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Of all the soaps I've watched Y&R: 1998 B&B: 1993 As the World Turns: 1993 Guiding Light: 1992 I take it you weren't a fan of the supercouple era or Reilly era.

I think its safe to say that GL's best EPs in its final 30 years were Allen Potter and Robert Calhoun.

November 7, 1977 Guiding Light expands to 1 hour. The new ET schedules starting w/ the soaps were CBS: 11:30 am Love of Life, noon Y&R, 12:30 pm Search for Tomorrow, 1 pm Local programming, 1:30 pm As the World Turns, 2:30 pm Guiding Light, 3:30 pm All in the Family reruns, 4 pm Tattletales ABC: 12:30 pm Ryan's Hope, 1 pm All My Children, 2 pm $20,000 Pyramid; 2:30 pm One Life to Live, 3:15 pm General Hospital, 4 pm The Edge of Night NBC: 1:30 pm Days, 2:30 pm The Doctors, 3 pm Another World, 4 pm The Gong Show The soap time slot rivalries were now Search for Tomorrow vs. Ryan's Hope As the World Turns vs. All My Children vs. Days Guiding Light vs. One Life to Live/General Hospital vs. The Doctors/Another World

Plus CBS and P&G were really shaken by ABC huge rise and dominance, thus CBS rearranging the soap block and changes to the shows themselves.

This makes no sense to me. One would think P&G would be happy that one of their shows was CBS's highest-rated soap.

Do you have Dallas, Dynasty, Knots Landing syndicated ratings for this time? It would be interesting to see how they fared in comparison to early Oprah.

Joshua Morrow is a month away from 50 and his whole overgrown frat boy persona is just so ridiculous at this point. It boggles my mind that his 30th anniversary is in June. Nick and Sharon are end game but the writers want to keep them forever young and beautiful star-crossed lovers even though they are well into middle age and have grown children.

@Khan Thank you for the info re Family Matters. I have read/heard about some backstage drama in recent years re JW vs. RVJ/JMP.

Quelle surprise

Whoa, Oprah moved up w/ the quickness in the first 8 months the show was national. She changed the daytime syndication game.

Totally agree. The first three seasons sometimes border on being a chore to watch, but they build the foundation for the rest of the series.

Lots of jockeying for position. Remember too that numbers get higher in the summer with the kids off school.

Ahh, you're not down w/ build-a-body WAGs 🤣 Larsa and Marcus are the only reason I'm watching Miami. I'm also Team Michael Jordan's lawyers.

So could Y&R.

Darlene Conley had two runs on Y&R as Rose Deville, 1979 to 1980, then 1986 to 1987. 1989 Bill Bell cast Darlene on B&B as Sally Spectra and the rest is history.

Thank you @BoldRestless and @DRW50 for sharing these 1980 episodes. 1979 and 1980 episodes that feature Roger/Holly storylines are ones I look forward to because they set in motion everything we saw a decade later. This is early in Douglas Marland run and he hasn't missed a beat from where the Dobsons left off, at least based on the episodes I've seen from 1979 and 1980. From the 1980s ratings thread we saw that the Potter/Marland era held its own against pop culture phenomenon General Hospital but the cynic in me can't help but think that it was CBS's highest-rated soap only because Y&R was a mess from it's expansion until the first half of 1982. Remember prior to the expansion Y&R was challenging General Hospital for #1 but then the expansion, time slot changes, EP change, cast changes derailed all its momentum. Also notice Marland 1982 departure overlaps w/ Y&R getting back on track.

In the daytime, The Price is Right and Wheel of Fortune were time slot rivals and I'm pretty sure The Price is Right was killing Wheel of Fortune.

Two storylines from the Dobson era that impacted GL until the end were Roger/Holly and intro of the Spauldings. Its too bad so little of the Dobson era has surfaced. I haven't seen any 1976 episodes and AFAIK only two 1977 episodes and a partial 1978 episode have surfaced. 1979 and 1980 have a few episodes out there.

Do GL fans consider Potter/Dobsons 1976-1980 to be another golden era on the level of Potter/Marland 1980-1982 and Calhoun/Long/Curlee 1989-1991?

CBS approached Bill Bell in 1977 about creating a second show for the daytime lineup but as well all know Bill Bell wouldn't have a second show ready until 10 years later. The only soap schedule change CBS made in 1977 was expanding Guiding Light to 1 hr. If Bill Bell had a second show ready in 1977, would Guiding Light expansion have been delayed or would Love of Life have ended?

As of September 8, 1986, the only syndicated show that mattered was Oprah. I am 99% sure Oprah clobbered everything from when the show went national until the end of the decade.

April 25, 1977 All My Children expands to 1 hr. ABC new daytime schedule (ET) starting w/ soaps until the end of the day 12:30 pm Ryan's Hope, 1 pm All My Children, 2 pm $20,000 Pyramid; 2:30 pm One Life to Live, 3:15 pm General Hospital, 4 pm The Edge of Night. New soap time slot rivalry As the World Turns vs. All My Children vs. Days ABC next and final soap expansions were One Life to Live to 1 hr and General Hospital to 1 hr on January 16, 1978. Guiding Light going strong, it's expansion to 1 hr a little over 6 months away.

If my math is correct, we can divide Days first three decades or so into three pivotal eras and two transition eras: Bill Bell years 1966-1973 Post-Bill Bell/pre-supercouple 1973-1982 Supercouple era 1983-1990 Post-supercouple/pre-Reilly 1990-1992 Reilly years 1993-1997

Jordan arc much like Cameron return gave me bad Lifetime movie energy.

I think it is too.