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Finally found some breathing room with the school year ending to post these, and apologies if they had been posted before, but here are weeks from May 1990, May 1991, May 1993, and May 1996 containing ratings for the final eps of FC, Dallas, Knots, and MSW. Only FC did poorly against a Cheers rerun, Wings, and Twin Peaks despite Knots season finale that night ranking at #13

To my surprise the whole series is actually on YouTube:

Probably one of the better written surrogacy stories I have seen as well. In real life the woman who basically my 2nd mother who had her twins via surrogacy with her sister in law (who had 4 kids herself!) as the surrogate carrying the embryos yet there was no drama or anything and when the twins born the whole family and their story was featured front page of the local newspaper. Both are now in their 30’s too. One the flipside most other surrogate storylines are usually written cheap and disgusting for the sake of creating lame “drama”.

BTG: A B&B: C…shocking I know but the past few months have actually been entertaining Days: C Y&R: The grade I usually reserve for B&B, a Z- !!!

Exactly!! Btw I’m glad we have a soap giving us May sweeps while Y&R is giving May sleeps 🤣

Same here. Anytime she gets stuck in one of his tics or fits she becomes extremely obnoxious. I’ve always tolerated her but sometimes I just can’t, and Thursday and today’s eps were just another reason why.

Well said!! I agree with all of this! Perfect Friday cliffhanger for the weekend too!

Derek, we hardly knew you. As for the cotillion scenes I would have been more curious if Francesca had actually won. I guess I’d love to see the Belleclaires be the Spectras to the Dupree’s Forrester’s but it obviously hasn’t been well developed yet.

Ad for the finale:

Ladd was done wrong by the show. Not to spoil you but sadly beginning in Season 7 Ladd as Emma stopped appearing in every episode and for the last 2 seasons only had shortened arcs for better for worse. Emma’s story is wrapped up and given a happy ending in the finale but between the hastily rewriting of the final episodes and as @kalbir mentioned the budget, Ladd wasn’t rehired the same way she was for the S8 finale. Indeed. I know you previously mentioned you couldn’t point where but I did deduce to a point somewhere S7 where there was at least 1-2 eps where it was just Angela, Lance, Richard, and Maggie and no one else of the main cast appeared, which is pretty slack and unbalanced.

Agreed; I think the only thing lacking was the show didn’t bring back at least Emma onscreen and maybe have Angela bring in at the very least Cole to help her get FC back. Tbh that would be interesting, as long as it was Maggie herself lol.

Falcon Crest was the only one of the big 4 that never did a reunion movie. Had they been able to do one, what do you all think an appropriate plot would have been? Had one been done 92/93, I could have seen a holiday themed reunion movie in which Angela not only invites her absent family members ie Julia, Emma, Cole, and Vickie (with Jamie Rose returning) for the holiday, but then conspire with Lance to have them all stay permanently. And maaayyybe reunite with Peter. Idk that’s all I could think of.

Good point. JR Returns had earlier in the season back on a Friday night and did very successful. But you do have a good point about the quality of the story for the miniseries lol. Plus unlike Dallas & Dynasty, Knots had been neatly wrapped up. JR Returns and the Dynasty miniseries allowed for those two shows at least were able to wrap up some loose ends.

@DRW50 @kalbir @Paul Raven @Khan @Soapsuds @Vee @te. TV ratings for the week of May 5-11 1997. The first half of Back to the Cul-de-Sac did fairly well at #23, but then part 2 ratings weren’t as good and finished at #51 on a Friday night and behind NBC and CBS in the slot….I’m surprised CBS didn’t try for a Sunday and Tuesday night showing since that was their traditional movie nights at that point, or at least Tuesday and Wednesday? Meanwhile Pacific Palisades just did not do well at all did it? What a huge drop-off from lead-in 90210 here getting less than half of 90210’s viewers. Would it have done better paired with MP?

@DRW50 @Khan @kalbir @Mitch64 @SFK @Vee @Soapsuds @dc11786 I appreciate seeing the Frank & Eleni clips and episodes again. I loved MK’s Eleni during the whole story with Alan-Michael and SS Blake as a rival along with Frank’s unrequited love there 1991-92. Unfortunately after Kanakaredes left the two replacement actresses, Kaplan and ER were very subpar compared to MK and the character was also neglected so badly it was hard to care about. Frank having the affair with Signy Coleman’s Annie Dutton was the most interesting thing the couple had in years yet they wrote off Eleni for good shortly afterwards and Frank for whatever reason just existed there for the rest of the show.