Members BingCherry Posted January 29, 2015 Members Share Posted January 29, 2015 This isn't about the day-players or the characters on shows already cancelled, but the once-vital, popular and beloved characters on currently running soaps that we haven't seen in a long time and probably won't see again. I'll start with B&B: Sheila Carter Clarke Garrison Jackie Marone Anyone else you have in mind... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NothinButAttitude Posted January 29, 2015 Members Share Posted January 29, 2015 Y&R: Keemo Abbott Snapper Foster Greg Foster Chris Brooks Foster Lorie Brooks Leslie Brooks Lucas Prentiss Lance Prentiss Julia Newman Matt Newman Gina Romalatti Drucilla Barber Olivia Barber Nate Barber Phillip Chancellor III & IV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vetsoapfan Posted January 29, 2015 Members Share Posted January 29, 2015 Tommy Horton on DAYS, who went unmentioned when his on-screen father Tom Horton passed away, AND when his onscreen mother, Alice Horton, died. Although Tommy was the eldest of the Horton boys (he and his twin sister, Addie, were Tom's and Alice's first born children), during the eulogy for Tom Horton, Sr., Alice referred to Mickey as their eldest child. Either the writers were careless and made an error, or we are supposed to assume that Tommy is dead. He is officially in limbo, just like when he went upstairs to bed in the 1970s, never came back down, and went unmentioned by his family for years, LOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SoapDope Posted January 29, 2015 Members Share Posted January 29, 2015 I agree with this list 100%. Y&R has thrown their history out the window, especially the 70's characters/plot lines. Paul, Nikki and Jill are the only characters left from that era. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members titan1978 Posted January 29, 2015 Members Share Posted January 29, 2015 GH- Jeff Webber Anne Logan Colton Shore Grant Putnam Celia Quartermaine Jimmy Lee Holt Lois Cerullo V Laura Spencer Y&R Drucilla Barber Chance Mac Sheila Carter Days Tony Dimera (is he dead?) Peter Blake Carrie Brady Vivian Alamain Carly Manning Jonah Carver But that is the way Bill Bell wanted it. If you started watching around 1985, you would not really know anything about that era, except Jill's affair and betrayal of Katherine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DramatistDreamer Posted January 29, 2015 Members Share Posted January 29, 2015 I wonder whether Bill Bell Sr. would have liked the idea that Jill is no longer a Foster? Or would he have cared since most of those characters were dumped in the 80s anyway? If he were still in charge, would he have eventually dumped the Newman and Abbotts and started with all new families the way he dumped the Brooks and Fosters? I know that's a question without an answer but I'm truly curious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members reallyhateskateonlost Posted January 29, 2015 Members Share Posted January 29, 2015 GH: Blackie Parish DOOL: Steve/Patch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kathyj Posted January 29, 2015 Members Share Posted January 29, 2015 Days Sarah Horton Neil Curtis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cassadine1991 Posted January 29, 2015 Members Share Posted January 29, 2015 Didn't he return in 1980 and was said to be living in Hawaii?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dr Neil Curtis Posted January 29, 2015 Members Share Posted January 29, 2015 Don't mention the GH Characters, please! Ron will find a way to bring them back and make them villains! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SoapDope Posted January 29, 2015 Members Share Posted January 29, 2015 I have the feeling that Bell wouldn't have liked his history/back story being screwed with. When the Jill/Mother daughter thing was done, he was already suffering with Alzheimers and had no control over storylines. Bell was kind of funny about the shows past. He would go years not mentioning something, then bam out of the blue he would throw something in to catch you off guard. Some examples are: * After Billy was born in the early 90's, Jill goes to answer the door and Liz Foster is standing there. Kay then shows up and asks why Jill hasn't told her mother about her grandchild. Jill tells her mother she is going to name him William Foster after her father. * When Nikki was going to marry Brad, Jack and Ashley were discussing the upcoming nuptials and Jack blurts out Nikki Reed Foster Bancroft Di Salvo Abbott soon to be Carlton. I remember shortly after that aired, someone wrote in to Soap Opera Digest wanting to know about all of Nikki's husbands before Victor. * After years of not being mentioned, Bug(Christine) is over at Mary's looking at a photo album and exclaims "That's a pretty girl" and Mary say's "That's your sister in law dear" and they zoom in on a photo of Lilibet Stern as Patty They also started talking about her horrible marriage to Jack. On Paul & Christine's wedding day they show a blonde woman from behind making a phone call to the Williams home, but everyone has done left. * When Ashley had her mental breakdown and was put in the hospital, the same 3 women who were room mates with Leslie Brooks and tormented her years earlier were in with Ashley. * When David Kimble wanted plastic surgery he asked the doctor to make him look like David Hasselhoff (Snapper). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members John Posted January 29, 2015 Members Share Posted January 29, 2015 Wrong thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vetsoapfan Posted January 30, 2015 Members Share Posted January 30, 2015 The last time I personally remember seeing Tommy onscreen, was in 1976, when Pat Falken Smith was writing the show. He was mentioned later, but I don't recall actually seeing him. (After Falken Smith's exit, I lost interest in the series and watched it infrequently, so Tommy may have appeared without my knowing it.) There were tentative talks about a DAYS spin-off, regarding Tommy's branch of the family living in Hawaii, but nothing ever materialized, and the character was (as far as I know) never mentioned again. As a longtime viewer, I found his absence from both his parents' funerals to be quite galling. The writers should have at least referred to him, mentioning that he had died years ago offscreen. When Bert Bauer passed away on TGL, we never saw Meta, Mike, Hope, Steve Jackson, or anyone else who should have been there, and when Nancy Hughes died on ATWT, there was lots of Katie (vomit), but no mention of Penny, Don, or Ellen. Sloppy writing drives me crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members saynotoursoap Posted January 30, 2015 Members Share Posted January 30, 2015 Tommy's last appearance was in March 1980, following the infamous Saint Valentine's Day Massacre by Fred Silverman, Al Rabin, and Nina Laemmle. He returned for a single episode, celebrating Tom and Alice's fiftieth wedding anniversary. Sadly, it was the end of an era. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cassadine1991 Posted January 30, 2015 Members Share Posted January 30, 2015 What's the infamous Saint Valentine's Day Massacre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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