![]() ![]() ![]() You know, all the “Carrie” stuff for the first half of the season in the first two weeks, then they could be released until after the winter holidays, and no one had to worry about keeping social workers and tutors on the set for them. They may have even done most of their filming in blocks. With little enough for one actress to do, they probably stopped appearing in every episode (my sense of continuity is a little sketchy). This was shortly before other kids were introduced into the story, and Carrie faded into the background. It made you long for Melissa Gilbert’s scenery chewing and Michael Landon’s mugging for the camera. I seem to recall one awful episode that focused on Carrie, and used both girls, because Carrie fantasizes having a doppleganger, or something. When the Greenbushes got a little older, the scriptwriters tried giving them more to do, but it turned out they couldn’t act they’d been cast merely because they were twins who looked vaguely like they could be related to the rest of the family. The truth was that I didn’t like it, so I tried to avoid it, but several of my friends were in love with it, so I ended up seeing it quite a bit, especially once it was on afternoon reruns. I think they were what happened to Carrie. Twins are often used to portray very young children in TV due to child labor laws. Twin girls, Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush. See if Bobcat Goldthaiwt and Linda Blar are free for cameos” His performance as Rick Grimes was one of the main reasons audience members tuned into the show, and although it seemed unlikely he’d be one of the unfortunate characters to be killed off, his. ![]() “I’ll add a child star, until we burn up those jokes. “Hey Ron, we wrote a buncha “new kid” jokes. At least, not until Seven of Married with Children arrived. When baby Grace arrived, right on schedule, it was never as obvious. Once they can speak, they’re co-stars, and there’s only so much plotline that can be worked into a season. They’re needed to provide conflict by not being able to speak. The whole point of baby Carrie and baby Grace is for them to be inarticulate – its often referred to as “Grown Up out of Cuteness” but that’s not the whole story. What happens to them is what always happens when a baby grows up. So what happened to baby Grace? I only read the first novel, and I watched the show for much of its run, until I realized, around age 12, that I wasn’t watching a historical drama, but instead a nighttime soap opera. ![]()
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