Was it Long who wanted that? I don't think so. She never worked with either Michael or Lenore, they were long gone by the time she started writing for GL (MG, too, to be fair).
I'm guessing this was a higher-up decision. She talked in interviews as if she was kind of blindsided by Zaslow coming back as Roger. I really don't think she would have said, "Hey, let's get the guy who played Roger to come back and play Alan."
(Honestly, I think she was way too intelligent to come up with a nutty idea like that; it totally sounds like the kind of idea some empty corporate suit would come up with).
Yeah, that would have been great, and it seems that might have been in the works when Bernau returned in '86.
They didn't need Zaslow to play Alan. It would have been a disaster, IMO. There were other actors. They could have found another known soap actor or looked outside of soaps. But possibly because of all the sensitivity over Bernau's exit/death, they wanted to avoid a big, public search. I don't know why they thought they had to wait FIVE YEARS, but a short wait was not uncalled for.
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