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The whole Matt Clark return storyline I'm like "what is this mess?"

Week of January 1-7, 1996 had two new Murder, She Wrote episodes. Thursday January 4 was Kendo Kill and Sunday January 7 was Death Goes Double Platinum. There would be another Sunday episode on February 25 (Track of a Soldier) which was the season high, and the final four episodes were also on Sunday. I can't believe May 19 will be 30 years since Murder, She Wrote ended. Les Moonves knew exactly what he was doing in September 1995 when he moved Murder, She Wrote to a dead zone time slot. We all know that move was straight up sabotage. Les Moonves is the reason Angela Lansbury cried on 60 Minutes and there is a special place in hell for him for that alone. It cannot be emphasized enough that Angela Lansbury carried CBS primetime on her back through some pretty awful years from the late 1980s to the mid 1990s and for that reason Murder, She Wrote deserved to have a proper final season farewell on Angela's terms instead of being sabotaged.

You're welcome. Did you notice in the tribute that Mrs. Zaslow didn't mention CBS/P&G?

Andre, be still my heart 🥰 That's a man in love.

Dani Dupree is the role Karla Mosley was born to play.

You're welcome. Michael Zaslow and his wife adopted two girls from Korea sometime in the 1980s. MZ was given the SOD Editors Award shortly after he passed away and his wife and daughters accepted the award. Michael Zaslow Tribute at the Soap Opera Digest Awards, 1999

Nicollette Sheridan was not in the main cast until the season 10 premiere and once she was elevated to the main cast, Paige practically ate the show for the remainder of the run.

GL won the time slot over General Hospital May 28-June 1, 1984; June 4-8, 1984; June 11-15, 1984. Y&R was #1 those three weeks. Re: Gail Kobe/JFP, both got the ratings up initially but eventually caused long-term damage. I say Kobe gets more of a pass than JFP because Kobe set in motion characters and storylines that carried GL through its final 25 years whereas JFP decisions lead to GL limping along in its final 15 years.

Victor broke out his black leather jacket. That means some s--- is about to go down.

Hahaha, dead 🤣 Angelica Nero, Jean Hackney, and the Falcon Crest henchwomen were all interchangeable.

I had no idea Falcon Crest was on the chopping block in 1987/88, but for whatever reason the long time drama CBS decided to end instead that season was Cagney & Lacey. Magnum, P.I. also ended in 1987/88, but I believe that the short final season was planned from the beginning. Falcon Crest was also spared the chopping block in 1988/89 as the long time drama CBS decided to end that season was Simon & Simon. Margaret Ladd had her episodes cut in 1987/88 and 1988/89 and halfway through 1989/90 she was written off. It's funny that her last episode was also the last episode broadcast in the 1980s. Jeff Wainwright storyline was awful (sort of a dust off of that slimy film producer from season 2) and had way too many inconsistencies and plot holes. I did not like the season 6 rewrite to add an assault (season 5 during the kidnapping/hostage there were no signs of an assault (clothing intact, no injuries), no mention of an assault to the police during the rescue, and in the hospital no medical exam or tests or medications) which lead to a who's the daddy storyline with a pro-life slant. Maybe because I'm viewing this through today's standards, but it comes across as irresponsible and I'm actually surprised CBS allowed this.

@alwaysAMC Since you are watching December 1998, was there any mention of MZ passing away before the rebroadcast of his Emmy winning episode? Re: Fiona Hutchison, I can believe she was fired for speaking out about how MZ was treated by CBS/P&G. In case you haven't seen it she appears on The Locher Room MZ tribute episode. Reposting the link to save digging in the thread: Michael Zaslow - Tribute - YouTube

Of the big three action thriller storylines (Wolfbridge, Empire Valley, Jean Hackney) Knots Landing had, Jean Hackney was the worst.

I can't believe 1986 was 40 years ago. When I look back on 1986 as a middle aged adult, it was the year s--- got real with the AIDS crisis, Space Shuttle Challenger, Chernobyl.

Murder, She Wrote was bookended by two very different eras in broadcast network primetime drama series, premiering in the Dallas/Dynasty era and ending in the ER/NYPD Blue era. Murder, She Wrote became popular because it gave its audience comfort and warmth at a time when the world around us was changing so much and watching the episodes today still give that same feeling. Even though its been over 40 years since Murder, She Wrote began it doesn't feel outdated at all. The breakout success of The Cosby Show saved both sitcoms as a genre and NBC primetime line up. It also lead to NBC Thursday dominating primetime for the better part of the next 20 years (I consider NBC Thursday dominance from the start of The Cosby Show until the end of Friends). It was the breakout success of The Golden Girls the following season that lead to NBC having the sitcom game on lock for the rest of the decade. Another great data set. This must be cumulative from September-December 1986. Dallas fell out of the Top 10 by the end of the season and that was the beginning of the CBS primetime mess era.