1 hour ago, Vee said:

It was Miranda, as intended by Guza. I think she was meant to be Alexis' daughter. But AFAIK he had no hand in the casting process or development of the onscreen story execution, he was gone by then heading up the early months of Sunset Beach due to a contractual obligation. He couldn't return to GH until the end of '97.

Riche made Karen Harris and Richard Culliton use Guza’s projected story and they filled in the gaps. IIRC it took them up to Leslie being alive and Laura faking her death, including the Miranda character and her unknown backstory. But the stuff with Stefan shooting Katherine was added because I assume Shelly Curtis thought they could capture some heat again. Which was wild because before all that and Genie’s extended leave Laura and Stefan were hot as hell.

My favorite part of Miranda was that Guza came back but wasn’t credited yet, and in one episode Luke just told Alexis about her own past and all that was supposed to be part of the Miranda story.

Brenda was supposed to have Sam’s story had she stayed in 2002. The dead Sonny baby, falling in love with Jason. It was ready to go and then Vanessa didn’t come to terms with ABC/Jill.

I don’t know if this was ever supposed to be a a full story on Y&R, but I don’t think we ever found out who called Ryan, Nina, Cole and Victoria and had them meet at the restaurant (Colonnade Room?).

Nobody knows what was supposed to happen with the original Salem Stalker story. By the time they killed Alice the cast knew they were not really dead. What the Marlena endgame was supposed to be fascinates me. Would Reilly have gotten rid of his OG muse?

1 minute ago, titan1978 said:

I don’t know if this was ever supposed to be a a full story on Y&R, but I don’t think we ever found out who called Ryan, Nina, Cole and Victoria and had them meet at the restaurant (Colonnade Room?).

I think it was meant to be a full story.

This was around the same time as another dropped plot, where Paul and Mary Williams began mentioning Patty again for the first time in many years, and viewers saw a woman in a phone booth who called Mary or Paul.

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While we were talking about GH, I should mention the original dropped plans for Valentin, where Matt Borlenghi was, IIRC, in the makeup chair when they told him they had scrapped the story.

According to Eden was supposed to have a health battle with Maggie involved but Lizzie got y&r. My guess is cancer? They were also going to have jr fall in love with Bianca

3 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

I think it was meant to be a full story.

This was around the same time as another dropped plot, where Paul and Mary Williams began mentioning Patty again for the first time in many years, and viewers saw a woman in a phone booth who called Mary or Paul.

Ah yes, the notorious SOB tidbit that Y&R wanted a certain actress back but were aghast by her “changed appearance” once they located her in Arizona. Which why they supposedly when the Diane route instead and brought AD back.

Most assume the actress is question was Lilibet Stern but I have seen some speculate it was actually Andrea Evans, who emerged from her post stalking trauma a couple years later as Tawny on B&B (and Tawny was exactly a glamorous character initially either).

Speaking of GH's dropped plots, let's go with Audrey not having Alzheimer's.

1 minute ago, Franko said:

Speaking of GH's dropped plots, let's go with Audrey not having Alzheimer's.

Which was one Labine story I was glad didn’t make it to air, beyond maybe a couple of scenes. While it would have been wonderful for them to use Steve and Audrey, after Stone that was just too far.

Rosalind Cash’s death really took a lot out of the Ward family. Had she lived I think there would have been more great stories centered on the Ward’s. I thought that story was beautifully told. Laura finding their old house and seeing the images of the family there before we knew they were real. The Bradley mystery, and Edward’s connection. It was one of the better new family introductions in my soap viewing lifetime.

Wasn't there talk of KZ playing dual roles when Cassie was introduced?

And also GL Hannah Bauer was a proposed character(played by Mary Stuart) that never appeared-maybe morphed into Laine Bauer a few years later.

Early Y&R plans included Russell Henderson, brother to Mark and the Foster's cousin but he never was utilized.

10 minutes ago, Paul Raven said:

Wasn't there talk of KZ playing dual roles when Cassie was introduced?

OMG. Is that why they gave her the clone story? So she could play two characters?