Dr. Peter and Nurse Diana Taylor are fictional characters and married couple from the original ABC Daytime soap opera, General Hospital.
Peter was most notably portrayed by Craig Huebing and Diana was notably portrayed first by Valerie Starrett, then Brooke Bundy.
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In 1970, Dr. Phil Brewer returned to Port Charles, making his "widow" Nurse Jessie Murray's marriage to Dr. Peter Taylor invalid. Jessie left Peter and went back to Phil. Peter, in turn, became close to Nurse Diana Maynard, whom Phil had dumped for Jessie. Unfortunately, Diana was secretly pregnant with Phil's baby.
When Diana confessed her pregnancy to Peter, he asked her to marry him. When Phil found out about the baby, he left Jessie and wanted Diana back. Diana, however, told Phil that she was in love with Peter and was going to marry him. Soon after they got married, Phil and Diana's son, Tracy Taylor was born.
Phil became obsessed with Diana and raped her. Not disclosing the rape, she became pregnant and gave birth to Martha Taylor, letting everyone assume she was Peter's. When the truth came out, Peter rejected Diana.
Phil, however, still longed for Diana, so he sent Nurse Augusta McLeod to town to ensure that Diana and Peter didn't reconcile. Peter and Augusta soon began an affair. Peter and Diana almost divorced, but realized they still loved each other and reconciled - even declaring he loved Martha as his own. Augusta, pregnant with his child, was worried about their reconciliation, so she wrote Phil in Africa and asked him to come help her break them up.
Phil informed Peter that Augusta was pregnant with his child. Phil threatened to tell Diana about the pregnancy, and Peter punched Phil right in front of the nurses' station, threatening to kill him if he didn't stay away from his wife. Soon after, Phil was killed and Augusta went to prison for his murder, and when the baby (Jonathan Fischer) was born, it was sent to foster care. Peter confessed his affair to Diana, and she forgave him.
In 1977, Peter and Diana wanted a sibling for their daughter Martha, whom Peter had legally adopted. Heather Grant, Martha's nanny, was pregnant with Jeff Webber's baby, but Jeff wanted her to have an abortion because he was married to Dr. Monica Bard at the time. Instead, Heather had the baby, Steven "Steve" Lars Webber, and sold him to Peter and Diana, who weren't aware he was really Heather and Jeff's son. Peter and Diana named him Peter Taylor, Jr. Heather, meanwhile, told Jeff that their child was dead.
In late 1978, a hurricane struck the town. Diana's mother was driving with Martha to an emergency shelter when they were in a car wreck. Mrs. Maynard survived, but little Martha died. At an adoption party for "P.J.," as they called their new son, Heather's mother Alice Grant realized that the child was actually Steven. Early 1979, Alice told Peter the truth. He visited Heather at Forrest Hills Sanitarium to confront her. Peter then returned to General Hospital to tell Jeff the truth, but suffered a heart attack and multiple strokes and died, along with the secret.
