During episode 4, Jessica kept saying that she had 4 children. Who was the fourth child?
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Darling_Mikki — 13 years ago(May 25, 2012 04:24 PM)
I just saw an ep. where she said that. It was during season 3. Corrine was complaining about it being hard to have a social life(i.e. get laid)when you have a baby. Jessica said "I know I have four of them."
I think it might have been the ep where Eunice left. -
IcingOnTheCake — 13 years ago(May 25, 2012 11:36 PM)
Thanks for narrowing it down. I have all 4 seasons in MP4 form so I was able to find it once I had some sort of reference point.
It's in Season 03 Episode 16. Corrine is in the kitchen making lunch for her baby when Jessica walks in and they chat. Corrine complains that it's difficult dating with a kid and Jessica says she knows because she has "4", Corrine then tells her that it's different because Jessica's children are all grown. Billy then enters to say how sick of Leslie he has become.
It could have been a slip of the tongue, a plot twist they never visited, or her father that was like a child but certainly then not in the "all grown up" category. -
TheFatDruidofNacyl — 13 years ago(August 02, 2012 01:32 AM)
Well Happy Days and Family Matters both introduced a sibling that later disappeared without any explanation. Why not mention a character that is never shown?
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RaveReviewerzzz — 13 years ago(December 28, 2012 09:10 AM)
By coincidence I have just read on Soap Wikipedia entry that a storyline that Jessica had a long lost son was wrote for the show but was cancelled. So it is possible that she mentioned 4 children as they prepared for a new story.
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SkipEastport — 12 years ago(February 02, 2014 04:11 PM)
Jessica and Chester had an older son named David who vanished in Vietnam. He was mentioned in Susan Harris' bible for the show and would've turned up later in the series if it hadn't been cancelled before the planned fifth season.
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richard.fuller1 — 11 years ago(June 21, 2014 05:18 PM)
SkipEastport: "Jessica and Chester had an older son named David who vanished in Vietnam. He was mentioned in Susan Harris' bible for the show and would've turned up later in the series if it hadn't been cancelled before the planned fifth season."
That too sounds familiar, but again, wherever I heard it, it's been almost forty years.
I was going to point out on an episode of Mama's Family, Thelma Harper (Vicki Lawrence) said something about raising four kids. Of course, all we ever saw were Eunice, Ellen and Vinton.
On The Carol Burnett Show, Alan Alda and Tommy Smothers portrayed one-shot brothers, as well as Roddy McDowell's appearances as PHillip, no other sibling was ever shown to my knowledge. -
MItocents — 9 years ago(June 08, 2016 01:13 PM)
printed in the Los Angeles Times on June 27, 1977. A production memo was printed stating. "The CIA or any other government organization is not to be involved in General Nu's smuggling operation." (This character and storyline, which dealt with a Vietnamese opium smuggler who becomes involved in the Tate family through Jessica's long-lost son, was eventually removed from the show bible.)
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cliff2005 — 9 years ago(September 09, 2016 06:20 AM)
This character never made it to air. Jessica and Chester's eldest child was actually a son named David. David Tate had gone MIA five years before the action on Soap began. In Vietnam, David had been having an affair with an Asian girl named Noyen Nu. He went missing without knowing she was pregnant. She gave birth to his son Joey Nu Tate. Noyen and Joey were to have gone to Dunn's River to find the Tates. Eventually David would have made it back alive too. It would've turned out that Noyen's father was an opium baron. Meanwhile, Burt had a middle son named Michael who was a smuggler. He was to have kidnapped Joey Nu Tate and held him ransom in exchange for drugs from Noyen's father. David would've searched for them similar to Jody searching for Wendy after she was kidnapped by Carol.
True story!!!!!!!