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That's the feeling I get from this move. Remember Passions didn't even last a year on DirecTV.

Promo for season 2 premiere at 4:32. Promo for season 3 premiere at 9:25. This season had an episode that reached #1 (Night of the Headless Horseman), and the highest rated episode of the series (Simon Says, Color Me Dead got a 30.4 rating). Promo for season 4 premiere at 0:34 Promo for season 6 premiere at the start Promo for season 11 premiere at 6:04

It was early in Bradley's run, maybe that's why it feels like a lull. I always felt the Belief storyline was Bill Bell's last hurrah for B&B before he passed the reigns to Bradley.

Three CBS soaps introduced new villains cut from the JR mold, and all four had parental issues plus their mothers were played by Golden Age Hollywood actresses.

The CBS Sunday sitcom block of 8:30 pm One Day at a Time, 9 pm Alice, 9:30 pm The Jeffersons was a success in 1979/80, 1980/81, 1981/82. Those years also saw Alice and The Jeffersons earn their highest finishes: Alice 4th, tied with M*A*S*H, in 1979/80 and The Jeffersons 3rd in 1980/81. The block began weakening in 1982/83, when new sitcom Gloria replaced Alice in the lineup and One Day at a Time at 8:30 pm, The Jeffersons moved up to 9 pm, and One Day at a Time moved down to 9:30 pm. Alice was initially moved to Wednesday 9 pm then to Monday 9 pm. Gloria finished 18th but was still cancelled, The Jeffersons dropped from 3rd to 12th, tied with the first season of Newhart, and One Day at a Time dropped from 10th to 16th. Alice dropped from 5th to below the Top 30. 1983/84 CBS moves Alice back to Sunday, this time at 8 pm, One Day at a Time moves back up to 8:30 pm, The Jeffersons remains at 9 pm. Midseason Alice is moved to 9:30 pm and One Day at a Time is moved to Wednesday 8 pm. The Jeffersons dropped to 19th. One Day at a Time fell out of the Top 30 and was cancelled. Alice moved up to 25th, tied with CBS Tuesday Movie, Webster, Knight Rider, Hardcastle and McCormick. 1983/84 also saw the weakening of the lead out to the Sunday comedy block Trapper John, M.D.; it was a Top 20 show in its first four seasons (peak was 15th in 1981/82) but it fell from 18th in 1982/83 to 30th in 1983/84. 1984/85 was the end of the Sunday comedy block. New drama Murder, She Wrote took over 8 pm and finished at 8th, the highest rated new scripted series that season not named The Cosby Show. The Jeffersons and Alice were at 9 pm/9:30 pm until midseason, and then got moved to Tuesday 8 pm/8:30 pm, where they were clobbered by The A-Team and then cancelled. New drama Crazy Like a Fox premiered midseason Sunday 9 pm and benefitted from the Murder, She Wrote lead in to finish 10th, tied with Falcon Crest. Unfortunately, Trapper John, M.D. did not retain much of the Murder, She Wrote and Crazy Like a Fox lead ins and it finished at 29th. I pinpoint the end of M*A*S*H in Spring 1983 and the weakening of the Sunday comedy block that same season as the start of CBS's struggle with sitcoms, and that struggle continued through the remainder of the 1980s.

Revisiting a 1990s R&B classic album on the 25th anniversary of its release.

Come on now, give EB credit for still boxing at 81 🤣

February 8, 1980 episode "Second Thoughts". Recaps of Dallas - Television of Yore

In the 1990s B&B really pushed the envelope moreso than Y&R when it came to love scenes. Some of them looked like they belonged in the type of movies that aired on cable during the wee hours.

@Vee In the Ava Gardner episodes, there are great scenes where Laura calls out Ruth and puts her on blast.

Knots Landing isn't the type of soap we'd expect to see a messy wealthy matriarch but Ava Gardner as Ruth Galveston was everything. It's so funny that she preferred villainess Abby over the more virtuous Laura as the ideal mate for Greg.

@Faulkner Days is an interesting case study in soaps. Started out as a Bill Bell show but it's best known for the supercouple years and Reilly sci-fi years.

We often point out the similarities between the early years of B&B and 1970s Y&R but how about similarities between the early years of B&B and Y&R at around the same time? It was mentioned earlier in the thread that Katie being the shy insecure sister because of her acne was similar to Traci being the shy insecure sister because of her weight. Another comparison I thought of could be Caroline/Brooke rivalry similar to Ashley/Nikki rivalry. Caroline/Ashley, both from wealthy families. Brooke/Nikki, both from working class backgrounds. Some differences though. Caroline was a clear-cut heroine but Ashley (at least ED's 1982-1988 version) wasn't, and Brooke was a clear-cut vixen but Nikki wasn't. Also Caroline to me didn't initially come across as goal oriented the way Ashley initially was and I felt Brooke was always on the lookout for a come up more so than Nikki was (and oddly enough Nikki got the come up with her marriage to Victor).

Probably sometime next spring, after the 60th anniversary.

Queen Elizabeth passes away almost 1 1/2 years after Prince Phillip's death and in the year that marks the 70th anniversary of her ascension to the throne after the death of her father King George, the 25th anniversary of Princess Diana's death, and the 20th anniversary of Princess Margaret and the Queen Mother's deaths. King Charles and Queen Consort Camilla, I cannot wrap my head around that.

Top 3 prediction: 1. Deidre Hall, 2. Drake Hogestyn, 3. Kristian Alfonso

@YRfan23 That's because inconsistent SORASing messed up the timelines so we didn't get viable generations of high school/college/early career in the 1990s/2000s/2010s/today.

Top 6 prediction (ABC order): Kristian Alfonso, Deidre Hall, Drake Hogestyn, Peter Reckell, Frances Reid, Alison Sweeney.

When CBS was at one of its lowest points Save CBS | EW.com

Susan Seaforth Hayes the second entry that worked w/ Bill Bell on two shows. Top 9 prediction (ABC order): Kristian Alfonso, John Clarke, Deidre Hall, Drake Hogestyn, Peter Reckell, Melissa Reeves, Frances Reid, Suzanne Rogers, Alison Sweeney.

Lauren Koslow the second entry that went from Y&R to Reilly Days. Top 12 prediction (ABC order): Kristian Alfonso, Macdonald Carey, John Clarke, Deidre Hall, Susan Seaforth Hayes, Drake Hogestyn, Peter Reckell, Melissa Reeves, Frances Reid, Suzanne Rogers, Alison Sweeney, Josh Taylor.

1985, the first year Younger Actress was awarded. Tracey Bregman won that year.

Also Knots Landing season 12-14 overlapped w/ season 1-3 of Beverly Hills 90210. Dallas final season overlapped w/ season 1 of Beverly Hills 90210. Knots Landing final season overlapped w/ season 1 of Melrose Place. Funny how the final seasons of the first 1980s primetime soap and its spinoff (technically both premiered in the late 1970s but they are mostly associated w/ the 1980s) overlap w/ the first seasons of the first 1990s primetime soap and its spinoff.

If we're keeping it real here, NBC has not been successful in daytime for the better part of the last 45 years. I'm not surprised at all that they are the first network to have all their soaps come to an end. It's quite telling that their longest-lasting soap lineup in the last 45 years has been Days nearly 15 year period as NBC's sole soap.

I think the Top 15 will be (in ABC order) Kristian Alfonso, John Aniston, Macdonald Carey, John Clarke, Deidre Hall, Susan Seaforth Hayes, Drake Hogestyn, Lauren Koslow, Peter Reckell, Melissa Reeves, Frances Reid, James Reynolds, Suzanne Rogers, Alison Sweeney, Josh Taylor.