Remember when Marlena got a visit from the devil?
Well apparently, the NBC sudser misses those days.
Hold on to your Pazuzu:Days of Our Livesis bringing back its memorable possession storyline this fall.
Deidre Hall as Marlena Evans, Drake Hogestyn as Father John Black on “Days of Our Lives.".Gary Null/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank
There’s also this teaser.
Many years later, we asked executive producerKen Corday about the infamous plot point.
“And I said we’re going to doThe Exorcist?
Deidre Hall as possessed Marlena Evans on “Days of Our Lives.".Gary Null/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank
He said, ‘That’s right.’
I said, ‘We’re going to do a feature film?’
And he said, ‘No, we’re going to make it great.
It’s a serial.’
It was supposed to last three months, starting somewhere around Halloween and ending with a Christmas miracle.
People remember because the effects were so strange.
