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With Cindy Beale coming back from the dead to haunt Ian this week, we profile the most bizarre plots in soap history.

In a cliffhanger on the episode finale of Dynasty, Moldavian terrorists machine-gunned the Carrington clan! Tragedy you might think eh? But then the next season they all seemed to be OK, except for a few scratches. There were even plans for Joan Collins (Alexis Carrington) to become the Queen of Moldavia. Even series producer Diana Gould had to admit: "What looked good on paper, didn't really play out." Er, quite.