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<blockquote data-quote="Julia&amp;#039;s Gun" data-source="post: 334225" data-attributes="member: 987">This is such a coincidence. I have been rewatching the entire series and got to season 8 a couple of days ago. I am just watching the &#039;Homecoming&#039; episode form season 8. Miss Ellie&#039;s head has just changed from Barbara to Donna Reed.I can&#039;t believe this was ever allowed to happen, given what we now know was going on beind the scenes and that Barbara Bel Geddes did want to stay on. How on earth they couldn&#039;t have worked out a way of reducing her screen time but paying her enough to stay on the show I don&#039;t know.Her absence is painful to watch. Susan Howard and Larry Hagman do their best not to notice as they welcome her home from the honeymoon, but poor Howard Keel looks very confused all episode. He dropped his new wife off at the hair salon before they went to the airport, and now she seems to have had a radical face lift at the same time....Seriously though, this was terribly damaging to the show, and I can imagine our wonderful Barbara feeling absolutely mortified watching this debacle from home, seeing the character she had made her own being woefully imitated by another actor - though nothing personal towards Miss Reed. This misstep was as bad as the dream season and Pam&#039;s mummy. A shame Larry Hagman couldn&#039;t have stepped in earlier and forced the producers to compromise with Barbara&#039;s request.I know i&#039;ll struggle to get through the rest of this season, but at least get some comfort knowing the real Miss Ellie will return the following year...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Julia's Gun, post: 334225, member: 987"] This is such a coincidence. I have been rewatching the entire series and got to season 8 a couple of days ago. I am just watching the 'Homecoming' episode form season 8. Miss Ellie's head has just changed from Barbara to Donna Reed. I can't believe this was ever allowed to happen, given what we now know was going on beind the scenes and that Barbara Bel Geddes did want to stay on. How on earth they couldn't have worked out a way of reducing her screen time but paying her enough to stay on the show I don't know. Her absence is painful to watch. Susan Howard and Larry Hagman do their best not to notice as they welcome her home from the honeymoon, but poor Howard Keel looks very confused all episode. He dropped his new wife off at the hair salon before they went to the airport, and now she seems to have had a radical face lift at the same time.... Seriously though, this was terribly damaging to the show, and I can imagine our wonderful Barbara feeling absolutely mortified watching this debacle from home, seeing the character she had made her own being woefully imitated by another actor - though nothing personal towards Miss Reed. This misstep was as bad as the dream season and Pam's mummy. A shame Larry Hagman couldn't have stepped in earlier and forced the producers to compromise with Barbara's request. I know i'll struggle to get through the rest of this season, but at least get some comfort knowing the real Miss Ellie will return the following year... [/QUOTE]

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