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@soapfan770 Falcon Crest ended with all the storylines wrapped up so to me there really wasn't a need for a reunion movie/miniseries. Falcon Crest also did not get a cast retrospective like Dallas Return to Southfork and Knots Landing Together Again.

The Potter/Marland era held its own against massive pop culture phenomenon General Hospital but it was also 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/ the post-Marland fall.

For sure.

Quite the turnaround. Nicole kicked Ted to the curb and quickly ended their marriage.

Yeah, he was but I think the investigation was called off.

Andre's time away from Fairmont Crest as a globe-trotting photographer is waiting to be explored.

Kobe and JFP both got the ratings up initially but eventually caused long-term damage. I say Kobe gets more of a pass than JFP because Kobe set in motion characters and storylines that carried GL through its final 25 years whereas JFP decisions lead to GL limping along in its final 15 years.

Which EP do you think caused more long-term damage, Kobe or JFP?

Les Moonves is the reason Angela Lansbury cried on 60 Minutes. There is a special place in hell for him for that alone. Angela Lansbury had every reason to call out Les Moonves and put him on blast but she chose not to because she was too elegant and classy for that. Angela Lansbury has a fanbase of all walks of life and her work will forever live on.

30 years ago this month Murder, She Wrote came to end. The Ending Of Murder, She Wrote Explained FAREWELL TO `MURDER, SHE WROTE' ANGELA LANSBURY SOLVES HER LAST CASE AS JESSICA FLETCHER Promo for the series finale @ 6:17 May 17, 1996 commercials (Vol. 2) - YouTube

Practically every cliffhanger had a death count.

Hahaha. Dead at Dollar Store Vanity.

Bill Bell's last hurrah before he passed the reigns to Bradley. Many Days fans I know consider the shipwreck the last big action/adventure storyline of the supercouple era. Reilly and his sci-fi storylines. Leslie was on the verge of collapse and Lorie was shrieking. That confrontation would have been more powerful without those elements. Another memorable Y&R confrontation was Nikki/Ashley at the ranch where Nikki confronts Ashley about being involved with Victor. Nikki gets all in Ashley's face and Ashley is trying to hold it together.

Do not give Bradley ideas.

Agree.

Thanks @Khan Dallas had the heart and roots of a western and I think that played a part in it having the biggest male audience of the 1980s big four. Knots Landing brought on Kevin Dobson and William Devane to get the male audience away from Hill Street Blues and it worked. Falcon Crest added elements more suited to Miami Vice because if you can't beat the new hotness might as well join it. Case in point, Apollonia arc was an attempt to get the Miami Vice demographic but that didn't work.

Dallas was a family/business conflict-based show but it had the heart and roots of a western. Dallas was the most male-focused of the 1980s big four primetime soaps. I recognize Dallas place in television history as the most successful primetime soap plus its place in popular culture and the influence it had on the daytime soaps. Knots Landing was community-based show and a spin off done right. Knots Landing carved it's own identity apart from it's parent show Dallas. Even with the crossovers, Knots Landing never felt like a second hour of Dallas in a different setting. Falcon Crest had all the ingredients to be a great show but the execution squandered the potential. I recognize Dynasty place in television history and popular culture plus the influence it had on the rest of the primetime soaps and on the daytime soaps but on the whole I didn't like it very much. Aaron Spelling entire goal was to be bigger and better than Dallas and that goal was reached at the expense of storytelling logic and acting ability. Putting the CBS primetime soaps in CBS daytime terms, Dallas and Falcon Crest were family/business conflict-based more like the Bell shows and Knots Landing was community-based more like the P&G shows. Let's not forget that 1985/86 Angela Lansbury knocked big bad Larry Hagman off the throne at CBS. She will forever be savage for that.

You're welcome. So much hype with those finale promos but it was a disappointment.

Also Emma and Lauren never met. In a way Lauren replaced both Maggie and Emma.

The final four episodes felt like they were rewritten to wrap up the storylines. Remember too there was a five week break between the last Friday episode and the first Thursday episode.

1993/94 peak 90210 and Melrose took off. 1994/95 the first post-Brenda season and peak Melrose. That may have been a factor.

Probably not so good. 90210 first season was Thursday 9 pm, head-to-head with #1 Cheers. Those are my memories too. Peak 90210 for me was Summer 1991 until Shannen Doherty departure in Spring 1994.

That I don't know but I would not be shocked at all if it were true.

Kobe/Long introduced characters and storylines that would carry GL through the final 25 years and got the ratings up from the post-Marland slump, but it was too much chasing 1980s trends which wasn't sustainable and caused long-term damage.

@soapfan770 Thanks for sharing. I totally LOL.