A list of notable characters from the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives that significantly impacted storylines and debuted between January 1, 1970, and the end of 1979, in order of first appearance.
This fact was referred to by Anna DiMera on the March 4, 2022, episode, when Sarah Horton, believing herself to be Renée DuMonde, mentions wanting to hire Craig as a lawyer.
On the night Doug and Julie's engagement is to be announced, Kim stuns the crowd at the club by wearing a Chinese-inspired dress with a long slit up the leg.
Just as the engagement is announced, Kim whispers to Doug that their marriage is still valid, meaning he can't marry Julie.
Doug is furious at this news, but his mood calms slightly when he learns that because they are still married, he will stand to inherit an island in the Pacific Ocean, as Kim's family is allegedly related to Polynesian royalty.
However, after meeting with Don Craig, the two of them determine that there is no island to be inherited, and most likely the revelation that Kim told Doug about their divorce not truly being final was also a lie.
Julie, receiving some mixed signals of her own, decides to take Don Craig up on his offers of dating and romance to make Doug jealous.
He attempted to swindle her out of money to feed his gambling addiction but she made him sign a prenuptial agreement before they got married.
He was infatuated with Rebecca North, Doug's housekeeper, and when she’s pregnant and abandoned at the altar by her boyfriend Johnny, he steps in to marry her and accept the child as his own.
He learns from Linda Patterson-Phillips that she was artificially inseminated which eases his doubts of Rebecca being unfaithful and legally adopts Dougie as his own and makes Doug and Julie his godparents.
[2] Despite his attempts to make Rebecca love him, her heart belonged to Johnny Collins and agrees to a divorce with the two sharing custody of Dougie.
However, when Rebecca wants to move Japan with Johnny, Robert fights for full custody for Dougie but loses in court and reluctantly lets her take his son with the promise that she visit once year.
With this revelation, Robert decides to stay In Salem and let Doug be a part of his son’s life under the condition that he never tell Dougie the truth.
When a former Nazi war criminal, Dr. Fredrich Kluger, under the guise of “Fred Miller” arrives at Salem University Hospital, he sets out to proves as the man was responsible for his mother’s death.
When Amanda learned she was pregnant, Chris proposed to her and she went to Chicago to divorce Greg, who refused thinking the baby was his.
Rebecca went Dr. Neil Curtis, who was the head of the hospital’s surrogate program, and was impregnated for money that she sent to her boyfriend, Johnny Collins, in Paris where he was studying to be an artist.
Confronted by the Grants, David confesses he is hiding from his family fed up with his mother Julie Anderson's (Susan Seaforth Hayes) chaotic love life.
[3] David is furious when his girlfriend Brooke Hamilton (Adrienne LaRussa) shows up and Paul admits that he couldn't keep the secret knowing how Helen would feel if Danny had suddenly disappeared.
Later, Paul lands a job at Bob Anderson's (Mark Tapscott) plant and while the rest of the Grant household is ecstatic, David doesn't seem too happy about it.
[5] In 1976, at his wife's request, Paul tries to get Brooke's alcoholic mother Adele Hamilton (Dee Carroll) to admit that she has a problem but she denies it.
Dr. Kate Winograd, played by Elaine Princi, first appears in July 1977, when she is Head of Anesthesiology at Salem University Hospital.
Bill is assigned to the night shift by the Chief of Staff Greg Peters, to avoid clashes with Griffin.
Bill's brother Mickey persuades the young trainee surgeon to come clean about what he did; and Dr Marlena Evans helps Fred Barton realize that his paralysis is actually psychological, stemming from childhood traumas.
Kate tells him she is leaving to take a job in Cleveland, but she really is heartbroken to miss her chance with the man she loves!
Chris continued to see other women while running his own gym called Body Connection and became good friends with the Bradys, Bo in particular.
They both run a gym in San Francisco where Paul Narita and Andrew Donovan investigate Harris Michaels.
Mike's uncle, Mickey Horton, had them set at Maggie's farm in Brookville to get away from Earl until he left Salem.
Earl was a loan shark and porno ring leader who caused trouble for people in Salem, particular Mike Horton and later his wife Margo.
Terrified, the couple fled Salem with Mickey Horton's help, setting them up at Maggie's old farm in Brookville until things with Earl were settled.
Realizing they were fake after seeing his daughter's portfolio, Don met with Earl to buy the rest of the photos and her screen test.