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42 minutes ago, antmunoz said:

Barbara Norris had comic difficulty remembering her granddaughter’s new name when she returned for Holly’s wedding to Fletcher.  She kept using Christina or any name that started with B other than Blake. 
 

I am of the belief that Springfield simply became the new location in 1966.  No characters moved; they just lived in a place called Springfield now. I don’t think we’ll ever really know for sure. However if someone could compare the sets used for Bill and Bert’s house and Meta and Bruce’s house from the early sixties to the later 60s—well, if they’re the same exact sets, then the characters didn’t physically move. 
 

Also, Papa Bauer’s death and funeral just a few years later has him as a pillar of the Springfield comumunity—after 6 years?  I prefer to believe that he’d lived there many years. 
 

By the time of Meta’s reintroduction and the constant references to the various Reverends Rutledge, it seems as though Springfield has always been the setting. 
 

Of course, the show re-wrote history constantly  We saw Alan move to Springfield and  buy his house in the late 70’s. A decade later, the Spaulding have a mansion that has always been in the family. They have apparently lived there for generations. 

Hm, that's interesting. I would hate that kind of a move to a new location, to be honest. I know it's not a big deal, but just renaming the town overnight, it would irk me

And it is annoying when they do things like that (e.g. Alan buying a house on screen, but later referring to it as that always being the Spaulding home). Don't they have have (or at least back then) people who are there to spot continuity errors? lol

4 hours ago, Bill Bauer said:

 

 

I've never read anything about a flood. The move from Five Points to Selby Flats happened after Rev. Ruthledge died. His adopted son Ned brought Rev. Ruthledge's friendship lamp to his best friend in seminary, Rev. Charles Matthews, who was living in Selby Flats. Thus, the locale switched. By that time, most of the original characters had been written out and, I believe (though I could very well be wrong about the timing) that the transition happened in 1946 when The Guiding Light was off the air for a little bit. So, when they returned, it was just a whole new setting and cast of characters with the only thing really surviving from the previous story being the friendship lamp. The only characters (I think) who transitioned to Selby Flats (Ned didn't stick around) was Claire Marshall and her new husband Jonathan MacNeil and maybe a couple of characters who were in their orbit. I'm not sure about that but the story during that time period was mostly focused on them. The Ruthledges and the Kranskys had been written out. The exact years are a little fuzzy because I've read that Rev. Ruthledge died in WW2 (he was an army chaplain) but Ned didn't take his friendship lamp to Selby Flats until 1946 which was a year after the war ended. Maybe it just took him a year to get around to it? I think they just had Jonathan and Claire move to Selby Flats perhaps a new job in a hospital for Jonathan. But the transition was smoother and more realistic than the transition from Selby Flats to Springfield. In that transition, the entire cast practically moved together to Springfield. I would like to know the answer to that one as that move was always more mysterious. I've never read anything about it being about Bill getting a new job. I did read, I believe, something about Paul Fletcher getting transferred to a new hospital in Springfield. Why the Bauers went with him, I don't know. They may not have even tried to explain it. Perhaps they just started referring to their town as Springfield. That would have been 1966, I believe. Although the cast was not that large at that time, it would be less implausible that everyone would follow Paul out to Springfield than it would be in later years but it's still implausible and I wonder how they explained it (if they did at all). The history books are pretty silent on the subject on the move to Springfield. I would assume that Paul got the job in Springfield, moved with Robin and Johnny and then told Bill about a job so the Bauers moved there too. I don't know. At that point, the Bauers and the Fletchers made up most of the cast. There was probably an exit/entrance for peripheral characters . Just speculation. 

 

Personally, I didn't like the locale changes. I wish they would have just left it Five Points. I was partial to that town. 

Oh do I get this correctly that then Bauers did not appear on the show prior to the move to Selby Flats? I thought they had been one of the Rev Ruthledge church members, just not as prominent characters. I  am asking because you mention that the only characters to move to Selby Flats are Claire and her husband. But indeed I agree that this sounds like a much better transition than the one to Springfield. That one is just ..... yikes!

10 minutes ago, Soapsuds said:

Can't wait!

 

Not sure if this was posted but ex Bill GL....ex Billy YR will appear with his mom.

 

Oh wow, Billy Abbott... I never liked him that role. Him or Kelly Kruger as Mac. Neither of them was Billy/Mac to me.. 

18 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

 

If you mean among fans, I'm sure there were. If you mean on the show, probably not. I think one of the only people who ever used her real name was Roger (didn't he call her "Chrissy"?).

 

I think the Five Points to Selby Flats move happened via flood, and the move to Springfield happened for Bill's career. I may be wrong though.

Yes, I think Roger did call her Chrissy. I thought others used that name more when she was a kid and that she became Blake only when she was SORASed. Obviously, this was only my assumption

Thanks for the reply. Oh, interesting. Flood is an interesting way to change locations. In regards to Springfield move, I wonder how they explained multiple characters moving to a different city just because Bill changed his job. Or was it just the Bauers that moved and then all the other characters stayed behind while Springfield brought on new characters? Do you happen to know which year this happened?

EDIT: I found more info on wikipedia, I don't know how I did not see this before when I was googling this earlier today. haha Thanks anyway

I have another question for the historians

I see that GL changed locations from Five Points to Shelby Flats to Springfield.

How was this done? Did characters move or did they just mention casually the new name of the town?

Does anyone know when the changes happened?

Thank you!

I see that in the last year they had a character named Christina on the show.

And I know that Blake has not used her "Christina" name for a while, but was there ever discussions back in the day about this when this new Christina appeared? I am just curious, because it struck me as odd when I saw it the other day. And yes, I am aware that more than 1 person can be named Christina, but just usually you don't have people with same name on the show at the same time..

11 hours ago, ChickenNuggetz92 said:

So... Back when I was in Grade 12, one of my ComTech classes required us to create a video of some sorts. So I decided to go overkill and try my hand a producing a 3-episode soap opera. It was called "Retribution" and it was a continuation of a Trailer Project that I had done for a previous class in Grade 11 in Drama/Soap Opera Form. It was a lot of work and quite frankly, I just ripped off the 2001 Tricia Dennison Story from the Young and the Restless lmao. But at the crux of it, I really wanted to recreate some of the beats, the camera movements, and the music direction that Y&R was known for back in the day.

 

(Here's the only one I feel worth taking a peek at. Please be gentle with the acting, wewere not professionals haha.)

Then back in third year University, I wanted to revive the project as a continuation of the storyline 6 years later - but as young adults it was very had to coordinate and schedule everything, so the project never got finished. Below is one of the scenes that I've managed to tape and edit haha.

 

 

Fast forward to today, at the beginning of the year I've been taking acting classes and a handful of us got pretty close during COVID since we've been having weekly Zoom parties. We've been itching to have some kind of acting-related project done, so last week was "Pitch Week". Everyone pitched an idea, but as usual, I went overkill and had a PowerPoint done. In essence, I wanted to create a web series chronicling the lives and drama of Millennials living in a trendy urban neighbourhood (keep it simple and not too complicated as that would be an increase in time and money LOL). I came up with the characters, the "A" story, the "B" story, and the "C" story, the general outline of the Pilot, where we would be able to tape, and what I wanted the show to look and sound like (which of course is 1999-2001 era Y&R). I called it "CityPlace: The Web Series" after a modern neighbourhood in downtown Toronto and I drew inspiration mainly from Season 1 Melrose Place since the premise is very similar. Unfortunately they decided it woudn't be fair to the others to cast a vote then and there since I've pretty much skewed the playing field LOL so this week they're going to develop their pitches even further.

 

TL;DR, yes I've dabbled a little in soap/drama writing. 

Wow! You guys did a really good job! Really nice! 

16 minutes ago, FrenchFan said:

 

Yes. I was a teenager when I started it. I was looking for a name of a town. Indeed, I wrote a few soaps ... a complete line up ah ah. "Savannah", "Biloxi" and "Destiny". I still write some Biloxi from time to time.

I still write "Life" as well, but not as much as I would like to. I usually get inspired at bedtime.. story ideas just start coming in and I am so excited that I want to go and write then and there, but alas I cannot because well I have a day job and have to sleep haha Then by morning, I forget half of those wonderful ideas I had the night before. 

14 minutes ago, Bill Bauer said:

I wrote a serial for one year when I was in high school (as a way to escape the hell my life was at that time). I had an audience of one (a friend I gave the scripts to). It was laughingly bad. I was a teenager, after all. But it was a lot of fun to write. Since I was only working with one year's time, I crammed what would normally happen in about 20 years on a regular show into that one year. The amount of tragedy that this central family suffered in just one year's time was pretty unbelievable. Then, to top it off, in a nod to my love of disaster movies, I ended the whole thing in a big earthquake destroying the city and killing off half the cast of characters. It was pretty morbid (which matched my mood back then) but, again, great fun to write. My friend loved the story, though, and has kept it all these years. As a joke, I killed off her favorite character in a "fake" script and then told her it was a joke and the character didn't really die. Come to think of it, I could have a job at Days of Our Lives right now. 

OMG I totally get what you are saying. I never thought I would writing my show for such a long time, so I crammed A BUNCH of stuff in the beginning. There was so many murders, marriages, divorces, babies, miscarriages, just tragedies in general.. Anything that I write now, I try to pretend like those first few years don't exist sometimes, simply because they were ridiculously loaded with too much crappy stuff haha

I love your ending! I was considering ending my story (if I ever write the end) with some kind of a disaster, either a natural disaster or a bomb or something big. I don't know why I find this type of ending interesting, as I would hate it if my show I was watching ended like that haha I also was thinking about having some made up war happen which I would include (this was long time ago, I gave up on that idea with time). 

EDIT: I am currently considering a storyline about a giant fire destroying the town (as it is set in California), just so that I can move the characters to another place which is NOT California, because I want to have options of having winter-y storylines as well haha

1 hour ago, Fevuh said:

I lost everything but I had a storyline Bible I started in the 1980s when I was dealing with a lot in my life and I dreamed of a world where I lived with people who were like me and it was a way of escape.  It took place in Greenwich Village in New York and most of the characters were Gay and Lesbian.  I called it "The Story of Us".  It dealt with what was obvious at the time - equal rights, the friendships and love stories among the characters, HIV/AIDS, and some of the characters were models, actors, writers for the NY Times, coffee shops and diners, bars

etc.

I remember one of my male characters was a school teacher who lost his job because the school administration found out after he was outed and a student accused him of sexual abuse, and it was a lie in an attempt to blackmail him to get him to change his grades.  In the early 90's a lot of stories and scenes centered around a techno and disco dance bar, with drugs like Ex, drug addition, alcoholism, etc.  And I had a group of characters who would take in homeless young gay men and lesbian girls who were excommunicated by their families and would search them out in homeless shelters.

 

My big event of the year was the annual Valentines Day party where all of the characters from the different buildings would get together and the show would end with them all singing "What the World Needs Now".    

 

I wish I had saved it.  And I was so disappointed because in the late 90's a movie came out called "The Story of Us" and it made me mad because I thought - that's MY TITLE!

This sounds very interesting! It would have been a good read, I'm sure.  And I love the title! "The Story of Us" is very simple but very effective title.

Ah okay, thanks! I am not from USA, so I have never heard of it.

But sounds like a good name for a soap opera town for sure

2 hours ago, FrenchFan said:

I don’t mind  « Biloxi » is the name of the town  

Ah yes, I googled it and I saw that it was as city in Mississippi. That's cool! Is that where you set your story? Or it is another Biloxi somewhere else in USA?

I set my story in a made up California town

Oh thank you very much! I find it that I can think of a story, but then I am not so good with building it up and hitting the beats, so not sure if you would have enjoyed the daily episodes. Haha

But thank you nevertheless. As you said, many good ideas mentioned in this thread. Thank you for starting this!

Edit: I see I forgot to quote AbcNbc last post. Now I dont know how to do it lol

3 minutes ago, LondonScribe said:

Wrote and formulated a series back in 1994. It actually started as a teenage serial, focussing on 2 teenage private detectives, Troy and Tracy, who were twins, brother and sister. I was really really young so logic wasn’t really there. Their recurring mother was the voice of reason. 
 

It focussed on the siblings and the crimes they would solve, and their band of friends. If I had anything of it left, it would probably be appalling. But I used to tell my siblings these stories and it kept them entertained.
 

Within 3 months, I’d fallen in love with all of the characters and fictional seaside town they lived in, and expanded it into a full-on soap. I SORAS’d Troy and Tracy (and all their friends) into adults and told what I perceived to be more mature stories, which included the mother of one of the friends being caught in an explosion after a siege. 
 

My first big ‘controversial’ story was having Troy and Tracy’s sweet, wise mother ripped off by an ageing con artist she had fallen for and subsequently dying in her sleep of a broken heart.

 

At that point, my siblings lost interest

 

I carried it on until 1998, then did other teenage things. 
 

I then found myself drawn back to it in 2000, and revamped it, and carried it on, inventing producers and head writer (equivalents) to explain away any changes in storytelling style. Then, in 2007, I just stopped. 
 

13 years later and my mind occasionally wonders what the characters are up to.

 

I hadn’t really thought about it until this thread came up

 

Now, I mainly work on other writing projects and (short) film scripts.

Well that sounds fun!

I want to start writing new things all the time, because new stories always pop in my mind, but I keep going back to "Life" since I invested many many years into it, so I keep pushing for it to continue

But how awesome that you actually became a writer! So awesome!! 

1 minute ago, AbcNbc247 said:

These all sound so interesting and intriguing. I bet we all could do a better job then of the current head writers.

I get it lol. I had a lot of my characters just suddenly try to kill each other in the beginning of my soap. Like one argument would occur and then suddenly, they would end up trying to kill each other lol

 

I even did a Honey, I Shrunk the Kids-like story in which the main villain had two characters shrunk and attempted to have them killed lol

Omg yes, exacly! I have had the same. Seemed like a lot of the characters were having very extreme reactions like that to some situations which were not that bad haha 

Ah I never did the shrinking storyline haha althought I did have some outlandish stories.. like parents of a newborn baby with a mysterious illness go search for a cure and end up in Siberia looking for some flower needed for a potion that would be the cure.

I have to say, I don't watch DOOL anymore, but I read comments still on the forums and I laugh about people complain about Ben being accepted by many after he was a serial killer. And I agree with this criticism.

But I do chuckle because I had a character Matt Bergin show up in 1999, as this con-artist who was soon discovered to be a son of a local detective. And then very quickly he was forggiven and he became a changed person and a good guy. Now, I was 16 when I wrote that and my guy was not a serial killer. What is Ron's excuse? Haha

I did even try to modify this by finally bringing him to court in 2001 for some jewel theft he did prior to joining my show. And then also in 2005 he got in a relationship with a girl Serena who was a daughter of one of his fraud targets some years before. He seduced the lady and tricked her to get her cash and then left which ended up with her suicide, so her daughter Serena found him, seduced him and falsy accused him of rape to get back at him. So he went through trial again.. I tried to rectify my blunders hahah

2 hours ago, FrenchFan said:

Mine is « Biloxi ». As my English is not as good to write dialogue, I only wrote summaries of the episodes ahah.

Actually I only write episode summaries as well, but mostly because writing dialogue would take forever, and since I have a full time job and dont have so much free time to write, I found summaries to be a perfect solution as at least with the summaries I move the story forward

What does Biloxi mean, if you dont mind me asking?

2 hours ago, Forever8 said:

Life sounds interesting. Is there anywhere I can read it online?

Oh thank you so much! Very kind of you. No, I did not publish it anywhere, as I am not very sure anyone would want to read it haha I use the writing as my therapy to take out my frustrations and also express my bursts of creativity haha

I did actually have a friend who helped me in the beginning with it and she eventually started posting it online, but that was like 15 years ago lol So it probably does not exist.

I just remembered that I used to write Sunset Beach continuation fan fic (called Sunset Beach Forever) once the real show ended. I was publishing it first via email groups and then at the fan fic website for a few months in the year 2000 and It won me an online voted award for a favorite discontinued show in 2001 (I wrote 100 episodes in 2000., and qualified only for the best discontinued show in 2001) I was very pround of that back then

Btw it is fun to see so many people writing here

I have one as well. I start writing it in October 1998 when I was 14-15 years old. And I was writing it until 2012, when I stopped. I only recently picked up where I left of and have now reached May 2013 episodes  

My story is quite similar to you. The episodes were such crap, my God. I re-read all of it recently from the beginning during covid confinement. It was such trash, a lot of it did not have any sense and people would fall in love without any build up or anything, like one date and then oh they are so in love. haha

But I too would like to think it got better as I got older.

And like you, I was heavily inspired and influenced by two soaps that I watched at the time, which were Sunset Beach and The City, so all of my characters lived in this apartment building (like on The City).  Initially, it had this rich family Paige family which owned the building, as well as the Brewster, Shorse (I guess this last name does not really exist, I have no idea how I got this name back in 1998, but well.. it's there lol)  and Anderson families. All of these families exist still on the soap (at least in some way). 

The only difference between you and me is that I started writing in the notebook and then eventually moved onto the computer and since early 2000s everything is in the computer. Back then I was saving it on floppy drives and I even lost some episodes when some floppy drives got broken. But I have rewrote those missing parts eventually. since I had yearly recaps saved up.

My soap is simply called "Life".

Oh I just received in mail my order of "As The World Turns Complete Family Scrapbook - Special 40th Anniversary Edition"! Really excited! 

And since in my real life no one cares about soaps or even know what ATWT is, I thought to share my excitement here

Do you guys know other books like that which are worth buying that you would like to recommend?

On 8/2/2020 at 12:25 AM, Soap-princess said:

ITA! 2000 MS was the bomb. That’s the Phyllis I loved to hate. Now I’m just meh towards her. Phick did the character no favors in the long run, and only turned her into a doormat and insecure schoolgirl. I still believe the better story was for Jack to be the father of Summer and not Nick’s in the long run. 

Oh yes! Totally agree!! I actually loved the beginning of the Phick affair, because I thought they were hot and they had chemistry. However, in my opinion it should have never been anything more than an affair. Because it damaged everyone involved. 

I think the reason why I liked Passions in the beginning was simply because I was excited to see a soap opera from its beginning. Yes, I have seen Sunset Beach before that and that was also an excited time in my life (lol), but by the time SuBe premiered in my country and I started watching , it was pretty much known it would get cancelled, so I did not hold out too much hope. With Passions, they were doing well in that demo and I just thought that this would be the soap that I watch from the start and it would last and last forever. Stupid kid I was. lol

Despite the witch and the living doll (I did love Timmy), I liked it up until the hell in the closet story. I don't know. That was just the worst thing I have ever seen... anywhere... ever. Was that in 2001?

Also, am I wrong in saying that the first year (or at least first couple of months) the pace was better/faster than later?

But the dialogue was horrible (and it got worse with time) and the stories just went to hell.. literally. So I could not bare to watch literally same scenes repeat for days. You could miss a week and there would Theresa be, still convincing Whitney that Ethan is her destiny and she will get him from Gwen. They'd be wearing same cloths and they would be at the same spot they were a week ago. No movement whatsoever. Horrible. lol

I think this interview reveals a bit more.

So the whole chills moment happened the first time Ken told her about the Navy steal story and then Ron and Alarr decided to drop the story and I guess do Gina again.

Based on this interview I got a feeling that she did not like this (she mentions questioning the story, which I guess Ron did not like). So when they suggested again to do the Navy seal story and that she will have to be off for 5 months before doing the story (on top of being off now for months due to covid and also before covid when they were released from contact, she realized that it is a lot of month not working) and knowing Ron already dropped the story once, she decided it was not worth it.

What I think now is that maybe she had a fallout with Ron (which was clear by Ron shady tweats) and maybe she is doing this to push Ken to make Ron to leave. I really think she would return to finish Hope's story if Ron was not there. As you say, GH people pushed for Ron to be fired, so she might be doing the same. She did say here that fans will not like what is coming, which means also she did not like, so I think this is about her and Ron fallout. 

Ha! Awesome! Thanks for sharing (and saving me the typing :))

Thanks to @kalbir for pointing out this thread to me. I couldn't find it. Thanks to everyone who shared their ratings. 

As I mentioned in another thread, I have some ratings which I have collected all across the internet over the many years. Unfortunately I do not have nice paper clippings like some of you, because all the ratings I find, I input in an excel file, so I wouldn't be able to tell you for most of them what my sources are, but I hope that's not the problem.

So I have some partial ratings from 1992, so I can start from there:
 

Week of August 10 1992 (On AW, Lucas died; Shane starts to walk without the crutches on DAYS and Karen invites Jagger for dinner on GH). 

1. Y&R 8,7
2. AMC 6,6
3. ATWT 5,8
4. B&B 5,7
5. GL 5,3
6. GH 5,2
7. OLTL 5,1
8. DAYS 5,0
9. AW 3,7
10. SB 3,1
11. LOV 2,4

Week of August 17 1992 (Sawyer is arrested for Frank's murder on SB, A.J. and Nikki make love on GH and Clay told a devastated Dinah Lee that he cannot marry her on LOV)

1. Y/R 8,6
2. AMC 6,8
3. ATWT 5,8
4. B&B 5,7
5. GL 5,3
6. GH 5,2
7. DAYS 5,1
8. OLTL 5,0
9. AW 3,8
10. SB 3,3
11. LOV 2,5

Week of August 24 1992 (Ava accepts Leo's proposal on LOV, Jack and Jenn enjoy time in New York on DAYS and Lionel and Gina make love for the first time on SB).

1. Y&R 8,4
2. AMC 7,0
3. ATWT 5,9
4. B&B 5,7
5. GL 5,6
6. GH/OLTL 5,2
7. DAYS 4,9
8. AW 3,7
9. SB 3,1
10. LOV 2,6

Week of August 31 1992 (Bill and Holly search a burial tomb in an attempt to find a statue on GH, andAlly seems to have been possessed by evils spirits on LOV)

1. Y&R 7,9
2. AMC 6,4
3. ATWT 5,4
4. GL 5,3
5. B&B 5,2
6. OLTL 5,0
7. GH 4,9
8. DAYS 4,6
9. AW 3,3
10. SB 2,6
11. LOV 2,5

Week of September 21 1992 (Jack and Nikki discuss having a child on Y&R, Kevin tricked LeeAnn to get Duke on OLTL, while on AW Paulina and Jake reconciled)

1. Y&R 8,1
2. AMC 6,6
3. ATWT/B&B 5,8
4. GL 5,4
5. GH 5,0
6. OLTL 4,8
7. DAYS 4,5
8. AW 3,2
9. SB 2,6
10. LOV 2,5

Week of September 28 1992 (Olivia and Nathan are happy with their newborn son on Y&R,  while on DAYS, Isabella collapsed after attending Jennifer's baby shower)

1. Y&R 8,3
2. B&B 6,8
3. AMC 6,6
4. ATWT 5,9
5. GL 5,4
6. GH 4,9
7. OLTL 4,8
8. DAYS 4,5
9. AW 3,1
10. LOV/SB 2,5

Week of October 12 1992 (Jill admits having feelings for Victor on Y&R, Stacey turned to Clay for comfort on LOV,  while Cheryl died on GH)

1. Y&R 7,8
2. AMC 6,7
3. B&B 5,5
4. ATWT 5,4
5. GH/OLTL 5,1
6. GL 5,0
7. DAYS 4,5
8. AW 3,1
9. LOV 2,6
10. SB 2,4

Week of October 19 1992 (Kevin punched a reporter on AW, while news of Isabella's death spreads on DAYS).

1. Y&R 7,9
2. AMC 6,7
3. ATWT 5,8
4. B&B 5,6
5. GL 5,2
6. GH 5,1
7. OLTL 4,9
8. DAYS 4,8
9. AW 3,2
10. LOV 2,7
11. SB 2,5

Week of October 26 1992 (Grant proposed to Vicky on AW, while Cooper did the same with Hannah on LOV)

1. Y&R 8,3
2. AMC 6,6
3. ATWT/B&B 5,9
4. GL/GH 5,3
5. OLTL 4,9
6. DAYS 4,8
7. AW 3,3
8. SB 2,7
9. LOV 2,6

Week of November 2 1992 (on AMC, Jackson doesn't want Erica to have an affair with Dimitri, while a Halloween party goes on at Chamberlain house on GL)

1. Y&R 8,6
2. AMC 6,9
3. ATWT 6,2
4. B&B 6,0
5. GH 5,7
6. GL 5,6
7. OLTL 5,2
8. DAYS 4,9
9. AW 3,4
10. LOV 2,7
11. SB 2,6

Week of December 14 1992 (Christie Clark returned as Carrie Brady on DAYS, Sophia ends up in a hospital on SB and Lucas' custody hearing happens on GH).

1. Y&R 7,9
2. AMC 6,6
3. ATWT 5,8
4. B&B 5,6
5. GH 5,4
6. GL 5,3
7. OLTL/DAYS 5,1
8. AW 3,2
9. SB 2,5
10. LOV 2,4

Week of December 28 1992 (On GH, A.J. attempts suicide, Stacey pulls a knife on Clay and Aldens talk about having her committed on LOV and Opal enjoys her newborn baby on AMC)

1. Y&R 9,1
2. AMC 8,0
3. B&B 6,5
4. GH 6,3
5. OLTL/ATWT 6,1
6. GL 5,9
7. DAYS 5,3
8. AW 3,6
9. LOV 3,2
10. SB 2,9

6 hours ago, titan1978 said:

Please post them!  I find these fascinating.  Look at GL slowing moving up, and OLTL’s stagnant.  
 

 

Ok, I will type them up. Seems like there is already a topic, so I'll see what people already published  there, so that I dont duplicate

2 hours ago, kalbir said:

Actually there was a 1990s ratings thread already started

Perhaps the two threads can get merged.

Thanks for letting me know. I was looking and I could not find any. I will go there and moderator can maybe delete this one

16 minutes ago, robbwolff said:

 

I believe it was Anne Howard Bailey and Charles Pratt.

You are correct. I just double checked

Don't know why I thought it was the Dobsons.. Thanks for letting me know

Week of June 30 1997

1. Y&R 6,9
2. DAYS 6,1
3. AMC 4,6
4. B&B 4,5
5. GH 4,2
6. ATWT 4,0
7. GL 3,8
8. OLTL 3,6
9. AW 3,0
10. PC 2,6
11. SuBe (not shown)

Week of July 7

1. Y&R 7,1
2. DAYS 6,5
3. AMC/B&B 4,7
4. GH 4,4
5. ATWT 4,1
6. GL 3,9
7. OLTL 3,8
8. AW 3,1
9. PC 2,2
10. SUBE 1,9

Week of July 14

1. Y&R 7,1
2. DAYS 6,5
3. B&B 4,9
4. AMC 4,8
5. GH 4,7
6. ATWT/GL 4,0
7. OLTL 3,9
8. AW 2,9
9. PC 2,3
10. SUBE 1,9

Week of July 21

1. Y&R 7,3
2. DAYS 6,2
3. B&B 5,0
4. AMC 4,7
5. GH 4,4
6. ATWT 4,1
7. GL 4,0
8. OLTL 3,7
9. AW 3,0
10. PC 2,2
11. SUBE 1,9

Week of July 28

1. Y&R 7,1
2. DAYS 6,3
3. B&B 4,7
4. AMC 4,6
5. GH 4,2
6. ATWT/GL 4,0
7. OLTL 3,7
8. AW 3,2
9. PC 2,3
10. SUBE 2,0

If interestsed, I have also the rating for rest of 97, 98, 99 and some 00. 

EDIT: Also, I found some 92, 93, 94, all of 95 and 96.

So I did not find any topic for the 90s ratings thread, so I thought I'd start one, since I have some 90s ratings to share if someone is interested.

1 hour ago, Faulkner said:

Roger’s “Wanna try that again?” from Holly’s perspective after she fights back is actually one of the most chilling things I’ve seen on a soap.

Oh yes, indeed! I am looking forward to seeing how to goes further (well, at least what I'll be able to find on Youtube.

37 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

 

The Dobsons were very adamant about these scenes because the year before, they wrote scenes with Roger raping Rita, and when they watched the material onscreen, it had been turned into a seduction sequence. 

 

Oh the Dobsons were writing this? Wow, they wrote Eden's rape on SB, haven't they? That was so brutal and looked real... I guess they how to write a chilling rape scene. I remember Eden's rape vividly. I was a kid back then when I watched. Holly's rape did not show much and was not as brutal, obviously, but it was still chilling. As Faulkner said, some of Roger's lines were really cold and scary and the way he looked at Holly. 

Thank you all for providing all the rating!! Especially @VanessaReardon!! Wow! It was so great to see all the weekly ones!! In the last couple of days I went through the entire 60s, 70s and 80s threads!!