Paul Raven

Actually it was the Monday episode that ranked #67 with 9.2/14 The special Fri ep had a 13.8/24 #48 - nowhere near FC but a big jump over Monday. Dallas was #3 The Mon EP was up against Pt 2 of the Lace miniseries on ABC which was #1 for the week. I wonder if this was more about saving a new FC episode for later and burning off EP rather than trying to save it. No FC set Matt Houston on ABC to #21, much higher than usual.

Would love you to share some of that! When was that? I assume EP was already struggling by this point and to expect viewers to be interested in a serial with a random episode is a big ask.

With the way the shows are taped today, I don't know if they could tape scenes ahead having to have particular actors and sets available weeks before.

I get that, but I wonder if they thought of putting Emerald Point Fri at 10 and moving Falcon Crest to Monday at 10. EP would be compatible with Dallas and might have become as successful as FC in that slot. Meanwhile FC would sit well on Mondays and provide familiar programming there rather than trying to establish a new serial. Re The Mississipi Here's a show that showed some promise 10 o'clock Fri so what do CBS do-throw it to the wolves Tues at 8 against the then hot A Team and ABC comedies. Either they had great faith in the show or someone at CBS wanted to dump it. Did Ralph Waite get a series guarantee from CBS to stay on The Waltons at some point? Maybe that was a deal done by a previous regime and they were forced to honor it. Always fun to play scheduler...

Not to take anything away from MSW and GG, but NBC's powerhouse Thursday lineup was absent that week so Cosby,Family Ties and Cheers which would normally have been in the top 5 were missing. Also MSW and GG were new episodes up against repeats on the other networks. The following week GG was 5th and MSW was 9th.

I posed in the thread about Fires that the Wade bookstore was destroyed in 1980. This had been an Oakdale meeting place and provided enployment since the 60's. It was started by Neil Wade,Penny's husband -right? Does anyone have more details? I suppose Penny ran it until she left town. Who took over? Did Penny still own it all those years? I know in the 1979 eps we saw Lisa and Carol working there. Who else worked there over the years? It looked a pretty dreary place in those 79 episodes. Without a major revamp it wouldn't have survived the book boom that came along with Borders,Barnes & Noble etc.Lucky it burned down when it did!

The Dobsons had the Wade bookstore burn down. That had been an Oakdale institution since Penny's husband Neil opened it in the mid 60's.

Wasn't it stated that at the show's debut Nov 65 that Julie was 16? This was less than a year later so would Julie have already jumped 3 years in age? Possibly. Would we viewers at the time have been happy about David being killed off?

Denise Alexander as Beth Logan would have been great! Good idea.

Of course Falcon Crest had it's own following but CBS never moved it (until the very end)which was a rarity for the times. Even Knots was moved twice to 9pm to try and build another show behind it. Dallas moved to 9pm to open the lead out to Falcon Crest. It wouldn't have been unheard of to move FC to a 9pm slot elsewhere or even 10pm on another night to allow a new show to benefit from the strong Dallas lead in. When FC finished it season in 83,The Mississipi starring Ralph Waite played for 6 eps and ended up in the Top 20. When it was moved to 8pm Tues the following season ,it flopped, but that's another story.

I would love to see the stories that were used during that time.

Even if they didn't kill Chelsea, they could have set something up that she was in the car to at least tie into the Chelsea/Rey coupling they were hinting at. That would have given some follow through with that story thread. As it is they spent weeks building to that and nothing eventuated. Looking back there was no reason for Sharon and Rey to be married in the first place. it would have been natural for both of them to be gun shy of marriage and that could have played into their relationship. Imagine if Sharon had finally agreed to marry Rey just before he bit the dust. Now Sharon has yet another marriage under her belt. Maybe it's time for Nick and Sharon to marry, be happy and deal with other stuff.. Go with the 'search for Sharon's dad story'. Re Mrs Martinez-is the budget that tight that she couldn't be seen every few months and have a couple of lines?

Morgan Brittany (as Suzanne Cupito) Purex Special for Women 'Child in Danger' 'molested child' NBC daytime Nov 1964

Only Melody has ever had a temp - Robin Eisenmann back in the mid 80's for several weeks.

Search for Tomorrow Looked like they were trying to integrate Andrea into the story but she was dropped later in 73? John was new to the canvas and maybe they tested John and Andrea before moving him to Eunice. Then they had Stephanie arriving soon, so Andrea was superfluous, especially with Len and Patti gone. Then Len and Patti returned. Did Andrea get an exit story?

Really? The same scene that has played several times over several months and goes nowhere.

From way back in the thread courtesy of saynotyoursoap the Benjamin family featured prominently during the WGA strike of 1973. The article has it slightly incorrect. James was Terry's brother, not Jay's. James's last name was Foster. He had returned from Vietnam, and was at Henderson hospital. Another patient had a heart attack, and James flashed back to his experience in Vietnam, where he had been a medic, and he saved the man's life. Impressed with James' skill and decisiveness, Bob Rogers took James under his wing, encouraging him to enter the newly created physician's assistant program. When Carl Devlin murdered Frank Ross, James came under suspicion for the crime. Jay, a police lieutenant, worked with Scott to prove his brother-in-law's innocence. Elsewhere, Jay and Terry were buying a house, but their loan application was denied. They sought Kathy's legal assistance, because they felt that discrimination played a role in their denial, as their combined incomes should have ensured approval. Kathy and Doug Martin came to blows over the case, as Doug insisted that the bank president was not racist. These plots played out along with the Linda Bove deaf story. Shortly after the writer's strike ended, within three months I would estimate, the Benjamins vanished from the canvas. Presumably, they continued to live offscreen in Henderson. Linda, of course, married in the storyline, and she and her new husband were shipped out, too.

In 25 years Bill Bell did one 'doppelganger' story with Marge impersonating Katherine. And one twin 'double' story Blade and Rick. Post Bell there was Sheila/Phyllis, Jack/Marco, Will/Jeffrey, Cassie/Mariah, Hilary/Amanda,Cane/Caleb, John/Alastair, Carmen/Ines and probably others I've forgotten.

Search for Tomorrow Mr McLaughlin ???? Hospital patient saved by James Foster 1973

Team Crystal! Back to Devon-those years where he was recurring and hardly used would have been the time to recast with a sexier, more dynamic actor.

If Chance and Allie grow closer,Abby could turn to Devon. Don't want to see them get married. Too many pointless marriages as it is. Amanda reveals she can't/doesn't want to have children and isn't happy being an instant mom, thus creating conflict with Devon. Imani comes onto Nate, who gives into temptation. Elena finds out and leaves town. Imani thinks she has a clear field with Nate but he and Amanda become closer. Ditch Elena-she's boring and put Imani on contract-much more interesting to have sisters onscreen-has always been a Y&R staple.

At some point Y&R must luck out in casting. I quite like Moses and Faith but they've been given nothing to do. Allie looks promising. Tara was awful. Imani has potential. but again given nothing.

My other thought is that perhaps Dick Trask never made it to air. He may have been cast and his name supplied as part of the original cast, but for whatever reason when the time came to go out live he was not available and Robert Morse was the one to appear as Jerry. A possibility I guess.

Read some storyline summaries on line...

Good performers go along way in salvaging otherwise poor storylines. This is where Bryton is a fail for me.Lovely guy, I'm sure but Devon has been as dull as ditchwater forever. Same with Melissa Ordway- she can't rise above the writing for Abby, I guess the older performers had the benefit of good writing and characterizations to entrench their characters. But pretty much anyone introduced in the last decade or so has been a flop. And actors who had a spark-Loren Lott, Zach Tinker were dropped.