ALL: Character original names

[dragonflies]

Might be dumb comment but even spelled the same way too 

[j swift]

Marcus Aurelius would have been a little "on the nose" given that his brother was named Roman,  But, somewhere along the way they would've needed to explain why this Irish family named their sons after leaders of the Roman Empire.  And if Caroline had named him Pericles, his Greek origin would've been too obvious.

[Paul Raven]

Guiding Light

Peggy Scott was originally mentioned as Susan

Steve Jackson was referred to as Warren.

[Xanthe]

In the AW Bible, the character who would be Pat Matthews was named Cynthia.

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[Wendy]

They must have hung on to this idea for a bit. I recall seeing a clip from 1982 with Catherine Mary Stewart's Kayla telling someone - I think it may have been Marlena? - about her absent brother Marcus.

Obviously, by the time he showed up in 1983, he was Beauregard/Bo.

Although someone must have liked the name Marcus, since the character of Marcus Hunter did come later on...

[All My Shadows]

In the original pre-OLTL bible for AMC, the Martin family was the Craig family: Dr. Joe Craig, his son John, daughter Teresa (nicknamed Tara), and younger son Danny. The Brents - Ted, Ruth, and Phil - were originally the Martins, and Ruth’s sister Amy was originally Carol.

Nina Cortlandt was first referred to as Lily.

[allmc2008]

Here nickname was Terry

[All My Shadows]

From the bible:

"...Joe returned with his elder son, John, age twenty, who is now away at pre-med himself, seventeen-year old Teresa, generally known as Tara, and twelve-year old Danny..."

It also gives Joe's late father and Kate's late husband the name "John," but I believe he ended up being referred to as "Henry" on the show.

[j swift]

I am surprised that Nina appears in the bible, given that she didn't premiere until nine years after the show began.

Edited May 30, 2024 by j swift

[robbwolff]

Was there much about Carol in that version of the AMC bible? Knowing that Rosemary Prinz would only play Amy for six months makes me curious about what Agnes Nixon may have had planned for Carol.

[All My Shadows]

Oh, I should’ve clarified that info came from a 1979 script I came across online years ago. I want to say it was summer 1979, when Palmer first appeared (and Nina soon followed). I recall Phoebe asking about his daughter Lily.

[Paul Raven]

I believe Carol stayed on and tried to save her marriage to Linc and form a relationship with her son, Phillip,who had killed his real father Nick Davis.

Was it worth it to have Rosemary Prinz only agree to 6 months and then drop the character for good? At least a recast Amy could have returned say a year later to play out the story.

It never made sense to me that Amy would just leave and that was that.

[All My Shadows]

This is correct. From what I gather, Nick was meant to be a much more villainous figure who never shows up in PV. Phil goes to work at his bar in New York and is finally driven to a moment of temporary anger in which he beats Nick to death. Of course, Nick goes on to become one of the defining faces of the show in the 70s, so I bet the change in story for both he and Carol/Amy was due to Rosemary agreeing to play Amy but for only six months. The whole story of Phil's paternity would have felt like a waste of time if both of his real parents were gone within the first year.

[allmc2008]

Terry. Also, the "Episode 1" with the cleaner type face is from the 1967 draft.

I love that the show's opening was originally described as people walking up a hill with the whole "The Great and the Least" thing as an epigram similar to Day's "Like sands through the hour glass..."

 

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She wasn't in the bible.

The copy of the bible the images are taken from is from the one in Bill Bell's collection at UCLA.

[All My Shadows]

The copy I’ve seen must be a reproduction that changed Terry to Tara. It didn’t make sense to me that Tara would be a nickname for Teresa.