DAVID MASON DANIELS

One of Clarissa's four strapping sons (the tall, hunky, square-jawed one), Tyler was a painfully moral military captain and easily the dullest character on Capitol.

Unfortunately, most of the show's initial plotlines revolved around Ty and his star-crossed-Romeo-and-Juliet romance with Julie Clegg, a union complicated by his capture in war-torn N'Shoba, Julie's amnesia, and opposition from just about everyone in town. After the two finally made it to the alter in July 1983, Tyler ran for his brother-in-law's Congressional seat, and although he lost the election, he was appointed to a special crime commission that sought to destroy an international crime cartel operating out of the Caribbean. In March 1985, the Pan-Caribbean investigation in full swing, Tyler mysteriously vanished.

DANE WITHERSPOON

Two months later, he was rescued from an Italian monastery where he'd been held captive by Pan-Caribbean criminals. Still tall, hunky, square-jawed, and dull, the new, improved Tyler did possess one attribute...better acting skills.

He and wife Julie quickly made the grievous error of buying their black market baby Allison from Trey's unscrupulous attorney Austin Sinclair. Unbeknownest to Tyler, the adoption had been arranged by Sandy Vincent, chief flunky to crooked Senator Josh Harrington, head of the Pan-Caribbean cartel. Tyler soon found himself having to choose between his new daughter and the criminal investigation to which he'd devoted much of his life. Eventually, he busted Harrington, exposed the cartel, and left to take an Interpol job in Geneva. No one really noticed his absence...including the show's writers, who never bothered to bring him back.

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