14 minutes ago, dc11786 said:

I believe that Executive Suite's original slot was Mondays at 10, but that All in the Family and Maude were loved to a different slot

I was incorrect re AITF/Maude as lead ins for Executive Suite.

The Monday 9-10 shows were Maude and All's Fair with Richard Crenna and Bernadette Peters.

AITF was moved to Wed @9 that season and teamed with newbie Alice.

Executive Suite was moved to Fri in late January with Sonny & Cher as the lead in. These 2 replaced the Friday Movie.

CBS introduced a raft of changes mid season as ABC asserted itself. Sonny& Cher/ES faced ABC TV movies and Rockford Files/Quincy and came in 3rd.

After a few episodes ES was off and the James Franciscus/Linda Evans series 'Hunter' took over at 10.

On 3/2/2026 at 4:23 AM, dc11786 said:

The original production team was touting that they were airing up to 9 different stories in a single episode, which was probably too many. Also, the cast seems quite large.

It just seems to me like they had no idea how to run a once-a-week prime time soap (which I guess hadn't been done since even Peyton Place were two episodes to start with) and thought the larger scale, the better. Of course, as we've seen with later successful prime time soaps, they tend to start out with smaller casts and a few focused stories in order to not entirely confuse viewers. No wonder it bombed.

Does anyone ever remember watching David Jacobs’ Paradise? Western family drama with some serialized aspects. I feel like I might have liked it but also I’m not much of a western fan aside from a few movies/shows.

PARADISE (also known as GUNS OF PARADISE for its final season) is a Western television series that aired on CBS from October 27, 1988, to May 10, 1991, totaling three seasons and 57 episodes. Set in 1890, the show centers around fictitious gunfighter Ethan Allen Cord (Lee Horsley) who is left the custody of his sister's four children after her death in a Nevada town.

The show was created by David Jacobs, as both those Dallas and Knots were in a continuing decline -- at least ratings-wise -- on CBS. Meanwhile Lee Horsley was an actor who was pushed around as a leading actor on multiple short lived shows in the 80’s and ‘90’s.

Paradise’s first season aired directly before Knots on Thursday nights before moving to Saturday nights at 8/7, and finally a shortened 13 episode 3rd season in the 8/7 as CBS unveiled an ultimately doomed Friday night drama line up of Paradise, Dallas, and Sons & Daughters in the spring of 1991.

I think Luke Perry was choosing between doing this and 90210 and was advised to pick 90210 since he was told Paradise was on its last legs.