Did you know the really interesting thing about those two episodes was the fact they were filmed at Producer David Jacobs' home, and there were no scripts. There was an outline of what was to happen, but the actors were free to ad lib! I think that was so cool!
That's not exactly what happened. The cast was called to David's house for two days, during which they were to ad lib in character and it was taped. However, the ad lib taping was not the final episodes that aired. As Donna Mills said in the reunion,
Knots Lanidng: Together Again, the writers then watched the tapes and
WROTE a script based on the ad lib performances (of course, they changed some things as necessary).
Per the producers, however, the biggest surprise was Teri Austin's performance. Jill wouldn't have much to do at Laura's funeral so Teri ad libbed the part about Jill being upset about finding Peter's ashes on Sumner's coffee table so the writers wrote that in. Good for Teri, that led to the writers beefing up her character and writing her more as a villain rather than as a girlfriend to Gary.
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