Jessie and Angie
They are back!!!!!!! I read this on the web somewhere and looked at the show’s site to get all the info. OK, even though I no longer watch the show, I will be following this story line. Let me just say that the title of this post was originally “Jessie Hubbard” but I couldn’t find a solo pic of him from back in the day LOL! They were America’s 1st black soap opera supercouple….
Please indulge my pre-muslim reminiscing………
Without a doubt, Jessie was my first love…call it puppy love, whatever. All I know is that when he “died” in 1986, I was 14 and cried my eyes out for weeks…no seriously. Then about a month after his “death”, he and Angie (Debbie Morgan) hosted an episode of New York Hot Tracks (remember this show DJ Diva?) a music video show in the ’80s and I taped it just so I could see him and almost convince myself that he hadn’t actually died.
My crush on Jessie (Darnell Williams) started when I was a wee lad of 11 (circa 19 and 83). He was a teen hooligan who caused much mayhem in Pine Valley. Angie was the daughter of Les and Pat Baxter…a child of priviledge. They got off to a rocky start but fell in love. You know the rest…everyone was against it from the start, he turned his life around and became a pillar of community, they married, had a baby and then he was killed in the line of duty.
20 years later, they’re back. Apparently he had to fake his death for the family’s safety. Angie, a doctor, moved along the soap opera circuit as ‘Angie the widow and single mom’ for several years. I tried to watch her but (don’t laugh) it was too painful because it brought back too many memories of my beloved Jessie. Over the last 20 years, I’ve even thought of Jessie and brooded about how messed up it was that he was killed. I often wondered what might have been. This is how crazy I am - when I went to All My Chi.ldren’s webpage and read through the couple’s retrospective, I cried! It brought it all back…the memories and storylines. Then I started crying as I remembered Greg and Jenny…Jessie and Angie’s best friends who also had a beautiful love story.
Please continue to read my blog…I’m only mid-line crazy! O.prah would say, “it really isn’t about Jessie and Angie find out what you’re really crying about”.
I know, these characters make me remember more innocent times. I mean, my biggest problems during those years were really about Jessie and Angie and other lame things…I know how lame right?
girl u know i know about NY Hot Tracks!!!! Playlist in the upcoming months!!!!
I found out about it like amonth ago…I been taping it ever since! I cried too …and my momma lol
Comment by DJ Diva — March 7, 2008 @ 3:14p
I used to skip school to watch them back in the day.
Comment by Nikki — March 7, 2008 @ 5:29p
First of all in 19 and 83 as you say, I graduated high school and started college, so I ate lunch with Jessie, Angie, Tad, and Jenny every day! Secondly, I stopped watching soaps entirely somewhere around 1988 so I missed Jessie’s death even though I heard he died. In January, I had Influenza A and was at home sick much of the month. When Angie started having Jessie flashbacks all the time, I knew JESSIE must be coming back. So I started planning my schedule so that like I did in college, I could have lunch somewhere with a TV as AMC comes on in the STL at noon. Thankfully, I caught the actual reunion show a couple of weeks back, and it was sooooooooooooooo worth it! Oh my gosh, imagine the heartbreak of Angie seeing Jessie’s face for the first time in 20 years as he passes by on a train leaving Pine Valley. Then imagine her running down the tracks chasing the train with tears streaming down her face as she screamed “Jessie come back….Jessie please don’t leave me again!” THEN, as she walks away dejected and heartbroken out of the train smoke walks JESSIE! All of this to the background sounds of Alicia Keys singing Kiss Like You’ll Never See Me Again…I’m not designed to do this!
I had to stop watching that day, because I’m not tryna get hooked again, but dang….sometimes in the late morning around 11:57ish, I start to tremble….lol!
Comment by Sharon — March 9, 2008 @ 9:27p