Episode #1121

I knew a few people who were absolutely mortified by some of the "racy" passages in the Marilyn Ross books, which seemed pretty innocuous to me.

(  Granted, I haven't read all of them, but like you, I don't recall reading anything in them that came anywhere near racy!

What would these people have ever thought if someone actually wrote about what went on between Barnabas and Angelique on those "nights in Martinique"?! I seriously doubt they simply played checkers.  )

Well, one of the staples of daytime television for decades, even before DS, has been the discovery of a child born out of wedlock. With the possible exception of Victoria Winters, whose true parentage was never established, and the yet to be born child of Catherine and Bramwell, that never happened on the television show or any of the other series or films that followed. It's difficult for me to believe that Quentin wouldn't have a few heirs scattered about Maine and elsewhere.

It's difficult for me to believe that Quentin wouldn't have a few heirs scattered about Maine and elsewhere.

(Exactly! Especially from all those years between 1897 and 1970!! Loads of potential storyline fodder than was never mined... But then this is the same show that had like one scene between Quentin and Chris when they actually but all too shallowly acknowledged Chris was his grandson)