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Season 5 Knots Landing got corporate with Lotus Point, ventured into James Bond/action thriller territory with Wolfbridge, and also got glamorous. IMO going corporate and glamorous was done in response to Dynasty blowing up and becoming a pop culture phenomenon. Greg/Abby were originally co-conspirators with benefits and the marriage was more business/political power couple. Their booty call hookups didn't turn into love and the marriage didn't either. Someone once said that Abby wanted to be Greg more than she wanted to be with Greg. That's pretty accurate I'd say.

Thanks for the tag @soapfan770 The 1980s had a lot of these soapy movies/miniseries that were pretty much pilots for primetime soaps.

Bill Spencer Senior original characterization was a more villainous version of Stuart Brooks. James Storm is on until 1994 and after that he came back for short arcs in 1997 and 2001. Bill Spencer Senior died off screen in 2009 and then came the rewrite son Dollar Bill. B&B is briefly mentioned in this interview but I got the impression James Storm was reluctant to talk about it. Maybe his relationship with Bill Bell changed or he has beef with Bradley.

Bill Bell's best rivalries were all female rivalries. I can't think of the last good female rivalry.

Baby switch?

The P&G shows were not in a good place creatively at the start of OJ in June 1994 and they were effectively over in the aftermath of OJ. By the end of 1995, the P&G shows were the bottom tier (the Bell shows and Days were the top tier and ABC big three were the mid tier).

Andre is going to be in pain when he finds out about Dani and Bill elevator hook up. I really hope Andre doesn't turn to Ashley. Silk Press Sheila showed a vulnerable side when it came to Eva. Maybe its a way to make her less of a one-dimensional villainess and extend the character's shelf life.

I wouldn't know. I didn't watch any of his run.

Michael Laibson became EP in May 1995 and he is EP until December 1996. Megan McTavish became HW in July 1995 and she is HW until October 1996. GL entered cancel territory in 1995 and many consider 1996 as GL's nadir. Things got so bad in 1996 that there were two weeks GL finished behind Another World (July 29-August 2 and September 9-13) and two weeks GL tied Another World (September 16-20 and September 30-October 4).

I would watch from February 8, 1980 (EB first episode) to June 21, 1994 (JM first episode thus start of the frat party).

@soapfan770 I pointed out Moonlighting final season as sabotage in the Tank Jobs and Sabotage thread. My feeling is Robert Iger had enough of their backstage drama, thus the move to dead zone Sunday 8 pm.

I still think it's the biggest crime in Daytime Emmy history that BM was never nominated for her work on GL. She had four consecutive nominations for Another World (1977-1980) but maybe those losses soured her on submitting her name. The early 1990s Lead Actress races were rather weak and I think if BM got nominated 1991-1993 she might have gotten at least one win.

Also Febreze.

If we're keeping it real here none of the males on Dallas ever did anything for me. Larry Hagman had numerous love interests 20+ years younger than him, but he never had a glow up and I never thought of him as being handsome.

The 1980s Lead Actor races were tough. Would Chris Bernau have been competitive against the likes of Larry Bryggman? GL didn't get any Lead Actor nominations until MZ in 1992 and MZ got his long-awaited for Lead Actor Emmy in 1994.

Loved the Victor and Vernon scenes. I got the impression that Eric Braeden and Clifton Davis were having a blast acting together.

In this interview (starting 5:00), Eric Braeden talks about Victor's African-American male fanbase. A Conversation with Eric Braeden! - YouTube

I cannot believe some of you here are checking for Patrick Duffy 😂 Between Dallas, Step by Step, and B&B, Patrick Duffy has been on television most of my life and he has never done anything for me.

To think that less than a decade later, William R Moses would be on Melrose and scaring the crap out of an entire generation. I watched his arc on Melrose in real time when I was a teen so it was jarring for me to see him on Falcon Crest as the good son. I thought Cole was like a 1980s version of 90210 Brandon.

I don't think we've ever seen the Newman helicopter on Y&R. We know about the Newman jet.

Noah was SORASed in 2009 and none of his storylines since then have worked.

Silk Press Sheila would not dare to mess with Victor. He would see right through her. We know Victor would call her by her full name sounding like one word "Danalesliethomas".

Love that Brandon Claybon watched Y&R with his grandmother.

Maureen was the anchor/tentpole of the show. GL being a community-based show needed an anchor/tentpole character to keep things grounded and JFP failed to realize that.

Ashley Jones as a mob princess is not working for me.