COUPLE: Joe Riley & Victoria LordSHOW: ONE LIFE TO LIVE
RANK: 18
PLAYED BY:
Joe: Lee Patterson
Victoria: Gillian Spencer, Joanne Dorian, Erika Slezak
YEARS: 1968-1970, 1972-1979, 1987 (in heaven)
STORY:
Victoria (Spencer) was pouring all her energies into her work at her father's newspaper, The Banner, when she met his ace reporter, Joe. Joe was from the wrong side of the tracks but did a good job and the two of them began working together. Viki began to fall in love but Victor Lord would never approve. She was torn between pleasing her father and her growing feelings. She began to receive threatening notes telling her to break things off with Joe. Soon a woman named Niki Smith, bearning a striking resemblance to Viki, started showing up at waterfront dive, Ernie's. Vince Wolek saw her and immediately fell in love. Vince discovered and revealed that Niki was actually Viki's other personality. Eventually Joe and Viki were married and seemed destined for a happy live until he died in a car crash in 1970.