In its last episode, LEGEND: LOST pays a touching tribute to the late Bill Hayes.

Fans say, “It’s the end of an era.”

On Thursday’s episode of the famous soap opera, a longtime cast member made their last appearance.

Six months after his death, Bill Hayes, 98, made his last TV appearance in an emotional scene with his on-and-off-screen wife, Susan Seaforth Hayes.

Fans have been watching Bill on Days of Our Lives since 1970, when his character Doug Williams was first introduced as a prisoner who also sang in a lounge.

He was nominated for two Daytime Emmy Awards, one in 1975 and one in 1976, for Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Drama Series.

Bill played a regular part on the show until 1984. After that, he had recurring roles in 1986 and 1987, 1993, 1994, and 1996.

It was back in 1999 as a full-time cast member, but Dr. Marlena Evans, played by Deidre Hall, “killed him off” in 2004.

Longtime fans were thrilled to see Bill’s character, Doug, alive and well on a tropical island after his fake death on the show turned out to be a hoax.