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Zorro the Gay Blade's rampage at Tuscany was just as absurd in real time as it is as folklore. You're right, @DRW50, they ended up having Isabella's ghost help Brady get over his angst. Soap Opera Weekly had some fun with Kyle and Nadja's singing scenes: "Tune in for Rolf's rendition of 'Edelweiss,' followed by Alice Horton's inspiring 'Climb Every Mountain.'"

Oklahoma City, November 1980 KTVY 4 (NBC) 9:00am - The John Davidson Show 10:00am - Hour Magazine 11:00am - Card Sharks 11:30am - Dannysday 12:00am - Action 4 at Noon 12:30pm - Days of Our Lives 1:30pm - Another World 2:30pm - Texas 3:30pm - Tom and Jerry KOCO-TV 5 (ABC) 9:00am - Donahue 10:00am - The Love Boat 11:00am - All My Children (day-behind from 12:00pm) 12:00pm - 5 Alive NewsCenter at Noon 12:30pm - Ryan's Hope (one-hour delay) 1:00pm - One Life to Live 2:00pm - General Hospital 3:00pm - The Edge of Night 3:30pm - Happy Days Again KWTV 9 (CBS) 9:00am - The Jeffersons 9:30am - Alice 10:00am - The Price is Right 11:00am - The Young and the Restless 12:00pm - Midday 1:00pm - As The World Turns 2:00pm - Guiding Light 3:00pm - I Love Lucy 3:30pm - The Toni Tennille Show So at some point between July 1979 and November 1980, KTVY dropped THE DOCTORS, but then brought it back sometime before June 1982. Also, KWTV's midday news, which aired at 11:30 a.m. in July 1979 (instead of SEARCH) evidently got moved up a half-hour when Y&R expanded. It appears to have stayed an hour until CAPITOL debuted. I guess this partially explains why KTVY didn't pick up SEARCH -- why bother bringing back a show that hadn't aired in your market for years?

Nashville, plus northern Mississippi and Alabama, September 1977: WOWL, the NBC station in Florence, Alabama, also aired ATWT and GL. The two CBS soaps came after the network lineup, resulting in a unique afternoon: DOOL at 12:30, DOCTORS at 1:30, AW at 2, The Gong Show at 3, ATWT at 3:30 and GL at 4:30. I wonder how long this arrangement lasted, especially since all the CBS stations listed aired all the soaps. WHMA, the CBS station in Anniston, aired The PTL Club at the lead-in to LOL, with TPIR airing at 4:30 after Tattletales.

Clearly they were hoping Felicia would stop by and get inspired while on the dance floor.

Update: LOVING still wasn't airing in the Quad Cities as of December 1991.

September 1978, Nebraska-South Dakota-Iowa: SEARCH FOR TOMORROW aired at 3:30 p.m. (after Match Game '78) on KELO in Sioux Falls, since the station had an hour newscast from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. ALL MY CHILDREN aired on a one-day delay at 9 a.m. on KCAU in Sioux City and KHGI in Kearney. The stations ran news and The Cross-Wits at 12. The soaps all aired in pattern on the NBC stations. I'm a little surprised nobody dropped For Richer, For Poorer, but I guess the attitude was to just let it play out its run. Of note: three of the five stations aired Donahue rather than the 9-10 a.m. hour of the network midday lineup, Card Sharks and Hollywood Squares (eventually Jeopardy!). KMTV in Omaha also appears to have passed on the network Wheel of Fortune to run the syndicated Gong Show at 10:30.

Much appreciated.

Yakima, Washington, June 1978 KIMA, the CBS station, aired the syndicated soap HIGH HOPES instead of afternoon news, slotting it between SEARCH and ATWT (and against the dying FOR RICHER, FOR POORER and the start of AMC). Non-soap-related: KNDO (NBC) aired The Mickey Mouse Club instead of Card Sharks. Boston/Providence/Hartford, November 1981 THE DOCTORS did not air on WBZ in Boston (which aired People Are Talking), but did air on WJAR in Providence and WVIT in New Britain. No EDGE in Boston (it had been dropped from ABC affiliate WCVB in 1976 and independent station WLVI in September 1978; WCVB had reruns of The Waltons after GH; WLVI had afternoon cartoons), New Haven (WTNH carried EDGE from August 1976-September 1979 and aired Merv Griffin in the afternoon) or Providence (WPRI dropped Edge by October 1979 and also aired Merv). GUIDING LIGHT aired at 9 a.m. on WLNE in New Bedford (which aired an afternoon movie after SEARCH). San Francisco and Sacramento, April 1982 (a prelude to the 1983 schedules earlier on this page) KCRA (Sacramento) was airing DAYS at 3 as early as April '82, with TEXAS as its lead-in. No DOCTORS, SEARCH or AW. On KRON (San Francisco), THE DOCTORS aired at 11. No SEARCH (Midday instead) or TEXAS (Ironside reruns, followed by Merv Griffin; by '83, Merv moved up an hour). The CBS and ABC affiliates' schedules are more or less the same/in pattern. Chicago, June 1983 WMAQ aired news at noon, meaning DAYS and AW aired a half-hour out of pattern (and AW directly competed with CAPITOL, plus the end of OLTL). WBBM aired Donahue at 9, with Pyramid, Child's Play and Tattletales airing in a block before Y&R at 11:30 and The Price Is Right airing after the soaps at 3 p.m. WLS aired EDGE at 9:30 a.m., after A.M Chicago. EDGE was not airing on WTEN in Albany, New York, as of July 1984. The 10:30 a.m. slot, which it was at in August 1980 (according to the Edge Homepage), was filled by Mary Tyler Moore reruns.

They not only chem tested her with Ned, they chem tested her with Ashton! And Colton, at least in the immediate aftermath of his triangle with Frisco & Felicia. I can see it now ... a ripped from the headlines story where Terry returns, seeking legal action against Bobbie for a conservatorship she was placed under during the Purity Water/O'Connor brothers mess.

She was. Plus it was Vinton's nickname for Naomi on Mama's Family. Going back to Bobbie and the '80s brownstone crew, I'm wondering how long Robin Bernard's contract was for. Terry Brock had four years on the front burners (1984-87), then spent 1988 into early 1990 mostly just singing. I guess they figured they better get as much use out of the Duke's Place set as they can.

Some Midwest odds and ends: Minneapolis/St. Paul, January 1988: RYAN'S HOPE and LOVING aired from 11-12 a.m. CST on independent station KTMA. The ABC station, KTSP, aired Geraldo at 10 a.m., followed by HOME and the news before ALL MY CHILDREN. Detroit, October 1989: WJBK (then a CBS station) aired 3rd Degree rather than Family Feud at 10 a.m. (as the lead-in for the network Wheel of Fortune), but did air the syndicated Family Feud at 7 p.m. WDIV (NBC) aired Joan Rivers at 10 rather than Classic Concentration and Scrabble. Santa Barbara, which had previously aired in the morning on WDIV -- at least as of September 1985 -- was in pattern at 3 p.m.. WXYZ (ABC) aired HOME at 4:30 a.m. and Sally Jessy at 11 a.m. Chicago, December 1990: DAYS OF OUR LIVES aired at 11 a.m. on WMAQ, opposite Trump Card and THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS on WBBM and Match Game and LOVING on WLS. DOOL seems to have aired at 11 for at least a few years. Does anyone know exactly how long? And finally, Mason City, Ottumwa, the Quad Cities and Dubuque, Iowa, November 1989: Everything in pattern on the two CBS stations, KIMT (Mason City) and WHBF (Quad Cities). LOVING aired on KTVO (Ottumwa) and KDUB (Dubuque), but not WQAD (Quad Cities). No Classic Concentration and Scrabble on KWQC (Quad Cities), which aired Sally Jessy. One more: GENERAL HOSPITAL still wasn't airing in Dayton, Ohio as of July 1993. WDTN aired Maury Povich at 3 p.m. (and GH aired at 3 p.m. on WKRC in Cincinnati). Speaking of Cincinnati, WLWT aired ANOTHER WORLD at 1 p.m. and DAYS OF OUR LIVES at 2 p.m. while they aired in their normal timeslots on WKEF in Dayton. Both WHIO (Dayton) and WCPO (Cincinnati) aired the CBS soaps in pattern.

That's correct. I want to say Jackie left GH to try her luck in movies. She made two in 1982 -- Young Doctors in Love (the soap spoof, a cameo) and National Lampoon's Class Reunion (as Gerrit Graham's WASP fiancee) -- and both were produced by ABC Motion Pictures.

It also helped that Jacklyn Zeman took a year off (December 1981-December 1982), so Bobbie could come back (a little) older and wiser. I wonder if the show even remembers Bobbie's time off canvas?

And, of course, she had lapses through the years, like faking blindness to keep Noah by her side (a plot development that didn't last nearly as long as I expected), trying to keep Tony from finding out that Lucas was illegally adopted, the custody fight with Tiffany, affair with Damian, etc.

"I asked her why she made the decision. She told me 'January 6th.' And left it at that." Those MFers were straight-up ready to kill Nancy. I don't blame her for not taking any [!@#$%^&*] with this.

Days of Our Lives, in between Pat Falken Smith's runs, seemed determined to emulate the ABC/Y&R relevance and youth appeal trends. With that in mind, I'd have loved to see the Dobsons' take on Days, given how well they were at modernizing (The) Guiding Light.

Off the top of my head, I know RH brought back Delia (once again played by Ilene Kristen) and Joe (now played by Walt Wiley), AMC brought back Nina (once again played by Taylor Miller) and GH brought back Robert and Tiffany (still played by Tristan Rogers and Sharon Wyatt, even if he wouldn't fully return until the following year). Who did LOVING and OLTL bring back?

Everyone has pretty much said what I'd want to say. GH, as I've often mentioned, was my late grandma's favorite. It does hurt to lose another piece of what made that show special for me. (It's eerie to remember/realize we're going to lose more and more daytime legends.) On a lighter note, Stuart has a great cameo in Star 80, in the scene when Eric Roberts is making an ass of himself at the Playboy Mansion. He bugs Stuart's character about career doldrums, then gives him a cheesy thumbs up for good luck. Once alone, Stuart flips him off.

Proust, eat your heart out!

Definitely agree, considering how the soap landscape looked in 1984, when Y&R was unmistakably in its second wind. The Stewart and Bauer soaps might have had a better chance between 1980-82. Interesting! CBS wasn't likely to cancel Pyramid or TPIR, so that leaves the half-hours that Press Your Luck filled (the show itself was scheduled at 10:30 a.m.), the half-hour given back to the affiliates for news, or the 4 p.m. half hour (where Tattletales was). I could see that, yes. (It's smoother than the idea I outlined above.) In this scenario, one of CBS' newcomers is up against LOVING and Wheel of Fortune.

That and the fact that he had brain surgery just before they got married (as we found out from @will81's uploads of Soap Opera Digest from 1991).

Salt Lake City, May 1992 KUTV (NBC) 9 a.m.: AW 10 a.m.: A Closer Look and One on One 11 a.m.: Sally Jessy 12 p.m.: News 1 p.m.: SB 2 p.m.: DOOL 3 p.m.: Maury 4 p.m.: Donahue KTVX (ABC) 9 a.m.: Regis & Kathie Lee 10 a.m.: Home 11 a.m.: AMC Noon: OLTL 1 p.m.: GH 2 p.m.: People's Court and Candid Camera 3 p.m.: Geraldo 4 p.m.: Montel KSL (CBS) 9 a.m.: TPIR 10 a.m.: Y&R 11 a.m.: ATWT 12 p.m.: News 1 p.m.: GL 2 p.m.: Oprah 3 p.m.: Love Boat reruns 4 p.m.: Perfect Strangers and Cosby Show reruns I'm always a little amazed at markets where one could watch six soap operas in a row. You always think that sort of thing went out when shows started expanding to an hour.

A few things out of the ordinary for St. Louis in February 1981. No EDGE on KTVI (It had been dropped a year and a half previously). The 3 p.m. CST slot went to Match Game, with Family Feud airing at 3:30 rather than 11 a.m. Mary Tyler Moore reruns were RH's lead-in. Over on KSDK, no DOCTORS (maybe it was dropped when it moved to the start of the soap lineup?). Midday ran at 11:30 a.m., followed by news, meaning DOOL, AW and TEXAS were all delayed a half hour, airing from 12:30-3:30 CST. The 3:30 slot went to "The World of People." CBS's full lineup aired on KMOX. However, One Day at a Time reruns aired at 11 a.m. as the lead-in to SFT, rather than after GL. John Davidson's talk show aired at 3 p.m. Oklahoma City, June 1982 KTVY 4 (NBC) -- no Diff'rent Strokes reruns, WOF or SFT 9 a.m.: Hour Magazine 10 a.m.: TEXAS 11 a.m.: DOCTORS and Dannysday Noon: News and DOOL 1 p.m.: DOOL and AW 2 p.m.: AW and CHiPs reruns 3 p.m.: CHiPs and Bewitched reruns KOCO 5 (ABC) -- no Family Feud 9 a.m.: Donahue 10 a.m.: The Love Boat reruns 11 a.m.: AMC (on a delay) 12 p.m.: News and RH 1 p.m.: OLTL 2 p.m.: GH 3 p.m.: EDGE and Here's Lucy reruns KWTV 9 (CBS) -- all of the network schedule 9 a.m.: One Day at a Time and Alice reruns 10 a.m.: TPIR 11 a.m.: Y&R 12 p.m.: News and ATWT 1 p.m.: ATWT and CAPITOL 2 p.m.: GL 3 p.m.: The Waltons reruns

Glad to see the thread's back! Hello-hello again, @will81! Maybe it's me, but I'm getting mighty sick of Jon-Michael Reed haranguing Santa Barbara for being a hot mess. I dunno, I just feel like he's writing with a "How dare they?!" attitude that's really off-putting. Then again, but most accounts, SB needed the reins to be pulled in, so ... The relentless pimping of Brad Maule continues. I'm so glad to know he didn't really have his head shaved. And welcome aboard, Fuenella! Mrs. Divine, indeed.

Lord, she needs to retire already ...