Dr. Michael McBain
Chris Stack as Dr. Michael McBain in the One Life to Live opening sequence
One Life to Live
Portrayed by	R. Brandon Johnson (2003-2004) Nathaniel Marston (2004-2007) Robert Harte (2007) Chris Stack (2007-2009)
First appearance	November 2003
Last appearance	November 13, 2009
Cause/reason	Moved to Seattle on a new job offer
Created by	Josh Griffith & Michael Malone
Profile
Gender	Male
Occupation	Doctor at Llanview Hospital
Nathaniel Marston as Dr. Michael McBain in the One Life to Live opening sequence
Relationships Parents Thomas McBain (deceased) Eve McBain Sibling(s) John McBain Spouse(s) Marcie McBain (2006-present) Children Gabriel McBain First cousins Shannon McBain

Dr. Michael McBain is a fictional character on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live.

The role was originated by R. Brandon Johnson in November 2003, with Nathaniel Marston stepping in on February 16, 2004 and ultimately leaving on November 29, 2007. On January 9, and January 10, 2007, Robert Harte temporarily filled in for Marston as Michael. Chris Stack took over the role from December 3, 2007 to June 17, 2009,^[1][2] later making a guest appearance from July 14 through July 16, 2009^[3][4][5] and on November 12 and 13, 2009.

Marston originally played the role of Al Holden from 2001 to 2004. Al is romantically involved with Marcie Walsh; when Al is killed off, fans of the couple organized a write-in campaign calling for Marston's return.^{[citation needed]} Marston later returned to the series in a storyline in which Al's "spirit" helps Michael change his selfish ways and win Marcie's heart. Johnson and Marston alternated in the role of Michael as Al's spirit sometimes "takes control" of Michael. At the conclusion of the story on February 16, 2004, Al's spirit takes over Michael's body permanently and loses all memory of Al's life; Marston assumed the role full-time.

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Dr. McBain works at Llanview Hospital, and is the brother of Detective John McBain and husband of Marcie Walsh (whom he married on May 5, 2006). He and Marcie recently adopted an abandoned baby boy currently named Tommy McBain. Michael has been told by Rex Balsom that the baby is really the missing son of Todd Manning.

Marston and Brier as Michael and Marcie McBain

Since Rex ran into Michael at the hospital on the night of Dr. Spencer Truman's murder, Rex believes that Michael is the one who stabbed Spencer in order to prevent him from revealing the paternity of little TJ to Todd Manning. However, after John had Rex and Michael held overnight in a holding cell for questioning because he believed they were hiding something and wondered what the two could possibly be keeping secret between them, they talked it out and discovered that neither of them had killed Truman. Rex was found holding the pair of bloody scissors that was used to kill Truman, and fibers from John McBain's scarf that Michael had been wearing that night were found on the body. Both Michael and Rex had the same to kill Truman- to prevent him from telling anyone that Thomas "Tommy" John McBain was really the child of Todd Manning and Margaret Cochran, since Todd was currently searching for his missing son and knew that Spencer had kidnapped the day of his birth, but that he would never kill him. Rex only grabbed the scissors in order to replace the finger prints on them with his own because he was afraid that Michael had done the deed. Michael admitted to Rex that he had been there at the hospital the night of the murder, not working, and had thought about killing Spencer, and had even thought out how he do it. However, his conscience and the whole doctor's oath about saving lives, never taking them got to him and he couldn't go through with it. So he left. Now, Michael is trying to prevent his wife Marcie from finding out the truth that the son they both love so much is really Todd Manning's and trying to figure out who really did kill Truman. Recently^{[year needed]}, Michael has been arrested for perjury, he got out on bail but missed his hearing because he went down to Paris Texas with Charlie Banks. He was arrested and bought back, he went back down there with his brother John. He was shot by Lee Ramsey but survived. He took Viki Davidson's place as Marcie's hostage to convince her to give up Sam Manning and bring him to his biological father Todd Manning. He is currently back working as a doctor at Llanview Hospital.

He then takes a job offer in Seattle and after he and Marcie give Hope back to Starr and Cole, they pack up ane leaves. As a they wait for the cab, a pregnancy test reveals that Marcie is pregnant. He briefly returns in July 2009 to help Rex and Gigi to prove that Stacy was not Shane's stem cell donor, before he returns to Seattle to be with Marcie. She gives birth to their son, whom they name Gabriel Thomas, on November 13, 2009 in Seattle.^[6]

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[edit] External links

• Michael McBain profile - ABC.com
• Michael McBain profile - SoapCentral.com