The only AMC soap bible I've read is from 1967 (presumably the one that Nixon felt she lost on her trip) and has MANY changes--far more than the Loving bible and is also about 1/3 as long if that. (One of the oddest things is Joe Martin and crew have the last name Craig--which she would use for OLTL--and the Brents, Ted and Phil and Ruth, are the Martins.
Anyway, from what I recall, in that outline, Phil overhears that his birth parents are aunt Carol (aka Amy) and Nick Davis, and basically he runsaway to New York to track down Nick, who is described as completely amoral, and ends up working at his bar. Nick is "every bit as bad as Phil has been told" and after a drunk Nick tells Phil about how he had to get out of Pine Valley when he got a girl pregnant, Phil in a rage jumps on him. Nick hits his head on a table and is killed (later Linc Tyler--a lawyer here--will represent Phil and get him off due to "mental anguish" from the situation.)
Now I have no idea if Agnes Nixon rewrote a full bible when she finally pitched AMC to ABC in 1969 but obviously she changed story projections. But, as Nixon remembers in the little interview clips they show here on Pluto TV between AMC episodes, she said Nick was only meant to last 6 to 8 months but they liked Larry Keith so much that they kept him on until HE wanted to leave. But obviously so many of these other details were changed anyway.
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