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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Monzo" data-source="post: 439021" data-attributes="member: 19949">What if Lisa Hartman hadn't returned?In its early seasons, Knots Landing was the least daytime of all big primetime soaps, but the idea of having an actress appear in a different role—not as a twin sister, but merely as a doppelgänger—was risky, because it is very daytime. What if the writers had decided that Lisa Hartman as Cathy would do more harm than good and scrapped the idea? Would that have had a major impact on the show?Chip's death would certainly have been different, and Gary and Abby's first marital crisis would have unfolded differently, but how would Joshua's story have developed, if he had appeared at all? Perhaps Ginger would have returned to Knots Landing after her marriage failed and taken on the role of Joshua's singing girlfriend/wife, but how would Valene and Ben's marriage have ended?</blockquote>