alexis Pullos (Molly Lansing) – 3
Hillary B. Smith (Nora Buchanan) – 3
Vernee Watson (Stella Henry) – 3
Jacklyn Zeman (Bobbie Spencer) – 3

Nicolas Bechtel (Spencer Cassadine) – 2
Ryan Carnes (Dr. Lucas Jones) – 2
Drew Cheetwood (Milo Giambetti) – 2
Cassandra James (Dr. Terry Randolph) – 2
Page Leong (Judge Amber Chua) – 2
Lisa LoCicero (Olivia Quartermaine) – 2
Parry Shen (Brad Cooper) – 2
Kin Shriner (Scott Baldwin) – 2
Kelsey Wang (Daisy Kwan) – 2
N/A (Timmy) – 2

Denise Alexander (Lesley Webber) – 1
Christina Ferrara (Dr. Sofia Navarro) – 1
Kathleen Gati (Dr. Liesl Obrecht) – 1
Wallace Kurth (Ned Quartermaine) – 1
Sydney Mikayla (Trina Robinson) – 1
O'Neill Monahan (Rocco Falconeri) – 1
Palmer & Poe Parker (Scout Cain) – 1
Ava & Grace Scarola (Avery Jerome) – 1
Chris Van Etten (Chet Driscoll) – 1
N/A (Principal Schultz) – 1

[Wendall Wilcox]

Monthly Leaders

Jan - Ryan/Sam tie

Feb - Franco

March - Jason

April - Sonny

[ghfan96]

Jon Lindstrom (Dr. Kevin Collins-24/Ryan Chamberlain-33) - 51
Maurice Benard (Sonny Corinthos) - 50
Steve Burton (Jason Morgan) - 49
Kelly Monaco (Sam McCall) - 47
Genie Francis (Laura Webber) – 45
Maura West (Ava Jerome) - 44
Coby Ryan McLaughlin (Shiloh Archer) - 42
Rebecca Herbst (Elizabeth Baldwin) - 40
Laura Wright (Carly Corinthos) – 40
Roger Howarth (Franco Baldwin) - 39
Briana Nicole Henry (Jordan Ashford) - 38
Nancy Lee Grahn (Alexis Davis) - 37
Emme Rylan (Lulu Falconeri) – 37
Michael Easton (Dr. Hamilton Finn) - 36
Donnell Turner (Curtis Ashford) - 36
Finola Hughes (Anna Devane-34/Alex Marick-4) - 34
Billy Miller (Drew Cain) - 34
Josh Swickard (Harrison Chase) - 34
Lexi Ainsworth (Kristina Davis) - 31
Kirsten Storms (Maxie Jones) - 31
William deVry (Julian Jerome) - 30
Wes Ramsey (Peter August) - 28
Katelyn MacMullen (Willow Tait) - 27
Michelle Stafford (Nina Reeves) - 27
Tamara Braun (Dr. Kim Nero) - 26
Chad Duell (Michael Corinthos) - 26
Eden McCoy (Josslyn Jacks) - 24
Garren Lake Stitt (Oscar Nero Quartermaine) - 22
James Patrick Stuart (Valentin Cassadine) - 22
William Lipton (Cameron Webber) - 20
Tristan Rogers (Robert Scorpio) - 20
Sofia Mattsson (Sasha Gilmore) - 17
Joe Flanigan (Dr. Neil Byrne) - 14
Elizabeth Hendrickson (Margaux Dawson) – 12
Parry Shen (Brad Cooper) - 12
Vernee Watson (Stella Henry) - 12
Kathleen Gati (Dr. Liesl Obrecht) - 11
Kin Shriner (Scott Baldwin) - 11
John J. York (Mac Scorpio) - 11
Inga Cadranel (Harmony) - 10
Matt Cohen (Dr. Griffin Munro) - 10
Kristina Wagner (Felicia Scorpio) - 10
Dominic Zamprogna (Dante Falconeri) - 10
Ryan Carnes (Dr. Lucas Jones) - 9
Leslie Charleson (Dr. Monica Quartermaine) - 8
Lynn Herring (Lucy Coe) - 8
Lisa LoCicero (Olivia Quartermaine) - 8
Eric & Theodore (Jonah Corinthos) - 7
Max Gail (Mike Corbin) - 7
Cassandra James (Dr. Terry Randolph) – 7
Sydney Mikayla (Trina Robinson) - 7
Haley Alexis Pullos (Molly Lansing) - 7
Jason David (Aiden Spencer) - 6
Nigel Gibbs (Marcus Godfrey) - 6
Wallace Kurth (Ned Quartermaine) - 6
Nicolas Bechtel (Spencer Cassadine) - 5
Tajh Bellow (T.J. Ashford) - 5
Sonya Eddy (Epiphany Johnson) - 5
Kelsey Wang (Daisy Kwan) - 5
Time Winters (Dr. Arthur Cabot) - 5
Jacklyn Zeman (Bobbie Spencer) – 5
Bradford Anderson (Damian Spinelli) - 4
Ashton Arbab (Dev) - 4
Paulina Bugembe (Valerie Spencer) - 4
Scarlett Fernandez (Charlotte Cassadine) – 4
Paulina Bugembe (Valerie Spencer) – 3
Noshir Dalal (Raj Patel) - 3
Anita Finlay (Judge Naomi Carson) - 3
O'Neill Monahan (Rocco Falconeri) - 3
Brytni Sarpy (Valerie Spencer) - 3
Hillary B. Smith (Nora Buchanan) - 3
Chris Van Etten (Chet Driscoll) - 3
Hudson West (Jake Webber) – 3
Drew Cheetwood (Milo Giambetti) - 2
Risa Dorken (Amy Driscoll) - 2
Page Leong (Judge Amber Chua) - 2
Gwendolyn Osborne-Smith (Agent Vick) - 2
Cyd Strittmatter (Kay) - 2
T.K. Weaver (Danny Morgan) - 2
Denise Alexander (Lesley Webber) - 1
Brooke Burgstahler (Zoey) - 1
Janet Hubert (Yvonne Godfrey) - 1
The Marciano Twins (James West) - 1
Anthony Montgomery (Dr. Andre Maddox) - 1
Jonathan Ohye (Dr. Andy) – 1
Palmer & Poe Parker (Scout Cain) - 1
Ava & Grace Scarola (Avery Jerome) - 1
Stephen A. Smith (Brick) - 1

[SAMLEXIS FAN]

Shiloh & this DOD storyline is getting too much airtime. And I believe it's one of the factors contributing to the ratings decline.

[ghfan2001]

Counts are incredibly low nowadays. LW’s count seems absurdly low. Lol. 51/83 is roughly 61 percent, most people appear less than 50 percent of time. No one is eating this show alive, more like everyone’s a secondary type character to a “day player”. I’m not sure this method works better than others. Show remains poor.

[SamandWillowFan]

I prefer a balance, even when it comes to my favorite characters. I remember reading that Dante had a year where he was not in only like 14 episodes for the whole year, which is ridiculous.

[Philadelphia215]

If you think about it, Carly is really just a supporting character right now. She's in a lot of other people's stories but doesn't have one of her own right now (besides being pregnant but thats not a story). They're getting her episode count up by having her drop in with a lot of different people.

I think what it comes down to for me is that the storytelling isn't balanced. I don't actually mind the DOD story per say (except for Sam's part lately) but its on everyday, so that other people's stories are only featured like once a week. I mean, if you look at the other stories like Oscar, Nina/Sasha/Valentin, Liz and her family, they're all way down compared to the DOD and Ryan characters, which has also been going on forever and was the main thing for months before DOD.

For me, and this is just my opinion, but it makes it so that I'm sick to death of the main stories, but don't see the secondary ones enough to really care about them either. Not sure if that makes sense or maybe i'm just being way too picky. I feel like I see Shiloh and Co way too much, but can't invest in other characters and stories because sometimes we don't check in on them for a week or longer.

[ghfan2001]

But there should be established leads, supporting characters, tertiary characters, and day players. This method seems balanced but it’s really not because everybody’s “story” devolves into complete incoherence to accomplish what I consider a numerical balance that is not a logical balance.

[Wendall Wilcox]

Counts are incredibly low nowadays. LW’s count seems absurdly low. Lol. 51/83 is roughly 61 percent, most people appear less than 50 percent of time. No one is eating this show alive, more like everyone’s a secondary type character to a “day player”. I’m not sure this method works better than others. Show remains poor.

I do see what your saying. Last few years Only 11/12/13 characters a year have hit 100 episodes. Their using the actors less obviously as a budgeting thing

[Justasimplefan]

Aw, Elizabeth is written as a Baldwin? That sucks.... They just put her in episodes to give her a minimum, her scenes are SO short and meaningless, what a shame. Thank you ghfan96 for posting

[MrAxe]

From what Im hearing at various GH sites, this DOD story isn't working yet...but its dominating air space so viewers are tuning out of DOD episodes completely or fast forwarding it’s scenes. With the exception of Kristina’s intervention meetings.

Something has to change to salvage this story since they probably can't just end it suddenly (after so much investment). The only way I can see this happening is if Shiloh has been craftier then everybody all along and bigtime gets the upper-hand. Puts fear in the eyes of all key players.

[Moore ideas]

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