Lenore Kasdorf (Rita) chose to leave, supposedly because she and her husband (also an actor) wanted to move to LA. I think Sofia Landon (Diane) also chose to go.
Mark, you mean Katie's boyfriend? Yeah, he probably was not going to last long, regardless of who was writing the show. Peter, too. He was mainly Holly's stalwart fella while she went through all her troubles. No surprise he didn't last long after Roger's exit.
There was also Greg Fairbanks, the doctor who Rita thought might be her baby daddy. Again, I doubt he was meant to be a long-term character anyway. Few probably even realized he was gone, LOL. I could be wrong, because I'm not sure of the timing of his introduction, but I've long suspected he was brought in specifically to do the baby drama because Lenore was pregnant. If she had not gotten pregnant, I am pretty certain the affair with Alan would have happened much sooner. The Dobsons were setting it up for a long time.
Marland killing off Lucille I've always felt was a mistake. He eviserated all the female antagonists that came with the Dobson era, if you think about it. He never really replaced them. Vanessa never QUITE fit that category. Yeah, she could be bitchy, but she wasn't destructive like Lucille or Diane. @P.J. I think described her as someone who liked to upset apple carts, but it was just to see what would happen more than being actually hurtful. Nola in his mind was his heroine, who did everything for love and to better herself, so she wasn't really bad.
The closest he came to a real female villain was Carrie's alternate personality.
Now that I think about it, GL was missing full-on bitch characters until the 1990s, with Annie, Dinah, and Amanda (who, IMO, was slated by the Dobsons to eventually become a more villainous character, which is kind of ironic).
Maybe the closest before that was Nadine? When Reva was introduced, it seemed she was going to be that kind of character, but that went out the window really fast. Never for one moment could I figure out what Sonni's deal was beyond being a roadblock for Josh and Reva.
Am I missing some people?
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