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MTS 40th anniversary episode had mentions of Nikki/Paul and the cult but none of Dylan. I'd say the Dylan rewrite has been removed from the canon.

Scott died on B&B in November 1993. Lauren didn't cross over to B&B full time until Fall 1995.

This fall on CBS Daytime, The Price is Right starts its 51st season and Lets Make a Deal starts its 14th season. As of today they are the longest running and 5th longest running daytime game shows on US network television. The shows in between: the NBC Daytime versions of Concentration (1958-1973), Wheel of Fortune (1975-1989), and Hollywood Squares (1966-1980).

I personally would watch the Bill Bell years to pinpoint elements he later used on Y&R/B&B and also to see the actors/actresses he later cast on Y&R/B&B. My guess is that most Days fans would watch 1983-1998 as those 15 years encompassed the supercouple era and Reilly's sci-fi era.

The final NBC episode is Friday September 9. That's almost 15 years to the date that Days became NBC's only daytime drama (September 10, 2007). Days NBC run will total 56 years 305 days (November 8, 1965 to September 9, 2022).

I just remembered that B&B reached another daytime history milestone. On Monday July 18, B&B moved past Search for Tomorrow (both CBS and NBC runs) to become the 8th longest-running daytime drama on US network television. As of today, the 10 longest-running daytime dramas on US network television are General Hospital, Guiding Light, Days, As the World Turns, Y&R, One Life to Live, All My Children, B&B, Search for Tomorrow, Another World.

When you look at the 1989 storylines, the front-burner females were Cassandra and Cricket, while the rest of the main females (Jill, Katherine, Nikki, Ashley, Traci, Lauren, Nina, Leanna) got second or third tier storylines. So I'd say resting Ashley for a year or so might have worked. Brenda Epperson was a serviceable recast but in hindsight her main storylines (Brad/Ashley/Traci triangle, Victor marriage/divorce, Blade/Rick) didn't work. Many have said that Bill Bell wrote BE's Ashley as a typical soap heroine which wasn't what the character originally was. From what I've seen of ED's 1982-1988 arc, Ashley wasn't the typical Bill Bell heroine in the vein of Leslie and Chris Brooks before her and Caroline and Christine after her; he wrote Ashley originally as confident and goal oriented but she became emotionally fragile in the aftermath of the parentage reveal. Bill Bell also kept ED's Ashley and Traci in separate orbits when it came to their romances and romantic rivals (Ashley/Victor/Nikki, Traci/Danny/Lauren, Traci/Brad/Lauren) but he must have seen a connection between BE and DD to put Ashley and Brad in each other's orbit romantically. Also BE had no connection w/ EB at all plus she looked too innocent and sweet to be believable as the other woman in the eternal triangle.

It's never been confirmed, but I wonder if Cricket eating the show was also the cause of Eileen Davidson leaving in 1988. From what I've seen of December 1988, ED didn't even get a proper exit story. I think her last scene as Ashley was at the hospital when Steven died and a week or so later Ashley was in her room at the Abbott house and it was Brenda Epperson.

That was Les Moonves first order of business when he arrived at CBS in 1995. Personally I think Les Moonves had it out for Murder, She Wrote for years. Remember he was moving up the ranks at Lorimar/Warner Bros from 1985-1995 and that overlaps with Murder, She Wrote's first season finishing ahead of both Knots Landing and Falcon Crest, and Murder, She Wrote's second season finishing ahead of Dallas to become CBS's highest rated scripted program (which it remained until 1989/90. Murphy Brown became CBS's highest rated scripted program from 1990/91 to 1993/94, then 1994/95 Murder, She Wrote would once again be CBS's highest rated scripted program.) and also the highest rated drama across the broadcast networks (even beating both Dynasty and Miami Vice. Murder, She Wrote would remain the highest rated drama across the broadcast networks until 1993/94, then ER and NYPD Blue finished ahead of it in 1994/95.). Not to beat a dead horse, but when you factor in everything we know today about Les Moonves and that his time at Lorimar/Warner Bros also overlaps with the timing of the CBS primetime soaps going into budget mode, I don't find it a coincidence that it was the long-time female cast members of the CBS primetime soaps that were mostly affected when the shows went into budget mode. AFAIK none of the CBS primetime soap female cast members have come forward about Les Moonves but we may never know what went down during his time at Lorimar/Warner Bros.

Victoria was born on-screen November 1982. Nicholas was born off-screen December 1988. They are 6 years apart in real time but inconsistent SORASing messed up the timelines.

Cricket wasn't annoying when she showed up on school breaks from Spring 1983 to Spring 1986. Summer 1986 to end of 1989 was when Cricket ate the show. I also skip her scenes whenever an episode from that era shows up.

Nikki was quite the troublemaking promiscuous girl. No surprise she ended up on the pole. After all Nikki is the OG ho turned housewife.

Despite Cricket eating the show?

Thanks @FrenchFan . Y&R's first mention of Nikki. I'm guessing the next summary will be the first mention of Paul.

@BoldRestless Thank you for the links to the Australian broadcasts. With Y&R being so much further behind than B&B in Australia, that messed up the timelines when the crossovers began. I'm sure alot of countries where both shows were broadcast had similar timeline issues with the crossovers.

How would Knots Landing have fit in the mid-1990s network drama landscape? Fall 1993 Melrose Place took off, Beverly Hills 90210 was at its peak, NYPD Blue premiered, and ER was a year away. Knots Landing might have looked old school in comparison. CBS had so much of their own daytime talent that could have worked on their primetime soaps but for whatever reason CBS's primetime soaps grabbed ABC/NBC daytime actors instead.

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Maybe he thought 40 years later the audience wouldn't notice 🤣 I was thinking that this whole storyline is a JT redo.

This was the week of The Cosby Show's first season finale. Cliff's birthday, and Lena Horne guest starred.

I so thought there was going to be a Ashland/Diane hookup. Oh well, at least there's still the potential of a Nate/Imani hookup.

B&B's peak was Sally's arrival through the first half of 1995.

Y&R was killing it in the daytime ratings at the end of the 1980s while CBS was a mess in primetime in that same era.

@Broderick Vanessa Prentiss lasted 5 1/2 years, that's a pretty good arc for a villainess. K.T. Stevens didn't act much after Y&R but from what I've seen of her Y&R work, she had primetime soap matriarch energy. She was written off Y&R just when primetime soaps were taking off but for whatever reason a regular primetime soap role for her wasn't meant to be. Speaking of Golden Age Hollywood actresses, was the casting of Dorothy McGuire as Cora Miller considered a big get for Y&R?

Thanks @FrenchFan Y&R getting close to Paul and Nikki's introductions.

One nomination, Younger Actress in 1988.