Young and The Restless

I was just thinking, im kinda surprised none of the streaming services (Besides the ones that already carry the 4 daytime shows) have ever said "hey people binge shows maybe we could develop a daily drama for Netflix etc

I reached out to share new information with a friend no longer on FB...   His contributions:     LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING   Dr. Dorothy  Sawyer  Knowland...Judith Searle       1967-68  dated Jim Abbott          Mrs.  __ Marshall        housekeeper, Sawyer family,   believed in the occult                      Alice Drummond   1967-68                     Jean Stapleton  1968...3 days   Dan Sawyer    Edward Winter    1968  returned from Vietnam; Dorothy's brother Maxine ___ Sawyer   Mother of Dan and Dorothy; dated Will Donnelly  1967-68                         Jessie Royce Landis                                    Nancy Cushman   removed Alice Drummond from no character list.       A WORLD APART     William Barlow, headmaster of Windale, the exclusive boarding school Pat and Becky attend  ... HENRY BUTLER (1970)   Eleanor Barlow, William Barlow’s sympathetic wife ... DEIRDRE OWENS (1970)   Mary, a fellow student and friend to Pat and Becky, attending on a Better Chance scholarship... VERA MOORE (1970)     I'll add these later when I get to AWA.  

Exactly.   I put 1987 as the line of demarcation between the first wave and the second (which, like you say, was dominated by Miller-Boyett's output).  It isn't an EXACT line.  "Valerie"/"Valerie's Family"/"The Hogans"/"The Hogan Family" (which is a strange animal in this genre: a Miller/Boyett show that began as a star vehicle for adult Valerie Harper, then morphed into a showcase for Jason Bateman, Jeremy Licht and Danny Ponce once she was fired) premiered the year before; and "Growing Pains," a wolf-in-sheep's-clothing family show that was ostensibly about Alan Thicke and Joanna Kerns' characters but really wasn't, the year before that.  But, '87 is a good place to set down the marker, as that's the year FH, arguably the most successful and influential series from the second wave, premiered on ABC.   I'd also agree that "The Wonder Years" and "Doogie Howser, M.D." were closer to the "adult shows" than they were to the kid ones.  Kids and young adults watched them, but they weren't necessarily written and produced FOR them.  Same goes for "Family Ties," "Gimme a Break!" and "Who's the Boss?".  On each series, there was a balance of story and airtime between the kids and their adult counterparts (although, in "Gimme a Break!"'s case, you could certainly argue that every other character was just a prop for Nell Carter to lug around on set).     Pretty much.  For all intents and purposes, the end of "TGIF" on ABC's Friday night lineup was the end of all kid-centered sitcoms on the major networks.  After that, if you wanted that kind of show, you had to go to cable.     Exactly, lol.  By any measure, "Strokes" and "Facts of Life" were, at best, middling successes.  In fact, it's telling that Norman Lear never had his name associated with either series, even though his production companies, Tandem and T.A.T./Embassy, produced them both, and he had always put his name somewhere on new series in the past.  However, "Strokes" and FoL benefited from being on NBC at a time when even a middling success was better than no success at all.

I never want to piss Richard Shoberg off.