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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 😢

Josh Griffith has been getting too many ideas from bad Lifetime movies. Y&R feels like its been in a holding pattern since the end of the 50th anniversary celebrations.

All the horror stories about Bob Barker are going to surface when he passes.

CW Dynasty was designed so that the Google generation could binge watch.

That week on GL was Roger's fall off the cliff in Santo Domingo.

Thanks for the reply @Soapsuds See the Stars of 'Dallas' Reunite 45 Years After Show Debut (Exclusive) (people.com)

@Soapsuds Were you at the reunion?

The Dru/Lillie Belle confrontation where Dru learned she was the result of marital rape and that Lillie Belle wanted to end the pregnancy was one of Victoria Rowell's best performances. 30 years later that scene is still powerful.

That ad is for the episodes of October 14, 1983. Who knows, maybe Larry Hagman had a glow up over the summer of 1983 LOL. Was anyone checking for him BITD?

All My Children doing really well in February and March 1980. I believe Susan Lucci was on pregnancy leave at this time. Douglas Marland GL really holding its own vs. General Hospital. The rest of CBS is tanking. The new schedule was not working.

Episodes I'm always on the lookout for are 1979 and 1980 episodes of Roger/Holly storylines as those episodes set in motion so much of what we saw a decade later (I've accepted we'll probably never see any 1976-1978 episodes of Roger/Holly storylines), and Robert Calhoun years (June 1989 to July 1991) as that was the last golden era. Early JFP (July 1991 to August 1992) is still good, but it was coasting off the groundwork laid during the Calhoun years. I know the early Gail Kobe/Pamela Long years (Spring 1983 to Summer 1984) were popular and that era pretty much set in motion GL's final 25 years, but from what I've seen, it was too much chasing 1980s trends.

ABC was the new hotness in the late 1970s and early 1980s. We'll see from the mid-1980s until the end of the decade the ABC big three get toppled one-by-one by Y&R.

It boggles my mind that Pat Sajak has hosted Wheel of Fortune longer than Bob Barker hosted The Price is Right.

The Cosby Show still destroying everything in its path. CBS tanking. You can tell its February sweeps by the specials and movies/miniseries.

@JAS0N47 Thank you for the ratings in this thread and in the 1980s thread. It's a great look back at daytime history.

1988/89 not a very good season. So many shows felt off in the aftermath of the writer's strike. Roseanne the first show to threaten The Cosby Show dominance and a ripple effect was the weakening of all the big mid-1980s family sitcoms. Times were changing indeed.

Summer 1992 GL lost Kimberley Simms, Sherry Stringfield, Beverlee McKinsey within weeks of each other. I think Sherry Stringfield was another case of finish initial contract, move on to other things while still relatively young. We all know Sherry found success in primetime since she was part of the original casts of two of the popular dramas of the 1990s, NYPD Blue and ER. While Fall 1992 wasn't bad, their departures left a huge void in the canvas, and then of course the events of 1993 changed the show forever.

This was around the time that Douglas Marland became HW, correct?

So ABC summer momentum carried through the fall. This must be when ABC took off with the college crowd, students watching between classes in lounges/dorms.

I don't blame Kimberley Simms for leaving GL after her initial contract as she was still relatively young and probably wanted to move on to other things. It's too bad a primetime career didn't happen or any of the soap roles she was rumored to be in contention for (Days Jennifer, Y&R Ashley, Another World Vicky) didn't materialize. In the episodes of The Locher Room I've seen her in she seems to have good memories of her time on GL and proud of the work she did on the show.

Wow, Y&R first week at 1 hr plus being head-to-head w/ All My Children had a drop of 1 full point. Did All My Children have a big dramatic story in February 1980 to send Susan Lucci off on pregnancy leave? Her son was born in March 1980 I believe.

As we'll see through 1980, the new lineup didn't work. On June 8, 1981, CBS rearranged the soaps again and the new lineup was 12:30 pm ET Y&R, 1:30 pm ET As the World Turns, 2:30 pm ET Search for Tomorrow, 3 pm ET Guiding Light.