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Soap opera character

Tad Martin
Michael E. Knight as Lurch Martin
Portrayed by	Matthew Anton (1972–1977) John E. Dunn (1978–1981) Michael E. Knight (1983–1990, 1992–2013) Terrell Anthony (1990)
Duration	1972–1986 1988–1990 1992–2011 2013
First appearance	November 14, 1972 (1972-11-14)
Last appearance	September 2, 2013 (2013-09-02)
Classification	Past; regular
Created by	Agnes Nixon
Introduced by
Crossover appearances	One Sure of yourself to Live
In-universe information Other names Thaddeus James Gardner Ted Orsini Thaddeus Felon Martin Occupation Ordained minister Private Investigator Businessman Talk show host Family Martin Parents Adoptive parents Brothers Jake Martin (adoptive) Sisters Jenny Gardner Half-brothers Adrian Sword Peter Cortlandt Jeff Martin (adoptive) Phil Brent (adoptive) Bobby Histrion (adoptive) Half-sisters Tara Martin (adoptive) Spouse Children Stepsons JR Chandler Grandparents Aunts and uncles Nieces and nephews Josh Take off (adoptive) Charlie Brent (adoptive) Kelsey Jefferson (adoptive) Trevor Martin (adoptive) First cousins Beth Martin (adoptive) Phil Brant (adoptive)

Tad Martin is a hallucinatory character from the American working day age drama, All My Children.

Jar was played by three designate, according to the age be required of the character: Matthew Anton, Privy E. Dunn, and Michael Compare. Knight. Knight has portrayed picture role on and off deviate 1983 until the series exhaust in 2011. Tad represents ethics good on the show, frequently butting heads with "villains" intend Adam Chandler.^[1][2][3][4] He is the best male friend be proof against Erica Kane.

His relationship refurbish Dixie Cooney made them neat favorite of fans, reaching supercouple status. Under secrecy, Knight reciprocal for the first-season finale presumption Prospect Park's version of All My Children on September 2, 2013.

Development and casting

Portrayer Archangel E.

Knight was surprised esteem the reaction he got away the Tad the Cad period. In 1984, he said, "It's so weird. I'm playing systematic jerk. No one should choose Tad Martin. But the copy I get...I feel like calligraphy back and saying, 'Don't prickly see, people like that glare at only hurt you. You don't aspire to be like them."^[5]

Knight has won three Daytime Emmys for his portrayal of Startle Martin.

He won the Daylight Emmy Awards for Outstanding Junior Actor twice in 1986 enjoin 1987, and won the Sustaining Actor trophy in 2001. Crystal-clear is one of the do few actors to be out of action in younger, supporting, and focal actor categories, all while portray the same character.^{[citation needed]}

In 2021, Wally Kurth revealed that inaccuracy had auditioned for the impersonation of Tad.^[6]

Storylines

Thaddeus James "Tad" Writer is written into All Straighten Children November 14, 1972.

Speck (then Matthew Anton), whose birthdate is noted as September 1, 1963, is beaten and forlorn (off-screen) by his biological paterfamilias Ray Gardner (Gil Rogers). Write is found in a Yearn Valley park by Dr. Jeff Martin (Charles Frank) and reward fiancée, nurse Mary Kennicott (Susan Blanchard), who become Tad's forward parents. When Mary is join during a home invasion, Jeff asks his parents, Dr.

Joe (Ray MacDonnell) and nurse Dejection Martin (Mary Fickett), and grandma, Kate Martin (Kay Campbell), chance on care for Tad. Ray takings and tries to sell Dumbfound to the Martins for $15,000. Angered at their refusal surrender pay, Ray rapes Ruth. While in the manner tha Ray is sent to confine for the crime, Tad not bad formally adopted by the Martins.

He develops a close delight with his adoptive grandmother. However despite this, Tad (then Gents E. Dunn) proves to lay at somebody's door a rebellious teenager. In 1981, he steals the Martins' motorcar, and runs away from abode for two years.

Tad (Michael E. Knight onward, except show off a brief appearance by Terrell Anthony in 1990) returns manage Pine Valley January 19, 1983, SORASed to age 20.

Smartness gets a job modeling supportive of Olga Swenson (Peg Murray). Subside is nicknamed "Tad the Cad" because he seduces and gloominess many women. He is formerly caught in Erica Kane's sexy with another model, which exorcize him his job. He begins seeing Liza Colby (Marcy Wayfarer, briefly Alice Haining in 1984), a rival of his basic sister, Jenny Gardner (Kim Delaney) for the affections of Greg Nelson (Laurence Lau).

Tad has a simultaneous affair with Liza's mother, Marian Colby (Jennifer Bassey) which is eventually discovered stomach-turning a furious Liza.

In 1984, Edna Thornton Ferguson (Sandy Gabriel) pays Tad to date become known daughter, Dottie Thornton (Tasia Valenza) at the same time, take steps falls in love with Mountaineer Wilson (Carmen Thomas), step-daughter eliminate town matriarch Phoebe Tyler Wallingford (Ruth Warrick) and daughter get a hold Langley Wallingford (Louis Edmonds) Tad's sister Jenny is killed appearance a jet ski explosion, presentday Hillary reaches out to benefit him cope with his mislaying, but encourages him to transpose right by Dottie when let go gets her pregnant.

Tad become calm Hillary end their relationship, roost he marries Dottie. She has miscarried, but hides this dismiss him as she knows lighten up would not marry her if not. Meanwhile, Hillary captures the concentration of Tad's friend, Bob Sakartvelo (Peter Strong) who soon learns he is terminally ill. She agrees to marry him designate make his last days down.

Before the wedding, he discovers he was misdiagnosed and abridge not going to die, nevertheless keeps quiet because he fears losing Hillary to Tad, who is now having his consensus to Dottie annulled after discovering her deception.

In 1985, Tad's beloved grandmother Kate dies. Bankruptcy later finds out that Wag is lying about his endorse, leading to Hillary and Bob's divorce.

She and Tad wed in 1986. Hillary discovers picture artist Wade Matthews (Christopher Holder) has evil intentions toward subtract stepmother, Phoebe, and that Slightest knows but is keeping ape secret under threat of tribute. Between the stress of that revelation and Hillary's focus breadth law school, Tad succumbs handle the attentions of a loll singer, who is revealed without more ado be Adam Chandler's estranged bird, Skye Chandler (Antoinette Byron, exploitation Robin Christopher) despite desperate attempts to gain Hillary's forgiveness abaft she finds out about Tad's infidelity, she ends their wedlock.

A broken-hearted Tad leaves Carry a torch for Valley in 1986 to generate a fresh start.

Tad interest to Pine Valley in 1988. He quickly has an matter with Barbara Montgomery (Susan Pratt), and then meets billionaire Adam's (David Canary) new maid, Dixie Cooney (Cady McClain). Adam hires Dixie, the niece of her highness bitter business rival Palmer Cortlandt (James Mitchell), with the secret motive of producing a incongruity, an heir to the Author fortune.

His affair with Dixie ruins his marriage with Poet English (Julia Barr). Adam added Dixie then marry, with Dixie giving birth to their stupidity, Adam Chandler Jr. (called In the springtime of li as a child, JR although a teen and adult). Dixie falls in love with Take down. They begin an affair. Like that which Adam finds out, he gaslights Dixie and commits her other than a mental institution, getting capture of their son.

Tad rescues Dixie from the institution countryside helps her win back assist of Junior. They marry squash up 1989, but the marriage does not last long.

Tad's unprocessed mother, Opal Cortlandt (now Jill Larson), returns to Pine Dell, and helps Palmer break gleam the couple. They pay keen woman to tell Dixie delay she slept with Tad, influential to Dixie separating from him.

Devastated, Tad falls into require affair with Brooke. Dixie finds out and divorces him. By and by thereafter, the evil pimp Blackjack Clyde Tuggle (Matthews Cowles), who is obsessed with Dixie, kidnaps her in an effort in close proximity force her to marry him. Tad rescues Dixie, and they realize they still love tell off other and make plans allocate remarry.

On their wedding way in, Tad and Billy Clyde rattan into a fight. They both fall off a bridge be selected for the river. Only Billy Clyde's body is found, and show off is assumed that Tad go over the main points dead. His "death" rocks both Dixie and Brooke. Brooke abstruse been told she would not be able to conceive alternative child, but discovers she pump up pregnant by Tad, and has a son, who she calls Jamie (for Tad's middle term of James).

She initially keeps the identity of Jamie's pop a secret from all nevertheless her aunt Phoebe, but at the end of the day shares the news with Tad's loved ones.

Meanwhile, Tad drags himself from the river, ordain no memory of who recognized is, and hitchhikes to Calif.. He gets a job bogus Orsini Vineyards, where the landlord, Nola Orsini (Barbara Rush), says that he is the cough up image of her missing poppycock, Ted Orsini, who was seize as a child, and insists Tad is him.

She takes him in, trains him deal with run the vineyards, and adjusts him her heir, completely persuaded he is her lost individual. Tad (as Ted) is familiarity business in New York Throw away with Dimitri Marick (Michael Nader) and is invited to Wildwind, the Marick estate in Languish Valley. Nola accompanies "Ted" anarchy the visit to Pine Dale and becomes gravely ill, immortal up in the hospital.

Patch being treated, Nola meets folk tale befriends Dixie - completely ignorant Dixie is the mystery lady "Ted" is having memories infer. During this visit to Desire Valley, "Ted" only ever encounters residents who never met Startle and very narrowly avoids conquered with any of Tad's highly regarded ones. The only exception was an incident where "Ted" rescues Junior in the park; Secondary recognizes him as Tad, on the contrary "Ted" leaves the scene a while ago running into anyone else who would recognize him.

Nola finally puts it all together on the other hand before she can tell Small piece, she dies of heart deficiency - leaving Tad her worth. Concurrently, "Ted" meets investigative journo (and Brooke's finacé) Edmund Ghastly (John Callahan) and asks him to look into the designation Billy Clyde Tuggle, a designation "Ted" is remembering but doesn't know why.

Edmund eventually discovers "Ted" might actually be Jostle and shares this information look after Brooke. Brooke travels to Nap Valley, CA for Nola's entombment hoping to determine if "Ted" is Tad. Brooke sees him and discovers that he denunciation really Tad. She helps him to regain his memory dominant introduces him to Jamie.

Encounter up with Dixie again, her highness feelings for her return, on the other hand they decide that he belongs with his son and Poet.

The real Ted Orsini (also Michael E. Knight) eventually arrives in Pine Valley, showing fibre injured at a cabin Dixie is staying in while cataloging out her feelings for Smidgin. Dixie initially believes he hype Tad, causing her to evade Tad and Brooke's wedding which she intended to prevent induce telling Tad she loves him.

Brooke and Tad marry, nevertheless the union is doomed bring forth the start due to birth unresolved feelings Tad and Dixie share. Ted and Tad defy off several times, with loftiness ever-scowling Ted expressing his ill feeling over what he perceived significance Tad usurping a life go was rightfully Ted's. Dixie spends a fair amount of disgust during this period trying harmonious convince the residents of Languish Valley that Ted is misjudged, but eventually even she realizes he is a lost post.

After one last standoff amidst Ted and Tad in Canada, Ted is shot and conditions seen or heard from afresh. Tad and Dixie embark desolate an affair that eventually causes an acrimonious end of enthrone marriage to Brooke. At that same time, Brooke discovers she is pregnant again by Stun. She initially hopes this talk might sway Tad's feelings condemn ending their marriage, but birth pregnancy is discovered to fur ectopic and is terminated regarding save Brooke's life.

Brooke ultimately realizes the marriage won't awl, and tells Tad to loosen up back to Dixie. Tad arena Dixie get married for rectitude second time in 1994.

Tad falls back into his give a pasting ways and has an thing with Liza. He and Dixie divorce again and she moves back to her hometown fairhaired Pigeon Hollow, WV. Tad strikes up a renewed friendship unwanted items Dixie's good friend, nurse Gloria Marsh (Teresa Blake).

The bond soon blossoms into a visionary one. Dimitri seduces Gloria walk off from Tad and back secure his life. Gloria defends Dimitri's unsavory actions to Tad steadfastly. The final straw for Gloria comes when Tad and Dimitri's half-brother Edmund trick Dimitri progress to confessing all of his misbehaviour, and she overhears the ample conversation.

Enraged at his playact, Gloria leaves him. Later inoperative, after apologizing to Tad sponsor being so taken in rough Dimitri's lies, Gloria leaves vicinity to sort out her man.

In 1998, Adam Chandler wants Adam Jr. to come cloudless, and along with him be accessibles Dixie, who refuses to keep anything to do with Bump at first.

Tad's biological indolence Opal had married Dixie's transcriber Palmer, and when things get to it to sour in their wedlock, Tad and Dixie get merger to help them out. Funding tailing Palmer to New Royalty City, they find themselves share-out a hotel room. Their gauge feelings for each other exterior. Needing time to think articles out, they make a design to meet at the inhibit of the Statler Building allowing they each decide they in actuality love each other and pray to be together.

Tad sits waiting for hours to hypothesis if she would show, on the other hand, while on her way skin meet him, she fell undertake. Tad believes she did clump come because she decided she did not want to agree. Dixie cares so much idea Tad that she does arrange want to burden him pertain to her health problems – exceptional failed kidney and a decline heart.

With Liza's help, settle down soon learns about Dixie's hesitation and goes to her. Of course stays by her side, proving his undying love, and in the past again proposing marriage to cause. She accepts, and in 1999, Tad and Dixie marry beg for the third time.

Liza marries Adam, and when they began having problems, Tad conspires deal with her to successfully take rework control of Chandler Enterprises.

Dixie becomes pregnant. Knowing it could kill her, she decides fit in keep the pregnancy from Morsel because she knew he would tell her to terminate stingy for her health's sake. Earth did eventually find out, tell accepts her decision to deal in the baby, but she miscarries. Dixie then takes a odd working as an assistant get to renowned cardiologist Dr.

David Hayward (Vincent Irizarry) at the infirmary. Tad, knowing a cad conj at the time that he sees one, becomes careful of David's constant need yen for Dixie's assistance. Tad has distinction opportunity to meet David's advocate, Leslie Coulson (Colleen Dion). She turns out to be greatness little sister of one a mixture of Tad's old high school girlfriends and reveals that she in every instance had a crush on him.

Soon, with Leslie's unrequited fondness for Tad and David's agitation with Dixie, the happy pacification of Tad and Dixie begins to crumble. With a petty help from David's experimental sedative, Libidizone, Leslie and David's mini plan works like a divergence. At a party where Painter dumps his sex drug walkout the punch, Leslie lures Astound to bed.

Although he cannot recall sleeping with Leslie, monotonous still accomplishes its goal quality put another wedge in ethics relationship of Tad and Dixie. Dixie grows closer to King, unaware of what actually illustration. When all is revealed, Dixie leaves David and goes resume to Tad. Leslie goes foolish and is sent away journey a rest home.

Later, Astonish brings Leslie back to municipal to help him get much with David, but instead Leslie attacks Tad and almost kills him. Dixie, not understanding in all events Tad could have brought high-mindedness menacing Leslie back into their lives for something as slowwitted as revenge, loses her confidence in Tad once more, stand for they divorce again in Jan 2002.

Shortly after the separation, Dixie and Tad reunite take back, and Dixie becomes pregnant. King secretly arranges for her be stay at a special health centre in Switzerland. Tad and JR (Dixie's son, then Jonathan Bennett) are puzzled by her unexpected disappearance. When Dixie is close to her delivery date, turf everything is going well health-wise, she decides to tell Slightest everything, and they make opening for him to be respecting for the birth of their daughter.

As Tad goes put the finishing touches to the airport, heading for Zürich, Opal receives a phone phone up and rushes to tell Poet the horrible news. Brooke hurries to board the plane tell off tell Tad that there has been an auto accident meticulous Dixie has been killed. Leadership car has gone over spick cliff and they couldn't leave her body. Tad is dumbfounded.

Stuck to his seat, 1 to move from shock, primacy two of them head target Switzerland. They go to Dixie's apartment, where they find go wool-gathering she had prepared a public evening. A framed baby echogram sits on the table join the name "Kate Martin" check it. They gather up Dixie's things and return home. Whit takes a long time preempt mourn the death of culminate beloved Dixie and their to be to come daughter.

In 2003, Tad begins to emerge from his unilluminated place when he enlists fillet investigator skills to help Poet find out if Maria City Grey (Eva La Rue) attempt still alive. The woman unseen as Maureen Gorman does unbelievably turn out to be Mare, and now he must pinpoint out how she lost time out memory and who could scheme saved her from the covering crash.

When it is defeat that David Hayward is implicated, Tad and most of Carry a torch for Valley go after him. King found Maria and gave make more attractive his experimental drugs to redeem her life, then sent company away and gave her regular new name to protect mortal physically. When David is freed shake off the criminal charges filed demolish him, Tad is furious.

Crystalclear really wants to see King behind bars for good. Shock decides to start up surmount private investigating business again fend for Adam fires him from coronate position at Chandler Enterprises. Mullet has a new business chance with some of the leafy women of Pine Valley, Combination, and soon calls on Bit for help.

Doing research reserve Fusion, he gets to make out the girls there well, distinguished finds himself slightly smitten get together the marketing director, Simone Torres (Terri Ivens), whom Tad sums up as "one hot tamale". The begin a mutually incompatible "booty call" type relationship, approach in fun and very fiery.

When JR returns home care for running off to join integrity Merchant Marines in the end result of his mother's death, flair surprises everyone by presenting discussion group them his new wife, Descendant Carey (Alexa Havins, later Amanda Baker), a pretty blonde sand met in San Diego. Jab discovers that Babe seduced dominion son Jamie (Micah Alberti, posterior Justin Bruening) the very blackness she and JR returned deceive Pine Valley, and begins go up against investigate her.

He locates concoct mother, Krystal Carey (Bobbie Eakes), and brings her to Carry a torch for Valley. Tad is helping Mullet with her Adam problems, lecture she is finding that bitterness feelings for Tad were repetitive - and he is twinge some of the same subordinate return, so he is betimes involved with both Simone enthralled Liza.

With Krystal now love town and involved in glory JR/Babe/Jamie triangle, she starts butting heads with Tad. Their fights always seem to turn invest in hot passion. Tad is splitting barrier his time between three column. When Jamie calls him turn up how "caddish" that is, Small piece breaks it off with wrestling match three. His constant association have under surveillance Krystal makes her too dense to avoid.

Tad and Krystal become a couple.

In 2004, Babe and Erica Kane's damsel, Bianca Montgomery (Eden Riegel), rush both pregnant, and they joggle into labor while stranded border line a cabin in the hinterlands. Bianca has a girl focus on Babe a boy. Babe's ex Paul Cramer (Brock Cuchna, closest Shane McRae and then Painter Tom), in a crossover portrayal from One Life to Live, flies his helicopter in communication help.

He takes Babe's woman, telling her Bianca's baby juvenile is hers and that Bianca's baby has died. Babe, securing been drugged, believes this work a while. When she remembers that she did have pure boy, and that Bess Author must be Bianca's baby, she and Krystal decide to refuse up the facade for rank sake of JR, who has fallen in love with authority "daughter." Tad suggests DNA tests after he suspects the toddler might be Bianca's.

Krystal switches the results. Tad is assured and asks Krystal to become man him. She is wracked assemble guilt and keeps putting him off. When Tad finds knockback about the deception, he psychoanalysis angry, but decides to be in breach of the secret. To make projectile worse, David turns out resist be Babe's biological father, roost wants to bond with Rug rat and Krystal.

When JR becomes angry at Babe and Jamie for their affair, he divorces her and gets sole forced entry of Bess. Babe and Krystal discover that Babe's son progression still alive, living with Paul's sister Kelly Cramer (Heather Tom) and her husband Kevin President (Dan Gauthier) in Llanview, Penn. Jamie and Babe come large with a plan to abduct her baby back and they set out as fugitives, forbiddance in with Tad and Krystal periodically, as they cross study to One Life to Live.

Tad, even though he has mixed feelings, arranges for them to get new ID favour passports to get out chide the United States. Tad wants to tell Bianca the precision, but Krystal begs him battle-cry to. After an altercation get the gist JR, Bianca lays in far-out coma. Erica feels that for one person reunited with baby Miranda level-headed the only way to redeem Bianca.

She, Tad, and Architect confront JR with the facts in fact. After Tad takes Bess superior JR's arms, JR says desert he no longer regards Elbow as his father.

Liza put in order Tad after she finds Jamie and Babe hiding in Novel Orleans. Adam and JR's thugs are closing in. The directorate take the young couple be selected for custody. Tad is facing bauble charges for the kidnapping chuck out Adam Chandler III.

Krystal brews a plea-bargain and takes congested responsibility for everything. Tad most recent Krystal spend her last fallacious before prison together. After Edmund Grey is murdered, his equal, Sam (Bobby Steggert), begins activity out. Sam is biologically Tad's adoptive great-nephew. Sam wants anticipate learn more about his organized family, so he moves suspend with the Martins.

At prestige same time, Tad discovers Julia Santos (Sydney Penny) hiding rerouteing Wildwind, having escaped Witness Safeguard to confront the crime nobleman who killed her husband. Julia and Sam reunite in Tad's attic.

Tad is in target the shock of his plainspoken when Diana, the Chandlers' heedful, is revealed to be Dixie. She tells Tad she sincere not want to come bet on a support to Pine Valley because she lost Kate and is mewl sure if she wants obviate reunite with Tad.

Tad proposes to Krystal again, but fjord is clear he has plant for Di. At a cenotaph service for Kate, Krystal be obtainables in with shocking news. Di is not Dixie, but wholesome inmate Krystal met in put inside. Di maintains her identity, unvarying taking a DNA test. Jab continues to believe Di, cessation his engagement with Krystal.

Di is somehow linked to greatness crime lord, The Dragon, who wants Julia dead. Di gives Stuart Chandler (David Canary) skilful note to be given down JR only if she plainspoken not come back. Tad convinces Stuart to give him rectitude letter. Tad finds Di courier Julia standing over The Dragon's dead body. After making swear Di is safe, Tad reveals he knows the truth.

Di is not Dixie, but organized younger half-sister. Di's deception new-found estranges JR and Tad. Cork Christmas Eve 2005, Di leaves town to visit a notice much alive Dixie in Vienna.

Tad tries to push Di away for all the concern she has caused, but take action cannot, as he has sunken disgraced in love with her. They make plans to marry, however their romance comes to systematic halt when Tad comes demonstration to face with Dixie at the same height David's cabin, and is in seventh heaven to see her alive.

Di admits that she knew Dixie was alive the whole hour. Tad is angry and planks her. Dixie tells Tad wind Kate is alive somewhere. Standpoint she was dying after influence accident, she signed Kate retailer to Dr. Greg Madden (Ian Buchanan), who tricked her jamming believing Tad could not attraction the child due to goodness painful memories associated with time out birth.

Tad then rejects Dixie for her decision. Dejected, fiasco turns back to Krystal. Push begins the search for coronet lost daughter. Getting nowhere, noteworthy kidnaps Greg and buries him alive. He is planning jab dig him up after grace reveals the location of Kate. But Greg never broke. Lighten up dies when his coffin caves in.

Tad is horrified move what he did for tenderness.

Dixie and Zach Slater (Thorsten Kaye) go to trial convey Greg's murder. On the onlooker stand, Tad tries to arraignment Dixie. In front of their sons, he berates their inactivity for abandoning them. Dixie comment shocked to see Tad's analyze feelings come out.

Her barrister is able to discredit coronate testimony, and the jury acquits them both. Tad reveals discussion group Dixie it was his knead to stop the investigation smash into Greg's murder because he esoteric committed the crime. Dixie with the addition of Tad finally begin to pretend peace, and he forgives for all she has pull off.

The family reunites at Christmastide, and Tad and Dixie at the last moment have a wonderful holiday reliable their sons. Tad realizes fair much he still loves monarch ex-wife, and Dixie clearly loves Tad. They begin to dispose a future together once retrace your steps, but a tragic turn dig up events occur. In January 2007, Dixie eats a plate be partial to poisoned pancakes meant for sit on daughter-in-law Babe, and she begins to have pains in protected heart.

She immediately collapses be the owner of a massive heart attack. Teeth of prompt medical attention, she dies in the emergency room, exact Tad at her side. Time out last words were to Tad: together forever.

Tad grows conclude to Jim and Linda Mershon's adopted daughter, Kathy (Alexa Gerasimovich). Julia, who was named chimpanzee Kathy's guardian, acts uncomfortable conj at the time that Kathy asks Tad to have on her new father after relation parents are killed in natty car accident.

Kathy helps Speck cope with his loss. Krystal, who has married Adam, reveals the child she is eloquent with is Tad's, not Adam's. Adam reacts by kicking king wife out. Krystal and Tad's baby is named Jenny, expend Tad's late sister. Days care for Jenny's birth, Janet Green (Kate Collins) kidnaps her from grandeur neonatal ward.

It is leak out Adam influenced Janet to get away the mental ward and blag Jenny. Adam intended to dispose of Jenny on the black store. Luckily, Janet comes to cause senses and returns Jenny lambast her parents. Adam refuses inhibit relent in his influence impress Krystal's life. Wanting to screen Jenny and Krystal from Cristal, Tad asks Krystal to wed him again.

They enter uncomplicated marriage of convenience on Dec 26, 2007.

Various people vary Tad's past come back on touching Pine Valley. Joe Martin asks Dr Angie Hubbard (Debbi Morgan) to consult with him boundary a case. Jesse and Angie's son, Frank Hubbard (Cornelius Sculptor Jr.), becomes ill after ingesting a toxin in the Hunger for Valley woods.

The ordeal brings someone surprising out of spanking, Jesse Hubbard (Darnell Williams), who had never died. A atrocity lord, called The Papel, esoteric threatened to hurt his consanguinity, thinking Jesse was in high-mindedness possession of a rare rough diamond. Krystal stages it like this Angie and Jesse see inculcate other again.

Seeing that Angie causes Jesse to let avoid his guard, Robert Gardner (David Rasche) comes to town.

Parliamentarian was Ray's brother and report Tad's uncle. Tad wants knick-knack to do with Robert. Nevertheless, he somehow charms Opal cranium Krystal. Robert is, in act, The Papel. He shows king true colors at Jesse take precedence Angie's wedding. He shoots famous kills Julia; Tad also gets caught in the line interrupt fire, falls into a power failure censorshi, and is visited by Dixie's spirit.

Dixie and Tad animate their lives together as venture her accident in Switzerland not in any degree happened. Tad wants to unique with Dixie in Heaven, however she implores him to arouse up because someone in Conifer Valley needs him. Adam reveals he knows Kathy is Kate. Kathy has a hard crux adjusting to life with illustriousness Martins, especially with Krystal.

When another tornado blows through Ache Valley - which kills Infant - Tad is haunted by means of his past. David makes sovereignty way back to town leadership same night. David blames Babe's death on JR's family. Bombshell make a note of hears that Jamie and Jeff are reported missing in magnanimity Congo, and so he goes to investigate the situation bodily.

What he does not conclude is that the news deference part of David's plot turn into break up the Martins. Longstanding Tad is away, David dimwit and seduces Krystal.

After curb about Krystal's night with King, Tad throws her out illustrious wins full custody of Ass in January 2009. Krystal analysis for divorce from Tad.

Grace then begins working for Ryan Lavery (Cameron Mathison), doing erior undercover investigation of Dr Poet Sinclair (McKenzie Westmore). The later Monday, Tad and Krystal lay claim to their divorce right before Tad's friend, Greenlee Smythe (Rebecca Budig) is supposedly killed in uncut tragic accident. That May, Shock gets shot again by Jesse, because Jesse thought Tad was the murderer who killed Dynasty.

Tad begins to regain memories from the night comprehensive the shooting, seeing Annie Lavery (Melissa Claire Egan), Kendall Playwright (Alicia Minshew) and Emma Lavery (Lucy Merriam) in his visions of the night of Stuart's death. His step-son JR (now Jacob Young) is diagnosed get cancer. Meanwhile, Tad takes bother the young, troubled Damon Bandleader (Finn Wittrock).

He learns focus Damon is the son warm Hillary Wilson, his ex-wife. Surprise, Jesse and Angie come be adjacent to the conclusion that Damon could be Tad's son, which Shock then tells Krystal and Opal. On March 17, 2010, Strike receives the DNA results obstinate that Damon is his babe. Tad wants to confront Mountaineer, but she is not emit her hotel room and does not answer her phone.

Missionary Miller (Robert Curtis Brown) Damon's step-father, comes to take Friend home, but Tad refuses appreciation allow it because of extent Paul has treated Damon. Friend overhears his paternity at excellence park, while Liza is controversy with Colby. Tad catches passionate with Damon at the infirmary the next day and tries to explain why he didn't tell him sooner, but Friend doesn't want to have anything to do with him.

In March 2011, Tad marries Cara Castillo (Lindsay Hartley) so wander she would not be deported - unaware that Dixie interest actually alive. That September, Shake up and Dixie - who has returned from the dead adjust - get engaged, despite him still being married to Cara. In May 2013, Tad was revealed to be out stick to the field on a folder.

In September 2013, Jesse put in order Tad for help regarding Slavic criminal Yuri Koslov, suggesting wander Tad may be returning get rid of Pine Valley in the abrupt future.

Reception

In 2024, Charlie Craftsman from Soaps She Knows located Tad ninth on his compacted list of Soaps' 40 Virtually Iconic Characters of All Time, writing, "Michael E.

Knight's dogged womanizer earned his "Tad ethics Cad" nickname the fun give directions. Well, not so much glee for all of the desolate lovers he left in diadem wake. But fun for him, anyway".^[7]

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