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Wow the ABC big three are killing it. Lets see if the momentum continues when the kids return to school.

Larry Hagman didn't look like a romantic leading man but he still got much younger (as in 20+ years) love interests.

July kids are off school plus the ABC big three appealed to a younger audience.

March 5, 1979: New NBC soap schedule (ET) is 1 pm Days, 2 pm The Doctors, 2:30 pm Another World now 90 minutes. This schedule is until August 1, 1980. April 23, 1979: CBS moves Love of Life from 11:30 am ET to 4 pm ET. February 1, 1980: CBS broadcasts the final episode of Love of Life. February 4, 1980: New CBS soap schedule (ET) is 12:30 pm Search for Tomorrow, 1 pm Y&R now 1 hr, 2 pm As the World Turns, 3 pm Guiding Light. This schedule is until June 5, 1981. August 4, 1980: New NBC soap schedule (ET) is 12:30 pm The Doctors, 1 pm Days, 2 pm Another World back to 1 hr, 3 pm new soap Texas. This schedule is until March 26, 1982. June 8, 1981: New CBS soap schedule (ET) is 12:30 pm Y&R, 1:30 pm As the World Turns, 2:30 pm Search for Tomorrow, 3 pm Guiding Light. This schedule is until March 26, 1982.

You liked the era that resembled a modern day western as opposed to the era that was more corporate.

Empire Valley started good in season 6 but became a mess in season 7. Season 5 Knots Landing got corporate with Lotus Point and action thriller/James Bond with Wolfbridge but those storylines worked as they gave us high emotional stakes character driven storytelling that impacted the whole canvas.

I'd say one of the vixens, Jill or Lorie, or troublemaking promiscuous girl Nikki. Jill being all about the come up might not have been as drawn to a priest as he might have been to her. Lorie the daughter of the main upper class family adds the element of class differences. Nikki had already been involved with Paul but if she was drawn to his priest brother, Mary would not be having that.

January 1979 had some really bad winter storms, so alot more people home watching TV during the day.

We could have added The Thorn Birds in the list of influences Bill Bell used.

Hahaha. I best believe the following summer the boys were checking for Nikki climbing the pole.

I always had the feeling that Andrea Evans was considered a big get by CBS because of her popularity on One Life to Life. Maybe in 1983 to cash in on the miniseries? I wonder if Bill Bell used Andy to replace Steve in the brother-type role for Paul. Also in the Paul/Andy/Amy friend group were the Jackson brothers and later Nathan. Too bad that friend group got diminished when Ed Scott took over as EP (the Jackson brothers, Andy, Amy all left but Nathan remained and pretty much replaced Andy, and Lynne was brought on and pretty much replaced Amy.)

1979 was a turning point year in daytime: As the World Turns loses #1. Huge rise of ABC. Another World expands to 90 minutes. Love of Life new time slot which isolates it from the rest of the CBS soap line up and the show tanks.

The kids weren't checking for the cult storyline.

Beauty and the Beast was CBS new Friday 8 pm show in 1987/88, replacing Scarecrow and Mrs. King which was cancelled Spring 1987. Beauty and the Beast remained Friday 8 pm in 1988/89, but was moved to Wednesday 8 pm in 1989/90 in what would be its final season.

I have no clue. GL promos from the early 1980s are hard to find on YT.

I suspect a face lift sometime in the early 1990s, between leaving Dallas and joining Melrose Place. Whatever Linda Gray has had done is not blatantly obvious and in your face, especially when compared to some of the other 1980s primetime soap actresses of her generation. I also think she has good health on her side, plus styling-wise she has always been up to date and age appropriate.

Watching the Dallas reunion videos from above. Linda Gray looks amazing and I cannot believe that she will be 83 in September. Joan Van Ark turned 80 on June 16. Holy difference in the looks.

All of Bradley's storylines culminated during the first half of 1995. The second half of 1995 the tanking started.

GL is notably absent from these promos.

CBS entire Sunday lineup in the Top 10. 60 Minutes; Murder, She Wrote (episode Trial by Error), and movie Rockabye. As we saw over the years, CBS Sunday movie paid off.

January 16, 1986 episode of The Cosby Show (Vanessa's Bad Grade) was the second highest-rated episode of 1985/86. January 19, 1986 episode of Murder, She Wrote (Keep the Home Fries Burning) was the second highest-rated episode of 1985/86. January 15, 1986 CBS moved Crazy Like a Fox from Sunday 9 pm to Wednesday 9 pm, replacing Charlie & Company and George Burns Comedy Week. That move proved to be a disaster. Passion Flower was the second CBS Sunday movie. @Soapsuds Please post the week ending January 12, 1986. That week has Murder, She Wrote 1985/86 season high and the first CBS Sunday movie. Thank you.

EB's Twitter followers are going to alert him to this and he's going to go off on a Twitter rant, just watch. I'm not a fan of either of them. If they get dragged for what they said, I am here for it.

Dallas venturing into James Bond territory didn't work and that probably played a part in why the writers went the it was all a dream route. Of all the action thriller/James Bond storylines on the CBS primetime soaps, the only one that worked for me was Knots Landing Wolfbridge.

I don't put GL Roger and Alan in the JR and copies list because GL introduced them both before the first episode of Dallas was broadcast. One CBS daytime villain that hasn't been mentioned in this thread is As the World Turns James Stenbeck. I'm not familiar with the Dobson years of As the World Turns so I don't know if he was that show's attempt to have a JR type villain.

RIP Brett Hadley. Both of Y&R's 1980s patriarchs are gone now 😢