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Writing out Linda and Stephanie in 1980 was a big mistake. There was so much that could have been done with both characters in the aftermath of Bob’s death, and the reveal that Stephanie was Brooke. 

I can understand them writing out all the deadweight characters. And even Bob and Phyllis too (agreed that the two of them did pretty much run their course by that point), but what were Al Rabin/Elizabeth Harrower/the network, whoever, thinking when they decided that the two of them had to go? 

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Stephanie doesn't need another man fighting for her on Days, but I believe Nathan/Stephanie were a couple at some point.   I never found Nathan terribly interesting and mostly remember him chasing Melanie, but I think you could tie him in on Maggie's side.  The Horton house is pretty full these days lol.  There are quite a few men in Nathan's age range currently on the cast though. 

I don't think we ever even found out who Nathan's father was, so there are places you could go with the character.  Plus the show can always use another doctor.  Frankly, I am surprised the show didn't recast him years ago when the character was more relevant.

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He made some comments in the media about how he was better than the show, etc. Then I think tried to beg his way back into the job later.

Nathan would be very recastable. As mentioned above, he was engaged to Stephanie, Maggie's his grandma, Sarah's his aunt, Holly is his cousin, he had a little rivalry with Philip, plus he has the Horton ties *and* a dad who was never identified. Mostly he could be a useful relatively blank slate.

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I haven't read where he actually said he was "better" than the show and now want to, but he made a lot of public digs at the writing and it wasn't an amicable parting.  Hapka just sounded bitter and immature.  I doubt the show would ever ask Mark Hapka back.  His two years on the show weren't memorable enough.

I could see him coming back perhaps even with a son/daughter Holly or Tate's age.  Like you said Nathan wasn't very defined.  You could make Nathan almost anything.  Bringing Nathan back would have been much better than that whole Bobby/Everett/Blake Berris situation we got instead lol.

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Yeah, I could be over-stating it, but I just found a quote where he said he didn't get "a fair chance to show [his] ability" and was critical of "the collaborative process" at Days and then immediately said he wasn't talking sh*t and just being honest. It felt like a lot of that around the time of his exit. I'm sure some of it was trying to save face, too.

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Oh, I don't doubt you.  I remember hearing several eye rolling quotes from Hapka when he was fired.  I know he had a big issue with the Melanie/Nathan romance and how the show built it up only to just randomly fire him before they reunited which was basically Nathan's entire arc.  I actually think some of MH's points were probably valid.  He just came off like an entitled jerk who was too good for his role.  Judging by his (lack of) work since then he may have overestimated his talent.  He was a good looking guy though.  I honestly think if he kept his mouth shut he could have ended up on Bold or as one of Maxie's bland boyfriends on GH

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2025 DAILY EPISODE GUIDE POSTED...

# 15022 begins the year today, January 1, and # 15282 wraps 2025 on December 31, for a total of 261 episodes this year (one less than 262 episodes in 2024).

https://www.jason47.com/days/episodeguide2025.html

For the all-time year-by-year guide index, to quickly find out which episode aired on any day from 1965-present, click here: https://www.jason47.com/days/episodeguideindex.html

Note: Added this note to the 2024 Guide:  Mon. 12/2/24 # 15000 (Note: After being written with so much material, the episode was split into two episodes, pushing back upcoming holiday episodes)

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I saw this in a larger video so made a clip of it as I couldn't find the promo anywhere. Looks very stylish. I guess Molly and Tanner were seen as one of their big stories or couples at the time, although from all I've read, viewers weren't engaged.

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I always forget "Shayla" happened in this timeframe. Probably more interesting to analyze than watch (the show getting caught by the consequences of their supercouple focus), although I know some fans enjoyed seeing Kayla fight for her self-respect against the family.

That would sum it up for me as well. Thanks for watching. 

The One Stormy Night promo from around this time has the same flair.

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Re Tanner/Molly. Days made the mistake of centering the show around 2 newbies who had no ties to the history of the show.

Had Tanner been, say Spencer Olsen or Molly been Sarah Horton there would be an immediate connection to history and established characters.

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