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@JAS0N47 Thank you for the additional info 😀 I'm interested too. The Price is Right was the first daytime show I became a fan of, and that lead me to the rest of the CBS game show block and then to the CBS soaps.

@Khan Thanks for the reply. Like I always point out, its too bad that so little of 1976-1978 GL is out there which makes any 1979 and 1980 episodes that surface such a treat. We all know CB 1988 departure was due to health reasons and CB departure lead to MZ 1989 return, but imagine if CB Alan and MZ Roger had faced off in the Calhoun era, I think it would have been amazing. I just realized that a couple weeks ago (June 14) was the 35th anniversary of CB passing away.

Unless I'm not searching properly in the 1970s ratings thread, the latest I found is May 1978. April 23, 1979 CBS moved The Price is Right to it's current time slot 11 am ET. Sometime between May 1978 and February 1980, The Price is Right became the #1 non-soap daytime program.

Thank you for the reply @Mitch64. Roger and Alan paved the way for the 1980s to be the decade of the villain.

Going by memory, I think Nikki first met Dr. Josh in a medical capacity when she and Brad were engaged and Dr. Josh gave the impression that he was married. It was after Nikki and Brad engagement ended that Nikki saw Dr. Josh again and found out he wasn't married. Hope was back for something like 8 months, returned Fall 1996 and was gone by Spring 1997. Y&R had been off-track since second half of 1994 (it started w/ the frat party). Summer 1996 I enjoyed Who Shot Victor, but it was in the fall that the lull hit and it would continue through the first half of 1997. @DRW50 You are killing me 🤣 Shari Shattuck casting as Ashley derailed some storylines too. I think Bill Bell was planning a Victor/Nikki/Brad/Ashley quad but Shari Shattuck didn't pass the chemistry tests w/ EB and Don Diamont so there goes that storyline.

GL had two show-defining villains w/ MZ Roger (original run 1971-1980 and return 1989-1997) and CB Alan (original run 1977-1984 and return 1986-1988). To those who watched Roger vs. Alan 1977-1980, who wins that villain battle?

Spring 1983 to Summer 1984 pretty much set up the final 25 years.

Are there any other basketball fans here? I don't want to be the only one posting about basketball 😆

@Maxim Beauty and the Beast is my favorite Disney movie of the 1990s Disney renaissance.

Thanks @Rmodelboy 🤗

Do not give Josh Griffith or Bradley ideas.

Classic story theme song battle. The only version that matters as far as I'm concerned. I recognize Celine Dion version cemented her place in the 1990s pop landscape but for me it will forever be Angela over Celine. Oh hells no to this version. If I was Angela Lansbury I would have bitch slapped Ariana Grande for ruining the song.

I think Days remains 2nd for the better part of the next two years. As we all know, the closest Days got to beating Y&R was June 23-27, 1997 and all of Reilly big storylines culminated in Summer 1997.

Thanks @Maxim 🤗

@Soapsuds It Must Have Been Love was the best song on the Pretty Woman soundtrack. Were you a fan of that movie?

It bears repeating, Bradley did not inherit his father's talent.

The cynic in me can't help but feel that GL being CBS highest-rated daytime drama in the Potter/Marland era was helped by Y&R being in their post-expansion slump. Remember pre-expansion Y&R was challenging General Hospital and All My Children for #1 but the expansion derailed all its momentum. Y&R rebounds in the second half of 1982 and that overlaps w/ GL post-Marland fall. It disappoints me that there was a ratings drop during the Calhoun era and the ratings did not reflect the quality of the show (at least to me).

How fitting that 1995 goes on a break right when Reilly Days has blown up 😆 Had Peter Reckell returned at this point?

GL did not finish at #1. It was proven in the 1980s ratings thread. GL won the time slot over General Hospital May 28-June 1, 4-8, 11-15, 1984. Y&R was #1 those three weeks.

Summer 1995 Y&R Nick/Sharon were eating the show and B&B was tanking as Bradley's big storylines had culminated. Reilly Days is about to blow up.

Y&R big event: Dru gives birth to Lily. That was the culmination of all of Bradley's storylines. B&B tanks for me in the second half of 1995.

I loved that episode, mainly because I never liked Friends anyway. I like your ideas for a Murder, She Wrote final season farewell. Sadly Les Moonves didn't allow that to happen. What we got was Everybody Loves Raymond, CSI, NCIS, The Big Bang Theory. All shows with a masculine energy, but that's neither here nor there for this thread.

Full House moved to Tuesday in 1991/92 and became a Top 10 show that season and the following season. Family Matters had two Top 30 seasons in 1991/92 (27th) and 1993/94 (30th). I had forgotten that Miller-Boyett was part of Lorimar/Warner Brothers. It's so funny that Patrick Duffy went from Dallas to TGIF sitcom Step by Step.

1989/90 ABC launched their TGIF Friday comedy block and it was a 1990s staple. Dallas was not a Top 30 show in its final two seasons but two TGIF comedies were in the Top 30 those seasons: Full House 22nd in 1989/90 and 14th in 1990/91, Family Matters 15th in 1990/91. The Dukes of Hazzard never recovered from the 1982/83 cast switch and it was not a Top 30 show in its final two seasons yet CBS left it at Friday 8 pm. After The Dukes of Hazzard ended, Friday 8 pm was a CBS dead zone for the remainder of Dallas run. The longest-running post-The Dukes of Hazzard lead in was Beauty and the Beast for two seasons.

100% this. Angela Lansbury and Murder, She Wrote deserved to have a proper farewell and not the sabotage that Les Moonves inflicted. He will forever be on my s--- list for that. Angela was sweet and unassuming yet savage at the same time. Her most savage moments IMO: The shade towards the new hotness Miami Vice and proceeding to clean sweep them. Angela was more elegant and classy than savage with her shade though (referring to Miami Vice as Miami Heat). Beating the diva of all divas of 1980s primetime soaps Joan Collins to become the highest-rated drama across the broadcast networks. I was impressed that Joan Collins posted a memoriam to Angela on her social media, that was very classy of her to do so. Becoming CBS's highest-rated scripted show and knocking big bad Larry Hagman off the throne at CBS. The episodes in the final season that shaded both Friends and CBS. Angela did not give a f--- about being elegant and classy with her shade. She was hurt and rightfully so and I don't blame her for reacting the way that she did.