A closer look
Daytime television usually handles actor contract disputes by simply bringing in a new face and hoping the audience is too busy folding laundry to notice. But the 1980s prime-time soap Dynasty took recast continuity to a spectacularly unhinged level. When Emma Samms took over the role of Fallon Carrington from Pamela Sue Martin, the writers didn't just ignore the sudden physical transformation. They genuinely wrote in an alien abduction storyline to logically explain to viewers why the wealthy heiress suddenly possessed entirely different facial bone structure.
