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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chris2" data-source="post: 287942" data-attributes="member: 495">They did suspect Jim Davis’ death was coming. However, the scripts were done far in advance, and the producers were keeping Jock in the scripts so that they could send them to Davis in the hospital and assure him that he was still part of the show. I think that’s lovely.When Davis passed away in the spring of 1981, it was easiest to remove Jock from the already-written scripts by saying that he was away, and then deal with his death later in the season in the newer scripts. I also think it was a bit awkward and it would have been better to have Jock pass away from a heart attack. But they wanted to leave the door open in case they wanted to do a recast later on. Too bad they didn’t take the same care with Bobby’s death.</blockquote>