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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 112372" data-attributes="member: 27">When the series originally aired on CBS, they had the first version of season nine opening credits&nbsp; (with CM and Julie Harris in it) until episode 200 because Julie Harris was still around, even if CM&#039;s last episode was 196.&nbsp; It was too expensive (I guess) to do an interim version when CM left (at the end of episode 196).&nbsp; Given how cheap this opening looked, I can&#039;t imagine it would have been that hard to customize.The whole concept of Laura dying off-camera where no one saw her die certainly had the hallmarks of &quot;keeping options open&quot;.&nbsp; On daytime, if a popular character dies but no one sees them die, it&#039;s almost guaranteed they will return &quot;from the dead&quot; in the future, a victim of mistaken identity or some nefarious plot.&nbsp; Perhaps the writers feared the (considerable) fallout from killing her off and wanted to give themselves an &quot;out&quot; if they had to undo their mistake.&nbsp; The plotline certainly launched a thousand fanfics. <img src="http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies/rolleye/rolleye0010.gif"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":re:" title="RE&nbsp; &nbsp; :re:" data-shortname=":re:" />&nbsp; Of course the prevailing wisdom seems these days to be that they did this because they just wanted to be rid of the character and/or the actress, and this &quot;choice to leave&quot; was just their way of getting it done quickest while denying CM the opportunity to act the hell out of a longer, terminal illness plotline before her departure.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 112372, member: 27"] When the series originally aired on CBS, they had the first [FONT=Georgia][COLOR=rgb(20, 20, 20)]version of s[/COLOR][/FONT]eason nine opening credits (with CM and Julie Harris in it) until episode 200 because Julie Harris was still around, even if CM's last episode was 196. It was too expensive (I guess) to do an interim version when CM left (at the end of episode 196). Given how cheap this opening looked, I can't imagine it would have been that hard to customize. The whole concept of Laura dying off-camera where no one saw her die certainly had the hallmarks of "keeping options open". On daytime, if a popular character dies but no one [I]sees[/I] them die, it's almost guaranteed they will return "from the dead" in the future, a victim of mistaken identity or some nefarious plot. Perhaps the writers feared the (considerable) fallout from killing her off and wanted to give themselves an "out" if they had to undo their mistake. The plotline certainly launched a thousand fanfics. :re: Of course the prevailing wisdom seems these days to be that they did this because they just wanted to be rid of the character and/or the actress, and this "choice to leave" was just their way of getting it done quickest while denying CM the opportunity to act the hell out of a longer, terminal illness plotline before her departure. [/QUOTE]

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