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FROM THE VAULT: SATURDAY DAYTIME RATINGS: HIGHLIGHTS FROM FEBRUARY 1975

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 12/8/75-12/12/75 & 12/15/75-12/19/75: FAST WEEKLY WEEK OF 12/22/75-12/26/75 NOT AVAILABLE (Note: Per newspaper listings, the following were scheduled preemptions: 12/25/75 ABC 11-12PM Christmas on Historic Hill: 1726-1976 (preempted Happy Days); 12/25/75 CBS 330PM-onward NBA Kansas City Kings-Phoenix Suns (preempted Match Game '75 & Tattletales); 12/25/75 NBC 10-11AM Christmas at Washington Cathedral (preempted Wheel of Fortune); 12/26/75 CBS 12-3PM+ Sun Bowl & 3PM-onward Fiesta Bowl (preempted Young & Restless/Search for Tomorrow/As the World Turns/Guiding Light; All in the Family/Match Game '75/Tattletales). All other daytime shows were scheduled to air every day this week). The remainder of 1975-1979 posted earlier in this thread. Later this year, or early next year, check back for the 1974 ratings! FROM THE VAULT: NON-SOAP DAYTIME RATINGS: HIGHLIGHTS FROM AUGUST 1975 & NOVEMBER 1975:

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 11/10/75-11/14/75 & 11/17/75-11/21/75: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 11/24/75-11/28/75 & 12/1/75-12/5/75:

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 10/13/75-10/17/75 & 10/20/75-10/24/75: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 10/27/75-10/31/75 & 11/3/75-11/7/75:

And with Hollywood Squares returning in early 2025, 4 of the top 5 game shows from 2/3/75 will be currently airing 50 years later (Hollywood Squares, Price Is Right, Let's Make a Deal and Pyramid) with only Match Game not in production this season.

The 11/3/75 ratings will be posted when I post the August & November 1975 Non Soap Ratings charts in the next day or two. Here's the info for 9/8/75-9/12/75: Match Game '75...7.3/28 Rhyme and Reason...6.7/29 Tattletales...6.5/23 Hollywood Squares...6.1/32 $10,000 Pyramid...6.0/25 Magnificent Marble Machine...5.4/25 Price Is Right...5.4/33 (Quarter hour weekly averages: 4.4, 5.0, 5.9, 6.4; First half hour weekly average: 4.7/29; Second half hour weekly average: 6.1/37) Let's Make a Deal...5.2/22 Celebrity Sweepstakes...5.1/34 High Rollers...5.1/31 Wheel of Fortune...5.1/31 Jackpot...4.9/21 Showoffs...4.8/22 You Don't Say...4.8/18 Happy Days...4.7/25 Musical Chairs...4.0/14 Give-N-Take...3.7/25 Captain Kangaroo...3.1/22 11/3/75-11/7/75 TPIR Additional Data: Price Is Right...5.0/28 (Quarter hour weekly averages: 4.5, 4.7, 5.3, 5.7; First half hour weekly average: 4.6/26; Second half hour weekly average: 5.5/31) **Thursday 11/6/75 episode aired only 25 minutes from 1035-11AM. Preempted 10-1035AM by Rockefeller Speech.

FROM THE VAULT: NON-SOAP DAYTIME RATINGS: HIGHLIGHTS FROM FEBRUARY 1975 & MAY 1975:

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 9/15/75-9/19/75 & 9/22/75-9/26/75: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 9/29/75-10/3/75 & 10/6/75-10/10/75:

9/8/75-9/12/75: Match Game '75...7.3/28 (overall) Tattletales...6.5/23 (overall) 330-345PM: AW...9.4 OLTL...6.7 Tattletales...6.4 345-4PM: AW...9.2 OLTL...6.9 Tattletales...6.6

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 8/11/75-8/15/75 & 8/18/75-8/22/75: FAST WEEKLY WEEK OF 8/25/75-8/29/75 NOT AVAILABLE (Note: Per newspaper listings, there were no scheduled preemptions and all daytime shows were scheduled to air every day this week). FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 9/1/75-9/5/75 & 9/8/75-9/12/75:

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 7/14/75-7/18/75 & 7/21/75-7/25/75: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 7/28/75-8/1/75 & 8/4/75-8/8/75:

Yes, the actors had to sign new contracts when the show went to an hour, so she opted out. Bill was the head writer through 5/6/75, then "Story By" 5/7/75-8/77, then "Story Consultant" 8/77-4/13/78.

In addition, I didn't know AMC had a whole week of hour episodes the week before RH debuted, so that was new info to me.

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 6/9/75-6/13/75 & 6/16/75-6/20/75: FAST WEEKLY WEEK OF 6/23/75-6/27/75 NOT AVAILABLE (Note: Per newspaper listings, there were no scheduled preemptions and all daytime shows were scheduled to air every day this week). FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 6/30/75-7/4/75 & 7/7/75-7/11/75:

When we get to 1966, you could say sort of the same thing (but opposite) about Days! We were so low in the ratings in 1966, and yet still chugging along now towards the 60th anniversary!!

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 5/12/75-5/16/75 & 5/19/75-5/23/75: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 5/26/75-5/30/75 & 6/2/75-6/6/75:

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 4/7/75-4/11/75 & 4/14/75-4/18/75: FAST WEEKLY WEEK OF 4/21/75-4/25/75 NOT AVAILABLE (Note: Per newspaper listings, there were no scheduled preemptions and all daytime shows were scheduled to air every day this week). FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 4/28/75-5/2/75 & 5/5/75-5/9/75:

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 3/10/75-3/14/75 & 3/17/75-3/21/75: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 3/24/75-3/28/75 & 3/31/75-4/4/75: I just finished typing out the 4/14/75 week, and can confirm an end date change to How To Survive a Marriage. The show ended Thursday 4/17/75 (not 4/18/75), with a 90-minute First Ladies Diaries airing on Friday 4/18/75. I see Wikipedia has the competing info (one area says 4/18/75), but another area does note the 4/17/75 date. I was just planning on this mainly to get the Days ratings, but it has conveniently turned into a nice project involving ALL the soaps, and the additional fun of getting a majority of the preemption data too! Since this could involve Days as well (although I already have all the Days preemption info), what is this research involving Screen Gems??

Other than the fast weekly weeks, we will still have the # of telecasts to compare, so that will be helpful too. Although during the big gap (9/73-10/73) the season changes in September, so we can't compare it to the August stuff, but the first data we get from November 1973 will list how many telecasts there were of each soap from season debut to that date. And the late August check would help confirm how many telecasts there had been from 9/72-8/73. Of course, we will never know the fast weekly preemption data, and in 1973 (like 1978), there may have been FIVE of those weeks, instead of the usual four.

As a heads up, there are some books at the moment missing from 1973 (along with two fast weekly weeks: Late June/Early July and Late August/Early September), also all of 9/2/73-10/28/73, but based on the "Days" Watergate preemptions (5/17/73-8/6/73, with one more 9/25/73), it looks like most of those should be covered by what we will be getting. We'll be missing whatever the fast weekly week is (either 6/25 or 7/2), plus that September week. So, a majority of the Watergate stuff should be available to us.

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 2/10/75-2/14/75 & 2/17/75-2/21/75: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 2/24/75-2/28/75 & 3/3/75-3/7/75:

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 1/13/75-1/17/75 & 1/20/75-1/24/75: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 1/27/75-1/31/75 & 2/3/75-2/7/75:

As the chart shows, "How" aired the entire week of 1/6/75. The original "Jeopardy!" (3/30/64-1/3/75), which got an 8.3/24 its final week on the air, was cancelled. "How" had aired 60 episodes in the 330PM time slot that season, finishing with a 6.1/20 average through 1/3/75. "How" took over the "Jeopardy" 130PM time slot with a special hour episode on 1/6/75 (preempting "Days" that day). "How" itself was cancelled on 4/18/75, when "Days" expanded to an hour on 4/21/75.

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 12/30/74-1/3/75 & 1/6/75-1/10/75: Pretty much. Here's the list: 12/9/74-12/31/95: 2 Weeks Missing (Nielsens & Partial Preemptions info): 4/10/78, 4/17/78. 3 Weeks Missing (Partial Preemptions info; ratings via DaytimeTV & Soap Opera Weekly): 12/14/87, 5/20/91, 5/27/91. Fast Weekly weeks (18 weeks) (ratings not counted towards yearly averages by Nielsen these weeks/missing preemption info): 12/23/74, 4/21/75, 6/23/75, 8/25/75, 4/19/76, 6/21/76, 8/23/76, 12/20/76, 4/18/77, 6/20/77, 8/22/77, 12/19/77, 3/20/78, 4/24/78, 6/26/78, 8/28/78, 12/25/78, 8/24/81.

Closing in on the earliest YR episodes for you. And, for me, the first look at the half-hour Days episodes!