Mark Arnold replaced Dane, not Burke Moses. The recast made no sense to me.

i didnt watch SB when he was on but I saw some of his stuff on YT and I think he was really charismatic. They should have gone with a Joe/Augusta pairing i think that could have been awesome.
He was gorgeous and had skills. Replacing him for Burke Moses was wrong on EVERY level. He could have ruled the whole show and Joe/Kelly could have been just as memorable as Mason & Mary or Cruz & Eden.
Every pairing Kelly 1.0 had after him was a re-hash of the Joe/Kelly pairing in my eyes.


I am surprised at how much the news is upsetting to me. His family has all my sympathy.

Mark Arnold replaced Dane, not Burke Moses. The recast made no sense to me.

I don't think it made sense to anyone (except maybe the Dobsons). Bar none, getting rid of Dane Witherspoon was one of the worst moves the show ever made.

Edited March 31, 201412 yr by amybrickwallace

Melissa Reeves after being told of Dane's death, chimes in. (She played Joe's sister, Jade on SB from 1984-85)

1. FRANK DRAKE JR ‏@FDRAKEJR1 6h

   @missyreeves4 Deepest condolences to the family of Dane Witherspoon on his passing. Wondered if you had some special memories of Dane?
2. melissa reeves ‏@missyreeves4 1h

   @FDRAKEJR1 wow!! I did not know this!!! Such great memories of working with him on Santa Barbara. Thank you for letting me know.

1. 1. John Walter Seip ‏@johnwalterseip 8h

      @missyreeves4 Since you worked on Santa Barbara, do you have any memories of Dane Witherspoon. So SAD, RIP

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   2. melissa reeves ‏@missyreeves4 1h

      @johnwalterseip this is devastating news. My prayers go out to his family. Wonderful memories when he played my brother on SB.

Edited March 31, 201412 yr by John

That was nice of Missy to share her thoughts and feelings on Dane's passing. They were very believable as big brother/kid sister Joe and Jade Perkins.

Edited March 31, 201412 yr by amybrickwallace

I always get MA's name mixed up with Burke Moses for a reason i still cannot explain to this day. Didnt MA play a character nmaed Burke on another soap or something?

Prior to SB, Mark Arnold starred from June 1980 to October 1983 as Gavin Wylie on ABC's Edge of Night. From 1987-89, he played Rob Coronol on OLTL. He also played Michael J. Fox's rival, Mick, in Teen Wolf. Looking at his imdb page, it doesn't appear that he played any characters named Burke.

Ironic that none of these "returns" were successful in the long run. DW was let go from Capitol, never to be seen on daytime again and eventually left show business altogether, Kristen Meadows didn't last long in her return engagement on OLTL (ironically, she would join the SB cast the next year), and Taylor Miller's run at AW turned out to be a disaster.

What's really weird is how Taylor Miller's AW stint kind of mirrors Mark Arnold's at SB. Observe:

TM: Left a successful gig on an ABC soap (All My Children) and joined an NBC soap (Another World)

MA: Left a successful gig on an ABC soap (Edge of Night) and joined an NBC soap (Santa Barbara)

TM: Was paired up on-screen with predecessor's (Mary Page Keller) on- AND off-screen love interest (Thomas Ian Griffith)

MA: Was paired up on-screen with predecessor's (DW) on- AND off-screen love interest (Robin Wright)

TM: While very popular with fans in previous role (Nina Cortlandt), proved to be an immensely unpopular recast

MA: While very popular with fans in previous role (Gavin Wylie), proved to be an immensely unpopular recast

TM: Looked absolutely nothing like predecessor

MA: Looked absolutely nothing like predecessor

TM: Exited role in a grisly on-screen death scene

MA: Exited role in a grisly on-screen death scene

Edited April 1, 201412 yr by amybrickwallace

Can I add

TM: Contributed to the demise of onscreen core family (The Matthews)

MA: Contributed to the demise of onscreen core family (The Perkins)

Add away!!

Clip of his part on 'Santa Barbara'

Promo from SB:

Prior to SB, Mark Arnold starred from June 1980 to October 1983 as Gavin Wylie on ABC's Edge of Night. From 1987-89, he played Rob Coronol on OLTL. He also played Michael J. Fox's rival, Mick, in Teen Wolf. Looking at his imdb page, it doesn't appear that he played any characters named Burke.

Thanks for looking that up I will probably confuse MA with Burke Mose for some unexplainable reason to the day i am too old to remember my last name though lol

Just an aise though Justin Mulvey isnt credited for being on GH ON HIS IMDB PAGE but im still pretty sure he played Allegra's fiancé.

Prior to SB, Mark Arnold starred from June 1980 to October 1983 as Gavin Wylie on ABC's Edge of Night. From 1987-89, he played Rob Coronol on OLTL. He also played Michael J. Fox's rival, Mick, in Teen Wolf. Looking at his imdb page, it doesn't appear that he played any characters named Burke.

Thanks for looking that up I will probably confuse MA with Burke Mose for some unexplainable reason to the day i am too old to remember my last name though lol

Just an aise though Justin Mulvey isnt credited for being on GH ON HIS IMDB PAGE but im still pretty sure he played Allegra's fiancé.

Clip of his part on 'Santa Barbara'

http://youtu.be/EuFG6iAfqc4

That was beautiful.