They'll be whistling Dixie in Pine Valley again. Cady McClain is coming back to All My Children. It's not unusual for a soap favorite to return to the show where they once were a prominent player. It happens all the time. Cady has done it before, multiple times. But this time is different. This time she's coming back as a ghost!You see, last January 2007, Dixie was killed by a serial killer. She returns now because she has a job to do, reuniting Tad with the child they thought they'd lost, Kate.
According to the ABC release, "Kate was stolen at birth, put up for adoption and now lives with Nurse Julia under the name of Kathy. Only Adam - Dixie's evil ex-husband and Tad's lifelong enemy - knows the truth that Kathy is Tad and Dixie's child. Dixie's ghost watched as Tad received a comforting hug from Kathy. It was then that Dixie realized Kathy was really her daughter. Now, with her angelic hand, Dixie will guide Tad into the loving embrace of their little girl."
Now, I know what you're thinking. If she's a ghost, how long can her return last? You'd be surprised. On General Hospital, actor Stuart Damon died on screen as Alan Quartermaine and has never left the show. He's been his sister, Tracey's, conscience. On the same show, Emily Quartermaine (actress Natalia Livingston) was murdered last year and is still actively on the show as a presence, ghost, figment of Nikolas Cassadine's mind. So, you see, on soaps -- like sci-fi -- anything is possible.
Back to Cady, she started out on All My Children, then went to CBS on As the World Turns. Then back to AMC, before another return to ATWT. And now, once more, she's returning to AMC. One thing for sure, whichever show Cady's on, she's a popular favorite. And she's won Daytime Emmys for both roles.
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3-24-2008 @ 5:40PM
Jenny said...
Wait, what? Killed by a serial killer? I used to watch AMC daily, but I guess I've fallen behind. A LOT.
So, wasn't Dixie dead, or just missing? Then she came back, only to be immediately murdered? Gotta love those soaps!
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3-24-2008 @ 7:47PM
C C said...
I can't believe Cady McClain is returning to AMC in any fashion after the way they botched her return the last time. First, she comes back from the dead in one of the lamest soap storylines of recent memory (the crooked baby doctor/baby seller), then gets killed off in another lame storyline (killed by poised pancakes in the Satin Slayer serial killer plot). I suppose she and the AMC producers want to bring "closure" to the Tad-Dixie lovestory by having Dixie guide Tad to their daughter, but the idea of having her come back as an angel? Yuck.
It's also surprising that McClain would return because she had written some unflattering comments about the head honchos of AMC and ABC daytime on her blog (particularly concerning their shoddy treatment of the great soap veteran Julia Barr, who left AMC a few years ago because they believed she was over-the-hill and not worthy of any front-burner storylines). It was believed that McClain was forced off because she spoke out.
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3-24-2008 @ 9:31PM
Jojee said...
I am surprised she is back as well. It was a very messy "divorce" from AMC. Of course her coming back is not really surprising considering Jesse Hubbard, who was a ghost on the show a couple of times, is back after being shot dead 20 years ago (his death was faked by an evil origami hobbyist - reason tba).
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