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« on: January 28, 2011, 06:27:15 AM »Was Art the head writer at this time? I didn't realize that. I thought he just wrote the first 60 something episodes and then moved on. One has to wonder how DS would have turned out had the original team stayed in place? Alas...
Art Wallace plotted the show and wrote the first 65 scripts all by himself. But when that proved too exhausting, he brought on Francis Swann and they traded script writing up until Ron Sproat and Malcolm Marmorstein were brought in. Then Wallace focused exclusively on plotting and creating characters, which is what most head writers do best. And he remained with DS right up to and including the development and introduction of Barnabas.
Have you ever read the original brief outline in Shadows on the Wall for what the Laura storyline was to be before the decision was made to go supernatural?