Members SoapDope Posted August 5, 2018 Members Share Posted August 5, 2018 Patrick Duffy leaving and returning screwed up Dallas. Victoria Principal leaving was the final nail in the coffin for the decline. Jim Davis death also was a blow to the show. That storyline where they toyed with the idea of Wes being Jock didn't sit right. I think Jock should have died and a proper funeral be done, not that crap they tried to milk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted August 5, 2018 Members Share Posted August 5, 2018 Another time when one of Megan McTavish's whacked-out scenarios was truncated due to a real-life tragedy. Either she was one prescient writer, or psychotic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members j swift Posted August 5, 2018 Author Members Share Posted August 5, 2018 Wow, that's amazing that she wrote both stories! I thought it was just that ABC was especially sensitive to this type of issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted August 5, 2018 Members Share Posted August 5, 2018 Now that you mention it, Caroline, I do recall Tony Geary being credited for the story (w/ Irene Suyer). IIRC, too, he even went to SOD and disavowed it, claiming his and Suyer's treatment for "Endgame" was not the same story that appeared onscreen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members carolineg Posted August 5, 2018 Members Share Posted August 5, 2018 Yeah, I am pretty sure he sort of spoiled what he had 'written' too and it was nothing like what appeared on GH. What about Melrose Place? The bombing of the actual building had to put off to the next season right? Kimberly just had her hand on the trigger or pushed it but we didn't see the aftermath until next year because of the OKC bombing. I don't think it really effected the story much though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted August 5, 2018 Members Share Posted August 5, 2018 Another example: Henry Slesar's having to rewrite the Eliot Dorn/"Children of Earth" storyline in the wake of the mass suicide that occurred with Jim Jones' followers in Georgetown, British Guyana. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members j swift Posted August 5, 2018 Author Members Share Posted August 5, 2018 Hunter Tylo would beg to differ that it didn't effect story and she got 5 mil as a result - remember that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members carolineg Posted August 5, 2018 Members Share Posted August 5, 2018 Hunter Tylo was supposed to be brought in later. She had nothing to do with the apartment bomb story lol. She was cast as Lisa Rinna's character who appeared in season 5 and on and who got pregnant too lol. Do you think Tylo's firing effected any Taylor story? I can't imagine Tylo/Rinna's Taylor's matching up. Rinna was such a fun, campy villain. I can't imagine Tylo doing that...Also did they name the character after Hunter's character on B&B. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted August 5, 2018 Members Share Posted August 5, 2018 Wait, are we talking about the "pregnancy suit" that climaxed with the stunning reveal that flat-bellied Hunter was, in fact, ready to drop her kid at any moment? Now THAT was a real-life soap opera! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members j swift Posted August 5, 2018 Author Members Share Posted August 5, 2018 Great example - although I've always wondered how much casting played into that decision. Lee Godart was too suave and debonair to run a hippy cult, he needed to live in Margo's penthouse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members carolineg Posted August 5, 2018 Members Share Posted August 5, 2018 I think so? I was talking about the actual bombing being pushed back, but Hunter vs. Spelling works too.... I think Hunter herself is a real life soap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members j swift Posted August 5, 2018 Author Members Share Posted August 5, 2018 @carolineg @Khan I made the classic soap actress mistake of confusing Morgan Britney for Hunter Tylo. Ms. Britney's character of Mackenzie Hart was a victim of Kimberly's bomb and I mistakenly thought that was the part the Hunter was going to play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members DRW50 Posted August 5, 2018 Members Share Posted August 5, 2018 It was before, as I remember seeing MDM in the cop uniform Caleb changed a great deal with the recast. Graham Winton was a competent actor who was very dry...he would have made a better Seth recast. He also had less chemistry with Susan Marie Snyder. And the pairing of Julie and Caleb went from two complicated, self-destructive people to do-gooder Caleb and Julie the screw-up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted August 5, 2018 Members Share Posted August 5, 2018 Morgan Brittany is an actress who is capable of so many things. Unfortunately, portraying Patrick Muldoon's wife is not one of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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