PatrickDuffy_

I communicate with Suzanne. I communicate with Christine, who is now getting married - that shows you how long she's been around. I wrote a letter of introduction for Dana (who was played by Stacey) to get into law school, and she has since graduated and gone on to be a lawyer in LA. Those are my 3 closest connections. I still get Father's Day cards and christmas cards from my girls. I wanted to give Christine away at her wedding, but she chose her real father - I have no idea why.

I thought it was hilarious! They'd never asked me, so when I appeared as Scuzzlebutt's left leg, I thought it was just this tiny thing but it was one of the major things I'm known for. Sometimes I think it's more popular than DALLAS!

The Family Guy was prompted by the fact that they were such fans of DALLAS that they wanted to incorporate it in some form on the show. Anytime someone is a fan and in the business, I find it doubly rewarding and have a natural inclination to say yes.

Actually, one half of 2 seasons. I really enjoyed the demise of Bobby, that was enjoyable to do, that was the end of season 7. And then the very end of season 8, because it got so much attention, with the return of Bobby in the shower. So those were my two favorite moments in the show.

Bobby was killed off in the end of season 7 because Patrick Duffy the actor wanted to go out and do other things. Bobby returned at the end of Season 8 because Patrick Duffy found out that there weren't great things to do out there, and so he wanted to come home. Larry first approached me - I wasn't going to come back on the show, but Larry who was my closest friend, phoned me and convinced me to come back on the show, and then the writers had to focus on how to bring a dead man back.

I felt it was the only legitimate way to bring the character back, because it meant that the character never went away. Any other incarnation would have stretched, I feel, the credulity of the show itself - i.e. to invent another brother, or plastic surgery and he's now a bag person, the fact that Bobby could continue never having died was the perfect resolution.

No, there wasn't talk about stopping it as far as I know. I would assume any good business, which TNT and WB are, would have put that possibility on the table, but they have great confidence in the executive producer and her writing staff, and within the first couple of weeks of work after Larry died, the ideas as to how to continue the show were of such quality that the idea was never brought up again, and the show has continued.

Oh, little Josh! It was one of those things that they do on television quite a bit. I think it started on HAPPY DAYS where Richie's older brother just disappeared into the ether somewhere and was never mentioned again on the show. I think they did it on ROZEANNE. so on STEP BY STEP, they ran out of plot concepts to involve the character, and somehow by ignoring the character, the character disappeared. We never made mention of it, the show just sort of went on. We had enough kids, they probably couldn't keep track of them anyway.

Yes, it was very interesting that he reappeared after Dallas as my nephew. I don't communicate with him, but because of the miracle of social media, I track him by virtue of Facebook befriending so I know where he is and what he is doing. That's the extent i've communicated with him since the end of the show.