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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 194221" data-attributes="member: 57984">Camille Marchetta, more or less, who was there from 1978 to 1981. Paulsen was there as a free-lance writer circa 1981 after &#039;WSJR?&quot; and then became an official story editor in 1982. Other story editors worked on the show in the interim between Marchetta and Paulsen.But screen credits are tricky and contracts are, too. It seems obvious that Paulsen is exerting greater influence on the scripts and the story flow by the spring of 1982 before he gets his &quot;story editor&quot; title that fall.Katzman, Paulsen, Art Lewis and Charlene Tilton all left in 1985 when Patrick exited, and then Katzman and Paulsen both returned with Duffy in 1986. Art Lewis returned in 1987, and Charlene returned in 1988 just as Paulsen was leaving to go produce Season 9 of DYNASTY (a show sinking faster than DALLAS) where Paulsen gave them their best year in many seasons, although too late to save it.Paulsen said he was looking to leave DALLAS in 1988, and given the overly-satiric direction the show went in after that, one has to presume Paulsen didn&#039;t want to participate in a too-silly DALLAS (hence, Larry&#039;s snippy comment about Paulsen not having a sense of humor?). As David Jacobs has said, you can have humor and parody under the surface with these shows, but they have to be played absolutely straight on the face of it. And Leonard Katzman had apparently eventually decided he disagreed -- and so he brought in Howard Lakin (who I&#039;d argue is the less serious dramatist) to replace Paulsen.<img src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WGIaHMxiWAg/WBz4pk7siuI/AAAAAAAABA4/14KBhMCSUHQTSQq_ABLgyw74TFlMBshhgCLcB/s1600/Paulsen%2BDavid%2BPaulsen.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 194221, member: 57984"] Camille Marchetta, more or less, who was there from 1978 to 1981. Paulsen was there as a free-lance writer circa 1981 after 'WSJR?" and then became an official story editor in 1982. Other story editors worked on the show in the interim between Marchetta and Paulsen. But screen credits are tricky and contracts are, too. It seems obvious that Paulsen is exerting greater influence on the scripts and the story flow by the spring of 1982 before he gets his "story editor" title that fall. Katzman, Paulsen, Art Lewis and Charlene Tilton all left in 1985 when Patrick exited, and then Katzman and Paulsen both returned with Duffy in 1986. Art Lewis returned in 1987, and Charlene returned in 1988 just as Paulsen was leaving to go produce Season 9 of DYNASTY (a show sinking faster than DALLAS) where Paulsen gave them their best year in many seasons, although too late to save it. Paulsen said he was looking to leave DALLAS in 1988, and given the overly-satiric direction the show went in after that, one has to presume Paulsen didn't want to participate in a too-silly DALLAS (hence, Larry's snippy comment about Paulsen not having a sense of humor?). As David Jacobs has said, you can have humor and parody under the surface with these shows, but they have to be played absolutely straight on the face of it. And Leonard Katzman had apparently eventually decided he disagreed -- and so he brought in Howard Lakin (who I'd argue is the less serious dramatist) to replace Paulsen. [IMG]https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WGIaHMxiWAg/WBz4pk7siuI/AAAAAAAABA4/14KBhMCSUHQTSQq_ABLgyw74TFlMBshhgCLcB/s1600/Paulsen%2BDavid%2BPaulsen.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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