WHY WERE JIM, OBOE AND ABIGAIL WRITTEN OUT?
As was mentioned above, it’s likely that Jim was written out to be replaced by an adult character. He proved to be a very unpopular character and this no doubt helped the decision along. It seems clear that Oboe was written out because he was only ever used as Jim’s sidekick. Without Jim there, he became superfluous. Had his character been developed prior to this, and more made of him, perhaps it would have been different, but it wasn’t to be. He was barely noticed when he was in the series (no detriment to Anthony Galde; he just simply wasn’t given much to do), so his loss went very much unnoticed. Abigail was written out because Kari Wuhrer wanted to leave the series. The reasons are unknown. THROWAWAYS, TRIVIA AND ‘IN’ JOKES: In ‘The Shipment’, the name on the side of the truck is “Von Huene Trucking”. The Director for that episode was Walter Von Huene. In ‘A Jury of his Fears’, the worm like monster guarding Arcane is the same creature that killed him in ‘Death of Dr. Arcane’. In T
