A list of notable characters from the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives that significantly impacted storylines and debuted between January 1, 1980, and the end of 1989, in order of first appearance.
As a result of abuse at the hands of her adoptive parents Jessica suffers from dissociative identity disorder; one of her alters, Angelique, terrorized her mother while the other one, Angel, became involved with Jake Kositchek, who would later be known as the Salem Strangler, a serial killer.
Tony later learned that he and Renee were in fact not related due to a confession by his mother Daphne DiMera that Stefano was not his true father, and had the blood tests to prove it.
In April, viewers finally got their answer: André DiMera kidnapped Tony, who had gone to the wine cellar to grab champagne, and impersonated him, as he had gotten plastic surgery to look identical to him.
Jake was the younger brother of Chris Kositchek (Josh Taylor), shortly after coming to town he fell in love with Angel, the alternate personality of Jessica Blake Fallon (Jean Bruce Scott).
Jessica's rejection became the catalyst for Jake's mental breakdown, leading him to become the Salem Strangler, a serial killer who strangled many women to death including Mary Anderson (Melinda O.
In 2006, Calliope returned as the fashion designer hired to make Mimi Lockhart's wedding dress, and she stated that she and Eugene remain happily married.
When Daphne learned that Tony was in love with Renée DuMonde, whom he believed to be his half-sister, she told him that he was not Stefano's son after all, but belonged to a man named Enrico.
In late 1985-early 1986, Petrov was seen in Miami, representing Stefano in a three-way wager with Victor Kiriakis and corrupt ISA chief George Nickerson, with the stakes being "the Purse (provided by Victor, which turned out to be clues to the locations of (1) a set of stolen U.S. Treasury engravings which were hidden in 1979 in Stockholm, and (2) a priceless Mayan treasure that could only be located during a specific astronomical event in 1991), The Power (provided by the ISA, a codebook with information that ostensibly gave the holder total immunity from every intelligence and law enforcement network in the world), and the Pawn (a "most formidable and dangerous man" controlled by Stefano, at the time believed to be the missing-and-presumed-dead Roman Brady, but later retconned into the separate character of John Black)."
An important scene showed John viewing an ISA computer file on Petrov, which expanded his story to reveal that he was a Cold War-era Soviet agent who defected to the West, and became at one point a teacher at a private school in Vermont called Winterthorne around the time he became one of Stefano's henchmen.
Winterthorne was later revealed to be a "front" for a secret training facility for assassins, run by a Far Eastern organization called the Phantom Alliance, which turned out to have been founded in the 1950s by John's real father, Timothy Robecheaux aka "Yo Ling".
Although hired to plan her good friend Marlena's wedding to Alex North, she was also able to help Shawn-Douglas Brady and Mimi Lockhart with theirs, despite normally being booked two years in advance.
In January 2017, agent Shane was back in town to inform the Salem gang that Stefano DiMera, for whose murder Hope Brady was serving a life sentence, was actually seen alive and well in Prague orchestrating a series of arms deals.
Shane appeared in the first season of Days of Our Lives: Beyond Salem where he tasked John Black to find gemstones belonging to an artifact called the Alamainian Peacock, an item that Hope Brady stole when she was brainwashed by Stefano DiMera to be Princess Gina.
Savannah Wilder is a fictional character on the NBC daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives, played by Shannon Tweed[15] from April 26, 1985, to December 4, 1986.
After being released from prison, Savannah attempted to reform to be with Chris, but after discovered she hired a man to attack Marlena so she could look like a hero he dumped her again.
Andrew Donovan was portrayed by several child actors including Bradley Pierce, later known for his role in movies such as Jumanji and Beauty and the Beast, until the character left the series in 1992, with further guest appearances in both 1996 and 1997.
Tamara Price, portrayed by The 5th Dimension singer Marilyn McCoo, was introduced in August 1986 as the college roommate of Marlena Evans (Deidre Hall).
Diana tells John that he is Leo's real father, claiming that she was pregnant when she left Salem, and Richard agreed to raise her child as his own.
On May 10, 1988, Campanella was upgraded to contract status when Harper was revealed to be the Riverfront Knifer, a serial killer who murdered women in Salem including Janice Barnes (Elizabeth Storm) and Grace Forrester (Camilla More).
Campanella later returned as Harper one last time to thwart the second wedding of Steve Johnson and Kayla Brady and later in visions had by his adopted son Jack from March 9, 1990, to April 22, 1992.
Upon her return on June 18, 2014, she made an immediate connection with Daniel Jonas (Shawn Christian) and reunited with her daughter Paige Larson (True O'Brien).
In 2014, after 22 years, Eve returned to Salem and is shown meeting with Dr Daniel Jonas to discuss a throat surgery which she hopes will help relaunch her singing career.
Eve hopes to gain financial support by obtaining half the profits made by Jack's book about his life in the army, which he apparently owed her as part of their annulment agreement.
"[53] Marcus Hunter, played by Richard Briggs, was introduced as the childhood friend and foster brother of Steve "Patch" Johnson (Stephen Nichols).
[57] In spring of 1988, Marcus becomes smitten with Police officer Lexie Brooks (Cyndi James Gossett) as she works to apprehend a local serial killer.
There, he meets Eve again and the two make peace and he later befriends Ava Vitali and helps her remember more about her ordeal the night Susan Banks and her drove off a cliff.
Anjelica later crashes a surprise party for Adrienne's mother Jo (Joy Garrett) begging Justin to take her to the hospital as Alexander is sick.
In late July 2022, Alex returns to Salem, where he reunits with his father and his brother Sonny, also meeting his stepmother Bonnie Lockhart (Judi Evans).
After he broke up with Sloan Peterson (Jessica Michel), after he found out that she is Leo Stark's (Greg Rikaart) lawyer, while he was on his way to work, he bumped into Stephanie Johnson (Abigail Klein), the daughter of Steve Johnson (Stephen Nichols) and Kayla Brady (Mary Beth Evans), who just arrived back in town and after listening his brother Sonny's words on love, he developed a connection to Stephanie.