1979:
Joe Riley put his life in order when he learned that he was dying of a brain tumor. Joe hired a hand-picked successor, Clint Buchanan, to become editor of the BANNER when he died, leaving his pregnant wife to mourn his passing. In time, Clint's father, Asa, moved his business interests from Texas to Llanview.
1981:
Clint saved Viki from the clutches of the evil Ted Clayton.
After a failed romance with Ted Clayton, Viki refused to accept Clint Buchanan's offer to date. Believing that seeing Viki on only a professional basis was too painful, Clint resigned from the BANNER newspaper and went to work for the rival CHRONICLE, where he became romantically involved with reporter Edwina Lewis. Upset over Clint's departure and affair with Edwina, Viki discovered that her feelings for Clint were deeper than she had realized. Finally, Viki dropped her guard and allowed herself to follow her heart and fall in love with Clint.
1982:
Viki went to jail for refusing to reveal her source in the baby switching case involving Jenny Vernon and Katrina Karr. While in prison, Viki and Clint decided to marry at Llanfair.
1983:
Clint was framed (and later cleared) for the murder of Echo DiSavoy.
1986:
Viki and Clint's second wedding day featured a special surprise announcement. Having recently recovered from her most recent bout with schizophrenia, Viki stunned Clint on the morning of their wedding with the joyous news that she was pregnant with their child. In September, Viki and Clint's daughter, Jessica, was born.
1987:
Determined to have her long-ago lover, Clint Buchanan, all to herself, Maria Roberts tried to kill Clint's wife, Viki, by placing a deadly poison on a pair of earrings that Viki's sister, Tina, planned to give her as a birthday present. Just in time, Tina discovered Maria's deadly trick, and in a struggle, Maria was infected with a lethal dose of the poison.
1988:
While recovering at his Arizona ranch from a gunshot wound that caused him to go blind, Clint hopped onto his horse and went for a ride in the desert. In an amazing turn of events, Clint fell off the horse, hit his head, and awoke with his eyesight miraculously restored! One problem, though: Clint had somehow been transported to the Old West of 1888! In a town called Buchanan City, Clint encountered his ancestors, and nearly married Viki' s great-grandmother, Ginny Fletcher. Viki traveled back through time and stopped the wedding, then whisked Clint back to the present. Years later, the question still remains -- was this amazing journey real or just an incredible dream?
