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.

2 hours ago, soapfan770 said:

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.

My parents loved watching it, and I faintly watching as a child.

It was mostly self-contained with some serialized elements to it. I had forgotten that Kathryn Leigh Scott (Maggie Evans Dark Shadows) had played the mother of the four kids in the pilot, but the show did have a very strong willed female protagonist that was a good foil for Lee Horsley. It wouldn't be a David Jacobs show without a strong female character.

IIRC, David Jacobs remarked in his Television Academy interview that "Paradise" was the most fun he'd ever had as a producer and show runner.

Lee Horsley had several short lived series including 1994-95 Hawkeye with co-star Lynda Carter. Unfortunately, he was often viewed as a poor man's Tom Selleck.

I enjoyed Horsley in the series Matt Houston, but the format was constantly being tweaked which was often frustrating. In the first season it had a lot of comedy elements and a revolving door of guests like other Spelling productions. The supporting cast was dropped mid-season with the exception of co-star Pamela Hensley ( as C.J. Parsons) and the famous guest stars were scaled back. In season 2 they sexed it up with Matt often hitting the sheets with a babe of the week, including episodes of Matt and later C.J. being stalked ala Play Misty For Me/Fatal Attraction. Season 3 they dug Buddy Ebsen out of moth balls to play Matt's Uncle.

I'm surprised Spelling didn't use Horsley in one of his soaps.

Edited Tuesday at 02:02 PM5 days by te.

On 3/1/2026 at 10:57 PM, Paul Raven said:

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.

I would love to see episodes of Executive Suite, but only a few promos have surfaced. I would also like to see Married The First Year that ran a few episodes in 1979. Leigh J. McCloskey starred in both.

On 3/24/2026 at 6:06 PM, SoapDope78 said:

I would love to see episodes of Executive Suite, but only a few promos have surfaced.

The Executive Suite TV series was produced by MGM Television. Warner Bros. Discovery presumably owns the rights to the series at the present time. For all I know, the Executive Suite TV series might be given a Warner Archive release someday.

I happened to come across the unaired pilot of "Nurses" from 2007 starring Eliza Dushku, Gregory Harrison (Gregory Chase, GH), Drew Sidora, Ramon Rodriguez, Melinda Page Hamilton, and Sara Rue. The show centers on a group of nurses, amongst them Dushku as a former wild child turned nurse of the hospital run by her chief of staff father, played by Harrison.