Members kalbir Posted January 6 Members Share Posted January 6 (edited) November 7, 1977 Guiding Light expands to 1 hour. The new ET schedules starting w/ the soaps were CBS: 11:30 am Love of Life, noon Y&R, 12:30 pm Search for Tomorrow, 1 pm Local programming, 1:30 pm As the World Turns, 2:30 pm Guiding Light, 3:30 pm All in the Family reruns, 4 pm Tattletales ABC: 12:30 pm Ryan's Hope, 1 pm All My Children, 2 pm $20,000 Pyramid; 2:30 pm One Life to Live, 3:15 pm General Hospital, 4 pm The Edge of Night NBC: 1:30 pm Days, 2:30 pm The Doctors, 3 pm Another World, 4 pm The Gong Show The soap time slot rivalries were now Search for Tomorrow vs. Ryan's Hope As the World Turns vs. All My Children vs. Days Guiding Light vs. One Life to Live/General Hospital vs. The Doctors/Another World Edited January 6 by kalbir 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted January 6 Author Members Share Posted January 6 Interesting to see GH take a ratings jump and move up to #6 in the Nov sweeps before Monty came on board. Here's what was happening Katie fretted about Lamonts deteriorating condition while Mark called in specialists. Lesley softened her regard for David, while Laura took a special interest in him. Lana buttered up Jeff for a seduction and confessed she and Lisa played twin tricks on their boyfriends. Monica was further attracted to Alan while working on their helicopter operation study for cardiac patients. Peter and Diana returned home with their adopted son, little Peter' 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted January 7 Members Share Posted January 7 What was happening on OLTL the week of 11/21-11/25/77 for them to jump to #3? Was it a heavy Karen week? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted January 7 Author Members Share Posted January 7 (edited) Jenny canceled the wedding and Brad was incriminated in Lana's death when his ring was found in her apartment. Cathy insisted it wasn't suicide. Karen went bananas over Lana's death. She went on a bar-hopping look for Mr. Goodbar and kept on trucking while blowing Larry's money left and right. Sam shared Brad's confidence about finding Lana's tell-all note to Jenny. Will had the guilts after succumbing to Robin's charms. Definitely the Will/Robin hookup pushed them to #3... Edited January 7 by Paul Raven 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted January 7 Members Share Posted January 7 LOL!! Before there was Todd and Blair, there was Brad and Jenny. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soapfave06 Posted January 7 Members Share Posted January 7 Glad to see OLTL got a boost from that story, unless it was just luck. I’ve listened to the audio tapes posted of the aftermath of Lana’s death and it was quite good as it played out. I can’t remember the timeline of recasts though but I think Will, Jenny, Karen and Brad all end up recast around this time which probably did not help them long term. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted January 7 Author Members Share Posted January 7 All of those recasts were successful. Apart from Will, who was supporting,Jenny,Karen and Brad were frontburner and accepted by viewers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soapfave06 Posted January 7 Members Share Posted January 7 I agree they were successful l, I just wonder how jarring it may have been at the time for viewers or if they were successful immediately (as I imagine JL as Karen was) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted January 7 Members Share Posted January 7 Does anyone have the inside story as to why Kathy Breech was replaced as Karen Wolek? Thanks to YT, I was able to watch some of her work. Although she was very pretty, I really don't think she would've been up to playing the prostitution story with as many psychological layers as JL was. Was that why TPTB replaced her, or was it something else? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soapfave06 Posted January 7 Members Share Posted January 7 I find it interesting that OLTL, and GH with Monica (I can’t recall if there was more recasting in that show at the same time) hit gold with various recasting, new core families and new stories all at once across the board. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JAS0N47 Posted January 7 Members Share Posted January 7 FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 12/5/77-12/9/77 & 12/12/77-12/16/77: Please register in order to view this content FAST WEEKLY WEEK OF 12/19/77-12/23/77 NOT AVAILABLE REST OF 1977-1979 ALREADY POSTED! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kalbir Posted January 7 Members Share Posted January 7 January 16, 1978 One Life to Live and General Hospital expand to 1 hr each. The new ET schedules starting w/ the soaps until the end of the day were CBS: 11:30 am Love of Life, noon Y&R, 12:30 pm Search for Tomorrow, 1 pm Local programming, 1:30 pm As the World Turns, 2:30 pm Guiding Light, 3:30 pm All in the Family reruns, 4 pm Match Game ABC: 12:30 pm Ryan's Hope, 1 pm All My Children, 2 pm One Life to Live, 3 pm General Hospital, 4 pm The Edge of Night NBC: 1 pm For Richer, For Poorer; 1:30 pm Days, 2:30 pm The Doctors, 3 pm Another World, 4 pm Local programming The soap time slot rivalries were now Search for Tomorrow vs. Ryan's Hope All My Children vs. For Richer, For Poorer As the World Turns vs. All My Children/One Life to Live vs. Days Guiding Light vs. One Life to Live/General Hospital vs. The Doctors/Another World General Hospital vs. Another World 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted January 7 Author Members Share Posted January 7 (edited) That schedule was one factor contributing to the slow demise of soaps. Viewers now had some difficult choices to make. Whereas only a few years earlier you could spend 90 mins of your day watching 3 soaps, now it was 3 hours. If you watched shows on different networks, they now went up against each other, so you either gave up one or watched on alternate days-quite likely giving up on one in the end. It wasn't helpful to soaps as a genre. Edited January 7 by Paul Raven 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Contessa Donatella Posted January 7 Members Share Posted January 7 Yep. That was the day my mother had to decide between ATWT and DAYS. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JAS0N47 Posted January 11 Members Share Posted January 11 MAY 1977 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME: Please register in order to view this content NOVEMBER 1977 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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