Sheree J. Wilson's exit

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I've just started re-watching the final season, and I'm wondering what the circumstances were behind Wilson being written off the show. Did she request to be released from her commitment, or was it solely the idea of the writing staff? Whatever the case, I think it's quite possibly the saddest storyline ending in "Dallas" history...yes, even bigger than when Pam (Victoria Principal) opted not to return.
 
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Wilson asked to leave. I think she was preggers.

Not everybody cared when April was gunned down, although Leonard Katzman later bizarrely said the decision to kill her off was his "biggest mistake" in all of DALLAS history. Even though no one wss watching the show anymore.
 
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Was it ever known what would have happened to April in season 14 if Sheree had returned from maternity leave? I think Bobby & April would have become parents for sure, but what else would have happened? It would have been good for the final season's spirit if Bobby had been as cheerful as ever.
 
tommie

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Snarky Oracle said:
Wilson asked to leave. I think she was preggers.
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I assume everyone in the final season could see the writing was on the wall in regards of Dallas's future. I guess Sheree just thought that even if the show somehow had gotten to a season 15, it would've been further cut down in budget and would've ended sooner rather than later. But I think everyone could probably feel the impending doom on the set.

If Dallas had been in a healthier shape I'm sure Wilson would've just asked for a regular maternity leave/accommodation rather than getting off the show permanently. Of course she couldn't have seen the movies or the reboot series coming.
 
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tommie said:
I assume everyone in the final season could see the writing was on the wall in regards of Dallas's future. I guess Sheree just thought that even if the show somehow had gotten to a season 15, it would've been further cut down in budget and would've ended sooner rather than later. But I think everyone could probably feel the impending doom on the set.

If Dallas had been in a healthier shape I'm sure Wilson would've just asked for a regular maternity leave/accommodation rather than getting off the show permanently. Of course she couldn't have seen the movies or the reboot series coming.
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It's hard to know. I do know that as early as 1988, Patrick Duffy said he couldn't see DALLAS running passed 1991 -- which I assume was when everybody's contracts were up... Even before the '90/'91 season premiered, the press and people close to the show were talking as if was "understood" that this was going to be last season.

Had there been another year, I'm sure Sheree would not have been written out had April not already died -- Katzman really "liked" Wilson, so her job was safe if she wanted to continue on with the show -- as much as some of us hated her being shoe-horned in to being Bobby's wife (and they had to change her character to do it).

I would have turned her into one of Bobby's female stalkers who followed him to Paris when he married Tracey McKay, both women mowed down by NATO or Isis or the MI-6 or the Moldavian rebels or whoever the hell did it.

I liked gold-digging April, but her shrill wife-mate status was forced and a mistake.

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Snarky Oracle said:
I would have turned her into one of Bobby's female stalkers who followed him to Paris when he married Tracey McKay, both women mowed down by NATO or Isis or the MI-6 or the Moldavian rebels or whoever the hell did it.

I liked gold-digging April, but her shrill wife-mate status was forced and a mistake.
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Not a bad idea. More true to April's original personality and Tracy had more chemistry with Bobby (at least in my opinion). But Bobby losing another wife that way seems unnecessarily cruel and pointless - unless it could have led to Pam's return perhaps.
 
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Snarky Oracle said:
Leonard Katzman later bizarrely said the decision to kill her off was his "biggest mistake" in all of DALLAS history.
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when you take into account the significance of Dallas, from the Who Shot JR phenomenon to the decade-defining storytelling and glamour, one can only conclude that the decision to kill April was the biggest, most staggeringly regrettable mistake in TV history, if not all media
 
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Taylor Bennett Jr. said:
when you take into account the significance of Dallas, from the Who Shot JR phenomenon to the decade-defining storytelling and glamour, one can only conclude that the decision to kill April was the biggest, most staggeringly regrettable mistake in TV history, if not all media
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Yeah absolutely terrible.

Here was an actress who was more beloved than Jim Davis, who gave their all for the show and was such an outstanding acting talent!! :rolleyes:
 
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Yeah absolutely terrible.

Here was an actress who was more beloved than Jim Davis, who gave their all for the show and was such an outstanding acting talent!! :rolleyes:
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:bravo1::ig::laugh1:
 
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I read an article awhile ago where Sheree said she was pregnant and wanted to leave. She told Leonard to kill her because she wasn't coming back. She said she regr it because she co be apart of the movies or re-boot. However, she was talking with Larry and they were coming up with a way to get her back. Larry died and then it never materialized.
 
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kcmimichar said:
I read an article awhile ago where Sheree said she was pregnant and wanted to leave. She told Leonard to kill her because she wasn't coming back. She said she regr it because she co be apart of the movies or re-boot.
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Yes. There is a video online of some of the cast being interviewed at a country music festival (in France I think) where Sheree says she was pregnant and knew the show was coming to a close, so asked to be killed off so that she’d have a memorable exit. She said she wouldn’t have asked for this had she foreseen the reunion films and revival.
 
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Grangehill1 said:
Why was Sheree in the opening credits of every episode of the last season?
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As far as I remember all the main stars were paid for the entire season regardless of how many episodes they were actually in. However I've always suspected that as it was the final season Lorimar didn't want to spend money to redo the opening credits when they knew the show was finishing anyway. :(
 
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