One of the worst ones (imho) was on Y&R, when Bill Bell did his story with serial rapist, "Ron Becker," played by Dick DeCoit.

Bell originally said the story was something of a "do-over", since he'd just done the rape story with George Curtis (Tony Geary) who'd raped the show's lead ingenue, Chris Brooks (Trish Stewart). .. In that one, George was eventually arrested, the case went to trail, but he wasn't convicted and walked. Apparently, CBS got letters.

In the second one, Ron Becker also set his sights on Chris, but ended up raping her younger (virgin) sister, Peggy Brooks. Besides raping women, Ron was also making his wife koo-koo with psych meds to control her. There was also a young daughter in the house, so this led to a custody issue, which Chris became involved in.

But instead of showing a rapist being tried and convicted, Bell's story suddenly went all Freudian (typical). .. Before it was over, Bell introduced Ron's mother, "Marion," and the audience was now supposed see that ALL of Ron's sex crimes were the result of him being raised by a cold, unfeeling mother.

It all happened rather quickly, and Ron had some kind of "epiphany," which led to him and the mother making amends; he reconnected and apologized to his institutionalized wife, and they soon regained custody of their daughter. .. In no time at all, the entire family, including Mother Marion, packed it up and moved to Alaska for a happily-ever ending.

It was really bizarre and hardly a 'do-over.'