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[andrewducker]

I find this conversation fascinating. It's about characters that are changed or just vanish early on in an ongoing tv series, comic, etc.

Like John's original roommate in Garfield. Or Ritchie's old brother in Happy Days. Or Mandy in West Wing.

No explanations, just whoosh.

This one is my favourite so far:

There is the famous missing Martin family member on "All My Children" who, legend has it, walked upstairs in the 1970's one day, and never came down. About thirty years later, a scene took place in the Martin's attic, and one character saw a skeleton in the corner, and wondered aloud about that person's fate.

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[blue-condition.livejournal.com]

Crossroads used to be magic for that kind of thing - Benny went out to look for a spanner once and didn't appear for another six months (Paul Henry was working with the RSC, I think!)

And another character who ran a coffee bar just.... disappeared. No mention of him, ever again.

Actually, I think Tracy Barlow spent several years upstairs at Deirdre's on Coronation Street, "lissenin' ter me taaaaapes" - she came down a different actress entirely.