Was looking for something else and this popped up
A really nice article. Thanks for posting the link to it, Luciaphil.
and not in any way condescending (as many pieces about DS are)
Yes, what a refreshing change.
But how astonishing to read that the author of this piece seems to know for a fact something that the members of this forum routinely debate like mad.....the idea that Vickie was the illegitimate daughter of Elizabeth Collins Stoddard. He states it so baldly you'd think Liz told him herself!!
Well, the truth about Vicki's parentage wasn't ever resolved on the show, so it can be a subject up for debate. But while an actual answer isn't a part of DS Canon, that question probably has the closest thing to a canonical answer than any of the other questions we just love to debate because we know that when the DS Powers That Be noticed Alexandra Moltke's resemblance to Joan Bennett, they decided to depart from the idea that Vicki was Paul Stoddard's daughter (which Art Wallace had originally plotted in his Shadows on the Wall bible) and to instead make Vicki Liz's daughter. And even though it was never overtly played out on screen, Joan Bennett had mentioned on several occasions that she had been told that Vicki was indeed Liz's daughter and that she played Liz's scenes with Vicki with that subtext in mind.
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Probably one of the most noticeable scenes showing that occurs in episode #127 after Vicki mentions that she felt there was a resemblance between herself and Josette's ghost and that perhaps Josette is one of her ancestors, and Liz turns away with a troubled expression on her face but quickly covers by saying that would make Vicki a Collins (back in '66 & '67 the present day family were all supposedly direct descendants from Josette and Jeremiah) and she hardly thinks that's likely.
