And here's how Scene 144 plays in the pilot:
144 EXT. CAROLYN'S CAR - DRIVING - DAY
Carolyn is driving her small, blue convertible. Vicki, in jeans and an oversized white knit turtleneck sweater, is beside her. Carolyn has been talking.
CAROLYN So, when my mother called, I gave up the bright lights and came home.
VICKI That's too bad.
CAROLYN Tell me ... I was just starting to get somewhere.
VICKI Well, are you still taking pictures?
Carolyn looks at her and nods.
(CONTINUED)
Revised 2/28/90
144 CONTINUED:
CAROLYN Some.
VICKI Well, maybe now that I'm here you can go back.
They've reached the stable area. Carolyn pulls into the driveway.
CAROLYN Yeah, it'd be, uh kind of tough to leave, ya know, right now.
VICKI Yeah. I guess you're right.
Carolyn parks, and Vicki gets out.
VICKI Thanks, Carolyn.
CAROLYN Take the chestnut mare. (a smile) Her name's Carolyn. I'll see you later.
VICKI Okay.
And putting the car in gear, Carolyn pulls away as Vicki turns, walks into the stable.
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I suspect that perhaps the changes were made because initially when the script was written it was intended for Carolyn to be a few years younger than Vicki, as was the case on the original series. But after Barbara Blackburn was cast as Carolyn I suppose they figured they should age her and give Carolyn a career that she'd left behind to come back to Collinwood. Though very little of that matters so far as the NBC version of the pilot goes because basically all of Scene 144 was cut in that version and wasn't seen until the MPI VHS was released. The only thing that was seen on NBC was:
And putting the car in gear, Carolyn pulls away as Vicki turns, walks into the stable.
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However, this moment from the restored footage was featured in the original slideshow:
Ep #1 (Extended) - Carolyn: 'It'd be, uh, kind of tough to
leave, you know, right now.' And it shouldn't go without saying that today's quote -
Page 60A/Scene 144 - Carolyn: 'Take the chestnut mare. (a smile) Her name's Carolyn. I'll see you later.'
- is the one bit of dialogue that remains from the originally scripted version of the scene.