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I saw "me" mentioned here, so I will give you all a sneak peek of the BB preemptions for 1988 before the charts are posted: 2/15/88-2/19/88 Preempted Monday 2/15- NBA on CBS 9/5/88-9/9/88 Preempted Mon 9/5 & Fri 9/9- US Open Tennis 11/21/88-11/25/88 Preempted Thu 11/24- NFL Football & Fri 11/25- Care Bears Movie II 12/26/88-12/30/88 Preempted Monday 12/26- Movie Special: Quarterback Princess

DEIDRE HALL APPEARS IN 12 EPISODES IN A MONTH FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 2021...LAUREN KOSLOW APPEARS IN 12 EPISODES IN A MONTH FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 2019... Deidre Hall (Marlena) and Lauren Koslow (Kate) have now appeared in 12 of the first 13 episodes in October 2023, including the last 10 episodes in a row. It is the first time for Hall to appear in that many episodes since 2021, and for Koslow since 2019. There are still 9 episodes to air in October, so how high will their episode rankings be?? It is too time-consuming to check, but this is also the first time probably in a long time that two actors have appeared in 10 episodes straight.

And this is the first time ever Nielsen released final numbers for that end-of-the-year week. So, it's nice to finally be done with those fast weekly weeks!

Frances was driven to the studio in a limo on numerous parking lists I have from the early 2000's, so I'm sure she was in first class on a plane! She was very active in the unions, so I'm sure she was also pretty particular in her contracts and made sure to have things like that in them.

To add to your post, I found this: Peter Reckell was announced in newspapers as being cast as Bo by 4/4/83. Meanwhile, per AFI's site, Tom Cruise was in Pennsylvania and had practiced scenes for "All the Right Moves" at the end of February 1983 and early March 1983, and even suffered a concussion during some point then. Principal filming for that movie was from March 14, 1983 and lasted about 7 weeks (putting it at around early May 1983). So, unless they started casting Bo Brady in February 1983, Tom Cruise was under contract and filming "All the Right Moves" throughout the end of February 1983-May 1983. All the Right Movies (practiced scenes 2/83-3/83; filmed 3/14/83-5/83) Principal photography was scheduled to begin 14 Mar 1983 in Johnstown, PA, with cinematographer Michael Chapman making his directorial debut.... According to Morton, no stunt doubles were used, and several players were injured, including actors Tom Cruise and Paul Carafotes, both of whom sustained minor concussions. Producer Stephen Deutsch added that the players practiced for three weeks prior to principal photography...The production company's seven-week stay was expected to contribute $2 million to Johnstown’s economy. https://catalog.afi.com/Film/57843-ALL-THE-RIGHT-MOVES?cxt=filmography Here is a 2/22/83 Pittsburgh article about Tom Cruise starring in the movie: Movies Tom Cruise filmed just before this are: The Outsiders:(filmed 3/29/82-5/15/82) https://catalog.afi.com/Film/67060-THE-OUTSIDERS?cxt=filmography A 20 Jan 1982 Var news item reported that director Francis Ford Coppola was scheduled to begin principal photography on The Outsiders in Mar 1982, although the project did not yet have a distributor, and a 12 Feb 1982 Var brief added that Columbia Pictures was discussing an $8 million production deal with Coppola. However, on the planned start date of 1 Mar 1982, Var stated that production had been delayed, even though negotiations were still underway with Columbia. Ten days later, the 10 Mar 1982 DV announced that Warner Bros., Inc., had acquired distribution rights, and principal photography was rescheduled to begin 29 Mar 1982 in Tulsa, OK, where the production would be shot in its entirety over seven weeks. Seven weeks after principal photography began, the 10 May 1982 Var announced that filming was nearly complete, and Coppola was regaining his credibility as a director capable of delivering pictures on schedule. A 25 May 1982 HR brief stated that filming ended 15 May 1982 with a projected release date of 8 Oct 1982; however, the 10 May 1982 Var listed the date as 18 Oct 1982. Risky Business:(filmed 7/18/82-11/82) https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/58062 On 12 May 1982, Var announced that writer-director Paul Brickman was set to make his feature film directorial debut with Risky Business, and principal photography was scheduled to begin in Jun 1982. At that time, the Geffen Film Company had already agreed to distribute the picture through Warner Bros., and Jon Avnet and Steve Tisch were named as producers. One week later, a 20 May 1982 DV news item reported the casting of Tom Cruise and an 18 Jul 1982 DV brief stated that filming began that day in Chicago, IL, with a ten-week shooting schedule. According to studio production notes from AMPAS library files, exterior locations centered around the city of Highland Park, IL, and a 6 May 2013 Chicago Tribune article stated that exteriors of the “Goodsen” house were filmed at 1258 Linden Avenue. Home interiors were shot in two gymnasiums at Niles East High School in Skokie, IL. Production was completed in late Nov 1982, as announced in a 23 Nov 1982 Var news item.

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 11/23/87-11/27/87 & 11/30/87-12/4/87: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 12/7/87-12/11/87 & 12/14/87-12/18/87: Note: Ratings data comes from both a 2019 Soap Opera Network post by VanessaReardon, who seems to have had access to Nielsen data from the 1985-1988 time frame, and a more recent find of a Daytime TV Magazine, which confirms those ratings & provides the shares. As the note states, preemption data has been confirmed by comparing the # of telecasts in the 12/7 Nielsen book to the # of telecasts in the 12/21 book. This confirms that there were no full preemptions for any soap this week, but it is unknown if there were any partial preemptions this week. FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 12/21/87-12/25/87 & 12/28/87-1/1/88:

I had a little message thingy when I arrived at SON that notified me, so I popped in to see why I was mentioned. So, yes, you did successfully invoke me!

This one? DEIDRE HALL & LAUREN KOSLOW APPEAR IN 10 EPISODES IN A MONTH FOR THE FIRST TIME IN OVER A YEAR... Deidre Hall (Marlena) and Lauren Koslow (Kate), who now seem to show up randomly for just one scene an episode, have already broken their 2023 records by each already appearing in 10 (of the first 11) episodes in October 2023. Hall and Koslow each last hit the double digit-episode mark for a month in July 2022. With 11 more episodes yet to air in October, how many episodes will they end up airing in this month?? UPDATE: They had their one-scene pop-up again today so now the #s are 11 of the first 12 episodes this month.

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 10/26/87-10/30/87 & 11/2/87-11/6/87: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 11/9/87-11/13/87 & 11/16/87-11/20/87:

UPDATE # 1: SON was nice enough to pass along my message to the email they have for VR, so hopefully it is still an active email address. If not, then we are at a dead end in regards to VR's data. UPDATE # 2: I forgot how quickly emails come back if the email address no longer exists. I got the "no longer exists" email back already, so VR's email no longer exists.

There might have been numerous partial preemptions that day, but for the week of 10/19, we only know that all the soaps aired 5 episodes that week that were all counted as part of the yearly averages. If they were "breakouts", they would not have been listed in the regular telecast column in the 10/26 issue.

WEEKLY DAYTIME RATINGS CHARTS FOR 1985 NOW POSTED... https://www.jason47.com/days/ratings1985.html Also, explanatory notes have been added to the 1980's pages to explain the columns and the meaning of the "fast national" weeks, whose numbers are not counted towards the yearly averages of soaps (something Nielsen ended in 1987). 1986-1989 will be posted soon. Click here for all weekly Nielsen charts available from 1980-Present: https://www.jason47.com/days/nielsensweekly.html

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 9/28/87-10/2/87 & 10/5/87-10/9/87: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 10/12/87-10/16/87 & 10/19/87-10/23/87:

NON-SOAPS: EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME SHOWS: WEEKLY NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 2/2/81-2/6/81 & 5/4/81-5/8/81:

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 8/31/87-9/4/87 & 9/7/87-9/11/87: (FINAL WEEK OF OLD SYSTEM...POSTING TO JUST SHOW THE COMPARISON...THE RATINGS TO BE USED FOR THIS WEEK ARE THE NEW PEOPLE METER RATINGS AS LISTED BELOW): FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 8/31/87-9/4/87 & 9/7/87-9/11/87: DEBUT OF THE PEOPLE METER SYSTEM...THESE ARE THE NUMBERS USED FOR THESE TWO WEEKS: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 9/14/87-9/18/87 & 9/21/87-9/25/87:

NON-SOAPS: EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME SHOWS: WEEKLY NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 8/4/80-8/8/80 & 11/3/80-11/7/80:

That was always my plan, since I already had posted all of the Soap Weekly charts many years ago. So, now each year will all be in one place on one page! THE TWO WEEKS IN A ROW "DAYS" WAS RATED # 1... I know this is jumping ahead a bit, but since I just worked on these today, and this is one of the few "Days" celebratory ratings posts I can make, here's a look at the two charts! Here's a look at the two weeks in a row (7/25/88 and 8/1/88) that "Days" reached # 1 in the soap ratings.

I just typed up the 8/1/88 ratings, and Days tied YR for 1st place in rating (7.8), although YR had the higher share (27 to 25). I didn't know after Days was 1st place on its own the week of 7/25/88 that it then tied YR for first place the following week!

NON-SOAPS: EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME SHOWS: WEEKLY NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 2/4/80-2/8/80 & 5/5/80-5/9/80: As promised earlier this year, I will now start posting a spot-check (4 times a year, February, May, August, November) of the non-soap early morning & daytime shows from 1980-1989. This will give a general sense of how the non-soaps were doing throughout each year, and you can track how their clearances are through the years as well. I am not checking on the preemptions for these, so it will just be the rating/share/affiliates/clearance data. Thanks, Joe!

WEEKLY DAYTIME RATINGS CHARTS BEING POSTED HERE: I've started posting all of the weekly Nielsen charts that were posted here from 1980-1983 on yearly pages at my website, so all of the 1980-Present ratings charts will be available on this index page. 1978-1979 and 1984-1987 will be posted there in the coming days, with 1988 & 1989 to follow once they are posted here. Click here for all weekly Nielsen charts available from 1980-Present: http://www.jason47.com/days/nielsensweekly.html

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 7/27/87-7/31/87 & 8/3/87-8/7/87: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 8/10/87-8/14/87 & 8/17/87-8/21/87: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS (FAST NATIONALS): WEEK OF 8/24/87-8/28/87: Note: This is the final "fast national" week. Nielsen started reporting final weekly numbers for every week as of 8/31/87.

UPDATE: On 11/3/19, VR posted this: "I’m going to suspend posting the Daytime TV magazine ratings because I have a better source and have found weekly ratings pretty much from 1985 on, with a few missing weeks. But in the meantime, to confuse everyone even more, I have found that the ratings posted in Daytime TV’s March 1987 issue were the actual ratings for week of August 25-29, 1986 and the April, 1987 issue showed the ratings from October 6-10, 1986. So the magazine was several months behind - even moreso than I thought. It will be much more clearer going forward for me to post clearly defined ratings -ratings for a specific week, instead of these were in Daytime TV but I don’t know which week they represent. Look forward to sharing this stuff that was in my basement." So, we now know these complete weekly ratings were in VR's basement in 2019. Where are they now in 2023?? In a later post about the Iran-Contra week, VR states "The week of 7/6 to 7/10/1987 has to be taken with a grain of salt because Y&R aired only on Monday that week and there were massive pre emptions. AMC, DOOL,LOV and RH had the least pre-emptions." So, obviously VR had some sort of Nielsen lists which even listed the preemption dates (not ever posted in soap magazines), so that points to some "un-final" Nielsen lists in VR's possession. I did contact someone at SON tonight to see if it was possible for them to still be able to find VR's email address (when last a member at SON in 2020) and to email them and tell them that Jason47 would like to get those two specific weeks of Nielsens. So, that's as much as I can do to track down VR. Now we wait! Just checking this thread PAGE by PAGE, has found that VR did post the 12/14/87 weekly ratings, yay! (I didn't find that week originally by doing a general search in the search box, but did now by reading through this thread): 12/14/87-12/18/1987 AMC 8.2 OLTL 8.1 GH 8.1 Y&R 7.9 DOOL 6.8 ATWT 6.7 GL 5.9 B&B 5.3 SB 5.2 AW 5.1 LOV 4.2 RH 3.2 I stopped checking the thread, but it looks like the 12/14/87 ratings post was VR's last-ever post of ratings data. Of all the years for VR to post, they post 1987, the one year that helps fill-in our two last missing weeks (other than 8/24/81, a fast weekly week). What are the odds of that?? Yay, VR, whoever you are!! Ok, so now we need contact from VR to confirm the shares and preemption data for the two weeks from 1987. And preferably to email me scans of those two weeks. Fingers crossed!

Yes, it will be interesting to see if the Nielsen books will differ some with what was posted in SOW as of Fall 1989. I an typing up July 1988 tonight, so I am about one year ahead of the charts I am posting here. I am going to try to keep typing up 4 weeks a day (as I post 4 weeks a day here on SON), so that I will keep being a year or so ahead in the posted charts. I might slow down once I get to 1990, since all of the SOW charts are already posted on my site. So, once we get to the end of 1989 here, there will probably be a little slow down of my posts on here until I can get 1990-1992 typed up/sorted/cropped and finally posted here.

That's why I checked other weeks surrounding the missing week. So, out of the 72 ratings points that I checked, VR matches the Nielsen book for 70 of the 72 soaps (12 soaps a week x 6 weeks), only differing one tenth of a point for AW one week and two tenths of a point for YR another week. So getting 70 out of 72 ratings correct with the Nielsen book is a 97 percent success rate. She obviously didn't just "create" them out of nowhere, but had some sort of official ratings lists from somewhere. That's why I feel pretty confident for using the data for the week of 10/19/87 as a "placeholder" at least, until hopefully that Nielsen book is tracked down somewhere. On a good note, there is a possible lead on one of the two "missing" books from 1991, so if we get that one, we will only need 1 week from 1981, 2 from 1987 (but we now have VR's ratings for one of those two weeks) and one from 1991 (the two from 1991 would just be getting us the additional info: Demos, Affiliates, Clearance, Preemptions) since we already have the ratings for those weeks from SOD. So, if we add in VR's ratings for 10/19/87, that means we will only be missing ratings for just 2 weeks from 1979-Present (8/24/81 and 12/14/87). The two differences I noticed actually both involve "breakouts": The AW 10/7/87 Wednesday broadcast is a breakout, 4.1 rating, not listed in the "normal" ratings. Same for the YR 11/18/87 Wed. broadcast, another breakout (this one 22 minutes long) with a 4.6 rating. By taking that low 4.6 rating out (for a third of the Wed. episode), that could have easily pushed YR's rating up two-tenths of a point as the Nielsen book has. Perhaps the lists VR had access to were lists that had the ratings including those as "regular" episodes, before the network notified Nielsen to count them separately. It does add a little more credence to VR's data, at least in my opinion.

Does anyone know who the poster VanessaReardon was? That person last posted in 2020, but posted complete weeks of Nielsen ratings for 1987. Luckily, one of the weeks posted is one of the missing weeks we need, 10/19/87-10/23/87. They posted most of 1987, but not December 1987, where we still need the week of 12/14/87-12/18/87. Just wondered if anyone had contact info for that person. They posted some shares as well when soaps tied in the rankings, so it looks like maybe they have the shares that they could post for 10/19/87 too or might have the week of data we need for 12/14/87. I spot-checked the data they posted for around the time frame of October 1987, and it matches the Nielsen books exactly for the weeks of 9/28/87, 10/26/87, 11/2/87 and 11/9/87. The only differences I found was the week of 10/5/87. They posted AW got a 4.4, while the Nielsen book says it was 4.5. Also, the week of 11/16/87, they put YR getting a 7.7, but Nielsen book has 7.9, which actually makes YR (not GH) the winner of that week. So, based on all of that, it looks like the data they posted for the "missing week" of 10/19/87 will be as close to correct as possible, and I will put that in the Nielsen chart for that week as a placeholder (crediting VanessaReardon as the stats poster), which was this: 10/19/87-10/23/1987 GH 7.8 AMC 7.6 Y&R 7.4 (higher share) OLTL 7.4 DOOL 6.4 ATWT 6.1 GL 5.5 B&B 4.9 AW 4.6 SB 4.5 LOV 4.2 RH 3