CAN’T MISS IT! the special episode honoring Anthony Geary HAS AIRED!!!! here’s how you can watch.

General Hospital has unveiled an initial plan to honor the late, iconic soap star Anthony Geary. According to TV Insider on December 22, General Hospital plans to re-air the episode from 2015, where Geary’s Luke Spencer said goodbye to everybody in Port Charles.

The special encore episode will air on January 1.

Geary, who won eight Daytime Emmy Awards over the years playing Luke, died on December 14.

The actor first joined General Hospital in 1978. He ultimately appeared in nearly 2,000 episodes of the long-running soap opera. He departed the soap more than once over the years, and at one point, even returned to play Spencer’s cousin, Bill Eckert.

When Geary decided in 2015 to retire, he starred in a poignant episode of General Hospital where Luke shared emotional goodbyes with those he was closest to in Port Charles. Geary appeared one last time on General Hospital in 2017. In 2022, it was revealed that Luke died off-screen in an accident in Austria.

As People noted, Geary’s run on General Hospital was never supposed to last for decades. In fact, he was brought on initially for a 13-week arc.

In 2008, Geary talked to Entertainment Weekly about his love for the city of Amsterdam, which is where he moved full-time after retiring from General Hospital.

He noted that having a home in Amsterdam, where “nobody knows me there,” allowed him to “recapture a lot of the time I sort of lost in terms of just being a regular guy” instead of a soap star.

“That’s been very valuable to me,” Geary added, noting that part of his willingness to stay on General Hospital was that “it affords me a fantastic life and to be able to be bi-continental.”

At the time of that interview, Geary seemed open to continuing his time on General Hospital for a while. In 2015, when he decided it was time to depart for good, he told Entertainment Weekly, “It’s been a really exciting ride. In the end, it’s been well worth it.”

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The storyline that led to Luke’s departure began the year before, in 2014, when Luke had undergone a profound psychological change. He began acting strangely and increasingly out of character, committing crimes and frightening his friends and family members. Viewers nicknamed this unsettling version of Luke “Fluke,” initially assuming it was Bill Eckert.

In early 2015, Fluke’s identity became the subject of widespread speculation. After a bomb exploded aboard The Haunted Star, the suspect’s fingerprints matched Luke’s. It was revealed that the man in custody was the real Luke, who was committed to Shadybrook after a violent courtroom outburst.

Luke escaped Shadybrook and sought out his sister Patricia (Dee Wallace), believing she knew the cause of his breakdown. After Luke held wife Tracy (Jane Elliot), daughter Lulu (Emme Rylan), and sister Bobbie (Jacklyn Zeman) hostage, Tracy ultimately broke through to him.

Luke fled again but soon returned to his childhood home, where repressed memories surfaced: He had accidentally caused his mother Lena’s death in 1963 and killed his abusive father, Tim Spencer, in self-defense. That long-buried secret caused his personality to splinter, and “Fluke” was the manifestation of his dark side. Luke was arrested and sent for treatment.

Following his release, Luke reunited with Laura (Genie Francis), and they embarked on another adventure: Rescuing Lucky (Jonathan Jackson), Ethan Lovett (Nathan Parsons), and young Jake (James Nigbor) — whom Luke thought he’d killed in a hit-and-run accident — from Helena Cassadine (Constance Towers). Back in Port Charles, Tracy annulled their marriage. Brokenhearted, Luke returned to his childhood home in despair, faced his past, said goodbye to his family, and ultimately chose to leave Port Charles to face his future alone.

In 2022, Tracy revealed that Luke had died under mysterious circumstances in a cable car accident in Austria, likely engineered by Victor Cassadine (Charles Shaughnessy).

Tune in on January 1 to relive how Geary closed the chapter on his legendary run on GH.

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