Seeing Mason and Julia on AW would have odd, although Julia probably would have fit in. I wonder what JFP would have done with her.

Week of Nov 27 - Dec 1 1974

1. Match Game 11.0/34

2. As the World Turns 10.9/35

3. Days of Our Lives 10.7/34

4. Search for Tomrrow 9.8/35

5. Another World 9.7/31

*. The Doctors 9.7/33

7. The Young and the Restless 9.0/34

8. The Guiding Light 8.3/27

*. Hollywood Squares 8.3/34

10. The Price Is Right 8.2/26

11. Celebrity Sweepstakes 8.1/30

12. All My Children 7.9/26

*. General Hospital 7.9/24

14. Love of Life 7.8/32

15. Jackpot 7.7/29

You are quite right. And another interesting thing about this time period (not just for DAYS, but all soaps) was that crucial moments in storylines *really* affected ratings. Big epic moments would impact numbers in definitely noticeable way.

But as you said, DAYS still fluctuated until 1995 when it stayed solid while others sank. Hooray for MarDevil!

Since you guys are interested, I'll snap shots of some other key weeks in the ratings from 1993, '94, and '95.

Shouldn't this be the week of August 9th?. cause as we all know Carly was buried in 1993, so the eighth then was not a monday but a sunday, and the following year in 94, the eighth was on a monday.

Seeing Mason and Julia on AW would have odd, although Julia probably would have fit in. I wonder what JFP would have done with her.

And I do not see Jane Elliot as Alex at all, too young and she already played a well-known GL character. Robin Strasser was thisclose from signing the dotted line and though it would have been awesome to see her against Michael Zaslow, she's not an Alexandra either. I really think Marj was the right pick. I wonder if they ever considered Marla Adams.

BTW, here are some random ratings (without the numbers) from my 1991 soap opera digest magazines.

Week of January 28-February 1 1991:

1.The Young and the Restless

2.General Hospital

3.All My Children

4.As the World Turns (tie)

One Life to Live (Tie)

The Bold and the Beautiful (tie)

7.Days of our Lives

8.Guiding Light

9.Another World

10.Santa Barbara

11.Loving

12.Generations

Week of February 11-15 1991:

1.The Young and the Restless

2.General Hospital

3.All My Children

4.As the World Turns

5.One Life to Live

6.The Bold and the Beautiful

7.Days of our Lives

8.Guiding Light

9.Another World

10.Santa Barbara

11.Loving

Week of July 1-5 1991:

1.The Young and the Restless

2.As the World Turns

3.Days of our Lives

4.The Bold and the Beautiful

5.General Hospital

6.Guiding Light

7.All My Children

8.One Life to Live

9.Another World

10.Santa Barbara(tie)

Loving (tie)

And I do not see Jane Elliot as Alex at all, too young and she already played a well-known GL character. Robin Strasser was thisclose from signing the dotted line and though it would have been awesome to see her against Michael Zaslow, she's not an Alexandra either. I really think Marj was the right pick. I wonder if they ever considered Marla Adams.

I think Constance Towers would have been a fantastic Alex recast.

Which reminds me, I should post the 97, 98, 99 ratings I have....I just keep putting it off. LOL

Please do. I have been DYING to see ratings from those years, especially DAYS in 97 during the Kristen saga and GL's 1998 ratings during the clone storyline. Also SuBe's and Passions's first 6 months. Can't wait for you to post them.

Just imagine if we still had this many soaps on the air today:

1969-1970 Season (HH Ratings)

• 1. As the World Turns 13.6
• 2. The Edge of Night 10.8
• 3. Search for Tomorrow 10.0
• 4. Another World 9.6
• 5. Love is a Many Splendored Thing 9.5
• 6. The Guiding Light 8.9
• 7. Days of our Lives 8.8
• 8. The Doctors 8.6
• 8. The Secret Storm 8.6
• 10. General Hospital 8.5
• 11. Love of Life 8.0
• 12. Dark Shadows 7.3
• 13. Where the Heart Is 7.0 (Debut)
• 14. One Life to Live 6.7
• 15. Somerset 5.7 (Debut)
• 16. Bright Promise 5.2 (Debut)
• 17. All My Children 4.4 (Debut)
• 18. A World Apart 2.8 (Debut)
• 19. The Best of Everything 1.8 (Debut)

Yeah, but this was when they were all half hour. It would be the entire day's programming these days! What's interesting on this list, for me, is EON. How quickly it fell...just a short five years later, it's being traded as P&G's lowest soap.

You are quite right. And another interesting thing about this time period (not just for DAYS, but all soaps) was that crucial moments in storylines *really* affected ratings. Big epic moments would impact numbers in definitely noticeable way.

Ya' think? I remember the ratings from this time period, because I was just getting into AMC and I didn't remember AMC fluctuating much, but hovering in the 6.0 to 7.0 range.

THESE are what I remember!

Week of Nov 27 - Dec 1 1974

1. Match Game 11.0/34

2. As the World Turns 10.9/35

3. Days of Our Lives 10.7/34

4. Search for Tomrrow 9.8/35

5. Another World 9.7/31

*. The Doctors 9.7/33

7. The Young and the Restless 9.0/34

8. The Guiding Light 8.3/27

*. Hollywood Squares 8.3/34

10. The Price Is Right 8.2/26

11. Celebrity Sweepstakes 8.1/30

12. All My Children 7.9/26

*. General Hospital 7.9/24

14. Love of Life 7.8/32

15. Jackpot 7.7/29

This one makes me laugh for the inclusion of the game shows. Boy, that Match Game was something, huh? The next highest game show was Hollywood Squares, tied for eighth and almost three whole ratings points below Match Game. Dumb Dora was so dumb. (How dumb was she?) She was so dumb, she thought soaps would <blank>

Just as a snarky aside, its funny SOD attributes Y&R's 9.7 rating to Cole and Victoria's marriage going up in smoke. Funny because that's all it would do for the next five years.

I've got another one for you! here are the ratings from the week of October 25-29 1993, AKA the week Luke and Laura returned to GH.

1.Y&R-8.4

2.GH-6.6

3.AMC-6.5

4.B&B-5.8

5.OLTL-5.6

6.ATWT-5.3

7.DOOL-5.2

8.GL-5.1

9.AW-3.6

10.Loving-2.7

I've got another one for you! here are the ratings from the week of October 25-29 1993, AKA the week Luke and Laura returned to GH.

1.Y&R-8.4

2.GH-6.6

3.AMC-6.5

4.B&B-5.8

5.OLTL-5.6

6.ATWT-5.3

7.DOOL-5.2

8.GL-5.1

9.AW-3.6

10.Loving-2.7

Do you know what GH got the week before? Did it cause a huge bump?

And it amazes me how far below OLTL is to AMC/GH. It came in between them yet they were a full point ahead.

Edited June 5, 201015 yr by Eric83

Do you know what GH got the week before? Did it cause a huge bump?

I don't know the exact numbers, because i dont have the digest before this one, But it does say that their Luke and Laura's return help rocket the show to 2nd place, which i guess means that the show was lower before.

I'll start digging into my archives...

Week of July 1-5 1991:

1.The Young and the Restless

2.As the World Turns

3.Days of our Lives

4.The Bold and the Beautiful

5.General Hospital

6.Guiding Light

7.All My Children

8.One Life to Live

9.Another World

10.Santa Barbara(tie)

Loving (tie)

Sigh....I have this magazine. It's from the SOD mags before they put out actual ratings numbers. ATWT at #2.

A 9.7 for Y&R? Did Y&R ever hit a 10.0 in the 90's? I know they took over as No. 1 soap in the late 80's by default since GH lost steam, but damn, that's a high number! Ditto for everyone else. Clearly, the soaps were enjoying a post-holiday high (perhaps snowstorms?) and this was the last winter before the O.J. Simpson saga began.... dayumn!

The week after this...Y&R has a 9.6 and ATWT goes up to a 6.6 and GL goes up to a 6.2. AMC drops to a 7.0 and B&B drops to a 6.7 with the rest remaining the same.

Edited June 5, 201015 yr by Ruxton Hills