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Yes from when they went on Let’s Make a Deal too. Pam stole Forrester designs for Jackie M. Of course a month later we saw Nick, Lesley, Owen, and Bridget all exit in the same episode.

I’m most familiar with Thompson’s tenure at Y&R where she was in a trio of Co-Hw’s with Altman and Passanante. The “Avery Years” as I call it since Avery dominated the show. Had its good and bad moments, often cumbersome, but was mostly harmless compared to what occurred before and after their tenure. I did appreciate at the time the work Altman and Thomson did to try to fix Sharon for a good while there and make her sane again. (Of course Pratt would blow that up with the whole “Sharon is the new Sheila!”)

Thanks for the tag @DRW50 as always!! This is an era of AMC I’ve read much about yet seen so little of.

Oh wow I completely forgot reading about B&B on Plex…airing early 2012 episodes at the moment:

Late posting this but we had mentioned about the 35th anniversary of the final episode of FC in the FC thread, here’s an article giving some ratings background behind that as well as CBS giving a couple other shows the boot as well as the new Fox network going through growing pains saying sayonara to both its 80’s flagships: CBS Pulls Plug on ‘Falcon Crest,’ 2 Others By RICK DU BROW May 17, 1990 12 TIMES TELEVISION WRITER One of the most successful soap operas in the history of TV, CBS’ “Falcon Crest,” comes to an end tonight at 9 after a nine-season run. In the early and mid-1980s, “Falcon Crest,” which starred Jane Wyman in a tale set in the Napa Valley wine country near San Francisco, ranked among the Top 10-rated shows for three consecutive seasons. It was the period of prime-time soap opera’s greatest success, with such series as “Dallas” and “Dynasty” dominating the field and “Knots Landing” also a strong finisher. CBS also yanked two other series Wednesday--”City,” a Valerie Harper sitcom, and “The Famous Teddy Z,” a comedy about a young talent agent--after both shows registered disastrous ratings Saturday when paired for the first time against NBC’s powerful tandem of “The Golden Girls” and “Empty Nest.” “City” and “The Famous Teddy Z” will be replaced effective this Saturday by reruns of the Vietnam War drama “Tour of Duty,” which earned double the ratings of the two comedies in the same time slot before winding up its season. “Tour of Duty” is awaiting a decision on whether it will be renewed for next season. CBS’ decision to cancel “Falcon Crest,” which was down to 19% of the audience this season, came as the network--on a surprising rebound this month--focused in on its new lineup for fall, soon to be announced. “Dallas” has also slipped sharply, although “Knots Landing” remains a relative success. In another series change, Fox TV’s “The Tracey Ullman Show,” which tied for 89th place in last week’s ratings with “The Famous Teddy Z,” became the second quality series to depart the fledgling network. Ullman’s innovative variety program, which gave Fox its first Emmy Awards but drew low ratings, followed “It’s Garry Shandling’s Show” in bowing out after its fourth season. “I thank Fox for letting someone no one ever heard of do a show on a network that didn’t exist,” Ullman said. “Well, it certainly does exist now and I am proud to have helped give it credibility.” In last week’s ratings, “City” ranked last among 91 shows, drawing only 6% of the audience, and “The Famous Teddy Z” was 89th, with 7%. “Tour of Duty,” which previously fared respectably against TV blockbusters such as “The Cosby Show” and “Roseanne,” attracted 13% of the national audience this season in competition with “The Golden Girls” and “Empty Nest.”

Four times now actually lol since JG started in 2019. First it was Adam. Then it was the double bill of Richard Burgi and Robert Newman as Ashland Locke. Then it was Tucker. And fourthly it was Jeremy Stark. The Dumas story already had the red herring that Damien was Dumas. Problem is no one cares about Dumas, and we’re even less interested if it turns out to be the Albatross. Would make sense to me if it was, especially since Amanda is working for Dumas.

Lol so true. I would say it would be wayyy more interesting if Dumas was revealed to be Hilary alive in the flesh since we have MM back at the moment. OR since JG likes to bring back dead babies why just not have Dumas turn out to be Jack & Nikki’s lost son John III? What I’m not looking to forward to is Jason Thompson and Billy Flynn having screaming matches in Chancellor Park or worse, a boxing match @YRfan23 🤣

Le sigh. It’s certainly been a persistent rumor. The ONLY way such a story could work is if Cane came back as a short term villain. He would be nasty, vengeful, bitter, spiteful etc and his short term arc would have him winding up dead.

A few days late but this made me holler so bad and immediately took.me back 29 years when I first saw this. I still remember thinking Rick and Phillip were going hold each other and dance together LOL. Rick being there at least makes some sense as he was A-M’s second cousin and the show still at least recognized he was half Bauer, at least until Hearst left. The whole Universal Studios wedding was over the top. I think someone wanted A-M and Lucy to be the next GL super couple but once Hearst left the A-M recast flopped and both were gone by early ‘97 with Lucy never appearing ever again. Love the rest of your post, summer 1996 was the first time GL left me feeing…greatly underwhelmed until it inspired righteous indignation on my behalf once we get to the Gilly twist.

Jill’s evolution (or devolution?) is interesting. I didn’t even realize she made a couple innocuous appearances as early as the latter half of Season 6. I probably need to do a more thorough rewatch because tangled web Peter weaved sometimes left me so confused and still does…like Gary knowing about Jill being Peter’s sister and all the lies but everyone else acted so oblivious. Obviously the two things that set Jill off the deep end; First was Abby’s threat “The first Mrs Ewing never goes away” and second was seeing Greg use the urn of Peter’s ashes being uses a set decoration/paper weight which she of course stole.

When does Liam die? I just want to watch B&B for his death scene and funeral 🤣😂

It would be so CAMP if she just showed up dressed like this to the hospital or a Dupree family function and pretended to be Nicole 🤣

Audra and Imani fighting over Nate could’ve been fun…if written by the BTG writers of course!

“That’s MISS Bitch” absolutely made me hollered. I needed that today! 👏

Yeah I miss her…has Amanda even mentioned her at all since she’s been back? It’s a shame this whole Dumas thing is going nowhere either when really such a story should have a suspenseful buildup with the revelation of Dumas’ identity being a guessing game and then a jaw dropping twist. Yet JG has fumbled it badly.

Yeah. I think the high point was Amanda meeting Imani. JG’s first year was okay, nothing special but an improvement over over Mal’s final months despite resetting everything back to like it was 2013 again. I’m not sure what JG had intended long term going into 2020, but COVID really did a number on the show and really has never since recovered. I’d March 2022-summer 2023 was probably his best work this go around.

Bad enough I barely remember LOL. I recall the month was tied between the surrogacy, Phyllis sleuthing on her laptop at the bar in the Grand Phoenix about Tara and Ashland, and Sally getting Summer her dream job to get her out of town.

This is the worst May sleeps in years and going head to head with May 2021. Has anything actually happened on this show at all? I can see why Alison Lainier bailed on this kingdom of boredom. You can tell JG is now even struggling with his new pet Claire. Where and when does all of this pointless misery come to an end?

Maybe trying to ramp up the nostalgia factor? The only original characters left on the show were Angela, Lance, and Chao-Li. But FC hadn’t been watched by too many since 1987 and the finale didn’t bring back any old living characters like Emma, Cole, Peter Stravos etc.

Thanks @kalbir

I forget that throughout the 80’s the TV seasons were officially over in April. Not sure why that was the case but it wasn’t until the mid-90’s that May Sweeps became a real official thing. Because my teenage self stayed home often on Saturday nights in the early 90’s I watched Empty Nest just about every night to the bitter end, I do actually always felt a bit sad whenever I see that GG ep knowing that Rita’s character will die with that last line “Good night!” For years I admit I had the Mandela effect that Mulligan was in the episode before I finally caught it again on Lifetime. And yes lol I don’t care for David Leisure’s character in the episode but somehow was funnier than anything on Empty Nest. Same when Charley crossed over for Dorothy’s Jeopardy dream.

@BoldRestless @fivethej Apologies for the late reply! But yes as far as I know I do still have the tape. I remember asking for instructions on this wayy back in 2020, but I will definitely reach out. Only issue is I know my VHS tape collection is in my basement, which looks like the Chancellor mansion attic at the moment. 🙈 Also I while I still have DVD/VHS combo player do they even hook-up to modern TV sets or still need a CRT TV? Just asking as I know some folks being off off guard when trying to hook older equipment like some VHS sets and older game consoles quite unsuccessfully

A year later we had these ratings for the week of May 11-17 1987. This was probably the last time the CBS soaps (at least til Dallas’ finale) ranked this high. Dynasty had already ended its season. CBS reran the Dallas Early Years movie on Saturday night against Golden Girls’ season finale, which was the failed Empty Nest back door pilot. Interestingly a repeat Family Ties was #1 this week. The week before the season finale of Family Ties beat out Cosby as well, but it was Cheers that beat them both out with Diane’s exit.

Made even dumber with that Blake/Alexis chokehold, followed by the following season when Matthew resurfaced. WTF? There’s good reason I have skipped from Season 5 straight to Season 9 on a couple of my Dynasty rewatches lol. And Chase was supposed to die, but somehow they talked Foxworth back into one more season. They probably shouldn’t have at all.

It’s pretty much become the anti-soap. Bascially the show has rolled back to where it was in 2021, where absolutely zero drama occurred and actually I don’t recall anything memorable occurring at all. Substitute Dumas for Ashland Locke and it’s the same thing all over again. At least we have no strange creepy story about Abby this around I suppose?