Here are the highlights of what went on during Christmas on the daytime soaps. Unfortunately, there wasn't much to report on some shows, while others went out of their way to celebrate the day.
The Bold & the Beautiful had two holiday shows for Christmas. The Christmas Eve show focused on Bill (Don Diamont), Katie (Heather Tom), Steffy (Jacqueline McInnes Wood) and Liam (Scott Clifton). The four characters tried to get Bill into the holiday spirit. Steffy got Katie a book about miracles, Bill got Katie jewelry. At the end of the show, the other three got Bill to sing Deck the Halls. The program broke the fourth wall and had Bill wish the audience Merry Christmas. On the Christmas Day episode, the action took place at the Forrester mansion. The Logan ladies Brooke (Katherine Kelly Lang), Donna (Jennifer Gareis) and Katie end up being responsible for the food as Pam (Alley Mills) was a no show. The turkey gets destroyed through negligence as only Katie learned anything from their caterer mother. Brooke also told Stephanie (Susan Flannery) that she forgave her for what happened this past year. The quads of Ridge (Ronn Moss), Brooke, Taylor (Hunter Tylo) and Thorne (Windsor Harmon) and Hope (Kimberly Matula), Liam, Steffy and Thomas (Adam Gregory) also were shown. We also saw Felicia (with red hair), Dayzee and Marcus at the house. The episode ended with Eric (John McCook) playing the piano and leading the group in a rendition of “We Wish You a Merry Christmas”. After that was a shot of the people involved at B&B, and Brad Bell, the executive producer, giving holiday wishes to the audience.
The biggest of the Christmas celebrations on Days of Our Lives happened before Christmas week, which was the Horton ornament hanging. While Doug (Bill Hayes) was on to read the Christmas story, we did not get to see it, which was disappointing. John (Drake Hogestyn) and Marlena (Deidre Hall) were glad that John was out in time for Christmas. At the beginning of the show, Marlena has no idea this miracle was about to come true. Rafe (Galen Gering) and Sami (Ali Sweeney) got remarried at Christmas in Horton Square. Unlike their first wedding, they had a lot more people involved in the ceremony. Will (Chandler Massey) felt uncomfortable about it, as he knew that Sami cheated on Rafe with EJ (James Scott). That said he wanted Marlena to be there for the sake of his younger siblings. Johnny and Allie were thrilled to see their grandmother. Abe (James Reynolds), Lexie (Renee Jones) and Theo were with Bo (Peter Reckell), Hope (Kristian Alfonso) and Ciara. Victor (John Aniston) and Maggie (Suzanne Rogers) spent their first Christmas together as a married couple. Melanie (Molly Burnett) and Abigail (Kate Mansi) hung out and talked about Chad. EJ and Nicole (Ari Zucker) are there with Sydney too. Jack (Matthew Ashford), Jennifer (Melissa Reeves) and their daughter Abigail spent time together too. While the renewal was going on the Hortons (except for Sami’s kids) went back to Alice’s house. Doug makes a toast while Julie, Bo, Hope, Jack Jennifer, Ciara, Maggie and Melanie join in with him. On the next episode, Brady (Eric Marstolf) got Madison (Sarah Brown) a star for Christmas. Bo and Hope put together a bike for their daughter Ciara.
General Hospital's Christmas was low key but not without happiness. Lulu (Julie Marie Berman) and Dante (Dominic Zamprogna) got married by his cousin Tommy in Bensonhurst. Olivia (Lisa LoCicero) was the only witness. The rest of Dante’s extended family showed up after the ceremony to give their well wishes. Patrick (Jason Thompson) and Robin (Kimberly McCullough) spent the holidays with their daughter Emma. He gave Robin a gift of land, for them to build their dream house. This was bittersweet as Robin is lying about her health. Jason (Steve Burton) and Sam (Kelly Monaco) are dealing with their remnants of what happened on their honeymoon. They gave each other presents that tied into their wedding. He gave her a phoenix, while she gave him a dragon. Elizabeth (Rebecca Herbst) had to deal with her son Cameron being upset that Lucky (Jonathan Jackson) left Port Charles. At least she was well enough to be back at home with her boys and also interacted with Ewan. We also saw Lucky in Ireland. The Quartermaines had another Christmas with snark, and memories of the past. Tracy (Jane Elliot) wanting to do a good deed sent out for Alice to get Christmas gifts for Monica (Leslie Charleson) and Edward (John Ingle). Alice did not get to the store in time, but Monica and Edward received gifts from their late spouses Alan and Lila, while Tracy got diamonds.
One Life to Live showed Christmas Eve, but nothing from Christmas Day. Earlier, they had characters picking out trees, like Shaun and Viv, but we didn’t see them celebrate. The characters that were on included the Mannings, Shane (Austin Williams), John (Michael Easton), Neela (Theresa Patel), Rex (John-Paul Lavoisier and Gigi (Farah Fath), Jessica (Bree Williamson), Natalie (Melissa Archer), Viki (Erika Slezak) and Clint (Jerry verDorn). Todd (Roger Howarth) found out about how Sam (Patrick J. Gibbons) saw Santa Claus the year before, he dressed up for his nephew. Tea (Florencia Lozano) and Dani (Kelly Missal) were alone being sad about Victor’s (Trevor St. John) death. Blair (Kassie DePaiva), Starr (Kristen Alderson), Sam and Jack (Andrew Trischitta) while visiting a prayer was said about Victor. Rex and Gigi found out from Professor Del Fina, what happened to Gigi and Stacy. Meanwhile, Shane got information from Neela that Jack admitted to gassing his mother. They gave that to John in Angel Square. At Llanfair, Viki and Clint got back together to the glee of Jessica and Natalie. Natalie also spent a little time with John. The holiday credits did not air on the Christmas episode, but on December 27.
The Young and the Restless had four holiday episodes over Christmas. One focused on the Christmas children's play, two on Christmas weddings (one that happened and one that did not) and one that was a flashback focus on Nikki (Melody Thomas Scott). The Christmas children’s play had Ana come back for a visit and sing “O Holy Night”. Yolanda / Harmony (Debbi Morgan) was thrilled and overwhelmed in seeing her daughter after so many years. The play had little Fen, Summer, Faith, Lily and Cane’s twins and Moses as baby Jesus. Only Fen and Summer were old enough to have speaking lines. The next episode had everyone preparing to see Chloe (Elizabeth Hendrickson) and Kevin (Greg Rikkart) get married. Unfortunately the ceremony didn’t happen as Kevin and Angelina (Diana DeGarmo) were shot at, and they left Genoa City. Chloe was devastated and everyone wonders what happened to Kevin. Delia was well enough to be part of the wedding as instead of her mother getting hitched, her father Billy (Billy Miller) ended up remarrying Victoria (Amelia Henlie) again. The judge that married them at their home did their ceremony. Victoria wore her red bridesmaid dress, while Chloe stayed in white. The ceremony was sweet, but I wish Victoria and Billy’s last marriage had not ended in divorce. Thankfully Nikki made it in time for the wedding, as before that happened we saw her rushing to the church and no one was there. This special episode focused on Nikki finding out she is important to her family. We saw Nick (Josh Morrow) deal with trying to be a good parent to Faith even with his issues with Sharon (Sharon Case). We saw Victoria lamenting Nikki not showing up to her wedding. Victor (Eric Braeden) in prison being sad about Nikki, though in the early Christmas episode, he threw Nikki out and let Sharon stay. There were flashbacks to when Victoria was a girl, Nikki and Victor during their early relationship, Nick and Nikki, Nikki with both her father and sister (from the 70s) and clips of Nikki and Kay (Jeanne Cooper). We also saw in Nikki’s imagined future scenes with Nikki and Kay where they talked about their relationship.
Those were the highlights of the 2011 Christmas episodes.
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