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I had totally forgotten that Jason Thompson 10th anniversary was this year.

For whatever reason, Knots Landing didn't go the long-suffering younger wife route in the vein of Sue Ellen Ewing and Julia Newman with Jane Sumner.

Andre calling out Bill on his nonsense and putting him on blast, bring it!

SOD Awards were 1984-1986 broadcast in first run syndication, 1987 there was no show, 1988-1991 broadcast on NBC daytime, 1992-2000 broadcast on NBC primetime. Days won Best Show 1984-1986, 1988, 1989, 1991-1996. Santa Barbara won Best Show 1990. General Hospital won Best Show 1997-2000. I always thought of the SOD Awards as the Days awards. Wasn't Days accused of stuffing the ballot box as well?

That's LML for you. We all know the damage she did to Y&R two decades later.

Seriously? Stick a fork in me, I'm done with this AI storyline.

IIRC Samantha didn't even get a proper exit story, just a mention of leaving town to attend law school. Dylan got placed in the expanded young adult set with Hart, Bridget, Kat, Julie, David. Perhaps Bridget, Kat, Julie made Samantha not necessary.

You were brave to watch episodes past Annie Dutton parachuting off the plane. Of the final 15 years I watched MZ last episode, and clip sets of Annie Dutton psycho turn (witness stand breakdown, overdose, exit storyline). If you go back, these are my recommendations: 1979 and 1980 episodes featuring Roger/Holly storylines, as those set in motion everything we saw a decade later in the Robert Calhoun era. I've accepted we'll never see any episodes prior to 1979. May 1989-August 1992, the last great era. You could start with December 1988 as that will give some background. Must watch is Robert Calhoun era, June 1989 to July 1991. September 1992-January 1993 was all right. February 1993-March 1994 was a chore to get through. The bright spot was MZ Emmy-winning episodes.

Jaime Lyn Bauer was a one episode guest star in 1989.

I can't sense anything on screen but yeah, there's got to be some cast members that are riding out their contracts, collecting the checks, and counting down until they can take their talents elsewhere. I think most of us are. I've had that reaction a lot lately, along with "what is this mess?".

Of the CBS primetime soaps, Knots Landing probably had the most former daytime actors. Notice that most of the former daytime actors are from ABC and NBC shows. CBS had so much of their own daytime talent they could have used on their primetime soaps but for whatever reason that didn't happen.

Victoria has three biological children (Claire, Reed, Katie) and one adopted child (Johnny).

Les Moonves arrival at CBS overlaps with CBS being sold to Westinghouse. I think Les Moonves had it out for Murder, She Wrote from his first day at CBS. Remember too that Les Moonves started at Lorimar a decade earlier so he was there when Murder, She Wrote beat Dallas to become CBS's highest-rated scripted program. 1995/96 was CBS primetime's 1990s nadir as 60 Minutes was their only Top 10 program. 1994-2000 was another CBS primetime mess era.

I skipped the 1997 miniseries but I watched the 2005 reunion special. I thought Nicollette Sheridan appeared in the first part of the miniseries but I'm pretty sure she was absent from the reunion special.

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.