gerard makes a good point...perhaps vicki might have been so traumatized by jeff/peter's disappearance into the past that she might have needed a little r & r at wyndcliff.there she'd remain while the rest of the cast proceeded onto the 1897 storyline without her.the timing would have worked out had she wanted to return when the storyline did to the "present"(no need to write in her pregnancy or deal with a reason for her to be in 1897).

i've read too the "rosemary's baby" scenario penny mentioned.it would  have been very cool but i don't think daytime television at the time was progressive enough to tackle something like that.remember that this is only a few years away from married couples sleeping in twin beds on t.v..

it worked for a movie but satanic rape was probably not a subject a soap opera could realistically get away with in 1968. 

in watching alexandra moltke's final episodes i could almost swear i could detect the tiniest bit of pregnant tummy bulging through the sleeveless.

if she hadn't opted to leave the show when she did how would they ever have handled a pregnancy for this character?the very topic of pregnancy was still handled delicately at the time.and for a girl who was supposed to be so virtuous?even if she had married jeff a pregnancy would of course meant that she had had sex and that seems so out of character for miss goody-two-shoes.

would they just have tried to hide her "condition"?vicki standing behind sofas?carrying giant pocketbooks?wearing a ridiculous array of blowsy,oversized garments a la diana millay in the first laura collins story?

since so many of her a-lines already looked like maternity dresses could they just ignore it all together and hope no one noticed?

Natalie: We're very sorry for your loss Peter.But when the hell did you become a pirate?

(The shirt.  )

nice work arashi.

I wonder if KLS uses the "Lauren Hutton Face Disc"...

very cute claude...what does ms. hutton say?she's turned down 27 infomercials?doubt it.

weird...the show looks like it was filmed fairly recently but the interview with kls looks like it was from the late 80's/early 90's.

64.)when you meet a rather serious,intense older lesbian in a bar who's name happens to be "victoria" and you proceed to bore this poor woman nearly to tears with a tipsy description of the d.s. character's background and mannerisms and hairdo and various storylines until she drily tells you that she's nothing like that and abruptly changes the subject.

65.)later...when the topic of conversation addresses serious issues of homophobia you clumsily try to re-introduce the show with the story of how barnabas had to bite willie loomis on the wrist because the network thought that having him bite him on the neck was too homoerotic.

23.)when you start brushing-off friday evening plans so you can go home and watch d.s. until all hours.

24.)when you have the irresistable urge to take a photograph of your favorite character to your local fabric store and have it silkscreened on to a pillow(and i mean it).

25.)when a plot development you dislike occurs it makes you miserable for days(more so than something bad really happening in your own life).

sarah:"the green velvet is pretty...but i had mine lined in fuscia."

david:"...yours?!?..."

silver filigreed fountain pen anyone?

or how about burke devlin's apartment.first burke lives there,then tony peterson and later on joe haskell.they keep refurnishing it but it's the same.they were even too cheap to buy new curtains.they're always the same loose-weave taupe drapes.and it's always #24.i haven't seen alot of the leviathan stuff but i think paul stoddard ends up there as well.

and roger collins' office makes an impressive array of appearances in various time periods.

and the portrait of betty hanscome.sam evans gives it to victoria but somehow it ends up back at the evans' cottage.it's seen in the background alot but no one talks about it or how much it looks like vicki.