I think the original plan for the Ned / April story did involve Kelly. I think Kelly / Rob / Ned are all on at the same time and then possibly Kelly / Ned / April. I believe Teri Polo's Kirsten essentially was slotted into the Kelly role. I believe this was also when they had the original Dave Hindman around for the storyline involving his inability to read and the coach pushing him on the basketball team anyway.
I appreciate that Nixon appeared to be trying something different with April in that she seemed to benot more of a high end call girl. I just don't think there were many elements of that story that could have worked given the characters involved, the actors, and the general storyline.
If you look at the edit history, you can see them, but a good number were inaccurate anyway.
There is some early episodes in the list with Clay's origin story, just no Zack or Lorna, from waht I recall, which was a blessing.
During the Men of Loving interview, Randolph Mantooth said he was hired to play Clay Alden. Seven or so months into the role, the exectuviutive producer came up to him and told him he was an imposter. If it was the plan all along, Mantooth wasn't in on it.
The initial Clay storyline is very similar to what Ralph Ellis wrote for Rusty Sentell on Search for Tomorrow in his 1982 run. The presumed dead father from a wealthy family (in Rusty's case, by marriage) who was recruited to work with a spy network only to return from the grave to be a conflict for those around him.
I'm also never completely clear on how Marland's Clay died. Was it in France? I know later when they are changing from Christopher Marcantel to Linden Ashby Curtis goes to South East Asia to look for Clay so I guess there was some changes at some point.
I think a big source of the purging of the continuity is Haidee Granger. It is rumored she ran off Addie Walsh and I feel like the original Burnell's story in 1992 was for Curtis to return running the department store and romancing Ava. Nothing about the Phantom of Burnell's story made sense with the established history of Burnell's as an Alden property.
Also, even the cop uniforms change after 1991. More modern and less like the outfits you saw Mike Donovan in.
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