What TV Character's got the worst send off or no send off at all? 

 

No exit: Step By Step, Brenden just vanished as did Judy on Family Matters. 

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Miss Mahoney played by Jenny O'Hara in the 1979 episodes of Facts Of Life. When the show took a break and came back to finish the first season in spring 1980, she gone without a mention. The same can be said about Mr. Bradley (played by John Lawlor) who disappeared in season two. 

 

John Lawlor said he was upset when he was canned from the show. 

Blue Bloods, Linda Reagan. Here today gone tomorrow. There for seven seasons. Episode 1 of season 8 you find out she died while in a helicopter crash taking a patient to another hospital. All this happened off screen between seasons. 

4 hours ago, SoapDope said:

John Lawlor said he was upset when he was canned from ["The Facts of Life"].

 

Frankly, unless he missed having a regular paycheck, I don't see why.  I mean, the writing for the first season was atrocious.  In a way, I feel like the producers did him (and Jenny O'Hara, Molly Ringwald, and the other girls) a tremendous favor by trimming the cast.

I'll go ahead and add "Mama's Family"'s Buzz and Sonja Harper to the list.  When the series was picked up for first-run syndication, Vinton's kids were briefly mentioned -- Thelma said, simply, that they had "moved away" -- and then never heard from or mentioned again.  Not even during the penultimate and final seasons, when Vint and Naomi conceived little Tiffany Thelma.

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Edna abandoning Frank on Laverne & Shirley was too jarring for me. 

One that comes immediately to mind for me is Pixie Mason from the Australian cult classic "Prisoner: Cell Block H".

She was a naive, sweet-natured person who was hopelessly romantic and found herself in prison on multiple counts of bigamy. She was brutally raped, became catatonic with shock and ended up in a mental hospital

Kelly Taylor on 90210 (2.0). Absolutely nerve-wrecking.

4 hours ago, I Am A Swede said:

One that comes immediately to mind for me is Pixie Mason from the Australian cult classic "Prisoner: Cell Block H".

She was a naive, sweet-natured person who was hopelessly romantic and found herself in prison on multiple counts of bigamy. She was brutally raped, became catatonic with shock and ended up in a mental hospital

 

Reading this reminds me of Cathy Martin on "St. Elsewhere."  I don't recall if that character ever received a proper exit after being raped by Dr. Peter White and ending up in the psychiatric ward for awhile.

Coco- The Golden Girls

Tiffany Holloway - 227

 

All these years later, and Tiffany is STILL doing her homework.

 

It's a shame Coco was written out of TGG, because having a gay man in the same household as the three ladies (Blanche, Dorothy and Rose) might have provided a nice contrast.  But, OTOH, there might not have been any room for Sophia, and SHE was the one who REALLY took off in that pilot.  (In fact -- and this is just my opinion -- but I'm inclined to think Estelle Getty/Sophia, and the audience's reaction to her, was probably the thing that helped NBC decide to pick up the pilot for series.)

3 hours ago, Khan said:

 

Reading this reminds me of Cathy Martin on "St. Elsewhere."  I don't recall if that character ever received a proper exit after being raped by Dr. Peter White and ending up in the psychiatric ward for awhile.

 

She kind of vanished without any sort of explanation.  I think she came back to put her life back together and was phased out shortly thereafter.  Most of the female characters on that show had crappy fates.

Scott Scanlon on Beverly Hills, 90210. OBVIOUSLY the character did not belong anymore (and never really did), but they did him wrong. As much as I disliked The Gang's insta-woes over his death, the thing I hate the most is how the whole thing was basically a vehicle for David, who promptly never cared about Scott again after that episode. The whole thing just makes me so uncomfortable to even think about, and I honestly would have just preferred them write him out with a quick "Scott moved over the summer" line.

13 minutes ago, All My Shadows said:

Scott Scanlon on Beverly Hills, 90210. OBVIOUSLY the character did not belong anymore (and never really did), but they did him wrong. As much as I disliked The Gang's insta-woes over his death, the thing I hate the most is how the whole thing was basically a vehicle for David, who promptly never cared about Scott again after that episode. The whole thing just makes me so uncomfortable to even think about, and I honestly would have just preferred them write him out with a quick "Scott moved over the summer" line.

Poor sweet and goofy Scott didn't deserve the the tragic fate that befell him. Your right Scott Scanlon died so David could be one of the gang. I would've preferred him leaving too. Maybe coming back years later for a guest spot. Jenny O'Hara was amazing as Scott's grieving mom Pam.

15 hours ago, CassieFan said:

Kelly Taylor on 90210 (2.0). Absolutely nerve-wrecking.

 

Didn't they just pretend that she was actually living in the main house just off screen?

 

I guess Jennie Garth just got too expensive for the CW budget.