Roseanne: What You Need to Remember About How the Original Series Ends

At the end of the original series, Mark is married to Becky (the series finale notwithstanding) and they are expecting. In the revival, Mark is deceased. We don't know what happened to him — presumably that will be revealed in the revival's nine-episode first season — but the show's creators told me at press tour that they didn't see any other way to handle the character of Mark in light of actor Glenn Quinn's death in 2003.