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<blockquote data-quote="Ian UK" data-source="post: 316073" data-attributes="member: 244">I&#039;ve wondered this in the past...Does anyone know when Patrick made the decision and then informed them that he was quitting? And how did that tie in with the storylines for that year?&nbsp; Indeed, have any Dallas producers or writers ever spoken about how far in advance storylines were planned in terms of cast availability? I guess with all of them on initial 7 year contracts, this was the first time that a lead actor was able to quit and Duffy took the opportunity to do so.It makes me wonder how the 84/85 season would have ended if he&#039;d have stayed, and also how the Jenna/Naldo murder plot would have been wrapped up. If the plan was always that Katherine was behind it, would they have brought her back or kept her as a shadowy offscreen presence? Morgan Brittany&#039;s pregnancy would presumably have precluded her being involved in any major way, so did they check her availability in advance or did they just assume that she would come back? I always got the impression that Duffy&#039;s decision came relatively late in the day, so they didn&#039;t plan out the entire season building up to his death, did they? Does anyone have any inside information or speculation as to what the original plan was or how these things might have played out had he stayed?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ian UK, post: 316073, member: 244"] I've wondered this in the past... Does anyone know when Patrick made the decision and then informed them that he was quitting? And how did that tie in with the storylines for that year? Indeed, have any Dallas producers or writers ever spoken about how far in advance storylines were planned in terms of cast availability? I guess with all of them on initial 7 year contracts, this was the first time that a lead actor was able to quit and Duffy took the opportunity to do so. It makes me wonder how the 84/85 season would have ended if he'd have stayed, and also how the Jenna/Naldo murder plot would have been wrapped up. If the plan was always that Katherine was behind it, would they have brought her back or kept her as a shadowy offscreen presence? Morgan Brittany's pregnancy would presumably have precluded her being involved in any major way, so did they check her availability in advance or did they just assume that she would come back? I always got the impression that Duffy's decision came relatively late in the day, so they didn't plan out the entire season building up to his death, did they? Does anyone have any inside information or speculation as to what the original plan was or how these things might have played out had he stayed? [/QUOTE]

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