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I remember this lol but hey us Y&R fans had to endure the Silver Chipmunk 🤣

Once again late to the party lol but wow. I think all I can do is just keep an open mind especially when it comes to Giddens. But hey at least it wasn’t RC himself?

Thanks! A decent show that was probably cancelled too soon. In in a Reddit group I’m in someone not long ago dredged up this old thread about Ned & Stacey from 2006, I had to cringe at The War at Home being referenced (although the show later oddly had redeeming quality when they did an uber serious coming out story when the family took in the gay teen who’d been kicked out of his house)https://moviechat.org/tt0112093/Ned-and-Stacey/58c76f9193cef4080d77ef14/Why-was-the-show-cancelled On the flipside, Wings really did a nose dive in both quality and ratings after Church left the show. The hole was too large to fill.

Let me go ahead and circle my calendar then!! 🤣 I know we’ve made facetious remarks in the past and I thought this was one of them. I think this is why Days has always suffered so much from highs and lows especially under RC.

She had a minor recurring role for a couple of seasons as a lawyer on Falcon Crest I wonder why the show never offered up more for her but I suppose someone at Lorimar remembered her. Oddly this happened to her co-star Doran Clark as well. Clark was on Kings Crossing, the ill fated Emerald Point, and later the semi-soap Nightingales Just over a decade later something similar occurred with Second Chances and Hotel Malibu. But the SOMH/KC connection is odd. To go from “‘80’s Peyton Place”to Falcon Crest-lite for younger audience is wild. I wonder how SOMH would have fared had perhaps it had been paired up with Knots or if CBS went ahead and moved Dallas up an hour in December 1980 and let SOMH air afterwards. Same thing is CBS had just let SOMH possibly build an audience overtime despite the timeslot.

From July 1998 I so remember being pleasantly surprised to see Brad was coming back as I figured we’d never see him again while also doing the happy dance about Danny leaving because that final storyline of Danny being obsessed with Christine was so painful to watch

Susan Sullivan appears in here in a Tylenol commercial starting right about 8:21:

I wasn’t sure where to post this, but seeing both KRQE (I watched that station all the time for the 15 years I lived in New Mexico!) and WSPA on this list makes me feel sad, even if both Nexstar and CBS are very sorry affairs these days https://deadline.com/2026/07/cbs-switches-nexstar-station-affiliation-1237001956/ @janea4old @DRW50 @kalbir @Khan @Vee @Errol @Franko @Paul Raven @slick jones

Caught probably my favorite Season 2 episode “Choices” this evening which also came on the heels of my 2nd favorite Season 2 episode A Family Matter. Ongoing affairs and material problems are the main theme of the episode, between Gary/Judy, Richard/Abby, and then Sid’s mechanic Linda having an unrequited crush on Sid too. Oddly Kenny & Ginger aren’t here but we know their marriage is a fiasco at the moment too. The scenes between Judy and Abby are my a real highlight as are Gary and Val. Abby outmaneuvering, outsmarting, and crushing Judy for competition for Gary is priceless. The best line in the episode comes at the end:

Albert was serviceable in the role. He had some good chilling moments but there was alap occasional scene chewing from him. His best performance came later as Jeff’s haunted twin brother. The biggest issue is the story itself was awful, it felt like a rehash of the Daryl Clayton story but only had Daryl been obsessive. Throw in the rape retcon and the storyline went too far into Season 6 (I mean Jeff going after a returned Vicky really…?)

Thanks! Tied for 23rd with the Thorn Birds Part 4 that aired the same night I believe. Interesting on how that one article mentions the 84-85 season was the worst for ABC since the early 60’s. ABC Wednesdays were obviously a strong night but everything else outside of sports and movie didn’t fare well at all except Webster lol. Thanks @kalbir for the recaps! I do know the first two episodes of Berrenger's also aired on Sat nights these first two weeks. Pretty sure Paul previously shared us the ratings were it was 3rd in its timeslot behind the struggling Cover Up and dismal Finder of Lost Loves.

Perhaps if Apollonia had returned to die in the earthquake her ranking might be slightly lower…nah she’s still the absolute worst in my book 🤣

I mentioned this in the “Love in the Afternoon, and Evening” thread about there being two chapters devoted to FC along with the author doing a top 10 list of their favorite characters. Hence I’ve been inspired to do the same with my own top 10 and bottom 10 below: My top 10: Richard Emma Melissa Angela Maggie Cole Lance Chao-Li Peter Stravos Phillip Honorable mentions would go to Greg, Terry, and Pamela. My guilty pleasures would be Meredith Braxton and Genele. My bottom 10: Apollonia Ian St James Charley St James Robin Agretti Tommy Ortega Tommy’s girlfriend Kelly Father Chris Jeff Wainwright Lauren Hutton’s character-WTF? A tie between both the Nick’s, Nick Hogan and Nick Agretti

I picked up the book too. It was an enjoyable read on a recent flight I took although was a bit disappointed some soaps didn’t get as much attention as others. I was going to mention it in the FC thread but I loved that the book dedicated two chapters to Falcon Crest to include a top 10 list of characters.

Thanks as always @DRW50 for the tag!!!