Original U.S. run: March 21, 1988 – March 17, 1989
Episodes: 252 — Episodes #0242 through #0493

The official Bold and Beautiful archive lists 252 episodes for Season 2. Episode #0242 aired March 21, 1988, and the season finale, #0493, aired March 17, 1989. (The Bold and the Beautiful)

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Official cast photo

The first photograph above is a late-1980s B&B ensemble publicity portrait, while the second is a 1988 CBS Photo Archive promotional portrait of the original Forrester family: Clayton Norcross, Ronn Moss, Teri Ann Linn, Susan Flannery and John McCook.

Complete principal and recurring cast

Season 2 has a noticeably larger ensemble than Season 1. This is the season in which the original Forrester/Logan/Spencer structure expands through Stephen Logan’s return, the Angela/Deveney story and, toward the end, the introduction of the Spectra world.

Character	Actor	Role in Season 2
Eric Forrester	John McCook	Forrester patriarch; plans to leave Stephanie for Beth
Stephanie Forrester	Susan Flannery	Forrester matriarch; fights to preserve her marriage and conceal family secrets
Ridge Forrester	Ronn Moss	Torn increasingly between Brooke and Caroline
Thorne Forrester	Clayton Norcross	Caroline’s husband; his jealousy of Ridge leads to the season’s shooting storyline
Kristen Forrester	Teri Ann Linn	Falls deeply in love with Clarke and marries him
Felicia Forrester	Colleen Dion	Youngest Forrester daughter
Caroline Spencer Forrester	Joanna Johnson	Married to Thorne but unable to extinguish her feelings for Ridge
Bill Spencer Sr.	Jim Storm	Caroline’s protective father; increasingly involved with Donna and Margo
Brooke Logan	Katherine Kelly Lang	Ridge’s principal romantic partner; pregnant by the season finale
Beth Logan	Nancy Burnett	Eric’s former college sweetheart and great love
Stephen Logan	Robert Pine	Beth’s estranged husband, brought back into the Logan family
Storm Logan	Ethan Wayne	Protective Logan son; develops feelings for Kristen and supports Margo
Donna Logan	Carrie Mitchum	Becomes a model and is drawn into the Nick Preston/Bill Spencer storyline
Katie Logan	Nancy Sloan	Youngest Logan daughter
Helen “Grandma” Logan	Lesley Woods	Logan family matriarch
Rocco Carner	Bryan Genesse	Continues his involvement with Donna and Katie and works around Forrester
Margo Maclaine Lynley	Lauren Koslow	Has an affair with Clarke, becomes pregnant and gives birth to his son
Clarke Garrison	Daniel McVicar	Ambitious designer; marries Kristen while secretly fathering Margo’s baby
Conway Weston	Jerry Ayres	Private investigator working for Stephanie
Nick Preston	Clyde Allan Hayes	Magazine publisher and Donna’s lover; April 7, 1988–March 2, 1989
Angela Forrester / “Deveney Dixon”	Judith Borne	Woman presented as Stephanie and Eric’s supposedly disabled daughter; the storyline becomes a major mystery
Todd Powell	Jeff Allin	Angela’s doctor/caretaker and accomplice in the deception
Pierre Jourdan	Robert Clary	French character connected with the expanding storylines of the period
Sally Spectra	Darlene Conley	Flamboyant owner of Spectra Fashions and new rival to the Forresters
Darla Einstein	Schae Harrison	Sally’s loyal, eccentric assistant
Saul Feinberg	Michael Fox	Spectra’s longtime tailor and confidant
Mark Maclaine	Zachariah Koslow-Schillace	Infant son of Margo and Clarke

Nick Preston’s documented run begins on April 7, 1988 (#0255). (Wikipédia) The Spectra family begins to emerge near the end of the season; Sally is already interacting with Stephanie by March 1989. (The Bold and the Beautiful)

Major plots

Eric, Beth and Stephanie — the marriage collapses. Eric’s renewed love for Beth Logan becomes impossible to ignore. He wants a future with Beth and moves toward ending his marriage to Stephanie. Stephanie refuses to surrender Eric and secretly works to reunite Beth with her long-absent husband, Stephen Logan. Her plan succeeds when Stephen returns, forcing Beth to confront the family she once had and complicating her future with Eric. The official season archive follows this story from the opening episodes. (The Bold and the Beautiful)

Brooke and Ridge become the show’s central romance. Brooke tries to distance herself from Ridge because of Caroline, but the attraction between them becomes increasingly difficult to resist. Ridge moves toward a genuine commitment to Brooke, culminating in an engagement at the end of December. In Episode #0441, December 30, 1988, Ridge gives Brooke her engagement ring in a glass of champagne. (The Bold and the Beautiful)

Caroline cannot let go of Ridge. Caroline’s marriage to Thorne becomes increasingly fragile because her feelings for Ridge remain unresolved. One particularly dangerous moment occurs after Caroline gets drunk: Ridge slips into her bed as a prank, and Caroline initially believes she is with Thorne. The emotional consequences deepen the triangle and intensify Thorne’s jealousy. (TheTVDB)

Thorne shoots Ridge. The Ridge–Caroline situation eventually pushes Thorne over the edge. After drinking heavily and taking sleeping medication, Thorne shoots Ridge. Stephanie becomes determined to protect her son and conceal what happened. The shooting becomes one of the foundational Forrester family secrets and feeds directly into the Angela storyline.

Kristen and Clarke marry — while Clarke is sleeping with Margo. Clarke Garrison establishes himself as a talented but ruthlessly ambitious designer. He becomes involved with Kristen while simultaneously having an affair with Margo. Kristen accepts his proposal, and the couple elope to Las Vegas. Kristen Forrester and Clarke Garrison are married on June 29, 1988, in Episode #0314. (The Bold and the Beautiful)

Almost immediately afterward, Clarke learns that Margo is pregnant with his child. On July 8 she reveals the pregnancy; Clarke desperately tries to keep the truth from Kristen. (TheTVDB)

Margo gives birth to Clarke’s son. Margo carries Clarke’s child while allowing others to believe that Clarke is not the father. She receives emotional support from Storm and later gives birth to Mark Maclaine. The child is born on December 9, 1988; by December 14, Margo is home with her baby and asks Storm to become his godfather. (The Bold and the Beautiful)

Donna’s modeling career becomes a scandal. Donna begins working with publisher Nick Preston, posing for increasingly revealing photographs. Nick falls for her, but Bill Spencer controls the publication of the pictures. Donna’s nude photographs eventually become public, creating scandal — and the storyline takes an ironic turn when nude photographs of Bill himself are published. The plot mixes Donna’s ambitions, her romance with Nick and Bill’s attempts to control both of them. (The Bold and the Beautiful)

The Angela Forrester mystery deepens. Stephanie has secretly maintained contact with a severely disabled daughter, Angela, whom the rest of the Forrester family believes died years earlier. The woman living as Angela is actually Deveney Dixon, while the real Angela died before the series began. Todd Powell perpetuates the deception. During Season 2 the story increasingly intersects with Thorne and Stephanie’s secret about Ridge’s shooting, but the full revelation does not occur until Season 3 in April 1989. (The Bold and the Beautiful)

Spectra Fashions enters the picture. Late in the season, Sally Spectra emerges as the flamboyant owner of a rival fashion house. Clarke becomes entangled with Sally and secretly supplies designs, setting up the long-running Forrester Creations vs. Spectra Fashions rivalry that will become one of the defining elements of the 1990s. By March 3, 1989, Sally is already trying to ingratiate herself with Stephanie while pressuring Clarke for designs. (The Bold and the Beautiful)

Brooke is pregnant. Season 2 closes with the revelation that Brooke is pregnant with Ridge’s child. Brooke tells Stephanie, Caroline learns the news, and Ridge reacts with troubling ambivalence. Brooke briefly considers abortion, but in the finale — March 17, 1989, Episode #0493 — doctors confirm the pregnancy and detect a heartbeat. The pregnancy and its eventual miscarriage belong to the next season. (The Bold and the Beautiful)

Births

Mark Maclaine — December 9, 1988

Parents: Margo Maclaine Lynley and Clarke Garrison.

Mark is the only major on-screen birth of Season 2. Margo gives birth to Clarke’s son while Clarke is married to Kristen. The official B&B “Births” collection includes the immediate aftermath in S2 E189 / Episode #0430, aired December 14, when Margo asks Storm to be Mark’s godfather. Character records date Mark’s birth and first appearance to December 9, 1988. (The Bold and the Beautiful)

Brooke’s pregnancy does not count as a Season 2 birth: she is still pregnant when the season ends.

Marriages

Kristen Forrester & Clarke Garrison — June 29, 1988

The couple elope to Las Vegas. The wedding takes place in Season 2, Episode 73 / overall Episode #0314, originally aired June 29, 1988. (The Bold and the Beautiful)

That marriage becomes increasingly unstable almost immediately because of Clarke’s affair with Margo and the revelation that he fathered Mark.

No other major wedding is completed during Season 2. In particular, Ridge and Brooke become engaged on December 30, 1988, but they do not marry during this season. (The Bold and the Beautiful)

A correction to some online B&B marriage lists is worth noting: Margo and Bill Spencer do not marry in Season 2. Their wedding occurs later, on August 28, 1989 (Season 3, Episode #0609). (TheTVDB)

Deaths

No present-day major character death occurs during Season 2

There is, however, one extremely important historical death revealed through the Angela storyline:

The real Angela Forrester — Eric and Stephanie’s daughter — had actually died before the events being shown, after an accidental fall. The woman Stephanie believes to be Angela during Season 2 is Deveney Dixon. The truth is not revealed to Stephanie until April 12, 1989, during Season 3, when Todd admits that the real Angela had died approximately a year earlier. (The Bold and the Beautiful)

Therefore, for a strict Season 2 births/marriages/deaths chronology, I would record:

Deaths during the season: 0.
Previously occurring death central to the season’s plot: Angela Forrester.

Todd Powell’s death also does not belong to Season 2; it occurs later in 1989. (The Bold and the Beautiful)

Season 2 at a glance

252 episodes (#0242–#0493) | 1 major birth | 1 completed major marriage | 0 present-day major deaths

Season 2 is essentially the year in which The Bold and the Beautiful expands beyond its original setup. Brooke and Ridge become the show’s central romantic force; Caroline’s feelings for Ridge threaten her marriage to Thorne; Thorne shoots Ridge; Eric and Beth try to reunite; Stephanie fights to preserve her family; Kristen marries Clarke; Margo gives birth to Clarke’s son; the Angela deception grows; and Sally Spectra arrives, planting the seeds of the Forrester–Spectra rivalry. The official B&B archive itself summarizes the season around the escalating Ridge/Brooke attraction and the damage it causes to marriages, friendships and the Forrester family’s fragile peace. (The Bold and the Beautiful)