
That's why Mark Harmon turns heel in season four and then is shown the door-he told the writers to "get excited about his character." In the People magazine feature about him leaving the show (I have an old post linking to that), the article's author even writes something like, "You can almost imagine the writers thinking, heh heh, Harmon, is this what you were asking for?" Elsewhere behind the scenes: if an actor challenged the producers on what they wanted to do with their character, they'd find themselves out of a job. Reply DeleteĬynthia Sikes was dropped from the show precisely because of that storyline, and you're right-Sikes objected to playing a lesbian (and literally cried to a network exec, to which Bruce Paltrow countered that pretending to cry was just her actor's trick to manipulate him), so they re-wrote the character in that storyline to reflect her attitude. Elsewhere characters - Peter White, Wendy Armstrong, Bobby Caldwell and Mrs. But I remember reading an article in TV Guide (?) about the shocking departures of many St. If any of these details are wrong I apologize. From what I understand there were no hard feelings on anyone's part as they thought it was best and would make for a shocking twist. That's why her bulimia story line is a bit abrupt.

The producers decided that they could not explain Armstrong's absense and thought it would be a way to solve how Pete stays with Wendy leaving. They did not intend to drop the character but rather for the audience to think one of the "nicer" characters was being written out.


At the same time the producers and writers wanted to create a story line that Jack may not be invited back for the next year of residency.
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The filming of the movie was going to conflict - not with the whole season of St. Kim had been cast as Yoko Ono in the television film John and Yoko: A Love Story. As for Kim Miyori's departure I had heard at the time it was several factors that came together.
