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Spring 1983-Summer 1984 Gail Kobe/Pamela Long got the ratings up from the post-Marland slump and set in motion the final 25 years but it was too much chasing 1980s trends which wasn't sustainable and caused long-term damage. The ratings from Fall 1984 onward reflected this. The early 1990s golden era that started shortly after Robert Calhoun became EP. I loved the Calhoun years and it will always be a disappointment to me that the ratings during his run did not reflect the quality of the show.

Season 5 was excellent and it's my second favorite season. Knots Landing tanks for me in the aftermath of Val's babies. Empire Valley became a mess and Joshua's descent into madness and eventual death were difficult to watch. I didn't like season 8 either, those storylines were awful. I never thought of any of the male cast members of Knots Landing as any type of hotness. Maybe because I was too young to have watched in real time. The final five seasons were a chore for me to get through mainly due to Paige practically eating the show.

Season 6 was the peak of the whole series.

RIP Phil Donahue and thank you for your contributions to daytime television.

It was the additions of Kevin Dobson and William Devane that gave Knots Landing a more masculine energy. I feel their castings were strategic to get the male audience away from Hill Street Blues and it worked.

Snooty lady of the manor Nikki needed to be knocked down a peg or two. Remember in the 1994 episode we saw during the classics, Victor even reminded Nikki of her past ("you were considered a gold digger once"). AFAIK Ashley never brought up Nikki's past in their confrontations. Also when there was that brief Nikki/Christine rivalry, Christine didn't bring up Nikki's past either. Nikki Reed was introduced as a troublemaking promiscuous girl but all she wanted was to be loved and adored and cared for. Nikki was lacking in both book smarts and street smarts, thus the shady modeling agency fronting for prostitution ring, the cult, the pole. Climbing the pole lead to Nikki Reed becoming Nikki Newman the OG ho turned housewife who then became snooty lady of the manor and is now messy matriarch/grande dame.

Traci is the heart of the Abbott family and she deserves to have happiness in her life.

Exactly. EB knows that a good portion of his fanbase in this country are African-Americans. Whenever he trends on Twitter, it's almost always African-Americans that show him the most love.

100% this. I love how he shuts down racist posters on Twitter. All these racists think that a white man born in Germany in 1941 is going to be of their mindset and they end up being proven wrong.

EB showing love to Steph Curry made my day Then a racist poster came after EB and he was not having that.

OMG this is epic!

Knots Landing final three episodes of 1983/84 compared to the rest of the big four primetime soaps. March 8, 1984: Finishing Touches, rating 22.1, 7th for the week. Finished ahead of Falcon Crest (March 9: Little Boy Blue, rating 21.7, 10th). Dallas (March 9: Fools Rush In, rating 26.8) was #1 and Dynasty (March 7: Steps, rating 25.9) was 2nd. March 22, 1984: Yesterday, It Rained; rating 22.4, 6th for the week. Dallas (March 23: Strange Alliance, rating 26.0) was #1, Dynasty (March 21: The Voice (Part 2), rating 25.1) was 2nd, and Falcon Crest (March 23: The Final Countdown, rating 23.0) was 5th. March 29, 1984: Negotiations (season 5 finale), rating 23.3 (season high), 5th for the week. Dynasty (March 28: The Voice (Part 3), rating 25.2) was #1. No Dallas and Falcon Crest on March 30.

With Knots Landing being a community-based show, we don't expect it to venture into action thriller/James Bond territory but Wolfbridge worked because it still gave us high emotional stakes character driven storytelling that impacted the whole canvas. 1983/84 Knots Landing was excellent and missed being a Top 10 show by very little. I've pointed this out before, but I don't believe that Hotel was a better show in 1983/84 than Knots Landing was. 1984/85 Knots Landing finally finishes in the Top 10 and it would be its only Top 10 season. I break down Knots Landing run as Seasons 1-3: Building the foundation. Seasons 4-6: The peak. Full-on primetime soap. Season 7 and 8: Tanking. Season 9: Signs of going off the rails are showing. Seasons 10-14: Off the rails plus budget mode.

Was anyone checking for Peter Simon BITD? I always thought of the P&G shows as placing talent above looks but then again it was the early 1980s when ABC youth movement was killing it in daytime.

But it wasn't on the level of JW 1999 opening credits

Wink Martindale and Bob Eubanks are still with us, and they seem to be the last game show hosts left of that generation.

Another song battle If I was Julie Andrews, I would have bitch slapped Ariana Grande for this rip off. At least Rodgers & Hammerstein estates get 90% of the royalties from 7 Rings.

Thanks for the answer @Khan. I also liked Stephanie and Sally, and I agree that many of Bill Bell's storylines on B&B were dust offs of Y&R storylines.

Did you like the Bill Bell years at least? Yes, when Bill Bell was in charge.

It seems to me so many moves CBS made in primetime during the second half of the 1980s were to fill space in the schedule because so many new shows they launched were one season and done.

Kimberley Simms, Sherry Stringfield, Beverlee McKinsey all left w/in weeks of each other. While Fall 1992 wasn't bad, their departures left a huge void in the canvas.

So there's going to be some cut scenes. I believe the initial broadcast syndication package was the first 6 seasons. TNT and Soapnet might have done some of their own cutting in the later seasons.

Larsa Pippen and Marcus Jordan allegedly broke up due to his drug use. Larsa Pippen Reportedly Thinks Marcus Jordan Lied About Drug Use (vibe.com)

There was a darkness and sadness that surrounded everything and it was painful to watch. There were times I was like "make it make sense". That whole storyline was a dust off of The Sound of Music. I don't feel he was rewarded, to me he was defeated and tired of fighting. That was awful. I'm so glad I did not see it in real time. Business arrangement marriage that turned into a love/hate relationship. I don't feel they had a genuine love.

CBS messed up their Thursday lineup in Fall 1986. Magnum, P.I. was effectively over Spring 1986 after being slaughtered by The Cosby Show, but in Fall 1986 CBS moved it to Wednesday 9 pm head-to-head w/ Dynasty. Magnum, P.I. was able to win the time slot a few times, but it was still below the Top 30. Simon & Simon got clobbered by Cheers in 1985/86 but w/ the move to 8 pm head-to-head w/ The Cosby Show it was DOA. Simon & Simon was moved to 8:30 pm then back to 9 pm, but the damage was already done. Knots Landing was moved up to 9 pm where it was weakened by Cheers. CBS saw the error of their ways and moved Knots Landing back to 10 pm but then NBC moved L.A. Law to Thursday 10 pm and Knots Landing got weakened further. Designing Women bounced around the schedule in its rookie season, Monday 9:30 pm to Thursday 9:30 pm to Sunday 9 pm then back to Monday 9:30 pm. Apparently it was cancelled in Spring 1987 then uncancelled. Thursday would remain a CBS dead zone until Survivor and CSI.