Texas!

[Mona Kane Croft]

I agree.  On Another World, it seemed that Reena would become the female JR Ewing of Texas, and I have always believed that was the original plan.  But so many things changed from the original incarnation of the Bellman family.   

[Contessa Donatella]

You know, don't you, that Long wanted her for GL Reva. And, she declined, saying she'd like her next part to be someone very different. Apparently to her the two parts were too similar. I was astounded to learn that Zimmer was NOT her choice, at all, to play Reva. They had to talk her into it.

[Paul Raven]

That NBC movie was most likely 'Charleston' starring Delta Burke which aired Jan 79 and ran 3rd in its Monday timeslot. It gained some attention from being trashed by the Today show critic who recommended watching WKRP on CBS instead of his own network.

Had it succeeded (it was a pilot) would NBC have wanted a primetime and daytime series on the air with the same theme? Probably not.

Just speculation but the Corringtons may have adapted parts of Reunion stories/characters when developing Texas.

 

 

 

 

[Soaplovers]

Here's a blog about that show https://zebradelic.blogspot.com/2013/02/lynne-moody-in-charleston-1979.html

It starred not only Delta Burke.. but it also starred Lynne Moody and Jordan Clarke (of Guiding Light fame).. with Clarke/Burke playing a Rhett Butler/Scarlett O'hara enemy to lovers story while Moody is in love with Burke's brother.

I wish I could see it because it sounds like awfully soapy.