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2025/26 Premieres Dramas Matlock - Season 2 premiere Sunday October 12, 8:30 pm (may be delayed due to NFL coverage) Elsbeth - Season 3 premiere Sunday October 12, 9:30 pm (may be delayed due to NFL coverage) FBI - Season 8 premiere Monday October 13, 9 pm Watson - Season 2 premiere Monday October 13, 10 pm NCIS - Season 23 premiere Tuesday October 14, 8 pm NCIS: Origins - Season 2 premiere Tuesday October 14, 9 pm NCIS: Sydney - Season 3 premiere Tuesday October 14, 10 pm Fire Country - Season 4 premiere Friday October 17, 8 pm Sheriff Country - Series premiere Friday October 17, 9 pm Boston Blue - Series premiere Friday October 17, 10 pm Tracker - Season 3 premiere Sunday October 19, 8 pm (may be delayed due to NFL coverage) Comedies The Neighborhood - Season 8 premiere Monday October 13, 8 pm DMV - Series premiere Monday October 13, 8:30 pm Georgie & Mandie's First Marriage - Season 2 premiere Thursday October 16, 8 pm Ghosts - Season 5 premiere Thursday October 16, 8:30 pm

1984/85 was probably the 1980s peak of Aaron Spelling hit factory in terms of number of shows on ABC, but it was showing signs of weakening. Dynasty moved up from 3rd to #1. Hotel dropped from 9th to 12th. The Love Boat fell out of the Top 30. T.J. Hooker and Matt Houston were done at the end of the season. Finder of Lost Loves and Glitter were one season and done.

The return of Febreeze, yes! All that's missing is Tide hahaha.

Beth Maitland was 27 in 1985, so 6 years older than Judi Evans.

The younger categories were introduced in 1985 and I think it was because of Judi Evans supporting win in 1984. She wasn't even 20 years old and had been on GL for only one year at the time.

I always point out Days as being an interesting case in soap history. Started as a Bill Bell show but became known for the supercouple era and Reilly era. @Reverend Ruthledge and @vetsoapfan I take it you weren't fans of supercouple Days and Reilly Days.

I would consider Phillip/Beth and Josh/Reva supercouples, at least in the Kobe/Long era.

GL was not in a very good place creatively in June 1994 (Nancy Curlee left the writing team three months earlier) and from the ratings it was effectively over in the aftermath of OJ, thus cancel territory in 1995. IIRC cancel rumors got really strong in 1996 when it looked like Bradley was preparing to expand B&B to 1 hour (which I suspected was being timed for the 10th anniversary in March 1997) but as we all know that didn't happen. That explains leaving at the end of initial contract and going to Days. Judi Evans was employed steadily for the better part of 16 years, from her joining GL in 1983 until the end of Another World in 1999. The gaps between GL/Days and Days/Another World were only a few months if I'm not mistaken.

That was late summer/early fall 1990.

@Liberty City I see what you did there 😄

@Maxim @DRW50 I believe Joanna Johnson quit in 1994, and if she did, she was smart to do so. I shudder at the thought of Bradley continuing to write for Karen. In the end it all worked out as Joanna went on to success as a writer and producer.

I'm so ready for BtG to return on Monday. I'm hoping it will still be hot fire, whereas I have little hope that Y&R will improve from being mostly hot garbage.

Taylor pretty much replaced Caroline. Karen got lost in the shuffle because there were too many other females in the early 30s age range (Brooke, Macy, Taylor, Sheila) and not enough storyline to go around.

Budget mode.

I had no idea Susan Sullivan started on daytime. LOL at her saying the daytime soaps are becoming larger than life. I'm sure she wasn't referring to any of the CBS daytime soaps, mindful of the network that she was collecting checks from.

I know, another year and a half. Where has the time gone.

Days also had an homage to Miami Vice, but theirs was in November 1985 and they went on location to Miami. Two NBC soaps paid homage to NBC's cool and trendy primetime drama. I don't know if Search for Tomorrow or Santa Barbara had a Miami Vice homage though.

@Maxim I think that photo is from the 10th anniversary.

It was the combination of Roger return and Robert Calhoun becoming EP that got GL to finally hit its stride after some pretty bad years. Unfortunately the ratings during the Calhoun/Long/Curlee era did not reflect the quality of the show. It was easy to ignore Ronn Moss acting when he had Bill Bell writing for him and scene partners Susan Flannery and Joanna Johnson to carry him through their scenes. Ronn Moss acting got progressively worse in the 1990s, then again, Bradley writing didn't help matters much either.

We saw Sheila pregnant twice: once on Y&R which was Scott Sr.'s child that was miscarried and once on B&B which was Mary Warwick. The other kids would be rewrites.

@Maxim How you are able to watch anything after 1999 is amazing to me. I tried but I couldn't get back into it at all.

Every Sheila return after 1998. I only watched Sheila 2005-2006 Y&R return and none of the B&B returns. Sheila is Bradley's "break glass in case of emergency" character.

I say this all the time but it bears repeating whenever the opportunity presents itself. Bradley did not inherit his father's talent.

Despite the initial torridness of Roger/Mindy (affair with business rival's daughter), I believe Roger did love Mindy but they wouldn't have worked as a long-term couple because the specter of Roger's feelings for Holly would be lingering in the background. If you saw the Locher Room MZ tribute episode, Kimberley Simms credited the Roger/Mindy storyline for her growing as an actress and Mindy growing as a character, plus she mentioned that the Roger/Mindy storyline allowed the audience to see MZ as a romantic leading man and not just a villain.

Felicia was brought on when Kristen was on the way out. For whatever reason, Bill Bell didn't explore the Forrester daughters' relationship. I could totally see a Kristen/Clarke/Felicia triangle happen. I remember there was some flirtation between Felicia and Clarke but it went nowhere.