All soaps - actors who were quickly dropped

[StevieM]

Passions: Jason Olive played Frank Lomax the P.I., who I believe was initially slated to be Ethan's best friend and Whitney's love interest. He was replaced in both roles by Donn Swaby's Chad Harris.

[MissLlanviewPA]

Michael Tipps' Al on OLTL only lasted a few months before NM took over.

I will say this, though: he may not have been able to act, but he did look like a son JDP and FH would have. NM...A little less so (although I did wind up loving him as Al),

[jcar03]

Livingston played Taylor from January 26, 2011 to April 21, 2011. She had barely begun airing when it was announced Tamara Braun was taking over.

[frequentsoapfan]

NL started taping in October 2010 though and I think it was February when we found out she was replaced. I think it depends on how you look at it. The audience didnt get to see much of her before she was dropped but TPTB saw 4 months of her work.

[robbwolff]

Jamie Passer was the first Ray Santos. I really liked him in the role. Wasn't he dropped because he had performed in soft porn?

[John]

Thats BS cause so did Lesli Kay & P&G never fired her from ATWT

[SoapDope]

There were two actresses that played Sharon briefly, one of them being Monica Potter before Sharon Case was cast on Y&R.

Erica Hope briefly played Nikki in 1978 before Melody Thomas Scott was cast.

Veleka Gray played Lila Montgomery on ATWT shortly before they hired Ann Sward.

[edgeofnik]

I can't believe I forgot this one on my list - Joan Collins as Alexandra on GL. She was awful. I don't care what they said, she was asked to leave. Thank goodness Marj came back. I have to say that she was an outstanding Alex during her runs.

[robbwolff]

Just repeating what was discussed about Passer all over the soap boards back in 1998. Perhaps it was more than soft porn.

[applcin]

I don't remember exactly how long he was on (in 2000) but Marc Brett was GH's first Zander, a thuggish-looking guy who kidnapped Emily. Maybe when they decided to go the romance route fairly quickly is when they went with Chad Brannon. I remember thinking at the time that they hired a cuter guy to pair with Emily.

[Skin]

There were two Sharon's on Y&R before Case took the role.

[John]

Not Calling BS On U But On P&G if they fired him for that since Lesly Lay also did soft core and was never canned

[LoyaltoAMC]

On AMC, Gregory Gordon briefly played Brian Bodine before Matt Borlenghi took over, and Francesca Poston played Donna for a hot minute before Candace Earley was cast. Dark Shadows was notorious for this as well. There were actors who played very briefly played Willie Loomis, Sam Evans, and Dr. Woodard before John Karlen, David Ford, and Robert Gerringer, respectively, assumed the roles.

[John]

Gregory Gordon was the most real Brian Bodine. Hated that AMC felt he had to be hunkified.

[Sapounopera]

B&B

AW's Russell Todd was cast as a man living next to Taylor, who was suspected to be her stalker. That didn't go nowhere.

A PC actress (Tamara Davies?) was introduced as Dr Tricia Quick when Taylor died. She got involved with Thorne and there was some mystery about her past. That didn't go anywhere.

Lilly Melgar was brought as Claudia Cortez for a big storyline with Thorne. She was dropped after a few months along with her brother Lucien and her mother.

Oscar "Ozzy" Marrone, the first Mrs. Thomas Forrester (Gaby?), Harry Jackson (who would probably turn out to be Nick's son), Dr Marc McLaine, Giovanni Lorenzano, Antonio Sabbato Jr's Dante were all dropped within a few weeks/months.