What happened to Bucky?
Although Justin Deas (Bucky) was part of the original cast, his airtime diminished progressively after a while. It is unclear why, although the sphere of the show in which he was introduced did effectively cease to exist. When the show first premiered, he had a family of sorts (with Nell and Seneca), but Diana van der Vlis, the actress who played Nell, had to be written out of the story in the first year due to medical problems. This left Seneca to pursue Jillian, to whom Bucky had no connection whatsoever. Also, when Ryan’s Hope first premiered, it was a cross between a hospital drama, originally slated to be titled “A Rage to Love” (like the mock soap opera in Nurse Betty) that the network wanted, and the story of the Ryans and their bar that creators Labine and Mayer wanted, with Bucky being a part of the former. For whatever reason, around the time of Jack and Mary’s wedding in the summer of 1976, the hospital aspect was de-emphasized and most of the story shifted to a game of musi
