Y&R: The Brooks Sister's

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Okay so I've been trying to catch up on all of Y&R history and I'm really interested in Lorie, Lance, Leslie and Lucas. So from what I've learned so far, Leslie and Lucas had a son, Brooks Prentiss. When was he born on screen and what happened to Leslie and Lucas. I know Lorie left with JLB and I know Lance was originated by John McCook, but what was the reason for that character's exit?

Also, I know Leslie had amnesia and then let Lorie continue raising Brooks? Any more info on that?

Thanks in advanced!

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Wow, I forgot about that! My mom watched Y&R from the very first day it aired and her favorite character was Leslie because of her being a concert pianist. I remember her with Brad. I remember Lance (and for some reason, I thought John McCook was Lance) but not a whole lot about Lucas or their son. I love watching old mvids of Y&R.

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I thought Lance was McCook too. I watched the show during that time too. But my memories of the show at that time are fuzzy. I was like 6 or so...LOL

[CSF]

You guys are right, John McCook was the original Lance. Sorry for the mistake. I'll edit that real quick!

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Y&R co-creator William J. Bell originally conceived the show to center around the class conflict between two core families: the wealthy Brooks and the poor Fosters.^[1]. Newspaper publisher Stuart Brooks (played by Robert Colbert) and his socialite wife Jennifer (Dorothy Green) had four daughters: Leslie (Janice Lynde), a pianist; Lauralee "Lorie" (Jaime Lyn Bauer), an author; Christabel "Chris" (Trish Stewart), a journalist; and Peggy (Pamela Peters Solow), a college student. Meanwhile, Elizabeth "Liz" Foster (Julianna McCarthy) was a factory worker and single parent who, after being abandoned by her husband William "Bill" Sr. (Charles H. Gray), was struggling to make ends meet while trying to raise three children: William "Snapper" Jr. (William Grey Espy), a medical student; Greg (James Houghton), a law student; and Jill (Brenda Dickson; later Deborah Adair and currently Jess Walton), a beautician and aspiring model.

Leslie and Lorie fought over first Brad Eliot (Tom Hallick) and then Lance Prentiss (John McCook). This love triangle stretched into four after Lance's sea captain brother Lucas (Tom Ligon) arrived in town. Although Lorie initially was little more than the bad girl who tormented pure sister Leslie, she became a lead in her own right as she battled her sister over custody of Leslie's son Brooks (Andre Gower), and then battled her psychotic mother-in-law Vanessa (K.T. Stevens) (who even killed herself just to frame Lorie for the crime).

Another love triangle formed between Chris, Snapper, and waitress Sally McGuire (Lee Crawford). Desperate to gain an upper hand, Sally threw away her birth control pills and got pregnant by Snapper. Not knowing that he was the father, Snapper proposed to Chris. When they found out he was the father of Sally's child, Chris suffered a miscarriage. Eventually, Sally moved out of town, and Chris and Snapper reconciled.

Other stories included Bill returning to town and remarrying Liz before dying of cancer; Jennifer planning to divorce Stuart and marry her former lover and Liz Fosters brother Dr. Bruce Henderson (Paul Clarke), who was revealed to be Lorie's biological father; and Stuart and Liz marrying after Jennifer died of cancer.

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That's ok. That's the only soap I ever paid attention to when I was a kid because of the beautiful theme song and William Grey Espy. Loved Snapper Foster and Chris Brooks. I faintly remember her getting raped and them having an angsty storyline over that. I can't remember much about Leslie/Lucas/Lance/Laurie because I remember I was attached to Leslie and Brad too much, lol. Plus they recast the Leslie character. I usually hate when they recast characters.

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Thanks, Ruxton. I forgot about Sally. Snapper and two beautiful women. He was soooo yummy! Laurie was a great vixen. I loved to hate her.

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Here is a clip

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Jamie Lynn Bauer looks like a damn poodle in that clip, but it was the 80's....

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My memories are not as good anymore as they used to be but I will tell you what I remember vividly from the quadrangle.

I seem to remember that Leslie fell for Lance first and I believe they were supposed to be the rooting couple, but John McCook and Jaime Lyn Bauer had so much chemistry that fans were drawn to them. Add to that Vanessa, Lance and Lucas' mother, hated Lauralee and felt she was totally wrong for Lance.

Vanessa committed suicide and framed Lorie for the murder.

Lance and Leslie did sleep together and Leslie got pregnant with Lance's baby. By this time she had gotten involved with Lance's brother Lucas who she didn't love but she passed the child off as Lucas'.

At one point Leslie did get amnesia and was away from town. She fell in love during that time with Jonas, played by the handsome Jerry Lacy. He came to town later to try to win Leslie.

Eventually it came out about Brooks being Lance's son, and Lance won custody. The goodbye scenes between Lucas and Brooks were some of the best ever filmed. Tom Ligon was totally robbed of an Emmy nomination for those scenes.

Lucas and Leslie and Lance & Lorie eventually divorced. Lucas moved on to a relationship with Casey, Nikki's sister. Lance got remarried. Lorie always loved him. Leslie left town. Later Lucas left town too. Lance left town with his wife when Victor Newman stole his company out from under him. At this time Lance was played by Dennis Cole.

Later Lorie went after Victor and got him to fall in love with her and he asked her to marry him. She told him she only wanted one thing for a wedding gift - Lance's company. She convinced him she hated Lance and this was her way to get back at him. She gave the company back to Lance and left town.

I think Brooks left town with Leslie. He didn't stay with Lorie that long - just during the time Leslie had amnesia is all that I remember.

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Jill Foster and a very very young Nina...LOL. I had forgotten Brenda had scenes with Tricia Cast. I wonder what stories Tricia could tell us...LOL.

[Cashton]

I watched the clip and then clicked to Nikki's wedding. Who was the woman who was about to stab Nikki at her wedding to Victor??

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I can't believe that thing still has loyal fans.

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OMG, Bob Guza's wife! I forgot Meg Bennett was Victor's first wife.

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Yup, Julia. I liked the character.