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Lori in season 6 please reply

posted 11 years ago by cmulwee001
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At the beginning of the final season, about 5 orphan(?) children step off the Cannonball, to see and visit Hooterville and oliver and Lisa, four of them leave, but Lori, played by the adorable Victoria Meyerink stays behind and takes a liking to Mrs, Douglas and vice versa. She even stays at their house This added a sweetness and heartfelt tone to the series, that it never had before, and you were kind of hoping that either the Douglas's or Eb would adopt her.

But after only 5 shows the write her out!, She boards a plane and goes to live with, i think her uncle.

Why did they get rid of her? Did CBS think this was out of character for the series?
Then again adding a little kid to a show is most always a death wish. Green Acres was in it's last season anyway.

[–] upperco 11 years ago

She wasn't funny.

[–] holbrookp 11 years ago

Well, you mean they didn't give her much to do that was funny. It's as if the writers didn't want her to be anything other than a typical sweet kid. It may be that they hired her to be funny but found she wasn't capable of good comedy timing or else her character just couldn't seem funny. I would like to ask her what she thinks about it. I'm friends with her on Facebook but she never posts anything. I suspect she may have one Facebook account for herself as a former celebrity (the one I know of) and another under another identity that she keeps private for her close friends and family.

"All necessary truth is its own evidence." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

[–] cmulwee001 11 years ago

Wow! You are actually in touch with Victoria? That's great. Now, i don't do Facebook,but I'm glad to find out I'm not the only one who remembers this adorable tyke. She grew up to be a writer and producer for TV.

I think, like you said, her character wasn't intended to be funny, but just a sweet loving kid. Children were rarely seen on this series, and it would have been nice to have kept her, even if if the show was about to fall victim to the rural purge.