The Lords: a hilarious history of highs and lows

by slapstick.genius

Do you know that the surviving Lords of Llanview are all descended from a Walloon factory huckster and a multiracial newspaper heiress? Now think again! It's one of the most hilarious success stories in soap opera history.

2. Thomas Lord's Later Life

On a stormy night in 1871, Thomas Lord got stuck in a badly designed factory section full of gangsters. The gangsters were killing him with their rifles and daggers. Then a rebellious newspaper heiress named Tina Powell shot one of the hoodlums with a darn rifle and hanged up a rope for Thomas to climb on.

Voila! The rescue was a success! But the tensions between him, her and the fellow greedy Powells led to the Powell Company's demise and thereafter the arrest of her father Morris Powell for child abuse and assault. The tensions softened up with their marriage and the birth of only child Randolph Lord in 1876.

But they separated when Randy was a child. As a teen, Randy left the Philly line for the backwaters. In 1896, Thomas got murdered in defence by his former butler, the somehow younger Buck Buchanan, who himself confessed to the police about his deathly relationship with him, and that's all.