You'd think that when someone is writing out that many characters that it would at least lead to some exciting exit stories, but I guess if you just want a character off the show you don't really bother to build up to their exit either.

Here is an article about Mary Frann returning after being written out the first time.

 

17 minutes ago, jam6242 said:

Here is an article about Mary Frann returning after being written out the first time.

 

This is a great find. Thank you for sharing. The article is from early 1979. Ann Marcus was still writing the series when MF was taken off contract. The so-called "massacre" of Days, under the pen of Nina Laemmle, started in April of 1980.

 

I could see the show eliminating Peter Brown's Greg Peters, but allowing Frann to get away was a bad move. She had chemistry with ALL her character's leading men! I'm glad Elizabeth Harrower decided to write for Amanda, when Harrower was head writer (for about a year, ending in March of 1980, after Marcus and before Nina Laemmle).

 

I've always thought it was weird that TPTB employed Ruth Brooks Flippen for only a month between EH and NL.

1 hour ago, vetsoapfan said:

I've always thought it was weird that TPTB employed Ruth Brooks Flippen for only a month between EH and NL.

 

Was it long enough, though, for you to get any kind of impression of her work?  I know Flippen was Marlo Thomas' favorite writer on "That Girl;" but, obviously, a weekly, half-hour situation comedy is not the same as a daily, sixty-minute serial drama, lol.

Didn't know Flynn had an addiction problem.  Wow!  Guess that's why he left?

 

 

50 minutes ago, Khan said:

 

Was it long enough, though, for you to get any kind of impression of her work?  I know Flippen was Marlo Thomas' favorite writer on "That Girl;" but, obviously, a weekly, half-hour situation comedy is not the same as a daily, sixty-minute serial drama, lol.

 

I found her work to be adequate but meandering, if that makes sense. Not much was really happening. I wonder if RBF was just hired as a "place-holder" until Nina Laemmle could take over the writing reigns.