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Ratings for final official week of 82-83 season #3 Dallas 24.0/39 #6 Dynasty 23.2/39 #70 Bare Essence 8.9/16 Falcon Crest and Knots had already finished for the season

CBS played a TV movie from 9-11 that displaced Simon& Simon and Knots that week. Upon further investigation, it appears Dynasty did air that week but didn't make the top 20. Dynasty had yet to break through in the ratings at that stage. Premiere week Sept 27 - Oct 3 1982 Thurs 10-11 Hill St Blues 18.2/31 20/20 17.7/30 Knots Landing 16.1/27 Fri 9-10 Dallas 22.5/38 Knight Rider 15.4/26 Battle of the Network Stars 10.8/19 Fri 10-11 Falcon Crest 19.3/34 Remington Steele 12.5/22 Battle of . . 10.8/19 Dynasty was pre-empted for a TV movie Money on the Side.

Week ending March 21st 1982 Dynasty scores its highest rating to that point 23.0/41 to rank 11th for the week. Dallas was #1 with a 26.9/44

Falcon Crest scored it's all time best rating week of Feb 21st 1982 when Lana Turner made her first guest appearance. Dallas 29.9/48 ranked #1 60 Minutes 27.7/44 #2 Falcon Crest 25.2/43 #3

Primetime Ratings week ending Feb 7 1982 #3 Dallas 28.4/45 #13 Falcon Crest 22.0 /39 #69 King's Crossing 10.2/16 (3rd lowest ranking of the week) Knots Landing was pre-empted that week.Not sure about Dynasty but think it may have been pre-empted also as it did not appear in the Top 20. No ranking available for Flamingo Road.

Coincidental that Fern played a character with the surname Ewing!

Moving Flamingo Road to 9.00 Mondays would have put it up against MASH and ABC Movie, both top raters as well as displacing the NBC Monday movie which often scored big numbers. Flamingo was tried at 9.00 Tues for a few weeks and didn't do well.

A November 1981 syndicated soap opera column stated that John Burnett was the new headwriter with Millee Taggart and Courtney Simon as assistants.That never came to pass.I've never head of Burnett,. Does anyone know more?

Gerald Gordon became the third actor to play Mark Dante.The previous Mark, Michael Delano, was only on for 3 eps. Apparently, the Pollocks wanted Gordon for the role as they had written for him on The Doctors but he was playing hardball. When the show expanded to 45 mins they had to go ahead with the Mark character. When contract negotiations were settled Gordon stepped into the role.

August 77 Ariane Munker in as Melinda Grey Georgann Johnson in as Jane Spencer

Feb 78 Kathleen Devine in as Pam Shepherd Katherine Squire in as Alice Lovelace

Feb 78 newpaper article on Gloria Monty's changes at GH Lieux Dressler replaces Camilla Ashland as Alice Grant. Janice Heiden out as Lisa/Lana Holbrook William Bryant replaces George E Carey as Lamont Corbin Maria Pershy in as Maria Schuller and Richard Venture in as Herbert Behrman,

April 79 Nancy Moses cast as Mary Elizabeth O'Connell, a lawyer working at Eliot Lang's lawfirm.

Feb 79 Elizabeth Levin and David Cherill replace Linda Grover as headwriters May 79 Geoffrey Horne, who played Jim Strassfield on ATWT is now on TD as Dr Frankel. He had appeared in 'Bridge on the River Kwai'

Ms Wyndham is a renaissance woman with many varied interests.

From a summary posted earlier in the thread After Matt, Nola began flirting with Jason but Jason’s estranged wife, Doreen arrived in town. She made plans with Kyle to build a children’s wing dedicated to her late daughter Stacy.

Primetime soap ratings for week ended Jan 27th 1985 Dallas #1 26.1/39 Dynasty #3 25.0/37 Knots Landing #10 21.3/34 Falcon Crest #16 20.0/32 Berrengers (Sun) #56 12.5/21 Berrengers (Sat) #65 9.5/17

Primetime soap ratings week ending Nov 25th 1984 Dynasty #3 24.3 38 Dallas #5 22.6 38 Falcon Crest #11 18.8/34 Knots Landing #22 16.3/30 Paper Dolls #58 12.1/21

It was shortly after being deposed as the #1 soap that ATWT brought back Irna Phillips to headwrite.

Thanks for posting these - very interesting to see Guiding Light at #1in 78 and The Doctors a strong #2 in 74.

Thanks so much for sharing your memories on this and other threads. Please continue. SOD mentioned the possible return of Pamela Davis during the DePriest era 86-88. Not sure when it was exactly. It would have been a smart move.

Someone needs to interview Fran Myers. She has been a part of soaps since the mid 60's .I'd love to read her take on the genre and her memories of GL in the 60's and 70's.

Sept 26 - Nov 4 1988 1.Y&R 7.6 30 2. GH 7.5 27 3. OLTL 6.5 25 4. AMC 6.4 24 5. DOOL 6.2 22 6. ATWT 6.2 22 7. GL 5.8 20 8. TPIR 5.3 25 9. B&B 5.3 19 10. AW 4.5 17

August 83 Daytime race among three networks is getting hotter. For week of July 25, according to NBC, CBS and ABC tied with 6.7 rating, while NBC scored 5.5, closest it has been to competition in five years. In shares, CBS had 24, ABC 23 and NBC 20- closest NBC has been to ABC since March 1980.

She would have been a better Hilary than Marsha Clark, who I thought was way too plain. (Sorry Marsha!)