Even though it wasn't a soap, I love that full-page ad for Scarecrow & Mrs. King. I'd love to see Bruce Boxleitner in a successful primetime role again.

Bruce Boxleitner is a regular on Hallmark Channel's Cedar Cove, which returns for a second season next Sunday.

Oh OK, I didn't know that. Thanks. My cable provider doesn't carry the Hallmark Channel - dagnabbit!

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.

Do you know the reason for the preemptions?

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.

OK, thanks.

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

Premiere week Fall 83

Dallas 27.5/44 #2

Dynasty 27.2/41 #3

Hotel 26.1/44 #4

Falcon Crest 23.4/41 #5

Knots Landing 21.0/36 #12

Emerald Point NAS 19.2/29 #17 (2hr episode following AfterMASH, which was #1 for the week)

Yellow Rose 16.1/27 #32 (special episode Sun@10, following 2hr Knight Rider)

For Love and Honor 8.5/15 #64

So both Yellow Rose and Emerald Point got decent premiere numbers but ratings fell from then on.

Final rankings for 86/87 season

Dallas #11 21.3/34

Falcon Crest #23 17.3/30

Dynasty #25 17.2/26

Knots Landing #26 16.8/27

Colbys #64 11.9/18

I should really get around to finally watching all the short-lived soaps (EMERALD, PAPER DOLLS, TITANS, etc.). Still working through SAVANNAH.

EMERALD is up in its entirety on YT (at least the last time I checked, it only lasted for one season), and really had a top-notch cast. Charles Frank, Andrew Stevens, Susan Dey, Richard Dean Anderson, Richard Eden...I think the show strived to be what ARMY WIVES would become years later.

A great cast but a real snooze too often. With the proper writing, Patrick O'Neil's Harlan could have been as memorable as J.R., a really charming and charismatic scoundrel. Sela Ward and Jill St. John were also underutilized. Two potentially fabulous primetime soap bitches that were underwritten.

I'd totally forgotten that Sela Ward was also in the cast. This should have been a hit based on the cast alone, but poor, directionless writing will work against the great acting almost every time.