: The year saw the culmination of one of the longest-running feuds in soap history between Katherine Chancellor and Jill Abbott . Watching Jill literally choke Katherine in an attic infested with rats is a standout moment of pure, unadulterated melodrama that fans still discuss decades later.
Before they became a supercouple, 1998 was the year the powder keg lit. Nick Newman (Joshua Morrow) was fresh-faced and heartbroken over Sharon. Phyllis (Michelle Stafford) was a master manipulator fresh off her affair with Michael Baldwin. Their first illicit encounter in a hotel room (while Sharon waited at home) changed the DNA of the show for the next decade. Archive uploads capture the raw, dangerous chemistry that made Phyllis a heroine/villain.
A long-lost father plot that explored the deep history of the Williams family.