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OMG it just hit me that 1984 the peak of the 1980s was 40 years ago. Where has the time gone?

Hahaha, probably not. I'd delegate co-HW to each of the dream team.

January 16, 1978 One Life to Live and General Hospital expand to 1 hr each. The new ET schedules starting w/ the soaps until the end of the day 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 Match Game ABC: 12:30 pm Ryan's Hope, 1 pm All My Children, 2 pm One Life to Live, 3 pm General Hospital, 4 pm The Edge of Night NBC: 1 pm For Richer, For Poorer; 1:30 pm Days, 2:30 pm The Doctors, 3 pm Another World, 4 pm Local programming The soap time slot rivalries were now Search for Tomorrow vs. Ryan's Hope All My Children vs. For Richer, For Poorer As the World Turns vs. All My Children/One Life to Live vs. Days Guiding Light vs. One Life to Live/General Hospital vs. The Doctors/Another World General Hospital vs. Another World

Y&R: Katherine/Jill, Victor/Jack, Lauren/Sheila B&B: Stephanie/Brooke, Stephanie/Sally, Stephanie/Sheila

My dream team: Bill Bell, Douglas Marland, Nancy Curlee.

@Khan I don't know if you saw the Entertainment Tonight Y&R 50th anniversary special, but there was a segment on social issue storylines where Lauralee Bell talked about Cricket's date rape and how Bill Bell wanted to tell that story properly. I got the impression that Lauralee Bell was taking a swipe at how other soaps told rape storylines and I think one of the rape storylines she was swiping was Santa Barbara Eden.

Thank you for the reply. Your mother was loyal to the CBS line up.

Your mother didn't find 1970s Y&R scandalous and shocking?

Thanks for the reply. It's the same for me re Days and the ABC big three. I tried to watch them but I wasn't drawn to them at all.

@Khan I take it you were never a fan of B&B.

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.