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This whole section should be rewritten. Not only is this melodramatic editorializing, but it's absurd to say that "most fans" do anything--the writer of this section has no idea what "most fans" do or don't think. More importantly, it doesn't MATTER what most fans think--it happened on the show.
"Victoria was thought to have lived happily ever after, but in 1970, the ghost of Peter Bradford appeared and told antique store owner Phillip Todd that Victoria had been killed by the Leviathans, the same otherworldly creatures which were battling Barnabas Collins at that time. The ghost tried to convince Todd to destroy the Leviathan leader, Jeb Hawkes. Angelique found out about what was going on and told Peter Bradford to return to his grave, as she was going to take her own vengeance against Jeb and the Leviathans (which she did). Victoria's inexplicable off-screen death came about when Dennis Patrick was unable to reprise the role of Paul Stoddard whose ghost would return to take revenge on Jeb. Another factor involved Alexandra Moltke's decision not to return to the series when asked. Thus, Victoria was apparently killed off in a fit of pique! Most Dark Shadows fans tend to ignore this development as it makes little sense that Jeb existed at the same time Victoria and Jeff departed Collinsport."
Those of us who are old enough to remember the original series are also old enough to remember the rise of ending women's names with an "i" instead of the more traditional "y" (Cindi/Cindy ; Mandi/Mandy) in the late 1970s. If you look at the popularity of the names Vicky and Vicki in items scanned by Google Books which were written between 1940 (Victoria was born in 1946 or 1947) and 1970 (when her character was written out of the show) you can clearly see that "Vicky" was the prefered spelling of the time rather than "Vicki". http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Vicky%2CVicki&year_start=1940&year_end=1970&corpus=0&smoothing=5
