Favorite crossover character and episode

[pammy jean]

B.D. {before the dream} there were alot of occasions for Ewings to come to KL which one of them was your favorite and who was your favorite cross over from Dallas. My favorite is when Val had cancer and Bobby showed up.

[Emma Lemon]

..well thats not all that surprising really. Poor Val. http://www.soapchat.net/infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

Cheery O
Emma
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[Daniel Avery]

I always wished they could have done more with Lucy as a crossover character. She only appeared once, and in a clunker of a story if you ask me!
I think Lucy could have fit into KL easily, what with the producers' blond obsession and her ties to Val and Gary. I think two things kept her out of KL (other than the dream):

1. The producers wanted to put up as many roadblocks as possible to keep Gary and Val apart once Abby split them up. They wanted us to wait a long time to see them come back together, and having a daughter in common right there in town would have been an un-ignorable plot point.
2. Once the twins were conceived, the producers were probably trying very hard to "de-age" Joan Van Ark. Make viewers forget she had a twenty-something daughter out there by ignoring Lucy altogether. They did much the same thing to explain Maggie's late-in-life pregnancy on Falcon Crest (she had a grandson old enough to be in school when she gave birth later on in the series). Michele Lee and Kevin Dobson also benefitted from this scenario of looking younger by getting to play parents of an infant (Meg) after their grown children moved on.

I also think Miss Ellie and Lilimae would have been quite a combo if they had been given a chance to appear together. Can you imagine the two of them dishing about their respective families over a pot of coffee? The wallpaper would curl off the walls!
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Karen: "Nighttime around here is not exactly like nighttime at 'The Waltons'...."
---episode 173

[Radio Mike]

According to the book "Soapbox" by TV critic Hilary Kingsley (published about 10 years ago), Charlene Tilton tried unsuccessfully to get a part on Knots Landing when she was written out of Dallas in 1985.

But to be honest, I really can't see how Lucy would have fitted into KL at all. Apart from the fact that there wasn't really an awful lot for the character to do (something the Dallas producers also clearly struggled with), Charlene Tilton's, erm, acting style wouldn't really have fitted in with the likes of Michele Lee, Joan Van Ark, William Devane etc... If you get my drift! http://www.soapchat.net/infopop/emoticons/icon_razz.gif