If ONLY they'd completed that plotline...sheesh! What a disappointing NON ending to what had been a great build-up. I realize of course that Barnbabas took off like wildfire, but wouldn't it have been interesting to have him help Vicki search for the truth about her parents? Instead they just completely dropped her search for the truth! Double sigh....
And yes Patti, I totally agree, Victoria Garner would have sounded so nice. She at least had some CHEMISTRY w/him, unlike w/Mitch Ryan, Anthony George and Roger Davis, whom she didn't IMHO.
P.S. Did anyone else notice that the portrait of Betty Hanscomb, which Sam had given to Vicki and she'd taken to Collinwood, ended up back at the Evan's cottage w/no explanation? It's there in a scene between Nicholas and Maggie (volume 9 of the DVDs).